#The Warmth of Other Suns

[wellconstructedsentences]

The least-paid people were forced to pay the highest rents for the most dilapidated housing owned by absentee landlords trying to wring the most money out of a place nobody cared about.

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

#the warmth of other suns #isabel wilkerson

[st-just]

Sometimes parents tried to superimpose glory on their children with the grandest title they could think of or, if they were feeling especially militant, the name of a senator or president from the North. It was a way of affixing acceptability if not greatness. It forced everyone, colored or white, to call their janitor sons Admiral or General or John Quincy Adams whether anybody, including the recipient, liked it or not. White southerners who would not call colored people Mr. or Mrs. were forced to sputter out Colonel or Queen instead.

The Warmth of Other Sons, by Isabel Wilkerson

#quote #history #culture #racism #the warmth of other suns #isabel wilkerson

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Warmth of Other Suns | Author: Isabel Wilkerson | Publisher: Random House (2010)

#books #The Warmth of Other Suns #Isabel Wilkerson

[spookyabuki]

Above her was an entire economy she could not see but which ruled her days and determined the contours of her life. There were bankers, planters, merchants, warehouse clerks, fertilizer wholesalers, seed sellers, plow makers, mule dealers, gin owners. A good crop and a high price made not much improvement to the material discomforts of Ida Mae’s existence but meant a planter’s wife could “begin to dream of a new parlor carpet and a piano” and a salesman of farm implements could be “lavish with more expensive cigars than he smoked last year.” On Wall Street, there were futures and commodities traders wagering on what the cotton she had yet to pick might go for next October. There were businessmen in Chicago needing oxford shirts, socialites in New York and Philadelphia wanting lace curtains and organdy evening gowns. Closer to home, closer than one dared to contemplate, there were Klansmen needing their white cotton robes and hoods.

—Isabel Wilkerson, from The Warmth of Other Suns

#literature #quotes #history #the warmth of other suns #isabel wilkerson

[chipper-smol]

When no one is looking...

#lmk #lego monkie kid #lego monkey kid #sun wukong #six eared macaque #shadowpeach #myart #fanart #ok so I have a headcanon that inspired this whole thing #and hopefully with this added context it'll make the piece a whole lot better :3c #So because Macaque died #he probably runs at a lower body temperature (akin to a corpse some days) #and struggles to feel warmth #Wukong on the other hand definitely has trauma associated with extreme heat #ie: being force fed red hot iron pellets and molten copper #being cooked in the trigram furnace for 49 days #and being scorched by the samahdi fire #so in the middle of a blistering hot summer day #they begrudgingly get attracted to eachother like magnets #Wukong bringing warmth to Macaque #and Macaque bringing relief to Wukong #balancing eachother out #but ofc they're still dumb about it #wouldn't be shadowpeach if they were angry about being exactly where they wanted to be :3c #thANK YOU for reading this far in the tags #I hope you enjoy the art

[chriswolak]

Currently Reading: Three Books

Currently Reading: Three Books

Mom and her dog Suki I’m back in Connecticut after a few weeks in Illinois helping out my Mom. She had a dog leash accident and subsequent surgery that has taken her left hand out of commission for a couple months. She was also ordered not to drive until the surgeon clears her. She’s healing well and committed to doing her physical therapy exercises each day. Go, Mom! Her surgeon told her that…

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#A Writer&039;s Diary #Currently reading #East of Eden #Isabel Wilkerson #John Steinbeck #The Warmth of Other Suns #Virginia Woolf

[natelia-aldelliz]

Price : ... Nik?

Nik : No.

Price : Listen, if... if I don't...

Nik : Don't even. Evac is gonna be any minute now. You'll tell me later.

Price : ...ok. But you'll have to tell me what "zolawtsye" means.

Nik : *snorts*

Price : Oi, don't laugh at my accent, I'm literally dying.

Nik : You'll be fine, I'm here, I'll keep you alive.

(google told me it means 'golden one' or 'precious' btw)

#cod mw2 #captain john price #cod nikolai #nikprice #i've seen prikolai too someone tell me what i should tag pls i'll just tag both in the meantime #price is gonna be fine btw #his sergeants are gonna burst in any minute now worried out of their heads and he's gonna be rushed in a medbay #and then he's gonna have some 'vacation' while he heals #nik was trying his best to stay calm and smiling but he was really worrying because the blood didn't slow down #even as he put pressure on it and price was getting more and more delirious #nik sees price as his sun and himself as the moon because everyone orbits price and his own work is more in the shadows #he doesn't know that price thinks the exact opposite because nik brings him warmth and comfort and he feels he's darker inside #they're not together yet here but they're both secretely in love with each other

[arospecsyourblockdudes]

Assigning Tarot cards to each Life Series winner

(I'm only using the major arcana for this otherwise I would be nitpicking forty times over)

Grian: The Chariot. This card represents taking action on your decisions, willpower and fierce dedication and success. Reversed, it represents a lack of direction.

Scott: The Lovers. This card represents love and deep relationships. It can also symbolize choice and temptations, honesty, and unifying dual natures

Pearl: The Hermit. This card represents time alone and inner reflection. Reversed, it represents isolation and withdrawal from people

Martyn: Judgement. This card represents some deep inner calling, judgement (duh), making big decisions, absolution, and major life changes

Scar: The Magician. This card represents resourcefulness, manifestation, and taking clear inspired action. Reversed, it represents manipulation, uncertainty, greed, and confused plans

#trafficblr #traffic smp #traffic series #grian #scott smajor #pearlescentmoon #martyn inthelittlewood #goodtimeswithscar #some have the reversed meanings if i feel that could also fit them #source is biddytarot.com and my brief interest in tarot a while ago #also i didnt want to assign the typical sun/moon/stars to grian/pearl/scott #cuz the sun in tarot is positivity and warmth and like grian?? in 3rd life?? was not him sorry to say #if anyone has any other ideas then feel free 2 comment em or say in reblogs i love ideas

[elsiebrayisgay]

i read a wenclair college fic (which is maybe my favorite thing i've read this year for disabled wednesday representation) which had a subtheme of "goth lesbians might enjoy listening to orville peck" so of course i'm a goth lesbian and i try to keep pretty broad horizons and enjoy a lot of stuff and i'm sitting here WEEPING i never knew this was gonna click with me like this ;-;

#wenclair #the fic is I'd Eat the Sun Just to Feel Your Warmth in My Bones by MsMio #i give it my strongest possible endorsement #it's kind of weird to me that it took me this long to get into wednesday as a goth lesbian vermonter #jericho is on the other end of the state but my liberal arts school experience gives me the perspective for solidarity

[thinkpink212]

Every attempt you make to love yourself, are all proof that you deeply do. So much so you keep fighting for you. Never stop.

#One day you’ll get there and you’ll realize the warmth you sought from others was yours reflected back at you #it was always you — you were always the sun! BE THE SUN #reminder #advice #self love #thinkpink thoughts #soft life

[jules-and-company]

one thing about me is that i’m an orestes-electra-pylades defender. if you don’t hear them being defended anymore that means i am deceased

#something something about them being linked forever #none of them being redeemable all of them being innocent #about this sister who was refused love all her life and who kept it all inside her to give it to her little brother #who loves him so much that the lines blur and we don't know if she's sister ; mother ; father ; or lover even #because who could love him more than she does ? #about this brother who grew up with nothing but rage #rage towards this man he was given to ; that man ready to sell him into slavery #rage towards his mother who got rid of him #rage even towards this father that he has to kill for despite never having known him #rage towards the gods who set up his own curse and let him suffer for a good long while #and apollo did not tell him that no holy ritual will ever truly wash all the blood from his hands #but despite all this rage has chosen to love #to love this sister that he only knew the name of #and who welcomed him with more warmth than three suns combined #who had more fight in her than him and who urged him to do them justice #that's why he did not really hesitate when he killed clytemnestra #because he had seen his sister - a princess - reduced to rags and is skin on bone #and about this friend who became the definition of devotion #who voluntarily chose to follow his friend whom he knew was damned #chose to share the burden of killing with him #and who followed him on every corner of the earth they went to #and i know those three took such gentle care of each other #i know that electra and pylades both refused to go to sleep while the other tends to orestes having his fits of delirium caused by erinyes #yes their hands are bloody #but it's the same blood that's running through their three hearts attached by a red string #and the red of blood looks a lot like the red of love #electre/oreste #classics

[st-just]

Some 555,000 colored people left the south during the decade of the First World War - more than all the colored people who had left in the five decades since the Emancipation Proclamation, which had promised the freedoms they were now forced to pursue on their own. At first the South was proud and ambivalent, pretending it did not care. 'As the North grows blacker, the South grows whiter,' the New Orleans Times-Picayune happily noted. Then, as planters awoke to empty fields, the South began to panic.

On the beginning of the Great Migration, The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson.

#quote #history #racism #the warmth of other suns #isabel wilkerson

[ecoamerica]

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[maddyshome]

gojo is the moon but geto is not the sun. geto is the star. it is yuuji who is the sun.

sukuna is also the moon and yuuji is still the sun here too.

why? because yuuji's belief is a direct contrast to gojo and sukuna's. the sun and the moon need to be two opposing beings. like ying and yang.

to satosugu fans, stop living in a delusion. your otp is not the sun-moon pair. its more like the moon-star pair. so just go with that.

#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #gojo satoru #geto suguru #yuuji itadori #sukuna #yes it is about tarot too but there is LITERALLY NO WAY YALL THINK GETO OR GOJO IS THE SUN LMAO WHAT #learn ab symbolism #0% chance geto was ever the sun like what huh what do you mean #the sun is innocence and purity and radiance and love and warmth and justice and life and truth #who else embodies these traits better than yuuji? #geto was never lol #the sun is a hero like being #when was geto ever one #or gojo #this is basically proven by getous fragile morality and sense of justice. it was all fake. he was a boy thinking what he was taught #the sun and the moon are natural oppositions #geto and gojo are not opposite each other they never were #so geto as the star is accompanying the moon #and that was how it always was since the past #so if you had to like make clans for the sun and the moon people #geto was like the right hand or something of the moon so the star #the sun needs to be everything the moon is not #thats what being the sun means #gojo and sukuna are similar to each other so both being moon people (night and darkness) just makes sense #thus uraume is the star

[roglaert]

#wout van aert #jonas vingegaard #it's them #wout is the sun he's a star that brings warmth to those he loves and they adore each other it's clear #and the way jonas is hugging him he's gripping him it's just... ugh... #and they were wearing their constellation kit!!!

[wereh0gz]

Super Sonic: burning hot, shining bright like the sun itself and flying as fast as a shooting star. His demeanor is light and free, yet he moves with purpose. His light is bright and blinding, but his warmth nurtures life around him, makes flowers bloom at his feet and causes people's hearts to race. His smile beams and brings hope to anyone who lays his eyes upon it. He is the embodiment of positivity and hope, a beacon of light in the darkness of despair.

Dark Sonic: frigid and dark like the emptiness of space. Silent and statuesque, he moves rigidly, yet so quickly the naked eye can't follow. He drains the light and warmth and life around him and leaves nothing but cold air and death in his wake. His face is blank, his eyes pure, white nothingness that inspires fear upon any who lay their eyes upon him. The beacon of hope has been snuffed out, he has become one with the darkness itself.

#ramblings #i like opposites ok #also hot take but the opposite of the sun is not the moon but the void of space #the moon is an extension of the sun. it reflects it's light in the night when the sun can't be seen #the void is the abscense of light and warmth. it is dark and cold #and yet one cannot exist without the other #hm. hmmmmm. that sounds familiar. i wonder if we've seen this theme before. hmmmmmmmmm. #yeah i really like this specific dichotomy lmao #light gaia dark gaia. super sonic dark sonic. yeah

[belligerentbagel]

take this sinking boat and point it home  we've still got time  raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice  you've made it now 

widojest 4: after the end 🍎

#widojestweek2022 #widojest #critical role #yes this IS one of the WIPs that i thought would be eternally unfinished. went back in and cleaned it up bc i am fond of pastoral settings #don't think this would be a 'permanent' home bc i think jester would want to travel & caleb is suited for teachering things #but maybe a summer home on an m9 timeshare? a honeymoon or weekend house in the marrow valley? #the comforting smell of grass and leaves and flowers on a sunny day #despite the warmth that settles in by noon; the cider in the picnic basket is still preciously cool under its cloth #there's a stream further off that you can poke your feet into; or splash at the small aquatic critters that make their home there #there is time and world and quiet enough to read a book or paint the clouds or chase dragonflies or pull weeds out of the earth #you have earned a quiet ending #i think sometimes on the comparative quietness of the m9's epilogue to vm's epilogue #they became sovereigns and mythical figures. people at the edges of tal'dorei know their names #m9 saved the world from an unknowable otherplanar horror and - #- save for a few small villages and a band of reformed bandits and other individual souls they have touched - #(and. well. the kryn empire) #they would not be recognised faces in dwendalian towns #they didn't do it for glory; they really just did things for justice and righting imbalances and getting their friends back #you can have the sun-drenched house and the apple tarts and the peace in your dreams at last #draws #widojestweek #jester lavorre #caleb widogast