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Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.

Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.

Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.

Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.

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Tried drawing hobie in Robert valleys style

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ppl are rlly trying to defend being on your phone during a movie in the theater what is going on

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the thing about the executive order calling for the institutionalization of mentally ill people and people with addictions who "cannot care for themselves" is that someone like me, despite being mentally ill and unable to care for myself, is low risk. i have an apartment, i have caregivers, i have involved family. someone in my situation or similar is unlikely to wind up institutionalized because of this executive order.

the people who are most likely to wind up institutionalized because of this executive order are people experiencing domestic violence, and people who are currently homeless. this order instructs state governments that they can apply laws around institutionalization extremely loosely to cover just about any homeless person. the explicit text of the order talks about "fighting vagrancy." this loose interpretation can also be used when abusers seek to have their victims institutionalized, and will allow laws preventing that to be loosened.

this is not an order saying that every single mentally ill/disabled person will be institutionalized. this order is part of the war on the poorest americans, the most vulnerable. this is class warfare, as waged by democratic and republican state and local governments alike since the supreme court grants pass decision.

to respond to this order effectively, we (housed mentally ill/disabled people), have to show up for our homeless neighbors. we can't consider street homeless people a lost cause. they are our comrades, our neighbors, members of our communities. when i was more mobile, i used to show up at encampments with a cooler of water bottles and popsicles on hot summer days, and use that to build a relationship, start asking people what they needed, what would help their communities. look into unhoused organizing and activism where you live. there are people already doing this work. if you want to fight widespread institutionalization, that's where you need to start.

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A copper retriever with her unoxidised puppies

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googling shit like "why do i feel bad after hanging out with my friends" and all of the answers are either "you need better friends" (i don't; my friends are wonderful) or "your social battery is drained, you need to rest and regain your energy levels" (i don't; i've got tons of energy, it's just manifesting as over-the-top neurotic mania). why is this even happening. it's like some stupid toll i have to pay as a punishment for enjoying myself too much

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The prompt was ‘detention.’

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Loved loved loved everything in Wonder Woman today, but especially the panelling on the spread near the end. The left to right to left to right eyeline, the sheer smallness of the Diana as she falls and catches, the use of red as a border against the blue, “what are we if not our challenges” - just really really cool.

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I just think they're neat 🛸🏛️🦇

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she’s so damn pretty

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Eight huge buff dudes who just pick one specific pub to be their regular and go there every friday, beating their fists against the table for rhythm while loudly singing sea shanties, drowning out whatever the bar was playing as background music before. Eventually the bartenders just learn to turn off the music when they show up, it's shanty time whether anyone else wants it or not. You can't throw them all out because there's fucking eight of them and no place is willing to hire 16 bouncers just to make it stop. Eventually people just accept that this is the shanty bar. The other patrons are free to request their own favourites in exchange for a beer. Not a round for all of them, just one beer with eight straws that they all drink from. Having swiftly inhaled the one single beer, they pick up the song.

Anybody can sing along if they please, but nobody can make them stop.

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Loved loved loved everything in Wonder Woman today, but especially the panelling on the spread near the end. The left to right to left to right eyeline, the sheer smallness of the Diana as she falls and catches, the use of red as a border against the blue, “what are we if not our challenges” - just really really cool.

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Favorskaya

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Super cool aspect of Absolute Martian Manhunter is how it puts a crazy new spin on ufology and conspiracy concepts by blending them with psychology and sociological ideas.

Manhunter and the White Martian's new designs are themed around the two most common culturual depictions of aliens; the heroic(?) Manhunter as the archetypal cartoony Little Green Men, the villainous White Martian as the archetypal scary Greys.

John Jones himself is framed almost like the Men in Black. Human - at least in appearance - but incredibly strange in behavior and incapable of interacting with people in emotionally normal way, appearing to people without explanation to carry out the will of an alien force and the government.

Trigger Taylor is not only a typical UFO conspiracy nut before the White Martian gets its hooks in him, but his story is basically a twisted parodic inversion of alien infiltration stories in the vein of They Live or Invasion of the Body Snatchers; an alien convincing a man that everyone around him are imposters when they're really not in a form of capgras syndrome and xenophobia.

Spontaenous human combustion, death rays, and other fire-themed mysteries and ideas are given a warped spin where heat and fire are used in a strategic effort to induce social decay through the destruction of social pillars. Instead of random combustion, people are compelled to randomly burn others. The irritation and unease caused by a major heat wave is used to "combust" preexisting tensions.

The Human Flame is changed from a mere criminal in a costume to a Heaven's Gate-esque UFO cult that commits violent acts of suicide and terror in the name of their alien master. And the investigation of Mike Miller's involvement specifically has John asking a question that hangs over the series - "how and why do people get involved in stuff like this?". How do people get lured into cults and convinced to kill themselves for a cause?

Issue five combines the idea of Shadow People with the Jungian Shadow to create living shades parasitizing onto people to prod them into embracing their unconscious aspects or intrusive thoughts in a destructive way.

The entire overarching plot of the series is a weird version of old-school alien invasion stories from b-movies and pulp sci-fi, where instead of the aliens invading with flying saucers zapping monuments, they invade through our very minds and culture, mind-controlling us through telepathy and propaganda to eviscerate our civilization from within for their own inscrutable goals.

It's all extremely cool and I can't wait to see what else Deniz Camp does with this comic. If you're not reading it, I can't recommend it enough.

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Luke Gelfman - Absolute Wonder Woman

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An absolute -