worst part of adulthood so far is definitely the fact that people have the ability to contact me and i have to respond in a timely manner
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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we're not kids anymore.

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worst part of adulthood so far is definitely the fact that people have the ability to contact me and i have to respond in a timely manner
Throughout the 2016 campaign, amid the â¨shock of its results, and in the various recapitulations of its lessons, great swaths of the mainstream and liberal press have been consistent about whom they blame for Donald Trump and his ultra-right-wing administration: the white working class.
But scapegoating poor whites keeps the conversation away from fascismâs real base: the petite bourgeoisie. This is a piece of jargon used mostly by Marxists to denote small-property owners, whose nearest equivalents these days may be the âupper middle classâ or âsmall-business owners.â FiveThirtyEight reported last May that âthe median household income of a Trump voter so far in the primaries is about $72,000,â or roughly 130 percent of the national median. Trumpâs real base, the actual backbone of fascism, isnât poor and working-class voters, but middle-class and affluent whites. Often self-employed, possessed of a retirement account and a home as a nest egg, this is the stratum taken in by Horatio Alger stories. They can envision playing the market well enough to become the next Trump. They havenât won âbig-league,â but theyâve won enough to be invested in the hierarchy they aspire to climb. If only America were made great again, they could become the haute â¨bourgeoisieâthe storied â1 percent.ââŠ
âthe median household income of a Trump voter so far in the primaries is about $72,000,â
lets finally kill the bullshit statement that economic anxiety got Trump elected and just call it racism like it is.
âOf all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.â
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Here Are 28 Things Millennials Are Killing In Cold Blood
no mercy run
And they say the millennial generation is lazy and entitled.
Hereâs a secret: itâs not OUR JOB to adapt to the market. Itâs not OUR JOB to buy napkins and golf clubs and drive to the mall on the other side of town to make sure it doesnât go out of business.
Did previous generations kill the horse and wagons after the car was invited? Did those lazy citizens kill the town crier by buying into that newfangled newspaper business?
What people want and are ready to spend their money on will change over time. Today we have different goals and different standards - like I will invite my friends over for dinner and instead of napkins Iâll put a roll of paper towels on the table. And my friends wonât clutch their pearls and hiss âyou uncultured swineâ at me, because we value that paper towels are cheap and efficient! Napkins may be pretty but some of them end up being unused, and Iâll have to throw them away after the dinner and itâs a fucking waste.
Did your mall end up as an empty husk outside of town because those pesky millennials buy all their clothes online now? You lucky son of a gun. Now you get to use your ~*IMAGINATION*~ and repurpose that ugly windowless box into something actually useful. Why not a nice office space? (x)
Or how about you make the old stores into cute micro apartments? I WOULD LOVE TO LIVE IN ONE OF THESE! (x)
Are the stores fine but the parking lot empty because those cheap hipsters would rather take a bus or bike to the mall instead of buying a car like regular people? Do like they did in Seattle and turn it into a fucking beautiful water treatment facility and park. (x)
This thing collects storm-water runoff to create and provide nutrients to small pools and green areas. It works like a natural creek that ALSO filters out pollutants that would damage the salmon population! AS A MILLENNIAL I CAN SAY THAT THIS IS SO FUCKING UP MY ALLEY YOU HAVE NO IDEA. I WOULD GO TO THAT MALL, BUY A COFFEE AND GO OUT TO LOOK AT THE BIRDS.
Actual fucking plovers. When was the last time a parking lot did something for the environment except gathering upp more roadkill for the scavengers?
I could also go into why no-one is watching shitty sitcoms or boring movies because we have access to so much media that we can filter out the generic stuff that doesnât appeal to us, but that is an essay in itself. We are extremely capable on spending it on media that speaks to us though (hey this is unrelated but did you know that Wonder Woman has passed 570M$ worldwide?)
TLDR: Market powers are entitled and used to people spending an ever-increasing amount of money on their shitty products. When this trend turns they are too unimaginative and lazy to do something about it so instead theyâll whine about how their former customers are âkillingâ them.
They can either DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT or spend the rest of their days crying into their surplus napkins.
Yes.
Also, the idolized lifestyle of the 1950s-2000s was unsustainable. The bubble burst, and my generation inherited a ruined world whose elders refuse acknowledge that their prosperity came at our expense.Â
reading a paper on quality of life among 45-to-70-year-olds with Down syndrome:
âIndividuals expressed a desire to be allowed to go to bed when they wanted to.â
Imagine.
I lived in a room and board that failed the burrito test. (âIf youâre not allowed to get up in the middle of the night to microwave a burrito, you live in an institution.â) No one stopped me from going to bed, but they did tell me I had to have my lights out by 10, and that I had to be out of the house by 10 the next morning. When I complained to my outpatient program that I needed more help than I was getting, they threatened me with board and care, where my cell phone would be taken away and I would lose contact with the outside world. My case manager sounded so damn smug, like he had caught me out, when he said, âif youâre really as helpless as you say, then you need to be in a board and care.â Like my only options were struggling to do things I couldnât do, or surrendering my life to an institution.
When I tried to talk about these things with other people, they always rationalized it away. (I told my dad once that my caseworker was reading my e-mails as I wrote them, demonstrating extreme disrespect for my privacy, and he said, âWell, sheâs probably making sure you donât use the internet to goof off.â I was 22 years old.)
 People tend to mock the idea that telling an adult when to go to bed, when to eat, etc., is a human rights violation, even though they would find it outrageous and absurd if anyone came into their lives to do the same thing to them.
And this is what people seem to think when they tell disabled activists weâre just not disabled enough to understand that some people really do need to be locked up and deprived of all autonomy.
Every hospitalization (mental health) after the first one I had to fight to stay awake til the 9pm meds. And then another hour for the noisy AC to go off.
The open ward was a bit better, nobody checked on my room during the day so I could snooze from breakfast, morning meds and morning meeting to lunch (11am),.I just really needed the sleep. The lights were on but didnât stop me.
That was also fun because even then Iâd have these wake up at 4 or 5am days and I was never the only one, and we had a kitchen we could use, so weâd just make coffee with whoever was up and wait for the day to begin.
But yeah the closed ward there was no way to get burritos (if you werenât on ED watch you could get some things from the cantine though), and no access to a microwave (or the whole kitchen) during the night, aaand you could keep your phone but not the charger and it was pretty weird but you got used to it.
Actually my first day at the open ward when I went to the balcony to smoke I freaked out because there were no bars to keep me from jumping (it was on SECOND FLOOR Iâd just strain something anyway)
I kinda miss that hospital, nowadays I hear things are much much worse.
the speech impediment of the 21st century (by Marc Johns)
Iâll fuck you up buddy this is not a speech impediment itâs linguistic evolution!! the existence of the phrase âAisha was likeâ allows the speaker to convey whatever Aisha said without making the listener assume theyâre quoting Aisha directly while still maintaining the FEELING of what Aisha said.
ie, Aisha said she didnât want to go out with me VERSUS Aisha was like, âIâd rather kiss a Wookieâ.
the addition of âXYZ was likeâ lets the speaker be more expressive and efficient and it is a totally valid method of communicating information!!
With the way language has evolved, this is one of the few ways I can even think of to express in casual conversation what someone said.Â
âSo I said to Aisha,â is certainly used, but if you remove the âso,â which implies casual tone (âandâ can be used in the same way), you get
âI said to Aisha,â which is really formal in most English dialects/variations. I donât know about all, but in New England dialects, you sound like youâre reading aloud from a novel.
âI told Aisha,â is really only used when you continue to describe, not tell, what you told her. Ex: âI told Aisha that James was too punk for herâ works while, âI told Aisha, âJames is too punk for youââ crosses the line back into formalness of the âI said.â
Things like âI askedâ or âI answered [with]â are similar levels of casual and efficient to the âSo, I said [or say, as many conversations about the past take place in present tense anyway, as if the speaker is giving a play-by-play in the moment]â but are specific to only certain situations.Â
âI was like, âMarc Johns, what is your obsession with restoring archaic speech patterns and interfering with the natural progression of English from complex to efficient?ââ envelopes all of these easily and is accessible and crisp, and allows for more variations on inflection than the others.
Of course, James is probably like, âI already fucking said that.â But eh, I tried adding on.
#linguistics #a.k.a. how I learned to stop worrying and love the evolution of the English language without being a discriminatory elitist jerk (via crystalandrock)
Teen Vogue took on white supremacy over Teen Choice Awards. We spoke to their editor about the decision.
Also, here are the donation links to the medical fund, UVA black student alliance and BLM chapter.
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Meet Dexter Mayfield, the queer, plus-size male model taking the fashion industry by storm
When Dexter Mayfield stepped on the runway at his very first fashion show back in 2015, he had one mission in mind: âSlay.â
âI was pure nerves. Beyond nervous,â Mayfield said in an interview. âLiterally I had my favorite drag queens patting my sweat down. I was dripping sweat seconds before the runway. Plus women have had that platform, and a few of my plus sisters in drag have been able to get that platform, but no one with a male aesthetic has had that opportunity. At the last minute, Marco [the showâs designer] looked at me and said: âDexter, I brought you into this show for a reason. Do you. Be yourself. Donât worry about what anyone thinks. Go out and shine and be the person that you are.ââ
The runway walk that Mayfield ultimately presented at that Marco Marco show at Fashion Week Los Angeles was one of the most iconic walks of all time. Mayfield sashayed and shimmied and went almost immediately viral. Read More (8/1/17)
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fat bodies tutorial!
ALRIGHT SO my pal @kalreyno wanted help with drawing fat characters and as a fat artist i felt like i could give a bit of helpful insight on that. thereâs also been a lot of complaining about âboo hoo fat characters are hard to draw so i canât include them in my work Everâ goin on lately so if thatâs your case then this is for you too!! and also just for anyone who would like help with fat bodies in general, ofc. anyway, letâs get this show on the road!!
letâs start with some common misconceptions. these are the two main attempts at chubby bodies i run into, so iâll focus on them.Â
the Anime Chubby i see everywhere, and itâs justâŚâŚso wrong in many ways. first of all, there is almost no additional body fat compared to your average thin character - except for where itâs added in âattractiveâ places (breasts, hips, thighs). the breasts are way too perky, and donât have the realistic shape fat would give them (though how to draw accurate breasts is another tutorial all on its own lmao). there is still a thigh gap, which usually only happens in very thin people, and bones are still visible on the surface of the skin, which also rarely happens in fat people.
the Michelin Man is better in some ways, but still not that great. itâs a slightly better attempt, but basically all thatâs done there is taking a thin character and blowing them up, while giving no thought to fat distribution. the thigh gap is usually still present, and they look a lot more hard than soft - and fat is very soft and pliable.
hereâs a chart on how fat usually distributes (if you canât read my messy writing, â1. next to no fat, 2. moderate amount, 3. most of the fat distributionâ). basically, the more muscle an area has, the more prone it is to develop fat, such as the abdomen, thighs, and upper arms. itâs important to note that fat sits on top of muscle, and that it does distribute in different levels, and not evenly across the body as shown in the Michelin Man.Â
now, hereâs an accurate fat body with all of that kept in mind!! notice how the fat isnât only kept to aesthetically pleasing areas, and how it sits realistically on the characterâs body. their breasts sag a lot more, which happens even in thin people with larger breasts, and the nipples are pointing more downwards than straight out. there is no thigh gap in sight, there are no bones in sight, and most importantly, they have fat rolls, which are very important in drawing a convincing fat character!! as far as i know iâve never met a single person with no rolls at all, and everyone has them, whether thin or fat - theyâre just more prominent and more consistently present in fat people. pay close attention to where they are and how theyâre shaped.
here are a couple of drawings showing how fat is affected when sitting vs stretching. as seen in the first, the fat specifically on the stomach is distributed a lot more evenly and stretched out, so it becomes âflatterâ. the love handles are still pretty visible, though, as well as the fat on the thighs and arms. the breasts are raised with the shoulders, and the fat on the shoulders and near the neck forms rolls as itâs being pushed together.Â
in the second, there is a lot less room for distribution, so the fat is all pushed together. the breasts sag and the stomach forms rolls and spills into the lap. a good analogy for the way fat works is to liken it to a water balloon, and thinking of how its shape would change when resting flat on a surface, hanging off of a ledge, held upright, etc.
here are a few extra tips i find a lot of people miss!
first on the top is the hip/pubic region. the first circle is showing the way the bellybutton is folded in fat people, as opposed to stretched out in thinner people. the second is the stomach fat spilling over onto the pubic region and creating a separation in the two areas, which is something thatâs missing in a lot of art. in addition, the pubic mound also gains fat, making it round as seen in the profile drawing i did up there (iâve heard people refer to it as fupa?). the last in the hip region is the lack of a thigh gap. i canât stress this enough!!!! if youâre trying to draw a convincing fat character, make sure their thighs are pretty much always touching!! for reference, mine literally donât separate until my feet are about 2ft from each other.
the bottom right is showing the double chin, which a lot of people are afraid to draw!! fat does distribute itself here too, and thereâs nothing wrong with it, so donât feel like you shouldnât give fat characters a double chin in your work for fear of it looking like a caricature.
in the bottom middle, itâs showing how fat affects different types of breasts with the presence of more or less breast tissue.Â
lastly, at the very right are stretch marks with their usual locations and directions, which i also canât stress enough!!!!! i sometimes forget to add them honestly, but theyâre so important in accurately portraying fat characters, as they literally come from the skin being stretched from fat being gained (and theyâre also just rlly neat lookin like why wouldnât you lmao). some people have less and some people have more, feel free to experiment with them!
the last thing is body types!! there isnât one single way for a person to be fat, so feel free to experiment with shapes once youâve learned the basics!!Â
so there you have it, a tutorial on how to draw chubs!! now go forth and make some accurate fanart or some rad fat characters, because the world could always use more of both. hmu if you have any questions or concerns, and thanks for reading!!
EDIT: someone pointed out the bad wording in the tutorial. thank you for bringing it to my attention and sorry for offending anybody. iâve updated the tut, so please reblog this one!
Okay so I am literally about to cry. Iâm not an artist, but I love looking at art. And like. It makes me feel so worthless to see beautiful art with âfatâ characters that are just extra curvey because I am so not that, and seeing only the sexy curvy drawings makes me feel like I am somehow the wrong kind of fat. But this. This is so spot on. I have stretch marks and I have a double chin and I have like a fatty pouch in my pelvic area and my breasts are not perky and my thighs do not touch and just⌠All of it. Seeing art of someone who looks like me makes me feel⌠Worthy. Some artist thought a body like mine was worth drawing, and that is so wonderful and validating and flattering. People enjoying said art is so good too. And like. Wow. I just want to cry.
This is a very good resource. Take note, people: âI wasnât trained to draw fat peopleâ is not an excuse.
On 7.26.1948 the U.S. military was desegregated. Almost 70 years later, and this is Donald Trumpâs contribution.
Also, itâs worth noting that Trump himself is a draft dodger who got 5 military deferments.
Bessie Stringfield (1911-1993): The Motorcycle Queen of Miami
She was a great woman. Full entry here. Book here. Art notes after the cut.
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In Iowa, two Catholic Worker activists said Monday they had carried out multiple acts of sabotage aimed at stopping the construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, which stretches from North Dakota through South Dakota, Iowa and into Illinois.
Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya said that on Election Day last year, the two set fire to five pieces of heavy machinery being used to construct the pipeline.
The two then taught themselves how to destroy empty pipeline valves, and moved up and down the pipelineâs length, destroying the valves and delaying construction for weeks.
The two say they are claiming responsibility for the sabotage in order to inspire more to take action. This is Catholic Worker Jessica ReznicekâŚ
Jessica Reznicek:
âWe are speaking publicly to empower others to act boldly, with purity of heart, to dismantle the infrastructures which deny us our rights to water, land and liberty. We, as civilians, have seen the repeated failures of the government, and it is our duty to act with responsibility and integrity, risking our own liberty for the sovereignty of us all.â
Ruby Montoya:
âSome may view these actions as violent, but be not mistaken. We acted from our hearts and never threatened human life nor personal property. What we did do was fight a private corporation that has run rampantly across our country seizing land and polluting our nationâs water supply.â
Fucking. METAL.
I love the smile in the woman on the rightâs mugshot.
Catholic Workers are cool
i wouldnât quite go that far but these two seem cool
At the very moment when climate change demands an unprecedented collective public response, neoliberal ideology stands in the way. Which is why, if we want to bring down emissions fast, we will need to overcome all of its free-market mantras: take railways and utilities and energy grids back into public control; regulate corporations to phase out fossil fuels; and raise taxes to pay for massive investment in climate-ready infrastructure and renewable energy â so that solar panels can go on everyoneâs rooftop, not just on those who can afford it. Neoliberalism has not merely ensured this agenda is politically unrealistic: it has also tried to make it culturally unthinkable. Its celebration of competitive self-interest and hyper-individualism, its stigmatization of compassion and solidarity, has frayed our collective bonds. It has spread, like an insidious anti-social toxin, what Margaret Thatcher preached: âthere is no such thing as society.â Studies show that people who have grown up under this era have indeed become more individualistic and consumerist. Steeped in a culture telling us to think of ourselves as consumers instead of citizens, as self-reliant instead of interdependent, is it any wonder we deal with a systemic issue by turning in droves to ineffectual, individual efforts? We are all Thatcherâs children. Even before the advent of neoliberalism, the capitalist economy had thrived on people believing that being afflicted by the structural problems of an exploitative system â poverty, joblessness, poor health, lack of fulfillment â was in fact a personal deficiency. Neoliberalism has taken this internalized self-blame and turbocharged it. It tells you that you should not merely feel guilt and shame if you canât secure a good job, are deep in debt, and are too stressed or overworked for time with friends. You are now also responsible for bearing the burden of potential ecological collapse. Of course we need people reducing consumption and innovating low-carbon alternatives â building sustainable farms, inventing battery storages, spreading zero-waste methods. But individual choices will most count when the economic system can provide viable, environmental options for everyoneânot just an affluent or intrepid few. If affordable mass transit isnât available, people will commute with cars. If local organic food is too expensive, they wonât opt out of fossil fuel-intensive super-market chains. If cheap mass produced goods flow endlessly, they will buy and buy and buy. This is the con-job of neoliberalism: to persuade us to address climate change through our pocket-books, rather than through power and politics.
Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals | Martin Lukacs | Environment | The Guardian (via guerrillamamamedicine)