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JK Rowling has used her billionaire legal team to silence a Jewish woman for telling the truth about her contempt for trans victims of the Holocaust.
Scotland’s network of “freedom of speech” organisations, as per usual, have nothing to say about the use of wealth to gag critics of the wealthy.
However fast they race to condemn the LGBT+ community for saying the names of those who harm us. Statements at the ready to insist that transphobes no one wants to work with anymore must be given every possible opportunity to gain from their bigotry.
But it's not the billionaires who are being silenced, as our media breathlessly echo their every hateful proclamation.
It's journalists and activists forced to publicly humiliate themselves under the weight and the threat of billionaire legal teams or be driven into destitution.
We deserve better. Freedom of speech needs to mean something
The Streisand Effect strikes
This will swiftly become one of the primary things JK Rowling is remembered for. Trying to erase crimes of the Holocaust against trans people and then silencing Jewish journalists for calling her out.
With your help we can make sure JK Rowling is known as a Holocaust denier first, author of mediocre children's books second
ADHD is a disability. I know this. Nobody else around me does. When I say I can't do something, I don't need tips, I don't need encouragement, I need you to believe me. I need just one person to believe that I'm not lying when I say I am unable to do something because of my literal developmental disability. No more "just push through", no more "try harder", no more "I did it and you can too", because I am absolutely sure that in this moment I am unable to fucking do it! Please believe me for once. Please.
Reblogging this again because I found info!
This is 2/3 of a band called Too Many Zooz (they’re lacking their trumpeter here), the song is called ‘Flightning,’ and the genre is “brass house” (which i think they made up but hey i dig it). They have a handful of songs on Spotify and just successfully Kickstarted their first full-length album.
this song as the opening to a new anime by Shinichiro Watanabe honestly
These guys are CHARACTERS for a Watanabe anime.
I seriously love these guys, because they’re so interesting from a music-theory perspective. Their use of intense beats, syncopation, deep bass, and blaring harmonics borrows a lot from modern club music
they’re basically playing dubstep on traditional instruments. Seriously, listen to some tracks with all three of them together, and tell me that’s not what they’re doing
Reblog for sample size etc etc
i couldn't reblog this gem so here you go
As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.
Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.
📺Here is my list:
Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.
📚Here is my list:
As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are more expensive.
For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.
💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.
Those are the ones I can recall.
So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.
I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.
Hope this was helpful and have a great day.
Incase people missed this.
Based on both decent and not so decent replies, I have made some changes to my original post below.
It would seem a whole new kind of AO3 reader/writer is emerging and it is becoming clear not everyone quite understands how the website community works. Here is some basic guidance on how most people expect you to go about using AO3 to keep this a fun community archive that funtions correctly:
I KNOW there's plenty more I missed but I'm trying to cover most of the basics that people seem to be struggling with.
I invite anyone to add to this, but please explain, don't berate.
ideas for tumblr staff
3. stop banning Black people for no reason
4. stop suppressing posts about Palestine for no reason
reblog this version actually
I believe that's all - feel free to add unto it.
Iron WHILE you work. Done a seam? Press it. Lay stuff out. Press it. And learn how the iron works and yes it can burn or scorch marks on your cloth so watch the temp vs the cloth content. when in doubt, Iron a scrap on LOOOOOWWWWWW temp.
Different needles do different things. My sewingbox has like twelve distinct kinds of needle for everything from beading work to small stitching to embroidery to tapestry to glovers' sharps. Each of them does something slightly different and is suited for slightly different cloth. If you handsew, play with different sizes and types of needle and see which does what the best for you.
If you machine sew, those have specific needles for different fabric too. There's different stitches for different fabric.
Don't just blow through stuff and say "Oh, that's Details, I can do without that" - yes you can but you'll never get the best results that way. All of sewing is Diligence and Details. You can do without them but your work will waste a lot of stuff and not ever fit right or be as good as your vision could make it. Don't cut the ground out from under your own feet.
and rule #1
DON'T be ASHAMED of your EFFORTS.
There is no teacher coming around to punish you. You're not a little kid and no one can make you stand in the corner any more.
Sew for necessity, sew for thrift, sew for joy, but for pity's sake do not sew and then beat yourself up over it.
Stitches can be unpicked. Undo the mistake, learn why it happened, and you can always do it again, better. You'll be glad you took the time to undo and redo.
In regard to the idea of "Oh, that's just a detail, I can ignore that," the two(and a half) biggest issues like that I've seen with beginning sewing are Ignoring Grain and Omitting Facings/Interfacing.
The pieces of the pattern are marked with grain, and that should be followed because even woven fabrics will behave differently in different directions. This is not just in regard to bias, which is very stretchy, but even something like a 100% cotton calico will have a slight but noticeable stretch across the grain--from selvedge to selvedge--while it is far more stable along the length of the fabric. And this does matter to how clothes fit! So, yes, it is tempting to ignore the pattern layout diagram and squeeze every piece of the pattern in however you can make it fit, like puzzle pieces, especially when you don't have as much fabric as the pattern wants you to use. But. The resulting garment will fit weird.
And I can completely understand how a beginning sewist can look at facings and interfacing and say "This is ridiculous, I am not cutting out more stuff that will never be seen. There's no reason not to just fold this edge to the inside and stitch it down." Patterns aren't there to make unnecessary extra work, though. Sewing that facing to the neckline, clipping the seam allowance (oh, right, that's something seemingly frivolous that you need to do. there's physics involved. clip curves that go in, notch curves that go out.) and flipping the facing to the inside is actually a lot easier than trying to fold a round edge. And interfacing helps things hold their shape better. A woven fabric neckline with facing and interfacing is always going to look better than one that was just turned and stitched.
And YES, most of all, mistakes aren't horrible and can be fixed. What I've found most valuable was getting enough experience to know when it's necessary to fix the mistake, and when it's OK to let the mistake go. You'll never get to that point in your sewing if you don't give yourself a chance to learn from those mistakes, right?
Thesis: the rise of fanwank and anti culture correlates directly with diminished understanding of what “romantic”, in a literary sense, actually means.
It doesn’t mean “this is ideal or healthy or even realistic”. It means “this is beautiful, this is tragic, this is grotesque, this stirs emotion”, even if it’s not, as @starryroom puts it, something you would be comfortable seeing play out in front of you at Taco Bell. It’s about grandiosity and mythology and heroism writ large. It’s about playing with the id, as beautiful and terrible as it can be.
LET LOVE AND LUST BE MONSTROUS.
i feel like Guillermo del Toro ghostwrote that
“I didn’t say I liked it. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.”
- Oscar Wilde
it is so fucking exhausting and annoying how white women, including and maybe even especially in progressive and leftist spaces, continue acting like they are not themselves still beneficiaries of tremendous privilege simply because they endure sexist or misogynistic discrimination. being a woman does not excuse the fact that you are still white and you still reap the benefits of being white! you do not get to "but sexism!" your way out of being held accountable for saying and doing racist shit!
never forget that WHITE WOMEN owned slaves, it was WHITE WOMEN who gatekept the womens' suffrage movement, WHITE WOMEN who not only participated in but also organized segregationist protests to harass and threaten children of color like ruby bridges, WHITE WOMEN who weaponize both their whiteness and their womanhood to threaten the safety and lives of black and brown people, WHITE WOMEN who had their own sect of the KKK, WHITE WOMEN who lied about black and brown men to get them murdered by lynch mobs, WHITE WOMEN who had significant influence in the eugenics movement, WHITE WOMEN who are just as complicit in settler-colonialist violence as white men are, WHITE WOMEN who receive preferential treatment to black and brown people of all genders seeking jobs and housing and education, and WHITE WOMEN who proclaim themselves to be the arbiters of feminism while forever ignoring the struggles of black and brown women and talk about white womanhood as if it is universal.
so forgive me but i am sick and tired of hearing about how WHITE WOMEN have it bad when WHITE WOMEN withhold their allyship until they can be certain that supporting the liberation of oppressed groups will benefit them in some way and are just as guilty of doing this as white men are.
and it's WHITE WOMEN who are going to see this post and ignore it like they always do, that is, if they don't add unnecessary paragraphs of "well, actually" full of logical fallacies and outright misunderstandings of how the fucking world works...
Reposting this because I need to materialize it somewhere.
fatima aamer bilal, from i mother it the absence of her, iii. i am not a person that can be loved for a very long time excerpt from moony moonless sky.
You cannot just leave this gem in the tags
I WANT A FOUR DAY WORK WEEK
I WANT A SIX HOUR WORK DAY
I WANT A $25 MINIMUM WAGE
I WANT A MINIMUM OF 20 PAID DAYS OFF PLUS PUBLIC HOLIDAYS OFF
I WANT AN AUTOMATED INCOME TAX SYSTEM THAT PUTS THE OWNESS ON THE GOVERNMENT TO DO THE LEG WORK AND TELL YOU WHAT YOU OWE
