u give full chocy bars??? r u rich??????

Oh no lol I make less than $30,000 a year and usually owe on my taxes 'cause Quebec is trash. I just think forking out around $600 spread out over multiple pays is worth it to make a few kids happy :)

Hello! I've been boycotting Marvel ever since I saw the BDS notice you reblogged however I'm a bit confused: when the post says it's okay to buy from independent sellers does that mean it would be okay to buy the Scarlet Witch comics from a small comic book store? Or it is just meant to say it's okay to buy comics from other prints and companies if we know they aren't supporting Zi0nists?

This is my personal philosophy, which is A) subject to change; B) not intended to be proscriptive or authoritative; C) not a representation of the BDS movement, its praxis, or its goals. I've made my beliefs very clear about Palestinian liberation. I am 100% pro-boycott, but I would urge you to defer to actual movement organizers and leaders, which I am not.

Boycotting is a goal- and result-oriented action, and organizers name specific targets for a reason. My understanding is that the primary targets of the Marvel boycott are Marvel Studios and the M C U. This is a cultural boycott that was called specifically in response to the upcoming Captain America film. Marvel Studios has also historically had close dealings with the United States military industrial complex.

The comic book industry is an incredibly unbalanced system. Low sales impact independent retailers first, and with much greater severity than the publishers and corporations, and the majority of writers and artists who work for Marvel or DC are in vulnerable positions where project longevity and job security often depend on presale numbers. For these reasons, I have always prioritized buying print, buying from local independently owned comic book shops, and going out of my way to place preorders for titles that I want to support.

Marvel is a large corporation and it's owned by Disney, which is also a target for boycott and divestment, so you would be within reason to boycott all Marvel products, but to the best of my understanding, BDS has not listed comic books as a target-- and I don't see the impact as being optimally productive, due to the economic imbalances I described. I, personally, have continued to purchase print comics from a local store where I am familiar with the staff and owner, and I trust their politics. I do my best to keep track of the public behavior of writers and artists, and only purchase work made by people I feel I can similarly trust.

If you choose to purchase Marvel or DC comics, I would encourage you to perform the same due diligence, and ONLY buy print and ONLY buy local. Don't make digital purchases or buy subscriptions directly from the company, and don't buy merchandise, specifically of the M C U.

I would strongly encourage you to match your purchases with donations. The most effective way you can give money right now is by donating to personal fundraisers. My friend Eeri has organized a spreadsheet tracking GoFundMe drives for dozens of Palestinian families and individuals, all of which have been verified. They've also made individual posts and reels for each fundraiser that you can share on your instagram, if you have one.

It sounds like Joe and Ken focused on telling stories, stories that being stories focused on the world and characters they knew. While Pete's were more focused on delivering a message with story flavored wrapping.

This is very much the case, but the difference seems to go even deeper than that, to a fundamental difference in worldviews that affect how they approach story.

Episodes written by Joe Fallon and Ken Scarborough respect children as people. Children have been shaped by their experiences and have unique personalities. Children are curious and have brains--they are driven to explore new things and can draw conclusions from what they see and do. Children are already people who deserve respect, and like all of us, they're growing into different people as they learn new things and have more experiences. The child characters can thus be the drivers of their own stories and come to learn lessons for themselves. The child audience can relate to those characters, be drawn into the story, and learn what it's trying to teach without having every detail explicitly spelled out.

Episodes written by Peter Hirsch seem to approach children as people-in-training. They might have one or two personality traits, but instead of coming from and interacting with other elements of their background, they're just pasted on, like a sticker you can put on your Generic Child Prototype. These blank-slate children need to have knowledge poured into them so they can become Properly Educated Adults. So in his episodes, these child characters will go through their story with a question, and the adults--the real people--will tell them the information in great detail so these characters--and the watching audience--can go off into the world knowing what the writer has decided they need to know.

In Joe and Ken's episodes, flaws are funny, and can create funny conflicts that will teach the children better ways to approach problems. In Pete's episodes, flaws are horrible things that need to be pointed out, labeled, and sanded away, so these children can grow up into the perfect model of what a Good Adult should be. The first approach is engaging, and celebrates diversity of personality in a community, while the other becomes bland in the interests of shaping all the members of a community into the desired mold.

Comparing the two approaches provides a shockingly thorough lesson in how one should and should not approach writing and education. Story and character and message are all intertwined. Trying to force the message onto the story and characters makes for something bland and generic and unrealistic. Letting the characters shape the story and letting the story bring out the message makes for something much more unique, organic, engaging, and real. And yes, maybe I've come to this conclusion by spending far too much time thinking way too deeply about a bunch of shows for elementary-aged chlidren, but that doesn't mean it's not fascinating to see how, even within the same show, an writer's personality and approach to the audience can make such a vast difference in the quality of a story.

short-lived local asparagus season my beloved.

Mmmhh...

i keep seeing bridget in all these promo stuff with ky sin ram and sol that i’ve subconsciously started seeing her as ky’s daughter

I imagine Ky's the kind of dude where after he has kids of his own, he starts adopting any other random young person/kid that hangs out with his own kids. Like the neighborhood dad that's got an insane income and doesn't really know what to do with it so he just feeds whoever shows up at the dinner table in the evening

I dont wanna sound like im makin u a temporary therapist but im just genuinely curious, the ptsd post you reblogged is like, a bunch of that sounds kinda like shit that happens to me or I say but its about school? like, I can't really have PTSD abt goin to school?

why do you think so many aged adults still have nightmares about going to school?

the American education system prioritizes beating the empathy, creativity and individuality out of kids so they make better employees, hard stop. that's really it. it's an ineffective system that rewards standing in line and silently sitting at your desk for grueling hours with very little to stimulate you while you memorize information rather than being taught in ways that usually better suit kids, or at all tailor to their learning styles.

if you're good at shutting up and listening, you're a "good" kid. if you're disruptive (and kids are usually disruptive for a reason, like neurodivergence, trouble at home, ongoing trauma, need for attention not being sated elsewhere) then you're a bad kid. it teaches you moralization around how obedient you are. and even if you get through the day they send homework home with you and consume what would have otherwise been a rest or social period. it's heinous.

within that framework children going through horrible shit at home (or on school grounds!), or kids with food insecurities are punished. kids slip through the cracks. kids who don't fit the default are mocked, ostracized, or even kicked out by students and staff alike, and more recently with the gun violence, police violence and the upping of both being present in schools at all times, NO ONE is safe. especially not marginalized kids who need the most support and receive the least.

why WOULDNT that be a traumatic experience?

the figure in bysmuth -> the demeaning and invasive process of treating ADHD

chine the cleaver -> the symptoms of ADHD, untreated

The most disappointing thing about Roshi is that there are glimpses of a legitimately interesting character in there but it’s completely and utterly covered up by so much utter disgusting trash it’s not worth it. 

Sad Idea (tw: infertility mention)

Okay but what if when Orion got reformatted into Optimus, the Matrix gave him The Ideal Body To Go To War With? Like, it cut out unnecessary parts of his past self-- not just emotionally, but physically as well...

What I'm trying to get at: what if one day, the topic of sparklings come up. Maybe the humans they've been hanging around asked about the various ways a new Cybertronian comes to exist. Maybe the war is over, and someone innocently asks Optimus if he has ever considered being a creator.

Optimus might politely wave off the idea, citing he's too busy as Prime to give the care and attention deserved by a sparkling. But in private... or maybe even to just his amica/ a close friend or two... he admits that he did once want to be a creator, however, that's no longer in the cards for him...

... because the Matrix didn't deem a gestation chamber a necessary asset for a Prime at war.

sometimes i get triggered seeing the youths today with their crisp-white tights, delicate pink mesh wrap shirts, perfectly gelled back ballet buns and all the "pristine posh-ness" that is modern balletcore.

but i think it's bc that's how i desperately WISHED i looked in ballet class, unlike how i actually dressed (sweaty, usually second-hand leotards, fleshy-pink tights with hairspray-mended runs, ill fitting hand-me-down leggings that were a few sizes too big.)

i literally had a hetalia graphic sweatshirt, black butler sweatpants and american horror story graphic tanks as part of my regular warm ups- and im not gonna lie i get a little jealous seeing all these fashion girlies posting in their cute knitwear, knowing my ballet experience was so much less refined.

I'm trying to figure out a profound way to say how much some artists have impacted the entire way I draw

Days later and I’m still incredibly relieved that the Camaro is seemingly okay, gonna need to see my baby again real soon to confirm 🤞🏻

Was missing my buddy today. 

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i just need to put it out there that i'm disappointed by the costume quality from what i've seen of the fallout show

they really couldn't get any better paint for the power armor? they went hard on the vault set design, but they had to settle for some "cheap silver spray paint with a basic clear coat over it" vibe for the power armor???