the queen in the north
kal. she. mostly dogs, partially fandom.
"you need someone to make a fucking excel spreadsheet and show up on time? you get a lesbian." 🏳️🌈
"you need someone to make a fucking excel spreadsheet and show up on time? you get a lesbian." 🏳️🌈
A dress made of cotton muslin, gilded metal thread and Indian jewel beetles (sternocera aeqisignata), Britain, 1868-1869 CE. Over 5000 beetle wings or parts of wings were used to decorate this dress.
Now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Im still kinda pissed by the way the internet tries to divorce the capybaras from any connection it has with south america in an attempt to globalize and sanitize this animal. Most gringos dont even know its a native south american animal, they only know abt it from memes and japanese zoos videos.
They are literally gentrifying an animal
when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl you used to be who desperately wanted to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever
autism is not a horrible disease that ruins lives and tears apart families. elon musk, who is autistic and an evil billionaire who doesn't pay taxes, has ruined thousands of lives, and whose family hates him, is a statistical outlier adn should not have been counted
I seen people on TikTok giving god awful advice on what to wear to a protest. Some “advice” was “wear heavy goth makeup, platform boots, lots of belts and chains, etc” heavily alternative clothes.
NO! Don’t do that.
The thing about protests is you never know who is going to show up, it doesn’t matter how peaceful it is, someone can show up and incite violence whether it’s other citizens or cops.
For your safety do NOT wear something that will make you stand out.
All black clothes are good
Pants and long sleeves even better
Wear shoes you can run in
Cover your tattoos and piercings
Bring a face mask
Sun glasses
Bring water
Backpack or small bag that’s hands free (for snacks, water, first aid, etc
If things turn violent, those violent people will go after the ones who stand out first. So dress safe, stay safe!
"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there
NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.
If it sucks, it is 100% authentic homegrown suck.
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Apparently Target is rethinking being anti DEI because foot traffic in their stores has been declining for like 10 weeks straight and their stock has been dropping in unison and listen, I know a lot of this is probably because consumer spending goes down in general when the economy is unstable (tarrifs, mass federal gov layoffs etc.) but I think we should just keep running boycotts of different brands to convince them that they only make money when they're woke. I know we dunked on rainbow capitalism because it was cornball and performative but I don't even give a shit. These companies shouldn't be able to be openly pro-Trump and expect us to ignore it. They should not be allowed to bend the knee to racist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, abelist, generally bigoted culture war bullshit without taking a hit to their bottom line. These billionaire dipshits wanted unfettered capitalism with a madman at the helm and they should not be allowed to enable that without feeling some of the hurt along with the rest of us. Make these corporate assholes think money is stored in the woke
Let's take a moment to appreciate just how amazing the title cards were for Batman the Animated Series.
Oh! I actually know what made these look so iconic!
The backgrounds for the entire series were done on black paper, a first for any animated show. It's Batman, which means everything is at night and incredibly dark. So, the majority of the backgrounds were going to be black anyways and using black paper would cut down on the time it took to create all of the backgrounds. Adding color over the black paper instead of the traditional method gave it a much more stylized look that helped make it iconic.
It also forced some other creative choices, such as using an airbrush to do all of the background art. During the early testing, they found that using an airbrush was easier to apply paint with than a paintbrush and that it looked better. Airbrushing let them be more experimental with painting techniques, such as the spattery fades you can see in the "Bane" and "Deep Freeze" title cards above or the soft, deeply shadowed face on "the Last Laugh." The overall effect of airbrushing on a black background is a much darker, moodier vibe than could be achieved with a traditional approach.
They cared very deeply about the art of the show and how they were going to create it. It wasn't just about the story or the character. In the words of co-creator Eric Radomski: "As opposed to making shows just to sell toys, we've made quality films."
why don’t they make a baby pope.
having to elect a new pope every ten years because they keep dying is super inconvenient. if it’s a baby that’s a solid 80 year streak right there. and a baby is basically a clean slate so he can be influenced by the forces of good and evil as he grows. we’ll see what god really wants
The crux of the anti trans movement is a war on bodily autonomy. They don't want you to have any agency over what you look like, how you dress, who you date, whether to have kids, etc.
They want total control over you. Not just trans people. Not just queer people. You. Everyone.
Trans people are just a scapegoat. They want total control over everyone's self expression. They want the right to mold you into their perfect little cog in their dehumanizing machine.
Happy Trans Day of Visibility. Our rights are your rights. Our destruction is your destruction.
They’re gonna start with trans folks and then use that as a precedent for the rest of us. Don’t let them establish that precedent.
Frankly, we should care about trans people and not have to say that it’s going to extend to everyone else to make people listen, but it’s also important that people do know this.
Remember that one poem?
“First they came for the Jews, and I did not stand up because I was not Jewish…”
You know how the rest goes.
You know how it ends:
“When they came for me, there was no one left to stand up for me.”
So stand up now before it can get to that.