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@rawwhoneyy

Trans boy He/Him
Mostly comics and politics

Your criticism of makeup and anti-aging products means nothing if trans women who don't wear concealer make you "feel unsafe" and if you constantly share memes comparing the aging process of good versus evil celebrities

Need to be mindful for our feathered friends!

I’ve queued this to post around the time that alot of babies will be hatching.

Go buy some frozen veggies and feed the babies

It is baby season right now. A lot of babies are being born right now and people keep bringing them into the sanctuary. Sometimes its best to leave them alone.

More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the “greed” of publishing giant Elsevier.
The entire academic board of the journal Neuroimage, including professors from Oxford University, King’s College London and Cardiff University resigned after Elsevier refused to reduce publication charges.
Academics around the world have applauded what many hope is the start of a rebellion against the huge profit margins in academic publishing, which outstrip those made by Apple, Google and Amazon.
Neuroimage, the leading publication globally for brain-imaging research, is one of many journals that are now “open access” rather than sitting behind a subscription paywall. But its charges to authors reflect its prestige, and academics now pay over £2,700 for a research paper to be published. The former editors say this is “unethical” and bears no relation to the costs involved.
Professor Chris Chambers, head of brain stimulation at Cardiff University and one of the resigning team, said: “Elsevier preys on the academic community, claiming huge profits while adding little value to science.”
He has urged fellow scientists to turn their backs on the Elsevier journal and submit papers to a nonprofit open-access journal which the team is setting up instead.
He told the Observer: “All Elsevier cares about is money and this will cost them a lot of money. They just got too greedy. The academic community can withdraw our consent to be exploited at any time. That time is now.”
Elsevier, a Dutch company that claims to publish 25% of the world’s scientific papers, reported a 10% increase in its revenue to £2.9bn last year. But it’s the profit margins, nearing 40%, according to its 2019 accounts, which anger academics most. The big scientific publishers keep costs low because academics write up their research – typically funded by charities and the public purse – for free. They “peer review” each other’s work to verify it is worth publishing for free, and academic editors collate it for free or for a small stipend. Academics are then often charged thousands of pounds to have their work published in open-access journals, or universities will pay very high subscription charges.
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SCIENCE STRIKE NEXT LET’S GO.

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Nice!

Abled Person: Hey man, can you hold this wad of $2,000 and this one penny for me while I open my wallet?

Disabled Person: YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOL!

The United States Government:

(Watch how many people don’t get this.)

In order for disabled people to receive any sort of financial assistant for their housing, food, bills, medical supplies, etc., they cannot ever have more than $2,000 of resources to their name. Ever.

It doesn’t matter what it’s for.

You’re saving up for a new wheelchair?

For college?

To put a downpayment on a house?

Hell man, you just happen to budget for once in your life so that you can have some extra money in case something bad happens?

Your benefits immediately get cut off if you’re a cent over $2,000.

And, even worse, you usually end up having to pay back every dollar the government gave you that month.

So say you get $400. If they find out you’re twenty dollars over the resource limit, you have to give them all $400 back and you undergo an investigation of your funds to see if you will continue getting money.

“What if I spend the money that day?”

Doesn’t matter. In fact, from what I can tell, people who do this are actually put under investigation for fraud.

And yes, this system literally kills people.

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Remember when “Guardians of the Galaxy” came out? one of Rocket Racoon’s creators, Bill Mantlo, suffered an accident in 1992 and has irreparable brain damage.

before the movie came out, Marvel gave him an exclusive preview screening. SOme people were upset because they felt if Marvel was really wanted to thank mantlo, they should have donated money to Mantlo’s family.

Bill Mantlo’s brother had to come out and explain: If Marvel gave them monetary aid, Bill Mantlo would lose his financial assistance.

That’s so utterly depressing.

disgusting

I have friends on welfare who won’t pick up a penny in the street because they’d risk the welfare they struggled to get for 10 years.

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oh look another fucked up thing in this world. let’s just add it to the list. number 63858b

My brother has been on California State SSI for autism for the last 10 years, and he absolutely has to (no joke, HAS TO) spend all 720 bucks of his SSI every month, because if he puts it in the bank he risks losing his SSI altogether.

Sometimes, at the end of the month, he has no idea what to do with his money because the whole month went by and he still has 400-ish bucks in his account, and he fucking panics because he doesn’t want to get anywhere near 2,000.

And here’s the funnest part of the story!

One day he did a huge commission on Second Life and wound up earning 1500 bucks off of it, and he told the guy to donate it 500 bucks at a time over 3 months. The guy didn’t want to, and just donated all 1500, which put my brother at 2,036 bucks.

The state IMMEDIATELY (I’m talking less than an hour) called him up to tell him over the phone that they were canceling his SSI, because they noticed he had gone over the 2,000 buck threshold. He had to tell them that someone had made a charitable donation to him and that this was not a common occurrence in any way shape or form, and upon not believing him, my mother had to call to talk to them as his legal caretaker and say basically the same thing until they called off the cancellation of his SSI money.

He also had to cancel his renter’s assistance because it put him to 1,062 a month, so if he went 30 days without spending any money they’d cancel his SSI altogether. Like, none of us in the family have any fucking clue why that regulation is in place and it’s the stupidest shit in human history.

Please, legal side of Tumblr, tell me what positive reasoning this law has?

Happy 4th of July everyone! This is what the “nation of opportunity” looks like.

There’s something called an ABLE account that can help. If you are on SSI and were diagnosed as disabled before the age of 26 you can apply for an ABLE account that will allow you to save up to $99,000. More people need to know about this!

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transyasha

thank you so much for this information. i’m applying for an abled account right now

THERES A WHAT

OH GOD BLESS THE SHIT OUTTA YOU YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW FREAKED OUT OVER THIS I WAS

I’ve been looking into SSI; I had no idea about this!

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perksofbeingdisabled

Read till the end for the important info

Reblog to literally save a disabled person’s life

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This shit is why conservatives think disability is fun pampering, because they see disabled people have to come up with ways to get rid of the money and to them it looks like they must be rolling in excess.

shut the fuck up with "oh it's fine Kamala will just be resurrected" that's not the point you morons

idk how the fuck some of you are justifying playing this off as no big deal. white men decided to fridge the most prominent brown women in comics to piss people off. that's it. that's fucking gross and it doesn't magically get less gross because she'll get resurrected

Tamaranean names and I Am Not Starfire

Let’s talk about Kory’s name (as inspired by…I Am Not Starfire) and what I know about Tamaranean naming conventions (there isn’t much lmao) 

Kory’s name itself means ‘optimism of tomorrows’ (no, her name doesn’t translate to Starfire):

[The Tales of the New Teen Titans #4] 

She was born “at dawn, the hour of innocence” and was named as such–this might imply that Tamaranean naming conventions have something to do with the circumstances under which someone is born but that’s just conjecture on my part.  Now, Myand’r was the one to announce her name and may have been the one to give Kory her name–but his name is also super interesting. 

"you shouldnt make fun of people's hobbies and interests because they could be autistic and that could be their special interest" yes. But also maybe you shouldnt make fun of peoples hobbies and interests because its an asshole thing to do. To anyone (unless their hobbies are hurting others- but that should be a given)

Instead of thinking "i shouldnt be a dick to this person because they might be autistic." Try thinking "i shouldnt be a dick to this person because they're a person."

I dont want you to be nice to me because you pity me for being disabled,(or you want brownie points) i want you to be nice to me because im a human being

there’s no fucking reason you should use the panel where jason is attacking mia dearden and not know who she is only to prove that jason was SA’d. that point is crucial to mia’s character. stop stepping over women and their stories to benefit and further a man’s.

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I made this last year when reading Dracula Daily, but I was too much of a coward to post it. Now I am no longer held back by earthly matters such as "reputation".

This is the original text from the book, but wildly misinterpreted. enjoy

Okay, so first, it was 'Jonathan is so stupid for not realizing he's in danger and not trying to leave the castle, what a himbo!!', and now it's 'Jonathan is so stupid for ignoring Dracula's warning and trying to escape, he should listen to him!!', and this is exactly what I was referring to when I wrote about how reading the book through the lens of cynically memefying everything leads to distorting the text to fit a preconceived meme framework - in this case, the framework is 'Jonathan is stupid', so everything he does is going to be framed as stupidity, and there's an added layer here of how it mirrors abuse victims and survivors being blamed for their suffering, either bc 'why didn't he see the red flags and leave' or 'why didn't he do as he was told by his abuser and not try to leave', and either way, it's apparently cause for ridicule or infantalization.

And the latter is exactly what Dracula is doing right now, which many people have correctly pointed out! He has set up and manipulated Jonathan so that if - or when, given how the room he is writing in can be read as bait - something terrible happens to him as he tries to escape, Dracula can twist it as Jonathan only having himself to blame for not listening to Dracula's warnings that were framed as concern for Jonathan's safety.

i learned a while ago that the whole "most of the stars we see in the sky are actually already dead because they're so far away that we're seeing them as they were thousands of years ago" thing is a myth because stars live so long that it's unlikely many, if any, of them have burned out yet, but i'm still glad that myth exists because there's just something about the thought of the sky as a graveyard of stars that gets to me

It’s interesting because one day that will be true for some people in some planet out there, but we are so young, the universe is so young, that we live in a time when we get to see more stars born than we ever will see die. There’s poetry in looking up and seeing a star graveyard, but I think there’s also poetry in looking up and seeing a star nursery.

Like, momento mori but also momento vivere

Anonymous asked:

I love when comic characters have arcs about accepting that a loved one is never coming back in a universe where people regularly come back from the dead

sdgfhhkjgh comic book death is just so fascinating to me

because on the one hand yeah, it's SUPER FUNNY in the situations where the narrative doesn't at all engage with the idea of resurrection and just treats death the way it exists irl even though we as readers know damn well it doesn't...

but other approaches are what intrigue me so so SO much more

like, I think about Tim & Dick's fight around the Lazarus Pit during The Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul a lot:

(Nightwing (1996) #139)

Knowing some people get to come back, being painfully aware of it (quite literally in the above example considering the like two times Tim had interacted with Jason at that point were Jason slitting his throat during Hush and then breaking into Titans Tower to beat the shit out of him in his own makeshift Robin costume), and then getting so frustrated about how unfair it can be that some come back and others don't...

The fact that when you're facing a loss, when you see someone you love die—there's this glimmer of hope that maybe they'll get to come back too, but there's no way you can really know...

Then even if they do come back, is it ever gonna be the same? (Again: Look at Jason! I am constantly annoyed by 'oughghgh Lazarus Pit Madness made him like this' fanon, but the trauma of being murdered and feeling unavenged did a fuckin' number on his psyche that's for sure!!)

And then there's this bit with Cassie & Kon I think about a lot too:

(Teen Titans Vol. 3 #88)

Like, even when a person is back in front of you—if you spent time mourning and grieving it doesn't just go away! You know that you can lose them, you did lose them, even though they're back now there's no guarantee they'll stay back.

JUST... AGH!! There is genuinely so much interesting stuff to dig into when you actually acknowledge and engage with how fucking weird of a situation it would be to live in a world like that!

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@vampiregokudera YEAHHHH!!!!

I was trying to be a little more broad in the initial post rather than only talking about how these things affect Tim, but you're very correct in that it all hit Tim hard.

(Red Robin #15)
(Red Robin #25)
(Red Robin #26)

Like this very nearly pushed Tim into betraying his own morals and outright killing Boomerang himself... and not just in a rash moment of anger (like with the 'Tim thought he killed Johnny Warlock' situation back around Robin #123) but in a carefully plotted and thought out elaborate plan... It pushed him very far and he was able to reel himself back in, but god I do wish that the New 52 hadn't happened and we'd have gotten to see more of where Tim went from here—how he dealt with all of it moving forward...

In general the back half/FabNic part of Red Robin isn't my absolute favorite (imo it just pales in comparison to Yost's portion of the book, and I think FabNic across the instances he's written Tim usually has him err far too much into mastermind-y behavior & tries to make him noticeably more of a womanizer than he is under ANY OTHER WRITER) BUT even so there is definitely some interesting stuff in there with this storyline—how grief paired with this insane situation of 'resurrection is possible but it doesn't just happen to everyone/the people you think it should' can affect someone.