alightinthefire

A picture is worth a thousand words. Words of flame that will consume. Burn my sight and burn my brain. If my pictures don't subsume. alightinthefire I dance in the flames. I speak to the darkness. I rage. I burn. I remain.

[thesociologicalcinema]

[alightinthefire]

Amen. I am a victim of this…

[dogpuppy]

[alightinthefire]

The notes.

[depsidase]

[alightinthefire]

For some reason for years I thought Daffy Duck was a cormorant because of his neck band… but this Mallard has one too so I googled and found out he’s an American black duck… unexpected knowledge bump.

[bananonbinary]

also as long as im bitching about trying to learn accounting in a capitalistic hellscape, i wanna complain about the stock market.

so, the basic idea of investment was once upon a time, "i need money to start a business." "i will give you money to do that, if you give me some of the profits" "okay."

the stock market allegedly simplifies that process, and allows for massive amounts of people to invest in a company, and get profits, and a small share of voting power, in return. crowdfunding! yay!

except. except. people dont actually invest in companies in order to see that business flourish. they dont even KNOW what all theyve invested in because banks do all that shit now. the "stock" is just a really weird form of currency, and the rich assholes consolidate and do weird shit to still have all the voting power. the investment isnt for the investments sake, its with the hope that Number Go Up in the future, creating this stupid fucking infinite growth or bust problem we're running into.

again, i think that's obscene. i think its real fucked up to have money invested in the concept of money. i think if you crowdfund a shoe store or a computer lab or whatever the fuck, it should be because you actually want that thing to exist. what if kickstarter had fucking investment accounts like that. its garbage nonsense and im sure some fucking economist could tell me otherwise, but i cant see ANY practical reason to do it this way.

[bananonbinary]

"Do companies pay cash dividends to give regular cash flows to the investors? Well, that might have been true 30 or 40 years ago.[...]This is no longer true. If i need cash from my investment portfolio, I can easily go online and sell a few shares."

(quote from the videos used in my accounting course)

I AM BITING AND SCRATCHING AND HURTING THE FINANCIAL SECTOR SO MUCH. HATE KILL KILL KILL.

WHY THE FUCK DID WE LET THIS HAPPEN.

"invest in a company, and you will get a share of the profits and voting power in how its run" is literally the most straightforward way to crowdfund a company under capitalism. "buy and sell random shares as the market fluctuates, never touching the companies you are investing in" is fucking nonsense garbage.

also if the original intent was still the primary way of making money on the stock market, that would help curtail the infinite growth problem, because "my shares give me like $200 a year" is a good deal! you don't need to wait for the stock price to change, you just...get money from the company! because you own part of it! you won't get RICH off of it unless you happen to strike gold, but it's a solid return on investment model. SOME people would still choose the risky "give me no dividends for now, i think this company is gonna get BIG" option, but companies with a steady business would still be very attractive to the majority i think. as it stands now though, why would you EVER bother with a steady company, when you can trade literally minute to minute if you want? so we incentivize being sensational over doing anything WELL. fucking. make stock mean anything again PLEASE.

i'm not a capitalist at all, i am pretty heavily socialist, but if we GOTTA do a capitalism, this is not a terrible system as it was conceived. pretty fair, all things considered. it pisses me off how much this all sounds reasonable on paper, but is a complete trash fire in reality.

[alightinthefire]

Ugh my brain

[fibula-rasa]

It's the Cat's (1926)

[letterboxd | imdb | youtube]

Director: Dave Fleischer

Studio: Inkwell Studios

Restoration produced by Thunderbean Animation

[alightinthefire]

Wait…. Why was Koko so excited about the chance to wear a dress?

[theehorsepusssy]

[alightinthefire]

Looked it up and they got married when she was 40… which means he was 86 at the time. Like… she’s a grown ass adult and everything but… my brain is buffering….

[usualgangofidiots]

You Know IT’S REALLY SUMMER When… (MAD #162, October 1973)

Artist: Jack Rickard Writer: Tom Koch

[alightinthefire]

Classic Mad!

[publicdomainreview]

Dramatic scenes from the auto polo fad of the 1910s and 20s. Reaching top speeds of 40mph, a driver would be accompanied by a malletman who would hold on to the side and attempt to hit a basketball toward the goal of the opposing team. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/auto-polo

[alightinthefire]

We been dumb af for a long time, eh?

[chernobog13]

SUPERMAN ll (1981)

[alightinthefire]

Just dissolving those pants.

[fiercebitch]

[alightinthefire]

Icon

[blueskittlesart]

Pink Prison, a comic I did for my color theory class this semester! we had to pick a color, research it, and do a piece related to it somehow. i chose pink :)

[blueskittlesart]

[alightinthefire]

Huh

[depsidase]

[alightinthefire]

“Ima crime guy. My whole family does crimes and I protect them from consequences. I’m literally a rapist. Do something!”

[qwantzfeed]

standing next to your own personal bespoke wario is cool because they honestly make you look GREAT

[alightinthefire]

Wahhhh

[fipindustries]

What is the modern Doug Walker like? What do you get out of him today?

so to clarify, i dont watch nostalgia critic, i just watch doug talking normally about modern movies he just watched.

its mostly habit, ive been watching the guy for like 15 years. the thing is that doug as himself is a guy who has watched a lot of movies and does have two decades of forming opinions on them. he has an extensive familiarity with tropes, cliches and stories and has like, ideas and opinions on them that feel wholly his own. He is from another time of fandom and geekery, in many senses he is still a relic from the mid 2000's so it is very fascinating to hear his opinions on things like the amazing digital circus or the knights of guenevire.

also he does seem to take care not to put out a review unless he is sure he has something to say about a movie that the rest of the internet hasnt said a billion times already. also the guy is just so fundamentally midwestern normie so he is also a good barometer of what like the average non terminally online movie watcher can think about something, is a good way to get a somewhat fresh perspective on things.

[alightinthefire]

That’s hilarious.

[addigni]

Reblog if you genuinely support asexuals

It terrifies me that there’s so much raging passion in the lgbt+ community that insist on marginalizing asexuals and implying that asexuals don’t deserve to have safe spaces. There’s still so much acephobia so I just wanna know which blogs are genuinely supportive and a safe space for asexuals

[cabinthreeproblems]

*SLAMS REBLOG BUTTON* ASEXUALS HAVE MY VOTE //ref

[alightinthefire]

Aye

[depsidase]

[alightinthefire]

Sound logic but also we still have White Nationalists all over the damn place. Just because they aren’t in power doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be beating the shit out of them whenever they pop up.

[oldschoolfrp]

The escaped human gladiator Neeva wearing a wing-like cloak, in Brom's box art for the first Dark Sun module, DS1: Freedom by David "Zeb" Cook (TSR, 1991)

[alightinthefire]

Love me some Brom.