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mjwatson

bucky has a disability??

he doesn’t have an arm.

socialistexan

“I don’t want politics in my comics,” is a stance I will never understand.

Superhero comics have ALWAYS been political.

Captain America was the creation of two Jewish men, and they had him beat the shit out of Hitler.

The rash of killings of Civil Rights leaders in the 60’s and 70’s (particularly MLK) led to Luke Cage, a black man with unbreakable skin, being created.

The X-Men have ALWAYS reflected the current political times, whether it was the origins in the beginning of the Civil Rights Era, to the reflection of LGBTQA rights during the AIDS crisis with the Legacy Virus.

Superheros have always been political. There were no “good old days before teh EssJays ruined it with politics,” because politics have always gone with comics.

ryukokei

Batman refuses to use guns because that’s how his parents died?

Superman is a literal alien refugee accepted by a small town Kansas family.

lotthirtyseven

I know I just reblogged this, but let me add. Joe Simon and jack Kirby had captain America punching out Hitler on a cover… Before world war 2 started. They saw what Hitler was doing, and decided that the embodiment of the American spirit at the time would be opposed. This caused disquiet in America among nazi supporters (yes, there were American nazi supporters, and there were many) to the point where the men received so many death threats that the mayor of new York himself hired private security for the two men.

Comics have always been political. Comics have always found a way to say something, even if people like nazi supporters, Wertham, and fox news tries to keep them down. Stan lee insisted on publishing spider-man stories dealing with drug use, even if they couldn’t be printed with the comics code certificate (meaning not sold at news stands). Wonder woman has always been a feminist icon. Superman has always been a refugee. Captain America has always been unapologetically political. Nothing has changed.

kryptonians

there is literally a Superman radio serial that systematically depowered the Ku Klux Klan by exposing their rituals when a man who infiltrated him was stonewalled by the local police

story here

another source

radio serial here (16 parts)

onlytwitterpics

ygsolis

moxie-moth

Sweater rat says Happy Holidays!

bloody-teeth

Are you fucking with me rn omg I’m dead

me: *accidentally reveals something personal while joking*

friend: dude that's dark are you okay?

me: whoops Sharing Time™ is over, come back next week!

protomagicalgirl-deactivated201

This is my first time in musical theatre pit and i

tchalia

rinsachi

steve: [does something illegal]

steve: [gets called out for it]

steve: ok but TECHNICALLY..,

stevebuckythyla

Actual Slytherin Steve Rogers

artemisfowls

your work has been a gift to mankind

s00nstuck023

the Irish word for Santa Claus literally translates to “daddy december” and I don’t know how to feel about that

sherryfrajer

great now i have to kinkshame ALL of IRELAND

inkskinned

humanity did a lot of things wrong but at least we got libraries, museums, and coffee shops right

shisusan

mitts get the fuck down from there and stop trying to eat the tree

thursday

theaveragemo

So my roommate and I got these Rudolph Christmas coloring books a couple of weeks back. Since it’s finals week, I wanted to ease my mind into studying by coloring. First time opening the book and I saw this picture..

And I thought to myself

Oh my god do I try.

theaveragemo

I swear to god if I get tumblr famous over this stinkin Heman the meme nose reindeer.

nietzschean-smile

Heman the meme nosed reindeer.

manicpixieshitpost

IM CRYIN

soshesawildflowerxo-deactivated

Shoutout to the bald eagle, named Uncle Sam, that attacked Donald Trump during a photoshoot.

Talk about symbolic. Give that eagle a medal.

cryingalonewithfrankenstein

This photo always cheers me up a bit. It’s a front-page article from 1955 about Christine Jorgensen, one of the first women to have sex-reassignment surgery.

Since the text is a bit small and I couldn’t find a larger copy, here’s what the small blurb says:

A World of a Difference

George W. Jorgensen, Jr., son of a Bronx carpenter, served in the Army for two years and was given honorable discharge in 1946. Now George is no more. After six operations, Jorgensen’s sex has been changed and today she is a striking woman, working as a photographer in Denmark. Parents were informed of the big change in a letter Christine (that’s her new name) sent to them recently.

This article is 58 years old, and it’s more respectful of Christine’s pronoun choices and name than some publications are today. It makes me happy to see a newspaper be respectful of a trans person’s choice of name and pronouns like that :3

wherehavalltheflowersgone

If someone from literally one of the most intolerant decades in recent history can respectfully write about trans women current journalists have no excuse.