Under the Stars, Above the Earth.

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
dedalvs
barbiebimbobaby

consider this: wheelchairs should be free

marvelbitchbitchblog

Consider this: if you need it to live it should be affordable

the-c0rinthian

consider this: if you need it to live, it should be free

weaselle

money is evil when lack of it enables suffering

which is why i think all things needed for good life should be free. You can still have wealth and luxury, don’t worry, it works like this:

reasonable basic nutrition is free. think free rice and beans with a selection of veggies and sauces any time you want it. But people are still going to want lots of other food. They just will never starve from being poor

or, basic housing is free to all, big apartment buildings built with taxes or whatever. Homes with no strings. But people are still going to want a nice house with a yard or whatever. People are still going to want to design their dream home and work hard to afford things they want and a housing market will still exist. But no one will be homeless because of a lack of money.

And hospitals should be not only money free but also paperwork free. You should just be able to walk into any hospital and get treated for any reason, no hoops to jump through.

If you need it to live a reasonable healthy normal life, it should be available for no money. Because otherwise, human death and suffering will result from a lack of money, and that is a thing that makes a money system evil

angrylittlesliceofpizza

yes this

money is meant to be a tool making the exchange of good and services easier

if a thing supposed to make life easier is making it harder, or even impossible, than there’s a Big Problem somewhere.

aliteralgrizzlybear
prismatic-bell

I recently discovered laundry stripping and y’all, no matter how much of a crock of shit you think fast fashion is, you’re underestimating.

prismatic-bell

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OKAY SO. You know how we talk about how one way fast fashion has made itself “necessary” is that the clothing looks like shit and feels horrible after just a few washes?


Let. Me. Tell. You. Something.


Laundry stripping is a process where you load your laundry into a tub or bin (I’ve been using my bathtub) with warm water, half a cup of borax, half a cup of washing soda, and half a cup of laundry soap (not detergent, SOAP, there’s a chemical difference). Leave it there for at least eight hours. I’ve been going for 12-24.


What you will come back to is a tub full of nearly-opaque black-gray-brown water that absolutely REEKS. This is normal. You are looking at (and smelling) hard water buildup, body sweat and oils that were embedded in the fabric, dead skin, and just regular grime.


Wring out your clothes. Throw them in the washer. (I like to do a spin-only cycle before going any further, because I have one of those washers that determines by weight how much water any given load needs.) Wash as usual.


You will notice I didn’t suggest any further pretreatment, and that’s because 1) you don’t want to layer too many chemicals on top of each other but also 2) you may not even need it.


When your clothes come out, check each one as it goes into the dryer, and if anything else s still stained, set it aside to run again with a regular pretreatment. One of the sweaters I did this with apparently did need a second treatment…to deal with what appears to have possibly been a hot chocolate stain that was previously invisible due to “well, it’s old” dinginess. I was planning to throw this sweater out. It looks almost new now. I need to wash it one more time for the probably-a-hot-chocolate stain, and then it needs to have the hem weighted to block it and bring it back to evenness, but dude. I wear my clothes to rags and I thought this thing was unfixable. “I need to reshape it” is nothing.


Remove clothes from dryer when done. Fucking MARVEL at the colors and how good the fabric feels. Give them a smell. Get righteously and royally angry that you can rejuvenate this stuff so easily, with a process that does take awhile but is 90% hands-off, but we’ve been trained to believe it’s all got to be binned once a year because discoloration and gross fabric is “normal wear and tear” and can’t be fixed.


It’s utterly unreal! I just pulled a seven-year-old work undershirt out of the dryer and this thing looks NEW!! It FEELS almost new!!! One of the shirts I hung up from the last load is older than some of the people on this site and it went from “I keep this to wear on laundry day, for sentimental reasons” to “I could actually wear this out of the house, it looks old but respectable”! The pajama bottoms I’m wearing were from Goodwill and they have BRIGHT YELLOW in them! I thought it was goldenrod!!


I do not know how often you’re supposed to do this (doing it every time can strip the dye out of your clothes, not to mention it’s way too much work to do every time), but once or twice per season seems respectable. I don’t wear white, so I can’t test the “it will make whites look almost-new as well” claim, but I’ve seen a lot of people on the cleaning subreddit attest that it works.


Just remember: WASHING soda. Not baking soda. I tried baking soda and a little bit happened, but not a lot.


Go forth. Rejuvenate your clothing. Strip your laundry.

ankewehner

I have a question about the "set it aside to run again with a regular pretreatment" bit: What is your regular pretreatment?

prismatic-bell

For grease: Dawn dish soap and a toothbrush.
For blood: soak in peroxide, rinse, apply more peroxide.
For ink: alcohol. Rubbing alcohol is best, vodka is an acceptable substitute. Do not use colored liquor like tequila or whiskey. Aerosol hairspray will work in a pinch.
For red wine or grape juice: white wine.
For "what the fuck is that, anyway?" stains: OxyClean Max Force Gel Stick.
For "oh shit, there was a red shirt in with my whites" stains: I'm very sorry. Try bleach?


Spot-apply all of these. In other words don't just toss your period panties into a sink full of peroxide, pour some peroxide over the crotch. Apply alcohol with a cotton facial pad or, failing that, a washcloth or kleenex.

Let it sit for five to fifteen minutes, then throw it in the wash. Try to use cold water; hot water will set stains.

lurkerwithcomputer

Second reblog to ask OP: Can you skip the Borax? Will this still work? My skin is super reactive to the stuff and I want to know if it’s *necessary* or just *recommended*.

prismatic-bell

I don’t know, I just followed directions from another stripper. But given that borax is used for its enzymes I’m gonna say necessary.

gengineer

I also have a question: Is laundry soap distinctly different from dish soap? Can I use the Dawn bottle I keep at my sink or do I need to venture from my house to procure a different product?

prismatic-bell

OH GOOD LORD NO


Sorry I just had flashbacks of tiny me trying to help with the laundry. It, uh. Yes. No. They are very different.


You want a powder. A couple of people have mentioned Castile soap. My roommate’s a soap maker so I’ve been using shaved bars from a batch that didn’t set properly and it works great. Powdered laundry detergent will work, but it’s kind of the lowest of the good options. The fewer dyes, chemicals, perfumes, etc., the better.

joobaloob
catmask

okay do yoh guys ever think about the fact that “high quality” is an actual descriptor like theres high quality tea leaves high quality fabrics high quality espresso beans etc but because of advertising everything that is said to be “high quality” on the package is just because it supposedly sells better. but not everything is high quality so it is a lie. a descriptor becomes meaningless because it sounds good. what if we were just honest. why cant you say this coffee beans arent the best but they will do the job. i would be happy with okay if it didnt lie

catmask

my autism diagnosis has nothing to do with this

aliteralgrizzlybear
isakisol

that one fucking concept art of the dragon age races that depicts dwarves like this:

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you suck and i defy you

rabdoidal

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this makes me violent <3

pri-the-writer

Calling all dragon age artists! Let’s see your interpretation of what dwarven women should look like!

luccorvus

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Okay, here u go

sapphim

this feels like a good time to give a shoutout to Sophie Campbell’s dwarves [1] [2] [3]

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lullychi

it brings me so much joy when female dwarves look like dwarves

help-me-draw
talesfromweirdland

Some sample pages from Andrew Loomis’s series on how to draw comics, 1939-1961, concerning perspective and composition. (The changes in font and layout stem from the fact the pages come from different prints.)

I tried to collect the most useful pages, but of course I’m limited to only 10 images per post.

This is a follow-up of sorts of the Disney “how to draw comics” handouts I posted earlier, and which can be found HERE.

joobaloob
detectivehole

emperor kuzco was clearly gay

detectivehole

hes 19, with unlimited power, and he ain’t got a gf. the only time we see him interact with any women his own age is when he’s rejecting like 7 of them rapid fire. he pretends to date pacha in a gag that lasts like 10 solid minutes. listen to me god damnit

qqueenofhades

Okay, but just in case anyone is coming to tumblr dot com for my hot takes on 20+ year old kids' movies: Kuzco super WAS gay (or at least coded as such) and of course, I didn't get it until I watched it as a gay grownup.

He is played obviously camp and dramatic, for a start, and there is the aforementioned "hate your hair/not likely/yikes yikes yikes/let me guess you have a great personality" summary dismissal of all his potential brides. Then he spends dinner asking Yzma about Kronk ("so he seems nice? He's what, in his late twenties?") and otherwise being slightly obsessed with him.

Then there is the whole Adventure of Doom with Pacha, him being ever huffy about the Kiss of Life, and then the restaurant gag where Kuzco takes to playing Pacha's fake wife and dressing up in ladies' clothing with great gusto (reinforced by the waitress' "bless you for coming out in public" remark when Pacha says they're on their honeymoon). Then when he is finally de-llamafied, we don't see him paired off with the obligatory girl from the lineup earlier, as might otherwise be expected in a Disney movie. Instead he is still single, but goes to found family it up with Pacha, Chica, Kronk, etc, which dare we remark is a very queer trope.

In short, I have no idea how a Disney movie with no white people (all the characters are Indigenous/people of color), a gay king, cross-dressing jokes, and the most offbeat plot of all time actually ever got made (can you imagine the Family Friendly Mouse doing that today? Let us also talk about Kronk because he is a brilliant deconstruction of both toxic masculinity and the musclebound henchman stereotype.) Other than that this was the Chaos Hour of animated movies in the late 90s/early 2000s, and yes.

So yes. There you have it. I will not be taking criticism at this time.

flavinbagel

In response to the question “How did a movie like this get made at all much less by fucking Disney?” there was a recent Vulture article that outlines the whole shit show of a history behind this film according to everyone (writers, directors, VAs, Stings) involved. The gist of the story is that they fucked up making a whole, true-to-form Disney musical that never came to see the light of day SO BADLY that Disney switched directors, locked the writer’s room, and didn’t review a single script until weeks after the film was in theaters.

Please, read this article if you have some time. This story is wild, and involves directors being pitted against each other Bake-Off style and a shockingly intimate documentary created by the wife of Sting who, himself was heartbroken by the decimation of the songs he wrote for the film including cutting a fantastic Yzma villain song sung by Eartha Kitt that is SO DAMN GOOD but would not ever have fit the more nailed-down Yzma we would eventually come to know and love. It’s so catchy though, I’m doubling up on calls to action but please listen now:

theterriblethingabouttulio

holy shit read the article. it’s worth it and completely batshit

kat-witha-k

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This is fucking insane

brightlotusmoon

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mod2amaryllis

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I've never adequately appreciated the batshit brilliance of this joke, I've taken it for granted

love-lays-bleeding
shaelit

We interrupt this lovely readalong for more HarperCollins union news.

Namely, the union is on strike. HarperCollins, the second largest publishing house in the United States, has made record profits (in the billions) but refuses to pay its employees a living wage or negotiate in good faith. Unlike the one-day strike earlier this year, this will be an open-ended strike, to last until a fair, good-faith contract is agreed upon.

I cannot overstate the implications here. HarperCollins is a 200-year-old behemoth with over 120 imprints, owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch. You have reads books from this company, I guarantee it. You have enjoyed movies and TV shows spawned by this company. The workers striking at the blood and sweat responsible for launching those properties you love. And as Harper goes, so goes the rest of the industry. If we raise the living standards for one, so the pressure increases on other companies to raise it for all.

The Harper Union need your support. They have a full thread here, but here’s the gist of what they’re asking:

EVERYONE:

- Donate to the strike fund if you can

- Politely email Harper’s HR (peopleteam@harpercollins.com) and the CEO (brian.murphy@harpercollins.com) to express your support for the strike and the union.

- Boost their message on social media and among your social circles (here are some assets you can use to do that)

- If you are in the NY metro area, come join the picket line at 195 Broadway in Manhattan!

BLOGGERS/REVIEWERS/BOOKSTAGRAMMERS/BOOKTOKERS:

- If possible, please hold all reviews of Harper titles until the strike is over. (And I would add, if you feel comfortable doing so, tell Harper why.)

FREELANCERS/INDUSTRY HOPEFULS:

- Don’t be a scab. Don’t take new freelance projects or temporary positions while the strike is ongoing.

BOOKSTORES/BOOKSELLERS:

- Share the “I Stand With” graphic

- Print and distribute the union bookmark at your store

AUTHORS/AGENTS:

- Do not submit or sign new contracts to Harper until the union’s own contract is finalized.

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Please note they are not asking for a boycott on Harper titles. A boycott would harm the authors, who have nothing to do with this, so the union is explicitly requesting no boycott.

Also, please do not @ Harper social accounts to yell at them. Direct all feedback to that peopleteam email. The majority of folks watching those accounts are out on the picket line anyways, and their managers have already been warned that, as non-union members, they risk termination if voice any public support for the strike.

For more info, check out the union’s accounts on Twitter and Instagram. I also recommend this Twitter thread for some hard facts and figures.

Want something you can share on TikTok? Check out Carmen’s video here.