The Way I Live

rewatching black butler, the only thing i remember about it is alois being a camp gay and me reading waaaay to much ciel x reader fanfiction for an 11 year old lmao

maybe its the lesbian in me but i think talia al ghul and catwoman should forget bruce and fuck each other

LIKE?????

i know that gen fic tend to be synonymous with found family/friendship fic around here but i think we as people should explore antagonistic platonic relationship such as:

“we were childhood friends and i know all about you that’s why i hate you now”

mentor and protege who think they know better than the other and refuse to compromise

neighbors trying to one up another

green tea bitch is a trope where characters pretend to be all sweet and loving but is secretly a bitch and i think those characters should be each other’s rivals

speaking of rivals yes they respect each other but ONLY regarding the thing they’re competing about, everything else is a disappointment

okay for those of you wanting an update, she just got to the episode and guessed it immediately. (im writing this as she texts me about it)

like right when she got to it she was like "Amity has a crush on Luz ans wants to ask them to prom" (she headcanons luz as enby btw) which, good on her for figuring the whole episode out, i didnt even guess the note was a love note when i first watched. but she thinks shes wrong so....

her: "amitys afraid of getting outted and people knowing about her crush on luz"

me: "is that your actual prediction or just something u want"

her: "just hopes and dreams 😔😔"

she loves luz's dress. tbh dont we all? luz has a great fashion sense

She found out she was right!! or at least she said "I mean technically we don't know w h o she was gonna ask but the figure looked like Luz so I'm gonna say I was right" so shes going to be really excited

SHE GOT TO IT she's gloating about how she knew what was going to happen, and yeah she did, so she should. shes so excited that they actually got together she just keeps saying how happy she is :,) and how she knew it all along.

now i can openly talk about lumity w her without spoiling anything

brooooo i got my friend to watch the owl house and td her there was a canon gay ship and she thinks its going to be willow and luz but she doesnt want that, she ships lumity. and i really CANNOT wait for her to reach the grom ep. like i literally CANT WAIT I...

when they love trans women so much they call them men and invalidate a lesbian's sexuality by calling them a bisexual

terf lesbians shut the fuck up and stop acting like you speak for the entire community.

ugly cunts

Anyone else thinking about how odd the hermitcraft economy is?

in season 9 they had a minor economic recession after the diamond ore war because there were far too many diamonds in circulation making them (hypothetically) worth less than normal and ren stepped in as the king and did what has been done in the midst of a lot of irl economic depressions; he created a government so they could employ the policy of Keynesian economics (basically more gov't intervention to stabilize the economy, it mostly worked in 1930's japan!), he took control of diamonds and even introduced a new currency, royal emeralds (much like Germany after WW1! they had some hyperinflation because of the war reparations they had to pay and the gov't not understanding that printing more money makes the money worth less resulting in the mark [currency] being so worthless they started burning it because they couldn't afford wood for fires. a new gov't came into power and they replaced the mark with rentenmarks which did a lot of fixificating for the economy). Ren's gov't also introduced a lot of gov't funded projects like the quests (the irl equivalent for this would be Roosevelt's New Deal which introduced policies/projects called the Alphabet Agencies (among other things) such as the AAA, CCC, TVA (do you see why they're called the alphabet agencies?) that would adjust the value of grain so farmers could start earning money for produce again and create work that would support a growing economy, projects like building roads and bridges)

so basically, all the policies ren's government introduced were very logically sound and worked in real life to fix the economy (except that irl the Great Depression only fully ended because WW2 started-), the issue is that hermitcraft is not real life and hermits do not behave like real people, they behave like hermits.

lets start with the hermitcraft economy. unlike the real economy, hermits rarely adjust prices according to how many diamonds are "in circulation". i say this despite the fact grian in a recent-ish episode says that "everything costs more this season because diamonds are more common". that can't be true because the caves and cliffs update literally made diamonds more difficult to acquire. I will circle back to this point made by grian later

hermits not adjusting prices by server-wide abundance of diamonds (because they cant really know how much anyone has, much less the total amount of diamonds in circulation, they just know who has a lot and who is broke) means that more diamonds doesn't make them worth less like it did with German marks, it just means hermits have more expendable currency and can spend more money and less time gathering materials for projects. It is also notable that diamonds are constantly being added and taken out of circulation because they're an actual useful currency rather than real life currencies which are symbolic slips of paper. diamonds can be used for armour and tools and it can be acquired by mining. so because of how hermits spend money, taking diamonds out of the economy in s9 did nothing but make them poor and angry at the government. the hermitcraft economy is actually stronger with more diamonds in circulation and is worsened by gov't intervention.

so already the use of real life strategies is utterly useless in hermitcraft economy but there are a few other reasons as well

the hermits tendency to resist government as well as the flawed and greedy government itself are a couple but also the fact that all the hermits are self employed (in real life but also in universe). they own and stock their own shops meaning all profits are more or less direct; its not passed through hands of big corporations so the person producing the product gets mere cents. the hermits are essentially small business owners (which becomes a bit of a problem come season 10 but we're still talking about season 9). The important part is the self employment. the season 9 gov't introduces the quests which mimic and echo real life government funded projects but because they're all employed and the quests gave small amounts of diamonds back, they did very little for the hermits

I'm sure theres more to say but i think its time to move on to the very interesting season 10 economy

if you've missed it you must be living under a rock but hermits are all using permits this season meaning only one shop in the shopping district is selling any given item/material and as a result of this prices have gone sky high. at one point a single stack of mangrove logs cost 7 diamonds when in previous seasons you could get at least 1 stack of wood for 1 diamond if not more

So what is causing this economic depression and hyperinflation?

well, circling back to the point grian made about resources costing more because of abundance of diamonds, I would think it actually costs more because of the permits.

grian thinks the diamond prices are fair because he has middle of the road permits (and is one of the hermits who designed their shopping district, permit and economic system this season so he's biased), there is enough demand to keep him afloat when he's stocked but its nothing people are clamouring for and buying him out. on the other hand, joel made a lot of shops that no one shops at because his objectively weighted permits have not been selling as well as they anticipated when making the permits (also some people like etho and pearl have additional income from their not as fabulous permits because they've made a pay to play game to go with it) and finally there are hermits like mumbo whose gold, iron and item frame shops were constantly getting bought out so he was frustrated with trying to restock despite getting lots of profit

(another interesting dynamic to think about is permits like cleo's book permit which lost value as the season went on because everyone needed books early on but now that they're all playing late game Minecraft, everyone is pretty stocked up and buying from cleo less often)

Basically, grian is satisfied with the pricing because he's middle class and couldn't afford it if they were more expensive but appreciates not being constantly out of stock, joel is unsatisfied because he is lower class and never has enough expendable currency to fund his projects because materials are too expensive and his permits aren't worth enough to sell them for more, and mumbo is unsatisfied because he is higher class and is constantly out of stock because his materials sell out too often and he wants to sell them for more to stay in stock more (classic supply and demand, he doesn't want to stock them as often making the supply lower and the demand proportionally higher making them worth more and therefore more expensive)

the reason i say the permits are to blame for the high prices is because they cause the responsibility of constantly stocking something to fall on one person (in past seasons, if one persons sandstone shop was out of stock you could go check someone else's sandstone shop). the threat of taking the permit away if they arent stocked along with the difficulty of constantly stocking some of these materials raises the cost.

a great example of this is skizzleman because his mangrove and cherry wood shop was one of the first shops to be built in the shopping district, meaning he somewhat set the prices this season. now, mangrove and cherry are both difficult trees to harvest because of their unconventional shapes and the fact that they are more recent additions (and skizz's stubborn desire to design his own farms...) so because of the time required to gather them the prices already were hitched up. add that to the fact that they are trying to constantly be in stock and therefore low prices that allow hermits to completely buy out the shops are unfavourable, and you get sky rocket-ing prices. (it is also difficult because skizz had no prior experience with hermitcraft pricing)

in conclusion... hermitcraft needs a laissez-faire economy (f. a. hayek) to function and not go into economic depression. Between the nature of the diamond currency, hermits' tendency to rebel against governments, the way they use the concept of supply and demand to price their goods, and the restrictions permits put on supplying products, hermits have proven that extensive structure and government intervention have not improved economic wellbeing the way that it does in real life

thus, hermits do not behave like regular humans, they operate on fae laws of its funny so lets do it and therefore must be governed as such (aka not governed), thank you for coming to my ted talk

im like,,,,,super convinced that belos is a human. im not on toh tumblr a lot so idk if this is a popular theory but it should be bc it makes a lot of sense

is it really a successful trip to the pool if you dont inhale a gallon of pool water?

rebloging for when i wanna watch a new anime

Vaguely Describing Anime

Akudama Drive: We cheer for criminals since the government is corrupt

Angels of Death: Escape room

Assassination Classroom: Loser students try to assassinate their teacher

Attack on Titan: Death. Death everywhere.

Bungo Stray Dogs: Group of weirdos rival another group of weirdos and a completely different group of weirdos pops up every once in a while

Classroom of the Elite: Rich/smart bastards

Death Note: Boy with God complex thinks he’s the worlds savior with a notebook

Death Parade: When you die you get to play games

Demon Slayer: Boy and his sister hunt down Michael Jackson

Fairy Tail: Chaos

Free!: Shirtless men swimming

Fruits Basket: The zodiacs love the sweet innocent girl, she’s so kind to them

Given: BL with badass music

Haikyuu: Volleyball played by crows and baby crow

High-Rise Invasion: In this world, it’s kill or be killed

Hunter X Hunter: Where’s dad?

If My Favorite Pop Idol Make it to the Budokan, I Would Die: Two girls are each other’s number one supporter

Inuyasha: Back to the Future

Jujutsu Kaisen: Kid eats fingers to save people

Kenka Boncho Otome: Girl Beats Boys: Fuck grades, let’s fight

Kiss Him, Not Me!: …..kiss him, not her

Komi Can’t Communicate: The definition of “shaking in my boots”

Ultramarine Magmel: Big scary continent vs one man and his assistant

Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: Dragon girl wants to be stepped on by a human girl

My Hero Academia: Ate some hair and now lots of people want to kill him for some reason

One Piece: Pirates of the Caribbean with hundreds of twists and secrets

One-Punch Man: Man is bored and too strong

Ouran High School Host Club: Poor student needs to crossdresser to pay off debt to rich people

Parasyte: The Maxim: Alien and boy fight evil

Pretty Boy Detective Club: Sherlock played by five kids who are too pretty

SK8 The Infinity: Possibly gay boys skate

Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle: Put that thing back where it came from, or so help me!

Soul Eater: Human weapon eats souls with his partner

The Devil is a Part-Timer: Satan works at a knockoff McDonald’s

The Disastrous Life of Saiki. K: Legit psychic wants to be left alone

The Future Diary: Hunger Games

The Millionaire Detective - Balance: UNLIMITED: Rich boy and cop with PTSD fight crime

The Morose Mononokean: Boy befriends yokai

The Seven Deadly Sins: Demons, goddesses, giants, fairies, and humans fight

Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun: Girl befriends ghosts

Wonder Egg Priority: Kids fight to bring people back from the dead

Yuri On Ice: Gay ice skating

Not to sound like an old fart here but my philosophy about video games is like. A kid living out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere with no internet access for miles should be able to purchase a game from walmart, take that game home, put it in their console, and play the whole game with all of its features and the only thing lack of internet affects is the inability to play online with others. Nothing else. They shouldn't be missing entire chunks of the game becuase they can't download a patch. The game shouldn't be borderline empty or unplayable without a patch.