web 2.0 companies that try to frame people using adblockers as greedy freedloaders always conveniently turn their heads when those same “greedy freeloaders” tell them that advertisers are paying to put malicious and predatory ads on their playforms and adblock users are, by in large, using adblockers to protect themselves

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This may just be the autism speaking, but I fucking hate when customer surveys ask me 'how likely are you to recommend this or that to a friend' because they are lying about what they're asking. I am 0% likely to recommend almost any product to any friend and especially not by brand if at all possible, but what they want to know is 'did you have a decent experience with the thing' and that's a whole other fucking question if you want that answered fucking ask that. Except if I answer the question they're asking instead of the secret question, they yell at their employees on my behalf which I never wanted either. Terrible system, would not recommend it to a friend.

im always thinkjng about that one time i was on register for like 4 hours straight and said over mic "someone blease take over register i am about to become the joker." and they came to relieve me faster thab ive ever seen anyone relieve me before

“The Barbie movie is just brand propaganda and you’re giving in to capitalism” I really really don’t care like I REALLY don’t care and btw marx isn’t going to fuck you

hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)

youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

stop holding ya pee for so damn long

it’s fun to stay at the Y

Okay welcome to one of my Coraline rants.

This one is about how the Beldam could’ve very well been a fae and is so Coraline royally screwed herself. (Based off Celtic fae) if you don’t know Fae are fairy folk who are more evil and horrifying than a classic fairy, they often try to trick and harm humans and steal babies and breastfeeding mothers in attempts to repopulate their world. The Beldam steals children and instead of raising them as a fae takes their life but that in itself could be taken in many different ways, it could be said as she killed them or from another angle could be that she kept the children, maybe even being kind to them but with the way her world works nothing she does can actually sustain them and they passed. But anyways. Coraline breaks a lot of fae rules.

#1 at the beginning of the movie she steps into a fairy ring.

Fairy rings are rings of mushrooms and portals to faerie world, in stepping in the ring she opens up a connection between herself and the Beldam.

#2 she makes her true name very well known multiple times. She corrects her neighbours and Wybie and makes her name very clear. Giving a fae your name gives them power over you.

#3. She accepts the doll as a gift, though it was a gift through Wybie it was sent by the Beldam, accepting gifts from fae indebts you to them and creates a sort of contract. Through the movie she also accepts the gifts of the clothes and the shows the Beldam creates for her.

#4 she eats the Beldam’s food. Much like Hades and Persephone, eating food from a Fae binds you to that world

#5 she thanks the Beldam, thanking a fae indebts you.

#6 she is rude to the Beldam. Though fae trick and hurt people they believe in upmost politeness and expect to be treated with it. Coraline talks back, insults her, breaks promises and snoops on her belongings all of these are very damming.

Another factor is the cat. In Celtic legends black cats with white on their chest are cat sith, which are witches that can turn into cats 9 times. Though the cat in Coraline is completely black, him being a witch would explain how he could be alive long enough to have witnessed other children being taken by the Beldam.

Neil Gaiman (the original author) includes/touches on folk lore and spirituality often in his work so to me it would make sense that Coraline is dealing with a particularly cruel fae.

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