Shein is going down for being an organized criminal organization. Actors and Writers are striking. Student Loan debt relief may actually go through after all. Jack Smith is closing in on Trump, and all signs point to him dying in prison. Billionares are dying in ignoble and humiliating ways. Please God keep this ball rolling, it almost feels like the first taste of justice in about as long as I can remember.
being a girl and hitting puberty is so traumatic. you go from being a genderless little free thing to being hit with shaving and makeup and growing breasts and skincare and menstruation and suddenly being sexualised when like a few years ago you could take your shirt off to play in the stream and trade yugioh cards with the boys and come home covered in mud and not even think about it. and then you spend years hating being a girl and hating everything puberty did to you and wishing you could be a boy or be completely genderless again and it takes you Many years to come to terms with yourself Or you simply try to Lean In to everything and do makeup tutorials on YouTube and claim it’s for fun. like how can this be treated as normal
trans people AND cis women 🤝 struggling to exist in a marked body which the world wants to shape, control and project meaning on to against your will
it obviously makes sense, but one of my friend’s kids is going into swim class, and all the parents got an email today going, “when little ones are scared, they cling on to instructors. PLEASE trim their nails.”
i don’t know why that’s so funny to me, but just. the idea of this poor, scratched swim instructor having to make sure to email before each class as a reminder to please declaw the children SENT me.
When I taught swim lessons I remember trying to delicately ask parents not to cover their child in shea/coconut/olive oil before lessons.
“I understand your skincare regimen and wanting to protect their tender baby flesh from the pool chemicals, but COULD YOU NOT OIL YOUR CHILD LIKE A GREASED PIG before tossing them in the POOL? Thanks EVER so much!”
It’s a fantastic point, but John Boyega’s net worth also puts him at $6 million. When he says eat the rich, he isn’t safe either…
There’s a pretty big fucking difference between six million and one trillion lmao
Not to mention the way the money was made
An actor being paid for a role / doing some advertising is a world away form a man setting up a cooperate money machine that horrendously exploits workers
This is something I hate SO MUCH about how tumblr talks about money.
Like, I get that famous actors have large amounts of money, some of them are even probably overpaid (I have complicated thoughts about how actors are paid because of the nature of acting as a career), but they are exchanging labor for money, and their salaries are an expense involved in making a movie.
But like… an actor is paid for a job. They’re a worker like the rest of us. Bezos isn’t paid for a job, he’s paid for being the person who owns Amazon and despite being obscenely wealthy, he does all sorts of shitty things and to underpay and exploit his workers, and avoid paying taxes, so that more of the money Amazon generates will be profit (worker’s salaries are not profit, they’re a business expense).
These two mechanisms of acquiring money are fundamentally very different.
The reason why billionaires are evil aren’t because having money is bad, its because to get a billion dollars you have to cheat. You have to take it from someone else. If Bezos paid all his workers and suppliers fairly and treated them well, and paid his fair amount of taxes, and etc, then it literally wouldn’t matter how much money he earned, because he wouldn’t be doing anyone any harm. But its not actually possible to amass a billion dollars (a full order of magnitude bigger than a million) while behaving in an ethical manner.
The last post is everything.
Also wanna say that John Boyega specifically does a lot of proper grassroots good work and actively puts himself in a position where he knows the racists will keep on coming for him, to actively and materially help marginalised communities.
The fact a black man is never able to say a single word without being criticised is not being missed btw.
i wanna go on a rant about centaurs but idk if im up for drawing the illustrations this rant needs
i’m just gonna use photos.
HERE’S MY BIGGEST ISSUE WITH CENTAURS THAT I SEE DONE MOST FREQUENTLY: THE HORSE PART IS TOO BIG.
‘but
roach, horses are big. if you have a human-sized human half and
horse-size horse half of course it’s going to be an awkward mis-match.’
no!
the thing is that gigantasaurus horses are a really recent, modern,
rich bitch status symbol kind of horse and have warped the popular
conception of how big a horse is, or should be. like, look at this
horse:
a
friesian horse. this is the SUV of horses. it’s a huge, intimidating
status symbol that consumes so many resources it’s not actually very
good at sports or utility or even being a vehicle. it mostly does
dressage, which is kind of like horse dancing. this is not a normal size
of horse.
this
is a clydesdale. it’s a carthorse. it was built to pull extremely heavy
wagons in a straight line and, importantly, to look like hot shit while
doing so. it is also not a normal size of horse.
this
is a belgian draft horse. it also pulls heavy loads, traditionally
plows, stumps, rocks, timber, and as such it’s disconcertingly buff.
that huge neck and massive shoulders give it enough strength to haul the
shit out of anything you can wrap a chain around, but again, it is
nowhere near a normal horse.
this
is a mustang, a horse designed to be ridden for significant periods of
time and over significant amounts of land, for herding cows, for not
being too fussy, delicate, or high maintenance. note how much smaller it
is than the purpose-built superhorses up there.
and this….
this is a Przewalski’s horse, a mongolian wild horse. i don’t think they’re the exact ancestor of
domestic horses, but they’re pretty darn close. mongolian domesticated
horses are still built very similarly, and they’re about the size of a
bike.
for
most of history, horses have been about this big. the romans rode
horses this size. mongolian nomads ride horses this size–the mongolian
derby is the longest in the world. they can basically carry their own
body weight for hours at a time, and a team of them can pull thousands
of pounds of gear. a horse this size might look like a dinky toy
compared to carthorses, drafthorses, dressage horses, even american
trail horses. but it’s actually a standard and extremely functional size
for a horse.
and if you want to draw a centaur that doesn’t
look like a toothpick stuck into a log, it’s the size of horse you
should be looking at.
“Matt Damon has revealed that the “Oppenheimer” cast talked about their strike strategy before hitting the movie’s red carpet premiere in London on Thursday.
Damon added: “We gave the strike authorization. We voted 98% to 2% to do that because we know our leadership has our best interest at heart.”
“It’s really about working actors,” he continued. “It’s $26,000 to qualify for health coverage and a lot of people are on the margins and residual payments are getting them across that threshold. This isn’t an academic exercise. This is real life and death stuff. Hopefully we get to a resolution quickly. No one wants a work stoppage, but we’ve got to get a fair deal.”
