Sailing to the Event Horizon

Gosh, so much -

I wish they would include real accessibility when creating their "safe spaces". Dismantling social structures needs to be accompanied by breaking down physical barriers - you can't preach acceptance and equality past a flight of stairs. You can't say "all are welcome" when not all can enter the space and move about it freely.

(It is truly so devastating to enter a space that is suppose to be all about love and acceptance, and still feel strange and unwelcome. So many queers in my area don't even know how to Talk about my disability, let alone accommodate for it)

I wish they would read up more on disabled history and teachings, because they'll discover a plethora of transferable knowledge. For many (white, abled) people, coming into their queerness or trans-ness is their first introduction to medical rights, cure vs. care, public access and visibility, marriage rights, anti-sterilization, and more. But these issues are at the core of the disabled experience, especially for those born disabled (and poc), and our knowledge is vast, developed, and transferable.

(If you are unfamiliar with "nothing about us without us", the crip crawl, the social model, or the curb cut effect, you've not even covered Disability 101)

I wish for kinky queers to learn from kinky disabled folks! They make up such a large portion of the kink community, as the culture allows for so many assistive devices, tools, suspension, unique positions, and breaking down the many ways people can have sex! There are so many sexual educators who are disabled, and they have such valuable knowledge!

I wish queer people could invest as much time and energy celebrating July (Disability Pride Month) as they do June (Queer Pride Month). Be outraged that we still can't get married without losing our medical coverage! Celebrate the disabled folks in your life! Spread awareness and boost disabled educators, activists, and artists!!

Diabolikdvd

Grindhouse Video

Deep Discount

OrbitDVD

Barnes and Noble

And specific labels:

Kino Lorber

Criterion

Arrow Films (UK based)

Shout Factory

Eureka (UK based)

Vinegar Syndrome

Synapse

Warner Archive

Indicator/Powerhouse (UK based)

Severin

Second Sight (UK based)

Umbrella (Australia based)

In addition to finding out where in Africa her ancestors were abducted into slavery, Mary Moran discovered the meaning of the Mende song: a processional hymn for the final farewell to the spirit, it was sung in Senehun Ngola by women as they prepared the body of a loved one for burial.

art block is your brain telling you to do studies.

draw a still life. practice some poses. sketch some naked people. do a color study. try out a different technique on a basic shape.

art block doesnt stop you from drawing, it stops you from making your drawings look the way you want them to. and thats because you need to push your skills to the next level so you can preform at that standard

Write a description of an object. write the weather today. Write a made up characterization of a random photo of an actor from the internet as to the character they are in that picture. Write a little story about your pet’s day. Write about spilling soup and make it super dramatic and tragic. Write about someone’s day being ruined and make it funny. Write a meetcute coffeeshop AU of two OCs you’d never put together- maybe from different stories. Write them breaking up.

Here are some basic primers. If someone is wearing what look like Meta glasses, they usually have a small circular camera in the outer corners of the lenses, like the one on your phone.

I would also regularly check their own product pages so you're on top of what the models look like. They tend to have larger frames, but come in a variety of shapes and colors.

A new hobbyist developed app warns if people nearby may be wearing smart glasses, such as Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, which stalkers and harassers have repeatedly used to film people without their knowledge or consent. The app scans for smart glasses’ distinctive Bluetooth signatures and sends a push alert if it detects a potential pair of glasses in the local area.

The American Foundation for the Blind has said that "The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are an accessibility tool only by coincidence. That makes them more affordable and, in many ways, unaware of the needs of users with reduced vision" although they do have seemingly positive views on Meta Glasses as a whole. (source 10). It also seems like their marketing push as accessibility devices began last year (source 11).

But to add even more into the nonsense, Meta is now toying around with adding a "limit" to the functionality of their glasses unless their users pay for more access (source 12). AND, as stated above, Meta has officially added facial recognition code in their glasses and only admitted it after being called out, which is basically the death of privacy as we know it (source 13, source 14, source 15). And oh look another lawsuit because of it (source 16) THAT THEY LOST (source 17)!

Long story short: I don't begrudge someone using them as a disability aid overall, but ultimately both their privacy and other people's privacy are being disregarded by Meta and that is not and should not be acceptable by any means.

I understand there is no ethical consumption under capitalism but there is a level of personal responsibility someone has to take when using them if they truly truly need them, such as opting out of sharing information, not filming strangers without permission, not posting footage of strangers online, opting out of facial recognition if possible, etc.

like. the movie went to a lot of effort to show the viewer drops of liquid coming off every surface of the sub. including when the liquid in question is just clear instead of being red and bloody. and i was very curious about the point of these environmental storytelling shots because i wanted to understand what was being hinted at. eva says it's "just condensation" but if it was "just condensation", then why would the movie go out of its way to focus on all of these tiny little drips of water running off multiple surfaces in the sub? if it's just water, it's no big deal right?

but today i realized...

that clear liquid that was dripping off everything in the beginning... it seemed a bit too thick to be just regular water condensation.

then i thought:

what if it wasn't water condensation.

what if it was fucking plasma.

he won the curry contest, and along with it the royal warrant, expanding his company by adding a food branch.,

got into a circus troupe that was kidnapping children. children he ultimately ordered burned because they wouldn’t recover from the trauma that befell them,

was almost framed for the murder of a german banker,

was attacked by zombies on a luxury liner, and one of the few people who connected him to his father turned out to be his likely opponent,

attended a boarding school where he became a fag to a high-ranking student, learned to play cricket and led to the second victory in history of the house he belonged to,

almost died first from mustard gas poisoning, then from being shot at by a tank, having a ptsd attack along the way,

established a music hall competing with the performances of four former prefects, outsold them, his friend's butler was killed, his fiancée left him, his dead brother returned as a living doll taking away his title, estate, the servant who had been with him since childhood and (again) he was framed for murders.

and now there’s some crazy guy who keeps trying to out his butler. ciel deserves a vacation, more has happened in his life in one year than in the previous 12 combined.

bonus point: the events of the revenge arc have lasted ONLY 3 DAYS so far​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.