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Inspired by the Persian myth of Huma and royal stars, a cursed Magi and a conniving young girl race against time to thwart fate 🪶🦁

I received a TON of very sweet messages in my inbox about how much it mattered to people to see Persian/Iranian representation, especially with the huge lack thereof in media.

When I complained about the lack of Persian stories and characters in media to my classmates, friends and professors, many told me the same thing. Why don't you make the representation?

So here I am, trying that out! I wanted to use this story as a way to reconnect with my culture and learn more about its history and stories.

also it's gay

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The trick to not getting sucked into the cycle of “things were better under Democrats” “yeah well they weren’t perfect.” Is to remember that the people saying the latter are already conceding your point. They know things are better when Republicans aren’t in charge but their internet clout is built entirely on shitting on Dems to up their leftist cred to their friends even if it means being a useful idiot for Republicans. It’s not up to you to convince each of these disingenuous clout chasers to get their heads out of their asses, it’s up to us to remind each other and people susceptible to this kind of online propaganda that Democrats are a better option on every issue and to point to places where that’s verifiably true.

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Super Sailor Uranus

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Super Sailor Neptune

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I live in complete poverty and disability. Trying to make art to sell as prints as I am not getting commissions the way I used to. I am disabled and diabetic, immunocompromised from recent surgery, and I live in a traditional filipino house partially destroyed by storms and termites. I work 3 jobs, but they are all very unstable. Please please please, if you've ever derived joy from my art or insight from my posts or book recs, if you could pick up a print, send a tip, or subscribe to my patreon where I have 400+ exclusive drawings / early access, it would help keep me alive, in the most literal sense. I have been given a second chance at life, and I would like to keep living. Thank you so much

Inprnt / patreon / ko-fi tipping jar / paypaI tipping jar

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a movie first and foremost about the destruction of minority neighborhoods and public transit by the American car industry. After that, it's a technological milestone. And then it's about cartoons

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*cools ur dashboard down*

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happy "closer to 2050 than 2000" day everyone

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scenery in china

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drawing people i see in the city (55/?)

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a few more great films that are free on the internet archive

in decent quality too!

first list, second list

aggregate letterboxd list, archive list of all the films

perfect blue (1997) dir. satoshi kon

carol (2015) dir. todd haynes

the elephant man (1980) dir. david lynch

a girl walks home alone at night (2014) dir. ana lily amirpour

d.e.b.s. (2004) dir. angela robinson

nausicaa of the valley of the wind (1984) dir. hayao miyazaki

killer klowns from outer space (1988) dir. stephen chiodo

mommy (2014) dir. xavier dolan

jennifer's body (2009) dir. karyn kusama

suspiria (1977) dir. dario argento

battleship potemkin (1925) dir. sergei eisenstein

his girl friday (1940) dir. howard hawks

cube (1997) dir. vincenzo natali

nightcrawler (2014) dir. dan gilroy

black orpheus (1959) dir. marcel camus

chunking express (1994) dir. wong kar wai

meeting people is easy: a film about radiohead (2001) dir. grant gee

the grapes of wrath (1940) dir. john ford

the black cat (1941) dir. albert s rogell

the tin star (1957) dir. anthony mann

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The recent attacks have occurred in a national environment that has become awfully permissive of Christian extremist violence.

June 25, 2025, 12:44 PM MST

By Ja'han Jones

Last year, a former counterterrorism official who served in the Department of Homeland Security during Donald Trump’s first term published a book sounding the alarm on violent Christian extremism.

Elizabeth Neumann wrote “Kingdom of Rage: The Rise of Christian Extremism and the Path Back to Peace” as a warning about a metastasizing strain of Christian-led violence against people who don’t accept their worldview — a crisis she'd been sounding the alarm about for years. And recent news reports seem to illustrate how right she was.

In Arizona, a man accused of killing a local pastor in April reportedly confessed during a news interview in which he said he was carrying out God’s will and planned to target church leaders in other parts of the country in some sort of crusade.

This, of course, follows the recent arrest of Vincent Boelter, who authorities say targeted Democratic Minnesota lawmakers in shootings that left two dead and two injured. Multiple news outlets have reported on Boelter’s alleged Christian nationalist ties and his promotion of violent, Christian extremist rhetoric, including in sermons posted online. Authorities said his list of potential targets included other politicians, abortion-rights advocates and Planned Parenthood facilities. (Boelter has not entered a plea.)

And these killings have occurred in an environment that is awfully permissive of Christian nationalist violence. A 2022 report from the advocacy group Christians Against Christian Nationalism showed how Christian nationalist rhetoric fueled the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection. And the blanket clemency afforded to these insurrectionists this year by Trump — someone who has used messianic rhetoric to portray himself as anointed by God — could embolden other violent Christian extremists going forward.

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Have you guys seen that clip

Go off Kermit

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REMEMBER: If you bite your partner and it breaks the skin, you need to clean it and bandage it properly as soon as possible. Human bites get infected VERY EASILY.

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I'm tired of waiting for this man to croak. We need to start encouraging him to kill himself.