camcam6820

Attempting artist with a few different intrest. Intrests are always in flux. 21 y.o.

[bisexuel]

[2percentsugar]

the fact that "eco" and "ethical" are two separate concerns in the global north, and that "eco" is a much more popular concern, with many "eco" products being made in actual sweatshops, is a big part of why i am The Joker

[2percentsugar]

if you think this is an exaggeration or splitting hairs where it doesn't matter:

i used to work at a Local Organic Produce store that's popular with the lefties in my city who are interested in food justice. i quit for a lot of reasons, mostly the boss, but something i will always remember is one of our suppliers coming in to drop off produce, being told her check wasn't ready, and her laughing and responding it didn't matter -- even a low bank account was more than enough to pay the migrants who picked her produce. i am not filling in any blanks here. she said this.

after quitting, this was a common story i told people about my time there. some then became annoyed at me, acting like i was a wokescold trying to undermine the store's "eco" mission with unrelated "ethical" concerns. but, like -- if food justice isn't for the people making food, who the fuck is it for?

like, don't get me wrong. my contention here is that the things go hand in hand, and that something which is unethical isn't actually eco. after all, humans are a part of the fucking ecosystem, and if a product can only be made by unsustainably exploiting humans, then it's unsustainable. doesn't matter which chemicals were used in making it, or whether or not animals were factory farmed.

[falseficus]

they *cannot* be separated. a product cannot be either eco or ethical — it must be both. a product that is made through human suffering cannot be eco for the reasons you said; a product that causes human suffering by contributing to the destruction of the ecosystem cannot be ethical. it must be both and we must insist on both

[whitepeopletwitter]

No Snakes, Yes Snakes

[bambi-lesbian-posts]

It’s No Snakes Tuesday

[ferret-on-pancakes]

It’s Yes Snakes Thursday

[datasoong47]

It’s Yes Snakes Friday

[creatingblackcharacters]

"When you can't keep women out anymore, and you can't force them all to become secretaries or teachers because modern social politics demand that you at least pretend to support gender equality in the workplace, what can you do to keep women out of powerful positions in business? You can set them up to fail- or, to be more accurate, you set them up to fall.

It's called the glass cliff, and it's a phrase that was first coined in 2005 by University of Exeter researchers Michelle K. Ryan and S. Alexander Haslam. The research was inspired by an article in the Times (of London, not New York) that suggested women leaders have a negative impact on stock performance. Perhaps Ryan and Haslam smelled the whiff of bullshit coming from the page. They wondered if it was actually true that women brought doom and gloom to the businesses they led, or if there was some other reason why women were more likely to be found in leadership positions at troubled businesses.

They found that women were indeed more likely than men to be in leadership positions at distressed companies, but they also found that the problems were not the women's fault... These firms had shown months of decline and seemed at risk of failure prior to adding women to their boards.

When Allison Cook and Christy Glass at Utah State University followed up on this research by looking at US companies, they also discovered disturbing patterns impacting women and people of color in business: women and people of color were most likely to be placed at the head of a company when it was already at risk of failure; white men were less likely to accept leadership positions when companies were at risk of failure; and when women or people of color fail to quickly turn around the struggling company, they were most likely replaced with white men.

Women and people of color are often only given the opportunity to steer ships that white men have already rammed into icebergs. Then, when the ship sinks, the media reports that women make bad captains."

Chapter 5- Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[computationalcalculator]

[quiddie]

*deep breath* If the antifascist (esp. American-centered) art you make or consume refuses to acknowledge the truth that framing this time period as the "sudden rise of fascism" along with its supposed volatility (i.e. "it can't last; that's not how its built") is just a comforting construct to keep white Americans from reckoning with their literal centuries of active and passive participation in this country's fascist, genocidal violence against Indigenous and Black people, your art isn't just wrong...it's worthless. How can you imagine dismantling unjust systems without seeing the blood on your own hands? How do you comprehend the size of the fight for mutual liberation without seeing that the scale of the threat is exponentially larger than your personal experience of the danger of state violence; or is your envisioned win condition only as shallow as the return to your previous sense of safety?

Ignoring the complexities and well-established enmeshment of fascism in Western culture for the sake of simpler stories to inspire rising to this moment in history only builds fair-weather fighters ill-prepared for the rigors of revolutionary action. It also widens the rift between those newly awakened to the struggle and their neighbors that have lived it for generations (and have built and maintained systems of community support and resistance that have protected them for just as long).

If antifascist art doesn't first demand you turn the eye inward, it is only escapist fluff.

[novenmums]

*slides in 30 years late to the party* i like detectives and magicians, and especially those which are rivals to one another, so I drew them a lot this month. more drawings under the cut!

who's ever heard of a consistent artstyle lol

+ the first two pages of a short comic i didn't end up liking too much

[shitpostingkats]

The police making no progress on the KID case seems kind of silly until you're not in Kaito pov and suddenly realize what an absolute wildcard Kaitou Kid is from an outside perspective.

His schtick is usally stealing large jewels. Except when it's not, and he randomly steals paintings and people and baseballs. Sometimes he doesn't even steal the things he says he's going to steal he just shows up, messes with everyone for a few hours, and leaves. He always sends an advance notice of when he's going to do crime but it varies wildly between multifaceted riddles that you need like three incredibly niche phds to crack or a simple "see you guys at midnight k thx byeee :)". He took an eight year sabbatical and when he came back he straight up started returning everything he stole. He's exposed multiple people for committing massive insurance scams. He's admitted to stalking his police inspector and his family. One time he crashed a play and started writing fanfiction for the show and then broke into the tech booth to make it a reality. Every single turn this guy makes is a left. He's chaos incarnate.

[shitpostingkats]

Obsessed with the character of Kudo Shinchi. Imagine this smug little rich kid, ooh, he thinks he's the smartest person in the room at any given moment, he solves crime as a hobby because his parents don't give him enough attention at home and also because he really likes Sherlock Holmes. He's extremely autistic. He is vaguely aware he should have hobbies outside of murder (because Sherlock Holmes had hobbies outside of murder) so he's also a varsity player. He makes every conversation about his interests and is genuinely very confused when people find this upsetting (because one of his special interests is murder). He's a sarcastic little greasestain. He's extremely rude and abrasive. He firmly believes that all human life is worth saving. He's a niche micro celebrity. He carries himself like nothing can even touch him. He's walking around just asking to get his ass kicked. And he does. He gets his head smashed in with a lead pipe in the pilot episode of the show in which he is the main character.

[novenmums]

i see a doppelgänger in myself

[teaboot]

I’m not Christian, I don’t go to church anymore, and my pastor died, but when he was alive I’d sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said “it feels good to hate, but we know that it isn’t allowed, so when we’re told that we’re allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget we’re supposed to love”, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk I’d like to perhaps submit that

[teaboot]

Anyhow sometimes on the day to day I feel disgust or revulsion and I have to ask myself “is this a danger to anyone at all or am I just looking for something I’m allowed to hate” and a solid 98/100 times it’s the latter so once again thank you pastor D

[teaboot]

Some more sweet bangers from Pastor D

Following the rules of the church are less important than following the attitudes Jesus exemplified [in a debate about if it would be okay to break traditional rules and give the leftover loaf of communion bread to a hungry and poor attendee]

Don’t get so caught up in observing ceremonies and following traditions that you forget why they started to begin with

The words you use aren’t as important as what you mean when you use them [new kid was somehow wildly confused about his name and started respectfully calling him Batman]

[alicepallis]

You might like the teaching story that I heard often from my dad -

Two monks from a strict order that prohibits even *looking* at a woman are on a pilgrimage

Along the way they have to cross a small river

A woman is also trying to cross but is clearly struggling to find a safe place to wade in

One monk decides to help and carries her through the water and sets her down on the other side where she goes off on her own to wherever it is she's going

After a while walking in grumpy silence the second monk breaks and starts berating the first for breaking his vows! And so casually! The first monk says "I picked her up, I put her down, *you* are still carrying her.

My dad liked the idea that the rule exists to teach you something - and if you learn it, you don't need the rule - and if you don't learn it, the rule is doing you no good

[teaboot]

I like this one!

[jackalspine]

I’ve been playin genshin and rereading Fools Night

[errizabeht290]

Bang。

[lycanthology]

wish ppl understood the power nowadays in not giving something attention. things today are so focused on attention and reaction and #memes that the best way to shut literally anything down is simply not give it exactly what it wants. like you arent going to own that bigot on twitter youre going to boost their original message whether thats your intent or not and you arent just playing with ai for shits and giggles you are giving it free learning and data. just stop engaging with things that dont deserve it

[tina-snow]

the guitar braided into his hair

[tina-snow]

treble clef

[byjove]

gawain

[byjove]

Gawain had been severely injured fighting Galehaut’s army prior to his surrender and the physicians thought he may be bleeding internally. He’s possibly dying and talking about how he wishes to be a happy healthy maiden who Lancelot will love for the rest of their lives, it’s difficult to tell if he means ‘I’d be okay with being a woman as long as I was healthy again and Lancelot loved me.’ or if he has wished to be a woman for some time. Could be gay, could be a trans egg moment. Either way, top 10 Gawain moment.

[sasha042]

The hardest of hearts.