God I’m cute in a mask tho
letter from a mother of a gay man. sent to ONE magazine, 1958.
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This post was flagged as adult content and the original poster was deactivated so I'm bringing it back.
Riva Lehrer
Alison Bechdel and I started working together while she was writing Are You My Mother. For years, she’d done a comic strip titled Dykes To Watch Out For, which tracked what it meant to be lesbian during years that you may as well have been Martian. Bechdel walked away from that work to write about her father in Fun Home, and now its sequel. Our portrait came out of conversations about looking back. I drew her pursued by the specter of her mother and the ghosts of her comic-book dykes.
every time a law is passed under a header stopping just shy of being, like, "the exterminate all trannies act 2023" inevitably there's a discussion on here going on about how some slight minutiae of it is worded incorrectly, and that such a law will affect real cis women too! the horror. except, of course, it never does and never will, because that simply isn't the - extremely clear cut - intent behind it! and all we get out of this charade is people using it as an excuse to completely separate trans women from being the victims of their own oppression, as it happens, in real time. wunderbar.
It's the same appeal to hypocracy that liberals and moderates fucking love to deploy despite the fact that fascists don't care about being hypocrites. 'If you read it a certain way, cis women are affected, which means that if only trans people are targeted then it's inconsistent!' none of the people pushing trans genocide care about consistency - hell, their entire worldview hinges on double standards.
The other deployment is along the lines of 'look at these dipshits they can't even write the genocide laws correctly' which. is not helpful.
like, i've never seen 'cis people could be affected by this' deployed to honestly try to convince anyone who doesn't already think that trans people should be allowed to be alive. it wouldn't be rhetorically effective. It's just also not a particularly useful sentiment in the contexts where it *does* get deployed.
- letters from the end of the world
Transcript:
First Contact Is Made With A Little Girl Skipping Rocks At A Creek
Hi! Do you want to share my creekbed? Mama says it isn't my creekbed, it belongs to the world, but I call it mine because I'm the only one who ever uses it. Wanna skip rocks? We can race. I'll even let you have my smoother ones, they're best for skipping. You don't know how? Here, like this. No, move that bit more. Your wrists are funny. Your whole body's funny. Mama says that's mean to say, but how can it be mean? Being funny is a good thing. I've got a funny toe. It's smaller than all the others, see? Oh wow, your toes are funny too. No silly, you can't step over there--that's where all the poliwogs live. They're baby frogs. You can stick your fingers in and wiggle at them if you promise to be gentle.
Boy, you sure got a lot of fingers. Oh, they like you! Aren't they cute? When I grow up, I'm gonna have a whole poliwog family. They'll live in my bathtub. Why do you have so many hands? || wish I had that many hands. I bet you'll be real good at rock skipping. Do you have creeks where you live? I come out here a lot. Sometimes if I'm real quiet, the beavers will come out with their babies. Do you have beavers where you live? They look like this, with their teeth. And they have great big tails that slap the water, like this. They eat trees, and they build houses with them too. Their house is called dam but Mama says I'm not allowed to say that. Grown ups are always telling us what words we can't say, but that's just because they're embarrassed. They say the words by accident a lot. Look! See that? It's a wooly bear! His fur's all orange, and that means it's gonna be a good summer. You wanna meet Mama? Maybe she'll make us some ice cream, since you're a guest. Careful! The big rocks are slippery. Here, hold my hand. This is how I walk with Mama so she won't lose me. I won't let you fall.
End Transcript.
Haven't seen this pointed out yet but do you know what you can do if you run out of shows to watch? Read a book.
Do you know where you can get free books (and movies, audiobooks, and cds)? Public libraries.
Do you know what is currently under attack by many parts of our government and could really use your support? Public libraries.
i’m so glad even and cascabel invented romance!!
who else thought signet and cascara were about to kiss in that one scene at the end of the ache arc, Because
me, incorrect: everyone is probably sick of me drawing this character by now...
my inner voice, wise: ah, but this cannot be... because I am part of "everyone"... and until I am sick of drawing them... it will not be everyone
me, opening a new blank canvas: ur so right
Reblog if you never once have been even remotely bothered by seeing someone draw the same character over and over again
she knot my garlic till i get bread
i said this in a discord call yesterday and my friends were speculating that it could get upward of 2k notes so im really glad they had faith in me
On the Approach is like. a fucking song for real. im just sitting here jamming
i think that if squirrels had the capacity to use and understand language they would constantly be saying shit like "I'm such a nutpilled stumpcel" and so on
how do i delete someone elses post
u have to gather seven sacred objects of power and shit. it's a whole quest. sorry
Annals of US city governance, we are finally embracing the radical notion of trash bins:
The new rule is part of the city’s broader plan to move trash into containers, a simple yet revolutionary change in New Yorkers’ trash habits. To do so could easily cost the city hundreds of millions of dollars over the next decade. City officials must buy new specialized trash trucks and stationary containers, while also increasing the frequency of residential trash collection in large swaths of the city.
"Specialized trash trucks and stationary containers" how will we develop this frontier technology??
Other cities like Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Singapore have already embraced trash containerization.
Genius sentence, the way its structured to imply only the best of the best in modern cities have piloted this crazy idea. Soon NYC will be on the elite list of cities not dumping bags of trash openly on the streets! If you find yourself asking "wait why has this not happened yet", well:
City officials found that it was possible to use trash containers on 89 percent of the city’s residential streets, but it would require removing 150,000 parking spots
So, yup.
something something developed country something
We are so rich we can afford to support rat populations into the millions unlike sick continent Europe.
People keep talking about Finland being robbed but “I’m being possessed by the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe and he’s not contributing to the rent” definitely deserved to place higher on the scoreboard than it did.
Anonymous asked:
is necromancy more of an art or a science
more of a social science, really. demographic issues, iffy methodologies... intersection of "people doing things" and "let's use number magic on this"... the parameters of the field are constantly evolving... probably surveys are involved somehow
Athens
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