Black Lives Matter

i really love that the ending of lucian's icaromenippus consists of zeus holding a council about how much philosophers suck and deciding to smite all of them because that's how i feel after having to interact with philosophy majors for more than 2 minutes

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Everyone needs to STOP comparing Stanley Pines and Rand Ridley. One is a good man, one is not. One kept secrets to save his family, the other kept secrets because they directly harmed his family. Stan is a dilf (Dad I’d Like to Fuck) but Rand is a filth (Father I’d Like To Harm). Stan would not hesitate to beat Rand’s ass. They are NOT the same. 

Now that Britney Spears is free, she’s inevitably going to do something weird and off-putting because she was in a long term traumatic situation with very little control of her life and getting your shit together is hard in the best of times and that does shit to a person and I’m genuinely afraid the public who has been rooting for her for so long is going to turn on her and even start questioning whether or not it’s good for her to be free of the conservatorship and people are gonna need to remember that the answer to that question is unequivocally yes

I’m ready for anything. Black Metal Britney Spears, competitive knitting Britney Spears, cave explorer Britney Spears, full-time mom Britney Spears, anything

Brittany doing everything a la Barbie is perfectly fine

i get y'all’s spirit and I agree that we should support whatever art she makes now that she has the freedom to make what she wants; but i’m pretty sure that’s not the point of the post. perhaps think less “off-beat production that i can consume” and more she is likely going to say something on social media, or in an interview, or a video, that is going to make people uncomfortable. She is going to show symptoms of her trauma and mental illness and people are going to use that as an excuse to demonize her once more. It is incredibly and painfully difficult to resocialize yourself when you have been deeply socially traumatized, and even more so when you have a burning spotlight on you. It’s not “stan this celebrity’s career” it’s “protect mentally ill people from systemic abuse even when their symptoms make you uncomfortable”

Considering seeking help is a sign that you need to, that it is important and that it is ‘bad enough.’

Mentally well people don’t consider contacting crisis lines or booking doctor’s appointments for the fun of it.

You won’t be wasting resources or taking up time - these resources exist for you to access them when you need.

Stay safe out there and look after yourselves.

Candyman is such a hard villain to dislike cause you literally gotta ask him to kill you. You’re gonna pick up the supernatural phone, dial the number of a supernatural murderer, file what you know is a murder request, then get upset when he murders you?

“‘I didn’t think the Candyman would murder ME!’ says person who submitted Candyman murder victim application”

I just saw a gifset that split the word "beautiful" into 3 gifs and I think this one may be the new t hanos

You’re laughing. She has a urinary tract infection and you’re laughing

Soda was an effervescent corn-based drink that was popular during the height of the American Empire. Regionally known as pop or coke in some provinces, it was prepared by extracting corn sugars into a thick syrup to be mixed with water

Often dispensed from a many spouted font and served with small, rectangular blocks of ice. Some varieties of soda were thought to have energy enhancing properties.

I simply cannot feel sorry for multi-millionaire Scarlett Johansson only earning $20 million instead of $30 million or what the fuck ever because Disney recognised that large parts of the world still can't safely go to the cinema on account of the deadly pandemic and released Black Widow on Disney+ at the same time as in theatres. But then I also support anyone suing Disney for any reason, so you see my dilemma

The case isn’t really about Scarlett Johansson. It’s about setting precedent for the way actors are paid when content is released on screening services going forward, and Scarlett Johansson is pretty unique in her position of both having a valid case for breach of contract and having a large enough platform, following and wealth that suing Disney won’t completely destroy her and her career.

She offered to renegotiate her contract at the point the decision to release on Disney+ was made, and Disney refused, that is what lead to the case.

The overwhelming majority of actors, even actor’s working for Disney are not millionaires, I know that because I am a jobbing actor, and I earn less in a year then either of my siblings, both of whom have office jobs.

When you get a film or television job, in addition to what you’re paid at the time you also get something that in the UK is called royalty fees, and in the US is called residuals. This occurs when the show or film is shown or licensed on another channel or network, almost always for a set period of time, although Netflix has started buying the rights to small indie films outright.

Royalty checks can be hilariously small. A friend I trained with once got one for £2.07 because their show had just been licensed to be shown on a Thai TV network, but more often they are a lifeline for actors. Most actors work minimum wage jobs in between acting gigs, and when you also have the cost of Headshots, Self Tape equipment, travel to auditions and lost wages whenever you have to take time off to prep and travel to auditions, you understand why equity wages are so high for individual jobs, because that one episode in a soap you got paid £800-£1200 for (minus 10-20% for your agent), could be your wage for 2 months and you would be considered a fairly successful working actor, even if it was your only acting job in that time period.

The case isn’t about a multimillionaire quibbling over how many millions she is being paid, although it’s likely that had Black Widow had a prepandemic release Scarlett Johansson would have been paid closer to 200 million than the 20 million she is being paid. Although Disney is pushing that angle hard so I fully understand why you’ve fallen into their propaganda trap. It is one of the very few opportunities for actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, directors, and all the other hundreds of creatives involved in the filmmaking process to challenge some of the status quo with streaming services and really ask questions about how royalties will work in the future.

There is a reason that the unions are backing the case and that’s because the other way around, breach of contract is a huge deal, there can be penalties of hundreds of thousands of dollars for contract breaches, often on jobs where you are paid a fraction of that, and believe me, Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Universal all persue those payments, and in certain circumstances even go out of their way to blacklist the artist.

If breach of contract is a big deal when actors and other creatives do it, it should be just as big a deal when studios do it, but it isn’t because Capitalism is rarely about rewarding artists and all about bottom line profit.

This case has the potential to really change things and help millions of ordinary, jobbing actors and creatives. I am 100% on Scarlett Johansson’s side with this and any reasonable person who cares about the well-being of artists should be too.

^^^^^^^^ this. this right here

It's also worth noting that Disney 100% did this because they knew they could probably get away with it and probably didn't expect anyone to fight them very hard if at all.

This is more of the same kind of shit they did to Alan Dean Foster, trying to find loopholes to breach contracts and avoid paying artists. If Disney could get a monopoly on art and never have to pay another artist, they would. It's important that the people fighting them get visibility and support, and you can absolutely do that without condoning literally anything else about ScarJo as a person, because what she's fighting is about far more than her own paycheck.

The perspective of “X is a bad person so shouldn’t be protected from being screwed over” is so baffling. The same laws protect everyone, we need to fight for everyone or the laws don’t work. Who ScarJo is is irrelevant. “Oh there’s a likely serial arsonist on the loose who’s gonna burn down everyone’s houses, but so far they’ve only burned down the house of Greg the Jerk, so we won’t bother doing anything until they’ve used what they learned burning down Greg’s house to burn down someone else’s house. Legal protections should only apply to people we like.”

Hi guys!

I’m Liz from previously my-flourish-and-blotts here on tumblr (and some other sideblogs too).

My blog & my sideblogs that I loved so much have disappeared and tumblr has not answered my several requests to bring it back.

My main blog was where I posted all my work (gifsets, edits, text posts and some personal posts with pictures) that is now all gone. Weeks, maybe months of work just disappeared. Gone.

I’m incredibly saddened by the loss of my old blog, that was my safe place and my anchor, besides being my special interest (I’m autistic) and that I had ever since I was a kid, 8 years ago (I was FOURTEEN) and had almost 40.000 followers but even more about the loss of every single one of my content creations. I would like to ask you if you’ve ever reblogged one of my original posts and you are able to find it, to send it to me here so I can save my work and repost it.

Besides that, if you were following me there at @my-flourish-and-blotts and still want to follow me, this here (@myflourishandblotts) is my new home. This is where I will begin again from zero, reblog my favourite fandoms, keep posting my gifsets and edits and being myself.

I wish you all an excellent day, a wonderful week and good health. 

Love, Liz – myflourishandblotts (previously my-flourish-and-blotts).

im a slut for water. an h2hoe, if you will

I’m feeling much better latley. It’s the kind of sweetness a fruit gets. Time doesn’t revert damage… it HEALS. Every person is a million novels and a million trillion silent conversations with the wind. Just like the beach and all the road trips, immortality in the blueprint, how happy we have always been to experiment with control and losing it.

what

I thought this was talking about an adult character in the series

I hope y’all understand the racism apparent here and how black women are being expected to conform to the standards of white womanhood in order to be actually classified as women

[ID: A twitter post reading "Both Namibian runners 'did not meet the World Athletics eligibility regulations for female classification' and they've 'refused to lower their testosterone with birth control pills'" followed by a link to a post by Africa Facts Zone with a snippet reading "Namibia's Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi have been withdrawn from the 400m race at the Olympics by World Athletics. They are said to be eligible for female classification. The same rules are affecting Caster Semenya, Francine Niyonsaba and Margaret Wambui." There are photos of the mentioned athletes. END ID]

in the 1930s women couldn't do shit without a creature from the black lagoon or frankenstein monster trying to fuck with them

When a “funny” dude likes you and anytime he sees you anywhere he will be like “yoooo wassup it’s Jelissa!” (Or whatever) like “omg Miranda is here whaaaat” for literally no reason why do they do that

They are more likely to do this the more meek and shy they perceive you too. They are less likely to do this if they think you’re loud and confident. Idk what it is it’s not even necessarily bad or annoying it’s just like why.

This is a VERY sweet take and I hope it’s sometimes true

Okay I thought this behavior was annoying before but now it’s actually quite endearing thank you extroverts who want introverts to feel included.