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[seduction747]

A girl with a guitar is 12 times better than another crazy band of boys, trying to be a star when you’re just another brick in the misogynistic wall of noise.

Prince (via seduction747)

[kryptonians]

Listen, just hear me out.

Amanda Waller origin movie that is literally “James Bond in a pantsuit/trousersuit”

She gets the nickname The Wall because she is quite literally impossible to crack.

[sarahseeandersen]

[tastefullyoffensive]

by Sarah Andersen

[birdofparadox]

So very glad to have a second chance at college, even if I still need to grocery shop!

[rejectedprincesses]

Remembering Japan’s badass schoolgirl gangs

Japanese schoolgirl fashion hasn’t always existed for male fantasies only. Meet the ‘sukeban’ crews who used the power of DIY style to pierce through the patriarchal bubble

When all-male gangs wouldn’t let them join, all-female “sukeban” gangs formed their own identities – starting with the uniform.

Between the layers of clothing, sukeban girls would conceal weapons – razors, chains and anything else that one ought to take a jot more seriously than a yo-yo. Indeed, the sukeban sisterhood rivalled their male equivalents for violence and crime: facing off with rival factions, punishing girls within their own group (e.g. for cheating with someone else’s boyfriend), or generally colouring suburban ennui with a splash of petty crime. What’s more, Yakuza-style levels of organisation meant that, at the subculture’s peak, the largest alliance had over 20,000 teenage girls sworn in.

They even inspired a series of exploitation-style movies, akin to the works of Russ Meyer. These movies bore titles like Delinquent Girl Boss, Girl Boss (Sukeban), and Terrifying Girls’ High School.

It continues today in the form of all-female bosozoku biker gangs:

As the expectations for young women to marry and settle continue to be a fact of life in Japan, so too has this all-girl outlaw subculture prevailed as an alternative narrative for young women. Today, you can spot them by their embellished and embroidered jumpsuits, floral tattoos, long manicured nails and bright pink, heavily stickered bikes.

[feelitinmyheartandmyhips]

Now that this bad boy is “mostly” healed, and doesn’t look like I have the plague, I can post a pic. In the words of Kelly Sue DeConnick herself, “it isn’t about the book. To me it all says: ‘I am finding the courage to be my authentic self, whomever he or she may be. I do not fit in the box assigned to me: I am too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too loud, too soft, too silly, too serious, too masculine, too feminine, too passionate, too shy, too angry, too proud, too black, too brown, too devout, too atheist, too slutty, too frumpy, too gay, too WHATEVER-THE-FUCK IT IS that my culture will condemn me for today and I refuse to cede my power.” ✌🏻️#bitchplanet#noncompliant#comictattoos

[kellysue]

❤️

[saucerkommand]

The OUT OF THIS WORLD art of Joshua Mays! Artist Joshua Mays – Diversity In Science Fiction Art

[ectojammer-deactivated20170613]

im so mad bc theres this like line of “nerf guns FOR GIRLS” and it lit includes a purse that transforms into a gun but then theres these guns that look amazing and witchy and I LOVE THEM IM SO MAD

THESE OWN AND IM SO MAD

[ladygolem]

i am absolutely sure these are the guns that bayonetta uses

[lucisaves]

OH MY GOD *_______*

[sizvideos]

Woman Surprise Her Girlfriend With The News She Will Be Her Kidney Donor - Watch the full video

[possessedcreampuff]

OH MY GOD THIS IS LOVE

[vaspider]

SO MANY TEARS OMG.

[ginsengmasque]

char siu is so sexy in every form

[birdofparadox]

#OscarsSoWhite - JSNN

[elanabrooklyn]

(Listen to Kieron Gillen Chat with Graphic Policy Radio Podcast)

The best comic writer of my generation is Kieron Gillen @kierongillen and @graphicpolicy got to interview him yesterday on our podcast. We talked in depth about The Wicked + The Divine, Phonogram, Angela: Asgard’s Assassin and his upcoming work like Ludocrats and a comic he described as “Pokemon meets Mad Max in the style of the Fast and the Furious.” 

Some Kieron highlights: 

“if you are writing about pop stars you are writing about race” 

“canon is stupefying”

 Wondering if he ruined a 14 year old’s life by getting her into The Manic Street Preachers (the answer is “no”)

Teen voices on tumblr absolutely impact how he writes his teen characters

Young Avengers was the Avengers if there’d been no Kirby (and I am ok with that and it all makes sense)

We’re definitely getting an 1830 WicDiv pantheon soon featuring Mary Shelly, Byron, Keats, Blake! Possibly an Arthurian one and one in Rome. Maybe a 1920′s “Agatha Christie take on the modernist gods”. 

I can’t wait! So download us and listen! We’re on iTunes too.

SPOILERS FOR WicDiv volume 3 at 1 hour 10 minutes in. Spoilers over around 1:25 in. 

[wicdiv]

This was fun.

[kierongillen]

Boom, etc.

We’re approaching the pre-order deadline for our return, so now is an excellent time to talk to your retailer if you want a copy. It’s a good one. To quote the solicitation text…

An ideal jumping-on point. Persephone, live. The question is, will it be for more than one night? Don’t call it a comeback, as JAMIE McKELVIE and MATT WILSON return to THE WICKED + THE DIVINE for the most rock-and-roll everything-explodes arc of the hit series.

We’ve also spent some time trying to make this work as a clean jumping on point for those who want to try the book, whether or not you’ve read any of the previous trades. It’s certainly a good time to get on board if you’ve been following the trades. This one motors.

(The first issue is slightly longer than usual as well. We wanted to return big. It’s been so long.)

Don’t know how to pre-order? Here’s a comic where I explain it. In short, speak to your retailer and say you want it. If they ask for the order codes, it’s FEB160561 for the first cover and FEB160562 for the alternate cover. 

Yes, you haven’t seen the alternate cover yet, have you? It’ll be online later. It’s fun.

[kierongillen]

And here’s the cover…

[the-fairy-squad-mother]

I’d like to introduce you to….

The pangolin

It walks on its two hind legs

Nicknamed the Walking Artichoke

or the Anteater Pinecones

They look utterly ridiculous and they are my favourite thing you’re welcome and goodbye

[dapurinthos]

That’s a fucking Sandshrew.

[bh-flint]

It’s a small dragon.

[ari-nemera]

They’re so hunchbacked that even though they walk on two legs their front feet are almost always scraping the ground.

BONUS! Tree-dwelling version!!!

Also bonus, There’s a fuckton of different kinds!

Enjoy.

Also! they’re going extinct due to poaching because people love their golden scaley pelts! These are the only mammals in existence to grow actual scales, created from fused fur, like rhino horns! If you would like to donate to their conservation fund, or find out more about Pangolins in general, go here!

http://savepangolins.org/

[fuckyeah-nerdery]

They look like small dinosaurs that didn’t get the memo about the extinction because their email was down that day.

[birdofparadox]

Actual Pokemon tbh

[wistfulwatcher]

an endless list of that can’t-eat, can’t-sleep, reach-for-the-stars, over-the-fence, world series kind of stuffmovies

the mummy returns (2001); “Thought I almost lost you.” “For a moment there, you did.”

[think-progress]

The Disturbing Rise In Women Who Want To Know How To Self-Induce An Abortion

The demand for information about how to self-induce an abortion “has risen to a disturbing level,”according to a New York Times analysis that examined more than 700,000 Google searches across the country in 2015.

[jiminduckie]

HP AESTHETICS: The Golden Trio

‘I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.’

[folderolsoup]

Young Avengers #15 (2014)

Kieron Gillen

Jamie McKelvie

Matthew Wilson

Clayton Cowles