the real “problem with political correctness” is not that it’s considered offensive to use slurs, but that there are now many “progressive” environments where saying the right things is more important than doing the right thing. it’s why it’s so easy for abusers to gain traction in leftist circles (they learn the right words quickly and employ them to frame their own behavior as progressive); it’s why so much potential activist energy gets poured into fighting about language; it’s why moderate liberals didn’t believe fer/guson had a problem until the police emails with actual racist language were leaked. (you can do racist things, you just can’t SAY racist things.) i don’t have a neat conclusion here but a related point is that i’m so much happier since i started focusing on like, being a good kind caring person instead of trying to remove the word “crazy” from the vocabulary of everyone in my family
Just saying this is truly one of the best “discourse” posts on this site like……this hits the nail directly on the head re: what is going on with language right now and everyone pushing back in the notes only serves to further prove the point it’s making
BBC One’s Les Misérables reveals first look at Olivia Colman and cast in epic new series
No music, but a truly lavish production.
Before she ascends to the throne in The Crown, Olivia Colman becomes the Mistress of the House in the first look at the BBC’s upcoming Les Misérables miniseries.
The
Beeb is splashing out on a big-budget adaptation of Victor Hugo’s
classic novel about class warfare in the streets of Paris, although
without the songs made famous in the West End musical.
New photos show off the incredible cast for this version of Les Misérables, which includes The Mortal Instruments’ Lily Collins as the doomed mother Fantine and David Oyelowo as the cruel police inspector Javert.
There’s also a sneak peek at Olivia Colman and BAFTA-winning Murdered by My Father star Adeel Akhtar as Madame and Monsieur Thénardier, the opportunist operators of a children’s boarding house.
When
the action flashes forward in the series, the conflict between Javert
and Jean Valjean (Dominic West) is set against a clash between the
working class and the soldiers at the barricades.
Leading the charge for the people are the brave Marius (The Crown’s Josh O’Connor) and his love Cosette (The Nutcracker and the Four Realms star Ellie Bamber).
Hugo’s novel is being adapted into a six-part series for the BBC by House of Cards, War & Peace and Pride and Prejudice’s Andrew Davies. The ambitious miniseries was filmed on location all throughout Belgium and Northern France.
Les Misérables, which also features Solo: A Star Wars Story’s Erin Kellyman and Raw’s Jean-Louis Sbille, will be coming soon to the BBC in the UK.
There are a lot of times I feel like just…flipping the vegan script.
It’s not ‘polyester’ it’s plastic
It’s not ‘vegan leather’ it’s plastic
Its not ‘faux fur’ it’s plastic
Plastic is a pollutant and causes far more damage to the environment both now and in the future than leather or wool.
Please stop telling me that the Plastic Lyfe is the only life, it is not. My leather shoes will last a decade where pleather is lucky to last 12 months. Leather (and wool) decompose and are renewable. Plastic is neither of those.
THANK YOUUUUUUU~
A single wash cycle of plastic-based fiber (polyester, poly fleece, faux fur) may release 700,000 pieces of microplastic into our waters. Nasty stuff.
aw dangit
Wool is the most environmentally friendly fabric despite being an animal product.
It’s called a Laminar Flow. Water usually has a lot of turbulence in it, and that is that causes it to look rather chaotic when it’s spraying out of a hose.
Laminar Flow occurs when all the water is moving in the exact same direction, eliminating turbulence, and thus, creating a flow of water that looks like glass.
Still, the idea that this is creating Laminar flow randomly is quite incredible, usually it requires specially built nozzles to create it.
science side of tumblr coming back at us with hard facts and incredibly unexpected urls
everyone in fantasy novels is horny on main for elves and it’s honestly a travesty like why the hell would you want to marry an elf you’ll just spend the rest of your days growing old in the woods with a bunch of immortal bastards whose heads are so far up their asses they think singing week-long ballads is prime entertainment and say shit like “thou” and “beseech” unironically y’all should be hooking up with dwarves who 1. actually know how to throw the fuck down and let loose at a party 2. will literally shower you in diamond dust and gold they mined and crafted with their bare hands and 3. can sling you over their shoulder like a sack of potatoes with their huge muscular arms developed from hours of said mining and crafting. there’s literally no contest.
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