ThePrettiestOne

gamerdogg:

gamerdogg:

amydentata:

cynixy:

snarksonomy:

mquester:

aliceinpunderland:

odditycollector:

trashy-prince:

sweetguts:

suddenlycomics:

nursemchurt:

dmh3000:

Every damn year. 

I need to learn how to draw a decent Batman pic.

So what you’re trying to say is that women people prefer well-drawn pictures of their favorite superheroes over really shitty indie comics about boobs?

Sounds right.

Are we supposed to feel sorry for the person whose humor comic featuring a disembodied pair of breasts on the cover is getting passed over?

Incredible.

this feels like it should be a parody but it isnt and that’s hilarious

maybe try not being sexist unfunny douchelords next time

HEY, WE DO A HUMOR COMIC ABOUT [SOMETHING THAT LOOKS EXTREMELY SEXIST] HEY WHERE ARE YOU GOING

No, no way is this a serious complaint (I said to myself). No one’s that un-self aware. This has got to be a parody about gross “indie” comics skeeving up the con atmosphere, and the schadenfreude we’re totally intended to feel at their failure.

So I went to the OP’s tumblr to check context and.

This was just supposed to be a comic about how hard it can be for the unknowns to find their audience. Anything else you see is your own interpretation of the page.

They are serious.

That is more hilarious than any punchline actually in the comic. I’m honestly crying with laughter right now.

wow cry me a THOUSAND tears about how hard it is for white men to get into the comics industry by drawing tits

I can think of very few female comic readers who wouldn’t choose the Green Lantern image over a comic with nothing but boobs on the cover :P If the OP wants female fans as their target audience, they need to make some changes or expect not to get any of their money.

Oh god… he edited the original post to “Apologies to anyone offended by the cover.”  … Not “Apologies, I made a really gross and alienating statement.”  He does this in another post, as well trying to justify it all.   /facedesk

Wow, this is a perfect example of the creative blind spots I’ve been talking about. This comic was not intended to be satire. The OP completely missed the significance of having just a pair of boobs on a magazine cover and its effect on a female audience. In the OP’s own words:

“In the original script I said there was a comic being held up without specifying what was on it, so Paul just drew a pair of breasts and I put the page up because at the time I saw nothing wrong with it, and when I put it on tumblr, the unfortunate implications never crossed my mind until they were pointed out to me.”

There was no sexist intent behind this comic (or clever expose of sexism), but this clearly illustrates how so much offensive content gets released in comics, games, and other media. It looks okay to the people making it.

This is why we need women, PoC, and LGBT people in industries that are dominated by one POV. We need to start viewing content through more than one lens.

I talk about it at length HERE.

(emphasis mine)

Complete and uncensored, the reason many people take issue with the comics world (and other media dominated by homogenous culture). Straight from the horse’s mouth, unintentionally.

I had to read that comic three times to believe it.

This deserves a second reblog.

staghunts:

egobirth:

unexplained-events:

Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

VIDEO

this is so cute lol

Originally an episode of Nova on PBS.

Available in full for your viewing pleasure.

queergraffiti:

je-me-libere:

The best bathroom graffiti

“support trans youth unconditionally”

“unless they’re, I dunno, gonna stab you or something. Then you can tell them to fuck off… but not cause they’re trans. Cause they’re stabbing.”

found at Dewitt Mall in Ithaca, New York, USA

intj-confessions:

ischemgeek:

fuckyeah-nerdery:

pyronoid-d:

escapedosmil:

nizzlekicks:

When you broke but you woke

Wait… Guys what?

Is this what you guys think it means when GMO comes up in conversation?

Do you know what else is a GMO?

Dogs. Literally ALL dogs have had their genetics modified to make them more docile, loyal, trusting, energetic, obedient ect.

Ears of corn used to be the size of your thumb. Through selective ‘breeding’ we chose the strains of corn that were the biggest, fastest growing, most resilient ect. Ect.

THAT is a GMO. I don’t know where the idea that genetic modification meant they’re injecting your food stuffs with chemicals to change its DNA. That’s not how it works.

However, they ARE spraying your veggies with pesticides and that is something you should be worried about.

Companies like Monsanto are evil. But not because they are breeding crops to feed more people. But because they’re monopolizing the farming market, sueing farmers who share a geographic area and have some of the same strains of crops in their fields because of unavoidable cross pollination and lying about their business practices.

This is Normal Borlaug. In 1942 he received his Ph. D in plant pathology and genetics. In Mexico, he developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease resistant varieties of wheat. A genetically modified food. He introduced these to Mexico, Pakistan and India, resulting in double the wheat yields in a 5 year span. In 1970, Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for saving one billion lives from starvation, and contributing to world peace through increasing the world food supply.

Genetically modified food is great.

This, a thousand fucking times this. Privilege is spouting and spreading pseudo-science bullshit you saw on your Facebook feed or on Twitter because unlike people in drought and famine prone areas of the world, you have the option to do just that. Those other parts of the world that don’t have the benefit of a food surplus and can’t pick and choose what they eat depend on GMOs to not die of starvation or watch their children waste away.

I despise Monsanto as much as the next person and if they ever go out of business, I’ll be the first to dance a jig, but condemning GMOs just because one megacorp is a pile of shitbags is beyond idiotic. If scientists can create new strains of seeds that can withstand disease, pests, all while yielding more foodstuff, then we should be throwing our support behind them.

Also, “They are feeding us chemicals!” is a fundamentally ridiculous statement. 

Why? 

As a chemist, I’m gonna let you in on a little secret: 

Everything is chemicals.

Scientists have added extra nutrients to calorie-rich, but nutrient-poor foods that can be grown in countries with limited agriculture. And yet oftentimes they are blocked from getting these GMOs to the countries that desperately need them because of ignorant arguments like this. So yes, pat yourself on the back for stopping a technology that can help prevent starvation because you don’t know how chemicals work.

“The anti-gay rhetoric of the right is turning into, “Gays are actually bigoted against us because we don’t get to express our religious freedom.” Religion has always been used for beautiful things, and also as a way to justify discrimination—whether it’s gender, or race, or the LGBT community, or what have you… First, just do not treat people like second-class citizens. Please do not devalue our love. Do not make us compromise on how we share our love with another person. Saying that we cannot get married like heterosexual people can, that is what you’re doing. Please don’t give me this religious rhetoric. I don’t actually care. You are completely devaluing who we are as people.”

- Ellen Page on LGBTQ rights (via illyanapryde)

thefullmotivationispeople:

xenowhore:

goddess3:

My friend just sent me this pic. I’ve never seen a better cosplay

OH MY GOD

THIS IS THE GREATEST THING TO EVER EXIST EVER

salon:

1. Limits on ATM Withdrawals for Welfare Recipients in Kansas

Governor Sam Brownback and his supporters in the state legislature of Kansas have turned their state into dystopian inspiration for a post-apocalyptic thriller, slashing social services, and leaving the poor to suffer — and in many cases actually die — for lack of basic essentials. In April, Brownback signed a bill making it illegal for welfare recipients to withdraw more than $25 from an ATM at one time. Although the policy might violate federal law, state officials have recently expressed steadfast commitment to its implementation and enforcement. The policy manages to achieve the trifecta of mean-spiritedness, dangerous negligence of human needs, and Orwellian intervention into the private lives of citizens from the state.

2. Revocation of Driver’s License in Montana and Iowa For Missing Student Loan Payments

Failure to make student loan payments in Iowa and Montana will result in delinquent borrowers losing their driver’s licenses. With student loan defaults on the rise, and rates of poverty, even among the college educated, increasing, states are developing punitive measures to damage the lives of those already buried in student debt. Tennessee, for example, will revoke the nursing license of a nurse who fails to make student loan payments. Iowa and Montana are the worst offenders, however. Losing the ability to drive, especially in largely rural states without sophisticated public transit, will reduce the potential for poor people to work, take children to school, and take any step toward escaping poverty.

3. Arkansas Arrests and Prosecutes People for Missing Rent Payments

According to an in-depth, detailed investigation by Human Rights Watch, “Arkansas is the only US state where tenants can end up as convicted criminals because they did not pay their rent on time.” Arkansas has a unique and singularly monstrous “failure to vacate” law. Failure to Vacate allows prosecutors to charge tenants as criminals without any evidence outside the landlord’s testimony. Tenants face fines far exceeding the rent they owe, and in many cases, a sentence of jail time.

4. Using the Poor as ATMs: Harsh Financial Penalties for Minor Infractions and Traffic Violations

The Justice Department did not find cause to prosecute former Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown, but it did gather undeniable evidence proving that the poor, and in this case, mostly black residents of Ferguson live under occupation from the Ferguson police force. “Officers routinely conduct stops that have little relation to public safety and a questionable basis in law,” the Department of Justice explained. “Issuing three or four charges in one stop is not uncommon,” according to the report, “Officers sometimes write six, eight, or, in at least one instance, fourteen citations for a single encounter.” In 2012, 19 percent of Ferguson’s budget derived from the imposition of fines and court fees.

5. The Return of Debtors’ Prisons

After an exhaustive study of legal harassment and predatory targeting of the poor in Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Georgia, and Washington, the ACLU concluded “that poor defendants are being jailed at increasingly alarming rates for failing to pay legal debts they can never hope to afford.” The Supreme Court ruled the imprisonment of poor people for failure to pay legal fees unconstitutional, but many states ignore the law with impunity, as their powerless victims have little recourse to challenge their jailers. In Georgia, to cite one egregious example, authorities prosecuted a mentally ill teenager for stealing school supplies. The cost of her incarceration in juvenile detention centers came to a total of $4,000. The teenage girl was released only after her mother was able to pay the bill in full. In the Georgia case, and many others across America, the state functions as hostage taker, demanding family members pay ransom for the release of their loved ones.

6. Voter Identification Requirements Suppress Poor People’s Votes

Voter Identification requirements in southern states, and elsewhere, make it much more difficult for the poor to exercise their civic right to oppose the very policies, such as those enumerated above, that damage them.

Read the full article

lunapics:

apocalyptic-genderpunk:

selchieproductions:

• Daemon - The only one you’re appropriating is Pullman and by appropriating Pullman you’re upsetting no-one, save possibly the Pope.

• Patronus - Wizards everywhere are more than willing to lend you this term and the geekiness is an added bonus. I just read that geeks are sexy, or so the Metro, so, there you go, a patronus is clearly your next ascribed accessory. 

Patron Saint: the catholic church is the biggest, richest and most powerful organisation in the world, so the pope can just plop his ass down in his big fancy throne and let it slide.

Kindred Spirit! Channel your inner 19th century spunky lass.

212pawprints:

amroyounes:

Time for happy things

I love this.

theinturnetexplorer:

forever awkward

when you can’t figure out how to order food

when you can never understand the project instructions or rubrics you are given

mickeyandcompany:

Things you didn’t know about Lilo & Stitch (adapted from Oh My Disney)

vaspider:

huffingtonpost:

One Woman’s Reaction To Every ‘White Man’s Sentence’

That’s how Melissa Lozada-Oliva begins her powerful spoken word poem “Like Totally Whatever” that she performed at the 2015 National Poetry Slam earlier this month. Lozada-Oliva details the subtle sexism engrained in the critiques of how women speak. 

Watch the full poem here.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS Yes YES yes YES this amg yes.

thefutureisbroken:

thatsreallyproblematic:

dajo42:

imagine showing up to work one day and all the windows are broken, stuff is all tipped over and scattered around the floor and it seems like there’s nobody around

but then you see this sign and somebody’s spray-painted a big red 0 over the number of days

and you hear a loud screech behind you

Time to square up mother fucker

I’m glad someone had the wherewithal to update the sign which could literally be the last thing they ever do.

As conservatives spread lies blaming the Black Lives Matter movement for the recent deaths of police officers, the greatest safety risk to police is all but being ignored publicly: suicide.

In 2013, the last year on public record, 126 police officers committed suicide.

"Suicides can happen in any profession, but they occur 1.5 times more frequently in law enforcement compared to the general population," psychiatric nurse Pamela Kulbarsh wrote in an Oct. 9 article for Officer.com.

"Quite truthfully, the actual rate is probably higher as law enforcement suicides are more likely to be underreported or misclassified as accidental deaths. This misclassification usually occurs to protect the family, other survivors, or the agency from the stigma of suicide," she wrote.

Compare that to 47 police officers who were shot and killed in 2014 or the 43 that are predicted to be shot and killed this year, and it's increasingly clear that people who love police officers and want to see them do well in life should seriously consider focusing on their mental health.

Instead, police departments stock up on military-style tanks and body armor, which do nothing whatsoever when your greatest pain is in your mind. Not only that, but studies are showing that as many as 25 percent of police officers are battling drug addictions, more than twice the national average.

All of this is deeply disturbing because the mental, emotional, and physical health of the men and women paid to protect us is vital for a safe and fair America, but people claiming to love police are strangely focusing on Black Lives Matter.

America. 2015.

elvishness:

hades & persephone & cerberus the lap dog

Leonard Pitts on the difference between religious liberty and simple intolerance.

[Kim] Davis... made international headlines for her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She had, should it need saying, not a legal leg to stand on, the Supreme Court having ruled in June that states may not bar such couples from marrying. On Thursday, Davis was jailed for contempt. The thrice-divorced clerk had said she was acting upon “God’s authority” and fighting for “religious liberty.”

The political right has long had a genius for wrapping noxious notions in code that sounds benign and even noble. The “Patriot Act,” “family values,” and “right to work.” are fruits of that genius. “Religious liberty” is poised to become their latest masterpiece, the “states’ rights” of the battle for a more homophobic America. ...

Of course, like all good code, this one hides its true meaning in the banality of its words. ... “religious liberty” as defined by Davis and her supporters is about what happens in the wide world beyond those parameters, about whether there exists a right to deny ordinary, customary service and claim a religious basis for doing so. And there does not.

As usual, Pitts does an excellent job of slicing away the weasel words and coming to the core of the issue.

Who would welcome a future where you couldn’t just enter a place and expect service but, rather, must read the signs to determine if it caters to people of your sexual orientation, marital status, religion or race?

The "religious liberty" that Davis and her ilk seek is nothing more than the permission to be be prejudiced – a spiritual "get out of treating people fairly" card. And that's something we must not issue.

Now come on in. I picked up some donuts on the way over, and there's coffee brewing...

an unfamiliar cat: (approaches me)
me, internally: this cat senses my inner worth

aranel-parmadil:

ormondhsacker:

randsexual:

scifigrl47:

gingerjuju:

I just don’t understand where this concept of ‘fake geek girls’ came from. Like, AT ALL.

Cus when I look for fandom related stuff like 90% of the fan art and the fanfiction and the meta, zines, comics, etc. Like 90% of the shit that I’ve seen is created by women & girls.

And all that stuff take’s a lot of work and research and critical analysis and staring at reference photos for hours.

We are literally the most well versed and invested group in the fandom. So, like, What the fuck boys? You mad you can’t keep up?

I saw an argument, and I can’t find it now, but it totally made sense, that there’s a gender split in fandom. Male fandom tends to be a curator fandom; male fandom collects, organizes, and memorizes facts and figures. Male fandom tends to be KEEPERS of the canon; the fandom places great weight on those who have the biggest collection, the deepest knowledge of obscure subjects, the first appearances, creators, character interactions.

Female fandom is creative. Females create fanart, cosplay, fanwritings. Female fandom ALTERS canon, for the simple reason that canon does not serve female fandom. In order for it to fit the ‘outsider’ (female, queer, POC), the canon must be attacked and rebuilt, and that takes creation.

“Male” fandom devalues this contribution to fandom, because it is not the ‘right’ kind of fandom. “Girls only cosplay for attention, they’re not REAL fans!” “Fanfiction is full of stupid Mary Sues, girls only do it so they can make out with the main character!” “I, a male artist, have done this pin-up work and can put it in my portfolio! You, a female artist, have drawn stupid fanart, and it’s not appropriate to use as a professional reference!”

In the mind of people who decry the ‘fake geek girl,’ this fandom is not as worthy. It damages, or in their mind, destroys the canon. What is the point of memorizing every possible romantic entanglement of heterosexual white Danny Rand if someone turns around and creates a fanwork depicting him as a bisexual female of Asian descent (thus subverting Rand’s creepy ‘white savior’ origins)? When Danny Rand becomes Dani Rand, their power is lessened. What is important to them ceases to be the focus of the discussion. Creation and curatorship can work in tandom, but typically, in fandom, they are on opposite poles.

This is not to say that there aren’t brilliant male cosplayers or smashing female trivia experts, this is to say that the need of the individual fan is met with opposing concepts: In order for me to find myself in comics, I need to make that space for myself, and that is a creative force. Het white cis males are more likely to do anything possible to defend and preserve the canon because the canon is built to cater to them.

This is genuinely the best post I have ever read.

Comment bolded by me because effing important that’s why.

This.

copperbadge:

yamneko:

bogleech:

Here’s the thing about Halloween: all year long if you live in America you’re under a steady assault by this right-wing traditional faux-wholesome pseudo-Christian nuclear patriot family atmosphere, and then all the sudden as the weather cools and the days shorten the country loses its marbles decking everything out in bloody corpses, demon faces, witchcraft and giant rubber bugs. Half the country thinks they’re the Addams Family for 1-3 months while a small chunk of weiners get angry that it’s “pagan” or something.

I don’t know if anyone in any other cultural environment can really understand how that feels. It’s the antithesis of the “love jesus and eagles or GIT OUT” under(over)tone American culture is usually about.

And even though it generates billions of dollars, there’s no pressure, shaming or guilting to spend money on it like there is for certain other holidays. We spend that much on Halloween just because it’s fun and we want to, rather than some unspoken (usually unspoken) rule that you must buy extravagant gifts or you’re a heathen scrooge and you don’t love your family.

and it’s when everything is themed with black and it’s totally acceptable 

This is actually one of the original purposes of Halloween.

Halloween, like Mardi Gras, descends from the inversion festival. Inversion festivals were a necessary part of most highly regimented and class-divided ancient cultures, such as Rome. You spent all year keeping rigidly to your class and policing others to do the same, living a life of very public behaviors, worshipping very specifically and obeying societal laws you may not agree with and which may not be to your benefit.

But ah, then the festival time came. The rules were thrown out. Sometimes the classes were literally inverted and the nobility were forced to serve. Nothing was taboo. The macabre, the ugly, the things that violated all laws of polite society were glorified. For a period of time – often longer in proportion to how regimented your society was – you were free to do and be exactly what you wanted. You could wear a costume. You could hide from the world behind a mask. You could make all the noise you wanted and nobody would stop you because it was driving out the evil in the community (the evil often being the stress of living in a very outward-facing, regimented society). 

And America, whatever anyone says, is an incredibly regimented and class-oriented society. So our lead-in to Halloween is two months long. 

Halloween is one of America’s only true inversion festivals. Christmas has terribly rigid expectations and heaps of stress, Thanksgiving makes you want to kill your whole family, the fourth of July it’s too fuckin’ hot, St. Patrick’s Day is too short and it’s filled with douchebags. Memorial Day is for mourning, Labor Day you’re about to start school again. Mardi Gras is a great, very historic inversion festival, but it’s also fairly localized. Pride comes close, and is a very badly needed form of inversion festival for its participants, but it’s not universal and it also involves aspects of activism and protest which use inversion but are not part of inversion. 

Halloween is it. It’s our national cut-loose party. And that’s not accidental. Halloween has been an inversion festival since before it had that name, since ancient people realized the harvest was over, the dark short days were coming, and everyone was gonna have to spend the next four months indoors trying not to murder one another. 

joshreads:

gosh whoever could the wrong people be, do you think

well, corporations are also people, so

evilsupplyco:

The average length of a black cat’s whiskers: perfect.

The sound a bat makes when you give it a treat: adorable.

The number of ghosts present at any given villainous tea party: enough, but there is always room for more should some pass by.

The strength of any given witch coven: …it is best not to test.

The distance between a mad scientist’s reach and the tool they need at any given moment: Distance = Reach + 3 steps + 2 muffled curses.

Acceptable time to talk to an owl: Let them talk first. And offer coffee.

“[W]hen people like Huckabee and Cruz come to Davis’s defense, they’re not standing for religious liberties. They’re advocating for someone’s ability to use her role as a government official to impose her religion on others, including people on her own staff, in a way that discriminates against same-sex couples. If that doesn’t violate the separation of church and state enshrined in the Constitution, I’m not sure what does.”

- Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee’s support for Kim Davis gets religious liberty all wrong

The Black Lives Matter movement has spawned a hugely critical companion movement, called Black Mamas Matter.

"I was hurting so bad I didn't know what to do with myself," remembers Tiffany, who was forced to labor for hours in a basement hallway of the public hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, where she had sought maternity care. Despite her sister's pleas for the nurses' attention, Tiffany was completely ignored until the baby started to crown. ...

Aaliyah's doctor at the public hospital neglected routine prenatal care, and as a result her baby spent three weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit. LaKeisha developed a serious infection following her C-section due to inadequate follow-up care. When Kayla gave birth to a baby with several malformations to the hands and feet, doctors refused to let her hold her daughter and instead interrogated her about suspected drug use.

Such lapses in quality maternal care are all-too-familiar experiences for many women of color. Nationwide, black families are nearly four times more likely to face the loss of a new mother than white families and black women are twice as likely to suffer severe pregnancy complications such as heart attack, shock, blood clot, or hysterectomy.

It's not just the criminal justice system killing black people. Discrimination is endemic to plenty of systems in our society, the healthcare system among them but particularly in maternal and child health. That's why more than 20 experts working on maternal health met this summer in Atlanta, beginning the Black Mamas Matter movement. They are working to highlight the fact that there are counties in the deep south that have a higher rate of maternal death in childbirth than parts of sub-Saharan Africa. That in Atlanta, a city with some world-class health facilities, "African American women die in childbirth at a rate more than three times the national average."

This is fundamentally a systemic, society-wide problem. But right now it's also a political one. There are two ongoing political battles that directly affect the health of African-American women—the refusal of almost all of the southern states to refuse Medicaid expansion and the renewed effort to shutdown Planned Parenthood. Both of these political fights are trying to limit what matters most to all women's health—sex education, contraception, abortion, and prenatal care—but disproportionately black women living in the south. The sickening state of black maternal health in the country should be a centerpiece in these ongoing fights.

Black lives most definitely matter, beginning with the ones who create them.

“Princess Leia, Rey, and Captain Phasma Star Wars fancy dress outfits, being sold at Disney Stores”

Source

Nice! Empowering, non-sexualized costumes for girls just in time for Halloween!  

susiephone:

i have a headcanon that after the second wizarding war, muggle technology got sort of integrated into hogwarts to allow closer communication with muggle friends and family

so they have like phones and stuff to use to call home

little daisy dursley calls home on her first day of school

Daisy: “Daddy, I made it into Ravenclaw!”

Dudley: “Oh, Ravenclaw, the, um–” [covers receiver and turns to Harry] “What the hell does that mean?”

Harry: “Smart house.”

Dudley: [goes back to Daisy] “THE SMART HOUSE! Oh, I am so proud of you!”

maa-iingan:

VOTE FOR HIM

superdames:

Jen really likes being She-Hulk! And who can blame her?

—Marvel Graphic Novel #18: The Sensational She-Hulk (1985) by John Byrne