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You don't have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your privilege and remain aware that people who are different from you move through and experience the world in ways you can never know anything about. They might endure situations you can never know anything about. You could, however, use that privilege for the greater good--to try to level the playing field for everyone, to work for social justice, to bring attention to how those without certain privileges are disenfranchised. We've seen what the boarding of privilege has done, and the results are shameful.

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

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I'm Back!

Sorta.

Since I'm going to be unemployed for the next 2 months, I decided to go on a binge read! I'm going to try and read seven books (maybe more?) within now until mid-late-February? Some of the books on my TBR shelf are:

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling

Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary by Various Authors, edited by Carol Serling

Landline by Rainbow Rowell

The Time Traveler's Almanac by Various Artists

Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

I'm currently reading The Martian Chronicles and so far loving it! I'll be in a couple days or so to review it. 

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That's what bothers you...

The one night stand. "Man fucks woman." Subject: man, verb: fucks, object: woman. That's ok.

"Woman fucks man", Subject: woman, Object: man.

That's not so comfortable for, you is it?

I'm seriously loving TV BBC crime shows (i.e. Top of the Lake). Compared to American TV shows, they are so much more female friendly. And they do it with no ease, no problem, no controversy. It is so differently from American TV shows and eye-opening on how much we suck at representing women. In this series, Detective Gibson is most importantly intelligent and powerful, but also sexually liberated without being naked half of the time (I don't think she was ever naked in the whole series). On the other hand, Paul, the serial killer, is attractive and a good father, and the show makes sure to get you to experience some cognitive dissonance. This person is the killer, but he seems like a good man any other times on the show. On top of that, he's naked for a good majority of it!

Anyway, The Fall gets 5 stars from me! It's available on Netflix.

Just like Top of the Lake, it's on the shorter side, even shorter than HBO series, 5 episodes long. But don't worry! There's a season 2 and it is airing now! Go check it out!

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please stop calling Black children who have different interests and tastes white

it’s damaging and alienating

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Last year, in total, British police officers actually fired their weapons three times. The number of people fatally shot was zero. In 2012 the figure was just one. Even after adjusting for the smaller size of Britain’s population, British citizens are around 100 times less likely to be shot by a police officer than Americans. Between 2010 and 2014 the police force of one small American city, Albuquerque in New Mexico, shot and killed 23 civilians; seven times more than the number of Brits killed by all of England and Wales’s 43 forces during the same period. The explanation for this gap is simple. In Britain, guns are rare. Only specialist firearms officers carry them; and criminals rarely have access to them. The last time a British police officer was killed by a firearm on duty was in 2012, in a brutal case in Manchester. The annual number of murders by shooting is typically less than 50. Police shootings are enormously controversial. The shooting of Mark Duggan, a known gangster, which in 2011 started riots across London, led to a fiercely debated inquest. Last month, a police officer was charged with murder over a shooting in 2005. The reputation of the Metropolitan Police’s armed officers is still barely recovering from the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent Brazilian, in the wake of the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London. In America, by contrast, it is hardly surprising that cops resort to their weapons more frequently. In 2013, 30 cops were shot and killed—just a fraction of the 9,000 or so murders using guns that happen each year. Add to that a hyper-militarised police culture and a deep history of racial strife and you have the reason why so many civilians are shot by police officers. Unless America can either reduce its colossal gun ownership rates or fix its deep social problems, shootings of civilians by police—justified or not—seem sure to continue.

Armed police: Trigger happy | The Economist (via kenyatta)

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there are five frogs staring at me right now

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I hate it those moments when you're sitting in the waiting room for a long time and you finish the book that you've been reading and enjoying and you have the second book or another book to read on your kindle (or maybe you just brought another one with you) but you somehow can't start reading it yet because you're still thinking of the first book and want to stay in that world for a little longer so you just end up sitting in the waiting room feeling restless with nothing to do and things on your mind. UGH.

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set of nostalgia drawings by gabriel picolo. i don’t think i have enough space on my tumblr for all his works that i’d like to post.

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hi! so i recently reached 1k followers and i’m super happy about it! to celebrate, i though i would make a few masterposts for y’all. I might make a tumblr-related one later, too. anyways, i hope you like this one, and all of the links open in new tabs!

 colour

the psychology of color

how to mix skin tones

color harmony

a ton of colour palettes

how to contour/highlight

colour meanings

how to colour

how to draw…

how to draw hoods

how to draw boobs in shirts

how to draw hair

how to draw faces

another face tutorial

how to draw hands

how to draw mouths

how to draw expressions

more expressions

cargsdoodle’s body tutorial

how to draw arms

how to avoid same facing

how to draw clothing folds

references

drawing references

hairstyle references

eye references

a ton of clothing references

ear references

kneeling/sitting references

kissing references

downloads

adobe creative suite 2 free download

sai brush downloads

sai brushes

alternative to photoshop

photoshop for free

mypaint drawing program

a ton of free art programs

other

pixel art: a beginner’s guide

an AWESOME tutorial masterpost

my art tag

glitch effect tutorial

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Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren’t tears. She wasn’t crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.

Ruth Ozeki, A Tale For The Time Being (via gestured)

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Change has occurred. It’s the new normal, just the way things are.

A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki (via stfustepho)

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More old photos I took from '09.

Flowershots! Flower power!

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I recently read the first 3 volumes of Saga.

Check out my thoughts on it on my WordPress.

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Summer of '09. I swear I don't have a foot fetish.

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Drawing Challenge 1: Draw a portrait of yourself.

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Are you tired of feeling like your art just isn’t improving? Do you want to do a 30-day challenge that’s actually useful? Welcome to 30 Days of Improvement Hell. >:D

I made this because I’ve been feeling super ‘blah’ about my art these days, and I needed something to kick-start myself. Who wants...