A Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, or BZ reaction, is one of a class of reactions that serve as a classical example of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, resulting in the establishment of a nonlinear chemical oscillator.
the rumblings about the Batman 2 setting reminded me of how cool a snowed-in Gotham would be for a fic or movie setting. power/electricity grid is either out or about to fail. people are trapped in their homes and apartments by ten and fifteen foot drifts, with more snow inbound. the city breaks down within hours, as people abandon their jobs (cough, Arkham) and try to escape the city.
The Bat enters a new version of a familiar playground, an iced over city where cars can’t drive, grapple lines don’t catch, and frostbite sets in within minutes of exposing skin. How do you protect your city? The vulnerable freezing to death? How do you connect aid stations and Good Samaritans to the people who need help when Gotham’s criminal underbelly has decided now is the time to fight back?
today is a good day to remember that sherlock holmes canonically helped a closeted lesbian (who was having an affair with another woman) escape her marriage with a man who was blackmailing her (threatening to expose the affair & her secret) by helping her get the blackmail material back so that she could come out on her own terms and go and live happily with her partner, sherlock holmes loves lesbians confirmed.
FRESH START is a semi-autobio graphic novel (with THE most gorgeous colors from karen czap!!!!) about a kid who moves around a lot… and LOVES IT! Embarrassing stuff happens? Just flee the country! Friend fight? Hit the bricks!!
BUT THEN…. JUST IN TIME FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL…
SHE HAS TO MOVE TO AMERICA.
It’s got friendship feelings, gender feelings, sibling feelings, AND mixed kid feelings?? And it’s funny????
Idk man I really put everything I had into this one!!! Here is a drawing by Real Life Tween Gale.
FRESH START is going to be in bookstores on JANUARY 7th and ahhhh!!! book!!!!!!!!!! a very personal book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please ask your library to preorder it, or a friend, or yourself if it sounds like your jam THANK YOU
what bothers me about people not understanding how "expat" vs "immigrant" are politicized terms that have connotations outside of their most literal dictionary definitions is that many people have emphasized that the difference between expat and immigrant is just that expats intend to go home and immigrants intend to stay (and then some comment about how i "must not live abroad" or am talking about the USA specifically lmfao) and because you are insisting on talking about how im just a stupid idiot who doesn't understand English and am adding politics to something needlessly, i want to point out that there are many people labelled as 'immigrants' in the west - global southerners who work or live in the north - who do not intend to stay forever or become citizens or even permanent residents, they are here in the west to work or for other reasons, and fully intend to go home. but they are never called expats in common vernacular, you will never hear canadians or brits or french people referring to "Filipino expats" or "Nigerian expats" or "Colombian expats" if you are racialized you are an immigrant. my father experienced this for over 20 years!!
and speaking about Malaysia, my home country, you do not typically hear about Filipino expats or Indonesian expats, even when they are people who have come to Malaysia to work temporarily. the term 'expat' is both racialized and denotes a specific class status in this context. you can cite however many dictionaries you want and call me an illiterate brown person because youre Australian and you moved to Thailand and thus you are the Lord of Migration and the Immigration Understander but you are just proving my point
I was thinking about this post comparing sqh and jgy, and then this chart happened. this is less about what they're Actually like, and more about a combination of intentional persona + public perception of them