i do not know the source but i saw this on my dashboard under a submission
Exactly. Learning to render realistic anatomy is like learning how to play your scales…. Once you’ve got the basics down, then you can embellish and put some soul into it.
The thing is, the only reason these characters were white in the first place was that comic books were created in a time when nobody would have printed a book about a non-white superhero (having female superheroes was difficult enough, and they were handled with something less than dignity). But nowadays, the people responsible for these characters are trying to make their properties as inclusive and welcoming as they possibly can, because everybody likes comic books, not just white people.
So actually, maybe racist nerds do have a good reason to be angry — they’re angry because the comic industry has outgrown them.
So actually, maybe racist nerds do have a good reason to be angry — they’re angry because the comic industry has outgrown them.
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J.F. Sargent - The Five Most Insulting Defences of Nerd Racism (via poutinesexual) Except, depressingly, it hasn’t. The readership? Yes. But the industry itself? In the cases of the Big Two I’d argue that the publishers and the majority of the creators really haven’t moved on, either in terms of attitudes to non-white male lead characters or their employment policy. The suggestion that “the people responsible for these characters are trying to make these properties as inclusive and welcoming as they can” strikes me as so much horseshit. There’s been a stagnation in the industry for at least the last two decades . It’s pretty damn depressing to consider that the highest profile projects in the last few years (particularly on the big screen) - say, Avengers, Batman, etc - are less racially (and otherwise) diverse than pretty much any Chris Claremont book from the late 70s and early 80s. |
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This quote is sitting above my desk for those days when I’m tired of trying to sort out my life for the next twenty years. Today is one of those days, so I’m so glad to see this again.
I know, seriously this quote keeps me going some days when I just can’t… <3
This is important. This is very, very, very fucking important.
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
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Terry Pratchett, Men At Arms (via idrabear) This is one of the best breakdowns I’ve ever seen of how expensive it is to be poor. (via vulgarweed) This is why I love Terry Pratchett. (via ablipintime) |
I have of late, (but wherefore
I know not) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises;
and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition;
that this goodly frame the earth, seems to me a sterrill
promontory; this most excellent canopy the air,
look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this Majesticall roofe,
fretted with golden fire: why, it appeares no other thing
to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in
reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving
how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel!
in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the
world! The paragon of animals! And yet to me, what is
this quintessence of dust?
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Act II, Scene ii)
Dirk was unused to making such a minuscule impact on anybody. He checked to be sure that he did have his huge leather coat and his absurd red hat on and that he was properly and dramatically silhouetted by the light of the doorway. He felt momentarily deflated and said, “Er…” by way of self-introduction, but it didn’t get the boy’s attention. He didn’t like this. The kid was deliberately and maliciously watching television at him.
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| — | The long dark teatime of the soul- Douglas Adams (via kefaya) |
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
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| — | Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (via carnivalsofsilverfish) |
…it is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
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| — | Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams (via thelazysolipsist) |
Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy’s Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day’s work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city’s reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.
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| — | The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology by P.G. Wodehouse (via theoreticaldegreeinphysics) |
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.
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| — | Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald (via faithmckay) |
