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Maki Naro @ The Nib

melgillman

Here’s the new 24 hour comic I drew this year! This one is called THE KING’S FOREST. cw: blood, violence

rayj4ck

How the fuck did you make that last panel say so many things without using any words at all that’s so fucking cool.

therkalexander

I’m not sure whether I should laugh or cry.

Is OP aware that oh so many books exist on this subject?

And that almost universally the ones authored by people with doctorates in classicism and mythology disagree with OP?

Including the… epic hymn that first told this story? You know what’s in that original source material… right?

Abducted, yes. Demeter mourned? Definitely. Rape, no.

So here’s some info on Ancient Greek wedding traditions which (oh my stars and garters!!) included abducting the bride. With the father’s permission, which Hades got before he took her away.

Here’s a whole book on the subject of Ancient Greek wedding custom and its conflation with funeral rites. (Which sounds a bit like Hades and Persephone to anyone who’s ever dabbled in things like explication and context)

Here’s a link to another book that talks about Persephone’s rise to power as a result of her willingly eating the pomegranate seeds.

Oh shit!!

Here’s a whole bunch of myths and hymns that talk about her Queen of the Underworld badassery!!

Holy pug tacos Batman!!

Here’s another book about the myth focusing on the seasonal religious and liminal rites. WHICH TAKE PLACE IN THE DRY SUMMER (not the fucking winter), which you know if you read a book.Way to go, OP!

All these fucking books! What could anyone possibly do with them all?!?!?!?! Do you eat books to absorb their powers instead of read them?

A better guess would be that you got into a moral panic over the name of a certain Renaissance statue and maybe after reading three pages of Edith Hamilton or the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article. And then used that to castigate and demean not only the people who actually take their limited time to create gorgeous art but also to denigrate modern day worshippers of Persephone and Hades?

Maybe next time, you stringy piece of over-boiled okra, you might want to take your own advice and pick up a book, instead of reducing the feared and respected Queen of the Underworld who held power equal to or in many interpretations GREATER than her husband into a meaningless pastiche of female disenfranchisement that you seemingly plucked from your own ass.

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JESUS CHRIST THANK YOU

oftaggrivated-deactivated201910

I don’t often reblog posts of people getting owned, but when I do…

luxlustravi-blog

man the ancient greeks didn’t dare to speak persephone’s name she was that powerful and venerated (they called her Kore, “the maiden”), hades didn’t get that honour

bunjanecrocker

Rebagel for those book links, I find the Persephone and Hades stuff on here fascinating and I want to research it more

secondgenerationimmigrant

Book links, owning and the sheer badassery that is Persephone.

reblog forever

honorthegods

Reblogging for the links until this misapprehension finally ceases.

See also: Seduction and Rape in Greek Myth and Predatory Goddesses, both by classicist Mary Lefkowicz.

EDIT: Finally put together a bibliography of scholarly works about Hades and Persephone with the help of @coloricioso to help refute these old, tired accusations: https://honorthegods.tumblr.com/post/174794576611/honorthegods-hades-and-persephone-side

powerpuff-save-the-day

Powerpuff Girls was actually a show about a group of small children crushing the patriarchy and no one will convince me otherwise

loosescrewslefty

Anyone who tries to convince you otherwise obviously wasn’t watching the same show.

wessasaurus-rex

reasons why i love this show so much

broadwaytheanimatedseries

I love that the most tiny feminine delicate sweetheart of the three does the traditionaly masculine chores. Kinda makes me wanna see a teen Bubbles change a tire in a pretty dress and hair bow.

kittilumpo

honestly i think my fav part of this gifset is the fact that those last two are probably supposed to be Their Chores but only Bubbles is doing them like that is peak sibling energy, flawless execution

socialistexan

Didn’t PPG have a villain that was specifically meant to mock feminists as man haters that use feminism to harm others?

pretz3l-log1c

They did and if you watch the whole episode you see the PPG get tricked into letting the villain committ crime out of female solidarity.

Then several women step in to talk to the PPG about how the villain is using feminism as a scapegoat to get away with toxic and criminal behavior. And how what the villain is doing isnt actually feminist at all.

Like that episode was very good about addressing toxic behaivor from people who are supposedly woke or whatever.

An episode a lot of Tumblr should watch given the rampant radfem and terf ideology that gets spread on here.

youneedjesus01

in conclusion

stan powerpuff girls for clear skin

nerdietalk

Probably the best gag of the season.

amiplayingright

tfw you just need your players to get to the damn quest already

ofstarsandvibranium

Listen, this show was fucking hilarious and the music was so catchy. I miss it.

pascalcampion

Wouldn’t it?

Blacklivesmatter.carrd.co

#pascalcampion

epic-sorcerer

This shook me to my core

thesillyhaley

This was so lovely.

But it’s worth mentioning that the second I saw the panel with the cop, my heart dropped, and it’s a shame that this is the initial reaction that I have towards cops interacting with POC

odinsblog

The fact that the notes are filled with non-Black people who suddenly got worried when they saw the cop ….. in an illustrated story.

Now try imagining how hard it is irl for Black mothers, and Black people in general. Each encounter with the police could end with our death, even if we did absolutely nothing wrong.

I think most of us deal with it—bc let’s face it, we have no other choice—but I’d be lying if I said that every single time I come into close proximity to the police, somewhere in the back of my mind there wasn’t always the thought: “what if …”

“what if today is the day” … “what if this cop had a bad morning” … “what if this cop doesn’t like black people” … “what if he thinks my phone is a gun” … “what if he thinks I’m acting suspicious” … “what if he needs to fill a quota” … “what if he mistakes me for some nondescript black man but I fit the description anyway” … “what if my car insurance payment didn’t go through and I don’t know about it” … “what if I have a taillight out” …. “what if he thinks I have a bad attitude” … “what if it was a rough day for me and I do have a bad attitude” … “what if there’s not even any cops around but a white person thinks I look out of place” … what if what if what if

Obviously I cannot speak for everyone who is Black, but these thoughts flash through my mind every single time I see a cop. Every time. Maybe it only takes a microsecond, but it’s always there. Always.

LOL. I know we may make it look easy. But yeah, it’s still there.

And even though I’m very healthy and I manage to … adapt(?) to those fears, I figure that kind of constant on/off stress has gotta be taking some kind of toll on me, right? On Black people in general. It’s like perpetually unexpected games of Russian roulette. Or maybe like the Spanish Inquisition. (No one ever expects it).

Sometimes I wonder if white people understand the constant extra calculations that Black people are doing continuously as we’re out and about. Calculations for any contingency encounter with the police. Or with some white person who might call the police because they’ve mistaken my melancholy mood for “suspicious” behavior. Calculations that white people don’t ever need to do. At least, not because of simply being in the general proximity of the police.

Nice to see that some people “get” it.

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whitepeopletwitter

gahdamnpunk

ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾

knitmeapony

This post goes harder than any post has ever gone before.

buttholebuffet

The bde these ladies exude…. astounding 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

hofessorx

The woman in the orange shirt stands as one of the most powerful images I’ve ever seen

adhd-vibes

Does anyone else do that thing while reading where your eyes are like 3 lines ahead of where your brain is?

bluequestionmark

Do you mean skipping to the next paragraph and not being able to stop yourself from reading a few lines but then you have to go back to where you were before and try really hard to read in a linear fashion but it's boring now that you know what happens next? Yes

adhd-vibes

oh you are me.

caribbeaangal-deactivated201610

chai tea (tea tea)

naan bread (bread bread)

sharia law (law law)

17-leen

sahara desert (desert desert)

letmebecrystalqueer

lake tahoe (lake lake)

el camino way (the way way)

pendle hill (hill hill hill)

torukun1

soviet union (union union)

ulanji

mississippi river (big river river)

the los angeles angels (the the angels angels)

pawpels

hula dance (dance dance) dc comics (detective comics comics)

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shakira (shakira)

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GUYS READ ALL OF THIS PLEASE PLEASE PL--

pug-life01

avajpeg

the final update!!!

bemystarsandroses

THE ENDING GOT ME EMOTIONAL. THIS IS BEAUTIFUL

systlin

So yesterday up at the office building they had a big catered lunch, and when I was doing rounds there were two big aluminium pans in the cafeteria of dinner rolls (still warm, freshly made) with a sign on them saying “Free please take!”

So I did what any self-respecting bread-based life form would, and filled my coat pockets with as many of them as possible, because sweet free snacks. Honey wheat even, my fav!

And now my co workers are looking at me funny because I keep pulling dinner rolls out of my pockets and eating them, and going ‘How the fuck many of those do you have, and where are you getting them’

wireslide

You are living the dream. Free bread and confusing people.

systlin

And, most importantly, free bread

storm-cloud-dancer

As a kid a teacher foolishly tried to take my book from me in class, so I took out the one in my binder, got caught and taken, grabbed my back up’s back up book from my bag, again caught and taken, by now it’s funny I’m not even trying to hide my books anymore and stare her straight in the eye as I reach into my inner jacket pocket and bring out another, bigger book, I could do this all day

specsthespectraldragon

You’re the most valid motherfucker in this city.

systlin

Well fucking played.

weaver-z

Drain all of my blood and refill my veins with only this video

katkrow-deactivated20211029

The begininng is so misleading

madnesswithasideofsanity

Pete Wentz off the shits again

myvalzpival

@zraloci-cpr i expect this level of Feral™ on wednesday

everythingfox

A loving mother feeding her hungry children

forthegothicheroine

I’m sure the pig has every right to be there, but my husband keeps calling it The Imposter.

grumblebeeblog-deactivated20190

If he’s a hopeless husband, she will always make him dinner and never suggest that he look after his own children. If he doesnt understand where the line is when it comes to harassing women, what’s friendly and what’s creepy, then she’ll give him the benefit of the doubt when he harasses or assaults. If he messes up simple tasks like washing his clothes and cleaning the house enough, she will take over out of exhaustion. If he states that he doesnt understand her feelings often enough, she’ll stop asking him to consider them.

Men play stupid because they’re lazy and entitled. They know they cant be blamed for their own supposed lack of understanding. Stop calling them clueless, helpless and stupid and start calling them manipulative.

signal-failure

Also the wives/gfs in this scenario have to find the magical right communication style. If she tells him to put the leftovers in an appropriately-sized Tupperware, she’s a nag or a control freak. If she asks him to clean up after dinner, then, oops, he just didn’t know. How could a grown adult know any better than to put two oz. of leftovers in a 2 quart container? Repeat for grown adults who didn’t know that laundry bleach isn’t laundry soap, that plants need an appropriate amount of water, etc. and the nagging-wife archetype starts to seem more like a reasonable-human one.

I’m infuriated by the learned helplessness of men in responsible careers, who apply reason and problem solving just fine outside the kitchen.

beturbecky

Might be a lame addition, but talk to the guy in the relationship. Tell them what is the line. Tell them they need to ‘learn’ how to do things. Don’t do it for them, but have them learn on their own. Let them find out themselves if they actually have no idea how to do things (I’ve heard of men that actually have no idea how to do some domestic things). If they are still with their act of stupidity or ignore the line completely, they don’t deserve you.

puttingherinhistory

I remember in uni sitting next to two girls in class who were complaining to each other about how tired they were and didn’t have enough time to finish their homework because they had to do their boyfriend’s laundry and clean their boyfriend’s bathrooms for them because their boyfriends didn’t know how. One was only 18 and the other 19. This was only a few years ago. The other day at work one of the women I work with, who’s only 24, was complaining how part of the reason she was struggling to finish her master’s thesis was having to do all the cleaning all the time for her boyfriend and how tired she is from that. Another woman I work with, only 26, complained about how she hates that every day when she comes home from work and she’s all tired from work she still has to cook dinner because her boyfriend doesn’t know how, but when I pointed out how fucked that is she got defensive because hey at least he knows how to heat up a frozen pizza, because she taught him how to.

There’s tutorials for literally anything and everything on YouTube so these boys and men have no fucking excuse, I’ve accidentally ruined some of my favorite clothes too from learning the hard way how to do laundry, made some shitty food while learning how to cook and messed up the recipe or burned it, men can fucking go through with that too.