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It’s been a while since I’ve been on this Tumblr page. I was just looking through and realized that some of the stuff I posted before regarding my characters and story have been changed and edited. I gotta fix some things. I’m glad to be back with renewed motivation, though. Hopefully I’ll be more active with this.

You ever just use the Sims to build one of your characters? I’m not an artist in any way, shape, or form, so I couldn’t just draw something up, so I used the tools available to me and came up with an approximation of what I imagined my main character, Avery Novak, to look like.

She’s biracial; her mother originally being from Madurai, India, and her father being of Polish descent. I wanted her to have curly hair, but the Sims doesn’t exactly have the hair I was looking for. Almost everything else, though, was on point.

Thoughts?

#avery novak #ever upwards #carrie hodlik #the sims 4

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[Image: Tweet by Beth Huang ( @pbhuang12 ): I want Trump to be removed so that every 5th grader who asked “why was Mike Pence President for 2 days” hears a story about why white supremacy & fascism are threats to democracy. Millions of students in the next decades will ask this question and will know to reject fascism.]

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i wanna live here

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philly turned out to evict trump, so if you want to say thank you for getting it done please donate to the philly bail fund.

philly has the worst cops in america, just two weeks ago they pulled a Black mother out of her car, beat her and arrested her in front of her 2-year-old son, who they then kidnapped and used for copaganda. she had committed the crime of getting stuck on a one-way street at the edge of a protest against the murder by cops of Walter Wallace, a Black man suffering from mental illness, who was shot in front of his mother.

there's no reason to expect cop behavior to improve now that trump's lost and they're angry. please support the people of philadelphia, who showed up.

for more on police violence, antiracism and radically transformative politics in philly and what you can do to help, see @phillybailfund, @phillybailout, @blmphilly, @phillywerise, @vietlead, and twitter hashtags #FreeAnt #WalterWallaceJr

philly/pa folks add more orgs & links if you have them!

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Some People: Germans don’t have humor.

Der Postillon, Germany’s equivalent to The Onion, reporting on the election:

Is this the turning point? Trump wins important state New Michivada he just made up.

“Oh shit!”: Putin totally forgot to manipulate the US election.

Not that as well! Half-blind 100-year-old man who counts all the votes alone died of old age.

Experts uncertain if Trump wil win today or after the civil war

“If I can’t have it, nobody will” - Trump sets White House on fire

Europeans thank Americans for two days without any news about Corona

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I have always believed that Germans were funny, but like, in secret.

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Okay, but getting serious for a moment:

I know I’ve given you protest instructions and advice before.

This is absolutely one of those times to listen.

If you’re new, uninitiated, or considering going out for your First, be advised that you need to be careful.

And I’ve said this before:

LISTEN TO YOUR PROTEST LEADERS.

I cannot overemphasize that. The last protest I was at, a man pulled out a gun, an actual gun, and while I don’t think we were ever in any danger, the leader gave everyone an earful about antagonizing and escalation once we’d marched a safe distance down the street. At the end, they told us sternly that they knew how long it would take for someone to actually get to the point of shooting people, and that they could judge that because of their life experience. Odds are that your local protest leaders will have similar experience and awareness, and when it comes to that, it can literally mean the difference between life and death.

So if you do choose to protest or march this week, you. Listen. To. Your. Leaders. You move as a unit. You stay safe. You take care of yourself and then you take care of the person next to you.

Pack water. Pack illumination. Pack light. And study up on basic first aid, too.

Fortune favors the prepared.

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I’m proud of all of us. This was a TEAM EFFORT, and we DID IT. Everybody hit the showers.

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I looked this up and it is TRUE, Bye Bye Bye has reached number 86 on the charts as of the evening of November 7th. Other top 200 hits include Talkin’ About a Revolution by Tracy Chapman, Georgia On My Mind by Ray Charles, and Fuck You Goodbye by The Kid Laroi.

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Reblogging this again to add that in addition to “Bye Bye Bye”, the following are also in the iTunes top 100 right now:

“Party in the USA” by Miley Cyrus

“Celebration” by Kool & the Gang

“Fuck Donald Trump” by dropz

“Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” by Steam

“We Are the Champions” by Queen

“Dancing in the Street” by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

“Y.M.C.A.” by the Village People (which is especially petty and hilarious because Trump used “Y.M.C.A.” as his campaign theme song)

“Philadelphia Freedom” by Elton John

“Hit the Road Jack” by Ray Charles

Absolutely outstanding work by the American people tonight.

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I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS REAL

#i am overjoyed

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(Photo credit @M_uh_lee) From David Wojnarowicz in 1988 to @Anna_Snackz in 2018.

“I don’t just want my death to be politicized, I want it to be weaponized” is on a whole other level.

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so women are supposed to grin and bear the books, the comics, the movies, the plays, the tv shows, the stories, the sci-fi, the translated ancient poems, the fucking millennia of men writing about their self inserts torturing women and it being declared as High Art by other men, we’re supposed to read it in our free time, study it in classrooms, include their styles in our own writing, accept their cultural influence as natural, watch it in the cinema, write about it, talk about it, accept it, aspire it, but men can’t tolerate three seconds of female wish fulfilment of a woman snapping the wrist of a creep without feeling personally kicked in the balls.

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This reminds me of something I observed in college while I was doing my honors thesis on women in modern horror films. I watched a LOT of horror during that time as part of my research, and sometimes that was done with my family around.

And my dad and brothers? Were deeply disturbed by the movie Jennifer’s Body. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it. These men who grew up on 70s slashers were legitimately shook by 90 minutes of Megan Fox eating a few teenage boys, mostly off-screen.

Similarly, my all-male reading panel for my thesis? Were so disturbed by my synopsis of the film Teeth that they couldn’t even talk about it. One of them said he couldn’t look at his wife for a week after reading it.

Again, grown-ass men who study and teach media for a living. Who definitely watch and enjoy horror movies. One of whom was a huge Tarantino buff. We watched and read worse in his intro to mass media class! But one movie about a girl whose vag could bite was enough to haunt him.

Then of course you have things like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, and, more recently, the griping from MRAs against the upcoming film Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients.

My conclusion? Most men–at least most straight, cisgender men, who are both my sample population and most of the ones whining that Carol is a “villain”–are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women (horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).

But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men, especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.

So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off? Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?

Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing. These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.

In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.

And they flinch every time.

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Here have a newspaper comic from 1993

NaNoWriMo 2020

Let’s end this year with something good, eh? Write some good stories. Make something we’re proud of.

#nanowrimo #nanowrimo 2020 #writing #writers of tumblr #writer

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you weren’t a “well behaved” child you had anxiety and were terrified of conflict

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Don’t leave out any hard of hearing children who come to your door this Halloween, take a minute out of your day to learn a few seasonal asl signs! These are two different variations of “Happy Halloween” Click here for my source.

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halloween is for everyone!!!!!!

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this is honestly the cutest thing ever 10/10 will do this year💗💗

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And here are the British Sign Language versions. (I love the BLS sign for Halloween. It’s so cute.)

Deaf inclusion for every holiday!

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Love this! I also posted a video the other day of different signs from about 90+ countries for “Happy Halloween” :)

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Two years ago, I had a Deaf girl show up in my drivethru on Halloween. Her mom was kind of sad when I tried to offer the girl candy, and you could tell it’d been a rough night. I asked her to get the girl’s attention, and then signed to her the way I learned from those top gifs. She started laughing and clapping her hands at once, and when I held out the bowl of candy she was DELIGHTED. I think there’s a very serious possibility I was the only person all night who was able to share with her that way.

It matters. Learn.