Happy birthday to Sir Patrick Stewart I can’t wait #StarTrekPicard !!! I wish you and your family every happiness !!! With love from Japan ❤️❤️❤️@SirPatStew サー・パトリック79歳のお誕生日おめでとうーーー！！！今年の祭壇 一人で作りましたエヘ❤️
“I’m not much on long posts but this was epic and worth typing out.
So wow. That’s all I can say about what happened today
Walking around the convention before we were going to leave and we get to where the prop models of the movie cars are. As we are checking out the Delorean from Back to the Future, up walks Peter Capaldi (the 12th Doctor). He sees the kids (who had just seen him at his table to get an autograph) and walks up to them. He asks Natalie if she wants to trade shades and puts on her neon green sunglasses before sliding his Ray Bans (the ones he wore on the show) on her head. We stand there for like 10 minutes just chatting and then he asks what we were doing next and Natalie tells him we were going to see the dragons from How To Train Your Dragon. He says “Cool! Let’s Do it!” and off we go, while I’m freaking out on the inside. He ends up getting swarmed as soon as he gets over there but gets up on the giant Toothless they have and poses for pictures before signing a bunch of things for charity. Before he leaves, he comes back over to the kids, leans down to Natalie and says “That was fun. Good idea!” and waves bye to them.
We didn’t get very many pictures because I was kinda too busy having my jaw drag on the floor. But I did snap one epic photo. I give to you: Peter Capaldi riding Toothless.” (x)
To congratulate the most successful debut of #GoodOmens , me and my friends made what we call an “altar”. We thank Terry Pratchett and @neil-gaiman by placing a popcorn. Thank you for this wonderful story. With love from Japan❤️❤️❤️ @goodomensamazon
WHY DOES SHE-HULK LOOK LIKE A POORLY RENDERED VIDEO GAME CHARACTER WHAT IS GOING ON
SOMETHING IS OFF AND I CANT PLACE IT BUT ITS SO STRANGE WHY-
this looks like technicolor
this is the first thing I’ve seen about this movie or show or whatever and uhh something looks deeply wrong with it
first of all, if a woman is the Hulk she should be a huge, grotesquely muscled hulking monster with a heavy brow and lines in her face from growling and snarling in rage,
Nah, here’s where I have to disagree. While the CGI is a bit off (I think it’s a result of them mostly just changing her skin/hair tone rather than making her wear makeup, which, idk it’s pretty understandable if you know anything about wearing makeup over your whole body) she LOOKS like She-Hulk from the comics. She TALKS like She-Hulk from the comics. She’s FUNNY like She-Hulk from the comics. My point is, as a fan of She-Hulk, this trailer made me so happy that I did a little dance next to my partner’s chair as they showed it to me. I particularly liked the end where she carried her date into the bedroom to have some She-Hulk sex.
When I was younger and more abled, I was so fucking on board with the fantasy genre’s subversion of traditional femininity. We weren’t just fainting maidens locked up in towers; we could do anything men could do, be as strong or as physical or as violent. I got into western martial arts and learned to fight with a rapier, fell in love with the longsword.
But since I’ve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, I… find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. It’s that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into it… but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.
As I’m disabled, as I say to groups of friends, “I can’t walk that far,” as I’m in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: I’m boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. The message sent to the disabled is: You’re out of the narrative, you’re secondary, you’re a burden.
The remarkable thing about the maiden in her tower is not her immobility; it’s common for disabled people to be abandoned, set adrift, waiting at bus stops or watching out the windows, forgotten in institutions or stranded in our houses. The remarkable thing is that she’s like a beacon, turning her tower into a lighthouse; people want to come to her, she’s important, she inspires through her appearance and words and craftwork. In medieval romances she gives gifts, write letters, sends messengers, and summons lovers; she plays chess, commissions ballads, composes music, commands knights. She is her household’s moral centre in a castle under siege. She is a castle unto herself, and the integrity of her body matters.
That can be so revolutionary to those of us stuck in our towers who fall prey to thinking: Nobody would want to visit; nobody would want to listen; nobody would want to stay.
It’s been half a decade and I still haven’t found an articulation of the complexity of “representation” as concisely and precisely mindblowing as @hungrylikethewolfie’s here.
In previous waves of feminism, we had an understanding of this concept that it feels like modern feminism has lost. The first and second waves of feminism defined and asserted the idea that there is no one “right” way to be a woman and that the homemaker mom is just as valid as the powerbroker lawyer. That the important part was for women to be able to CHOOSE their path, to not be held back by patriarchal restrictions on their freedom of choice. Over time, feminism shifted into becoming more about saying there were no differences between men and women and some feminists started to overcorrect into misandry (an understandable but damaging response to the movement as a whole). It’s never been about getting all women out of the towers. It’s always been about giving all PEOPLE the choice to exist where and how they want to. I think we have lost some of the very good parts of 1970s humanism and the assertions made in that time that by their very nature were inclusive of different types of people, different modes of living. I don’t need to eschew makeup, assert dominance over men, or refuse to have children to be an empowered woman. A stripper can embrace her feminine power. A mom can feel empowered to stay home with her kids. And a disabled woman can be empowered by mobility aids and accessibility aids that allow her to work from home rather than risk her safety being forced to exist in a world not designed for her.
In the end, I hope people can start to understand that the important part here is the material conditions we encourage, not just the representations we see. It’s all well and good to see women in media being badass, but if we’re not creating a society where all people, regardless of gender, are allowed the freedom to choose to live and are EMPOWERED to live how they want, what does that representation actually DO? Focus less on trying to represent every iteration you can think of for “woman” and instead focus on fostering a representation that shows the freedom of self determination and choice for all persons. Show women and men and all those in between who are able and empowered to live how they wish to live, give hope to your readers by showing a world where everyone can exist as they are (and then if you can, go out into your own world and try to encourage that same humanist, feminist ideation into action and material conditions that help empower those around you). Just some thoughts.
[ID: two comic panels, the first of a person laying on a therapy couch, and the second of them sitting up and looking over their shoulder saying, “oh shit, for real?” end ID]
it gets even cooler, because the algae didnt stop working at 6 months, thats just when they detatched the microprocessor - it was still producing currents after that!!! the article below is an update saying that it has been running for a year now, and it might run indefinitely: “Our photosynthetic device doesn’t run down the way a battery does because it’s continually using light as the energy source.”
Austrian photographer Inge Prader recently recreated Gustav Klimt’s masterworks for Style Bible, a part of the Life Ball Charity Event in Vienna, Austria. A team of over 50 professionals worked on the demanding photography project which raises funds to help those with HIV/AIDS. Makeup artists, costume designers, set designers, lighting specialists and many others worked with models and fully ornamented props to bring to life the fascinating, erotically charged work that Klimt is known for during his “Golden Phase.”
I don’t think people unfamiliar w/ UK and Irish politics are necessarily getting the full context and are agreeing to a hypothetical celebration of the downfall of the UK.
Which is fine, but let me explain because it’s actually very important that we as leftists know this. Northern Ireland has been under British colonial occupation for 101 years and as such, is part of the UK. Mary Lou McDonald, of the Sinn Féin party, is an Irish Republican, ie socialist, and wants to unite Northern Ireland and Ireland. This would be an incredible and historic achievement of the Irish gaining total freedom and independence from British colonizers.
Piers Morgan, as is obvious, is a right-winger with reactionary politics who is crying on Twitter about the idea of a united Ireland because he believes it would “collapse” the UK. Which is all good and well as far as I’m concerned. But also as leftists we should absolutely cheer on McDonald’s victory and the campaign for a united Ireland as we should for any country under colonial occupation to gain its independence.
I get a lot of really kind messages and honestly sometimes I feel like an imposter when I hear that people think I’m kind, because I’m not a very touchy-feely type or a huge hugger of strangers, etc. And also because I tend to be a lot more poised and reserved in my emotional expression, rather than excitable or gushy. Outside of interactions with animals and my partner, I’m much more likely to show my affection more with words of support and acts of service than I am to hug or squeal.
I have been told by people who are very much mom-types that I’m not nurturing because I didn’t do certain things they expected in their time of need (even though it was not explicitly communicated that they needed certain things on the basis of “I shouldn’t have to ask/I’d have done it for you”). it was later that therapy clarified for me that people nurture in many different ways and it doesn’t have to manifest as mother hen behavior to be caring.  i’ve spent so much time around someone who goes above and beyond (often to their detriment) to support others almost to the level of a parent or partner, and ultimately I started to compare myself and feel like maybe I wasn’t kind or supportive because I wasn’t always like that or had more boundaries.
I also feel like I have petty or mean thoughts that I have to catch, work through and unpack— and when I get a nice message, often times that’s the first thing I think of is how I still have petty thoughts. But i guess that’s what a lot of people have, and kindness is found in the act of not expressing those thoughts in an unhelpful manner but the actions that follow, and trying to be better than one’s base urges.
Anyway I know all of this on paper, but I keep getting these messages about how kind I am and sometimes I feel like a thorny gremlin at a keyboard typing thank you back to people lol but I have to continuously remind myself that it doesn’t mean I’m not kind or good where it counts.
i also think a lot about that post floating around here that talks about learning empathy. I don’t necessarily struggle with empathy so much as I do the outward expression of certain behaviors, but I think it’s kind of along the same lines, where it says that it doesn’t make one any less good of a person because they learned to be empathetic when they weren’t naturally, if anything it shows that one has to work harder to care for others and there in lies the proof of that kindness, that someone would work harder to be more empathetic.
I felt a deep kinship reading this, I’ve experienced very similar things and something I realized in therapy was that my face/body language doesn’t reflect the emotions I’m feeling at times because growing up I didn’t feel safe expressing my emotions outwardly. So, those processes became inward and reflective. My outward face became more still and passive, resting into a practiced set that was inoffensive to my mom (she has severe borderline personality disorder and it was hard to understand what would set her off emotionally). I’ve always been really confused when people said I didn’t seem nurturing or empathetic or that my reaction to a certain event wasn’t what people expected. So, in addition to different people expressing empathy differently, there may also be some learned behavior from previous trauma or living environments that has changed how you interact that way. And there’s nothing wrong with that, just from this post anyone can see you are empathetic and worry about how to express yourself in a way that makes others feel your concern or kindness.
And your posts are wonderful and always make me feel happy, especially when I’m having a particularly bad day. From the other posts, I think a lot of people feel the same. You are a beautiful person inside and out and if you have dark or petty thoughts then that just makes you HUMAN, and that’s still beautiful.
