If you live in the US, please take a moment to WRITE TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES demanding a CEASEFIRE.
Here is a link that populates:
-the EMAIL ITSELF (which you can personalize/change the wording of)
-and WHO TO SEND IT TO based on your location.
When people complain that TV is "too woke" now, but you remember The Twilight Zone exists because Serling was so sickened by what happened to Emmett Till and the acquittal of those involved in the child's murder that he created the show to get around the censors to talk about it.
Pride was a riot lead by Black and Brown trans women who were tired of the brutality their community was suffering at the hands of the police. You can't party & forget the people who are STILL fighting. You can't celebrate Pride & turn your back on Black people.
#blacklivesmatter
Pssst, hey, Miles Morales is Black AND Puerto Rican, which makes him Afro-Latinx/Afro-Latine. Stop leaving out the second part, it's equally as important to who he is.
#Mulan
producer says removing Li Shang from the film was influenced by the
#MeToo
movement — 'Having a commanding officer that is also the sexual love interest was very uncomfortable and we didn’t think it was appropriate'
(via
@Collider
| )
Bigots are *so happy* they have a word to stand in for slurs that is acceptable in "woke," and I think we need to wrest that away from them.
Make them say what they mean.
They don't get to be coy and cowardly, hiding behind a word they twisted the meaning of.
Take woke back.
It should really be more widely said that a lot of older folks lived through the Civil Rights era.
"They're old and aren't able to understand/change" is nonsense.
This 83 year old woman holds a sign that says “Defend black voices” as the marchers walk by and cheer for her. “I’m so proud of you young people,” she says.
Y'know what, that Lilo & Stitch callout post illustrates something that Black & Brown folks been saying for infinity-time.
Black & Brown kids do not get to be kids. They're held to adult standards demonized from the jump. Not allowed trauma, mental illness, or ever be sad/angry.
Black Creatives
Drop your portfolios, book/comic links, soundclouds/spotify links, youtube channels, twitch links, etc below.
I'm retweeting in batches, but I will retweet all day.
#BlackoutTuesday
should be about amplifying Black voices not disappearing.
The idea that a protagonist must be "active"/driving the plot with proactive movement - that a protagonist cannot be reacting to what is happening as the MC of a story, or else the story is a failure, is a super Euro-centric way to think of story and--
It is literally cheaper to allow fare hopping and not have cops in the subway.
Honestly, it is probably cheaper to just make public transit straight up free.
20 NYPD including counter terrorism making sure you pay your $2.90
There’s also a police precinct inside the station to the left of this out of frame which makes this even more excessive.
This station always has very obvious plain clothes officers walking around too.
Alan Moore hasn't voted for decades. The author of V for Vendetta is arguably the world's most celebrated anarchist. Today, he's voting Labour. Alan Moore knows the score.
#VoteLabourToday
*whispers* they could just write fanfiction like the thousands of women/poc/queer ppl who are traditionally completely ignored by mainstream fiction narratives but know better than to throw ridiculous public tantrums...
Support Black creatives today, but don't ask us to make something new right now.
The constant bombarment of trauma makes picking up the pen, brush, instrument, practing the dance, memorizing lines, etc, feel more Sisyphian than ever.
We are human, and we are trying our best.
I worked in comics retail for a decade in NYC. Robin Williams (RiP) came in a few times a year. He often insisted on paying full price even though he had a discount with us, & whenever an employee had a book out he bought it, & if he saw them later would compliment them.
if anyone has any nice allegations against a celebrity that would be great too. does a famous actor give good christmas presents. does lady comedian alwyays smoke people out
The way people are responding to the writer's strike tells all that needs telling about how they actually value art, and the people who create art. Just taking note of who sees creators as human beings and who thinks of creators are content mills.
My marriage isn't legally acknowledged in *multiple* states of the Union, and it's still legal to fire me just for being queer in many more, but sure, the government is paying comic creators to *checks notes* write about people that exist.
LMFAO top tier clownery 🤡🤡🤡
Cats are obligate carnivores. You are doing them harm if you don't give them meat based proteins. Actual, demonstrible harm.
Please, if your are morally opposed to other creatures eating meat, don't get a cat. Get a bunny.
The way that people who champion "brutal honesty" (& other edgelord nonsense) truly believe that being cruel & closed minded requires more strength than being empathetic & changing behaviors based on learning is wild to me.
Being a dick is not tougher than being kind my guy.
Back when I was divorcing the ex there was a woman at the DV shelter who was going for an abortion and didn't have anyone to go with her. I ended up volunteering. Her ex violated the restraining order trying to stop her from having the abortion. He cried and begged. He was a liar
That's how they want you to feel so you do nothing.
Nihilism is a favorite tool of the oppressor.
For every depraved monster there are 1000 people who not only care, but take action to care for and help.
Hope isn't naivety, it's power. That's why they work so hard to kill it.
Every time I step away from work and check in online I see something that makes my blood boil and I lose a little bit of hope in humanity each time. These people do not care about their actions. They do not care about lives. Young or old, they don’t care. It almost seems like the
If you live in the US, please take a moment to WRITE TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES demanding a CEASEFIRE.
Here is a link that populates:
-the EMAIL ITSELF (which you can personalize/change the wording of)
-and WHO TO SEND IT TO based on your location.
How long will we allow abusers to prosper while the people they hurt are traumatized & suppressed?
There is no level of "talent" or "genius" that can justify the cruelty and abuse people are suffering.
Performative allyship is a waste of time.
Anyone can change their avatar, use a hashtag, or say pretty words.
What speaks to me is action.
Here are some resources to act.
--discounts interesting and vital narrative perspectives, most of them of marginalized (esp BIPOC) experiences.
The Hero's Journey (which I do like!) has a chokehold on the imagination of too many people - there are so many other valid, immersive, beautiful ways to tell stories.
IF YOU CAN READ THIS--
--you cannot ever say you did not know about the genocide happening in Palestine, in the Congo, the horror in Sudan, in Haiti, the violent occupation and suppression of the Hawaiian people, the Puerto Rican people, the Indigenous people of Turtle Island...
People need to leave that "get rid of things you don't need or want" lady alone. She ain't actually gonna come to your house & throw your shit out, all she is saying is to stop being dragons & hoarding stuff that you don't even like but think you are supposed to keep, damn.
An oversimplification, but slurs are not just 'mean names to call someone.'
Slurs represent and contain threats of violence against the group of people they are used against.
Colonizers are always terrified that if they lift their boot off the neck of the people they are oppressing that they will be treated the way they treat others, and it's like, no, not everyone wants to subjugate others. That's a you thing.
The thread speaks to the man behind this book as a person - which is to say, horrible, but also, why are white men's racist charicatures of Brown people still being celebrated as genius in this industry like ???¿¿¿
In 2022, I am gonna need people to interrogate why they ask "what's the story reason for this character to be X" when X = BIPOC, LGBTQ+, a woman...
Your weird ass biases are showing, and they are harshing the vibe of this planet.
I've needed glasses since I was a child & had no understanding that this was a disability until someome on here was like 'you need a special aid to use your eyes, as if they're a luxury organ - you pay mad $ to use your own fucking eyes like the're a video game dlc' and uh 🤯🤯🤯
Whenever someone says “(insert diagnosis here) isn’t a disability,” they are almost always telling on themselves.
Not an extensive list, but I find the following to be true:
1) they view disabled people as lazy and the person who comes to mind is accomplished in some way.
For every "genius" abuser, you can find 100s of creators (directors, writers, artists, musicians, etc) from communities that are not usually considered (women, BIPOC folks, LQBTQ+ people), who are better, smarter, more efficient, and able to create without terrorizing others.
Unless you're in someone's house, you don't know how they live. So don't assume.
Take all the energy being used to berate people for not performing allyship how you think it should be done, & use it to amplify the folks who need to be uplifted, or drown out those being harmful.
Miles Morales Spider-Man is the perfect embodiment of New York/best superhero for New York for many reasons, but one that is fun is that just numbers wise, 1 in every 8 people in NYC (as of the last census) is Puerto Rican so like...
IMPOSTER SYNDROME is a rare psychological condition in which a person so doubts their own abilities that, even when presented with their own achievements, they convince themselves that they’re not worthy of success and will eventually be found to be a talentless fraud.
This was also true in Puerto Rico when my mom was growing up.
My mother's family lived in a rural area/a plantation (pineapples) and the government would come around monthly to poison or dump any rain water collected so they'd have to pay for water w what little money they had.
Folks love to sling opinions on here, but what white people always forget is that Black folks cannot have casual opinions like they can.
What we say is held to a different standard, and the impact is significant.
Screenwriters, if you want to make comics, great. I'm not a gatekeeper.
But please understand that they are not just proof-of-concept-storyboards of your screenplay.
Comics are another, robust, incredibly collaborative (as in all artists involved are co-creators) medium.
I know it won't bring Ian back, or ease the pain, but I hope the people/companies who exploited Ian (and companies w the same practices) are haunted by this.
May they not know peace until they figure out a way to do right by Ian's memory, and by the living creators they exploit.
Ian was the best of us. He should have made it to 40. He should have had a lifelong career that enabled him to rest, to heal, to take care of himself. His death is a fucking shattering indictment of this industry and I hope the publishers who paid him pennies know that.
Let's get a thread of Black folks who need some help for Juneteenth.
Post your own links or other folks you wanna boost. I'll start:
Danny is brilliant, loving, and passionate. They are a gift to this industry, and to anyone who has the pleasuring of knowing them.
I cannot emphasize enough that the people making the books you love are often* living check to check, or at least project to project.
The low compensation and high stress leads to burn out, health issues, and makes folks take on too much at once from fear.
*there are exceptions
It is very disheartening to see how many people value Intellectual Property over the actual people who make your favorite stories. We all love these characters but for the most part comics creators are underpaid, overworked, and not sure how long they can stick this out for
I honestly, legitimately wonder sometimes if people who read comics know/understand that it takes well over a month of work to make a "monthly" comic, and that the format is not the same as an ogn in terms of pacing/structure.
It was brought to my attention by
@ReadySetFire123
that there is a version of the Philadelphia Pride flag that also incorporates the trans flag and honestly, it looks like the national flag of a country and I love that.
(Daniel Quasar designed this version.)
The amount of times I've seen bigots use woke to stand in for the Hard R, the T slur, etc--and the way "liberals" co-sign that shift in language--is gross.
Listen, generally I like to bring positivity to the TL (or at least ways to be constructive about bad things), but lemme talk to y'all real quick about a few things:
When you hear/see/read a bigot playing those language games, don't play with them. Make them say what they mean.
At the very least you will annoy them as much as they annoy you.
These people are emotionally soft and being held accountable is like touching a livewire to them.
Nonbinary does NOT mean "people with vaginas." Please stop using it as a way to say "people we think are women (but we know we aren't supposed to impose our ridge way of thinking on people in public anymore)."
Someone there told them when they said “women and nonbinary people” what they actually meant was “women, and women who identify as nonbinary.” That’s apparently an actual quote. /6