any ship can be a rarepair if u dont wanna interact with 85% of the active fandom
Context is important here. These paintings are part of a series called España y Filipinas (‘Spain and the Philippines’) by 19th century Filipino painter Juan Luna. Also known as ‘Spain leading the Philippines’, these works show two women representing colonial Spain (left) and the Filipino people (right), who Spain had controlled for the last 320 years at the time these were painted. The last painting in this series was commissioned by the Spanish Ministry of Overseas Affairs and was exhibited as colonial propaganda.
The paintings represent the hopes of some upper-class European-educated Filipinos that Spain would show the Philippines the path towards development and ‘civilisation’ – an entirely Western concept, and a hope which played its part in justifying the colonial project. They represent a reformist sentiment that still relied upon colonial Spain, and positioned Filipinos as naive and in need of Western teaching to modernise. This was the approach that the U.S. would later take when it bought the Philippines from Spain and proceeded to colonise it a decade after these works were painted.
The Filipino nationalist hero Jose Rizal accused Luna of being a ‘Hispanophile’, as demonstrated by his approach to colonialism in these works. However, Luna would later in life become aligned with the anti-colonial work of the Katipunan during the Philippine Revolution (following his acquittal for the murder of his wife, which is another complex story in itself).
The completely successful normalisation of left handedness in my native culture with zero negative consequences is inspiring to me. It is a deepseated neurological feature! Which correlates with lots of important facts about a person! And was the focus of a long history of violent brain-damaging child abuse! And now is so completely unremarkable as to hardly even be interesting
Today’s youth (at least here) don’t remember it but the times when left-handed people were forced to use his right hand are not that far. My grandpa is forcibly-taught right-hander (as we call them here) and he’s 84. My dad who’s 52 would be forced right-hander if he was like 5 years older.
Like, it’s not sone überdistant future. Dexterity is doom. Sinister people gained freedom mere 50 years ago. And I’m pretty sure there are places where they’re still oppressed and forced right.
This isn’t a joke. This is 100% the truth. My grandma was beaten by teachers as a child for being lefty. She rebelled and is still a lefty today as point of pride.
my gran was left handed and got so abused for it that she still hates writing at the age of 78. She still writes with her right hand too, and complains that she could never learn to draw. Cruelty inflicted in the past is still hurting in the present.
Hey just a reminder that the first rule of being friends with an artist is don't fucking ask for a discount.
True friends of artists must always yell at them to charge more
This may shock you, but money isn't the only way to pay for something. If money is a barrier to buying art from a friend consider barter instead, such as providing a service of equal value in exchange for the art.
Making someone dinner is the equivalent of $20+ depending on what you're making. Consider what you'd pay at a restaurant if you ordered the same thing.
Do some dishes/housecleaning for them. Maid services typically run around $30/hr+ (they can typically get more done faster because of expertise so keep that in mind)
Dog walking or petsitting or babysitting are often things we do for friends without charging them, this can be an excellent opportunity to thank a friend by giving them some art you've made.
What I'm getting at is we all have skills and can provide services that have value. I know we've been brainwashed that money is the only acceptable currency, just try to remember that barter existed first and will continue to exist long after capitalism becomes extinct.
Don't ask your artist friends for discounts, but it's okay to ask if they'll accept barter in place of cash.
You do have to be ready to take "no" for an answer, though.
Imagine being the only person alive who can say this
buzz aldrin and neil armstrong liked to do a thing where they’d tell unfunny jokes at parties about being on the moon and when people were confused they’d go “guess you had to have been there”
[ID: tweet from Linn LeBlanc reads: Where were you 49 years [ago] today when @/TheRealBuzz and Neil Armstrong made those historic first steps onto the Moon. Attached is a color photo of an astronaut on the moon. Buzz Aldrin quote tweets it and replies: I was on the Moon! #Apollo11 /]
APPARENTLY when u don’t drink water u feel like shit. APPARENTLY.
Friends you would not BELIEVE
"God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation.” - Julian K. Jarboe
Tumblr users: i refuse to pay anything to a service that requires money to run. The merch is actually problematic and an ad free subscription option is bad. If they ask for donations theyre actually taking money away from real causes
Tumblr users: why are they considering selling my data now
There's this pervasive idea that things online should be free, only helped by the general lack of education about IT. The internet is presented as this nebulous thing that just exists - and that's what it feels like! especially if you live in a world where it's always existed!
But even in older generations it's a very common sentiment - remeber when google had no ads? when websites had no fees? when forums just existed without any datamining or attempts to sell you stuff?
yes I do! back when those were passion projects run from someone's badement with maybe 200 members! but that's no longer the case. maintaining a large website takes servers and electricity and employees
I'm not saying it's good they're selling our data! I have no doubt that companies manipulating people in order to make money - via ads, via selling data, via creating addictions and selling solutions - were a main driving force behind that image of the "cost free internet". But we still need to get rid of the idea that social media sizes are just free. They're not! They can't be! Paying a few bucks a months to use tumblr is a fair price, whether you do it by buying rainbow checkmarks or merch or by having to look at a few damn adds. Tumblr is no different from netflix - an online platform providing a service, which has to be paid for somehow
I agree with the sentiment that people need to understand the economics behind these sites but don't for a second think that kicking a massive corporation a few bucks once a month will sate the shareholders' hunger for exploitation of every resource they have.
This site will be monetized, it was always a question of when not if.
If you want to avoid that fate you could instead move to a site like cohost, explicitly a passion project and not a business.
yeah two things can be true at once:
a) websites cost money to run
b) investors and shareholders expect the function of ANY company to be milking their userbase dry of money by any means necessary, and funneling that money directly over to them, where they will sit on it.
like. that's just what every company is now. all of them. cars, toys, lunch meat. it's a money extraction scheme. that's why everything fucking sucks now: it's not for us to get a car or a toy or a meal, it's for an investor to trade a little of their money for a lot of our money. if the company can't do that, forever, it dies.
giving tumblr money directly is a stopgap measure: it doesn't actually matter if the website breaks even and the users can pay for their share of use. the investors don't want equity, they want a return on investment, and eventually investors will realize that this site can't actually give them that, because it can't, because so far social media has proved to be really terrible at turning any profit at all. and that'll be that.
if you want a free and fair internet, you gotta build it yourself. this aint it.
HONKAI: STAR RAIL (Version 1.2 "Even Immortality Ends")
It would seem the two of us can still coordinate our efforts.
So turns out…..you guys are not gonna believe this…….but it turns out. Reading real books. Is good for you actually.
Let me be completely clear - I’m not being a sarcastic ass. I’m just realizing all over again, in real time, for myself, that reading a real life published book makes your neurons feel like they’re getting a spa day. Like I can feel my brain getting juicer and wrinklier with every page I turn. This shit is no joke, this is like hard drugs if hard drugs were good for you and made your brain feel revived and alive.
Let me tell you, there's a queer club night in the UK called Gal Pals that caters exclusively to queer women and NBs and only plays music by women and when It's Raining Men came on last time you'd have thought the crowd was full of middle aged housewives. A banger is a banger is a banger, you just gotta let the music go innit