[npr]

Coffee aficionados pay top dollar for single-origin roasts.

The professional prospectors working for specialty coffee companies will travel far and wide, Marco Polo-style, to discover that next champion bean.

But to the farmers who hope to be that next great discovery, the emergence of this new coffee aristocracy is less Marco Polo, more Cinderella: How do you get your coffee bean to the ball?

How An Ethiopian Bean Became The Cinderella Of Coffee

Photo: Gregory Warner/NPR

[poolsofchrome]

Islands of fire above the sky sea

[beben-eleben]

For future reference.

[mollimassacre-deactivated201408]

Thank you.

[fuckyeahifightlikeagirl]

For those who would ever need it. -C

[rapeculturerealities]

reblogging here because i can see this being relevant to anyone who’s ever tried to get out of an abusive relationship

[directorlazard-deactivated20171]

Reblogging because that last comment made me reread the whole thing in a new light and realize this could be vital information. So, putting it out there for everyone, and hoping no one ever really needs it.

[lum1natrix]

Where was this two years ago oh my god

[beatfist]

EDIT: Prints are now available through Fangamer right here! http://www.fangamer.com/products/red-the-transistor

My latest collaboration with Attract Mode! My Transistor print will be at the Fangamer booth during PAX this coming weekend, along with other great stuff from kylefewell, kevinjaystanton, jovo-ve  and kinucakes http://blog.attractmo.de/post/127494820355/hunt-the-great-ones-attention-denizens-of-seattle

If you’re gonna be at PAX, stop by and check it out!

[hipandhorrific]

Alright monster high tag I’m going to explain you about racial coding because some of you still can’t understand how a cartoon character can be a monster and have a “human race” to go along with it.

So first off we do not live in a bubble. Nothing created exists in a bubble. It is all influenced by the surrounding culture. Black children are going to look at Honey and say “hey, she has hair like mine” and relate to that. Mexican children will look at Skelita and recognize the sugar skull and be drawn to her. Things do not exists in a bubble.

Now for racial coding. Racial coding is when you take a non-human character and code them as a specific type of race, or ethnicity. Now, sometimes racial coding can be racist. Examples:

All these characters are very obviously supposed to represent a certain race even thought they re non-human. The problem is they are represented racistly.

Now on for some good examples!

Luigi is a car, we all know he is Italian.

Flow is a car, we can still tell she’s black.

Eduardo is a imaginary friend, we still know he’s latin@

Wilt is an imaginary friend, we can still tell he’s black

Jinafire is a dragon, we all know she’s Chinese

Marisol is a Maricoxi, she is still obviously South American & Latin@ (tbh she reads as Peruvian specifically to me)

Hello Kitty is a cat, because she is created in Japan and is often displayed as participating in Japanese culture we know she’s Japanese.

So even though Honey Swamp is a monster.

She still reads.

as black.

And if you can’t see that you are a racist.

Black folk get shit for their natural hair all the time. When you, as any race other than black, straighten Honey’s hair you are part of the problem and are racist.

I hope everyone learned a thing :)

P.S. I will not be responding to racist trying to defend themselves. 

[werewolfchaos]

Wilt is black?

[spooky-pens]

Yes he is! they’re not even subtle about it in the show, but let me give a few examples from least important to most important. 

Wilt’s voice actor is Phil LaMarr

The kid (pictured: man) who created wilt is Jordan Michael’s… an obvious Michael Jordan parody. 

He was created in “The Hood” and this was his surroundings.

Most of this can be found in the wiki for Good Wilt Hunting.  but the strongest piece of evidence for Wilt being black doesn’t come from that episode but it is directly related to is how he sees himself. 

and that is the prop arm he wears over his stump to prank little kids in the Halloween episode.

Black skinned props and prosthetics aren’t exactly easy to find. (there’s a joke about this in the movie Bad Santa where the black elf character has to wear elf ears that are white skinned because they don’t make black elf ear props or if they do they are extremely hard to come by.) 

which means Wilt had to activity search that prop out or make it himself because that is how he seems himself. His creator was black ,his neighborhood was black so even though he isn’t human. he feels black. 

So if he was human, he would be a black human.

[cel-phone]

Holy crap this post is so long I’m sorry I couldn’t reblog this as a shorter link but this is super informative and SUPER IMPORTANT!

[khiroshige-deactivated20221210]

Wilt is named after Wilt Chamberlain, a black NBA legend, so there’s that.

[dadleywellz]

@shinymegacrobat this

[zvaigzdelasas]

[scotiaxx-deactivated20161202]

Finsub: I sent you an Amazon gift card Mistress.

Me: *checks email* Oh yes, I see. 

Finsub: What will you spend it on?  Something sexy I hope :)

Me: Oh trust me, I’ll definitely be using it to please myself in ways you could only dream to. 

[thequeenofsunflowers-deactivate]

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Emoji spell for healing from burn out. May you feel well-rested, rejuvenated, and fulfilled in all avenues of your life.

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[beesforpresident]

Dream girl:

Yellow with black stripes Six legs Antenna Compound eyes Collects pollen and nectar from flowers

[coralbluebirdtiger-deactivated2]

im not gonna fuck a zebra please leave me alone

[beesforpresident]

What kind of zebra…

[quickweaves]

my kinda zebra

[chipsprites]

[luxulteri0r]

luxulterior 3.O : 15gb to go

[hihorno-blog]

Warming.

[cutedirtydog-blog]

bull daddy >:-)

[chipsprites]

[wealthyhugepenis-deactivated201]

person: will you be my girlfriend?

me:

[wealthyhugepenis-deactivated201]

[iguanamouth]

do . do y ou mean. this toad

and, this possum

because this whole thing got wildly out of hand and if thats not what you meant i dont kno w what to tell you because

PLACE YOUR BETS

[iguanamouth]

its been over a year since i posted this and i gotta say its kinda fitting that the comic ive put the most effort into making visually interesting and has the most potential for lore expansion is a duel between two memes. thanks