I am going to check this out. If you are interested in a modern fantastic tower defense that (also) doesn't break the mold check out Bella Wants Blood. It's very cute, and I hear her say "STANNNLEEEYYY" whenever I think about it.
poppichew
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I <3 WI
In my wildest dreams. I bet you when they made it edgey perhaps (I know for a period they made it edgey but I don't know the specifics of it). I do like the idea that you can be real good gal friends without all the raucous sexual tension. Cause when I first came out (and being gay was as accepted as scratching yourself up with a brillo pad) gals were super dubious of my existence. As society became more accepting, I made a literal shitton of straight gal friends. To the point now where they are the majority of my inner circle. Not that I think either is particularly queer coded. Betty is just a tomboy and Veronica is just a flirtatious gal. Hahaha!
(God that sounded like I was joking at the end but I am just laughing because I really think it ends there, but things can change and I haven't read this stuff since I was young so idk.)
This shows you why echo chambers of all designs are bad. It's why I hate the down vote arrow, and wished that it disappeared off the face of this planet. People got frustrated when that happened with Youtube though, so shrugs. Please keep being a witty one =)
I want to get grumpy here and say that watching their edutainment documentary on ____ (fill in the blank queer subject because I don't remember the focus), that introduced me to Christine Jorgensen and had clips of her performing made my LIFE! I think they were from the Library of Congress or something, and who the hell knows if they even exist anymore. She did a cover of Welcome to my World that took the tune from a old crooner song to this upbeat fun and flirty jam and it was absolutely mesmerizing. That was just a ten second clip too, but it was so wonderful. I had another grumpy pants moment tonight when I talked about how happy people are post-transitioning and how frustrating it is to me that people can see transjoy and think "I want to smash that." I mean I have met so many transfolx who have this deep seated awful pain that pretty much saps the life from them until they get the right support they need. It's like night and day. I just don't get it. We don't recruit, even though we used to chant it to scare the straights. Really, we just make people more aware of the possibilities of who they could be if they want to be said way. Youth explores, I've known a LUG or three in my lifetime. I think exposure to a wide range of folks in media helps people. I know I was happy the first time I saw someone who looked like me on a TV, and it damn near took 25 years or so to do it. So yeah, it's important. I really hate this happened, but hopefully they've just archived them for later. You can't fuck with the bag in this world.
Me too, actually. Hehehehe! To be honest with you, I think my favorite state in the Midwest is WI, gotta love those lakes in Madison. I swore to myself at a young age that I wouldn't "backtrack" which means I want to keep living in new states cause life is short and it's important to get in all you want to get in before you get too old or tied down to do so. Only state I am willing to revist is Eastern PA, cause I lived on the other side and it's practically two states put into one. One of my close friends lives in MI, but we met in IL she's in the Kalamazoo area. Some bent part of me wants to go to the UP, but I think it'd be an easier sell not to look towards the SE side. Especially cause there's puffins, and who doesn't love to see little puffins hanging out? I will say Detroit last time I went through had some of the saddest architecture I've seen in my life (I'm sure you know where I'm talking about). Looked firebombed. I think it's flipping though, and I know there's a bustling art scene. I think my favorite thing about the Midwest as a whole is how kind folks are. It's not always there, but when it is it's real genuine. It's actually that genuine spirit I like about the East too, although it's not the same scene obviously. I just like that organic energy, people acting as they think/want. Of course I tend to stay away from the water cracker folks out East, so that might be different with that old money kind.
A friend of mine who is from MI (but not the gal I am talking about) lamented the winters there. Said the snow never seems to end, the wind is brutal and it rolls off the lake with a fierce misery (because it's to the East, you know). He also hated the basements, most of which are unfinished and dungeonous. Hehehe!
Either way, I hope you're air quality is doing okay. I am not sure what exactly is going on, but these wildfires have been killer for the air. Thanks for responding back by the by =)
Man, consumerism is a hot mess.
*You folks online need a hug or something, jeez.
I don't like that you're getting downvoted. A) You've got your own way of talking but I totally get what you're saying. You are mayhapsby some kind of goth baby, and I am picking up this vibe from your text =)! b) I totally get what you're saying. This for sure is something being done to play on people's nostalgia. I heard something about how it's easier to produce sequels and play on individual's nostalgia than to create something new because it needs to establish a fan base to generally be successful. I think with more sub-cultures than ever before (thanks internet!) it's easier to flop new ip because it's harder to find the secret sauce to get the maximum amount of views plausible as audiences are more diverse than ever. I have also felt the way you've felt, about letting sleeping dogs lie. Letting things that have ended fade with dignity and such. I get it. I also see you're doing what you can to stand by your own idealisms, which is to boycott the show. I don't think your comment is worth downvoting, and I think there's like...a subversive element of toxic positivity in people doing so. A wide variety of voices and opinions are needed in this world. Cheers!
You and me, we're best friends now. You get Earthbound. I love you. It's one of my favorite games forever-ever. Got it at Blockbuster used for $5. Best $5 spent ever. While I personally hate the skinnerbox effect of achievements, I love this damn game. I also love your excitement to play it again. Tell me your other favorites =)
I love two very sweet trans suicide survivors. One of them, you'd never know. The other has to wear their attempt openly. Life is fucking brutal for a lot of queer folks, let alone trans folks. I think a lot of people see them as ill, or not even human. I watch White Underbelly from time to time (I think that's what it's called). There are a handful of queer/trans individuals on there, including someone who de-transitioned and later unfortunately took their own lives. A lot of people aren't going to talk about it, because saying things out loud can a) make you a target b) get you sent to some kind of ward but I think a lot of transgender people are actively suicidal (I mean you can just look at the statistics). I think a lot of it has to do with the lack of moral support they get as a whole from other people. I think being in state of transition (as in say, not having the medical support you need) is already rough. But when you live with the fact that there are very limited spaces in this world you can actually navigate "safely." Or the fact that most people think you're a freak and would prefer if you would just be "normal" but being "normal" is basically like killing yourself anyways - it's just a brutal space to be in. A lot of the community as a whole is vulnerable. When I was coming up, I had two audacious gays comment about how they don't even understand why we celebrate Pride anymore. It seemed so surreal to me, as they seemed to have been really coming from some kind of place of privilege to not even understand why so many people turn inwards to the community for support. So many people have to live in this space where they are tolerated but not truly accepted. They lose their support networks, and many tend to never make anything as compared to their counterparts. They deal with a lot of emotional baggage that most people never have to bring to their doors. There's a beauty, and curse in the found-family aspect of the queer community. As I think community as a whole is wonderful to cultivate (we're social creatures), but that lot of the queer scenes can promote bad habits (addiction). I think that one comes from the spaces we've been forced to be at so long, but eh!
I don't know who this man is, but I am kind of thankful for that. Personally, I often say a little prayer for folks who are so broken that they find their money through reving folks up via the spin machine spouting hateful shit their kid selves probably would have looked shock to hear them say. We buy in to our bullshit, even if it starts as an act, humans aren't as quick as we'd like to think we are and it's really easy to get lost in the sauce when we socialize as a wave.
I don't know too much about Andrew Tate or his brother. I do know that there is a sort of cruelty that comes with certain individuals who relish in Trump's political gain. They think that the world has gone quite soft, and that survival of the fittest means brute "strength." That it's a dog eat dog world, and they would rather be "top dog," than "bottom bitch." I think sex trafficking is bad, but I often wonder - why is there a market? What cultivates this scene? Cause it can't just be the rich. There's something we're not addressing that very clearly is the elephant in the room. Something between our inherent belief that life is a) precious yet seemingly b) cheap at the same time. Or that socioeconomic status denotes actual value or something. Or even that rowdy women need to shut up or some shit. Idk. There's something that is some very ugly belief that is out there and perhaps even held by the majority of people alive that we either academically/socially have buried that we cannot address because it's something people (used to) just say behind closed doors. I've heard in on all sides too from the poorest to the richest, and all the colors of the rainbow. People are hiding their true feelings as to not ostracize themselves in public (I don't believe in the shit above, I am just saying there is something we're not addressing that needs to be addressed in an intelligent (and perhaps even subversive) way that educates individuals and shifts their skewed views to healthy ones). Eh. I forgot what I was saying as a whole, I am pretty tired of expressing myself here and I wanna go do something I enjoy instead hahaha!
I guess I am just saying - there is an cruel joy that I have seen a lot of people who enjoy media like this hold. I was working with youth when Trump got elected the first time. There are a lot of well of white guys celebrating and laughing in the faces of the various multiethnic folks (especially the black and brown women) when it happened. I don't think these people see punishment of their movement as something healthy. Instead seeing it as an example of how "we the gestapo" would lock all those that don't believe in ANTIFA values up for life if we could. Which puts everything in a us vs them mindset, and they already came to fight which just fuels the fire.
I don't have solutions, and I am not saying individuals who commit crimes shouldn't be punished (is this a double negative?). I am just saying that it's a complex issue, that is made perhaps more complex by the unified idealisms behind the bigotry. For movements grow stronger with unification, and liberalism tends to be a pick and mix smattering of individuals who believe in human rights, but are not as unified. Which outside of the actual cult-like worship - makes the entire republican movement look like cultist. Regardless of how hardcore people are or not.
EH!
Idk yet again, if any of this made sense - it's just what came to mind in response. I hope it makes sense to you and I am not trying to pick a fight or anything. I just am a me =P! And while I would love to still invoke the angry feminist I was growing up, I really have mellowed out with age and just kinda like...wanna chill even if everything is shit. Cause if they're coming for folks, they sure as fuck are coming for me. So I guess I might as well enjoy what I got, while I got it and plan for the worst if I gotta hit it.
Thank you for this, I haven't seen one in a long time but I also don't really go to comic shops or anything anymore. I used to when I was a baby geeklit. I love comics for what they are, I just don't know if I connect with them in the same way I did as when I was younger. I think the need for financial gain has also altered the scene quite a bit, regardless of how talented people are. I think I was listening to an interview with Sophie Campbell one day and she said she doesn't really read loosies anymore because their pacing always seems off. It's kind of the same reason why I can't stand Netflix shows, because it feels like they're put together to create the largest amount of arousal and retention as plausible, while stringing an individual along (they're also hella flashy, the camera changes every three seconds). Eh! I think there is a wholesome element of Better & Veronica (Or the Archie-universe as a whole) that is actually really needed when you're younger/coming of age. Because everything feels so strange to you, and it's nice to have something be simple, sweet an non-antagonistic.
I have seen people on here talk about how people creep on you from a young age if you're perceived as desirable (I didn't really want to point at any gender, but I know it happens a lot to gals). While I think people are more apt to talking about how unwanted advances of older individuals against young folks is bad, I actually think these things are still difficult subjects to approach. But I think a lot of media has subversive almost grooming like effects that can really subconsciously harm young minds. No one can really escape it, and equally there are elements of puberty that obviously make you sexual. But there's also elements that make you almost asexual in nature. They two kind of butt up against each other. It's a confusing space, and people tend to enjoy media as a pause from the confusions of life. So like I said, I am glad that these comics still exist. I am also glad they evolved, because they were written in a way that white-washed America (Leave it to Beaver) in way that people have worked to shift (Raisin in the Sun) to permit more equality in the country. For as much as people hate it (white supremacist) I think diversity is the spice of life, and in including it they found a way to reach a wider audience and stay afloat in a volatile market. If I come across one of these, I'll grab one just to see how things have changed cause of you. Thank you =)!
p.s. - (I talk about the grooming stuff from my own experiences, but also from the stuff I've heard other folks say. On media, I clearly partake. I just think there are elements that are really harmful to people as a whole, let alone developing minds. There's also some wonderful stuff though, that help expand the imagination or even educate individuals on good moral standards. So eh!)
Hehe! Hey! I'm a sleepy one, so I might respond with more goob than usual. I like to use these natural wooden pencils to draw and write with. For the longest I would only allow myself to use pens, as I liked the flow of ink (ballpoint sans gel so I guess I would hate monte blanc stuff cause I heard it's buttery smooth) and I wanted to fight my perfectionist tendencies by taking away the ability to erase things. I'm much happier now after years of training doing stuff like that, but revisitng pencils felt like meeting up with an old friend. I like that with a single pencil and some mindful technique you can do quite a variety of work. The pencils came with the sharpener (believe it or not) and I figured might as well have a meet b. Before I was hacking at stuff with an xacto like an animal. Your design is much cleaner and minimalist as compared to mine (although we have parts that meet for sure). I would stick a Japanese style break-off razor on there before I stuck a boxy little sharpener. I think it'd fit the vibe more too. You could always run it across your pants pending they could take it, before putting the knife back after sharpening.
I swear, I started with my design sort of open face sandwich and when I added that flap to enclose the whole thing it all came together and I loved it even more. I like your design, and it probably isn't that thick, so it is something to consider because it does add girth to the design. Which kindaaa, makes it less portable. I mean not too much, but it did take up more space in my bag, which is just a tiny little sling. All space counts in that situation.
I actually secretly love a mean blunt pencil, it glides really well (I think blunter is? Idk. I am not a word-wizard. I figure as long as you convey the idea, eh!) and it has a pleasurable feeling. I don't remember how I got a hold of these things when I was younger, but I had a couple of carpenter pencils (I haven't used them in years, I should give them a go again) and they were blunt as the days are long and damned if I don't miss that feeling so I totally get it if you're just highlighting stuff with it. The reason why I need that mean sharp point is because I like to doodle little fine details and they're hard to get without something you could spear a fish with.
I totally want to join this journaling er...instance? I just literally don't know how and my brain is too sleepy-dumb to figure it out. I journal on the regular, in a half-composition book because I am fancy like that. I have a friend who bu-jos like a boss. I gave it a go and realized I need my journal to be sloppy, because I want it to hold space for me. As in, if I am regulating heavily (which I think bullet journals are) then I am afraid that I will BE afraid to put the things I am honestly thinking and feeling on to the paper and hence will not get the things I need to get out, out. I think if I make it more of a organized reflective process it might just become the flossing of writing and I just don't think I need that in my life personally. However, it's damn near impossible for me to find the things that I have sprawled out on the pages like the organized folks do. So you know, it's more of a splatter piece and that does have its downsides as well.
If you do know how I can join this via piefed, I am absolutely there. Or anyone else, or I will give the docs a lookie loo tomorrow-ish? Sometime soon, depending on plans =)!
I love Muttley, he's such an ass! Hahahaha! I mean, idk if you're an ass - you don't seem it, but damned if that guy isn't a little cheeky bastard. Speaking of cheeky bastards, have you ever seen the movie Harvey? Cause it sounds like you might like Trickster characters, and while it's got some bits of its age I absolutely love this film. I showed it to my gal, who hates "old stuff" and she ended up bewitched by it and just knowing that puts a smile on my face. To be honest, and I feel so damned ashamed saying this - I think if I were translated into a cartoon character I'd end up being like Mr. Peanut Butter from Bojack. I had a friend who was obsessed with the show and I told him as such and he actually agreed. Bubble headed or not. Eh!
Either way, it's been an incredible pleasure to have "met" you and regardless of if we can figure out the link thing or not I thank you very much for all this fun conversation =)!