#Nopper

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Audre Lorde said, "Every day of our lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be.... No angel is suddenly going to descend upon you, make you brave, courageous, true...And every day that you sit back silent....remember, terrible things are being done in our name."

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I don't think there was anything more humbling than me trying to draw a quick comic thing, because I thought it'd be random and funny (to me) as it is literally ridiculous and was based off a conversation I had with my best friend, and..

That didn't work. I thought it'd take about ten minutes and I just spent about 2-3 hours trying to draw a circle that ended up being useless because a circle wasn't the correct shape and just wouldn't fit what I was going for.

Three hours. Over a circle. Yeah I think writing random two sentence writings would be better than what I just did.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

You don't take book recommendations, but would you give some? Any good non-fiction books you could suggest?

wow no further specifications? just any nonfiction book I've ever liked? hell yeah. fuck yes. here are some I've enjoyed recently, a word which here means "any time in my adult life."

How to Read Now, Elaine Castillo

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, Caitlin Doughty

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, Akwaeke Emezi

Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent, Dipo Faloyin

Hunger, Roxane Gay

High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America, Jessica B. Harris

We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice, Mariame Kaba edited by Tamara K. Nopper

Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs, Jamie Loftus

I'm Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy

The Right to Sex: Feminist in the Twenty-First Century, Amia Srinivasan

[moxijunk]

Noppers :3

You'll have to make do with 27.

Bashing you with hammers. PLEASE I MADE AN ORIGINAL LIST AND ITS 57 SONGS LONG. YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME

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Nopper

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[nancylou444]

Yep oh and also Lilo and Stitch. Sigh. I hate this. I wish Disney's family owns that company like Walt did. I'm not watching those. Noppers. The only ones I will watch is the cartoons. And yeppers :) it was so fun dude. :)

It is disgusting how Disney has no shame when it comes to reworking their classics.

[silvercaptain24]

Noppers! :D

Flux. Dragon.

[nickisgirl]

Unsure what this star is but yeah, it blinks like this. I zoomed in with Helen's phone to see if I can get some idea but noppers.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

every single book I read in 2022. all 129 of them.

jesus christ

let's start with the best of the best; everything else will get listed beneath the read more because I'm not an animal. even just picking out my favorites is honestly probably going to get pretty lengthy, even though I'm trying to keep the synopses short.

batmanisagatewaydrug's noteworthy books of 2022

Complaint! (Sara Ahmed, 2021) - necessary for anyone doing diversity work in higher education, tbh

America is Not the Heart (Elaine Castillo, 2018) - achingly gorgeous novel of heartbreak and healing.

The School for Good Mothers (Jessamine Chan, 2022) - honestly? I feel very good calling this my favorite book of the entire year. sensitive, smart, chilling.

Black Feminist Thought (Patricia Hill Collins, 1990) - truly ashamed to say I didn't read this sooner. Collins' clear-eyed analysis remains crazily spot-on 30+ years later.

Hurts So Good: The Science and Pleasure of Pain on Purpose (Leigh Cowart, 2021) - I read this book so early in 2022 and literally have not stopped thinking about it since.

Batman: King Tut's Tomb (Nunzio DeFillippis, Christina Weir, José Luis García-López, and Kevin Nowlan, 2009) - dare I say the most fun I had with a comic all year.

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty (Akwaeke Emezi, 2022) - a romance unlike any other. queer, fun, sexy, bold as hell, and joyfully life-affirming.

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (Mariana Enríquez, trans. Megan McDowell, 2021) - DELICIOUSLY creepy short stories that will lurk in your brain forever.

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century (Kim Fu, 2022) - if a more perfect short story collection exists I am yet to find it.

The World We Make (N.K. Jemisin, 2022) - I normally hesitate to include sequels on a list like this, but god DAMN Jemisin is the queen of modern spec fic for a reason.

We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Mariame Kaba, edited by Tamara K. Nopper, 2021) - excellent collection of Kaba's abolitionist writings, drawing on years of organizing experience and wisdom.

Jade City (Fonda Lee, 2017) - look out! new favorite doorstopper fantasy series alert!

Priestdaddy (Patricia Lockwood, 2017) - about the best damn memoir I've ever read. heartbreaking and hysterical in turns, poetry the whole way through.

Batman: The Long Halloween and Batman: Dark Victory (Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, 1996 and 1999) - it's always so exciting when something much-hyped lives up to the hype in every way. Batman at his grim and moody Batmaniest with a Gotham that’s deliciously bleak.

Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel, 2014) - I didn't think I'd like this book much at all, then ended up proposing on the second date. oops!

I'm Glad My Mom Died (Jennette McCurdy, 2022) - you will also be glad McCurdy's mom died, and also experience every other known human emotion along the way.

Kaikeyi (Vaishnavi Patel, 2022) - SPLENDID mythology retelling + political fantasy.

My Body (Emily Ratajkowski, 2022) - haunting haunting haunting personal essays about Ratajkowski's life as a model and subsequent alienation from her own body.

Batman: Bruce Wayne, Murderer? (Greg Rucka et al, 2002) - genuinely what can I say I'm a messy bitch and I love when the Bats are having a terrible time.

The Batman Adventures Vol. 2 #1-17 (created by Dan Slott, Ty Templeton, Rick Burchett, Terry Beatty, and Bruce Timm, 2003) - a continuation of the Batman: The Animated Series universe that frankly just fucking rules.

Little Rabbit (Alyssa Songsiridej, 2022) - a potent and erotic adult coming of age story.

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century (Amia Srinivasan, 2021) - thorny, difficult, vital essays.

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Sabrina Strings, 2019) - jaw-droppingly thorough research into the role of fatpobia played and plays in the project of race-making.

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong, 2019) - yeah so it turns out no one was REMOTELY exaggerating. Vuong really is That Good.

Hench (Natalie Zina Walschots, 2020) - wild fun with a ruthless protagonist and her sex villainous beetle man boss; what more could you ask for?

Love Your Asian Body: AIDS Activism in Los Angeles (Eric C. Wat, 2021) - learning about queer history makes me feel like I’m holding something so vibrant and fragile and precious right in my little queer hand. this book is an emotional journey in such a shining way.

Never Have I Ever (Isabel Yap, 2021) - EXCITING short story collection centered on girls having Just The Weirdest Time.

and everybody else:

fiction:

Light From Uncommon Stars (Ryka Aoki, 2021)

Our Wives Under the Sea (Julia Armfield, 2022)

A Tiny Upward Shove (Melissa Chadburn, 2022)

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Becky Chambers, 2022)

Disorientation (Elaine Hsieh Chou, 2022)

The Laws of the Skies (Grégoire Courtois, trans. Rhonda Mullins, 2019)

The Monster Baru Cormorant (Seth Dickinson, 2018)

The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (Seth Dickinson, 2020)

Greenland (David Santos Donaldson, 2022)

Dead Collections (Isaac Fellman, 2022)

The Halloween Moon (Joseph Fink, 2021)

A Dowry of Blood (S.T. Gibson)

Nightmare Alley (William Lindsay Gresham, 1946)

The Vegetarian (Han Kang, trans. Deborah Smith, 2015)

The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka, trans. William Aaltonen, 1915)

Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Toshikazu Kawaguchi, trans. Geoffrey Trousselot, 2019)

Woman, Eating (Claire Kohda, 2022)

Long Division (Kiese Laymon, 2014)

Jade War (Fonda Lee, 2019)

No One is Talking About This (Patricia Lockwood, 2021)

Portrait of a Thief (Grace D. Li, 2022)

Elatsoe (Darcie Little Badger, 2020)

A Snake Falls to Earth (Darcie Little Badger, 2021)

Glitterati (Oliver K. Longmead)

Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir, 2019)

Harrow the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir, 2020)

Nona the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir, 2022)

The Memory Police (Yoko Ogawa, trans. Stephen Snyder, 2019)

Even Though I Knew the End (C.L. Polk, 2022)

100 Boyfriends (Brontez Purnell, 2021)

Flowers for the Sea (Zin E. Rocklyn, 2021)

Any Way the Wind Blows (Rainbow Rowell, 2021)

Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice, 1976)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Benjamin Alire Sáenz, 2012)

Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World (Benjamin Alire Sáenz, 2022)

Into the Riverlands (Nghi Vo, 2022)

Siren Queen (Nghi Vo, 2022)

Strange Beasts of China (Yan Ge, trans. Jeremy Tiang, 2020)

short story collections:

The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer (Janelle Monáe, Yohanco Delgado, Eva L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, and Sheree Renée Thomas, 2022)

Walking on Cowrie Shells (Nana Nkweti, 2021)

Terminal Boredom (Izumi Suzuki, trans. Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, and Helen O’Horan, 2021)

nonfiction:

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Judith Butler, 1990)

How to Read Now (Elaine Castillo, 2022)

Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Melissa Gira Grant, 2014)

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat (Aubrey Gordon, 2020)

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (Ruby Hamad, 2020)

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness (Da'Shaun L. Harrison, 2021)

Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service (Tajja Isen, 2022)

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter (Scaachi Koul, 2017)

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (Revised Edition) (Kiese Laymon, 2020)

Sister Outsider (Audre Lorde, 1984)

Conversations with People Who Hate Me: 12 Lessons I Learned from Talking to Internet Strangers (Dylan Marron, 2022)

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Amanda Montell, 2021)

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Aimee Nezhukumatathil)

Histories of the Transgender Child (Jules Gill-Peterson, published as Julian Gill-Peterson, 2018)

Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance (Jessamyn Stanley, 2021)

A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk (edited by Valerie Steele, 2013)

Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution (Revised Edition) (Susan Stryker, 2008)

The End of Policing (Alex S. Vitale, 2017)

The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (Michael Warner, 1999)

Read My Lips: Sexual Subversions and the End of Gender (Riki Wilchins, published as Riki Anne Wilchins, 1997)

poetry:

Short Talks (Anne Carson, 1992)

Content Warning: Everything (Akwaeke Emezi, 2022)

Prelude to Bruise (Saeed Jones, 2014)

Alive at the End of the World (Saeed Jones, 2022)

Bright Dead Things (Ada Limón, 2015)

Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (Patricia Lockwood, 2014)

Nature Poem (Tommy Pico, 2017)

Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Ocean Vuong, 2016)

Time Is a Mother (Ocean Vuong, 2022)

comics:

Batman: One Bad Day - Mr. Freeze (Gerry Duggan, Matteo Scalera, and Dave Stewart, 2022)

Spandex - Fast and Hard (Martin Eden, 2012)

Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour (Tee Franklin, Max Sarin, and Marissa Louise, 2022)

Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? (Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert, 2009)

The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes (Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcom Jones III, 1988)

The Sandman: In the Doll's House (Neil Gaiman, Michael Zulli, Mike Dringenberg, Chris Bachalo, Malcolm Jones III, and Steve Parkhouse, 1989)

The Sandman: Dream Country (Neil Gaiman, Kelley Jones, Malcolm Jones III, Colleen Doran, and Charles Vess, 1991)

The Sandman: Season of Mists (Neil Gaiman, Kelley Jones, Malcom Jones III, Mike Dringenberg, Matt Wagner, P. Craig Russell, George Pratt, and Dick Giordano, 1992)

The Sandman: A Game of You (Neil Gaiman, Shawn McManus, Colleen Doran, Bryan Talbot, Stan Woch, and George Pratt, 1993)

Run, Riddler, Run (Gerard Jones and Mark Badger, 1992)

Catwoman: When in Rome (Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, 2005)

Batman: Year One (Frank Miller and David Mazzicchello, 1986)

Batman: One Bad Day - Penguin (John Ridley, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Cam Smith, and Arif Prianto, 2022)

Batman: Bruce Wayne - Fugitive (Greg Rucka et al, 2002)

Batman: One Bad Day - Two-Face (Mariko Tamaki, Jaiver Fernandez, and Jordie Bellaire, 2022)

Batman & Robin Eternal Vol 1 & Vol 2 (James Tynion IV and Scott Snyder, 2015 and 2016)

Batman: Their Dark Designs (James Tynion IV, Guillem March, and Tomeu Morey, 2020)

The Joker War Saga (James Tynion IV and Jorge Jiménez, 2021)

Papergirls Vol. 1-6 (Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, 2016-2019)

Real Hero Shit (Kendra Wells, 2022)

Poison Ivy #1-6 (G. Willow Wilson and Marcio Takara, 2022)

and some gaming guides!

Monster of the Week (Michael Sands, 2012) - great game. so cool. cannot wait to actually play it someday.

Thirsty Sword Lesbians (April Kit Walsh, 2021)

special shame zone because I want you to know how bad this sucked, do not read this:

Rethinking Sex: A Provocation (Christine Emba, 2022). patronizing, puritanical, reductive, painfully cisheteronormative. weirdly afraid of group sex. not actually that provocative, just aggressively Catholic.

and last but most certainly least, a comic that I want to remind you all fucking sucked just one more time before the year is done.

Batman: One Bad Day - The Riddler (Tom King and Mitch Gerads, 2022)

Tom King, go fuck yourself. Mitch is cool though, the art slapped.

[on-the-cliffs-edge]

Noppers!

Js someone who has him as their favorite character:)

ALSO THATS THE FIRST TIME SOMEONE NOTICED- /silly

I REWATCHED THE PLAYTHROUGHS RECENTLY!!!!!! that line is ingraved in my skull i think

[heplev]

Stuttgarter Bürgermeister widersetzt sich Lapids Forderung Hamas-Finanzierung zu beenden

Lapid sagte deutschem Sender über Spenden für die Hamas: „Diese Gelder finanzieren immer Terror.“ Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, 21. Dezember 2023 Yesch Atid-Parteichef MK Yair Lapid spricht am 26. Oktober 2023 auf einer Pressekonferenz in Tel Aviv (Foto: Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90) Der Stuttgarter Bürgermeister Frank Nopper erteilte Yesch Atid-Chef MK Yair Laipds Forderung vom Dienstag,…

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Die „Glanzlichter Stuttgart“ leuchten

Start der Illumination auf Schlossplatz, Königstraße und Schulstraße

Am Abend des 29. November eröffnete die Stuttgart-Marketing GmbH die „Glanzlichter Stuttgart“: Neun Lichtkunstwerke strahlen ab sofort auf dem Schlossplatz und die Königstraße und Schulstraße werden von tausenden LED-Lichtern festlich illuminiert.

Zwischen 29. November und 26. Dezember 2023 (Beleuchtung der Königstraße und Schulstraße bis 6. Januar 2024) erstrahlt die Stuttgarter Innenstadt wieder in weihnachtlichem Glanz. Musikalisch begleitet vom Kammersänger Matthias Klink, der Sopranistin Natalie Karl und der Pianistin Yuri Aoki von der Staatsoper Stuttgart startete die Stuttgart-Marketing zusammen mit der Stadt Stuttgart und ihrem Ökostrom-Partner, den Stadtwerken Stuttgart, die festliche Beleuchtung. Stuttgarts Oberbürgermeister Dr. Frank Nopper hat gemeinsam mit dem Stuttgarter Christkind die „Glanzlichter“ auf dem Schlossplatz eröffnet.

Quasi als ein erster Vorbote auf die UEFA EURO 2024™, die im kommenden Sommer auch in Stuttgart ausgetragen wird, leuchtet in diesem Jahr erstmalig ein Fußballer auf dem Schlossplatz. Damit können die Besucher:innen diesen Winter neun Lichtskulpturen bestaunen. Die bis zu acht Meter hohen Installationen repräsentieren die touristischen Wahrzeichen der Stadt. Das Stuttgarter Rössle ist bekannt aus dem Stadtwappen. Ein Mercedes 300 SL Flügeltürer und ein Porsche 911 stehen stellvertretend für die beiden Automobilmuseen, der Elefant vertritt die Wilhelma, das Riesenrad das Cannstatter Volksfest und das Weinglas symbolisiert das Stuttgarter Weindorf. Zu sehen sind außerdem der SWR Fernsehturm Stuttgart und die Grabkapelle. Vor der eindrucksvollen Kulisse des Neuen Schlosses findet täglich ab 17 Uhr zu jeder halben und jeder vollen Stunde eine Licht- und Soundshow statt. Auch die Jubiläumssäule mit Concordia ist in das Lichtkonzept eingebunden und strahlt besonders während den Shows.

„Die ‚Glanzlichter Stuttgart‘ sind mittlerweile ein fester Bestandteil der Weihnachtsstadt Stuttgart und ich freue mich ganz besonders, dass die ‚Glanzlichter‘ nach einem Jahr Pause in diesem Jahr wieder strahlen. Der beleuchtete Schlossplatz ist für die Besucherinnen und Besucher ein attraktiver Anziehungspunkt während der Adventszeit und ergibt zusammen mit dem Weihnachtsmarkt ein stimmungsvolles Gesamtbild“, sagt Armin Dellnitz, Geschäftsführer der Stuttgart-Marketing GmbH.

Den Ökostrom für die LED-Beleuchtung in Königsstraße und Marktplatz sowie für die Skulpturen auf dem Schlossplatz liefern die Stadtwerke Stuttgart. „Die ‚Glanzlichter‘ sind als Partner der Energiewende ein leuchtendes Beispiel für Energieeffizienz und den Einsatz erneuerbarer Energien. Das Projekt unterstützt damit auch das gemeinsame Ziel in Stuttgart, das Bewusstsein zu schaffen, die Landeshauptstadt bis 2035 klimaneutral zu machen“, sagt Stadtwerke-Geschäftsführer Peter Drausnigg.

Für Andreas Kroll, Geschäftsführer der in.Stuttgart Veranstaltungsgesellschaft, sorgen die „Glanzlichter“ in der dunklen Jahreszeit für „ganz viel Glanz auf dem Schlossplatz“. „Gerade in der Weihnachtszeit und in Verbindung mit dem Weihnachtsmarkt ist es schön, dass sich Stuttgart mit seinen Sehenswürdigkeiten, Festen und Museen präsentiert. Premiere feiert dabei die UEFA EURO 2024 – ein Fußballer ist das neue sportliche Glanzlicht und ein Vorbote für das Fußball-Großereignis im kommenden Jahr.“

Die Glanzlichter-Zeiten: Schlossplatz, 29. November bis 26. Dezember 2023 Licht- und Soundshow: Sonntag bis Mittwoch, 17 Uhr – 21 Uhr Donnerstag bis Samstag, 17 Uhr – 22 Uhr jeweils zur halben und vollen Stunde

König- und Schulstraße, 29. November 2023 bis 6. Januar 2024 täglich, 6 Uhr bis 9 Uhr & 15 Uhr bis 24 Uhr

Weitere Informationen unter www.glanzlichter-stuttgart.de.

Copyright Text: Stuttgart-Marketing GmbH

Copyright Foto: SMG Sarah Schmid

[the-acid-pear]

Okay yeah I just read about how Skeletal works it's so perfect that Ames did that on the story where his brother not only was the hero but also was trying to stop a sister who had given up her flesh for this immense power. I really like to think Ames and Bore don't get along well. It feels fitting, Copper also hates his brother so. Samuel has no family tho 🙏

I want to try make Nopper real but it'd be a bit hard I bet 😔

Still tho it just. Feels so perfect for Ames... To be cursed and end up losing your humanity. He was doing this to be the hero, to stop being always a second option. Thru his life nothing just seemed to work. He was a mystic, not a warrior like his dad, making him automically less liked than his brother; he ended up dating a man he hated for reasons he couldn't understand and while it was a sweet time it never felt right; he had tapeworm or some shit idk; when he dated again the guy he thought he had built a connection with ended up fucking THEIR enemy...

And it's all very relevant to his character that what he fails to see is that people already love him, y'know? Like he tries so hard he tries to be a hero and stuff too but he just feels like he's never quite enough which made him perfect for this curse to take over him.

From 🤓 to 💀 is such a journey 😭