It’s called the foot-in-the-door method. First, you propose something that is slightly outside of allowable norms: denying gay people wedding cakes on grounds of “religious freedom”. Then, you slowly ramp up how extreme your demands are, coercing the other side to giving a tiny bit of ground each time, until you’ve shifted the entire fucking playing field. Conservatives are also very fond of the door-to-face method, which is demanding something completely outlandish that you know will be refused, and then asking for something less ridiculous by way of compromise, again resulting in a gradual shift in norms until views that were once considered moderate or reasonable become unthinkably liberal by destroying people’s sense of standards. The combination of these methods is called the “foot-in-the-face” method, which sums up where this whole thing is headed quite nicely.
ppl who oppose gender affirming care for kids are nuts like the extent of medical intervention for trans kids is maybe puberty blockers but they’ll still be like “SO UR SAYING WE SHOULD LET TODDLERS HAVE TOP SURGERY???????” barbara toddlers do not have a top to surgery
Saw someone asking “so do you endorse giving puberty blockers to five year olds?”
Friend, a five year old should not have puberty to block. If they do that’s called precocious puberty and is the original reason puberty blockers were invented. If a five year old is going through puberty I absolutely endorse them being given puberty blockers
Happy Karma in Love Day! This issue has: Hot Bird Men (shout out to Beak fans), my Hot Freddy Dukes agenda, relationship advice from Rogue, and Asian Glow.
my life really did improve when i decided to just constantly, casually compliment my friends and family. i cannot recommend it more. it makes everything better. you look incredible in that shirt, you’re one of the funniest people i know, you’re wearing the hell out of that dress, you’re so sexy wtf, you’re so talented, i love talking to you, you’re so fun to be around, you’re so kind, that haircut is amazing, i love you, i love you, i love you
This sounds like bullshit when you’re deep in throes of depression and burnout and all that. But it is a real technique and it really works.
By teaching yourself to always find a compliment first when you look at others, it becomes easier to loom for the ‘good’ or the 'potential’ in everything else.
Including yourself, if self loathing is something you struggle with.
Practicing kindness to others makes kindness to yourself easier.
Practicing kindness
to others makes kindness to
yourself easier.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Many billionaires have promised this, and mysteriously none of them have actually “given away” enough to keep their coffers from refilling infinitely like clockwork. Charity is a scam. These people need their wealth seized and redistributed, and they don’t get to have any say in how that money’s used.
As a fun design experiment a while back, I decided to draw our D&D party plus our notable NPCs and boss encounters as if they were lil game sprite illustrations (specifically thinking of the FFIX concept art), and it resulted in this, imo, pretty cool poster and collection of designs!
A while ago I got to do some work for DC as a writer and an artist on a Wonder Woman short for Wonder Woman: Black and Gold (Volume 1, Issue 5). I started making comics without ever having any aspirations to work on superheroes. I still largely don’t; I’ve always known I loathe drawing crumbling city blocks and airborne cars, for example. Plus I have a lot of trouble thinking my artwork looks right for a superhero property. Ten years ago if an editor were to look over my portfolio, I’d expect them to go, “This is nice! I’m sure it’s great for your own thing, but it’s not quite appropriate for superheroes.” I still largely operate this way, but occasionally an editor might have a really specific vision where my work is part of the visual language, and it becomes exactly right for the project, and I think this was one of those stories.
I asked my editor if I could use a supervillainess that hadn’t been touched since 1948, the Meteor Girl known as Queen Badra, and I got clearance. I’ve always loved DC heroes like Starfire and Superman because their origin stories resonate with my diasporic and refugee background, and Badra’s origin really stood out to me because it also fell along those lines, but her appearance was so brief, and she basically disappears from popular consciousness. Badra has basically the same origin as Superman, and she arrives on Earth to eventually lead a gang of wayward young girls in a series of petty crimes. Badra is apprehended by Wonder Woman and the Amazons’ Kanga regiment (the Amazons canonically ride giant kangaroos, it’s great). In the end the Amazons take her in to rehabilitate her because Wonder Woman believes that her powers can be used to do good.
For Wonder Woman: Black and Gold, I expanded on Badra’s origins a little more while telling a story about Wonder Woman repatriating alien artifacts. I got to be a little art history nerd in a comic about Wonder Woman’s capacity to find the best in people who are hurt and lashing out. It was such a fun experience. I’m so proud to say that Badra is listed as appearing exactly three times as of today: once in an issue of Comics Cavalcade in 1948, once in a Wonder Woman official encyclopedia, and once in my little short comic.
