Remedy

oh.. hi? since you took the time to read my bio the basics are: my name is Remi my pronouns are Any (mixing preferred) or they/them if you'd like to keep it simple, I don't mind and I'm generally a nonconformist, one of those "can't make a choice" types, except for being strongly into intersectional feminism, anti-fascism, and anti-capitalism.. but that's not so controversial is it? anyway idk you but I'd be happy to get the chance (ty)

[tinysweetvoid]

[velvetvexations]

Weird Fantasy (1950) #18 written by Al Feldstein and drawn by Joe Orlando, with editor Bill Gaines

[velvetvexations]

So he said it can't be a Black. So I said, "For God's sakes, Judge Murphy, that's the whole point of the Goddamn story!" So he said, "No, it can't be a Black". Bill just called him up and raised the roof, and finally they said, "Well, you gotta take the perspiration off". I had the stars glistening in the perspiration on his Black skin. Bill said, "Fuck you", and he hung up.

Al Feldstein, Tales of Terror: The EC Companion

[iconuk01]

Just to add context for those not aware of the impact of this story.

The reason it was so important for narrative purposes, was that the plot concerns the visit of the Astronaut, in his completely opaque spacesuit, to a planet populated entirely by self-aware robots (originally from Earth) who have built their own society and are petitioning to be allowed to interact with Earth again as equals.

They have a democratic government and free choice of careers etc. as the orange robot serving as guide tells the Astronaut.

The Astronaut notices that there are two different types of robot on this world; the orange ones, who are in charge, gifted access to all information and facilities. and the blue robots, who are seen as more limited in function, have less access to information and resources, and are not allowed positions of power or as wide a choice of employment opportunities. Even transportation is segregated.

The Astronaut investigates further and discovers that the blue and orange robots are actually structurally identical, there is absolutely no difference between their potential or capabilities, and it is only because the orange robots are instructed by their Educator system to consider themselves superior, that the difference exists.

The Astronaut tells the robots they are not ready for re-alignment with Earth, until they come to terms with their own unfairness, and how Earth had had to deal with this issue themselves. When that time comes, the robots will be able to ally with Earth.

Then he leaves in his spaceship, and it's only in that one final panel that we see the Astronaut is black.

Not subtle, nor should it be, but for 1950 this was a breathtakingly powerful statement, perhaps the first of it's kind in the genre.

The black character was not a caricature, or comedy relief, he was a main character in his own right, a human who "simply" was black.

[assortedinsanities]

Ok, but this story is sadly revolutionary even now. That is not just a human who happens to be black, as far as every other character in this story is concerned this is the most important, maybe even the only human they ever see, who happens to be black.

As depressing as that is, but a black person just casually representing the entirety of humanity is a breathtakingly powerfull statement even today, a quarter of a century later.

[about-faces]

[anarchistmemedistro]

*a breathtakingly powerful statement even today, three quarters of a century later

[depsidase]

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[shock]

if fallout 76 really is a world where “every character is a real person” & there’s no NPCs im making it my civic duty to be like this lowly tavern barkeep and then once i’ve established enough of a rapport i’m going to nuke all of west virginia and it will be in character 

[b0gchamp-deactivated20230613]

someone help where’s the screenshot of some post somewhere about the mmo player who barkept for a longass time then fucked absolutely everyone over

[yessica-k]

This one?

[asteroidtroglodyte]

[myfairynuffstuff]

Erika Toliusis (b.1969) - Pacific Angel. 2022. Oil with palette knife on canvas.

[sunshinetheinspiration]

@teaboot

[teaboot]

Painted with a FUCKING PALETTE KNIFE?

[so-many-ocs]

no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood

[crabussy]

-> listening to a jaunty country style song -> hear the lyrics wrong -> pause. frown. go back a few seconds to relisten -> hears the same fucked up lyrics -> check the actual lyrics to see what it ACTUALLY says

-> oh!

[transfemme-shelterdog]

Same vibe as this country song:

[queer-as-city-folk]

Homophobic bigots get shit thrown at the stimboard

[aodhanjam]

[armengoldira]

The Panama Canal

[malinastharlock]

[xbeautifulxgarbage]

[jessss-ica]

if anyone needs me i’ll be alone in my tower

[oneheadtoanother]

[astriiformes]

Context for this is a German learning app I've been using but I really love the picture it paints outside of that. 9,951 genders.

[mommahoney]

Lying Liars

YES!

[gaeliclass]

Law to make it illegal to lie in elections passed in Senedd

Welsh parliament agrees law to outlaw lying in future Senedd election campaigns.

[katiedingo]

I had to check this wasn’t The Onion

[feedyourdeadnametothevoidfish]

‘capitalism works’ factoid actually untrue. the 62 people who own half the world’s wealth are outliers and should be eaten.

[anarchistmemedistro]

62 8

[technofeudalism]

[g00burr]

Absolutely nuts how they made up a number for this satire post and the correction is that reality is *more absurd* than the number they chose

[anarchistmemedistro]

no it’s worse. 62 was correct in 2016 when the original post was made.

[garmbreak1]

The Richest 1% Own Almost Half the World’s Wealth & 9 Other Mind-Blowing Facts on Wealth Inequality

Millions are being pushed further into poverty while the wealthiest profit from a cost-of-living crisis.

81 now, apparently.

[andmaybegayer]

The 8 number is measuring a different thing, 8 is if you take the total wealth of the poorest 50% of people, 80-ish is if you take half the wealth of all people

The poorest half of the world has much, much less than half the world’s wealth. Still bad! Enormous wealth inequality tends to make for a shitty place to live.

[anarchistmemedistro]

this

[anarchistmemedistro]

this.

i was wrong.

stop reblogging the incorrect version.

[isuggesteatingtherich]

i have a way to correct those stats

[misogyny-affected]

does that fundamentalist woman with eight kids have a breeding kink, or does she not have access to birth control and the ability to tell her husband no?

does that trad wife have a submission kink or was she groomed from birth to believe she has no other choice in life?

is that woman embracing gender roles because she’s into it or are you sexualizing the abuse she faces?

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

have you guys been on the rest of the internet? because as bad as this, that shit is terrible.

tumblr is reduced harm internet.