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I have extensive trauma and a ghost in my head because of this fucking crossroads. Blehg.

it's me im trans ppl

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Feathers McGraw is the polar opposite of Perry the Platypus in all but one aspect.

Feathers: Is evil, cannot be recognized while wearing a hat

Perry: Is good, can only be recognized while wearing a hat

The only aspect that unites them is the fact they both have a nemesis in the form of a bumbling but capable inventor and scientist.

Clearly the two should fight.

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My grandmother was a two times world champion wheelchair archer in the compound bow category, she doesn't compete anymore and hasn't for a long time, but she remains the honorary president of the town archery club~ my late grandfather trained paralympian archers too~

Archery is very fun.

There are sadly always other factors that can limit the accessibility of archery, but you might be surprised by how adaptable it can be!

Archery GB have some useful info if you’re looking to get involved in disabled archery

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It's possible they have used it so many times on earth they are, in part, why it seems so common.

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it's so fucking weird to see a bunch of fuckin drug adverts on the TV and all of them, like ALL OF THEM are at risk of fuckin killing you apparently. I'd say it's like out of a fuckin cyberpunk Dystopia but that's not quite accurate cause it is just out of a cyberpunk dystopia that's what the good ol US of A is

been watching livestreams of US news channels lately and

1) they have a LOT of commercial breaks

2) i didn’t realize that ads for medicine were actually like this

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even split between Alex rider, abhorsen, chronicles of ancient darkness, and wind on fire.

Alex Rider probably wins out, Power of five was good too. But the other three are fond and present memories

Runner up goes to the Gone book series.

not allowed to say Harry Potter, but what was your book series obsession as a teen

mine was definitely Eragon

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all of this but don't eat grass folks, it's really bad for your teeth, eat a tooth safe substitute, like watercress.

be safe bunnies

easter sucks i don’t think we should have widespread christianity events permeating our neighborhoods. however, i like that somehow this became a rabbit-centric time of the year. i propose we overturn easter and replace it with a celebration of bunny girls. give it to the trans furries. they can like, graze on fields of grass and do freak sex stuff or whatever. let’s go lesbians

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sometimes in regards to a thing, when given a choice over being forced, the thing we resisted becomes more appealing simply because we did not resist the thing, we resisted the force behind it.

well, transition sure does change a man

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Ahh, the extended polycule (humor)

Meet Tartan! He's big and strong and very Scottish.

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musings only tangentially relevant

I've never been more driven away from faith than when a person desperately preaches to try to get me to join... I was never going to join, I have my own path to walk that I chose for myself, but I wonder, how do they feel to know that their actions only work to push me further away? Their hell is not a warning, it's a threat, comply or suffer, or at least, that is the appearance on how it seems to be

I'd much rather follow the vision of a G-d that feels right to me inside, than one that threatens me if I do not follow.

So on a Jewish influencer's video about Passover preparations, someone asked why she does all that, and a Christian popped in to explain that none of this is necessary because of Jesus. When it was explained to them that we don't believe in Jesus or the New Testament and these things have no relevance in our religion, they got upset and started insisting Jesus is the son of God. Throughout the whole thing, they kept stating their beliefs as though they were objective fact (eg "Jesus is the son of God," rather than "in Christianity we believe Jesus is the son of God."

They acted as though these are all obvious and self-evident truths; one of them acted shocked that someone would see Jesus as just a random person of no significance, and another said that Jews are not doing right by God because we are rejecting Him by rejecting Jesus.

Now, none of this is particularly shocking, but I have questions for Christians and folks raised Christian:

- Why do people act like this?

- Do they know how unwelcome these kinds of comments are? Are they doing it anyway to prove a point?

- Why do they state their beliefs as fact when they know the people who are talking to don't share them? Do they think they'll convert us this way?

- Does it just really offend them that some people aren't into Jesus and they can't compute?

- Do they know that they're being disrespectful and don't care, or do they not know?

[As always, I cannot respond to replies, so if you reply and I don't acknowledge it I'm not ignoring you.]

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Mah beautiful wife~

Mod: All dressed up and heading out for the night. Feeling all the gender fuckery, tonight.

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HE'S THAT GUY?

Update from the man himself

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such a funny way to give him his anime accurate cut, I really hope we get to a point where we can see helmeppo and koby again, they're lovely

one of my favorite things about opla is that they made zoro give helmeppo that haircut because he thought it would be funny

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Jackie Ormes, the first Black American woman cartoonist

When the 14-year-old Black American boy Emmett Till was lynched in 1955, one cartoonist responded in a single-panel comic. It showed one Black girl telling another: “I don’t want to seem touchy on the subject… but that new little white tea-kettle just whistled at me!”

It may not seem radical today, but penning such a political cartoon was a bold and brave statement for its time — especially for the artist who was behind it. This cartoon was drawn by Jackie Ormes, the first syndicated Black American woman cartoonist to be published in a newspaper. Ormes, who grew up in Pittsburgh, got her first break as cartoonist as a teenager. She started working for the Pittsburgh Courier as a sports reporter, then editor, then cartoonist who penned her first comic, Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, in 1937. It followed a Mississippi teen who becomes a famous singer at the famed Harlem jazz club, The Cotton Club.

In 1942, Ormes moved to Chicago, where she drew her most popular cartoon, Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger, which followed two sisters who made sharp political commentary on Black American life. 

In 1947, Ormes created the Patty-Jo doll, the first Black doll that wasn’t a mammy doll or a Topsy-Turvy doll. In production for a decade, it was a role model for young black girls. "The doll was a fashionable, beautiful character,“ says Daniel Schulman, who curated one of the dolls into a recent Chicago exhibition. “It had an extraordinary presence and power — they’re collected today and have important place in American doll-making in the U.S.”

In 1950, Ormes drew her final strip, Torchy in Heartbeats, which followed an independent, stylish black woman on the quest for love — who commented on racism in the South. “Torchy was adventurous, we never saw that with an Black American female figure,” says Beauchamp-Byrd. “And remember, this is the 1950s.“ Ormes was the first to portray black women as intellectual and socially-aware in a time when they were depicted in a derogatory way.

One common mistake that erased Ormes from history is mis-crediting Barbara Brandon-Croft as the first nationally syndicated Black American female cartoonist. “I’m just the first mainstream cartoonist, I’m not the first at all,” says Brandon-Croft, who published her cartoons in the Detroit Free Press in the 1990s. “So much of Black history has been ignored, it’s a reminder that Black history shouldn’t just be celebrated in February.”

Source

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Announcement!!

My and TeoraB's new comic/web-manga/web-series launches here, on Bluesky, and on the dreaded bird site this next Monday!! woo!

You can expect four pages on monday, followed by a page a day until we wrap up chapter 1, if you like what you see, please share it about, we are so proud of what we've made and can't wait to share it with you all!

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Also largely possible that the meta Christ's are totally unrelated to the original and a force through which an entirely different entity works through

Trench Crusade had me at, "The Stigmatic Nuns, a female warrior cult who follow and venerate the teachings of the Third Meta-Christ." (For context, Trench Crusade's Meta-Christ are clones of Jesus)

Like, okay. This is fucking WEIRD in a way that makes it very obvious, even the creators know this is fucking batshit.