hello, all! i’m kelsey, and this is where i go to be embarrassing and also complain about things on the internet. i’m a professional artist & hobbiest cosplayer who spends a lot of time designing things and thinking about fictional characters. if you’re interested in seeing my work, my other tumblrs are @toughtinkart and @toughtinkcosplay . if you’re interested in seeing occasional pictures of the sky, my other other tumblr is @kelseylikesclouds .

if you are here for tlt things, check out my #tinks tlt notes tag for lists and such.

started watchin the summer hikaru died…

do the boys kiss???? the psychological breakdown boy should probably kiss his dead friend.

sapphobystarlight:

chainmail-butch:

afriblaq:

Anarcha Westcott was a young Black girl enslaved in Alabama. After a traumatic childbirth, she developed vaginal and rectal fistulas, a condition that left her in constant pain and shame.

Instead of receiving care, she was experimented on over 30 times by Dr. J. Marion Sims, who operated on her without anesthesia. He used her body to develop a surgery that would later be used to treat white women, with pain relief, dignity, and consent.

Anarcha didn’t agree to any of it. She wasn’t a patient. She was a victim of medical violence.

Today, she is finally being remembered, not as a statistic, but as one of the true Mothers of Modern Gynecology, alongside Lucy and Betsey.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcha_Westcott

The book Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington (2007) is a stellar read on this and has had a significant influence, including the 2018 removal of a statue of Dr. Sims from Central Park.

Washington is a bioethicist who has also written on environmental racism (A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism, 2019) and in 2021 she released a book on medical informed consent and how violations of which disproportionately impact PoC (Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent, 2021). She’s a Harvard fellow in ethics and public health and has also worked as senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University.

caddyxjellyby:

wowzerwyrm:

titleknown:

Times That Copyright Expansion Has Historically Fucked Over Artists On An Institutional Level:

• Sampling rights becoming prohibitively expensive to use by small artists
• Musicians being forced to sign over sampling rights to their record company, making any benefits they would hypothetically gain moot.
• The Digital Milennium Copyright Act leading to the vidmaker-stomping nightmare that is ContentID
• The DMCA leading to making it harder than ever to preserve media due to the way it prohibits tinkering with any locks the megacorps put on it, meaning it’s way easier for artists’ hard work to end up vaulted and lost.
• The way basic chord progressions and musical styles have become copyrightable thanks to various lawsuits by the Marvin Gaye estate
• The fact that the artists of the past used to be able to remix; adapt and iterate on art made within 56 years of them, likely created in their lifetimes, and now artists can only do those things with art produced nearly a century ago by people long dead.
• New and independent artists being crowded out of the market by megacorp-owned IPs that would be public domain (and thusly convey less of an overwhelming advantage-via-marquee-value to megacorps) if the US had its pre-1976 copyright laws.

Times That Copyright Expansion Has Actually Materially Helped Artists On An Institutional Level:

• ????????

I genuinely feel like I have to be missing something when people say this? Like, I don’t know copyright law or how it first came about (I should probably go look it up, I’ll probably do that later today).

But like, copyright doesn’t pay me, right? People who presumably buy my art or support my efforts to create more art pays me. Copyright, as far as I’m aware, only allows me to prevent other people from making money off of my art. Which I’m sure there have been instances where someone else making money off my art would actually reduce my own income, but for the most part it feels more like… I dunno, like the whole Netflix password sharing thing? Like Netflix was mad because they were losing potential profits, but for the most part that potential consisted of people who just weren’t going to buy Netflix anyway.

Or like, if I draw a character and sell t-shirts with their face on it, and then someone else draws my same character snd sells keychains, I’m not losing keychain sales, you know? I never made keychains. If I wanted to I could probably start selling keychains too, and then people could buy from me instead, but until I do that I’m not losing profits, I’m just not making extra based on a product I wasnt even doing.

There is some nuance of course, with how our economy is shaped so that potentially a large company could scrape a hundred thousand characters from small artists and mass-produce it, but… I dunno, I feel like tjats a Big Company problem, more than something tjst copyright can solve, becuase the whole issue is that a big company can force you to sell your copyright for cheap if they really want to anyway, copyright doesn’t truly protect us from companies anyway.

I admit I wasn’t thinking of keychains when I wrote that. I agree that people making keychains of Disney characters doesn’t hurt Disney.

I was thinking of the original works themselves. Actors and scriptwriters are paid residuals when episodes are aired on TV. Residuals for a single episode are as little as 10 cents, but if it’s a show that gets played a lot like NCIS or Friends, that adds up. But a person who wrote 12 episodes of Friends is able to collect their money because the show is copyrighted.

Writers get paid when studios buy the rights to make a movie or show of the book they wrote, and they get paid because they own that book due to copyright law.

I can hypothetically print and sell copies of books that are in the public domain like Pride and Prejudice or Tom Sawyer, and that’s fine because Austen and Twain are dead and not making money. But I can’t print and sell my own copies of books by living authors, and I shouldn’t be able to, because then people might buy my copies instead of the publishers’ copies that the authors get paid for.

the very first entry on this post is pretty frickin uninformed. copyright has routinely been the one thing that small artists, writers, creators can point to for protection. there have been instances of us winning against the big guys, and in fact there’s some pretty major lawsuits going down right now that boil down to small creators protecting their work from copyright infringement by giant ai slop companies. copyright IS the only thing standing in the way of disney or wb or comcast or netflix or whoever stealing the work of individual artists to turn it into something massive that the original creator sees no piece of. there’s also been a lot of really shitty contracts that have allowed places like marvel, dc, and disney to screw over creators by essentially erasing them and signing away all their rights automatically meaning that even if the story they invented becomes a massive success, they won’t receive any residuals from that.

what we have is an imperfect system, but destroying copyright entirely would screw over small creators in a million new ways because the big guys have the capital and power to do whatever they want with our work, and literally the only thing stopping them is that it would be legally unwise. i also feel like it would disincentivize the sharing of original works, especially online, because why do i want to share anything if it’s just going to be stolen?

eileen-crys:

Aurora x Genshin Impact 🌙

Oh new moon, illuminate this land once more, Like white doves soaring through the night, Like an azure sea that washes away all evil; For those who believe in you and hope for tomorrow, We beseech you, rise, new moon, oh new moon, pure and unblemished, With you, I cast off suffering, and for all living things, wipe away their tears.

At this point if you follow me you must now how much of a big fan of Aurora I’ve been for years, I’ve seen her three times in concert (four if you consider Sky COTL) and I’ve listened to her latest album, “What Happened to the Heart” way too much for human comprehension. She’s one of my favourite singers EVER.

So… seeing her today while watching the Genshin Impact livestream, taking me completely by surprise, singing the ethereal theme of Nod-Krai all centered around the moon… made my soul absolutely ASCEND to the heavens. I was completely stunned and I’m still shocked.

I’ve also loved Genshin’s music even before I started playing myself, because my boyfriend is a d1 player, so Aurora and Genshin Impact together is the crossover of a lifetime for both of us.

After the livestream I’ve spent the WHOLE DAY doing this and *sobs* I’m exhausted but I hope you’ll like it 🥺💕 I tried my best to mimick Genshin’s style and even if it’s not perfect I’m quite satisfied!

Please do not repost without crediting me! Reblogs and comments are welcomed 💜

televisionenjoyer:

televisionenjoyer:

NOOOO THE SIX ORGASMS PERIOD HACK GOT REBLOGS DISABLED JUST AS I TRIED TO REBLOG IT whatever. I’m trying that next period.

Rescued media. Fuck it.

ozth:

found this three year old draft buried in my files. is it funny? I don’t remember

nudityandnerdery:

nudityandnerdery:

So we can stop waffling on whether Pratt is an idiot, right?

I mean, not that it’s that much of a surprise, but I did say back in March:

So I feel like this is his soft launch.

frootlooppoptarts:

carolinawrenn:

Lord knows that the United States has and continues to commit atrocities. I can’t justify that. And the current political situation here is scary as hell.

But I love this place. I love the Atlantic Ocean and New York City and the Pacific Northwest. I love my Blue Ridge Mountains with my whole entire heart. I love cardinals and mockingbirds and kudzu and possums and black rat snakes and the way the woods smell in the mornings. 

I love that Americans are known for complimenting strangers. I love that we fry everything, and that we do it well. I love 12-foot-high plastic Halloween skeletons in people’s yards and tacky Christmas lights that stay up too long. I love that we are an unabashedly goofy people.

I love bluegrass music. I love stepping. I love that there are always folklorico dancers in my town’s Mardi Gras parade. I love that my town has a Mardi Gras parade, even though most people here aren’t Catholic or French and didn’t grow up with any kind of Carnivale tradition. I love that if “Livin On A Prayer” comes on a pizzeria, at least one person at each table won’t be able to stop themselves from singing along. I love that the middle school gym shakes to the rafters when families cheer for THEIR baby finishing eighth grade and that they bring balloons and bouquets and flower garlands to celebrate.

I love the 80 year old couple at our local No Kings protest. I love all the little kids there with their families, too. I love the brass band that always shows up at protests here and plays old union songs and gospel music. I cry like a damn baby every time I hear “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing.”

This country is horrible and selfish and destructive, but it’s also wonderful and kind and full of people loving and fighting and trying to make things better. And the people saying that there’s only one kind of real American, and that if you don’t look like they do or talk like they do or think like they do, then you don’t count, those people can go pound sand. I’m as real American as they come, and those people aren’t the only ones who get to love our country.

lifryxai:

finnglas:

icemankazansky:

live-long-and-suck-it:

eldritch-bisexual:

magnoliabloomfield:

tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva:

this is from a “manipulation advice” video and it’s just so fucking funny to me. why didn’t I think of responding to insults like this

I can’t remember where I got the information now, but apparently if you stare silently for at least 4 seconds it triggers a feeling of rejection which I don’t have to tell you is uncomfortable and makes most people backpedal pretty quickly and awkwardly.

Immediately going concerned/extremely polite always throws people off their game, it’s beautiful.

The Quiet Stare Of Disappointment is also super effective, indeed .

My sister and I were walking across a car park.

Random bloke: Maybe if you walked more you wouldn’t be so fat

My sister stops dead, stares him in the eye and goes: Is everything alright at home?

I’ve never seen a man’s face turn to horror so fast

We just walked to her car and drove off

The silent stare is so effective. I learned about it in social psychology in undergrad, and have often used it to great effect. Probably the best example is when I went to sign the papers on the car I was buying—I had already worked out a price and my trade-in with the salesmen the day before—and they decided they were going to take $1000 off the value of my trade-in. (I want to emphasize that I was buying a 10+ year old car; I ended up paying $8k total.)

“No,” I said. “That doesn’t work for me. If you’re unwilling to honor the deal we made, I’m not buying a car from you.”

Well, they talk for a living. So they talked. Here I am, a young woman on my own, and these two men at the dealership are giving me all the reasons they couldn’t possibly honor the deal we made yesterday.

So I sat. I didn’t say a word. I just stared at them.

They kept talking, trying to get a reaction out of me. After about 10 seconds, they abandoned all pretense of logical arguments and started hammering pathos. They weren’t even buying my old car from me for the dealership; it was a personal favor for which they were using their own hard-earned money to help this poor guy at church who just got out of rehab and his house burned down and his children exploded and his dog left him for another man, etc etc

I didn’t say a word. I just stared at them.

They began falling apart. They continued trying to hustle me, but their confidence left them. I think they might have been sweating.

Within five minutes they caved and signed the papers for our original deal.

I have been told for years I am intimidating, and by people who had never even seen me angry. Just in general, intimidating. This absolutely baffled me until a friend one day pointed at me and said — “This! Right now! You’re being intimidating!”

Friends, I was staring silently at someone while inwardly flailing desperately to come up with a response to something they’d said that wasn’t overly rude but also was holding my ground. In my mind, I was being hellishly awkward. I couldn’t summon any charm, I couldn’t figure out a sentence to string together. Silence spooled out horrifyingly between us as I got farther and farther away from being articulate and became more and more flustered by this failure to respond. From the outside, I guess, I just looked like a stone cold bitch waiting for them to get their shit together, lol.

I still don’t think I’m intimidating but you know I’ll take it.

a huge part of appearing intimidating is simply being obviously willing to no bluff just walk away

conveying wordlessly their unimportance

sighinastorm:

genshin-impact-updates:

Nod-Krai Main Theme Live Performance | Genshin Impact

The Nod-Krai Main Theme Live Performance features “Nod-Krai,” a soundtrack produced by HOYO-MiX and brought to life by the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Voices choir, singer AURORA, and renowned folk musicians.

A big thank you to Stagecast for their support with filming and production, and TAKEOFF Studios for providing collaboration support.

there’s always a lot to criticize about genshin as a game and how it pulls from and represents different real world cultures…

but it’s pretty cool they got aurora on the main theme for their new nordic-themed area. they really are a music company that just happens to make games.

missvanta-xoxo:

bu99erfly:

ANOKYAIwearing Swarovski
Met Gala 2024 – Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion

This look had caused controversy on TikTok. It had everyone in a cholk hold. The girls were fighting for their lives trying to say this wasn’t a look and whole time I’m just sitting here like “Damn how did she put the look on? Did she have to jump and wiggle or did they sew her into the dress?”

My favorite look of all time