#make up is a scam

[redditreceipts]

how to get around in a world that requires you to wear make-up

I know that in an ideal world, nobody would be required to wear make-up and everyone would just do whatever they want. but sadly, that is not the reality (yet), and especially women from marginalized groups, such as women of color and disabled women are expected to wear make-up to be treated as human. also, many jobs require you to wear make-up as a woman or you can prepare to be treated like dogshit. If you can avoid wearing make-up in your daily life, that's great and I'm not telling anyone to change that.

The main problems I have with make-up are:

make-up forces you to always be aware of what you are doing with your face. you can't rub your eyes, you can't touch your face, you can't get wet or sweat or cry

make-up limits the type of activities you can do spontaneously: you can't just jump into a lake because you feel like it, you can't take a nap whereever you want, you can't to sports, you can't cry, etc.

make-up takes up a lot of time every day that you don't have to do other stuff

so here are some things to at least mitigate the problems with that:

dye your lashes: you can buy lash dye on amazon, it is permanent and you can do it at home. It will look like light mascara, last for up to six weeks, and can be easily redone. You can do everything with dyed lashes and they don't smudge, dissolve in water, etc., and it's also really cheap

dye your eyebrows: you can buy some cheap permanent hairdye in the store a couple of shades darker than your hair color, do a test 48 hours prior to see whether you are allergic, and then dye your eyebrows so they look like they are "done" all the time for about 3 weeks. you can do everything you like with dyed eyebrows :)

use lip stain or lip oil for blush and lipstick: lip stain, especially some color-changing types, stain the skin for a while and don't go away with water or when you rub your cheeks or eat something.

if you have the right skin tone, use henna: I'm pale as snow, but there are people who can use henna as a natural and lasting replacement for lipliner or doing their brows

do your own lashes: you can curl your own lashes using a kit off of amazon, which will last about six weeks. it is a bit difficult, but you will be able to jump around and do all kinds of activities and your eyelashes will still look "done"

use stud earrings that glitter or shine: for some reason, if you wear stud earrings that glitter or shine, you will look more "put together". you can invest in a pair made from metals that don't oxidise, then put then in and basically forget about them.

and, of course, speak to your female colleagues to change a discriminatory working environment! Especially if you are able to do so, organise! join a union! it shouldn't do like this!

and yeah, I know, in an ideal world any of this wouldn't be necessary, but I thought I'd give my tips for all of those who are expected to wear make-up but don't want to be limited in their range of motion or spend a lot of time everyday doing their make-up. but this is, of course, not the end of the conversation. it is just a band-aid over a larger issue we have to solve societally, and it can not solve the problem of women being expected to alter their appearance.

[i-looove-dillydallying]

Yeah yeah it’s cool that men are allowed to wear make-up now, but can we finally allow women to stop wearing make-up? Or is that side of the coin not profitable enough

[decarabias]

forever thinking about royal’s bad ending. my thing with it is that maruki doesn’t necessarily give anyone what they want most, he gives them what’s most appropriate for them to want within a maruki-approved framework. iirc there’s a really interesting text sequence in the game where he just straight up changes someone’s career because they’re not “good” at it, regardless of whether that’s what they actually want. why struggle at all? ever? right?

and so ultimately i don’t think goro akechi’s greatest wish is necessarily ren. i think it’s a wish for sure, but his greatest wish is his own agency. despite any regrets he has and the fact that shido and yaldabaoth treated him like a pawn, he's generally pretty adamant about owning his choices and their consequences. he doesn't want that erased. and instead, you end up with pleasant boy™ if you take maruki’s deal. maybe maruki (incorrectly) thinks sanding off all of akechi’s rough edges will make him easier for ren to love. but the crux of it is really that maruki has to essentially lobotomize him to preserve the illusion of his perfect reality, because their ideologies are so diametrically opposed that akechi would spend every waking moment fighting back.

this isn’t to undermine ren’s importance to akechi btw — he explicitly acknowledges that he wishes they had met earlier, and there are countless moments throughout their confidant that underscore how much it means to him that they mirror each other so well. he absolutely does want more time with ren, just not under these circumstances.

and that’s also what makes ren’s choice on 2/2 doubly devastating. he knows that either way he loses akechi. and if he takes maruki’s deal, he loses him knowing that his last moments with the real akechi involved the two of them being unforgivably out of sync.

[fuck-hamas-go-israel]

Ethnic cleansing? Genocide? Apartheid?

Throwing around these buzzwords to describe the Israel-Hamas war because you’ve seen them on social media doesn’t make you right, and it doesn’t make you an activist.

It makes you ignorant, intellectually dishonest, and lazy for parroting biased talking points with no concept about what these terms actually mean.

What is apartheid?

Well, it was first used to describe the political system in South Africa and today’s Namibia whereby racism was institutionalised. This manner of governance meant that clear racial segregation would occur, in a manner that benefited the white race and would actively oppress those who had darker skin.

This meant that there were white-only spaces, white people would get prioritised when it came to education and jobs, and relationships/marriages between white peoples and coloured people were illegal.

Is Israel objectively an apartheid state? There are no laws that actively favour one group over the other. There is a sizeable population of Israeli Arabs that can thrive in the same way as the Israeli Jews can. There are laws against discrimination on the basis of gender, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation.

Palestinians from Gaza are allowed to work in Israel through a work permit system. There are about 150,000 Palestinians working in Israel, most of which live in Israel and some come from Gaza/the West Bank. They aren’t denied rights institutionally.

Is it harder to get a job or education in Israel if you’re a Palestinian from Gaza? Sure, because of different governments. It’s like how it’s a lot easier for you to find a job in your own country (in terms of paperwork and bureaucracy) than overseas. But you’re not denied the right to apply.

Of course, if you have a history of violence, a criminal record, or your family has ties to terrorists, then it’ll be a lot harder to get an approved work permit. But that’s not apartheid. That’s common sense, and a regulation practiced by all countries that minimally desire to protect their own population from danger.

Ethnic cleansing and genocide

These two concepts can go hand-in-hand. Ethnic cleansing refers to the mass expulsion or killing of a group of people based on their ethnicity. Similarly, genocide is the purposeful killing of a group of people solely with the intention of annihilating them.

Famous examples? The Holocaust, of course, where the Nazi regime believed in the superiority of the Aryan race and decided to declare genocide on the Jews, Romanis, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, people with “Asian features”, and many many other groups. Anyone who they didn’t think was “pure”.

Their aim was to ensure that the Aryan race propagated without having “impure” blood affecting the bloodlines. They even started a eugenics programme called Lebensborn to ensure that more pure Aryan babies were born.

More recent examples? The Rwandan genocide where the Hutus attempted to wipe out the Tutsis on the basis of ethnicity. They mandated that Tutsis mention their ethnicity on state-issued ID cards in order for the Hutus in power to be able to identify them and then kill them.

Or the Yazidi genocide which happened so recently, in which ISIL killed, raped, and sent thousands of Yazidis into conversion camps on the basis of their ethnicity. They also took Yazidi women as sex slaves and raped and tortured them.

Or the Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine State in Myanmar, and how there was a mass killing and expulsion of them from the country, forcing them to flee to Bangladesh to take refuge, crating the world’s largest refugee camp.

Or how ISIS killed thousands of people from Christian groups in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and Libya because of their faith, leading the US, EU, and UK to label this as religious genocide and condemned their actions.

Has Israel been practicing ethnic cleansing and genocide on Palestinians all these years?

Well, the birth rate of the Palestinian population in Gaza, the West Bank, and in Israel has been steadily increasing all these years.

So, no. No ethnic cleansing, no genocide. They are free to have as many children as they desire.

The UN Genocide Convention

The United Nations has 5 actions that constitute genocide.

1. Killing members of a target group

Israel is targeting Hamas officials with the aim of wiping out the terrorist group and ensuring that such a deadly attack on Israeli soil doesn’t happen again. I suppose you could call it genocide against Hamas, but they’re killing Hamas because they’re terrorists, not because they’re Palestinian. Shouldn’t everyone believe in genocide against terrorists?

But look at Black Saturday. Look at Hamas’ rhetoric. They repeatedly call for the annihilation of Israel and genocide of Jews. When will the media start believing what they say, word for word, instead of trying to spin it into “hmm maybe they want to kill all the Jews because they’re freedom fighters!”

War has collateral damage. Of course the innocent civilians don’t deserve to suffer just because of the actions of their government, but there have been warnings given to the Palestinian civilians prior to Israel striking the areas. There are consequences of attacking a country first, and then having that country attack you back.

2. Causing people of the group serious bodily or mental harm

The UN refers to sexual violence as the prime example of non-fatal harm.

Sexual violence has occurred. Hamas have kidnapped and raped women and even paraded the bodies of half-naked women around. But I f Israel had done the same, it’ll be the first thing appearing on everyone’s BBC push notifications (without even being confirmed as true).

3. Imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group

Many people refer to the blockade that Israel imposed around the Gaza Strip as an example of this.

This blockade was imposed by both Israel and Egypt in 2005. Its aim was to prevent smuggling of weapons into Gaza, and isolate the reign of Hamas to the region. This was to ensure the safety of Israel and Egypt.

Did this blockade pose serious challenges to the Gazan civilians? Of course. But that’s a consequence of having a terrorist government. If you have a terrorist group running your country, don’t be surprised if neighbouring countries are extra careful about who or what they allow in or out of the borders.

Many authorities from other Arab nations have also expressed approval of Egypt’s border restrictions, and even encouraged Egypt to flood the terror tunnels that Hamas has dug under the city. As a side note, other Arab nations have not historically been very kind or welcoming to Palestinians. Syria has killed over 4000 Palestinians, and many Arab countries are now refusing any refuge for Palestinians. But no one cares about that because it doesn’t make Israel look bad. All they do now is use the images of dead Palestinians under the hands of Syria and reuse them to propagate fake news.

The blockade has been labelled as a human rights violation because of collective punishment. Many humanitarian organisations believe that the blockade has caused the Palestinian civilians disproportionate harm.

Contrary to popular belief, Israel isn’t disallowing humanitarian aid from coming through the borders. Fuel, food, hygiene products, clothes, and shoes have been coming through the borders regularly for years. The Gaza Strip also has electricity and internet access and water.

Do all these items reach the Palestinian civilians? Well, there has been evidence that Hamas has been intercepting a lot of the supplies sent by humanitarian groups. This is not surprising since the UNRWA tweeted that Hamas has stole fuel from hospitals in Gaza in order to launch more rockets at Israel (but quickly deleted it after realising that it goes against their agenda to paint Hamas in a bad light.) In addition, the returned hostages have mentioned that there are many aid supplies hidden in the terror tunnels by Hamas. Instead of giving them to the civilians, they are hoarding it for themselves.

There has also been video evidence that some people are reselling these aid items in stores at exorbitant prices in order to turn profits. This has been well-documented for the last 10 years.

Is blockading the region to mitigate terrorism a disproportionate response? Well, it’s like asking if heightened security and stricter border control at airports is a disproportionate response after 9/11. Is being cautious and worrying about the security of your country an irrational reaction to the constant threat of terrorism?

4. Preventing births

Gaza’s population growth rate per annum is about 1.99%, which is the 39th highest in the world! Their population is allowed to propagate freely.

Israel isn’t preventing births of Palestinian babies.

5. Forcibly transferring children out of the group

No, Israel hasn’t been taking Palestinian children and forcing them to convert/keeping young Palestinian girls as sex slaves. Like I said, if this was truly happening, all the news outlets would be so quick to publish the story before verifying it.

Can we trust the UN Genocide standards?

The UN is known for corruption and have been exploiting the Palestinian people by selling them the humanitarian supplies instead of distributing them for free, which they should because these supplies literally are donations.

The UN also has differing standards of what they would label as genocide. For example, they refuse to call what China is doing to the Uyghurs in Xinjiang as genocide, even though the situation does fit many of their own criteria.

Hence, to all of you out there overusing these terms without knowing what they mean, make up your own mind about things. No one can force you to believe anything and no one can force you to change your mind.

But at the very least, do your due diligence and educate yourself before spouting tired buzzwords. Repeating misinformation doesn’t help anyone and can be very harmful.

[the-great-horse-cocktail]

Alternate timeline where Stanley doesn’t accidentally ruin Ford’s project but he still doesn’t get into Geek Life University bc some kid showed up with a baking soda volcano

[turtleblogatlast]

Love the thought of Leo just casually being well traveled to absurd degrees. Like one day they’re facing their new Big Bad of the year and like, Draxum or whoever says that the key to their fight is located somewhere in, like, Latvia or some place, but no one knows where to start.

Then Leo’s like “oh I know a place” and when asked how the heck he could know of one it smash cuts to Leo falling through the ceiling of said place due to a portal mishap.

Also love the idea of Leo, being as accidentally (and then later, purposefully) well traveled as he is, sometimes taking his family on outings to different places all over, maybe to some new Yokai spots he found along the way.

In these places, Leo 100% lets his bros get scammed by tourist traps.

[oderu]

atelier falls pt. 2 with the mystery shack trio + ford…

pt.1 for the mystery twins and bill

read more for uhhh just extra rambles abt the designs!

everyone’s hats, like with the mystery twins, represent their associated symbol (besides wendy… did NOT know how to translate ice cubes into her hat tassel so I settled for an axelooking ribbon!)

these are all suppsoed to represent stans symbol (the oyster and the pearl) i feelike I overdid it but UHM…. I like it

wendys suppsoed to have a braid… not really a design thing just somehting I just wanted u guys to know HSJDHD

got lazy at this part but soos is suppsoed to be loaded with tons of diff ingredients, herbs and inks. like instead of handyman soos with a tool belt… it’s soos loaded with a shit ton of things ready to make any sort of specialised glyph just in case?

where is his hat you ask??? hmmmmm i dunnooooo wink wink

stan and ford are meant to look similar in terms of clothing but also differ… stans shirt being white vs fords being black etc… idk I just like parallels like that!

[teethlordd]

Putting some guys in some fancy outfits

[voidshrub]

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(These bottles are clearly expired)

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(Pipis)

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(He can’t even disinfect any tools he might have, is thAT A SAW-)

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[utenthy]

it’s ok daddy

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Okay, people understand that you don't just tag things "for exposure," right? If you slap a bunch of completely unrelated tags onto the end of your post, at best you're going to achieve the opposite of what you want because people are going to be annoyed at you, ignore your post entirely, and block you. At worst, people are going to (justifiably, because spamming unrelated tags like that is against the TOS) report you for spam.

It's bad enough to go into a tag and have to block a bunch of pornbots, but seeing someone fall for a fundraiser scam, answer said scam ask, and then tag their answer with a whole bunch of completely unrelated popular topics is just insane. At least the bots have an excuse for being brainless.

[five-rivers]

Hey, listen. I've been posting donation asks lately, but there's some stuff that I'm just. Not going to post. Like, if you spam my inbox by sending several exact duplicates of an ask within minutes of each other, or if you send something that's just a straight up guilt trip about people not responding to your asks, I'm not showing that to my followers. I am also not going to post anything with pictures from people I don't know, because I don't want to play the 'does this blurred picture contain graphic medical procedures, open, untreated wounds, dead bodies, etc. that I'm going to regret seeing if I click on it' game. This is a fandom blog I do as a hobby, not a donation or activism blog, and if this gets too stressful or annoying for me, I'm going to just stop posting this kind of thing and close my inbox altogether.

[no-psi-nan]

Considering that there are actual fake fortune tellers in the series and that Aiura presumably works with a few of them for some time, it's pretty surprising that we never get Aiura's opinion on fortune fakers.

🤔 Like does she respect the hustle? Is she only okay with it if they're basically doing undercover therapy? Does she not realize the others are fakers? Does she think it's possible for other people to have milder versions of her powers? 🤔

[vynnyal]

Turns out Sunlit Trail isn't quite done just yet, so after all that they just send you to a dead end 😂

[thegreatyin]

this mr cards option in the upper river haunts me. what is this even implying. can all masters do that? do they all have powers corresponding to their autism specialization?? forget everything else i need an expose on this hypothetical bat lore immediately

[3-aem]

my toxic trait is picking up random hobbies on a whim like today i went shopping for a cardigan but found No cardigan i liked and so i naturally decided that i can just knit one even tho the only thing i have ever knit was a 8” by 3” rectangle in 5th grade that just looked so pathetic-