THIS MUST BE THE PLACE

Lynn. 27. Tucson.

[diaryofaphilosopher]

"The shift from the Afro-Caribbean zombie to the U.S. zombie is clear: in Caribbean folklore, people are scared of becoming zombies, whereas in U.S. narratives people are scared of zombies. This shift is significant because it maps the movement from the zombie as victim (Caribbean) to the zombie as an aggressive and terrifying monster who consumes human flesh (U.S.). In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."

— Justin D. Edwards, "Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas" in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.

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[supergameboytwo]

Dr. Pepper. The famous 23 flavor soda, has a lot of spinoff products, such as Diet Dr. Pepper. That’s not the topic here today. No we’re not talking about Diet Dr. Pepper barbecue sauce. But what we are talking about, is hot Dr. Pepper. That’s right, hot Dr. Pepper was originally introduced in the 1960’s as a winter beverage. Here’s some advertisements from the 1960’s showing about about Hot Dr. Pepper. However, it was short lived. But you still don’t believe me? You think this is a joke? Just go to the facts and questions article on the Dr. Pepper website. Anyway, I’m going to teach you how to make it. All you need is a Dr. Pepper; a can or bottle will be fine. And just proceed to open it, but DON'T blow it up like I did. Cuz’ you know, Bad Dr. Pepper right there. Anyway, you want to heat up a pan, or anything, and just pour a little Dr. Pepper in there, as much as you want. Alright, and as soon as we did that, we’re gonna take a lemon and a knife and make a small slice, and then put it into the glass that you’re gonna pour the hot Dr. pepper in. When the Dr. Pepper starts sizzling or steaming up… That’s it. Just take it off, and pour it in your glass. And if you’re using a glass glass glass made of glass like I am, put it very slowly. Like, wait five seconds between each… Each spill, so it doesn’t melt, cus you know, when glass melts… Glass… yeah. Also if you try this at home, and your lemon makes a popping bubble, comment or like, heh, cuz you know, thumbs up for that. Just some more footage of the popping lemon… Yeah, and basically, this is hot Dr. Pepper. It tastes just like Dr. Pepper, only it’s hot, kind of like tea. Brings out the cherry flavor. Little carbonation, and I’ll see you next time. Later!

[autodiscipline]

[goodfortuneforever-deactivated2]

Ceramics by Johnson Tsang

[manicdepressivebaeddel]

“What’s the purpose of it? Capitalism would not collapse if Grenada remained revolutionary. And Reagan was right, it wasn’t a matter of direct resources that you needed from that country. He said, “Nutmeg is not the question.” I mean, that was Grenada’s biggest export, we could get perfectly good nutmeg from Africa, you don’t need Grenada’s nutmeg. So why did they invade Grenada? They invaded Grenada because they were serving notice to the people of the Caribbean, and to the people of Latin America, and to the people of the world, that you cannot drop out of your client-state free-market system. That if you tried to take an independent source, and that if you use your land, your labor, your resources, and your capital, and your markets in a different way, in a collectivist way, if you use them to benefit the needs of your people, rather than to be milked like a cow for foreign investors, if you do that, this is what’s going to happen to you.”

— Michael Parenti

[megapope-deactivated20220531]

lol thats so good. his personal pride in having presided over the development of the vaccines means he can’t go along with the narrative. then she wigs out and pivots to masking in schools only for him to say “yeah our schools suck compared to china”

[watchdune1984]

dude really said “i came up with a vaccine”

[watchdune1984]

my boy cooking up mRNA in the lab 

[afloweroutofstone]

[rainbowgazes-archive]

man googling stuff kinda fucking sucks now huh

[rainbowgazes-archive]

want a product recommendation? why not check out 13 lists in a row that are all sponsored by the companies that list their products on said lists. need advice on how to do with something? how about 11 sites that were just registered 2 months ago and all look virtually identical that have the same bits of advice listed. want computer help? well heres fixmypc2021.com and unfuckmycomputer.biz and windowshelpreal.info all listing the same basic troubleshooting steps like "restart your computer" or "download our malware ridden program" that dont help at all

[rainbowgazes-archive]

do you know how much it hurts to have to add "reddit" to the end of all my search queries because its just about the only way i can guarantee ill encounter real people that have the same questions i do and not 58 articles all written by an AI program designed to catch the most amount of web traffic from google as possible?

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Esther Sarto

[orig-suckamunch]

[drtrinitysantos]

people who subscribe to my tumblr will receive exclusive access to my webseries about a pansexual and an asexual who are roommates

[floserber]

Jean Cocteau, La Villa Santo Sospir

[pompadourpink]

Queer culture

Here is a list of french terms used to talk about queer culture, some info and also ressources you might want to check out. Let me point out right away that I indicated slurs because they have been reclaimed by the community. I’m hoping no one here will use them to hurt anyone.

About people :

gay : homo(sexuel-le), pédé (fag) / lesbian : lesbienne, gouine (dyke) 

bi : bisexuel-le, bigoudou (fam) 

pan : pan(sexuel-le) 

ace : asexuel-le, ace (ep) 

straight : hétéro(sexuel-le) 

transgender : transgenre (ep) / cisgender : cisgenre (ep) 

intersex : intersexe 

third gender : troisième sexe (m)

assigned : assigné-e 

LGBT : LGBT (elgébété)

phobia : phobie (f)

butch : butch, camionneuse (female truck driver) 

androgynous : androgyne (ep) 

non-binary : non binaire (ep) - more about that in the pinned comment

queen : folle (f)

pronoun : pronom (m) / she : elle / he : il / they : iel 

agender : agenre (ep) / feminine : féminin / masculine : masculin

ally : allié-e

Please note : all the specific vocabulary (grey, demi…) is kept in the english version but you change the last “a” for a “e” just as you see above.

General notions :

gender : genre (m) / identity : identité (f) 

sexual orientation : orientation (f) sexuelle 

sexuality : sexualité (f) / birth : naissance (f) 

body : corps (m) 

binarity : binarité (f) 

neutral : neutre (ep) 

coming-out : faire son coming-out (m) 

getting out of the closet : sortir du placard 

same : même (ep) / binder : binder (m) 

slur : insulte (f)

transitioning : transitionner, v / transition (f) 

hormon : hormone (f) > testostérone-progestérone-oestrogène 

treatment : traitement (m)

pride : fierté (f) / walk : marche (f) / justice : justice (f) / fight : combat (m)

Some naughty vocab :

top : actif/ve, dominant-e 

bottom : passif/ve, dominé-e, soumis-e

twink : un minet

have sex : coucher, v / fuck : baiser, v / make love : faire l’amour, v

one-night stand : coup (m) d’un soir (m)  

fuck buddy : plan (m) cul (m)

looking for sex : chercher du cul (: ass), v

condom : préservatif (m), capote (f)(fam)

Politics :

Marriage has been opened to same-sex partners in France on the 13th of may, 2013, despite lots of pressure, especially from a large group called LMPT ‘la manif pour tous” (’the protest march for all’) - whose slogan was ‘on ne lâche rien’ (we won’t give up) and linked to the right and far-right french parties and the catholic church. They have been criticized and/or sued for homophobia, racism and children instrumentalization.

While gay women can give blood since 2002 (had been forbidden to ‘gay and bisexual people with multiple partners’ since 1983 because of health prejudice linked to AIDS), gay men can since july 2016 if they have been single for a year. It’s still asked on the form when you go give blood currently.

Books :

*french theory*

Queer Zones + Sexpolitiques by trans activist and uni teacher Sam or Marie-Hélène Bourcier (who introduced queer theory to France, where gender studies are barely a thing)(I’m mentioning his dead name bc the transition is recent and most of his work is only available under it)

La Pensée Straight, Monique Wittig, 1992

C'est pour un garçon ou pour une fille ? Georges-Claude Guilbert, 2004

*french fiction*

Le Journal, Fabrice Néaud, 1996 : a man draws the story of how he fell in love with another man then gets dumped, when gay men had to hide. It’s very pretty, very sad and absolutely beautiful.

En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule, Edouard Louis, 2014 : autobiographic novel from a bright young man ; his life, his bullies, his acceptance.

Sodome et Gomorrhe, Marcel Proust, 1921 : not a gay novel but a gay relationship within one of the biggest french novels of the last century.

Le bleu est une couleur chaude, Julie Marot, 2010 : you might have heard of La Vie d’Adèle aka Blue is the warmest color. It’s from that comic.

Mémoires d’Hadrien, Marguerite Yourcenar, 1951 : a book about Hadrian, roman emperor, who built a wall and was very gay.

Corydon, André Gide, 1911 : essay about homosexuality

Corps à corps, journal de SIDA, Alain Emmanuel Dreuilhe, 1987 : autobiographic, a man’s fight with AIDS.

Sarrasine, Honoré de Balzac, 1830 (trans, gay, cross dressing, v v pretty)

Movies :

Tomboy, Célina Sciamma, 2011 (transgender, kids)

Laurence Anyways, Xavier Dolan, 2012 (transgender)

N’être ni fille ni garçon, TV documentary, 2010 (intersex)

Le Mystère Alexina, René Féret, 1985 (intersex)

Huit femmes, François Ozon, 2002 (lesbians briefly, cluedo movie)

Elles, Małgorzata Szumowska, 2011 (lesbians) > french movie but amazing polish director who also made In the name of (gay, religion)

Les onze mille Verges, Éric Lipmann, 1974 (after Guillaume Apollinaire’s novel, 1907, that’s amazing and pretty graphic)(the title means literally ‘the 11 000 penises’) (porn, gay, orgies, bdsm, necrophilia…)

Guillaume et les garçons, Guillaume Gallienne, 2013 (trans, sexuality)

Yves Saint-Laurent, Jalil Lespert, 2014 (gay)

[lesbian-toddhoward]

im going to buy a car today

[hideback]

Cicada, Stages of Conventionalization

Hugo Froelich, Keramic Studio Magazine, 1905

[afloweroutofstone]

Random question but would love your opinion:

Lately I've seen a lot of "eat the rich" vibes from tumblr which you know relatable but I'm also always so confused on who "the rich" are. Like, are famous artists "the rich"? Ppl like Taylor Swift or Christopher nolan or rick riordan who got rich out of their labor? Is always so confusing to me... like in life I'd like to be rich but not "the rich" but I never know where the line is draw.

This is an intriguing question, precisely because it has no exact answer! The median US household income is about $69,000, and we understand “the rich” to mean those earning far more than that. But when we talk about “the rich,” we could actually be talking about a number of different groups along the top of the US income/wealth distribution. This could mean:

The top 5% or 10% - This is a broad definition of the rich, encompassing households earning more than ~$200k (top 10%) or ~$250k a year (top 5%). As such, it includes not just celebrities and billionaires, but also orthodontists and used car dealership owners. This is “belongs to a local country club” rich, but not “owns a yacht” rich. But while these people lack the sheer wealth and power of the super-rich, they still receive the average American’s income several times over, and this translates into them having substantial power in local politics. The large amount of cash floating around in this group means they should also see their taxes raised, though not by as much as the following groups.

The top 1% - This definition, popularized by movements like Occupy Wall Street, include households earning more than $500k a year. This is where things start getting rather exclusive, and the “kinda rich” are excluded.

But this isn’t even close to where it stops. Income in the US is extremely concentrated at the top of the distribution, meaning that the top 1% look poor compared to the top 0.1%, and so on. (Note that not all numbers for the incoe thresholds will match up across this post, as different sources use different measurements).

Or, visualized another way:

As such, we should also be talking about the:

Top 0.1% - People earning more than $1.6 million per year. This group owns 15-20% of the entire economy.

Top 0.01% - People earning more than $7.5 million per year. This is where you’ll start to see a lot of A-list celebrities you mentioned showing up.

Top 0.0001% - These are the top 400 richest Americans, as measured annually by Forbes. As of 2020, these 400 people are worth $3.2 trillion, equivalent to 10% of the entire US economy. The poorest people on this list own over $2 billion in wealth.

Popular celebrities are near the top of the income ladder in the US, but not at the top. As of 2012, the top 1% included 6,751 actors/directors/producers and 27,183 people in art. Combined, this is roughly the same as the number of people in the top 1% for real estate sales; not to mention finance, management, executives, lawyers, accountants, etc. Last year, Jeff Bezos earned Taylor Swift’s entire net worth every 54 hours. 

As a final note: no one has ever “got[ten] rich out of their labor” alone, because individual effort plays a relatively minor role in wealth accumulation in the US.

[zvaigzdelasas]

"bridges and things that would benefit mostly working men"

[zvaigzdelasas]