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March 2011

Ten seconds to prove you aren't a superhero

stefi-leekx: thegreenhighlighter: totallybat-tastic: durden-: misshaped: soft-intelligence: remnantof: alliterate: I’m out of shape! I don’t have an inexhaustible source of income! I don’t go around telling people that I know what’s best for them! I wear flannel a lot and also glasses. I don’t brood that often. I have never been exposed to radioactive waste. I wasn’t...

Oh YA! Comics: Manifesto →

This is an old blog of mine that I have now moved to Tumblr \o/ My conceit is simple: The comics industry’s utter failure to pick up a good chunk of the YA audience has nothing to do with the lack of material out there. There are tons of YA comics and I’ve decided to rescue them from obscurity! (Or at least, liberate them from the LCS and hopefully bring them to the attention to...

Amanda Conner variant cover for Zatanna 12

dcwomenkickingass:

OFF-TOPIC POLITICS AHOY!

stefi-leekx: Don’t Deport Manolo dancingonembers: dreamactnow: Sign the petition to stop Manolo’s deportation. It’ll takes less than a minute. from the site: “Manolo is a young person who would be eligible for the DREAM Act. He is a Chinese-American who has lived in Tennessee for almost his entire life. He graduated from high school with honors, and earned a bachelor’s degree...

lulubonanza asked: just thought I would let you know....Shannon Wheeler is a guy...he does too much coffee man =)
Love your tumblr
xoxox

Anonymous asked: I just feel like there are too people who are defending the movie and shouting down and belittling people with issues about the use of mental illness or race appropriation, and that just strikes me as really F'ed up.

That it does have kickass depictions of women should not make it immune to criticism for using some really tired and cliche shit with Asian culture.

Anonymous asked: Is it wrong if I as a partial Asian take serious issue with the amount of cultural appropriation in Sucker Punch?

“I had a very tame and mild love scene with Jon Hamm. It was like heavy breathing...”

– Emily Browning, re: Sucker Punch I saw the original version in a test screening and it was SO. MUCH. BETTER. than what is now in theatres. This shit is infuriating to me. The MPAA is more comfortable with the idea of a young girl being taken advantage of than with the idea of a young girl making...

That awkward moment when you wonder if having a...

I could explain to everyone why Sucker Punch is actually a work of genius, but I’d have to get into heavy Joseph Campbell territory, and you’d all look at me like I have five heads. I have a similar issue with The Matrix sequels and Hegel. And Shoot ‘Em Up and Nietzsche.

Your hate makes me stronger.

aeraspais: squintyoureyes | favoritezipper | inkstone: A big shout out to all the people, mostly women, who have said that anyone, especially women, who enjoys Sucker Punch is an awful, terrible person and that any woman who finds something empowering within the narrative needs to turn in their feminist card, how dare they! You have single-handedly convinced me to watch this movie in the...

Tumblr's Explore Feature

dionthesocialist: minusmanhattan: There has been a lot of negative chatter today about Tumblr’s explore feature, and I thought I’d chime in (I’m currently an editor of Black and White and Landscape photography)…. I really enjoy the feature, partially because I run a blog that has lots of different content and under the old directory system, I didn’t really fit under any category; I...

Serena Valentino

iamladyj: Serena Valentino is a comic book writer, based in San Francisco, who is responsible for such comics as Gloomcookie and Nightmares & Fairy Tales. Valentino is known for her unique style of storytelling, bringing her readers into exquisitely frightening worlds filled with terror, beauty and extraordinary female protagonists. She has been weaving tales that combine mythos and...

heysawbones-deactivated20120206 asked: Do you think maybe they just subjectively dislike who you enter in the tournament? I say this never having understood why people dislike the tournament itself (I've heard the reasoning, and it doesn't make sense to me), so maybe that's not the problem at all. Or, maybe they think the blog is overly political.

Other than that, the note sounded oddly personal.

sequentialassassin said: Yeah, this guy’s tripping. I haven’t the faintest why people are unfollowing you. Oh, I don’t take it personally when people unfollow me. I figure that 95% of the time it’s just that they are trying to pare down amount of mess on their dashboards, and this blog just isn’t passing their “I NEED TO FOLLOW THIS” test, which is bound to be very...

Anonymous asked: I'm saddened and disappointed in myself that it took me this long to unfollow you.

Collect These Comics! →

collectthesecomics: There are plenty of comics out there that are long out of print, and most have never been reprinted or collected in trade at all. Here are the ones we think should be. Oh look, another Tumblr I started! Go submit things!

For all artists in need of legal advice and... →

I know I have a lot of creative types following me, and with this whole Jess Fink and Rob Granito thing going around, it occurred to me that a lot of artists (and meaning the broadest definition of artists, including writers and musicians and whatnot) don’t realize that there are a lot of legal services available for low- to no-cost by lawyers and pro bono groups dedicated to helping...

State Nominee Wants To Criminalize Sex Outside Of... →

theriotmag: Paskvan: “What about premarital affairs — should that be a crime?” Haase: “I think that would be up to the voters certainly. If it came before (the state) as a vote, I probably would vote for it … I can see where it would be a matter for the state to be involved with because of the spread of disease and the likelihood that it would cause violence. I can see legitimate reasons...