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at the risk of being cringe with everything going on — this week, the last six months, the past five years — i keep thinking about that one quote from the great gatsby
“they were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
it’s just every day now, huh.
I find it incredibly fascinating that despite their dispositions, Endeavor is generally shown to be a better team player than All Might. While it's true that All Might really only has two types of fights- stomps or almost losses- and it can be argued that he doesn't really need the help, it says something that Endeavor, who is the only other person to have almost killed AfO outside of OfA users, whose fights basically also go a similar way, instead chooses to build infrastructure, essentially.
Judging by his numbers and how it runs, his support structure/agency is more efficient than All Might's. The numbers might be a bit fudged because All Might is a single man and Endeavor actually team plays, but the point stands. He is, genuinely, a large net positive for Japan's heroics industry (if you ignore the Hellish Todoroki Family TM) because he's actively got a team of heroes that he leads/mentors instead of an agency that's meant to mainly support his efforts. Those people later go on to become competent heroes in their own right, or mentor other people, or maybe found their own agencies.
For all their philosophies might say, for all that Toshinori's is built on inspiring others and Enji's is fundamentally selfish, it is Endeavor that builds more people up for the majority of their careers, not All Might.
Which is, if nothing else, incredibly ironic.
Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. O click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.
Power is a funny thing.
hold on let me google something
what the fuck
happy Boston Molasses Flood to all who celebrate
Organised crime? Nah girl I'm into disorganised crime. If a goon doesn't have ADHD they aren't getting hired
Cops can't stop us if they don't know what we're doing, and they can't find out if we have no idea either
Nah I'm safe it wouldn't happen twice
Minions stop this post from reaching 1k
On it, boss! Gettin' this post to 10k, just like you said!
“I want you to do this with me for one month. One month. Write 10 observations a week and by the end of four weeks, you will have an answer. Because when someone writes about the rustic gutter and the water pouring through it onto the muddy grass, the real pours into the room. And it’s thrilling. We’re all enlivened by it. We don’t have to find more than the rustic gutter and the muddy grass and the pouring cold water.”
— Marie Howe, Boston University’s 2016 Theopoetics Conference (via mothersofmyheart)
Marie Howe:
I ask my students every week to write 10 observations of the actual world. It’s very hard for them.
Ms. Tippett:
Really?
Ms. Howe:
They really find it hard.
Ms. Tippett:
What do you mean? What is the assignment? 10 observations of their actual world?
Ms. Howe:
Just tell me what you saw this morning like in two lines. I saw a water glass on a brown tablecloth, and the light came through it in three places. No metaphor. And to resist metaphor is very difficult because you have to actually endure the thing itself, which hurts us for some reason.
Ms. Tippett:
It does.
Ms. Howe:
It hurts us.
Ms. Tippett:
You naming something.
Ms. Howe:
We want to say, “It was like this; it was like that.” We want to look away. And to be with a glass of water or to be with anything — and then they say, “Well, there’s nothing important enough.” And that’s whole thing. It’s the point.
Ms. Howe:
It’s the this, right?
Ms. Howe:
Right, the this, whatever. And then they say, “Oh, I saw a lot of people who really want” — and, “No, no, no. No abstractions, no interpretations.” But then this amazing thing happens, Krista. The fourth week or so, they come in and clinkety, clank, clank, clank, onto the table pours all this stuff. And it so thrilling. I mean, it is thrilling. Everybody can feel it. Everyone is just like, “Wow.” The slice of apple, and then that gleam of the knife, and the sound of the trashcan closing, and the maple tree outside, and the blue jay. I mean, it almost comes clanking into the room. And it’s just amazing.
Ms. Tippett:
In some basic level, what they’ve done is just engage with their senses.
Ms. Howe:
Yeah, and have been present out of their minds and just noticing what’s around them, which is — we don’t do. And again, not to compare it to anything. They’re not allowed. And that’s very hard for them. And then on the fifth or sixth week, I say, “OK, use metaphors.” And they don’t want to. They don’t know how. They’re like, “Why would I? Why would I compare that to anything when it’s itself?” Exactly. Good question.
So then you think, why the necessity of a metaphor? Why do you have to use a metaphor now? Not just to do it to avoid it, but to do it to make it more there. And it’s very interesting.
Are you outside of Minnesota, but want to know what’s going on with the ICE occupation? Check out:
National news is not covering everything that’s happening here. (Almost like that’s on purpose.) But these are helpful, local sources to Minnesota to provide an accurate depiction of what’s really happening here.
Are you outside of Minnesota and looking to help?
These links go to those sources’ Instagram profiles. And I will edit this post with more, it’ll remain a living document.
A final note: You may have seen posts on social media about what it’s like here. Believe them. It is that bad. It is that scary. They are kicking doors down. They are demanding to see identity papers if you’re simply walking on the street.
My sister is a teacher, and they were driving around her school yesterday. A middle school.
They are offering people money to out undocumented immigrants or protest organizers. That link is a firsthand account of someone who was detained, and asked those very questions.
They are taking our neighbors.
This is an occupation.
I don’t have a lot of followers, so hoping the tags can help spread this far and wide.
So turns out the US are setting babies up for a lifetime of illness and increased likelihood of liver cancer in Guinea Bissau in the name of “research”
7000 newborns will be denied the neoneatal HepB vaccine until 6 weeks to ‘prove’ that the HepB vaccine is linked to neurodevelopmental disability on the directions of the Department of Health vis RFK Jr and in collaboration with researchers in Denmark, despite the fact that the vaccine’s efficacy rate and best protection is when administered to newborns, and the total lack of correlation between vaccination and neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Guinea Bissau has some of the highest rates of HepB on the continent, and infants are the group at the highest risk of contracting HepB, leading to chronic hepatitis & long term hepatic diseases like cirrhosis and liver failure as well as increased chance of liver cancer.
The study can’t be carried out in the US or Denmark because it fails almost every benchmark for medical ethics — surprising absolutely nobody, it is in fact heinously unethical to expose babies to preventable disease that causes liver failure and liver cancer, but the “study” has been green lit in Guinea.
Fuck the US imperial project in Africa, fuck RFK Jr and the US Department of Health, and fuck every single collaborative researcher in Denmark. This is some nightmare Tuskegee Study shit and every single individual involved deserves to be in The Hague.
breaking my silence,
I still don’t know why they call it ‘whump’ and ‘blorbo’ like that’s so random, who came up with that? what’s the story behind it? and if I’m being honest, I hate the names ‘whump’ and ‘blorbo’, they both sound terrible, I’m sorry. don’t get me wrong, I love whump and I have my own blorbos, I just don’t know or understood why it’s called whump and blorbo or why we couldn’t come up with better names to call them
I was there. For both of these.
Whump cones from the SG-1 fandom where putting Daniel Jackson in peril and/or having him get hurt was called "Danny Whump" and was supposed to be the sound of his body hitting the floor (still unsure why whump was favored over the more popular "thunk" sound of a body hitting the floor). It grew in popularity and spread to other fandoms.
Blorbo is much more recent. Froma 2021 Tumblr post:
Play it cool.
The best thing about sunrise on the reaping is how it changes the dynamics between Plutarch, Haymitch and Effie. Plutarch goes from a rebel mastermind who Haymitch is aware of, to this annoying dude who has been meddling with Haymitch and Effie for 25 years. Like he could almost be their friend, but you know he gets on their damn nerves. He is almost their friend but they know he would sell them to satan for one corn chip. 10/10 dynamic. No notes.
Outside the Opera, Paris, 1879 by Jean Béraud (French, 1849–1935)
