#equitability

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

“alt text for more info” “turn on cations for more info” no actually this is not where more info goes. These have a very distinct purpose. There are plenty of other places for more info. If you’re going to make your post inaccessible, the least you could do is not use accessibility tools at your own leisure for whatever purpose you see fit.

[thepeopleinpower]

Stone me to death if I’m wrong I guess but I really feel like any privilege comes with the responsibility to distribute that privilege downward any way you can and not hoard it exclusively for your own benefit. but idk who am I to say

[static-mcgee]

Gonna use this as an opportunity to tell y’all to go easy on yourselves.

You don’t have to find the perfect, most equitable product in the supermarket when you just want to buy some fricken Jif peanut butter or something. You are only one person, and when there’s not some recognized and followed boycott going on, you can buy yourself what you want.

In the grand scheme of things, it won’t make a difference. You buying or refusing to buy one by your lonesome won’t make or break the world. You can rest assured on that knowledge. And if someone makes a fuss about it? I’m sure there’s something they could focus more on with their moral grandstanding.

If we start boycotting the thing? Yeah, maybe avoid purchasing it for a while. It’ll help.

But while it’s not?

Be kind to yourselves. Buy the effing Jif peanut butter

Please stop seeing politics as an identity and start seeing it as a collective means for change

[whywishesarehorses]

This is Gilberto Filipe, who dominated the World Association for Working Equitation Qualifier in Segovia, Spain, in March 2024. I think this is his Lusitano stallion Iranio.

Video from magda_konno on Instagram! Link in the comments.

[blightbright]

i'm sure i'm late to seeing this but CAN WE TALK ABOUT Matt Rhodes' concept art of THIS DREAD WOLF CARVING

this carving representing GIFTS TO SOLAS FROM FREED SLAVES

[liminalweirdo]

from themme_fatale's piece On Compliance

"In the face of every daily piece of horrifying news coming out of the US (and our own copycat conservative politicians at home), it’s clear that being willing to stand out and stand up for something - to be disobedient in the face of immense pressure - is only going to get more vital. Artists, performers and event producers are uniquely placed to help foster spaces where we can practice this.

Even (and especially) alone though, we need to get comfy with it. Building this confidence is absolutely possible, but it’s a skill that takes practice. Dr Devon Price has written a great piece on practicing disobedience - definitely recommended reading (especially if you’re also neurodivergent). There are so many ways to practice the act of awkwardly, defiantly, not doing what’s expected of you. Chucking on a mask is just a particularly good one as you can do it anywhere, it’s good for you too, and it doesn’t even require you to say anything!

More importantly, you have disabled people literally begging you to wear one to help them stay alive in a world that’s increasingly openly eugenicist; you have shitty politicians and cops trying to restrict your right wear one; there are thousands of people in mask blocs across the globe trying to give you masks for free; quality masks offer near perfect protection at preventing the spread of airborne illness; they offer you a little privacy - a valuable thing in a surveillance state; wearing a mask is class solidarity with workers who are over-exposed and underpaid; and pettily - masks also just really, really annoy a certain type of right winger.

If you’re someone who deeply feels the pressure of social expectations, someone who hates disappointing people, or someone who’s ever described yourself as a “people pleaser”, and you’re also someone who valorises the work of defiant activists past… consider this your challenge for the week: Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Notice the smoke. Call fire. Chuck a mask in your pocket and then pick some moments throughout your week and put it on."

[thepeopleinpower]

I’m so glad this is being said because it’s vitally important for so many many reasons. People thinking its okay to be neutral and cover things up and not talk about them is how a lot of atrocities have been permitted to occur in the first place.

Its absolutely imperative we break that cycle and make generational changes.

It’s absolutely imperative that sweeping things under the rug becomes socially frowned upon.

It’s absolutely imperative that we stop lying to kids all the time

Its absolutely imperative that we stop teaching kids by example that its okay to cover things up and lie all the time.

Because a lie of omission is a lie and teaching kids otherwise is so damaging not only to society, as we have seen for centuries, but also to the kids themselves. Because if you teach a kid “we don’t talk about unpleasant things” they will follow that into adulthood where it will absolutely destroy them.

In conclusion we all have a responsibility as a global citizens to do what’s right, and as educated adults and parents to do what’s best for our children, and these responsibilities go hand in hand.

[box953]

It doesn’t matter what you have to give up, who you have to hurt, how far you have to go. (Wolf 359 ep38: Happy Endings.)

[horse-breed-a-day]

Horse breed of the day: Petiso Argentino

Height: 10-13 hh

Common coat colors: Chesnut, bay, gray and buckskin

Place of origin: Argentina

[blueiight]

“what can the damned really say to the damned?” is what this episode asks. and well… “nothing.” is what the show answers us with.

we are introduced to louis and claudia as ultimate outcasts to the mortals around them and vampiredom: louis attempts to maintain the illusions of humanity in similar structures once more, casting grace as his lost wife and claudia as his daughter, as claudia seeks to find other vampires. armand, clearly pissed about the interview as is, decides to draw upon 150 years of prior work experience as a playwright toward the end of this episode, which is quite frankly, a bit much considering how daniel’s already scared shitless. and theres a terrible romantic specter in europe following louis thats named lestat. its a lot going on here, and im bound to not cover everything. i do want to cover dreamstat, and me and you(5x) but i will wait for the season to progress to do that^_^

‘He asked me if we could go home. Home? Can there be a more offensive question? Run back to New Orleans. Pry up his bones, why don’t you? Louis de Pointe du Lac, dead weight.’

louis and claudia’s tension in this particular episode revolve around the killing — or the betrayal that prevented the killing — of lestat. et tu, louis? stowaways on ships, trains, and wagons and a totally alien environment where even the blood is hostile to them, is it any wonder louis dreams of lestat? is it any wonder, having access to louis’s mind, in pursuit of some understanding of vampires beyond the facismile of the nuclear structure, that claudia continues to feel betrayed? i always think to myself, if claudia had qualities that made the average fan more sympathetic to her, would they understand how she was betrayed by louis specifically that night? would they be able to sympathize with claudia’s incredible perserverance despite, and because of, everything thats happened to her? and how that betrayal is the underlying tragedy and romance alike of the narrative that made 1940 mardi gras’s aftermath so haunting that louis in dubai did not remember it or was made not to until the other night?

following that in the flashbacks is when dreamstat first appears, clearly an extension of louis’s own mind at this own point, and he asks louis:

Four years of grim wayfaring, and still no sight of the benevolent vampire. So how does denial manifest itself tonight? … Was she worth it?

its so telling that lestat is the image louis calls upon to embody his most bitter feelings toward claudia in this sequence. dreamstat deserves his own breakdown, especially in relation to louis& claudia’s conversation when she first finds the revenant, as well as the wider events in dubai…

speaking of revenants, morgan in the show is a proto-daniel of sorts an abandoned journalist whos interest in photography exposes the illusion of grace the wife and claudia the impossible daughter, and tries to understand louis through the perspective of the mortal hes been given — did he go AWOL, or is he a black bolshevik? louis when questioned absconds, and closes up what little of himself he’s sold to morgan. its a smart way to include him in the narrative, as morgan is witness to emilia’s beheading after she was attacked by said revenant… and louis turns his head, truly embodying the detachment of the vampire in this moment. human affairs, their problem. this is a really good example of whats meant by ‘human affairs’ in the show, by the way. this episode features claudia & louis facing racism from military to children, and thats not framed as a ‘human affair’, but as one of many haunting aspects of their immortal existences.

claudia, in the pursuit for vampires, continues the metaphor of adoption in how she tries to find some sort of companionship and her current understanding of romania as this ancestral home to the vampire. whats also noticeable here is how claudia trying to make sense of centuries of legends is a striking parallel to how louis in the present day attempts to make sense of whats ‘true’ and ‘untrue’ from her diaries. claudia’s private accounts in the present that she never intended to be so deeply analyzed as anything other than her internal narrative in the moments she wrote them has become, to louis, a similar sort of legend thats necessary to decode for his own sense of self.

She writes here, ‘I do not dream.’ I can confirm that. At least, that’s what she said to me once when I was talking about one of my dreams which were erratic and often in those years. Of course, she might’ve just said that to shut me up, but yet… she writes it here so… let’s believe it. She continues. ‘We traveled light in our ancestral home. We slept in the earth, took circuitous routes around the mad army goose-stepping its way toward mother Russia…’

I woke that night to the sound of chaos erupting nearby. Claudia was, uh.. . she was dreaming. Her head twitching like you would. […] No, I can feel her. I can feel her next to me. She’s having a nightmare. What’s worse than a nightmare? If your soul’s projecting out its fears, at least it’s up and running. But the absence of anything? The void, the nothing, pieces… coming back. Hours, nights, objects surfacing in water… It was just something she’d wrote. But it wasn’t true. She could dream.

dubai louis’s recollection of claudia and the existential dread of eternally being damned, the terror of lacking a soul, a rather catholic fear but still having a sequence of memories that cycle back into an immortal brain, replay in this inversed sleep cycle, can be malleable, forgotten, poke a hole in louis’s attempt to utilize claudia’s diaries as but an extension of his own narrative, and offers a glimpse at what is truly at stake in this second interview.

[moonshynecybin]

i will miss gresini constantly calling marc the goat. i have afeeling that won't be the case with corse

calling him the goat while having a factory deal with vr46 would be objectively funny but yeah no they’re gonna be like this is marc. he’s an eight time world champion we found in the woods somewhere. we pay him in sticks

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

Some people will get soooo offended if you say they are privileged ???what’s the deal with that

privileged=undeserving? it’s morally ambiguous?? privilege=malice??? evil intent?? no!

[sindee19]

The fact that everyone who remains in the house and is going at least to jury, has won a competition.

[existennialmemes]

Now that everyone can see in real time how ineffective our concept of "checks and balances" is, maybe we can all admit that this is not the best conceivable system of governance.

[whywishesarehorses]

Kenzi Dysli at the Bergisch Classics

[alacants]

physically restraining myself from starting us east coast-west coast discourse re: distribution of tennis tournaments.