Hey, Should We Check In On That Target Boycott? See How It Is Going?

stuff from that time when my psyche depended on youtube slideshow love stories about shadow cheating on sonic with knuckles

Whoever wrote Rick's Multiversus dialogue did a good job capturing his snarkiness without overdoing it. Somebody on Twitter said he wasn't mean enough, but...eh. I liked how he had positive interactions with some of the characters, especially The Powerpuff Girls. Constantly reaming all the other characters and the player would've gotten old.

the most life-changing customer i’ve ever had at work was a guy who came up to me and my coworker when we were at cash and said ‘hey kids…. wanna see something?’

and I said sure because why the fuck not, i’m here for a good time not a long time, and this motherfucker pulled a railroad spike out of his pocket.

A GODDAMN

ANTIQUE

RAILROAD

SPIKE

It was a fucking foot long chunk of steel that weighed about five pounds on its own so i was like ‘huh….. neat’

and he said ‘wait. there’s more’ and he took out a screwdriver. inlaid into the head of the spike. ‘things aren’t always as they appear’ he said as he unscrewed the bit and pulled out of this goddamn railroad spike

a statue

a tiny, tiny golden statue stood on the base of this flathead screw. it was a tiny golden man standing next to a tiny golden flower with gemstones in the petals. the whole thing was smaller than my thumbnail is tall. it was detailed enough that the tiny man had facial features. it was amazing.

‘oh my god,’ i said. ‘how long did it take you to make that?’

‘here’s a word of advice,’ he said, ‘never answer that question when people ask it. it devalues your work. you’ll get faster and better at things, and be able to make more art in less time. they don’t need to know about the process, just the product’.

and he left and that’s the one artistic piece of advice i definitely wanna hold to.

don’t tell people how long it takes to make shit.

I understand you don't care for King Shadow, but the idea of that made me think of a scenario where for whatever reason, Shadow was somehow forced to become a ruler (For at least a certain period of time) out of a particular kind of necessity. So my question is...

Q: What kind of ruler do you think he'd be?

Probably one that would take his responsibilities as seriously as possible but those very same responsibilities would make him wanna crawl out of his skin. Guy just wants to stand in a forest and stare at a tree, y'know. Can't do that with a buncha people yapping at you about the state of the farms in his kingdom after a particularly harsh winter.

DEAF AWARENESS

 if someone is not responding to you, they may not be just acting rude. They may actually not be able to hear you

 when you find out out someone is deaf, please try not to let the first words that come out of your mouth be “I’m sorry.” or “I could never live like that.” Deafness is not some terminal illness that we suffer through everyday.

 If you see someone struggling to communicate, please do not make them the center of attention. Trust me. The last thing I want when I can’t understand is someone pointing out that I can’t understand.

 if someone is struggling to communicate, and you know sign language, please ASK before you start interpreting. Yes, we appreciate the kind offer, but not everyone is comfortable with some stranger intervening. Also, not all deaf people know sign. 

-When you see someone with hearing loss jamming to their music in public, and you can hear it, please do not ask them to turn it down. It’s really ruse, considering it may just be loud enough for them to hear it or feel the vibrations.

 NEVER cover your mouth and ask if we can hear/understand you.It’s really insensitive. Most of the time, reading lips is very important for people who are deaf to communicate.

 Obviously, never ask how they get and keep their jobs. I feel like I shouldn’t have to explain this one.

Do not, DO NOT, under any circumstances, encourage or promote the use of technical devices such as hearing aids or cochlears to ANY deaf person. Many of us struggled with these devices as children. As we get older, we start to decide for ourselves if we want to use them. I respect people who their devices, but i do not respect hearing people who know nothing about them suggesting them.

 do not ask “if you’re deaf, how can you speak so well?” It’s basically the same kind of thing as above. many deaf children are fitted for hearing aids/cochlears and sent to speech therapy the minute their hearing parents find out. Some deaf people can speak, some people can sign and speak, and some can sign. It’s honestly their choice, and sometimes it’s not a choice.

if there’s anything else that you want to know, but just for a slight moment you think “I don’t want to come across as rude,” DO NOT ASK.

Thank you for reading. The Deaf Community would love it if these were actually followed. :)

Hello there! A long time ago on Twitter, I saw a post from you involving potential stories you'd like to do in the future, one of them involving Davy Jones as a bounty hunter. Out of curiosity, does your Davy look anything like the one from the Pirates of the Caribbean films?

Dave Jones! He wasn't a bounty hunter, but he was a ghost (and demons maybe) hunter! I'm honestly not sure if I wanna go forward with making his story into a comic. He MIGHT do better in the form of a video game tbh!

Which is EXTREMELY ambitious to make, yeah, but I gotta go with my gut feeling on this one.

I don't think he looks too much like Davy Jones from POTC? Like, he's got the face tentacles but I'd say that's the only real similarity.

For reference, here's a sketch I very very quickly did for you for him so you can see for yourself (VERY ROUGH, I DID THIS IN LIKE 5 MINUTES)

OP deactivated, and some of the links were broken/marked unsafe by Firefox, so here's a new compilation post of Leslie Feinburg's (She/her, ze/hir, any pronouns) novels and essays on being transgender:

Stone Butch Blues official free source directly from Author's website:

Stone Butch Blues, backup on the webarchive:

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Stone butch blues : a novel : Feinberg, Leslie, 1949- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award (American Library Association), 1994

Transgender Liberation: A movement whose time has come, on the web archive:

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Transgender liberation : a movement whose time has come : Feinberg, Leslie, 1949-2014 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Arch

Remastered from scans provided free by the publisher.

Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman, on the web archive:

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Transgender warriors : making history from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman : Feinberg, Leslie, 1949- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : I

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-203) and index

Lavender and Red, PDF essay collection:

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Lavender And Red, a collection of essays by Leslie Feinberg : Leslie Feinburg 1949-2014 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Ar

A PDF, archived web collection of essays by Transgender activist Leslie Feinburg (she/zie/hir).

Drag King Dreams, on the web archive:

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Drag king dreams : Leslie Feinberg : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

(Also, if anyone ever tells you that the protagonist of Stone Butch Blues ""ends up with a man""........ they're transmisogynistic jackass TERFs who are straight up lying)

Please also check out your local public libraries for these books and see if they carry them, to help support public libraries! If you have a library card already you can checkout Libby and Overdrive to see if your public library carries it as an ebook that you can checkout :)

EDIT: another not included on the orignal masterpost-- Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or blue !

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Trans liberation : beyond pink or blue : Feinberg, Leslie, 1949-2014 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

147 p. ; 23 cm

mater dolorosa, mother of sorrows.

prints available here

ethics of making AI images aside, I do find a bit amusing the kinds of sob stories and mental gymnastics people make up to pretend like drawing is this super technical skill with an impossibly high barrier of entry when its like one of the first hobbies toddlers pick up

suddenly a lot of people think they got the next Lord of the Rings in their head but they were never able to turn their stories into anything tangible because the evil elitist artists are hogging all the talent and skill and they need a bajilion years of training or something as if one of the most popular manga and anime of the past decade wasn't made by a guy that draws like this