Be Strong

╔                                                                           ╗    ✧ 33 ✧ F ✧ Asexual ✧ INFP ✧ Taurus ☼     Gemini ☾  ✧  Liberal  ✧ Trans Rights ✧ ╚                                                                           ╝ Idk its a blog I've had for over a deacde. Most of the content is a random jumble of anime/manga, books, video games, tabletop games, music, fashion, and poltics. Good luck finding any semblance of order in the chaos here.

[the-phantom-peach]

My Blood; My Brother’s Halo

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completed a very old 5 min concept from a year ago

[thaidoodles]

🍓🍓🍓

[zmeess]

sword and shield

tip jar!

[hamrikaa]

[pinkforever]

They are so cute together!✨💫

[samglyph]

This is true of the manga, but I love how the anime accentuates the absolute physical trust the apprentices have with Qifrey. Specifically with Agott, the way she is so ready when Qifrey says “hang on tight, I need my hands free” to cling to him a mile into the sky, and then in the latest episode, how, as soon as she impacts Qifrey while flying to him, she makes no move to save herself, she just curls into him and trusts that he will keep them from falling.

And I think it works as a signal to the audience, to subtly go “hey, I know we don’t trust Qifrey right now, he’s being shady, but we can always trust him to protect the physical wellbeing of his kids. Remember that.” Idk man maybe I’m getting too attached to a teeny detail but aaaaaaghhhh that’s her dad.

[thelightfluxtastic]

stealing your tags

#anyways i think it's particularly notable that fiercely independent always-has-something-to-prove Agott is like this with him#and that none of the apprentices really hide how they're feeling around him even when that feeling is negative#Agott and Richeh make it known when they're unhappy with Qifrey#and they (two abused kids) just flat out wouldn't do this if he wasn't a safe person to be unhappy at

[king-carnivore]

what really fucks me up about watching the truman show in 2025 is how it's not fictional. truman is fictional, but the truman show isn't.

there's thousands of truman shows. you find them on youtube, tiktok, instagram... family and mommy vloggers, sad beige moms and now the trend of neglectful moms showing the "reality" of parenting. all of them using their kids for entertainment. each child their own truman; living a life manufactured by their parents, a camera watching their every moment, broadcasted for the entire world to see.

[king-carnivore]

tbh, i didn't even think about that when i made my post and holy shit you're so fucking right

[xanaxfarts]

Japanese Wisteria (Wisteria floribunda 'Alba')

[kuromi-hoemie]

me when i see an animal that is known for being in my area

[kenshitty]

can i get a fucking ETA on “this too shall pass”?

[cosmikazie]

NEVER KILL YOURSELF

[violetganache42]

TODAY IS A GOOD DAY.

(Sources: Wall Street Journal and Hollywood Reporter)

[headspace-hotel]

Axios too

[parkchanwoohoo]

[t-rexzz]

yawns

[osfi-am]

what a surprise

[blueiscoool]

TIFFANY STUDIOS 'Nautilus' Desk Lamp

Leaded glass, gilt bronze. Base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 634. Circa 1915.

[bearballing]

oh my gooooddddd fucking kill yourseeeeelllvvvveeesssss

[bearballing]

entire article makes me homicidal

Women's Olympic sports limited to biological females from 2028 - IOC

The women's category of Olympic sports will be limited to biological females from 2028, says the International Olympic Committee.

"this will keep out pretty much all intersex people and a lot of black women but oh well! btw men don't have any such test to go through"

[mariacallous]

[ahumanbeena]

Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

[shwetanarayan-deactivated202504]

so I believe it was actually more complicated than that, in interesting ways. Because at first, when they did blind auditions, they were STILL hiring more men.

…Then they put down a carpet, so that high heels didn’t clack on the floor,  and BOOM women were suddenly getting hired.

The testers didn’t even know that’s what they were picking up on, which just goes to show how tiny of a cue it takes for misogyny to kick in.

[isaacsapphire]

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.

[small-witch-big-hat]

You can be sexist without knowing it. You can be racist without knowing it. This is not a moral failing; it is a moral imperative to remember that you are fallible, and take steps to limit the damage your squishy ape brain’s foibles can cause.

[mindfulwrath]

The final chapter in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink (2005) describes this in detail.

What you don’t usually hear about when discussing this blind audition process is that after the blind auditions were implemented, when women had gotten many positions in the orchestra, men no longer saw being a member as prestigious and the salaries for the entire orchestra dropped.