#montey

[boghermit]

Montey and Johnny as that one meme. I had to.

[slmcreative]

Happy 10th birthday to one of my favorite original characters 🍰

[moontyger]

It’s all but done now, and my numbness and rage has morphed into a deep and painful sadness for what this means for my generation, my children’s childhoods, and the women and trans people and Black and immigrant communities who will be torn apart by this.

At the time of writing, it’s too early to say exactly what happened. But it’s likely that young angry, lonely, entitled men turned out to punish women and hoard the power they perceive they get from a culture of say whatever you want, persecuted, Hogan-Rogan hypermasculinity. To be clear, I have very little tolerance for entertaining himpathy or even curiosity about such voters. We need a different tack. We’re all lonely and disenfranchised. This ain’t it.

This country clearly hates women and wants us to suffer under the thumb of men, alone in our homes pushing out babies and providing sex on demand, and we need to stop dancing around this long held American reality.

It’s not the economy. It’s misogyny, it’s racism, it’s patriarchy, it’s late capitalism. It’s the belief that one’s grocery bill and “pocketbook” matter more than women’s full citizenship, dignity and human life. I’m already beyond frustrated and fed up with those who will blame feminism or women for what is clearly a culture of misogyny and racism gone wild—and always already at the rotten core.

I hope this horror galvanizes us further, pulls us closer. But women’s feelings of betrayal, erasure, and fear won’t soon fade. We will carry this. And as I’ve said, I don’t think men and women’s relationships will ever be the same. I hope they are not.

So many people are going to kick into blame, attack, police, patrol, soften, normalize, hot take, lessen, rationalize—and try to rush us away from our anger and grief. I’m going to dwell in the pain and loss and obviously then I will keep going, as women always have.

[pomegranate-vinegarete]

My sun and moon show designs, I quit less than half way through and drew some monteys to make up for it

[dopescissorscashwagon]

London at Dawn

📸 by Bill Montei

[vhvrs]

btw incredibly good day! last night my mom found out someone on this fb group shes on was trying to rehome two kittens who were bonded together and now those kittens are in my house! no pictures rn bc i dont have good ones (one was too tired n the other too crazy active) but they're a lil 4month old maine coon named viviane and a lil 6-8week old orange boy named monty :3

[twilightronin]

Prometheus - Ridley Scott 2012

[elizabethplaid]

Slaughter House-Five, a graphic novel adaptation

I saw the promo on tumblr, then saw it in a bookstore and almost got it. I was already buying other books and was trying to not spend all my money on my trip.

The original has been on my to-read list for more than a decade, along with other Vonnegut titles. (Only managed to finish "Welcome to the Monkey House", a collection of short stories.) I have my dad's vintage paperbacks from the 1970s.

I had several items on my wishlist for my birthday, but I only asked for 3 items specifically. My phone-friend opted to also send me books, including 2 others I got last week.

Books and reading together was my family's love-language when I was a kid. To share that with my phone-friend today means a lot to me.

[teknikolor-walters]

Okay actually fuck it. Proving past me wrong

001 - Iris - purple emperor butterfly (apatura iris)

002 - Fallax - stick insect (achrioptera fallax)

003 - Tiluca - glowworm (lampyris noctiluca)

006 - Teralis - cordycepts (ophiocordycepts unilateralis)

007 - Api - hornet moth (sesia apiflora)

008 - Montei - leaf insect (phyllium monteithi)

009 - Color - painted grasshopper (dactylotum bicolor)

010 - Ciata - assassin bug (rhigana cruciata)

[baybelletrist]

CW: rape culture, misogyny, depression

I've never wanted to be a mom. Even as a tween, I had an instinctive revulsion for the idea. I started babysitting pretty young, so even though I was never the primary caregiver, I got enough of a look at the demands of child-rearing to know it wasn't for me. As a woman in her fifties, I can say that it's a damn good thing I never had kids; if I had, nobody involved would have enjoyed the results.

It's already hard to be a parent, especially a mom. The utter lack of support for parents, especially mothers, in the USA just makes it worse. Capitalists don't care about supporting families because it doesn't make them any money. (They are, however, only too happy to cash in on the need for child care and housecleaning by creating businesses employing poor people for the benefit of wealthy people. Which still leaves poor people unsupported.) The entire capitalist system is built on the unpaid labor of women.

Then there's the misogyny. We're taught from birth that our bodies don't belong to us, they belong to men, and we're just here to be barefoot and pregnant and ugh, fuck that noise so hard. Pile the fall of Roe on top of all this and you've got the perfect recipe for a hellscape right out of Margaret Atwood... and I'm gonna stop now before I throw up.

tl;dr Set the patriarchy on fire, protect reproductive rights, and support parents and families of all persuasions.

But over time I came to see that the basic tenets of rape culture run through our cultural expectations of American mothers. Just as we normalize sexual violence against women, we normalize the suffering of women in motherhood. The image of the haggard mom woefully failing to do it all has become so commonplace in American culture that her beaten-down body, excess wine consumption and clinical depression rarely register as serious public health concerns, even though her struggles can easily be traced to historically and culturally specific conditions.

[boghermit]

I just typed that 7 for the OC ask game thing why is it so big???

SEVEN.

7. To apologize first

Montey is fairly polite and usually the first to apologize in most situations where he's at fault.

[slmcreative]

Keep practicing! 

[yexuscomic]

Entrevista a MANEL FONTDEVILA y ALBERT MONTEYS

Z nº 120

[pomegranate-vinegarete]

Swap au! Might make it it's own blog

I love them

[dopescissorscashwagon]

Norway 🇳🇴

📸 by Bill Montei

[semper-legens]

42. Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut with Ryan North and Albert Monteys

Owned: No, library Page count: Unknown/not numbered My summary: Billy Pilgrim is unstuck in time. He’s a prisoner of war in the 1940s, a husband in the 1960s, a captive in an alien zoo, dead, alive, a child, an adult - and all at once. The alien abduction didn’t cause this. But it gave him perspective on his life. My rating: 5/5 My commentary:

I've been vaguely interested in Ryan North's graphic novel adaption of Slaughterhouse Five since I first heard that it existed. I have read the original novel, albeit many years ago. I remember liking it, but not loving it? It wasn't really my thing, I don't think. But this adaption was very highly praised, and that led me to wonder if it was worth checking out, even despite me not particularly connecting with the original. But it sucked me in. I read it in one sitting, and felt a connection there that I didn't with the novel.

I think a part of it is that the medium of comics is much, much easier to tell this sort of disjointed, time-hopping narrative in. There's a visual element to the sudden shifts between eras, as well as a visual medium being more able to portray things like the desolation of the prison camp or Dresden after it was bombed. We can also more easily see what age Billy Pilgrim is during certain events, and orient ourselves to the time he finds himself in with easy visual clues that don't distract from the narrative. This adaption also plays with reality - I remember this being a thing in the original, but I don't recall to what extent - pointing out where Vonnegut himself makes a cameo or noting which fictional events are fictionalised versions of things that Vonnegut himself witnessed or was a part of. This brings a strange meta-layer to the work, not least because North's narration also addresses the fact that this is an adaption. It fits the dreamy, uncertain tone of the narrative, however. The visuals are stark and striking, really hammering home the point of the book, and very easy to engage with. This was a fascinating adaption of a classic and I'd highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in such things.

Next up, back to Mistborn, and there's kandra about.