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Brown bear eating salmon by Eyal Cohen

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*** by Olga Dmitrieva

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Watch: George Carlin spoke the truth about pro-lifers in 1996 — and it’s still being proven today.

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imagine if the oceans were replaced by forests and if you went into the forest the trees would get taller the deeper you went and there’d be thousands of undiscovered species and you could effectively walk across the ocean but the deeper you went, the darker it would be and the animals would get progressively scarier and more dangerous and instead of whales there’d be giant deer and just wow

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Avatar: The Last Airbender by Flesh.png

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“A group called the “Trump Statue Initiative” has erected this life-sized, living art installation in Portland depicting the arrest of a protester by federal agents. In front, it features a man depicting the President taking a selfie. #Portland #PDXprotests #pdx

Alongside local people are reading statements the President has made about Vladimir Putin on a mic.”

- David Douglas 

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Creator spotlight: Floyd E. Norman

Floyd Norman (born June 22, 1935) is an American animator, writer, and comic book artist. Over the course of his career, Norman has worked for a number of animation companies, among them Walt Disney Animation Studios, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Ruby-Spears, Film Roman and Pixar.

Norman had his start as an assistant to Katy Keene comic book artist Bill Woggon, who lived in the Santa Barbara, California area Norman grew up in. In 1956, Norman was employed as an inbetweener on Sleeping Beauty (released in 1959) at Walt Disney Productions, becoming the first African-American artist to remain at the studio on a long-term basis. 

Following his work on Sleeping Beauty, Norman was drafted, and returned to the studio after his service in 1960 to work on One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) and The Sword in the Stone (1963). After Walt Disney saw some of the inter-office sketches Norman made to entertain his co-workers, he was reassigned to the story department, where he worked with Larry Clemons on the story for The Jungle Book. 

After Walt Disney’s death in 1966, Floyd Norman left the Disney studio to co-found Vignette Films, Inc. with business partner animator/director Leo Sullivan. Vignette Films, Inc. produced six animated films and was one of the first companies to produce films on the subject of black history.  

Norman and Sullivan worked together on various projects, including segments for Sesame Street and the original Hey, Hey, Hey, It’s Fat Albert television special conceived by Bill Cosby, which aired in 1969 on NBC.In 1972, a different Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids Saturday morning cartoon series was produced for CBS by Filmation Associates). In 1999, Norman and Sullivan created a multicultural internet site, afrokids.com, designed to present a variety of African-American images to children.

Norman was a recipient of the Winsor McCay Award for Recognition of lifetime or career contributions to the art of animation at the 2002 Annie Awards. Norman was named a Disney Legend in 2007. 

In 2008, he appeared as Guest of Honor at Anthrocon 2008 and at Comic-Con International, where he was given an Inkpot Award. In 2013 Norman was honored with the “Sergio Award” from The Comic Art Professional Society (CAPS). (X)

Websites: afrokids.com / blog / twitter

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katara: aang would never murder someone! no avatar would!

aang: i’m sure i’m innocent, please let me clear my name

sokka: i have determined kyoshi has an alibi!

kyoshi: 

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Y'know I keep seeing tiktok videos ft their monthly dance trends and I'm gonna be real: the teenage girls on that app are consuming and replicating shit meant for adults and I'm never going to be chill with that or the parents that let them do it. There's a whole ass scandal of a girl claiming to be 16 and her father says she actually just turned 14 but either way she's already covered in tattoos and doing dances on camera that would make me blush if a grown woman did them. That shit isnt appropriate at all. And congratulating and encouraging teen girls when they make this type of content does nothing but provide pedophiles with free material with zero consequence because they're simply watching what's on their For You page on an app for all ages. Social grooming is a real fucking thing and it feels like no one is fighting this(even though I know, logically, of course people are, they just get shouted down and harassed til they shut up). It's just so exhausting bc I know what that grooming via internet culture shit feels like and what these kids are going to have to recover from. It just ain't healthy at all and it isn't something we should praise, accept, or ignore.

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“Just Good Friends,” Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade, New York City, June 26, 1983. @h_e_r_s_t_o_r_y. #lgbthistory #lgbtherstory #lgbttheirstory #lgbtpride #fridaynight (at New York, New York)

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From Woroni, 1986. 

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Beautiful cottages 🌷