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I'm currently between jobs, so I have opened up commissions while I wait to get a response on any of my applications. I'm taking two at a time, I need the money to feed my snakes, it'd be appreciated if it's spread around

#nyan does the arts #gryphon chatter #open commissions

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Some trans men on this website hate trans women so much that they will reblog from blatant TERFs just to get a piece of the benefitting from transmisogyny pie. Tell me again about how "we need to stop infighting" and "we're all faggots in the eyes of the state" and "TERFs hate us both." There is clear privilege within the trans community, and we won't get anywhere if we can't even address misogyny [and ableism, and racism] within our own spaces. There can't be any "trans unity/solidarity" unless we educate ourselves and speak up when we see intra-community bigotry

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Knocked up my workplace with my 40 hour long week and it gave birth to a beautiful baby paycheck

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wow it's soooo wacky and zany that a man is professionally benefiting from misogyny by being a man, including preferential treatment by other men such as his boss at work, that's just so unusual, what a crazy twist, so wholesome chungus allyship that a man treats another man better than women

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I think Tumblr in general would appreciate the newest back-of-bus advertising campaign in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand

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So-called "free thinkers" when a bus is traveling between Strathmore Park and Newtown:

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1 the she/her to it/its pipeline

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The Queen's Skill Surf Cannot Be Stopped.

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no you dont masaru

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Hello prev you've been peer reviewed. Your tags are way too interesting!!

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insane unsolicited notification i just got that took me way too long to realise was about the michael jackson movie and not a five nights at freddy's jumpscare

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benefits of using 10 different kinds of adblocking software and exclusively pirating media: you start to receive marketing from the creepypasta universe

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There Are Many Rumors Going Around.............

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

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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

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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 capbilities, and it is only because the orange are instucted 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.