The Moment of your Greatest Joy Sustains

This is 10% rambling, 20% metas,15% tag essays. 50% reblogs, 50% psychic damage. And a 100% reason to remember the name!

[amillionmagpies]

Btw, that idea that privilege makes you morally evil and suffering makes you morally good is just repackaged versions of the Christian concepts of the evils of luxury and the holiness of martyrdom. Hope this helps!

[sixty-silver-wishes]

I think I’m going to think about this youtube comment forever

[voxulipopuli-deactivated2025122]

[id: a youtube comment by @/KM-mw3jp that reads "When I was in 7th and 8th grade we had a Sikh kid who would carry wet boba around in his pocket and throw them at people for insulting him, his religon, his culture, or other kids. I asked him about it a couple years ago and he said it's cause his dad gave him some talk about how standing up for what's right is part of the religon. So for two years this boy carried an open plastic bag FULL of wet boba around to throw at bullies. If it was a minor insensitive comment or a first time offence it would be one boba. If it was a big thing or a reoccurring bully it could be a bunch. He even threw boba at our substitute teacher one day because she tried to punish us because one kid was talking by making all of us do pushups. He literally went "no that's not fair" and threw like four wet bobas at her.

Pretty sure his dad encouraged that behavior too. And to be honest, it did deter a lot of bullying and name calling." /end id]

[bossymarmalade]

[bitemeilovewaffles]

@sincerely-mrstranger

[hedwig-dordt]

Wait, I'm going to look something up!

[hedwig-dordt]

Yeah, that's funny

[transmutationisms]

me when im so sweet and beautiful

[transmutationisms]

me when im so sweet and beautiful monday

[gothhabiba]

see this is exactly what I'm talking about. this labour is so incredibly invisibilised that there are real human beings, walking about amongst us, leading normal lives, etc., who earnestly believe that machines can make an item of clothing from start to finish.

[rowanrightalong]

Hey just in case someone on here doesn’t quite understand how labor intensive making a garment is, here is a list of things that (to the best of my knowledge) cannot be done by machine alone, from a costumer/tailor in training

Cutting - in my opinion, the most labor intensive part of the process. The amount of time/effort needed varies depending on the pattern and if seam allowance is included or marked separately, but no matter what this process can not be done by machine. Each and every panel and piece of fabric that goes into a garment must be cut by hand by a person.

Pinning/clipping - pinning (or clipping) is the stage at which you align the pieces you are going to be stitching together and hold them together with — you guessed it! — either pins or clips. This can not be done by machine.

Stitching - the actual sewing. This can be done by a sewing machine, but that machine still needs to be operated by a human being.

Ironing/pressing - two words that mean the same thing. The iron itself is a machine, but once again, it needs to be operated by a human being.

Finishing - depending on the technique you use, there are certain finishing techniques that can only be done by hand. But, let’s assume we’re talking about fast fashion, which is usually just finished with a simple overlock/serger. Once again: these machines need to be operated by people.

These are just the basic steps to making a garment, and don’t include textile arts that I am not as knowledgeable about, such as weaving, knitting, and crochet. Also, it is important to note that there are a lot of things that can only be done by hand, such as certain stitches and decorative techniques.

Also, the machinery being operated in textile factories is not equivalent to a domestic sewing machine. We’re talking about one of these guys:

See that gray cylinder under the table, behind the knee pedal? That’s the motor. These machines can sew through your fingers bones and all and not even stop. The people in these factories and sweatshops are operating heavy machinery, and are subject to all the risk that comes with that in addition to all of the work I mentioned above.

Please respect textile workers and continue the fight to eliminate the use of sweatshops and exploited labor in the fashion industry!

[somethingaboutnoodles]

Keeping in mind a lot of these workers have quotas to meet, so they're expected to sew like 10 pairs of jeans in an hour when it would probably take me (a decent sewist) the whole hour to sew a single pair. They are very skilled workers AND as with much of factory work, subjected to extreme pressure to move faster and faster until they are putting life and limb at risk to meet arbitrary targets.

And then you complain about your clothes having loose threads.

(This post also doesn't cover grading & fit & design & sampling & fabric selection processes, which are also time-intensive and require extensive human skill! Though I do suspect grading & fit are being left by the wayside in a lot of these factories now in the rush to meet demand.)

[knifefightscene]

[mey-rin-is-fabulous]

@bovineblogger

[arkhamverses]

everyone is allowed a character that they dislike purely because of how the fandom acts about them. it is okay and it is allowed

[from-a-spiders-web]

Portrait of a young lady, a free person of colour, 1852 Jean Baptiste Bonjour

[syrren]

doodles of my fave dendarii mercenaries

[dc-tournaments]

Best Enemies Round 2

Batman & the Riddler

Green Lantern & Red Lantern

Remaining time: 2 days 7 hours

[iz-robin]

One of these has the moral standing of a cartoon villain, the other might save the country.

Welcome to British politics.

[matthgeek]

Well that's not staying in the tags

[amrv-5]

Does anyone know what to do about the temperature and also the prices

[nightonblogmountain]

[taibhsearachd]

To everyone who is feeling a little sad right now... close your eyes. Hold out your hands.

I am gently offering you Ring with Cat and Kittens, 1295–664 BCE.

[dear-ao3]

[milaispissed]

Found this in my camera roll

[oldinterneticons]

[teaboot]

I just noticed my darling baby boy (cat) sitting in his little loft bed about 5 inches away from the most delightful sunbeam, so I scooted it into the sunlight for him and he looked me with the biggest widest expression. I don’t think he knew that was an option. I think I just blew his whole little mind

[teaboot]

^guy who didn’t know I could do that

[homunculusalphonse]

i really think the main difference between 03 and bh is not the messages, but the way they approach these messages. at least in my perspective, bh wants to take the same themes 03 took (racism, genocide, death) but they try to have a "happier" resolution with everyone "winning" at the end, not only the elric brothers but also mustang and co, olivier etc. and worse yet, bh wants to look like they're "better" than 03 for having a "happier" outcome.

having a more idealistic outtake on complex themes shouldn't be a bad thing, but by not taking risks bh ends up not giving sympathy to the characters of color bc it wants to go easy on the military characters. which shouldn't actually be that much of an issue bc 03 perfectly handled mustang and co in a way we can totally sympathize with their suffering, but we need to acknowledge they're part of the same system that continuously kills people of color, and they can't just take out the "bad" and expect they'll completely revolutionize the system.

it actually baffles me bc in bh the military is still founded to own alchemy and to have power over other countries - it was created to be a military state, amestris was created for massacre. it never had any good in it to begin with. i did like the message of bh (and maybe the manga too) that you can take existent things to create something better out of it, which is what bh builds up on through scar's brother's new transmutation circle - it's a pretty interesting idea to work with.

but because bh wants so badly to prove that mustang and co are "different" and "libertarian" they don't actively support abolishing the system, they just paint it over with mustang and call it a day. this is not a revolution. this is not any better than 03 - and btw 03 does punish the military at the end as they're not in the ruling position anymore and mustang loses his rank. honestly they just make this aspect of the manga worse.

[rice-pudding-addict]

I love both the FMA shows (hell, I find brotherhood the more enjoyable of the two) but ong people need to actually realize that yes, our beloved show that people say combats racism has aspects that are in fact racist. Like- there's nothing wrong with a happy and more optimistic feel to a show, but when it causes the show to ignore the racial issues it attempts to address, that's not good. Like I'm glad that at least state alchemists being brought to trial being one of Roys goals was brought up, but brotherhood ends before he becomes Fuhrer so it doesn't actually follow through.

Like, I know they didn't 100% paint the military and mustang co in a good light, and I know that it's vaguely insinuated that Roy joined because he "wants to save this country" (the episode with master Hawkeye) which points more towards just manipulation/propaganda that he fell for (and we know that once they were actively in the war they were all questioning it), but since they never fuckin double down on these ideas it's all just completely lost. Every damn leftist idea brought up about the military and Ishvalans are never doubled down on. Oh they want to repair things with the Ishvalans can't wait to see that happen! Surely it won't only be shown in the ending photograph sequence for a whopping 5 seconds or anything.

Another issue with brotherhood for me was really how they dealt with Scar and Miles. Like, they state that Scars revenge is in a sense justified, Scar confronts Ed about how it was Amestris who pulled the first trigger, but they also focus too much on Scars faults to make sure our lovely characters are still deemed as good that it ends up essentially brushing Scars validity under the rug. And Miles was essentially a tool to further push the weird "see look this ishvalan is in the military and is the 'morally better' foil to Scar so he can team up with the protags to save the world" shit (which really sucks because Miles was such a cool character imo- I'm always a sucker for the quiet levelheaded ones). And lets not even get started on that Edward and Miles interaction. Like I get Edward and Scar having beef cause Ed is still emotionally immature during those parts and it's more because of Winrys parents (so a bit more personal), but the Ed Miles scene was uncalled for and felt off brand for even brotherhood if I'm being honest. And once again, they never confront Ed about his immaturity over the genocide, they simply wait for him to mature, but like- confronting ones faults is APART of that maturity process???

And that's all on the Ishvalan characters, not even the black ones. Like, can we please talk about how Jerso, the ONLY character with an accent from what I recall, has a white voice actor doing blaccent (english dub). Like. HELLO???