Rob From Flailthroughs

I may have suffered from levels of anxiety that have made my life weird, lonely, and sad at times, but it is surely a comfort I am not in the top 7% of most emotionally stunted people in the world.

In your ex's defense, if I found you writing stories like these I'd want to see you get a better job too.

The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.

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Donald Trump is starving you, Clarence Thomas is Starving you. Every single Right Winger is suffocating you with debt and hunger because they think you deserve it. To the last, most if not all of them were born into money.

None of them know what hunger feels like. They will still eat.

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

incredible thread, incredible collection of linked threads

we are a tiny minority, under attack by fascists the world over, and we don't win by making our community smaller. attacking people who don't medically transition as "sissy fetishists" is doing the fascists' job for them

Also, hope the Funko employees or those employed by/from (contractors) them bounce back from possible/potential layoffs.

It's not that those colors and materials aren't good and can't be used well with good judgment, it's just that good judgment does not happen for narcissists. Ever

My theory has always been that the more abstract and less human the source looks, the better they work for Pops. Audrey 2 looked good! The Transformers and Gundam Pops were among the better looking ones. I seem to recall Laserbeak came out well in particular.

My personal hypothesis is that tyrants, fascists, dictators and other types of powertripping dickheads gravitate towards the trappings of antiquity like marble and gold in their decorative choices because as insecure, crass, simpleminded people, they have no concept of elegance of their own.

This.

I get that it's distressing to see your own government turn on you but in every nation we need to be looking out for the most vulnerable. Refugees are not sub human, even if here in the UK the coordinated establishment aggressively wants us to think they are.

Missing Link Convoy in Robot Mode stands next to Worlds Smallest GIJoe Duke

World's Smallest Micro figures scale perfectly with G1 Transformers

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( *but who are we kidding, they're undervaluing themselves in SEC filings in hopes of getting a buyout or loan increase. And using strategic sales outlines to ensure that their income is only ever as much as their total outstanding debt.)

Yes there is massive overproduction and landfill-fodder licenses, but a company making that much money still isn't in the verge of death due to slowing sales.

It's because they can't make their loan payments.

The fact that a company raking in 251 million dollars is still facing financial collapse* is a not only a travesty, but also a testament to the poisonous nature of private equity, venture capital funding, and the apparition of infinite growth that every business is chasing.

I was once reported in a retail job for not providing conversation.

I'm autistic and an abuse survivor. These things do not come naturally to me.

Employees are still human and I don't expect them to suppress that just because they're on the clock. They're there for a wage.

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Besides the people who will lose their jobs, which really is terrible, the only downside to Funko's very likely demise is that apparently they currently own Mondo.

So if you want those Real Ghostbusters figures... now is probably good!

It's a fan edit but it's not that far off from the real thing

Believe this was actually a fan edit based on prior preview commercials. They haven’t shown the preview again iirc because of all this.

They're fucking cutting her out with AI aren't they

What happened with her is always the first thing on my mind when everyone talks about how Cool and Nice Uncle Reggie was.

I really do hope she's alright.

Funko a couple years ago: "We've mastered the art of rushing landfill fodder to market before any other merch! This is a brilliant and sustainable move that will provide infinite growth, which is a real thing surely!"

Funko now: "Will trade dead stock for food"

While we're at it, I hope Alison Rapp, formerly of Nintendo, is doing okay now wherever she is - and if you think she probably did something that justified her firing I genuinely do not want to hear about it, thanks very much

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

My favorite thing about Stupid Earth is how nobody ever learns anything.

Here in the US we were doing the "Obvious hate campaign targets marginalized woman and her employers think it's a swell idea to capitulate and throw her under the bus once they find something that sticks" thing ten years ago.

Japan, you don't surprise me, but you do disappoint me.

It's very on brand to cancel somebody over underage drinking, smoking, or drugs, but this is following a long series of tabloid scandals, AND just straight up racism.

Always punishing women, meanwhile dudes get away with heinous shit.

I love FANTASTIC FOUR UNLIMITED in which grizzled comic veteran Herb Trimpe tried to ape the Image comic style. Just. Wow.