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Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
JVL
todays bird
Janaina Medeiros
shark vs the universe
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
JBB: An Artblog!
sheepfilms
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
$LAYYYTER
Stranger Things
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
#extradirty
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@graceisprettygreat
Counting to Ten
To: @annalrk-art
From: @graceisprettygreat
Thank you so much for the amazing set of prompts! I hope you enjoy my interpretation of Tenmyouji and Quark’s worldFor the prompt: Quark and Tenmyouji’s casual life on Earth, celebrating one of their birthdays or a holiday, really showcasing how much Tenmyouji loves Quark and tries to give him the best life despite the circumstances.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61333120/chapters/156766279
youtube commenters will say things like "just because because a character changed gender doesn't make them trans"
"going out to get milk" is a common turn of phrase used to describe a man abandoning his family.
the "milkman" is a common figure in stories depicting a woman's infidelity and adulterous affair.
this implies that the ability to provide milk would both decrease the likelihood of a man abandoning his wife and children, as it would eliminate the need for leaving to get milk AND would secure that man's marriage, as his wife would have no need to seek milk from an extraneous source.
therefore, all men should produce milk, through various means such as:
- being a cow
- being an almond
- being a woman
- being a coconut
- being in the omegaverse
- being an oat
(list is exemplary and not finite)
in this essay, i will redefine the nuclear family and explain the seductive and inflammatory nature of the 1993 "Got Milk?" commercials.
there is no nursing shortage btw. just a shortage of nurses willing to work under the terrible, unsafe conditions created by capitalists 👍
how to solve the nursing shortage:
mandatory patient-to-nurse ratio laws modeled after the laws in California
pay nurses more
🤷♀️
perpetuating the myth of a "nursing shortage" only benefits the healthcare administrators fucking us over, giving them an excuse to claim that they can't help but short staff the hospitals because there just aren't nurses to fill those roles
nurses literally make up a full 1% of the US population. there is no nursing shortage
3. also unions
as a rule it's always more interesting when two people who know each other outlive a third person that they both loved and then their relationship becomes So Much Weirder and more emotionally fraught, entangled, and charged when that third person dies
basketball dracula isn't real dude he can't-- *sudden squeaking noises from the shadows*
*two pool toys having sex tumble by in the wind* oh thank god
*thunderous slam dunk noise*
Some Cinderella’s Castle race analysis
While Cinderella’s castle isn’t explicitly about race because it’s in a colorblind fantasy world, I do still think the implications of Ella being a black woman are still there.
I think the fact that she isn’t take seriously and called crazy and over the top parallels the experience of black women really well. Black women’s pain and struggles aren’t taken seriously, and they’re called hysterical or over the top for asserting their boundaries or asking for help.
This also makes me think of how black people’s mental health is treated. They are more likely to get diagnosed with highly stigmatized behavioral disorders in order to dismiss their emotions as just the byproduct of a disorder that makes them more “obstinant.”
I think this is especially poignant because it’s in contrast to her white step mother. Yes they’re both women and exist under patriarchy, but ultimately when it comes to believing the white woman or the black woman, who do the people choose?
Also her story is centered around *validating her anger and revenge.* Black people are expected to sit back and be fine with racism, and forget slavery ever happened and ignore the micro agression. We are expected to be “civil and respectable” in the face of our own dehumanization and oppression.
Cinderellas castle says no, fuck that, let her have her revenge and be angry and kill the people who took her family away from her. Let her have resentment and anger because she deserves to because what was done to her was horrible.
While we’re here the trolls really feel like a metaphor for cultural appropriation. They marry into the house of ashmore, and then they kill the head of the house immediately after, taking their land, their home, their resources.
ON TOP OF THAT, they literally steal other people’s skin. They kill people, and use their bodies to parade around as though they are human too.
Yes all three of the trolls are in white bodies, but I still think there’s something to be said about how this parallels the appropriation of black culture.
They pretend to be human, to be of the house of ashmore externally, but internally they are still trolls. This is not who they are and it is not their culture, nor are these even their bodies.
Then they turn around to the person WHOS LIFE THEY STOLE, and force her to do unpaid labor for them. Like it’s literally slavery.
This also makes me think of how interracial family dynamics can lead to racism within families, and how neither blood nor marriage stop people from perpetuating racism against those meant to be their kin.
It exists and it's called Portland, Oregon
so embarrassing to watch yourself become obsessed with a character that feels tailor made for you specifically to become obsessed with. feels like i fell into a trap made just for me. like damn they got me. those are all the things i like and go crazy for
some of the music i listen to is straight up bad
Being critical of your interests is sooooo fun when you have the critic gene & then you sound kind of insane to the average tv watcher when you're like "this is my favorite show, It's Racist" & then you try to clarify what you mean & get that [Speech (legendary) - FAILURE] "the racism is really interesting though"
[Speech (legendary) - SUCCESS] I find the sociopolitical context of pulpy old sci-fi born circa the civil rights movement really fascinating to analyze especially when it was progressive for its time but still reveals the writers' unexamined biases in the subtext
Them: So you're saying its bad and I shouldn't watch it?
Me: I mean depends on your tolerance for this type of racism, but like I said it's my favourite show, it def has some great parts if you're up for it.
Them: Oh so it's not racist.
Me: It absolutely is.
Them: So you're saying racism is ok??
Me: No.
one of my classic texts, from the archives
[id: photo of a door with scratches around the doorknob, and a text message that reads "i know from context that your sister's dog did this, but it's a bad look for a guest room." end id]
hey don't cry. blorbo coughing up blood
blorbo writhing in agony ok? don't cry
blorbo screaming so much their voice becomes hoarse and weak and the pain still won't stop
blorbo unable to close their eyes and avoid the visceral sight of their own body
blorbo suffering unimaginable pain and being powerless to stop it ok? ok
The most obsession inducing trait a character can have for me is knowing somewhere in their heart That They Are A Bad Kid
This isn't necessarily literal. It can apply to characters who aren't children too. But there's something about characters who are either certain of the fact, or terrified of the possibility, that they are just fundamentally wrong and bad at their core
It is also important to me that it is not true. No one is fundamentally broken and evil.
The crazy part about pain is that it actually hurts alot
