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oneheadtoanother:

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acepalindrome:

Much like Welcome to Nightvale, I feel like a lot of people have forgotten just how big and influential Yuri on Ice was. It fully broke into the mainstream. It was everywhere. Evgenia Medvedeva, the top female figure skater in 2016 and 2017, had YOI plushies thrown to her on the ice and wore a Victuuri tshirt to an interview. Japanese pair skaters Miu Suzaki and Ryuichi Kihara skated to the YOI theme at the fucking Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics. The Olympics. Canadian ice dancer Joseph Johnson did the ‘J.J. Style’ hand symbol in the kiss and cry. Johnny Weir made me cry by talking about how he wished the homophobic world of figure skating he experienced could have been more like the kinder world of Yuri on Ice.

There were cameos and references to it everywhere. Everyone was talking about it. People who had never watched anime were watching it. It was so big it crashed Crunchyroll and Tumblr. Twice. And all that for what was at its core, a queer love story that helped pave the way for more queer stories to come.

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annlarimer:

Completely wrong Welsh flag kandi cuff.

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doctor-yoshi-soul:

unamccormack:

sigynpenniman:

I know everyone says it’s best to just stick to “said” as a dialogue tag bc it disappears and that’s true and I mostly do but I want to take a moment for my all-time favorite dialogue tag, “lied.” Absolutely nothing hits like “‘I’m here to help,’ he lied.” NOTHING.

ABSOLUTELY one of my favourites.

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bemusedlybespectacled:

veliseraptor:

something vaguely in my head about the idea that a class of people can be “undeserving” of the right to strike because they make relatively more money than another class of people

and I don’t know how to articulate it exactly except that perhaps the idea that there’s some level of salary at which a person ceases to have the right to good working conditions is, mm, suspect, and that such a narrative ultimately just serves employers who don’t want to put the resources into improving

anyway. just thinking i guess

there was a post on here years and years ago that I read along the lines of “saying there’s a point where you’re too rich to complain about conditions is a great way of making sure no one ever complains about conditions”

like, everyone who’s poor is going to be dismissed as jealous losers, and anyone who can’t be dismissed that way is going to be dismissed as elitists complaining about stuff that doesn’t affect them instead. it’s lose-lose. and it’s like that on purpose.

coolthingoftheday:

Trees, like animals, can also experience albinism, though it is extremely rare.

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lesbiacebian:

redacted-metallum:

New pride flag dropped

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sweetd3lights:

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neoretrobibliomartini-x:

This rhyme refers to the Inclosure [sic] Acts, which between 1604 and 1914 converted 28,000 sq km of traditionally common land (used for grazing animals and subsistence farming) in the UK to private property belonging to (surprise!) the wealthy. These Acts also led, indirectly, to the single most frequently cited article in the history of academic publishing, Garrett Hardin’s “The Tragedy of the Commons.” There are not really words to describe my distaste for Hardin’s evidence-free assertion that common resources inevitably lead to disaster and that the only prudent course of action is that of the Acts: to give more to those who already have too much while everyone else suffers.

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animefeminist:

Good Soil Makes a Good Crop: The Story of Saiunkoku and the myth of meritocracy

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“You can’t expect young saplings to take root if you toss them off the land and into rushing water. They would simply wither and die, regardless of whatever promise they might have shown.”

Once upon a time, a poor little girl named Hong Shurei did not dream of marrying a prince. Instead, Shurei saw the struggles of the people around her and dreamed of becoming a civil servant—an impossible dream, for women were banned from public office. Yet when the law changed to allow her entry, Shurei soon learned her dream was not without its nightmares, for deep-seated prejudices loomed everywhere she looked, and these were not the sort of monsters one could draw a sword and slay.

Despite its fantastical shoujo setting, The Story of Saiunkoku is no traditional fairy tale, and Shurei’s journey is much closer to unjust reality than escapist fiction. This allows the series to explore systemic oppression, workplace harassment, and the importance of structural support, especially in systems that claim to be merit-based. Through its young, marginalized civil servants, Saiunkoku provides an intersectional critique of the “bootstrap” mentality, highlighting how oppression creates hurdles that often require more than just “hard work” to clear.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

medley:

https://www.instagram.com/p/ChAER8rrrIc/

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jillraggett:

Plant of the Day

Monday 7 August 2023

The elegant flowers of Dierama pulcherrimum dark cerise-flowered (angel’s fishing rod) need space to be able to show themselves at their best. This long leaved, evergreen perennial needs a sheltered location in full sun, with moist but well-drained soil.

Jill Raggett

discodeerdiary:

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discodeerdiary:

Something that I first applied to working with children, and have applied in a limited form to working with adults: you don’t need to tell someone when they read your instructions wrong. Sometimes it’s enough to point out what they did right and then whatever they didn’t do? You ask them to do it in more precise words, and you make it sound like it’s a new request. Remarkable how fast things get done this way.

This is also a habit I built up from emergency response training. If I say “I need you to bring me a first aid kit and an accident report” and you bring me just a first aid kit, it’s so much more efficient to say “thanks now can you bring me an accident report” than “I asked you to bring an accident report why didn’t you bring me one”.

Once you’ve internalized “a person bleeding out is one of the worst times to start an argument” you start to wonder what other tasks could get accomplished without arguing

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