Okay this is an actual Thing I Feel Strongly About, so…
Rich people and corporate execs don’t understand how generous low income people are. They don’t get that
Anyway, as I was saying before I accidentally posted, they don’t get that people supporting other people on Patreon isn’t a case of really well off people who can afford those fee hikes. It’s other artists who aren’t well off, but they’ve got a little and they remember what it’s like to be a starving artist. Rich people give to big showy charities. The rest of us give to one another.
I literally couldn’t care less if we lose good bands and good movies if it means outing sexual predators. Let it all fall apart if that’s what it takes to stop allowing these disgusting people safe places to abuse their power. Fuck your favorite movies, fuck your favorite tv shows, fuck your favorite albums. Stop defending bad people because they make good content.
So what’s Pepper been doing? Where’s Sif? How’s Maria doing? Has Helen Cho rebuilt her cradle? Where did Jane disappear to and did she take Darcy (plus intern) with her?
Problem: the ladies have vanished.
Hypothesis: they are running a secret sort of team. The Protectors.
Pepper is the fiery rage (and funding everything), Sif is the talented warrior, Maria the experienced secret agent. Jane does research and Helen heals everything. Darcy makes sure they’re all fed and rested. Also, that none of them interact with the public. Plus intern as the unconventionally handsome token man. Kate discovers them after following Pepper on a call as she rushes away from a gala. One day, a secret message comes from Wakanda.
*wiggles eyebrows*
Hey, Marvel!! Did you read this? Because that’s what we want!!
And they say the millennial generation is lazy and entitled.
Here’s a secret: it’s not OUR JOB to adapt to the market. It’s not OUR JOB to buy napkins and golf clubs and drive to the mall on the other side of town to make sure it doesn’t go out of business.
Did previous generations kill the horse and wagons after the car was invited? Did those lazy citizens kill the town crier by buying into that newfangled newspaper business?
What people want and are ready to spend their money on will change over time. Today we have different goals and different standards – like I will invite my friends over for dinner and instead of napkins I’ll put a roll of paper towels on the table. And my friends won’t clutch their pearls and hiss “you uncultured swine” at me, because we value that paper towels are cheap and efficient! Napkins may be pretty but some of them end up being unused, and I’ll have to throw them away after the dinner and it’s a fucking waste.
Did your mall end up as an empty husk outside of town because those pesky millennials buy all their clothes online now? You lucky son of a gun. Now you get to use your ~*IMAGINATION*~ and repurpose that ugly windowless box into something actually useful. Why not a nice office space? (x)
Or how about you make the old stores into cute micro apartments? I WOULD LOVE TO LIVE IN ONE OF THESE! (x)
Are the stores fine but the parking lot empty because those cheap hipsters would rather take a bus or bike to the mall instead of buying a car like regular people? Do like they did in Seattle and turn it into a fucking beautiful water treatment facility and park. (x)
This thing collects storm-water runoff to create and provide nutrients to small pools and green areas. It works like a natural creek that ALSO filters out pollutants that would damage the salmon population! AS A MILLENNIAL I CAN SAY THAT THIS IS SO FUCKING UP MY ALLEY YOU HAVE NO IDEA. I WOULD GO TO THAT MALL, BUY A COFFEE AND GO OUT TO LOOK AT THE BIRDS.
Actual fucking plovers. When was the last time a parking lot did something for the environment except gathering upp more roadkill for the scavengers?
I could also go into why no-one is watching shitty sitcoms or boring movies because we have access to so much media that we can filter out the generic stuff that doesn’t appeal to us, but that is an essay in itself. We are extremely capable on spending it on media that speaks to us though (hey this is unrelated but did you know that Wonder Woman has passed 570M$ worldwide?)
TLDR: Market powers are entitled and used to people spending an ever-increasing amount of money on their shitty products. When this trend turns they are too unimaginative and lazy to do something about it so instead they’ll whine about how their former customers are “killing” them.
They can either DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT or spend the rest of their days crying into their surplus napkins.
Yes.
Also, the idolized lifestyle of the 1950s-2000s was unsustainable. The bubble burst, and my generation inherited a ruined world whose elders refuse acknowledge that their prosperity came at our expense.
I have seen a number of harry potter posts that go something like, “If there was magic and wizards in (country) they’d _____.” Usually there are also long discussions that go along with these about how each country deals with the statute of secrecy.
And all I can think is, Canada wouldn’t even bother trying to enforce the statute of secrecy. Because what is the point? How would you even know if it was a magic thing or just a Canada thing?
Is that guy just taking a regular old moose through a drive thru to get coffee or is it animagus?
Was that prime minister crazy or did he actually talk to ghosts?
How do you steal 20 000 litres of maple syrup? Trucks or portkeys?
The minister of immigration formally gave Santa Claus citizenship and a passport.
House hippos.
All magic would do to Canada is make the internet about 90% more sure that Canada isn’t a real place.
I’d just like to point to @jabberwockypie and say that she could have lived in a far more unusual Not Real place than Maine and she should probably consider herself fortunate.
I think we’re kind of starting to get away from this but have y’all noticed how in the vast majority of popular media, sex scenes don’t actually tend to involve a lot of talking/fumbling/awkwardness unless it’s for humor or to indicate that the people having sex are a.) probably Wrong for each other somehow or b.) inexperienced, possibly having sex for the first time?
but “good” sex, between people who are experienced and In Love etc, is almost always effortlessly athletic and steamy and they somehow telepathically know exactly what to do. I’m not talking about knowing what their lover enjoys, that’s entirely feasible, but they never even have to coordinate what they’re doing. there’s no “do you want me on top?” or “do you want to do [x]?” or accidentally getting in each other’s way.
the overwhelming message that I’ve always gotten from pop culture is that Good Sex happens without communication and, more dangerously, that needing to communicate is a sign that you’re somehow bad at sex, when in reality that’s almost definitely a sign that you’re, you know, a considerate partner who actually gives a shit about people being comfortable when they have sex with you.
why doesn’t this have more notes
because I posted it less than 12 hours ago; give it time, friend
#like actually the most me i have A LOT of feelings about the credit people who menstruate don’t get for menstruating#oh you gave a good presentation? cool. i did the same thing WHILE ONE OF MY ORGANS WAS CONSTANTLY AND PAINFULLY CONTRACTING#oh you had to stand on the train? me too WHILE THE LINING OF ONE OF MY ORGANS SHED ITSELF#oh you had a good run today? me too WHILE ACTIVELY BLEEDING LIKE LOSING VISIBLE SOMETIMES SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNTS OF BLOOD#oh you had to stand up for eight hours while at work today? me too WHILE WRACKED WITH CRAMPS AND WORRYING ABOUT LEAKAGE#oh you thought that meeting/flight/drive was long? me too AND I HAD TO WORRY ABOUT THE GUSH FACTOR WHEN STANDING AFTER#it is such a ~thing to menstruate politely#so much work. so expensive. so much emotional labor involved. sometimes so painful.#and many many many people do it!#and that extra obstacle goes totally unacknowledged#because even though about half the population will do it at some point in our lives it’s….rude?#because people don’t want to hear about the lived realities of menstruating people’s lives?
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