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@soignante
I've read all of #nk Jemisin's works, then given them a few months to simmer, then re-read them. The re-read is always my best test of whether an author is amazing (she is, right from the get-go) or actual god-tier. The layers of metaphor, social analysis, philosophical questioning, and on and on and on... they're like a perfect, never-ending cake.
I'm known for my fanfic. I have NO URGE to write any fanfic of these works. It's that Right.
Hello! Just wandering where I can read your fanfic ‘Binary’ ! I saw the fanart drawn by illustrariane , it’s amazing! 🤩
Thank you for the ask! It's on fanfiction.net. I know that place is old and clunky, but I still love it.
Hello! I’m not sure if you’re still active on here anymore, but in any case I reread Kintsugi and got really emo and made a short playlist for it! It’s mostly folksy stuff that gave me the vibes of your story and characters (which I absolutely adore).
I’ll just. Leave it here 👉👈
Also, lyrics from each song that made me go ‘OH this is kintsugi!erik and Christine’ are under the cut
Relive the moment Kennedy Center experienced the Dubstep version of Moonlight Sonata for the first time...Watch the full version of this remix: https://youtu...
Do not watch it. Just listen.
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Story Inspiration
For the sweetness: https://youtu.be/YmDNhi07_Ho
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To begin my poto come back here's my friend as Erik! He sung a cover of music of the night and couldn't help myself, I had to give him the full character affect,
I'll link the cover in the comments!
To my younger (American) followers:
Even if the polls are ridiculous you still have to vote Even if the experts say it’s over you still have to vote Even if the newscasters have called your state you still have to vote
Elections are decided by the people who show up on election day. All the polls in the world don’t mater if you don’t go into the booth and make a choice. All the experts can be (and frequently are) wrong if you don’t go into the booth and make a choice. News media tend to call stats at 5% of votes tallied. If your polls are still open, you can still change things.
Don’t let a strong summer showing in the media dissuade you. You still have to show up in November. It does matter. If people see their candidate winning and decide that they don’t have to show up and be heard, there is a chance the other side will rally. You have to participate. No matter what.
Voting this year is more challenging than ever, which means it’s more important than ever.
If your vote didn’t matter, they wouldn’t try so hard to discourage you from voting.
If you’re eligible and registered to vote in this election, please do so. Vote down the whole ballot. Vote in your local elections too, that’s where the MOST change is made, and your vote has the MOST impact. This makes things get better, going all the way to the top.
Show up. Stay Safe. VOTE.
This was on my old art account (but that ended up not working out), so here’s the old Phantom of the Opera piece again!
There’s an update 😊
It just takes a little love.
just found out about the supreme court
Don’t get weary. https://youtu.be/NJFfEHPevrE
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 4/? Fandom: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera & Related Fandoms, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Christine Daaé/Erik | Phantom of the Opera Characters: Christine Daaé, Erik | Phantom of the Opera, Nadir Khan, Other Character Tags to Be Added Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, COVID19 Summary:
Based on a prompt: Erik is a successful film score composer, but no one knows him. Fronted by the much more palatable Nadir Kanan, his real identity remains a secret and the man himself remains a hermit. …until a pandemic comes along and ushers in an era of masks.
This story is not dead, but my brain is pulling it in four different directions. I think outside input (since it was born from outside suggestion) will help. Storyline 1 stays sweet, with mild angst (by my angst scale) and a happy ending. Storyline 2 ends...painfully. Storyline 3 hits moderate angst, then resolves with a happy ending. Storyline 4 hits moderate angst, then resolves with a bittersweet ending.
I’m sorry, what was that about Joe not being liberal enough for y’all?
Because me and my six figures worth of student loan debt would like a word.
Source
[Picture ID: Tweet from @itshilarybuff, October 5th “Not a drill: Joe Biden commits to eliminating student debt for those who make under $120k. Y’all Go Vote!!!” Below that is the quote tweet from NBC News showing a clip from a town hall in Florida.]
btw, his plan, as stated here, doesn’t wipe my stupid loans, those aren’t going away shy of economic miracle, and I still love this answer. He’s talking specifically about killing loans going forward for people, and to handle the loans we already have, I copied from his website below.
From joebiden.com/beyondhs/#
More than halve payments on undergraduate federal student loans by simplifying and increasing the generosity of today’s income-based repayment program. Under the Biden plan, individuals making $25,000 or less per year will not owe any payments on their undergraduate federal student loans and also won’t accrue any interest on those loans. Everyone else will pay 5% of their discretionary income (income minus taxes and essential spending like housing and food) over $25,000 toward their loans. This plan will save millions of Americans thousands of dollars a year. After 20 years, the remainder of the loans for people who have responsibly made payments through the program will be 100% forgiven. Individuals with new and existing loans will all be automatically enrolled in the income-based repayment program, with the opportunity to opt out if they wish. In addition to relieving some of the burden of student debt, this will enable graduates to pursue careers in public service and other fields without high levels of compensation. Biden will also change the tax code so that debt forgiven through the income-based repayment plan won’t be taxed. Americans shouldn’t have to take out a loan to pay their taxes when they finally are free from their student loans.
That is much better than what the current set up does. Minus taxes and essential spending will be a fight over what that means depending where you live, but its a really good thing.
He also wants to help with job training so we don’t all get these degrees that don’t help us get dang jobs. And he wants to go after private for-profit universities. And he wants to better fun grant programs. and, and, and.
Most important of all? This guy listens. Sure, sure, politics is gonna politic, but millennials are the largest voting block in the country now. If we raise a fuss, it actually matters. But only if we vote.
Actually, let me just show you some math. Actual total of loans doesn’t really matter above a certain point to be honest because the interest grows faster than you can pay them, so lets say you’re on that sinking ship, where the payment amount to actually pay them off would mean paying something like 2700 a month. obviously not gonna happen. So you’re on an Income Based Repayment Plan with your borrower. You can be asked to pay between 10 and 20% of your net income (depending on many factors)
Lets say you’re a single human person, working a good job, 60k a year; after tax, you have around 45k. Under Biden’s plan, they start by taking 25k of that, putting it to the side and removing it from the calculus. Then. they take an amount off for essential spending. Don’t know what that math works out to yet, so lets assume someone awful gets to decide it, and its 12.7k a year (the poverty line for a single human) Then, they only can bill you for 5% of the remainder. So.
60k - taxes = ~45k
45k - threshold = 20k
20k - essential spending = 7.3k
$7300 x 5% = $365 a year -or- $30 a month
Sure, Strife, that’s a pipe dream, you say, what happens if the ‘essential spending’ part dies in congress? Fair point, Congress is a sinkhole of evil. But lets see:
60k - taxes = ~45k
45k - threshold = 20k
20k x 5% = $1000 a year -or- $83 a month
Yeah, you say, but I’m a curmudgeon and I want to assume the worst because I hate politicians, what if they lose the threshold, and only get the 5% through and everything else stays exactly the same?
In that case, it will straight up cut everyone’s payments in half. Minimum. Whatever you’re paying now? Half that. In the case of the example above, that means
60k - taxes = ~45k
45k x 5% = $2250 a year -or- $187 a month
So this guy is out here going after free college for the younger parts of GenZ and all of our kids. AND he’s going to make the loans we have into a much more bearable burden. PLUS. If you didn’t see up there? That he’d kill the taxes paid on forgiven loans? Yeah, that’s a thing right now. If you pay for 20 years, and end with 60k in loans to be forgiven, you pay taxes on the 60k all at once. Which means you owe the government around 15k. Which. Ironically. Usually means you have to take out another loan.
And this would apply to everyone, you can opt out if you wanna clear yours sooner, but you don’t have to do the jump through hoops and beg routine like you do now.
This is a really really really good plan, folks, please look at something other than tumblr and fb, please look at his website, there’s some really good stuff in there. If you don’t understand, ask for clarification, bc there is so much good.
#the biden plans are heavily inspired by the progressives#Liz wrote parts#Bernie wrote parts#AOC wrote parts#the man is listening#so get him in office#and flip the senate#so Liz can drop a six inch binder called ‘plans to get shit done’ on the desk#and make McConnell cry from his minority leader desk
I’m sorry but you can’t just leave this in the tags
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld North Carolina’s plan for counting absentee ballots that arrive after Election Day, in a loss for President Trump’s campaign.
The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in a 12-3 decision denied an effort to block the North Carolina State Board of Election from counting ballots postmarked by Nov. 3, but that arrive before Nov. 12.
“All ballots must still be mailed on or before Election Day,” Circuit Judge James Wynn wrote, according to Reuters.
These Republican bandits are desperate as hell.
ban·dit, noun, a robber or outlaw belonging to a gang and typically operating in an isolated or lawless area
Welcome to North Carolina, where the Republicans are fucking scum.
Wait a sec @nikkalia. Are there actually ANY states where the RepubliKKKans ARE NOT SCUM?
@ms-cellanies Doubtful, but much like our crazy cousins, we put them out on parade for everyone to see.
Well I am a Florida woman. Shall I mention……
RICK SCOTT, MARCO RUBIO, RON DESANTIS, just to name the current Worst of the Worst?
Oh, the list is long and…distinguished?
my state
Resources for Mending Clothes
We toss out over 80 pounds of textiles each year. These textiles are often made of plastic materials (polyester, nylon), made in unethical conditions, dyed with harsh dyes that often get put into the rivers, etc. Even a single cotton shirt releases carbon emissions and uses tons of water.
So the best thing to prevent the unsustainable growth of the fashion industry is to make sure that your clothing lasts as long as possible. To do so, mending clothing is a must. So here are some resources to help you learn how to do various things, such as sewing a button, to tailoring clothes, or even upcycling old clothing into new styles.
* How to sew on three different types of button
* How to hand sew on a patch on a torn pair of jeans
* How to sew up a hole in an old shirt
* How to sew a simple T-shirt
* How to upcycle old clothing into new clothing
* More upcycle and sewing techniques
* How to repair a damaged sock
* How to do an invisible stitch
* 3 different stitches to work with for different results
* How to make a T-shirt smaller so it fits you better
* How to make repairs to your shoes
These are just a few of the things that you can do in order to make sure that your clothing lasts for a long time. Nobody wants to keep buying new clothing, as it is expensive and wasteful.
So making alterations to your clothing, or fixing small holes hen you see them can be hugely beneficial to your wallet, to garment workers, and to the environment in the long term.
Mending! It’s really satisfying, saves money, and saves the planet!
