love those old soviet posters that are just advertising like, an activity. not some “go to mike’s hardware for the BEST deals around!” just “hey, you can learn stuff at libraries” or “consider going for a hike in the countryside” big kin
I’d love some examples!!
Caring for birds will increase your fruit harvest!
What are you interested in? The library has many books to match your interests.
Tourism is the best relaxation!
Vitamin C. Vitamins help you to become healthy and strong
Fresh air strengthens health and improves quality of education! (Soviet classroom design, from my personal experience, includes big windows that let in a lot of air and sunshine)
A detail of a wall painting depicts Sennefer and his wife Meryet, from the Tomb of Sennefer (TT96). Sennefer was “Mayor of Thebes and “Overseer of the Granaries and Fields, Gardens and Cattle of Amun” during the reign of Amenhotep II. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1427-1401 BC. Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, West Thebes.
The protagonist of Stephanie Gallon’s WEREWOLVES VERSUS: NATURE story has had a difficult life, and there are more hardships ahead for her, but luckily she does not have to face them alone.
The wilderness was kind to her. It gave her ripe berries to gorge herself on, bursting with saccharine juices that dribbled down her chin. In the winter months, when snow had killed the crops, it provided her dry wood for the fire and small prey to keep their bellies filled.
When her father died, it offered her a home. The tendrils of the willow trees consoled her; the moss offered her a soft place to rest her head. She raised herself under the protection of no man.
Only the wolf pack did not fear her.
They came to her one cold night, on the eve of Walpurgisnacht. She was seven years old now and had been the child of the forest for a year full and then some. She had made herself a fire. It kept most creatures away. Not the pups though. They had not yet experienced the cruelty of men.
One came from the bushes. Then his brother, and then another. Three of them, sniffing at the ground and the air, taken in by the herby smoke that canopied the clearing. The smallest of the litter walked to the fire. Lucille held her hand out cautiously. The pup growled at her until Lucille’s hand cupped his forehead and scratched at his pointed ears. The growl eased to soft pants of pleasure. He barked when she stopped. The others crowded her.
Their mother found all four sleeping as the last flame guttered their legs. When Lucille awoke, the mother had curled herself around them and buried her chin on Lucille’s lap.
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The Children’s Ward by Patricia Wallace 1985 Zebra
A series of mysterious accidents around a children’s hospital caused by one or more kids who have psychic powers, something to do with a mass murdering patient from decades past. The ending, if there was one, left my head the second after I finished. Actually glad she didn’t explain much, better than some rushed exposition in the end. Well written enough, but not much here, and what there is isn’t very coherent.
So recently, I’ve been noticing a lot more people starting to call Disney out on their bullshit, which is really awesome because Goddamn have they just gotten worse and worse as time goes on, but there’s one things I’ve started to notice about these posts that I think warrants a really important addition that needs to be made to all future callouts.
You see in a lot of these cases the consensus is “Fuck Disney” and while that’s very true, in reality your kinda being extremely broad here, as the company is broken up into at least 8 different studios, split into different divisions like ones for the theme parks and resorts, one for the cruise line etc, and has hundreds of thousands of employees under its belt. A lot of times when companies like Amazon and Tesla are called out, people are also making sure to specifically calling out their CEOs and founders, in this case Bezos and Musk, and making it very clear that they are also very much so in the wrong here, rightfully so placing the responsibility onto them.
But I rarely ever see this happen with Disney, and I thinks it’s important we start to change that a bit. Right now Disney as a whole is being helmed by two men, Bob Iger and Bob Chapek, as even though Chapek has officially been named the CEO and Iger was on his way out, he decided to step back into the role for a bit due to the pandemic, so he’s still very much at fault for a lot of this as well. You might know Iger as the man responsible for buying up, well, pretty much every hot ticket property Disney has right now including Pixar, Star Wars, and Marvel and as well as plenty of other shady deals. He’s even made it clear that’s he looking to take up a Presidential bid sometime in the next few years which is just Absolutely Yikes. Chapek on the other hand, is so notorious that even die-hard Disney fans more often then not will say they despise him, mainly due to his massive budget cuts in the theme parks that have not only dulled down the overall experience, but more importantly have resulted in thousands of cast members, even before the pandemic, being laid off because he didn’t see them as being “necessary”. His most common nickname is Lex Luther for a reason. And what’s worst, while they both agreed to cutting off their salaries completely at the start of the pandemic, they’ve since gone back to being paid-in full, and they’re still laying off massive amounts of their workers while their parks are being reopened, which I can tell you from personal experience is exactly what Chapek wanted all along.
There’s plenty more about these two guys that I could talk about, but the point here is it’s time to put faces and names to a lot of the shit the company has being trying to get away with over the years, and I wanna keep this post relatively short. So, just please remember, make sure whenever you say “Fuck Disney” that you also make sure to say “Fuck Bob Iger” and “Fuck Bob Chapek”. Make their names just as known as Bezos and Musk for all the wrong reasons, and maybe we can stop another fucking millionaire from having one of the highest seats in the US government.
