#or stupid to previous generations

[snobgoblin]

LMAO got curious on the replies on that poll... "no i dont like it bc i dont like the word 'rizz'" "I dont like gen alpha slang" ok you sound like a crybaby boomer you're scared of new words right now you look so silly. sorry

[lotus-pear]

rewatched madoka magica again today bc i fucking hate myself and to absolutely no one’s surprise i went through all five stages of grief in a single evening

[neixins]

“to you, my beloved, who walked beside me all this time” “if you hadn’t been with me, i wouldn’t exist” “right…will you marry me?” sniffles. let’s go unbeatable power of love let’s goooooooo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lordirony]

Thinking about when someone told me that I needed a justified reason to dislike something....... sometimes a tv show isn't my thing what do you want from me???? I'm not even saying it's bad what

[dramas-vs-novels]

... mu university would have to pull weapons on a professor to get them to teach on a Saturday.

[honks-n-stonks]

part two of my charge blade learning shenanigans, I absolutely adore trying to pull off the Big Awesome attack.... (Ultra element discharge, was it?)

I know it technically ISN'T the most viable option (using the Hunter art that gives you more phials improves the damage iirc though) since you dump all your phials and shield into it... but you can't deny pulling it off feels so damn good

I was a bit sad that this version of the attack doesn't have the electricity wave after it lands, but Big Fuck You Explosion is always neat

[glasspigeons]

getting into signalis has been a breath of fresh air bc the game is hard enough to understand even on a surface level that you probably wont be able to really get into it if youre not at least slightly media literate, so ive seen very few bad takes

[legalownerofufoemoji]

I'm so brave for not starting a problem on the Internet. I'm SO BRAVE

[lieutenantselnia]

More f/o thoughts (this time with Davy) because apparently I'm in the mood for writing them down today, and also I actually realised something just now:

So with Davy and Selena, it actually takes them a considerable time until they become a couple, and I realised one of the reasons for that might be a particular issue that they both have: Neither of them can bring themselves to confess😅 Despite having feelings for each other, they are just stupidly oblivious about it. Though not necessarily in the classical sense of "oblivious" that they don't notice the other's behaviour around them at all, they do pick up the signals, but brush it off as "I'm just seeing the things I want to see", "it's just my wishful thinking making me see ghosts" because they can't fathom the thought that the wonderful person they've fallen for feels the same way about them. It's probably painful to watch for Maccus and the rest of the crew at this point xD

[blorbosexterminator]

In the newest interview, alvaro said that big chances that professor wouldn't be in the spin off because it's berlin's project and focusing on his new cast or crew. He said this one (Berlin) is separated from LCDP. Does that mean that we wont get Palermo too? 😢 I mean, if the whole 8 eps are just about berlin having fun with strangers he pretends to be friends with, whats the point of watching? The only thing we can hope, maybe the plot would be good, but from the teaser, I too have a doubt about it.

I haven't seen that interview (if those are his exact words, "big chance" is a weird way to phrase it since shooting is done, he's either in it or he's not lol.) Anyway, I wouldn’t take too much away from his words. They are pretty much a rephrasing of what Pina has been saying. They might mean Sergio won't show up at all, or that Sergio will only show up through a cameo, not in as a central way as LCDP. And that makes sense to me either way. I would personally love a cameo but generally regarding Sergio, it makes sense that he wouldn't be present through all his brother's heists and gangs and day to day life (which was already established in canon).

So I wouldn't compare Sergio's situation with Martín. At least on a textual level. Once established that Andrés had met Martín, it would make zero sense that Martín wouldn't be there since we know from canon Martín has been on his side for ten years prior to the monastery flashbacks. And generally speaking, there is not a single character from LCDP that belongs more in Berlin the show than actual lcdp lmfao. Martín's entire construction in canon was in the framework of Berlin.

That's not to say the show won't be about Berlin having fun with strangers for 8 episodes lmfao. That will probably be it. But I'm still in the belief that Palermo will guest-star or cameo in the last episode, as a form of Berlermo's first meeting. And I think if Rodrigo agrees and Netflix grants Pina a second season, he might be a main character going forward. I don't think there is a lot to hope for from the spin-off but I still believe it will be better and more surprising than we imagine now.

[tempest-loupnoir]

I think the last addition to this post is very important.

[tarofel]

i keep wishing for the demon to make me do stuff and it's past 7am again u_u;;

it's a pretty blatant metaphor of; hope the amphetamine salts starts doing that when i pick up my changed prescription.

[getoutofmytardis]

watched this documentary about microplastics and one thing i do gotta say about it bc they were talking about how babies today will be born with microplastics in them and we don’t know what the effects of that will be long term like.. yeah i do get that we weren’t testing foetuses and babies for that in the 50s or 90s or 2000s or whenever but i think we are probably already seeing the long term affects bro? u don’t have to wait 30 years. dare i say there have already been multiple generations of plastic babies.

[mayakern]

Things are bad right now.

As many of you know, way back in 2020 we weren’t sure if our business was gonna make it. Our factory was already on break for Lunar New Year–a month-long holiday for many businesses in the area–and with the announcement of COVID19, everything shut down indefinitely. We knew immediately we were in for a bad time. Despite our fears, our sales grew so far beyond anything we ever expected, to the point where we had to hire two employees just to keep up with demand! 

Unfortunately, even after our factory reopened, our problems were not over. Their quality drastically declined almost immediately, to the point that a significant amount of our  fabric would literally fall apart in transit between the factory and our office. Because of this, we discovered that our sales rep had no idea what she was doing and knew nothing about the factory she was representing, so when we told her the fabric was garbage her response was “👍 factory said it’s good!” At the beginning, only roughly 10% of our new product was defective and we were able to sell the affected items with a reasonable discount. By the end of our relationship with that factory, 40% of our midi skirts and 70% of our miniskirts were defective, some affected so severely that they practically fell apart when touched. And still, our rep said everything was fine and there were no problems and the fabric composition had not changed.

So in 2022 we changed factories. We hired Ash to handle this since I was way too busy managing fulfillment to do the amount of research and communication necessary to find us a factory that met our criteria. Finding clothing factories that can make clothing over a size 2-3X is significantly more difficult than one that can’t because it often requires larger and more expensive machinery. But Ash did it: she got us set up with a new factory that has excellent certifications for both their labor practices and their methods for textile production, that delivers consistent, high quality sewing on well made fabric that can be printed without suffering loss in detail–and she was armored with the knowledge for what makes a quality garment so she could check them if they tried to screw us on quality. Their minimum orders were way higher than our previous factory’s, so we decided to focus on ordering more units of fewer designs. We ordered way too much our first round–some of those designs were in stock until the 2024 blowout sale! But it worked out, and slowly we had a warehouse full of stuff to sell.

Fast forward to 2024, business is slowing down between the economy being bad and what seemed to be a general skirt fatigue amongst our customers. We tried expanding into shirts, which would’ve been successful if our minimums were lower. In the late spring we realized we were in trouble if we didn’t make drastic changes and we ultimately decided to end in-house fulfillment and transfer to a third party fulfillment center that would support domestic shipping in Canada and eventually the UK, EU, and Australia. In order to make that transition affordable we drastically discounted everything and that sale was super successful! We were able to begin shipping from the fulfillment center with an almost clean slate, even if it did mean having to close the store for almost two months and thereby missing out on two very important months of sales.

Unfortunately, we were stupid. We continued to order new designs on an every other month schedule instead of switching to an every month schedule, forgetting that having a backstock in a variety of designs is what previously helped us float between orders and now we quite literally didn’t have enough inventory to match the sales we made for last year’s holiday sale.

That brings us to now.

We’re a little stuck. We have a round of skirts in production (yay!) but they won’t get here until February (boo!). To get back on that monthly cycle we would need to order the next round of skirts right now, but we can’t pay for production until that next round of skirts gets here; if the current sale goes well, it’s paying payroll, not production. We are currently in the very difficult, horrible situation of not having enough money for next month’s payroll unless we are somehow able to make significant sales with our very sparse inventory.

We’re scrappy and we do our best to adapt to disasters and I’m sure we’ll find a way to adapt to this one as well, it’ll just take us some time to get there. Basically we’re going to be okay eventually–hopefully later this year–but in the meantime if we seem frantic, now you know why. 

If you’re been considering trying out our viscose shirts but haven’t been able to justify paying full price, they’re on clearance PLUS half off right now! That’s $9-$15 for the viscose tops, and other tops on clearance are $20-$45. Some of the shirts we’re having a LOT of trouble selling are now priced below cost to help us recoup some of the money we spent making them.

Any amount of support helps right now. Sharing posts, telling your friends, buying a $9 shirt–all of it helps. If our clothing isn’t your thing, we also have a Patreon you can support for as little as $1 a month. https://www.patreon.com/mayakern

Thank you so much for reading, and I hope you have a great rest of your day and that 2025 is a brighter, kinder year for us all.

[doubleedgemode]

@followers/whoever reads this: Please feel free to metaphorically wallop me if I say an absurd badly-reasoned take about the series, and also correct me. Thank you

[ultimatebottom69]

Yeah frankly if I learn Sasha is in the project i love Mimi but I am not playing this story out of DR...If i am playing it at all.

I don't see how one can make an actually likeable sequel to this pesudo-edgy creepypasta 2010's worthy of fuckfest.

I am sad it took Sasha ruining the two main li's plot, characterization (the little they had) and relationship with the MC (Lane) for everyone to see it. I feel like watching Remy rise and fall of fame all over again.

HSR man… enough has been said, but I still need to say my piece. The train has been derailing for a while now, so it’s something we’ve seen coming, but that still doesn’t make the aftermath any easier to process. I’m absolutely gutted because the potential of what Dmitry and Lane could have been in the hands of a less bigoted and hateful writer... that’s really what I’m mourning now at this point (and what Anna & Greg romancers have been mourning for a while now).

I’ve seen people say “well Lane was always supposed to be like this, she was never supposed to be a good person.” Then what was the point of establishing the Voice of God and Whisper of the Devil paths? What was the point of branching routes where she is either aligned with the squad or out for herself? What was the point of any of it if, when it comes down to the most rudimentary choices and the most crucial moments, Lane can ultimately never be redeemed? If she can never grow? Even if she is like Audrey, and it’s all designed for her to ultimately end up as a sacrificial lamb, where is your accountability as an author for your main character’s lack of development? There is a way to write flawed/complex/traumatized characters navigating a dystopian world WITHOUT disillusioning your entire audience in the process. An audience who have not only invested resources like time and money, but also grown emotionally attached to the characters you’ve developed.

I used to lose sleep in the beginning updates of this story because I was genuinely excited by the possibilities. I was excited about the idea of expanding the HS universe that has held a special place in my heart since I first started playing RC at the peak of my depression in 2021. And Sasha has repeatedly disrespected and perverted that world. Suffice to say, I’m completely done with HSR and strapped the hell in for HS3. Sasha better have NOTHING to do with that project. Like I don’t even want her pinky toe to be within a 30 mile radius of it. She can’t sit with us.