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I'm an Annie with a lot of feelings. 22. Multifandom trash. It's casual. The 100 and Black Sails are my mains atm, and I am bellarke and silverflint trash. Also sometimes I post about one direction, omg check please, the Raven cycle and other. It is what it is, y'all, and what it is is a mess.

[damicantcope-deactivated2025101]

i accidentally said the phrase “penis friday” around my parents and i didn’t think much of it until today i wanted new underwear and i said “i’m tempted to get the cucumber-patterned ones” and my mom said “oh come on it’s not even penis friday”

HAKDHWKFHWKDHD ANON WHAT

[damicantcope-deactivated2025101]

this has broken me

[kiiingsnake]

happy penis friday yall

[kiiingsnake]

guess what day it is

[dressingasolinemoved-deactivate]

Happy penis Friday yall!!!!!!!!

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

PENIS FRIDAY!

[altruistic-meme]

a collection of my favorite tweets regarding the Ever Given in the Suez Canal

[kurosmind]

The fact that 2021 begun with a sea shanty renaissance and three months later ships are back on the 1700 trade routes is, actually, extremely funny.

[rosegoldlips]

i still dont know why harry got in a car like this

[figdays]

Cow Daydream Print // dizzyodonnell

[coolfrogdude]

original thread by @pukicho and several other users

[plausiblyren]

I always love seeing this comic because it interprets Tumblr as a gigantic theater ruled by absolute chaos where sometimes somebody just stands up on their chair and shouts and we all pay attention

[adulthoodisokay]

this post is from THIS YEAR

[glowzoul]

had to fact check and holy shit 2020 really has been 3 years long.

[flavoracle]

Happy one year anniversary little thread

[voidupdate]

if she’s your girl why is she breasting boobily down my stairs

[americachavez]

might emerge from this pandemic fully vaccinated against the novel coronavirus however I will be an incurable romantic from now until the day I die

[adrianricker]

I love drawing cute scenes.

[lochichichi]

I know I don’t usually reblog things here but please more people look at this amazing thing.

[heloiseagrippina-deactivated202]

This is adorable.

[tech--romancer]

MY HEART

[thestylesindependent]

Meeting Harry Styles and what it taught me about "gender contamination" in business

Why men (are said) to prefer products untouched by women

It was Harry Styles’ birthday this week, which is why I am going to tell you about the time I met him, and what it taught me about a phenomenon called “gender contamination” in business.

This is what happened:

It was a few years ago at the press junket for Dunkirk. Now press junkets for big films like Dunkirk are rather strange affairs. In this case the studio sent my group of European journalists to view the film at the gigantic London Imax at seven o clock in the morning. And believe me, watching a WAR FILM at an IMAX first thing in the morning is INTENSE…

Then they drove us off to one of the fancier London hotels.

At a press junket you are normally put in a hotel room where you sit with a few other journalists and wait for the different cast members and the director to come in for their individual interviews.

The room was a bit chilly and most of the female journalists started putting cardigans and coats on. If you are familiar with the work of Caroline Criado Perez (which you all should be) you know that air conditioning temperature is often set based on a formula developed around the metabolic resting rate of the average forty-year old man. This is usually too cold for the average woman.

Then Harry Styles came in.

He looked around the room and IMMEDIATELY noticed that the women looked cold and IMMEDIATELY asked if he could turn the heating up. He even got up and tried to do it himself (unsuccessfully). He was the only man that day who noticed.

I would argue that this little incident tells you A LOT about the commercial success of Harry Styles.

Why?

If it’s not too painful - let me take you back to the time when One Direction broke up. Some other members of the band (no names!) did everything they could to distance themselves from their boy band roots.

Not Styles.

When Rolling Stone asked him if he felt pressure to prove himself as a “serious musician” with “an older crowd”. He said:

“Who’s to say that young girls who like pop music— have worse musical taste than a 30-year-old hipster guy?”

Then he pointed out (correctly) that The Beatles became successful thanks to hords of screaming teenage girls.

“You gonna tell me they are not serious?”

And this is the key: Harry Styles has made a career of not looking down on female preferences or things perceived as female. You might say: well who does that? Who looks down on things just because women and girls like it?

A LOT of people.

There is even a name for it. It is called “gender contamination”.

Research from Harvard Business School shows that loyal customers often get upset when a brand associated with men expands to include products perceived as feminine. Coca Cola couldn’t get American men to drink Diet Coke because women liked it. In the end they launched Coke Zero - in a (manly) black tin…

There’s a paper by Jill Avery that looks into the reactions when Porsche launched Porsche Cayenne, it was a SUV and therefore by many perceived as a car “for mums”. Would this “catering to female consumers” contaminate the whole Porsche brand?

It is not surprising that these sentiments exist. When people call my youngest daughter a “tomboy” it’s a compliment. Hell, it’s basically a promotion! Congratulations you are almost a boy!

It’s the things we perceive as “feminine” that we look down upon.

But Harry Styles has always wanted us to know that he doesn’t. He is the first man to pose solo on the cover of American Vogue.

And he did it wearing a dress.

Is there a more OBVIOUS way to say: “Hey, I am a man who does not fear my brand being “contaminated” with things perceived as feminine?!”

And when it comes to business and consumption he is right: the bigger story is how things first liked by women and girls have taken over the world. Everything from The Beatles to Star Trek (women created the first Star Trek fandom). And as you probably know Porsche ended up selling a lot of those Cayennes…

Women influence 80 percent of all consumer decisions in the economy. It’s frankly irrational to pay as little attention as we do to their preferences - whether that’s for warmer rooms or pop stars from Cheshire with great hair.

Happy Thursday!

(x)

[ahagisborn]

was just Remembering how you’d be out with a friend and you’d each order a different cocktail and you’d ask “what’d you get?” and they’d read the description off the menu and you’d be like “ooh that sounds good” and then they’d say “try it!” and then you’d have a lil sip of their drink and they’d have a lil sip of your drink and you’d decide which one was best and you wouldn’t give each other a life-threatening respiratory infection

[pianjeong]

so many songs to listen to. so many books to read. so many things to watch. so much stuff to write. i think i will sit here and decompose

[someemochick]

[autistic-dumbass]

Quest updated: solve this lovers quarrel in order to proceed

[alethiaii]

I am interested

[firefox-official]

i went through an entire character arc during quarantine

[firefox-official]

i became more evil if you’re curious

[walks-the-ages]

We're still in quarantine, don't worry, there's time for a redemption arc still!

[firefox-official]

i’m going to get worse on purpose

[miiriya]

[myfairynuffstuff]

Antonio Tonelli (b.1934) - The Big Comet. 2004. Acrylic on canvas.

[divinefaultlines]

[ID: A painting of a golden comet with many small golden stars around it in the light blue sky, the sky also has darker patches of blue and black. There is a golden moon above the comet closer to the top right corner of the painting. /end ID]

[rosecrystal]

would love to be in a period drama. wearing those dresses half titty out acting shy