Spotted on Birdsite: Rey cosplayers recreate snapping scene
All the Reys snapping đ #WonderCon #ReysForDays
â Keri Bean (@PlanetaryKeri) March 25, 2018
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Spotted on Birdsite: Rey cosplayers recreate snapping scene
All the Reys snapping đ #WonderCon #ReysForDays
â Keri Bean (@PlanetaryKeri) March 25, 2018
This sets a very dangerous precedent.
The Supreme Court has ruled that immigrants, even those with permanent legal status and asylees, do not have the right to bond hearings â effectively meaning they can be held indefinitely.
â NPR (@NPR) February 27, 2018
Because that’s what you really mean when you say you want to arm teachers.
âWhen should a teacher shoot a student?â by Tobias Stone
â Medium (@Medium) February 26, 2018
This whole thread is perfect. đ
Watching The Empire Strikes Back and wow all this comedy with C-3PO while Luke is almost dying is so out of place. Irvin Kershner ruined Star Wars.
â Patrick Willems (@patrickhwillems) February 1, 2018
“I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88
(via @goodreads)
Yep. He launched his political career on birtherism, and he launched his presidential campaign on racist anti-immigration. It was never hidden, it was broadcast.
Trump launched his campaign with the exact same xenophobic, hateful rhetoric he employed today. Anyone who indulged him, promoted him, or laughed it off is complicit in this travesty.
â Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 11, 2018
Interesting thread on the unintended consequences of fighting the spam wars. [dead link] via @gcupc
I would personally like to apologize for the antispam movement of the late 90s and early 00s. We did more harm than good. Nothing we did reduced the amount of spam significantly, and we created the centralization of email…
Biased Marvel, always talking about Dr. Doom’s international villainy when they should focus on the good he’s done for Latveria.
75% of patients are harmed by a drug. 1% benefit.
If you want 24% of the news about it to be neutral or undecided, you’re an idiot.â Katie Foreman (@alenxa) October 8, 2017
Wow what comic was that? Â Iâve never read it. Â Was it in Superman/Batman? To answer your question yes. Â The first instance of Earth 22 was in Elseworldâs Finest: Supergirl and Batgirl #1 written by Barbara Kesel. Â Itâs a 66-page one-shot. Â The genderbend is done a little differently, instead of a female Clark Kent, Kara Zor-El is the primary Kryptonian superhero. Â Same with Barbara Gordon. But yeah if you like canon gender bends youâll love this book.
someone just corrected us that its not earth-22. its earth-11. the point stills stands
Weirdly enough, the Flash of Earth-11 is the main Flash in a KFC promotional comic where the Flashes and Col. Sanders of the Multiverse team up to reassemble the secret recipe of herbs and spices, which has been scattered across multiple realities.
I swear I’m not making it up. You can find it on Comixology.
On TumblrYouâve probably seen this panel of the Rainbow Raider triumphantly shouting, âI believe in me!â (especially if you follow Liaâa Rogues blog). Itâs from Brave and the Bold #194 by Mike Barr and Carmine Infantino. As a motivational therapist, Professor Andrea Wye approaches Bivolo and D-list Batman villain Dr. Double-X about their failures as super-villains, and convinces them to âTrade heroes and win.â
So Rainbow Raider goes after Batman, and Dr. Double-X goes after the Flash. The heroes arenât used to fighting each otherâs villains, and actually get captured. Of course they turn the tables before sheâs able to learn what she wants from them, and overpower the villains before going after the mastermind. She escapes, but Flash figures sheâll return sooner or later. As far as I knew, she disappeared at that point.
I recently discovered that she does return, after all, in the opening two-parter of the 1985 Outsiders series â no surprise, also written by Barr. This was when the team had just split off from Batman, causing a title change, and moved from Gotham to Los Angeles.
In âNuclear Fear,â Prof. Wye stages a fake terrorist attack on a nuclear power plant near Los Angeles to observe how the city reacts. Itâs research material for her next book on the psychology of fear. (Ethics, schmethics, right?)
The Outsiders stop her team before it can make a scene, but the scientist she contacted to help plan the raid wants to go further. He wants to actually blow up Los Angeles in order to make people understand the horrors of nuclear war, and he sends a group of robots modeled after his dead family to do it. Naturally theyâre called The Nuclear Family, and theyâre this weird idealized 1950s family â except for the fact that they want to kill everyone. (Strange that nuclear war and twisted nostalgia for the 1950s are suddenly topical again.)
Once Wye learns about her allyâs plan, she hightails it out of town. Meanwhile the Outsiders are in a race to find the robots before they detonate themselves. In the end, the only thing they can do is destroy the robots in a normal explosion before they go critical and take out the city. The Nuclear Family is never seen again, as far as I knowâŚand neither is Professor Wye.
I wonder if she ever finished her book?
â Kelson.
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Heh, great post! Â I read the Nuclear Family story a while back solely because Wye was in it; sheâs kind of a fun satire of the skeevy snake-oil psychologists who were proliferating in the late 70s and early 80s. Â Itâs interesting how she doesnât quite commit crimes herself, but manipulates villains into doing her bidding for her own ends.
The Nuclear Family actually appeared recently in the Justice League Action animated series, probably because theyâre topical again as you say. (Itâs a Firestorm episode, which IMO are some of the best in the series.) Â The DC Wiki tells me they also appeared in the Battle for Bludhaven series, but Iâve not read that myself.
Battle for Bludhaven? Wow. I donât remember hearing much about that one. I didnât read it myself, but I donât remember it even rating the kind of reaction that Amazons Attack got. Anyone here read it? Is it any good?
On Tumblr1. That income tax cuts are good for poor, working and middle class people. (Compared to property tax and sales tax cuts, income tax cuts affect poor, working and middle class very little.)
2. That âtheyâ â racial and ethnic minorities â benefit from social programs like welfare, housing subsidies, public transportation, and higher education, but âweâ â white people â donât. (Since there are LOTS more white people in America, even now, than ânot whiteâ people, simple math suggests most beneficiaries of social programs are white. And they are.)
3. That the âfree marketâ can lead to the least expensive, highest quality solution to social and political problems. (Many social and political problems, after all, involve situations where no one has any money, so the âfree marketâ has no reason to touch them.)
4. That the âfree marketâ means that government must not intervene in the market, and must allow whatever the market determines to actually take place.(The âfree marketâ requires government to pass laws, create courts, and run a stable banking system to make the market work smoothly.)
These four ideas have convinced millions of Americans to smile and wave as rich people rob them blind.
SIGNAL BOOST THE HELL OUT OF THIS.
darjeelingandcoke:
The massive downside to meaningful action on climate change is that if global warming is false were left with a clean environment and a sustainable economic model. What a bummer
To her friend⌠(From the OVC Archive!)
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Perspective
just a reminder that behind every blog there is an actual person so treat them with common decency. you wouldnât go up to a stranger and call them ugly or a whore so donât do that here
buckyballbearing:
voltisubito:
hoo boy, here comes some serious talk about fandom mentality.
I feel like thereâs a huge failing on readersâ parts to communicate to fic authors how much they appreciate their works or how much it affects them, unless the fic is âfandom famousâ for some reason. sometimes it gets translated into demands (which are awful literally do not demand updates from an author ever).
more often than not, it gets translated into silence, and coming from a writer, the silence is probably the worst. you never know if they like it, you never know what the reader actually thinks about it. or even if they read it at all. and itâs⌠heartwrenching, and nervewracking and you start constantly questioning yourself and wondering if youâre actually good enough or if you belong. and you start comparing yourself. to the people who are popular, to the people with huge followings, to the people who get questions and art and compliments up the wazoo. and you start wondering if you should have bothered writing at all. in some cases you start begging. and in some cases, you do worse.
and itâs terrible. a writer shouldnât have to beg. a writer shouldnât have to only get attention when theyâre frustrated or upset. a writer shouldnât have to doubt themselves every time they pick up a pen or open their laptop. a writer should never feel so unimportant that they consider deleting their workâand do. and then be subjected to questions of why they deleted it.
(which, by the way, is kind of a rude thing to do. itâs their content, and they can do with it whatever makes them comfortable. and more than thatâwhy wait until itâs gone to just suddenly unleash your appreciation for it?)
if, at this point, you are thinking, âwell, writers shouldnât write for attention anyway! writers should be writing for themselves!â then you are missing a Very Huge Point about the intricacies of and emotions behind creating art. of course art comes from the self, but art is meant to be shared. with people. like you. art is created for people to talk back to, to engage with, to live alongsideâand yes, that in turn bolsters the creatorâs own securities and motivation. itâs also a sad testament to the fact that we as a people have come to condemn the notion that anyone, especially content creators, should want attention at all.
and thatâs toxic, and an awful mentality to have. (itâs also atrocious marketing. but, thatâs another discussion for another time.)
what Iâm trying to say here is this: a lot of this could be prevented by one simple thing. if you read a fic you like, *speak up about it.* make some kind of sign. about whether you like somebodyâs work, or whether it excites you. reblog it to share with other people, gush in the tags, leave a comment/review if itâs on ao3 or ffn. (authors read tags as much as artists do, trust me.) kudos and likes are fine too, but like with any other kind of art, theyâre very invisible. be vocal, y’all. spread the love.
and above all, *tell the author directly.* send them an ask, write a comment, tag them in an appreciation post. I canât stress that enough. youâd be making someoneâs day, relieving some securities, visible or not, instead of being complacent in this system, this mass way of thinking, that only popular writers deserve attention, that it has to be earned through working yourself raw instead of asked for. it causes these cliques and hierarchies and ultimately people start or keep maintaining this idea that people who are at the top deserve to be at the top, and people who get ignored deserve to be ignored. (which I have, in fact, heard people say, and thatâs⌠I donât even have a word for that.)
I just. something has to give, you guys. we have to stop doing this. we have to stop letting this happen. we have to be kind to our writers before they disappear.
and yes, you can reblog this post. in fact, Iâd highly encourage it.
As someone who has been ficcing online since 1999, I can confirm that feedback is incredible for us. We like to know if thereâs something you especially like or dislike. Kudos are nice and all, but is our characterisation okay? What about the dialogue? Did you find the plot slow/fast-paced?
Iâve been lucky lately, in that I have a solid core of people who tend to review a lot, but for nearly 7 years, I was in tiny, tiny, tiny fandoms where you were lucky if you got even one or two comments.
Itâs encouraging when people do say something. Even if itâs just to say âi like when character X said Y, because it felt in characterâ. How do we know if weâre doing something right if no one tells us?
Fun fact: I realized that if I have time to send a text to my bff, I have time to leave a one line comment on fanfics
And yeah okay most of these wind up being something like âthis was adorable, I love the way you showed [X] characterâs conflict with [Y] by use of [Z]â
But hey if itâs the choice between that or nothing at allâŚ
Iâm not much of a fic reader these days, but I have to remember to give feedback on what I do read. Iâve settled into a pattern of saving blog posts and articles to read offline, which adds the extra step of remembering to come back later to comment. It might be efficient, but it keeps me quieter than I should be.
J: “I need twenty pounds of sleep.”
friendlycloud:
myunclehasabassguitar:
the problem, as i see it:
contrary to popular belief, feminism is not a movement against men, it is a movement for women.
and contrary to popular belief, menâs rights activism is not a movement for men, it is a movement against women.
This.
Perfect summary.
Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because thereâll always be better writers than you and thereâll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that – but you are the only you.
Tarantino – you can criticize everything that Quentin does – but nobody writes Tarantino stuff like Tarantino. He is the best Tarantino writer there is, and that was actually the thing that people responded to – theyâre going âthis is an individual writing with his own point of viewâ.
There are better writers than me out there, there are smarter writers, there are people who can plot better – there are all those kinds of things, but thereâs nobody who can write a Neil Gaiman story like I can.
– A bit of writing advice from Neil Gaiman. (via faramirs)
I said it on the Nerdist Podcast, and I believe it. Itâs as true for any area of the arts, not just writing. Perhaps itâs true for life.
(via neil-gaiman)
Advice I try to consider every day. Neil Gaiman is a precious human being and if you write or art or do anything you really should listen to this.
(via dragonmaw)