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"The discrepancy makes him think of a lure on a much larger predator. Like a Venus flytrap or an angler fish.

Ford does feel like a very small fish, sometimes."

hiii so this has been haunting me

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just wanted a visual demonstration since I was talking about how much I love them

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Life if bro lived close by

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she’s so beautiful

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this group is full of WEIRDOS

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Baby Clifford & baby Snoopy

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Before the Mystery Shack

Design by:

Ian Worrel, Sun Jae Lee, Alex Chechik, Janine Chang, 

Paint by: Jeffrey Thompson, Matthias Bauer, Samantha Kallis

Art Directed by Ian Worrel

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Let's also look at specific sports, while we're at it, that are more on the periphery and don't get much attention. Skateboarding is a great example. It wasn't until 2003 that women were even ALLOWED to compete at all in the X Games and even then, their prize purse was $1000. Compared to $50,000 for the men's prize purse AND it took until 2009 for them to even reach purse parity. Only 16 years ago! And even that took a group of women skaters boycotting their own event on broadcast TV with demands to even START the process.

And even AFTER that in 2015, Leticia Bufoni took home $30,000 and an $11,000 Nixon watch for first in women's division compared to Kelvin Hoefler who took first in the men's division to the tune $200,000 as well as some unknown timepeices. Still a whopping $170,000 differential for the same course, the same contest, the same placement, but a different gender. And sponsorships from companies that sponsor the male participants in these contests? Forget it. Half of them STILL don't support female pros.

And don't get me STARTED on trans or intersex athletes like Caster Semenya (middle distance runner, two times Olympic winner) in the Olympics and other contests who are often eliminated or have to fight for validity on the "anti-doping" rules or technicalities. Semanya had to take the international athletics foundation to court for demanding she that she take hormones to decrease her *naturally occurring* levels of testosterone if she wanted to compete.

Now, I understand skateboarding has only been an Olympic sport since 2020, so it's still a pretty young sport on any competition front, (and a lot of people in the skating world don't even agree with that or even calling it a sport), but I think it's important to call out lesser known or lesser accepted sports that get less attention.

The only reason changes are made is because they're mainline sports that a big majority knows about/watches/follows; if an industry (ANY industry really, sport or otherwise) CAN get away with discrimination, it WILL get away with discrimination. No matter how many pieces of paper and Title IX reforms and any manner of other interventions happen, there will always be a disparity unless we call it out down to the smallest industries and areas. Money will always matter more than people to them.

For reference: Deborah Stoll, Drop In (New York: HarperCollins, 2024).

crazy that in the 1970s they were like, "fine, women can play sports. but because they're innately less athletic than men, only in a special ghettoized League For The Frail And Delicate where they get paid less 😊". And not only is that still the system in 2023, but viciously lashing out at the smallest challenges to that system gets framed as Feminist Praxis

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ominous flask I found at a Goodwill in Phoenix AZ

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Cult leader Bill Cipher

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deal with it yourself

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caterpillar cowboy 🤠

CATERPILLAR COWBOY DOWN 🗣️

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Computer Bill has my whole heart I love that thing