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Official Post of Massachusetts

Or, why I love Massachusetts and will never leave.

picketing terf conferences is OUT, releasing 6000 live crickets into the audience of a terf conference and watching chaos erupt as everyone scrambles to evacuate is IN

it occurs to me that this sounds like a shitpost if you don't have the context that this is a real thing that actually happened in the uk yesterday

If you've never dealt with a loose cricket in an enclosed space, let me just say: this is a form of hell. And I support it. But I switched from feeding my mantises crickets to feeding them red runner roaches for a reason (the reason is noise, it was always noise, so much noise).

I was in a Petco once after a bunch of feeder crickets had gotten loose. The noise was unreal.

And then there was the writer for the Washington Post who ordered 250 crickets and inadvertently released them....

Here is your mission.

TSLA hit its all time high of $488.50 on 15 DEC 2024. To reach of a price of $114.00 would be a 76.7% drop. That's huge, right?

Yeah well, when I checked the price just now (12 MAR 2025 @ 1:31 PM EDT), TSLA is currently trading at $250.85. That's down 48.6% from the high.

Babes, we're already nearly two-thirds of the way there.

TSLA $114.00. I believe this is where I say 'like to charge, reblog to cast.'

Tesla goes under, Muskmelon's entire "fortune" disappears.

"Dems aren't doing anything!"

Listen man, you need to read the news. Actually seek it out and read it. Preferably local or state news if you have it.

My congressman and Senators are the most boring moderate white guys to ever moderate white guy.

And they are out there every single fucking day raising hell like I haven't seen in ten years.

They're boycotting the joint address. Trying to block every piece of legislation and every nominee. They're trying to get into federal buildings to see what DOGE is doing. They're holding town halls every week. They're holding job fairs for laid off feds and connecting them to resources.

These boring white guys are getting up in republicans faces during hearings and screaming at them red faced with righteous fury.

My guys ALONE are doing a fuck ton.

Do you even know who yours are? What they're doing? Or do you just want to be angry?

Two of the people leading the charge are Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, two of the Old White Men Who Need to Leave So AOC Can Rule All. Both have been giving speeches, leading rallies, and showing up at federal agencies demanding admission while Muskmelon's hackers steal and trash everything. Kamala Harris is preparing to run for Governor of California to replace that oily asshole Gavin Newsom. Even Bernie Sanders, whom I have disliked ever since he basically sandbagged Hillary Clinton in 2016, deserves credit for giving speeches and raising hell.

Democrats are doing plenty. The critics need to shut up and learn.

USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.

For context, there is a blackout on February 28 to protest against de DEI roll back

The waiters and waitresses of America depend on your tips. Boycott their restaurants and you literally take money from their pockets, especially at local restaurants.

Also? This does NOTHING to stop Trump, Musk, or the Republicans who are determined to destroy the United States. Nothing whatsoever.

*cackling*

If OTW weren’t around, this wouldn’t be “scaremongering”: It would be the inescapable status quo.

The people who believe this crap are the anti-vaxxers of fandom.

Oh god. They kind of are, aren’t they?

I’d go bigger and just say that they’re the conservatives/reactionaries of fandom–or, to frame it differently, this is how conservative and authoritarian ideologies express themselves in the context of Fandom.

my opinion on AO3 is that it’s an important asset but i still find it scummy that they’ll ask for money but when their users try to ask for money they slam them with their non-monetization rules. Like Anne Rice is dead and this isn’t the 90s anymore, people are making money from fandom please catch up with the times.

I think you’ve misunderstood:

AO3 was built by a bunch of us with our free donated labor for the purpose of being a space free from commercial spam.

It’s not a public service. It was built by us to house the type of fandom culture we liked.

People who want to do fandom differently, including making money, are welcome to go build their own site with their own money or their own donated labor.

AO3 does not forbid commercial links because they think fans making money from fanworks is immoral but them making money (to run the damn site) is fine.

AO3 forbids commercial links because they are making a very specific claim about the legality of fanworks, and that claim is about noncommercial fanworks.

They’re not saying that commercialized fanworks are against the law. They’re just not prepared to host them–nor defend them in court.

In case people missed it: The OTW will not honor DMCA takedown orders that are basically, “I own X work and that’s a fanfic of it, and that’s copyright infringement so make it go away.”

The OTW says, lolnope, we don’t think that’s copyright infringement. If you disagree, sue us.

The OTW says: Disney - we will not remove explicit Mandalorian fanfic. Rowling, Warner Bros - we will not remove trans Harry Potter fanfic. Gabaldon - we are not removing Outlander fanfic no matter how much you think it’s illegal or a personal violation. Yarbro, if someone puts “The Adventure of the Gentleman in Black” on AO3, you will need to actually take it to trial to (try to) get it removed; none of this C&D order followed by fans caving because they can’t afford a lawyer.

…So far, nobody has sued them. (This is, in my mind, the strongest proof we have that fanfic is not copyright infringement. In 13 years, not a single person or company has scrounged up a lawyer and filed a lawsuit against AO3/the OTW for hosting fanworks.)

But they’re not willing to put themselves on the line for commercial works. Those get considered differently in copyright law. They’re not always infringing - there’s a whole history of parody books & songs to prove that - but the OTW is not dealing with them.

The OTW does not care if fans are making money. The OTW cares if fans making money interfere with its legal defense of its archive.

If you are not a copyright lawyer, your opinion about the situation is not going to be considered.

Also, it wasn’t just Anne Rice coming after fandom in the 90s as though this is some relic holdover terror from ancient history.

Events like Strikethrough and Boldthrough happened in the early to mid-2000s. It felt like you’d wake up every day in 2007 and find another fandom group on LJ gone. (And not just fandom groups either, important community groups for education and trauma survival were also wiped out in those purges as well.)

And while not exactly the same, Yahoo Groups–and yes Yahoo Groups was a major online fandom hub at one point–were deleted as late as 2019 with very little warning, leaving a lot of older fandom groups scrambling to back up decades worth of content.

I might be projecting, but Fanfic.net seems to be wobbling too. It wouldn’t surprise me to find out they go under in the next few years despite performing similar purges of adult content in 2012 and allowing for obnoxious ads, which made the site unusable on mobile unless you wanted to see an ad what felt like every couple of paragraphs. (It might be better now, I haven’t checked in a while.)

It has only been in very recent memory that fandom has gained any sort of foothold that isn’t poised directly over a precarious faultline that could at any moment open up and swallow entire communities whole, and a huge part of that is the volunteers at Ao3 who decided to play chicken with the likes of Anne Rice and won.

Ao3 at its core was and is built by fandom. Some people don’t like it and that’s fine, but to even suggest that the volunteers are lounging around eating peeled grapes and lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills making bank through fraud while fanfic authors are left out in the cold is beyond the scope of laughable.

It’s cute how people think that Anne Rice was the only one who did this. Look at what Disney does to people who they think are making money off fanworks (lightning Mcqueen dude on tiktok, for example). (now what really would be fun is if they found a way to claim that people who make money from their 50 minute long youtube vids about their Marvel predicitons (which IS FANFIC it’s just that it’s mostly dudes) are making money from thier IP. Because they are.)

IIRC, Anne McCaffrey,  J. Michael Straczynski, George R.R. Martin and Marion Zimmer Bradley, among others, have also thrown hissy fits over fanworks (MZB possibly with some rational grounds for it, since I seem to recall she actually did get caught up in a legal snafu involving a fan who claimed she’d stolen their ideas.)

The MZB situation is… uh… complex, to say the least. Nobody agrees what happened, but it appears MZB’s people approached a fan about using her stuff in exchange for a thank you, and the fan wanted money and actual credit as a writer. (According to the fan, they then threatened her to shut her up, which makes some sense in the context of MZB being post stroke and hiding it at the time.) Basically, it was some kind of clusterfuck that probably involved covering up that MZB was no longer able to write.

Ngl the people who hate on AO3 *specifically* for the fact that they do fundraising and claim that they all must be rolling in money? They come off to me like the Fox News of Fandom.

Also we go through this *every year* and at this point it just feels like willful and malicious ignorance.

people think that servers and bandwidth grow on trees. no but for serious. The only site that possibly uses more bandwidth than AO3 is Amazon for Pete’s sake.

One other thing to keep in mind:

Project 2025 explicitly states it will ban sexually explicit content, from centuries old novels like Fanny Hill to the latest Nora Roberts novel with a mild sex scene. That includes fanfiction.

There's already a proposed bill about this in Oklahoma, and the Republicans are not going to stop there if this bill passes and is upheld by the courts. Ao3 is squarely in their gunsights, and these "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" assholes are well aware of it. Some female Trump voters who like fanfic have already begun downloading their favorites because they're sure Trump and his minions are going to go after Ao3, and they are not necessarily wrong.

LOLOLOL

Amazon: we bought the rights to make Bond movies!

Barbara Broccoli: correction, you bought the rights to be told if you can make a Bond movie and I say no

Not to mention that they killed Bond off in the last film, so how they are going to get around that inconvenient fact is an open question.

The GOP are already trying to make Trump king for life. They probably don't have enough votes to pass it this time but this is why every election counts. Assuming future elections are not rigged, local elections will make the difference between freedom and tyranny. And state and country governments have a huge impact too now. VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION. And get out and protest. Don't let them take our freedoms.

LOCAL ELECTIONS MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE.

VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION NO MATTER HOW SMALL.

RUN FOR OFFICE IF YOU CAN.

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND SAY YOU OPPOSE AMENDING OR REVOKING THE 22ND AMENDMENT. ORGANIZE. PROTEST. STAND UP.

They absolutely do not have anywhere near the numbers in Congress or the states to pass this

I know this is the Andy Ogles gargling Trump, but it's really just setting up for a major embarrassing face-plant. So when they face-plant, be prepared to laugh.

Oh absolutely. They definitely do NOT have the numbers...for now. And we need to keep it that way. That's why voting in every election - federal, state and local is so critical. And also why making our voices heard and showing there is a strong backlash to this is important.

This isn't aimed at actually succeeding right now. It's aimed at testing the waters and normalizing discussion of this idea. And we cannot allow that. We need to make sure we are heard loud and clear. Especially if you have GOP representatives, now's the time to call them.

And to think about how you can get involved in local activism to make sure that the numbers stay on our side. The GOP started small and consolidated thier power at the local level first and look where it took them. We need to do the same.

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND SAY YOU OPPOSE THIS.

This doesn’t just need to fail. It needs to fail as resoundingly as possible.

Yup.

They don't have the votes now.

But if it gets ANY significant number of votes, then it normalizes the idea.

Once its normalized, then it'll be easier for them to do in the future- even through something as brazenly illegitimate as SCOTUS just declaring he can do it based on whatever law they made up (remember, the 14th Amendment clearly disqualified him from office due to the Jan. 6th Insurrection, and SCOTUS ignored that).

THIS.

This particular iteration of "fuck the 22nd amendment" isn't meant to pass.

It's a test balloon. It's dipping your toe in the lake to see how cold it is. It's "I'm totally joking! Haha unless...🥺👉🏻👈🏻?"

The purpose of this is to NORMALIZE the concept of getting rid of term limits, and to start that process well in advance of the 2028 deadline. Because presidential term limits are something that is extremely baked into the American consciousness. And it runs deep.

I've seen many posts from diehard trumpers about how this is Not Okay, it's UnAmerican, he'll be far too old by then, how they like the racism and bigotry but presidents are not kings and term limits are a thing for a reason.

Now, if everyone is true to pattern, when this doesn't pass, Cheeto will make it into a joke. Hell say he's flattered the rep who proposed it wants him around, but the American People have spoken and 22A is important to them. (He'll say it's important bc the people want it, not bc it's constitutional law. This is important.)

Several months from now when we've been getting bad news on the daily and we're much more exhausted than we are now, he'll make a joke about term limits. About staying for another four years.

Then he'll go quiet on it for a while, and in another few months, make another joke. The jokes will become more frequent as he also criticizes his dissenters and opponents. But by the midterms at the absolute latest, he'll be talking about it and starting to get serious.

He'll say that he's heard thousands of Americans tell him "personally" that they want him to ignore term limits. (This is why he'll say 22A is important bc the American people want it- because it's easier to then turn around and say “they don't want it anymore, so I'm going to ignore it" instead of "I'm going to ignore constitutional law. He'll claim he's obeying the will of the people.)

And dollars to doughnuts, he'll say, "I won in 2020, but the Dems stole it from me, so technically THIS is ALREADY my third term... Of course it makes sense to get rid of 22A, we really already did"... and a good chunk of his diehards will accept that as logical justification.

For those of you playing the home game, we're about here in the timeline:

It took Hitler 53 days in his position as Chancellor to pass the Enabling Act, the one that made him dictator.

It took only one year for him to then merge the positions of Chancellor and President to consolidate power.

I predict we'll get some form of Enabling Act well before midterms, because historically, a president who has a congressional party majority loses it in their midterm, and Cheeto wants to make sure an act of this nature passes.

I really hope I'm wrong.

But everything I've suspected would happen since about 2015 (when his run at the GOP nomination was starting to get serious) has come to pass.

Every day a despotic tyrant is in power, their roots get a little deeper. Every day is another day too long. Don't let these roots take hold- don't let this (ANY of this) become normal.

Do not obey in advance.

Contact your representatives. And look into getting involved in activism in your area. Attend protest or if there aren’t any then organize them. Be loud. Be brave. Be persistent.

There is no, repeat no chance that this will pass. Not only would it require a vote from two-thirds of each House of Congress, 38 states would have to vote in favor of this.

Right now the House is virtually tied, and shows no signs of giving anyone a supermajority. The Senate has not had a supermajority in 15 years, and nearly half of state legislatures are controlled by Democrats.

Calm down and vote for the Democrat in your state if you fear this. Screaming and running around howling about Donald Trump (who would be 82 in 2028) becoming a dictator does no good without voting the straight Democratic ticket.

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.

The whole country needs luck.

I took that sugar cube as a child. I also remember the March of Dimes sign on the easel at many stores, all with dimes stuck on them.

I've told this story more than once, and I'm telling it again because it changed my life. When I was a kid I was terrified of needles, and hated getting all my shots. I was a sick kid with a lot of undiagnosed disabilities, and my gramp picked up on the anxiety I had and decided to talk to me about it. He offered to take me to get my flu shot for a christmas gift that year, and when I grumbled about getting a flu shot he said, "well, I had scarlet fever when I was your age. My parents didn't believe in doctors so I wasn't allowed to get my shots, and so I got very sick and almost died."

It stopped me in my tracks. I was 6. I had heard from adults my whole life that shots were important, but I didn't really understand the consequences of not getting them. I asked him to tell me why his parents didn't believe in doctors. He said he grew up out in the midwest on a farm, and his parents were "a type of christian" that believed people got sick because god wanted them to get sick, and going to the doctor was going against what god wanted. His parents were terrified of making god angry, which was something I could understand considering I was raised evangelical. But I was confused because he HADN'T died. I asked him how he'd made it this far if he had never been allowed to go to the doctor and he'd been so sick.

And he told me that when he turned 15 he'd run away from home, hopped on a train that took him all the way up to New York, and started asking door to door where he could get these new vaccines he'd heard about. Everyone told him the air force base was the place to go. He went in, asked around, and got his vaccines. At 16, he had his very first annual physical. Shortly after he met my gram, who was the telephone operator for the doctors office he went to every year for his checkups. And he told me as we sat there in the doctor's office that he was the ONLY person on both sides of his family to live past the age of 60.

I was both horrified and amazed. I went in, got my shot, and he held my hand and said he was proud of me because what I was doing was important. I was still very scared of needles, but it was easier to deal with the sore arm knowing I was keeping myself safe. He lived to be 90 years old, and he was proud to be the first person in his assisted living facility to be vaccinated for covid. When we went to visit him for his 90th birthday just before he died I asked him what he was proud of doing now that he was 90, and he said he was proud of living this long because as a child no one believed anyone could survive the things he could. He said he was perfectly happy to have married, had kids and grandkids, and eat his Applebees knowing he'd cheated death 15 times over.

An opinion piece I photographed from an 1860s small press periodical from Hartford Connecticut.

Get your fucking vaccinations.

Benjamin Franklin said to his dying day that his single greatest regret was waiting to have his oldest child vaccinated against smallpox. The child had a slight cold and he didn't want to make it worse. By the time the cold was over his son had smallpox and died of it.

Franklin never forgave himself, and neither did his wife - the death caused a major rift, which may be why he spent over a decade in England in middle age instead of at home in Philadelphia.

Martina McBride didn't win Country Music Association Song of the Year for a song about how burning your house down with your abusive husband still inside it is good, noble, and an allegory for the American Revolution for people to act like the genre belongs to bootlicking fucks

other things people didn't do for you to act like country music belongs to bootlicking fucks:

I'd like to add

- The Chicks and speaking out against Bush and the Iraq war, and when they got death threats and were blacklisted from country radio, they doubled down and recorded a song saying 'no, you're wrong and were not going to sit down and accept it'. (Also, their song about how you should definitely kill your friends abusive husband, dump his body in a lake, and live out the rest of your lives as lesbian farmers.)

-One of Johnny Cash's most famous songs is about being a visual reminder of the inequality and discrimination in our society.

Don't forget "Good Bye, Earl," by the Chicks (two friends murder an abusive husband and get away with it) and "Sunny Came Home" by Shawn Colvin (woman burns her house to the ground to get away from an abusive husband).

your yearly reminder that Baby It’s Cold Outside is a song about a woman having CONSENSUAL sex, at a time when premarital sex was frowned upon. The female singer is offering up the token demurrals society expects her to, because it’s expected, not bc she doesn’t fully intend to stay and have awesome sex with a dude she’s into. The male singer knows this, and is in turn offering her an excuse to give to the neighbors in the morning (“it was too cold for me to go home, the only responsible thing to do was spend the night at his place. because of the weather, get your minds out of the gutter”). A 1950s audience would have understood all this, but the nuance gets lost in a modern age where women are actually allowed to say yes when they mean it.  

Also the “hey what’s in this drink” thing was a common joke at the time, where the punchline was that there was in fact nothing in the drink. the woman’s making a joke that she wouldn’t do this if she was sober, oh goodness no! it’s only a joke bc both she and the man are in on the punchline: she is sober, and is only staying bc she wants to

my tags: The female singer IS saying yes but using an outdated social script that doesn’t translate well to the 21st century. this song was funny and sweet to 1950s audiences bc it was about two people having fun and hooking up, and using the winter weather as an excuse

#it’s a fun song about having fun sex while being snowed in together. which as i say it i realize is ABSOLUTELY a fanfic trope  #they were SNOWED IN TOGETHER. and there was only ONE BED  #OH MY GOD THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED 

#i like this song best when i can see the singers#and some of this energy comes across#when you can see the grins she’s giving him#the shared joke they have

The line "hey, what's in this drink?" undermines this argument by making it clear that he's deliberately getting her drunk.

There are a lot of songs that have aged very badly that we don't listen to any more because they're racist, or homophobic, or sexist. This is one of them.

thinking about the infantiliztation and/or formalization of 19th-century women's clothing to modern audiences

like

our entire reference point for "wearing long skirts and outfits with decoration like lace, embroidery, appliques, etc." is either formalwear or fictional characters in children's media like Disney princesses. women's clothing is just so radically different now- not that those elements don't exist, but they're much less common in everyday clothing than they once were. some form of simple trousers and an equally simple top are de rigeur for everyday attire, and anything else is Fancy

combined with the fact- which is true! -that a lot of what survives to end up in big museums belonged to wealthy people, this ends up in wild assumptions like "basically our entire idea of what the Victorians dressed like is just Rich People Clothes really"

which has led to the eternal cry of "but what did NORMAL people wear?!?!?!" that will not be satisfied with real examples of middle or even working-class everyday clothing because it still looks too "fancy" to modern eyes

not Victorian, but a great example of this is what Abby Cox wore to portray a milliner (hatmaker) in Colonial Williamsburg. a working, middle-class woman:

(ignore the facial expression there)

this is the exact outfit she sported in a video that apparently got responses like "but that's just what rich women wore!" and it is, in fact, everyday attire for a working person. a person who worked in the fashion industry, it's true, but still

I had someone ask me about how to find examples of casual Victorian clothing because they were at their wits' end trying to research it. and I had to tell them that...what they were looking at WAS casual. in the sense of Clothing For Everyday Wear That's Not Especially Formal. there's nothing inherently formal, or exclusive to the wealthy, about a matched bodice-and-skirt dress, instep-length, with some trim. or even a trimmed blouse and skirt. obviously women working the absolute hardest outdoor, physical jobs might have adopted occupational trousers or similar, but we don't all dress like construction or farm workers all the time nowadays. why would they have back then?

Laundresses, probably 1850s or early 60s. Note that I can STILL date the picture based on their outfits and hair, and these are the furthest things from wealthy socialites.

Maid scrubbing steps, probably 1870s or 1880s. Note pleated trim on her skirt and what appears to be a peplum at the back of her bodice.

also, not all working women worked physical jobs any more than we do today. here is a teacher around the turn of the 20th century:

Teachers, 1887

"Breton Seamstresses," 1845, by Jules Trayer

were there differences in quality, type and quantity of trim, fit, etc? obviously. but some people are convinced that the basic outfit format can't POSSIBLY have been something ordinary women wore, because it looks formal and/or princess-y in a modern context

You want to know what women really wore? Here is an entire collection, at the largest women's college:

Comic books are Jewish-American culture

And never forget that one of the reasons so many Jewish-Americans contributed to comics is because of the antisemitism in much of the creative sector in 20th century America. Many of these highly skilled and creative people ended up in comics because they couldn’t find work in more prestigious and lucrative fields.

also the same reason so many of them worked in the motion picture industry when it first began; working in film wasnt a respected line of work, so it kinda became a jewish culture, and when film unexpectedly caught on, upper-middle class white christians were quick to erase the jewish influence that the film industry had. also similar to the reason why so many jews in the past millennium worked in finance- in the 1100s it was considered sinful in the christian church to handle large amounts of money, so banking in western Europe was kind of the only profession in which Jews were guaranteed a secure income. because banking was a Jewish thing because it was sinful, when it became a respected profession, the upper-middle class and elites were quick to smear the Jewish involvement in banking as an evil conspiracy to control the world

nice addition thank u^👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼✡️

gonna add real quick that two Jewish men actually created Batman. Bill Finger was uncredited for years, but he is responsible for Batman’s look, backstory, personality,, setting etc. Bob Kane is responsible for the name and that’s pretty much it.

“In fact, nearly all the great superheroes were created by Jews: Jerry Siegel and Joe (Joseph) Shuster created Superman, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby (Jacob Kurtzberg) created Captain America, Bob Kane (Robert Kahn) and Bill Finger invented Batman, while Kirby, together with Stan Lee (Stanley Martin Lieber) produced a particularly impressive line of heroes such as Spider-Man, The Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the X-Men, Thor and the Avengers. “ –Supermensches.

And more superheroes than those had at least one Jewish creator. For example…

Aquaman? Created by Paul Norris (not Jewish) and Mort Weisinger (the son of Austrian Jewish parents) in November 1941.

The original Batgirl (spelled Bat-Girl), Betty Kane?  Created by Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff in 1961.

Dick Grayson, a.k.a. the original Robin? Created by Bob Kane, Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson in 1940. And yes, Robinson was also Jewish.

Green Arrow? Co-created by artist George Papp (not Jewish) and writer Mort Weisinger.

Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern? Bill Finger and artist Martin Nodell (the son of Jewish immigrants).

Wolverine? Created by artist John Romita Sr. (who’s Italian) and writer Len Wein (who’s Jewish).

Jubilee of the X-Men? Created by artist Marc Silvestri and writer Chris Claremont.  Claremont is Jewish on his mother’s side.

Black Canary? Created by artist Carmine Infantino and writer Robert Kanigher (son of Romanian Jewish parents)  in 1947.

Sam Wilson, a.k.a the Falcon, and Captain America in some continuities? Stan Lee and Gene Colan (whose family name was originally “Cohen”).

T’Challa, the Black Panther? Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

It’s surprising how many superheroes have Jewish roots.

I’m surprised nobody has mentioned this already but a jewish man also invented what we now call graphic novels. His name is Will Eisner and the most prestigious comic book awards were named after him. He drew the Spirit comics as well as many graphic novels like A Contract with God, New York: The Big City and many many more. He also wrote and illustrated two books about making comics and sequential art. He was a fucking genius of visual narrative, character design and ripping your heart out with his stories.

Every “cushy filthy rich Jewish profession” was an undesirable profession Jews made prestigious and are now demonized for the fruits of our ancestors’ hard and choiceless labor

Just about the only major comic book character who wasn't created by a Jew is Wonder Woman, and her creator was polyamourous.

#Please little bird

Philcon 2024!

Do you love Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror? Are you a Writer, a Gamer, a Costumer, or a Filker? Are you looking for a weekend of distraction in your life? If you’re in the vicinity of Philadelphia- or more specifically, Cherry Hill, New Jersey- there’s an event coming up on November 22 – 24, 2024 that we’d love for you to come check out. If you aren’t already familiar with PHILCON, here’s what you should know: * We started out as a literary-centric SF convention in 1936, but have grown to embrace all mediums of storytelling (movies, television, comics, podcasts, etc) as well as expanding to cover the Fantasy and Horror genres. Most of our participants are authors, and there will be Readings by them and Autograph sessions all throughout the weekend, in addition to their participation on discussion panels. * While many of our Literary panels are about SF, Fantasy, or Horror topics in general, we also have an emphasis on panels discussing the craft side and business sides of writing, for those looking to develop as authors. * One of our content tracks for the weekend is dedicated to Science & Technology itself, not just how it is used in fiction. * We will be screening several movies over the weekend, and Anime will also be shown in our Anime & Animation room at certain times. * There will be Workshops and Demos for Costuming (including "Fabric Manipulation", "How to Make Foam Armor", "Make-up for The Stage", and "A Pox on Patterns!") and Art (including "Using Alcohol Inks", "Block Printing With Your Own Designs", "How to Make A Controlled Color Palette", and "Making Wire-Wrapped Jewelry"), and if you’ve got an outfit you made that you’d like to show off on stage, we’ve got a yearly Costume Contest. * If you are a Filker- or just enjoy listening to other people sing and play music- Philcon has a room dedicated Filk room, and this year’s Musical Guest of Honor is Cecilia Eng. As Cecilia is not often on the east coast, if you’d like to see her play in person, now is an excellent change to do so without flying to the other side of the country. Lynn Gold, another west-coast Filker, will also be joining us this year. There are also Concerts scheduled for Sirens & Liars, Half a Slime Devil, Brenda and Chuck Shaffer-Shiring, and Sara Henya. * Since the Gaming track moved from an upstairs suite to the “Gallery” room on the first floor, it’s had the literal room to expand the number of games it can run, and we’ve got a bevy of them on the schedule for 2024, as well as a bank of games for you to choose from during Open Gaming hours. There's also a LARP Workshop Series being run by Spectacle INK. * Our Artist Guests of Honor for 2024 are Gina Matarazzo and Matthew Stewart. Each will be giving a presentation on our Main Stage on Saturday afternoon, as well as having their art displayed in our Art Show. * Our Principal Speaker for 2024 is MAX GLADSTONE, and we also have Nghi Vo as our Special Guest. Both will be doing Readings, Autograph Sessions, panels, and a main stage Q&A session. An interactive version of our schedule can be found HERE. While a simplified, static overview, organized by track, can be found HERE. Our LinkTree can be found HERE. We would especially value your support this year, as Philcon’s Covid-19 policy in previous years (which required both mandatory masking and proof of vaccination in an attempt to avoid becoming a super-spreader event as several other conventions had) has led to a slow but noticeable decline in attendance. While masking in public spaces is still heavily encouraged, neither proof of vaccination nor masking are required to attend the convention in 2024. We’d love your help in making this year a success, so that we’re in a good position to bring you all something really fantastic for our upcoming 90th anniversary. We’d also love to give you a great weekend right now, for reasons I doubt we need to explain. Here’s to surviving the next few years! ~ Lynati Head of Programming, Philcon 2024

Heyla, everyone! I'd appreciate a signal boost on this post, for anyone willing to reblog it. My team and I put a lot of work into this year's content and schedule, and we're hoping more people show up to enjoy everything our participants will be doing at the con this year. Uh...@thebibliosphere , @copperbadge , @scifigrl47 , if you're willing?

I won't be able to attend myself, but Philcon has a great reputation.