I've read reviews and comments with variations on #WakandaForever being a love letter to Chadwick Boseman.
It's a tribute and homage to Chadwick, but it's a love letter to Black women, *especially* dark skinned Black women.
I think there's less than 10 minutes where a Black woman wasn't central to the scene, and present on screen.
It's also feels like a deeply respectful acknowledgment of the oppression and trauma we share with Indigenous peoples in this hemisphere.
Passes #BechdelTest, too
Trans stuff; violence
Trans stuff
I was supposed to have FFS last week. It didn’t happen (#LateToEveryParty), so work sent these sympathy flowers instead 🥰.
I get really (really) run down sometimes (jobs are hard); little gestures like this mean a lot.
Twitter/Musk, bigotry, negative emotions
I feel terrified lately. The richest person in the world purchased the closest thing we had to a global town square and has started using it to push bigoted conspiracy theories. He's invited back Nazis and transphobes that have incited real world violence. And because Twitter was a company, that could just happen and we the people had no recourse.
So now the public square is owned by a nazi/nazi sympathizer during a dangerous time where right wing conspiracy followers are getting more and more violent. It all feels awful.
I'm almost 29, which I think is quite young still.
Despite this, I've lived through enough culture-war-like events for it to seem obvious when an outgroup is being vilified as sexual perverts attempting to infiltrate the pure ingroup and vile thought-police attempting to prevent any discussion of the Truth about Them.
On the nose over and over again, you'd think more people served this messaging would notice.
Trans Journey
@chrmi Oh, I remember that moment for myself sooooooo clearly: it was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. 😝
It’s totally normal to be cautious, but ultimately no one can tell you how to be you, and that’s the bedrock that everything else that comes next will be built on. Be generous, be forgiving, be tolerant of mistakes, but also be these things for yourself.
@evangreer It only eats what you give it. It will never go away, it will never change (for the better), but you don’t have to feed it yourself.
Trans Journey
@chrmi I had to do this last year. Mad 💖 to you; it’s going to be alright.
I was in #berkeley today, getting some art framed and I stopped in at Muracci’s for some Japanese curry. Notes follow.
1. Yum
2. Wow, I eat so much less after having dropped 10 pounds of muscle mass in the last year (#hrt). 😳
3. Some of my strongest memories of Japan are of eating curry out of gas station restaurants (pictured).
4. I know everyone’s done to death with people snapping photos of their food, but I think there should be a special allowance for those of us who choose to use an 8x10 camera to do it. #photography
For people who found this filter amusing and/or useful, here is the full list I’m using, with some new additions this morning! 😆
@TheSpaceshipper Thanks for the tip!
@TheSpaceshipper I believe this is now the single most-expensive thing I own.
The juxtaposition between Alien (my favorite film) and Jodorowsky’s Dune made it impossible to resist.
I remember a different version of this sketch from the supplements in the Alien laserdisc boxed set from the 90’s. I don’t usually give in to nostalgia, but it does carry some weight!
@TheSpaceshipper Yes.
@Foone Thank you for this statement: it made my morning.
The best part is that I'm labeling a beta tape to provide a supporting image for a mini-fic I wrote, which is about VHS tapes.
so since I am here now, allow me to do some SLEEP PROPAGANDA
SLEEP IS GOOD
SLEEP IS IMPORTANT
SLEEP IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY EDUCATION OR JOB
and the fact that we are forced to compromise on sleep in order to fulfill duties to capitalism is an immense injustice and health risk.
lack of sleep obviously increases stress levels and therefore the risk for all kinds of diseases, but it also damages your brain on a cellular level because SLEEP MAINTAINS THE INTEGRITY OF YOUR BRAIN.
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