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Calvin and Hobbes: The Force Awakens Brian Kesinger
Story artist at Walt Disney animation studios / Artist for Marvel Comics. Check out his etsy store for books and prints www.etsy.com/shop/BrianKesinger
I know Iâve reblogged some of these before, but I love these SW / Calvin and Hobbes mashups. So stinking cute.
Best. Comics. Ever.
@zarhooie, in case you havenât seen âem yet :)
Iâm 33 and American. This myth is so widespread here I didnât know the truth until I was TWENTY-NINE. I was literally taught something similar IN COLLEGEâthat the Puritans were so reactionary in America as a result of what happened to them in England. And this was in a class about the history of witchcraft accusations and the Salem witch trials. Like, we were taught that they were horrible HERE, but the narrative was still that they faced injustice in England.
This wasnât a stupid teacher, either. She had her first doctorate and was pursuing a second. Basically everything else I learned in that class checks out. The myth just runs THAT DEEP.
Yep. :/
Whoa, hang on. I knew they werenât great-- the word âpuritanicalâ is very negative-- but they WHAT the king of England?! What is this?? Iâm 35, live [usually] in the states, and have no idea what this history is. I have never heard of this. Please tell me more.
https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/irs-complaint-process-tax-exempt-organizations
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Directors/Officers/Persons are using income/assets for personal gain
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Organization is engaged in excessive lobbying activities
Organization refused to disclose or provide a copy of Form 990
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to simplify: churches are forbidden to promote specific political parties or candidates, in order to maintain tax-exempt status. no religious institution is allowed to make explicit political statements, including âthis party is bad,â âthis party is good,â âyou should vote for x,â âyou should not vote for x,â or âletâs raise money for x political party or campaign.â all of those things are super illegal! if theyâre going to act as a political entity, they need to pay taxes like any other political entity! report their asses!!!!
MAKE THIS GO VIRAL - REBLOG IT âŚ.. REPEATEDLY
My American followers, please do your part
The Original Series wasnât even in the general VICINITY of fucking around yo
How many shows these days would do this, and do it this way? These days, it would be all, âOhh, we have to be sensitive and show the nuances of each sideâ and try not to make either side seem wrong. It wouldnât be clearly spelled out, âpro-choice is right, if youâre against it youâre the bad guys.â
Jim Kirk is not here for your anti-birth-control, anti-choice, pro-death-penalty BS
James Tiberius Kirk was written and portrayed as a feminist and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
Yep. Â That episode is exactly what you think it is: Â pro-birth control, pro-population control, pro-choice, and pro-womenâs right to choose. Â And yes, Kirk, the supposed playboy of the spaceways, is in favor of all of the above.
It was written and aired in 1969. Â
It probably couldnât air today.
THINK ABOUT THAT.
Also LMAO at all the sad whiny geek boys who are like âI miss the GOOD OLD DAYS of SCI-FI when it wasnât all about SOCIAL ISSUES and instead it was just about MEN HAVING FUN IN SPACE. Like Star Trek! Star Trek wouldnât put up with all this SOCIAL JUSTICE FEMINISM IN SCI FI bullshit!â And meanwhile Iâm just over here like ââŚdid you actually watch the show?âÂ
@judicialmistrangementorder
Itâs also important to bear in mind that the Original Series had a predominantly female fanbase, and during its initial run, was widely mocked and dismissed by mainstream (i.e., male) science fiction fans as being fake sci-fi for girls. Itâs difficult to overstate the influence women had on the franchise in its early days; most of the early Star Trek conventions were organised by and for women, and indeed, those same organisers were primarily responsible for the massive letter-writing campaign that prevented the show from being cancelled after the 1968 season. Without that campaign, the episode pictured in this post would never have been made.
The popular image of James Kirk as a sleazy womaniser is part of a conscious effort to erase that history and render the franchiseâs roots palatable to the misogynistic geekboys of the modern SF/F fandom.
For a summary of those points, see âStar Trekâs Underappreciated Feminist Historyâ by Shannon Mizzi, which draws from Patricia Vettel-Beckerâs âSpace and the Single Girl: Star Trek, Aesthetics, and 1960s Femininityâ.
And a gentle reminder that TOS was a Desilu production, which its board of directors voted to cancel after the second pilot due to cost concerns, a vote that Chairman Lucille Ball overruled. There is no Star Trek without Lucille Ball.
Originally posted by zidlersdiamonddogs
Basically you have women to thank for Star Trek. Go suck on that, JJ Abrams.
Bringing this back because I recently saw a post from a dudebro complaining about how Star Trek has become all âPC and has an agendaâ unlike in the âgood old daysâÂ
so here is a clip from the âgood old daysâ of Star Trek not having an agenda.Â
so i just sent this to my brother who thinks heâs âall thatâ about star trek and iâm just grinning at how annoyed heâs gonna be with it bc i keep sending him snippets of the reblogs ahahaha
(dry smile)
The attitude that scifi was ever pure, misogynistic action-adventure really bothers me, because long before tv was invented, scifi was about exploration-- sometimes of unfamiliar places, but always of unfamiliar IDEAs. Whether written by Mary Shelley or by Robert Heinlein, scifi was about exploring human nature both as it was and as how it might be, the effects on culture if something were changed for the better or worse, the view on [the author's present time] from an outside perspective-- whether alien or foreign or anachronistic. Scifi is cerebral. Itâs about *thinking* rather than *action,* and the most acclaimed scifi was the stuff that was well thought-out and gave people something to discuss. Usually stuff that the author thought was *really weird* irl, because the real world is full of stuff thatâs weird to think about. Action-hero scifi was B-movie stuff. Pulp. Junk. Of course people liked it-- some more than others-- but it wasnât acclaimed and it wasnât very mature and it wasnât what scifi was about. You didnât form a book club to talk about the latest adventures of Horny Angry Racist Man Fighting Space-Indians.
#the way he only says the name of the ingredient with each step is the polar opposite of those recipe sites with like a 27 paragraph intro
Honestly, the best part is that even though he never says amounts or time spent, you can SEE it so itâs honestly better than written recipes. You know exactly what youâre supposed to be doing.
Do you have any idea how long I have tried to find this episode of Reading Rainbow in the nearly 30 years since I first saw it as a kid?
ppl have made fun of me for double spacing after end punctuation so i want to know if theres anyone else who learned that ur supposed to double space after end punctuation when u learned typing
example: This is cool. You are cool, too!
do u double space after end punctuation
i double space!
what in the world. no?
pls reblog for larger sample size
That was the case back when people used typewriters. That stopped being the case when word processors took over. That hasn't been the general custom since... wow. My typing class in 1992 which i took for an easy credit taught us that you should only double space when typing on a typewriter and never on a computer or word processor.
early word processing classes when my school first got computers in '83 through graduation for high school still double spaced. The directions my second college gave Masters and Ph.d candidates gave people circa 1995 still required double spacing on all submissions or they'd be rejected out of hand. Both that University and my previous college considered double spacing for all papers the academic standard.
Just saying.
I literally never knew people now single spaced on purpose until the last five years or so.
Yep. It fucks up formatting on modern word processors and layout programs, ebook creators, pdf creators... it's no longer necessary & actively detrimental & has been for a really long time. It doesn't surprise me that academia held on to an outdated custom that actively messes up new technology much longer than necessary, though, having grown up the kid of a professor.
Essentially if you are typing AND reading in fixed width, e.g Courier New or Consolas (early computer word processors and message transmission systems nearly always displayed text in fixed width, though you could sometimes print in a different font), double spaces are preferred for clarity. Variable width fontsâand this is especially true of today's modern onesâautomatically adjust spacing around periods so double spacing is not necessary.
But sometimes people learn and teach based on dogma and not logic.
I have been a copy editor for digital content for five years. The first thing I do in every document is Cmnd+F for double spaces and replace them all work single spaces. So not only do I not double space, I actively negate other people's double space habits.
I learned to double space when I was taught touch typing in high school about 20 years ago, but the class was taught by the teacher who originally taught on typewriters, so it's understandable that there were holdovers.
It helped me learn touch typing, but I habitually double-spaced for a long time, finally started shifting over like five-ish years ago? Maybe longer? Fucked if I remember.
I have set up libre office so it ignores when I accidentally double tap the space bar, which I still do on occasion.
I understand that it messes with coding; I have seen it. I understand that it messes with conventional spacing; I have had complaints. But I have trouble reading digital stuff, and I'll use any tricks that make it easier for my to proofread my own texts, darnit !
"You Were Known To Us"
From time to time, and just now in the wake of Brianna Ghey's murder, those wishing to mourn our (transgender) dead sometimes use phrases like "rest in power", appropriate to the black community whence such phrases came, less appropriate when applied to white people, even when from other marginalized and oft-murdered groups.
May I offer, instead, that we popularise: "You Were Known To Us"
To make a generalization that I think is reasonable, trans people tend to want, more than anything else, to be simply recognised for who we are. To be known.
Not in the sense of "to be famous" but in the sense of just to be known for who we are, rather than for who we aren't.
[ image ID: an engraved metal plaque. in large print it reads:
You were known to us
Transgender memorial
- then, in smaller text beneath:
We remember those who have gone before us
And we will fight for those yet to come
Erected in 2013 by the Transgender and Gay Community
to remember all our Transgender
Sisters and Brothers who have left us.
Love will always conquer hate
end ID ]
Ye gads. :)
Really makes you think about the amount of effort put into character movements, though, when so many of the MCs (Iâm not counting Sleeping Beauty there) are that distinctive.
i think more characters should have canes actually. theyre cool. theyre sexy. they can have swords in them. they come in any color u want.
alright Iâm rbing to add onto this bc itâs getting way more attention than I ever expected and people seem to be more likely to check the rbs than the replies. plus I want people to be able to rb this version.
the point of this post is not swords. it is not how well someone can fight w a cane. the point is I want to see more disabled representation and I want to see characters who use canes and I want them to use them correctly and I want them to be just as fleshed out and interesting as their abled counterparts.
my cane user friend and I were talking abt sword canes just before I made the post so I tossed it in. I collect bladesâknives, daggers, swordsâand Iâm also a disabled cane user who collects fancy canes. so I think combining the two is cool. I donât even think theyâd be good for self defense, I just think theyâre a fun thing to show off to friends!
but this post has always, first and foremost, been abt mobility aids. this is abt being a young cane user who doesnât see rep. Iâd love to see highschool dramas where a character uses a cane but itâs not used to make u pity them, itâs just a regular part of their life. I wanna see fantasy cane users where the animal head handle speaks. I wanna see sci-fi cane users and cane users in romances and cane users in main roles.
I know abt canne de combat and bartitsu and the other fighting styles u can use a cane for. thatâs never been what this post is abt. I just want to see myself in media.
everyone who rbs this version gets a kiss on the forehead
everyone who rbs any version that makes my post entirely abt weapons while ignoring the mobility aid part owes me a kofi bc ik for sure thereâs enough of yall for me to afford crutches
My favorite thing is when I get to cosplay wizards and whoever, because then my walking stick (which my phys.therapist recommended over a cane) gets to dress up as well. More mobility aids in design! More representation in characters!
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sweet mother i cannot weave. slender aphrodite has overcome me with carpal tunnel
itâs bc you voted in that fucking poll
i voted for aphrodite though
Never trust that voting for Aphrodite will save you. Look what happened to Paris!
We have always been here.Â
Vintage MLM love photography post
Vintage WLW love photography post
Please add more if you have them <3Â
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Pictures from back in the gay
GAYMAZING :D
I know this is a long post - but omg it gave me feels. Can you imagine how intense their love had to be to survive how homophobic it was back then. đđđ
I so respect this and couldnât imagine how it would of been back then to hide there sexuality but it was well said we have always been here just in the shadow but not anymore!! Itâs a new day and thanks to all these whom made this day possible to be who you want and whom you want to be with!!
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The Collection: Love is Love
This needs to be an international travelling exhibition. So beautiful, heartwarming, uplifting.
anxiety is so weird like why is my mental illness in my stomach
Actually the chemicals that you need for not being depressed/adhd/anxious are the same chemicals that your guts need to function! Or so Iâve heard
WHO TF designed humans this way, why, just why-- --Wait. Is that we feel better after eating? Is this sandwich literally *soaking up my brain-dysfunction chemicals?!*
God bless her, Tamora Pierce is a TROLL.
When she got up to speak at the National Book Festival yesterday, she read the first page of her book in a dull monotone while coughing incessantly.
Then she put the book down, and was like âPSYCH. That never gets old. You should see the looks on your faces!â and went on to be witty and charming and delightful.
Yep. :)
Oh, yeah, Tamora Pierce was cool before it was cool.
⌠wait, hang on. She read the first page of WHAT BOOK???
Donât tell me that Numair Chronicles #2 is in the preview stages at last?????
The OP appears to be 2013, but here in good olâ 2023, we of Tammyâs Patreon can delightedly tell you YES IT IS.
werthers & those strawberry things are like the commonly accepted faces of Old People Candy but what candy do yall associate with your own old people. my grandparents always had a ton of root beer barrels in their stash
What and who is included in the lgbt/queer/gay(general) communities arenât always super clear cut actually and like... thatâs fine.
Like a cishet man that likes doing drag likely doesnât consider himself queer and neither would any of his queer/lgbt friends but he might still be super active in the community and mostly hang out with gay guys and bring his girlfriend to pride and maybe even perform at pride. And maybe the queer community is where he feels most at home because heâs kind of feminine, and doing drag is a big part of his life.
Irl probably almost nobody would kick this guy out. A lot of internet discourse would. But that kind of makes no sense.
I grew up in the theatre community, and after I learned what being gay was I discovered that gay people were everywhere in theatre. But so were straight people that just kind of fell outside of societal norms a bit. Straight people that often just felt more comfortable around gay people because they could just be themselves.
And yeah thatâs an obvious example of people that arenât queer hanging out in queer spaces but thereâs also a ton of gray area. Straight polyamorous people for example. People that identify as cis that âcrossdressâ or even do some things that might be considered to be part of âtransitioningâ. Or some intersex people that donât id with the lgbt community. Or people that id as non binary but not as trans.
At some point you need to stop trying to figure out who definitively belongs in the club because like... there is no club. Irl queer spaces tend to cover huge swaths of people. Thereâs a lot of gray area. And also youâll also tend to find a lot of cishet gender conforming people in these spaces too. Because their significant other or a family member or a good friend is lgbt+ or because theyâre poly or because they just feel more comfortable around queer people or they just feel like fighting for gay rights is something that theyâre supposed to be doing. And if theyâre respectful and the space isnât explicitly âno cishet right nowâ then like, them being there isnât that much of an issue usually.
All of this internet discourse that tries to exclude or bully people just isnât grounded in reality.
There is literally a significant subgroup of men who have sex with other men, but consider themselves straight and donât respond to outreach for gay/queer men. Like, this is a known thing, particularly when it comes to HIV outreach campaigns; itâs why HIV campaigns use MSM (men who have sex with men) when most other LGBT+ stuff doesnât.
Now, a lot of peopleâs first impulse is to say they have internalised homophobia, but a) thatâs rude as hell to assume about a stranger and b) a lot of them just... donât. Theyâve thought about it and they arenât gay! They have straight lives that theyâre fine with, and sometimes they have sex with men!
And something that gets me about Queer Identity Discourse is that it would just immediately declare these people Not Gay And Not In Need Of Our Resources, when they clearly are! They have the same struggles with HIV/AIDS as gay men, they get criminalised by anti-gay sex laws the same as gay men -- they just happen to identify as straight!
When we fixate on trying to declare people as queer or not based on their identity, we miss the ways in which behaviour pushes self-declared straight people under our umbrella. You donât have to like it, but you do have to realise that these straight people are being harmed by homophobia, transphobia etc.
