Read, Watch, Live

Feeding my booksession or any other obsessions for that matter. I love reading anything found in any fiction section. I'm also overly excited about Sailor Moon, Disney, and Texas Tech, so you'll be seeing some related reblogs here.

[arosunflower]

anytime a woman starts talking about the “bonds of sisterhood that inherently exist between all women” you just know they bullied the weird girls in high school

[dykepuffs]

The people confused about why this is: Because if they say “Bonds of sisterhood INSTINCTIVELY, INHERENTLY EXIST between ALL WOMEN” then if they *don’t* feel Sisterhood towards you (eg, you are the Weird Girl In High School) then you must have done something TERRIBLE to break that instinctive bond (All gift of fear shit “I don’t know why I don’t like her but I should trust my instinct!!”) so it’s morally right to abuse you, OR since they don’t feel that INSTINCTIVE BOND it must mean that you aren’t Really A Woman (Which… Guess how this plays out for racialised women and especially Black and dark skinned women, disabled women, trans women… etc)

Bonus points: White women using “Where’s your SISTERHOOD?!?!” when they perceive Black and other PoC women, or Nomadic and Traveller women, as “patriarchal” or “traitors” for often feeling more commonality with the men in their own family than with white women…

[catchymemes]

[frodo-sam]

TOLKIEN WEEK (½) – day 5. favorite quotes

[donnajosh]

THE WEST WING 1.07 – “The State Dinner”

[recycledmoviecostumes]

This pearl necklace was worn by Jennifer Garner as Jenna Rink in 13 going on 30 in 2004, and was worn by Garner again for her character Allison Torres  in 2021’s Yes Day. Susie DeSanto was the costume designer for both films, and has worked with Garner several times.

Costume Credit:  Mor

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[sophiamcdougall]

Please don’t pirate books at least while the author is alive. I’ll make an exception for actual billionaires and wildly expensive textbooks you cannot afford yet need to complete your studies. I can’t make an exception for assholes, because we’re all considered assholes by someone.  I don’t know how many people realise how many writers who created successful, beloved stories and characters still die poor while other people get rich off the same work. I don’t think people realise that in the UK the current average yearly earnings for an author has nosedived over the last fifteen years to £10,500. That obviously is forcing people to quit writing. It increasingly means writing is a job for people who’ve inherited money or have wealthy spouses who can support them. I don’t know if people realise that in general, writers are poor and getting poorer. I’m sorry, but if you think widespread sense of entitlement to free books has nothing to do with that … you’re just wrong. 

I say I don’t think people realise - the truth is I hope they don’t, because the alternative is that they don’t care. That’s certainly the impression I’ve got from Twitter, where a truly horrifying number of people are arguing that copyright on  all books should expire after thirty years, and you should be able to acquire books for  free after that. This … would not just mean that everyone gets free books. It would mean if you write a book at 30, not only do you lose any royalties from it at 60, but Disney can take it, make a franchise out of it, Scrooge McDuck it up in a pool of money while you starve because writers don’t get workplace pensions.

Some threads on the unintended (?) consequences of this. I can’t go over it all again. John Brownlow NK Jemisin Michael Marshall Smith Me Marina Lostetter Kari Dru and others William Gibson and others

There are plenty of others. It’s not that this actual idea will actually happen, but I do think it reinforces the idea that it’s not only okay, but sometimes actually virtuous to search for ways to enjoy writers’ work without paying for it. Like it’s somehow a step towards a better world. Not just at the reader end, to be fair, at the employer end too. And I do see a lot of people here too who are all about supporting workers unless the workers are writers in which case fuck’em. 

Like. If you want to radically change society in such a way that mass-media conglomerates don’t exist and so can’t exploit us and we’re supported to make art in some other way than fine. But can you start the revolution with actual rich people please, not ask us to live right now, in the society we’ve got, without the money we need to survive it. Finally, a plea: I really, really, do not want to debate this. This whole thing genuinely makes me feel tense and shaky and sick. If you’ve got to disagree - unfollow me, block me, vagueblog somewhere I can’t see it. The Twitter version of this already has me feeling like I’ve been kicked in the gut. I didn’t want to write this post. I just felt I wasn’t going to have any peace until I did.

[sophiamcdougall]

More from Courtney Milan, including on how no, it’s not like patents.

[feuervogel]

So much good here. 

[thecollectibles]

Lord of the Rings by Lorenzo Colangeli

[quiet-nymph]

Ayderdagevi on Instagram

[afterglowings]

Taylor Swift + songwriting progression over the years

[breathtakingdestinations]

Schönmünzach - Germany (by MHikeBike) 

[lesbianshepard]

can not believe that a 70 year old senator actually uttered the phrase “ignorant slut” about bernie sanders on the senate floor.

[lesbianshepard]

elderly men should definitely call each other “sluts” more often during senatorial meetings. give politics some much needed zest.

[lennat2]

For clarification, he did not actually call Bernie Sanders an ignorant slut. He said to another person “You have called Sanders every terrible thing except an ignorant slut” or something like that.

And then someone else muttered “I wouldnt say IGNORANT….”

[t-aash]

Senator Kennedy then addressed Bernie point blank and said “I would like it on the record that I did not call Senator Sanders an ignorant slut” to which Bernie responded with clear confusion and discomfort

[persephinae]

Merida + Scottish twitter

[brucebocchi]

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

This is fantastic I never want it to end.

[temporalkingdom]

[toastbutteregg]

w h y

[kalichnikov]

[storminormins]

GROGU TIME

[studentlifeproblems]

[mysharona1987]

[scholarlyapproach]

DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!

Listen in the past the poor have had to improvise cheap food the rich never wanted as a means to survive. And over the many years of innovation made the food taste good until eventually the rich where like: “Oh hay you actually like that garbage? Why on earth would you like it?” Then they try it, love it, start buying it, and then drive the price up so much it becomes a luxury good.

They do this and its devastating, the food typically never becomes affordable again. It don’t matter how cheap the foo dis to produce, it doesn’t matter if there is almost no meat on the bone or its super difficult to eat and messy. Once the poor discover how to make some bit of cheap food taste good, the rich take it away via driving the price of it up.

THEY DID THIS TO RIBS.

Ribs were garage meat. Just look at them, there is hardly any meat on the bone, you have to eat them by hand usually, and they are messy. They where an undesirable cheap source of junk meat. But the poor being the poor made them taste good. (Because they don’t have much to choose from.) The rich discovered the meals the poor made with them and decided they liked ribs too. People discovered they could sell a few ribs to rich people and make way more money then selling lots of ribs to poor people and the price was driven up.

DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!

[askmace]

They did the same to brisket.  You used to be able to get brisket for less than a dollar a pound, which meant you could get a twenty pound brisket fairly cheaply.  And then you smoked it, sliced it, and had meat for weeks if not a full month.  And it was tasty.  I grew up eating brisket at least once a month because my family could afford it.

It was a cheap meat because no rich person looks at the dangly part of the neck of a cow and goes ‘ooh, that looks tasty!’.

But then Food Network started showcasing things like barbecued brisket.  Rich people started showing up at places that weren’t just Rib Crib to get their barbeque.  And the price of brisket went up.  A lot.

I regularly see it for over five dollars a pound in stores now.  And while yeah, that might not seem like a lot when you’re talking only a pound or two of meat, brisket is normally sold in ten to twenty pound sizes.  It’s become completely unaffordable to the people that made it delicious.

Sushi used to be really cheap, too, until it became ‘trendy’.  Guess why you’re now paying twelve dollars for your order of California rolls?  Because rich people discovered something that poor people had been eating for ages.

Noticed the prices of fajita meat, chicken thighs, or ham hocks has gone up recently?  You guessed it.  Rich people are taking our food and now we’re scrambling to afford the things that we grew up eating.

[auroraluciferi]

Lobster is a perfect example of this phenomenon.  For hundreds of years, lobster was regarded as a sort of insect larvae from the depth of the sea. It had zero appeal as a “luxury food” until people living in NY and Boston developed a taste for it. Before the 19th century, it was considered a “poverty food” or used as fertilizer and bait - some household servants specified in employment agreements that they would not eat lobster more than twice a week. It was also commonly served at prisons, which tells you something about prison food.

Only by cleverly marketing lobster as an indulgence for the privileged made it cost so much. It became a vehicle for enormous profit spawning a multi-billion dollar global industry in the process. This mythical affection for lobster flesh - not its practical value in terms of taste, nutrition, or any other reasonable consideration - drives its value.

[blackwitchmagicwoman-deactivate]

LMAO. Wait.

[thegrimmlovely]

Anyone else’s eye twitchin?

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

Food gentrification is a long standing practice and it’s some of the most evil shit I can think of. It’s why I refuse for example as someone living in the US to buy things with Quinoa in them. It is specifically pricing an indigenous population out of their prime staple food. It’s a horrific invasion of one of the final requirements of staying alive.

[shitonthesewallsray]

[notourz]

[athenadark]

Oysters were another too poor to be eaten food, they were almost a waste product of the river pearl industry and were sold in London as cheap as it got, in the winter months oysters were one of the main sources of protein in workhouses. Now they’re a “delicacy”