Reblogged todayintokyo
熊野大社さん。 雨模様だったのが少し残念ではあったけれど その場の空気も、風鈴も七夕飾りも花手水も どれもこれも美しい場所。
Reblogged jackironsides
Guerrilla Girls posters from 1989, 2005 and 2012.
There seem to be a lot of people in the notes getting defensive over the ratio of women in nude art.
Yes, even if the ratio of nudes between genders was perfectly equal it would still be a massive issue that women artists are so underrepresented. And yes, of course there is nothing inherently immoral or dirty or wrong with nude art.
*However*, that doesn’t mean that we should just ignore that women as nudes are so overrepresented in the art world. If it didn’t matter that women in nude art are so overrepresented, then why would the Guerrilla Girls have even included those percentages in the first place, rather than just making a poster that says “Only 5% / 3% / 4% of artists in the modern art section are women” and leaving it at that?
It does matter that women are so overrepresented as nudes in the art world, otherwise it wouldn’t have been brought up. If you need help understanding why that matters, I think you need to review some feminism 101.
There’s also a few notes insinuating that there is a correlation between the percentage of women artists going down and the percentage of women as nude subjects going down, and I feel like we’re not looking at the same stats.
The percentage of women artists goes down 2% between 1989 and 2005, and so does the percentage of women as nudes. However, between 2005 and 2012 the percentage of female artists goes back up to 4%, and this is where the largest plumet in the percentage of women as nudes happens when it goes down to 76%.
Still overrepresented, but if you think the percentage of women as nudes is only going down due to there being fewer women artists, you are willfully ignoring that the biggest drop in the percentage of women as nudes happens when there was a slight uptick in the amount of women artists.
I don’t think that slight uptick is fully related to the plumet in the percentage of women as nudes, but let’s not cherry pick and pretend excluding women as artists leads to fewer nude paintings of women, when all the statistics indicate the opposite.
My experience, and of course this is purely anecdotal, and probably varies quite a bit between different regions and cultures, but my experience is that I’ve encountered way more people who are prudish about seeing nude men in art than people prudish about nude women in art, and this is often specifically a result of being more desensitized to seeing nude women in art.
Reblogged riparoonie
I promise you things will get so much better when you start processing people’s behavior as information rather than a verdict on your self-worth. If someone doesn’t text back, suddenly pulls away, whatever it may be, the solution isn’t to put on a tap dance for them and try to regain their approval. It’s not to crash out on them and try to force them to react a certain way. It’s just to take a step back, take a deep breath, and assess what this tells you. What’s this saying about them? What’s this saying about you??
Reblogged jackironsides
According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.
sheds a single tear
every august 18th my notifications break and i go, fuck, tumblr has failed me once again, but it hasn’t. it hasn’t failed me. it’s just the taking the hobbits to isengard-iversary. happy 12 years
Know Your Meme is wrong.
If you go back to primary sources, there’s a post on Albino Blacksheep mentioning Beekveld’s Flash on 16 August 2005:
If you must celebrate a memetic LotR song on August 18th, Mashed Taters was uploaded on the 18th, the prior year in 2004.
Reblogged transformativeworks
Our Commitment to Maximum Inclusivity
AO3 was founded partly in response to a growing trend of fanworks being removed from websites that had previously allowed them. This pattern has been observed numerous times throughout fandom history.
Whenever there are fears about censorship on other sites, AO3 sees an increase in the waitlist for our automatic invitation queue. Regardless of their reasons for joining, we welcome any new user to our site who agrees to abide by our Terms of Service. We will not vet new users for "legitimacy", because AO3 is for everyone.
The OTW has no plans to change the content we allow on AO3, and we stand by our commitment to maximum inclusiveness of fanwork content. We will not remove works unless they violate the AO3 Terms of Service, and we don't make decisions based on how many times something is reported. Users do not need to worry that anyone's works will be taken down due to a baseless report or a mass-reporting campaign, if one were to occur.
Regarding the unverified rumors that reports to the Policy & Abuse committee have greatly increased in the past few days, changes in ticket volume can be due to many different factors (including simple coincidence). If you're interested in learning more about how many and what kinds of reports the Policy & Abuse committee receives, we publish information about the previous month's tickets in our monthly newsletters as well as an annual breakdown of ticket types on the OTW website.
Reblogged jackironsides
CRIMINAL MINDS 2.21 — "Open Season"
Yes yes yes this scene thank you for the tag, heehehehe
It’s funny because this scene must be based on the memoir Special Agent by Candis DeLong. In it she describes being out looking at clothes at a department store on lunch break with another female agent and overhearing a conversation between a man and a woman in which he says he’s an FBI agent. They peer around some clothes racks thinking that they’re going to see one of their fellow agents trying to get a date, and when they don’t recognize the guy they go over and pretend to be interested in the big strong FBI agent themselves and ask to see his badge. The guy actually pulled out a fake badge, whereupon they said “Huh, that doesn’t look anything like ours…”, produced their own badges and arrested him for impersonating an FBI agent. (I remember this bit from a 25 year old book because I actually stole it myself for a fic)
Exquisite. Glorious. 10/10 thank you for sharing.
Reblogged theothersarshi
Pro-censorship wattpad refugees drama is so funny to me because when I started using ao3 as a kid I was a devout mormon and I thought that reading anything even remotely pornagraphic was a sin and would ruin my life. So when I was 13 and found ao3 I went "oh awesome I found a fanfic website with a filtering system so I won't ever randomly stumble into porn. This is great! I was really worried about seeing something I didn't want to see on the other platforms." I didn't read any smut online until like three years later. If a mormon 13 year old can figure out 'don't like don't read' wattpad users can too cmon you guys i believe in you.
Reblogged xfreischutz
file -> phrases that are going to shift something in me forever
Reblogged jackironsides
the fact that "eco" and "ethical" are two separate concerns in the global north, and that "eco" is a much more popular concern, with many "eco" products being made in actual sweatshops, is a big part of why i am The Joker
if you think this is an exaggeration or splitting hairs where it doesn't matter:
i used to work at a Local Organic Produce store that's popular with the lefties in my city who are interested in food justice. i quit for a lot of reasons, mostly the boss, but something i will always remember is one of our suppliers coming in to drop off produce, being told her check wasn't ready, and her laughing and responding it didn't matter -- even a low bank account was more than enough to pay the migrants who picked her produce. i am not filling in any blanks here. she said this.
after quitting, this was a common story i told people about my time there. some then became annoyed at me, acting like i was a wokescold trying to undermine the store's "eco" mission with unrelated "ethical" concerns. but, like -- if food justice isn't for the people making food, who the fuck is it for?
like, don't get me wrong. my contention here is that the things go hand in hand, and that something which is unethical isn't actually eco. after all, humans are a part of the fucking ecosystem, and if a product can only be made by unsustainably exploiting humans, then it's unsustainable. doesn't matter which chemicals were used in making it, or whether or not animals were factory farmed.
they *cannot* be separated. a product cannot be either eco or ethical — it must be both. a product that is made through human suffering cannot be eco for the reasons you said; a product that causes human suffering by contributing to the destruction of the ecosystem cannot be ethical. it must be both and we must insist on both
Reblogged egosmindpalace
the stages of grief realizing you're somehow down even badder
listen i'm not here to tell you how to live your life nor how to title your novel. but can we please move on from a blank of blank and blank. we have so many a blank of blank and blanks. the shelves are full of a blank of blank and blanks. it's enough. can we do something else now
This wasn’t even all of them
I stock the book section at the store I work at. The one that still kills me the most is:
That's... That's not even grammatically correct? Primal is an adjective??? Help??!?
i'm so sorry to be that guy but y'all are formatting your book titles like homestuck lands 😭
