月下獨酌

a timeline of my latest hyperfixation; kpop, bits of esports and figure skating, nirvana in fire/guardian, haikyuu/bnha, history 3, currently back at my classical music phase thanks to twoset

[medoisa]

‘fan nonfiction’, or academia

[melibemusca]

this has ended me

[romanceslasher]

behind the scenes of purple night

[anxietyproblem]

[thecatsmustbecrazy]

[teach-me-how-to-buggy-deactivat]

Me when I fight enemies in video games.

[occasionalmadness]

I feel like this is the GIF I have been waiting for to best sum up my boss fight strategy for every game ever.  And I’m not sure which cat I am.

[judeiscariot]

I love that tumblr is called a ‘blogging’ website. I don’t know what the fuck we do on here but it most DEFINITELY is not ‘blogging.’

[misshotaru]

Artist:  nessa_ninona instagram 

[demoncyborg]

@ all clothing store employees im so sorry im so bad at folding i just wanted to look at it

[chintakaya-deactivated20190713]

[chintakaya-deactivated20190713]

At Mount fuji

[isay]

Forget the rest of the fireworks around the world, these are the best. HNY.

[valeria2067]

The finale HOLY SHIT!!!

[thildasbeinhaus-deactivated2020]

This is actually the first time I was impressed by a firework

[watchlightfiend]

For anyone interested, the music is by a composer named Thomas Bergersen, and the piece playing is called Homecoming from his Illusions album.  I listen to his music whenever I need to be inspired to write.

[brisedete]

saw my first Japanese matsuri fireworks last October & it was freaking mind-blowing!! 😱 I’ll never get over the colour changing ones!

[sseunbean]

a new witch oc I’ve been working with lately!

[rapeculturerealities]

How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct

Know your rights.

While people are inclined to whip out their phones and film when they see something alarming happening, those videos are not always recorded in a way that can be used as evidence in a legal proceeding or to support advocacy tactics.

At the human rights organization WITNESS, where I work as the senior U.S. program coordinator, we’ve learned that video has a greater chance of making an impact when it’s filmed ethically and strategically, and released in coordination with advocacy and legal efforts. Using the camera in your pocket can be a valuable way to ensure the world bears witness to abusive policing and systemic racism, help hold authorities accountable, and advocate for the real safety of our communities.

[white-throated-packrat]

Teen Vogue still hitting it out of the park, I see.

[shutyourmoustache]

HOLY SHIT. This was extremely informative. Please everyone READ THIS!!!

[redrola]

[fivever-and-ever]

well if this ain’t me or what

[justcatposts]

oh my god

[aleshakills]

If you are someone who likes to watch a lot of cop shows, I want you to ask yourself a few questions.

Why do all TV cops, even the good ones, hate Internal Affairs? Isn’t the job of Internal Affairs to root out the “bad cops”? Isn’t their job to make sure police follow the rules? Why is that presented as inherently evil or antagonistic? 

Why do all TV cops, even the good ones, hate defense attorneys? Isn’t the defense attorney’s job to protect the rights of all citizens? Isn’t it their job to make sure police follow the law? Isn’t it their job to make sure everyone is treated fairly under the system? Why is that presented as inherently evil or antagonistic? 

Why do all TV cops, even the good ones, get upset when citizens invoke their constitutional rights? Don’t those rights exist to ensure all citizens are treated fairly? Don’t they exist to ensure innocent people are not wrongfully incriminated? Why are citizens who invoke their rights presented as dishonest, untrustworthy, or antagonistic? 

To be clear, I’ve watched Brooklyn 99 and enjoyed it. I was watching Elementary the other day. But even when I watch shows I like, I make a mental note every time a cop lies, breaks the law, subverts someone’s basic rights, or just generally acts like an asshole to the people the are meant to serve and protect. 

How often are they called out on their behavior? How often are they punished for it? How often is it reinforced as correct by the narrative?

When I tell people to be critical of the media they consume that is what I mean. Not simply calling it terrible and moving on, but actually engaging thoughtfully, asking questions, and forming conclusions about what that media is trying to say to you. Then decide whether you want to keep listening, or if it will be better for you in the long run to move on.

[mymodernmet]

[did-you-know]

mymodernmet:

Designer Transforms Arabic Words into Illustrations of Their Literal Meanings

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

[clockwork-hobbit]

It's a fantastic point, but John Boyega's net worth also puts him at $6 million. When he says eat the rich, he isn't safe either...

[neon-classical]

There’s a pretty big fucking difference between six million and one trillion lmao

Not to mention the way the money was made

An actor being paid for a role / doing some advertising is a world away form a man setting up a cooperate money machine that horrendously exploits workers

[dr-dendritic-trees]

This is something I hate SO MUCH about how tumblr talks about money.

Like, I get that famous actors have large amounts of money, some of them are even probably overpaid (I have complicated thoughts about how actors are paid because of the nature of acting as a career), but they are exchanging labor for money, and their salaries are an expense involved in making a movie.

But like... an actor is paid for a job. They’re a worker like the rest of us. Bezos isn’t paid for a job, he’s paid for being the person who owns Amazon and despite being obscenely wealthy, he does all sorts of shitty things and to underpay and exploit his workers, and avoid paying taxes, so that more of the money Amazon generates will be profit (worker’s salaries are not profit, they’re a business expense). 

These two mechanisms of acquiring money are fundamentally very different. 

The reason why billionaires are evil aren’t because having money is bad, its because to get a billion dollars you have to cheat. You have to take it from someone else. If Bezos paid all his workers and suppliers fairly and treated them well, and paid his fair amount of taxes, and etc, then it literally wouldn’t matter how much money he earned, because he wouldn’t be doing anyone any harm. But its not actually possible to amass a billion dollars (a full order of magnitude bigger than a million) while behaving in an ethical manner. 

[thunderboltsortofapenny]

[youlooklikearealbabetoday]

“She could elevate anything you wrote — she dives in and cares deeply. You cannot have a superficial conversation with Sandra.”

Sandra Oh for Elle Canada | June 2020