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my r2 comic for hastilude oc tournament! the challenge was to make a comic about my OC mahaut defeating @teabagtoaster’s iagan in under 18 days with a 10pg limit!! it was super fun and i learnt a lot and love iagan with all my heart!!!! here’s to making comics together forever!!!!!!

oneheadtoanother

eliotheman

”This portrayal of a marginalized group was wrong then and is wrong now” and “This portrayal of a marginalized group was very progressive for the time period and paved the way for more representation while likely limited by factors outside of the creator’s control” are two statements that can and should ABSOLUTELY coexist and be kept in mind when interacting with older media

lemonylemus

Great example

uss-emberprise

‘I shouldn’t have eaten that last pilot’ GUILLERMO 😭😭

pmamtraveller

Hideaki Miyamura’s iridescent-glazed ceramics

asmrgaret

it’s weird that professional letters are supposed to start with “dear.” i don’t even call my mom that

asmrgaret

my darling hiring manager. my springtime rose. if hired i will bring a strong work ethic to this position

redstonedust

i think being proud of where you come from is one of those things that becomes fun the more specific you get. like "proud to be english" bad rancid vibes. makes you sound like the kind of person who rants about immigrants. "proud to be from yorkshire" better vibes. i cannot deny the yorkshire cultural heritage. "proud to be from pocklington" absolutely fucking hilarious please never let anybody kill your pocklington pride.

redstonedust

i love the USA: weird vibes. dont trust that.

i love muskegon michigan: you are experiencing a kind of personal joy that i can and will not take from you

negativesanchez

wizard-loving-wizard

what if it was all a lie. what if there was no revolution. what if you sacrificed yourself, going out in a glorious blaze of ruthless self-defense. what if you didn't mean to, but you were the cause of your sisters dying. what if you woke up from something you should not have survived and were suddenly saddled with the weight of that responsibility. of so many lives lost on all sides; good, evil, and innocent bystanders. the narrative heaped on your head – you are a hero, and you deserve to live. you were resurrected because you are a hero, a figurehead. you are this. you didn't ask and you don't get to choose – you are.

you are chee tan'ka and the only way out is through. you have to lean in. you stand up and tell the world you plotted the revolution, you planned a bloody revolt in order to free your people.

because how could the world ever believe that the revolution was just a wish for a little spot of green all along.

dogpuppy

mandywondering

I mean, in some very interesting Technically Correct ways, they didn't actually die? Now, they're very much no longer alive. But the forces involved are such that they didn't get any of the usual cellular processes of death, they simply went from biology to physics in less time than it takes a signal to travel down your optic nerve.

dietspam16

if you go from biology to physics without dying first you don’t go to heaven the uber driver went over this

dogpuppy

nineteenyearoldmeblog

im fucking crying

mossytops

BIG FAN of the web novel John Rich & the Big Picture (@okjohnrich). I was a huge fan of Check Please and to know that Ngozi Ukazu is still out here writing bangers is such a win. Read through all of the current chapters in a night! Just like Check Please, I'm going to be rushing to grab a physical copy once it's fully published. GO READ IT!!!!!!!!!!

gansey-like

hockey shit with ransom & holster shane and ilya

chirp, v. | to dispatch the competition with witticisms that lower esteem, assert dominance, and put benders in place. Quite simply—to talk smack.

hockey butt, n. | the totally rockin' medius, maximus, and minimus gluteal muscles that are resultant of hours of hard practice and gritty shifts on the ice. *Used to destroy enemies and attract mates.

celly, n. | the cathartic release of energy catalyzed by a goal. Characterized by ebullient noise-making and loosely choreographed motion. Often accompanied by hugs.

yardsards

but i stay silly! *←said in the most world-weary voice you ever did hear*

fizzlepop-frog

“but I stay silly!”

sensiblereblogifposts

Reblog you stay silly

weaselle

on it boss

tpwrtrmnky

Tbh I think the "but data centers are important infrastructure, not just AI" talking point misses that like

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

That is the problem.

rneliflua

ohnoitstbskyen

What it looks like to me is that these churns of outrage aren't actually about anything that these creators say or do, so much as they are a kind of reflexive action in response to literally any kind of friction. Like an angry infected rash flaring up with pain when it is brushed by a feather.

The show you like is telling a slightly different story than what you want? Friction is the same as pain so it is hurting me, AAAA!!! Your expectation of what was going to happen to that character you liked didn't pan out? Friction! Friction hurts! You're hurting me!!

But where the Disney Corporation can run a fucking angle grinder across the rash and barely provoke an "ow," indie creators (especially if they are not men), can get nearly run off the internet for things like factually answering a direct question or stating that the story they are writing has main characters.

There's a lot of misogyny in that, obviously, and in many awful flavors, but I think there's also mixed in there a very peculiar kind of consumer-brained entitlement. We expect that the big corporations will fuck us over every two seconds, and we expect to be utterly powerless to do anything about it because all they give a shit about is Line Go Up, but indie creators (especially if they are not men) are expected to be the balm to that infected rash. Where everything else in the world is painful and mean and uncomfortable, independent queer creators are expected to produce the comfortable swaddling bandage that dulls the pain and soothes the sensitivity. This is supposed to be our happy place, our safe place. It's supposed to be ours and belong to us and serve us.

And so they moment they produce friction, any friction, literally the tiniest amount of friction imaginable, well that's a failure! You are failing to live up to your purpose, and that's not just a creative failure but a moral and personal and spiritual failure too. It's a sin, in fact, it is a kind of evil. Friction hurts, and that means you are hurting me!

It creates this fucked up upside-down bizarro logic wherein the corpos and the companies can transgress to almost literally any degree, as much as they want, as often as they want, but queer independent creators (and I cannot stress this enough: especially if they are not men) have to walk tightrope on a razor wire and may God help their souls if they ever put a foot wrong. We will shake and shake and shake the towers until they each fall down; I didn't like that step I think you were taking, how dare you believe you deserve to be up there!