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It's so weird to me when people are like 'but that will cost the government money!' So what? They're the government, they're supposed to be spending money. What, you want them to take your tax dollars and then do nothing with it? Lock it all up in a big government vault and just look at it? Why are you so scared of giving a third grader lunch or a homeless person a house.

Based on the Major X #3 (2019) Rob Liefeld cover

(stolen from @bad-comic-art's post) 😁

This will be available when?

Soon..ish.. Maybe?

If I did make it available to buy, how much interest would there be?

Ok, my follower has spoken. I'll add it to my Etsy store (that I actually have).

One minor problem.. I put the template somewhere safe so I wouldn't lose it. But now I don't remember where that was. I'm making a new one now.

This is the kind of thing I respond with when my conservative relatives (several of whom are cops) complain about movements to defund the police.

If you frame it as "police are supposed to protect us, doing all this other work isn't their job" then it sounds like you are actually on the police's side--like, all the good copaganda shows have cops who want to defend the innocent and put bad guys away, but how can they do that if they're busy doing wellness checks or wrangling stray dogs?

It's a foot in the door, it makes them think, and that's where you have to start with the blue lives matter crowd.

can we get three cheers for the first entirely non-white TARDIS dynamic in the franchise's history

I am so good with this. I fully gave up on Doctor Who about halfway through the Moffat era. 11 just became more and more annoying as Moffat repeated the same plot over and over and over and over and over again, with the Doctor just being the most powerful and special being ever to exist.

Deus ex Moffat was just constant. The Pandorica should have been amazing, but it was already tired. I wasn't interested anymore, because it was just going to be another power creep for the Doctor to just be the center of the universe.

When I started watching (yes, with Eccleston, shut up), the Doctor was just a very, very smart guy who could finesse his way out of problems an Earthling/Terran could not, usually with the help of the friends he made. I had Rose, I had Martha, I had Mickey, I had fucking Jackie, and I had the goddess herself, DONNA. These were all people who never had some bizarre destiny to solve the universe, they were just some people the Doctor met and happened to vibe with.

Cut to the Moffat era, Clara is the lynchpin in some mystical war because the Doctor is the best thing ever to exist in the history of ever and Amy actually holds the secrets of making the Doctor into an actual god and what the hell is this?

I didn't want to watch the Capaldi era, which is fucking tragic. Peter Capaldi is an amazing performer, he is an excellent Doctor, and his writing was the absolute bottom of the barrel. Moffat was so out of things to do because he was so wrapped up in his own mythology that he didn't care if the plots he wrote fit the characters he was using. I watched as much as I could, but goddamn, was that disappointing. I gave up.

Then Moffat finally, FINALLY, left. And I gave it a shot.

And I got Whittaker. And I loved her. And I loved it. I loved every minute of that awkward as fuck time on the show, because it wasn't fucking MOFFAT. It wasn't perfect, but it stopped that stupid "center of the universe" narrative in a big way. Whittaker was a wonderful Doctor. No, Chibnall didn't fit the rest of the series well, but at least it was DIFFERENT after that absolute slog of Moffat mess.

Then we had the loss of Whittaker and the return of 10. And more importantly, for me, DONNA. Donna, the selfish woman who was just raised that way. Donna, the selfish woman who couldn't be selfish anymore after seeing just one day of how her actions effect other people. Donna, who toured the universe, constantly dunking on herself as "stupid" and "not important". Donna, who would do ANYTHING to help someone she saw in pain, including a 20 foot spider ("you can STOP now"). Donna, who even with her mind completely wiped, still can't just stand by anymore. Tanget. Sorry.

I fell back in love with the return of Donna, and the advent of Gatwa as the Doctor. And I LOVE him. He's perfect to me. Everything I ever wanted the Doctor to be. Accepting but critical, warm but snarky, hyper but always listening.

This is the show I signed up for back with Eccleston and Davies.

This was very long. Sorry.

i think paddington and dirk would be friends. why? because theyre both british-but-not-really and they both have traumatic childhoods but a great outlook on life anyway and theyre both chill but occasionally kinda scary guys and they both like eating (and breathing, and talking, and-) oh and they also both have iconic jackets. case closed

okay but if you ever see a male creative who had a string of great work and then everything else he did was dogshit, go to the "personal life" part of his wikipedia and look at his relationships. you'll either find a major tragedy he didn't recover from (completely understandable) or, more likely, there was a woman in his life doing uncredited shit editing his stuff or contributing generally and she's not there anymore.

I told a friend about this phenomenon in literature and he called me weeks later like, I remembered what you said about women doing uncredited work when tim burton came up. he made a string of bangers then everything else just was nowhere near as good. the timeline matches perfectly to when he was with this german visual artist (lena gieseke). he's done some good work in collaboration, but if things were dug into I suspect we would find she did a lot more than people realise.

so yeah whenever you look around like wow women didn't work in history, or, women aren't auteurs, or, there just aren't as many great female writers - societal reasons for that aside, half the time they absolutely did.

reblog if you wear glasses. too many mutuals don't know they have glasses wearers in their midsts

We need to bring back the athletics body type post

This one

Tumblr has 10+ image limit had to add these on too

This photoshoot unlocked something in me the first time I saw it. The idea that EVERY body here is what "peak physical condition" looks like.

Reblog to let prev know their presence is wanted

Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

Joanne the plot of the book series which is the only reason you have any worth whatsoever hinges on the transformative power of unconditional love

Quick, everone in the UK put up a lawn sign like this and make her take detours all day long.

i know most people politely ignore the line in Sarek about Picard having attended Sarek's son's wedding (especially since once we actually see TNG-era Spock it's never mentioned or implied that he's married) but we're ignoring the much funnier possibility that after fucking up all of his other kids, Sarek had/adopted another son post-TOS and Spock has a third unnamed secret sibling out there.