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pillow4t · 1 year ago

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These are just my favorite/main headcannons tbh

• HEAVY on the they/them Moria

• Cassidy is a girls girl™ If he's out on a mission with (insert literally any woman in ow) and some creepy guy is hitting on her/touching her, he'll go over and defend her, pretending to be her boyfriend so they'll back down

•Trans Junkrat!!! Trans Sombra!!!!

•Roadhog had a wife and kids before he joined the AFL idc what anyone says

•Baptist calls lifeweaver "Flè mwen" which means "my flower" in Haitian Creole (I used a translator so let me know if I'm wrong <3)

•Pharah stole one of Cassidy's hats back in his blackwatch days when she was 13, she still has it (and sometimes wears it around the bass)

•Genji has a drink named after him at the bar he used to frequent when he was younger

•Junkrats mom spoke Arabic so that's why he gravitated to Ana when he was first around her, he hasn't told anybody tho

•Mercy loves to harp on Cassidy about his smoking habits like she isn't living off of coffee and cigarettes (and sometimes a bagel bc of pharah😌

•Cassidy got Ana a "I love my lesbian daughter" shirt for Christmas, he bought it as a joke, she wears it regularly.

•Junkrat can swallow something then bring it back up, it's a great party trick, he thinks, but it usually grosses people out. It's come in handy on missions tho

•When Sojourn brings Murphy to the watchpoint, she gets SMOTHERED with pets, kisses and love from everyone. The same thing happens when Brigitte brings Mitzi around.

•Symetera and Lifeweaver have completely opposite tastes in music so they were CONSTANTLY arguing about who gets to put on music when they shared a dorm (sym usually won)

•When Hanzo laughs he snorts

•Lúcio has real bad arthritis and his skates are more braces than anything, he also has knee, hand and back braces at the ready

•Tracer gets Emily a souvenir from every place she gets deployed to

•Zenyattas favorite color is Yellow

•JunkerQueen carries around hamster treats in her pockets when Wreaking Ball is with her "For when the champ gets hungry!" She always says(in reality she just thinks it's cute how hamsters eat)

•Torbjorn sometimes brings his (older) kids around if the original group of Overwatch is there, he trusts the others...just not with his kids and is really reluctant with Brigitte

•Roadhog has been teaching Junkrat how to properly write and read and it's really improved how Junkrat functions when they're not fighting for survival in the outback

•Illari is a jewelry girl, but she cant wear to much because it gets in the way of training/fighting, but her collection of gold accessories is off the charts

•Sombra took the username D.va on social media and finds it SO funny that Dva has to use a different variation of her gamertag

•I feel like Reaper still has the same sense of humor he did in over/blackwatch and will constantly make witty jokes to Widowmaker or Moria who just give him a blank stare, Doomfist usually finds them funny tho

•Kiriko and Genji literally cannot cook to save their lives and usually takes two of them to make a small microwave meal

•B.O.B had his voice box removed when he was working for Ashes parents and even after all the years of her offering him to get his voice back, he chooses to use sign language instead but the offer is always on the table, Ashe says

•Lúcio has a 10k DJ set up in his room, and gets violent if anyone tries to mess with anything, literally almost took Cassidy's other arm off when he moved a bunch of dials, he'll show you around the soundboard if you ask tho!

•Kiriko is Hanzo and Genjis Cousin (Asa is their mom's sister <3)

•Reinhardt snores. LOUDLY. Brigitte had to get him a sleep apnea mask so she was able to sleep in the same vicinity as him

•Reaper is from Michigan🫶🏻

•Soldier76 gets made fun of by D.va for being old, but the second he's like "me and Ana are practically the same age" D.va gets all defensive "you just called a woman old!"

•Mei and Tracer share a room, they both sleep better with company

•(Blackwatch)Moria and Genji had an anime night where they would watch 10-20 episodes of any given series they were on, but

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RAHHH OKAY I LITERALLY HAVE MORE LINER UP BUT I FEEL LIKE ITS ALREADY A SUPER LONG POST

But yeah :) I'm incapable of liking something a little bit so yeahhhh

#overwatch headcanons #overwatch #overwatch 2 #my favorite is hanzo snorting while laughing #hes my cutiepatooie

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andtheyaretrees · 3 months ago

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It seems like we're turning this into a NO FEWER FARMERS, lol. Super smart to look for apples, sym-metric. Especially since the ruins are overgrown. I hope that works. We all seem to agree that the ruins have a lot for us, although I'm wary of their proximity to the abyss: when the data validator popped into existence, it was in the ruins. Though that was just because we took parts of the game and put them in our body (Note that 0x07cf == 1999, the planned original release year of Datasouls: Cyberhearts Destiny — are we in that early copy of the game? Or the unfinished early release? Or just the secret ending, using old assets? Mysteries). If we keep our network poking read-only we should be okay. Let's not break into any high-security systems until we're moderately healed.

Re: duplicate shop items, it could also just be that a new gun will appear when this one's expended. Who knows though, it's good to keep in mind that we aren't guaranteed their presence. I'm interested to see if CAFE VOUCHER was a one-time thing, for instance.

Re: hunger math, see https://www.tumblr.com/itsbenedict/761976268174557184/whoops-i-fucked-up-at-the-food-math-last-time-it.

To me it sounds like our next steps should be, in order:

Heal a little bit so we don't die to the next surprise, by eating apples if possible (maybe we have to inspect elements here, maybe not), or otherwise via a couple of software patches each.

Earn coins + knowledge through research at the university. Maybe inspect ourselves.

Decode the corpse's anagram-sentence (possibly on the way to the holy tower shop if we have to be physically there).

Spend those coins on useful things — more hunger-efficient vouchers if possible. Optimally A 10-coin voucher gets us 4 juice packs which restore 32 hunger collectively. Plus we should grab another SIGNAL STABILIZER and some healing items. We seem confident we can DIAL A NUMBER to get to the undiscovered squares and that we can glide out, so we don't necessarily need a CHAIN LINK (yet).

DIAL A NUMBER to get to the mystery squares. Explore from there.

From the beginning | Previously | Coin standings | 4/18 | 2/2

(one of those was my own vote, which I'll be discounting here in order to make the prices line up.)

The bartender prepares various things for you- a TRIG FAIRY TRAUMA FRUITY MARGARITA for Adea, who has had a long fucking day and is in dire need of a drink. You also nosh on some SPINACH SALADS CHIPS AND SALSA, which for no reason you can discern appears to improve your LINKED CLASS by 1 apiece. You also stow away some juice mixers, which the bar sells separately in a I BUCKLE UP, JACK BULK JUICE PACK, as emergency rations which are worth 8 hunger to the 5 Coin. The SELTZERS, APTLY SALTY PRETZELS increase your SUMO ID levels, making you want to bulk up and wrestle- and the BEE'S TURN BEER NUTS are reserved for Adea because Walter can't stand the texture of the red peanut skins.

You also buy some DOMINANT ICICLES MEDICINAL TONICS, which... are just a marketing gimmick for some gin and tonic. Apparently formulated with the original quinine blend and not the sweeter, modern blend, the tonic water ostensibly fights off malaria. Assuming malaria is an issue you've got to worry about in this place. There's some restorative effect- 1 Soul Integrity apiece, so Walter opts to drink some down just in case- but actual medical attention apparently isn't something this bar provides.

(Some people across the bar apparently really dig your "swarm of butterflies" vibes, and buy you some free drinks and snacks. This should keep you up for a while!)

Adea then starts trying to chat up the bar patrons via the butterflies... but quickly discovers that the butterflies seem to garble any nontransactional communication. If it's not about buying or selling, speech gets lost in a haze of barely-meaningful sounds. It's not going to be easy to, say, call the city guard for help this way. Communicating with the real world properly will take a little more effort.

So... you've defeated the LONE THERMOSTATS, and FULLY ROBEd LILY. You've got a few different options, now:

HOWDY, A FAMINE!: Dig up more information about your situation and how to return to reality, by employing the FILIAL TWINS or NETTLE SPECIMEN to access networks and explore files, and maybe FIGHT THY RELIC in the process.

PALAVER THEME: Explore unreached areas of the city... somehow, in search of your daughter. There's no more links on the map, but perhaps there's other routes to unexplored areas where you might RADDER YOUTH FUNGI? Or maybe there's something at the fennec shop that might help.

YOU UNHEARD OWLS: You're both still pretty beat up and unstable, and your Soul Integrity could use a recharge. You may want to prioritize this in case of danger. (Healing to full would cost... like, 77 Coin's worth of patches, or using the Defrag Point at the steampunk spires and spending rations at a similar rate. Or maybe there's some easier way? ...Or maybe you just won't encounter any more real danger.)

To be continued | 8/18 | 19/20

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moescreencaps · 4 years ago

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moe's mega-sync content list : 2022 !

Credit is appreciated but not necessary ✨

book / media links : one |

[ LIVE ACTION ]

FILM SERIES: lady snowblood (1 and 2) | female prisoner (1-4) |

[ ANIMATED ]

[ SORTED BY ACTORS ]

AUBREY HEPBURN : Roman Holiday | Funny Face | Sabrina

BAE DOONA : secret forest | the silent sea

EMILY BROWNING : The Uninvited | Sucker Punch

FAN BINGBING: empress of china | lady of the dynasty

GAL GADOT : Batman V Superman | Justice League Snyder Cut | Wonder Woman | Wonder Woman 1984 | Keeping Up With The Joneses

GENE TIERNEY : Leave Her To Heaven | Laura | On The Riviera | The Ghost Of Mrs. Muir |

GIANNA JUN : blood: the last vampire | legend of the blue sea

GILLIAN ANDERSON : the fall | hannibal

HEDY LAMARR : Her Highness and The Bellboy | Ziegfeld Girl | Come Live With Me |

ISABELLE ADJANI : le reine margot | possession | nosferatu

ISABELLE FURHMAN : Orphan / Orphan : First Kill

JESSICA CHASTAIN : ava | the forgiven | scenes from a marriage | the 355

JULIE DELPY : Before (Midnight, Sunrise, Sunset)

MEGAN FOX : Jennifer's body | till death

MERVE BOLUGAR : Magnificent Century ( Season 4 )

MAGGIE CHEUNG : In The Mood For Love | Hero | Irma Vep

MONICA BELLUCCI : La Riffa

MICHIEL HUISMAN : The Age Of Adaline | A Boy Named Christmas

NADINE NASSIB NJEIM : Al Hayba | Cello | Nos Youm

REBECCA FERGUSON : the white queen | the girl on the train

VIVIAN LEIGH : Anna Karenina | Waterloo Bridge | Gone With The Wind | Heaven Can Wait |

#supportcontentcreators #support content creators

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scooterscrooge · 6 years ago

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Something Different

Getting a little bored of the conventional 125cc crowd? After something a little different that will both turn heads and put a smile on your dial with every turn of the key? The SYM Symba might be just the commuter for you!

Yes...you’re right it is a very close relation of the Honda Postie bikes that grace every corner of Australia, but this machine, made in Taiwan by SYM, is actually the staple of the Taiwanese postal service. But this is a positive. Tough, reliable and easy to maintain are all adjectives you can easily associate with the Symba...and that is before you add in its unique and super cool looks!

But this is not your conventional scooter package...unlike most scoots this machine is a semi-automatic, which means you need to change gears. But never fear, there is an automatic clutch making it a little easier than a conventional motorbike...just ease off the power, flip the foot mounted gear selector and change gears to keep the Symba on the boil! I must confess I like the idea of this old school approach, it adds some extra spice to the commute and sure tests your coordination skills!

Many purists will say this machine has no place on the scooter scene, and yes there is no storage, there is no auto transmission and there is no conventional flat running board for your feet. But with a small engine, protection from the elements and arguably an ultimate cool factor, I think it has some of the core elements that mean it can safely grace the pages of Scooter Scrooge!

This particular machine is in perfect condition and looks like it has just left the showroom. With a full service history and low kilometres it is as close as you will get to a risk free second hand scooter purchase. Parts too will be easy to come by with SYM having one of the best reputations in Australia for keeping a backlog of spares for their machines and also being able to organise speedy delivery.

Price wise these machines were a little over the $3k mark when new, so if you can secure for between $1 and $1.5K you will be getting a solid deal and let’s face it there is only one way this price will go and that is up, as simple scoots like these only become more rare and desired!

So...get a full mechanical and history check and then watch the heads turn as you zoom by on something nice, different and yep a little unusual!

Check it out on ebay: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Sym-Symba-Postie-Bike/173524114271?hash=item2866d7db5f:g:M0MAAOSwO95blJl-

#scooter #moped #sym #vespa #scooterstyle #scooterscene #scootercommuter #scooterscrooge

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x----tine · 4 years ago

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Cristine Brache CAConrad Anaïs Duplan Penny Goring Rob Goyanes E. Jane Rindon Johnson Cole Lu Sara Magenheimer Eileen Myles Precious Okoyomon Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers) Martine Syms dana washington-queen Tanaya Winder

Oct. 30, 2020 - Nov. 20, 2020

anonymous is proud to inaugurate its New York City location with the forthcoming project, Hello? God Is The Space Between Us. Organized in collaboration with artist and poet Cristine Brache, the project will feature poetry from artists working across visual, written, and performative disciplines. The project will be expressed in multiple forms and disseminated through a call-in phone line, a series of opt-in text messages; the production and release of a limited edition vinyl album; public interventions; and a gallery presentation in New York, and later in Mexico City.

October 30th - November 20th anonymous will open its New York space at 136 Baxter Street to an audible exhibition. A single record player will broadcast the powerful poetic readings by artists: Cristine Brache, CAConrad, Anaïs Duplan, Penny Goring, Rob Goyanes, E. Jane, Rindon Johnson, Cole Lu, Sara Magenheimer, Eileen Myles, Precious Okoyomon, Umar Rashid, Martine Syms, dana washington-queen, and Tanaya Winder.

Simultaneously, and over the course of the next three months the gallery will release a new poem each week.

To listen from anywhere in the world dial +1-(920)-690-6669.

To receive each poem in written form by way of text message: Text POEM to 31996 to receive each poem in English. Text POEMA to 31996 to receive each poem in Español.

As each new poem becomes available the gallery will notify audiences through instagram @anonymousgallery, newsletter and online at www.anonymousgallery.com.

With little prerequisite, each writer was given room to submit work honoring their own stories speaking to, and from, fundamentally different lived experience. As if capturing a photograph of an emotion or a moment in time, each reading necessarily speaks to the current state of affairs, as well as the nature of time. Once assembled, these individual perspectives coalesce to create a time capsule. Through this collective lens of shared history, unified through process, Hello? God Is The Space Between Us documents today’s existence.

The Exhibition located on 136 Baxter St. will be available to the public by appointment during 12-6, each day until November 3rd , and thereafter 12 – 6pm, Tuesday – Friday until November 20th. During the exhibition, the space should be honored as a site of intermission and reflection.

The project will culminate with the release of a vinyl album featuring the audio from each poet, with unique inserts and album cover. Sold as a limited edition, proceeds will be donated to charity. The project will conclude, in its entirety, on January 20th , 2021.

Additional announcements and initiatives will be made throughout. For more information, contact hello@anonymousgallery or visit www.anonymousgallery.com and instagram @anonymousgallery.

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symerr · 1 year ago

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different layout because we're still too lazy to use custom poses </3 anyway have some spacers

#simblr #the sims 4 #ts4 #create a sim #my sims #ts4 cas #sym reed (they)#sym tether (they)#sym camera (they)#sym gasket (they)#sym piston (they)#sym dial (they)#err #ts4 modders make an achondroplasia mod PLEASE im BEGGING i feel weird making them like this #and it looks wrong with whatever height sliders are out there so this is the best we've freakign GOT AUUUUGH #anyway localthumbcache.package our beloved #cas err #technically

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logarto · 8 years ago

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Lució: Do you think you can maybe, chill for one second? Sym: [visibily turns the "not chill" dial on her hard light generator from 9 to 11]

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#stepperbox

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gokinjeespot · 5 years ago

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off the rack #1296

Monday, January 13, 2020

I knew my dad had an older brother living in Edmonton but I've never met him. I was introduced to him recently when my cousin sent me a picture of Uncle #2 taken while he visited with him and his other cousins there. I showed my dad the picture of his brother and his face lit up in a big smile. He hasn't seen him in decades. Uncle #2 is 91-years-old now and he and dad are the only surviving children from grandpa's first wife. I was glad that I gave my father that moment of happiness.

Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy #5 - Jody Houser (writer) Adriana Melo (pencils) Mark Morales (inks) Hi-Fi (colours) Gabriela Downie (letters). The trail to the Floronic Man leads the ladies to Manhattan's Central Park where they are met with a surprise. No, it's not Batwoman who guest stars this issue. It's a great cliffhanger to next issue's finale.

The Immortal Hulk #29 - Al Ewing (writer) Joe Bennett (pencils) Ruy Jose, Belardino Brabo & Cam Smith (inks) Paul Mounts (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). Roxxon sets a trap for the Hulk and it works. This is where monsters dwell. The scene with Betty and Bruce in the cafeteria was great.

The Dollhouse Family #3 - M. R. Carey (writer) Peter Gross (layouts) Vince Locke (finishes) Cris Peter (colours) Todd Klein (letters). We catch up with Alice as an adult while the flashbacks to the past shows us some weird creatures in a cave. The dollhouse makes a couple of appearances in each point in history but we don't learn much more about it. It's still really creepy though. The last page came as a total shock. I like this DC Black Label book.

Excalibur #5 - Tini Howard (writer) Marcus To (art) Erick Arciniega (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). This is the payoff issue for the first story arc and I'm out of here now. My biggest complaint about this book is that I find myself wondering what the heck is going on as I'm reading. I feel disconnected with the action because of the different locations and all the mutants involved. There's a major change to a major hero so you may want to stick around to see where that goes.

Young Justice #12 - Brian Michael Bendis (writer) John Timms (art) Gabe Eltaeb (colours) Wes Abbott (letters). It was nice to see Warlord even though he was only in 4 pages of this massively dialogued issue. This book had just as many heroes running around and different locations for action as Excalibur #5 and yet not once did I feel confused or disoriented. I loved how all the Wonder Comics heroes were brought together. Especially that Miguel, the Dial H for Hero kid changed into a Miles Morales-like super hero at the end. This 12-issue run was Fun with a capital F.

X-Force #5 - Benjamin Percy (writer) Joshua Cassara (art) Dean White & Rachelle Rosenberg (colours) VC's Joe Caramagna (letters). There's plenty of force this issue as Domino and Forge go to rescue Wolverine and Kid Omega. This new thing where every mutant can be resurrected if they die has me wondering when I'm going to get tired of writers killing characters just for shock value. Plus, the mutants can't lose now. So what if you die on a mission? I'm afraid I'm going to get bored with these characters again until the next big change.

Catwoman #19 - Joelle Jones (writer) Geraldo Borges, Aneke & Inaki Miranda (art) FCO Plascencia, John Kalisz & Laura Allred (colours) Saida Temofonte (letters). Selina comes to the rescue of family and friends and is partially successful. I like the new costume.

Black Cat #8 - Jed MacKay (writer) Dike Ruan & Annie Wu (art) Brian Reber (colours) Ferran Delgado (letters). What a great issue. The Cat and the Beetle go on a heist and we get some background on Felicia's life. It was fun until the last page when things get serious.

Conan Serpent War #3 - Jim Zub (writer) Luca Pizzari (art) Frank D'Armata (colours) Vanesa R. Del Rey (art James Allison sequence) Jean-Francois Beaulieu (colours James Allison sequence) VC's Travis Lanham (letters). There's a mysterious force manipulating everybody in this story and I'm staying with it until I find out what it is.

Star #1 - Kelly Thompson (writer) Javier Pina with Filipe Andrade (art) Jesus Aburtov (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). Kelly's name in the credits made me give this a try. I'm not a fan of super villains being the star (har) of their own books but there are two women also in this comic book that I really like. If they're not enough to keep me reading then the God of Mischief certainly is.

Daphne Byrne #1 - Laura Marks (writer) Kelley Jones (art) Michelle Madsen (colours) Rob Leigh (letters). This is another creepy comic from the same imprint that puts out Basketful of Heads. It's 1886 in New York and Daphne is a very intelligent young lady who doesn't fit in with the others at Miss Farrow's School for Girls. Her mother is a patron of a psychic who claims to have communicated with Daphne's dead father. That may be a hoax but her dreams seem to be all too real. I miss seeing Kelley Jones's art on the racks so I hope to keep reading this book as it comes out.

Ruins of Ravencroft: Carnage #1 - Frank Tieri (writer) Angel Unzueta (modern day art) Guiu Vilanova (flashback art) Rachelle Rosenberg (colours) VC's Travis Lanham (letters). I saw the ads for this and didn't think I would be interested but I liked the art when I flipped through it so took it to read. Other than being connected to Carnage from the title I didn't know anything about this comic book, but seeing Misty Knight on the second page meant that I had something familiar to anchor myself. And then Mayor Wilson Fisk shows up. Ravencroft is New York's version of Arkham Asylum and it was a major location during the Absolute Carnage story. It's being torn down to be rebuilt and this issue gives us the history of the evil ground that it's built on. This establishes that the Venom and Carnage symbiotes have been around since forever because the history starts in the early 1400s. I don't know where this series is going but I liked it enough to want to check out the next instalment hitting the racks January 15, Ruins of Ravencroft: Sabretooth.

The Clock #1 - Matt Hawkins (writer) Colleen Doran (art) Bryan Valenza (colours) Troy Peteri (letters). Again, it was the art that prompted me to pick this off the rack. I first appreciated Colleen's art in 1983 when she put out "A Distant Soil". I loved her detailed pen and ink work in black and white. Here she is in colour and it still moves me. Her expressions really convey what the characters are feeling. The story is about a cancer epidemic and the threat to the world's population seems credible. I'm going to follow young scientist Jack to see how he saves the world.

Marvels X #1 - Alex Ross & Jim Krueger (writers) Well-Bee (art) VC's Cory Petit (letters). I really liked the first Marvels series by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross showing the Marvel U through the eyes of regular people. This latest story features a young super hero fan named David trapped in his house after what seems to be the worldwide Terrigen Mist event when Marvel tried to make the Inhumans a big deal. David's entire family is lost and now he's off to New York City to find his heroes. I liked the kid so I'm going to follow his adventures.

Miles Morales: The End #1 - Saladin Ahmed (writer) Damion Scott (art) Dono Sanchez-Almara (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). This $4.99 US one-shot really is the end for Miles. He lives to be a ripe old age and goes down fighting. I would only recommend this for collectors of all things Miles.

Deadpool #2 - Kelly Thompson (writer) Chris Bachalo (pencils) Wayne Faucher, Livesay, Al Vey, Jaime Mendoza, Victor Olazaba & Tim Townsend (inks) David Curiel (colours) VC's Joe Sabino (letters). I don't find Wade's new role as King of Staten Island, where monsters dwell, to be very interesting so I'm not going to read anymore of this. Much as I like Chris Bachalo's art, it's not enough to keep me coming back every month.

20XX #2 - Jonathan Luna & Lauren Keely (writers) Jonathan Luna (art & letters). We find out what newly minted Sym Meria's power is and how she's going to cope with it. The developments with the East Side and West Side gangs and Meria's new friend are interesting enough to make me want to read the next issue of this black and white book.

Fallen Angels #5 - Bryan Hill (writer) Szymon Kudranski (art) Frank D'Armata (colours) VC's Joe Sabino (letters). The team is set. Psylocke leads X-23, young Cable, Husk and Bling to Dubai to fight the super villain Apoth. The foreshadowing on the last page ratchets up the anticipation for the next issue.

The Amazing Spider-Man #37 - Nick Spencer (writer) Ryan Ottley (pencils) Cliff Rathburn (inks) Nathan Fairbairn (colours) VC's Joe Caramagna (letters). Now that Absolute Carnage is done, it's time for Peter Parker to get back into the swing of things. He's testing a new device called the Clairvoyant that can predict what might happen in the future. I predict it's going to screw up his life big time down the road. The one thing I'm excited about is that a plotline that was put on the back burner is now cooking with gas. Kindred is back and he's hinting at how he's going to confront Spider-Man. As big a Spider-Man fan that I am, I still have no clue who this new super villain is.

Batman #86 - James Tynion IV (writer) Tony S. Daniel (pencils) Danny Miki (inks) Tomeu Morey (colours) Clayton Cowles (letters). Let's welcome the new writer. He's got a tough act to follow but he starts his first story off very well. Batman gets wind of something big going down in Gotham City and has to deal with paid assassins gathering for nefarious purposes. There are major changes to get used to, the least of which is that Alfred is gone. Same with James Gordon, and the new Police Commissioner was a surprise. I probably would have continued to read this book because the art is so nice. Selina in the LBD at the fund raiser, MeeOwww.

Savage Avengers #9 - Gerry Duggan (writer) Patch Zircher (art) Java Tartaglia (colours) VC's Travis Lanham (letters). Conan holds his own as Doctors Doom and Strange battle Kulan Gath. When Stephen is felled by sorcerous venom Doctor Doom comes to the rescue. The amalgamation of the two Doctors was a fun surprise. If would be cool if the Iron Mage stuck around after this story.

Joker: Killer Smile #2 - Jeff Lemire (writer) Andrea Sorrentino (art) Jordie Bellaire (colours) Steve Wands (letters). The doctor is out, of his mind that is. The Joker has gotten into Dr. Arnell's head in this psychological thriller. I don't imagine that things are going to end well for the good doctor in next issue's finale. Thanks to Doug for lending me his copy to read after we sold out on the racks.

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yasbxxgie · 7 years ago

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Adore or despise them, GIFs are integral to the social experience of the Internet. Thanks to a range of buttons, apps, and keyboards, saying “it me” without words is easier than ever. But even a casual observer of GIFing would notice that, as with much of online culture, black people appear at the center of it all. Or images of black people, at least. The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Oprah, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, NBA players, Tiffany Pollard, Kid Fury, and many, many other known and anonymous black likenesses dominate day-to-day feeds, even outside online black communities. Similar to the idea that “Black Vine is simply Vine,” as Jeff Ihaza determined in The Awl, black reaction GIFs have become so widespread that they’ve practically become synonymous with just reaction GIFs.

If you’ve never heard of the term before, “digital blackface” is used to describe various types of minstrel performance that become available in cyberspace. Blackface minstrelsy is a theatrical tradition dating back to the early 19th century, in which performers “blacken” themselves up with costume and behaviors to act as black caricatures. The performances put society’s most racist sensibilities on display and in turn fed them back to audiences to intensify these feelings and disperse them across culture. Many of our most beloved entertainment genres owe at least part of themselves to the minstrel stage, including vaudeville, film, and cartoons. While often associated with Jim Crow–era racism, the tenets of minstrel performance remain alive today in television, movies, music and, in its most advanced iteration, on the Internet.

Unlike other physical executions of blackface (such as by Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder, Sarah Silverman on her own show, Rachel Dolezal, or the authors of AB to Jay-Z) that require physical alternations and usually a change in demeanor (like Iggy Azalea’s “blaccent”), digital blackface is in some ways a more seamless transformation. Digital blackface uses the relative anonymity of online identity to embody blackness. In the case of Mandi Harrington, a white woman who masqueraded as the fictional “LaQueeta Jones,” digital blackface became a means for her to defend musician Ani DiFranco’s decision to host a retreat at a slave plantation. Digital minstrels often operate under stolen profile pictures and butchered AAVE. Quite often it comes in the form of an excessive use of reaction GIFs with images of black people.

After all, the emotional range these GIFs cover is quite large. Reaction GIFs are generally reserved for oddly specific yet also universal situations that we all can relate to: grabbing a snack to watch some drama unfold with MJ; witnessing an awkward encounter with Hov; walking into a garbage fire with Donald Glover; walking away from one with Angela Bassett; sipping with Wendy, Prince, or Bey; or delivering the shadiest side-eye imaginable with Viola Davis, Rihanna, James Harden, Tamar, Naomi Campbell, and truly too many other folks to name. The so-called “greatest meme of 2016,” at least according to BuzzFeed, featured rapper Conceited in the now-iconic GIF where he purses his lips and turns toward the camera with a red solo cup in hand.

Outside these cherry-picked, celeb-studded examples are countless reaction images of small sensations like Tanisha from Bad Girls Club and Ms. Foxy from Beyond Scared Straight, or relative unknowns, pulled from news coverage, YouTube, and Vines. These are the kind of GIFs liable to come up with a generic search like “funny black kid gif” or “black lady gif.” For the latter search, Giphy offers several additional suggestions, such as “Sassy Black Lady,” “Angry Black Lady,” and “Black Fat Lady” to assist users in narrowing down their search. While on Giphy, for one, none of these keywords turns up exclusively black women in the results, the pairings offer a peek into user expectations. For while reaction GIFs can and do every feeling under the sun, white and nonblack users seem to especially prefer GIFs with black people when it comes to emitting their most exaggerated emotions. Extreme joy, annoyance, anger and occasions for drama and gossip are a magnet for images of black people, especially black femmes.

Now, I'm not suggesting that white and nonblack people refrain from ever circulating a black person’s image for amusement or otherwise (except maybe lynching photos, Emmett Till’s casket, and videos of cops killing us, y’all can stop cycling those, thanks). There’s no prescriptive or proscriptive step-by-step rulebook to follow, nobody’s coming to take GIFs away. But no digital behavior exists in a deracialized vacuum. We all need to be cognizant of what we share, how we share, and to what extent that sharing dramatizes preexisting racial formulas inherited from “real life.” The Internet isn’t a fantasy — it’s real life.

After all, our culture frequently associates black people with excessive behaviors, regardless of the behavior at hand. Black women will often be accused of yelling when we haven’t so much as raised our voice. Officer Darren Wilson perceived a teenage Michael Brown as a hulking “demon”and a young black girl who remained still was flipped and dragged across a classroom by deputy Ben Fields. It's an implication that points toward a strange way of thinking: When we do nothing, we’re doing something, and when we do anything, our behavior is considered "extreme." This includes displays of emotion stereotyped as excessive: so happy, so sassy, so ghetto, so loud. In television and film, our dial is on 10 all the time — rarely are black characters afforded subtle traits or feelings. Scholar Sianne Ngai uses the word “animatedness” to describe our cultural propensity see black people as walking hyperbole.

If there’s one thing the Internet thrives on, it’s hyperbole and the overrepresentation of black people in GIFing everyone’s daily crises plays up enduring perceptions and stereotypes about black expression. And when nonblack users flock to these images, they are playacting within those stereotypes in a manner reminiscent of an unsavory American tradition. Reaction GIFs are mostly frivolous and fun. But when black people are the go-to choice for nonblack users to act out their most hyperbolic emotions, do reaction GIFs become “digital blackface”?

Then comes the more sinister side of this. Similar cases happen all over the comments section virtually anywhere, with or without a photo, often prefaced with statements like “as a black man…” before proceeding to sound like anything but. In other instances, digital blackface is an orchestrated attempt by white supremacists to disrupt black organizing. Writer Shafiqah Hudsonstarted the hashtag #yourslipisshowing to document instances of digital blackface in real time, joined by other black women writers and theorists such as I’Nasah Crockett, Sydette Harry, Mikki Kendall, Trudy, and Feminista Jones. As the name of the tag suggests, online minstrels are no more believable than their in-person counterparts to anyone who knows black culture and black people, rather than a series of types. Unfortunately, digital blackface often goes unchecked unless a black person does the work to point out the discrepancies in someone’s profile.

But while these examples are particularly noteworthy for their malicious intent, digital blackface has softer counterparts, just like offline blackface. Digital blackface does not describe intent, but an act — the act of inhabiting a black persona. Employing digital technology to co-opt a perceived cache or black cool, too, involves playacting blackness in a minstrel-like tradition. This can be as elaborate as anon accounts like @ItsLaQueefa or as inadvertent as recruiting images of black queer men to throw shade at one’s enemies. No matter how brief the performance or playful the intent, summoning black images to play types means pirouetting on over 150 years of American blackface tradition.

Images of black people, more than anyone else, are primed to go viral and circulate widely online — in trauma, in death, and in memes. Reaction GIFs are an uneasy reminder of the way our presence is extra visible in life, every day, in ways that get us profiled, harassed, mocked, beaten, and killed. Long before the Internet or television, merry racist characters like pickaninnies and coons circulated the same social space as lynching postcards. Being on display has always been a precarious experience for black folks. Scholars such as Tina Campt and artists like Martine Syms consider what it means for black images to be reproduced as stock visuals in history and culture. “Representation is a sort of surveillance,” Syms recently told The New Yorker. Reaction GIFing looks less innocuous with the consideration of how overrepresented images of black people have become within the practice.

“[T]o be looped in a GIF, to be put on display as ‘animated’ at the behest of audiences,” as Monica Torres describes for Real Life, is an act with racial history and meaning. These GIFs often enact fantasies of black women as “sassy” and extravagant, allowing nonblack users to harness and inhabit these images as an extension of themselves. GIFs with transcripts become an opportunity for those not fluent in black vernacular to safely use the language, such as in the many “hell to the no,” “girl, bye,” and “bitch, please” memes passed around. Ultimately, black people and black images are thus relied upon to perform a huge amount of emotional labor online on behalf of nonblack users. We are your sass, your nonchalance, your fury, your delight, your annoyance, your happy dance, your diva, your shade, your “yaas” moments. The weight of reaction GIFing, period, rests on our shoulders. Intertwine this proliferation of our images with the other ones we’re as likely to see — death, looped over and over — and the Internet becomes an exhausting experience.

If you find yourself always reaching for a black face to release your inner sass monster, maybe consider going the extra country mile and pick this nice Taylor Swift GIF instead.

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