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I have a sneaking suspicion that Raphael has no intent on doing anything with those flippant ways except embracing them

You are fighting a losing battle, Mr. Utensil

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This really could be a weekly show. It turns out he's that thick. My favorite thing is when Lucy Lawless yells at him online. Makes my goddamn day.

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The Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River superimposed on a map of Europe

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Reminder that if Trump loses, he’s gone once and for all. He will have lost twice in a row. His initial win seemingly a fluke. He will be in his 80s next time he wants to campaign. Now two presidential rounds out. He is running on fumes atp. His sentencing is pretty soon. One last blow is really just what we need to banish him once and for all.

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Being a henchman suuuucks dude. This latest guy I'm working for, the War-Madillo, he's got a, an Armadillo- motif, or theme, or whatever, right? That's fine, fine, I did a two-month stint with a Marmoset-themed guy once, it's not bottom of the barrel- except. Except. It turns out, he picked the Armadillo thing because he thinks that they're obligate carnivores. Which they kind of are, I mean I googled this, they're insectivores, but he thinks that they're like, land piranhas. He thinks they work in packs to take down significantly larger animals. He thinks they lay eggs in the remains of their prey. He's killed like three guys for trying to correct him. Me and the other guys are paying out of pocket to get the poor little guys in his Armadillo pit food that they can actually eat. Every time he drops some sucker into that thing we all have to draw straws to see who's gonna have to go in and gnaw on the body so he thinks the Armadillos are doing it. Thank god it's such a long drop

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Mel Blanc autographed photo, 1987

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This needs a Looney Tunes-style cartoon to go with it!

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Tess Jantschek

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That's... Some hat, you guys have got there

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I'm cackling like a hyena with this frame.

Look at Orion, smiling, being so precious, about to get PUNCHED out of existence by his bro.

Seconds before disaster.

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Said on Threads while debunking a rumour that he was making a live-action New Frontier movie.

I mean, fair. As a source of inspiration it's great as it is, I believe, the single best comic ever produced by DC (yes, better than Watchmen etc. even acting counter to them in several respects), but by the same token it's so dense that you can't really adapt it to another medium without loosing a lot in the process. See the very... condensed animated film adaptation for example.

There have been longstanding rumours that the villain from New Frontier, the eldritch being known as the Centre, will be hinted at throughout the first phase of DC Studios shows and movies (the death in the upcoming Lanterns show, which reportedly links to an "ancient evil" potentially tying into how in NF as the Centre awakened it caused various deaths either directly by driving people to harm themselves or indirectly by inspiring cults Cthulhu-style, for one example) but there are other elements that could be neat to borrow and adapt with the other characters.

For example, they could keep the idea that Wonder Woman has been an active presence in the world for decades from New Frontier (a feature also present in the DCEU, the Young Justice show, and Lynda Carter show among others), but rather than the DCEU's lazy decision to first imply Diana did nothing between her 1918 debut and her re-emerging in the 2010s to fight Doomsday (at least until the Wonder Woman 1984 retcon), they could use NF's idea of an ideological split occurring between Diana and the US government over her disillusionment with post-WWII America's policies... which in turn could be used to lead to the counter-culture 1960s Wonder Woman to reclaim a somewhat infamous period from the character's history.

The idea of Wonder Woman effectively being the world's first superhero is also a concept being used in the new Absolute Wonder Woman series, and I think that you can get a lot of material out of her having been around the place since the 1940s in both a real world history sense and in respect to worldbuilding within the new DCU setting.

I am aware there are some fans who prefer the idea of Superman being the first chronological superhero (even though that's rare for most settings), considering how the DCU has already acknowledged the existence of superpeople from the 1940s and earlier (GI Robot, Frankenstein and the Bride) I think that Wonder Woman wandering the world doing good (maybe even providing a link between earlier groups like the JSA with the JLA if/when she joins) isn't really THAT big a divergence.

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Where I’m at, personally, is that I think voting when you have the franchise is a civic responsibility.

If you’re from the USA and currently possess a vote, you do in fact have a duty to use it in the way that will do the most good to the most people. The weight of imperialism does not lift that burden, it multiplies it. You are determining how much funding UN famine relief may get and whether distant countries will be invaded and you cannot shrink from that. No amount of whinging about your red state (states flip all the time—Virginia was ruby red a few decades ago!) or your misplaced guilt can change that. Everyone from the dawn of time has lived with hands soaked in blood, being part of a society means being complicit in horror, you can become paralyzed by that or you can start to work to save people.

(If a single person is protected by a Harris presidency who’d die under Trump then you actually do have a moral obligation to help them. Failing in that task is, in my opinion, selfishness. Sometimes sympathetic selfishness: people who have lost family due to the incompetence of the best option have the right to shrink back from necessary choices. Humans grieve. That just means everyone further out in the circles of tragedy needs to develop some risk assessment skills and vote on their behalf.)

If you’re in Britain or Brasil or the EU or Georgia or Aotearoa the same holds true. The global community remains a community in which every country impacts the other, no nation lacks some dispossessed minority which needs to be protected. Voting is always important and you never get to slack off. Even if your vote is diluted or subverted you have to try. There is no winning the task of creating a better world, you’re going to keep doing it for the rest of your life.

I believe all this is true and I also believe that Tumblr is the worst possible environment to convince anyone of their truth. It’s probably not possible to harangue anyone into taking moral action. The disappointment of a stranger rarely motivates anyone! But one does have to speak up periodically, so here’s my general plea: Vote. It’s quite literally the bare minimum.

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“Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority” and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person” and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.”

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source: https://web.archive.org/web/20150404010354/http://stimmyabby.tumblr.com/post/115216522824/sometimes-people-use-respect-to-mean-treating

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just remembered the other day a teen approached me holding a rapidly melting chunk of ice in his hand and asked if i wanted to buy a "limited edition pet rock"