Garage Kit Studios

My storage unit of ideas, images, & topics for inspiration

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Prince NaNa Dance | AEW Full Gear 2023 #shorts

Best entrance of the year!

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Best wrestling entrance of the year, hands down. Don't want to hear differently.

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Mandoob shines a thrilling light on the perils of surviving in Saudi Arabia’s gig economy

Director Ali Kalthami’s debut feature film, Mandoob, is a brilliant and thrilling exploration of life as a gig worker in Saudi Arabia.

Something to keep an eye on?

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It's my 10 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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It's my 10 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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Bruh! When a fandom becomes so toxic, it gate keeps who can be a villain. Remember when Finn couldn't have been a storm trooper because? C'mon! Get out of your feelings!

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Racial covenants, a relic of the past, are still on the books across the country

Racial covenants made it illegal for Black people to live in white neighborhoods. Now they're illegal, but you might still have one on your

"There's still racism very much alive and well in Prairie Village," Selders said about her tony bedroom community in Johnson County, Kan., the wealthiest county in a state where more than 85% of the population is white.

The racially restrictive covenant that Selders uncovered can be found on the books in nearly every state in the U.S., according to an examination by NPR, KPBS, St. Louis Public Radio, WBEZ and inewsource, a nonprofit investigative journalism site. Although the Supreme Court ruled the covenants unenforceable in 1948 and although the passage of the 1968 Fair Housing Act outlawed them, the hurtful, offensive language still exists — an ugly reminder of the country's racist past.

"I'd be surprised to find any city that did not have restrictive covenants," said LaDale Winling, a historian and expert on housing discrimination who teaches at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg."

Any fan of comics or movies will tell you, whenever you hear someone added or made a covenant, ...it is NOT a good thing.

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Working on a new idea for a comic book. Just doing the writing in this one.

Much like my work on Gravediggers Union, I like to figure out the whole story-arc and see if I’ve got something special before I bring it to an artist and pitch them on drawing it. I need to have the whole thing figured out in broad strokes. The story can change in the telling, but (at least right now) I need that detailed road map at first. Once I have that I really dig in to the characters and let them surprise me and push the story where they need it to go.

#writingcomics #writing https://www.instagram.com/p/CSwf-QZLhR-/?utm_medium=tumblr

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SONY Cassette Tape

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The Last Jedi let the past die—and pissed off a galaxy of fans in the process

Rian Johnson dared to make an anti-nostalgic Star Wars. The diehards were not pleased.

I wasn't a fan when I originally saw Last Jedi, but going back aware of what was attempted I do appreciate it. I will NEVER forgive for that last train wreck of Star Wars film though.

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Geocaching While Black: Outdoor Pastime Reveals Racism And Bias

One Black geocacher writes about harrowing encounters, such as being called "boy" and finding a cache hidden inside a flagpole flying the Co

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Guilty Gear Strive’s Vampire Samurai Says Black Lives Matter

Nagoriyuki is a badass, and now he shares a great political message

"There are all kinds of video game mods, but very rarely do they strive to make a political statement. Maybe that’s why I like this particular Guilty Gear Strive modification so much: It gives vampire badass Nagoriyuki an outfit that promotes the Black Lives Matter movement. Pretty minor as far as game mods go, but a great statement nonetheless.

The mod in question updates Nagoriyuki’s tenth outfit with a neat black-and-yellow color scheme, but the biggest change comes in the addition of the words “Black Lives Matter” to his knuckles and belt as well as “No Justice No Peace” emblazoned large on the back of his jacket. Its creator, a Guilty Gear player named Lingo Starr, wrote on Twitter that it took them two days to complete."

Yes please.

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Naomi Osaka Doesn't Owe More Than She Already Gives

Over the weekend fans, sportswriters, and Instagram mental health experts pontificated on Naomi Osaka’s decision to withdraw from the French Open, after organizers fined her $15,000 for putting her own mental well-being over press conferences with reporters asking her the same inane questions on an endless loop. Much of the argument was that these post-game interviews are part of Osaka’s job and, as such, she should simply do the job as any other person must do and be grateful. But when fans, owners, and reporters alike demand so much from athletes, they become something like commodities in the public eye.

“As a public figure, Osaka is aware that the media will cover her as they see fit—and when they do so abusively or irresponsibly, she is within her right as a person and as an influential athlete to set personal boundaries for the sake of her own mental health. After all, if the highest-paid female athlete of all time cannot blaze this trail, then who can? Certainly not the Williams sisters, who were abused by the press for years. The few times Serena Williams stood up for herself—like when she got angry that a ref and several outlets implied she was cheating in the 2018 US Open—she was branded as aggressive and compared unfavorably to her white counterparts. The primary thing Osaka is inheriting from Serena Williams, and the other Black and Asian players that came before her, is a toxic system that does more to dismantle a woman athlete of color than it does to serve her.“

Amen.

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“Good old Yutaka Nakamura 中村豊 https://t.co/sR4achC5Kz”

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“Good old Yutaka Nakamura 中村豊 https://t.co/sR4achC5Kz”

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Yasuke Is A Full-Circle Moment For Black Anime Fans

Watching the first episode of Yasuke, Netflix’s new fantastical animated show about the life of a Black samurai, I started to cry. I remembered how it felt to be a 16-year-old girl watching anime in the nighttime darkness of my living room. Watching Yasuke, with its titular Black character kicking ass to a soundtrack by musical producer Flying Lotus transported me back to that time, and it feels fucking amazing.

“Watching Yasuke feels like a full-circle moment to me too. Growing up, and even now as an adult, I never expected to see Black people in anime. I’m surprised and delighted when I do—provided it’s not a racist depiction. (I am looking at you, Sister Krone from The Promised Neverland. Yes, I know she’s a good character, but the way she’s drawn...yeah, nah I take issue.) Black characters in anime are rare, so whenever they show up, I hoard them like precious jewels. As I’ve gotten older, there seems to be more Black anime characters than ever before. And now, I’m getting shows made by Black people too. It’s like a Black anime character renaissance for which Yasuke is the crowning jewel.“

Thank you.  Finally!