#Informative Sets

[teaboot]

When I was a kid, I regularly lost reading privileges for "having an attitude" and "acting out".

It wasn't as simple as being told not to read during other activities- one of the first times it happened, I remember being six years old, watching my stepfather pull fistfuls of books off my bookshelf and throw them to the floor in a heaping mess while I cried and asked him to stop.

It was weird. Every other adult I knew described me as exceptionally well-behaved, but at home, it was the opposite, and it was blamed on "learning bad habits from that shit you're reading".

Because I couldn't read at home, I spent all my free time at school in the library, reading with my friends.

When I grew up and moved away, I realized that my family life was toxic and abusive, and the "attitudes" I was being punished for were standing up for myself, standing up for my younger siblings, and resisting actual, real-life psychological abuse. Because I'd learned from what I'd read that my family wasn't normal, not like my parents said it was, and in my stories, the heroes were the people who spoke out when it was hard to.

It is insane to me that there are students right now who can't access books. It is insane that books are being outlawed. It is perverse that we are stealing away an entire generation's ability to contextualize their lives, to learn about the world around them, to develop critical thinking skills and express themselves and feel connected to the world or escape from it, whatever and whenever and however they need.

That is not how you raise a compassionate, thoughtful, powerful society.

That's how you process cattle.

It's fucking disgusting.

#I know this is old news but Jesus #Every day I hear more about school book bans and I feels less real #Restriction of information is restriction of freedom #People need stories #Even bad stories #Even tragic or problematic ones #We need to set purity culture on fire I'm not kidding #Abuse mention #Abuse tw

[team7-headquarter]

HE WAS SO MAD

#classic Kakashi DID disobey orders for his kids #It's insane when people say he'd never act rebellious against konoha when the evidence is there in the classic #or course things changed in shippuden #but in the classic? he went to the land of the waves mission without reporting the the classification was wrong #because he wanted to help tazuna properly #he allowed sasuke to fight in the preliminaries with the cursed mark and secretly sealed it went it was over #he hide the fact that a three men cell was needed for the chuning exams to give sakura the space to decide for herself what she wanted #he was all the time hiding information and acting on his own #even when he says later that he couldn't do much for them it's not because he didn't try #the village fucked him over they set him up for failure and in some sense he knew it #he accepted to be their sensei because he cared for them and he was on their side #I'm fully convinced that if shippuden had followed the classic as it was supposed to do kakashi would have rebelled in more than one way #but it didn't happen :( so #Kakashi Hatake #naruto #Tsunade Senju #Naruto Classic

[markantonys]

THE WHEEL OF TIME Season 2 Behind the Scenes: "The Tower of Falme"

#wotedit #wot #wot on prime #the wheel of time #wot cast #madeleine madden #donal finn #josha stradowski #marcus rutherford #zoe robins #ceara coveney #mine #I'M CRYING I LOVE THEM #(also excellent matrandlayne height difference information ty ty) #also shoutout to casualavocados for these sharpening settings oh my GOD i can't BELIEVE how much better they look than my old ones!!!! #all this time i was like 'why are my gifs never crisp? do i need to start downloading 4k versions of the episodes?' #nope it was literally just the sharpening settings! i'd been using my old ones since like 2017 probably lmao they needed an upgrade!

[annabelle--cane]

always amused me that peter lukas said martin carrying a knife would be very out of character for what he's heard about him in mag 108 when martin did canonically keep a knife on him for a while in s1. martin's so good at playing the 🥺 card that true facts about him simply slide off of people's brains.

#that kind of sets up the end to s3 in a way #since elias was the only one telling peter things about martin #elias is so convinced he has the full picture of martin's personality that he ignores a lot of blatant information that doesn't fit #tma #marina marvels at life

[moonlit-positivity]

You don't need a reason to distance yourself from people. If they give you bad vibes then you deserve to honor that gut feeling and protect yourself. Even if they're not doing anything wrong or bad or even if they haven't done anything to you. You can just straight up not like someone, no context necessary. That's valid af and there's not enough emphasis on intuition and gut feelings. Yes, absolutely. Listen to your instincts.

#recovery #ptsd #trauma #mental health #boundaries #healing #healing thoughts #people pleasing #codependency #social anxiety #setting boundaries #self awareness #self actualization #self care #self worth #self esteem #communication #relationships #toxic relationships #trauma informed

[mobius-m-mobius]

Hey! Change of subject. I thought of an answer. To what? Your question.

Lokius + reflection for anon

#mobius #loki #lokius #mcuedit #lokiedit #marveledit #owen wilson #tom hiddleston #coming out of making this set in a complete stupor of how absolutely insane their love is 😭💖 #every single day i regret to inform myself 'love is a dagger' will never EVER leave my thoughts so it feels nice to give in and gif it lol #god they're both so sharp in mind AND personality which is why they've never completely fit in with anyone else around them before #and i'll never be over the way you see them struggling to figure out exactly what they're feeling because it's so completely new #but still falling into place beside each other effortlessly because of how lovely it is to finally be cared for 🥺 #tysm again for such an amazing request and for giving me something to focus on that's genuinely been a highlight 💕 #marvel #owenwilsonedit #dianagifs #flashing cw

[robobee]

if trc was a visual medium and I was a tiktoker i would go insane talking about quiet luxury and how Declan and Adam both fall into this position of people with OBJECTIVELY less money compared to their peers and how both of them are trying to replicate luxury (ie: clothing=persona/identity) to varying levels of success. adam wears old gifts from the ganseys and declan is very clearly called out by other characters to be overcompensating. neither are fully seamless and even though thats not an overt plot point it is DEFINITELY very significant since plenty of their story beats echo each other down to their relationship with ronan, who is a different fashion debate (eg. how punk can you get off of a bank account you dont need to look at and a shaved head which needs to be constantly maintained and a BMW you stole w no repurcussion). again I DO think stief implies fascinating plot points that she doesn't focus on but her display of class and economic variation is very very cool & obviously people w more context of specific USAmerican culture can have this debate better than I can

editing to link the video that finally helped me put this thought into words

#since we don't have a visual representation yet & i refuse to acknowledge stief's art I'm just gonna mention some hcs #i think all of us are pretty set on what gansey looks/wears #my interest comes from declan. i dont believe his suits are made to fit. theyre tailored MAYBE but not made for him #and visually putting him in these political spaces where the suit has such value is. Gahhh #[gestures vaguely at succession] look how they did it!! #this gorg author i saw said that the working class cant attain quiet luxury bc we dont have the Breeding for it #and declan exists as a first generation very new money individual as compared to gansey or even henry #(on that note gansey and henry have different kinds of wealth but frankly i believe there IS a millions/billions differential there) #but again. not enough information to yap #but. Very cool #trc

[chalkrub]

little thing of mendel :^)

#my art #furry #anthro #illustration #oc #mendel #dragon #hello everyone......sorry for the radio silence I was busy #now I'm back and shaking off the cobwebs by drawing my characters and experimenting with brushes and layer settings #HOPE YOU'RE HAVING A GOOD DAY #also guys splatoon in two days! I'm so happy about this information. wow. can you believe it? splatoon 3! in two days! wow

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

PRINTING WITH WOOD TYPE!

Every semester, when we finally get to the invention of letterpress printing in Europe in my History of Books & Printing course, we all head over to a local print shop to set type and print a collaborative broadside. Last week we did just that and went over to Adam Beadel's Team Nerd Letterpress in the Walker's Point neighborhood of Milwaukee.

Usually, we compose in metal type, as that is what the students just learned about, but Adam recently received a huge influx of foundry type that wasn't set up yet, so we had to use wood type instead. Even though we wouldn't learn about the invention of production wood type for a few weeks, we were game because wood type is the best!

Each student was assigned to come up with a 3-5-word phrase based on the theme of "Transitions." They set their own phrase in wood type, I arranged the phrases into an exquisite corpse poem, we locked up the type on the bed of a poster press, and pulled a proof in blue ink (second to last image). Everyone was satisfied with the results, and with only a couple of adjustments, the students went on a tear, inking up the type in a rainbow of colors (last image), and pulling 15 more prints. Everyone went home exhausted and happy.

There are few things more thrilling than making your own letterpress prints. Thanks Adam!!!

View another letterpress post from a previous book history session.

View other posts on wood type.

View our other Typography Tuesday posts.

-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

#Typography Tuesday #typetuesday #instructions sessions #students #graduate students #Information Studies #INFOST 603 #History of Books & Printing #letterpress #letterpress printing #wood type #Adam Beadel #Team Nerd Letterpress #type setting #broadsides #student work #exquisite corpse

[vamprisms]

dream making it thunderstorm for weeks in the dreaming every time he gets dumped. canonically wet and pathetic.

#residents of the dreaming every time morpheus finds a new paramour: 😨😨😨 #the sandman #lucienne my crush doesnt want me please inform our neighbors that im setting the realm on fire.

[smittenskitten]

LUO YUN XI as TANTAI JIN Height: 5'9"

#till the end of the moon #luo yunxi #cdramaedit #长月烬明 #asiandramaedit #chineseartistsinc #cdrama #tteotmedit #prangon gifs #tteotm #tall set #did i search his height while i was making this? #yes. this is a very important piece of information and we should know it

[archiveofrasa]

that one line about ramy's bangla being rudimentary made me absolutely sob (i'm bengali) and i wanna talk about why

there's so much to it both contextually with ramy's character as well as historically. contextually because ramy is fluent in 6 languages, an insane number of languages for one person but none of which are his mother tongue. he's described as a performer, one who knows he can't blend in so instead he stands out as a means to escape as much of the racism as he can. he gets lost in it that he almost forgets who he is; this is reflected in his language ability too – he gets so lost in his linguistic academics he just barely remembers the native language of his home place that he adores.

and honestly, you can't even really blame ramy for it at all when it was induced. it's the british who saw urdu, arabic and persian as more valuable than bangla, it's the british that make ramy put on this act so he can literally stay alive. and when you know the historical relevancies between urdu and bangla, it hurts so much that ramy was forced to forget bangla

very brief history context: after the partition, where british india was split into india, pakistan and east pakistan (now bangladesh) bangla was seen as inferior to urdu due to its hindu connections. bengalis experienced so much shit because of this (and bengali muslims are still dealing with the internalised cultural racism today honestly). pakistanis tried to make the official language urdu, even though literally everyone in east pakistan were bengali and spoke bangla, so bengalis fought back against it. we still celebrate that day today (feb 21)

so to have ramy be in this position in the 1830s where urdu was seen as superior to bangla, especially when ramy is a bengali muslim, is just extremely accurate?? and maybe it's bc we don't have much western literature where we talk about this but it's just so nice to have it acknowledged

the bangla language movement didn't happen until around the 1950s, over a century after babel's timeline, but the seeds are always there. while i do think it comes with both this islamic superiority tendency a lot of asians have (arabs i'm looking at you) and britian's imperialistic racism, i just love how it all makes sense

#babel rf kuang #ramiz rafi mirza #i'm still learning a lot abt my own culture so don't ask me for a lot of information about this lol #yk when i found out ramy was bengali it set my world off its course and i knew i had to read this book even if no bangla was discussed #i knew i was gonna get attached to him and I DID! #he just means so much to me and while he made me sob multiple times i love what kuang did with his character #also if youre pakistani lol don't try to defend yourself #you don't get to after pakistanis massacred so many bengalis during the bangladesh liberation war #babel an arcane history #babel or the necessity of violence #also i love seeing south asian characters become fandom favourites i know most babel lovers love ramy IKTRRR

[streatfeild]

sooooo in love with that new brush set i bought so here, have a really quick sketch of my boy my love my princess whom i haven’t drawn in almost 20 years lol

#i'm sorry to inform y'all i'm officially back on my naruto bullshit. SORRY! #anyway! this brush set fucks severely and i can't believe life forces me to go to work instead of painting with it 24/7 #naruto #yakushi kabuto #kabuto yakushi #mine #my art #40 fucking minutes i'm… WHAT

[saturncodedstarlette]

Nik : Why do you keep coming to me for help? You know I’m not a professional.

Y/N, smiles cheekily : Oh I know. If you were a professional, you’d cost twice as much and be half a effective.

Nik, smiles back at them : I’d also be legal.

Captain Price, butts in : Where’s the fun in that?

#Cod #Call of duty #Call of duty incorrect quotes #Call of duty x reader #Cod Nik #cod nikolai #Cod Nik x male reader #Cod Nik x fem reader #Cod Nik x gn reader #Cod Nikolai x you #Cod Nikolai x reader #Cod Nikolai x oc #Original : write-it-motherfuckers #original : tumblr #This can be seen as platonically or romantically #There’s not a lot with Nik so I feel injustice for that #This sets before Laswell recruits Nik as a informant #Cod Captain Price #Captain Price #John Price #Captain John Price

[cerulean-fantasy]

Stained with red 🩸

#end roll #endroll #russell seager #informant (end roll) #my art #AAAND i'm back again #at last something from me that isn't shameless ship art HAHA #i started this like two weeks ago and set it down after one night of painting #and then just went wild and finished it on a whim today #kind of . unintentionally wheeze #i remember it being a weirdly vivid mental image of a concept #very unusual for me

[earlgodwin]

"He's spent the entire time being picked upon and bullied by the family. I think personally from where Juan stands he sees the hypocrisy in the family, how they can do one thing and say another. As far as Juan is concerned he's always had the best interests of the family at heart, however misguided that might be and doesn't quite comprehend why nobody understands that. Nobody seems to understand that what he does, he does for the betterment of the Borgia clan and never waivers from that. He does that in ways that perhaps aren't sanctioned by the church or sanctioned by family law."

#oh spill the tea!! he truly believed he was doing something right. an impulsive sad lonely dude who doesn't think through #he was bestowed a position he never gave a fuck about in the first place because being a soldier is NOT what he wanted #he just wanted his family's love and affection. a simple i love you would've gone a long way #the way he teases cesare about being a cardinal because that's the only way to get his attention it's just a little brother thingie #and yet cesare took it way too personal lol crazy to me how cesare was the one who slowly destroyed juan before killing him #like how he forced his hand to murder djem and then slowly sabotaging him by mocking him constantly then setting him up to die at forli #by not informing him that ludovico's army was coming for his neck like even from a military stand point cesare ruined the forli mission fr #because he decided to prioritize his own jealousy of juan; humiliating him and hoping him to die so he can take his position as a soldier #the hypocrisy part is sooo tea because cesare killed juan in cold blood telling him that they're borgias and they never forgive #5 mins later he's begging rodrigo to forgive him for killing juan like bro was just saying that to dying juan to destroy him mentally first #i'm screaming he singlehandedly caused juan's spiraling into darkness. how are you gonna fuck up your brother that hard helpppp ?!!?!?! #fucked up dysfunctional family that i love #david oakes #juan borgia #the borgias #theborgiasedit #perioddramaedit #televisiongifs #tvedit #by jen