#decade: 2000s

[nocontextspiderman]

She-Hulk #4 (2004)

[eschergirls]

Birthday Post: My Favourite Supergirl

Since it's my birthday and I've had such a miserable year (and continue to struggle with health stuff and am having trouble getting the surgery I need :\) I decided to celebrate my birthday by not doing a normal Escher Girls post but posting my favourite Supergirl art of all time by Renato Guedes when he worked on 3 issues of Supergirl (vol. 5 #20-23) during that otherwise unfortunate run where she was often drawn like this.

It is also unfortunate that it had to be the issues during the infamous "Amazons Attack" mini-series disaster, but despite the fact that the actual storylines at the time were not great, his art is fantastic, and he's still my favourite artist to draw Supergirl. Like, she's still in the crop-top/mini-skirt outfit but he made it look really good, AND he gave her blue bike shorts so when she's falling and technically we can see under her skirt and her butt, it doesn't look gratuitous, nor does it look like the point of the scene is to see her boobs or butt. She looks strong and heroic and her torso has room for organs and her legs aren't 3 times the length of her body.

I remember the reaction at the time too (especially coming off the previous art of the other issues) was that DC had made Supergirl "fat" and "ugly" and it's kinda wild that this was considered fat and ugly in superhero comics land at the time.

Anyway, I just love it, and I wanted to share it on my birthday.

(Panels from Supergirl vol. 5 #20 (2007), DC Comics)

[vedettevixen]

Angell Conwell at the premiere of Baby Boy 2001.

[that-butch-archivist]

"The path I navigated to make sense of my sexual identity is not uniquely mine; it mirrors those of many femmes I have read about or personally know. In my efforts to assimilate into my newly chosen lesbian community, I cut my long hair, stashed my makeup under the sink, wore so-called sensible shoes, pushed my skirts to the back of my closet, and buried all my fishnets in a drawer. But this shift in presentation made me miserable. I like comfortable shoes as much as the next girl, but I also know that nothing compares to the way I feel when I slip on a pair of sky-high stilettos. And though I love the utility of my overalls, I don't feel like my most authentic, powerful, genuine self unless I'm in some tight jeans or a fabulous skirt.

[...] I don't feel that external accoutrements are the sole, or even primary, aspects that compromise femininity or femme identity; that's a classist and wildly stunted viewpoint. I do, however, feel they are a crucial element of the theater of feminine gender; they are part of the process of creating and crafting a visible and recognizably gendered self. Similarly, for me, items such as clothes, heels, and makeup are what I love and and enjoy, and as a result, they bring me pleasure, an increased sense of self, and a feeling of empowerment.

While second-wave feminists such as Betty Friedan widely argued that femininity and its aforementioned trappings are disempowering, even oppressive, I vehemently disagree. Heels, manicured nails, and makeup are what I arm myself with when I meet the world; they are the armor that helps enable me to feel capable of making my way in a wildly unequal world. The unequivocal sense of power I derive from my femininity is significant because the world disempowers, silences, and oppresses those of us with feminine self-presentations; I feel this power even more strongly because I, as a femme, actively select my femininity rather than accept it as a natural or necessary corollary to my female biology.

The key to this sense of power is that I consciously choose to present myself in feminine ways. My femininity is my choice and construction; it is not a dutiful response or reaction to a social mandate that dictates that female equals feminine. [...] Through something as apparently simple as a bold nail color, I am reminded not to be complacent in my life and to work to effect the changes I want to see. This can be particularly helpful on days I experience as especially bleak; if and when I feel hopeless or powerless with the state of the world, I am comforted, however minimally, by my glossy nails or lips.

[...] Whereas some women experience femininity as gender conformity, it actually makes me feel less susceptible to homogenizing effects of socialization on gender and otherwise. I am not suggesting I am immune to the stifling ubiquity of norms; however, because it is something I have interrogated and crafted largely to my own specifications, femininity feels genuinely empowering."

- A selection from "Femme Is as Femme Does," an essay written by Brook Bolen for Visible: A Femmethology, Volume One. (Emphasis in bold is my own.)

Year of publication: 2009

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Goodies • 1, 2 Step • Thug Style • Hotline • Oh • Pick Up The Phone • Lookin' At You • Ooh Baby • Next To You • And I • Other Chicks • The Title • Goodies (feat. T.I. & Jazze Pha)

Have you listened to Goodies by Ciara (2004)?

Yes, the entire album!

Partially, some but not all songs

No, but familiar with it

Haven't heard of it before

Voting ended onOct 23, 2025

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[venusplanetofloveee]

This is how I imagine the placements in my astral chart if they were real people

[y2k-lore]

Founded in 1928, Motorola would achieve mainstream cultural success in 2004 with the release of the RAZR V3, which would go on to sell approximately 110 million units. The RAZR is perhaps the most iconic phone of the flip phone era.

By 2009 the company had largely failed to transition into the smartphone market. The mobile phone division of the company still exists although it is now much less popular.

[ellewantsrevenge]

eminem released the protest song white america in 2002, 10 months prior to the unlawful invasion of iraq by the US military where up to 2/3 of the iraqi people murdered were civilians