#lowballin

[meyerlansky]

dancing cheek to cheek (to cheek) (7563 words) by littlelansky chapters: 1/1 fandom: Masters of the Air (TV 2024) rating: Explicit warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply relationships: Curtis Biddick/Gale "Buck" Cleven/John Clarence "Bucky" Egan, Curtis Biddick/John Clarence "Bucky" Egan, Curtis Biddick/Gale "Buck" Cleven, Gale "Buck" Cleven/John Clarence "Bucky" Egan characters: Curtis Biddick, John Clarence "Bucky" Egan, Gale "Buck" Cleven additional tags: Friends With Benefits, Friends to Lovers, Falling In Love, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Mutual Pining, Period Typical Attitudes, Internalized Homophobia, (it's light though dw), Canon Compliant, Dom/sub Undertones, Dirty Talk, Anal Sex, Hand Jobs, Making Out, Drunk Sex, Whiskey Dick, POV Curtis Biddick series: Part 1 of three bluebirds summary:

If Bucky’s with Curt, he’s with him. No biting back another guy’s name, no faraway look in his eyes. It’d probably have made the whole thing easier if there had been.

Because when Bucky’s boy rolls in, Curt takes one look at him and whistles low.

“I was lowballin’ it on ‘twice as pretty,’ huh,” he mutters to Bucky, quiet enough no one else can hear. He scowls, played-up, to counter the stupid grin on Bucky’s face. “And you just let me. Some friend you are.”

(In which Curt catches feelings twice.)

[read it on ao3!]

[subspacecadet]

Velma: Doctor: $140k. Furry artist on Patreon: $160k a year.

Bugs: I tink you're lowballin the furry art amount t'be honest.

Velma: Apolgies for the inaccuracies DOCTOR YIFF.

Bugs: No matter how I respond to dis, I don't look good, well played doc.

Morty: Well people who draw furry art are typically more competent and courteous then your average doctor, so I can see that.

Velma: Did you SERIOUSLY just tell me that a person who draws WOLF ASS is more competent then someone who went to medical school for 8 years to give you a lung transplant?

Jake: Doctors are BULL. SHIT. and furry artists provide an infinitely more valuable service.

Velma: YOU WILL DIE IN SEVEN DAYS.

Harley: Look, I'm a doctor, but it took the Arkham doctors like ten years to diagnose what was wrong with me. Some insisting I was faking for attention. While a furry I knew just went "That sounds like poisoning from unsafe prolonged exposure to laughing gas" and he ended up being RIGHT.

Batman: Please don't call me a furry.

Harley: Plus I can't go up to a doctor and ask them to draw Rouge The Bat wider than she is tall with tits to match, now can I?

Rick: You could if you weren't a FUCKING COWARD!

[artbyblastweave]

Mid wierd low ennui high jest and creativity

I think you're lowballin the ennui a tad but I'll take it

[a1sart]

trying to make a comms sheet and I am stuck on the prices!!! I get them down and then am like "hmm kinda feel like i'm lowballin myself here hmm" and I look at other artists and am like "HOLY SHIT YOU CHARGE WAY MORE DO I NEED TO CHARGE MORE???" and then. starting over. and the cycle repeats bc I cannot fathom anyone buying my art for 55 dollars. and that's comparatively low to a lot of people.

[jade-curtiss]

Reason I speak up, I peaked when I've thrown 200 bucks to my dumbass acuntant for my internet business and instead of accepting she just finesse the "don't pay, there's other things going on here" while rejecting my average lowballin payments. When people know what they do, they do it seems.

[eric-sadahire]

BREAKING: Elon Musk has offered to buy CNN for the following amount. $2,300 3 bags of Cool Ranch Doritos 3 liters of Mountain Dew Code Red

[incorrect-vasterror]

Arcjec: XDXD Doctor: 140,000 loops a sweep XDXD

Arcjec: XDXD Furry artist on Patreon: 160,000 loops a sweep XDXD

Murrit: >([i t#ink ur lowballin the furry amount tb#]

Arcjec: XDXD I’m sorry for the inaccuracies, Doctor Yiff. XDXD

Murrit: >([no matter #ow i respond to this i dont look good, well played. i walked rig#t into that]

Laivan: Well- furry artists typically are more competent- and courteous than your average doctor- so I can see that-

Arcjec: XDXD Did you just legitimately tell me that a person who draws wolf ass is more competent than a dude who spent 4+ sweeps in school to give you your lung transplant? XDXD

Ellsee: Doctors arΣ bullshit and furry artists pΣrform an infinitΣly more valuablΣ servicΣ to sociΣty comparΣd to thΣm.

Arcjec: XDXD You will die in 7 days. XDXD

Albion: *it*took*doctors*like*five*sweeps*to*diagnose*what*was*wrong*with*me*some*insisting*i*was*faking*for*attention*while*a*furry*artist*i*knew*just*went*“that*sounds*like*crohns”*after*hearing*me*complain*once*and*ended*up*being*right*

Albion: *also*i*cant*go*to*a*doctor*and*ask*them*to*draw*rogue*the*bat*wider*than*she*is*tall*with*tits*to*match*now*can*i*?

Taz: ~you could if you weren’+ a fucking coward~

[floraprin]

@roskaarotta​​​ said:

" HOLD ON- You say me datin' Oso is lowballin' but you dated his BROTHER. They're SEXTUPLETS... you just got the BLUE OSOMATSU..."

                             ROAST ARA ! / accepting !

        ❝ KARAMATSU-KUN IS NOT LIKE OSOMATSU AT ALL ! ❞  she REFUSED to believe it. NOTHING could change her mind. well, actually... she looks down at the ground. FUCK.

[askdawnandvern]

Dawn: A motorcycle? She's eleven! She can't legally drive a motorcycle!

Vernon: She knows that right? I mean Yuri and Ada definitely know that.

Gus: Who knows, she may have been teasing, but she sounded serious. And Kodi seemed serious when he said he had been arguing against it.

Vernon: Heh...And here I thought she wouldn't be all that interested in participatin' in the 'favorite Aunt and Uncle Hunger Tames' we've been dealin' with since Harvest Feast ended. A gift like that would probably shoot her right up to the top of the contender's list in Ally's eyes if she knew. Only thing that makes me skeptical is Ada and Yuri willin' to take 'partial credit' fer a gift, especially in Ada's case. From what I've heard, ain't none of the gals 'collaborated' when it came to pickin' out gifts.

Gus: Why?

Vernon: I called it the 'Hunger Tames' fer a reason. None of the Aunts and Uncles wanna give any of the others a competitive edge. They're goin' all 'er nothin'. That's why Yuri and Ada helpin' out don't make no sense. Still, I gotta give Val credit iffin' it is true. She's wadin' into this Howliday brawl with both paws swingin'.

Dawn: Vernon, you can't seriously be considering-.

Vernon: Oh absolutely not. No daughter o' mine is ridin' on one of those steel death machines until they're eighteen at least, and even then not without heavy paddin' and a massive helmet!

Dawn: So what do we do?

Vernon: Well, there ain't no talkin' Val out of an idea. One way 'er another that vixen is gonna offload somethin' with wheels on Ally come Yule mornin'. But, if we try real, real hard, we can prolly convince her that a dirt bike is much better idea than a full on junker motorcycle. We just have to make sure we play it like she's the one who came up with it.

Dawn: A dirtbike? That's still a little scary...

Vernon: If we tried lowballin' it to a bycycle, Val would catch on. Side's, dirtbikes go about as fast as my ol' moped used to. That said, best to add all them necessary pads and helmet to the Yule list Honey Lamb.

[multi-mused-menagerie]

How Attractive Are You?

Chuuya, your attractiveness is 100. So hot🔥

     “ I mean, I guess if we’re lowballin’ here, that makes sense. ”

[neillaolio48]

If you have a product you sell and make $20 a Day. Then, do that for 5 day’s a week. Then, do that for 4yrs. Yipyipyipyipyipyipyipyip(do you hear the aliens from Sesame Street?👽) I’ve always known, It’s All About The Numbers. Even though math wasn’t never my favorite. It’s was always been something about them Business Equations that always excited me. #LowBallin #TrepLife #MoneyMath #Equations #Logistics #Nuances #Entrepreneur #Youth #Family #Education #Empowerment #UNUMOLIO #222 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn69kDyhIwj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19qq7btry430e

[saifulmustapha]

Never stop selamat hari raya 🙏 Thanks for invitation 🤙 #teamrayaKK #openhouse #lowballin (at Kuala Putatan 2)

[fdhfjdafdajfa]

ok i need to process things i read

race, rebellion, and arab muslim slavery (mcleod, 2016) argues for the existence of antiblackness in pre-islamic arabia based largely on the authority of jahili poets, who were also slaves, who wrote about their skin colour in relation to their social position

from these poets theres a gap of 200-odd years, when it skips to al jahiz, a prolific scholar known for among other things his “book of animals” which predates darwin by like a thousand years in describing natural selection

but the reason he’s in this paper is because of his On The Superiority of Blacks over Whites, in which McLeod accuses him of intentionally distancing himself from his blackness while at the same time al jahiz asserts that the arabs are in fact black, and so was the prophet, and he names several members of the prophets family who were also black

modern scholars have interpreted Superiority in a way that is all things considered pretty patronising, as a series of potentially satirical and extraordinary claims not unlike some of the more vulnerable claims of modern black nationalists, who themselves claim the text as an ideological forebear

otoh in Anyone Who Says the Prophet is Black Should Be Killed by Wesley Williams (WIP), a far more thoroughly-sourced piece it must be said, argues that the Arabs at the time of the Prophet regarded their own black skin as a sign of pure lineage, and that while they did recognise other racial types the skin differences were in luminosity rather than hue (the arabs were regarded as having smoother, more luminous skin)

willians describes all the words used in arabic to refer to different skin colours at incredible length, with citations from classical scholars fwiw, noting that some terms are used differently in describing humans than their general usage, a fact about which mcleod agrees but does not analyse in as much depth

the short version of williams’ conclusions is that he brings up a shitload of examples of descriptiions which all end up corroborating al jahiz’s

even going so far down the timeline as rumi who accuses the persians of persecuting the sayids due to their dark skin

mcleod does not provide the original terms used by the jahili poets in describing their own skin that could provide some guidance on the hue vs luminosity debate

this is markedly less scrutiny than mcleod pays to terms like “red” “green” and “blue” used to refer to lighter skinned people

williams does offer an explanation of some of the (few, as I understand it) cited examples of jahili antiblackness, noting that the man who mocked a peer for his black skin was himself also known to be dark skinned

it is a commonly known fact that the abbasid revolution was caused by the fact that the umayyads were giant arab chauvanists who never really got their minds wrapped around multiculturalism, and considered themselves a superiour racial group

mcleod doesnt talk about al jahiz much but it must be said that he was born 25 years after the abbasid revolution. as williams tells the story, the abbasids slowly but very clearly changed the ethnic dynamics of the empire over the course of a century or so, changing it to a comparatively lightly persian-dominant empire rather than an arab supremacist one

al jahiz would have been like at least 30 before he wrote anything of consequence and that’s lowballin it. meaning that he would have been around and watched this gradual de-arabisation, while also the lines between ethnic groups blended and persians became more araby and arabs became more persiany

so in this version of the story al jahiz is actually a super racist arab chauvanist especially considering he maintains the superiority of the arab blacks over the southeast african ones (zanj) which mcleod handles as internalised antiblackness but this is fallacious because it obviously presumes that all black people are the same which is not true and was not considered to be true in arabia at this time (for example ethiopians were well-respected and had had long relations with the arabs since forever (al jahiz was half ethiopian))

also mcleod agrees that white skin was also taken as a marker of low status during al jahiz’s time, although he claims not as much so as (non-arab) black skin (although again mcleod does not make this distinction assuming arabs to have been light skinned)

but regardless he was writing at a time when “pure” black arabs were being persecuted and de-statused as a matter of state policy

then williams traces the gradual de-arabisation of the prophet by the persians, then the peoples of the lands acquired from the byzantines in early centuries, then the lkhanids, then the ottomans, all of which were pretty light skinned

[yungdolemite]

I'm doin tattoos y'all. DM for prices, no lowballin https://www.instagram.com/p/BxJDIQoARu5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1l2p3y712x0od

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