They’ve come so far….Izuku’s not even afraid to compliment him anymore…he’s not jumpy….he’s doing it in confidence, and Bakugou isn’t out for his life and just lets it slide….
Ah yes, thank you Hori.
he’s chewing on the damn speech bubble good god what a nerd XD
Dumb bitch in the notes arguing planned obsolescence is necessary to keep costs down,
I thought planned obsolescence was to prevent your phone from just suddenly turning off and never working again? Like it’s meant to be an “oh, my thing isn’t working, I should invest in a new one soon.” Kind of thing?? Like shits gonna break either way, I just thought this let us know like a month earlier than it would otherwise.
I mean… that’s kind of what they want you to think?
Sure, throttling your phone’s cpu so that the battery doesn’t wear down faster is certainly… a thing that’ll extend battery life… but, uh………… Hey, why don’t we just allow customers to replace their old batteries, you know, just like batteries were originally designed to do?
This extends far beyond phones/computers/etc as well. I recall, there’s light bulbs that exist from around the time of their invention that can still burn to this day. But companies only manufacture light bulbs that degrade and burn out over a few years, so that they can keep selling more light bulbs and turn a profit.
There’s a lot of examples of this, really. But, no, the main purpose of this is simply to make people continually have to replace their old “““broken”““ products for new ones, when the only reason they break to begin with is because they purposefully build in deficiencies that cause the product to degrade over time. It’s capitalism, baby
My mom had one vacuum cleaner all through our childhood. That first generation of vacuum cleaners was made to a very high standard because the companies were trying to convince people who had never seen one to buy them. Now, unless you buy the very high end models, they break in five years.
Can confirm, once helped my dad paint a client’s house interior and needed to vacuume after due to all the sanding we did. Dad’s shop vac would have taken us hours to clean since it was made for small messes and not whole carpets. Dad dug out the client’s home vacuum (with permission) which was this ancient heavy metal kirby from the 70s and holy shit not only did it still work but it had the strongest suction I have ever seen in a vac and it was that day that really hammered into me that planned obsolescence was A Thing.
Dishwasher from my childhood worked for over twenty years. The one we bought to replace it broke literally two days after the warranty period and it would have been more expensive to fix the control panel than to buy a new one.
Planned obsolescence is real. It’s peak capitalism and it’s ruining our planet.
Try to find somewhere that will recycle or even just dispose of televisions. Try it. It’s nearly impossible unless you have extra money you can pay someone to take it away which is stupid.
so this is very much not something i enjoy making a post about, but i’m officially living on my own as of last month and i’ve recently been slapped with a bunch of fees and bills for health stuff that I can just barely pay for, and on top of that my boss lied about how busy we were going to be for the duration of August so I effectively don’t have a job right now, and I’m about to be in some really fun credit card debt if I can’t make some quick cash, so if you guys want anything photoshopped together or something i’m taking donations in return for doing that!!
I don’t have a portfolio of stuff put together or anything but this is my outdated art website. Only some of the work on it is photoshop stuff and it’s pretty graphically based, but I can pretty much make anything / do touch ups on actual photographs (realistically removing people / things from them, adding things to them convincingly, stuff like that) really anything that could be done in the program I can manage!
you can send donations here and say what you’d like done / where I should send the picture in the note, and if you can’t donate then I would really appreciate if you could share this post for me. Thank you.
hey guys unpopular opinion but you’re not a bad person if you don’t care about every bad thing happening in the world all the time, or if you do care but you’re not constantly reblogging posts spreading awareness and information
it’s okay if you’re just on tumblr to have fun and reblog things you like or that make you happy.
humans aren’t made to process trauma and suffering on a worldwide scale without any breaks whatsoever & the internet has created an unprecedented access to bad news so please never feel guilty for scrolling past it because you can’t process it! and you’re not doing anything wrong & there’s no need to feel guilty
Proper LGBT Representation: The character has a fleshed out personality and backstory, and just happens to be gay/bi/trans.
Tumblr’s idea of LGBT representation: A lesbian who runs around everywhere singing “I’M GAY, DA BA DEE DA BA DIE, DA BA DEE DA BA DIE, DA BA DEE DA BA DIE…”
I mean, could we not have both? That is, their sexuality is a part of their character. Particularly when the story takes place in our imperfect world.
you know that’s not what i fucking meant.
i just meant that a character’s entire personality shouldn’t just be based around their sexuality.
their sexuality can be a part of their character, but if they have no character beyond their sexuality, then they’re not good representation.
One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten for writing characters is that if i suspect the character is too reliant on a particular characteristic of theirs (powers, race, sexuality, favourite colour anything really) is to try and remove that characteristic from them for a chapter or mentally remove it from all previous chapters, if the entire character falls apart or seems to have no purpose or seems super ooc after removing one characteristic you’ve probably got a shit character (i say probably cause in very very very very very rare cases it can work)
This can especially come of as tokenism if you’re doing it with minority groups. Characters can have full on story arcs around and talk about their sexuality, race, disabilities, etc without having it be their only characteristic or purpose of existance all together.
If a character’s defining feature is their sexuality, they’re not a character. They’re a caricature. Even and especially in narratives where their sexuality is a major part of the plot, the character should still be multi-dimensional. Think about it: when writing fictional characters, regardless of what form of media you’re writing for, you’re essentially creating made-up human beings. (or other species, whatever. largely sentient beings.)
Humans are complex creatures. They have thoughts, feelings, things they enjoy, things they dislike. And, NEWSFLASH: Queer people have all those things too! Gay people have them! Bi people have them! Ace and aro people have them! Trans people have them! Nonbinary and genderqueer people have them!!! We are all humans; we all have a rich inner life of thoughts and emotions and preferences and prejudices. We all have a backstory, a history, and a future. Some of us have mental illnesses; some of us have physical illnesses or disabilities; some of us love differently than others; some of us have experienced abuse; some of us have none of those things.
If you build your character around one central characteristic and some stereotypes and forget to build them a personality – regardless of what that characteristic is, be it their sexuality, their gender, their race, etc. – your character is gonna read like a cardboard cutout rather than a person. And no one wants to read or watch content about two-dimensional characters. If you want your audience to care about your characters, to relate to them and to invest in them emotionally, you have to make them feel real. Not like a caricature.
i mean i’m gay as fuck and i was beaten for even being SUSPECTED of being queer as a child so i’m gonna be fucking loud about it and shit. I’m not the only queer person who finally feels free after repressing their identity for years. Miss me with this idea that we’re less worthy of being in media if we fight for our rights and talk about our identities. Like legit go suck an egg.
Amazing. You took a post written by an LGBT person about wanting better LGBT representation and somehow managed to twist it into a message that I did not intend.
Granted, I made the post very quickly and could have worded myself much better (and will probably write up another post to elaborate) but still.
You can have your character’s sexuality play a factor in their personality, actions, story, etc, but there needs to be more to a character than just their sexuality. If their entire character revolves around them being gay, then they’re not a character, they’re a caricature, and quite frankly, we deserve better representation than that.
At the very least, this experience has taught me a valuable lesson. NEVER use hyperbole on Tumblr, because Tumblr does not understand hyperbole.
lmao, they blocked me and vagued about me
bitch, it ain’t my fault you decided that I was a homophobe despite the bi pride flag in my icon being pretty fucking clear, and it’s CERTAINLY not my fault you decided to block me once i elaborated on what i actually meant.
but hey, if that’s the hill you wanna die on, by all means.
(also “younger gay”, bitch you’re only 6 years older than me)
>An older Gay
They sure as hell don’t act like it, that’s for sure.
I love that they say “Older Gay” and “Younger Gay” as though to imply that they’re much older than me and therefore have more gay wisdom, when in reality they’re 27 and I’m 21.
I know the very basics (gears, weird ass monsters that are part machine kinda, wreck the world’s shit, Japan turns into a huge ass hole in the ocean because of one gear named Justice, Sol was a guy named Fredrick a century or so ago and was part of the team that kinda started this whole mess along with a chick named Aria, who was cloned a bunch of times creating the Valentines and Justice, and a guy named Asuka, That Man, Dizzy is Sol and Justice’s kid, kinda, and is married to Ky, who was part of a order made to kill gears but was conflicted when he met one, Dizzy, that was gentle and kind. Ended up getting married and having a kid, Sin, who was raised by Sol in secret because Ky got a pretty high position, called a King but actually one?, and the world still has it out for gears or what ever so Dizzy was sealed away, kinda, for a few years before being freed in Revelator.
Baiken lost her parents to gears and wants to fucking kill them all, I-no is a witch that’s been causing trouble in search of something called “tomorrow”, May and Johnny are part of a pirate crew that Dizzy joined for a hot minute, Anji is a sorta-kinda friend of Baiken’s who really does not want to die so he kinda worked with the villains for a short while before realizing that would mean he would have to hurt Baiken and he was like “fuck that” and turned into her info guy, Axl is a dude who somehow got time traveling powers he has no control over that send him back and forth randomly and he just wants to come back home to his girlfriend and dog, Slayer is this super strong vampire…because I guess, Zappa is a dude that is possed by like ten ghosts or some shit and is not having a good time, there was a chick who wanted to bang a key I think?
Jam is just a girl with a restaurant that can’t catch a break, Faust used to be a dude named Faust Baldhead who was a kinda corrupt and crazy doctor until a young girl or something died on his table and he’s really broken up about it, Zato-1 was a guy that was kinda dead for like a game or two and he and Millia and Venom are part of an assassin’s guild, Millia is kinda conflicted about a bunch of shit and Venom REALLY wants to fuck Zato-1…or at least that’s what it looks like. Also Zato may have had something to do with that girl dying on Faust so Faust want’s to have some time with him without anesthesia.
Chipp is a american ninja wannabe who is the president of his own country or something, Answer is his ninja secretary, Testament is….a guy? Who protected Dizzy for a short while and has a ghost? I dunno.
Leo is another Not-King like Ky and is really loud and has a dictionary with his own personal definitions for words (I.E. Inimitable: 1. Your mother’s apple pie. 2. My skills.), Raven is this crazy pain obsessed immortal who kinda wants to die and is working with That Man to do…something, That Man is kinda responsible for like…all the bullshit in the series kinda…except maybe he isn’t??? and wants Gears and human’s to live in peace or something???
There’s this pseudo-pope chick with a ridiculous hat and an even more absurd hairdo who is actually a computer called the Universal Will that a guy created a long ass time ago to make humanity perfect, only the computer went nutters, because of course, because perfection is impossible so obviously the only solution is to kill every single human on the planet.)
….also there’s this bad place called the Backyard that is actually hell kinda except not really? And that’s where the Gears came from???
Also bedman is…a guy in a bed….and that’s all I got.
Also you’re talking about @gear-project yeah? yeah I saw their blog it’s really informative! 😀
….also fucking shit is GG crazy, does Daisuke just not know how to make a plot that isn’t fuck a duck bonkers????
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