#i hate participating in capitalism

[oca-rinn-a]

Hearing people talk about the need to build more affordable housing in the US makes me physically sick with frustration. The "housing shortage" is artificial. We need redistribution, not continued production. I get that the laws aren't there. They should be. I'm so tired of people pretending there aren't dragon-hoards of vacant housing. We don't need to build more, we need a revolution to let people fill in the spaces which already exist in their area. Not letting someone have a house that's been empty for years, just because they don't have money... I can't understand it. It's the most basic thing. Once you have shelter, you can start to come back to yourself enough to get the rest of your life together. *sigh* I understand that building more houses is necessary under this stupid fucking system, because a revolution is much more difficult and slow, and people need housing ASAP. I just get so mad thinking about how there are physically plenty of spots they could be (There are over 20 vacant homes in the US for each homeless person), and people are using profit and capitalist principles as an excuse to keep them from being there.

[ithinkitsdashingshop]

Good news! After doing the maths, I realised I could lower the prices even further-

So, yes. Moving from etsy to Ko-fi... messy. And I was (am) really nervous about losing all my good ratings and reviews (though they are still visible if you look at my etsy page, I think?), making no sells at all, etc... and yes that is still a worry.

However. After taking a closer look at the numbers once I made a sale and seeing that the cut paypal takes is slightly smaller than I anticipated, I have now lowered the prices :)

(I also want to point out that the shipping fee is per order, NOT per item.)

[shadybug]

i really just do not trust makeship. i feel like people should think more about where their merch is physically being made before hopping on a bandwagon, ESPECIALLY for something as complex and labor-intensive as limited run plushies.

makeship talks a lot about how much they take care of their artists and design/logistics team, but has nothing about their manufacturers on their website. all of their employees are remote, which is something they brag about on their site, so i'm certain they outsource the actual plush creation. given their prices and what i know about plush manufacturing, i don't have much faith that the people actually making the plushies are paid/treated well.

[bunnihearted]

the earth is getting hotter and hotter and nobody's doing anything about it but im misanthropic and depressive because i can see nothing that inspires hope 🤙

[draw-me-some-stories]

Not a swiftie, but fuck that killed me.

You know what Taylor, I do hate it here.

[gentlelarkspur]

Please look upon these hilarious mockup photos I made for the tshirt/sweater designs I'm selling over on Etsy.

Tag yourself, I'm the "no YOU hang up" vampire XD

[magnuficent76]

So how does Meph go from Jonah to Mephisto?

OFHHHG OC QUESTIONS... ON MY TUMBLR ACCOUNT....

BUT OKAY lemme try to summarize ! Since this is a fan character, there might be bits of game lore that will be harder to explain, but hopefully this makes sense </3 big ramble under cut !

Tl;dr: Jonah was a factory worker who worked really hard and wanted to change the world, and then the world pummeled him to the ground ! He got so mad about this that he decided to become a cyborg about it (joking)

Jonah Caede was an extremely diligent factory worker at Hyperion (tldr of this company: it sucks ass and is lead by a egotistical space fascist) as a gun assembler. He lived an honest life at Pandora the best he could, and was quite the character considering all the horrible conditions he was under: Always very charismatic and positive, a real ray o' sunshine amidst all the violence on the wastelands. He always thought that, through a lot of work and dedication, he could change the place for the better.

Sure it was [extremely, horribly] rough around the edges, but all it needed was some dedication ! He lived in the planet for so long, and he just wants to see it be valued for something. He doesn't exactly like Hyperion's planning, or even respect the CEO very much, but if it helps the place he's willing to put personal bias aside.

[He was blinded with propaganda inside the factory and genuinely believed that this was the best course of action, he didn't know anything about the whole "murdering pretty much every pandoran no matter how innocent because CEO is a Space Fascist" thing]

Jonah had a brother called Archer, who thought he genuinely lost his mind chasing this ridiculous dream of "helping" this nowhere planet. Archer was a business man out in the system, and also extremely rich, so the idea that Jonah genuinely enjoyed living someplace so dangerous and so genuinely putrid made him so mad. He saw his brother get injured like a bajillion times (in which he had to help him pay for the expenses every time because Jonah Would Not be able to afford healthcare otherwise), and then saw him go right back anyway. He thought it was insane, and he tried talking him out of this shitty ideal world he lived in like several times, but it never seemed to work. Jonah was naive in his eyes. A real sheep that prayed for a better world that could not possibly exist. And at some point, they cut ties because of it.

Jonah was upset sure, but he didn't have time to be sad about it. He was working a lot of shifts, rising from rank to rank, promotion to promotion, even if it did kinda fuck him up. It was worth it, because at some point, he was manager of a whole factory. Not just a gun assembler, but a whole robotics chief engineer.

Wasn't easy, obviously– He gave up like half his life just to work– But it paid off well. It was not only safer work, but it paid so much better he could finally afford to relax. It gave him the opportunity to help the people around him like he always wanted too ! The factory got upgraded, wages were raised, there were plans on unionizing the workers, there were even whole city plans ! So, so many plans ! So many lives that he had the opportunity to help !

And then, it all came crashing down.

At some point, Archer came back.

Archer told the Higher Ups everything about Jonah, about his idiocy, how he's insane, how he has all these plans for the planet. To make it "better". Higher Ups obviously didnt like that much, as the plan was never to "make the planet residents' lives better" as much as it was "exploit the planet as hard as possible until it dies". They brought it up to the CEO, and he was MAD about it. So mad in fact he told people to go and kill him ! Ivan got paid a large sum of money, and Jonah was taken out by bandits to be executed badly.

[CW FOR A LOT OF VIOLENCE.]

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The plan was to cut his limbs all off ! And they almost did ! They got his other leg, and the arm, and some fingers. But for some miracle, something happened that allowed him to live. That same power that let him live for that long made it so that somehow, all the people around him dropped dead after one big flash.

Afterwards was a big blur. He doesn't know if he passed out and woke up cloned*, but everything still hurt. It was so unfair, and for what ? All he ever did in his life was try to help people and then he (pretty literally) died trying. Regardless, he made one last effort, and with the little energy he had he got teleported back to his house. And just guess what ? It was also just fucking gone. Blown up, presumably. And with his family nowhere to be found. He found a recording from Mel that was basically detailing how Hyperion showed up and was forcing them to get out, and how she was scared, how their children were scared. He never found out if they died, and just kinda was left there on his own.

So what then ? He didn't have anywhere to go. He couldn't go home, it didn't exist anymore.

[* In this world it's an option for people to get their bodies registered in a machine and then digicloned to their last "stop" basically]

From that day, Jonah kinda died. He didnt get the name "Mephisto" until some time later, but his old self was dead and buried beneath rubble. But at some point, something else came out of that grave and it was out for BLOOD.

Andddd im gonna leave it off there ! That's the story ! Jonah has a terrible no good awful time and then comes back wrong after !!! Yay !!!!!

[iero]

Already mourning the fact that there is probably no way I’m gonna be able to stay up to blog about the West Coast shows, as an East Coaster, because of work. </3

[artemisiatridentata]

single people who hate Valentine’s Day are corny. die in my arms

[clingylilhoneybee]

:(

[finex7]

I'm hungry and exhausted and there's still 1 hour 15 minutes left before my shift ends 😭

[ithinkitsdashingshop]

Good news! After doing the maths, I realised I could lower the prices even further-

So, yes. Moving from etsy to Ko-fi... messy. And I was (am) really nervous about losing all my good ratings and reviews (though they are still visible if you look at my etsy page, I think?), making no sells at all, etc... and yes that is still a worry.

However. After taking a closer look at the numbers once I made a sale and seeing that the cut paypal takes is slightly smaller than I anticipated, I have now lowered the prices :)

(I also want to point out that the shipping fee is per order, NOT per item.)

[solemntitty]

i went outside and there were many people. i went back inside. i prefer. vastly. the indoors

[minnieposting]

capitalism and its horrifying effects on us

[aquacitys]

i hate the concept of investing money soooo much literally making money off of other money no labor or anything of value involved and i hate how everyone makes you feel like it is a necessity so you can even have a shot at stuff like homeownership. sorry but WHY is simply working and saving your money not enough anymore????

[dixiedingo]

I'm whispering some laws aren't okay to muta like a banshee to a sailor