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[afrorevolution]

[8figs-deactivated20150815]

with huge noses and over lined lips

[thawrah]

I JUST HAD TO CLOSE MY EYES FOR A SECOND AND LIKE……..DIGEST THIS WHA T THE HELL

[dynastylnoire]

You know why

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

clowns actually originated in egypt to entertain royalty- they wore weird masks and imitated gods.  there were also clowns in ancient china, greece, and italy. it wasn’t “black face and then switched to white face” like i saw in the notes– the clown white paint was invented in 1801. 

the big, red nose is associated with alcoholism/being drunk (heavy alcohol usage can lead to severe rosacea and swelling of the nose), because drunkards in ye olde times were seen as fun for the whole family. the overlined lips create an exaggerated smile). curly or big hair was seen as whimsical and fun, as was a lack of hair (if you look up ‘vintage clowns’, you’ll see their hair is puffed out to the sides or upwards. nowadays, people probably wear afros because they’re cheap, and don’t involve lots of styling. 

i am passionate about clowns

[atacoinside-deactivated20181205]

They are a terrifying breed of monster, and must be eradicated from the face of the earth, but it’s relieving to know they weren’t born from a place of racial prejudice.

[x-menunited]

[marxisforbros]

“There’s a cure?!” asked the girl that kills everything she touches.  “Hey shut up we’re perf” replied the girl that makes clouds. 

[theboylondon]

For real though. Storm has stopped an entire tsunami before. “Makes clouds my ass” she can conjure lightning and tornadoes and is revered as a god in her tribe. She literally changes atmospheric pressure and that’s how she flies. So fuck you. Storm is flawless.

[sun-spiral-deactivated20210109]

I think you missed the part where the GIRL WHO KILLS EVERYTHING SHE TOUCHES wants to NOT KILL EVERYTHING SHE TOUCHES and everyone dismisses her incredible misfortune just because the lady who is the AVATAR OF THE STORM won the fucking SUPERPOWER LOTTERY

[mangonetics]

“Finally, a cure for my chainsaw hands!” decreed Chainsaw-Hands Joe.

“There is no cure,” said Johnny Five-Dicks. “There’s nothing wrong with us.”

[holyromanhomo]

The last comment literally always cracks me up

[veronicaawakens]

The X-Men are an extremely good metaphor for oppressed minorities until they are suddenly an extremely terrible metaphor for oppressed minorities.

[davidmann95]

The scale on which the first reply misses the point literally never ceases to awe me.

[lyricwritesprose]

I gotta say, though, this is a place where the X-men are being a good metaphor for oppressed minorities.  Specifically, in this case, the disabled community.

“Yay, there’s a cure!” says the girl with depression.  “Cure for what, motherfucker, I’m not sick,” says the person with autism.

“Yay, there’s a cure!” I say, with my fibromyalgia and random bad pain days.  “Yes, because it’s easier to talk about eliminating us than talk about teaching sign language in school,” says the Deaf person.  “‘Cure’ is violent rhetoric.”

The problem is, of course, that a vast number of things have been aggregated under the label of “disability,” and many of them don’t even resemble each other.  Depression sucks in an objective fashion, whereas autism is just a way of being (which, like many ways of being, may suck at some times, and generally sucks worse when not accommodated).  Similar deal with chronic pain versus the Deaf community.  These things really should not be grouped together, but they are.  And since they are grouped so haphazardly, they will often be at cross-purposes.

It is ridiculous, in the X-men universe, to classify all “mutants” as one group.  You have ridiculously powerful people with little downside, you have powerful people with a major downside, you have people with very limited powers but few drawbacks, you have people with limited powers and massive drawbacks, and that’s not even getting into other divisions, like whether you look like a baseline human all the time, part of the time, or none of the time.  “Realistically,” if you can apply that word to a fantasy universe, Storm and Rogue belong to completely different minorities which should require completely different approaches.  But society has grouped them under one umbrella, or forced them to group themselves for self-protection, and thus you have conversations like the one above.

So it’s actually not a bad take.  Mind you, the X-men have had bad takes, and will do so again, and I’m skeptical about whether “powers” of any kind even work for a metaphor about minority representation—but this particular vignette has something useful to say.

[philosopherking1887]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is exactly what bothers me about purely social analyses of disability.

[renthebarbarian]

Maybe I’m talking out of my ass here, but maybe the most valid opinion of a person’s condition is their own since only they know how to it’s affected their life and maybe what’s good for the goose isn’t good for the gander after all.

(It’s worth noting that Storm can turn her powers on and off—Rogue can’t. For Storm, the idea of having her powers taken away is a matter of having her agency taken from her. For Rogue, it’s potentially the only occasion where she can have agency with her powers.)

[western-magical-girl-confessions]

“It baffles me that Mysticons never got more popular. The story, designs, and characters were great! We even had LGBT+ rep! It needs more love!”

[western-magical-girl-confessions]

“A lot of people complain that the magical girl series are too childish, but really often it is because the writers are restricted in what subjects they are allowed to cover. For example: In an interview with Mysticons’ creators, they mention that they were planning to let Arkayna die, but Nickelodeon didn’t allow them to. At this point, it’s honestly frustrating.”

[skull001]

What IMO are the most importat/innovative series of the mecha genre:

* Tetsujin 28

* Mazinger Z

* Getter Robo

* Gundam

* Macross

* Evangelion

[webtoon-confessions]

[stimmyvillainarchive]

it amazes me how people still think fiction doesn’t affect reality when about 90% of us ran like naruto without a second thought just because we saw him do it and thought it was cool

[stimmyvillainarchive]

this is going to be the only valid reply because that’s the reason I did it

[brunhiddensmusings]

for a more pertinent example- the creators of the original 70s ‘star trek’ created wrist communicators for plot purposes so crew on the ground could still communicate with crew on the spaceship because writing sometime in the early 80s a lot of actual scientists realized that sounded really cool and actually doable so lets create cellphones then later people who read ‘hitchhikers guide’ realized we had 80% of what the hitchhikers guide was and made a kindle Agatha Christie wrote mystery novels so precice she accurately predicted methods of poisoning that had not even happened yet, and her works are still used today to teach people how to diagnose poisonings bot malign and accidental. heck her understanding of toxicology was so on point she proposed antidotes for poisons made from poisons with opposite effects, allowing patients to be stabilized after otherwise fatal doses lets not forget the OG himself HG Welles who pulled stuff out of his ass like submarines, cross-continent flight, space travel, eccetera and later people realized that his fever dreams were something you could actually do with enough math and engineering in the late 40s Frances Glessner Lee started making dollhouses that contained crime scenes, only partially a hobby she was creating fantasy mysteries to puzzle people as there was no specific solution to the crime scenes she created. these dollhouses are still used to train detectives today and are considered to be the birth of modern forensics, solving thousands of crimes hell, someone read the 1911 story ‘ Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle’, which was largely schlock and realized a gun that shoots electricity sounds pretty awesome so made the TAZER, and the E and R still stand for ‘electric rifle’ and thats not counting the uncounted human moments when someone decided to do or not do something based on childhood memories of movies that shaped their personality, decided to do something based on a song that inspired them, got the courage by remembering a well written superhero moment, or some part of their soul that asked what their favorite muppet would think about their actions

[stimmyvillainarchive]

nvm this is a valid response just intellectual

[spicyh0tramen]

art changes lives

[writing-prompt-s]

A depressed guy moves into a haunted house with 7 demons, each corresponding to a deadly sin. But, they’re all trying to help him get back on his feet; Pride helps with self confidence, Lust helps him get laid, etc.

[the-weaver-of-worlds]

I would watch the crap outta this like wow

[posingasme]

Envy: “Glut, back off the guy, okay?”

Gluttony: “I’m just saying he could stand to gain a few pounds! I made spaghetti!”

Sloth: “After we eat, it’s gonna be time for a nice nap. We’ve earned it!”

Pride: “Damn right we did!”

[thanatosdementor-deactivated201]

Just imagine the Catholic Church making a statement regarding this new tv show.

[wombatking]

Wrath does nothing but encourage him to punch assholes. 

“You deserve better! That was YOUR parking space!”

“He’s like three hundred pounds of muscle, Wrath.”

“And you are 165 pounds of RAGE!”

Wrath’s advice isn’t great, but he means well. 

[ladyananas]

Greed spends his days trying to help him manage his budget and put money on the side

“Bro check this out i’ve got the sickest retirement plan, technically it’s tax evasion i guess but fuck those guys, right?”

[bobbietables]

The Seven Deadly Friends.

[helpeverythingiscats]

The Seven Friendly Sins

[artbyg7]

I Made a thing about me

[bicaz-deactivated20201205]

please do not force an lgbt label onto anne frank. she died before she had the chance to explore her sexuality and if you need to think of her as lgbt to have empathy for her you need to reconsider how you think of holocaust victims. please do not vilify her father, a man who lost his entire family in the holocaust, for censoring the parts in anne’s diary where she expresses attraction for women. it was 1947. jewish girls were already seen as hypersexual. he was protecting her legacy as best he could, and you have no right to call him a villain for wanting what was period-typical best for his late daughter.

[progressivejudaism]

Non-Jews, please read and reblog.

[mag150cul-de-sac]

It is good to remember one part of her identity she was exploring, but that shouldn’t be the only part of her you can empathize with, and remember the time. 

[spooky-mormon-hell-dream]

SAY IT LOUDER

[theawkwardterrier]

Please, please, can we have more books about involved Jewish characters and Jewish communities that aren’t focused on a. the Holocaust, or b. ultraorthodox circles where everything is repressive and everyone is unhappy (even if they Just Don’t Know It)????

[shiraglassman]

We can always, always use more so this post isn’t intended to say the problem’s been solved, plus the reason books like that tend to get so much attention is that it’s convenient for the Christian/those-atheists-who-are-cuturally-Christian majority to signal boost only those stories. However, I have some recommendations for Jewish books I personally enjoyed that are great escapes from real life and worlds away from both of those topics!

Historical that won’t depress you Miss Jacobson’s Journey by Carola Dunn - Regency spy romance that is also a love triangle Promised Land by Rose Lerner - she fakes her own death and joins the American Revolution disguised as a man. He’s her husband who she runs into unexpectedly. Apparently second chances are hotter than first?? The Vanisher Variations by Libi Astaire - Regency England had a pretty hoppin’ Jewish community. Astaire writes ensemble-cast mysteries set in their midst, and this was the one I enjoyed the most but they’re all worth a look The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker - epic paranormal set in the immigrant communities of early 20th century NYC

Modern day that is Jewishness-positive The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli - YA m/f romance, background casual Jewishness of both leads Eight Kinky Nights by Xan West - f/f romance about two older women who’ve been best friends for 30 years finally getting together because one of them got divorced and the other one gives her kink lessons for Chanukah. A lot more focused on self-care and learning to respect your own needs and health than the fluffy title suggests, and also on queer community. Avi Cantor Has Six Months to Live by Sacha Lamb and also a short story called “Miss Me With That Gay Shit (Please Don’t)”, both of which are trans m/m YA. Don’t worry, Avi lives. The short story “Nailah” by Hannah Moskowitz in the Jewish YA collection It’s a Whole Spiel. One of my favorite short stories of all time, about a Jewish wlw teen dealing with an eating disorder and how Yom Kippur, of all things, helps her to make a step toward healing. I have chills just thinking about it.

Gratuitously mentioning my own books at the end bc why not Knit One Girl Two - contemporary f/f romance between an indie dyer and the wildlife painter whose art she’s using as inspiration for her next round of sock club Cinnamon Blade: Knife in Shining Armor - superhero f/f where both the title character and her best friend Captain Werewolf are Jewish; he’s more observant than she is and even has a bracha for werewolf transformation …and my Mangoverse series, which is high fantasy centered on queer Jewish women

[alyssumlovesthecosmere]

I recommend The Golem and the Jinni so hard

It’s so good oh my god

Also kind of has aspec rep? (don’t think it’s purposeful aspec rep though, but it’s still nice to read)

[shiraglassman]

I caught that too!

And I just wanted to add that SO MANY of the reblog additions to my reply were people squeeing about that one specific book. Which is awesome :-D

[meirmakesstuff]

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik was deeply meaningful to me to read. Avi Cantor was extremely sweet. I of course enjoyed the Mangoverse (it’s fluff, but also deeply loving and the characters feel like people you could be friends with). There’s a short story floating around Tumblr called “How to Bury a Gentile” which is fantastic.

[shiraglassman]

Here’s “How to Bury a Gentile” https://aerialsquid.tumblr.com/post/181956448562/how-to-bury-a-gentile (it’s free)

[inansabre]

Corypheus isn`t as scary as the bears in the Hinterlands.

[unflavoredwaxedfloss20]

[pondwitch]

worlds tallest vampire

[pondwitch]

count everest

[goattgrrl]

mount dracula

[chaos-storm]

Wouldn’t mind if i do

[zachbiller]

[finalpam8000]

[moved-to-ofswordsandpens]

Me? Making niche Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper memes? In this 2019? It’s more likely than you think.

[moved-to-ofswordsandpens]

[herebeminis]

If you like Bumbleby or Korrasami or Bubbline...

You’d have probably liked MoonBoon (aka Zarya Moonwolf x Kitty Boon from Mysticons).

I know I’ve ranted about this before and it’s too late: Mysticons has already ended but how can you not see this gay disaster and want to know more:

And she’s in love with this pink pirate:

Sadly, the show was screwed over by the network and sponsors wouldn’t let the two have the kiss they deserved but we *did* get a confession of love that’s clearly romantic and the writer confirmed they are canon, so there’s that.

Plus this is just a small part of the larger story of dragons and evil liches and such that make up the story of the Mysticons. Yeah, the animation is a bit wonky at times but the show has real heart and excellent writing. 

Not a bad way to kill time in the RWBY hiatus, if I do so say so myself.