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so a racist got utterly demolished in less than 30 seconds on the New Zealand morning news on Monday and it’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen
who knew a white guy could be capable of such an iconic response, he knows what’s up and is having none of that shit, every other white guy take notes tbh
y’all: peter was able to stop bucky’s fist in civil war bc bucky heard peter’s voice, realized he was a child, then weakened his punch bc he was so worried about hurting a child uwu
me, eating pistachios: y’all know peter can canonically lift up to 75 tons, right. y’all know bucky’s fist is easy as hell for peter to block, right. y’all know bucky didn’t know shit about peter being a child and was just shocked that someone was able to so easily block his punch, right. y’all know that, right.
naw fuck that bucky’s punches aren’t easy to block, it’s WAY funnier if peter blocked a full force punch from bucky, who only a few seconds later realizes he’s a kid as soon as peter opens his mouth
that’s the face of a man who went from “holy shit he blocked my punch?” to “holY SHiT a 12 YEARoLD BLOCKED mY PUNCH???” in 3 seconds flat.
Next second is “i triED TO PUNCH A CHILD”
i physically can’t scroll past this post
oh to be a 19th century poet of romanticism spending time with her greatest friend, a man whom all assume she is to marry but is secretly having a passionate affair with her brother that she keeps quiet by pretending to be in love with him, yet is truly in love with the gardener's quiet son, spending hours in the garden listening to him speak of great literature and ideas
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Hey everybody! It’s October 8th, 2019 and the Supreme Court debates whether or not it should be legal for employers to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people. It should come as no surprise that, as a queer person, this is something that I’m passionate about, but also as someone who was fired for their sexuality.
In many states, a workplace doesn’t have to give you a reason when they fire you. This was the case at the zoo where I worked, briefly, in 2012. I had recently come out to my family and they were very accepting, and I thought that maybe the rest of the world wasn’t so bad.
So when my co-worker at the ticket booth asked me if I had a boyfriend, I said-
“No, but I have a girlfriend.”
Because after years of lying about who I was to strangers and trying to fit in, I was tired.
And I was fired the next day.
Every day my dad would joke with me when I came home: “Did they fire you yet?”
And that day, the answer was ‘yes.’ I think I cried for six hours.
I did find other jobs, because there are lots of jobs in the customer service industry. But I learned to keep myself hidden again, and that’s not right. The place I work at now doesn’t care if I’m gay as long as I get my work done, and it’s great. But the minute I outed myself at work there was a pause while I reasoned how fast I could get another job.
And even so- coming out is a process. I am constantly coming out again with every new person that joins the crew and wants to know about my family. Each time I do this, I have to make sure that there’s someone in the room that has my back- which isn’t always the case.
People learn, people grow, people get used to it. And now that I’m very good at what I do, I know that I’m not in danger of losing my job for talking about my life in the same way that cis-hets get to talk about theirs. (Though I still avoid talk of nonbinarism around them. Some steps are just too big for a lot of people.)
Let me make this clear:
I am VERY lucky.
I live in a city with a bursting LGBTQ+ community, where most people have worked with us in some capacity and have acclimated to the fact that we’re allowed to exist in the same space. When I was fired, I could go to my parents for moral support.
Not everyone has this. In fact, just half an hour away from where I live it is a whole lot worse. The majority of homeless people are trans people who lost their family support when they came out. I am very lucky.
At some point, religious rights are going to be brought up. It’s a fact of the matter- when LGBTQ+ rights are at stake, religion is going to be a factor. They will talk in hypotheticals, they will bring up scripture. Listen closely to what they say and how they say it. Those words are going to be repeated, whether the decision is in their favor or not. Arm yourselves with words.
So whatever the outcome of this debate, a debate which is frankly ridiculous to have in 2019, remember that this is a real problem affecting real people. It isn’t just a thought exercise or a morality simulation. It is embarrassing to have to debate your right to contribute to society, but here we are.
Hi, I just want to clarify for everyone reading this post that these aren’t just debates. SCOTUS doesn’t just waste their time to hear a debate. This is the presentation of arguments from each side to rule on this matter. Three cases are being ARGUED in front of the Supreme Court for a RULING. This is an official thing. I’m bisexual and non-binary and I understand the gravity of this situation but also I went to law school and we shouldn’t downplay this to just being a debate when it’s an actual official procedure in our justice system. This is a Supreme Court ruling that will change many lives in either capacity. Please pay attention to this matter today
Actually, this is a very important reblog.
some mini collections of tips for writers
(based on things that yours truly notices as an editor-in-training. This list is in no way complete, and will probably be added to as I continue to find repeated mistakes)
Dialogue
Use beats in your dialogue to break it up. Even “said” can make a very effective beat between lines.
(No beats: “It’s not lethal. Just highly dangerous with a good chance of being mutilated.” // Beats: “It’s not lethal,” he said. “Just highly dangerous with a good chance of being mutilated.”)
Note how the break allows a bit of a pause for ~dramatic effect
thinking of dialogue, use punctuation and distinct speech patterns! “Life, uh, finds a way.” is an iconic line anyway, but Jeff Goldblum’s signature verbal tic gives it character.
It’s okay if characters stutter. Don’t let the condemnation of stuttering characters as “cringey” in fanfic put you off. (and on that note, fuck cringe culture. Seriously. It saps all the fun out of creativity and fun is important.)
Start! A! New! Line! Whenever! Someone! New! Speaks!!
DO NOT FEAR THE WORD “SAID”
Setting & Blocking
Use the landscape and settings around your character, and always, always remember a scene’s blocking. Where is everything in relation to your characters? Have you left someone holding a coffee cup for the last three scenes? Did you lose a character somewhere along the way?
using the contents of a scene is also great for fight sequences.
Similarly, large character casts are hard to keep track of so don’t be afraid to break them up. Sending someone off somewhere else can create some nifty little subplots.
Keep a personal note of how time passes. Trust me, it’s incredibly helpful to you as a writer and also for future readers.
Characters
Character growth does not have to be positive. Sometimes characters fail or suffer or get their motivations twisted up, and they finish the book as a villain rather than a hero.
All that matters is that a character changes throughout the plot in a way that readers can see; the sort of change they go through is entirely up to you.
scrap the idea that someone has to deserve a redemption arc. They probably don’t deserve it, which is the whole point. So don’t be afraid to make your villains seem completely irredeemable.
and you don’t need to redeem your antagonists in order to make them complex, sympathetic villains, anyway. Sometimes people get so stuck in their beliefs that they can’t see another way and it goes too far. Not everyone comes back from that.
Also, motivations and goals can absolutely change. That’s okay. You just need to have something that drives your character so that your readers are rooting for them.
Protagonists don’t need to be heroic. How you define the protagonists and antagonists in your story is based entirely on the morality in your story-world, NOT the moral ideas in the real world. What counts as a complex protagonist in a world torn apart by biological warfare will be very different than one living in our world.
Prose & Grammar
simple prose is just fine and you don’t need to fluff it up for pretty quotes.
Remember to vary your sentence structures and length. Start smaller and build it up, drawing your reader’s attention.
“And” and “But” are very valid sentence starters that are great for communicating the tone of internal narrative. You’re allowed to tweak grammar if that’s helpful for telling the story, it just needs to be accessible. Test out what you’ve written on other people.
Check that your tenses are consistent!!
It’s often been remarked that Spider-Man’s schtick wouldn’t work nearly so well if he didn’t live in a town with so many tall buildings, but consider: how well would Batman’s “I am the night” routine work if he was operating out of a normal city where people actually live, rather than a perpetually twilit urban hellscape that looks like the Art Deco movement had a one-night stand with Soviet Brutalism in a wrought-iron-and-gargoyle factory?
That is my favorite description of the Batman aesthetic ever.
OMDFG that’s a perfect description.
Imagine Spiderman ballooning in wide open areas. No, sorry, can’t get to that crime, its against the prevailing wind.
Also, Batman brooding on top of a Wafflehouse.
Batman: God, this stupid city with its sufficient lighting and lack of crumbling infrastructure to shoot grappling hooks into
Superman: Everyone for miles has lead poisoning, I’ve spent the entire night stopping crossword puzzle museum robberies and heists at the Second National Bank of Gotham on the corner of second street and second avenue, and earlier the wall of…clouds? smog?…cleared up for a minute and I’m pretty sure the sky was literally blood red
I HATE METROPOLIS FUCK EVERYONE WHO LIVES THERE i’m not super into gotham IT IS THE WORST PLACE ON EARTH AND I HOPE IT BLOWS UPWHY DO THESE PEOPLE LIKE THE SUN SO MUCH it’s kinda gloomy a lil bit of a bummer WHY THE FUCK DOES CLARK WANNA DO THIS HOUSE SWAP THING i saw a reality tv show and i was like bruce we gotta try this
Oh my god, Bruce. Shut up. #batmanwhines
This is, like, the third time I’ve seen this but it never fails to make me laugh.
Favourite Comic Book Characters: Diana of Themyscira
the joker after committing atrocious crimes
AFDJDHJDJ IM CRYING
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THE SHEET IS MADE OUT OF WOOD TOO
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THAT IS MAHOGANY
I thought this was a joke until I read the description
WHAT HTE FCUK
Woah… that last sentence
the notes are broken 😂
Reblogging partly for awesome computer shortcuts, and partly because I wish to once again take part in a Post That Broke The Notes.
Life would be so much better if we were all just nicer to those around us
Like it shouldn’t matter what someone’, gender identity or expression, sexuality, or race is. It shouldn’t matter whether they are conservative or liberal, if they like pretty pink dresses and makeup, or blue jeans and flannel or anything in between.
Let’s just try to be nicer. We can make the world a better place, not by screaming at people about our cause, but leading by example and showing the way the world could be. Even if someone doesn’t agree with you, that doesn’t give you any right to degrade them or make them feel bad about themselves, because that does more harm than good. Let’s just have each other’s backs, and be better friends, and then maybe one day, we can build a world where we can be anything we want to be, regardless of race, color, gender, sexuality, class, etc;
Just smile at someone, say thank you when you order your lunch, treat the people around you how you want to be treated. Make the world just a tiny bit better, by showing people some basic kindness and decency.
idk man just be a decent human being, and maybe things will work out
~sorry for the rant it’s just…. people kinda suck, and I needed to get it out of my system~
character development ms marvel (2014) #1, #19, (2016) #4, #9, #16
a whole generation of muslim and brown kids will grow up with kamala khan and will look upto her. marvel please don't fuck her up.
can you imagine little brown girls growing up with a superhero who looks like them!? I need a moment-
Little brown girls dressing up as Ms Marvel for Halloween
Little brown girls firmly believing that if Kamala can, then they can be superheros too
Little brown girls carrying ms marvel merch around and proudly proclaiming she's their favourite character ever
Little brown girls learning to take pride in their culture the way kamala does in hers
Little brown girls having a legitimate role model to look up to and grow alongside
Little brown girls and Kamala Khan
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not parkner but FUCK this hits me right where i live
i didn’t know ms marvel is brown
i’m a brown girl born and raised in a small town in ireland. i don’t give one single fuck about statistics, i’m speaking from experience when i say EVERYONE AROUND ME AT ALL TIMES WAS WHITE. ALWAYS.
and then i would look in the mirror and wonder why i didn’t look like them
i remember once at a sleepover, i couldn’t have been older than ten, i told my friend a secret. that i wished i was white. i didn’t even realise how messed up that was until YEARS later when people like jameela jamil and naomi scott and ..... that’s kind of it ..... appeared in the mainstream media (don’t get me wrong i’m sure there are more than two brown girls in the media but like.. the fact that i can only name two off the top of my head should say something)
i found myself watching old fair&lovely ads on youtube and wishing i could try it (it’s a face lightening cream popular in south asia where light skin is seen as desirable and darker skinned women are encouraged to use bleach and other harmful methods of skin lightening sometimes even as children to look more western)
i never grew up with people like me in the media, and hearing about what’s happening with the little mermaid reboot made me so happy but fuck this just hits different
a whole generation of girls are gonna grow up with a strong proud brown woman that they can look up to and dress up as and everything and fuck i’m just so happy they’re not gonna go through the same shit as i did
when i was younger i thought that brown girls weren’t allowed to be the heroines in a movie because we weren’t white
when i was younger i wished that i was light skinned, blue eyed, and blonde because that was the best you could be
when i was younger (as young as nine years old) i remember my mom telling me to put on fair and lovely because it would make me lighter
when i was younger i remember being told to stay inside instead of having fun with everyone else so i wouldn’t get tan
when i was younger my relatives used to fawn over me because, to quote, “she has the loveliest pale skin”
when i was younger i remember looking at my dark skin, dark hair, and bland brown eyes and hating them
now that i’m older, i see a heroine, just like me, just like my younger sister, just like millions of girls told that their worth was as much as the lightness of their skin and how daintily they acted. i see a bold, unapologetic hero, and it feels so good
not to take away from any of your stories but dAMN this hits hard. i've never felt like a majority population was of my colour and it honestly hit so hard with everything going on around me and in the world at large - and for the longest time i felt that brown and black girls would never get to speak up, we'd never have mainstream media repping, we'd never be able to feel stronger than we were right then (not v strong). marvel is really taking a huge step forward in introducing not only a muslim (sorry i'm not fully sure if she is) but also a dark-skinned superhero with the same name (marvel!) as a white character and also the name of a multi-billion dollar company. if this isn't representation, i don't know what is. i don't want to have another generation of brown and black girls growing up thinking it's unfair to be anything other than white - and thinking that blonde with blue eyes or brunette with brown eyes is the ideal norm. i want them to look up to brown, strong muslim women, lead POCs, women with dark, jet-black hair like theirs and feel proud. proud that their culture and heritage and skin colour means something. it's about damn time we raise a generation free from the plagues and worries of a lack of representation or being discriminated against because their skin colour was a tad bit too dark.
p.s. this does not, in ANY way, denounce my white friends. i love you all very much, and none of you are xenophobes or bad people. i'm sorry if i went a little overboard - i sincerely love you guys, regardless of your skin colour but purely for the amazing, big and beautiful hearts you guys have inside of you. i love you all.
xo, april ❤
Kamala khan was the first time I ever saw someone that looked like me in comics and pop culture and I remember after reading the first comic feeling actually seen, because she’s also Muslim and she’s not painted in a way where were seen as bad and evil people is amazing and beautiful. So thank you kamala khan for helping me feel less invisible.❤️❤️❤️❤️
Remy from Rattatoullie says gay rights!
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