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Has anything actually gotten better, for all the work you talk about doing? Or is it just treading water in misery forever?

Anon, ten years ago gay people couldn't get married in large parts of the US. AIDS was an almost certain death sentence when I was in high school. I was looking at job boards the other day and found a part time gas station job that had health insurance as a benefit, which NEVER would have happened 15 years ago. When I was a kid, hitting your child was extremely normalized in the US and my parents were the weird ones for not doing it. There is a vaccine for chicken pox. I didn't meet anyone who had transitioned until my 20s because it was so uncommon to transition in the aughts, and now there are some states that protect your right to have gender affirming care provided by your health insurance. It's not all states, but it's better than the number of states that had it in 2010, which was zero. THERE ARE TENANTS UNIONS NOW. WE HAVE A VACCINE AGAINST CERVICAL CANCER.

And all of that has been the work of a lot of individuals and organizations and research teams and activists.

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oh Ben Affleck smoking jpeg, we're really in it now

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ur welcome 😘

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i listened to the finale again and I needed to draw lucretia i had to i love her, her and her weird cape/pantsuit

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I’ve been laughing at this all day

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all things said abt les misérables "cop who experiences one (1) moral conundrum and then promptly kills himself" is like objectively one of the funniest characters you can have

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If it helps, this show also made it to the uk so that's an extra population of millennials to be trapped by the earworm.

In a bit of a mood so I'm gonna earworm every Australian millennial

You're welcome, have a horrible night trying to get it out of your head

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Henry Moore

“Henry Moore’s Sheep Sketchbook” is a book full of a multitude of different etchings of sheep. His loosely drawn sketches show the diversity of which you can draw sheep.

I was particularly inspired by these two drawings. I love the detail on the wool and I think it exaggerated how round they are. I thought that Moore was a perfect inspiration for my piece.

I found that I could still make a piece look busy without thousands of sheep with the use of dark colour against bright colour. As you see in these sketches, the two sheep stand out against the mesh of black with the loosely drawn lines making a noisy effect.

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ur first and last recent emojis are ur gender now. mine is 🅱👨‍❤‍💋‍👨

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OMG. Somebody said it out loud.

Disney is absolutely not the only studio doing this though.

It seems to have become standard practice across movies and series everywhere.

Anything that doesn't do it is like a breath of sunlight and fresh air inside a dank musty cave.

It's part of the 'fix it in post-production' epidemic sweeping through the studios. Fix it in post is often used as a time/money-saving measure - and is absolutely part of the same mess that the WGA is fighting against currently.

Rather than fixing things on-set - audio, lighting, something in-frame that shouldn't be, etc. (which is all handled by unionized crew) - they leave it for the CG folks (not unionized) to edit later.

(on ridiculously tight schedules that leave them scrambling, cutting corners, and working inhumane hours)

See also: that part where scripts aren't finished, because the studio won't fully staff the writers room, and won't pay to have writers on-set for day-of-filming script questions and fixes (which could resolve issues such as 'what kind of lighting do we need here?')

Anyway, all this shit we, as audiences, keep complaining about - bad lighting, bad sound, wonky visual effects, over-usage of not-great CGI, stilted acting on green-screen sets, scripts that seem not-quite-finished, costumes that look like they're cheap and flimsy, terrible hair and makeup, films and series that aren't as polished as they could be...

Plus the complaints we have about streaming services and their shenanigans...

All of that is enmeshed in the extreme capitalism that has taken over everything, including entertainment, to the point that studios are abusing their workforce and churning out material that - at best just doesn't live up to its potential - at worst, is just unwatchable shit.

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what if there was a show where every character was gay and you had the token straight guy character who acted really stereotypical and was into cars beers and women and everyone was like OH STRAIGHT LARRY YOU’RE SO FUNNY AND STRAIGHT

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Yellow archangel Pet portrait for the very kind Romney 💚 thank you again!

I fell in love with these flowers last year when I started gathering mushrooms - the forests around me are filled with these and I just love the patterns on their leaves!

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