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RAVEN AND BEAST-BOY

1980's inspired Raven and Beast-Boy.

He was supposed to get a retro, jungle themed Guns and Roses shirt, but alas, I got lazy. I didn't finish designing it...or coloring it. I just made the line-art purple and called it a day. I do plan to design the shirt properly next time tho.

As always, inspired by the incomparable Gabriel Picolo

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Mask off ig. "Jews are all rich and are controlling the money through rent, so let's protest in a Jewish neighborhood. But we're just antizionist not antisemitic" like literally they are saying they need to rise up against a whole sect of Judaism.

And the sad part? We've been warning non jews for months that this was coming. The warning signs were glowing red and people still said we were making a mountain out of a mole hill.

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I would give anything to watch Congresswoman McBride slap the shit out of Stephen Miller that pathetic little piece of shit.

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I saw they're re-releasing the Revenge of the Sith for a 20th adversary back to the theaters (because movie theaters are dying and they'll try and trick to get people back)

and it just made me think, particularly with people Andor posting so much:

its weird that George Lucas wanted to make a complex, nuanced, space political thriller/drama, but also seems to have literally no understanding of interpersonal relationships between human beings. Like the whole prequels hang on believing Anakin and Padmé are so in love both are willing to risk everything, indeed Anakin's love becomes obsessive. But like at no point across two movies do Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman look like they even want to be in the same room, much less are madly in love. Likewise Ewan McGregor does slightly better with what he was given but you never feel the depth of betrayal when Anakin goes dark because you never really see Obi-Wan and Anakin's friendship.

And also Anakin isn't really corrupted, he's the same asshole in Attack of the Clones as he is when he's shoved in the big black suit at the end of Sith, he's musing about a Fascist dictatorship to the girl who's all about a galactic democracy and that's their big date.

to be clear this Lucas' fault he told Christensen not to emote because Jedi are stoic so we get 2 movies of pretty wooden acting from someone who clearly is a fine actor.

any ways the point being its very weird to make a thriller drama when you have no understanding of human emotions and very little interest in them.

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"If we summon our hope then we will find the light and turn this moment into what a friend from Florida once called a slingshot moment.. where we are pulled backwards but the tension and pressure of being pulled backwards ultimately propels us to destinations that we have not yet been"

-Congresswoman Sarah McBride

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the boy wonder

og under the cut

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So Yesterday I saw Penguin Random House had a page for the Young Justice Omnibus Vol 2, today they've gone and taken it down 🤷���♂️

idk if someone put it up early or what but I guess its coming out in January 2026

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What is something you think the whole batfamily could bond over? Besides crimefighting, I suppose.

they're all gear heads, they like cars, and motorbikes.

fandom is dominated by gay nerds (who can't drive) so people generally don't explore that but yeah pretty much every one of them is obsessed with cars and bikes in canon so fixing/building/racing/customizing would be something they'd bond over.

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time to share a deeply gross, if you're eating don't read, story that sums up "early explorers were idiots" pretty well.

This involves the tomb of the English King Edward IV (1442-1483)

Edward was buried as many English monarchs are, including the late Queen Elizabeth II, at St. George's Chapel in the Castle of Windsor which has been a royal home since the 1100s.

Like most high status people, and particularly Kings of his day Edward's coffin was expected to lay in state for a long time. In an age before embalming as we know it having a dead body hanging out for a month or even up to 8 weeks was a tricky problem.

A form of embalming who's grosser details I'll spare you did exist, and so Edward was wrapped up like a mummy in layers of waxed cloth, before lead was shaped around his body making a sarcophagus like shell around the King, this was finally put into a wooden coffin.

the technic seems to have worked well enough to allow many medieval kings and queens of Europe to have long laying in states and travel long ways to be buried where they wanted.

Any ways, Edward IV was buried with honor in a prime spot in St. George's Chapel, right by the high alter, and his grandson Henry VII built an impressive tomb over the spot where Edward was buried.

However the English reformation and then the English Civil War in the 1600s caused much of the decorations of the Chapel to be destroyed including Edward IV's tomb and where exactly he was buried was lost.

in 1789, over 300 years after Edward's death, a new floor was being laid in the chapel and the vault of Edward IV was re-discovered.

At that point a one Henry Emlyn, who had been overseeing the work and was also a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, entered the King's tomb. With-in he found the outer wooden coffin had rotted totally away, leaving the lead shell that enclosed the King. The shell showed signs of wear and decay after 300+ years but was intact and still sealed shut (thats important)

Emlyn opened the shell to reveal the body of the King, he, like a good explorer before the age of photography made drawings of what he saw

He found Edward IV mostly a skeleton, though he's hair was still intact, and in the years since samples of his hair have popped up a number of places.

Okay here comes the deeply gross part, stop now if you can't deal with ick, seriously.

Emlyn found that the King's feet and lower legs were submerged in a brown liquid, which he said looked like "pickled walnut" Emlyn believed that it was water that had gotten into the coffin over the years. However the coffin had remained sealed and the tomb was carved into the chalk bedrock and was very dry.

Emlyn undertook "the usual" smell and taste(!) test. According to him it had no smell and no real taste either but a roughage texture.

As you most likely already put together Emlyn was not taste testing old standing water, but the liquified remains of King Edward IV which had broken down and collected at the lowest point in his coffin.

told you not to read that if you get sick easily.

I feel like 90% of "ancient curses" are probably adequately explained by the fact that the self-proclaimed adventurers who ostensibly fell victim to them were, as a class, a bunch of dipshits who engaged in frequent international travel in an era before antibiotics and vaccines. Like, the list of novel pathogens these guys were risking exposure to on a regular basis was effectively "all of them". That's gotta leave a mark.

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"The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt but it's my jondami version ❤️

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So Trump has launched an effort to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

that links to a long winded Executive Order from the Orange assclown, but the long and the short is this

"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies"

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act bans discrimination from any entity that receives federal funds, so your local library, or the art museum, or schools, or your local housing authority or or etc basically any body that gets federal funds in any way can not discriminate, but Trump would really like to change that

the order later mentions Titles VII and VIII

Title VII bans employment discrimination, they mention Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but they're idiots and they mean Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, the one that deals with housing rights

Title VIII of the 1968 law bans discrimination against people buying a home, or trying to rent based on their race (religion, sex, age, disability, pregnancy, National origin)

Trump can't repeal the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 68 with a swipe of his pen, of course, but he's clearly and LOUDLY seeking to narrow their reach and stop enforcement of these landmark laws as much as possible

oh and fun fact, the largest fine for Housing discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1968? Donald J. Trump for years he and his father refused to rent to black people.

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Commission for @siirknight!

In which the Spot becomes friends with Miles and helps him get to school in time (albeit a bit clumsily).

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There's this popular widely held bigoted idea about autistic people that they are just assholes,

that rather than social skills being a thing that all people learn and autistic people learn differently have a harder time learning than others but can be learned.

Autistic people are always big jerks and can never change that and expecting them to not be horrible assholes is somehow ableist.

So certain horrible assholes in public life have taken to declaring they are autistic hoping to use this bigoted misconception about autism as an everything proof shield against criticism of their behavior.

To be 100% clear I'm talking about Elon Musk and Kayne West who have both claimed it.

NOW! people have said stuff about how autistic people can be jerks or racist just like anyone else, and thats 100% true, but I think misses the point.

idk if Musk or West are autistic or not but they're not saying they're autistic in public for any other reason than as an excuse and a shield from accountability for the actions and no matter how you platform that excuse no matter what you say about that excuse, you're just helping spread the misconception about autistic people and helping horrible cruel people victimize a whole other community of human beings.