#the economy is producing

[nottheeconomy]

The weather has been really rainy recently

Perfect days for frog watching and snails spotting!

#persona 5 #yusuke kitagawa #futaba sakura #the economy is producing #I quite care for these two actually hahaha

[dragongirlbunny]

the problem with landlords is not that they are "lazy" or "useless" the problem is they hoard a resource needed for survival and extort people for access how many times does this need to be said

#speaking as a disabled person if your argument against landlords centers around their lack of contributions to The Economy [tm] #i do not trust you to actually have good intentions #because guess what producing value should not be a prerequisite to being able to survive

[aoxizu]

ok if you think about it zhongli is single-handedly responsible for the flow of currency from rich people (the northland bank)'s pockets back into the local economy (whoever had a historical artifact to sell that day)

zhongli is the reason why trickle-down economics works in liyue, as the money is trickling down from childe and the northland bank into the merchants and regular people of liyue, so as the rich get richer the poor will be brought up alongside because zhongli will be able to spend more

and also the us federal reserve aims for a 2% inflation rate, so zhongli's spending habits from when he had mora could just be him regulating inflation of the liyuean economy

so actually zhongli is great with money and he is supporting an entire economic theory all by himself

without zhongli liyue's economy would get significantly more top-heavy and the wealth disparity gap would increase

i would love to see a whole breakdown on liyue's economy like are their workers unionized do they know what a union is or are they still operating under like serfdom or something

#genshin impact #zhongli #i also believe that even without the gnosis zhongli can still produce mora #because the description of mora is morax's flesh and blood #so i imagine that zhongli just gets his blood drawn ever so often and sends it to the golden house #who are like “wtf why is there a dead god's bodily fluids is this a biohazard” but they have to take it anyway #because all 7 nations of teyvat rely on this one currency #this theory is funnier than economic collapse #and i feel like you could do more with it than just go “oh no no more money being printed guess the economy dies now”

[dykeseinfeld]

do all the nine houses use the same currency. if not, how much has the ninth house had to devalue in order to maintain levels of trade necessary to get supplies. what are their interest rates like.

#it's implied their economies are somewhat separated despite being an empire bc of the idea of turning into a 5th house vassal state etc #but like. the ninth house has a GDP of like. zero. how does that work. #they have their old treasures and such like the vatican but they don't get tourism dollars and also have actual residents not just cardinal #like the way it's described the fifth house has a fully functioning self sustaining economy basically #meanwhile the fourth house produce....cannon fodder? that's it? are families compensated for joining the cohort is that their entire econom #the seventh house....has an old monarchy but what resources? what is average life for a normie citizen like? #tlt

[letters-to-rosie]

so a big part of my interest in media studies (and part of why I wanna teach it someday) is questioning how real-world categories and schema are imported into nonreal-world settings and how they are not.

there's the very obvious answer of "the audience lives in the real world, so that makes it easy for them." but then you read something like Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, which takes place on a planet inhabited by beings who are normally sexless and get either set of sex organs during their mating period at random. and then you can, you know, question the arbitrariness of gender.

or you watch Arcane and real-world racial categories are eschewed for a racialization of a subaltern group that has been compared to what the English have historically done to the Irish. and then maybe you go "huh, is there a connection between economics and the production of race? and maybe race isn't a fixed category but something that can shift and change?" (or at least i HOPE you do i HOPE you do)

and there are the things that sometimes get questioned less in fiction. like why are there so many kingdoms? what about alternative political formations? it's not like every society in the history of the world was a kingdom before, like, 1800. if we can have aliens and dragons and magic and stretch our brains for that, we can stretch in the social/economic/political too. why do we have capitalism in those settings? in the real world, capitalism is the result of the way our history played out. but it's historically contingent. as are our concepts of race and gender.

so why does any of this matter? well, I think that it's very important that we deal with reification: the way things in our society are naturalized to us. if we want to change things, it helps to recognize them as arbitrary and not necessarily facts of life we must live with forever. as we can tell from current events, the ways the world is currently organized really sucks, so cultivating and then acting on that imagination is urgent.

#media analysis #ursula k. le guin #the left hand of drakness #is interesting because she got so interested in gender because #it was naturalized in her earlier writings #like okay we have a super cool magical world #why are gender politics the same #and so she explored that #in the case of #arcane #it's wild because it historically situates the financialization of the economy under neoliberalism (as we live it now) #but not the development of capitalism wholesale #because it's produced under capitalism #but it's a great to pull it apart and reveal the contingent nature of capitalism as well

[thefugitivesaint]

Palmer Cox (1840-1924), 'The Flog Afloat', ''Queerie Queers With Hands Wings And Claws'', 1885 Source

#palmer cox #canadian artists #queerie queers #frogs #children's books #vintage art #vintage illustration #animals with clothes #who made those clothes #frog tailors? #what's the exchange value of frog produced clothing? #what does a frog economy look like?

[angelicmushro0m]

mlp x etn moment???

#escape the night #escape the night s3 #escape the night fanart #escape the night art #the investigative reporter #the jet setter #the detective #the hippie #The record producer #The troublemaker #escape the night au #Mlp x etn #In this economy?

[dicketysplit]

sorry to be depressed on main but I cried myself to sleep last night for the first time in months, and unfortunately it looks like tonight will be similar

#good news: crying is slowly making its way back to my bodily functions #bad news: it’s genuinely AGONISINGLY slow. half an hour of being in the brink to produce like HALF of a tear. FROM ONE EYE #terrible economy

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

Images of despair [stellaris version]

#when you're fighting the scourge and making 700+ alloys a month but you NEED MORE #genuinely so glad I invested into a dyson sphere early on to suck the market 100% dry of alloys #pumping out ships because my life depends on it #just imagine. you're a space trader and you heard there's some invasion of bugs somewhere in the galaxy #then the strongest military you've ever seen rolls up and offers you 'any price you name' for spare metal on your ship #you laugh and say '600 energy credits and I'll give you four metal pipes!' #the military says 'deal' and immediately deposits 900 energy credits [the market price of alloys is already increasing] #anyway I'm now sitting here with a military over five times larger than my naval cap #and over four times the population I had before the war #reason: people evacuated the planets the scourge bombed #thousands of pops have settled straight into my empire even in the most dire planets #every square inch of living space is now taken up and every single job is full #every single planet has unemployment [i have an overabundance of consumer goods so I'm just giving them all free stuff] #oh and since I'm gearing the economy now towards 'well. they gotta work SOMEWHERE' [building as many commercial districts as possible] #I am spending hundreds of special resources I do not produce to keep massive company complexes running #imagine this: strange otherworldly beasts are running down your homeworld #you escape into space in a small cargo ship stuffed with people #it's barely enough to be considered a transport but it gets you far enough away to feel safe #as you are running you see the largest collection of ships in your life warp into the system #they unleash hellfire on the aliens and then neuron sweep the planet [the very ground of which got infected] #you shed a tear and look away from the window #three days later you're told you've arrived #you touch down in an extremely busy landing area #there are hundreds of thousands of people everywhere. the mood is joyous #there are screens set up in the square broadcasting the eradication of the aliens #you see people in the crowd you've never seen before. people speak in tongues you've never heard #a guide calls over to you and all the other new arrivals #apparently you weren't the first to run. you won't be the last either #this planet has more than quintoupled its population and is still recieving many people every day #luckily the government has declared they are going to be constructing massive projects to introduce new jobs

[zvaigzdelasas]

whats the chinese hydrogen policy u mentioned?

As much as skeptics insist that the internal combustion engine (ICE) is dead and hydrogen is a non-starter, it appears that significant research and development is being conducted into the technology across geographies. China, despite being one of the world’s largest producers and market for electric vehicles (EVs), is actively exploring alternate energy technologies for automobiles to meet its sustainability goals, including hydrogen internal combustion engines (H2 ICEs) for commercial vehicles, finds GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

as one concrete example among many, and more specifically, hydrogen is mentioned by name (w a non-exclusive focus on green hydrogen) in the most recent 5YP

#& if chinese adaptation of solar is any metric to go by they can singlehandedly reorient the entire global economy off their whim #which is sexy #this is legally not investment advice but following the industrial focus of chinese 5yp's would not be the worst investment you could make #h2 #personally i dont see much of a use for H2 ICE's except as a stopgap for h2 fcev's #slash a broader hydrogen economy which is primarily focused on not introducing new co2 usage thru new grey hydrogen #think china produces plenty of h2 from already-existing pharma/industry mfg that its not much of a worry there #but in many other places gray/blue h2 is a valid concern #*'adaptation' -> 'adoption'

[rollercoasterwords]

I agree with it all, about the Content problem in fanfic. Besides the example of the Jegulus Strike. People aren't striking because they want more comments or better reviews. They strike because people abuse them because of the art they want to make as they see fit. Because they are tired of being sent death threads and likes. So rather, the strike can be seen as a reaction to the contentification and the aggressive demand for tailor-made fics that don't cause the slightest bit of unease.

totally get that, and that's why i think it was well-intentioned! i'm gonna try to be like...as clear as i possibly can be about why i included it as an interesting example of the sort of internalized producer/consumer culture that we're all being conditioned to use as our framework for interacting w media.

the reason i included the strike as an example of that culture was because it was the same framework, i think, manifesting in a different way. i understood that the impulse behind it was to say "hey!! you guys are treating us badly!! stop it!!" and i don't think any of the people involved were focused on comments or reviews or anything--like, i get that the intention was to try and stand up to harassment.

but to call it a strike is to frame that action within a producer/consumer economy, because a strike positions certain people--in this case, fanfic writers--as laborers and producers, working at the behest of other people--in this case, fanfic readers. that premise already doesn't really work with fanfic, because readers are writers and writers are readers, so there's not a super clear delineation between who is producing and consuming the "product". but a strike places those lines in the sand, and in doing so it reinforces the idea that there are distinct producers and consumers, and that fanfiction is a product for consumption. otherwise, why would it hurt to withhold that product from consumers?

and like, that's what i mean when i say that we are all being conditioned to think this way about media, and if we aren't careful it's really easy to just internalize this producer/consumer culture. because my impression of the strike is that it was sort of a response to the negative side of this consumer culture that was still working within the framework of that consumer culture. like, i saw people saying: hey!! you're treating our stories like a product for YOUR consumption, and that's bad! so we will be withholding those products from your consumption!! and like....that action only works in that context if we're all agreeing that fanfiction is a product for consumption, because striking is inherently tied to a consumer economy. so while well-intentioned, it still falls into the trap of reinforcing this dichotomy between producers/consumers, with fanfiction as the product in the middle. does that make sense?

and like, while most of the stuff i saw about the strike was people trying to draw attention to harassment, i definitely saw some stuff that was very deeply rooted in this producer/consumer mindset. like, i saw a few posts saying things along the lines of "if you DON'T participate in this strike, you DON'T care about your community," and to me that just seemed a little silly, because with fanfiction your readers are supposed to be your community. like...do you get what i'm saying? if you're truly viewing your readers as a community, and not a consumer audience, then who does it benefit to "withhold" the product/labor/etc? and i understand that the issue was that writers were getting a bunch of readers who were treating themselves like a consumer audience and interacting with the fic that way, but like. if the issue is that someone is approaching you like a consumer, responding in a way that reinforces their position as a consumer isn't necessarily going to address the root of the issue, y'know?

anyway, that's why i included the strike in my discussion about Content and producer/consumer mentality--because most of my examples were coming from the end of people treating their fics like products in like...a positive way? like, falling into the trap of consumer culture in a way that sort of embraces it. but the strike, to me, was an example on the opposite end of the spectrum, of trying to push back against the negative impact of that consumer culture without digging all the way down to the consumer culture itself. like...one end of the spectrum is sitting contentedly in the trap, and the other is struggling in the trap, but they are both still very much stuck within the trap. hopefully that makes sense!

#and again my observations on these things is not me trying to make normative judgments about them #like the point of my post about Content was to say #if you only ever treat your work like a product for others to consume it will probably not bring you very much joy #yknow? #like the reason i'm talking about this whole produce/consumer mindset stuff isn't to point fingers at anyone #or be like YOU'RE doing fanfiction WRONG #it's just me reflecting on how we're being conditioned to view art #and offering my own opinion that i think it will probably make us happier in the long run #if we try to avoid the trap of producer/consumer economy thinking #and instead focus on fanfiction as a community space outside that economy #some people disagree with me and think it's a good think that fanfiction is being moved into the mainstream producer/consumer economy! #and that's fine i don't agree but i get why some people feel differently #but just...yeah my original post was only ever a call for reflection it wasn't me trying to say there's a Correct Way to interact w fanfic #ranting and raving

[nottheeconomy]

Baby’s first tumblr post

I have nothing to offer but maid dresses and Shuake food

Please hear my screams

I yearn for voices to echo back

#persona 5 #persona 5 royal #p5r #shuake #akeshu #tumblrpeoplehihi #I’mperfectlysaneIswear #p5 akechi #p5 fanart #battlemaidsbattlemaidsbattlemaids #The economy is producing

[syekick-powers]

one of my favorite things in fantasy and sci fi is when the setting of the work is in some ways absolutely better than our current setup which makes you go "god i wish i lived in this world" but as the story progresses you realize that the setting is also shittier than our current world in another, highly specific way that then makes you have to go "well maybe i can deal with this if it means not having to work to survive" or something similar

#sye's babbles #my current project ive been working on is like #in the setting magic can be used to infinitely produce and destroy any physical resource #so there's no food/water/shelter/medical scarcity driving up prices #BUT #since the internet and tv and shit is still a thing #and since the economy is driven by labor instead of scarcity #that means that the social media panopticon and celebrity culture is so much fuckign worse there than it is in our world #people's lives are commodified for social media and fame CONSTANTLY #it is INESCAPABLE #you can instantly generate yourself a whole meal at the press of a button! #you can get absolutely free healthcare! #you can pay very little to get access to shelter! #but gods fucking help you if you want some fucking privacy

[aeide-thea]

dipping my toe into fandom discourse here, which is never a great idea, but—i really am baffled by the contingent of fans who apparently want AO3 to not only denounce but ban AI-generated works, as if there were any reliable way to distinguish between mediocre writing produced by a human and mediocre writing produced by an AI…?

#i saw someone say elsewhere‚ and agree‚ that all a ban would accomplish wld be to discourage fans who make use of AI from indicating as much #i do personally think the best writing won't be by AIs #or at least‚ it'll have been edited with a fine-toothed comb by a human who's got a really good sense of style and story themself #such that they could've produced the writing unaided‚ and the AI armature is just a crutch #but imo the big issues with AI are like. (1) the dataset it gets trained on— #though like. human artists *also* view other people's art and incorporate it into their body of influences‚ tbh? #we just get mad when they copy someone else's work TOO directly. but it's in their heads informing the art they produce!— #and (2) its potential to put humans out of work—which i have *huge* sympathy for‚ but also… that's been true of every machine ever invented #(also like. fandom is a gift economy‚ not paid work‚ so that aspect of things literally doesn't apply in an AO3 context.) #but like people have brought up the luddites in connection with this and. yeah. #ultimately there's always still a place for human operators and human oversight and human curation of the machines' raw output #and so ultimately i think we'll just have to work out what that place will be in this context #and in the meantime—i'd hope people would disclose when work has been created using AI #which they absolutely *won't* do if sites are out there banning it! people who want to use it will still use it‚ and just lie! #like you can say 'but then you don't get the satisfaction of knowing you're being praised for work *you* did‚ bc the AI did it!' #'surely that sense of being an impostor will discourage people!' #but like. hello. i've seen (and reported) multiple *very clear* instances of fic plagiarism. #the fact that those 'authors' were getting praised for‚ not only work they didn't do‚ but *someone else's* work‚ did not deter them! #saw someone going 'AO3 has its particular set of organizing principles & that's valid! we should just make our own sites where we ban AI!' #and like. hello: if your mini-archive gets popular enough that ppl want to be part of it‚ posters who use AI *will* just lie to you??? #(i'm curious abt the overlap between that camp and users who think DNIs are effective‚ lol.) #anyway. #Fannish Ethical Concerns

[mariocki]

Horror icon Ingrid Pitt guest stars as enemy agent Elayna in The Adventurer: Double Exposure (1.20, ITC, 1973)

#fave spotting #ingrid pitt #the adventurer #itc #1973 #classic tv #double exposure #episode 20 in transmission order but among the first produced I assume; I'm following Network's dvd order in watching (almost certainly the #prod. order) but I'll refer to these eps by transmission order because im an awful dullard. yes‚ The Adventurer. truth be told‚ i saw a #single episode of this series quite a few years ago on Network's 50 yrs of ITC set and it didn't really inspire me to ever seek the rest #of the series out... but with Network's passing (rip forever in our hearts) I've found myself picking up some titles I'd held off on bc of #the very real possibility that a series like this may never see another commercial release. the guest star spots were enough for me to #swing for this once i found it cheap enough (and i had to hunt bc I wasn't paying a lot for something i was fairly certain would be bad) #and... it isn't great. it isn't as bad as i expected either. it's ok. Gene Barry's lead character (the imaginatively named Gene Bradley) is #a truly absurd character: he's a world famous film star who also happens to be the greatest secret agent‚ and of course a successful #business man (also ace pilot‚ award winning racing driver‚ peerless sportsman etc etc etc). that he's played by a visibly tired looking 50 #something Gene B is another thing entirely (as is Gene's... variable performance; reputedly a nightmare on set‚ who was hated by co stars #writers and directors alike‚ he also insisted on idiot boards to read his lines from). ITC‚ having spent record amounts of money making The #Persuaders at the start of the decade‚ were attempting something of an economy drive at this point; thus the switch back to 25 minute eps #after 50 had become their standard‚ as well as now shooting on cheaper (and inferior) 16mm film instead of 35mm; by the by that's why these #images are relatively awful. shot on cheap stock‚ and never undergoing the same revival of interest as other contemporary itc shows‚ The #Adventurer presumably languished in film cans somewhere and network appear to have done little to nothing in terms of restoration on the #series‚ with it looking far worse than any of their other itc releases. but then i suppose it was always going to be a niche release..

[daisyachain]

been a while since I did one of these! Takes me back

tagged by @kareenvorbarra

Last song : Númenor - Oonagh (Nightcore). No comment.

Last show: The Expanse! It’s as good as they say. Had a blast watching it with my equally-invested mother and spotting which actors were Canadian. I’ve had it on my to-watch pretty much since 2018, so I’m glad both to experience a fantastic hard sci-fi and to end the long wait. Also just finished a simultaneous watch of Run With the Wind/Kazetsuyo, an unconventional little sports anime well worth the watch.

Last movie: Has to be Revenge of the Sith as I forced my friend to watch the Skywalker Saga front to back (with The Siege of Mandalore and Rogue One coming up before the OT). I need to find and burn the soundtrack.

Currently watching: Wolf’s Rain, my very first anime. I’ve done a full rewatch maybe once? But I don’t remember it at all. Because it’s a calm and episodic show I’ve roped mom into it as well. On the B-side I’ve started KyoAni’s archery venture Tsurune and I’m rewatching Given in dub. It’s a good time with all.

Currently reading: Critically acclaimed psychological thriller Naoki Urasawa’s Monster and alt history drama Ōoku on the manga front, 00s smash hit Haruhi Suzumiya (reread) on the Light Novel front. I’m on a prose holiday after Wheel of Time, but in between I’m reading a few Murakami books at my best friend’s sister’s roommate’s request.

Current obsession: Um. Recently ended manga Dr. Stone. It’s not good. I don’t advise reading it. The women are some of the worst-treated I’ve seen (art). The production design ditto. I myself have only experienced it through vol. 1 (tried out at the library, bounced off, looked at what happened in the rest of it out of confusion, made fatal mistake), snippets of season 1 of the adaptation, and a skim of 2 arcs online.

So as one does I barely know the plot. I know half the characters and half of those are by accident. The way in which it’s bad isn’t appetizing. It may well have been written by an EU trade committee with how the politics are handled. However the Thoughts it expresses on science, technology, society, pacifism, economics provoke a reaction and I’ve Reacted.

tagging @feathertayl, @emberstreak, @licilou22, @aredhel-of-doylkien, @lamalamam? I’m sure I’ve missed something

#dr stone is like radium paint. it’s interesting and cool to encounter. it’s sickening to consume. it’s bad for gals. it’s important to study #a bit naruto-like in the ‘what kind of mind produced this’ way #kelsey rambles #as Naruto is to end-of-the-end-of-history-war-on-terror-recovery-from-lost-decade-nationalist-rebound era #so Dr. Stone is to the cryptocurrency-quantitative-easing-gig-economy-tech-unicorn-progress-for-progress climate of the 2010s