#malcolm collins

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So I did the color wheel challenge, with ocs!

Close ups/individual sections + ramblings below cut

This bitch is a monster of a file and crashed when I got to around 32 hours, luckily I was able to restore it with ibis paint's playback feature, but during the restoration Mason's (orange) lineart bugged and was duplicated and shifted upwards, all on ONE LAYER, so I had to redraw parts of it. All said and done, I spent 38 hours on this piece when my usual is between 5-15, and after merging down all the layers that I could bare to, it has 151 layers. :')

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Rachel M. Cohen at Vox:

Abortion was always slated to be a top issue in the 2024 presidential election. But virtually no one predicted that politicians would be openly blasting those ambivalent about having children. “We are effectively run in this country … by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they wanna make the rest of the country miserable, too,” J.D. Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, said in a now-famous statement in 2021. “It’s just a basic fact. You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.” That wasn’t all on the subject from Vance. He also argued in 2021 that parents should get additional votes on their children’s behalf. People without kids “should face the consequences and the reality,” he said. Other conservative voices have joined in. Speaking in Vance’s defense last week, Blake Masters, the former Arizona Senate candidate, said bluntly that people without children shouldn’t lead in politics: “If you aren’t running or can’t run a household of your own, how can you relate to a constituency of families, or govern wisely with respect to future generations?” he asked.

Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO, weighed in to call Harris an “extinctionist” because she noted some young people cite climate anxiety as a reason not to have kids. “The natural extension of her philosophy would be a de facto holocaust for all of humanity!” Musk concluded. One starting place to understand where all this is coming from is pronatalism: a broad ideological movement driven by concern that the world is not producing enough children and that society should work to change that. Not all pronatalists are politically conservative, and not all conservatives are particularly pronatalist. People with different backgrounds and ideologies are concerned about what a shrinking population will mean for future generations, though the movement does include anti-abortion advocates like Vance and Masters who have been more vocal. Still other card-carrying pronatalists staunchly oppose coercing women into having children they don’t want.

Those worried about declining birth rates paint a scary picture of the future. As the number of babies dwindles, the number of workers will shrink, too. There will be fewer people paying taxes to support welfare systems, which will still be supporting large elderly populations. The result, they warn, will be economic stagnation and political strife: higher unemployment, more acute labor shortages, diminished investment, fewer innovations, and greater poverty. There is some reason to be wary of these grim predictions. Past population panics have fueled some of the world’s most horrific chapters. Back when leaders thought the world was producing too many humans, governments around the globe pushed mass sterilization campaigns, forced abortions, and gruesome eugenic regimes.

Others see the increased focus on birth rates as a way to scapegoat individuals — primarily women — for societal issues that politicians could otherwise address, such as improving care for the elderly or taxing the rich more aggressively. That there’s a “proximate economic problem … doesn’t necessarily mean increasing birth rates is the solution,” said Nancy Folbre, an economist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The concerns about fertility aren’t taking place in a political vacuum, in the US or anywhere else. Around the world, far-right leaders have campaigned on platforms to roll back abortion rights, restrict immigration, and boost the number of native-born children. In China, government officials recently scrapped gender equality as a priority and advised women “to establish a correct outlook on marriage and love, childbirth, and family.” In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has promoted a policy of “procreation not immigration.”

Even talking about population decline as an issue can feel risky. Though not all pronatalists are against reproductive rights, a louder conversation that frames falling birth rates as a major problem inevitably boosts the issue’s salience, creating space for potentially more reactionary ideas.

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The darker corners of the pronatalism movement

Not everyone concerned about falling birth rates is interested in gender equity or voluntary solutions. Last December, a relatively fringe group gathered in Austin for the first-ever Natal Conference to discuss boosting babies, with some guest speakers decrying the liberal cultural forces they see as responsible for the world’s decline. Peachy Keenan, a pseudonym for one conservative speaker, argued her fellow pronatalists need to make motherhood and large families a more hotly desired status symbol, but to avoid “market[ing] natalism” to progressive feminists. Other speakers included right-wing blogger Charles Haywood, who lamented that “the actual meaning of masculinity has been destroyed by vampire feminists,” and Malcolm and Simone Collins, who were subjects of a viral Guardian profile earlier this year that revealed they smack their children. This corner of “pronatalism” is composed mostly of tech enthusiasts and hyper-rationalist types, religious fundamentalists and some far-right activists worried about immigration and demographic change. One of the most prominent members of this coalition is billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who claimed the falling fertility rate is “the biggest danger civilization faces, by far.” Musk recently led the push to get Vance nominated as Donald Trump’s vice president.

See Also:

MMFA: Right-wing media falsely claim that Kamala Harris is telling Americans not to have kids because of climate change

[meikyuunolovers]

Pages about the Juniors and the Hi-Numbers on Alan Shacklock's website... I'm linking them because they have lots of information I haven't seen on other images about them, including newspaper extracts and pictures...

Mick Taylor (who later played with John Mayall and The Rolling Stones) was in The Juniors, and the Glascock brothers (Brian, who played for artists like Iggy Pop, and was in The Motels; and John who was in Carmen and Jethro Tull) were in both The Juniors and The Hi-Numbers!

[rwrbmovie]

taylorzakharperez A standing ovation for SAG-AFTRA on securing this monumental deal representing a new paradigm for actors. The 118 days of steadfast commitment and sacrifice have scripted a new chapter of resilience and triumph!!

Overwhelmed with gratitude for everyone who joined the journey of 'RWRB' and allowed it to touch your lives. Thank you for embracing me as your Alex; it's been an honor to bring his story to your screens. 🤠

[t0p-1-sidecharacter--fan]

How do people acknowledge Clovis but not my babies Cecil, Ellis, Miranda, Lou Ellen's and many many more!

(this is not Clovis hate, I love Clovis too ❤)

[rwrbsource]

taylorzakharperez: A standing ovation for SAG-AFTRA on securing this monumental deal representing a new paradigm for actors. The 118 days of steadfast commitment and sacrifice have scripted a new chapter of resilience and triumph!! Overwhelmed with gratitude for everyone who joined the journey of 'RWRB' and allowed it to touch your lives. Thank you for embracing me as your Alex; it's been an honor to bring his story to your screens. 🤠

[honey-bri-books]

[m-a-salter]

Why is Peter Capaldi so hot? Part Four.

[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

What is sexier than (6-7) personal devotion and (8) correct political opinions? This concluding installment of "Why is Peter Capaldi so hot?" will address what we know of the life and beliefs of Peter Capaldi's public persona.

6. His 40+ year relationship with Elaine Collins

With the caveat that you can never really understand anything about other people's marriages, especially people you don't actually know, everything Peter Capaldi has publicly said about his marriage paints a picture of a lifetime of devotion.

To give one example, in an interview with Larry King he explains that his relationship with his wife was essentially his first relationship, and that he has been in love with her since he was 23 years old (this topic starts around 16:20):

Another anecdote I find particularly compelling is his general reluctance to take off his wedding ring, which led to both Malcolm Tucker and the twelfth Doctor wearing wedding bands.

7. His 60+ year relationship with Doctor Who

I don't mean to suggest that Peter Capaldi's life-long love of Doctor Who is in any way equivalent to his marriage, but I do think they are two elements of a personality that seems (again, from the outside) to be grounded in the joys of long-term commitment.

It is widely known that he was a big fan as a kid:

But there is also plenty of evidence that his love for the show hasn't faded:

8. His lefty politics

It is easy to find photographic evidence of Peter Capaldi at demonstrations for women's rights, climate justice, labor rights, etc. In most long-form interviews, he expresses some form of condemnation of recent Tory governments, advocacy for public services like the BBC and the NHS, and anti-austerity (and sometimes more openly anti-capitalist) ideas.

Take, for example, this article, which includes a discussion of the no-longer-operative social programs that allowed him to go to art school and how all forms of art are harmed when the privileged classes have differential access to arts training:

He's loved Doctor Who since 1963, and shows no signs of stopping. He's loved his wife since 1983, and shows no signs of stopping. He has not allowed his professional success to obscure his vision of the role of class and material deprivation in British society, and he uses his celebrity to advocate for social justice and the public good. Hot.

That is the view from where I sit. Peter Capaldi is hot because of his physical characteristics, his mannerisms, his skills, because the characters he plays are hot, and because all evidence suggests that in real life he is a genuinely nice person. It is a holistic, ineffable feature of his personhood.

[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

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I swear to god @simmerianne93 worked her magic here and I love it! This is even better than i imagined and I love it soooo much! ♥

Thank you so much! ♥

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Pictures with family and friends ♥

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Made them all stand on the same canvas and turned it into a poster for a project my friend is running :]

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[taylorz-nicholasg]

Red, White & Royal Blue came out 1 year ago on this day!

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

We are squaring up for the big final fight, when Cloak suddenly shows up, bringing along the suddenly no longer dead Dagger with him.

[rwrbmovie]

taylorzakharperez IT'S ALLLLLLL LUSH 🍀

[sincenewyorks]

dream rotation blunt