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mazarbor

my comic for the next issue of @disquietcomics about frogs and empathy

mymodernmet

Playful Seniors Wear Organic Materials to Personify Nature

maxwellsilvermane-blog

Adorbs

art-nimals

Salvador Dalí, Head of Medusa, 1962

acm-writes

To help with the whole ‘secret identity’ thing, the heroes of Gotham will absolutely wear someone else’s costume to cover for them while out sick/injured or just plain out of the city. This has led to hilariously wild and conflicting images for each of the heroes. Is it gonna be growl-y Batman or the Batman willing to finish a conversation? Extra flippy Nightwing or the Nightwing with a killer roundhouse kick? Maybe you’ll get the Red Robin who offers way too many statistics as a criminal or the eerily silent Red Robin who people swear up and down is a girl, either way this RR is going to body slam a criminal into a wall. Or perhaps the super short but no less deadly Red Hood’ll pop up.

No one knows which version of a mask they are going to get and that is just incredibly stressful for Gotham’s underbelly.

2ndbluebird

I love the suit-sharing idea so much and it’s given me so many ideas.

-the most popular first choice for a replacement is Cass because everyone knows she’ll make them look super awesome.

-When Cass got sick everyone wanted to be Black Bat, but she named Harper as her successor. Bruce was like “Cassandra honey Black Bat can’t have blue hair for one night, there needs to be a bit of consistency,” so Cass went ahead and dyed her hair blue as well and Bruce almost had a heart attack.

-Once Dick was Red Hood and wasn’t used to the helmet’s more restricted visibility, and he somersaulted straight into wall. Tim found footage of it in a security camera, and the batkids have regular viewings of it in Wayne Manor’s theatre. Dick is on a mission to destroy every copy of the video.

-Bruce would be more open to the idea of his kids being Batman for a night if they didn’t have so much fun with it. They always do horrible over-the-top impersonations of his Batman voice. “Dick I swear to God,” “SWEAR TO ME!!!” He’s tried locking up his suits but just has so many of them, there’s always a spare somewhere in the cave.

-Damian hates the idea of someone else being Robin and won’t turn over his costume, but it’s no use because Dick, Jason, Tim, Steph and Duke already have their own old Robin costumes so anyone can just ask to borrow theirs.

-The batkids start betting their costumes on games nights. Dick is, of course, the reigning champion at Twister, and a standing rule is that if anyone can beat him they can be Nightwing for a month.

-For ages Barbara and Alfred politely refused to join in the costume swapping, but then one night, without any warning, Dick called Oracle and Alfred picked up.

-Some nights, because there was a lot of betting the day before, or just because some kids are lazy and pick up the nearest costume, everyone somehow ends up with someone else’s costume, and the coms is hell. “Red Robin.” “Yes?” “No Tim I mean the Red Robin tonight.” “Oh, yes that’s me?” “Steph I thought you were Nightwing.” “Nope that’s Damian.” “Then where the hell is Duke.” “I’m Red Hood dude, I’ve literally been patrolling with you the whole night.” “What, I thought that was Harper.” “No I’m Batgirl.” “What, I thought that was Jason???” “Only codenames on the coms, everyone.” “Bruce why would you want this to be more complicated.”

- “Damian you little shit.” “Brown you said very clearly that I could choose tonight’s Batgirl.” “I am not being replaced by Bat-Cow.”

captainxandis

this is a beautiful addition i’m screechign

out-there-on-the-maroon

“Or perhaps the super short but no less deadly Red Hood’ll pop up.”

I know this is serious but tiny Damien pretending to be Red Hood is making me laugh so hard.

jackthebard

Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.

sourcedumal

shuttersmiley

Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

foxsan-deactivated20140515

Isaac Asimov.

sim0nbaz-deactivated20170205

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

fancyeliza-deactivated20200804

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

cryptovalid

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

gunthatshootsennui

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

deathcomes4u

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

velocigrey-deactivated20160825

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

geekinlibrariansclothing

Got that?

bettieleetwo

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

la-knight

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

athenadark

the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

thepsychicclam

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

ladynorbert

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

fragments-of-sappho

Women invented language while men were hunting. I mean…

Life Force Calling

Time to Quit Stalling

Numb and struck dumb

as I answered the phone call

I listened intently to every word

Until I wasn't-

I put the phone down

Swallowing silence

willing the words to be unheard.

We are built with the knowledge of

Eventuality, Causality,

Mortality.

Everything we know

caught up in cycles of night and day

Circadian rhythms of

growth and decay.

That's life

Or so they say.

My footstep's squeaky and staccato

echo against the arches.

My laughter bright and hard- brittle;

Shattering on the marble floor.

My hand trembling, reaching out

for the blinding brightness of the door.

What's the story morning glory?

I'm Dying.

I want the SCREAM and SHOUT.

(No you're not, knows another thought,

it just feels like it, we've been here before;

Knocking on Bill Door's floor)

What melodramatic drivel to flout about.

What I want to say is

Thank You.

For holding my hand,

For taking a stand.

For holding space,

For turning my Heart's

pitter-patter into a rat race.

Thank You

For Everything.

Thank you for being Human

with Me.

I've never been prepared

To say that I'm scared.

I'll keep fighting

Quietly, resourcefully,

unrepentantly driven to Live.

You just keep holding on

to Dreams of a golden dawn

Of the sun that shone

so sweetly on us

sleeping in the dew.

Keep holding on

To Everything

you said you Knew.

general-george-washington

It just occurred to me that people do not know about what some people make chicken coops out of and it’s a Shame

absolxguardian

Please, enlighten us

general-george-washington

So the thing with chickens are, they are adaptable and frankly, do not care.

you

can

use

just

about

anything

Here are some more that I like:

absolxguardian

This is amazing. I have been blessed by this knowledge

blurrydawgo-dead-blog-deactivat

@kookychicken

kookychicken

AAAAAAAAAAA

earthstory

Close up view of the rock layers and ocean at the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland

andreiaroldao

abovethemists

Fandom is such a weird place. Like I watched a tv show and thought “wow, these two nerds have a lot of chemistry and I’d like to dedicate a large chunk of my life to thinking about them” so I went in search of other people who also thought these two nerds had a lot of chemistry and then it turned out that a shit ton of people were talking about these two nerds having a lot of chemistry and now it’s 4 years later and we write each other porn on holidays.

willowofthehearth

This is SUCH an important lesson to learn!

americachavez

William H. Foster III, comic book historian, on representation in comic books. From PBS’s Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle.

Because a post crossed my dash recently asking why we need to push for more representation in comic books and media in general. 50 years later, this man still tears up because in one panel, Peter Parker spoke to an unnamed black kid. That’s why all marginalized groups need representation.