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[powerandmagic]

Meet the Cartoonists Bringing You POWER & MAGIC This Fall!

Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology is bringing women of color, demigirls of color, and bigender people of color together to create 15 original stories with one thing in common: 

Queer witches of color as the leads.

Follow us here on Tumblr for progress updates, behind-the-scenes production work, and interviews with the creative team as we make our way to the official Kickstarter launch by summer’s end!

Without further ado, Power & Magic Press proudly presents the coven: 

AATMAJA PANDYA (Cartoonist: Travelogue, Baker’s Dozen, Chainmail Bikini: The Anthology of Women Gamers)

ANN XU (Cartoonist: 3 AM Anthology from Dandelion Wine Collective)

ARIANNE HOKOKI (Cartoonist)

COCO CANDELARIO (Cartoonist)

FYDBAC (Cartoonist: i.pity.mé, RAW: Hannibal/Will Fanthology from Bad Influence Press, Monster Anthology Volume 2: Demon Edition)

JEMMA SALUME (Cartoonist: Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard Volume 2 from Archaia, Broken Telephone)

JOAMETTE GIL (Cartoonist, Editor, Publisher: EverydayFeminism.com, Sweaty Palms, Dates: Queer Historical Fiction Comics from Margins Press)

JULIETTE G. DE M. MEDINA LOPEZ (Cartoonist)

MARIA LLORENS (Writer) & DEVAKI NEOGI (Artist: Curb Stomp from BOOM! Studios, Mumbai Confidential from Archaia)

MILDRED LOUIS (Writer: Agents of the Realm, Lil Poopy Superstar colorist for Oni Press) & MYISHA HAYNES (Artist: The Substitutes, Elements)

NAOMI FRANQUIZ (Cartoonist)

NATASHA L. BARREDO (Cartoonist)

NIVEDITA SEKAR (Cartoonist: Mermaid, Mehndi)

VERONICA AGARWAL (Cartoonist: Elements, Tiny Chef, and Magical Girl Problems, Magical Girl Solutions)

VEXINGLY YOURS (Cartoonist: Forgotten Roots)

[neuroflora]

!!! This looks like it’s gonna be gorgeous. Gotta remind myself to check out these creators.

[nighthill]

Emily Dickinson is an easy person to obsess over. Scholars have penned hundreds of thousands of words about her life. Archives rest in their respective institutions, bursting with paper scraps and scrawled missives. Her legend floats a ghost, the shy “Belle of Amherst” - an image which many a biographer (rightly) rages against.

Evidence of who she truly was lies in letters and in poems. Here and there, a told scene from her day. Gossip between acquaintances. Florid pleas wrought in metaphor. 

We can see her making custard pie with her mother (also named Emily). Her, writing at a window overlooking the graveyard or the common or the Evergreens. Her, talking philosophy late into the night with her brother Austin. She prunes roses, writes letters, presses and classifies flowers, bakes bread. 

She leaves scant evidence of her lovers, and of her illness. She clearly struggled with some chronic illness, but it is hard to say what. Something that affected her eyes, something that granted her exemption from social requirements. Something that made her feel like an “invalid.”

In a way she leaves a great deal of evidence! But all of it is packed into metaphors. Her poetry evokes deep feeling, and perhaps that is a more honest portrayal than the retelling of a scene. 

I think that my biggest challenge as biographer and storyteller will be pulling those scenes into something coherent and true. So there are lots of questions that arise. How closely do I integrate the poetry into the narrative? Which events can I  infer based on “what was most likely” to have happened? How much fabrication on my part is allowable in scenes with dialogue?

There’s plenty to figure out before I can get this off the ground, and I’ve been a bit paralyzed by that fear of being inaccurate. I think I’m finally reaching the point at which I must write in order to discover.                     

F466A (Emily Dickinson)

I dwell in Possibility - A fairer House than Prose - More numerous of Windows - Superior - for Doors -

Of Chambers as the Cedars - Impregnable of eye - And for an everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky -

Of Visitors - the fairest - For Occupation - This - The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise -    

           (illustration mine)

[nighthill]

Ernie the Chicken

[nighthill]

Visit Original Link

The Pope and the Sin of Environmental Degradation

Pope Francis has called environmental exploitation the sin of our time. He is working on an encyclical about humanity’s relationship with nature. Christiana Peppard, Assistant Professor of Theology, Science and Ethics at Fordham University and author of the book Just Water, discusses the Pope’s call to “care for God’s creation” with host Steve Curwood.

Aired on Living on Earth, July 18, 2014.

(photo: Flickr user Doug88888, CC Attribution 2.0 Generic)

[oldbookillustrations]

"I am," the stranger said, "the great poet Katogan."

J-J. Grandville, from Vie privée et publique des animaux (Public and Private Life of Animals), under the direction of P. J. Stahl, Paris, 1867.

(Source: archive.org)

[neuroflora]

The great poet!

[oldbookillustrations]

The swallow’s second letter.

J-J. Grandville, from Vie privée et publique des animaux (Public and Private Life of Animals), under the direction of P. J. Stahl, Paris, 1867.

(Source: archive.org)

[afriet]

dandelion to seed head

[neuroflora]

Ohhhhh

[childmagazine]

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini // Lindsay Lohan

[chinuplittlepup]

[benpaddon]

The phrase “words to live by” gets thrown around often these days, but these are absolutely words to live by.

[neuroflora]

True dat

[bonersoup3000]

Baby Crow.

*poof*

[neuroflora]

Can't stop giggling.

[4gifs]

[diamondot]

I can’t stop laughing.

[iguanamouth]

WHERE are they getting this stuff !!

By Lauren [tumblr]

[neuroflora]

D'aww

[nighthill]

The above video was used to measure activity in birds when pressure drops.

Birds, Bugs Do It, Stormy Weather Edition

A storm approaches, and the air pressure drops. Dogs hide in whatever adorably pitiable spot they can find, and people stock up on canned goods before settling in themselves. We focus on doing what it takes to keep ourselves and our families safe. But things aren’t so different for the birds and the beetles. Even without our modern methods of forecasting, these creatures predict and prepare for incoming storms… read on at Scope

Video from "Environment, behavior and physiology: do birds to barometric pressure to predict storms?" Breuner et al. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY  Vol. 216  DOI:10.1242/jeb.081067, FEB 2013. Reproduced with permission from JEB.

[tastefullyoffensive]

[mr-trombas]

The poor thing

[neuroflora]

I feel like this sometimes

[secondlina]

"Nope", the anime.

Based on that hilarious text post.

[diamondot]

I would so watch this.

[scientificvisuals-blog]

These are spermbots! Researchers in Germany mixed magnetic nanotubes with samples of bull sperm. Sperm would swim into the nanotubes and get trapped. Trapped sperm provided locomotion for the tube, and the tube let researchers control the sperm’s direction with magnets and to change speed with temperature change.

Source here. More info here.

[neuroflora]

RC sperm?!

[the-science-llama]

A decellularized ‘Ghost Organ’ The organ is just a connective tissue scaffold which can be reseeded with a patient’s own cells to regenerate it so it can be transplanted without fear of tissue rejection. Photo; Doris Taylor - Via Reddit 1, 2