Lani Ka'ahumanu, co-founder of BiPol (the first bisexual political organization), marches in the San Francisco Lesbian & Gay Freedom Day, June 24, 1984.
I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.
dont even have the words to describe my reaction to the way that white mcr fans act with the rising sun!!! its fucking horrible, it makes me sick, it ignores the brutal fucking history of japanese imperialism. they literally tried to turn taiwan into a fully japanese country by genocide and assimilation of indigenous peoples, and treatment of the other ethnic groups. they took our men as soldiers for their war efforts while they suppressed the cultures of all taiwanese ethnic groups, some more violently than others. my own fucking family went through this so it is literally a slap in the fucking face to see how people are treating this. this doesnt even mention what happened in korea. sickening. as a taiwanese person i dont have anything else left to say.
jobs having ridiculous responsibility creep over the last few years for their lowest level employees with no pay increases makes me fucking furious. here are the duties of a middle manager with the pay of a 12th century donkey. FUCK YOU
You are going to laugh until your stomach hurts again. You're going to be in awe of a sunset. Watch your favorite show while you eat your favorite food. Find money on the street. Discover a great band you haven't heard of before. You will find your way back.
You are going to laugh until your stomach hurts again. You're going to be in awe of a sunset. Watch your favorite show while you eat your favorite food. Find money on the street. Discover a great band you haven't heard of before. You will find your way back.
the thing is, also... every discussion about Whether The MCU Is Garbage or Is Disney Irredeemably Evil or Has Star Wars Gone On Too Long or Why Does It Feel Like There's Been Just Three Shows On American TV For The Past 3 Decades inevitably ends up at "hey but don't shame people for wanting to have fun and escape the continuous nightmare of late capitalism for 2 hours a night" and like. fair. being effortlessly entertained is a valid desire that deserves to be fulfilled. but the thing is. and I really don't wanna be That Guy but. if you're coming back home from your soul-crushing corporate job into your alienated nuclear household, tired from a busy day of doing some bullshit to make a living, and you feel dead inside, and your idea of escape is to tune into the next installment of something that's not really cinema as much as like, a long serialised commercial for the fast fashion items with the popular character of the month, then I'm sorry bro but you're not really going anywhere. you're not escaping, you're sinking deeper in. and look. it's your god given right to watch schlocky TV and then go read fanfic about it. but if you're wondering why all this dazzling entertainment still leaves you feeling so empty you just wanna scream and scream and scream, then you might actually have an acute case of going too long without consuming any media that has an intent beyond draining your money and time and a formula beyond regurgitating what sold best last year
People have argued this subject for as long as media has existed at all, and for most of my life I absolutely felt that it was just pretentious of people to complain about movies getting dumbed down or soulless...but they still had a point and it really has gone far enough in the last few years that thereâs no denying it anymore, you can see how fast Disney is churning things out, how much theyâve streamlined it down to a reusable formula, how careful they are to appeal to as many demographics as possible and how they have all the merchandising ready to go from day one.
So yes, every loud-mouthed movie critic was right, Hollywood mainstream cinema has steadily deteriorated into a mind-numbing cash grab and thereâs finally little room to deny it or argue that itâs harmless, because it also means a whole lot of people overworked, underpaid, under-credited and artistically stifled at every level of production.
OP may sound harsh and all but theyâre still quite clearly stating that thereâs a problem with overly commercialized megaconglomerate filmmaking and they even explain that itâs fine to like whatever you want if you really like whatever.
And yet the notes are still full of passionately angry responses like they actually just said to stop having fun or actually said anything passing any kind of judgment on any fandom. People really donât take time to process the meaning of posts before getting riled up about them.
If it HURTS just to see someone say âI wish these pieces of fiction were made with more loving careâ your investment in that fiction might be going too far.
Homestuck is a webcomic, and itâs one of the absolute best.
Itâs one of the funniest, most interesting stories ever written, and it investigates storytelling, canonicity, and narrative in intriguing ways that Iâve never seen done better. If deep dive analysis and taking notes while you read is your kinda thing, then Homestuck may be the story for you. The dialogues are believable and beautiful, the intricate interlocking narratives are exquisitely crafted -- itâs genuinely one of my favourite pieces of fiction ever written
That being said, before I go and recommend it to anybody, Iâll have to give them a bunch of warnings, too -- like thereâs some abusive relationships, pretty darn graphic depictions of violence, the whole thing is chock FULL of flashing images, and also itâs from around ~2009, so a lot of the earlier stuff has some language that Iâd consider ableist, and thereâs some yikes jokes here and there -- if you can stomach this content, and look past its flaws, then itâs probably for you.
What is it about? Itâs about a group of Internet friends who play a videogame together that brings about the end of the world.... and a whole bunch of other stuff.
We need to have a nomination for âStupidest thing Tumblr.com has ever believedâ and just move into an official Top 10 List.
For my nominations, Iâm putting up:
If you eat a chocolate bar a very specific way, you will break physics and get infinite chocolate.
or
It is impossible that you spelled âBerenstain Bearsâ wrong and is, instead, more likely that the universe fractured into separate, overlapping realities in the last 20 years.
I canât decide which is more beautiful. Itâs why we need a vote.
that time when everyone praised this guy on facebook for being a Nice Guy, despite how he literally stalked this girl in college and at restaurants. called the girl a bitch for not accepting his advances.
I've been working on a fic for a while set in the CQL/Untamed universe and at the external crisis I needed to set how long travel takes by sword.
So I ended up making a bunch of measurements and calculations to give me the time it would take from one sect to another. Because I had everyone converging on Lotus Pier that's how this was broken down, but you could take the locations on the google map and just see what the distance is between those two.
Hope people find this helpful.
Notes:
I eyeballed the locations of where to place the sects by looking at the CQL map here and checking for corresponding places on a google map of China, then had google tell me the distance between those points, and how long by car and walking it would take to get from one to the other.
I'm not sure how Google calculates the time by car, probably by dividing the distance by the max speed on each road and accounting for traffic.
I then determined that the absolute max speed of sword travel would be 110 kph because any faster would probably be dangerous even with a core.
If you want to calculate your own times with this info just pick the kph speed (metric system only baby!) and divide the speed into the distance.
Yes I did put Lotus Pier in Wuhan, a place most of us have only heard about in the last year. It was an accident, it was just a prominent mark in the right(ish) area.
I kept the car and walking calculations to help me keep it realistic -also gives you a good idea how hard it would be for the common people to get anywhere.
The font is Comic Sans because it's a font designed to be readable for people with dyslexia and the like, please don't @ me!
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[An image of a table calculating the time and distance between places in CQL. It's black with white writing.]
Tianjin (Coast) to Shandong (QĂn Sect): 440km distance, 4 hours 43 minutes by car, 91 hours walking, 4 hours by sword at max speed 110kph.
Shandong (QĂn Sect) to Wuhan (Lotus Pier): 1104km distance, 11 hours 47 minutes by car, 213 hours walking, 10 hours 2 minutes by sword at max speed 110kph.
JÄ«ning (LĂĄnlĂng) to Wuhan (Lotus Pier): 633km distance, 7 hours 56 minutes by car, 132 hours by walking, 5 hours 45 minutes by sword at max speed 110kph.
Hangzhou (Gƫsƫ Lån) to Wuhan (Lotus Pier): 769km distance, 8 hours 6 minutes by car, 154 hours by walking, 6 hours 59 minutes by sword at max speed 110kph.
Yichang (YĂlĂng) to Wuhan (Lotus Pier): 340km distance, 3 hours 55 minutes by car, 70 hours by walking, 3 hours 5 minutes by sword at max speed 110kph.
Hey I know people mean well but yâall need to watch how you tag peoples donation posts. Like, I know itâs important to tag possible triggers for your followers but when you tag a post by someone trying to escape an abusive situation as âabuse twâ, due to blacklist functions you are making it so their post doesnât reach as wide of an audience and therefore they are less likely to get the help they need to escape their situation.
I understand that it can be distressing to see their post but imagine how the person making it feels living in that situation and not being able to reach the audience they deserve to be able to reach for help? Like, if the post has graphic details or photos, I get tagging it. But if someone is like âIâm trying to escape my abuser and improve my situationâ, you really probably shouldnât tag it with a tw.
Obviously yâall can do what you want but this is just some food for thought. Itâs hard enough to ask for and receive help on this site so maybe make sure youâre not contributing to that.
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