KIROKAZE
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Xuebing Du
Cosmic Funnies

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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@theartofmadeline

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Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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Origami Around
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@bisexualmizzie
Maggie: at the beginning Adam and Noah were supposed to be the same person
Me: I'm going to take this as a confirmation that Noah is also bisexual, thank you very much
I feel like the overlap between people who are into yarncraft and people who are massive fantasy nerds is pretty high, so here is a thing:
Leo, the man behind MMario Designs, has sadly passed away. His family have made all of his knitting patterns free on Ravelry, and there are some gorgeous designs up there.
Do you like the Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce?
Tris:
Briar:
Frostpine:
Are you a Discworld fan?
Out Of Cheese:
Banks of the Anhk:
Lady Margolotta:
How about Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar books?
Flames of Vykaendys:
Harper Hall shawl:
Harry Potter?
Godric:
Salazar:
Tolkien?
Shire Gardens:
Oakenshield:
Smaug:
These are only a few, you should totally go and check out the literally hundreds of designs up on the Ravelry page.
Thinkin’ about how as a kid I was afraid to sleep alone in my room bc I thought a ghost lived in my closet so every night I’d wake up and move into my parents room to sleep on the itchy wool rug on the floor. It was a bit under their bed and I wanted to lie on it perfectly so I’d also be a bit under the bed.
But I Also loved to eat ice cubes so while I was up in the dead of the night anyway I’d go grab an ice cube from the freezer.
And then I’d sneak into their room and lie down and start crunching on my ice cube, and without fail my dad would wake up and be like “are you REALLY eating ICE in here at 3 AM , AGAIN”
Then I’d swallow the whole ice cube really fast.
Anyway any time I think I’m ready for kids I think about losing sleep every night because there’s an 80 pound sentient creature halfway under my bed just. Eating ice
going on testosterone is so exciting im so glad to finally go through my himboification
my special friend calls it his PP Juice and I started calling it PP Up from Pokemon and so now it’s the PP Up Juice.
You don’t say.
For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. There’d been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first place, how they changed their mind, the consequences they suffered as a result, and asking other parents to please vaccinate their kids. And now she’s an activist for destroying the misinformation of anti-vaxxers, and reaching out to anti-vaxxers because she’s understands their fears but knows their kids deserve better.
She was trying to the best for her kids and just didn’t know how to interpret the validity of information or its sources, an actual skill that can be actually difficult and that is under-taught and a necessary first step to being able to trust vaccination research, so chose no action over taking an action she wasn’t sure of. She kept looking into it with family and friends and even eventually came to the right conclusion before her kids became sick, but it was still too late.
Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even saying “I’m writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isn’t lost on me.” and also “I am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this ‘defection’ from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isn’t a popularity contest. Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fear. I understand that families in our community may be mad at us for putting their kids at risk.”
She understood the consequences and still put herself and her story out there.
You know what, it does take a big person to admit they were wrong so publicly and work to undo the harm. I believe I made fun of her in the past, but timemachineyeah changed my mind.
So I saw your names ask (hilarious btw), but there’s nothing for Feuilly? How? Do you???? Pronounce??? It?????????
Feuilly: I will respond to any and all of the following:
Falafel
Feu
The Hot One
Feu-y-ee
A Pterodactyl Screech
Feuille
The Irish One
You
Also, you pronounce it ih-t
So after the many many posts mourning the passing of Stan Lee earlier today I’ve started seeing an inevitable wave of backlash about how he actually wasn’t a good person and we shouldn’t be mourning them. And these posts are par for the course when a celebrity dies because no one is all good or all bad, and that’s fine. And Stan Lee was human, he was a person with a complicated life and a complicated legacy, and I’m not here to whitewash any of that. However, I’d like to refute a couple of the points I’ve seen people making.
The first is that Stan Lee sexually harassed nurses who were taking care of him. This story came from the Daily Mail, which is not a credible news source. The original story does not name any of the nurses who supposedly came forward with the story, or their employer, and the legitimacy of this story is pretty shaky. I’m not saying it categorically isn’t true, but I am saying that we should take stories from the newspaper that ran a headline about the discovery of the “gay gene” with a grain of salt.
The second is that Stan Lee was told that Andrew Garfield wanted to play Peter Parker as bisexual, and as retaliation forced Sony to only depict Peter Parker as straight and white. This isn’t quite true. There is a contract from 2011 that lists mandatory character traits for Spider-Man, and in that list is included that Spider-Man is “not a homosexual (unless Marvel has portrayed that alter ego as a homosexual).” Whether Stan Lee himself personally was involved in writing up this contract is pretty doubtful seeing as his role in the company was fairly limited by that point (and that’s not to mention the fact that in his later years he was being abused and manipulated by the people closest to him), but he did mention it in an interview with Newsarama. What he specifically said was, “I wouldn’t mind, if Peter Parker had originally been black, a Latino, an Indian or anything else, that he stay that way, but we originally made him white. I don’t see any reason to change that (…) I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly, But again, I don’t see any reason to change the sexual proclivities of a character once they’ve already been established. I have no problem with creating new, homosexual superheroes (…) It has nothing to do with being anti-gay, or anti-black, or anti-Latino, or anything like that,” he said. “Latino characters should stay Latino. The Black Panther should certainly not be Swiss. I just see no reason to change that which has already been established when it’s so easy to add new characters. I say create new characters the way you want to. Hell, I’ll do it myself.”
And while your mileage may vary on how much you agree with him there, it’s a far cry from him cruelly declaring Peter Parker having a boyfriend would be an affront before God and man and an insult to his authorial intent or whatever. Also, I think the original post that started this story was about Andrew Garfield saying something while doing press for Amazing Spiderman 2 and Stan Lee writing the contract as a result, but the contract is from 2011 and the first Amazing Spiderman came out in 2012, so the timeline doesn’t work. I could be misremembering the post though. There’s also this implied narrative that Andrew Garfield got axed for saying his Peter Parker was bi, but uh, no. No, they cancelled the franchise because Amazing Spiderman 2 bombed at the box office.
Now, to wrap it up, was Stan Lee a good and perfect man? No. His legacy is very much a mixed bag, especially when it comes to his relationship with his long-time co-creator Jack Kirby (although that’s a whole other suitcase to unpack some other time). I would like to point out, however, that the posts praising him aren’t all just blindly hero-worshipping him and being willfully ignorant. When someone you admire dies it’s natural to forget about the bad parts of them for a bit and get a little misty eyed, and not everyone’s gonna be totally objective about this man that they never met but who represents something important to them. I think that speaks more to the way we interact with celebrity as a culture than it does about the way Marvel fans see Stan Lee frankly. And hey, we gain nothing by pretending that Stan Lee wasn’t an important figure in comic book history, one who co-created the first black character in mainstream comics just two years after the Civil Rights Act was passed, who fought the Comic Code Authority censors to use comics to tackle heavy subject matter, who helped bring legitimacy to the art form and humanity to its characters. So as long as I’ve got you here I’m gonna leave you with his thoughts on racism in 1968, words that feel just as relevant today:
“Racism and bigotry are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today. But, unlike a team of costumed supervillains, they can’t be halted with a punch in the snoot or a zap from a ray gun. The only way to destroy them, is to expose them — to reveal from the insidious evil they really are.”
May his memory be a blessing.
My mom just told me you’re not a woman until you get blood on nearly every pair of pants you love. I was like, “what if you don’t have periods?” And she said “I didn’t say it had to be your own.”
I thought this was going to be cissexist and I was pleasantly surprised.
a comic about someone who gets a visit from the reaper a bit sooner than expected, but has someone whos been waiting for them
Hey, do you like my art? Help support me and buy me a coffee! ko-fi.com/zipper ❤️
“What happens when someone dies, but they have no one there waiting for them yet?”
you are never truly alone
i really love this so
suicide is never the answer.
Bless this post
You’re not alone!
Guys… This
BLESS THIS POST AND ANYONE WHO READS IT– OH AND NOW I’M CRYING– 😭
There are lots of Twilight quizzes out there—this is the only one scientifically engineered to get you the exact result that I specifically think you should get.
i made a quiz that i felt asked the real, important questions in order to determine your government assigned twilight kin. please take it thanks
Hey Enjolras, this one’s for you: FMK France, The Revolution, Grantaire
Hmm, curious question.
F - R
M - France
K - R
Am I referring to The Revolution or Grantaire, who knows?
Y’all are missing the best part, it’s on of the guys she refused to give the marriage license to that took her job
Italian Doctors Fooled Nazis by Inventing This Fake Disease
In 1943, a team of ingenious Italian doctors invented a deadly, contagious virus called Syndrome K to protect Jews from annihilation. On October 16 of that year, as Nazis closed in to liquidate Rome’s Jewish ghetto, many runaways hid in the 450-year-old Fatebenefratelli Hospital. There, anti-Fascist doctors including Adriano Ossicini, Vittorio Sacerdoti and Giovanni Borromeo created a gruesome, imaginary disease.
“Syndrome K was put on patient papers to indicate that the sick person wasn’t sick at all, but Jewish” and in need of protection, Ossicini told Italian newspaper La Stampa last year. The “K” stood for Albert Kesselring and Herbert Kappler — two ruthless Nazi commanders.
The doctors instructed “patients” to cough very loudly and told Nazis that the disease was extremely dangerous, disfiguring and molto contagioso. Soldiers were so alarmed by the list of symptoms and incessant coughing that they left without inspecting the patients. It’s estimated that a few dozen lives were saved by this brilliant scheme.
The doctors were later honored for their heroic actions, and Fatebenefratelli Hospital was declared a “House of Life” by the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.
The Jewniverse
I am so absolutely pissed off that i never learned this in school
Musicals are weird. For example, I watched Les Mis on a whim 6 years ago and now I’m a socialist.
PSA FOR REPUBLICANS!
Election Day is Wednesday, November 7!
Election Day is Wednesday, November 7!
Election Day is Wednesday, November 7!
Election Day is Wednesday, November 7!
So today, stay at home! Kick up your heels! Rest easy! but get ready to go out and VOTE TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 7!
Remember: you don’t need any form of ID at the polling station! Don’t forget post a picture of your ballot on all social media to show your support for Republicans!
LET’S MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN BY VOTING TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7!!!!!