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"The best thing we can do with power is give it away" - On the leftist critique of superhero narratives as authoritarian power fantasies:

The ongoing "Jason Todd is a cop" debate has reminded me of a brilliant brief image essay by Joey deVilla. [EDIT: I SCREWED UP! This was created in 2019 by the guy who runs the Midnighter-Core page on Facebook, and Joey just reposted it!]

So here it is, images first and the full essay text below:

#I hope they feel like Italian today

hold me tight and never let go

"No one ever tries to flee capitalism."

Well, that was a lie.

That last quote took me out lmao

@ other writers: how the hell do you write short things????

I think it involves blood magic.

@ other writers: How in the hell do you write long things????

It definitely involves blood magic.

@ writers: how in the hell do you write

its blood magic all the way down

@ writers: How do you learn blood magic?

it definitely involves writing

anyone else feeling the Effects lately. due to all the Things

Omg Suzy you’re so crazy

Borzoi White Mohair with zipper (box for pajamas), glass eyes

It’s so weird that pyjama cases were a thing. They went so abruptly out of fashion, too. The idea was (I think) that it was vaguely indecent to leave your pajamas around, and it definitely spoils the look of your nicely made bed, so lots of people put them under the pillow; but a cuter thing to do was to have a specially made empty stuffed animal or cute purse or pillow thing, with a zipper, and you’d stuff it with your pajamas in the morning and place it cutely on your nicely made bed. Then in the evening, you would unzip and disembowel the soft plump object, and reclaim the pajamas. It wasn’t just a thing for kids; adults did it too. In the kind of pre-1950s novels I like to pick up, authors describe a character’s pyjama case to reveal a bit about the character; but of course they never say why you’d have a pyjama case. “Everyone knows what a horse is.”

I suppose it’s been culturally decided that it’s an unnecessary step in the bedtime process. We’re busy bastards, aren’t we? Who makes their bed every morning, I mean, really?

Perhaps, also, our clothing is no longer of the material and methodology where you have to spend extra time/attention/tools on them. Pyjama cases may have had some benefit - extending the life of the pyjamas, or something. Perhaps it was more common in those days for mice to climb into your silk pyjamas, or they kept them from being attacked by dogs, or something. It’s possible that there are unspoken benefits to keeping your pyjamas in a stuffed toy, which previous generations knew instinctively and we have forgotten. Some people are like that, they maintain rituals and practices that don’t get written down, and so become arcana. My father-in-law owns special clothing maintenance tools such as shoe trees (which you place in your shoes every night at night) and trouser presses (in which you leave your worn-but-not-dirty trousers overnight so they are crisp in the morning). He irons his pocket handkerchiefs - why? so that they fold into a precise pocket shape, with the same fold pattern as plastic-wrapped disposable tissues: the optimised shape for pockets. You are not going to read in the literature about there being a reason for ironing pocket handkerchiefs. It is a habit that is not captured by history. You have to speak to a practitioner to even consider that there is a specific value in pocket handkerchief folding. Maybe we operate at a remove from the people who could have told us why they bothered with the idea and then stopped.

You can buy a selection of pyjama cases online, but with no explanation of why you’d want to, it’s hard to see how this helps. The only real thing i can see is that it’s cute and tidies the pyjamas up, but we’ve all decided that untidy pyjamas are a problem that doesn’t need solving.

Pyjama cases have no Wikipedia article; search engines have nothing to offer. Old books only self-reference them being a normal thing. Someone who knows about pyjama cases or textile history could heroically fill this in. Please do. Otherwise, this tumblr post is going to suddenly become the leading analysis of pyjama cases, and that would be sad.

Holy shit, I'd completely forgotten about pyjama cases

I had one as a kid (1990s) - it was a palomino horse, lying down but the perfect size for my doll to ride. I made a little saddle and bridle for it and kept it stuffed with newspaper to keep shape

God, the things that come back to you

I had a plushie kangaroo where the pocket was for your pajamas! Late 1980s / early 1990s

Panama City Beach, Florida by Sam{Lightonthewater}

Can't let British people have air conditioning because first they'd call it something twee like "the climate fixer" and then in 20 years they'll call it "the climb" or "the climmy"

French kids would call it "le climot", frustrating language officials who would prefer they call it "machine pour le contrôle du climat froide à l'interieure de l'édifice"

#what can i say it is simply an imperative to dunk on l'academie(via@arrows-for-pens) XD

i asked my french friend and he literally calls it "climatiseur"

#monsieur climat(via@purified-zone) XD

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I made this post back on april 2022. Season 1 was completed just yesterday! :’) 💖 You can now read the whole first saga, for free, at any moment.

Not to toot our own horn, but I think it’s pretty damn good.

I’ll toot the creators’ horn for them: this comic is so good. Soooooo freaking good. It’s so good I recommend it to coworkers.

Yes. So good I recc’d it IRL.

And I’ve recc’d it here before, and I’ll do it again, I’m sure. Now’s a great time to jump on, though, cause you’ve got a bunch to binge but not so much that it feels overwhelming.

Seriously. It’s so good.

I binged the entire thing in like two and a half hours and I gotta say dear fucking lord this comic slaps. PLEASE give it a whirl it’s phenomenal!

Adding librarians.

Cops' settlements for abuse/misconduct are also paid for by tax dollars. Talking billions of dollars in settlements every year.

A magnificent boy

a perfect void!! I couldn’t help myself

Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

Welcome to the

Soot and Swill Sit and Swill

Sit and Spin.

Every time I see something sexy about Astarion (or any vampire really) biting someone I get distracted by The Fluid Intake Problem.

See, blood makes a terrible food source, so vampire bats, who feed solely on it, need to drink a TON. Astarion follows this rule— he drank an entire boar, which is probably a gallon or more in a sitting, based on some google math.

Vampire bats, to deal with the amount of blood they need to drink, have incredible fluid processing capabilities and pretty much immediately start peeing, even while they’re still drinking. Like, within 2 minutes fast.

What I’m getting at is Astarion would probably struggle to have sex right after a feeding because he needs to stop to piss every ten minutes. The wine would not help. Humanizing, but not exactly suave!

love is real. i hope it will happen to me

lmao get loved loser

get absolutely fucking treasured