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I'm officially opening commissions!

opening up 5 slots for now, I'll close them again for July but afterwards they'll be open pretty much permanently (until I get a job).

if you're interested, shoot me a DM here or on Discord if you have my contact details there, payments are done over at my Ko-Fi page!

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hungwy

Stop demonizing goats. They’re fine not cursed not evil just big horned. They dont do much and they certainly are NOT summonable.

fluffysheeple

summonable by opening your arms and heart to them

so-very-small

i was looking at ocean videos and pictures and i came across this

ice giants, anyone?

bonersniper

This is them checking the temp and staying deep because fuck its warm

englishmajorhumor

cloudsinsummertime

hot take: hrt, gender therapy and trans surgeries should be free

cloudsinsummertime

if cis people don’t have to pay to have a body that doesn’t make them dysphoric, neither should trans people

daisto-deactivated20181027

So by that logic does that mean that I should get anti-depressants and all the other pills for my mental issues for free because the people who don’t suffer from them don’t have to pay to have them?

cloudsinsummertime

yes

fun-with-colors

And does that mean that corrective lenses should also be free, because people with good vision don’t need to pay to see clearly, and that devices to aid in mobility for people with limited mobility (from crutches to (practical) canes to wheelchairs to prosthetics) should also be free, because people who don’t have limited mobility don’t need to pay for them?

cloudsinsummertime

yes? why does everyone in the notes keep trying to come up with gotchas lmao everything to do with healthcare should be free

tabbytheravioli

Then by that logic, healthy food and clean water should be free because without food and water we will die. Also, without water, hygiene will be minimal therefore increasing the chances of disease.

bintilleil-deactivated20200510

Yes. People should have access to a healthy happy life and the whole point of a society is to support eachother and work together. how brainwashed by capitalism are you to think food and water shouldn’t be free in an ideal world.

cherryseltzer

this post is such a wild ride every time. ‘so by this logic, people should have free access to the things they need to live and survive?????????’ like yes bitch, all of it !!!

deletingtomorrowsmh-deactivated

Wow wish I had a cool gf

innocentcitizenthings

man’s dating a village wise woman and complaining

yaoi-cthuwulhu

U dumbass ur gf’s a witch, treasure her

allthecanadianpolitics

Why are CN striking? So much of the country - and our exports —and home heating and agriculture in Quebec entirely! — are up in the air, it seems selfish. CN is already a pretty good company as far as others go in terms of benefits, teamwork etc (I have multiple friends that worked there). I hope they reach a deal or just stop. I support labour rights, but at this stake? It’s about balancing Goods (in the philosophical sense).

It seems selfish to fight for basic health and safety protections?

No economy is worth more than the people that actually run the economy, i.e. the workers. If they cannot do their jobs, safely the trains should not be running. No ifs ands or buts.

You either stand with the workers or you don’t.

This strike didn’t just happen. The union has been trying for 7 months for these concerns to be addressed. You should be directing your anger at CN, not the workers.

Here is why they are striking:

The union says its members are concerned about certain “dangerous practices,” including the requirement that workers operate trains alone, from the outside of the train, “hanging on to moving trains with one hand while operating a remotely controlled locomotive with the other.”

“Railroaders are expected to do this in rain and in freezing temperatures, sometimes for distances of up to about 17 miles,” TCRC spokesperson Christopher Monette said in a statement.

Workers are also concerned with fatigue. The union claims CN is “making it harder” for its members to get needed rest by increasing work hours and reducing staffing levels.

“We want more rest,” said Matt Wade, a CN employee who is with TCRC, told Global News Edmonton.

The Transportation Safety Board identified fatigue as a major safety problem in the industry in its annual report, noting that fatigue was a contributing factor in more than 90 investigations since 1992.

Just last week, CN confirmed that it was cutting jobs across the railway, citing a weakening North American economy that’s chipping away at demand.

Wade said he typically gets a two-hour notice to go to work and a round-trip shift can last as long as 42 hours.

“That’s longer than the average workweek for any Canadian, and we make three of those usually a week,” he said.

curiouscarnifex

Even of you don’t care about the workers its a bad idea to run the trains like CN has been doing. Sleep deprivation, even mild cases, has a similar effect the brains functioning to drinking alcohol.

Does it really seem like a good idea for tired people, people with a similar reaction time and motor skills as someone whose drunk, to be remotely controlling a vehicle weighing multiple tons at high speed for kilometres at a time, possibly in poor weather, using one hand while hanging off the side!? Does that really seem like a safe idea that’s not going to lead to catastrophe? Trains derail and forcing crews into unsafe environments while overworking them is really good way to cause one and get a lot of people killed.

onemonkey-onetypewriter

As far as benefits go part of the strike is over just that, the company wants to limit how much pharmaceuticals we can get, with a life time cap in addition to cutting other health benefits. More than that they want a deal where the can work less employees more, its easier to pad their numbers with layoffs rather than worry about accidents in the future.

If anyone still feels bad for CN, yhis is a company that PROFITS are in the BILLIONS yearly. They can afford it but theyd have to dceap 0.1% off their bonuses and dividends.

djhinnwe

I knew a dude once who worked for CN. He worked 12+ hour shifts, was always tired when he was available to hang out, and the only reason he had a condo was because he happened to work locally. They kept laying people off and just expected those who remained to work even longer, so 24-48+ hrs.

My town wrote a series of nasty letters to CN because we needed a path in a specific spot for public safety concerns. Our town councel had to ask us citizens for help, because CN were being dickwads. The pushback was so strong that they just completed the path last week. We also mentioned plenty of complaints about several crossing sites that were in constant disrepair GOING THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF OUR TOWN. They were forced to upgrade all 3 crossings that run downtown. THEY. DID. NOT. WANT. TO. We had to force public safety and threats of suing to make them.

junemondegreen

The bridge in our city that is owned by CN burned down about four years ago and it took four years of the city fighting CN to get the company to replace the bridge rather than having the city pay for it to be repaired. It’s only just been fixed this year.

djhinnwe

I believe it. Ours went through faster because we paid a portion for it, I think. And my mayor is overly likeable and convincing. Same with the two highways running through our town, those are supposed to be upgraded over the next 4 years despite almost being cut by the UCP. (The NDP had pulled money to the side for the project despite the fact that the actual plans were not set in stone)

asieybarbie

Nezuko.

limey-blue-arty-do

nothing quite like a warm embrace

commissions

clarulitas

manticoreimaginary

Watching this (and fearing broken ankles with each loop) I can’t helping thinking about that old quote Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels.

aprilsvigil-deactivated20140416

But no, if you watch closely you’ll see she doesn’t even step on the last chair. That means she had to trust that fucker to lift her gently to the ground while he was spinning down onto that chair. That takes major guts. I’d be pissing myself and fearing a broken neck if I were in her place. Kudos to her.

tiny-detective-agency

I can’t stop watching this.

sassy-hook

#I watched this for too long to not reblog

freshprincemomma

Whoa.

crossedbeams

Okay so this is true, but a tiny part of a wider truth.

Ginger Rogers was a FUCKING BADASS. Ignore for a sec the rampant sexism in Hollywood (they once bleached her hair blonde in wardrobe without telling her beforehand), the fact that she fought her whole career against typecasting and stereotyping from fellow actors (Katharine Hepburn famously said of the Astaire/Rogers partnership “she gave him sex. He gave her class” ) for starting out in musicals, and went on to have a career lasting over fifty years, winning a Best Actress Oscar (Kitty Foyle, 1940). But… JUST focusing on the Astaire movies…

Not only did she dance “backwards” in high heels, the dances were a task in themselves. Astaire was an absolute perfectionist and choreographed for himself, so as a younger, less experienced dancer Rogers came in at a disadvantage and worked her ass off to match him.

Then there’s the filming complications… these numbers were filmed in ONE TAKE. So one thing goes wrong and you have to start over. Maybe you make a mistake or maybe your dress flies up because…

Ginger had to contend with her wardrobe. Dancing in heels is the norm at this time, but dancing in a dress designed for cinema cameras… not so much. They were heavy, embellished, uncomfortable, restrictive and cumbersome and essentially a third member of the dance, strapped to the body of one partner.Not only did she have to dance and look good, she had to control the dress too!

Take this routine from Swing Time… (it gets going proper at 1:30ish)

This dress has weights, YES WEIGHTS, sewn in to the hem to make it fly out and create a visual effect. So it’s heavy, it hurts if it hits you, and your partner gets mad if it hits him. So you gotta control it.

Well it turns out all these factors on this set, this particular day aren’t going so well. So you’re doing take after take, here’s no labour laws, so at 4am after 18 hours you’re still going, even though part of the routine requires you to spin up those curved stairs with no rail at high speed….

Okay so now back to those high heels. In Ginger’s autobiography she vividly remembers this night as the night she bled though her shoes. They did so many takes, her feet blistered, bled, and the white satin high heels she was wearing finished he night pink because they were literally full of blood. And still they keep shooting. She keeps dancing.

The take they use in the film is the last. Early hours. Bloody feet. And she spins, acts and bosses out until that last second. Because she was that professional, talented and bloody minded. This is the last set of spins…

So I say once again. Ginger Rogers was a badass.

She did everything Fred Astaire did backwards, in high heels, wearing a 20 pound dress, exhausted, injured and standing in a pool of her own blood. And watching her perform, you would never know.

kineticpianox

Did you know that modern C sections were invented by African women— centuries before they were standard elsewhere?

Midwives and surgeons living around Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria perfected the procedure hundreds of years ago. When a baby couldn’t be delivered vaginally, these healers sedated the laboring mother using large amounts of banana wine. They tied the mother to the bed for safety, sterilized a knife using heat, and made the incision, acting quickly as a team to prevent excessive blood loss or the accidental cutting of other organs. The combination of sterile, sharp equipment and sedation made the procedure surprisingly calm and comfortable for the mother.

After the baby was delivered, antiseptic tinctures and salves were used to clean the area and stitches were applied. Women rarely developed infections, shock, or excessive blood loss after a cesarean section and the most common problem reported was that it took longer for the mother’s milk to come in (an issue that was solved with friends and relatives who would nurse the baby instead).

In Uganda, C sections were normally performed by a team of male healers, but in Tanzania and DRC, they were typically done by female midwives.

The majority of women and babies survived this, and when questioned about it by European colonists in the mid-1800s, many people in Uganda and Tanzania indicated that the procedure had been performed routinely since time immemorial.

This was at a time when Europeans had only barely started to figure out that they should wash their hands before performing surgery, when nearly half of European and US women died in childbirth, and when nearly 100% of European women died if a C section was performed.

Detailed explanations of Ugandan C-sections were published globally in scholarly journals by the 1880s and helped the rest of the world learn how to save mothers and babies with minimal complications.

So if you’re one of the people who wouldn’t be alive today without a C-section, you have Ugandan surgeons and Tanzanian and Congolese midwives to thank for their contributions to medical science.

trekmemes-deactivated20220205

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/cesarean/part2.html

playfulpanthress

Thank you, my sisters.

maldoraan

avatarparallels

You can always count on Sokka :)

matadorianpavus-blog

oh no now i want to cry :(((

glamaphonic

SOKKA ROCKED YA what a good guy. what a wonderful guy. i love sokka’s quiet character arc throughout the series how he goes from being this frustrated teen struggling to meet this extremely limited definition of manhood to being happy and comfortable with the man he is: someone who respects women. who fights but likes to shop too and whose biggest role is holding people together and supporting them who plans and builds and likes to draw and still has self doubts and accepts too much guilt and too many responsibilities and claims t be a realist and a cynic but at the end of the day he puts a rainbow in where one wasn’t before

captainofalltheships

you know how most alien species that attack earth are portrayed as these monsters that travel from planet to planet consuming all resources and destroying all life?

usually the first planet they ruin is their home planet

and every so often i get this needling thought that is becoming my greatest nightmare:

humanity is going to become an intergalactic plague of locusts

the monsters of our stories were us all along

eggpuffs

us at our artist friends

harryshouse

we have this app called toogoodtogo where restaurants/cafes/bakeries/hotels and so on sell their leftovers for really cheap to reduce foodwaste

i got all of this for €4 from starbucks

bless

frompawntoqueen

The America version is called FoodForAll

electricxmayhem

it really is next to impossible to write realistic sibling dialogue, I just passed my brother on the stairs and instead of greeting each other like human beings I said ‘born survivor’ and he said ‘youtube rewind. let’s set it to rewind.’ like you ain’t gonna find that shit in a novel

dead-men-disco

aw man writing siblings is so wild because sometimes you just can’t portray it

me and my little brother don’t even greet each other - if we pass each other on the stairs or in the corridor, we jump into ridiculous fight stances then feign karate chopping and slapping each other (stopping just before we make contact) whilst making “HIIIYA” and “POW” noises for a solid 30 seconds, then silently walk off and continue what we were doing

and then sometimes he’ll either just do the Had To Do It To ‘Em pose when I enter the room or dab as a greeting

electricxmayhem

exactly! I have three younger brothers and the original post was just about the oldest, the middle one and me usually do some kind of elaborate dab also, and a lot of the time when I see the youngest I just yell his name like a wrestling commentator…siblings have a different language