#i can do my job 👍 except here are some things i need help with 👍

[recapitulation]

I know I need to eat bland foods that are easy to digest bc I feel like absolute shit but explain to me why I'm craving shitty greasy fast food ... AND am nauseous at the same time... girl choose one

[kleinstar]

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uhhh words uhhh.... friendship, bed, food?

Send 👍 (+ A WORD) for a random headcanon I have about our muses (ACCEPTING)

👍Friendship

Theyre friends f you wang yi -- im kidding you already explained that lmao, but yes, they're friends! and bros but not like sibling bros that'd be weird - obviously things escalate a lot so progress often goes to bed but that said they ofc care about each other beyond that too. Eiden at the moment's not as open with Wang Yi as Wang Yi is with him but that i think is more up to Eiden's own nature, he's just a little awkward with that (and i also need to think like what would he get help from wang yi about lmao but well we do kinda have thread on that already) but yeah! I don't think there's much to say about their time spending other than Eiden sometimes drags Wang Yi to do stuff (not that kind of stuff in this case) and sometimes Wang Yi also helps Eiden out at this job sometimes ... i think its pretty fine balanced thing where they can just be and have a good time? maybe started lighter and then got ...not heavier lmao but just... friend...stuff... my brain stopped working here my bad.

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where they end up! often! Eiden tends to take lead most of the time bc it just works out that way instead with him being the more experienced but he also asks what Wang Yi wants to try out and sometimes Wang Yi even suggests something. sometimes its just that it escalated into that and sometimes its them calling to other and being like "hey im coming over lets try that' except i feel like wang yi might not be that direct lmao.... also like while they try out lots of stuff sometimes they just sidetrack and do the ordinary route (for them).

when wang yi takes lead its sometimes just him letting up some steam and ...eiden plays along happily! bc hes eiden ldkfldk, eiden's really trying to convince him its fine tho lol i wouldn't say they go THAT hardcore tho but idk you tell me.

👍food

Wang Yi makes this more often but Eiden definitely helps out when he can so sometimes they end up cooking together too. It's a lot rarer when Eiden cooks something and its likely to be either something he already makes often or something he wants to try out, maybe might make something when wang yi's sick (and other way around but eiden's not very likely to call anyone when he's sick tho he might call to ask if something needs to be done for work ...but im digressing) Since Wang Yi's a good cook Eiden's eats a lot, don't overfeed him though Wang yi lmao

[leatherbookmark]

fuck or die/sex pollen, Very Specific This Is Almost Definitely The Writer's Job/Hobby AU, Magical Creachure AU

wow, anon! those are Just the tropes i wanted to talk about! it's almost as if you were me, sending this ask to myself for this exact purpose! amazing. anyway

fuck or die/sex pollen: are technically different things but i will put them together and give them an A because they're the one trope that i actually Have In The Past combed ao3 for. lol. i don't know! i don't know. usually characters losing the control over their autonomy, bodies and so on kinda bug me, and while in a certain state i can accept a/b/o, when i try to think about the Social Circumstances of everyone being aware you're in horny town/about to enter horny town/submissive and breedable/etc for more than five seconds i go insane, but. there's SOMETHING about fuck or die and sex pollen that just *clenches fist* gets me.

i haven't read many fics where the characters forced to fuck are total not even a little sexually attracted to each other*; mostly it's been ships i was interested in, and while obviously for the characters involved it's probably hell, there's often this moment of... idk, assurance that neither part is using the other? the mind-blowing sex we're about to have is 100% medicinal/situational, i am doing this 100% respectfully...!

*hold up. i have. IT WAS NIECEST. i think some guys have captured them and forced them to fuck or else, and it was hoooorrible for them both because they were NOT miserably in forbidden love with each other in this scenario. 🥰🥰🥰

except. EXCEPT. there's also the Angst Potential (which i hope to squeeze as much as in can when i get to it 😬). the "i want him to rail me into next tuesday, but of course he would never...! and yet here he is, forced to rail me into next tuesday to save my life! how horrible! i am staining his pristine body with my filthy, cursed, and horny body...! ah! what horror. what utter bliss". as well as the top version of it, aka the "ah! he would never! but here i am, having to--" etc. but ALSO the, uh, spoiler alert, "i would love to be somewhere else. instead i am railing this person, who is very dear to me in a way i can't yet explain due to reasons etc, into next tuesday. they seem into it. no, it's the curse. but they seem really into it. no, i'm victim-blaming. they would never. not that it's bad. but--"

like. Wa Hoo! nice 👍

Very Specific This Is Almost Definitely The Writer's Job/Hobby AU: fucks like a rabid rhino even in cases where i have no idea what any of those terms mean. i want to get IMMERSED! give me those DETAILS you funky little author! YEAS. A

Magical Creachure AU: AH YOU SEE. depends on everything including the creachure.

like, say, one of them is a mermaid (gender neutral). i just got reminded of a rinharu mermaid fic that i was crazy about back in the times. anyway! there's... the list of things that happen in a mermaid au is pretty predictable, i think? dude finds a mermaid, they either meet on the beach or the mermaid is injured and needs help --> into the bathtub you go; the mermaid learns about human stuff and the human learns about mermaid stuff, insert conflict either down there or up there, sex? and then A SOLUTION, which often is "the mermaid stays on land due to Love". it can be done well! and it can be done not well. it really depends!

paradoxically, i don't really like it when the creature character is too much like an animal and too little like a human. does this make sense? for example, when they eat their human's pet, don't know much about Emotions, talk about Nesting and Mating rather than, idk, finding someone to fuck... that's. that's kind of like an animal that can talk, i feel? not exactly my cup of tea, so to speak. i'd much prefer if there was some other Culture under the sea, with existing traditions and such, but a culture nonetheless. something like "i caught you this big huge fish in broad daylight because i want you to be my mate forever!" vs "oh yeah, well, when we like someone we bring them stuff, mostly good food but cool stuff from the surface is a hit too. you do that too...? ah, figures. shit listen can i bring you a hugeass fish because i don't really have cash money"

When There Are Vampires/Werewolves: i have this sad disease called "i don't really care about vampires/werewolves and i don't think blood sucking is sexy" :(

When One Of Them Can Turn Into Some Animal: yknow what. yeah. yeah that's good stuff (i bet you're all surprised). this is good. there's Human Them, and then there's Animal Them, and they both need different things, and their beloved wants to give it to them. what's cooler than a little guy chilling in the coils of a huge fuckass dragon, who is his loving boyfriend? probably that dragon boyfriend killing some annoying people for him! what's cooler than a guy cuddling a bighuge wolf who's (you guessed it!) their boyfriend who has a bad brain day and just needs to be dog for a bit. what's cooler than lan xichen holding a little bird a-yao in his hands, gently, so gently that not a feather on a-yao's person is ruffled, ready to hide him from the world, ready to kill for this tiny ball of feathers, each smaller than his little fin--hi? no i did not drop any names, you're just imagining things. anyway. S

[mikrom00dness]

🖊 I would love to hear you gush about really any of your OCs, so go ahead! :D

So it's time to gush about my OCs! today I'm gushing about 11th and 13th

Sorry it took me so long, but I needed to show how they look first, so I spent a lot of time on drawing them 😞

This grumpy guy, yep

As you can see, he's really fashinable, but he also stays true to the "traditional" Midas representative looks.

99% off all time harsh

Has a clue about that but prefers to be painfully honest to everyone

Is a very jelous person

Hard on himself (and his Entres too) about his responsibilities bc always tries to achieve perfection and bc

Constantly seeking approval from the elder ones, especially Masakaki

Runs the Nothern European District

In his spare time, which is not much, he likes to raise butterflies. *glances on his cape*

Perhaps they are the only ones he shows that one small percent of ✨sensitivity✨

It even partly helps him develop patience, which he clearly lacks.

But always tries to remain calm to the last

If he was a student *student mode ON* he would be that one guy that asks the teacher for homework at the end of the class, when everybody is ready to go home, hoping that teacher forgets to give you homework. Not on 11th watch, guys... 😞

Is gay *mic drop*

MBTI - ISTJ-T

And of course I have some song that I strongly associate with him (for the second one here's an english name "I can't do anything with myself" and a "Ya nichego ne mogu s soboyu sdelatʹ" transcription if you want to find the lyrics (in original and in english)).

The youngest of the representatives

Doesn't consider himself a representative, but calls himself a punk

Likes metal and hardrock (also every other energetic musik genre)

mood: rebelious child

Never minds rubbing his fists against someone face, but eventually often ends up getting beaten up 👍

is THE GEEK

If someone next to him calls games or comics a childish hobby - they're dead (not literally but you know...)

Very emotional and expressive

Dancing is his thing

panSEXUAL

he/they

Can't, literally can't live without ✨relationship✨ and making a mess of (not necessary, his current lover, random people around or himself)

Jumps from one relationship to another (literally with no pauses) and never finds peace in it bc he's always the one who gets dumped.

Usually after getting dumped throws a tantrum and gets drunk to find another partner and so it goes round and round.

Of course he doesn't do the Midas business bc sex and making a mess everywhere you go is more interesting

The others think he is still immature for the job, even though he has the Financial District (Southern European) that badly needs new Entres.

All of his clothing except for boots and his gloves (he never takes them off, never ever) doesn't belong to him 🤭

I do strongly associate him just with any neon colors. If it's neon it will suit him perfectly

Swears A LOT

Has a more deep and sensible side, but I'll not spoiling this to you, no

MBTI - ESFP - T

And my here are my songs associations. The last one is just HIM if you look throug the lyrics, the english name is "Relationships = shit", transcription - "Otnosheniya = govno". The others are what he listens to.

[lawrencedienerthings]

Can government investment in the arts help lift Colorado, the U.S. out of the economy’s coronavirus slump?

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Maybe if things get bad enough, something radically good can come of it.

Some arts advocates, daring to hope for a change in the presidential administration, believe it’s almost time for a new New Deal for the arts.

Michael Bracy, a Washington, D.C., lobbyist who has worked in music policy for 20 years, insists the idea is gaining steam. He cautiously suggests if former Vice President Joe Biden wins the presidential election and the Democrats take both chambers of Congress, “all the momentum is toward a new New Deal, with the potential of Biden being the most activist president since FDR.”

He is not the only one who’s cautiously optimistic.

In a recent Brookings Institution report, Michael Seman, a faculty member at Colorado State University’s LEAP Institute for the Arts, argued for federal recovery measures that include substantial support for arts, cultural, and creative groups, as they do for other impacted industries.

Michael Seman, of Colorado State University’s LEAP Institute for the Arts, co-wrote a Brookings report suggesting a new New Deal for the Arts. He is pictured with a new mural in progress by Kristen Vohs that is collaboration with the City of Fort Collins and the Maple Hill HOA. (Valerie Mosley, Special to The Colorado Sun)

”A large number of the most creative, skilled, and savvy people in the country are out of jobs simultaneously,” Seman said in a phone interview. “How can we harness that resource and develop collaborative projects and programs for them that might foster interdisciplinary work, enhance skills, and result in innovation in process and product? Think along the lines of what Tokyo’s teamLab and France’s Théoriz Studio are exploring and creating.” 

(Both employ immersive, interactive sound and light installations, robotics and more.)

“Perhaps this is the time to incubate a ‘Creative Economy 2.0’ across the United States that is inclusive, interdisciplinary and intersectoral,” Seman said.

Bracy, founder of the nonprofit Future of Music Coalition, said in a phone interview he doesn’t mean to cheer the awful state of the economy, the pandemic and social unrest in hopes of hitting bottom en route to creating something new. “Obviously this year has been so incredibly difficult on so many levels for so many people. There’s no glee, in terms of now we can build something better, but that is the reality.”

“I just want to be creative in thinking about what is the connection point where culture fits into the broader schemes? A bunch of us are trying to get on the front end of this,” he said. “What should it look like? We’re not going to create a Department of Culture … we need to start fresh with really rethinking what can and should the responsibility of the federal government be.”

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The debate has been around for decades. “Underpinning my work for a long time is the fact that the U.S. is really an anomaly when we think of the relationship of government and arts and culture.” Bracy points to Canada and the way that country has taken the sting out of the inevitable consolidation of the radio industry by helping musical artists. 

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Consolidation has been bad for everyone except the broadcasting giants, like Clear Channel, who have profited from the industry’s move to automation. Station staffers lose jobs, listeners lose choices, fewer corporate owners mean a homogenization of the industry and make it harder for fresh acts to break in. Canada’s Radio Starmaker program takes 3% of the profits from radio company mergers to put into a fund for indie artists — “enough to buy the van, make the video, hire the publicist,” Bracy said. “That led to a crazy run of a dozen Canadian indie bands” — among them Arcade Fire, Feist, Metric — who broke through.

How might this sort of government-mandated support for the arts work in other fields?

In light of the pandemic and resulting unemployment for creative workers, more than a few influential arts advocates have floated the idea of a new New Deal for the arts. The lack of federal arts funding has never been more obvious, and emergency grants won’t provide the long-term answer, they claim. “Is there hope for a new New Deal in the U.S.?” asks a recent headline in The Art Newspaper.

Early in the pandemic, Art in America editor William S. Smith wrote that the necessary cultural bailout has been a long time coming: “As industries across the board line up for bailouts, it is time to assert culture as an essential industry and map out a role for the arts that would have seemed unimaginable weeks ago. A new Federal Art Project probably wouldn’t be devoted to mural painting, but it could offer an alternative to a flailing market and channel artworks into public collections. Museums, now supported through tax-deductible donations, could receive more direct public funding in exchange for offering free admission. Private markets and philanthropy will be changed on the other side of this pandemic, so it is time once again to envision what art looks like as a public good.”

“If this is more palatable if thought of as a reboot, a romantic connection to what happened under the WPA,” Bracy said, “maybe it’s WPA 2.0.”

How the WPA worked

Under FDR in the 1930s, the Public Works of Art Project, and then the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project, employed some 10,000 artists nationally. Some big names came out of those programs, including Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollock and Arshile Gorky. Artists were paid $23.60 a week, roughly $450 a week in today’s dollars, to create work for government buildings, post offices, schools and libraries.

“The Harvest,” a WPA mural by Louise Emerson Ronnebeck, was created as decoration for the U.S. Courthouse in Grand Junction. The work, depicting a young man and woman working together harvesting peaches, with references to modern irrigation and Ute Indians being pushed from the valley by white settlers, was shipped to Washington, D.C., in 1973 for restoration and subsequently forgotten. It was returned to Grand Junction in 1992. (Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress)

The Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture and the Treasury Relief Art Project also provided jobs for artists and artisans as part of Roosevelt’s relief efforts. The Federal Art Project directly funded visual artists and created popular posters for agencies like the National Park Service.

Colorado has many notable WPA efforts, including some huge projects built under the Civilian Conservation Corps like Rocky Mountain National Park, Red Rocks Amphitheatre and Mesa Verde. WPA murals and reliefs decorate schools and post offices throughout the state, including Denver East High School’s library mural depicting Marco Polo’s journey to China.

The WPA at its peak employed more than 40,000 Coloradans, mostly building roads, bridges and schools.

These days, the object of a federal arts project wouldn’t be library murals so much as cross-disciplinary works, merging arts with technology. And beyond. 

Seman is excited by the possibility of embedding artists across a wide range of industries. “You have tech, health care … There’s such a wide need for employment. What if it was interdisciplinary, pair an artist with a coder/ someone in high tech? Say a community has a problem to address, get a group together … interesting solutions and ideas come out of that.”

He points to Xerox Parc, the early Palo Alto business spinoff of Xerox, originally intended to work on copiers, that spawned Apple, the personal computer and Silicon Valley.

“These artists became lifelong friends and collaborators,” Seman said. “We’re perfectly positioned for something like that now.”

Bracy sees reason for optimism. Hopeful for political change in November, he is encouraged by “the notion of an administration and congressional leadership that are more attuned to the power of culture and the power of creative workers.” The recent tech antitrust hearings suggest “a willingness to engage in structural economics,” he said. The massive amount of stimulus dollars the government is pumping out is another good sign, he believes.

“I see the potential of Congress, I see Chuck Schumer voicing support for music (via the bipartisan Save our Stages legislation, to preserve live music venues with help from the Small Business Administration) the way I’ve never seen in Washington,” Bracy said. “What could we do if we put our heads together that would be in the best tradition of the arts in this country? I definitely think that’s where the conversation is heading.”

Arts to urban development to public media

The conversation extends to urban development and gentrification, the effect of gathering places on neighborhoods and the complexities around cultural districts. “If you lose a lot of those vulnerable gathering places because they can’t pay rent, or it’s perceived that these are luxury items, that has a real domino effect on the viability of cities,” Bracy said

Sesame Street Math Expert Count von Count. (Simone D. McCourtie, World Bank Photo Collection licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Similarly Bracy foresees “a fundamental rethink about what is the role of public media in a digital age.” Just as the “vast wasteland” of TV in the 1960s led to the creative blossoming of Children’s Television Workshop and “Sesame Street,” Bracy, who also works in the area of documentaries, anticipates a flourishing of nonfiction storytelling in the streaming era. “The rise of digital streaming services have created the ability to get stuff out there, but very few people are really thriving … 1% is doing extremely well, there are lots of people who want to be in the sector but there are no jobs.”

As usual in the arts, the question is, who gets to tell the stories? Who gets to identify as a composer/playwright/filmmaker? Is it only people who have family money or a spouse’s support? Who can take unpaid internships and not worry about making rent? A federal program would help level the playing field.

Bracy notes the Department of Labor has a program, Arts2Work, through the National Alliance for Media, Arts & Culture — putting money in apprentice programs, providing access to entry level work for those traditionally excluded. “It’s not a huge program,” he said, “but could be scaled.”

Optimists say the time is right for innovation, an opportunity for a grand national rethink when it comes to arts funding. Seman hopes the interdisciplinary approach will reveal new ways the creative economy can be jump-started. “Take that and go even further. What if the medical profession were involved? Let’s go to the next step. It’s not a zero-sum game, as I tell my students, you have to think holistically and globally in the arts economy.”

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