#refusal to serve

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"72 TAKEN BY POLICE SENT TO WAR JOBS," Toronto Star. September 30, 1943. Page 7. --- Hundreds Said To Be Reporting to Avoid Dragnet --- Seventy-two men rounded up in Wednesday night's police roundup of draft dodgers and selective service evaders were placed in war work today. While no accurate figures are available. officials believe hundreds have rushed to recruiting offices or to selective service for jobs to avoid the dragnet. J. W. Temple, manager of the Toronto office of selective service, said a report is being prepared to show the number picked up by police and placed in employment.

Hundreds have voluntarily reported changes of address to the authorities since the raids on pool-rooms, beverage rooms, restaurants and street corners were started.

[cowardlykrow]

A conversation between my mother and sister

[bixels]

Taking the current topic as an excuse to ask you to tell me all the reasons you love Rarijack. Your art for the ship is so sweet and intimate I'd love to hear any in depth thoughts you have.

Breathes in.

I think what makes their dynamic really strong is that they have opposing personalities but aligned values. It's deeper than just "opposites attract." Rarity's fancy, prissy, and femme while Applejack's modest, rough, and "masculine." But both value hard work (to the point of being workaholics), their families (both have guardianship over their little sisters), running successful businesses, and eventually each other. Their relationship can be boiled down to, "Despite our differences/disagreements, I still like you because we value the same things."

We see their relationship develop so much. In the first season, they can't stop bickering about surface-level differences. By season four, they still bicker, but will mend their relationship because they can't help but do nice things for each other. In Trade Ya, they start off arguing over personality differences (Applejack likes old junk and Rarity likes useless crap). Then they pivot and start arguing that they value their relationship more than the other. In the end, they mend things by sacrificing their needs and buying each other a gift. Even if they don't understand it, they know it'd make the other happy. And that's all that really matters. It's a genuinely sweet moment that shows how arguing can be healthy and necessary for relationships to strengthen.

We even see them dropping their hang-ups about each others' personalities. In Made in Manehattan, when Rarity runs off in dramatics about someone's fashion, AJ doesn't roll her eyes or scoff, she smiles. Oftentimes, their conflicts are very common domestic conflicts romantic couples face. Applejack's Day Off is about a woman's inability to balance work and life and find time to properly spend with her partner, causing her partner to feel neglected.

By season seven, they're actively participating in each others' interests. Any problems or conflicts that arise are dealt with, and they come out the other end stronger and closer. In Honest Apple, AJ pretty much spells out why their relationship works so well: even though she doesn't understand fashion, she can recognize and appreciate how much work it takes and wants to respect that. When she realizes her mistake in the episode, AJ goes above and beyond to fix things and apologize to Rarity. They care about each other so much.

The two go out of their way, sacrificing their personal desires and beliefs and doing things they normally wouldn't, to make the other happy. That's just love.

There's Simple Ways, where AJ gets stuck in an unwanted love triangle between Rarity and her hipster crush. And her frustration and anger can be so easily interpreted as AJ finding herself in a terrible position; the girl she loves wants another man, and that man wants her.

I dunno. I've always had a preference for opposites attract ships, but Rarijack's stuck with me like a brain worm because they have the perfect chemistry. The way they show they care, or do things for each other, I've always read it as the truest representation of romance in the show.

[can-of-slorgs]

*japanese funky nightcore cover music in the background*

[vague-humanoid]

[needlepine]

I’ve been thinkin about Needletail again recently, so here’s her boyfriend Rain

He goes to another school

[anna-scribbles]

truest thing gabriel everrr said was that adrien had emilie's flair for the dramatics

[annabelle--cane]

biting this scene. sinking my teeth right in.

[padawansuggest]

You know you into yarn when you have headcanons about what spindles characters would particularly like, what they prefer to do with the yarn, what type of wheel spinner they are, and who has 17 projects going on at once (Anakin) vs who’s gonna focus almost entirely on one project as they go through thought spindle spinning a fine yarn, plying and washing enough of it for a blanket, immediately sticking it on the loom, and weaving a particularly intricate pattern (Obi-Wan) vs who’s the ‘I add the knots of silk and locks so that I can live in the moment and let chunks come out when they need to’ (as if I even have to say it, it’s Qui-Gon)-

ANYWAYS. I actually love yarn and think that yarn craft should be more in fics but that’s sorta like how lots of chefs and bakers make a lot of foodie fics like it’s nice but. Everyone eats. Not enough people care about Scottish spindles. Obi-Wan has 7 Scottish spindles and like 8 Turkish ones so he can make a blanket’s worth of yarn in a single go without having to unwind them and ply right away. Qui-Gon likes supported spindles and a traditional wheel. Anakin designs and makes his own electric spinners, electric yarn counters, and electric cone winders. And then he knits Padme shawls. Qui-Gon crochets blankets and keeps leaving them in the creche or outside random apartments in the temple. Obi-Wan weaves. Anakin spent 5 hours learning how to dye fiber in Padme’s favorite colours, made an electric wool carder to make batts of them, spent a solid 15 hours spinning enough for a massive shawl in lace weight yarn for his wife, knit her one, and then went back to his ADHD project hopping.

I have ideas!!!!!!

[selemina]

Unspoken words. Mean gills my beloved! :D

[driftwoodthrone]

COMPLIMENTARY COSTUME DESIGN | RHANEYS & CORLYS

Temime designated blue as the dominant color for House Velaryon, to symbolize the sea, though many of Corlys’ costumes also featured refined fabrics in a sand-and-gold palette. Although he’s a powerfully proud man who wields great influence, Corlys’s overall silhouette was softer than the looks Temime created for Viserys, Daemon, and Otto Hightower. Depending on the occasion, Rhaenys wears either the blue and ochre of her husband’s house or traditional Targaryen black and red—sometimes complementing Corlys’ attire, while emphasizing her independence on other occasions. For the Great Council scene, which takes place at Harrenhal at the start of the series, Temime designed a striking dark-red gown with black accents trimmed in gold that became one of Rhaenys’s most regal and refined looks— she arrives to Harrenhal dressed as though she is already the queen of the Seven Kingdoms. By contrast, in the final episode, when she travels to Dragonstone to alert Rhaenyra that she’s been betrayed by the Hightowers, Rhaenys is clad entirely in black, wearing a streamlined look pairing a long-sleeved jacket and a midi-length split skirt that recalls the male styles Temime developed for the show.

COSTUME DESIGNER, JANY TEMIME

— INSIDE THE CREATION OF A TARGARYEN DYNASTY, GINA MCINTYRE

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

Doukhobor Conscientious Objectors at Alternative Service Camp, Montreal Lake, Saskatchewan 1941. Most came from Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan, or the Doukhobor communities around it. They were sent to work starting in June 1941, as Doukhobors were conscientious objectors and refused to serve in the Canadian military, as they had refused decades ago to serve in the Czar’s army.. Dozens of other young Doukhobor men were imprisoned for their refusal to join the army or do alternative service, or fled to other parts of Canada. The Alternative Service workers built between June and October 1941 forty miles of Highway No. 2 (still in use) connecting La Ronge with points south, through land that was mostly First Nations.

Mostly from the private collection of Peter A. Kouznitsoff, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Doukhobor Heritage.

1) A meeting of camp representatives. Alec Morosoff - blonde, standing; Peter Popoff - sitting far right on bunk; John J. Bondoreff - sitting at table wearing vest; others unidentified. From the private collection of Mike S. Nadane, Kamsack, Saskatchewan.

2) Cutting Cordwood for the Cook Tent - Alternative Service Camp, Montreal Lake, SK, 1941. From the private collection of Mike S. Nadane, Kamsack, Saskatchewan.

3) Life in the Camp: A group of Doukhobors posing for a photo at the alternate service work camp, Montreal Lake, SK, 1941. 

4) Life in the Camp: A group of Doukhobor elders from Blaine Lake, SK visit the workers at the Montreal Lake alternate service work camp, 1941.

5) Road Construction Work: Heavy equipment parked along the grade as it is built up during road construction. Alternate service road construction project, Montreal Lake, SK, 1941.

6) Road Construction Work: A dragline prepares the road bed and ditches along the alternate service road construction project at Montreal Lake, SK, 1941.

7) Moving the Camp: The work camp was built to be portable so that it could follow the course of the road construction. All the tents were built on wooden skids. Here, a tent in the distance is being skidded down the roadway to the next location. Three such moves are known to have occurred during the Montreal Lake alternate service road construction project, 1941.

8) Road Construction Work: Peter A. Kouznitsoff (left) poses with several Doukhobor heavy equipment operators during road construction work. Montreal Lake alternate service work camp, 1941.

9) Road Construction Work: Peter A. Kouznitsoff (left) poses with another Doukhobor worker atop a road grader.

10) Doukhobor conscientious objectors at the Montreal Lake alternate service camp were granted leave on Sundays. On several occasions, men on leave travelled to nearby Waskesiu Lake in Prince Albert National Park for recreation. Here a group poses near the beach; Peter A. Kouznitsoff is seated in the center foreground, July 6, 1941.

[yesterdayiwrote]

So... quick update on the Eurovision situation

The EBU decided that Israel can compete despite their country being under an active Genocide investigation by the ICJ. Their delegation have gone on to antagonise other contestants by filming them for their social media without permission and refusing to remove it when asked, harass journalists who have questioned if their inclusion is appropriate, and their commentators have made horrendous comments about the Irish contestant... all without sanction.

Meanwhile the Dutch contestant got into an undisclosed 'incident' with a female member of the production crew and they've referred it to the police and flat out disqualified him from the contest with less than 12 hours notice...

Which seems like a tremendous act of double standards at an event that is already marred by serious controversy. Obviously the second is not acceptable, but very difficult to understand how the first somehow... is?

[lesbianpegbar]

i think one thing that’s funny about ajin (aside from everything about it) is that if you only know about it from the anime or general cultural osmosis you think that kai is gonna be a secondary protagonist and our yaoi bait but when you read the manga it’s like no he’s. gone. for dozens of chapters. and then they just drop this other guy who looks kinda like kai if you squint into the narrative and he is Always there and fills that role instead. sorry guys the childhood friend is gone here is this kinda stupid random construction worker instead have fun

[fromtheseventhhell]

What's crazy is that Barristan has the character development that people pretend Jaime has but because he supports Dany and doesn't spend all of his page time talking/thinking about how evil Targaryens are, it gets ignored

[arealtrashact]

Do you sketch out your shapes beforehand, or do you dive right into blocking them out?

I do an extremely rough sketch first. I leave it loose enough to change ( sometimes drastically ) in the blocking phase.