Joy Mun

OH MY GOD

[2:22:51 PM] Storm: IS THIS WHY HER NICKNAME IS JOY BECAUSE SKREEEE [2:23:10 PM] ♪ D ♪: SHE MAKES PEOPLE HAPPY YES

#Joy to the world#we've been screaming over polar baes and your singing BT

YOU GUYS ARE SO CUTE

ACTUALLY MY NICKNAME IS JOY BECAUSE WHEN I JOINED TUMBLR I WANTED SOMETHING POSITIVE BECAUSE I WAS FEELING DOWN ALL THE TIME

BUT I ENDED UP MAKING PEOPLE HAPPY? I'M SO HAPPY ABOUT THAT

and because you had the courage to stand up to them instead of just growling from the sidelines

i'm not always sure that's a positive trait i have also it's much easier to do that online than irl let's be real but thank you very much! <3

he just made me so angry when i read that comment like. way to have a massive ego and just think you're so much better than everyone because you supposedly don't need reminders every now and then.

like people die in these temps ALL THE FREAKING TIME UP HERE and we're 'used to it'. when i heard that nashville was getting record breaking lows, i just. i mean, granted, their last record temp was 5 F, and now it will be 3, BUT even that can feel like a considerable amount.

#reasons why Joy is my hero tbh#n stuff

omg i'm your hero because i got mad at a massive jerk?

You know you live in a messed up society when people get angrier about potential deflated footballs than about players hitting their wives

I can see that even though I don’t 100% agree with it, like, if it’s from an official source with nothing particularly done to it, there’s not much difference between just snagging that one, and going and getting it yourself. They’re literally the same image no matter which way you slice it. The cropping may be different, but the reaction in said image is literally the same.

idk that’s just my personal opinion. I personally don’t do it because I honestly wouldn’t be happy with anything I didn’t do myself now that I have the resources to do it with. that’s prolly the biggest plus to iconing yourself omg you can get exactly what you want in the image.

All my icons have something done to them. I change the coloring to them, even if I don't have the borders/textures on them.

Every single icon I used on my old Blaze blog (when I began making 100x100)/every icon on my public icon blog HAS a different coloration from the original source AND it has different filters on them to make them look better in a 100x100 format. It's not like I took a few minutes on each image cropping them. If that was the case, it might be a little different for me. But each time I make a pack to put on my icon blog, it can take me UP TO AN HOUR or more to come up with a good-looking psd for that pack. 

The reason people get mad when people take rather than ask is for that reason. A lot of people put WAY MORE EFFORT into cropping/editing than a lot of people realize. It can be hard to tell sometimes -- but the work there is done.

Here's a comparison to the icon you just used vs the one I made of the same image a few months ago.

Mine is much lighter, has a filter on it that sharpened the image, it has a white-to-blue gradient on it that makes the image pop out a bit more. and on a LOT of icons I make i take out unnecessary parts of the image.

in this one, i had to erase the text in the bubble AND some stuff in the background to make it all white. like there's a LOT of work that goes into these. and people CAN'T really stop others from taking things from an official source, you're right. even if these WEREN'T public icons I made, I can't REALLY sit there and demand that people don't take. 

I can ask NICELY, but that's not going to stop people. It's much harder for people to justify taking icons with fancy textures/borders that are completely noticeable.

But that's why it's rude, imo. Because it's MUCH more for most editors than just cropping an image. And there ARE SOURCES of public, nice-looking icons. You just have to search for them but MOST PEOPLE are lazy and take without reading the rules of the blog and seeing if that's okay.

there are three ways that individuals who are oppressed can deal with their oppression. one of them is to rise up against their oppressors with physical violence and corroding hatred. but oh this isn’t the way. violence creates many more social problems than it solves. another way is to acquiesce and to give in, to resign yourself to the oppression. but that too isn’t the way, because non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

but there is another way. and that is to organize mass non violent resistance based on the principle of love. where there is something about hate that tears down and is destructive, there is something about love that builds up and is creative. love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power in the universe.

when you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love. but you seek to defeat the system. you just keep loving people, even though they’re mistreating you. i’m foolish enough to believe that through the power of this love, somewhere men of the most recalcitrant bent will be transformed.

edited from a november 17, 1957 sermon by martin luther king, jr. photos by: 1. marc riboud 2. lefteris pitarakis 3. guillermo legaria 4. sergei chuzavkov 5. william fernando martinez  6. reuters 7. stefan stefanov 8. john vizcaino. (click pic for place and date) 

That last picture though, he tilted his head for her to kiss him.

this makes me happy