Name's Sam, this is a blog where I just post whatever, 23, nonbinary, she/they pronouns. Hablo español. This blog is mostly sfw .
Updated commission sheet! I lowered my prices and updated what I need from commissioners! I have a lot of fandoms in general so it would be hard to list them all out. I have five slots available at a time.
Here are some examples of my writing:
Prices are negotiable so please don’t feel disheartened if it seems a little pricey! Transactional communications can be done here or on my KO-FI.
[IMAGE ID: A screenshot of a tweet by Dana Terrace. It's completely blacked out except for the words "sad boy Bob." It is followed by a doodle of Brother's Keeper AU Sad Boy Bob miserably giving a thumbs up. He is wearing a sash labelled, "canon." /END ID]
Wow can't believe Dana mentioned Tragic Youth Robert! Totally wasn't talking about anything else
(The real Sad Boy Bob she's talking about (Bob Iger) is currently part of the gang of robber barons trying to starve and evict striking film and TV workers, and treating people like my sister and me as collatoral damage. Please support the WGA, SAG-AFTRA, and entertainment workers in general as they strive for better conditions!)
Hey guys! The WGA is asking for people to sign a petition aimed against Universal. Treegate isn't the first union busting tactic Universal has tried.
They started a construction project that "just so happens" to block some of the sidewalks and forces picketers to walk in the street. The government told Universal they need to install safety rails to replace the sidewalks. A demand Universal has so far ignored.
Please sign the petition for Universal to install the safety rails and reblog.
Btw since I mentioned the writers' and actors' strikes the other day, gonna share this here. Please help protect my friends and family as they fight for better conditions! The bs the studios have been pulling during the strikes, especially Universal, is cruel and downright dangerous.
i still can't get over the sheer AUDACITY of iroh going to ba sing se. like did it work? yes. but ONLY because the dai li was too busy following around some bald kid looking for his dog to notice him
like i cannot emphasize enough how fucking stupid this plan was. the siege of ba sing se ended 5 years ago. people know what iroh looks like, to the point where he once got recognized by a random army captain at a hot spring and almost got his hands broken about it. and yet he rolls up to a city that has a vested interest in recognizing him and secret police force with zuko. zuko. like i could buy that no normal citizen would look at their tea shop guy and assume he was secretly an evil general, okay. but it's one thing to just be Mushi from the Tea Shop With an Unfortunate Resemblance to General Iroh, and another fucking thing entirely when Lee the Tea Server Who Looks Weirdly Similar to Prince Zuko is standing right next to him literally twenty-four seven!! like at least get different jobs hello????
every decision iroh makes is the decision of a man fully prepared to commit to the bit. will this succeed? who knows. but it will be very funny if i pull it off
When you’re watching an animated show or movie and suddenly the frame rate goes up and everything is Really Fluid And Suspiciously Good.
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Does anyone remember what happened to Radio Shack?
They started out selling niche electronics supplies. Capacitors and transformers and shit. This was never the most popular thing, but they had an audience, one that they had a real lock on. No one else was doing that, so all the electronics geeks had to go to them, back in the days before online ordering. They branched out into other electronics too, but kept doing the electronic components.
Eventually they realize that they are making more money selling cell phones and remote control cars than they were with those electronic components. After all, everyone needs a cellphone and some electronic toys, but how many people need a multimeter and some resistors?
So they pivoted, and started only selling that stuff. All cellphones, all remote control cars, stop wasting store space on this niche shit.
And then Walmart and Target and Circuit City and Best Buy ate their lunch. Those companies were already running big stores that sold cellphones and remote control cars, and they had more leverage to get lower prices and selling more stuff meant they had more reasons to go in there, and they couldn't compete. Without the niche electronics stuff that had been their core brand, there was no reason to go to their stores. Everything they sold, you could get elsewhere, and almost always for cheaper, and probably you could buy 5 other things you needed while you were there, stuff Radio Shack didn't sell.
And Radio Shack is gone now. They had a small but loyal customer base that they were never going to lose, but they decided to switch to a bigger but more fickle customer base, one that would go somewhere else for convenience or a bargain. Rather than stick with what they were great at (and only they could do), they switched to something they were only okay at... putting them in a bigger pond with a lot of bigger fish who promptly out-competed them.
If Radio Shack had stayed with their core audience, who knows what would have happened? Maybe they wouldn't have made a billion dollars, but maybe they would still be around, still serving that community, still getting by. They may have had a small audience, but they had basically no competition for that audience. But yeah, we only know for sure what would happen if they decided to attempt to go more mainstream: They fail and die. We know for sure because that's what they did.
I don't know why I keep thinking about the story of what happened to Radio Shack. It just keeps feeling relevant for some reason.
i’m gonna be honest i didn’t even read the tweet because i had to hit reblog too fast when i saw this guy’s name is “i like hitting police because i am homosexual”
so what exactly was the point of tumblr labs if they were just going to drop new design layouts on a completely random sample of users?
not even going to test it with the people who have specifically singled themselves out as interested in experimental changes? i feel like that would be a good first step to test the waters rather than pushing it straight to prod
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