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BUTCH study 1, Alisa | photo by Meg Allen in the BUTCH series

This photograph was incredibly influential in my self image and understanding as a teen.

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I just think they should be friends

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yeah.

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BUTCH study 2 | photo by Meg Allen in the BUTCH series

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Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby (1938) dir. Howard Hawks

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‘Whispering Souls’. Chris Cyprus. 2021.

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Native American Confederacies:

Haudenosaunee: Also known as the Iroquois Confederacy or the Six Nations, consist of the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, and later, Tuscarora. They were formed prior to European contact, and their form of government started by the Great Law of Peace was used as a Model for that of the United States Constitution. Oral tradition suggests the confederacy was formed before an eclipse circa the early 12th century.

The Triple Alliance: Later known as the Aztec Empire, was formed in 1428 under the leader Itzcoatl, wherein the Mexica formed a three-way alliance with the Texcocans and the Tacubans to defeat their most powerful rivals for influence of the region. They later became a dominant force ruling over multiple tribes and political factions until the invasion by the Spanish.

Powhatan Confederacy: Created in the late 16th century, was founded by Paramount Chief Wahunsenacah (Father of Matoaka, also known as Pocahontas), affiliating some 30 tribes in Virginia, creating the Powhatan Confederacy. Each tribe was led by a weroance that paid tribute to the Paramount Chief and allied together politically, economically, and militarily. Affiliated tribes included the Pamunkey, Patawomeck, Quiyoughcohannock, Chesapeake, Appomattock, Kiskiak, Mattaponi, Rappahannock, Werowocomoco, and more.

Iron Confederacy: political and military alliance of individual tribes against common enemies, membership included the Cree, Stoney, Metis, Saulteaux, and Nakota. It is unknown when it was first founded, but it existed at the arrival of settlers during the early 17th century and likely was created earlier.

Wabanaki Confederacy: Made up of the Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Western Abenaki, this alliance was formed due to the common enemy of the English colonizers, whom they would go to war with in the First Abenaki war, which was then ended with the Treaty of Casco. They incorporated political elements from neighboring confederacies, such as the use of wampum for treaties, and they have their own symbol for the alliance.

Oceti Sakowin: known as the Seven Council Fires, (Titunwan, Yankton, Yanktonai, Mdewakanton, Wahpeton, Wahpekute, & Sisseton) is and was an alliance of Peoples divided into 3 ethnic groups, the Lakota, the Eastern & Western Dakota. Around 1300 AD, after years of moving from their ancestral lands of the central Mississippi Valley region, they adopted the characteristics of a northern tribal society and became known as the Seven Council Fires. Their battles against colonizers are some of the most well known, such as the Battle of Little Big Horn.

Blackfoot Confederacy: Is made up of 4 Nations with the same language. The Nations have their own governments, but banded together in political, spiritual, and social alliance. The affiliated tribes are the Siksika, Kainai, Peigan, and Pikani, and later, Tsuu T’ina was added to the confederacy. Their territory stretched from along the North Saskatchewan River in Canada to the Yellowstone River in Montana, and within the Rocky Mountains. They were known as a formidable alliance, often going to war with the Iron Confederacy.

Wampanoag Confederacy: Once a loose Confederation in the early 17th century, now one consisting of 10 tribes, are and were an alliance of multiple Peoples in Southern Massachussetts and Rhode Island, including the Chappaquiddick, Nantucket, Mashpee, Patuxet, Assawompsett Nemasket, Pocasset, Pokanoket, Nauset, Herring Pond, and Aquinnah. Being located on the Eastern coast of the United States, they were some of the first to meet colonists in the United States, and suffered casualities of illness, and  resisted Colonization such as with King Phillip’s war.

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Happiness Will Come To You.

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We need more female loveable rogue characters.

I don't mean girlboss queens of criminal empires, or 'damaged' girls who are only putting up a tough criminal facade to hide their tragic past, or even terrifying but also sexualised murderers who can kill a man without blinking and look good while doing it.

I mean like… female characters whose primary roles in the main cast are to show up as needed with whatever whacky combination of items the heroes need and some vague excuse about them having "fallen off the back of a lorry".

Female characters who will shadily say "I know a guy" (in the gender neutral sense) when the protags need someone for a specific task, and then when they meet that guy she immediately almost gets murdered because of some ludicrous crime she committed years ago that she assumed they'd be over now.

Female characters who can't fight for shit and have no ability to act as a femme fatale, but do have the charisma/persuasion skills to talk their way out of dangerous situations when needed.

Female characters who have never murdered anyone, and would never consider murdering anyone, but still try to present themselves as some kind of master criminal despite having approximately none of the skills to back that up. And where this is played for laughs rather than as some sort of dramatic reveal.

Just… weasels. Urchins. Conwomen. Tricksters.

All those types of character that get to be comedic and loveable but kinda pathetic when played by a man, but suddenly have to be deadly, sexy, tragic and/or girlboss when played by a woman, because female characters always have to have that extra edge of seriousness to make up for the fatal flaw of being female.

Just let girl characters be fun, for godssake.

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The Earthsea Cycle by Goran Gligović

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Art by Gregory Fromenteau

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More Ewen and Alison! They are in their pjs

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i read this comic for the first time at like 8 years old and it holds up as the funniest fucking thing I’ve ever seen

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More Ewen and Alison! They are in their pjs

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[Image ID: Three edited screencaps from Studio Ghibli films, replacing the characters with those from The Fairyland series. The first is from Spirited Away, September and Ell replacing Chihiro and Haku, with September hugging Ell’s face and smiling. The second is from Howl’s Moving Castle, September and The Green Wind replacing Sophie and Howl, The Green Wind walking September through the air. The last is a background from Ponyo, Saturday smiling nervously while surrounded by sea life. End ID] Decided to draw the most self indulgent thing I’ve ever made and I regret NOTHING. I’ve always wanted to see this story animated by Studio Ghibli, and we gotta do everything ourselves in this damn house. I can’t animate tho. Also Saturday’s is composed of 8 fucking screenshots because he’s my favorite and I have no self control.

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Stitching on a test print with my new salmon design.