being on my period makes me feel like a wounded forest animal trying to find a warm dark small place to die

In honor of Day of the Dead, here’s a repost of my comic about the San Francisco Columbarium and the man who spent 26 years restoring it.

This comic originally appeared on Medium at The Nib. Go check out my other work there.

Emmitt and the Columbarium.

Today's aesthetic is fairy kei

Chris Dornaus

Reposting these tags with consent from the person that wrote them. The post about the Sex Offenders Registry is locked, but these tags are too important to go unnoticed.

Younger queer people need to realize that the SOR being used against queer people simply for being queer isn’t some ancient history thing. It still impacts queer people today. And it can quite easily be used that way again.

There is very much a reason that early homophile and gay liberation groups took issue with the SOR.

(^ From NACHO’s “Homosexual Bill of Rights”)

Most American queer history is not ancient in the slightest– especially when it comes to talking about the long and still-ongoing fight for rights and recognition.

The worst that the state can legally do, it will do to marginalized people. Earlier gay/LGBT/queer movements understood this much better than today.

They may claim that they need a sex offenders registry to use against people who rape children, but they’re going to end up using it against queer people. 

They may claim they need  harsh minimum sentences and no-early-release to use against cartoon-villian level mobsters but they’re going to use it against black teenagers who had a little weed on them.

They may claim they need offshore prisons and drone strikes to use against terrorists, but they’re going to end up using it against any Muslim they don’t like.

They may claim they need harsh anti-trafficking laws to stop people who pressure minors into sex work, but they’re going to be using it against refugees and migrant sex workers.

They may claim they need to be able to institutionalize, drug and tie up people to stop mentally ill murderers, but they’re going to be using it against neuroatypical and traumatized people who act ‘weird’ in public.

This is why* many marginalized people object to things like the SOR, minimum sentences or to prisons in general. They know that whichever cartoonishly evil group the measure claims to be for, it won’t end there. The worst that the state can do, it will do to marginalized people. Every time.

(*also none of these things actually effectively protect us from rapists and murderers and terrorists because punitive ‘justice’ doesn’t work, but that’s a different post for a different day.)

anyway jeff bezos could eradicate homelessness. he could literally give each homeless person 100k and it would only take less than .5% of his entire wealth. what the actual god giving fuck

Why do you think they deserve it

Well shelter is a basic need, and would at the very least allow them a place where they can get back on their feet. Food water and shelter are necessary for a healthy body and psychology. There’s also the fact that they’re people too, and a little help goes a long way in making a decent community. There’s plenty of reasons

Yeah they need stuff, but why does every homeless person deserve 0.5% of someone’s income

You have five hundred apples, and just one day to eat them all. 

You pass by a small crowd of hungry children, and decide you’d rather 455 apples go rotten than give them to some snotty brat who isn’t your problem.

It doesn’t matter how hard you’ve worked for your 500 apples, or that you aren’t the parent of any of those kids. in the moment you decide to walk away, it doesn’t matter why they’re hungry, or who owes who what.

You had the opportunity to help people, you had the ability to help people, you had the resources to help people. You had everything you needed to make a small, tiny little difference in someone’s life, and you decided not to.

What are you going to buy in your lifetime that’s worth more to you than your own humanity?

What are you going to buy in your lifetime that’s worth more to you than your own humanity

Reblogging for the very, very important lesson

Sometimes I wish there were a Hell if only for the visuals of a bunch of rich shit heads wandering around on fire asking “Where’s my money?!”

I like the town I live in, but our biggest household daydream is patching everything that would be better with money.

We want to live in a town with a pretty street to wander down and nice bookshops. Only one bookshop is surviving. We could rent an empty storefront, pay off the rent for several years, install a handful of nice part-time workers with their wages paid for several years, give them running money and tell them: set up a collective to make this shop go. Make a good shop we can visit. It wouldn’t take much to fill a high street with the kind of places you’d want to go into. The local social media is begging for venues, listing what we need: a kid friendly cafe, less sketchy nightlife, more after-hours and weekend activities, attractions. Each one gets hundreds of comments agreeing; nobody has the money to do anything because of the rent. Shops stand empty while hundreds of people ask for amenities, all because of rent. If you were rich there would be no obstacle.

This nation allows communities to take in refugees if a home is provided for two years rent free. We could buy homes and give them to refugee families and then lives could be materially saved and our communities would be richer.

We want to send our kids to nice schools. Money would fix that. Raise teacher wages, provide splendid trips and activities.

When our kids are teens, they’ll rely on peers and listen more to peers than to us. There are a lot of deeply shitty teens around here and some entrenched nasty habits. Honestly, they mostly need stuff to do. Money could fix that.

If you got every shop in town to agree to a voucher scheme, you could give every household in town £500 in vouchers to spend in local shops and for a few hundred thousand pounds you would change an entire year for a town. Every household would have a smoothing of worry: scooping up school shoes and groceries and haircuts and fancy coffees and birthday presents. And the money would be spent twice on the town - once to the people, and once to the shops that need it so badly. Shops could stay open if they were doing this business. Isn’t that clever? The money would be spent twice! Maybe even more!

Despite the grimly well-intentioned environmental communities, the locals would currently be resistant to becoming a Transition Town because of the impression that it’s for snotty wealthy towns. I don’t really know how I could fix that. I could pay someone cleverer than me £30k a year to fix that and get started.

Instead of moving to a fancier prettier town with rich-people shops or sending our children away to expensive private schools, we could have a great place to live right here. Why would anyone want to live anywhere else? What else would you do with the money? Why would you move? What else could possibly be more stimulating and enriching than using money to perform endless, self-sustaining, material-world-changing magic?

If you ever find yourself faltering, remember that your queens and presidents, your billionaires and celebrities, your elected and unelected leaders have had every opportunity to do this - to change these towns, to say “let’s make this a nice life” - and plan on not doing that, forever.

Wasn’t this episode banned in the UK for that specific reason?

yes

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One more year.

Strangers in Lively Town

Took me half a year to complete 🤪

No but it's ridiculous that this doesn't have more notes, and I think it's cause people aren't zooming in, SO LOOK!! Look how painstakingly detailed and gorgeous this piece is!!

Please be aware though, re-posting art work without credit to the artist is NOT anarchist, anti-capitalist, or in any way punk.

I searched Google for "firing all the billionaires into the sun comic", found the image ---> used it to search for a nicer one and lo and behold found a link to their own Twitter. This took about 5 minutes. Slower than a 5 second reblog but still fast - and also much more important.

The creator is First Dog on The Moon and what makes this version^ so much worse to spread around is that the original HAD the author's handle on it but it was cropped out.

Anyway. If anyone would like to follow the artist here's their Twitter.

If you reblogged the uncredited version I recommend taking 5 seconds to edit your post with their link and handle. It helps artists IMMENSELY.

Stay punk.

“if you think about it, aren’t You the Real Racist if you notice racial coding” has to be a contender for top 10 most annoying opinions of all time about anything

people will explode into confetti if you try and explain that fiction is not plucked out of the ether as a thing unto itself but actually all the things in it are Made Up By A Guy from the cultural and material context he exists in. and that if you are A Guy living in A Context and you try and think up ‘what would some guys who are Like Humans But Bad be like’ then that’s going to influence your work

Cats are the new bosses.

This makes me happy in ways I can’t completely describe.

There was a science fiction short story with that plot. Evil Aliens hit a spaceship full of humans with a paralysis ray before boarding. The ship's cat 1.) wasn't affected 2.) had been entered into the system as a crew member as a joke. So, being the ranking crew member, the cat was in charge. Ship's computer displayed the enemy ships on the tactical command touch screen and the cat swatted at the glowy dots, targeting the ships and activating the defenses.

how can you say this and not tell us the name of the story of the author because I AM DESPERATE NOW...

Everything about this post is causing me to make the same face as that cat.

I HAVE A BOOK THAT STORY IS IN!!!!! The story itself is titled “Well Worth the Money” and written by Jody Lynn Nye. The book I have is titled “Cats in Space (and Other Places)” edited by Bill Fawcett and published in 1992 by Baen Publishing Enterprises, distributed by Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-671-72118-6. EVERY STORY IN THE BOOK IS GREAT, and I suggest if you can lay your hands on a copy you do so. 

(Warning, the front cover says “In space, no one can hear you meow...” and the back cover says, “Space, the Feline Frontier.” Just in case you’re allergic to puns or something.)

I think disabled people deserve high income for free forever with no strings attached and I’m not kidding

disabled people deserve basics. but we also deserve to go on vacation. we deserve splurging on a $50 video game every once in a while. we deserve nice meals and nice clothes and nice things. we deserve a nice candle. and fancy soap.

disabled ppl deserve to be comforted by human impulses like the rest of y’all

lol remember when people were getting pissy about my idea of ‘nice things’ and ‘disposable income’ because it was just describing their everyday life and that’s not glamorous

meanwhile I wrote this post living on my best friends couch living out of a suitcase lol

I'm NOT gonna say it again

SEASONINGS include herbs and spices, along with minerals and chemicals used to season food!!!! Salt, citric acid, and MSG, are all examples of seasonings that are NOT herbs or spices!

HERBS are flavorful leaves. Only. Leaves. Doesn't matter if its dried, fresh, whole, or ground, if it is a leaf, it is an herb

SPICES are flavorful parts of plants that are NOT LEAVES. These include seeds, berries, stems, bark, roots, flowers, buds... NOT LEAVES

THANK YOU

Things are heating up in the cooking fandom.

That's how cooking works

rb to give the person u rb'd this from transgender swag

"they already have it" ok?? give them some more..

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Here, put this candy in your annoying mouth and shut the fuck up.

They’re like adult pacifiers

Same thing was done in Brighton where people were given kitkats as they leave nightclubs because you need both hands to eat them, plus obvs eating.

Other cities would also have mounted police on horses patrolling the streets. Nothing to do with needing to add police presence, they realised drunk people see a horse and go “Ooh Horsies” and stroke the horse. It would distract people from fighting in queues for taxis.

I have witnessed the horse thing in action! for a short amount of time I went clubbing regularly, and being the only person who hated the taste of alcohol I usually just ended up observing the behaviour of the native drunk wildlife, like some sort of Jane Goodall of inebriated students. It was educational.

By far one of the best nights was out in Cardiff, and when we left the club there was, indeed, a horsie and the absolutely immediate, instinctual response of the first dozen people to leave the club (and therefore the first to see this) was to form a group around the door to tell everyone who was leaving the whole pack  going shhshshhsh there’s. there’s A HORSIE don’t. don’t make a noise don’t scare the horsie :’( and everyone leaving the club INSTANTLY quieted the fuck down like even the ones who were fight-me-im-drunk drunk got calmly surpressed by their friends and redirected their energy. Many people did go and pet the horsie who was clearly very well trained and the whole thing was thoroughly impressive and really very moving :’D

how much can crime be reduced with sheer novelty?

this is not an argument that only novelty should be used

Fun increases crime decreases

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