#she-ro

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Cover Girls

[Reposted from my Apple Journal, Friday October 17th at 01:58 pm]

Respectively the solo She-ro books of the late seventies and early eighties were abysmal. No shade, just tea. I am not even mentioning She-Hulk's first run because there was nothing salvageable from that title, even the covers sucked. But Jessica Drew and Alison Blaire had the A-Team on their covers. I have filled in my collection with Dazzler books I should have never bought except for the fact that the artwork was doing its job and pulled me in by the cover.

You may not judge books by their covers, but we do it all the time with comic books. Hot cover you're thinking it's going to be good inside. Particularly now that I am trying to fill things in, and not actively buying. One way to avoid the glitz and glam of a shiny new cover is to actually take a peek inside, most comic book shops expect that, because they know of the industries long habit of over-selling a book with sometimes even utilizing a different artist for the cover than the insides. Gil Kane did that a lot for DC making middling books look palatable. John Byrne did that across many Marvel books, his understanding of perspective and negative space made him a great artist to step in to spruce up a cover.

Curiously I still have a lot of love for both Ms. Blaire and Ms. Drew even though they continually disappointed me when I got down to the actual reading of their books. But I still tip my hat to them both, because being a lady at this time in the comic books who wasn't overly-sexualized or constantly busting out of her clothes, sorry Ms. Walters, was hard. And the publishers tried all the tricks in the book to sell women as being able to carry books by themselves, no man necessary.

Spider-Woman ran for a nice solid fifty issues before being cancelled. Dazzler for forty-two, She-Hulk twenty-five issues and Ms. Marvel twenty-three issues. You think I am lying but the two with the best covers had the longest runs. It's such a simple trick and still so effective, why do you think variant covers are even a thing? In my opinion if you had a Bill Sienkiewicz, cover you were golden. He came in and not only did covers for The New Mutants, but some of the key stories of their one hundred book run. Sienkiewicz did both SW and Daz favors and created some of their most iconic covers, but that had a lot to do with his own brilliance which I truly think was ahead of its time.

Today, I follow Tumblr blogs dedicated to cover art, it's part of the tool I use to get my nephew, the new generation interested in different books. Curiously we continue to judge the books by their covers, and sometimes it pays off, and sometimes it doesn't, thats just how it be.

[Images grabbed off the Interwebs]

[swift-aesthetics]

“Never let anyone’s words to make up for their behaviour“ - Lisa Nichols

(my favourite quote)

These 3 Sentences Will Change Your Life | Lisa Nichols

[piekhana]

Juli Briskman

[revolutionarykoolaid]

I take it anon was turned off? Eek. Ok. Is it wrong of me that one of the reasons why I want to succeed in college & go to an Ivy League for my post-grad is to prove to my ex-husband (who sexually assaulted and raped me) & his punk-ass idiotic friends (who I thought were my friends at the time, who just stood by when I tried to find help in them & abandoned me when I left) that not only am I better than them, but that I refuse to have their taint influence my future? That they are less than me?

Confused about the anon thing... did I post something that I shouldn't have?

I can't fault you for using what you've been though to motivate yourself to greater heights. At the end of the day though, you gotta be willing to do it first and foremost for yourself. You're the keeper of the future. They were assholes for ever trying to assert themselves over you and your life. We've never met, but I'm so proud of you for proving your haters wrong. Now keep proving yourself right by believing you're worth and capable of great things. 

¡¡¡¡¡GET DAT DEGREE GUUURRRLLLLL!!!!! 

[badjujumagumbo]

Multiple Sclerosis Communication

adapted from The Multiple Sclerosis Manifesto: Action to Take, Principles to Live By, written by Julie Stachowiak, Ph.D.

"I am tired.”

Saying the words “I am tired” isn’t really accurate. That is because the right words to describe exactly how I feel don’t seem to exist. I could use all the metaphors or comparisons to something you might have felt in the past (jet lag with a hangover, a heavy wet blanket over my head), but really, they fall short. Attempts to put words to it might come across to you as overly dramatic, exaggerated, or maudlin—and knowing you thought that I was any of those things would only make me feel worse.

Let’s keep it at this: When I feel this way, my limitations define me in many ways. I am unable to think clearly, I am dizzy, I am nauseated. I cannot fake my way through this unique type of exhaustion. I am depleted, and these are the times that I have to admit, even to myself, that I am not entirely whole or healthy.

I am telling you this because I want you to know about this aspect of multiple sclerosis, which, unfortunately is also a part of me. This will not last forever. I will have times, hopefully soon, when I feel intact again. I will be more functional. Until then, I need acceptance. I know that this is also frustrating and scary to you, and you are not forgotten.

“I am sad/angry.”

I know all of it—I know that there are people that have it worse than me. I know that being angry or sad doesn’t help me get better, whatever that means. I know that it’s not considered healthy to wallow in negative feelings.

I also know that I don’t really care about all of that right now (and maybe don’t even believe it all). Multiple sclerosis has stolen something, many things, from me. I am angry and sad about the things I have lost (feeling good, thinking clearly, being able to plan from day to day, being “normal”) and the things that I have gained (physical pain, worry about getting worse, confusion, daily reminders that I am living with a chronic and unpredictable disease).

I am not blaming anyone for these feeling, although that would be easier. I am sorry if I lash out at you or turn away from you. I need to battle with these things right now. I will come back. I need patience more than anything, and a little space to finish this round of the fight.

I also know that you may be sad and angry, too. Let’s both try to remember that it’s the MS, and not us, that is the cause of these feelings.

“I just can’t right now.”

I want to, I really do. I would love to [fill in the blank] more than you know. I know it would be good for me to leave the house/be with people/have fun. I want to be like a “normal” person and make plans and keep them. I want little outings to be fun and not fill me with dread, wondering how bad I will feel and spending time strategizing how to make it through the situation or get out of it gracefully. I want to be the person who grabs her sweater or binoculars or sunglasses and says, “Come on! Let’s go! What are you waiting for?” as I beat you out the door.

But I just can’t right now. I’m sorry. Maybe next time. Ask me again, please.

[breathlesslee]

Love is an action. It’s not a feeling. And its not love until there’s evidence of action.

Lisa Ray (via http://blog.lisaraniray.com/)

[d-a-is-y]

The GC?

nope

First to guess my favorite T.V Show gets a promo 

[arissking]

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn't change what I decide to do. I don't choose projects so people don't see me as one thing or another. I choose projects that excite me. I think the problem is that people refuse to understand what drag is outside of their own belief system. // You are born naked. The rest is drag.

Rupaul (two of many of my favorite quotes by her)