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Tumblr Tuesday: Pretty Pretty Please I don't Want to be a Magical Girl

Pretty pretty please join us in enjoying this collection of sublime fanart for @kianamaiart's Pretty Pretty Please I don't Want to be a Magical Girl. If you haven't yet seen the pilot animatic, you can watch it here if you like—it's really very good. Thank you to Kiana and all of your fans for these delightful visual treats! We can't wait to follow along for more Aika, Zira, Hoshi, and co. <3

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[pyramidslayer]

gelshocker can't even put out a good sludge these days. fuck this economy

[fashion-runways]

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[nonetoon]

Good morning all, here’s pages 118-127 of Clown Curse🔮💥

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[lovecore-muppet]

[image description: four pages from the book mentioned in the post.

the first page shows the Weedle, a polka dotted animal with a very long neck and limbs. Caption reads: “this animal has such dainty little ways of pulling up potatoes”.

the second page shows the Burkan, which has a thin body and a large monster head. Caption: “a nasty biting thing. There’s none more about it”.

the third page shows the Beppy, which is a pug with an orb shaped body. Caption: “this animal is as round as a ball and likes lions and feeds on bread and milk”.

The fourth page shows the Booba, which is bipedal and covered in small scales or feathers. Caption: “this is a funny little animal. It makes no noise and runs”. End ID]

I’ve just found a lovely little book published in 1897 called “animal land where there are no people.” the illustrator drew all these creatures based on her 4-year-old daughter’s descriptions and I. I.

there’s way more and they are all exactly this wonderful

[marvelsmostwanted]

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)

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[climbingthefloors]

obsessed with this baby hippo from thailand's khao khew zoo.. she has been so utterly betrayed by the world

[patchwork-crow-writes]

I attempted an online "how to start a business" course some years ago. Never got very far into it, don't remember much of what it said, EXCEPT for the very first thing it tells you.

"What is the primary goal of a business?"

You might expect the answer to be "To provide a product or service", or "To ensure people can make a living" or what have you. But no, the answer was, predictably and depressingly: "To make profit".

That's the primary goal of a business - self-preservation. Everything else - the quality of its output, the satisfaction of its clientele - is just a bonus. Means to an end, and means which can be cut back on so that the primary directive - maximum profits - can continue to be attained, in perpetuity. And that struck me as so asinine, so arse-about-face, that I simply stopped studying that course. If profit-making is the primary goal of a business, then sooner or later everything will be seen through that lens, to the point where the living breathing humans in that equation - customers and employees alike - are little more than data points on a spreadsheet, annoying variables to be planned around and mitigated as much as possible.

And that's why I laugh when I hear about the concept of "corporate personhood". If corporations were people, they'd be the most venal, reprehensible people that ever lived - but even THAT's giving them too much credit. Honestly, they're more like viruses - mindlessly driven by the need to self-perpetuate at any cost, regurgitating copies of itself into the world in a bid to grow and continue existing, completely heedless of the larger organism it ravishes as it does so. And if the conditions change, the virus will mutate to adapt to those changes, so it can continue its function. There's not even any real malice on their part - it's just what they do.

To summarise: the answer to any question you could conceivably ask about a business or a decision they've made is that they've simply done whatever they've calculated will make them the most profit at that moment in time.

(Or, if you want to be even MORE cynical, the answer is invariably that somebody, somewhere, is making an awful lot of money, and until something comes along that will make them an awful lot MORE money, don't expect it to stop anytime soon.)

This is how any corporation functions. First, increasing profits is done by attracting more customers. Then, once they have all the customers they're going to get, increasing profits is done by increasing prices or cutting costs.

[gongyussy]

good thing from jp twitter this week is queen of old man yaoi michiru sonoo discovering the term old man yaoi

update: somehow it got impossibly more wholesome

quick translation: おかえり: welcome home あ 終わった 終わった: ahhh, it's over! it's done! コーヒー? お茶?: coffee? tea? コ~ヒ~ ありがと: coffee, thank you~ ネクタイレア★★ ネクタイ取るレア★★★★: seeing him with a tie on, rarity level ★★, seeing him take a tie off, rarity level ★★��★ にあうな~: it suits him~

also please do follow: AraigumaSha: sensei's twitter account marureviere: maru, who does such valuable work highlighting bl manga for an international audience

[thankstothe]

folk hero really

[ydotome]

Holidays with Pokémon - 【公式】PokéMinutos

[whiteshipnightjar]

Zoozve, my beloved

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an accomplice turned victim his apology, long overdue

[nondivisable]

I need to say something and I need y'all to be calm

if it isn't actively bad or harmful, no representation should be called "too simple" or "too surface level"

I have a whole argument for this about the barbie movie but today I wanna talk about a show called "the babysitters club" on Netflix

(obligatory disclaimer that I watched only two episodes of this show so if it's super problematic I'm sorry) (yes. I know it's based on a book, this is about the show)

this is a silly 8+ show that my 9 year old sister is watching and it manages to tackle so many complex topics in such an easy way. basic premise is these 13 year old girls have a babysitting agency.

in one episode, a girl babysits this transfem kid. the approach is super simple, with the kid saying stuff like "oh no, those are my old boy clothes, these are my girl clothes". they have to go to the doctor and everyone is calling the kid by her dead name and using he/him and this 13 year old snaps at like a group of doctors and they all listen to her. it's pure fantasy and any person versed in trans theory would point out a bunch of mistakes.

but after watching this episode, my little sister started switching to my name instead of my dead name and intercalating he/him pronouns when talking about me.

one of the 13 years old is a diabetic and sometimes her whole personality is taken over by that. but she has this episode where she pushes herself to her limit and passes out and talks about being in a coma for a while because of not recognizing the limits of her disability.

and this allowed my 9 year old sister to understand me better when I say "I really want to play with you but right now my body physically can't do that" (I'm disabled). she has even asked me why I'm pushing myself, why I'm not using my crutches when I complain about pain.

my mom is 50 years old and watching this show with my sister. she said the episode about the diabetic girl helped her understand me and my disability better. she grew up disabled as well, but she was taught to shut up and power through.

yes, silly simple representation can annoy you if you've read thousands of pages about queer liberation or disability radical thought, but sometimes things are not for you.