Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

Oct 01

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radioactivemongoose:

my favorite compliment i’ve gotten at college was from a drunk frat boy who said i had “the body of the girl of his dreams” then paused and held up a hand to stop me from saying anything and continued “…..but the haircut of the boy of my dreams”

i’ve succeeded

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Anonymous asked: you seen that caterpillar that creates a cocoon that looks like a snake?

iguanamouth:

ahh i actually havent ! at first i thought you were actually talking about a CATERPILLAR that looks like a snake, and said cocoon on accident (specifically the caterpillar of the hemeroplanes triptolemus, or snake-mimic hawk moth)

but it TURNS OUT theres a species of butterfly that takes it way further, to the point where all the other caterpillars are like “is this really fuckin necessary”

its the chrysalis of the daring-owl butterfly ! a species thats found in trinidad and spends a good portion of its young adult life trying to convince other things that its not actually completely helpless

LOOK at the detail thats gone into this though- i cant even imagine the journey  this look mustve taken, with lightly less-snakelike chrysalises being eaten over time again and again until youve got something with definable eyes and scales

apparently if disturbed theyll also rock violently back and forth, furthering the idea that this is a very dangerous pitviper with the tiniest body imaginable

the adult butterflies are much less exciting but honestly they dont need to be with a history like that a+ bug

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allthecanadianpolitics:

theladysasha:

trollskog:

pacificprincen:

trollskog:

thatlittlewallflower:

So FUCKING HARPER changed citizenship law so that people who are born in Canada have a different citizenship status than those who immigrated here or came as refugees. Among other things, people who came to Canada and then got their citizenship can still be deported, regardless of their status as Canadians. Literally how absolutely fucked up is that?!

“people who are born in Canada have a different citizenship status than those who immigrated here or came as refugees “

Actually, thatlittlewallflower , it’s even more twisted than that.

You don’t need to have been born and come from another country. You don’t need to be a first-generation immigrant. Or a refugee.

If your parents were immigrants and you are eligible for another citizenship - even if neither you or your family applied for you to get it, you are still targeted by Bill C-24.

I repeat, you can be BORN here, and Canada may be the ONLY country you’ve ever lived in, but if you’re ELIGIBLE for a second, third, fourth, etc. citizenship - you don’t need to actually have dual citizenship, only the eligibility for it - the Bill makes it so that your Canadian citizenship can be stripped away from you, and you could find yourself deported to another country for them to be forced to grant you citizenship status.

And they don’t need to involve the courts to do it.

They don’t need a judge to approve it.

The Bill gave that power to Immigration bureaucrats.

by this logic, myself, my mother and my sisters can be deported back to scotland because my granddad was scottish

wtf

Welcome to Harperland.

My partner is a permanent resident. Our two children were born here. They are both eligible for another citizenship. In theory, if they’re ever considered to be “traitors” to the country and/or government of Canada (the actual Bill doesn’t define what is “traitorous” enough, that’s for the people working at Citizenship and Immigration Canada to decide) there’s nothing stopping CIC officials from showing up at the door and deporting them to a country they’ve never been to, which they are only linked to due to the birth of one of their parents.

That Bill is bullshit, it was made by the Harper government so they could walk away from their obligations toward people like Omar Khadr, and to essentially terrorize even second-generation Canadians into compliance with those in power by hanging a “citizen-status” sword of Damocles over their heads for the remainder of their lives.

C-24 is bullshit.

All this this is correct and honestly it is ridiculous. 

I could literally be deported to Italy even though my ancestors on my mother’s side were here thousands of years before Europeans even set foot on this continent…. 

Fuck Stephen Harper and his cronies.

Just letting you all know that both the NDP & Liberals want to repeal (get rid of) this bill.

We have an election October 19th, 2015. Please vote.

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Signs as Norse Mythology

• Odin | poetry, magic, war: Aries, Pisces
• Thor | thunderstorms, healing: Aquarius, Libra
• Baldur | summer sun, radiance: Leo, Taurus
• Freyja | love, fertility: Cancer, Virgo
• Hel | death, underworld: Sagittarius, Scorpio
• Loki | shapeshifting, amorality: Gemini, Capricorn

combat-femme:

If you’re ever worried that you fucked up real bad, just remember that there are over 2,500 reported cases of vacuum cleaner-induced genital trauma in the United States each year. 

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mjwatson:

REMINDER ON HALLOWEEN:

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE KEEP YOUR LIL CRITTERS LOCKED UP SAFE IN YOUR HOME ON HALLOWEEN, AND EVEN WEEKS BEFORE. ESPECIALLY CATS. ESPECIALLY BLACK CATS.

PEOPLE LIKE TO DO SICK, DISGUSTING THINGS TO ANIMALS ON HALLOWEEN SO PLEASE MAKE SURE THEY ARE SAFE INDOORS. PROTECT YOUR BABIES.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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kayla-bird:

kayla-bird:

mainstream media does not allow women the full spectrum of emotion. it does not allow women to wear practical clothing. it does not allow women to be muscular/tough/brooding/bitter/protective/fierce in the way men are allowed.

and it doesn’t allow men the full spectrum of emotion, either. it doesn’t allow men to take pride in personal ornamentation. it doesn’t allow men to be gentle/kind/supportive/affectionate/in need of rescuing.

no one is allowed to be truly human.

and I think we need to really acknowledge the way in which that fucks us all up. 

this is getting a lot of notes really fast, woah!

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gamerdogg:

gamerdogg:

amydentata:

cynixy:

snarksonomy:

mquester:

aliceinpunderland:

odditycollector:

trashy-prince:

sweetguts:

suddenlycomics:

nursemchurt:

dmh3000:

Every damn year. 

I need to learn how to draw a decent Batman pic.

So what you’re trying to say is that women people prefer well-drawn pictures of their favorite superheroes over really shitty indie comics about boobs?

Sounds right.

Are we supposed to feel sorry for the person whose humor comic featuring a disembodied pair of breasts on the cover is getting passed over?

Incredible.

this feels like it should be a parody but it isnt and that’s hilarious

maybe try not being sexist unfunny douchelords next time

HEY, WE DO A HUMOR COMIC ABOUT [SOMETHING THAT LOOKS EXTREMELY SEXIST] HEY WHERE ARE YOU GOING

No, no way is this a serious complaint (I said to myself). No one’s that un-self aware. This has got to be a parody about gross “indie” comics skeeving up the con atmosphere, and the schadenfreude we’re totally intended to feel at their failure.

So I went to the OP’s tumblr to check context and.

This was just supposed to be a comic about how hard it can be for the unknowns to find their audience. Anything else you see is your own interpretation of the page.

They are serious.

That is more hilarious than any punchline actually in the comic. I’m honestly crying with laughter right now.

wow cry me a THOUSAND tears about how hard it is for white men to get into the comics industry by drawing tits

I can think of very few female comic readers who wouldn’t choose the Green Lantern image over a comic with nothing but boobs on the cover :P If the OP wants female fans as their target audience, they need to make some changes or expect not to get any of their money.

Oh god… he edited the original post to “Apologies to anyone offended by the cover.”  … Not “Apologies, I made a really gross and alienating statement.”  He does this in another post, as well trying to justify it all.   /facedesk

Wow, this is a perfect example of the creative blind spots I’ve been talking about. This comic was not intended to be satire. The OP completely missed the significance of having just a pair of boobs on a magazine cover and its effect on a female audience. In the OP’s own words:

“In the original script I said there was a comic being held up without specifying what was on it, so Paul just drew a pair of breasts and I put the page up because at the time I saw nothing wrong with it, and when I put it on tumblr, the unfortunate implications never crossed my mind until they were pointed out to me.”

There was no sexist intent behind this comic (or clever expose of sexism), but this clearly illustrates how so much offensive content gets released in comics, games, and other media. It looks okay to the people making it.

This is why we need women, PoC, and LGBT people in industries that are dominated by one POV. We need to start viewing content through more than one lens.

I talk about it at length HERE.

(emphasis mine)

Complete and uncensored, the reason many people take issue with the comics world (and other media dominated by homogenous culture). Straight from the horse’s mouth, unintentionally.

I had to read that comic three times to believe it.

This deserves a second reblog.

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“Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn’t, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.” — Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head (via wordsnquotes)

(Source: wnq-anonymous.com, via yea-lets-do-this-shit)