alanaisalive:

tiwaztyrsfist:

thebaconsandwichofregret:

mythiass:

edgy-night-fury:

“wouldn’t you rather earn something than have it just handed to you?”

Yeah when it comes to actual awards and fancy goods, but when it comes to basic needs, basic human decency, and accomodations, those things should always be handed to people. No one should have to “earn” those things.Value people as people, not base it on how much they produce. 

yeah but that creates a severe dependency that could be exploited easily, and creates a slippery slope @musical-clarity

Actually studies show that people who live in places with universal income (who are given money with no strings attached just for being citizens) do far better work than those who don’t and are more enthusiastic to do work.

This is because they still want nice things and will work for those but the part of their energy that was devoted to worrying about if they have enough money to pay the rent and bills this month is now freed up to do other things.

Some people will always be lazy and take advantage of the system, but they are always a tiny percentage and it seems ridiculous to me to punish the majority and severly hamstring their abilities just because a handful of people will simply live of basic income rather than work.

It’s been tested a couple times. In Canada, in some European countries, and the results are always the same.

There are two groups of people who show a statistically significant (Greater than one half of one percent, or 1 in 200) increase in Not Working and living off the guaranteed income. Parents of Children under school age, and full time students.

Among ALL other groups, employment actually INCREASED. Why? Because guaranteed minimum income means that homeless people can get at least a basic low end apartment. It’s hard if not impossible to get an above board job without a permanent fixed address. Also more people were able to have and maintain a BANK ACCOUNT. It is often hard to get a decent job without an account that can accept Direct Deposit for paychecks.

Also, lost work time due to illness and injury decreased across the board. It turns out if people are getting a decent amount of money each month they can A> afford to eat better, and B> obtain decent medical attention both preventative and emergency. Crazy right?

So why hasn’t it caught on?

Because it doesn’t directly benefit the people in power, and it increases THEIR PERSONAL taxes, their CORPORATE TAXES, and thus decreases their PERSONAL INCOME.

So, because Jeff Bezos and Alan Greenspan might fall from making 100 billion dollars a year to making 99.8 billion dollars a year, it’s a hard NO and we can all fucking die..

The End.

The other reason the people in power hate it is because it fundamentally changes the relationship between employer and employee. In regular capitalism, the employer has all the power because if you quit you starve and if you get another job it’ll be equally shitty because all the bosses know that they have you by the gonads.

But with universal income, power is given to the workers. If your boss is an asshole, you can just quit without worrying about starving. So the employers are the ones that have to sell themselves and offer value for your time in order to keep enough staff to survive. And they HATE that.

heywriters:

albatris:

hey. hey. I have a confession

I fuckin LOVE dialogue as a first line. I adore it. whenever I flip open a book and the first line is dialogue I’m like hell YES this is my SHIT

there’s lists of, uh, TOP TEN WAYS YOU SHOULD NEVER START YOUR NOVEL EVER and “opening with dialogue” is always on them

the gist being that it’s bad bc the reader doesn’t care about this character yet so why are they gonna care about this dialogue, right, they don’t have any context for it, you should start with something that gets the reader invested and emotionally pulled in, so on, so forth

(and I’m not here to argue or call bullshit on these lists or anything…… 99% of the time, the reasons listed of why you should Maybe Not Do The Thing are perfectly valid concerns and dangers that should be taken into consideration)

(this post is more a ramble about personal preference with a nice moral at the end)

(and definitely not a TOP TEN REASONS “TOP TEN WAYS YOU SHOULD NEVER START YOUR NOVEL EVER” LISTS ARE LIES AND SLANDER post god could you imagine)

but yeah, for me, dialogue opening lines pull me right the fuck in emotionally. for real. nine times out of ten they’ll yank me in and have me engaged instantaneously. always have, probably always will

(like come on. have y’all never just started eavesdropping right in the middle of some total strangers’ conversation on the bus. especially if it’s somethin weird. it’s so good)

but ANYWAY, the moral is uhhhh

whatever Mortal Writing Sin you wanna commit, there’s probably at least one weirdo out there possibly named logan who digs it

do whatever the fuck you want, honestly

you can write an opening scene that does everything every advice page tells you to do with an opening scene and it can still be shit

you can write an opening scene doing everything every advice page tells you NEVER to do with your opening scene and it can still be fabulous and engaging

if you can pull it off, literally who cares

“if you can pull it off, literally who cares“ is the only real writing rule

aegor-bamfsteel:

godihatethisfreakingcat:

I’m sorry, but a man who STARTS OFF his rise to power and eventual reign of terror by killing a twelve-year-old boy to lure his father out and shoot him, and THEN murdering another twelve-year-old boy when those two are dead…is nothing but shit. We called that wrong when it was done to the medics in World War II, and it’s wrong in Westeros, too.

Bloodraven never regretted anything – I don’t care what he says to an eight-year-old boy to seduce him to the Weirwood Cause. He was a fucking amoral sociopath and his getting to be a kewl immortal and Lord Commander (with a 200-strong honor guard that PROBABLY GOT HIM ELECTED) is a reward, not a punishment.

“You cannot speak to him, try as you might. I know. I have my own ghosts, Bran. A brother that I loved, a brother that I hated, a woman I desired.”

cool story bro have u considered:

1. the two unarmed 12 year olds you killed at long range either 1) as a reverse human shied or 2) just out of spite
2. the families of the people whose bodies you burned during the Great Spring Sickness
3. the smallfolk you ordered back to their lands because they wanted a better liege lord after surviving the greatest humanitarian crisis in Westerosi history
4. the people who were killed in the banditry caused by the above order
5. the Westerlanders who were killed and raped in the Greyjoy raids because you refused to send the Iron Fleet to help them because “my one eye is fixed on Tyrosh hurr durr”
6. the people who were interrogated and killed under your authoritarian regime who were otherwise defenseless; ie, the Septon in TMK who just repeated some rumors and had his head mounted on a spike outside his sept
7. that other nephew who you imprisoned for years and then had killed for…reasons?
8. that other other nephew who tried to surrender peacefully and you killed treacherously for…even better reasons?
9. a fifth nephew who you deceitfully promised safe passage to Westeros to attend a peaceful conference and then had killed the minute he arrived in the city, thus defiling the reputation of the Iron Throne even more than you had previously (see: authoritarian regime & refusing to help the Westerlanders)
10. deserting the Night’s Watch (a crime punishable by death), which had for some unfathomable reason chosen you as Lord Commander, during a raid to become an immortal greenseer at the age of 77 when you knew you were dying

…you’re not sorry for any of this, are you?

^ Yeah, this.

As far as I’m concerned, anyone who utilizes Bloodraven’s tactics for their own gains is suspect, too. Aegon V did the absolute bare minimum in getting rid of him. Again, with an honor guard.

earendil-was-a-mariner:

Female clothing: no pockets

Gollum’s 500 year old tattered rags: has pockets where he keeps "fishbones, goblins’ teeth, wet shells, a bit of bat-wing, a
sharp stone to sharpen his fangs on, and other nasty things.”

edgelord-zuuko:

marsza:

marsza:

I was doing my makeup today while my brother was fixing his hair. It was quiet and we were both busy doing ourselves up, but after I put on mascara I noticed that Nico was staring at me. “Did you know that some guys wear mascara?” he said and I was like pfft, yeah, of course, dude. I know guys who put on way more than I do. Nico just nodded and continued with his hair. A few minutes later, he brought it up again. “I know a guy who played in my baseball team that would put on mascara. It was … cool, I guess.” And after a moment of awkward silence, I turned to him and went: “Nico, do you wanna try some on?”

Yep. He did. He told me so after a little bit of asking, but he felt intimidated to try it on himself. So, I grabbed a really natural looking mascara and lightly put on one coat for him. It wasn’t all cute and serene, btw, it was very us (”fuck, don’t poke my eye out, bro” “nico, are you fuckin serious, i’m not gonna” “aaah, fuck, you’re gonna poke me!” “stop moving!”). But afterward he looked at himself in the mirror and was hesitant. He said he didn’t know if he liked it. And i just shrugged because…I guess, I didn’t want him to think anything wild about it. He could wear mascara or not, but I didn’t want him to be insecure about it all the same. “Well, that’s fine,” I said. “It’s no big. You just wipe it off and it’s gone. You want me to pass you a wipe?”

But he kept staring at himself in the mirror and he was like: No, actually…I like it. It makes my eyes pop. Then Nico turned around and waggled his eyebrows at me and went: bitches love my eyes. they won’t stand a chance now.

Today, Nico came into my room while I was doing my nails and he asked me what’s good with my mascara and I was like ???. Anyways, that was his form of asking for mascara again, checking himself out in the mirror for a minute and a half, and finally declaring: “I fucks with how this makes my eyes look”

Yas. Normalize guys wearing makeup

arwencuar:

Extended Edition Boromir: *intricate character with a rich back story, moving and thought-provoking dialogue, complex flaws, and a heart of gold… a key part in Aragorn’s character development and Pippin’s reason for taking an oath to be a Guard of the Citadel… inspiring leader, devoted friend, loving brother, die-hard patriot, true hero.

Theatrical Edition Boromir: GIMME DAT RING RAAAAAAAAHHHH *arrows* lol #bye

Which is why I thought he was evil when I saw the movie at the age of…9? 10?