Sphere Lights - 230610
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Bart Allen hits a major growth spurt in his later teen years and ends up standing at 6'4''. The rest of the Flashfam are astounded that he ended up being the tallest of them all.
If you add in the hair he's 6' 9"
Heh, I just found an old archive CD from 2000 or so (Yes, THAT old), which had a copy of the first review of a fanfic I ever got that wasn't directly from someone reading it.
Someone actually featured it in a comics related column online, and they were very complimentary too.
I can't quote it as it uses another online name I used to post under a long time ago. that I don't want associated with my current name for privacy reasons.
But let me tell you, anyone who says commenting on fanfics is pointless is talking crap, reading that review still gives me a warm glow nearly a quarter of a century later! :D
End blood quantum now
Blood quantum is how much native blood you have in you and it needs to be a certain threshold to qualify you as a tribal member. Blood quantum varies from tribe to tribe.
It means my mom is a tribal member but because my dad is outside of my tribe... I don't have enough tribal blood to enroll. Neither does my daughter. Our "official" indigeneity ended with me.
My dad is still native tho. Just southern native. Others have two parents enrolled in separate tribes and can't enroll in either one despite being Full native because their parents were mixed with other tribes so they don't have enough blood of Any tribe to qualify.
And to what end are they doing this?
Under the treaties the US govt can lay no claim to native land. So how do they fix that? Get rid of the natives, of course.
And since they can't slaughter us in broad daylight anymore they did the next best thing. What the colonial government has ALWAYS done to us and other poc.
Made up a bunch of arbitrary laws to restrain and limit our power and numbers.
And this can't continue. We are the only race who needs to apply to be part of the community we were born into. The only race who needs to prove our blood.
And that's the thing: it's not even based on blood. Racist scientists defined who was a full-blooded native based on things like shoe size, head circumference, and skin pigment.
Not blood. And besides that it wasn't uncommon for outsiders to become part of a tribe!! You didn't need to be native by blood to be native! Blood quantum has made it IMPOSSIBLE for them to qualify and made it impossible for tribes to practice that long time aspect of our culture.
So please share this post. So many people legitimately think natives are extinct and even less are aware that we do more than just sit around drinking all day. Few people have good feelings about us and within that there are a few who actively help. Please be one of those few.
We need support and allies and for our voices to be heard. Please don't let this post just be me screaming into a void. We need people to know what blood quantum is, how archaic and harmful it is, and to help us spread awareness to people who otherwise would ignore us. Use your privilege.
At the center of this is blood quantum, the system imposed by the U.S. government to determine tribal membership. A new Wilder Foundation Research study projects that unless there is a major change to the criteria, Red Lake, like many tribes across the nation, faces catastrophic population loss in coming years.
Wilder Research scientist Nicole MartinRogers is blunt about what's ahead for the Red Lake Nation.
"A tribal population that is right now about 16,000, is going to drop to 1,000 people potentially or under in the next 100 years, if they continue to maintain their current enrollment criteria of one-quarter blood quantum,” she said. “That's a pretty scary thing."
blood quantum was designed to eliminate native americans while the one drop rule was intended to keep african americans slaves in perpetuity
i’m going to start saying “sorry i was stimming” in an indiana jones voice forever now
Ah, this takes me back...
Warning for flashing images
A Mort Illustration I made two years ago while reading Mort and feeling all sort of discworld feelings, recently I made another fanart of him in a more Grim Reaper outfit but I was not myself on those months :C
Ain't Mort such a great guy?
This is your reminder that a lot of public libraries actually have little summer reading programs for kids AND adults!
We even have PRIZES for when you finish filling up your sheet with stickers!
Support your local library. There may even be a sticker for you at the end 🌟
no cishets at pride! *spin kicks a grandma with a “I love my gay son” tshirt*
Yes, @passionpeachy illustrates a great point!
The first pride my mother attended, she marched with me alongside the PFLAG float, holding a sign that read "I'm Proud of My Gay Child".
I noticed she kept falling behind and running to catch up, nearly a whole float behind us. So finally, I stopped to see what was going on.
People kept pointing at her sign and cheering and then she'd proudly point at me, saying "they're here!"
That was usually the point where at least one person burst into tears. And this is where my mom started lagging - because she'd stop, reach over the barrier, and hug them. Teenagers, twenty-somethings, thirty-somethings... they'd break down crying at the sight of a cishet woman proudly marching with her child in Texas, of all places. That she'd claim me and be proud of me. Because they couldn't imagine their own family doing the same.
So she stopped and hugged them and told them she was proud of them, even though she had to race to catch up in the heat, even though they were strangers. And i like to think she made those young people's lives a bit better.
So yes, cishets at pride.
I'd rather have a cishet grandma there than a gay cop.
Should I preorder from Amazon or Abrams? Which is better for You? I mean, do you get more money/recognition from one or the other? Amazon is easier for me, but if you get more of a cut from Abrams, I have no problem going through them.
I don't think the amount of money changes on my end, but if I have any preference, it would be for preordering through your local bookshop -- maybe through Bookshop.org, which lets you pick out a shop near you over here. That way, you're helping keep smaller bookstores alive.
But for me, preordering (from anywhere) instead of waiting to buy until after the book is out is really helpful. The preorders all count towards first-day sales, and if that number is large enough it can get other booksellers to notice, which creates a virtuous cycle of sales.
And here's a link to it on the UK's equivalent to Bookshop; Hive
You can tell what day it is by who’s brooding on the rooftops.
Now THIS is art. 😍
lady-sanctuary
“When I first saw the original painting, I began to do some research on that little boy. I could find everything I wanted about every other detail in the painting, but there was nothing about him. No history. And so I wanted to find a way to imagine a life for this young man that the historical painting had never made space for in the composition: his desires, dreams, family, thoughts, hopes. Those things were never subjects that the original artist wanted the viewer to contemplate. In order to reframe the discussion, I decided to physically take action to quiet [and crumple] the side of the painting that we’ve been talking about for a very long time and turn up the volume on this kid’s story. And that’s the reason why I started that painting.” Via Artnet News 2019/03/27
I wish for nothing more than that that little boy could see this and know that he was remembered.
Conner, if Martha Kent did not believe in nurture over nature. She would not have adopted a baby she found in a cornfield.
What makes this especially stupid is that before the retcon of Luthor being Superboy’s Clone Dad, he KNEW the human who was actually the source of his human genetics was a piece of shit by the name of Paul Westerfield
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All this idiotic “My dad is bad so I must be too” teen drama angst comes right the hell out of nowhere
Superboy was created by a mad scientist and a corporate scumbag and he didn’t care because he had a brain in his head and knew that genetics have as much to do with who you are as a person as phrenology does
But for this awful story he had to become a dumbass and be like “Oh no I was cloned from Lex Luthor...that must mean I have THE EVIL GENE”
It says something when Riverdale’s whole “Betty Cooper has the serial killer gene” plot was less stupid than this
When you are below the Riverdale bar, someone needs to take away the typewriter.
It’s true and you should say it <3
When you are below the Riverdale bar, someone needs yo take away the typewriter.
I need this in a plaque with gold letters in my desk.
“For writing this terrible story, it’s DC policy to give you THE PLAGUE”
“That’s plaque, sir”
“Ah yes
The special de-motivational plaque!”
The "inevitable genetic disposition to evil if related to a villain" is a Geoff Jones trope I will be happy to see die:
Joey Wilson, son of Deathstroke in the 80 Titan's - noble, heroic until corrupted by thousands of insane ghosts.
Joey Wilson, Son of Deathstroke in the 00's Titans - Iredeemably insane and evil because his dad was evil, so he HAS to be right?
Boomerang Jr., son of Captain Boomerang, tried to be a villain, didn't much like it, was working his way up to anti-hero (at best, but was trying) after finding out his Dad was a loser
Boomerang Jr. in Darkest Night - Feeding his zombie dad random strangers, including women and kids because his dad was evil, so he HAS to be right?
Conner Kent in 90's - I'm half Superman and half jerkwad human, but I make my own choices so it doesn't matter. I'm Superboy and I'm a hero
Conner Kent in 00's - I'm half Superman and half Luthor, so I must be borderline evil AT BEST
