As a martyr submits to death, the masses ravage their body. What part of this divine flesh will be ripped to shreds, to be revered until the end of time? 🫀📿
My partner made this comic, and it is beautiful and amazing, and you’re all missing out by not seeing the original on paper because it’s even prettier there!
Been getting a lot of offers to do “collabs” with ai brands. They always want me to shill their dog shit products in exchange for money.
Their emails are clearly written by an ai chatbot because they usually talk about how they think I’d be a great fit for their brand since I talk about AI. I specifically make anti ai content, but they don’t seem to know this.
Here is my new standard email response when these weird geeks reach out to me.
My hope is that one of these stupid PR companies has an ai bot handling their marketing and that I can get it to give me an automated approval so they pay me to take talk about how shitty their ai slop product is.
Tier list of Les Mis characters based on how good it would be if a trans woman played them
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F tier
Gavroche: Too sad. Also weird that a bunch of students are keeping a nine-year-old trans girl around.
Marius: Eddie Redmayne isn’t allowed to do that shit to us again.
D tier
Cosette: Chaser Marius is funnier than chaser Cosette, but still not that fun. The trans girls I know are getting tied down and spit in, not having saccharine romances with dapper young gentlemen. Fundamentally inhospitable to a trans reading.
Fantine: Oh, how bold. A trans woman gets fired from her job, cuts her hair, becomes a sex worker, then dies of an STI while penniless from child support. I actually got a little sick writing that. Please don’t do this.
Thenardier: Yeah, yeah, what if the evil criminal and child abuser was also a faggot with it. A trans woman would absolutely knock the audience dead with Master of the House, but things just get ugly in the second act as the corpses of these brave little cis boys get picked over by some crossdressing creep. Not as fun as it seems.
C tier
Mme. Thenardier: Only funny because then you get to have Chaser Thenardier, and frankly that suits his character well enough that I want it to happen.
Jean Valjean: I’m tired of trans people having to be self-sacrificing. Jeanne Neovaljeana is the story of a community workhorse being ridden to death, giving up the respectability she spent years clawing back, carrying her cis daughter’s cis boyfriend out through a sewer, and then dying on the wedding day. Stupid!
B tier
Javert: Not a conventional pick, but Javert turns to the law as a source of stability in a morally unsettled universe, and I think that that contradiction would be further complicated by her being transgender. Plus, then her fight with Valjean in Act 1 makes a point about trans women in sports. Honestly, there’s an argument that the character as is has some serious repressor energy – she even kills herself at the end!
The Bishop: Now we’re talking. Extending mercy to a man who robbed you and changing the course of his life is like a sublimated version of what happens to a guy the first time he gets topped. She is the most powerful person in every scene she’s in, and she deserves it. Great pick.
A tier
Enjolras: Come on now, think about it. Leader of the revolutionaries, bohemian philosopher-turned-soldier. Just picture her at the top of that barricade, brown corset over white blouse, curly hair over her shoulders, lipstick matching the red of the French flag as she waves it. I have to stop describing this because I’m getting a little too worked up.
Grantaire: Okay, okay, I get it. You want to do a transgressive casting, but you can’t make the noble revolutionary hero look too AGP. How about his slovenly, lecherous sidekick? Only makes sense that a tgirl in 19th-century France would develop a drinking habit, and she gets some fun lines to boot.
Eponine: Every trans woman I know has fantasized about dying in the arms of her unrequited lover. A Little Fall of Rain already makes me misty; watching one of my sisters sing it would absolutely break me. She even does tactical boymoding at one point; god, the casting writes itself. Phenomenal choice.
Conclusion
Everyone dies in this fucking play, but some people die well and others die badly; fundamentally, the casting must impart dignity. It’s hard to get that as a trans woman in theater. Be brave.
Shit like this can really only happen in Europe. Reminds me of the time I took my best shot at ordering at a restaurant in Spain in spanish. The closest language to spanish that I actually speak is latin.
Waiter: Germany?
Me: No, Czechia.
Waiter, in a heavily accented but intelligible Czech: Why didn’t you say so before! We get you guys here all the time!
Já v roce 2019 na Ukrajině: OK, takže když použiju tohle staročeský slovo, přidám polský sloveso, své chabé znalosti záhoráčtiny a řeknu to s ruskym přízvukem, tak to projde.
[Me in 2019 in Ukraine: ok so if i use this Old Czech word, add a Polish verb, my poor knowledge of the Záhorie dialect of Slovak and say it with a Russian accent, it might pass]
Reminds me of the time when we were in Poland and I tried to order a burger using a truly unholy mix of Slovak, Russian and Ostrava dialect (which in itself is like an unholy mix of Czech and Polish).
I know Ukrainians who can do this on purpose and masterfully, and it was mind-blowing to hear a speech as immediately understandable to an audience of native speakers of three different native Slavic languages, not just two languages as is common
During one student exchange I (a Pole) got acquainted with two students from Czechia and Russia. At first we talked in English or German, but after a while we’ve noticed, that we could understand each other’s native languages just fine. And if some word was unknown in one language, another one had the right synonym.
*Each of us talking in their mother tongue*
Me: Bla bla bla.
Russian: I don’t know this “bla”.
Czech: Oh, we have “bla”! We also call it “that”!
Russian: Oh I know “that”! It’s a very old version of “this”.
Me: Oh, we have “this” too, but it means something slightly different.
German acquaintance: Was für nen Scheiß zieht ihr da ab? o_O
the reason there aren't slavic people in the bible is that they wouldn't have been surprised or awed to hear the disciples speak in tongues and be understood by people of many nations at once
As a non-native speaker of Czech who is only conversationally proficient and has terrible grammar, let me tell you, no one was more surprised than I was to discover that I can understand Slovak just fine. And when the two moving guys finished hauling my furniture to my new apartment and we were chatting a bit before they left, I discovered that the reason I'd had a little trouble understanding one of their "accents" was because he was speaking Ukrainian the whole time.
I had a dream where Brock was revealed to be a butch lesbian at the end of journeys and he thought that "ash and the others already knew" and the entire internet started losing their minds over it and after a couple hours the pokemon company tweeted "surprise faggots" with a picture of Brock holding a poorly edited lesbian flag
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