Merry Christmas Eve! Here’s this year’s annual Batgirl Supergirl holiday comic. I know It’s been a tough year for most and my wish for all is a peaceful and pleasant end to 2020. Hope Babs & Kara’s annual tradition helps bring a touch of that. 🙂 Enjoy! 🎄🎁🎅📺 ☮️💕
This is one of my favorite xmas traditions.
I’ve been holding on to this for a while. In… September? I was having a Really Bad Time. So I ended up making this comic to sort of… sort through some stuff. It really helped.
I hope maybe it can resonate with other people, too.
Reblogs would be very appreciated, so more people can see it <3
Welcome everyone, to the first round of The Crapshot Bracket. The inaugural poll for this tournament features not only the overall #1 seed, but a contest between Volume 1 originals.
Today’s matchups are:
Each poll will remain open for approximately one week.
Good luck to all in this tournament, and don’t get eliminated.
For clarification: Do you think artists who represent and promote groups that aim to hurt people deserve to be defended by virtue of being artists? I'm just trying to separate the discourse from the chaff here.
Hey, you seem like an alright person! :] I’ll respond to this.I don’t think anyone deserves to be defended just by virtue of being an artist, and nazis can go fuck themselves (the whole webcomic community thinks this, it’s not really in contention). However, let’s take a look at who Tumblr harasses:
Sam Hyde
Alt-right.
Never harassed by Tumblr.
Red Panels
Alt-right.
Never harassed by Tumblr
He He Silly Comics
Alt-right.
Never harassed by Tumblr.
Erika Moen
Sex-positive feminist.
Harassed viciously by Tumblr for a mistake she made 8 (!) years ago and thoroughly apologize for, because they needed a justification for harassing her because of the cuck comic.
Adam Ellis
Left liberal?
Harassed viciously by Tumblr for reusing some assets, then further harassment justified because he decided to sass the people harassing him a bit. Apologized for the sass, harassment continued.
Ohnips
Liberal? Maybe libertarian at most?
Harassed viciously by Tumblr because of Dream Daddy fanart, then further harassment justified because afterwards it was revealed that she’s ignorant on some issues.
So, what am I meant to think, when people pull all of this shit, and when I call it out they say “but what about nazis???” Yeah, what about nazis? Tumblr never actually fucking harasses nazis. They prefer to dedicate their energy to fairly well intentioned people who they’ve deemed “problematic.” And often, deemed “problematic” AFTER the harassment has already begun, in order to justify the harassment. :)
By all means, harass a nazi today, my dudes. You won’t see me interfering.
But don’t bullshit me.
Okay I’m only gonna say this once and preface this with the fact that I am Eyak and I probably do not want to hear your opinion on the Pharah skins Raindancer/Thunderbird. This is a really soul baring post so I’m not so sure about people reblogging it, if you do just try to be respective and remember this isn’t a go-ahead to go and appropriate all native cultures.
They’re pretty damn clearly based on Pacific Northwest tribal cultures. The ones I can pick out being Eyak/Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian, but we often get grouped together so that doesn’t surprise me. There are many more, but I don’t claim familiarity with all tribes and I can’t say if their art styles and myths were used.
For your comparison a little sample of the tribe’s artistic styles just to get the point across:
And I really have to get something off my chest people. I don’t have a problem with these skins, in fact I adore them. Please just chill with me for a second while I explain.
The biggest issue I see here is people (who usually arn’t ndn, let alone from pac nw tribes) yelling about cultural appropriation. Which good! I’m glad people are on guard for it! But it’s entirely possible that Pharah’s father was Eyak/Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian or from another closely related Pacific Northwest tribe, so we can’t really call that yet. It wouldn’t surprise me if he was.
Most importantly, speaking as an Eyak. Which is all I can do despite Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian being so closely related, our tribe’s relationship with cultural appropriation is uh, not exactly the norm.
The last Eyak fluent speaker died in 2008, her name was Chief Marie Smith Jones and she was also the last full-blooded Eyak on Earth. The very last. Please appreciate Eyak culture. It’s the only way it’s going to survive. There’s less than 500 of us remaining, and we’re scattered more and more every year. Families I grew up with in Alaska converted to Catholicism. The military took my family across the globe and left us an entire continent away. The language I learned at the dinner table in 1998 now almost exclusively exists on those cassette tapes my white father recorded that night and in reconstructive attempts from a French academic that studied our language from halfway across the globe.
It sucks shit guys, it really does.
When I first saw the Thunderbird skin I cried, I cried for an hour. Because Overwatch is huge. It will live on for years if not decades. And there’s Pharah with her hair in braids I haven’t seen my mother wear in over a decade. Wearing the colors that remind me of a home I no longer have. Embodying a mythic figure that I trusted to protect me during Y2K and sought out constellations in the sky for.
So before you spew vitriol about how racist it is that they did that. Just kind of chill out and think about different perspectives for a moment. If you really want to help us? Consider taking a poke about http://www.eyakpeople.com/ and taking a look at our language revitalization project! It’s pretty fun and you could even learn a language out of it.
AwA’ahdah (Thank You)
I know a lot of y'all watch The Daily Show or are at least aware of it. Months ago before Stewart left the show he covered a lot of the VA’s fuckery. The lost records, the backlog, the months and years it takes to process shit, etc. One of the things he covered was the ABSOLUTE NONSENSE policy about “if you’re within 40 miles of the nearest VA facility as the crow flies the VA won’t send/cover you seeing a civilian for any issue”
This included, for example, a veteran who had to make a 3 hour drive for chemotherapy because TECHNICALLY he had a VA clinic within 40 miles… but that VA clinic didn’t have chemo. So because he has A BUILDING, doesn’t matter WHICH, the VA won’t cover his chemotherapy closer to home at a non-VA facility.
Jon Stewart making this policy public made the VA update one big thing… the “as the crow flies” shit. Because they were figuring 40 miles in, like, a direct path and roads don’t work like that.
Great, ONE good update.
Just so y'all know, all the REST of that shit? STILL APPLIES.
The clinic within 40 miles of me doesn’t have physical therapy. The hospital over 40 miles away DOES. If I need physical therapy, the VA will not cover me doing it closer to home because the clinic that DOESN’T OFFER THAT SERVICE is close to me.
*sighs*
I wish I had… I don’t know. Reach? Political influence? A more powerful voice? I wish I could spread this like wildfire, get politicians to listen to actual veterans instead of just using us as talking points while supporting policies that fuck us over. I feel frustrated and helpless. I’ll say this, the actual DOCTORS? The nurses, and other healthcare people inside the VA? Are just as frustrated and they KNOW it’s bullshit but their hands are tied.
We’re tired. Veterans are so… tired. I want to fight this, make a stand. But I also don’t want to be a goddamn target. I’m in daily pain and adding the inevitable harassment of a veteran making a stand, much less a young female veteran who wasn’t in “long enough” for some other shitty vets and pro-military-hoorah people to count as a “real” vet (fuck me for getting hurt early on, right? Totally my fault there)
Yeah. So there’s that. Fun times. Fun fucking times.
It’s finally, finally here *___* After months of work, Here’s my first comic ever, “Ozymandias”, based on the poem by Percy Shelley. If you want to support me, you can buy a hi-res PDF of the comic, along with some sketches, a very small 1 page tutorial, and the full-res PSD on gumroad for 2 dollars here:
Purchase Comic & PSD Thank you to everyone <3
How many altos does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None, they can’t get that high.
How many sopranos does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
One, she holds it up and waits for the world to revolve around her.
How many singers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Two. An alto to actually do it and a soprano to stand by and ask “isn’t that a little high for you?”
u wanna fucking go
here for this fight
How do you know a soprano is at your door?
She can’t find the key and doesn’t know where to come in
i deserve to be alone
Khajiit stole nothing….Khajiit is innocent of this crime.
Dorks in love ( ♥ω♥)
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A black protester at Trump’s rally today in Alabama was shoved, tackled, punched & kicked: https://t.co/Aq0wuaAtax pic.twitter.com/cTRDMtjuBl— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) November 21, 2015
Trump was asked to weigh in on his supporters’ actions on Fox & Friends Sunday morning. “Maybe he should have been roughed up,” he said. “It was disgusting what he was doing.” The Republican frontrunner compared what happened at his rally to a Black Lives Matter protest at a Bernie Sanders event, which prompted the Democratic candidate to release a detailed racial justice plan. “This is not the way Bernie Sanders handled his problem, I will tell you, but I have a lot of fans and they were not happy about it. And this was a very obnoxious guy, a troublemaker, looking to make trouble,” Trump said.
Trump continues to rise in polls, because I guess this is the sort of thing Republican primary voters like, and this is the guy they want to be the President of the United States of (some of) America. What the actual fuck is happening right now?
I’m glad my brother gets me. Not just saying that.
While discussing the natural open mindedness of the modern nerd… http://ourvaluedcustomers.blogspot.com/
i have never had a video game so successfully fuck with my head like this holy shit
(feeling lonely is feeling like there is something missing from you that everyone else has, something secret you can’t reach)
