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Original room from the Hotel Crillon, Paris - 1758

Metropolitan Museum, NY

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Found this beautiful art of Captain Marvel. Couldn’t find the author credit. I added a Captain Marvel quote to the image. Gotta psych myself up for my workout after work today

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This manga is pretty rad, it’s really helped me to get motivated for my workouts.

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In a new book, The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy, Peter Temin, Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, draws a portrait of the new reality in a way that is frighteningly, indelibly clear:  America is not one country anymore. It is becoming two, each with vastly different resources, expectations, and fates.

Two roads diverged

In one of these countries live members of what Temin calls the “FTE sector” (named for finance, technology, and electronics, the industries which largely support its growth). These are the 20 percent of Americans who enjoy college educations, have good jobs, and sleep soundly knowing that they have not only enough money to meet life’s challenges, but also social networks to bolster their success. They grow up with parents who read books to them, tutors to help with homework, and plenty of stimulating things to do and places to go. They travel in planes and drive new cars. The citizens of this country see economic growth all around them and exciting possibilities for the future. They make plans, influence policies, and count themselves as lucky to be Americans.

The FTE citizens rarely visit the country where the other 80 percent of Americans live: the low-wage sector. Here, the world of possibility is shrinking, often dramatically. People are burdened with debt and anxious about their insecure jobs if they have a job at all. Many of them are getting sicker and dying younger than they used to. They get around by crumbling public transport and cars they have trouble paying for. Family life is uncertain here; people often don’t partner for the long-term even when they have children. If they go to college, they finance it by going heavily into debt. They are not thinking about the future; they are focused on surviving the present. The world in which they reside is very different from the one they were taught to believe in. While members of the first country act, these people are acted upon.

The two sectors, notes Temin, have entirely distinct financial systems, residential situations, and educational opportunities. Quite different things happen when they get sick, or when they interact with the law. They move independently of each other. Only one path exists by which the citizens of the low-wage country can enter the affluent one, and that path is fraught with obstacles. Most have no way out.

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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (via lilgivenchyprincess)

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A little late but here’s a valentine for you all! Photo by: @ashleynoircosplay Magikarps: Me and @shadowclonesan

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I’ve depressed myself. I have to go lie down.

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Just finished this set of prints in time for ALA! 

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Doing shoots at Katsucon!! Www.facebook.com/ashleynoircreations

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(via Lake Shoji in Spring 春の精進湖)

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My life right now

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I need friends who are always up for a fucking adventure.

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The Flash - Central City

Created by Dmitry Smirnov

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2016 tour dates so far!

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anisocoria

And so close the eyes that captivated me since kidnapping a baby and contact juggling.

(Ink, digital)

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