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[tooquirkytolose]

The woes of being a shoujou fan

[tooquirkytolose]

The woes of being a shoujou fan

[afeelgoodblog]

Why hasn’t this been done before?

[autisticexpression]

You know why.

[petrosapian]

Mind the Gap: a handbook of clinical signs on black and brown skin

Second year medic, Malone Mukwende, has been working with staff members as part of a student-staff partnership project looking at clinical t

[missmixx-a-lot]

Cause racial health disparities…

[xmagnet-o]

I hope this gets published

[algorizmi]

It is available for download as a pdf from their website. www.blackandbrownskin.co.uk/mindthegap

[imperatorsapphiosa]

Hey, if anyone’s curious, this IS making a serious impact — this handbook was taught as standard practice for my EMT license course, as well as several other programs. A lot of new providers are being taught this as a matter of course.

[importantpics]

More @importantpics

[redgoldsparks]

About a week ago, my forthcoming book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR (Lion Forge Comics, May 2019) got a short write-up in the Hollywood Reporter. It’s a very nice article and they included these seven pages as an exclusive preview! The colors were done by my sister, Phoebe Kobabe (phoebekobabe.psd on instagram) <3 I’ve been working on this book non-stop since January, and have at least another month or two of work to go. If you think this project looks good and would like to support me as I work my way towards the finish line, please consider checking out my patreon page. I’ve been posting book updates, cut pages and other blog posts at the $1 and $3 levels all summer. You can also find me on instagram :D 

[redgoldsparks]

Reblogging this post from last summer when I was still actively working on the book! In case anyone missed these preview pages <3 It’s now available for pre-order:  Indie Bound / Books-A-Million / Barnes and Noble / Amazon

[escuerzoresucitado]

Pedestrian traffic lights

[sjorsdottir]

Ooooh, we have a bunch of really fancy pedestrian traffic lights in Germany! I need to share:

Starting off with the difference between formerly Eastern German traffic lights (upper images) and formerly Western German traffic lights (lower images):

The city of Erfurt had some additions, like an umbrella or a heart:

Same sex love in Marburg (upper image) and Frankfurt (lower image):

Traffic light lady in Bremen:

Karl Marx light in Trier:

Face of Friedrich Engels in Wuppertal:

Elvis in Friedberg (Hessen):

A sparrow (for the Golden Sparrow film awards) in Gera:

Winemaker in Bad Dürkenheim:

Mainzelmännchen (mascot of the public broadcasting service ZDF) in Mainz:

Otto Waalkes (German Comedian) in Emden:

Town musicians of Bremen in Bremen:

A miner in Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz:

Bishop in Fulda:

Source: Saarbrücker Zeitung

Enjoy!

[translatingpoststogerman]

And we call these "Ampelmännchen" ("traffic lights little man").

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

omg that's amazing! I wanna visit Germany just to take pictures of all the cute traffic lights.

[saveerskine]

From Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand

Kate Sheppard, leader for women's suffrage

Kapa haka dancers

And Carmen Rupe, transgender drag queen LGBTQIA+ activist icon

[thepaisleyelf]

There’s a liquor store near my house that seems to be run exclusively by frat boys. They lovingly curate these bags, which I browsed today while “Oops I Did It Again” played through the store speakers. This is art to me, there is beauty everywhere for those with eyes to see it

[thepaisleyelf]

The update everyone has been waiting for….

[virtualgirladvance]

everytime i see this it makes me want to buy from them exclusively

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[empressofsamoyeds]

@hellsquills

[joyflameball]

there was an american flag in the mystery shack ten years prior to the plot

gravity falls takes place roughly in 2012-2013

meaning the pines travel to about 2002-2003

hey did anything specific happen in 2001 that'd cause reason for an american flag in the mystery shack

[windwardstar]

I need other trans people to take it seriously when nonbinary people are misgendered

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[thenightling]

I am very disappointed in the people praising the censoring / editing of Roald Dahl’s books.   Let me tell you a little story.   About five years ago I decided to re-visit Treasure Island.  I found an unabridged version.   I was surprised to discover that Long John Silver had a black lover.   Because the book used the term “n–ress” the mention of her was removed from many American editions of the book when I grew up.

Note: I am not saying they removed the N word.  I am saying they removed her *all together.* I didn’t know Long John Silver had a love interest until I was in my thirties and read an unabridged version of the novel. It revealed so much about the story that I hadn’t noticed before. 1.  That Long John Silver believed in love despite what was considered a cultural norm of the time.  He didn’t care about what others considered proper and he was in love. 2.   It shows that even Robert Louis Stevenson acknowledged the existence of interracial couples and yet no movie version I can think of addressed this until the TV series Black Sails. 3. It helped remind me of the culture of the era in which Treasure Island takes place and when it was written, the stigma against interracial relationships that existed in America right into the twentieth century and in some places is still a thing. Sometimes books tell us more than just a story.   They show us how a world was once viewed.   I felt like this was an important discovery, that Long John Silver had a black lover (or wife).   And I was even a little angry that I had been robbed of this in previous readings of the book.   I think the removal of words like “Fat” and “ugly” from Roald Dahl’s books does us a disservice.   It “cleans up” the past and denies a chance for us to learn some of the less pleasant aspects of the past and how and why language has changed since then.    What should be a teaching point and experience is lost in the name of sensitivity.   I felt cheated and it even felt a little racist that Long John Silver’s love interest isn’t mentioned in many editions of Treasure Island.  And I feel that one day there may be similar feelings if people discover they aren’t reading the original versions of Dahl’s books. Try to remember the original reason Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit  451.  It wasn’t about an evil government taking away people’s blooks. It was about this group and that group getting offended at various titles until they just banned everything to try to make everyone happy.    

[bananonbinary]

wait hang on i went to read more about this whole nonsense because i wasn’t really aware of it when it went down a few years ago, and everything op said is right, even totally well-intentioned and “reasonable” sounding censorship is a problem for all the above reasons, but also

this is nonsense. this is like the shit an anti-sjw thinks the woke mob worries about. how and why did they invent fake racism to be mad about in the books that did in fact contain real actual racism and other bigotries. their ‘sensitivity readers’ sound like deeply awful people to be around.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

let's put Scooby and the gang in a genuine horror movie situation, i wanna see what these freaks are truly capable of

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"didn't they already do this with—" no. put them in a slasher film. put them in a BLOODBATH. put this van full of weirdoes in a Texas Chainsaw Massacre scenario i have FAITH in them

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

THEY'D DO WELL IN SAW

[batneko]

okay I'm thinking about this

not Saw specifically but a slasher with a legit body count. Summer camp slashers are overplayed but I think it really works because it's the type of thing the Scooby gang WOULD get caught up in.

like some of the counselors didn't show up (got got) so the head counselor calls his younger cousin to see if him and his friends can fill in last minute. They show up and they're a bunch of nerds, one of them even has an anxiety dog, and they don't have a big role at first. It seems like the movie is setting them up as cannon fodder.

and then the deaths start and suddenly the nerds are locked the fuck in. The little one with the glasses actually fixed the phone line and is taking stock of all their supplies in case the vehicles go out. The counselor's cousin who seemed like a himbo has set up a perimeter and made makeshift alarms for all the doors and windows, knows all the entry points. The anxious one and his dog are keeping the mood up with the snacks and activities that were supposed to be for the kids, making sure nobody panics and starts making dumb decisions. Somebody tried to grab the redhead and she flipped him over and had him zip-tied before anybody noticed. Weren't they a D&D group or something? What is happening???

[lizardlicks]

Fuck the slasher movie just effectively becomes Home Alone but with Four Kevin McAllisters

Bro's fucked.

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art by Daviddv1202

[dawen]

at one point the kid with the anxiety dog says, "man, why does this keep happening? this is, like, the eighth time thid year!"

it's barely June. abruptly all the normal councilors understand a) why he has an anxiety dog, and b) why the dog has anxiety too.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Reminder that top speed for Shaggy is canonically the same top speed as a fuckin' great dane.

Slasher is flat out chasing after this kid, finally gaining on him, when suddenly he speeds up and starts going 30 miles per hour.

[plushdablush]

Random thing for people to consider is that since Laika is the saint of one way trips should Felicette be known as the saint of safe landings since she did make it back to the ground safely

[grassrye]

this took an embarrassing amount of time to finish

[weirdthoughtsandideas]

Poor other countries that didn’t get to grow up with this trippy segment from a kids show where a puppet asks you to guess what’s in her fridge. When the item has melted a bunch of snowmen dance for you

[secondbeatsongs]

I wish I had stopped to savor it, the last time I saw a kung pow penis. I never knew it was to be my last

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

For old times sakes.

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[the44th]