again & again

we're all fine!

[andreablog2-deactivated20220425]

I’m so annoyed I can’t make jokes abt the stock market bc I don’t even understand it.

[animatedtext]

requested by  sunnyskies281

[eliluminado7]

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“That is the secret of poetry. We burn in the woman we adore, we burn in the thought we espouse, we burn in the landscape that moves us.”

— Milan Kundera, from The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting (Alfred A. Knopf, 1980)

[enjolrasbottoms]

there is not enough normvert appreciation norm Lewis was SO GOOD as javert man!!!! I love the way he delivers “everyONE about your BUSINESS clear this GARBAGE off the STREET” like... so true king

[enjolrasbottoms]

will never shut up abt how crazy the ending of les mis (musical) is. it ends on a call to action!!!!!! its detrimental to the message of the musical!!!! think about how profound it is - you sit and watch so many innocent, hopeful, undeserving people die for two and a half hours, and then at the end they come back and tell you to keep fighting. you would think the message, after watching everyone die, would be some lame shit like “violence is never the answer” or something, but its not!!! it says “you have just watched innocent people die fighting for justice and freedom. the fight is hard and you may not see the fruits of it in your lifetime. but that is irrelevant - knowing the hardships that come with it, knowing the fight is never over, will you continue the fight? when the revolution comes knocking, what will you do?” and you can say that its uninspiring because of just how much tragedy is in it, you can argue that they ‘died for nothing,’ but at the end of the day, you’re watching this musical with the comforting knowledge that things have changed since then, and thats hope!!! the hope is knowing that as long as there are people opposed to the injustice in the world, things will continually get better even if you dont live to see it. and, furthermore, that the modest life you live now isnt any less meaningful just because you dont get to see the of your effort - as long as you were kind and loving, your life has meaning. its!!! so !!! crazy!!!! im not saying its not a flawed musical, but its one of the few pieces of media about revolution/rebellion that emphasizes its struggles without dismissing it as unnecessary. it would be so easy to have written about the february revolution (which hugo lived through and could have written about) and had a happier story about a succesful revolution - or even a story about the first french revolution - but hugo sepcifically chose not to do that. he chose the 1832 rebellion because, among other reasons, he wanted to emphasize that the fight for freedom is not always linear. and the musical reminds you of this, and encourages you to fight anyway. 

[valtsv]

responded to someone in the class debate on zoom today with "freud would love you" and she disconnected the call

[castlevaniadlc]

me playing a rhythm game: no-one will ever Fucking love me. omg full combo

[kristina100000]

i hope women in stem will make tobacco healthy

[sweetgrassbraids-deactivated202]

Justice At Spotify - Union of Musicians and Allied Workers — UMAW

Spotify is growing in value, yet music workers everywhere see little more than pennies in compensation for the work they make. With the entire live music ecosystem in jeopardy due to the coronavirus pandemic, music workers are more reliant on streaming income than ever. We are calling on Spotify to

Hello everyone! As a musician (Ground Sloth Orchestra) with majority of streams from Spotify I highly support the Union of Musician.

Our demands: - Pay us at least one cent per stream - Adopt a user-centric payment model - Make all closed-door contracts public - Reveal existing payola, then end it altogether - Credit all labor in recordings - End legal battles intended to further impoverish artists

Please sign if you’re in the music industry + share with allies and fellow musicians. 

[olcarcajou]

Look, I got a buddy who’s in a fairly prominent and well respected metal band and his Spotify cheques are like, 28 cents.

If artists aren’t making any money off of it, why are we paying spotify

[aceandart]

I feel like this really needs to be highlighted: they are asking for one cent per stream. One cent. Why? Because they currently get $.0038 per stream. To generate a single dollar on the platform, a song needs to be streamed 263 times. To put that in perspective, it would take 786 streams to generate enough revenue to buy an average cup of coffee. To pay the median American monthly rent ($1,078) an artist needs to generate 283,684 recurring streams monthly. And that is just for one member of the band.

[anxietyproblem]

[abstract-woman]

Goes to the library and puts all the economics books in the fiction section

[waraosaka]

hi my donation post died and i sprained my knee rly bad and now have a hospital bill to pay. please help me pay for that

paypal

[evilsupplyco]

Moonlight is so pure and clean that it feels like a gift.

[studentlifeproblems]

[ilovesmoothjazz1998]

i love bread and i dont care what happens to me because of it

[rylandgraces]

harvard? you mean from legally blonde? you know thats not a real school right?