What made You die for me? I was Your enemy . . .

I did the bare minimum. The first step was to put a top on, so I decided to do that and worry about everything else later. Then I had to put my trousers on. I did that and worried about everything else later. Then I had to pick up my bag and keys. I did that. Then I had to call an Uber. So I did that. Then I took the lift downstairs.

Don’t overlook paternity leave because it’s a hugely important feminist issue

Celebrating fatherhood with official paternity leave policies challenges traditional gender roles and empowers parents in the workplace. It’s one of those rare issues where men’s rights activists and feminists can find common ground with a mutually beneficial cause. It even has an impact on LGBTQ equality.

- It’s important for LGBT+ parents who don’t fit the cis-hetero mold of one mother and one father.

- It’s an important feminist issue for reducing the second shift: when only one parent gets adequate parental leave, it’s only natural for a pattern to develop that the only parent who got adequate parental leave takes on the lion’s share of childcare. However, if both parents get adequate parental leave, then it’s more likely for a pattern to develop of sharing childcare duties. This is obviously massively important for reducing how much women’s careers are affected by having children.

- If the mother has post-partum health issues (anything from recovering from a C-section or other physical traumas, to post-partum depression and/or anxiety) it’s incredibly unfair to expect her partner to just go back to work immediately instead of allowing her partner to stay home and help with childcare duties. When someone is recovering from having a baby, it can be really important for their partner to stay home to help care for them and the baby.

However, one important point I haven’t seen brought up in why equal paid parental is so important for social equality is how important it is for reducing hiring discrimination.

By that I mean, when a country has *only* guaranteed maternity leave, but either no paternity leave (or really short paternity leave of a few weeks like the U.K. has), this is only going to raise the risk of hiring discrimination against women.

So if a company is choosing between two candidates for a position: one is a young woman and the other is a young man, if the country this company is in has a maternity leave policy of several months or more, but paternity leave is either just a few weeks (or completely non-existent), the company will look at the woman as riskier and less reliable to hire than the man.

So equal paid parental leave leads to more equality in the job market, because it means companies are less likely to see women as riskier and less reliable to hire. If everyone, not just women, has the same length of parental leave, everyone runs the same risk of needing to go on leave for the same amount of time.

Currently, both parents get seven months each of paid parental leave, and there’s an extra two months they can divide between themselves any way they please (both two months go to one parent, each parent gets one extra month each, etc.) however, they are only allowed to receive those extra two months if both parents use their full seven months. If one parent says “I don’t want to take parental leave / I don’t want to use my full seven months” then those two months are gone and can’t be used.

That way fathers can’t skip out on paternity leave without there being a penalty.

• Dress.

Date: 1770-1790

Colors are such a weird topic in art because it's either as complicated as astrophysics or it's ✨vibes✨

But usually what I do is pick a color I want to stand out, make everything else around less saturated or far away from it in the color wheel or not as dark. Or all of the above fjfbf

Example 1, Aayla's blue is the only blue in this drawing. The only color that's close in "temperature" is Quinlan's green robe which is placed on the other side of the composition to bring some balance to the drawing. But also this green is still rather "warm". So the blue stands out no matter what

In this one it's Ahsoka's orange skin. Everything else is cold. Except her head pice which is less saturated. And I added red accents to really make the orange more vibrant

This one is even more obvious. The orange is the only warm color. Even the yellow is yellow-green so it's cold. And the purple you see in the background is warm but it's also mixed in her orange.

As to why I combine the rest of the colors with each other it's less of a system and more of me being a psycho and having what I call fun dhdhdh

Which is usually trying to use as many weird combinations of colors as humanly possible

• Dress.

Date: 1770-1790

The Wild West