Big Geology

32 | Bi | Polyam | Married | He/Him | Story lover, enthusiastic daydreamer, hopeful romantic. I like a lot of stuff.

[depsidase]

[theconcealedweapon]

[yourordinarycat]

if you are in the united states you cannot choose to stand at a location

[ggghoulish]

posting this here cause I’m still not over it. people who write instructions I love you you’re so funny

[evilwizard]

we need to team up… to put together the WB4723 48-Inch Workbench With Power Outlets and Lights… it will take all of our power… and though you are my greatest foe, i can’t do it without you !

[tomhoppusdelonge]

even saying cost of living leaves something bitter in my mouth what kind of fucking phrase is that. vile

[okaywork-deactivated20141118]

growing up sucks because you realize $1000 isn’t a lot of money

[jessie-elle]

[dragongirlteeth]

I am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising

[dragongirlteeth]

I am skipping your ads as fast as I can. I'm skipping past your sponsor read. I'm muting the tv. I'm muting the tab. If they get too annoying I will simply stop trying to watch.

If advertisers can use every manipulative trick in the book to get me to buy their product, I am fully within my rights to do everything I can on my end to make their job impossible

[bethanydelleman]

My dad raises grass-fed beef cattle and I help him sell it, mainly by maintaining an online presence. For a while, I kept having the most ridiculous conversations with people who I assume were marketing students. I didn't want to be rude so I'd try to let them down gently but this one guy just kept insisting that with his magical marketing skills he could grow our business.

What he could not seem to comprehend is that we could not grow our business, at least not without significant time and monetary investment. Cows take two years from pregnancy to the size that you can sell. If we buy adult cows, our margins become razor thin or even negative. Even if we somehow could acquire some cows, our barn and hay fields are already near maximum capacity. Renting another field would be relatively easy, building a bigger barn not so much.

Cows are living animals, they aren't widgets that can be produced infinitely. Besides that, many businesses inherently cannot grow, because if they do they'll become something else. The delicious bakery down the street cannot produce much more than they do, if they began mass marketing and production they'd eventually be selling the equivalent of Twinkies. We grow grass-fed, organic beef, if we expanded how long would that last? Eventually we'd become the very factor farms that we hate. Some things can only ever be made on a small scale and they are usually the best things.

But also, what are they teaching them at marketing school and how is it so disconnected from reality?

[lew-basnight]

People kept trying to do this to my petcare business. “Let us build you a website! Let us buy you some ads! Let us print you flyers and cards!” I have exactly as much business as I can handle, and I’m happy with that. “But if you expand you could hire other people to do the work and pay them less, and raise your prices and eventually you can work from home!! Let us help you!” I’m doing this because I like playing fetch for a living, I like being outside moving around all day every day, I like spending time with each animal separately, I like being trusted by my clients with the keys and codes of their homes, it makes me feel proud. None of what you’re offering me is what I want. I don’t want a dozen miserable contractors who I pay 40% of each visit, I don’t want to try and wrangle and hire and vet people to do the part of my job that I like for me. That sounds bad. That’s a bad idea. And they looked at me like I was speaking an alien language. “But… website!! SEO! Ad buys! Targeted coverage! Constant growth!!” I don’t want any of that in my life it sounds fucking awful

[stjohnstarling]

One of the cruelties of capitalism is that if you want to do work you’re good at and love, a lot of the time your only option is to enter into some kind of business, and as soon as you do that, all the structural incentives of the system start trying to pull you away from the parts that you’re there for (i.e. the things that make life worth living) and towards various kinds of exploitation. Anyway, this also applies to writing and selling novels.

[thehappysatan]

I agree with OP down to my bonessss. The best things are done with pasison by artisans, who deseve to be compensated respectfully, but aren't into their work from a place of greed or whatever misguided capitalist-brained bros think 'efficiency' is.

I'm plenty efficient, at getting things done the way i intend to.

i described to my econ-brain-rotten brother how i run my tattooing business and got the same responses as above.

It's like he absolutely didn't hear me when i explained the nuanced reasons i even started doing this work; I started tattooing because i was tired of the isolation of my (at that point) decade-long career in the animation industry. I was sick of my best work rotting on hard drives in shut down studios, of never getting to see anyone interacting with my art.

Moved to a big queer city, where my community got me started: queer tattooers patiently shared information and resources with me. early on, friends volunteered to let me experiment on their skin. Then they started offering to pay for materials, then more. Then they brought their friends to me...

I have a beautiful community of people who know me from the drag scene, from the poetry and writing scene, from the techno scene - and all these ppl come to me because they know me, met me, trust me, because they felt comfortable in my presence.

I only have like 1200 followers on my tattooing Instagram - which rly isn't a lot for a tattooer. But i stay busier than some ppl who have more followers - and im pretty sure that it's because 90% of the ppl following me have actually met me irl. I don't give out my info to just anyone. I have to have a nice interaction with them - and they with me - and i basically invite them to get to know my work, if i think they'd be interested, if they seemed excited about it.

I built my business out of love and care, and connection. I built it because i wanted more of these things in my life. I am making what i wanna see in the world.

Im deeply proud of what I've accomplished as a tattooer, exactly because i stuck to my own beliefs and built a business that is fully customized to me, what im excited about, my abiliy and disability levels, and my philosophical values. This part of my life is all mine, crafted and chiselled just how i want it.

I don't like getting up in the morning, so my sessions never start earlier than 1300. I have a hard time focusing alone + i wanna empower ppl who aren't artists to play with art + help ppl practice and engage their decision making and request making skills - so i design the tattoos with them sitting right next to me, being part of the art process. I don't like doing math and counting so i give my clients a sliding scale based on project complexity, and they get to choose how much they pay me. This also doubles as a way to give ppl more agency in the process of getting a tattoo. Etc etc it goes on and on - every aspect of the process is considered and phislophically and emotionally calibrated. I love what I've created and i love giving the gift of a well-crafted thing......

And after hearing me explain all that, my brother said my marketing wasn't efficient and my business isn't scalable...

I dunno, i think smtng abt capitalism legit gives ppl brain damage or smtng wtf

[thehappysatan]

@asmadasthehatters you can't leave that in the comments, buddy

[heymerle]

There's this assumption, in marketing and in business for the last 40 or 50 years, that growth should be unlimited.

That exists in the real world, and it's called cancer. It will kill whatever it's growing in.

[palaeoplushies]

All of this. I set up Palaeoplushies because I like making plushies and if I kept all the plushies I make, then I'd have too many, so I sell them so other people can enjoy the plushies and also I get money so I can stay alive and healthy so I can make more plushies. I don't want to outsource the plushie making to other people because then I end up as a manager or whatever not a plushie making person. My sister helps out making stuff and I pay her because it means she gets to make plushies and get paid to do that.

I had someone contact me and insist that I should set up a "women's collective" where I train a bunch of local unemployed women to sew my plushies and then I can pay them for the plushies they make and sell them on their behalf. This sounds like a very good project for someone who wants to be a manager and deal with other human beings. This is a very generous project for someone with the capabilities to run something like this. I am not that person. I can't stick to a schedule, I will let people down, it will ruin the fun of making plushies for me and I will not be able to keep it up.

I suggested that they're free to set up this collective themselves but it wasn't something I was capable of doing, but they then got mad at me for "gatekeeping" my skills and denying employment to these hypothetical women.

I don't know where I am going with this but sometimes it's OK to say no to people. Also if you want to set up your own women's plushie sewing collective (or like, people's collective I don't know why it just has to be women doing this) that sounds like a good project but I'd rather live under a rock thanks.

[interlibraryloan]

[sewerfight-deactivated20250114]

Imagine a bee rn in a hive muttering "the beekeeper is not real because he is not intervening or helping me at all with this disastrous relationship I have with another bee". now imagine that's you talking about the good lord. now imagine a dog with a propeller hat on

[xenobotanist]

[61below]

Filing this in my memory right next to this thread:

[flowerbleedme]

is anyone imagining a dog with a propeller hat on

[samshepard]

shoutout to everyone dealing with. thhe fucking difficulty

[rosemochi]

the fact that all of my mutuals immediately reblogged this from me really says something about all of us, doesn't it

[as-deep-as-the-sea]

“I don’t want to be a burden” you’re more like a relief, a gift, a blessing actually

[transgayaccount]

“i dont want to be a burden” dude i found the point of it all thanks to you. i realised the joy of existing is doing so with you bro

[dalniente]

"i don't want to be a burden" you're worth carrying. i don't care if you'd be worth it to you; you're worth it to me. i smile every time i think of you. and buddy you're just gonna have to figure out how to cope w that <3

[yamitamiko]

"I don't want to be a burden" human hands and arms and hearts are made for carrying.

[prohaloplayer-deactivated202601]

[krchov]

(by @mhalachai)

[degenerate-perturbation]

It is a truth universally acknowledged,

[sergal]

big and cutes my me at you

[deinonychian]

#myme

[cryptic-symbols]

im having way too much fun

credit: blinkies.cafe blinkie maker

[cryptic-symbols]

more

[cryptic-symbols]

some new ones in honour of the new album quickly apporoaching

@cottonwoodss as requested

[newtnewt92]

Same As Cash by the Mountain Goats is a great song bc “in your car with your head in your hands at the far end of the Walmart parking lot” hits as a deeply normal and relatable sentence the first time and then the way John hits it on the final repetition makes it feel like the most heart-wrenching possible human experience

[newtnewt92]

Feels increasingly like we are all collectively in our car with our head in our hands in the far end of the Walmart parking lot tbqh

[crabussy]

holy shit I just discovered this crazy technique for being right almost all of the time it's called "double checking something before boldly stating it as if it were fact" this could be the next big thing. this could be the song of the summer

[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

idk i think i heard somewhere that didn't work :/

[newtnewt92]

I keep forgetting this website is here and then when I'm at my most "the internet is hell and social media is a nightmare" I go "oh I wonder if tumblr is still nice though" so here I am, checking it out to see if this app makes my brain feel any better 😅