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*it starts raining*

me: yes

*lighting appears*

me: yES

*thunders explode*

me: YES

*raining intensifies*

me: YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS

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Super important dialogue about “selling out” on YouTube, touching on where I stand and the like.

Some additional thoughts you may like to read (after reading through the image above):

I’m excited that I’ve made enough money with doing sponsored videos and getting help from my amazing investor, Fullscreen, to cover my short film Mara & Chen, and that I can take a break from doing branded things for a while in the new year. And while I think there is nothing wrong with working with brands, I want to make sure my audience knows where my heart is. And that’s in making content I want to make, with or without corporate influence. That said, if an unbelievable deal comes up (like George Lucas says he wants to pay me to come on the set of Star Wars or whatever), I’ll likely take it. I will also likely resume taking the odd deal after I go cold turkey for a month or two because homie’s gotta eat. Everything in moderation I think. Except Star Wars.

I will miss the structure and timelines branded stuff gives me. It’s tricky to be successful in getting yourself to constantly output content without anyone holding you accountable. I always enjoyed that about branded work. There’s an outline for you to follow and deadline you must meet. I guess I want my audience to know that it will be harder on me making 4-6 videos a month without any structure, but I’m going to do my best; and I think this is an opportunity to develop more discipline as an adult and an artist.

It’s actually quite scary sometimes, working in this medium. You never know when the money may stop, and it can make you want to take on more than you can or should handle because you don’t know when the money might come again. Couple that with enjoying working in the corporate space, and you’ve got a recipe for making your subscribers feel overwhelmed with branded content, which I do not want to do. I think we’re about there now, so it’s time to change it up. Thanks for sticking around and being pals about this so I can both follow my dreams and… eat.

I have one more branded video coming out tomorrow, and I honestly love it and can’t wait to share it with the internet. After that, well, I guess we’re on corporate vacation. (*minus the anime videos though - I’m gonna keep working with Funimation and Crunchyroll there because they are two of my favourite companies and working with them is the BEST and seamless.)

I’d love to hear your thoughts on any of this, so feel free to reblog, reply, or leave a note in my ask.

- Shawna

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so I’ve got this headcanon that Guardians of the Galaxy is really the Avengers playing a table top roleplaying game, where Bucky’s the DM who suffers through heaps and loads of trolling 

Mostly from Steve

Especially from Steve

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protip: if u can’t imagine urself dropping the mic after the final sentence of ur essay, ur conclusion needs to be stronger

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spanish, portuguese and italian: So THESE words are feminine and THESE words are masculine, and you ALWAYS put an adjective AFTER the noun.

french: haha i dont fuckin know man just do whatever

german: LET'S ADD A NEUTRAL NOUN HAHA

english: *shooting up in the bathroom*

gaelic: the pronounciation changes depending on the gender and what letter the word starts and ends with and hahah i dont even know good fucking luck

polish: here have all of these consonants have fun

japanese: subject article noun article verb. too bad there's three fucking alphabets lmao hope your first language isn't western

welsh: sneeze, and chances are you've got it right. idfk

chinese: here's a picture. draw it. it means something. it can be pronounced four different ways. these twenty other pictures are pronounced the same but have very different meanings. godspeed.

arabic: so here's this one word. it actually translates to three words. also pronouns don't really exist. the gender is all in the verb. have fun!

latin: here memorize 500 charts and then you still dont know what the fuck is happening

sign language: If you move this sign by a tenth of an inch, you'll be signing "penis"

russian: idk man its pronounced like its spelt but good fucking luck spelling it

Greek: so basically we're going to add 15 syllables to every word you know and assign it one of 3 genders at random. Also good luck figuring out where to put the accents you piece of shit

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No amount of hot showers will get rid of the glitter on me now. Hopefully you guys think it was worth it!

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I.... I need this...

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i want there to be an angel that descends from the heavens only when someone is being stupid

and the angel just gently places their hand over the person’s mouth

and whispers in a voice filled with heavenly beauty and love

“no”

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Sailor Moon (1992) - Sailor Moon Crystal (2014)

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Global use of ‘Fahrenheit’ or ‘Celsius’

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best anti-protester ever. lol

Yesterday at Pride in Chicago.