#brooks 2020

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You can’t even use the stars to predict next week’s weather, he says, how can you possibly advise our boss about business and military strategies?

Michael Brooks, Why Astrology Matters

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X-Men #01 (2024) (San Diego Comic Con 1950's Variant)

Art by Mark Brooks

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THE BEAR (2022—) S03 // E03

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boops ur favs

live cher reaction under the cut

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MOTHER OF THE BRIDE (2024) dir. Mark Waters

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Fall of the House of X #1 & Rise of the Powers of X #1 (2024) - Brooks Connecting Variant

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Sorry for the lack of memes, school has been a pain in the ass-

Anyways, have some memes I made last week-

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"He looks like a Digimon protagonist" -My dad

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Character designs from the Slot Works Fan Book.

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Ray Donovan (2013-2020) tv series

-(started) watchin' Season 1- 4/30/2024- on Showtime

72% Rotten Tomatoes

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Beginning of an answer

9/7/2020. Monday 2:08pm 

out front. Espresso’s Coffee House: Pacific Ave, Stockton, Ca

“There were plenty of onlookers, but no witnesses.” In other words, we may log impressive miles in our travels but see nothing: we may follow all the advice in the travel magazines and still feel little enthusiasm.” Page xxi The Art of Pilgrimage

Our pilgrimage has taken us into a Land which Angela Davis said is one that she never experienced before—the confluence of pandemic and protest.

I agree with Angela—its a phenomenon—We have all awakened here on Bali-Hi.

But, as Ms Davis also said, it will pass—the mystical island will recede back into the fog of “normalcy”

Like the travelers described in the Art Of Pilgrimage (above) we have to see it—to embrace it while it is here. I feel fortunate to have lived to see this beginning of an answer—

Angela also said this is not the time to dismantle the police, but, instead, to evolve that institution.

Mavis Staples sings “Gotta change around here, say it loud, say it clear” as I write.

End of entry

Notes: 1/15/2025

Please see photos of the original 9/7/2020 entry in the next blog

Bali-Hi was a mystical island of magic in the musical “South Pacific"

The above journal entry was written in September of 2020 during the Covid Pandemic and the era of the massive George Floyd—Black Lives Matter protests. Angela Davis, a well known civil rights activist during the 1960’s, was acknowledging the power of the people’s movement then. Although she was right that it would pass and the streets would become quite, the Christian Nationalist response is now raging in the form of Trump 2.0

Kat Brooks, who hosts a show on KPFA radio, said yesterday on KPFA Hard Knock that “We are never going to get free in the halls of power. It’s in the streets…"

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My lackaocs!

+ their relatives

I didn't design bios for the relatives because I did not have the time and energy for that so it's just written

If you'd like to know a lot more about my lackaocs I made an infodump post here

Edit: Since Tony got married and changed a bit here's his old look for comparison

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Currently, my only goal in life is being she

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X-Men: Forever Vol 1 #1 / Published: March 20, 2024 / Artist: Mark Brooks

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