#get rich from eBay

[atadnerdy]

The Evolution of eBay: The Idiots Guide

The Idiots Guide to eBay. Make money online fast!

eBay, the world-renowned online marketplace, has left an indelible mark on the e-commerce industry since its inception in 1995. What started as a platform for individuals to buy and sell collectible items has transformed into a global marketplace hosting a myriad of products. In this comprehensive blog post, we will delve into the captivating history of eBay, elucidate the mechanics of using the…

[britneyshakespeare]

I have got to tell you guys some great news. My ebay offer for a Titian Twist-N-Turn Stacey was accepted

[evandorkin]

Two new ebay auctions of original art, Josh Levy from the Eltingville Club and Milk & Cheese. Links above.

[baeddel]

tirade on pirating software. 1.7k words.

i recently read a post by someone who is anti-piracy (better: against making copies of software). they said that if you can't afford something you should wait for a sale or find a free alternative. and then they said that the only time that they find piracy (better: finding a copy online) acceptable is for games that are so old that you cannot buy them from a licensed vendor, but only from resellers, because in that case the developer doesn't get the money anyway.

i feel like i could make a sort of loophole argument in this framework, which is that i can watch ebay until the game is listed by a reseller, and then pirate it, because i'm no longer making a choice between paying the developer or not paying, but paying a reseller and not paying, and i've decided not paying a reseller is morally permissable.

but i think it can go a little further. they specified developer. i should pay the developer. even though i don't buy directly from the developer, but a licensed vendor. but the vendor's surcharge is not worth bringing up.

this is because we don't believe in following the law, exactly, and thus you should follow all copyright laws for that reason. it's because of, usually, one of two reasons: developers deserve to be compensated, or that we have a moral obligation to support the developer.

on the first view, the "just deserts argument", it's not clear to me that the moral obligation to not pirate is watertight in this case (when i said "pirate" before, i made a silly gesture, meant to indicate that i'll say that for brevity, but am not acquiescing). a developer deserves to be compensated for their work; but what do they deserve exactly?

does every developer deserve to become as rich from their game as Notch, and every time they don't there's been an injustice? you probably don't think that.

do they deserve some particular amount that we would say is 'fair'?—it isn't unjust if they do better (although you might think so, and complain about how much of the spotlight they take up compared to others just as deserving), but we only require that much success of them. this might be dependent on the kind of game that it is, for example, a better game deserves more success. if that's the case, then we've exonerated at least some pirates; so long as the developer is as successful on the market as they deserve to be, we've done nothing wrong.

you might say that it's wrong to pirate games that haven't yet reached the threshold of just success, because you place them in jeoprady of never achieving the success they deserve. further, you might say that this threshold is epistemologically unknowable to human beings (see: click), and therefore in practice you can never justify piracy, because you never know if a game has reached the threshold of justice. pirates, therefore, gamble with justice, and only Minos will pay their winnings.

i think this would be a good argument, except that i don't understand why i, as someone who wants to download a copy of the game, am the one who bears the moral responsibility. if the success of this developer is a matter of justice, then surely we all bear that responsibility, even people who don't play videogames. therefore we should all purchase and promote every game, and so forth.

this isn't what any anti-piracy advocate believes, even if they seem to take a deserts line. instead they restrict our obligations to participating in ordinary market mechanisms. the game is being sold as a commodity; therefore people should buy that commodity from a point of sale apporved by the producer, and so forth. it's taken for granted that the anarchy of the market is the right way to guarantee justice, and other possibilities are never explored. ultimately, the deserts argument naturalizes capitalist relations. once you remove these blinders, the mechanism for delivering justice it actually proposes seems obviously unreliable and unsatisfactory (in fact, i believe this criticism applies to all deserts arguments).

here i will quickly add my complaint against the second argument, that we should support the developer. the argument runs: if you like a developer, you should support their work by purchasing their products. i am a lot more sympathetic to this argument and so i won't spend much of the post attacking it. it's enough to say that it suffers from the same problem we just mentioned: why is participating in ordinary market mechanisms the best way to support the developer? capitalism is likewise naturalized by this case when it is advanced as a moral argument against piracy. therefore we can run the same argument: if we have a moral obligation to support game developers, then it's not clear to me why only potential players have that obligation, and so forth (but this time the criticism doesn't apply to all similar arguments, just this one).

however, it often isn't advanced that way, and as a pragmatic argument i tend to agree with it. in fact sometimes they actually have a case for participating in normal market mechanisms: DMC fans want you to buy DMC games because then Capcom will look at their sales figures and decide it's worth making another game. you could argue that they still have capitalist blinkers on because they only advocate you buy one copy, the one you'll play, which is how the game is sold. maybe they should be asking you to buy a hundred copies or whatever. but we don't want them to do that, LOL. and the feeling is usually that there are limits of what you can ask out of someone; when one DMC youtuber was spending quadruple digits on a DMC-themed gacha, his viewers expressed concern and encouraged him to stop. so cheers to DMC players.

in fact, there might be ethical reasons to only ask someone to purchase a copy of something in the normal way: when i try to get you to buy one of Xraftstar / Charity / Porpentine's games, i am doing it because i personally want my friend to succeed, and i want to see their art recognized. this is a kind of moral motivation, but it's the morality of rendering personal obligations; you are not likewise obligated. however, i of course feel there are limits on what i can ask of you, and so, unlike when i make donation posts for my friends who are struggling, i'm only comfortable encouraging you to purchase a copy of something i think will actually render a use-value to you (even if you could still obtain it in other ways and get the same use-value).

but anyway, why specify the developer in the first place? the work put in by the publisher, the developers and maintainers of the platform its sold on, the bandwidth of the payment processor, and so forth, all get left out of the question, even though they are all more or less necessary parts of the normal market mechanisms we're encouraging you to participate in.

i think it's obvious that the anti-piracy advocate of this kind doesn't actually want to advocate for participation in the market economy, like Bush during the recession. they want to be just by the developer because they see the developer as a fellow individual like themselves; they actually want to cut through the market alienation and simply do right by another person. therefore all of the other capitalists who make money off the sale—publisher, platform, payment processor—are just more big companies, perhaps even leeches we'd be better off without.

it's funny, because historically this view was used to support piracy when it came to music. you used to see a lot of charts like this:

how much of a CD goes to the label, manufacturers and distributors, to show how little really goes to an artist, to shut down people who said you should buy the CD to support them. there's a sort of naive anarchism underlying this: i want to help the individual who made the music i love, who needs manufacturers and distributors anyway?

in this kind of simple moral reasoning, resellers really get shafted. they're seen as scalpers, taking money without producing any value. no one says: 'make sure to support resellers!' thus we never ask who the individual behind all of the market alienation the resller is. whoever they are they don't deserve the money. then, when you are poor and struggling, and cannot afford to buy things for yourself, what do people tell you to do? sell your games, CDs...

but i don't want to be too sarcastic here, because there is nothing funny about this impulse to reach through market alienation and connect morally with another individual. it is the essence of emancipation. but hear my argument: purchasing commodities from them is an unsatisfactory way to realize it. it's true that you can certainly help someone by buying what they sell; many of us rely on this to a greater or lesser extent, and, pragmatically, i hope we'll all buy Nadia Nova's next game and put food in her belly. but systematically, not in this or that case, but as a general moral principle, the commodity form, the exchange of cash for things or copies of things—this is the very thing that reproduces these conditions of alienation in the first place. and these relations—their predictability as a feature of the market, or even their scarcity as a part of a volatile and impermanent system—is what habitually places the developer in a condition of alienation from their labour, coaxing them to give up their so-called intellectual "property", then forbidding them from using the games they made; or by seducing them into placing their music on a platform, then offering them increasingly small margins and less control; or to post their content (qua sex workers) on a paywall platform, which then imposes complex payout structures to keep them from claiming their earnings. and so forth. the desire to reach through all of the noise and support the individual is inevitably captured, redirected, and fed upon in as many ways as it can be, until the whole thing crashes down and the cycle starts again.

therefore, should you purchase or pirate the next game you want to play? Remember Ptahhotep: "The noble who sitteth before food divideth it as his soul moveth him; he giveth unto him that he would favour."

[flippinpancakes64]

Hello can i ask for the cullen with a female reader with a severe shopping addcition like Buys clothes for thousands of dollars even though she has a regular job thank you💜

The Cullens with a Reader who has a shopping addiction

Uhm this might be me but buying Draculaura dolls off of eBay…

Thank you for requesting and I hope you enjoy!

Edward:

#1 enabler

He loves you and he wants you to be happy

If going out and buying anything you want makes you happy, then by all means max out his cards

Genuinely tells you to quit your job

Why would you need to work at a McDonalds or smthn when your immortal boyfriend is rich?

If you insist on keeping your job, he’ll let you keep it

But he doesn’t let you spend your own money

If you want to buy stuff, use his

He has more than enough

And yes he wants to see everything you bought every time

Alice:

Twin flames

I mean, this ask is basically Alice

She buys all of the Cullens’ outfits

And they never re-wear anything

So she definitely has her own 1000 dollar shopping sprees

It’s your favorite date nights

I lied with Edward’s; she might actually be the biggest enabler

And you never have to spend your own money

She’s actually shocked you still have a job

Like wdym you haven’t quit yet? Your vampire girlfriend is literally rich go put your apron up for good

Jasper:

He doesn’t really get it

But he’s been with Alice all of these years, so he knows to just let it be

Everyone has their hobbies

I feel like he still feels like an outsider to the Cullens, so he would feel weird offering you Carlisle’s money

Even if Carlisle has told him multiple times that he can buy whatever he wants

So since this is all on your dollar, he does ask you to ease up every once in a while

You know, maybe keep it to just once a month

Or multiple times a month but less money

He loves seeing what you buy though

You’re always so happy to show him what you got, how could he say no?

Rosalie:

She might come off as unapproachable and a little mean

But there’s nothing she loves more than a good shopping spree

She likes to come with you

And spend all of Carlisle’s money

In her eyes it’s the least he can do for turning her <3

She doesn’t let you use your own money when you’re together

If you go on your own then she doesn’t care

Nothing makes her more happy than buying you the shirt that you wanted or the laptop you were looking at

Emmett:

Another one who just doesn’t understand

He finds simple things more appealing

He feels more satisfied when he gets to beat the shit out of something

But if you like to shop then you do you

He honestly doesn’t even think to offer up Carlisle’s money

Like it just doesn’t cross his mind

If you ask him to, he probably won’t

This is your thing, you have a job, and it’s not his money

Now if it was his, it’s all yours

If he has some money of his own to blow then it’s yours, he’s not using it anyway

And he definitely wants to see everything you buy

He thinks you look good in everything tho ;)

Esme:

She’s a little concerned

I have a feeling she grew up a little poor

And even though she’s lived in luxury with Carlisle for longer than she was alive, she’s still not used to it

She asks you to pump the brakes a couple of times

To ease up just a little

She helps you set up a budget if you’re willing

She genuinely thinks you might need an intervention though

She’s convinced it’s an unhealthy coping mechanism

But you’re an adult, it’s your money that you earned, and this is what you want

So she won’t stop you

But she is concerned

That doesn’t stop her from wanting to see a fashion show of everything you buy though

Carlisle:

Ultimate sugar daddy

Carlisle come home the kids miss you I miss you

He would fund any addiction you had

Unless it was like heroin or something

And then he would very kindly ask you to stop

But it’s nothing new to him to use his money on clothes

Alice does it literally every other week

So he doesn’t mind

And seeing how happy it makes you makes him want to do it all the more

Give him all of the hauls

All of the fashion shows

And don’t ever even think about getting your own card out

He gets you your own card that’s directly linked to one of his accounts so that you can use it whenever you want

Vampire! Bella:

She doesn’t really get it

She was never very materialistic when she was alive

In fact, she hated buying and receiving gifts

Or anything in general

So she doesn’t get it

She straight up tells you that what you’re doing is irresponsible

Even if you can afford it

You need to be saving your money, not spending it

And she doesn’t feel entitled to Carlisle’s money enough to offer it to you

She’s a D1 hater

She’ll sit through your hauls, but she always has something to say

“Where are you even gonna wear that?” “Don’t you have something like that already?”

Hater 🙄

[saintfelina]

i'm still a slut for animalics

i'm back with more! as we enter a new year, i've realized nothing will ever top my love of animalics. to me this is the peak of femininity--not florals or gourmands, but the raw sex appeal of this perfume category embodies every thing i want to be. and this time i'm upping the ante. we're moving away from softer musks and honey notes, instead we're going full blown sweaty and skanky with cumin, and civet. these are difficult and they're supposed to be. so to make things more interesting we're gonna explore older, vintage animalics versus newer animalics and see how they differ and compare.

vintage animalics are notable for their use of animal products. the practice has been thankfully discontinued but i can't lie and say i don't smell the difference. they were richer, dirtier and overall more potent. therefore if you want the full experience i recommend ebay, facebook marketplace, vinted and estate sales for older bottles.

(1932) the oldest on the list, tabu was beloved by old hollyword stars for its sultry, spicy ultra-feminine scent. crafted by perfumer jean carles, he was reportedly given the scandalous instructions to make a perfume for "whores" and that he did! its lush and rich, projecting far and making an appearence before you step into the room. a favorite of dorothy dandridge it's no surprise this was favored by many a screen siren. however i suggest you look on ebay for vintage versions as theyre easy to come by and aren't too expensive. the new reformulations just don't cut it!

(1944) femme rochas is next, this scent was famously worn by mae west and its shapely bottle matches her figure perfectly. the peach mimics soft, warm skin and its spiciness adds depth and sensuality. a perfume that makes you want to wear nothing else. while vintage bottles are best, the modern reformulations are also lovely.

(1944) another 40s creation, bandit isnt as favored as fracas (notably worn by stars like madonna) as it's more androgynous, edgy and quite frankly tough. perfect for marlene dietrich who was known for her transgressive roles and star power. bandit is a vetiver forward fragrance with a rich leather and civet drydown. this isn't for the frivolous type. if you wear this you're on top.

(1962) bal à versailles is extremely animalic. deep, spicy and resinous it's a highly polarizing scent. the powdery notes are either cloying or comforting, and this is one where all reformulations are pretty good, but there's enough differences where some prefer one over the others. as vintage as it gets and not for the faint of heart.

we're gonna break away from the old girls (affectionate, reverent) and we're gonna meet the new hussies. these animalics are created with synthetic animalics or by replicating it with non animal scents like cumin. don't sleep on these, as they're staying strong in a wave of florals and gourmands.

(2006) kicking off this century we have putain des palaces, another perfume for whores (it's name translates to palace whore) and its made to envoke a whore's boudoir: lace, powder, skin musk. her nightly routine. its a sensuous fantasy, and it's powdery notes make her delicate, and skinlike.

(2012) mad madam is a very carnal rose. well its not just the rose, but the whole bush thorns and all. it's like you stumbled out scratched and a little bloodied after an illfated idea to take a tumble. it has a nice greenness to them, very sexy and luscious. its dirty earthiness gives it an edge over other roses.

(2015) here we have salome. and this is a raunchy girl befitting her name. to many this smells like straight up sex, or at the very least how you smell after having sex and you put on a fur coat instead of a robe. the florals come in and give it a bit of class but not much, and its dry and sweaty and honestly? a little perverse. an animalic very much in the vein of her foremothers.

(2017) you thought i wouldn't add another scent by the queen of animalics?? well this time we're venturing into under my skin by francesca bianchi. this is sensual, warm, and completely fits its name with its skinlike scent. this isnt clean skin but it isnt dirty skin either, this is the human smell of your body after its sweated in the warm sun. blends well and and settles smoothly like all her other creations.

(2021) now in this decade we have rosenrot intense, created by the metal band rammstein . this perfume is odd in a good way, this is animalic by way of a tiger with a bloodied face after a feast. but dont be too scared of the blood note, it's really not that prominent i just like exaggerating. i'd say the incense note is more prominent, making this more of a smoky animalic rose with a slight metallic undercurrant.

(2024) les cahiers secrets is a perfume with a backstory catered to me. the brand jouissance based it's scents over female erotica writers, and this one in particular is based on anais nin. it's another powdery skin scent. and i don't mean skin scent as in close and soft, but in that it mimics skin. it's slightly sweaty, and the mid notes give it a makeupy scent. perfect for banging out smut for a dollar a page.

(2024) i'm not gonna lie and say black dog is easy (or well...good) but it's interesting. the durian note makes it a rough opener, but it settles into something darker, more mysterious and a little gothic as the licorice and animalic notes of the base come out. i'd be scared of this one, but intrigued.

(2024) lastly we have super sexy skunk, another rough go from d.grayi but also very interesting! it's cannabis notes are potent, and thats where the skunk widely comes from. but its almost nostalgic like being in the back of a nissan altima smoking weed way too young. it truly is super sexy, and also very dangerous with its oud and animal notes. even the chocolate gives it some edge.

[madisockz]

Hello! I wanted to share my process of how I made my Easter Pony! She is my second ever custom and she made all the trouble I had with the first one seem like a walk in the park in comparison ಥ_ಥ Let's begin!

DISCLAIMER: Custom ponies like this one are not to be played with by children nor made by children. This pony was made with the use of nail polish remover (acetone) which is toxic. You need to wash your hands throughly after use and use in a well ventilated area. This pony was also made with sharp tools such as an xacto knife, sewing pins, rehairing needles, and an awl.

First, the concept art! Trial and error caused her to look a little different than the concept art but I still love the end result!

I wanted to start with a white base to give myself a clean canvas for dyeing so I got this G3 Breezie off Ebay for only $3. I decided to first remove her mane and tail which requires removing the head. If you know anything about G3 pony customzing, you know their heads are difficult to get back on once they come off. Even when you run them under warm/hot water. So to get it back on for dyeing, I tried trimming a little excess of vinyl off the neck ring with my xacto knife. It slipped and got me right under my nail! Bad omen for what's to come!

After getting her prepped (removing her mane and tail, cleaning her, using acetone (nail polish remover) to remove her cutie mark) she was ready for a dye bath! I used Rit DyeMore as regular Rit Dye won't dye the vinyl material that ponies are made of. This was my first ever time dyeing anything that wasn't fabric so I was thrilled when she came out this warm rich brown! So pretty!

I read online that dyed ponies will leach dye onto other ponies if they touch, so I wanted to try and prevent this as much as possible with some matte sealer. Lesson #1: Even though she was dry, the matte sealer reactivated the dye! The smallest touch left a print! :(

I pushed forward! And tripped immediately after! I thought, "Surely matte Modge Podge will seal her just that much more" and to my dismay, the Modge Podge kept every brush stroke I made when it dried!! She looked like a leather hand bag! ˚‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥᷄⌓˂̣̣̥᷅ )‧º·˚ I learned later you can buy matte Modge Podge spray online but all I had was the type you brush on to your surface.

Thankfully, with the help of sixteen cotton balls and a q-tip with acetone, I managed to remove all the sealer but she was no longer that nice rich brown. Oh well I still loved her!

And whoever said the paint will protect the eyes from the dye has clearly never dyed a dark pony! Her eyes were so brown after this lol

Painting, adding of polymer clay easter themed confetti, and adding her 3D chocolate bunny cutie mark went great! It was all going well until the eyes.

I had never fully painted pony eyes before so the first attempt was pretty bad. Not even my multiple attempts at glitter and using clear nail polish as a cheap gloss on the eyes could save them.

It was so bad that I almost didn't take any pictures but when I went to seal her head, this weird white powder covered half of her face?? I had never seen this before and it freaked me out thinking I just ruined her. I managed to get it off with a cotton ball and some acetone but her paint was fully damaged.

Turns out this was caused because I didn't shake the can of sealer well enough. I needed a break....

While I took a break for a few days, I decided to watch tutorials on how to paint doll eyes and learned that it's actually pretty common to use high quality watercolor pencils; either Faber Castell or Derwent (which is what I ended up buying).

When I came back, I made the hard decision of removing all the paint and decorations from the head and starting over. Hours of work gone but it was so worth it! 🩷 Removing the paint with acetone ended up making her head lighter than her body so I had to redye her head lol. This time I mixed Derwent pencils with acrylic paints for her eyes.

Time for the hair! I've never done curls before and my original plan was to buy curly hair online but it's so hard to find in the color and curl size I wanted.

So my second idea was to buy small curlers to use on regular nylon doll hair bought from ShimmerLocks on Etsy. But when I tested them out on poor Flower Bouquet it looked so bad ಥ_ಥ

I discovered a Youtube channel you may know called Dollightful where in one of her Stock Box videos she used yarn that she unraveled to make super cute tight wavy hair for a doll. It was a perfect solution! It looks so good but omg it was tedious haha! I used it for her tail too; sectioning off the colors hoping they'd stay separated (they didn't lol).

She's nearly complete! Time for small decorations! I tried so many different ears from air dry clay to stealing some from bunny decorations I bought at the store and nothing was working! But I had one last idea...

I gave these old Littlest Pet Shop costume bunny ears some use with a flat top sewing pin and some glue so now my pony has bunny ears! Yay!

I forgot it in the concept art, but I originally wanted to add flowers to her mane but I couldn't figure out how to do that without glue which I didn't want to do, too permanent, so I opted for some beads I had on hand. I didn't have any light blue so I made some with the use of acetone (nail polish remover in my case) and boom! Light blue beads! Then I washed them off so the acetone wouldn't damage anything :)

I used a gold topped sewing pin, a butterfly charm, a felt flower and two faux flowers to create a cute hair accessory!

Finally I sewed a hair tie to a puffball to give her a removable cottontail if I ever wanted to take it off.

And DONE! She looks so good after so much time and effort! I worked on this girly for two weeks I think? She actually had a partner I designed but I've run out of time to make her :') Maybe next year? 👀 🩷🩷

[seat-safety-switch]

My local thrift store is great. Or at least it used to be, before the seas dried up and the shipping freighters from China stopped coming. Now, we have to pick through our own unwanted debris for every single molecule of natural resource. Competition at the Goodwill is fierce, in other words.

Nobody knows how Europe ended up out of all this, because the fibre-optic cables snapped. All the light fell onto the dry ocean floor and that was it. Broke the whole damn internet, or at least the wine-drinking parts. Value Village ran out of CDs of 1990s Danish pop music within the first month, and then people started freaking the fuck out. Worse than when they ran out of cheese a day later.

Sure, we could re-start industrialization here. We could make in our own backyard the things people need, like buses, bricks, and toilet paper. Our government seems convinced that things will just get better on its own, though. Which is easy for them to say, sitting rich on the country's strategic reserve of old DVD sets of CSI. Doing things is simply a lot of work, and just not how we prefer to conduct ourselves these days.

So, yeah, things are bad. Scavenging things from the thrifts and putting them up on eBay for a massive profit used to be something you'd do as a side gig, so you could afford rent. Now it's the only job. It's not all bad news. The GDP is still doing great, because someone figured out that the banks can just sell each other the same old Super Nintendo cartridge at 17% more per year, back and forth. They just had to lay us off so we'd stop telling them it doesn't work that way. After two winters of fighting folks every time a tattered backpack shows up on Donations Thursday, I don't even remember what a watermelon looks like.

Hold on. Be right back. Someone just dropped a chair at the loading dock. It's missing three legs, but it's made of wood. Real Goddamn wood. I could make another, slightly smaller, chair out of this. Where else would we get that from? Trees?

[babythestrawberriesshinebright]

tips 4 collecting dolls? ^-^♡

i made this mistake so, dont swamp urself with the mass produced 80s and 90s porcelain dolls, they may be cute and cheap but they all look very similar and sooner or later you begin to dislike them

learn abt the materials and how to identify them + in what times they were used!

composition: a mix of wood and other materials, (do not get these dolls wet lol) they usually are shiny, heavier than other dolls and make a wood like sound when you tap them. used from the 1920s to late 1940s, a good indicator of a less broad age range is the hair, if it is moulded on its more likely to be 20s/30s. (there are pot dolls also, which also contain clay with composition, but they are hard to differentiate)

ceramic: i dont know much about them, but the best way to spot them is if it is matte and has a rough texture to it. in my experience they are usually cloth bodied (they arent the nicest looking creatures either)

plastic: im sure ur familiar with plastic, but sometimes it can appear like composition, the best way to tell is the noticeable line you get where the plastic meets. anywhere from late 1940s to now

porcelain/bisque: self explanatory, i cant really give a time frame since its so broad lmao

another big thing is knowing certain dollmakers and knowing what dolls are worth!

80s/90s porcelain dolls: they were mass produced and dont have much value, £2-£9

composition: £10-£25 , they usually arent marked with a doll maker

1950s plastic dolls: there are quite a few, but the better examples i know are roddy and pedigrees (that look like the below image), and from what ive gathered roddy is a budget ver and if it is a walker, it does not age well. for pedigree, £15-£50 and for roddy a little less, broadly for plastic they are usually the cheaper option to the others (if they arent walkie talkies like my nan calls them)

1910s/20s bisque headed dolls: it all really depends on the quality and upkeep of the doll, and the doll maker, but i advise ebay is a scummy website that upcharges alot. an armand marseille dream babydoll should not cost you £150, my 20 inch was £27. for more broader terms, 30-90 or maybe a little more is alright.

earlier bisque headed dolls: the ones i am familiar with pre 20th century are jumeau, which are 2-4 grand. unless ur mega rich or won the lottery in ur (and my) dreams. they also usually have really bushy eyebrows for some reason.

and lastly, spotting reproduction dolls. reproductions were commonly made in the 80s/90s, that try to replicate the looks of antiques. they sometimes have a marking from the maker of the reproduction as well as the original, but features can also help.

for example, the first picture is a true antique, while the second is a quite bad repro, but they can be better. the best way to spot is:

1. the eyes. antiques have glass eyes that look realistic, while repros use less realistic eyes

2. the hands. if the hands are impeccably undamaged porcelain, its a repro. it is uncommon for antiques to use porcelain hands, usually using a composition body or another material with only a bisque head, which in compositions case doesnt age well with wear and tear. if the hands of an antique are porcelain, they will not be spotless and damage free.

3. if ur looking at it online and its suspiciously cheap. i saw a "simon and halbig' up for £30 and nearly jumped for it, but i realised after looking at the pics it was definitely a repro.

repros arent inherently bad, sometimes they are cute or terribly funny, but it is something to look out for when trying to get antiques.

this was mostly not how to actually collect, but my main advice for that is: buy dolls you think are cute, but dont buy too many of the same sort, branch out a lil and get the strange looking and broken ones too, they r full of character n adorable c:

anyway thanks for this ask my autistic brain went into hyperdrive lmao i love ranting about dolls

[docholligay]

How does one start with perfumes? Like good ones? I got burned as a teen by getting like 3 different basic cheap things a year from aunts and grandparents that claimed to be different scents but never seemed like they were, but realized that might have been oversaturation and my life's adults not wanting to put in effort. Would like to start exploring them properly now, years on from that. Is there books? Primers? Can I mail for a scratch-and-sniff card from fancy makers?

Perfume is one of the things that is genuinely difficult to get into, it has a high bar to entry, so it's not your imagination. That's why most people just wear whatever they started wearing as a teenager. Most things I encourage: fitness, cooking, fashion don't require NEARLY as much work or cash as people pretend, but perfume pretty genuinely does.

ANYWAY, doesn't make it impossible at all, I just wanted to let you know you are not nuts.

I very much have my own preferences at this point, and generally prefer more niche perfumes. But I started with just designer perfumes! Most people do. You can go to most Sephoras and just spray perfumes from the testers onto the strips. This is a great place to start seeing what you're drawn to! Everyone is different. And you may change as you get deeper into the hobby.

Once you start looking at notes you're drawn to, you can get samples on cards! You can just buy these on ebay. MAKE SURE THEY ARE CARDED. This is a way to help make sure you're getting what you're getting. EVen better, sephora has designer discovery kits with a voucher for a full size

You can also just ask on craigslist or FB marketplace or whatever and see if anyone has perfume samples they're getting rid off, but no one sells stuff to get rid of it anymore it seems, it's all to turn a profit ahaha. If you were coming to visit me I would give you the bargain i do to basically anyone who visits--feel free to use any of my perfumes while you're here and give them a shot, I own both men's and women's.

Start seeing what you like on you! What notes are you drawn to, does your skin pull a scent sweet, or smoky, or whatever? If your ultimate aim is to find a perfume or two to wear every day (I generally recommend a summer and winter perfume for people. Winter perfumes can be stronger and headier, you generally want something lighter for summer) this is easy enough.

I really recommend DecantX or The Perfumed Court for buying decants, which are basically large samples. This is a a lot of what i have. I'm not much of a full bottle buyer! The Perfumed Court has goddamn nearly everything you could possibly be looking for, DecantX has great pricing. Don't bother with shit like Scentbird, it's a scam and you would be better served to order 17 dollars worth of stuff from decantX every month until you found your bliss.

If you find a HOUSE you are interested in, they very often have a sample set to buy. One of my favorites is Frederic Malle, and they have samples and discovery sets. Etat Libre D'Orange is a pretty boundary-pushing house, but they have a pretty reasonably cheap discovery kit.

It's taken me years to get to the point I am at, so don't stress out too much. I wore just, Flowerbomb for years, until i discovered there were much more vintage style straight florals out there. Don't be afraid to experiment! I love florals, and they are my main feminine wear, but I also love Tom Ford's Ebene Fume, which is rich and smoky. Have fun with it!

[genderful-ghoul]

So the MCU can decide to make the silver surfer a woman but they won’t cast a Roma man to play Dr. Doom? They will gladly make the silver surfer a different character from the comics for what I can only assume is “girl power” reasons, but they also chose to cast a white American man to play a Roma character.

I hope Disney burns to the fucking ground. This is such abhorrent behavior it makes me feel like I need to cry. Disney is the most powerful production company globally, I believe, with riches and influence and money they donate to violent military operations, and their choice to erase Roma once again really symbolizes everything we need to know. Disney is the enemy of everything that is good.

The ethnic cleansing of Dr. Doom and the colonization of Lilo and Stitch happening at the same time after years of backlash against the company feels like this is the crux. We have to kill it. We have to boycott Disney hard and long.

And I’m beyond pissed at RDJ for this too. His contract with Marvel was done and he was sitting pretty in wealth. He should’ve turned down this racist offer, and he chose not to.

How to boycott Disney

- Give them no money

- Kill your FOMO and get off their stupid streaming service (🏴‍☠️s have these shows and films uploaded to free sites)

- Don’t see any of their films in cinemas (unless you’re sneaking in)

- Get a cheap DVD player from eBay and get secondhand or library DVDs of their films if you have to watch Disney

- Same for music- just get secondhand or library CDs or 🏴‍☠️ the music instead of streaming

- Talk shit about them (or just tell everyone else about their shitty behavior)

- Tell kids about their shitty behavior too (keep it age appropriate)

- Support indie film

- Avoid consuming anything from their acquisitions (I’d say Marvel Comics is an exception for now)

- Only buy merch/toys secondhand or from fan artists that don’t pay copyright

- Don’t you dare go to their parks or resorts

- Don’t wear merch that advertises for them (this includes the mouse)

- Consider wearing anti-Disney merch

Alternatives to Disney

- PBS (they support indie film, have kids shows, have news, have documentaries, and a streaming service)

- Cinemas often show indie films depending on where you live

- Instead of going to parks/resorts go to Rennfaire

- Or go on vacation to volunteer for mutual aid and environmental protection groups

- Follow indie projects ex-Disney animators are working on

- Make your own Disney merch/toys

- Give your money to cultural and environmental preservation in Hawai’i

- Give your money to Romani cultural and educational orgs.

- Keep fighting to free Palestine

[isukdik6969]

⚠️ ⚠️WARNING ⚠️ ⚠️

This post contains bad graphic scenes and inappropriate language. Viewer discretion is advised.

NSFW

Kermit, the stripper.

By: isukdik6969

Once upon a time, there was a stripper named Kermit. He loved his job and never wanted anything more. And one long day of pole dancing for rich millionaires and getting gang banged by a gang in a back alley, he did his daily checking for STI'S at the doctor's office, he finished up then gave the doctor some head. He took the bus ride home but there was no seats on the bus and he couldnt stand up on the bus with his stripper heels, so thankfully a nice horny man let Kermit sit on his lap, and all through the bus ride they had sex without anyone noticing. At this point Kermit's ass was hurting and dripping with cum and sex lube, but when Kermit got home from his job at the strip club, he grabbed a metal fork and began to eat some Kraft dinner he made in the morning. Suddenly, he heard a little voice in his head say, "Stick the fork in the outlet." Kermit had always trusted the little voice in his head, so he started to do as the voice said without knowing the consequences of it.

Kermit was about to stick the fork in the outlet when *RINGGGG* His phone rang. Kermit picks up his phone and answers "What do you want whore"Kermit says angrily. Ms. Piggy replies with "I did nothing wrong, but I wanna get back together." Kermit screams at Ms Piggy, "SLEEPING WITH UNCLE DEADLY IS NOTHING WRONG???!!! "Kermit hangs up and continues sticking the fork in the outlet saying "that lying, cheating, littl-"He gets cut off by a large zap noise. A few minutes later, Ms Piggy heads to his apartment to try and seduce him so he will get back to her. Ms. Piggy knocks a few times on the door and gets no response, so she gets her new bf -Uncle Deadly- to break down the door. She finally gets inside, and it's like a ghost town. She walks further in and checks every room.

Finally, she gets to the kitchen and steps on something cold she looks down and sees Kermit's lifeless corpse on the floor. Ms. Piggy gets angry because his stripper heels tracked so much dirt from the outside that it was ruining her brand new high heels. Then she heard something, her new boyfriend saying "Can we leave this place im hungry" She says to her new bf "No worries about food, babe, were having frog legs for dinner", So after Ms Piggy and Uncle Deadly had a threesome with Kermit's fried corpse. They feasted on Kermit, and thanks to him being electrocuted, they didn't need any preparation for him. They finished eating what they could of Kermit and sold the rest of him for 5,000,000$ on eBay

Then Uncle Deadly told Ms Piggy somthing that left her shocked he said " I'm sorry Ms Piggy but I wasn't in love with you, I was in love with Kermit, I was using you to get closer to him. But now he is gone, so I shall be gone too. " Ms Piggy started crying and trying to stop Uncle deadly, but she was too late. He had already cut his dick and balls off and was bleeding out. ~One hour later~ Ms. Piggy was out on the streets trying to find a new boyfriend. After a while, she got really tired and went back to Kermits' large stripper apartment. She had been so sad that she said "Fuck this shit, imma start dating women" So Ms Piggy had started sissoring Camilla aggressively. They lived together for a few months and then Kermit and Uncle Deadly (who were now together as a gay couple) haunted them and eventually killed them. And nobody lived happily ever after, but they did all die gay, so I guess that counts.

The End 🫶🫶🫶

I honestly only wrote this for comedy, and if yall want, I will write real smut, just ask. Hope you enjoyed the torture and there may be misspells.

[a-magical-evening]

Do you know if there's any photos or videos or anything with Matt and Trey hugging each other?

I wish I could say I know of recorded hugs, but unfortunately Matt and Trey don't appear to be very huggy with each other, at least in public. It's more likely they'll hold hands (usually for photoshoots or during curtain calls), or put an arm around each other.

They do like putting their heads on each other's shoulders 😍

(I'm very 'look how they massacred my boy' about the awful photoshopping job they did on Trey in that last one, but I can appreciate the pose at least.)

There were a selection of old slides posted to eBay a few years ago that had some extremely tiny and pixelated pics of drunk hugs from the same night these were taken.

Here's a post by @cock-tail-party with the best of the bunch. Somewhere out there, a very rich person is sitting on some of the greatest M&T pics ever.

There is of course the Coop and Remer hug from BASEktball's Canned Ham, but it's in character, so it doesn't count imo.

Another that doesn't count is the air hug from the concert. But it's always nice to see it 😉

The lack of hugging became a meme in 2022 Matt & Trey fandom. This post by @behind-the-blow pretty much sums it up, lol. Most of the silliness was inspired by this post where it was pointed out that Trey looked like he wanted to hug Matt several times while celebrating their Empire Award win, but he doesn't get one. (Matt, please just hug the guy at this point! He's sung a whole song about wanting hugs, come on.)

We got desperate in our hunt for hugs and maybe counted this one from For Goodness Sake II, where Trey dives across a table and into Matt's lap, just before the table collapses.

If you're interested, there's lots of fanart out there that fills the hug-shaped void. Fair warning that a lot of it is shippy, so ignore the bullet points if RPF isn't your jam.

There's an absolutely gorgeous piece of art by UnfortunateJerry on AO3 of Matt and Trey hugging in the art chapter of this fic collection (note: NSFW art in the same chapter.) It's life changing.

There's an amazing selection of M/T art out there made by @konstance - this hugging one is a favourite of mine.

This adorable piece by @cock-tail-party

I also did this hug art collab with @cock-tail-party in 2022, inspired by the Where's Trey's Hug? meme 😊

This answer became much longer than I anticipated, but I hope it gave you something to chew on at least. If I've missed anything obvious, please someone let me know in the replies.

[sappy-detective]

you guys already know i love a good ‘ouma is actually a good person in a “bad” way’ trope.. ESPECIALLY phantoms thief/D.IC.E. leader AU.

to me ouma/DICE only steal from bad rich ass people and give back to the poor. they’re the people magically filling pot holes and fixing whatever the neighbors needs with the money they get, along with giving out good on holidays for people who don’t have enough money to buy it.

they’re notorious for stealing crazy expensive things and either selling them or leaving them to a random pawn shop for shits and giggles.

they steal bigger things too, like shit from art museums and galleries. just to show their cards and what they can do. they steal them for hella cheep on ebay or something for like $20. ORRr they mail them back to the police with some stupid taunting message.

it also leads into them exposing corrupt officers, detectives, judge, and business owners alike. they get into police chases for fun and wait for the police to come get them. they all LOVE getting into a game of cat and mouse with them and embarrassing the police. (or a specific detective..!)

“Finaly you’re here! i was waiting all day!! now we can start having some real fun!”

they’re heavy on the ACAB thing, they’re punk as hell. and when i tell you the public loves them, they LOVE them. they’re rarely seen and if they are people just look the other way.

[vivianbernadetteaurora]

These women were all it’s big enough for 2000s Ohh Big bud got that big, There’s not been flamed like it since, I mean when Michael Jackson Madonna Prince and all that were big Michael Jackson there was no bigger level of fame he almost had a renaissance from the golden age of Hollywood really. But then Brittany came out Christina and the rest and it turned into the 2000s. that we say fondly look back on today, as our renaissance.

And Brittany she worked so damn hard since the little girl OnStar search. With a mother who wasn’t an amazing stage mother but they were poor they were from Louisiana. and this little girl works really hard. coming from a family that didn't always get on like Lindsay Lohan she worked really hard to get where she got and to be honest I used to think this person was different from these two.

And to be honest it’s probably the class thing and I’m talking about no one else but Paris Hilton, add to the billion dollar Hilton brand.

This woman has worked her tiny little **** of.

I need to see it with all our brands her perfumes her beauty all things like that. And being the character Paris Hilton it's a big part of the act the blue eyed, the wide baby voice with her little animals like tinkerbell. Who at the time was one of the most sport dogs in Hollywood.

Then you have Nicole Richie hey when she used to get her colorful hair extension she'd get her dog to have them too now how crazy is that and this was from a proper hash noticed you did people have honestly it’s not as bad as it sounds and I wanna get it done to my dog Oh oh. See Paris Hilton and Britney Spears had national connect for each other in making the other one more famous Paris by taking Brittany out to the club in the nicest cars etcetera. I’m Britney for just being Brittany next to Paris. And of course you have the famous paparazzi picture the bimbo convention.

This is probably one of the most expensive paparazzi pictures, I’m guessing. If only we knew what Brittany was going through during the conservatorship years we do now. This is why it’s freed her but has it because she’s been in the shackles so long that I don’t think she knows the difference anymore, and you could say that. I remember when she was on The X Factor, and I think it was in 2008 latest 2009, and she didn’t talk about it at the time. I found that weird for a pop star. I mean, I wouldn’t either because I’m autistic and I don’t like talking anymore This is why I write. Anyway, she didn’t talk to the host Dermot O’Leary.So yeah she was working really hard in the conservative ship yes, and this is what I think the Kardashians tried to do with Kanye and This is why he’s gone out of the psychist little bit and become really eccentric. and they know damn well that he could release the vault of secrets about them at any time which would not be good for the brands. Chris does not need anyone like that who could let the side down at anytime.

No with that Mars in Libra labour is all about appearances as we know. and Kim’s, success would be nothing without Paris being her .

Closet organizer and making money from selling different celebrity stuff on eBay I’m meeting people like Jonathan who is a celebrity publicist,,. I was watching this really old program from probably like 2006 to 2009 all about when Ferran cotton meets Paris Hilton

, and Paris seems like the kind of girl that you would like to be your friend she’s not how she seems on TV she’s actually quite shy and sweet and you see her vulnerabilities.. I actually really like her I never used to when I was younger because I felt intimidated by her I’m not gonna lie

As I know girls reach generation often do about some of the latest starlets… cause you compare yourself to this person who has all the money in the world to look how they can look who have people on hand and you want to be like them.

But I don’t know about you don’t get me wrong I’d love to be rich but fame that’s a whole nother kettle of fish.

The same way it’s done to Britney they overworked her. Made it hard for her to live like a normal browser. No, no more people are great because I understand that I feel like I can’t, but if I was that famous too,o, I can’t even imagine… So there you go, that’s how I feel about the situation. I’m just glad Britney has some kind of peace in her life. It would be lovely if she had a relationship with her sons. But who knows, watch this space, I guess.

[seat-safety-switch]

I love my fireworks, say all my neighbours as they cram a flimsy plastic tube full of low-yield explosives. Surely everyone in my community will also appreciate them. If not, they are some kind of Grumpy Gus and are not invited to the block party cookout. Friends, I can tell you this right now: I am not going to that barbecue.

As you might have imagined, the residents of my area of the world like to shoot off a bunch of Roman candles when they feel like it. Sure, fireworks are fun and all, but I feel like if you're burning three or four hundred dollars worth of illegal noise-and-light generators every couple of weeks, you might as well just take up smoking again.

At first, it was a lot of fun. Very festive. It helped the community spirit, even if all the dogs were constantly terrified and kept trying to chew through a fence to escape. Ol' Ray down the block lost a finger trying to grab onto what he called a "Winky Sprinkler," though, and then everything changed.

Once there was a scent of blood in the air, it became a competition. Ray needed to "make it worth" his sacrifice, so he started amping up his production. Bigger shows. Coordinated by electronics. More frequently. This drew the ire of another rich asshole (Bob Winsome, who used to own the Ford dealership) with poor impulse disorder, and soon the two of them were getting up to a night-time artillery show that the police were not equipped to stop, mostly because they were at the doughnut store or trying to knock over a casino for some quick cash in the retirement fund at the time.

Nearly every night became a terror of pop-pop-pop. although I am very good at ignoring troublesome noises, those noises are usually generated by my own car while I'm driving them. Not constantly happening while I'm trying to focus on my usual problems: things like "why is this bolt stripped," and "where did this pile of wires I just cut through go to?"

As the Constitution says, though: "fuck 'em if they can't take a joke." After one particularly rough night of having exploding munitions going off directly over my head while I was trying to find the origin of some faint valve clatter, I decided to respond in kind. A friend of mine, who will be called Millie Teri for reasons that are about to become clear, loaned me a couple pieces from her private collection. I had myself a patriotic parade that night. Courtesy, of course, of some army bases didn't really pay too close attention to what they listed on eBay. That's what they call "taxpayer value," even if I did have to technically buy the low-shrapnel M107 flash shells twice.

I had expected to draw a truce after demonstrating my superior firepower, much like how French tourists can shut down any discussion of cheese. After bombarding both rich pricks' homes, however, it soon became apparent that the dickheads blamed each other for the massive destruction wrought on their properties, and refused to believe that a belligerent third party could have done such a thing to them just for "several months of sleepless nights courtesy of constant 120dB outside noise."

After the mutually-assured destruction finished, though, I never saw or heard another fireworks display from Ol' Ray or Bob Winsome. If they ever find an identifiable chunk of either of their bodies, we'll probably have a pretty cool tribute at the funeral using up whatever unexploded fireworks they have still left in the scorched remnants of their family homes.