26, they/them, terminal dork
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Veezaragilthoniel - Dollar Store Boethiah - Tumblr Blog
This game has ruined my life
here are some more flags i made with comic book newsprint textures :-) to get the textures i scanned real comics!
happy pride to edward wong hau pepelu tivrusky iv canon nb
Guitar pick used by Nine Inch Nails in the 90s
look at this fucking meme i just found
Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
So why do you hate the advertising industry?
Hokay so.
Let me preface this with some personal history. It's not relevant to the sins of the advertising industry perse but it illustrates how I started to grow to hate it.
I wanted to be a veterinarian growing up, but to be a vet you basically have to be good enough to get into medical school. I do not have the math chops or discipline to make it in medical school. I went into art instead, and in a desperate attempt to find some commercial viability that didn't involve moving to California, I went into graphic design.
I've been a graphic designer for about seven or eight years now and I've worn a lot of hats. One of them was working in a print shop. Now, the print shop had a lot of corporate customers who had various ad campaigns. One of them was Gate City Bank, which had a bigass stack of postcards ordered every couple months to mail to their customers.
Now, paper comes from Dakota Paper, and they make their paper the usual way. Somewhere far, far from our treeless plain there is a forest of tall trees. These trees are cut down and put on big fossil fuel burning trucks and hauled to a paper mill that turns them into pulp while spewing the most fowl odors imaginable over the neighboring town and loads the pulp up with bleach to give it a nice white color.
Then the paper is put on yet another big truck and hauled off to the local paper depot, then put on another big truck and delivered to my print shop, where I turned the paper into postcards telling people to go even deeper into debt to buy a boat because it's almost summer. The inks used are a type of nasty heat sensitive plastic that is melted to the surface of the paper with heat. Then the postcards are put on yet ANOTHER truck and sent to the bank, which puts them on ANOTHER truck and finally into the hands of their customers, who open their mail and take one look at the post card and immediately discard it.
Heaps and heaps and literal hundreds of pounds of literal garbage created at the whim of the marketing team several times a year. And thats just one bank in one city.
I came to realize very quickly that graphic design was the delicate art of turning trees into junk mail.
And wouldn't you know it there are a TON of companies that basically only do junk mail. Many of them operate under the guise of a "charity," sending you pictures of suffering children or animals and begging for handouts and when they get those handouts the executives take a nice fat cut, give some small token amount to whatever cause they pay lip service to, and then put the rest of the cash right back into making more mailers. "Direct mail marketing" they call it.
Oh but maybe it's not so bad, you can advertise online after all. Now that there's decent ad blocker out there and better anti-virus ads usually don't destroy your computer anymore just by existing.
Except now when I search for the exact business I want on Google it's buried under three or four different "promoted search items" tricking me into clicking on them only to shoot themselves in the foot because I searched for the specific result I wanted for a reason and couldn't use those other websites even if I felt like it.
And now we have advertising on YouTube and on every streaming service, forcing more and more eyes onto the ad for the brand new Buick Envision that parks itself because you're too stupid to do it on your own.
Oh thats ok maybe I'll get Spotify premium and go ad free and listen to some podcasts- SIKE we have the hosts of your show doing the song and dance now. Are you depressed and paranoid from listening to my true crime podcast about murdered and mutilated teenagers? That's ok, my sponsor Better Help can keep you sane enough to stay alive and spend more money.
It's gotten so terrible that now you have content farms, huge hubs of shell companies that crank out video after video to get more and more precious clicks. Which if the videos were innocuous maybe that wouldn't be so awful except now you have cooking hacks that can actually burn your house down and craft hacks that can electrocute you being flung into your eyes at the speed of mach fuck so some slimy internet clickbait jockey doesn't need to get a real job.
It of course goes without saying that animals are also relentlessly exploited by clickbait companies that will put them in compromising situations on purpose to create a fake fishing hack video or even just straight up killing them for sport by feeding small animals to a pufferfish that rips them apart for the camera.
And all of this, ALL of this doesn't even touch how adveritising is the death of art in general. Queer topics, any kind of interesting art, any kind of sex or substance use topics are scrubbed clean and hidden at the behest of advertisers.
Sex education, a nude statue, topics such as racism or sexism or bigotry in general have tags purged or hidden from search, even life saving information about SDTs or drug use, because if someone saw that and complained then Verizon might sell fewer tablets and we can't fucking have that.
Conservative talking heads often bitch and moan that they're being censored on social media. The stupid part is, they're right! They are being censored! But it's not by a woke mob, it's by ATT and Coca Cola not wanting their adspace sharing screen time with their stupid fucking opinions.
However, they won't ever figure that out, because the talking heads they get their marching orders from like Tucker and Jones ALSO rely on the sweet milk flowing from the sponsorship teat and they aren't about to turn on their meal ticket so they have to come up with even stupider shit to say for the train to continue rolling.
I managed to rant this far without even getting into the ads I see for the beauty industry. The other day a botox ad described wrinkles as "moderate to severe crows feet" as if wrinkles are a symptom of a fucking serious disease! Like having a flaw in your skin is a medical problem that you need thousands of dollars of literal botulism toxin to fix! I was incandescent with anger.
Advertising is a polluting, censoring, anti educational and anti art industry at it's very core. It destroys human connections, suppresses human thought and makes us hate our own bodies. It ads no value, actively detracts from value, and serves no real purpose and I believe it should be almost if not entirely banned.
yeah, there are fascist punks, but I find it incredibly disingenuous that the only actual punk band this person mentioned was the Sex Pistols, a band that is notorious in punk circles for being "punk for the aesthetic only". you can't even talk about the history of leftist subcultures in punk music without mentioning the Clash or Black Flag or Bad Religion, or how you'll still see dudes like Jello Biafra post left-wing shit TO THIS DAY. I could name so many left-wing punk bands that still perform, places where the scene is still thriving. you can't mention that there is a history of right-wing punk without mentioning that it only grew in popularity as a *response* to stuff like Rock Against Racism, *because* of the prominence of left-wing ideologies in punk spaces.
yeah, be smart about where you wear your patches in public, and google bands before you show up to their shows, but that's the case with every genre. I've never felt unsafe wearing patches at a punk show because I know how to google to make sure I'm not walking into a trap, and I don't have to be holier-than-thou about it and discourage the young punks from continuing on a tradition that is as old as punk itself
i get the sentiment but the idea that nazi punks (or at least punks that adopt fascist imagery to be edgy) aren't "real punks" is dumb. you goofy bitches will have a sex pistols patch on your vest and then act shocked when you find out johnny rotten used to parade around in a swastika armband (same thing applies to goths who like siousxie or joy division). i don't understand why people think it's better to plug their ears and ignore punk's long history of flirting with fascism instead of acknowledging it. punk, at the end of the day, is not a far-left progressive "movement". it's a loud, angry genre of music that appeals to people of any idealogy - including harmful ones.
Ash Ketchum is pure of Heart and dumb of ass
why is ash ketchum so dumb. like pikachu will be grabbed by some contraption and he’ll go “omg whats happening” like it isnt the 5000th time team rocket has done this
if this is your first reaction to a government conceding to protest demands you have terminal sinophobia brain fungus and it’s incurable. what did you want, for xi jinping to deploy fucking tanks at them? jaw droppingly deranged tweet
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Words from this post by @valarhalla
Pokemon fusions
does anyone eat ambiguous cartoon meat with giant bone in the middle anymore
Boethiah genders:
1. Fuck around
2. Find out
3. They/them but like as a plurality
4. What if we kissed and also we're both girls but no we aren't yes we are
5. What is the constant usurping of tyrants but tyranny itself when the challenger simply becomes the next tyrant in the making? What is constant struggle and strife but stasis in and of itself? You rail against your oppressors like a pit dog gnawing at the bars of its cage and for what? There is no difference between a champion gladiator and the beasts in the arena. Challenge and challenge again, sharpening the same blade until the whetstone runs sour with poison and old grievances. Give yourself to the constant overturning struggle and become the embodiment of all the times you are made anew.
6. Vore
I’ve had no time to draw lately but the older daedra posts getting attention again re-sparked by obsession, so here’s Boethiah.
Happy birthday! Consider: hatchlings in onesies 🥺
thank u!
We will have a party. A celebration! A small one. Respectful. Very classy. I will wear suit.
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Bonus:
(Inspired by the latest Splicer quest update)
Imagine a bunch of Nords using their battle cry ability in unison. I’m just imagining how epic that would be. Could enough Nords doing it together make the average dragon flee? Imagine Imperial soldiers straight from Cyrodiil being sent to fight Stormcloaks, and absolutely shitting themselves when the Nords all start magic yelling while charging at them with battleaxes.
Like, it sucks ass that we only ever see the player use special race abilities in Skyrim. I wanna see General Tullius use Voice of the Emperor at the peace meeting so everyone shuts the fuck up. I wanna see Teldryn Sero set himself on fire with Ancestor’s Wrath while absolutely wrecking someone. I wanna see Veezara use Histskin to heal the wound from Cicero so he isn’t helpless during the sanctuary raid. I wanna see Faendal command every single chicken in Riverwood to gang up on Sven and peck his eyes out.
