This blog is basically inactive now.
I’d like to retain access to my posts, so I will be doing the bare minimum to keep it from getting deactivated for inactivity, but other than that? I’m not here anymore. It sucks compared to my new blog.
Want to stay in contact? My Discord ID is fracturedOpals.
dentoushead asked:
Legalizing copyright infringement would be dismantling one of the few limitations on the white urge to steal from Black Art and Black Artists. The practical application of it would be anti-Black as fuck
janmisali answered:
this argument makes so many assumptions that I disagree with that I don’t know where to start
damn asker, that's crazy and would suck. good thing we have robust IP law in the United States to prevent theft from Black artists
now to take a big sip of coffee and look up who owns Tupac Shakur's likeness
In 2009, Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks company paid the estate for film rights to King's words, along with his life rights, which allow a person or company to make content based on an individual's story. DreamWorks has yet to produce or direct Spielberg's planned King biopic, but the rights have caused complications for numerous filmmakers. (Neither Spielberg's literary agent nor King's estate returned Broadly's request for comment.)
King has received only one major biopic, 2014's Selma, directed by Ava DuVernay […] Instead of using King's speeches, DuVernay wrote original monologues that sounded like soliloquies the civil rights leader could have given. […] When asked about the changes in 2014, DuVernay told the Washington Post, "We knew those rights are already gone. They're with Spielberg."
Iranian photographer Jalal Sepehr's (جلال سپهر) series Water and Persian Rugs (2004) explores cultural identity and tradition. Sepehr, born in Tehran in 1968, is a self-taught artist known for blending heritage with contemporary themes.
"biblically accurate" and "canon" are pretty much the same phrase if you think about it
The thing that bugs me about all those cheery “learn distress tolerance!!!” posts is that, given their target audience is a certain contingent of Tumblr, they’re never going to reach the person who thinks they’re More In Touch With Nature because they find trans peoples’ bodies disgusting, or the person who rejects a friendly neurodivergent person because The Vibes Were Off.
But they absolutely will reach disabled people whose lives are already a permanent exercise in distress tolerance.
They will reach abused neurodivergent people who have let themselves be led into danger because they internalized the lesson that they need to become more tolerant of distress, get outside their comfort zones, stop caring so much about what they like or dislike, and stop treating their discomfort as meaningful information.
And that’s what bothers me about turning distress tolerance into a blanket virtue.
Sometimes you do need to tolerate distress. Sometimes discomfort is just the price of doing something difficult or unfamiliar that you actually want to do.
But sometimes discomfort is telling you that you don’t like something. Sometimes it’s telling you that a boundary is being crossed. Sometimes it’s telling you that you’re in a situation you don’t actually want to be in.
And if you’ve spent your life being taught that you’re too sensitive, too avoidant, too difficult, too afraid, or too concerned with your own comfort, “learn to tolerate distress” can very easily become “learn to override yourself.”
I don’t think the goal should be becoming so good at tolerating distress that you stop asking yourself why you’re distressed in the first place.
Sometimes the thing you need to tolerate is the discomfort of disappointing somebody else by leaving or saying “no”.
And sometimes the answer really is just, “I don’t fucking like this, I don’t have to, nobody dies if I don’t do it.”
Anonymous asked:
why is your cat green?
gothicprep answered:
She’s built different 😌
Look i tried to laugh it off, but I haven’t stopped thinking about this message because… my cat literally isn’t green
like where is the green
Oh Christ
This is the color your cat is
colors i eyedropped directly from op's cat
I drew a tree using only colours eyedropped from OP's cat.
every time i see this post all i see is some green alien kitty with antennae so i had to draw it
I originally thought those were supposed to be mushrooms, implying that this cat is moldy
Moldy forest cat
i'm happy y'all made fan art of my cat. i tried to show her and she just rubbed her face on my phone
HE. There exists a singular subject in that sentence and squidward is not NB.
We are shit-posters but we should try to have standards, damnit!
first of all youre a shit poster im a good poster second squidward isnt the only one underwater on spongebob dumbass
not to mention squidward is nonbinary
woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.
In the year 1450 a priest rolls over and slams his hand into his candle, burning him and sending wax flying all over the place
love the idea that every time someone is an idiot, another person somewhere else in the spacetime continuum is being the exact opposite idiot and there's perfect cosmic balance.
example: for every time a restaurant customer accidentally responded to "enjoy your meal" with "you too", there was also a time that a restaurant employee accidentally ate a customer's food instead of serving it.
Literacy is great. Expanding your horizons is great. But I feel like a lot of people who talk about it get into the territory of moving goalposts really quickly. Here's the thing about that:
Again. Expanding horizons is a good thing, but it's best when it comes from one's own curiosity rather than some internet scold. The "if you liked x, there's a good chance you'd enjoy y even if it sounds pretty different" approach works a million times better than "YOU MUST EAT YOUR VEGETABLES." Also? At the end of the day, people are autonomous beings, they don't actually owe you the broadest horizons possible, and you cannot control other peoples' media consumption. I learned that the hard way back when I used to be the scold.
