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28/100 reasons to love 런닝맨: race-starter sukjin (requested by siwohandro)

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Scully 💗

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“The strongest argument I’ve ever seen for the existence of destiny.”

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mob

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Buster Keaton cleaning a window in The Bell Boy, 1918

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found this INCREDIBLY powerful pic of miss piggy from her 1983 calendar

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Hello, zinesters and zine-loving librarians! The American Library Association annual conference is returning as an in-person event this year. As in previous years, a team of librarians has been given the opportunity to showcase zines on the convention floor (aka, “Library Marketplace”). This year’s conference is June 24-27 in Washington, D.C. We are seeking applications from vaccinated zinesters who want to showcase or sell their wares.

Tables will be stationed around a "Zine Pavilion," which will have zines available for reading during the conference. At the end of the conference, display zines will be raffled off to one lucky library. Tables are FREE (we request at least one zine per table for the raffle), and tablers receive a pass to the conference. You can table for any amount of time that works with your schedule, but a minimum of 4 hours would be ideal. You will be able to talk to and sell your work to librarians from all over the U.S. and beyond.

The purpose is to spread the love of zines and zine collections in libraries to the greater library community. To get a sense of how we run the pavilion and for more information, visit our Tumblr: http://zinepavilion.tumblr.com

The zine pavilion will be open at the “Library Marketplace” during these hours:

Friday night, June 24- 5:30-7 pm

Saturday, June 25 & Sunday, June 26- 9 am-5 pm

Monday, June 27- 9 am-2 pm

If you’re interested in applying for a free table spot at the Zine Pavilion, please fill out this form before May 7. https://forms.gle/FYtWwf2cxk4Lq7d39

We will be prioritizing zinesters of color and zinesters local to the DC area, and we’ll let people know if they have been accepted to table by May 15. Please let me know if you have questions and I will do my best to answer them!

Thanks,

Kelsey Smith

Zine Pavilion Wrangler

hortensejones@gmail.com & zinepavilion@gmail.com

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i have no fucking clue why a child was living under that dumpster but im glad that soldier’s first instinct was to light him the fuck up

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There is a life in Boston. There is joy there and music and peace. The door is open. I’ve opened it for you. And it requires no war and no blood and no sacrifice. It requires an intolerable sacrifice. To accept a pardon? To apologize. Apologize? Who will you be apologizing to? To England!

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onkey & backseat management

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𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 🥺💓

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So what’s bad about them being tangled with each other? It’s not good for two friends to be tethered to one another. How is that no good? They’re just kids. No. I’ve seen people die because of that. It’s not good at all.

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Is This Art? (2010), Maciej Ratajski

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me blogging about a niche topic but not explaining any of it

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An argument can absolutely be made that if the first season of Star Trek Discovery just went up and started like this third season has then it’d be a series that has more fans and will have had less growing pains as a production - BUT, THE EFFORT. Can we talk about the effort??? I'm DYING to talk about The Effort!

DISCO didn't HAVE to throw Trek convention out the window in season one and DISCO didn't HAVE to laboriously repaint the foundation of the franchise in season two but off they went anyways.

It’s always the boring comparison and TV vs Movie, yeah I know, but for the sake of a somewhat leveled comparison within pop cultural impact; Star Wars was like "Here is a Black stormtrooper!" and the fans that were always going to upset by that went "That's not how [I want] Stormtroopers [to] work!"

And even though Force Awakens addressed it’s casting choices even though it didn’t have to because Star Wars isn’t friggn’ real it’s a story that has to be casted with actors playing the parts so as to share the purposefully created story - all that was put down to ““justify”” a Black stormtrooper was like a few sentences with no real effort, narratively, visually, and certainly not production-wise, backing up, protecting, and supporting that change to the c a n o n - making it the continued bedrock of near all nonsense to follow. 

OBVIOUSLY this is a simplification and obviously there are lots of other conversations to be had about casting, narrative intent, audience engagement, and how all those moving parts “should” or “shouldn’t need to” interact so anyone and anything not cis, straight, and white can exist. 

But overall I think most people would agree it boiled down to a shocking underestimation of Star Wars' cultural importance with a dismissive shrug at the hinging desires of the loudest sec of invested Star Wars fans (and the suddenly invested others who found that jk they really care, because of the Culture Wars) and how such fans for many, many years bludgeoned out a space using CANON. Again, lots of conversations to be had there, but what’s most important to what I’m taking too long to get at is the entire thing was an undeniably vivid squandering of the potential for true inclusivity within franchise expansion. 

 BACK TO DISCO!

Rather than get the ball rolling with a pisspoor toe dip, DISCO went up to the elbows in commitment on clarifying Michael Burnham as Michael Burnham, Spock’s Actual Sister, and the haha yeah the Captain is bad actually and Star Fleet ain’t squeaky clean oh and the ship runs on mushrooms and jumped by a gay man and Spock is dyslexic, bunch of other cool shit - and then they go and make sure that only the friggin' origin point of the ENTIRE FRANCHISE is freshly repainted, only then did they NOPE out a "free", revised, narrative space.

Lets be real it was all a bit touch and go, but goddamn was it worth The Effort. Because now we can have A Proper Star Trek episode and anyone left standing to witness it doesn't have the foundation anymore to just point and go BuT thE C A N O N. 

Discovery’s audience had to hang on and reevaluate their understanding, their personal wants and desires from the franchise as a pop cultural institution, or let go. No one was asked to just accept a thing because that’s were the production wanted to start, those who were always going to be upset that Michael Burnham was a non-captain Black woman had the canon yoinked from them rather than leaving space for their discontent. DISCO acknowledged what it was doing different out the gate and was willing to upset hardcore trekkies because things needed to get messy if the franchise was going to remain relevant not just through the majesty of it simply being Star Trek on air again but through an ability to connect and reflect our contemporary shared existence beyond tokenism and nostalgia.

They done the work. They didn't have to and we can all bemoan that they "shouldn't have had to" but DISCO did because DISCO is talking the talk AND walking the walk.  

Look, whatever, don’t talk to me I’m emotional.