#ed elrich

[princejdorado]

Day 3: October 3rd

[imnothereforthat]

I need to study for my last final (for good!) and I promised myself that if I will finish reading everything today I’ll draw something fun. guess who finish reading!!:D

[theshipsociety]

Rules: name 10 favorite characters from 10 different things and then tag 10 people.

i was tagged by @introspective-iceberg ((quaratine life XD))

So I had no choice but to do it or whatevah (tagged in my main main blog @consistently-constant -yeah I am also @gay-for-hange too)

Hange Zoe (of course) - Attack on Titan

Phil- The Promised Neverland

Edward Elrich  (I was torn between the Elrich brothers, but since babe Ed is on my wallpaper so yah)- Full Metal Alchemist

Shinya Kougami-Psycho Pass

Tanaka Ryunouske- Haikyuu

Juvia Lockser- Fairy tail

Violet Evergarden - Violet Evergarden

Chopper- One Piece

Hotaru Oreki- Hyouka

Penny- The Big Bang Theory

Tagging @kyliet-blog @divinequeenladyinblack @mmmteaa @chibi-hanji @ddeokbxkki @micia08 @calli-moon @hangelove @diomustaine @shiganshina-basement

[shannonw122]

Women in the music industry: Intersectionality, double standards, feminism, and more.

What is intersectionality?

Intersectionality is a term that came about in the late 1980s when Kimberle Crenshaw was searching for a word to describe the discrimination that often occurs when different social factors, such as race, gender, sexual orientation, and age overlap with each other (Dillbray and Edwards). While Crenshaw was originally attempting to describe the discrimination that black women face all too often, the term has been expanded to include anyone and everyone who experiences discrimination as a result of a combination of social aspects. In fact, women in the music industry have been viewed as less than equal to their male counterparts, time and time again, especially in recent years. This has prompted several female musicians to speak out and take a stand for themselves and their fellow artists. 

This blog will take you on a journey through some recent examples in popular music where women have been overshadowed, told to “step up,” and when they have spoken out on topics such as gender inequality, double standards, feminism, and intersectionality. 

Chart: yw Boston

Nicki Minaj calls out the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards 

It would not be an award show without some controversy which is what came with the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards when Nicki Minaj, rightfully, expressed her disappointment with the nominations. Her video for her hit song “Anaconda” broke records when it got 19.6 million views in just one day yet failed to be recognized for its choreography and overall artistic vision as video of the year (Mei). “Anaconda” without a doubt had an impact in 2014 as one of the most watched and discussed videos of the year. Minaj took to Twitter to express her disappointment, saying “When the ‘other’ girls drop a video that breaks records and impacts culture they get that nomination.,” possibly referring to Miley Cyrus’ video for “Wrecking Ball” which had previously held the record for most views in one day. Minaj also tweeted “If your video celebrates women with very slim bodies, you will be nominated for vid of the year” likely referring to Taylor Swift’s video for “Bad Blood” which was nominated in 2015, although she said she was not referring to Swift. It turns out that Minaj was subtly calling out racism within the music industry and her disappointment came when past videos that were deemed controversial (Brittney Spears’ “Toxic,” Emily Ratajkowski in Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball”) were all labeled “impactful,” praised, or awarded. Minaj’s on the other hand was without a doubt impactful but not recognized as such. The major difference between Spears, Ratajkowski, Cyrus, and Minaj is that the former consists of white female bodies while the latter is a rapper who just so happens to be a woman of color. Unfortunately, Minaj was experiencing intersectionality as a woman of color. Simply just being a Black woman is what put Minaj at a disadvantage in this situation as well as others. Race and gender overlap here, and played a huge role in Minaj not being recognized while other female artists like Brittney Spears and Miley Cyrus can create controversial videos but are praised as white women. 

Photo: Kevin Winter/MTV1415/Getty Images For MTV

Few female artists insight at the 2018 Grammy Awards 

The 2018 Grammy Awards ceremony was a controversial night as female musicians were not honored like their male counterparts were. Of the eighty-four awards handed out, only eleven were awarded to women and some questioned the winners (Zielinski). Many were upset when Ed Sheeran won for Best Pop Solo Performance for his hit song “Shape of You” when his competition were all females and included powerful songs such as Kesha’s “Praying” and Lady Gaga’s “Million Reasons.” Another big criticism of the ceremony was all of the nominees for one of the top categories, Album of the Year, were all male except for Lorde. However, the bigger controversy surrounding Lorde and this category is that all of the Album of the Year nominees were allowed to perform solo while Lorde was only offered to be apart of a tribute performance. Many questioned why her male counterparts were allowed to showcase their work that was being nominated but not Lorde. In response to this, Grammy executive producer, Ken Elrich, said that it was because there’s no way that they can “deal with everybody.” However, rock band U2 performed at the ceremony and they were not even nominated for any awards this year. The overall treatment towards women at the 2018 ceremony created a buzz which prompted the Recording Academy President, Neil Portnow to respond. When asked about gender representation he responded that women who “have the creativity in their hearts and souls, who want to be musicians, who want to be engineers, producers, and want to be part of the industry on the executive level” need to “step up (Coscarelli).” The truth is that women did “step up” and have been “stepping up” for years especially within the music industry. It just appears that some people within the industry refuse to acknowledge the impact women have made given that over the last five years, only 9.3% of Grammy nominees have been female (Zielinski). One could argue that simply just being a female put these talented musicians at a disadvantage at the 2018 Grammy Awards ceremony. While there were no overlapping social factors for Gaga, Kesha, or Lorde this night, they were instantly overlooked and it appears that they were not deemed as worthy or valuable as their male counterparts.

All musicians write about love, why is Taylor Swift the only one getting hate for it?

Love is a popular topic to write about but why is it that Taylor Swift is the only one who receives backlash when she writes about the men she has dated? Male musicians such as Drake and Ed Sheeran never receive backlash for their romantic lives and instead receive praise. Taylor Swift, on the other hand, gets made fun of and has memes and shirts made mocking her dating life. In 2014, she penned her hit song “Blank Space” as a way to let the media know she knew how she was being portrayed by them. Just recently, Billboard named “Blank Space” as a song that defined the decade. In a recent interview with Billboard, she explained that she wrote the song in response to the “overly harsh depiction” of herself in the media and that she was “meeting and dating people the way that everyone should be allowed to [in their 20s] (Atkinson).” There is a clear double standard between men and women in the music industry because when a female writes about her own experiences she might be labeled as a “serial dater” and be publicly shamed, while a man can write about his relationships and be praised. On her most recent album, Lover, Swift wrote a song titled “The Man” where she addresses double standards and sings about what it would be like to be a man in the entertainment industry.

Source: http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3qjd15

Photo: Imgur 

Women in country music: Jennifer Nettles, the 2019 CMA Awards, and more

The 2019 CMA Awards was supposed to be a night of celebration and appreciation for the women of country music, however the attempt went downhill as the night went on. While many females were showcased through their performances, some felt that they could have been awarded more - particularly in one category. Entertainer of the Year is the top prize at the CMA Awards and Garth Brooks took it home this year...for the third time in four years (McKenna). This year, all the Entertainer of the Year nominees were male except for Carrie Underwood who was generally favored by most to win (McKenna). The attempt to celebrate women in country music comes after a study of country music radio was done and found that women in the genre receive far less radio airplay than their fellow male musicians. Dr. Watson of the University of Ottawa published a report in April 2019 that examined country music radio airplay for women artists and male artists from 2000 to 2018. Dr. Watson’s study found that by years-end in 2000, women held 33.3% of songs on country airplay reports but by 2018, they held only 11.3% which is a 66% decline (Watson). Even more recently, in 2018 the ratio of men to women on country radio was 9.7:1 (Watson). The most shocking finding from Dr. Watson’s study is that over the last seventeen years (883 weeks), male artists spent 749 weeks (14.4 years) at the top spot while women spent 98 weeks (1.8 years) (Moss). These findings are shocking and prompted leader of country band, Sugarland, Jennifer Nettles to make a statement at the 2019 CMA Awards. On the red carpet for the event, she made her outfit her own by writing “Play our f*@#in records please and thank you” across it with the female gender symbol displayed on her leg. When asked about her outfit, Nettles responded that she was trying to “send a message to the industry” as well as gain the public’s attention. Lack of airplay for women in country music has increasingly gotten worse but thanks to those who are paying attention, like Dr. Watson and the women of country music, hopefully improvements will be made in the very near future.

Photo: John Shearer/WireImage

Photo: ABC

Works Cited

Atkinson, Katie. "Songs That Defined the Decade: Taylor Swift's 'Blank Space'." Billboard, 21 Nov. 2019.

Coscarelli, Joe. "Grammys President Faces Backlash After Saying Women Need to ‘Step Up’." The New York Times, 20 Jan. 2018

Dillbray, J S., and Griffin Edwards. "An Empirical Analysis of Sexual Orientation Discrimination." The University of Chicago Law Review, vol. 86, no. 1, Jan. 2019. 

McKenna, Brittney. "The 2019 CMA Awards’ Attempt to Honor Women Goes Sideways." Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2019.

Mei, Gina. "A field guide to Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift, and intersectionality." Hello Giggles, 22 July 2015.

Moss, Marissa R. "New Study Examines Impact of Country Radio Programming on Women." Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2019.

Watson, Jada E. "Gender Representation on Country Format Radio: A Study of Published Reports from 2000-2018." WOMAN Nashville, 26 Apr. 2019.

Waxman, Olivia B. "Pound the Alarm! Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda' Video Breaks Record." Time, 22 Aug. 2014.

Zielinski, Noelle. "The 60th Grammy Awards stir up controversy." The News Record, 6 Feb. 2018.

[baredmirror]

“But the first literary mentions of Halloween precede Burns by two centuries; they describe a holiday drenched in deliciously spooky superstition. Take, for example, these two lines from Alexander Montgomerie’s 1584 poem ‘Flyting Against Polwart’:

In the hinder end of harvest, on Allhallow even, / When our good neighbors do ride . . .

Montgomerie goes on to describe those ‘good neighbors’ in more detail, and he could easily be ticking off the characters in any modern haunted attraction: there are the King of Faerie and the Elf Queen, ‘many elrich Incubus,’ witches (‘the Weird Sisters’), ghosts, spiders, owls, ravens, and werewolves. The fact that ‘Flyting Against Polwart’ is actually a satirical attack on one of Montgomerie’s rivals doesn’t lessen the strange and whimsical portrait it paints of Halloween night.”

— Lisa Morton, introduction to Haunted Nights (Eds. Ellen Datlow & Lisa Morton)

[bluebird167]

F.R.I.E.N.D.S Anime style

Basically it's a F.R.I.E.N.D.S parody with various anime characters playing the roles as the characters from friends.

Rachel Green - Usagi/Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon)

Monica Geller - Kagome (Inuyasha)

Phoebe Buffay - Sakura (Naruto)

Ross Geller - Mamoru/Tuxedo Mask (Sailor Moon)

Chandler Bing - Inuyasha (Inuyasha)

Joey Tribbiani - Ed Elrich (Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood)

Jack and Judy Gellar - Roy Mustang and Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood)

Gunther - Kakashi (Naruto)

Carol Willick - Sailor Saturn (Sailor Moon)

Susan Bunch - Sailor Pluto (Sailor Moon)

Ben Geller - Shippo (Inuyasha)

Emma Geller - Chibiusa/Small Lady (Sailor Moon)

Janice Goralink - Kagura (Inuyasha)

Richard Burke - Koga (Inuyasha)

Mike Hannigan - Sasuke (Naruto)

Ursula Buffay - Ino Yamanaka (Naruto)

[tirnelsutcliff]

It's time foooorrrr...!!!

Another edition of WTF did I just watch?

It's been awhile! Today's edition, I haven't even finished watching! I'm only like 15 minutes into it and rage quit twice. What is it I am watching, you ask?

SPOILERS

The full metal alchemist live action film!

😧 oh my god, this movie. I can't. Pretty much all live actions based of manga/anime are pretty bad, with a few exceptions. The black butler film, I knew what I was getting into and was able to enjoy it. The second Death Note (way far away from its source material) was told quite well. But this...?

When my friend mentioned it to me and how awful it was, I thought maybe he was just being picky cause it's not just like the original sources as he is known to be. And I knew not to expect EVERYTHING and a perfect retelling etc going in. Well...

We start off with Ed and Al making that little toy they then show to their mom. Some weird cgi/animation going on throughout the sequence...the transmuting, ok..kinda weird but ok. Mom dies. And of course we go into then transmuting her.

Al get...carried away into a...tornado..??????

Cut to title and then, the city of Liore....

I'm sorry. Reole. 😐.

Cornello is running down obscenely vacant streets of some Mediterranean looking city (like in italy or greece). Here comes Ed (omg, that wig) chasing after on rooftop, pounces Cornello. Cornello then starts to beat the shit out of Ed with his alchemy...Ed not fighting back for some reason, even going to the point of when being knocked to the ground chuckling and saying, "A philosopher's stone," all dreamy like.

Chimera time!!!....uh no..wtf are those?!

Spiky growly fleshy dog beasts?

He makes his staff with his weird transmutation graphics, yada, yada, Al shows up who is kinda cool looking, kind of uncanny valley. There's some weird editing where Cornello, after Al is revealed to be empty asks, "What are you two?" Then followed by revealing Ed's automail. They finally run into a place filled with people and Cornello grabs I presume Rose and holds her hostage while Ed is like, "You see? He's a fake!" They finally kick his ass (with some weird slowmo halfass punch).

The stone breaks from the ring and falls to the ground. Then freakin COLONEL MUSTANG and Riza Hawkeye show up with a bunch of soldiers...wtf is going on?! Arrest Cornello and detain Ed for "running amok". The stone is revealed to be fake.

Al does essentially the "broken radio scene" only he is by himself and he's removing a statue ed had made during battle. Winry shows up. (Eeehh..I don't expect everything and everyone to look spot on from the series and she wasn'ton long enough for me to give a definite opinion).

Then we get a nice shot of envy, lust, and gluttony and that is where I currently am. They look AMAZING.

The acting so far...eeeeeehhhh...kinda weird, not that good, in my opinion. Again, just my opinion. Like Ed during that whole battle scene. I didn't get "Edward Elrich" I got some cosplayer making a video for youtube for some fun. The only time I've sorta felt the Edward vibe is when he made that statue and it looked like something he would create.

Like I said, I don't expect for everything to be the same, but there was enough here that the changes didn't make sense in my opinion. And just the overall cinematography is bizarre, from the scenes to the directing to the acting. The transmuting takes too long. Like Cornello could have wiped Ed out by the time his transmuting was complete.

But it has Dean Fujioka in it, so I'm gonna try to finish it. Also for the sake of curiosity and I'm a glutton for punishment.

Can you hear my heart beat? Tired of feeling never enough....

[yvetteyvette000]

Tag game

1) Relationship status: 💑

2) Lipstick or Chapstick: lip gloss, to keep lips from getting too dry

3) Last song listened to: Shape of You by Ed Sheeran

4) To 3 shows: Yuri On Ice, Free!, Inu x Boku SS

5) Top 3 characters: Rin Matsuoka, Soushi Miketsukami, Edward Elrich

6) Top 3 ships: RinHaru, HaruRin, Sharkbait

Tagging: (if you want to) @unicornia-fujoshi, @mysticalhan, @shipnuggets, @rin-matsoooohka

[the-backspin-alchemist]

Characters you have same energy as: - Ed Elrich - Shinra Kishitani Umm... That’s all I can think of.

I can’t help but feel that, while the two characters are opposites in a lot of ways, this still somehow makes sense for me.

[askyourparentspermission]

let’s all get funimation to get various other va’s to record over Vic Mignogna’s characters. we don’t need to associate him with ed elrich if we don’t want to lmao

[vitalmindandbody]

How The Supreme Court Could Crush Public-Sector Unions

WASHINGTON — In “whats being” turned off has become a pain punch to labor unions, the Supreme court will hear oral arguings Monday in a case who are able to see the entire U.S. public sector a right-to-work zone.

In the occurrence, Friedrichs v. California Teacher Association, groupings of public-school teachers in California require the court to ruler that the First Amendment vetoes their solidarity from requiring them to pay what are known as “fair-share fees.” Such fees, which all workers in a bargaining force are obligated to pay, help cover the costs of continuing union contracts.

If the court principles against the union and workers are given the option of not those fees, public-sector unions stand to lose significant funding. The suit, backed by a host of the working group on the right, commits republican justices — especially Justice Samuel Alito — the chance to overrule a four-decade-old precedent that essentially said fair-share costs to be law.

“What we’re likely to see is a extremely definitive decision in Friedrichs, ” remarked Paul Secunda, a labor principle prof at Marquette University Law School, who signed onto a brief in support of the union. “Either they make[ public-sector unitings] sustain obtaining fair-share costs, or in the alternative, Friedrichs builds basically the whole country, by constitutional fiat, public sector right-to-work. To me, that’s bad. It induces it hard for public-sector leagues to exist.”

No one in the U.S. can be forced to join a labor union. The so-called shut shop has been illegal in this country for decades. But where regime statute allows it, laborers can be required to pay fair-share costs to the union, even if they don’t is intended to be full-fledged members. These costs can go toward the cost of agreement contracts, but not toward political pleasures.

The fees address what organizations like to call the “free rider” problem. In a unionized workplace, the union has to negotiate a contract for everyone in the bargaining group, even if some people don’t want to be members of the union. Since agreement is expensive, leagues bicker it’s only fair that everyone contribute to those costs. Hence fair-share fees.

If fair-share costs are found to violate the First Amendment, organized labor would run up against personal economics. Although some employees may leave the union on principle, others may stop reinforcing it financially because they know the union will bargain on their behalf regardless, for free. Laborers bail on the union, and the union becomes less effective.

“It would undermine our ability at the bargaining table and on the number of jobs,[ our capabilities] to advocate for us and for the community, ” answered Stephen Mittons, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 2081, in Chicago. “By weakening the numbers even slightly, it does add to our vulnerability.”

So, if no one is forced to fund a union’s politics in the first place, then how is Friedrichs a First Amendment subject centered around political communication? The conservative groups backing the lawsuit “re saying that”, unlike in the private sector organizations, public-sector unionism is political by nature, since organizations are negotiating over payments paid expressly by taxpayers. Their contention hinges on that logic.

“That’s the heart of the case, ” suggested F. Vincent Vernuccio, proletariat plan director at the Mackinac Center, a conservative think tank that are typically squares off against leagues in strive case. “Everything public-sector unions do is inherently political. Whether it’s increased salary or helps, that fund has to come from taxpayers. And if it goes to salary and benefits, it has to come from somewhere else. That “couldve been” commons. That’s a political issue.”

In a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, entitled “Why I’m Fighting My Teachers Union, ” Harlan Elrich, one of the all those people who made the lawsuit, wrote that “the union’s collective bargaining is every bit as political” as the union’s politics. That political agenda, Elrich said, includes pushing for “ever-higher teacher salaries” for employees like himself, which he opposes. “That the union would presume to push, reportedly on my behalf, for higher wages at the expense of smaller class sizings and forestalling teacher layoffs is absurd, ” he wrote.

“If they can weaken the bargaining strength of the most powerful confederations in America, which are now in the public sphere, it affects the salary and benefits of people who aren’t even in unions.” Lily Eskelsen Garcia, National Education Association president

But the State supreme court has recognized that the vitality of the union may trump any politics in collective bargaining — and the political views that may be expressed in the process.

In 1977’s Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, which substantiated the constitutional principle at stake in Friedrichs, Justice Potter Stewart acknowledged that obliging someone to support their bargaining units may affect their First Amendment rights. He listed several instances of employees disagreeing with the views of their union — on abortion, race relations, even unionism itself. But ultimately, Stewart acknowledged that “such interference” with a person’s ideas is “constitutionally justified” in order to allow “the important contribution of the union shop to the system of labor relations established by Congress.”

That understanding remained largely in place until 2012, when Justice Alito — joined by the court’s conservatives — called Abood “something of an anomaly” in constitutional law, and noted that the “free-rider arguments” advanced by solidarities “are generally insufficient to overcome First Amendment objections” raised during employees who don’t want to contribute their fair share.

Two years later, Alito once again resulted the charge against Abood and called its reasoning “questionable, ” and made clear that the decision “did not foresee the practical problems” of those who opted out of a public uniting — namely, “the conceptual difficulty of distinguishing … between organization expenditures that are made for collective-bargaining its objectives and those that are made to achieve political ends.”

Alito suggested virtually everything that a public union does is inherently political because it implies the government, and there’s no meaningful course for the purposes of an objecting hire to do anything about it. In the end, Alito left that old-fashioned precedent in place, but practically invited a future challenge to it. That defy is Friedrichs.

It’s possible the Friedrichs decision comes down to another conservative justice, Antonin Scalia, who may turn out to be an unlikely savior for confederations. In past clients, Scalia has suggested that the government should have leeway with fair share provisions, since the law attacheds unitings to preach for everyone in a bargaining component. “In the context of bargaining, trade union organizations must seek to further the rights and interests of its nonmembers, ” Scalia wrote in one opinion. “Thus, the free ridership( unless it is left to be that) would be not incidental but calculated , not imposed by contexts but mandated by authority decree.”

The case may affect more than simply public-sector confederations. As private-sector union membership has tumbled in the U.S . in recent decades — a mere 6.6 percent of such workers now belong to trade union organizations, compared with 35.7 percent in the public sector — organized labor as a whole has counted on public-sector strive radicals to maintain its grades. If the effect of Friedrichs is to diminish some of the largest organizations in the country, then all unions will be weaker politically.

Lily Eskelsen Garcia, president of the National Education Association, argued that a rule impressing down fair-share fees would depress agreement power for employees of all kinds.

“If they can weaken the bargaining influence of the most powerful unions in America, which are now in the public sphere, it alters the salary and benefits of people who aren’t even in unitings, ” alleged Eskelsen Garcia, whose union is most important in the nation, with 3 million members. “We can see who’s behind and funding the Friedrichs case. It’s less clear these are folks that “ve never” stood up for the rights of working people.”

Unions have been girding for the purposes of an adverse ruling. The National Education Association has thousands of contracts in is to say that include fair-share provisions. If fair-share costs are regarded a violation of the First Amendment, all of those contracts could be called into question.

Once employees are given the option to pay nothing to the union, the union is also necessary to make a stronger instance to laborers for why they should choose to fund it. Some public-sector organizations, such as the American Federation of Educator and AFSCME, have launched internal organizing curricula aimed at boosting union membership among laborers already covered by contracts.

“It’s built us think about getting back to essentials and what makes a strong union. It’s about the people and such relationships, ” pronounced Lacy Barnes, a psychology coach at Reedley College and a vice president of California Federation of Schoolteacher. In the event of an unfavorable verdict, “We will have to do our employment differently, there is no doubt about it. It will make it difficult at first, but we’re like ants. We’ll figure out how to go around or construct it differently.”

Even if leagues avoid a worst-case verdict in Friedrichs, they need to prepare for a world without fair-share costs. In recent years, a heap of states have guided right-to-work legislation, including traditionally union-strong districts like Michigan and Wisconsin. Previously relegated to the South and West, right-to-work sets now exist in half of U.S. territories.

Secunda, of Marquette, announced a Friedrichs ruling striking down fair-share costs in the public sphere are more likely to embolden right-to-work sponsors to push the laws and regulations in even more states. A wakeup call for organizations, he alleged, could be the “silver lining” to a loss in Friedrichs.

“It’s incumbent on the unions to find alternative ways to organize proletarians into collective action, ” Secunda did. “These confederations cannot continue to operate the style they have traditionally. Those periods are numbered.”

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[manic-sociopath-321]

Sam and Dean are basically Ed and Al. I mean their mom is dead, daddy issues galore, and codependence on their brother. I'm not saying Supernatural is a Fullmetal Alchemist AU but it totally is.

[rebelknightbellamy]

Enjoy .

[drunkmuppet]

a whole year younger than Ed. 

OHMYGOD how embarrassing he is soo short I can't stop laughing XD