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Neopronouns are not a “tumblr fad”. Gender neutral pronouns other than they/them have existed in the English language for actual centuries. They are not harmful to the trans community.

To those who are against neopronouns, you’re acting against the evolution of a language and acting against something that’s been around for far longer than you’ve been alive.

To those who use neopronouns, your pronouns are not harmful. You do not deserve to be made to feel ashamed for your pronouns.

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I’ve seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context.

The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well.

Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead in the eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.”

She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable”. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”

Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire will fall. And I will help it along.”

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It's raining / il pleut. https://www.instagram.com/p/BoE-IkZj3Gw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ku5mniywxsow

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Des mômes d'un récent workshop, pour une sérigraphie à venir.

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Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff!

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Marine exposed my Pokémon Go addiction ^^

Chasing Pokemon in cemetery

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Test de casque de VR : Ok tilt brush c'est vraiment cool et fluide !

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Je teste des casques de réalité virtuelle avec des collègues de boulots !

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"But I don't have any idea..." #WorkshopWithKids

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Workshop with kids :)

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On a trouvé un spot sympa sur l'île d'Oléron ! On bosse dans un café quelques heures par jour et on flâne en vélo le reste du temps. Good holidays. Found a nice spot on Oléron Island, we work on comics in a café in the afternoon and bike the rest of the time. #BernardTheVan #beach

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Folding and gluing all night long. It's painfully slow to make, but result is cool. #makingcomicsishard #ButFun

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Je fabrique mes petits livres abstraits "Patterns of life" première fournée de 40 ex en une grosse aprèm. -- I'm making my little abstract books "Pattern of life" first batch of 40 in an afternoon.

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Affiche pour une pièce de théâtre scolaire, hop !

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Workshop with kids around 13 y.o., we help them create a small comics project about science. They are SO CUTE. Organised by Stimuli association.

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I never remember what I did the previous year, so now I sketche it. 

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Working on a small self published book. It features microscopic patterns in nature. Will be there in a few weeks. #In2017iwanttomakebooks