Ok so I’ve been playing for 18 years and i’m a string teacher. Can i just say how IMPORTANT it is for young kids to see a BLACK, MALE-PRESENTING PERSON playing, nae, SHREDDING on a violin? I’ve know maybe 5 black people who played stringed instruments throughout my schooling and teaching (predumably because i’m an upper middle class white woman). In districts where the population is predominantly black, funding is always low, so the instruments are crappy. Kids quit, or the program is dismantled. I’ve seen very few professional string players who are black.
Obviously there are black string players. We just don’t see them because they “don’t look like” string players.
This person is the real deal. They were clearly trained, and seems to have some fiddle training as well. How cool is that?
traditional celtic folk music makes me go buck fucking wild. i don’t know what it is, if it’s just in my blood or if it’s a past life or just ‘cause it’s objectively soulful but I hear that fiddle and I immediately transform into this heartbroken irish widow in 1787 with a shawl draped over my shoulders staring over the cliffs of moher, waiting for my ghostly lover to return from sea
Hi friends, things are bad!! Our roommate that is in charge of paying rent and bills hasn’t been paying the rent to our landlord! We owe our landlord $2,905, because she didn’t pay at all one month and then has only made partial payments for the other 3 months.
We have to pay him at least $1,405 by next Friday or we’re all gonna get evicted!! I’m posting my personal paypal link below, please if you can help us, we have no idea how we’re going to come up with this money. I don’t know what else to do at this point. Please if you can, help.
Email from the landlord showing how behind we are is below with our emails blocked for privacy
small update: all of us are currently making plans on where we can go if we do end up getting kicked out. Our landlord is coming down on Friday next week (Sept. 28) to talk to us. We’re hoping he works with us and we can start paying him rent individually and maybe set up extra payments to work on getting him what we currently owe. On top of that, we’ve all decided that the roommate that caused all of this is gone, we will be kicking her out if the landlord doesn’t do it. I’m going to work as much overtime as I can this next couple weeks so I can hopefully have a little extra to give to the LL, but that’s really all I’m able to do at this point. I’m really the only one that can work overtime, my 2 other roommates work at theme parks where OT is really never approved, and then roommate-who-screwed-us-over’s boyfriend (who also lives with us) only makes $600 a month. He didn’t even know we were behind because she never told any of us this was happening.
Roommate is insisting that she paid everything except for her $300 share in August and September and we should only be $600 behind, but I don’t trust her at all. She is a liar and all of this is causing unnecessary bullshit on us. I’m so sorry that I’m coming here with all this, but damn, I just really don’t want to get evicted from my house.
interesting that iroh says this to zuko in an episode that deals explicitly with authority brainwashing. also interesting that i’m depressed now!
also interesting that this is the angriest we’ve seen iroh yet, and the closest we’ve come to him calling his brother out.
i mean, sure, some of the anger is obviously him being afraid that his second son nephew will literally stubborn himself to death. but the crux of the argument, the emotional heart, is him pretty much explicitly telling zuko “your father did not do well by you, and it hurt you in the past, and it’s still hurting you now.”
iroh is fucking furious with his brother and at this point he’s barely even hiding it
wait god this makes it so much better when zuko asks if iroh thinks he should try to get along with azula because she’s family and iroh is like “uh no she’s the worst.” it’s like
zuko: you’re gonna tell me that family’s important and i have to love her because she’s my sister, right?
iroh, who is trying to gently help zuko realize that his brother is an absolute moral chemical fire of a human being & doesn’t deserve zuko’s devotion:
“I was married when I was seventeen. My whole life was my family. I barely left the house because my husband brought me everything I needed. I was far too innocent. I had no idea about anything, but the world has a way of teaching you. Fifteen years ago my husband died and I had to take the lead of the family. He owned an upholstery shop. The workers tried to convince me to let them handle the business, but they were hiding the profits from me. I had to take over. There was no other choice. My kids were still in school and that money belonged to them. So I began going to the shop every day. At first the workers tried to box me out. They knew I didn’t understand the business so they wouldn’t explain anything. They hid the numbers from me. And when a client entered the store, they wouldn’t even introduce me as the owner. But I sat there and watched every move they made. I memorized everything. And after forty days, there were some new rules at the shop. The workers were not allowed to speak to the client directly.” (Cairo, Egypt)
Alexis 