flames. on the side of my face

[tetitasdelimon]

top 5 horror movies

-having a job

-not having a job

-applying for jobs

-the job market

-the concept of working my whole life

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[thegenderal]

[ouchlord-vivaldi]

[256x224-deactivated20240130]

[termagax]

Hello there. Guess how much money I made last year? $28. I’m an investment banking analyst at a boutique firm, in M&A. I have my undergrad from the University of Chicago, one of the top schools in the country. With bonuses, sometimes I make even more. Are you jealous of that? Most people on Tumblr are usually jobless or they decided to major in the humanities and are poor.

$28?

[dogpuppy]

[roycohn]

i relate enormously to this giant runaway pig with maximum confidence

[urgetocreate]

Emanuel A. Petersen (Danish 1894-1948), View of Greenland Fjord Lit Up by the Midsummer Sun, 1936, Oil on canvas

[wizard0rb]

steps out of the shower completely dry after parrying every drop of water with my bathroom greatsword

[192929020202020]

[napalmdebt]

[b33tl3b0y]

homunculus let out into the yard for a few minutes of recreational getting thrown from the roof time

[colorel11]

© Peter Smith

[3liza]

Meiji period fashion was some of the best in the world, speaking purely from an aesthetic standpoint you can really see the collision of European and Japanese standards of beauty and how their broad agreement even in particulars (the similarity between Japanese and Gibson girl bouffants, the obi vs the corset, the obi knot vs the bustle, the mutual covetousness for exotic textiles, the feverish swapping of both art styles and subjects) combined and produced some of the most interesting cultural exchange we have this level of documentation for. Europeans were wearing kimono or adapting them into tea gowns, japanese were pairing lacy Edwardian blouses with skirt hakama and little button up boots. haori jackets with bowler hats and European style lapels. if steampunk was any good as an aesthetic it would steal wholesale from the copious records we have in both graphic arts and photography of how people were dressing in this milieu.

[3liza]

[3liza]

«The botany professor,» from Kkokei Shimbun, October 20, 1908. she's wearing a kimono blouse or haori, edwardian skirt or hakama, gibson girl bouffant, a lacy high-collar blouse with cravat and brooch, and a pocket watch with chain

1910-1930 (Taishō era, right after Meiji, which I should have included in my OP) men's haori with western lapels

[letterful]

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[wanderingcoasties]

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)

[never-tell-me-what-to-do]

sexism in ai voices and jsyk, i do not support ai whatsoever

It's interesting how AI casually promotes domestic labor, and the corporations do so intentionally. -When you use a home AI like Alexa, or google home, echo dot, you are provided with a female voice. -When you use assistant or Secretary AI on your phone like Siri, google assistant, or bixby, you also have a female voice so basically, the female voices fulfill the role of servants who don't do anything that requires an opinon but when these corporations released an "intelligent" ai designed to contradict your opinion or seem smart, they switch to a male voice chat gpt? male IBM Watson? male claude? male military ai? male voice assistants are always given a female voice or name, while "practical" or "professional/intellectual" ai gets a male voice