#caste data

[insightfultake]

Caste Census: The Second Historic Blunder After Reservation in India’s Social Engineering

India has long struggled with reconciling its democratic promise of equality with its entrenched social hierarchies. While the reservation system introduced in the Constitution was aimed at correcting centuries of caste-based discrimination, it simultaneously institutionalized caste as a permanent identity in public life. Now, with the decision to conduct a caste census, we may be walking deeper into a trap we once tried to escape. If reservation was the first historic blunder—well-intentioned but ultimately divisive—the caste census threatens to become the second, cementing caste as the fulcrum of our political and social discourse rather than transcending it.

[raggedy-spaceman]

Severance Cast vs. 'The Most Impossible Severance Quiz'

The Severance cast having the best of fun in the press tour I love them

+ Bonus

[ovenproofowl]

BRENT SPINER & LEVAR BURTON in PICARD SEASON 3 GAG REEL

[kignomd]

dark seeker saga or something

[gomzdrawfr]

First meeting

[idol--hands]

🌟 : Hand-drawn Star Trek comic book cover - David Duke

✏️ detail work

[spocks-bikini-and-datas-bra]

I love them, they are so cute 🥰

[urghblergh]

Help! These silly little guys are all over my sketchbook now. :') 🌌🌈

Ref @mellon-soup 😌

[inspired-lesson-plans]

Due Tuesday 8/27

HW:

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(I'm doing a data analysis project and I need as much data as I can, so please help me out)

Hatake Kakashi

Smart

Caring

Forethoughtful

Troubled Backstory

Charismatic

Koro-sensei

Super-intelligent

Funny

Weird

Caring to a fault

Warm demeanor

Biscuit Krueger

Smart

Ruthless

Vain

Strong

Cold demeanor

Irina Jelavic

Seems dumb until she needs to be smart

Scene-stealing beauty

Charismatic

Butt of the joke

Troubled backstory

Genkai

Smart

Forethoughtful

Cold demeanor

Strong

Troubled backstory

Master Roshi

Wise

Lecherous

Funny

Warm demeanor

[agent-gladhand]

Hihihihihi, I've come to bring you more questions for projects!

I want to test the waters of running a sticker club, based on reception from the interest check (Still ongoing here). If you haven't already, please fill it out!

For those interested, what sticker sheet theme would you like to see for the month of October?

❗ General Info

Sticker sheets will contain roughly 7 to 12 designs, with a cost of $10 (North America) / $13 (International) monthly, shipping included. Orders will be intended ship during the last week of the month with this test run. Poll here ends 9/9 and Sticker Club membership should open 10/1!

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[torchickentacos]

I am falling back into my pathology interest right now, and on one hand, it's fun as hell. There are soooo many interesting diseases out there, and I could spend hours upon hours listening to different informative podcasts, shows, essays, audiobooks, etc, and I have so many books on my shelf that I need to get around to (Spillover*/People, Parasites, and Plowshares/The Hot Zone/etc).

On the other hand, this does not mesh well with my predisposition to anxiety. I know full well that I'm about to ruin my brain for the week, but alas

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[mejomonster]

The thing is. Representation in media did change things. I grew up in the 90s and 2000s, where the only place you could see shows or movies with queer people was on Cable television on the gay channel or the sex-allowed channel. There was The L Word, and Queer as Folk, and those weren't on the main channels. On the main channels, shows were still getting told they couldn't show a clearly queer character (Xena, The Next Generation, DS9 had to fight to get the 1 queer kiss, Buffy the Vampire Slayer had to fight to eventually get to show Willow and Tara kiss). Then of course there was the majority of characters being men in TV shows, and characters being white. But I'm going to focus on the queer rep thing because that's what I can for sure say has changed a lot.

By the time we get to 2010s, it was actually NORMAL enough for queer people to be in shows on mainstream channels that I could actually choose to ONLY watch shows with a queer character. And most straight people probably watched at least 1 show with a queer character. And that normalized seeing queer people for them. It made straight people start caring LESS if they saw a queer person on TV. Yes, people still probably wrote into shows and said "you better not show this!" but shows knew it was not going to kill their profits to just show queer people, so they didn't cancel shows over having a queer character or SHOWING some queer person kissing someone. (Showing interracial relationships was also a steady thing like this... Sonic 2 has a black woman and a white man together in a HUGE mainstream movie for kids! Fallout show has a black woman and a white man married as one of the main relationships! There was a time when your show got cancelled if you even tried to show a black person and white person kissing. Representing stuff shifts what society views as 'normal' and tolerates. Show enough interracial couples in media, and the main bulk of society stops caring enough to fight to get something cancelled by avoiding it, stops caring enough about avoiding it to care that it exists and fight it's existence).

We get to now. Now a straight person can watch a show like Interview with the Vampire, or Arcane, and the fact there are queer main characters are NOT something you even need to warn the straight person about. The straight person may seek out those shows ON their own, like them for their own merit as a show (or not like them on that merit), and that's it. No more concern that just including a queer person will drive the average straight person to avoid your show, or that it will be such a high risk the channel will want to prevent the queer character existing. (Except hey for stuff like Disney which... still overwhelmingly seems frightened...) I'm just saying. We came SO far in 30 years. In the beginning shows fought to show whatever little they were able (and most shows avoided showing queer people altogether for fear of the risk). And now it is such a SMALL risk that shows expect the average straight audience member to not care if they see a queer person. That's a huge difference tbh. When I was a teenager I feared just being OUT might expose me to most adults attacking me verbally, or more. Now as a queer adult, I expect most Average straight people to not care about my sexuality or at least not verbally (or physically) attack me for it if I'm just mentioning who I dated once/that I went to pride/that I'm bi. That is a huge difference after years of normalization. Yes, there's still jerks who will attack me, but its such a shift that I don't automatically have to assume every straight person by default will likely attack me - I can actually assume some won't! Nothing changed in their lives, in the past 30 years a lot of them didn't make more queer friends or anything. But they just don't care as much that some person different than them... exists.

We are to the point where a straight person, who is not queer and doesn't know queer people, may actually choose to watch Young Royals or Heartstopper or Red White and Royal Blue JUST because they like teen drama, or romance genre stuff. That's a huge fucking shift from the days when straight people would not even run into queer content unless they specifically got cable, and sought out the very rare channel that showed mostly queer content. There's way more 'stuff for average audiences' now that includes queer people, and more 'stuff for queer people that's also X genre' that average straight audiences actually are willing to check out because they like X genre and seeing queer people is not an immediate reason to avoid the media for them.

[youwillfindilluminating]

I get why critical role wanted to delete all the content that had brian w foster in it but at the same time the digital archivist in me is like... you can’t...just DO that...?

[celestialcass]

For Bot/Human Constructs, Internal Storage Space is vital. Placing the communicator given to you by your Mutual Administrative Assistant in the top spot, close to your heart... it says a certain something special about your *gag* relationship

Bonus Long Haired MB + close ups under the cut