things & stuffs

with things like music, white artists are celebrated and promoted to the point where that artist becomes heavily associated with said community, and that is a big problem

many people can go their whole lives only consuming media created by white people because white media is more accessible due to the privelges afforded to white artists

white artists can have ties to music industries (like clairo) or can have the financial means to create and promote their art

on the other hand, many black and brown artists do not have that luxury. artists like noname (a black rapper) have to constantly go on tour even when they don’t want to just to be able pay for necessities like rent

mykki blanco

shamir

kevin abstract

kindness

dev hynes/blood orange

sailorfag

angel haze

taylor bennett

cakes da killa

choker

kumbia queers

superknova

trap girl

brittany howard/alabama shakes

hurray for the riff raff

kaytranada

kelela

zebra katz

arlo parks

jay som

syd/the internet

willow/the anxiety

raveena

orion sun

hawa

deb never

anju

jessie reyez

ivy sole

dizzy fae

rina sawayama

japanese breakfast

hope tala

solomon ray

070 shake

yves tumor

chika

hana vu

aye nako

amandla stenberg/honeywater

tyler cole/the anxiety

rico nasty

jai paul

serpentwithfeet

Collected my two Cynthis animations (so far) in one post ✨👀 I’m trying to get more Cynthis content made and reblogs are really appreciated!

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and we don’t know exactly what jesus looked like, but here’s an artistic reconstruction of an average 20-something male from his ethnic group at the time

250,000,000 people participated in India

For reference that'd be ~75% of the US population

That many people working together for fair labor laws

4x more people participated than the number of people in the world who have tested positive for covid and you haven't heard about it

Black lives still matter under Joe Biden.

Black lives still matter under Joe Biden.

Black lives still matter under Joe Biden.

Black lives still matter under Joe Biden.

Black lives still matter under Joe Biden.

Black lives still matter under Joe Biden.

Black lives still matter under Joe Biden.

Anyway, she was super fucking homophobic and abusive to me when I told her I was gay, so here’s the recipe

4-6 lbs of Hamburger/turkey burger

1 pk onion soup mix OR ranch mix

1 TBs ketchup

1 Tbs spicy brown mustard,

1 Tbs bbq sauce

1 Tbs steak sauce

1 egg

mix, shape into a loaf in a big pan, and bake at 350 for 2 hrs (maybe 2 and a half if you’re feeling dangerous)

(6 servings)

-2lbs red potatoes

-1 cup butter (2 sticks)

-1 cup cream cheese (1 pack)

-Chives (optional)

-Salt & Pepper to taste

1. drop those bad boys (potatoes) in a big ol pot. U don't even have to chop them just wash them

2. boil til soft!

3. Drain

4. Mash (usually they're small enough you can use a fork if u don't have one of those squashers) until its a pretty chunky mix

5. add the other stuff. Keep mashing

She made pretty god Dampfnudeln (its like a sweet bread rool you eat hot and with vanilla sauce)

1. Put 300 gram flour into a bowl and make an indent in the middle

2.combine

20 gram yeast

1 tea sp. Brown sugar

3 tbsp milk 

mix until smooth

3.mix into part of the flour but leave a big flour rim on the outside

4.set 30 gram of Butter on the flour rim and cover everything with a towel

let sit till you see bubbles in the dough

5. add

 1/8 liter luke warm milk

30 gram Sugar

one pack of vanilla sugar

a pinch of salt

2 eggs 

and knead the dough until smooth

6. put

 1/8 luke warm milk

30 gram of Butter

1 pack of vanilla sugar 

into a heat resistant glass bowl and let melt (the glass bowl is quite important)

7. Form about 12 dough rolls and put them into the milk

8. Cover with a lid (any lid will go it does not need to be sealed air tight)

Let bake in the pre heated oven at 200°C for about 30 minutes or until they start to get brown and fluffy

I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.

What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.

Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.

Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?

Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.

God bless you all!

Kurt Vonnegut

And he went WOW.  That’s amazing!  And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.” 

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.  I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”