just your average* trans girl
*citation needed
Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.
hadrian-holiday asked:
father strange could you please post a picture of the floppy eared bingus, i’m trying to show my mom
strange-aeons answered:
Mr. Special and his Fashion Ear
‘Autistics always love talking to other autistics, it’s always effortless for autistics to communicate with eachother’ stop!
telling!
Autistics are, basically, min-maxed relative to allistics. That means we do often get along with eachother EXTREMELY well and quickly, like, to an extent that wouldn’t make sense to allistics- but it ALSO means that when we don’t get along, that’s fucking it. We’re magnets. We either attract or repel, and fucking Nothing will change how we react to eachother after that
Two incompatible autistics are like two male betta fish in a teacup. Peace Was Never An Option
Any autist saying ‘that’s not true’ 100% guarantee hasn’t spent enough time with a variety of other autistics lmao
“your rent should be a third of your income” well wouldn’t that be nice. wouldn’t it. lower the rent pussy
Casual observation from someone old enough to remember: in the year 2000 financial advice was that rent should be no more than 1/4 of your income.
Until the mid 80s, the advice was that if you must rent instead of owning, then that 20% of your monthly income (oh yes, only 20%) should include all your utilities too.
After all, rent costs more than a mortgage, so it should offer more too.
The housing market is a fucking travesty.
Hmm what happened in the mid eighties....
Holy shit that’s so cool
Finally “do you love the colour of the sky” got compressed for our convenience
using tumblr age 14: i am going to end misogyny reblogging pastel art about choice feminism
using tumblr age 23: [in the tags of a poll] SPINACH SWEEP🔥🔥🍃💪🏼💯
My terrible confession is that I find the whole MtG Finance and secondary market for collectible cards games utterly fascinating. Capitalism and the forces of economics are really fun to watch play out in miniature when the consequences aren't life and death.
I'm studying MtG finance bros like ants under a magnifying glass
Well, if you insist...
(None of what I have to say here should be taken as financial advice. I am a casual observer. This is my own read on the current situation regarding Magic the Gathering and the secondary market. There are other perspectives and people who know more.)
Magic is in an interesting place right now. Wizards of the Coast has made parent company Hasbro more money than any other branch in recent years thanks to its success. With that success comes pressure to perform even better following years (so-called exponential growth, because that's what looks good to investors.) As a result, Wizards is printing more Magic product than ever before while slowly raising the price. This can be seen as good or bad, depending on how you engage with the game.
Collectors
Collectors are people who will go out and buy specific cards for their own sake. They are generally not interested in selling. Post Malone, who recently purchased the One of One Ring for two million dollars (yes really) is a collector. He did not purchase that card as an investment to sell for more money later (although the fact that he could doesn't hurt).
If you're a collector, things are great right now! More cards are being printed than ever before in more variants and art styles than you can shake a stick at. You have a wide selection of options at a myriad of price points at your disposal. There are some chase, highly desirable printings of cards that will be more expensive, but as a collector you are probably willing to shell out fifty dollars for Elesh Norn illustrated by Junji Ito. It's less expensive than buying a box and hoping to get lucky, anyway.
Players
Players are people who use Magic the Gathering cards to... play Magic the Gathering.
If you're a player right now, it's a mixed bag. On the one hand, thanks to frequent printings, 99.99% of cards are quite cheap! Even many powerful cards fall in the 5 to 10 dollar range: expensive for cardboard yes, but a price most players are generally willing to play. On the other hand, the remaining 00.01%? Thanks to the internet, everyone agrees that these are the most powerful cards, and they therefore command a much higher price. The One Ring I mentioned earlier? The cheapest version of that card costs 50 dollars. And you want four of them. The price tag on the latest Pro Tour winning deck at time of writing is $1589. What's worse is if you spend that kind of money now, there's no guarantee Wizards wont print something in a year that renders that strategy obsolete, demanding you spend another $200 to keep up.
Things are stratified right now. What's cheap is cheap, but what's expensive is really expensive, and wont get cheaper until it stops being relevant. However, with Commander, a casual format, being the most popular, and proxies becoming more widely accepted as more and more players simply get priced out of certain cards, things are not all that bleak for people who simply enjoy playing the game.
Investors
Investors are people who buy Magic cards for the sake of turning a profit.
If you're an investor, things are bad right now. Thanks to the multitude of printings, reprints, variants, etc... flooding the market, nothing is holding value like it should. With the recent printing of Commander Masters, many collections were dumped onto the market in anticipation of tanking singles prices, further adding fuel to the fire. Prices have since stabilized and are holding, but they had a big scare. Many think we are close to a crash similar to that of the 90s comics market; see too many printings, too many Special Editions, inflated prices, etc..
The thing to know about Investors is that it doesn't have to be Magic the Gathering. Many are waking up to the fact that putting money into, say, a retirement fund is more reliable than cardboard. Even "safe bets" like the Reserved List are starting to look shaky. Conventional wisdom says the time to sell was two years ago. Some will hold, but others are choosing to get out while the getting's good.
Game Stores
Game stores are an important part of the community. They're not only marketplaces, they're where people go to play events and make friends. Your mileage may vary, and vary wildly. But generally, we here at mollyjames.tumblr consider game stores to be Good, for the game, for the market, and especially for the community.
If you're a Game Store, things are bad right now. You had to buy units of Commander Legends at a premium price before knowing what was in it, and now people don't want it. It's just too expensive. Furthermore, you're being undercut by Amazon on the regular. If you went deep into Commander Legends hoping for a juicy return, you're out of luck. Your options are to sell at a loss, crack packs for singles to sell, or hope your store is popular enough people are willing to pay 40 dollars to draft the set there. (Oh, and there's a new strain of covid running around too.)
In the long run, we'll see what happens. Best case scenario, Hasbro changes its policies, prices for sealed product go back down a bit, and we can get back to playing Sealed and Draft safely and affordably. However that is *very* unlikely, not until all of that pressure starts to cut into Hasbro's profits.
Now to be clear, many of these groups overlap. If you're a player you might also hope to someday cash out for another hobby, or if you're a game store owner there might be a few special cards you keep in your private collection. But I wanted to put a clear break here for people who are in a completely different category:
Wizards
(I must emphasize again that this is my personal read on the current situation. I am a casual observer. There are other perspectives and people who know more.)
If you're WotC, things are great right now. You're reporting earnings well above what your parent company asked. Magic cards are selling like hotcakes. You've got more product than ever. Sure, maybe this quarter you didn't post quite as high earnings as you were hoping for (that is speculation, company targets for revenue growth are kept very secretive) and you've had a few product misses (that is not speculative, see Magic 30, Commander Masters), but on the whole you're doing well.
Now it's possible there is trouble brewing on the Horizon. Infinite Growth isn't actually sustainable, despite what you've told investors, and there are only so many new players you can reach with Universes Beyond (Assassin's Creed is still popular, right?), but you've got time and your product is undeniably popular. You basically own a money printing machine.
So why would you ever change anything?
