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I worked for an entertainment advertising agency. I was art director for a musical that was to open in a few months. The producers went back and forth about the ad campaign, but finally approved one.

With about a week left before opening they got in touch with me again.

Client: We’re tired of the campaign. We feel it’s time to move on to something new.

I had to remind them that the ads hadn’t run yet and no one outside of the producers had seen them.

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Modern Link on the subway. Animated version is work in progress.

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NO THANKS I’M FROM MASSACHUSETTS

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Poster illustration for a ‘coming of age’ cinema series hosted by Aevoe during April in Brunswick, Melbourne. There’s a really great line up of international films, you can get tickets here :)

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mother gem 

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i’m surprised i haven’t seen anyone make this joke yet

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Gravity Falls fandom after Not What He Seems

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Everything gets turned upside down-tonight. 

From story artist Alonso Ramirez Ramos

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listen stop saying “its not the actor’s fault” when a white actor gets cast for a poc role because

yes, the actor wasnt in charge of casting,

but also consider:

they could’ve said “thanks for the offer but I don’t feel comfortable being cast as a poc character and really hope you’ll reconsider offering this job to any other white actors after me.”

a job offer is not an obligation but being socially aware and responsible is.

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Be more like the super sweet complimentary girl you’ve met in every club bathroom. Tell other women you like their outfits, or that their eyeliner is on point, or that they have a walk like a valkyrie. Life is too short and too hard not to soul bond with a stranger over her bombass shoes.

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Do you ever feel a strange sadness as dusk falls?

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From 1971, a powerfully succinct letter from Nancy Spero to Lucy Lippard; two highly influential women whose paths crossed numerous times; Spero as a feminist artist, Lippard as a feminist art critic, historian and curator.

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appreciate brown eyes more bc the people with brown eyes are grown up forcing to believe fuckin blue and green and grey are beautiful and either detest or get incredibly happy when someone compliments their eye color stop letting this happen

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Male Writer: Ah, anniversary jokes are so funny. Because chicks always hate it when you don't remember anniversaries! A plus gold very original

Male Writer: Mother in laws amirite?

Male Writer: My male character who is an author insert of myself pines after a woman I used to pine after in high school. Then they have sex. This is good literature.

Male Writer: Ugh female books are so romance filled

Male Writer: And girl fanfics, so mary suey

Male Writer: Now listen about this original middle aged man who is an expert in everything, suffers from ennui, looks like me, acts like me, and gets all the girls i want.

Male Writer: She was sexy in an alluring, boring way, filled with purple prose and riddled with objectification

Male Writer: If i make a female character parrot my misogynistic views, they cease to be misogynistic! Are you saying you don't respect my fake female characters opinions, feminists?

Male Writer: a good action girl is one who looks hot at all times

Male Writer: If the female main character got in an asskicking line, my work is Feminist with a capital F and no one can criticize me

Specifically White Male Writer: Heroic tropes are so overdone. I'm going to create a boring white guy with stubble to be a completely original antihero no one has ever seen before TM.

Same Guy: It's original because he is a jerk who gets away with bad behavior, just like I wish i could.

Another Specifically White Male Writer: It's in my universe to only have white men do things in my book. I mean, don't you care about historical accuracy

Same Guy: I mean, it's a generic fantasy verse with no real life time period equivalent and i haven't done any research, but i'm SURE that it's historically accurate. To that dark mideval dragon fighting europe period

Same Guy: Where in Europe? Who cares!

Male Writer: There is no better way to introduce a female character to a male character than by him saving her.

Male Writer: Characters hating each other is good sexual tension!

Male Writer: One female character and five male characters is a good team balance

Male Writer: If my female character chooses to act in a sexist tropey way, it's not sexist. In fact, because she CHOSE to do it, it is Feminist.

Male Writer: I am original