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Other P5 mostly other ppls fanart
CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions
if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators
THEY ARE TRYING!!!!! SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE DISNEY ANIMATORS' UNION RECOGNIZED
this petition is from IATSE (union), btw! it actually has credibility, unlike most change.org/etc petitions! please sign it!!
like literally smoking from the engine
white and you smell pancakes?
it’s the coolant. panic and pull over, but you’ll live
a slight blue tinge?
it’s the oil. panic and pull over, but you’ll live
grey, looks like fire smoke?
gasoline; the most combustable and dangerous. pull over and leave the vehicle, pray.
sharing because i didn’t know this when my car started smoking white yesterday and i was so afraid for my life.
Reblogging because a dear friend of my Moms with mechanic experience told me the same thing when I got my license.
White or blue, you’ll pull through.
But if it’s gray, get away.
you want to help stop tumblr from murdering itself? here's how!
i encourage you to reblog this so we can get as many people leaving feedback as humanly possible. we need to let staff know this is an utterly terrible idea
by the way, tumblr has turned off asks on all of their staff blogs, so this is the only way to tell tumblr how you feel
here it is again because uh. seems relevant.
✖ Vash gives into peer pressure
❌ Knives faces some consequences to his actions- and he doesn't fucking like it
✖ JuRai Mills is the shitty mall, anyway
❌ All the unabashed, joyful cringe of being 17
[read chapter 5 on AO3]
aka, the most self-indulgent high school AU we’ve ever written and why I had to perfectly recreate LiveJournal on AO3 ;D
a joint project between @arahith, @dragonofeternal, and @setsuntamew ✌
ohno i got the layout update...
pls just let me collapse the sidebar on the left.
ohno i got the layout update…
when did you stop watching every marvel movie?
Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor
Captain America the First Avenger, The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Thor the Dark World
The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Age of Ultron, Ant-Man
Civil War, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-Man Homecoming
Thor Ragnarok, Black Panther, Avengers Infinity War, Ant-Man and the Wasp
Captain Marvel, Avengers Endgame, Spider-Man Far From Home, Black Widow
Shang-Chi Legend of 10 Rings, Eternals, No Way Home, Multiverse of Madness
Thor Love & Thunder, Black Panther Wakanda Forever, Antman & Wasp Quantumania
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (still keeping up with Marvel movies)
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i think we as a society went through a period where people watched every marvel movie because they’re marvel movies. So, which of these movies was the last one you watched before only watching Marvel movies you’re genuinely interested in seeing?
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yeah im “transitioning” *dissolves into tiny pieces as i click to the next slide*
Is there a transfem version?!?
ask and ye shall receive
Nonbinary version?
enjoy 💛🤍💜🖤
And Sparta was not militarily excellent. Its military was profoundly mediocre, depressingly average. Even in battle, the one thing they were supposed to be good at, Sparta lost as much as it won. Judging Sparta as we should – by how well it achieved strategic objects – Sparta’s armies are a comprehensive failure. The Spartan was no super-soldier and Spartan training was not excellent. Indeed, far from making him a super-soldier, the agoge made the Spartans inflexible, arrogant and uncreative, and those flaws led directly to Sparta’s decline in power.
And I want to stress this one last time, because I know there are so many people who would pardon all of Sparta’s ills if it meant that it created superlative soldiers: it did not. Spartan soldiers were average. The horror of the Spartan system, the nastiness of the agoge, the oppression of the helots, the regimentation of daily life, it was all for nothing. Worse yet, it created a Spartan leadership class that seemed incapable of thinking its way around even basic problems. All of that supposedly cool stuff made Sparta weaker, not stronger.
This would be bad enough, but the case for Sparta is worse because it – as a point of pride – provided nothing else. No innovation in law or government came from Sparta (I hope I have shown, if nothing else, that the Spartan social system is unworthy of emulation). After 550, Sparta produced no trade goods or material culture of note. It produced no great art to raise up the human condition, no great literature to inspire. Despite possessing fairly decent farmland, it was economically underdeveloped, underpopulated and unimportant.
Athens produced great literature and innovative political thinking. Corinth was economically essential – a crucial port in the heart of Greece. Thebes gave us Pindar and was in the early fourth century a hotbed of military innovation. All three cities were adorned by magnificent architecture and supplied great art by great artists. But Sparta, Sparta gives us almost nothing.
Sparta was – if you will permit the comparison – an ancient North Korea. An over-militarized, paranoid state which was able only to protect its own systems of internal brutality and which added only oppression to the sum of the human experience. Little more than an extraordinarily effective prison, metastasized to the level of a state. There is nothing of redeeming value here.
Sparta is not something to be emulated. It is a cautionary tale.
https://acoup.blog/2019/09/27/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-vii-spartan-ends/
at their communal tables, spartans ate nutritious but bland food, sometimes described as soup or gruel. asimov relates there was a contemporary greek joke, of course spartans don’t fear death, if all you have to look forward to is gruel every day, death seems preferable.
i posted similar thoughts on livejournal back in the day, i watched 300 and laughed out loud in the theater.
I think it’s only fair that two thousand years of idolising the Spartans is followed by two thousand years of roasting them to heck.
This.
As a tangent, it’s interesting that North Korea is brought up as a comparison, since it has one of the world’s largest center of art production, the Mansudae Art Studio. It is state ran, as most things would be under such government, and it produces both domestic art and creative exports.
Its foreign commercial division is known as the Mansudae Overseas Project Group of Companies, which as of 2014 has created monuments for 18 African and Asian nations.
99% invisible did a podcast episode about it.
I know a comparison isn’t meant to be 1:1. So this is more of an interesting tidbit than an argument.
Not to endorse oppression, but DPRK definitely recognize the power of art and culture as propaganda and means of control. You could argue whether art curtailed by the state still counts as art, but whatever it is, DPRK certainly has A LOT of it, and while they’re known for Socialist Realism (the defining look of communist propaganda art), their oversea exhibition seem to show a wider variety.
