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Pamela Anderson choosing to wear no makeup (not “natural” makeup, not a “no-makeup makeup” look, but actually no makeup on her skin) to events and letting her wrinkles and age spots be clearly visible is actually groundbreaking and anyone who paints it as not a big deal, or worse, as somehow an attack on some other group, is a moron

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Small study

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Sitting down for a con heroes’ feast.

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Mothman says self-care

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early wartime closet makeout stealth missions FAILED

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Wanna really get to know Pacific Rim's lore?

An incredible amount of worldbuilding was developed for the first film - but only a small amount made it into the actual movie! I've scoured every source of Pacific Lore information I could find to create thorough writeups on its lore. Also, I've put together a chronology of events over here.

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There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most — public praise on the Sunday news shows — in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.

I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.

As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.

The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.

The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.

As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.

I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.

I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.

All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.

Sources:

• NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text

• Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)

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i kept threating to gijjinka @barrett-leddy's cookie guy and now i just gotta live with it

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Forcing the light to our veins, keeping the hope in our minds, one day life will be kind — Home / Aurora

✨🌙 ART LOG -> @404ama

I wanted to draw something with older Cirz and his padawan (unnamed for now). They spend more time searching various worlds of the New Republic for leftover relics of their culture and for political supporters for the New Order rather than carrying out lightsaber fights, much to this youngster's dismay lol

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anyway the actual point of fandom is to inspire each other. reading each other's fics and admiring each other's art and saying wow i love this and i feel something and i want to invoke this in other people, i want to write a sentence that feels like a meteor shower, i want to paint a kiss with such tenderness it makes you ache, i want to create something that someone else somewhere will see it and think oh, i need to do that too, right now. i am embracing being a corny cunt on main to say inspiring each other is one of the things humanity is best at and one of the things fandom is built for and i think that's beautiful

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Here‘s the print I made for the Newmann Halloween Zine 2024! I‘ll soon also share the 2-page comic I made as well, but maybe you‘d rather go buy the zine for yourself..?

This whole project inspired me to make a whole new Newmann AU (to the surprise of no one). More details under the cut :)

Pater Hermundr Gotlieb is a monk who chose to travel to Britannia instead of settling in the german monastery he got his education from, much to the chagrin and annoyance of his superiors. He wanders from village to village, offering blessings, exorcisms and more often than not just his surprising wealth of knowledge of machinery/smithing/etc.

FRONTI NULLA FIDES (Latin phrase: "Appearances are deceptive")

There's rumors that he chose this life not out of a sense of pious and selfless charity, but rather because of his quite misanthropic nature. Maybe that's why almost no one tried to stop him when he announced his departure: no one was going to miss him.

A Dragon has been terrorizing the woods of Y Drenewydd for years now, and when Hermundr arrives to the village, the locals beg him to exorcise the beast, although they hold little hope in their heart that he'll succeed, as many knights and priests have already failed to fell it.

((It took me way too long to realize that I came up with this AU because I‘d been thinking about Emiel Regis from The Witcher, and The Secret of Kells, which both have lots of similarities with my AU (woopsie), especially the medieval fantasy setting and the monsterhunter/monster relationship.))

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Hermann Gottlieb: Consulting Detective

***The final chapter of Book One! First story arc now complete***

Chapter 13: A Tale of Two Brothers

Summary: Gottlieb finally tells Dr. Geiszler the history of what happened on that fateful night at the Shadwell docks.

Category + Rating: M/M (Mature)

Relationships: Newton Geiszler / Hermann Gottlieb  (Pacific Rim)

Tags: Alternate Universe - Sherlock Holmes setting but with Pacific Rim characters; Alternate Universe - Historical; Alternate Universe - Victorian; Alternate Universe - Detectives; First Meetings; Developing Relationship; Passionate and Fascinating Exchange of Letters; Slow Build; Slow Burn; Getting Together; Pining; Falling In Love; Eventual Relationships; Mystery; Murder Mystery; Action/Adventure; Adventure & Romance; 221B Baker Street; Eventual Happy Ending

Story summary: When Hermann Gottlieb, the world’s only consulting detective, receives a letter from American doctor Newton Geiszler, their correspondence sparks the joint investigation of a series of happenings that take them into the fog shrouded world of the capital’s criminal underbelly. A Pacific Rim adventure mystery set in the gas-lit streets of Victorian London.

See you for more adventures and mystery in Book Two! Coming soon…

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Fun things about Turn that aren’t Burn related:

Samuel Roukin plays a delightfully unhinged bad guy with a voice that couldn’t be farther from Ghost’s gravelly growl. He’s an Englishman who sounds like he’s doing an American’s imitation of a posh Englishman. 10/10 fun to watch

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Incorrect quote ft Newmann

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EVER AFTER: A CINDERELLA STORY (1998)

dir. andy tennant