“I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, “There’s no masturbation in the DC Universe.” To which my reaction was, “Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe.””
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Neil Gaiman
Never forget.
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Has this been done yet
the mean-flirting thing doesn't work with me i'll literally want to kill you if you're mean to me even once
Don’t ask what’s going on in british politics right now.
Your daily dose of cat memes
Sacheen Littlefeather has passed away on October 2nd 2022. While people remember her for her acceptance speech on behalf of Marlon Brando, know that she also ended the media blackout of the Wounded Knee occupation, won an Emmy & co-founded the American Indian AIDS Institute of San Francisco.
Enjoy the fight with the audio of Ronda Rousey’s corner. I know I did.
“NOOOOOOO!!!”
This is beautiful.
Still beautiful, til this day!
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Watching a video transphobe being punched into retirement 😊
Whenever I think shit is bad here in America I see some headline from the UK like "Want To Shave Some Money Off Your £43,025 Heating Bill This Winter? Piss On Your Hands If They Get Cold" by some guy named Lord Sir Arthur Albert Pomphrey who holds 5 government positions and lives in a house worth $37,000,000,000,000,000
Here’s a poem from my poetry collection ‘In Search of Equilibrium’. (2019) I remember writing this poem between breaks staring out of my window. At the time I had minimised watching the news on TV, I realised it was a repetitive bearer of bad news. I wanted to write something that touched on this collective mourning I felt the world was going through.
Ms. Walters, we answer to a higher power. Our universe is on the edge of a precipice.
TiL (click to go to the thread, which probably has more interesting tidbits I missed).
Bonus:
These are my people.
Betting I’ve reblogged this before. Betting I’ll reblog it when it turns up again.
In addition to the print terminology stuff: the visual shorthand icons and ad graphics for something about writing are still often pen-nibs, fountain pens and typewriters…
…while graphics of a monitor, keyboard and mouse remain visual shorthand for computing…
…even though most writers now use monitor / keyboard / mouse or even laptop / touchpad.
In addition, headers for “this blog / website is about writing” are often in one of the many imitation typewriter fonts complete with smudges, or just Courier.
The start and end call icons on most / all smartphones is still the handset of a classic desk telephone, and sometimes the open-app icon is a complete phone.
The term “hang up” for “end the call” refers to something even older - one of these…
And of course the Save icon is indeed a 3½ inch floppy disc.
Why it wasn’t a 5¼ floppy is a mystery. The icon version is just as distinctive.
Also, why various OP updates never changed “Save” to the graphic of a CD / DVD or flash drive is another mystery, and nowadays a Save icon should probably be a cartoon cloud.
Graphics and terminology are funny things.
reblogging this again for EVEN MORE information.
I’m mostly entertained by the guy who thinks you need to know that “case” means “box” in French as though that’s not what it means in English.
rereading my own writing is just a constant fluctuation between "damn, girl, you wrote this? (affectionate)" and "damn, girl, you wrote this? (derogatory)"
I am also “damn, girl, you wrote this? (forgetful)”
This is exactly why fatphobic studies are hailed as truth while actual science about weight is ignored. Anything that demonizes fatness and fat people can be used to sell products.
