They’re older than Florida. The Floridian peninsula is the solidified runoff of the Appalachians that got caught on some coral. It’s why we’re like this, I think. You don’t stand a chance of being normal when you were created by the shed skin of an elder god draping itself over a hollow skeleton. You’re always going to be a little Off.
July 25, 2023 - Striking stuntman Mike Massa walks in the SAG-AFTRA picket line while on fire. [video]
So, so, so badass. What a chillingly powerful message this sends. People have been lighting themselves on fire as a form of protest for centuries, but this might be the first time it’s been done by a professional who knows what he’s doing while under the supervision of professionals who know what they’re doing.
not as an act of self-destruction but as a display of skill
Some kind of relaxed and beautiful thing
kept flickering in with the tide
and looking around.
Black as a fisherman’s boot,
with a white belly.
If you asked for a picture I would have to draw a smile
under the perfectly round eyes and above the chin,
which was rough
as a thousand sharpened nails.
And you know
what a smile means,
don’t you?
I wanted
the past to go away, I wanted
to leave it, like another country; I wanted
my life to close, and open
like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song
where it falls
down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery;
I wanted
to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,
whoever I was, I was
alive
for a little while.
It was evening, and no longer summer.
Three small fish, I don’t know what they were,
huddled in the highest ripples
as it came swimming in again, effortless, the whole body
one gesture, one black sleeve
that could fit easily around
the bodies of three small fish.
Also I wanted
to be able to love. And we all know
how that one goes,
don’t we?
Slowly
the dogfish tore open the soft basins of water.
You don’t want to hear the story
of my life, and anyway
I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen
to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.
And anyway it’s the same old story–
a few people just trying,
one way or another,
to survive.
Mostly, I want to be kind.
And nobody, of course, is kind,
or mean,
for a simple reason.
And nobody gets out of it, having to
swim through the fires to stay in
this world.
And look! look! look! I think those little fish
better wake up and dash themselves away
from the hopeless future that is
bulging toward them.
And probably,
if they don’t waste time
looking for an easier world,
Part Two! Two witches are forced to cohabitate in order to raise the baby promised to both of them.
This comic was based on this post. (You can also see my old version on the link if you wanna see how far it’s come.)
If you enjoyed this make sure to check out Part One, and if you feel very generous and had a nice time you can drop me a Ko-fi. Comics are a labor of love and money really helps out while I’m in school!
Part One! Two witches are forced to cohabitate in order to raise the baby promised to both of them.
This comic was based on this post. (You can also see my old version on the link if you wanna see how far it’s come.)
If you enjoyed this make sure to check out Part Two, and if you feel very generous and had a nice time you can drop me a Ko-fi. Comics are a labor of love and money really helps out while I’m in school!
yk how hard it is for me to not correct misinformation on posts about sports on this website full of people who don’t watch sports
women in soccer are not scoring more goals than the men’s game on average because they are better at striking the ball, its because specialised goalkeeper training costs money and only recently have most teams started hiring gk coaches. ellie roebuck is among the first generation of english gks to have had a gk coach since she joined an academy.
both chess and motor racing are actually formally unsegregated, only one woman (judit polgar) has been ranked within the top 10 for chess players ever and she was raised by her psychologist father with her sisters as a chess prodigy. lella lombardi is the only woman to score any points in formula 1, ever. the creation of women’s leagues is not entirely down to women being better than men and men being afraid, like stop lying and doing the athletes in these sports a disservice, they face significant barriers in access to sponsorship, training and misogyny from peers and fans to get there. you could bother with reading some scholarship on all of this or you could lie on the internet and count it as a win for feminism. like its fine to be disinterested in sports.
and not every sport is boxing for fucks sake. weight classes introduce extremely disordered eating regimes when athletes try to cut and drop into a lower class last minute bc of the advantages of training at higher weight class (getting to eat more food.) sorry but i would prefer that people about to play several hours of tennis do not starve themselves in the leadup to the game.
the sooner you understand that the right trying to ‘protect women’s sports’ is not actually abt protecting anyone, the sooner you will understand that assimilation into the modern machine that is elite sports should never be the aim for women or men, cis or trans.
because no one in commercial sports is protected at all. we take children as young as usually 6, isolate them from their peers in age, construct notions of success for them that are debilitating to most people’s sense of self worth, give coaches and parents license to abuse under the guise of training, valorise athletes who play through pain, encourage disordered eating, do not offer financial education and leave them prey to fraud, have no safety nets or pain management support for those whose injuries end their careers and/or leave them with lifelong chronic pain.
