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"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!" -Hamlet, Act II Scene II

[veronica-thoughts]

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Veronica Vuturo

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[beyonce-knowles-carter]

22 YEARS AGO ON DECEMBER 18, 1998 - DREAMWORKS ANIMATION RELEASED “THE PRINCE OF EGYPT”

Because DreamWorks was concerned about theological accuracy, they decided to call in Biblical scholars, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim theologians, and Arab American leaders to help the film be more accurate and faithful to the original story. After previewing the developing film, all these leaders noted that the studio executives listened and responded to their ideas, and praised the studio for reaching out for comment from outside sources.

The animation team for The Prince of Egypt included 350 artists from 34 different nations. Careful consideration was given to depicting the ethnicities of the ancient Egyptians, Hebrews, and Nubians properly.

Both character design and art direction worked to set a definite distinction between the symmetrical, more angular look of the Egyptians versus the more organic, natural look of the Hebrews and their related environments. The backgrounds department, headed by supervisors Paul Lasaine and Ron Lukas, oversaw a team of artists who were responsible for painting the sets/backdrops from the layouts. Within the film, approximately 934 hand-painted backgrounds were created.

THE PRINCE OF EGYPT (1998)

[sonicrainbooms]

Hey, Americans! Support fast food workers, don’t cross the picket line. No fast food on Feb 16.

[veronica-thoughts]

Spring, me, digital 2021

[dankmemeuniversity]

[veronica-thoughts]

a new year

The passage of time alone won’t change anything.

Page from my comic The Adventures of Nonamineé, you can find it on webtoons!

[veronica-thoughts]

The Adventures of Nonamineé

The day to day adventures of Nonamineé and their battles against their darkness.

Check out my comic on WEBTOONS! It’s called The Adventures of Nonamineé!

[lillayfran]

So why the long face?

[everythingfox]

(Source)

[veronica-thoughts]

Stubbornly stuck in my stillness

I watch the dancing leaves

[mr-squiggley-poufs]

Ok so I've found a way to describe what Neurodivergent Can't Do Task Mode™ feels like to neurotypicals

So you know how you can't make yourself put your hand down on a hot stovetop? There's a part of your brain that stops you from doing that? That's what Neurodivergent Can't Do Task Mode™ feels like

Even if we want to do it, there's a barrier stopping us from doing it, and it's really hard to override

And why does our brain see the task as a hot stovetop? Because when neurotypicals finish a task, they get serotonin, but we don't get that satisfaction after completing a task. A neurotypical wouldn't get serotonin from putting their hand on a hot stovetop, it would just hurt. When we can't do a task, it's because our brain knows that the task will hurt (metaphorically) and wants to avoid that.

It's not that we're choosing not to do the task, it's that our brain is physically preventing us from doing it.

Neurotypicals can and should reblog but please don't add anything

(Sorry/not sorry about the random bolding, it makes it easier for us to read)

[dovewithscales]

Oh that’s a great example. It’s not even really a metaphor in some cases. Because this is exactly what some of our brains are doing. For one reason or another the brain thinks that the task in question is dangerous or harmful and the mechanism keeping us from doing it is a survival mechanism.

[ms-demeanor]

I am but a horse rearing away from a suspicious paper bag while neurotypicals laugh at me for reacting sensibly to environmental threats.

[animusrox]

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) dir. Peter Jackson

[veronica-thoughts]

If the lies

I whisper to myself

Became truth

Would I be satisfied?

[veronica-thoughts]

There are days

when I want

To stay in bed

And let my blood

Stagnate

[veronica-thoughts]

Standing on the ledge

Perspiring

Trembling

A beckoning leap

And no faith.

[belcanta]

Guaranteed basic income to every citizen, whether or not they are employed to ensure their survival and that they live in a dignified, humane way, preventing poverty, illness, homelessness, reducing crime, encouraging higher education and learning vocations as well as helping society become more prosperous as a whole. 

[attentiondeficitaptitude-deacti]

Wow. Forget raising the minimum wage. This is much much better idea.

The minimum wage could actually drop if we had basic income.

But Americans would never go for it. Miserably slogging through 12 hour days and having businesses open 24/7 is too engrained in our culture.

[nikkidubs-deactivated20150519]

“BUT WHERE WILL THE GOVERNMENT GET THE MONEY?” screamed Joe Schmoe, slamming a meaty fist onto the table and getting mouth-froth all over the front of his greying tank top. “You libt*rds all think money grows on TREES!! HAHA!” “But where will people get the incentive to work?!” Mindy Bindy cried, flapping her hands in front of her face. She’d had a fear of the unemployed lollygagging about ever since she was a child and her mother told her to be afraid of the unemployed lollygagging about. “You think people should get paid for nothing? I work hard for my money!”

“But who will serve me?” grumbled Marty McMoneybags. “Who will make me feel important? Who will do my laundry and cook my food and stand in front of me wearing a plastic smile while I take out all my stress—because I do have a lot of stress, you know, being this rich is stressful—on them?” He paused and straightened out the piles of hundred dollar bills on the desk in front of him, then raised his two watery, outraged eyes up to the Heavens. “Lord, if there are no poor people, how will I know that I’m rich??”

[belcanta]

I laughed. This is perfect! Well said!

[doomhamster]

The thing is, while I’m sure you could scrape up a few people who’d be willing to just float by on a guaranteed minimum income? For most people the choice to work would be a no-brainer. “Hmmm. I can get by on 33k a year, or I can take that part time job and make 48k… enough to move to a better apartment, maybe take the family on vacation. Sold.” Hell, most people would want to work simply because it gives one a sense of dignity and something to do with one’s time. (Speaking as someone who’s been unemployed, on extended sick leave, etc. in her time, the boredom and sense of isolation that comes with not having a job is almost as bad as the humiliation of having to depend on other people for one’s survival.)

And with this system, part-time jobs and “non-skilled” jobs would be much more readily available because nobody would need to work two or three jobs just to stay afloat!

Which would ALSO mean that employers and customers couldn’t shamelessly exploit employees the way they can today, because if losing a job weren’t necessarily a financial disaster, more people would be willing to walk out on jobs where they weren’t being treated with dignity.

And if this also applies to students (and it should) then student loans would become much less of a problem, and fewer people would flunk out of school because of having to juggle studies and work.

Far fewer people would be forced to stay with abusive partners, parents or roommates because they couldn’t afford to move out.

And the thing is, all those people who suddenly had money? They’d be spending it. They’d be getting all the stuff they can’t afford now - new clothes, books, toys, locally-produced food, car repairs - and with each purchase money would flow BACK to the government, because VAT, also income tax.

The unemployed and/or disabled wouldn’t need special support any more - which would also mean the government could fire however many admins who are currently engaged in humiliating - *cough* making sure those people aren’t getting money they don’t deserve. Same for medical benefits and pensions. And I’m no legal scholar, but I somehow imagine less financial desperation would lead to less petty crime, and hence less need for police and security everywhere?

TL;DR Doomie thinks this is a good idea, laughs at those who protest.

[cptprocrastination]

reblogging for more top commentary

[queen-mayhem]

They tried something like this out in Canada as a sort of social experiment, called Mincome. What they found was that, on the whole, people continued to work about as much as they did before. Only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less hours. 

But wait, there’s more. Because parents were spending just a little more time at home and involved with their families, test scores increased. Because teens didn’t have to work to support their families, drop-out rates decreased. Crime rates, hospital visits, psychiatric hospitalizations and domestic abuse rates all dropped, as well. More adults pursued higher education. Those who continued to work reported more job flexibility and more opportunity to choose employment they preferred.

Basically, now you can go prove to your asshole family members that society won’t collapse without poor people for you to feel better than.

[tank-grrl-deactivated20150725]

The picture is awesome, but read the commentary, that’s what I’m reblogging for.

[fangirltothefullest]

The only reason people are against this is because when people are financially stable there is less crime (therefore less prison industrial complex free labour) there are less medical problems (IE less hospital visits meaning less money for the medical and pharmaceutical companies) and the point I am making is that a full guaranteed income to all means that those wealthy people at the top get less money and so they try and fool you into thinking it’s bad so you help encourage them lining their pockets.

[rum-and-shattered-dreams]

Can I add to this that people would be able to afford to take a break from their work lives to care for their elderly or ill family members (or people in their community)? Seriously, I’ve seen far too many disabled, ill, and/or elderly people trying to get to and from doctor appointments and the grocery store on their own with their best option for transportation (in my area) being a service with an average wait time of one hour for a pick up and which you need to schedule for an hour before your appointment time in order to either barely make it there on time or get there an hour early, depending on how it’s running that day. And by this I also mean that there could be people who chose to volunteer to do this because guess what? THEY CAN AFFORD TO NOW. Can I add that there would be a spike in artistic creation because people could afford to focus on that novel or comic or artwork? Oh and how about more products being made and sold here because people could charge less and afford them? How many people out there love doing a craft but don’t because they only need so many shawls or purses or baskets and haven’t had success with selling them so you just stopped making them? Anyway yeah. Our culture is severely broken and this is just one of the things that’s broken about it… 

Also just… WTF do people have against life being fun? Why should it have to be THIS difficult? Why should it be all misery and hard work and doing things you hate just because that’s how it is? Yeah we do need to get things done but how can we do that when we have no sense of why we’re doing it? 

[sbrown82]

They ATE this cover of “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac!!! 🙌🏿