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I had this exact conversation with a friend last week. She had over $3K in a Roth account just SITTING THERE. Not invested in anything. But how would she know?? Nobody ever explained it all to her, they just told her to open a Roth IRA and deposit money every month.
So this is just a reminder to all of you since I often post about financial planning and saving for retirement!!! Make the IRA contributions and then buy assets with that money!
no lie i genuinely believe brands are so behind the pleather movement bc they can just buy cheap plastic sell it as expensive 'vegan leather' and be ready for you to return in a couple years to buy another 'vegan peeta approved™ leather jacket' bc they last like 5 minutes compared to the way leather lasts decades all the while you can pat yourself and coorporate's back for being sutainable all the while pvc (what some fake leather products are made of) has been labeled the single most environmentally damaging type of plastic and while there are non pvc fake leathers such as pu leather... its not like thats much better producing plastic pollutes and the second your pleather clothes start to breakdown (which happens much faster than you think) theyll wound up on landfills for at least a 100 years...
also they love love LOVE to try and sell you "plant-based leather" that you then look at the details and it's "45% cactus" or whatever and there's no mention of what the rest of it is
it's plastic.
it's always plastic.
Let me tell you a story.
50 years ago or so a cow died. It died in a slaughterhouse after a life on a cattle ranch. It was butchered in a meat packing plant, and it's body was sent off to a grocery store where it then became an overdone steak or a dry hamburger or maybe dog food. It was the 70s and people had only recently realized that you could put food in things that were not jello. Cut them some slack.
But its skin went to a tannery. And that skin was processed in the hide and then leather. That leather was bought by a clothing company who made jackets out of it, long leather dusters for working men and ranchhands. Cowboy shit.
The dead cow that is now a leather jacket is not technically waterproof because if you stand out in the rain for 6 hours water will eventually work its way through the seams at the shoulders. But its pretty damn waterproof. It keeps off the rain and the snow and the dust and the mud and the brambles and it doesn't melt if it catches a spark. So 50 years ago a man bought one and he wore it pretty much until he died and his wife shoved it in a closet. Decades of use, from the deserts in the southwest to the arctic, because it turns out that cowboys are wildly adaptable.
Anyway, I pulled grandad's jacket out of the closet a while back and there is nothing wrong with that coat. It does have some distinctly non-modern vibes, but more importantly it is cool as hell and looks almost new. I have seen faux distressed leather that looks worse.
The cow is still dead. There will be another cow that dies tomorrow for the same reason. But there's no market for leather these days. Its skin won't be a garment that lasts 50 years. Its gonna rot in a pile with all the others. Someone will sell a "vintage" cowboycore Americana aesthetic dark academia plastic peice of shit that will be garbage in a year. And then they'll sell another one.
That cow, that became a leather coat?
It's probably also a saddle that another cowboy is still riding.
And several belts. Probably some wallets, several gloves, some riding tack.
Nobody who doesn't work with leather understands how much material you get from one cow. I have sides (like 1/4 of a cow) that I've been making things out of for years and there's still lots left in my materials stash.
Once that coat is too worn out to wear, there will still be lots of the leather that's still good. Someone who can't afford to buy hides will probably make smaller things from those pieces (that's how I started working with leather).
Even when every piece of that hide is completely unusable, it will decompose like it was originally going to, and shed no microplastic particles. A synthetic alternative lasts a fraction as long and sheds microplastics for its entire life.
You also can't use that synthetic leather for many of the things you'd use real leather for. It's not fire resistant, so welders can't use it to protect them from sparks. it doesn't have the tensile strength of real leather, so you can make equestrian tack out of it. It doesn't provide any abrasion resistance, so you can't make motorcycle leathers from it. It can't be used for protective equipment in sports like archery, because it would disintegrate under normal use.
Synthetic leather can only be used in place of real leather in fashion and upholstery applications, and it's not very good at either. It requires hundreds of times more material for the same applications due to its short lifespan, and it produces plastic pollution constantly.
There's literally no good argument for replacing real leather with synthetic alternatives. Even if you want to go the animal rights route, how many marine and aquatic ecosystems are you willing to sacrifice for the life of a few cows? Are you even saving cows, when we use them for so many other industries? Does a domesticated animal have more right to life than the wild species impacted by synthetic leather production?
In the long run, it's just not worth it.
Lovers in space
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Keith/Shiro (Voltron), Hunk/Lance (Voltron) Characters: Keith (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron), Hunk (Voltron), Lance (Voltron) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Alternate Universe - College/University, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Bathroom Sex, Semi-Public Sex, Anal Sex, Quickies, blink and you miss it ATLA reference Summary:
Keith meets his soulmate and immediately gets down to business.
people who can't pass credit checks still need housing. people who don't have credit at all still need housing. people who can't pass criminal background checks still need housing. people who have been evicted before still need housing. people with past unpaid rent still need housing. people who can't take out loans still need housing. people who can't pay off their mountains of debt still need housing. people who don't or can't work still deserve housing. housing is not an "investment". housing is not the act of "borrowing" property from someone else.
housing is necessary for human survival, no matter how poor, disabled, addicted, insane, or bad with money someone is. every single person on this planet requires housing. everyone. money does not belong in the affairs of housing. housing does not wait for money to come. housing is a human right, that EVERY human deserves, regardless of how much money they make, if any.
And I Won’t Give Up On Him
Sheith Quote Week (@sheithquoteweek) Day 4: “Shiro Never Gave Up On Me, And I Won’t Give Up On Him” / “Patience Yields Focus”
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(Lighting in the Black lion Hanger is simple which is annoying to me >.> But now we can get into the nitty-gritty of the comic…)
I took a picture and made it gay. Shiro is just keeping Keith cozy. And maybe Keith is borrowing Shiro’s jacket.
i told my friend’s dad that he was hot (it was in context with the conversation, he was complaining that he was feeling old, etc), and he said a very genuine thank you and the conversation moved on to other topic, my friend was now talking about something else entirely when his dad goes
“i think if i were born in your generation i might have been bisexual”
and friend got kinda mad at me lmao
Fuck his dad
summer’s finally begun, and Papa Levi and Little Dude Eren are starting off strong (๑•͈ᴗ•͈) !!!
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Keith/Shiro (Voltron) vs Loki/Tony Stark (Marvel)
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This poll is a celebration of fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.
Listen, I really don’t want to make a big deal out of this
But honestly? The fact that whoever is wrting the novel decided to add Keith in there is pretty significant? Especially when you go back to the original scene and take the context surrounding this whole thing.
Season 2, episode 9, right after the events of Keith’s bom trial in episode 8.
Kolivan and Shiro are done discussing the plan to overthrow Zarkon and shake hands to show their alliance. As shown above, there’s no Keith in there, just Shiro Kolivan and Antok. Keith is actually standing a little far off and he looks miserable.
We know this is happening after the BOM trial and Keith has just learned that he’s part galra. It’s affecting him and Allura’s shown distrust of the galra at that point, while very understandable, isn’t helping him. But you know what makes Keith happy again in that very episode? The hug.
It’s the moment when Shiro shows he’s accepted Keith and still loves him, be it that he’s half galra or not. Shiro is still there for him.
And these words on the picture?
coupled with this?
They’re all relevant to the entire BOM episode and its conclusion. Where Allura was distrustful toward the galra, Shiro was willing to trust them. Kolivan, Antok and Keith are galra.
Keith is inserted next to Shiro here to emphasize both the alliance between Voltron and the BOM but also the fact that for Shiro, Keith was still Keith depsite being galra. Shiro accepted Keith when Keith doubted himself.
So Keith’s fond smile up there? My guess is it’s a parallel to the one he got when Shiro hugged him. Because while Shiro, the voltron leader, showed his trust toward the BOM by shaking hands with Kolivan, Shiro, the character, showed support, love and acceptance to Keith through the hug. So Keith’s smile is directed at none other than Shiro.
It’s significant that Keith was added in there because it adds more to the canon we already have and emphasizes what we already got from Shiro hugging Keith after the BOM trial. It’s also all significant because once again, we get to see that the BOM episode were indeed about Keith AND Shiro. Keith’s reveal was important not only him but also to Shiro. It tested them as characters but also tested and reinforced their bond.
Just like we’re always pointing out that Shiro is important to Keith’s character, Keith is also important to Shiro’s. This novel is Shiro’s story yet this moment which should be Keith’s POV only is added in. Because it’s important to both of them.
Keith is standing by Shiro’s side and smiling because Shiro is there for him. He’s also standing there because he’s supporting Shiro’s decision and always got his back. This is Keith and Shiro and their relationship in a nutshell if I can say it like that.
And I love that the writers of the novel chose to emphasize this important moment involving them both by having them stand beside each other while the alliance with the BOM is made.
a magma studio sheith sketch
In the captain’s quarters…
(First bonus of the fix-it thing I was working on)
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My anxiety is making things worse by catostrophizing. I need to say this to get it out of my system. Im feeling like i cant tell anyone anything anymore. Idk if i cant trust anyone. Ive always been by myself and making friends has never been easy so i start feeling like theres no point. Why should i bother telling anyone anything.
I need to remind myself that im not anyone's favorite person and it's not like im entirely fine with it but im just used to it. I also need to remind myself to keep my mouth shut. Ive been in a very negative state of mind recently and it's making me not want to see or talk to anyone even if its friends that im close to.
animation: when still images of your boys kissing just aren’t enough
