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the switch2 has been revealed to be a frog that buries itself in thr dirt

Fucking wild to be teaching about Rosa Parks at the same time as a trans woman in Florida does an act of civil disobedience to use a women's restroom in the state capitol

As far as I know, she is the first woman arrested bc of this law. The law requires that the trans person be warned to leave the bathroom by a state official, and then if they stay they are guilty of trespassing after a warning.

So like, me, my gf, others just piss and nobody asks or tells, but this young woman sent a statement about the law to over 100 FL lawmakers so they would know she was coming, the cops were ready for her, she brought a reporter and went in anyway and spent the night in a men's jail. She is out on bail, and is hoping this will inspire change of the law. But if found guilty, and the law is upheld as constitutional, then she could spend up to 60 days in a mens county jail.

We owe it all to them.

To repeat the message louder: musicians, journalists, radio stations, listeners, record companies, streaming sites, discos; anyone remotely involved with popular music, you probably owe a big chunk of it to black musicians.

Give a boy a girlfriend he’s happy for a day

Turn a boy into a girlfriend she’s happy for life

we need to start killing people

I think there is a difference between the comic as a sequence of images with text and the comic as a comic. it's a subtle difference that an untrained eye might not see but the more one as artist draws comics the clearer this difference becomes, because one who first aspires to draw comics will soon find they are merely drawing sequences of images with text.

when people say an artist is clearly inspired by anime they often use "anime" to refer to japanese pop culture in general, but if you look more closely you can often tell it really is specifically anime rather than manga that inspired them, because the paneling and camera angles in their comics will read like a series of anime screenshots rather than a manga page. similarly, when I was a teenager really popular manga that had anime adaptions would sometimes get "animanga" reprints where they replaced the panels with the equivalent anime screenshots of the scene, and they often looked like dogshit because the very premise showed blatant disregard for why the original comic worked in the first place. these two examples are both about anime because i am a weeb but it applies outside that context too. a cartoon storyboard can be read as if it were a comic, but what it really is is a sequence of images with text that has yet to be refined into its actual intended format.

there are many artists who only employ the medium of comic because what they actually want to draw is a video, or a video game cutscene, but the only tool actually at their disposal is the ability to draw a series of images and add text to them so that is what they use. there is no shame or mistake in doing this, you have to make your art with the tools that you have available, and if the sequence of images with text is enough to convey the idea then it was the right tool for the job. but these are different mediums with different visual languages, languages which have a lot of overlap and can occasionally be used in each other's stead to achieve similar results (especially when drawing a fanart comic of a video game for example), but which are still ultimately different. the comic and the video and the cutscene are all different forms that a sequence of images with text can take but they are far from completely interchangeable.

there is a key difference in approach to the comic as a series of images roughly interchangeable with other forms of series of images like the video and the cutscene, and the comic as specifically the comic. this difference in approach is not always necessary to achieve results, an artist who wants to convey a scenario they came up with needs only the sequence of images with text to achieve this. but the difference between a comic with good writing and art, and a comic that is a good comic, is in whether it was treated as a comic rather than a sequence of images with text. I say this as an artist whose nearly every comic has been simply a sequence of images, because I just don't have the patience to refine it into a comic when I merely want to convey my idea rather than draw a comic. it takes a particular skill and insight that have to be developed and practised separately from the ability to draw well and the ability to write well in order to become good at making "the comic" as synthesis of the two.

it's hard to specifically point out the essence of this difference between the sequence of images and the comic because it's kind of a vibes thing honestly, and it depends on where and how the comic was meant to be published too. comics meant to have paper print editions have different constraints and requirements and frameworks to work with than webtoons meant to be read on slim mobile screens in a continuous scrolling format. a good traditional comic will consider not just how each individual panel looks but also the way each page as a whole looks, and how the pages look next to each other in a spread, and how it feels to turn the page towards the next spread. a good webtoon will consider the movement of scrolling down and how this affects the transition from one moment to another in its composition. time is time in videos and cutscenes but space is time in comics, and the space your have available determines how you can divide time across it. when you make a webcomic on your own website you have no constraints but the ones you set for yourself, and sometimes this leads to things like homestuck, which would not work in any other format than the one it created for itself.

the best comics are good because they tell their story and present their images specifically in the form of a comic, in a way that would not be possible if it were not specifically a comic. I think this is true for basically every medium, I'm just thinking about comics specifically lately, because even though I don't really consider myself a comic artist - because I usually draw sequences of images rather than comics - the thing my clients want to pay for is often still "a comic", and they don't know or care to tell the difference. it's a difference that, as established, is often fairly moot anyway, because as long as it successfully conveys your idea it's good enough. but it's precisely because the sequence of images is often good enough that the specific skill of the comic artist is often overlooked.

consequently, because there is a tangible if somewhat vaguely defined difference between being good at making individual illustrations that may or may not be put in sequence with text and being good at making comics, someone who isn't a "good artist", in the sense that their individual illustrations may be unimpressive when viewed separately, can still be a good comic artist, in the sense that they are able to present a sequence of these individually unimpressive illustrations in a way that exceeds the sum of their parts. a comic page by someone who is an unimpressive illustrator but good comic artist will look far more pleasing than a comic page by a good illustrator but unimpressive comic artist, because making a comic is a different skill that is merely adjacent to making illustrations, even though the two are often lumped together.

Big day for trans people tomorrow

Lily Wachowski was at today's Rally for Trans Visibility in Chicago. Not as a speaker, just in the crowd. I see her at most of the trans/queer protests I attend.

can confirm, Lily is rad as fuck irl

There are many benefits to being a marine biologist

By this point Loch Ness is probably the inland body of water we can be most sure doesn't have a monster in it.

queer spaces where cis het men aren’t allowed don’t…. exist. men tend to be naturally excluded because they don’t hang out with fags and trannies. but like. i’m a transsexual woman i hang out exclusively with transsexuals, and mostly trans women. and listen. no one in those spaces is going “oh no men are allowed.” if a “man” shows even the slightest interest or signs of being trans they’re welcomed with open arms. but like. cis dudes as a “sign of a healthy ecosystem” is the dumbest shit i’ve ever heard.

don’t get me wrong, i get what they’re going for bc like. the goal is General Inclusion. all should be welcome, regardless of identity or expression. but like. “let the oppressor into the dedicated space for your minority group” is not the fucking move. community spaces for members of that community are valid, valuable, integral. you don’t go into a space and say “the health of this space, which is dedicated to minorities, is determined by whether their oppressors feel comfy here”

"The health of this space, which is dedicated to minorities, is determined by whether their oppressors feel comfy here" is entirely missing the point.

Like, you already got the point. You mentioned it before. General Inclusion.

What is in quotes is not what is being said.

What is being said is that if a queer space is being bigoted, that's bad. And one way to check for bigotry is to see how the folk in that space is to see if they are creating an us vs them mentality vis a vis men.

Defining cis het men as oppressors is language that devides the human race into good vs bad along an arbitrary line.

JK Rowling is an oppressor.

Kevin who lives in his parents basement and is just opening up to the possibility he might not be cis or het or something, is not.

But if you tell Kevin he is an oppressor. Then there is a good chance he isolates himself from the queer community so as to do his best to not hurt people and thus learns nothing about himself.

Even if a his cet man remains fully cis and fully het can feel like he isnt hated on site in a queer space. The he is treated as a human being. That all there other kind of folk are also just human beings (hand wiggle for the trans humanists ect) then he can learn to stop being a bigoted asshole. And can pass that on to his drinking buddies. When he goes out to spaces that are queer hostile and someone calls an actor a tranny faggot, he can explain and has ahigher chance of being listened to because he's "one of them"

Isolating the queer community from anything that doesnt immediately look queer is a death sentence for the queer community.

you are protecting this hypothetical straw man Kevin StraightMan instead of listening to the actual trans women in front of you speaking from personal experience of going from “cis het guy” to “trans woman.”

no one is proposing people be actively hostile, just that trans people should have a space of their own.

did i say “cis het men are inherently evil?” or did i say “no one is proposing people be actively hostile, just that trans people should have a space of their own.”

i consider making and spreading "i'm just a girl" "girl math" "girlfailure" content and rhetoric to be a form of misogynistic hate speech. like what else can you call repeatedly linking womanhood to failure and stupidity

Can you just call yourself a dumbass and be done with it

X-Men vs Street Fighter Arcade 1996

“RICH GIRLS” (BORDIGHERA) HELMUT NEWTON // ITALY, 1982 [gelatin silver print | 14 x 11″]

i understand why the ‘grizzled loner who slowly melts & improves their outlook on life when forced to take care of a kid’ trope is a male exclusive role, bc the optics of a grizzled loner woman healing by becoming a mother are maybe not so good, but every time i think abt a hypothetical female version of that trope i black out instantly. could we maybe just do it one time and all agree to be cool about it

previous tags and their very valid point:

[#no no this is totally doable #you just have to make sure she stays grizzled #and has the same like #awkward none of this comes naturally thing #where it goes bad is if shes Suddenly A Warm And Immediately Nurturing Fixed Human #instead of a collection of busted parts going #ah fuck i guess im all you have #so i guess I do my best]