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This is an excellent piece about a small character with a huge impact, both on the narrative of Skeleton Crew, and the writer of this article. Give it a read.

I wrote a piece about Melna from Skeleton Crew, because she's the hero we all need

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Hey guys, wanted to share here:

Jed Lackritz, an incredibly kind and sweet assistant editor I worked with on Jurassic World Chaos Theory, sadly lost his home in the Eaton fire.

Donations and shares are greatly appreciated <3

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let us take a moment and grieve for all the lives lost. so many thousand people have been murdered by the zionist entity in the last fifteen months. palestinians in gaza have lost too much, from friends and family to their homes and livelihood.

this ceasefire is not an end to our solidarity with gaza. we will all be here waiting and praying for palestine to be wholly liberated from the occupation and watch her people be happy and free.

in the meantime, please keep donating to palestinian fundraisers. it is essential to support families planning on rebuilding.

alaa is a mother of two young children. her fundraiser has been verified. i request you to help her by sharing and donating to her gofundme.

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The world is very cruel towards Gaza, all governments and presidents talk about the 70 hostages being held, no one talks about the 2 million people who are being starved, killed and displaced daily in addition to dying from the severe cold,

The Gazan citizen was exposed to all kinds of death. What we witnessed in Gaza on the ground, I swear we did not see it in Hollywood. Imagine that citizens and children were burned on television screens and no one, including the leaders, came out to condemn it. Condemns these heinous acts against Palestine We are literally exposed to all kinds of killing, hunger, severe cold, and suffering in all its forms. Words cannot describe what we are going through. Please help us to survive this devastating war.

My family needs you more than ever and any donation helps us. Donation link here

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Will Yasammy be affected now after the US election and the threat of anti-queer legislation? Is JWCT Season Three even possible now?

Answering this from a wider, creative perspective -- looking through your blog, you seem VERY upset by the way this election went. So, I wanna be real with you regarding the status of queer stories and our ability to tell them: The entertainment industry as a whole has gotten exponentially more open to the telling of queer stories since I was a kid. Hell, just twentyish years ago, it was a quite a unique sight to see Willow kiss Tara on Buffy! We've come a looooong way since then: on Disney Jr shows -- DISNEY. JR. -- we were able to include queer parents of children (TOTS). Many queer relationships were in She-Ra: Princesses of Power. Queer dads in The Bravest Knight on Hulu. Heartstopper does fucking NUMBERS for Netflix. We got twenty episodes of Dead End: Paranormal Park! Even in Camp Cretaceous, Sammy and Yaz were shown being openly queer, however briefly! Queer representation has come a long way not just in media for older audiences, but for younger ones, too.

Is it perfect? Is it enough? FUCK NO. The hardest stories to get greenlit are queer stories (and POC stories, but that's another... story). The FIRST shows to be axed the moment they don't seem to take off as huge hits are queer stories (and again, POC stories, but let's stay on track). And that's a huge fucking problem, and I understand why you'd be concerned. I still get concerned about it! My friends and colleagues still get concerned about it!

But people older than me fought so hard to earn their place at the storytelling table, and people like me continue to fight the fight and make strides in making sure that queer stories are told in a variety of ways and media, and for various audiences. The proverbial genie is out of the bottle -- closet? XD -- and there's no putting it back, not completely.

The incoming administration may try to roll back our protections. They may try to hurt us and make us hide and all that stupid shit. But those fuckers are cowards. They're disgusting, stupid pigs who think we're just gonna sit down and allow them to demean and disregard and hurt us in order to make us stop telling our stories. But we won't. We can't. We don't know how to stop.

Any anti-queer legislation will be met with extreme opposition, and honestly... I don't know if I'm naive, but I do not expect much of it to actually come to pass. They may try, certainly, but the discrimination lawsuits they will be met with alone will halt any momentum they might gain, and by the time those cases are settled, these fuckers will be out of power.

I will say, we had to fight a little bit to keep Yasammy *authentically* queer (insofar as making sure they showed each other affection in ways that felt realistic and also subtle but ALSO showing them kissing as any average couple would), but we did not have to fight to keep them just plain queer. Like, no one ever questioned the fact of them being together -- or the fact of them being queer. Everyone, including the studio, was behind it 100%. And I will always be so appreciative of that.

TLDR: Chill on the doom-thoughts regarding queer stories. We will continue to tell them, we will continue to break down any barriers that come up, and we will never back down. You shouldn't either.

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......Sighhhhhhhh.

I can't exactly speak for the people who worked on this show, be they directors, writers, animators, storyboarders or actors (though from what I have glimpsed on Wikipedia, the transgender actor who Voiced a Transgender Character isn't happy), but I am fairly certain that everyone put their heart into their work on Win or Lose, and will probably be dismayed that some of their work isn't put into the final product. Said work might even involve a topic that they felt strongly connected to, and wanted other people to see and learn from.

But as for the corporate representatives of the Disney company, here is what I have to say to you:

You've really shown yourselves to be Cowards this year.

If your action is in response to the 2024 election, I will admit, I get the uncertainty and fear of what to do next, and how whatever one does will be received. But even if so, one should strive to, as one of your movies and previous founders said, Keep Moving Forward; to show that you won't take things lying down, and that everyone from any walk of life has a place in the world.

But if your response Isn't a reaction to what happened, then you have Really messed up this year.

Basing things off my memory, you have, Just in the year of 2024:

Let go of a good chunk of Pixar's employees, and Did Not give them any form of payment or benefits, even by the time Inside Out 2 became a smash hit.

Reveal that you attributed Lightyear's box-office failure not to external factors like streaming and where people expected to watch Pixar films, but rather to the brief LGBTQ+ kiss that was Explicitly added to the film in protest towards the lack of condemnation towards the Don't Say Gay bill back in 2022.

Use that as an excuse to watch over how the character of Riley was handled in Inside Out 2 in an effort to not have her be gay (great job handling it, Definitely didn't stop all the fan support for that idea).

Pull the plug early on shows like The Ghost and Molly McGee and Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, despite the creators and crew having more seasons and episodes in mind and/or made.

Cancelling Hailey's On It! while Also removing the option to watch it on Disney+ for those who don't watch shows on cable.

Do something similar to what you have just done with Win or Lose with the Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur episode "The Gatekeeper", which had a heavy focus on a trans character overcoming the barriers forcibly placed in their path.

And, perhaps the most infamous decision to come out of this year, the decision to allegedly cancel The Acolyte after the promise of another season. A decision that was made amidst a sea of raging, bigoted, hateful, Insufferable negativity! The kind of raging, Idiotic negativity that will lash out at anything, be it an actor saying the wrong character's name out of excitement for the franchise he loves (Charlie Barnett), a previously-existing minor character with little impact on the plot showing up in the show (Ki-Adi Mundi), a misunderstanding/misinterpretation of what is clearly stated or hinted at within the show (The Jedi team on Brendok realizing they were at fault), or just the mere Presence of actors and creators who are neither male, straight, or white (Leslye Headland, Amandla Stenberg). Actors and creators who you, as the company that hired them, are supposed to protect, Especially after what has happened with John Boyega, Moses Ingram and Kelly Marie Tran.

And by giving those @$$hats a win, even an unconfirmed one, you have merely given them unspoken permission to continue spreading their hatred, whether it be by continuing to make rage-bait videos to gain monetization, harassing Whoever worked on or enjoyed The Acolyte (often by repeatedly saying One Line from the entire show, or saying a Misinformed Lie about what Amandla Stenberg said years ago), or by making them think they are Above you, and can make you do whatever they want. And considering the report of superfan focus groups being used to suggest changes to some of your products, that will probably not work out well in the long run.

To sum it all up, the decisions that you have made as a company this year are just not good, especially in terms of representation for your workers, and the LGBTQ+ community. I am sure that just like the company in the 1970s and 1980s, you will eventually get out of this slump you've found yourselves in. But in order to do so, you should consider being more open with people about why you are doing what you do, and examine how you can be better towards your employees and the handling of LGBT representation.

MOTHER! FUCKING--

STOP WITH THIS "RESULTS OF ELECTION" BULLSHIT! OKAY?! Giving up how representation just because it's no longer easy is NOT okay on any means, now matter the nonsensical justifications you give it!

I...am SO fucking angry right now...

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Just in case. It wouldn't hurt to make sure the votes were tallied correctly.

Just to be clear, Kamala conceded with grace and dignity but it is still well within everyone’s right to demand an investigation and even a recount with due cause despite a winner being declared. U.S.Americans have the right to demand free and fair elections (we don’t have a right to, say, start an insurrection like certain people did after the 2020 election).

Many, including major swing states, (Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and more) have already admitted to data and ballots not being recognized or lost and are recounting or calling for a recount. It usually takes days to count and record votes, a day after a bunch of election tampering is not enough.

If you used a mail-in ballot and haven’t yet, check if it was actually counted and “recognized.” A lot of mail-in voters from swing states found out that their ballots were uncounted today.

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A small child having to live with no diapers is beyond inhumane!!!

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Hello dear .. My name is Abdul Rahman Hilles from Gaza Palestine,, married to the martyred journalist ola Al-Dahdouh.

My journalist wife works for the Watan News Agency and we had a beautiful child named Karam. The real disaster began on Wednesday, May31, 2024, when my wife, my child and I were surprised by a huge missile that fell on us and exploded in the place where we were, targeting the house we fled to and other neighboring houses. At that moment, my journalist wife Ola hugged our child Karam to protect him from the hell of the missile, but she turned into pieces and died immediately.

My child Karam and I miraculously escaped certain death when the pressure of the missile threw me a long distance, which resulted in me being injured by numerous shrapnel and multiple injuries that led to severe fractures in my leg and damage to the nerves in my hand and foot and various shrapnel in different parts of my body.

My wife is a journalist covering the crimes of genocide against defenseless civilians in the Gaza Strip. With the intensification of the bombing and the scarcity of food and water, my wife and I struggled daily to secure food for our only child Karam, who was also suffering from severe fear because of The brutal bombing of the Gaza Strip.

Now after the disaster that befell my family, I need your generous support to overcome my ordeal and pay for my treatment and surgeries. I need several surgeries outside the Gaza Strip that cost a lot of money, and I am in dire need of your tears and support

I am confident that after reading my sad story, you will sympathize with me and share with me and will not leave me and my child Karam alone.

Donate to me or share my campaign with your friends to donate to me

No matter how small your donation is, it means to me a chance for me and my child to be treated and to stay safe.

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Hello supporter❤️,

The war took everything from me, and left us in fear and loss💔😭. I am a mother of 3 children. My husband was seriously injured and can no longer work, and we are now struggling to meet our children's basic needs🥺.

Your support, no matter how small, will help us provide food and safety for them.

Help me by donate as you can and reblog my story ♥️

https://gofund.me/cafe04f6

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when I drew this comic 3 years ago I had NO idea how far it would reach. I'm happy to finally share a corrected version with proper abbreviations, and even MORE state names of indigenous origin ♥️

however, the goal of this comic was to inspire people to do your OWN research on indigenous history. To question everything we have been taught, and everything that has been pointedly left out. This erasure, this “forgetting”, of history is not just of the past… it is happening now. - Across so-called Canada, the US, and US-occupied islands, native women are victims of murder at 10-12x the rate of non-native people, and are the most likely to go missing without being searched for by the law. - Native reservations have the highest rates of poverty in the US, with over HALF of tribal homes with no access to clean water (with more joining this list by the year) - Native people are 6-10x more likely to be unhoused than the rest of the population, and native teens suffer suicide rates higher than any other demographic. This list of modern day genocide goes on (thank you for compiling @theindigenousanarchist <3) and yet take a look at those environmental stats!

Native people manage to do SO much for the planet as a whole - thanklessly - and with all this stacked against them. Don't even get me started on kin fighting in south america. Could you imagine if there was help? #landback is resistance to genocide, and it is the key to saving our warming earth.

So look into it and the other hashtags, cuz a cartoon goose ain't a substitute for a proper education. Love to my grandparents who always kept a map of tribal territories of turtle island on their wall, to speaking on our Tsalagi & Saponi heritage. Love & solidarity forever, happy research, and happy #indigenouspeoplesday

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(Also, if you care to support the artist, I'm publishing a book ! and writing another - a fantastical afroindigenous graphic novel - that I post exclusively about with tons of other art on my patreon.)

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Do your best to make sure you vote.

please make every effort to vote <3

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One year gone

One year of killing civilians

One year of bombing hospitals

One year of bombing schools

One year of destroying a whole city

One year of starving people to death

One year of making people leave their homes to live in tents

One year and still the world just watching us dying

One year thousands are missing under the rubble thousands arrested with unknown future

One year of thousands of children lost either one of their parents or both

Thousands lost parts of their bodies

I can’t imagine this will continue for a year

Fuck this world fuck everyone

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I am grateful for the assistance I have received so far, but I am still in need of more support to reach my campaign goal swiftly. This will enable me to evacuate my family from Gaza 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸.

Help my family escape Gaza and rebuild our lives My family needs to evacuate Gaza for your safety. My family is struggling without shelter, food or health services. On October 7, 2023, we lost our home and have no plan for the future. Every day is a gamble, we don't know if we will survive. We are launching this GoFundMe for evacuation and basic needs. Your contribution could be a lifeline. Please, help us escape this nightmare. Share our story and stand with us in our time of need. Thanks for your support. Your donation makes a difference. Be the hope the world

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Donate to me, even if just a little. Share the donation link among your friends. Do not stop supporting us if you love Gaza and Palestine

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Hello everyone I'm Yousef, I'm afather of a sick son, he suffers from shortness of breath and needs continuous treatment,

I live in very hard and bad situation in the tent, because of the war I lost everything my father, my house and my job,so please stand with us and donate to us to escape from war and secure medical treatment for son

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