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the slow casual creep of misogyny back into every point of our lives both digital and physical is making me feel fucking insane
2010s feminism was extremely flawed and deserved to be criticized but do you remember when most people at least pretended to like women
i could not get myself to draw anything serious so have this i fucking guess. is this anything
Hey Look At This Comic: K6BD Chapter 5 Page 162
Kill Six Billion Demons! This is a pretty widely known webcomic so I won't go through too lengthy of an overview here. Over the top martial arts saga in a setting that's a bit anime, a bit wuxia, and a bit Wayne Barlowe. I'm not really going Hey Look At This Comic to draw your attention to something that I think is already pretty widely known, but to zero in on this one very recent page:
So what we've got is a page composition with a central square, bracketed at top and bottom by panels that take up their whole strip. It's a nice composition that opens with the swing of a giant flaming axe, and ends with the impact of a kick to the face of the story's hero Alison--not literally beginning and completing a single action, but completing a kind of action bracketing, an Initial and a Release to use Neil Cohn's terminology. Which leaves this big central stretch for a kind of notional peak, the climax of the comic.
Here's where it gets weird. Comics theory has tended toward a certain linearity of approach, moving across strips one panel after another. This page... does not do that. In fact there's not really a way, I don't think, to simply read through it once, or at least I don't think you're that likely to simply find the path on your first try. Here's my sense of how you might pass through the page:
Now, the speech bubbles do a pretty good job of leading through this whole sequence, though there's some ambiguity I think in where to start: with "why?" or with "you!" One is more to the left... but one is higher up on the page and in the path of the eye if you're sweeping from the bubble "Disappear!" over to the left. So I have to do some contextual reconstruction here of the actual speaking order, shuffling the speech bubbles around in my brain to follow the flow of the conversation. When I do, I see that we're actually bouncing back and forth in... a kind of conventional path, though an obscured one, going left to right in strips.
But this requires us to completely ignore the signals from the GUTTERS on the page, which suggest a very different action:
Which sees us reading through the same action twice. I think that's an intuitive way of understanding the panel language here, one continuous panel on the left and then a vertical arrangement of three on the right. And actually, it has its benefits: it turns the left side into a continuous series of movements, two swings and misses that prolong the action, and then the final peak action (a boot to the face). It's dynamic and exciting, and the lack of borders helps it to feel like a whole surge of action. Then on the right side, we have this great back and forth between our bondage battle nun and Alison, flipping back and forth between one and the other before culminating in the final panel where Alison is kicked down.
But that's pretty strange, right? Those are two reading orders that cover the exact same action. We can read it twice that way because it... appears twice on the page: once in zoomed out fluid action, and once in ultra close up, teeth-clenched, snarling fury. Even in the "correct" order, if we think of panels as time-in-space, it's clear something's gone very wrong: Alison takes a foot to the head in not one panel but two.
I've expressed before that I don't think confusing reading orders are a mistake, so much as an interesting place for the reader to engage with the work. And actually, I've shown off something like the time games here before, with the weird action/impact lag in Chainsaw Man, where the action can feel faster and more disturbingly inhuman because the reader has to reconstruct events after the fact. Comicker Abbadon here employs a kind of split screen effect, the action happening simultaneously in two vertical strips, which I think actually helps clarify both the action and emotion. Like, yeah, this composition invites or even demands multiple scans of the page and braiding between moments to articulate, and if you're coming from a school where action should be as frictionlessly legible for the reader as possible, that might read as an error.
But IS there a better way to make everything frictionlessly legible here? Both the combat that involves a meteoric fall and fight in midair, and the fury of the two characters, are significant to this moment, when a climactic battle turns decisively toward tragedy and ruin. If anything, the simultaneous panels permit us to better comprehend how everything comes catastrophically apart. (The next few pages are also laid out in a way that emphasizes the frozen horror of a series of further catastrophic blows for the story's heroes.) Abbadon underscores the significance of the moment by giving us all the information and inviting us--like Fujomoto--to stare at the ruin and piece back together how things got- this bad.
Of course, there's one other aspect to this that can't be overlooked: it's gorgeous, and cool as hell. This is a comic about taking gruesome world-shaking combat and making all its gore and horror aesthetically captivating. The sweep down the page, emphasizing our number 1 battle nun's drive to crush Alison, counterpoised with the kind of visual rhyme scheme of the right hand path, back and forth between the two characters, the bracketing of the action at the top and bottom, one movement following another... it's just great to look at! That's justification enough to halt the reader here and say hey, take a moment to really appreciate these muscular women wailing on each other.
I do appreciate it, Abbadon. I really, really do.
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everyone say thank you ancient central and south american agricultural heroes for beans
everyone say thank you ancient south american agricultural heroes for potato
everyone say thank you ancient mesoamerican agricultural heroes for maize
everyone say thank you to ancient central american agricultural heroes for chili peppers
everyone say thank you ancient central and south american agricultural heroes for chocolate
There's a post going around about the most recent person murdered by ICE, and I'm not reblogging it because there is some fucking sinister work happening in the reposts that I'd like y'all to keep an eye out for.
It goes like this:
Post 1: [example of state propaganda claiming the victim assaulted a woman]
Post 2, same poster: "and even if he had, that wouldn't justify what ICE did"
Post 3, new poster: "yeah, someone said he deserved it because [long list of heinous and improbable criminal allegations] and that's wrong! no one deserves it!"
Multiple major news outlets have reported that his only "criminal" record was a couple parking tickets. Not even FOX is saying what the last poster's saying. And yes, this fucking matters, because MAGA really needs normies to think this guy deserved to die. The easiest way is to spread damaging misinformation about him, and the easiest way to do that is to bury it in a post that affirms other things you agree with.
Maybe that poster's just repeating shit without verifying, but it feels really sketchy to me that someone would leap in with poison in a pill pocket. Be really, really careful reblogging unsourced claims, folks.
In general, spreading posts with reblogs that correct misinformation is one of the big ways that misinformation spreads, because repeating a lie makes that lie more prominent in people's minds, and therefore more believeable, even if you're only repeating it in order to refute it. This is called the Illusory Truth Effect.
Try to focus on and boost posts that state the truth with little or no reference to the lie. Repeating the truth, and only the truth, will make it stick better.
Correcting false claims often backfires. Here's how to fight back against false claims without spreading them further.
Heads up my trans and queer friends, do not participate in this study. Spread the word to stay away;
Skeet from Alejandra Caraballo that says: If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.
Original Post: Keith Porter was tragically taken from us by an off-duty ice agent, and his family is seeking justice during this difficult time. Every donation can help support their fight for truth and accountability. Please consider clicking the link below to contribute or share it with others who might want to help. Thank you for your support! https://gofund.me/530afb61e
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Advocates say that before Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off-duty ICE agent, he fired gunshots as part of a New Year's Eve celebrati
My 43-year-old son, Keith, was tragically killed on New Year's Eve in Northri… Keith Porter needs your support for Support for Keith’s Daugh
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the genocide of indigenous americans was so massive and brutal and rapid that the decrease in carbon dioxide production by the population of the earth shrinking that much that quickly caused a minor fucking ice age. you people have no fucking shame.
European settlement of the Americas killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate.
If you rightly have a violent opposition to the genocide of Palestinians and the settler-colonial project of the Zionist Entity, I expect you to keep that same energy for one of the largest ongoing genocidal settler projects* in human history. There is no "redemption" of the US, no amount of "progressive domestic politics" will ever erase the blood that bore this "nation." United States Delenda Est! 美国去死!!!
*(not only a vicious imperialist entity!)
Here's something from Margaret Killjoy. Not cropped to annoy those of you that loved cropped screengrabs. Also not cropped because I have better things to do and found all of this on Facebook, where someone other industrious soul copied it from Bluesky. If you haven't listened to Margaret Killjoy's podcast, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, I recommend it.
when the story got a weapon that requires self harm to wield
>it's self harm because all acts of violence are a form of self harm: 🙄🥱
>it's self harm because the weapon is an extension of you and the reckless way you use it reflects your self hatred: ☝️‼️
>it's self harm because the weapon doesn't want to be used for that purpose and forcing it to do so means fighting to subjugate its will to your own every step of the way:
No more trans discourse 2026. We finding new and better ways to transition. Mixing up penis potions that grow your T dick 5 more inches. The perfect combination of pills that grows boobs overnight. A new third hormone called Testrogen that turns you into a perfectly androgynous being.
In this image, we don’t see a “future” or “reconstruction.” We see Gaza displayed on screens as if it were an investment project, while its people are still without homes, without safety, and without the right to decide their own fate. They speak of a “New Gaza” in luxurious halls, while not all the dead have been buried and mothers’ tears have not yet dried.
Gaza is not land for sale, and it is not an idea on a presentation slide. Gaza is real people displaced families, children who were forced to grow up under bombardment, and homes that have turned into memories. You cannot build cities on top of human suffering, and you cannot skip over the pain as if it never happened.
If this world only listens to the language of money, then we ask you at the very least to listen to the language of humanity. Please help us. Share our story. Donate if you can, or simply raise your voice. Helping is not charity it is the bare minimum of justice for people being erased and then redesigned to suit others.
Fuck these bitches trying to further colonize Palestine. I'm even more determined to see a free Palestine. If you are too, consider a donation
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Please continue to help, continue to give... your participation is very important, remember that.
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"yo i love all my tgirls just as much as the next guy i just dont think they should ever be allowed to express gender euphoria or take pride in womanhood or find and build community because that hurts my boyfeelings :(((("
You Are Not The Centre Of The Universe By Virtue Of Being Transmasculine. extremely concerning, frankly
trans women constantly have their posts jumped on by men and are either masculinised or degendered and condescended to. you will see a post by trans women for trans women out in the wild and see it as a personal offence. do you also feel sick and gross when trans girls hold hands or kiss or just exist in public.
unbelievably fucking stupid
"leave them alone to figure themselves out" no I want trans women to be less lonely actually. why would leaving them alone be a good thing? it almost killed me.
"trans women need to be more lonely because I am experiencing discomfort" is a pretty horrific sentiment on a lot of levels
I get similar posts on instagram because insta thinks I'm a man or something and you know what I do? I deal with it. Sometimes I make a joke out of it. I'm not demanding that that type of post no longer get made.
This is what I mean when I say that tboys have thinner skin than tgirls for this sort of thing.
HEY.
HEY YALL.
USAMERICAN DEMOCRATS SUCCESSFULLY REMOVED EVERY ANTITRANS RIDER FROM EVERY FUNDING BILL
Spread the fucking word because LORD knows democrats fucking suck at spreading it themselves and will fail once again to inform their base
But just in case you’re sitting there going “the Dems aren’t doing anything,” THEY ARE
IT IS JUST SLOW
AND MOSTLY INVISIBLE
BUT THEY ARE
Haven't seen anyone talking about it here, but vocal transfeminist and writer Tara Knight has been sent a threat from the fbi insisting that she stop speaking about "radical gender ideology" and get rid of the past 3 years of her work.
A black trans woman is getting personally threatened by the fbi for being a transfeminist. What the fuck. Hopefully this gets more reach than my usual posts so that people who are able to can support her.
Here’s her latest post about it.
[Transcript: So as you all have likely heard I was forwarded a letter from the FBI informing me that my work and my platform and everything I’ve built over the past three years has to go, um, for propagating what they are calling ‘radical gender ideology’. Um, this comes from Trump Executive order, um basically saying I’m a propagandist for domestic… september eleventh… thing. Um, I would… I— I’ll just say, point blank, short period. I have no intentions of stopping anything. Maybe to my detriment but I’ve never been the smartest one. That’s— all I’m gonna say on this.]
Just as I was writing that transcript she posted this—
[Transcript: So I was told and informed that it’s probably in my best interest to tell all of you where you can find me in the event that I get deleted because having a platform is probably the only thing that will keep… everything okay, if you will. So I will provide the links and ads to my TikTok, my Substack, my Bluesky, the like. You’ll be able to find me there in the event… y’know. Y’know.]
TikTok: @ bundleof.styx
Bluesky: @ bundleofstyxx.bsky.social
Substack: @ bundleofstyxx
Support Tara Knight
^ just putting this here along with the transcripts, please support her if you can
Tumblr removed the linked materials. Never stop sharing about Tara Knight.
Tumblr has started banning and suppressing my articles and work. This is really scary for me.
