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14 февраля - 170 лет со дня рождения  Всеволода Михайловича Гаршина (1855-1888), русского писателя, поэта, художественного критика.

 Детство будущий писатель  провёл в военной среде (отец был офицером). Уже ребёнком Гаршин был крайне нервным и впечатлительным, чему способствовало слишком раннее умственное развитие (впоследствии страдал приступами нервного расстройства). Учился в Горном институте, но не закончил его. Война с турками прервала его занятия: он поступил добровольцем в действующую армию, был ранен в ногу; выйдя в отставку, отдался литературной деятельности. 

В 1880 году, потрясённый смертной казнью молодого революционера, Гаршин заболел психически и был помещён в лечебницу для душевнобольных. 19 марта 1888 года, Гаршин, после мучительной, бессонной ночи вышел из своей квартиры, спустился этажом ниже и бросился с лестницы в пролёт. Его подняли разбитого, с переломленной ногой, и перенесли в квартиру. Несколько часов он пробыл в сознании, затем его перевезли в больницу Красного Креста, где он, вскоре по прибытии, впал в бессознательное состояние и уже не выходил из него до смерти. 24 марта 1888 года, Всеволод Михайлович Гаршин скончался, не приходя в сознание. 

 На литературное поприще Гаршин выступил в 1876 году с рассказом «Четыре дня», сразу создавшим ему известность. В этом произведении ярко выражен протест против войны, против истребления человека человеком. Этому же мотиву посвящён целый ряд рассказов: «Денщик и офицер», «Аяслярское дело», «Из воспоминаний рядового Иванова» и «Трус»; герой последнего мучается в тяжёлой рефлексии и колебаниях между стремлением «принести себя в жертву за народ» и страхом перед ненужной и бессмысленной смертью. Гаршин написал также ряд очерков, где социальное зло и несправедливость рисуются уже на фоне мирной жизни. 

«Происшествие» и «Надежда Николаевна» затрагивают тему «падшей» женщины. В «Attalea princeps» в судьбе пальмы, рвущейся на свободу и погибающей под холодным небом, Гаршин символизировал судьбу террористов. В 1883 году появился один из замечательнейших его рассказов — «Красный цветок». Герой его, психически больной, борется с мировым злом, которое, как ему кажется, воплотилось в красном цветке в саду: достаточно сорвать его и будет уничтожено всё зло мира. В «Художниках» Гаршин, разоблачая жестокость эксплуатации, ставит вопрос о роли искусства в обществе и борется против теории чистого искусства. Сущность существующего строя с доминирующим при нём личным эгоизмом ярко выражена в рассказе «Встреча». Гаршин написал ещё ряд сказок: «То, чего не было», «Лягушка-путешественница», «Сказание о гордом Аггее» и другие, где та же гаршинская тема о зле и несправедливости разработана в форме сказки, исполненной грустного юмора. 

Гаршин узаконил в литературе особую художественную форму — новеллу, которая получила полное развитие впоследствии у Антона Чехова. Сюжеты новеллы Гаршина несложны. Она построена всегда на одном основном мотиве, развёрнутом по строго логическому плану. Композиция его рассказов, удивительно законченная, достигает почти геометрической определённости. Отсутствие действия, сложных коллизий — характерно для Гаршина. Большинство его произведений написано в форме дневников, писем, исповедей (например, «Происшествие», «Художники», «Трус», «Надежда Николаевна» и др.). Количество действующих лиц очень ограничено. 

Драматизм действия заменён у Гаршина драматизмом мысли, вращающейся в заколдованном кругу «проклятых вопросов», драматизмом переживаний, которые и являются основным материалом для Гаршина. 

Необходимо отметить глубокую реалистичность гаршинской манеры. Для его творчества характерны точность наблюдения и определённость выражений мысли. У него мало метафор, сравнений, вместо этого — простое обозначение предметов и фактов. Короткая, отточенная фраза, без придаточных предложений в описаниях. «Жарко. Солнце жжёт. Раненый открывает глаза, видит — кусты, высокое небо» («Четыре дня»). Широкий охват социальных явлений не удавался Гаршину, как не удавалась и более спокойная жизнь писателю поколения, для которого основной потребностью было «претерпеть». Не большой внешний мир мог он изображать, а узкое «своё». И это определяло все особенности его художественной манеры. 

«Своё» для поколения передовой интеллигенции 1870-х годов — это проклятые вопросы социальной неправды. Больная совесть кающегося дворянина, не находя действенного выхода, всегда била в одну точку: сознание ответственности за зло, ��арящее в области человеческих отношений, за угнетение человека человеком — основная тема Гаршина. Зло старого крепостного уклада и зло нарождающегося капиталистического строя одинаково наполняют болью страницы гаршинских рассказов. От сознания общественной несправедливости, от сознания ответственности за неё спасаются герои Гаршина, как и он сам это сделал, уходя на войну, чтобы там, если не помочь народу, то по крайней мере разделить с ним его тяжёлую участь… 

В этом было временное спасение от мук совести, искупление кающегося дворянина («Все они шли на смерть спокойные и свободные от ответственности…» — «Воспоминания рядового Иванова»). Но это не было разрешением социальной проблемы. Выхода писатель не знал. И поэтому глубоким пессимизмом проникнуто все его творчество. Значение Гаршина в том, что он умел остро чувствовать и художественно воплощать социальное зло.

[irfanullashariff]

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- Irfanulla Shariff

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sos ad. You cant post disembodied roadkill pigeons on instagram all willy nilly without traumatizing ur irls... so sad........

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(guy who only has seen trad goths in the sandman voice) this is giving me the sandman vibes

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i was peer pressured RELENTLESSLY (not really) into getting tumlblr so here old drawing of elijah

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Share This Poetry!

Awesome Lyrics!

They see me as a soft girl,

The one with joy in her eyes,

And they think to end up this happy,

Troubles must have been out of my sight,

But this is not true,

Because like everyone,

I have had my share of blues,

And the reason I now smile so bright,

Is because I have paid it's price;

I have known sadness,

Just like the rest of you,

But I choose to look past that;

I don't carry that burden on my back,

I left it just where I found it,

And that's what sets us apart.

I have grown with tears and pain,

While walking through the life's hurricane,

So, let them see me as they do,

As a soft girl with sparkle in her eyes,

Because there lives a warrior inside.

Saumya Thapliyal

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Work vs Jobs

What I'm going to say is not in any way new - you can read Marx, Chomsky, Graeber, Bregman if you want to ponder it at length, but in the offline world it is still seen as a radical idea.

When reading about the sandwich- to- minimum wage- ratio, I saw all these Tumlblr comments basically going: (sobbing) 'fuck you, I'm not gonna buy that (sobbing some more').

So then I thought: if so many of us are cutting back on things like sammies because who indeed would pay €8 for a döner or $10 for a sandwich, how can this not cause a recession?

And then I remembered a Jon Stewart interview with some banking hotshot, saying that yes, because of the pandemic there were fewer laborers around, and yes, we absolutely had to force them to take jobs with bad pay, because supply and demand doesn't go for multinationals, so yes, they had to raise interest and prices artificially to force a recession, cannot be helped, how else would anyone work?

There's so many people who share that view, that if you didn't force people to take jobs, they wouldn't do any work, especially unpleasant work. A uni friend of mine who supports the German Green Party had argued vehemently against a basic income for that reason, because who would deign to clean the streets if they weren't forced to by threat of starvation, homelessness and having their children taken away?

And I need you all to know that experiments with basic income have proven that this is utter, and I mean utter bullshit. Even The Atlantic is seeing now, that there are people for whom working wasn't worth it because of the abysmal conditions, have begun working when the pay was high enough to justify the cost of work - in time or commute or rent.

There's this protestant view of the human spirit that suffering is somehow good for the soul, and this medieval catholic idea that the concept of "work" and "doing penance" is somehow one and the same, and therefore it is morally just to make others and yourself suffer through work, possibly to get a pat on the head from God, whose existence is taken as a given. And that has bled into the idea that jobs are

-morally just

-supposed to be awful, because good for the soul. The more intrinsically rewarding a job, the lower the wages, that's why caring for your own family is unpaid work the world over (both important and intrinsically rewarding)

-something you have to force sinful people into against their will

And both research and experience have proven time and time again that this isn't good, neither for people nor human society at large.

-First of all suffering doesn't make you a good person, ask Art Spiegelman, writer of MAUS, when talking about his father;

-Miserable workers do worse work, ask, well, any labour board in any country

-People actually choose to work for wages when the benefits outweigh the costs, ask the Finnish Government's minimum wage pilot, and the Mincome project.

If you guarantee people housing and a livable income whether or not they choose to work for wages, a few things happen:

People who couldn't afford to work less than fulltime because the cost of care would outstrip the benefit of wages, now choose to take on smaller jobs, stimulating both their wellbeing and the economy;

An increase in informal care makes sure that so many fewer people get sick (excluding antivaxxing tradwives, goodness knows what they're about....), costing the economy billions less

A greatly reduced crime rate, and far fewer incarcerations.

The reason why we're mostly not in a recession that several people who weren't working before, because of high wages, actually ARE working now and nobody needs to bully somebody out of their small business to become a barista at an understaffed Starbucks instead.

What people have been doing, however, is quitting pointless jobs that were actually killing them and keeping them away from their families.

And sure, corporations do not like that.

They need people tired and absolutely miserable so they spend their meagre disposable wages on immediate relief: overpriced food and alcohol, forcing them to clock back in until they die.

If a few employees die, that is absolutely fine. Cost of doing business. We need a critical mass of employees to replace them. You can replace a dead person with a former small business owner, no biggie.

If people get sick, they do not carry any - and I mean not any - of that cost. Society does, but they're not in society, they're in business. Money is not the means to an end, money is the entire end, no matter the cost.

They need to extract as much 'value' out of people as they can, then discard them. Again, it's not about making the employees do good work, it's about having their labour be of very short term gain, and having enough surplus people to be able to work employed people to death.

For that, they need to create poverty where, by rights, there isn't any.

And even they understand that people do not hold with that. So they conflate the idea of "labor", i.e. activity to sustain to make something new, sustain something or improve something, with the idea of a "job" - a position where you, potentially, are used to get a few shareholders richer with no regards for your wellbeing or that of your community, and if you want to get an increase in wages, you have to accept that your time spent there will be increasingly miserable. There are good jobs and bad jobs - indeed some jobs need you functioning at a minimum level of physical health, or are indeed fun, but even they will make you artificially miserable, either by forced poverty (you are a teacher! That is so rewarding! Of course you make nothing!), or moral injury (not only are you not doing anything useful, you are actively making people's lives worse). And they tell you this is necessary, like that episode in Black Mirror where someone has to kill three people or the world will come to an end. People have to be employed, otherwise the economy will tank, making everybody's lives super duper awful and nobody will ever even bother to come out of bed anymore.

There's is useful work done in jobs, but they are not the same thing.

If you guarantee people food, housing, and healthcare, they take better care of themselves, their loved ones, their environment, choose work that suits them, be it about the amount of hours or the kind of work, commit fewer crimes, spend more on fun, make more art, raise more children (their own or others), have fewer addictions. Exploitation is only in the interest of like 5 big companies in the world right now, and they exploit people so they neglect other people who also then have no other choice to get exploited until they die. So please let no one ever tell you that, because there is obviously a lot of work to be done, people have to be forced into jobs. Work is a necessary activity, a job is a place where work may or may not be done under artificially miserable conditions (or what economists think are miserable conditions. Dentists get paid so well because everybody thinks it is a horrible job; meanwhile, I've known a fair few, and those who choose it enjoy it well enough! And yes, every office has a Dwight, but those people truly are outliers).

The person who says "no one wants to work anymore" or "without jobs no work will get done" and especially "without us the economy would tank" are lying through their teeth! Especially those people who say that about "tanking the economy". They're trying to artificially tank it right now! To make people stop doing work they deem necessary and start doing jobs that benefit only the corporations!

Work is necessary, and people will always want to work, and work for wages too. Jobs are designed to be prisons under the current conditions. They will only be opportunities if you can freely choose to leave them at any time, with no risk to your wellbeing.

[dailyharuka]

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featruing airi cuz they finian,ly finsihed her heart im sobbing and perhaps crying ugly sobbing

i acc woke up attended a thirty minute class and fully plan on going back to bed

My irls might see this so if ur trying to contact me and im miraculously offline on discord i went to sleep

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Dawgggg whats wrong with my tumlblr 😭😭😭

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I really want to drop my phone off this and record it and make it into a funny post on tumlblr dot com

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I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED1!! damn tumlblr not loading from ,t phone and shit- didnt upload an enitre ask response and just saved the gifs i made for it- kfrustrating as HELL!!

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I just saw that "Will You Stay" undertale comic show up on my tumlblr.

But the thing is.

In 2020 or early 2021 I saw a YouTube dub video of like. Parts 1-33

I NEVER KNEW THERE WAS MORE???

Who was gonna tell me that the sansby comic I obsessed over for. Like. A week had MORE. Like actually I loved that thing????

I think, back then, I thought I loved it because I wanted to be Grillby. Oh boy. Guess who you're ACTUALLY jealous of buddy!!

But anyway it was such a shocker to find out it continued. Loved that thing and honestly it's still great. Wish I was sans I mean WHATTT

[irfanullashariff]

"Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?"

 –  Tony Robbins

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sorry omg i forget to use tumlblr sometimes that’s why ive not been msging u .. but omg im on chapter 2 part 2 of yttd and this man is sooooo hot ofmfmgmgmgggg i love u sou hiyori

woaw hes such a cutie patootie, dw i get it tumblr is odd 😭

[doyouknowthisjewishcharacter]

Don't worry! I get it! I've had my fair share of Tumlblr searching trouble too. I did do her before, but considering the results I'm getting on my most recent poll here, I can take this as submission for when I redo some polls!

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ive whined about it before but it really is awful how so much engagement on twitter is just people trying to post some stupid fucking video or image in the replies in hopes they get attention from it

like you look at the replies in ANY gimmick account and its just swarmed with the dumbest content. can you imagine if someone posted something on tumlblr and then the reblogs was just everyone going into their image folder to post meme_453.jpg in the post