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"Bittle. You need to eat more protein."
If the Check Please Renaissance era kicked off at the end of 2020 and lasted for a year or so afterwards, what could this upcoming period be as Ngozi commences her Webtoon Campaign?
Nothing more British than getting... "inspiration" from a creator who's Nigerian and American without asking her permission.
One detail I appreciated from X-men 97's devastating episode "Remember It" is that it officially solidified Magneto as a Holocaust survivor.
When the original series was made in the 90s, censors were twitchy about cartoons referencing (even obliquely) the Nazis or their atrocities. That was why Magneto's backstory was a generic war-torn Eastern Europe, shown by that infamous scene where Xavier makes him relive the trauma.
Come this series, we do start getting allusions to Magneto's background; most notably during his speech to the UN.
But this image, especially with the inclusion of the patches, removes all ambiguity.
I don't trust folks who shit on the American South to actually be reliable allies to those from the Global South.
#note this doesn't mean you shouldn't be critical of the politics and stranglehold of social conservativism there#but far too often I see reactions to natural disasters or infrastructural collapse be met with schadenfreude#despite the fact that it's largely poc and poor communities affected#a good chunk of whom didn’t vote for the state govs no matter what keyboard leftists crow#whereas the global south gets infantalized instead of derided because those countries' politics don’t directly affect us#but that ain't true allyship#politics
This is exactly how typically red regions such as the South are an untapped potential and should not be written off.
It doesn't mean progressive candidates in blue strongholds watering down their message. But it does mean actually thinking strategically to bolster messaging and candidates in conservative (yes, even if we are "sure" that they'll lose the nearest election) areas to bolster defenses and ultimately go on an offense.
The potential irony is that I'd argue the "Deep South" (LA, MS, AL, GA, and SC) may be considered much more conservative and evangelical than Florida overall, but with the right messaging and consistent campaigning actually has much more potential to turn due to its racial and economic dynamics.
When an admin is so fascist that it uses an antisemitic term to refer to its political opponents.
Partial eclipse as seen from Springfield, MO.
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Happy 200 followers!! I would love to see how Nursey and Dex dress up for the holiday of your choosing. Halloween, maybe? Or the 4th of July? Good luck with all the prompts!
Thanks!! I decided to do both holidays you mentioned :)
Nursey is a lobster 🦞 and I think it is quite funny
(my inbox is still open for anyone who hasn’t requested yet, so ask away for my 200 follower celebration!)
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If you're still taking requests, I love my boy Poindexter. Maybe with a smirk, like he's just about to tease Nursey about something.
Now the question is, what is he going to tease Nursey about? 👀
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reminded me of this
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My insane book A History of Painting: With Dinosaurs is out now as an eBook!
You can get it as a ePub here.
On Apple books here.
Or on Kindle on your local Amazon.
If you do buy it, please consider leaving a review. Self-publishing weird titles like this requires some help from people that actually like it!
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i never made an episode dedicated to butt slaps?????? in a hockey comic??? am i stoopid???
Something that strikes me about Godzilla Minus One and Kong x Godzilla is how those respective films seem to signal a tonal directions from Toho and Legendary.
Prior to the 2010s, the impressive many had of Godzilla was the peak camp that defined especially the 70s and 80s, and the kaiju himself largely being a rubbery antihero with a distinctive screech and expressive motions as he fights other flashy kaijus.
Enter Legendary's 2014 debut of Godzilla as a force of nature awash in desaturated tones.
However as time progressed, that cold serious tone loosened up with each successive film. Now culminating with the campfest that involves pink-spiked Godzilla napping in Rome and doing a high dive off Gibraltar. There is no pretense of thematic meditation; it's peak "big kaiju go brrrr" in a way that does Destroy All Monsters proud.
In the meantime, Toho, for the past decade or so, has been largely revisiting Godzilla in its films and anime as the horror antagonist that he was in the very beginning. The extreme example of the horror in just appearance is of course Shin Godzilla. However, in terms of the tone of the story itself, Minus One took a step further in getting rid of what remaining camp there was and revisting his relationship with post-war Japan.
I dunno. Maybe they are just one-offs, and others probably tackled the subject, but I still find that contrast fascinating.
Easter Egg 2024: Year of the Dragon
I uh... I got nothing.