Shout out to acclaimed horror mangaka Junji Ito for writing a cute slice of life comedy about competing with his wife for the affection of his two cats and REFUSING to change his eerie, body-horror-filled, vertigo-inducing art style at all for its entire duration

buffy summers really is the most character ever. she averted the apocalypse multiple times. she came back from the dead twice. she fought dracula and won. her first impulse when someone said they thought she was just a myth was to tell them "you were myth-taken." she led a workers' uprising while wielding a hammer and sickle. she couldn't fucking drive. she killed a demon with a rocket launcher stolen from the us military. she was really into figure skating. once she fucked so hard that the building she was in collapsed. she got a job slinging burgers. and she was even bisexual

Need a compression blanket (a big hairy man) to lay on top of me

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.

w-what if potato is actually lucky

[ID: Quote tweet of Lil Nas X News, which reads "Once again, Lil Nas X 's song Sun Goes Down reaches #1 on iTunes Saudi Arabia. The song is almost 2 years old." Lil Nas X has responded "To my gays fans from Saudi Arabia reading this, I hope my song is getting you through whatever you're going through and I hope someday soon the laws against us change and you can be free in your own home."]

Best one ever😂❤️💃🎼🎵🎤

Get it Meemaw!!👏👏

I swear I counted these stitches and yet one is still longer??? Anyway NMJ arms done! I will shorten or lengthen once I see how they attach to his body.

Gasp! Who could all these haunted fierce corpse limbs be from??

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Strike Support Declining - Here's how you can continue to support the writers

Since the WGA strike started on May 2, the public has shown immense support for the writers—sending food, snacks, drinks, and encouragement from across the world all the way to Los Angeles, New York, and other picketing locations.

But loud and vocal strike support—in the news and in public spaces—is notably declining the longer the strike goes on. So we're bringing you a few ways to show writers, studios, and fellow fans: we're still here, and we still stand with the WGA.

1. Post on Twitter (and other social media sites)

You might think social media noise won't be noticed by the studios, but it CAN encourage individual WGA members—and slowly but surely put pressure on the studios to make a fair deal.

If you follow WGA members such as Adam Conover (Adam Ruins Everything), John Rogers (Leverage, Librarians), Gennifer Hutchison (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul), Javier Grillo-Marxuach (Lost, The Witcher) [and many many more you can find through their following lists], tell them you support them! Hashtag #IStandWithTheWGA #DoTheWriteThing and tell them that you and your fandom are prepared to support them as long as the strike lasts; that they deserve to have their demands met and you're with them all the way. Boost morale however and whenever you can!

Likewise, actively push back against misinformation/disinformation. See a TikTok claiming that all Hollywood writers are filthy rich and we shouldn't vocally support them? Correct it with well-sourced citations from the WGA, published news articles, and stories from those affected (like the time a writer on FX's The Bear attended the an awards show with his bank account balance in the negative, only to then win an award for Best Comedy Series—proving that good writers on award-winning shows still cannot make a living!)

Remember you can always link to Adam Conover's excellent explanation of WGA demands versus studio refusals, tweeted here.

2. Donate or boost fundraisers

You might be surprised to learn that the picketing locations are not always parties! Sometimes themed pickets are fun, and fandoms and celebrities occasionally are able to fundraise for a food truck or ice cream truck at picketing locations. However, that is the EXCEPTION and not the norm. Writers are asking for food & drinks at many locations.

There are many funds to donate to, and it can be overwhelming to pick one! But one that could use your support RIGHT NOW is the CBS Radford picket line:

-If you're in LA, you can bring food and snacks directly to that picket line (or get food deliveries sent there, with instructions to be given to the strike captain on duty.) Strike locations are available on the WGA West website and are updated there.

-Or there's a pizza fund for the strike locations (unfortunately Venmo is a US-only donation option)

-If you're not in LA, donate to the Entertainment Community Fund to support TV and film workers affected by the strike.

-More tips on donating to the strike in this great article!

-Lots of fandoms are organizing donations on their own, for instance the Our Flag Means Death fundraiser on Paypal (available internationally). Check to see if your fandom has started a fundraiser... or start one yourself to show your support! We're happy to give tips on organizing your fandom!

As always, please boost this post and any and all well-sourced information that comes from the WGA or its members. We're happy to fact-check anything you send our way too.

Class is the basis for all other oppression AND class analysis is incomplete without an understanding of the superstructure (which includes politics, the family and culture) that institutionalizes other oppressions such as gender, ethnicity and race, sexuality, and disability.

It’s not class OR gender, race, etc it’s class AND gender, race, etc. We can’t understand how these other oppressions work, who benefits from these arrangements the most or why the same ruling class oppresses these different groups in similar ways if we don’t have class as our foundation.

The fact that women are tied to unpaid household labor, are paid less in the formal economy and can’t easily escape abusive situations because of financial ties is one example. The fact that gay and trans people struggle with housing and employment discrimination is another example. The fact that disabled people struggle with or are unable to work leaving most disabled people in abject poverty is another example. Slavery and its afterlife of forced prison labor, the genocide of Indigenous peoples to seize resources and land for development, the racist imperialism of empires to forge new markets for overproduced goods through violence and exploitative international policies is yet another example.

How do we explain the how and why of these oppressions without a class analysis? We can’t. A materialist analysis which focuses on how the ruling class profits from exploitation of all sorts is absolutely necessary in order to understand white supremacy, racism and ethnocentrism, gender and sexuality, and disability.

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Agree with a lot of this, and I feel like this may also be the reason why some people think it’s bad to write female characters submitting to male ones, or black ones to white ones etc. The general fandom assumptions of “doms are aggressors, thus subs are victims, and victim = good” means it’s often considered acceptable to write marginalized characters as subs IN GENERAL, but because people think BDSM is “for” the doms, having a more-privileged character dom a marginalized one is seen as reinforcing stereotypes. All stemming from what is at best a very one-sided understanding of how BDSM works and what you get out of it.

Which also means that sadly, a lot of people would read a more emotional dom or one who is conflicted about their desires as “great, we’re supposed to feel sorry for the abuser”.

(That said? I think it’s a huge oversimplification to assume whump writers are doing what they do because they’re too ashamed or scared to write porn. Some people just like non-sexual whump! It’s not something they need to “graduate from”!)

tag of the week:

you gotta be as gay as possible on the computer otherwise alan turing died for nothing

Yall do NOT hop on a cosmetic surgery hate train during an ongoing campaign against trans Healthcare I am fucking begging

My tits didn't smaller themselves, fuckos. Either you believe in bodily autonomy or you fucking don't.

The sacred bond between trans people who've had plastics and cis people who have had plastics is fucking sacred and I will not tolerate anybody in the queer community trash-talking plastics no matter what it is and who is getting them and for what reason!!!

I want there to not be a line between 'costmetic' and 'necessary'. If there's a line, then insurance companies and whoever-the-fuck-else will decide everything is 'cosmetic'. That happened to me with getting my jaw rebuilt when I was A CHILD. 'oh it's cosmetic' My insurance wrangler lady and the surgeon had to write SEVERAL LETTERS to the damn insurance company detailing out just how graphically I would DIE if I did not get my face rebuilt before I was 18! If 'we won't pay for cosmetic plastics only necessary ones' wasn't a thing, that wouldn't have had to fucking happen!

So you know what? I don't want to hear the word 'cosmetic' out of anyone's mouth. it's ALL just plastics. And all plastics are still 100% the person's choice to get, I don't care what the reason is, all reasons are your business and should be honoured and that's as it should be. As Sweaterkittens said, you either believe in bodily autonomy or you fucking don't.

Signed,

A Transman who has had exclusively plastics for all FOUR major surgeries throughout his life.