You can tell the use of non-MMPR characters in Darkest Hour isn’t hitting because there haven’t been any crossover ships. Remember when these two were everywhere
There’s a super famous singing festival in italy that airs for a week every year. This year, one of the singers, Ghali, did some very remarkable things on that stage. Ghali was born in Italy from Tunisian parents, his career has been going on for a while, but this was his first time on that stage.
He made a song where he references Palestine where he sings: “how can you say everything is fine down here, where in order to trace borders with imaginary lines you bomb an hospital, for a piece of land or for a piece of bread there is no peace” . He also did a medley, singing also in arabic for the first time in the history of the festival.
Last night, during the final, he ended his performance asking to “stop the genocide!” I don’t have to tell you that there’s absolutely nothing pro-Palestine on italian media… and he used the biggest stage he could use to say that.
Today on a tv programme he was accused by the Isra*li ambassador of spreading hate and violence, to which he replied with those words in the following video (credits to the person who translated it here):
The italian TV broadcaster quickly posted a press release to distance themselves from this speech and to reiterate their whole support to Isr*el lol Towards the end of this tv programme, a few hours after Ghali said what you can hear in this video, they read the press release out loud. This is how Isra*li propaganda works everywhere, thanks to the complicity of our governments.
Just want to post about him because he really risked it all and I appreciate him incredibly for everything he did…if only everyone could do the same. And fuck italy and its fascist government.
Mind flayer using psionic attack, by Tom Wham from the AD&D Monster Manual, TSR, 1977.
d&d 3.5e-5e art: Epic Fantasy Arte
d&d 3e art: same but weirder
ad&d 2e art: stuff that looks like things a drug dealer obsessed with led zeppelin would paint on his van
everything earlier, including this: editorial cartoons from the Neverwinter Herald
My brain, taking a moment to parse Neverwinter Herald as different from the Netherworld Post…
This is pleasing!
Originally Evil Supply Co. had a newspaper and it was largely focused on one village. One of the long (very long) term plans is to have newspapers (printed in zine format) from around the Netherworld.
I have stories about the best restaurant in Grimwood Swamp, the beaches in Witching Hour Glass, the singing sirens of Gardot who teach magic
ARGH THERE IS SO MUCH
Sorry I am going Through Some Things. Not in a bad way, at all, it’s more a matter of “okay how do we make this simple” (queue my producer Fang: “by listening to me”)
On some level it is a mortal-sized miracle that art gets made because there are so many moving parts to it.
I am taking up more space on this kindness than I am due (laugh) so to end quickly
Reddit user “TheBirminghamBear” makes a comment that reads as follows:
I consider myself a pretty imaginative person.
But I cannot, and will never be able to comprehend how anyone gets worked up when a person wearing a suit comes in one day and now is wearing a dress and says “I’d like to be called ‘she’ now.”
I mean the amount of mental energy people have spent getting worked up about this is just fucking batfuck insane.
We are creatures born of voidstuff that bootstrapped consciousness out of *nothingness* and in the infinitesimal span of 2000 years went from pushing around a stone wheel to landing a rocket on the fucking moon.
And yet hundreds of millions of people spend their entire fucking lives fighting against a tiny percent of people that would just like to be called a she instead of he or vice versa.
What a fucking waste. It’s pathetic. The Protectors of Public Bathrooms? The Purity of Pronouns Police? Fucking juvenile. Depraved, sad, meager little fools.
It makes me livid beyond the inhumanity and cruelty of it. Like, I would like to lie, and tell you that my anger is entirely on behalf of the trans community, that this is entirely out of empathy for them, but that’s only a half truth. Only half of my outrage is on *behalf* of them, the other half is a purely selfish fucking fury at how fucking *pathetic* these bigots are. How sad, meager, nonsensical, and preposterously fucking *stupid* this entire mainstream political anti-trans movement is.
It makes me livid because it’s just so fucking beneath our potential as a species. We could be terrforming planets right now, and people like Sophie Wilson are essential to us having the societal capacity to do the work.
And yet we’re bogging people like her down in laws focusing on what fucking bits she has and what she wears relative to those bits. Alan Turing did more than nearly any human alive not ONLY to WIN WORLD WAR FUCKING TWO, but to advance the entirety of human technology, and he was harassed his entire life because he liked to fuck men.
So insignificant. So completely, entirely irrelevant to the grand scheme of the cosmos and we are just swarmed and consumed by the weight of these fucking ignorant, meager little losers and their sad, delerious little missions.
These cosmically myopic pissants with a mere fraction of the intellectual capacity of someone like Sophie or Alan Turing are standing around in their filthy fucking mobs protesting people like her, harassing people like her, using the power of government office to attack people like all, and for *what*? Because she was born with a dick but now as an adult prefers to act and dress as though she weren’t?
That’s *it*. That’s *all*. It’s so irrelevant to these idiots’ lives, so inconsequential to them, so.intensely personal to her and her alone, and yet they just screech and froth and drag our entire species down under the weight of their inanity and stupidity.
Entire political parties full of ivy-league educated opportunistic, psychopathic charlatans and all their ideologically sympathetic propaganda networks are whipping up our worst and stupidest and pointing them at these ordinary, normal people who did nothing wrong for no other reason than because they’re a convenient minority to victimize at that moment.
For fucks sake, if you, whoever you are, are among these bigots, take a fucking look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself why you want to spend this precious, brief span of your existence being *this* sad and pathetic.
The purity of a fucking pronoun? The safety of a public bathroom? The sancitity of children’s sports? Are you fucking serious? You are an adult and *this* is what you think matters? This is what you think constitutes using significant amounts of your time and energy fighting against? These are not real. These are not the serious concerns of a serious human being.
You people are being hooked by the fucking balls by con men and dragged around the streets made to hold a fucking bullhorn for them, shouting bloody fucking panic about *bathrooms* being invaded? Do you ever stop to look around at what a fucking clown you’re being made into? Do you? You have one life and you waste it like this?
Sophie Wilson was born with a condition that made her physically and psychologically uncomfortable by the gender norms related to the genitalia she had at birth.
Despite the public fucking spectacle people like you have made of this very simply-addressed issue, she found her peace, she transitioned, and despite the pain of the condition, and the pain of simply *being* trans in an environment this pointlessly fucking hostile, she went on to build essential components to the technology YOU people use to spew fucking hate at her.
That’s what she did. Contributed to the good of all mankind. Tell me again how *your* useless, bigoted asses are going to save reality by preventing her from using your bathroom, clowns.
She advanced human knowledge, and yet if she were in modern-day Texas they would want to throw her in jail for wearing a dress. It. Is. Pathetic.
**EDIT**: It’s good to go on a rant against transphobia every now and again. As a cis person I don’t have many opportunities to converse with these transphobes on a regular basis. I start to forget they exist.
Then they come screeeeeeching in to tell me how misplaced my anger is, because, GASP! Did I know that *people out there were asking them to use different pronouns?!*
The inhumanity of it!
Meanwhile in hellacapes like Florida and Texas they are passing laws to make drag shows illegal, they are calling trans individuals pedophiles in statr houses and trying to pass laws making it illegal to dress “in clothing different to that of the gender assigned at birth.”
But yes, YOU are the ones who have had your life upended, what with the, maybe *one* trans individuals you ever actually encounter in real life, who requests you respect their dignity as a human and call them a he even if they were originally born a woman?
You people sound fucking preposterous. I want you to know that. I’ve listened to five year olds throwing tantrums and screaming blood murder for not getting to eat a whole pack of Oreos and they sound more reasonable than you people.
You know what? I don’t believe in the science behind transphobes. I don’t recognize you exist. I think you must be making this up. You’re not real, so I don’t validate your existence. You all agree with me deep down. No one has ever shown me science saying transphobia is a legitimate state of being. So, I invalidate your existence. Thanks for agreeing with me.
Like, I know you SAY you don’t believe in honoring other people’s pronouns, but you’re just making that up for attention. Deep down you really do believe it. I know. 100%.
I’m just asking to you to look at yourselves in the mirror. Just stop and fucking look. You are adults. With access to the internet. You could do anything.
And you are spending significant time and mental energy worrying about the safety of public bathrooms. One guy said calling a transwoman a she would lead to the collapse of the Oxford dictionary.
Do you people hear yourselves? Have you taken just one fucking moment in your adult lives to honestly assess the things you believe in? Do you take a pause to just *look around* at the sort of fucking losers you’re standing beside? People banning drag shows? People calling gay people groomers? These are the same people behind segregation. The same people behind satanic panics. Jordan B fucking Peterson. These are your peers on this. This is your peer group. A pack of fucking losers.
For the sake of making something of the rest of your life, just please honestly listen to yourselves and ask yourselves if this is really what you want to be.
Chicago graffiti artists out here tagging like a 2019 Tumblr shitposter.
[ID: A nighttime photo of a Chicago street featuring a steel El train track support beam; it is painted black and tagged in orange, reading “Growth Kills, Try Decay”.]
This has been stuck in my head, so started playing around with an illustration for it…
I was thinking botanical illustration style with gold but I’ve been massing in the forms and now thinking 2 or 3 color risograph print…
Oh, it’s looking awesome, Clock! I personally like the gold better, but that’s only because I’m not partial to warmer shades :D Love the mushrooms and skulls.
[ID: Two art images by @clockwaysarts, featuring the “Growth kills, try decay” legend from the original photo; in the first it is in gold, with sketchy shadows of mushrooms, a moth, and a skull; in the second, the text is in white fading to black, and the mushrooms, moth, and skull are picked out in varying light and dark shades of pink.]
