#comments are currency

[sergle]

hiii sergle do you have any thoughts on the 2nd try try guys thing? curious to hear your opinion!!

i'm so glad you asked bc i love giving my opinion..... first things first, this is REALLY FUCKING FUNNY, the way that Watcher fumbled the bag so badly when they made their announcement probably gave the tryguys a lot of data to work with. obviously everyone is comparing the two things, but in this instance, I actually think the streaming service thing makes more sense, and is done in a better way, with less guilt tripping and more like, Hype. so the most relevant thing, nothing about the youtube channel is going to change, no previously free content is going to be paywalled, new videos are going to keep airing. so somebody who missed the news or isn't inch rested isn't going to have a different experience at all. new shows are going to be on there, but also they're Already On There. like, a lot of episodes. stuff is going to be released earlier on there, uncensored videos, new people showing up (tryguys already has a lot of Talent), and live ticketed events that they normally charge for are gonna be included in the subscription. so like, this sounds justifiable as a thing that you'd Pay For. Watcher was going to put their whole back catalog behind a paywall, they only had a couple of shows plus One New Steven Food Show that was gonna go on their streaming thing, and they were going to stop posting to youtube except for the first episode from each new season of a thing. and the Watcher one was still priced a dollar higher. and they have a very small cast of talent. also, it was a Streaming Service, but it was still something you could only watch in a browser, not on a TV or anything. so it was just a website. the one that tryguys have is actually an app you can have on your tv. like on a roku or whatever. so I think that's another point in its favor. you can't launch a "streaming service" that you can't even watch on your tv.

overall, I think it tracks, they've been a business for a lot longer and they've started a bunch of new shows to go on there, the announcement video wasn't Whiny and Guilt Trippy, it seems like they put more thought into this. also I got a free trial to poke around, which, I do like that that's an option. timing could have been better, some people are being pussies about it in a major way, which is to be expected, and I am basically ambivalent to it, I don't plan on paying, but it seems like it's had a lot more thought put into it, and it could actually be sustainable as a platform running alongside their youtube channel. done correctly, it could be their Mythical Society. if it flops, they aren't alienating their youtube audience.

[coolnonsenseworld]

Listen I know no one likes product posts, but there are people who miss pre-orders and would love to catch a sale, so even if you do not plan to buy, just enjoy with me the idea of a klance 2024 calendar existing lol and pass it on, maybe someone wants to add it to their collection 👀 you can find fluffy stories attached to the calendar in posts for the individual pieces

So check out the shops for the leftover sale ❤️💙 And a reminder it's the last week for the orders to get shipped out this year!!

Remember you can buy in USD, EUR and PLN in different shops 💞 If you have trouble finding it, just let me know your currency in the comment and I will answer you the link to the calendar 🗓️

linktr.ee/mezzy

[betweenxt-the-lines]

seeking currency chapter 29 mood

(contains SPOILERS!)

[darkgreenandbloodred]

Potential Hot Take: reading a beautiful work of art for FREE and not leaving even a small comment is akin to not tipping your server/batista lmao

[deathfavor]

my muses just wanna lay / lean on people and go to sleep

[kindahoping4forever]

queen do you have any fic recs to hold us over until you make your writing return

I'd actually appreciate some myself! A large number of the authors I had been following (both slash and reader insert) have either gone inactive or on hiatus. I'll occasionally peruse the latest AO3 offerings (Tumblr searches are often fruitless for a number of reasons, that's an entirely different topic tbh) but the fact is, the fic world is so scattershot in our fandom right now, I haven't been reading much lately 🥲

[larme-kei-terf]

So this person screenshotted my post (then blocked me lol) and it got posted on Reddit after. I know because someone kindly messaged me and let me know that I was posted on Reddit. The entire point of this post was making fun of people who are convinced they know absolutely no cryptos, absolutely nobody that would be respectful to keep peace but have "terfy thoughts".

The main comments from the reddit and screenshot = people insisting they know absolutely no cryptos (because apparently they can read minds) as if that isn't the main point of being crypto and doing the biggest cope.

But what's more important and the real reason I'm making this post is that I've gotten positive messages from cryptos, which I absolutely love. I love more and more women finding out they have a bigger community than they knew.

[kazeofthemagun]

In reference to [ X ]

@sins-of-the-sea

"That's gil. It's worthless outside of Wonderland."

A deep voice echoed behind the Seven - well, Six at the time being - with the redheaded gunslinger leaned casually against a mast. Well, he surely can't have been there more than ten seconds ago.

How had he even gotten onboard?? When had he even gotten onboard?? All very valid questions, but utterly meaningless when he was talking to his killer and his companions about his own bounty in the first place.

"The bounty was placed by Gaudium, as they are the primary force that cares about my death, impermanent as it is." He explained in an ever-bored monotone. "You can take turns melting the coins down. Safer than all at once. Might get some gold out of doing that."

"Or if that is too much work, you can just give it to me." There really was no ounce of shame in the suggestion.

[rwoh]

I post on instagram and it derails the productivity of the rest of the day it's like the packige post but I'm there like commnente??????

[lord-box-possum]

Hey I don't know who needs to know this, or how to tell anyone, but um here?

Not sure if this is just one that was in circulation but.. Have a 51st(?) blind bat quarter! (I guess?)

[goldenpinof]

I’m from Brazil. The first time I visited the website (the day it was announced) all merch options were there. A couple days later I returned to buy my ticket and the merch was gone, and continue to be unavailable. I assumed it had sold out but now I don’t know. (Side note, I really hate that there was no way to change the currency. I get charged more fees when they use local currency because for some reason it’s not actually local, my bank/credit cart has to convert it to usd and back again.)

that's the most interesting case! thank you so much for telling me. it's not about merch being sold out. it's something else :))

[betweenxt-the-lines]

everyone!!! Shuggy nation!! Seeking Currency updated this is not a drill!!!

[cybotgalactica]

tumblr like vs reblog discourse is hell because people will write entire paragraphs about how "well actually likes don't really support artists because it doesn't feed anything into an algorithm" like that's all there is.

like one human being reaching out to another through the framework of a social media site to be like "hey, i saw this thing you made and it meant something to me" means nothing to anyone. like that's less important than feeding your opinion of someone's work into an algorithm designed with the primary function of keeping you on their site so you can make them more money.

i appreciate reblogs and retweets and new follows and comments just like anyone else. but i'm not going to sit here and resent the people that only like. and i'm especially not going to let myself get so poisoned by social media i convince myself the human behind them doesn't matter.

calling art and writing "content", viewing the concept of support through the lens of algorithms and exposure and statistics. there's nothing more human than Making Things but all we do is try to take all the human out of it.

[rigels-nigels]

Something I don't get is when someone is talking about things being expensive and then some americans are like, it's not actually a scary $125 guys it's actually only $80 which is still a lot but it's actually kinda reasonable for the item

And it's like no!!! It doesn't work like that!!! Just because it costs less in usd doesn't mean the person didn't actually pay that much!!

If you buy a mug for $125aud, and you live in australia, you're paying that in $125aud, not $80aud!! Currency conversion doesn't matter in the slightest for understanding because in practice it is functionally the same as paying $125usd for a mug in america!!

If I earn $15cad/hr, and someone in Poland is earning 15zł/hr, and they bought an item that was like 150zł, me converting that price into Canadian and being like it's actually not that bad bc it's only like $50cad :), it doesn't change the fact that that for them!! It was a lot more!! Like functionally that's the same as $150cad

Functionally 1cad = 1zł = 1aud = 1usd = 100¥

Like the only time currency conversion is useful is for figuring out how far your coin goes when used in another economy, not for understanding if an item is or isn't expensive for a person living in said economy

[deathfavor]

sweats, i promise i have not forgotten nor neglecting the spice asks that ive been sent, i love and adore them but i wanna give Quality Spice and thus i'm writing as muses feel it so if you get hit with random spice on a random thursday or something you know exactly what happened.

[watatsumiis]

I ACTUALLY REALLY LIKE RHYTHM GAMES!! the issue is,, nightbringer isn't a ver good rhythm game TT or maybe i just have high standards bc i play games lie enstars and project sekai!! BUT PLS I WANNA HEAR U MONOILOGUING

it definitely feels a little barebones and clunky when compared to other rhythm games ive played, i just like the fact that it's like... relatively easy. it makes me feel like im good at rhythm games (i am not)

i played project sekai for a while!!!! ogh it was very fun