#also this is long sorry

[taylortruther]

My friends ask why I keep loving Taylor even though she dated Matty and all of that stuff and sometimes I don’t know what to say. It’s almost like Taylor is a celebrity so it’s not like she does these things to me personally but then she is so influential that sometimes it feels worse? But I don’t know what to say because I don’t feel like it compromises my real values because I wouldn’t date a racist or anything and I wouldn’t like anyone who listened to that podcast or didn’t care about POC and Taylor is just my fun interest. But my friends have a point too? Sorry Rae you don’t have to post this, I’m just rambling and I think you will understand 🤍

this might not make sense but we're literally surrounded by racism, misogyny, bigotry every day in ways that are big/overt and small/subtle. they are threaded into society. i do not expect purity from this celebrity i stan because it does not exist (in them, in myself, in society) and what i focus on is so much bigger (educating myself on intersectionality, how systems of oppression work together, how masses of people are disenfranchised, history, a better society, etc etc.)

and there is also kind of a "all sins are equal" aspect to it that i grapple with. if i must ragequit the taylor fandom due to matty, then what else should i ragequit? should i be ragequitting my friends who only date white people and never poc? should i ragequit my job, because it's run by a bunch of white people who have really silly DEI practices? what does ragequit even mean when there's still more ignorance to take its place?

like. i bet a lot people reading this have a racial "preference" while dating that excludes poc. are y'all investigating that within yourselves? trying to change it? wondering how to deal with that racism? because that kind of run-of-the-mill racism affects me way more on a day to day basis than what taylor swift does in her dating life. does that make sense?

i truly do not believe that shaming taylor into changing ANY of her behaviors will make a major difference, so long as she chooses to remain a super-popular mega-celebrity millionaire. if i thought she wanted to become an activist, or an outspoken educator, then that's a different story.

we have to pick and choose what we boycott/cancel, what we can forgive, what we don't forgive but that we acknowledge and move beyond.

not sure if that helps but it's how i think of it.

[thorinds]

1000 Books You May Have Actually Read

[kensatou]

studio trigger understood the assignment. i would let her wreck me.

[sentate]

SENTATE - The Sunset Collection

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[emberglowfox]

Keeper -- a short comic about an angel meeting a robotic lighthouse keeper that doesn't know the world has already ended. Made in about 18 hours for a 24-hour 24-page* black and white comic challenge (that I arrived late to, ha.)

*the actual submission does not include the cover, which was created after the fact for this post.

This was a really great learning experience as someone who's... never really made a completed comic. I ended up really attached to the story by the end of the project (possibly due to all-nighter deliriousness lol) and ultimately am very proud of what I made.There are some things I'd still like to change, particularly text placement, but in keeping with the spirit of the challenge I've elected to leave it as is.

[stellarphileistic]

“Vétkesek közt cinkos, aki néma”

from the book “Jónás könyve” by Babits Mihály. Although the phrase itself cannot be directly translated, it is what best fits this topic in my opinion. Vaguely this sentence means that someone who chooses to stay silent in a situation is still at fault. Curly, who enabled Jimmy’s behaviour and actions towards Anya is guilty as well, however he did not deserve any of the things he had gone through after the crash.

[cirrus-grey]

[aqueductaquarii]

egghead law...on one hand i think he would choose battle-ready clothing but also end up pressing the hawaiian shirt button at the last second. on the other hand i think he would wear a shaka-esque coat...

[stil-lindigo]

mumbattan's one and only pavitr prabhakar!!

prints

[rusticfurnace]

GHOSTSOAP // "you sweet fucker" MINICOMIC!!!

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo learns something about himself 🏳️‍⚧️

Based roughly on this old post.

Bonus:

[Leo is taking the fact that he was born biologically female simultaneously very well and also not so well but overall he’s mostly coping with the fact that it was Draxum that just essentially gave him the turtle equivalent of ‘The Talk’.]

[punnifullife]

more robstar art but now ft. some batfam!! This doesn't even scratch the surface of doodles i'll be posting...still mostly robstar but now I got other plans involving the batfam hehe

[ninjafuuzz]

saw this twt post and had an epiphany

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

Being someone who read Under The Red Hood and came out with the firm belief that, for Jason, it's not about killing Joker, it's about Jason wanting proof Batman would choose him over the Joker (bc shelia chose the joker). Makes seeing any other media where it's all about just wanting the Joker dead is a teeny bit frustrating. to be honest

Jason could've killed the Joker himself, really, really easily. Jason kidnaps the Joker before the confrontation. I can't open my comic for a reference right now, but it felt like he had the Joker for quite a bit before the confrontation. He had him. He beat him up with a crowbar. He had every single opportunity to kill the Joker himself, but he didn't because that wasn't his goal. Make no mistake, he did plan for the Joker to be dead by the end of it, but do you see what im trying to say here

Edit: If I knew this post was gonna get 1000+ notes I would've tried to word it better or something, this was a rant I made on the way to the grocery store 😭

It's not about making Batman kill either. When Batman says he won't kill, Jason adjusts and goes, 'Let ME kill the Joker or kill me to stop me' instead. The test is all about Batman choosing him. The whole final confrontation is Jason's first death again. The parent, The Joker, and the explosives. It even ends with Jason unable to move as a bomb goes off right next to him again because the parent didn't choose Jason. And instead tried finding an option that'd benefit them and (consequencely) letting the Joker walk, again, lol, lmao <-in agony

[guinevereslancelot]

first base is wound tending second base is hand touching

[egophiliac]

bring your son to work day