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guardianbee · 11 months

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reading into the gwenverse and spider-gwen: shadow clones back-to-back was such a bad idea because now I can clearly see they keep rehashing the same shit over and over and OVER again, ideas and character beats that were already done and done BETTER in the earlier runs.

Gwen wants to be normal but she can't be normal. She and her dad fight about her being Ghost Spider. She and MJ fight about her commitment to the band. She contacts Reed about technology to advance the arc's plot. And these are literally the ONLY relationships they commit to continuing (and in terribly superficial ways) that are not 616!Peter. She hasn't interacted with Miles in any meaningful way in ages! She thought about calling Harry ONCE about 15 issues ago and hasn't thought about him since! Glory (who was actually her closest friend on The Mary Janes) hasn't spoken a word in issues, and forget Betty lmao. Her world is so empty because every writer refuses to expand it AND continues to just create alternate copies of Gwen and "develop" the relationships between them that it feels borderline masturbatory.

You can't claim that Gwen lives in this "low-super" world and then continue to put her in these very "high-super" situations, such as the debacle with the 616!Jackal, the King in Black arc, everything related to the Spider-Verse and her pretty sizeable appearances in those issues, the GWENVERSE (which had another terrible villain based on influencer culture that they gave a half-assed sympathetic backstory to, FYI), and now the Shadow Clones. Over half the time she's not even on her earth anymore! If the writers can't find a way to make earth-65 interesting because they either don't know how to deal with Gwen's public identity OR they're bad at writing any decent character introspection or building up relationships readers actually WANT to read about, then either retcon that shit or just abandon earth-65 altogether and have Gwen become a permanent transplant to 616 (not my ideal scenario but better than them pussyfooting around with cloning or multiverse hijinks while giving Gwen the same problems without resolving shit).

Spider-Gwen worked when she was grounded in HER world. When there were consequences to every act she committed as Spider-Woman. And sometimes those consequences were very steep. She went to jail! She developed feelings for her best friend and she couldn't date him because half the general public hated her! A local gang tried to kill said best friend and her bandmates while she tried to let loose for ONE fucking night! While Gwen's fate as a superhero was and is still fantastic, the problems she faced were relatable and made her endearing, problems tied to themes of responsibility, guilt, rejection, acceptance, and balance. But ever since her constant back-and-forth between earth-65 and earth-616, she's lost that relatability, and the problems she currently faces are so divorced from reality and tied up in meta-commentary that unless you're insane like me and have deep knowledge of Spider-Man lore, you're gonna be lost practically all the time. Hell, even WITH my knowledge, I'm just baffled by these creative choices! While I acknowledge that the Gwenverse and Shadow Clones arcs are committing to this idea that Gwen could have been anything on earth-616 but her death ultimately upended her possibilities, that's not the only idea worth a damn. AND (and), that idea was ALREADY done and done better in the original Spider-Gwen run, making these series feel redundant and self-indulgent.

anyway make Spider-Gwen relatable again and develop an interpersonal relationship that's not her dad, MJ, or fucking Peter Parker 2k23

#the current state of comics is deplorable man #just so EMPTY #where is the DEPTH!!! where is the HUMAN EMOTION!!!#thank god for the itsv trilogy and insomniac spider man #they're keeping the spirit of the spider man mythos alive #i'm about to start catching up on Miles' current run I pray to GOD it's better than what I just endured #spider gwen #spider gwen: shadow clones #gwen stacy #posts on the run #text post #into the gwenverse

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likeabxrdinflight · 3 years

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How would you reform Fire Nation mental health care? (And what would make Zuko apologize to Azula for institutionalizing her?)

So...this is potentially going to be a very long post because there’s a lot to discuss here.

For starters, I’m going to just operate within the confines of what canon gives us, including the comics, because it’s going to make this easier. But I do want it stated that there is absolutely no good reason that the Fire Nation should have some kind of western style institution with things like straitjackets- there is no precedent for that kind of mental health care in an Asian-inspired world where Europe just straight-up doesn’t exist.

But white people made this show and so it does, and the Fire Nation is the nation that gets the most “westernized” by the creators in terms of imposing things like industrialization onto the society, so......eh. I suppose if any nation was gonna do the asylum phase, it’d probably be the Fire Nation. This is an imperfect model, but there aren’t many other models for mental health care out there. I have tried, in looking up information for my own fanfiction, to learn about Eastern mental health care practices. I found very little that hadn’t been influenced by western ideas. So I don’t see any way around it, we’re just going to have to start with this...for whatever reason, the Fire Nation decided large psychiatric hospitals was how to handle mental health. Now let’s fix that.

First, you can’t just close down the hospitals. We tried that in the real world, and it was a disaster. You just cannot take patients who need more intensive, long-term care and toss them out like “well, the hospital ran out of funds, good luck out there!” In the US, deinstitutionalization really took off in the 1980s (though the seeds of it started much earlier as part of Kennedy’s attempt at mental health reform), in which the large state hospitals closed down due to the inhumane conditions and poor treatment outcomes. However, in the Kennedy policy, hospitals were supposed to be replaced with community-based outpatient mental health centers. The community mental health act (CMHA) was signed into law in the 60s, and was supposed to begin the process of creating these mental health centers and closing down the asylums. However, it was slow going for several years, and the law didn’t actually provide the funding to build the community centers. This only got worse in the 80s as the rest of the funding for the CMHA disappeared. Because guess who didn’t want to pay for it?

State hospitals were going out of style with or without Reagan. But lord he made the problem worse. Today the correlation between homelessness and severe mental illness is staggering, suicide rates are up, and mental health care access for anyone who can’t pay is deplorable.

We want to avoid this in the Fire Nation.

So the first thing we need is to know what kind of mental health care they even have. And this is where it gets a little speculative. Because in our western world, Sigmund Freud existed. And we all love to shit on Freud because he deserves it, but credit where credit is due- modern psychotherapy would not exist without him. The man pretty much single-handedly invented our current idea of talk therapy, which paved the way for just about every empirically supported treatment we have today. The two gold standards- CBT and DBT- owe their existence to Freud.

I have to assume, then, that without the influence of psychoanalysis, the focus becomes more biological and probably spiritual. I’d like to see what it would look to integrate Eastern spiritual/healing practices (i.e., acupuncture, like we saw in LOK, or opening blocked chakras, like in ATLA) with mental health care. Perhaps facilities can be set up to train people in these arts. Bending, I think, could also be incorporated- who’s to say highly specialized waterbending couldn’t be used to heal problems in the brain? Schizophrenia, for example, is highly associated with the dopaminergic system in the brain. Could waterbending be used to influence this? What about herbal treatments, could they function similarly to our medications?

Someone would probably at some point discover that healing relationships benefit people with mental illness- but I don’t know that that kind of compassionate care model would necessarily translate into what we would call “therapy.” Still, empathy goes a long way no matter what kind of treatment you’re giving. It is possible for Eastern philosophy to influence some kind of mindfulness based interventions- in our real world, mindfulness based therapy pulls heavily from Buddhist ideas and integrates it with more traditional therapy. So I could see this cropping in a purer form as an alternative to psychotherapy.

So probably we need to start there. More funding for research and development of mental health treatments in the Fire Nation- let’s find better options than locking people away. They’re clearly a nation that values science, so I can see this development being realistically possible in a few decades or so. (There’s probably an existing knowledge base to build on that we aren’t made aware of in canon.) Once such effective treatments are verified, then we need to get them to the people who need it. Set up facilities, community centers, something- anything- to allow people to access the help they need.

Now, since these larger hospitals do exist, I don’t think the Fire Nation should do what we did and just shut them down. Instead I think it would be better to keep them open and available for people who need it, but make them a lot more humane. Now in some fairness, the institution Azula stays in looks...pretty nice.

Like ignoring the straitjacket for a minute, that building itself looks pretty well-funded. That’s a fancy mirror. So the resources are there to make these decent places to stay. We just have to get rid of the restraints and whatever other inhumane treatments may or may not be happening and replace them with effective, science based treatments instead. These need to become places of temporary respite rather than warehouses for people no one else knows how to handle.

In our world, hospitals are still controversial- and psychiatric abuse still occurs, especially in areas with poor funding- but they’re also beneficial. Some people need this kind of intensive, round-the-clock care. People with acute, untreated psychosis, people who are actively suicidal and in danger of killing themselves, people with manic episodes, people with severe eating disorders- all of these can be dangerous to the patient, and require more intensive interventions in our world. Hospitals are often the best place to get that kind of care. Unfortunately, our hospitals don’t really have the capacity to keep people longer than 72 hours in most cases (there’s always exceptions). Long term stays are expensive, and the facilities are not as easily accessible. We don’t have great options for people with chronic mental illnesses that need this kind of support for longer than a couple days.

So I guess that’s the other thing I’d want to do- perhaps transform these institutions into longer term care facilities with maybe a ward or two for short term patients in acute crisis.

Next step is educating the public and de-stigmatizing mental illness, which is a broad scale thing. Put effort into education and allow people with mental illness to re-integrate back into society. Frankly, I think someone like Azula could play a key role here- she’s already a well-regarded public figure in the Fire Nation. She could do a lot to promote new treatments and demonstrate that people with mental illness are not, in fact, “crazy and need to go down.”

The best thing I think Zuko could do to apologize would be to regulate all this and to step up as an advocate. These hospitals and care facilities cannot be allowed to act as warehouses for the “undesirable.” There need to be laws in place to prevent psychiatric abuse, and training requirements for care workers. Listening to people with mental illnesses about what their needs are is also a pretty good idea, and showing Azula that he cares about that would be a nice gesture. For him to get to this point, though, I think someone needs to show him how bad a straitjacket feels, or how abusive these kinds of unregulated facilities can get. Zuko is a compassionate person, I don’t think it would take too much convincing for him to see how inhumane an asylum can be- so long as he’s looking at it with eyes open.

#atla #eshusplayground

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dragonpatronus88 · 3 years

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The Avengers vs. Proust

The Avengers vs. Proust [Read on AO3]

I’m trying to wake my muse the hell up so I’ve forced my self to write something, anything and this is what came out.

Warnings: None really, some language

Genre: Humor, Vignette

Word Count: 4k

Summary: In this collection based on the famous Proust Questionnaire; Earth’s mightiest heroes wax philosophic about virtue, ponder politics and wonder whether watching the last season of Game of Thrones is truly the lowest depth of misery.

Do not copy, rewrite, translate or post my work anywhere. No permission given to copy, translate, rewrite or post my work.

Reblogging is always welcomed.

Falcon

What is your greatest Achievement?

Becoming an Avenger.

What is your greatest fear?

Closed loops of unlearned lessons.

What is your current state of mind?

Ready.

What is your greatest regret?

Not investing in Microsoft in 86'. But I was 6 and broke so...

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Sunday dinner.

What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

I'm a preacher's kid so my official answer is "None".

What is it that you most dislike?

Backsies.

What is your greatest extravagance?

The time I talked Thor into going to Mars to get all six Rovers so I could use the scrap metal for....reasons. Yes, NASA did find out. Yes, I gave them back.

Who is your hero of fiction?

Pip (Great Expectations) and John Grimes (Go Tell it on The Mountain)

Who are your heroes of real life?

People who never scuff their shoes. Bless.

What is your most marked characteristic?

I think that's for others to say.

If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?

I'd have a perfect permanent lineup.

What do you most dislike about your appearance?

At the moment, nothing- in a couple weeks or so however, when my current lineup is no longer on point....

Which quality do you most like in a man?

Humor, reliability, decency.

Which quality do you most like in a woman?

Authenticity, humor and powerful thighs.

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Brand new sneakers that get scuffed the same day.

What trait do you most deplore in others?

Thoughtlessness or the aversion to thinking things through to conclusion.

What trait do you most deplore in yourself?

Naïveté.

Which living person do you most despise?

Whoever it was at HBO that saw the last season of Game of Thrones before the public did and let it air anyway.

Which living person do you most admire?

Anyone who makes the decision to lean into grace.

What is your most treasured possession?

My wings.

What is your favorite journey?

Any flight home.

When and where were you happiest?

The moment before NASA called me about the Rover.

Which talent would you most like to have?

If I could drop a hot sixteen off the top... I might have to leave this hero life alone and just start doing features.

On what occasion do you lie?

Whenever its Thor's turn to cook for the team.

If you were to die and come back as any person or thing, what do you think it would it be?

A robin.

Who are your favorite writers?

Christopher Priest, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Aaron McGruder, James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry

Which historical figure do you most identify with?

Senator John Lewis, getting into good trouble is the only trouble that's worth it.

Who or what is the greatest love of your life?

My Mom's cooking.

What are your favorite names?

Darlene, Sarah, Monica, Paul & Clarence.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

"You know what I'm sayin?" or "Ya feel me?" I just need to know you get it is all.

Where would you most like to live?

Anywhere except Pleasant Hill.

Which trait do you most value in friends?

The inability to finish their fries without my help.

How would you like to die?

In service.

What is your motto?

"Each one, teach one."

Author’s Notes: I gotta say, my favorite version of Sam is actually from Avengers Assembled. I'm only just beginning in earnest to read comics and haven't encountered him nearly enough to really get into the meat of him, so much like my take on Hawkeye my characterization of Sam is pulled from animation and fics. And as far as movies, well... The MCU kinda made Falcon into a 'Lawful Good' water biscuit. I hope they do right by him in his and Bucky's Disney+ show. Anyhow, here's hoping I nailed Falcon!

To read the rest of the Avengers’ questionnaires click HERE

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introvertguide · 4 years

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The Gold Rush (1925); AFI #58

The next film that we had for review is a classic comedy from the 1920s, The Gold Rush (1925). This movie is often considered to be Charlie Chaplin’s best work and what he considered to be the film he most wanted to be remembered for. I watched the original cut that is a little bit longer than later versions and has a simple piano score. The movie was re-released in 1942 with an orchestral score that was nominated for Best Song and Best Score at that year’s Academy Awards. We will go over the plot and it probably doesn’t need a spoiler warning since the movie is a century old and there have been so many parts of this film that other movies and TV shows have paid homage too...but it is better to be safe than sorry:

SPOILER WARNING!!! PLOT POINTS FOR A 95 YEAR OLD MOVIE COMING UP!!! THIS WARNING IS SLIGHTLY SARCASTIC BUT I DON’T WANT MAIL ABOUT IT!!!

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The movie begins with establishing shots of men hiking through the snow to represent the Alaskan gold rush. Vast uninhabitable plains are suddenly full of people trying to find gold. Amongst this group is Big Jim, a prospector that found a gold deposit on his claim when a blizzard strikes. Another is a little tramp, who is credited as The Lone Prospector (Charlie Chaplin), a simple man who is just wandering and trying to find his fortune. Both of these men run into a sudden blizzard and are driven into the cabin of Black Larsen, a man who is a wanted criminal. Larsen tries to throw them out, but he is overpowered and the three settle in for the storm.

The storm goes on so long that one of the three needs to leave to find food. They pick cards and Larsen loses, so he is sent out to go find food. Larsen runs into and kills two policemen then finds the claim of Big Jim. Larsen decides to wait out the storm then flee with the gold before Big Jim can come back. Hopefully he will die of starvation in the cabin.

Speaking of starvation, the tramp and Big Jim have run out of food and the big man is starting to hallucinate that the little tramp is a chicken. The big man chases the little tramp around the cabin going in and out of a ravenous haze with a shotgun. A bear breaks in while the two are fighting and the tramp is able to shoot it so the two men now have food. This sounds like a horror movie or something out of The Revenant, but it is done in a very comical way.

The two leave the cabin once the storm subsides to find their fortunes. Big Jim goes to his claim and runs into Larsen, who knocks out Big Jim with a shovel. Larsen attempts to leave with some gold but is killed in a sudden avalanche. Big Jim comes to eventually, but he stumbles away until he gets to a town and can’t remember how he got there. He also can’t remember how to get to his gold, so he decides he must find the little tramp and the cabin which will jog his memory about the location of his claim.

The tramp wandered until he found a boom town that apparently was built overnight. He enters a happening dance hall and sees a beautiful girl who is bored and trying to avoid the advances of the local ladies man. Her name is Georgia and she tells Jack, the ladies man, that she would rather dance with the most deplorable looking tramp and proceeds to grab the lone prospector and dances with him. The little guy is smitten and, after a few chance encounters, invites Georgia and her group of friends to have New Year’s Eve dinner with him. She accepts as a joke and completely forgets. The tramp did not forget and scrounges up enough money for a nice meal and waits for the girls to celebrate. He waits so long that he falls asleep and dreams of a successful dinner party in which he entertains the girls with a puppet dance involving forks and bread rolls.

He wakes up and walks the streets feeling depressed and lonely. Georgia, however, does remember the invitation and goes to the house at which the tramp is staying. She finds a set table with a meal and presents and suddenly feels bad for treating the tramp so badly. She mentions to her friends and Jack that she wants to find the tramp, which angers Jack and inspires him to write a note that says she wants to talk. The tramp is given the note when he returns to the dance hall, but is intercepted by Big Jim, who promises to make the tramp into a millionaire if he can help him find his claim. The tramp tells a confused Georgia that he got the note and will return to take her out of this life.

Big Jim and the prospector get to the cabin, but there is another blizzard (it’s the Klondike, it happens a lot) and they are not able to go out for the gold right away. During the night, the cabin is blown to the edge of a cliff and is teetering on the edge. There is some humor about not tipping the house until the two are able to successfully escape and they happen to have ended up right next to the claim.

A year passes according to a dialogue card, but the little tramp was not able to find Georgia. He and Big Jim take a boat back to the continental states. The press is there and a member wants to get a picture of the tramp in his old mining outfit. He puts on his old clothes and has a mishap while posing for a picture and falls down some stairs right next to Georgia. She is taking the boat and assumes he is a stowaway and tries to save him from the ship’s crew. She is made aware that he is now a millionaire and she joins him for a picture in which the two kiss.

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While writing the synopsis from my notes and comparing it to other online summaries, I realize that there are parts of this film that sound like a horror film. Two men are fighting for survival out on the Klondike during a storm with nothing to eat and start considering cannibalism like something from the Donner Party. In the midst of a fight over a shotgun in which a very large man is attempting to kill a much smaller man, a bear (and this is a real trained bear in some of the scenes) breaks into the cabin and the two must now kill it. I think I have seen this movie and it wasn’t a comedy. This film has murder, assault, bear attacks, sexual harassment, and dog kicking. I am not sure it could be made today and I am sure that many aspects would be cut. But this is why these films are so interesting, it was a creation from a previous time and it reveals what was socially acceptable in a different era. I find it fascinating.

As old as this film is, some of the more famous scenes have been copied in film and TV more recently. The quick little dance with the dinner roles has been copied by Curly from The Three Stooges in 1935, Robert Downy Jr. in 1992, Johnny Depp in 1993, Grandpa Simpson in 1994, and Amy Adams in 2011. A Walter Lantz character named Chili Willy the Penguin had a couple of adventures that very closely imitated the “starving in the cabin” scenes with Chaplin and Big Jim. I have not seen the films, but IMDB and Wikipedia claim that the hanging cabin scene has been used in a couple of Bollywood movies - Michael Madana Kama Rajan (1990) and Welcome (2007).

There are two more films on the AFI list starring Charlie Chaplin, so I don’t want to go too in depth into his life at this point. I do want to mention that he cofounded United Artists distribution with D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks. This allowed him to have complete control over all aspects of his films, so everything you see is 100% his vision. He wrote, directed, produced, edited, scored, and starred in almost all of his films. We don’t see that much these days because there is some studio meddling in almost every film, so it is refreshing to see a creative work from a single source.

So does this film deserve to be on the AFI 100? Beyond a shadow of a doubt. This is a very simple movie that comes from the very infancy of the media, yet I consider it to be better than most current films. It has a good story despite having no dialogue and set pieces that are still copied a century later. This is truly the work of a genius. Would I recommend it? I am upset if you haven’t seen it yet. It is only 75 minutes, it is very entertaining, and it is an easy to digest piece of American culture. Go watch it right now. If you have already seen it, go watch it again with somebody who hasn’t seen it. This is the kind of film that the AFI Top 100 movies was created around, basically a reason to go back and review quality film from the past. Well worth the time and I can’t recommend it enough. Please give it a view.

#charlie chaplin #the gold rush #1920s #black and white #silent film #film critique #afi top 100 movies #movie spoilers #introvert #introverts #movie review

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the-victorian-wallflower · 5 years

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'Joker' (2019) - Some first impressions (May contain spoilers)

It may say something about the current state of comic book cinema (or indeed cinema in general) when you're wondering if this particular film is going anywhere in the long term and whether it's setting up a bigger narrative that'll be followed through in further installments. The superimposing of "The End" before the credits roll may suggest otherwise and this may be intended as a standalone in the vein of the films to which it pays homage (time will tell).

As a wannabe "arthouse blockbuster" (c.f. 'Batman Begins', h/t Mark Kermode), 'Joker' finds itself in closer company to Zack Snyder's 'Man Of Steel' than it does to Christopher Nolan's 'Dark Knight' trilogy. It undeniably looks good and it's cinematography may well be some recognition at the awards season beyond being included in the montage of "this year's films". It is arguably the most immersive DC film in recent memory.

Substantially though, its themes can be boiled down to simply "society bad". If it's intention is to act as a mirror to the world and how it breeds monsters, it does the job but it's about as subtle as its tribute to Scorsese's 'The King Of Comedy'. Whereas 'The Dark Knight' might well have been "a sophisticated and thematically rich essay on the George Bush-Al Quaida war, wrapped inside an all-action popcorn blockbuster" (h/t my screenwriting tutor), perhaps the closest 'Joker' comes to touching on contemporary politics is wannabe mayor-of-Gotham's Thomas Wayne's trashing of some of the populace as "clowns" bringing to mind Hillary Clinton's "basket of deplorables". Refreshingly for a comic book movie, the wealthy aren't presented in a positive light. Perhaps in a sequel, Batman could be the antagonist.

If a film can give to its audiences what they bring to it, it may well resonate with some people, for better or worse (like Fleck, I carry a card that disclaims my condition). If there's concern that it may incite violence, especially involving guns, I think it says more about the country itself than it does about the film. When there is violence, it's certainly shocking and it was really in the third act when the film really grabbed me, especially with the pulse-raising studio scene.

#joker #dc movies

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infandae · 7 years

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The Life and Times of Pepe the Frog

I've compiled a timeline of Pepe the Frog's life for a research project I'm currently working on. While it's certainly far from complete, it hits most of the high points and (I think) makes a great resource for beginning to understand the wild ride that was Pepe's life in 2016. The project as a whole is still a WIP, so there's still gaps, typos, and personal notes across the timeline. I'll be updating the timeline here as the project continues.

Anyways, have fun.

2005

Matt Furie's Boy's Club released, Pepe makes his first appearance.1

2008

Pepe the Frog first appears2 as the meme "Feels Good Man"3 in 2008 on /b/, according to KnowYourMeme.

2011

January: moot removes /r9k/ and /new/4

October: 4chan rebrands /new/ as /pol/5

June:

2nd: Smug Frog Pepe appears for the first time.6

2014

April

27th: Angry Pepe's first appearance according to KnowYourMeme.7

May

9th: Angry Pepe appears on /pol/8

November

8th: Katy Perry tweets a Pepe meme.9

December

18th: Nicki Minaji posts a Pepe meme on instagram.10

2015

July: /pol/ post appears with image depicting Pepe as Trump at a boarder wall between the US and Mexico.11

October: Donald Trump tweets12 picture of Pepe-Trump

December: Tumblr's Year in Review identifies Pepe as "Most Reblogged Meme"13

2016

May:

18th: Boy's Club collection released.

26th: The Daily Beast publishes "How Pepe the Frog Became a Nazi Trump Supporter and Alt-Right Symbol"14

June:

10th: Paper Mag releases an interview with Matt Furie about Pepe, no particular mention is made of the Alt-Right, or politics in general.15

August:

25th: Hillary Clinton gives a speech denouncing the Alt-Right. During the speech, someone is heard screaming "Pepe!"16

September:

9th: Hillary Clinton gave her "basket of deplorables" speech.

10th: Donald Trump Jr. posted "The Deplorables" meme with Pepe-Trump on Instagram17. According to The Hill, Roger Stone tweeted the picture first18.

11th: NBC news published an article about "The Deplorables" meme19. New York magazine publishes an article about Alt-Right press conference, during which Richard Spencer mentions that Pepe and the Echo are the things most people know most about the Alt-Right20.

12th: the official Hillary Clinton blog published an article about the Trump campaign's association with Pepe the Frog new life as a white nationalist symbol21. The same day, The Daily Dot published an article claiming Pepe is not a Nazi22.

13th: The Atlantic interviews Matt Furie about recent assocition with white nationalists.23

14th: The Guardian interviews Matt Furie.24 The Daily Caller allegedly interviews @JaredTSwift and @PaulTown.25

15th: AMA with alleged /pol/ user who created Pepe as Trump at the border wall meme26.

27th: The ADL officially identifies Pepe the Frog as a hate symbol27.

29th: Matt Furie speaks about Pepe's appropriation by Alt-Right in an interview28.

October:

7th: Fantagraphics, publisher of Boy's Club, issues a statement concerning Pepe the Frog's appropriation by the Alt-Right29

13th: Matt Furie writes op-ed in response to Pepe as a hate symbol30.

14th: ADL announces partnership with Matt Furie for #SavePepe campaign31. This marks the beginning of the #SavePepe attempt.

17th: Matt Furie "draws his alt-right election nightmare" as a comic involving Pepe transforming into Trump32.

19th: The Alt-Right responds to Furie's recent legal actions33.

November

10th: A post on r/Le_Pen appears linking Pepe and related meme strategy with the Le Pen campaign in France34. Pepe Le Pen created.

17th: Matt Furie scheduled to speak at ADL's "Never is Now" summit on Anti-Semitism35.

2017

January:

9th: The Russian Embassy in the UK tweeted a Smug Pepe image.36 The Daily Dot published an article about the tweet echoing sentiments that Pepe is "largely viewed as a smybol for neo-Nazis and racists the internet over."37 Vox published an article about the tweet as well, referring to Pepe as a "white supremacist frog."

20th: Richard Spencer gets punched (for the first time), while mid-sentence speaking about Pepe38. It is later revealed that he was punched a second time that day (see below).

22th: Punch Pepe Pin relased39

23rd: Furie responds to a question on tumblr concerning Richard Spencer being punched, stating "once is never enough."40

25th: Evidence of Spencer being punched a second time on Jan 20th 2017 arises.41

30th: "Pepe Punch-Out" released.42

February:

The Verge runs a story on Pepe Le Pen.43

3rd: SuperDeluxe releases "Punch a Nazi," a game in which players can punch Richard Spencer, Hitler, and Milo.44

March: Politico publishes an article on memes and the Right.45

April: The Guardian publishes an article on the Zara skirt fiasco46.

May:

7th Matt Furie releases comic strip featuring Pepe's death47

8th: Motherboard posts a post-mortem of Pepe48.

June:

26th: "Save Pepe" campaign appears on Kickstarter49.

28th: Vox publishes an article highlighting #SavePepe and Furie's failures50.

August:

28th: Matt Furie succesfully sues Eric Hauser, creator of an Islamaphobic Pepe-clone children's book51.

September:

17th: A post appears on /pol/, allegedly from Jessica Logsdon, an artist contacted by Furie's law firm52. *18th: Motherboard publishes two articles pertaining to Furie's legal actions against Alt-Right uses of Pepe the Frog53

October:

3rd: Furie's lawyers sue Jessica Logsdon54

5th: Motherboard publishes an article pertaining to the Jessica Logsdon case 55.

Richard Spencer and Alt-Right rally once more in Charlotesville56 on 8th. "White Lives Matter" white natioanlist rally in Tennessee on the 28th57, Pepe lapel pins spotted58

Matt Furie's Boy's Club ↩︎

"Pepe the Frog" at Know Your Meme ↩︎

"Feels Good Man" on Know Your Meme ↩︎

Archived post. I'll need to do some contextual work regarding "I made a note that if it devolved into /stormfront/, I'd remove it," and let my readers know what Stormfront is and the implication of that statement ↩︎

Citation needed. Google Trends identifies the first Google search for pol occuring in October 2011. ↩︎

/tv/ thread mocking The Big Bang Theory ↩︎

Archived /r9k/ thread ↩︎

/pol thread ↩︎

Tweet ↩︎

Instagram post ↩︎

Archived post ↩︎

Trump's Tweet ↩︎

Year in Review ↩︎

"How Pepe the Frog Became a Nazi Trump Supporter and Alt-Right Symbol ↩︎

"Meet Pepe's Papa: A Chat with the Man Behind the Internet's Favorite Meme" ↩︎

"4chan anon kicked out of Hillary's alt-right speech for yelling about Pepe the Frog" ↩︎

Instagram post ↩︎

The Hill's article can be found here. However, Roger Stone's twitter account has since been suspended. ↩︎

"Trump Adviser, Son Post Image of Trump's 'Deplorables' Featuring White Nationalist Symbol'. Of particular note, Heidi Beirich of the SPLC is quoted as saying "Pepe the Frog is a huge favorite white supremacist meme." ↩︎

"The Alt Right Gives a Press Conference" ↩︎

Find an archived version of the article: "Donald Trump, Pepe the frog, and white supremacists: an explainer" ↩︎

"Pepe the Frog is not a Nazi, no matter what the alt-right says" ↩︎

"It's Not Easy Being Meme" ↩︎

"Pepe the Frog artist supports Clinton 'even though she's talking smack'". ↩︎

"Here's How Two Twitter Pranksters Convinced The World That Pepe The Frog Meme Is Just a Front For White Nationalism" ↩︎

Archived thread ↩︎

"ADL Adds 'Pepe the Frog' Meme, used by Anti-Semites and Racists, to Online Hate Symbols Database". Also of note, "Pepe the Frog" on ADL's Hate Symbols Database. ↩︎

"Pepe the Frog is not a hate symbol, says creator Matt Furie" ↩︎

"The Truth About Pepe the Frog" ↩︎

"Pepe the Frog's Creator: I'm Reclaiming Him. He Was Never About Hate" ↩︎

"ADL Joins with 'Pepe' Creator Matt Furie in Social Media Campaign to #SavePepe" ↩︎

"Pepe the Frog: To Sleep, Perchance to Meme" ↩︎

"The Great Meme War II: Amid Lawsuit Threats, the Alt-Right Says Pepe Belongs to Them" ↩︎

"Welcome, Veterans! Let's start the fire". For Pepe Le Pen, see: "I understand you require memes. I bring you Pepe Le Pen. Rare, from across the pond." ↩︎

A recording of Furie's speech can be found here. Similarly, see "The ADL's 'Never Is Now' Conference on Anti-Semitism Was Certainly Timely" ↩︎

Tweet ↩︎

"Russia tweets racist meme in reaciton to Trump meeting" ↩︎

RawStory's article "White nationalist Richard Spencer sucker-punched in the face during Trump inauguration](https://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/watch-white-nationalist-richard-spencer-sucker-punched-in-the-face-during-trump-inauguration/) broke the punching story originally. The video is hosted seperate on Youtube ↩︎

Tweet ↩︎

"how do you feel knowing Richard Spencer got decked mid-sentence describing Pepe?" ↩︎

Tweet ↩︎

"Pepe Punch-Out" ↩︎

"France's alt-right has turned Pepe the frog into Pepe Le Pen". Note: "You can do whatever you want with Pepe. . .He does not symbolize anything specifically. He can be whoever you want him to be. That's his charm." ↩︎

"Punch a Nazi" ↩︎

"World War Meme" ↩︎

"Zara pulls denim skirt over likeness to 'at-right' mascot Pepe the Frog" ↩︎

"Matt Furie Killed Off Pepe the Frog on Free Comic Book Day" ↩︎

"From Pepe the Frog to Pepe Le Pen: The Life and Times of a Political Meme" ↩︎

"Save Pepe" ↩︎

"Pepe the Frog's creator can't save him from the alt-right, but he keeps trying anyway" ↩︎

"Pepe the Frog's Creator Gets Alt-Right Children's Book Pulled, Vows to 'Aggresively Enforce His Intellectual Property'" ↩︎

Archived post: "Matt Furie is Suing Me for Painting Pepe". ↩︎

"Pepe the Frog's Creator Goes Legally Nuclear Against the Alt-Right", "Here Are the Letters That Pepe the Frog's Lawyers Sent to the Alt Right". ↩︎

The court document can be found here. ↩︎

"This is the First Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against a Pepe Meme Maker" ↩︎

"White Nationalists Reappear in Charlottesville in Torch-Lit Protest" ↩︎

"White Lives Matter Rally Held in Murfeesboro" ↩︎

Tweet of photo which I need to follow up on for more specific citation. ↩︎

#Pepe the Frog #personal #research #studyblr

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marcjampole · 7 years

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If you want mainstream media to like your book on American decline, blame the 60’s. Fantasyland latest to do so

It seems as if no social critic can get a fair hearing in the mass media unless she-he blames it on the sixties. If you Google the expression “blame it on the sixties,” you summon up references to a wide range of articles and books in which experts and pundits blame a variety of current social and economic problems on changes in the attitudes, customs and mores of the 1960’s. My perusal of the first three pages of search results found the 1960’s and early 1970’s faulted for the rise in child abuse, our economic decline, political correctness, the vote in the Electoral College for Donald Trump, the increase in obesity, crime and growing drug abuse.

You’d think that most of the sixties-haters would be religious and social conservatives, because, say what you will about that decade, it did witness the sexual revolution that led to more open attitudes and greater social acceptance of sexual rights for women and all kinds of sexual experiences between all kinds of people. But as it turns out, a substantial number of sixties critics are self-flagellating liberals, you know, pundits who claim to be liberal but butter their bread by always blaming liberals for their own predicament. For example, after the election, a slew of Democrats blamed Clinton’s loss on the Democrats depending too much on “identity politics,” i.e., caring about civil rights. With friends like that…

The latest liberal self-flagellator to blame the sixties for the deplorable state of the world is novelist and journalist Kurt Andersen, in his glib and often superficial Fantasyland. Anderson’s description of today’s American Fantasyland is attractive and largely accurate. The insidious spread of fake news; the new level of lying by politicians; the basing of social and economic policy on disproven or bad science; the great numbers of Americans who believe in demons, the absolute existence of a god with male features and/or a literal interpretation of the Judeo-Christian genesis myth; the large number of adults whose lives revolve around electronic games, comic book superheroes, cosplay and other escapist fare; the climate change deniers, the evolution deniers, the birthers—these snapshots of the irrational are but a sampling of the evidence that Andersen musters to show that current American society is based on lies and myths, that we surround ourselves with fantasy.

Andersen is also right when he asserts that fantasy has played a major role in American society since the search for the Northwest Passage and the Salem witch trials. His history of irrational thought in America reads like an outline or a greatest hits list: each major figure in an irrational movement or trend gets a paragraph or so. For readers who want to delve into the long history of irrational thought in America, Fantasyland can serve as a syllabus that sends you to the right people and primary sources to read.

But the third part of Andersen’s thesis—that the sixties marked a turning point, after which instead of being a peripheral trend, irrationality took center stage—is dead wrong.

In sixties terminology, Andersen’s mistake is to conflate “do your own thing” with “believe your own thing.” Yes, a lot of people believed in some pretty weird stuff in the 1960’s. Like the First (1730-1740) and Second (1800-1860) Great Awakenings and the Roaring Twenties, the sixties saw an uptick in interest in the occult and the irrational. But lots of the doing of your own thing in the sixties and early seventies involved overthrowing old myths and lies and asserting the truth of empirical science, such as the anti-Vietnam War, Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, Gay Rights, environmental, anti-nuclear, organic gardening and sustainable living movements. All products of a very rational sixties. And in every case, it was the government or the majority of those with influence who were living in a fantasy.

Andersen takes particular note of the rise of the Pentecostal movement and televangelism in the 1960’s. True enough, but morality is not inherently contra-factual. Morality motivated a lot of the antiwar activists and poverty workers. Remember, too, that a Christian left and right wing have existed in this country since at least the abolitionist movement got its start. Even if we accept the core beliefs of the Christian right wing that have persisted for at least 140 years, a rise in a concern for moral issues doesn’t in and of itself suggest the society is entering a fantasyland. I can be against a woman’s right to control her body for moral reasons and still be living in the real world. I enter Fantasyland only when I believe that an abortion causes future health problems, that life begins at conception or that vaccines cause autism.

All of society bases part of its existence on fantastic notions, typically related to ethnic superiority, national character, religion and the convenience of rich folk. Certainly since Columbus made his voyages, religious and irrational beliefs have harmed the United States. Our economy before the 1860’s was largely based on the myth that Africans were inferior people who needed the white man’s guidance and therefore benefited from slavery. What about the medical, economic and social impact of the myths that led to the anti-marijuana laws of the 1930’s? TR, Henry Cabot Lodge and William Randolph Hearst shoveled a lot of bull hockey at Americans to build support for the Spanish-American War and our later atrocities in the Philippines. I would like to prove that the inflection point at which belief overran rationality was during the Reagan era, when so many edifices of lies were built and then used to justify horrific policies; lies and myths such as welfare queens, supply side economics, the failure of government, the failure of public schools and the benefits of the unimpeded free market. But reading history books like Stephen Kinzer’s The True Flag about the Spanish-American War epoch and Matthew Karp’s This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy about pre-Civil War U.S. foreign policy demonstrates that the Bush II and the current administrations aren’t the first times the United States has been run by a band of reality-denying ignoramuses guided by myths with no basis in reality and representing a sizable minority but not all the people.

If we, as I do, place primary blame for the growth of the American Fantasyland on the increase of lies and myths knowingly perpetrated by the news media, we can’t really locate in the 1960’s the inflection point after which fantasies begin to dominate the media and, by inference, American society. Since the original scandal sheets and yellow journalism of the Gilded Age, mass media has been growing inexorably, and as it does, so has the ubiquity of advertising, the focus on celebrity and the increase in myths being presented as truth—in commercials, by televangelists, well-funded rightwing think tanks and rightwing television and radio, on alt-right and UFO websites, in social media and fake news. Let’s look at some of major events in the history of media’s creation of Fantasyland: yellow journalism emerged at the end of 19th century, free market commercial radio developed in the 1920’s, the first radio evangelists started broadcasting in the 1930’s and 1940’s, the rise of commercial television and the beginning of the right wing creating alternative distribution channels for their myths occurred in the 1950’s, the federal law that allowed companies to own more TV and radio stations passed in the 1980’s, rightwing radio was born in the 1990’s, the Internet was the 2000’s, the Citizens United decision in 2010. You get the idea.

Why then blame the 1960’s? We would have to read into Kurt Andersen’s heart to know the answer as it pertains toFantasyland. I am, however, quite confident that the larger phenomenon of blaming the 1960’s (and early 1970’s) for every social and economic ill since then results from the mass media applying a screen: Blame the sixties—we like it; blame another decade—reject the article! For the most part rich folk who like the status quo own the mass media and the companies which support media outlets with advertising. While rich folk include a spectrum of beliefs from left-leaning to ultra-right (there are very few socialists of any ilk among this group), they mostly lean right and mostly want to protect the prerogatives of the wealthy.

And they don’t like the true story of what happened in the sixties: It was the absolute high point for equality of wealth and income in U. S. history and the high point of union power (if not of union membership, which occurred in the 1950’s). While not the inflection point for American irrationality, it certainly was for the movement to provide equal rights in courts, the marketplace and workplace to all Americans—plenty happened afterwards, but the turning point certainly came in the 1960’s with the maturing of the Civil Rights movement and the start of other inclusion movements. The 1960’s thus represent the start of the threat to the special position of white males.

In other words, the real “evil” of the 1960’s is not that it created an American Fantasyland, or that it led to a decline in morals or educational standards or the work ethic. No, what the mass media hates about the 1960’s is that for a few brief years we saw a way to institute a true social democracy in a fairly equitable society with a fairly level playing field, kind of like the model developed in Europe after World War II. The Reaganites saw another way, but to make it work, they had to denigrate the real ideals of the sixties—government spending to solve social problems, a level playing field that did not favor individuals of any group, the importance of ending poverty and giving people a hand up, enlightened stewardship of natural resources, a foreign policy not dependent on America bullying other nations. These core beliefs—all based on facts and science—contradict everything the right stands for. Thus the desire, even today, to blame everything on the 1960’s.

I stopped reading novels about writers or university teachers about 30 years ago. I think it might be time to stop reading books that blame the 60’s.

#mainstreammedia #60s #american decline

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Jenny/Vastra Prompts #9

Prompt: Jenny and Vastra prove that even the smallest actions can make a huge difference, by doing some good old fashioned philanthropy work of their own.

My second story for Femslash February this year, not a bad pace at all. Also, I would first like to give a special thanks to my pal @feshsticks for essentially being the brilliant mastermind behind the idea of this story, and was so kind as to let me run off with it. Much appreciated, Pip!

Once she finished eating her breakfast of roasted lamb, Vastra picked up her tall glass of fresh blood and took a long sip, watching as Jenny’s facial expression suddenly became scrunched with disapproval from over the glass’s rim.

The Silurian then placed down her drink, a sense of concern prompting her to ask,“Jenny, my dear, you seem to be a bit troubled. Why is that?”

Vastra’s question caused Jenny to look up from the daily newspaper she was currently so engrossed in.

“Look at these bleeding statistics, Vastra!” Exclaimed Jenny as she flipped the newspaper around, and stabbed hotly at a particular article with her finger. Vastra,being newly intrigued, leaned forward in her chair in order to see it better. Meanwhile, Jenny proceeded to rant most bitterly about the article by reciting, “One million and two hundred people, over 40 percent of the total population in London, is currently homeless without work! It just breaks my heart to think of all those poor folks stuck out there in the cold, freezing to death. Nobody should have to be forced to go through the winter on an empty stomach like this. It’s just ain’t right, Vastra!”

“Mmm....yes, my darling, these are rather difficult times indeed,”Spoke Vastra in a grave tone, quickly adsorbing in the article that was causing her wife so much distress. Then in a moment’s notice of Silurian arrogance, she unwittingly added, “I do often wonder how you humans managed to evolve so far when you allow your own kind to wallow in such deplorable conditions.”

Normally, Jenny would often roll her eyes at Vastra’s condescendingly anti-human statements, but this time she actually found herself agreeing with Vastra for once.

Jenny sank back into her chair with a huff and methodically rubbed her aching temples, sighing, “I know....the worst part about all of this, is that nobody is lifting a single finger to help these people! How can anyone be so heartless as to simply go about their days while ignoring the demotion of human life happening around them?”

Jenny may be living in the security and comfort of a big grand house now, but not a single day has went by where she didn’t reminisce about her previous experiences on the streets of London; An elderly man with his feet wrapped in nothing more than dirty tattered rags, a family with three small children huddling together for warmth, two men cooking rats that they’ve killed over a makeshift fire, a man who’s missing one leg hobbling around using a wooden crutch begging for people to donate some money, another man’s body found laying face down in a gutter and his head split open after a drunken tavern brawl. Nobody was hit harder on a personal level by these negative statistics than Jenny, because she was the only person who truly understood what it’s like to be in these people’s shoes since she herself used to be in the exact same situation. She knew very well first-hand that life was extremely difficult on the streets, where the dangers were many and opportunities were few. Poverty, disease, and violence all ran rampant throughout the city, there was no way of escaping them. It was everybody for themselves doing whatever necessary to ensure their own survival, the concept of true friendship, trust, and loyalty was practically nonexistent. Misery, resentment, and despair were your only constant companions as they slowly chipped away at your soul each day.

“Well, what did you expect, Jenny? It was you humans who built this entirely corrupt and exploitative capitalistic society that leaves most of the population at a large disadvantage, while only granting wealth and power to a few selected minority,”scoffed Vastra, her tone dripping with thick malicious irony, since she too knew about the evils that some humans were capable of. “These people would rather cut off their own arms and legs before they’re willing to part with their vast fortunes in any way. The detached and privileged upper class can’t possibly care less about the problems that plague the impoverished masses, as they see them to be nothing more than an inconvenient eyesore. I’m sorry if that’s not what you wanted to hear, but I’m merely stating facts here,” Vastra concluded breezily while partaking in another drink from her glass of blood.

Jenny merely sat there, the newspaper getting crumpled within the tightening clenches of her hands, as she mulled obsessively over the Silurian’s words. Jenny was determined to find a way to help all these destitute people, her brain nearly turning itself inside out searching for a solution. Finally, it was as if a light bulb had lit up in her head when the seemingly perfect idea came to her.

“Oi! If you want something to be done, then you’ll just have to do it yourself!” Jenny suddenly proclaimed, jumping up to her feet in a surge of newfound energy and purpose.

Vastra tilted her head quizzically at Jenny’s outburst and curiously inquired, “And what exactly is your plan to do that?”

Jenny responded by flashing Vastra a broad, slightly secretive smile before walking over to the doorway and calling, “Strax, go and get the carriage ready! Move it, now!”

“Where are you going, Jenny?” Asked an increasingly confused Vastra.

“Oh, I just thought that I’d go into town to do a little shopping, ti’s all,”Jenny reassured innocently enough with a small shrug.

She swiftly proceeded to exit the room and go make her plan a reality.

Vastra watched Jenny come home two hours later, towing a great amount of assorted vegetables, meat, and other food items inside along with her. She then ordered Strax to assist her with setting a large black cauldron down in the middle of the kitchen floor. There were so many questions that Vastra wanted to ask, but never got the chance since Jenny had insisted on shooing her out of the kitchen. Once she got everything she needed at her disposal, Jenny was then able to get to work on her grand project, practically throwing herself headlong into it with such enthusiasm as Vastra had never seen before. It eventually became clear that whatever Jenny was doing would last well into the night, therefore Vastra reluctantly resigned to retiring to bed whether with, or without Jenny.

The very next morning afterward, a considerably disappointed Silurian woke up to find the bed empty of her wife’s familiar mammalian warmth. In fact, it would seem that Jenny didn’t even came into their bed at all last night. Vastra frowned and hissed sharply in displeasure at Jenny’s absence, until her highly advanced Silurian hearing picked up what sounded like a bustling commotion from outside of their house. Hurriedly putting on her silken robe and fur slippers, Vastra then approached the large window at the other bedroom wall that faced out toward the main street in front of their house. At first, she couldn’t believe the sight that greeted her and had to rub the remaining drowsiness away from her eyes to make sure what she saw was true.

Looking down from their second-story bedroom window, Vastra could see what appeared to be hundreds of people amassed in a line stretching far beyond the street itself; And then there was Jenny, standing behind a huge cauldron filled up to the brim with soup, which she’s apparently rushing to serve to everyone waiting in the line.

“Did she really stay up all night making that one giant cauldron of soup to feed the poor?” Pondered Vastra, a hand thoughtfully stroking her chin. The longer she watched the scene happening before her, the more clear it became to Vastra as a broadly delighted smile took form on her face. “Actually, now that I think about it, none of this should come as a surprise, for my Jenny has always been intensely dedicated to the best of causes.”

Her smile only continued to grow when a most brilliant notion occurred to her. “Hmm.....but why stop at soup, though, when there is still plenty more that we can give?”

Thus, with that idea firmly in mind, Vastra then left the window and went in search of something that she will need in order to fulfill her intended objective.

Jenny, meanwhile, had her sleeves rolled up to the elbows as she was busy with single-handedly providing bowls of warm, delicious soup to the massive throng of people gathered before her cauldron in the street. Despite not having had a single wink of sleep the night prior, Jenny was still able to perform all the arduous tasks expected of her with unwavering fortitude and tenacity. She had one hand holding the ladle and the other grabbing bowls, working fast like a well oiled machine to keep the line moving forward. Any kind of delay will most likely cause restlessness and discontent to arise amid the crowd of people there, which she very much wanted to avoid.

Strax soon marched up toward Jenny, announcing, “Boy, I’ve distributed every single piece of bread among these pathetically odorous and primitive human filth! I am afraid to report that it was not enough, and they are demanding more!”

The burly Sontaran wore a frilly lace apron that he borrowed from Jenny over his butler uniform, and a hairnet on his bald dome head. Jenny would usually laugh at him for being dressed in such a ridiculously comical outfit, but in this particular moment her mind was too fixed on other important matters

“Well then....quit your jabbering and go get some more bread from the kitchen!”Instructed Jenny urgently, never even taking her focus away from the cauldron. “Hurry!”

Strax gave her a brisk military salute before heading back into the house to fetch the required supply of bread.

“God bless you, little Miss!”Proclaimed the next person in line, surprising Jenny. She glanced up to see that it was an older gentleman, as indicated by his peppery gray hair, and the deeply pronounced wrinkles that marred his angular face. He looked at Jenny with pale yet shimmering green eyes, and a weary smile. “I can’t remember the last time I had a good warm meal to eat, but I’ll be sure to never forget your selfless act of kindness towards an old, crusty, dried up geezer like myself.” He then made a grand gesture of his arm at the other people around them saying, “Neither will all these other folks, for the whole city is currently singing your praises! Thank you, thank you very much!”

“Believe me,sir, it’s my utmost pleasure to be serving all you wonderful folks out here today,” replied Jenny in earnest, gracing him with one of her signature radiant smiles.

This wasn’t the first time that Jenny had received similar praises from the people she served. Hundreds upon hundreds of the city’s poorest destitute population poured into this one street on Paternoster Row from every remote corner of London. As soon as Jenny gave away that very first bowl of soup, word seemed to travel quickly like a wildfire sweeping across the city, informing everyone else of her saintly endeavor. Many of these people beheld her with a sense of utter awe and reverence, as if she was Jesus Christ himself having descended down to earth to answer their prayers. Jenny simply endured it in silence, allowing these indigent god-fearing people to hold onto their religious fantasies, knowing that deep down inside she was just as mortal and worldly as all the rest of them. Jenny was feeding them out if the strict kindness of her golden heart, and the happiness on their faces when she present them with a bowl of soup was already the best reward she could ever ask for.

Suddenly, there was a disturbance as somebody pointed at the roof, and shouted, “Look! Look, there, on the roof! I see someone!”

Excitedly confused murmurs ensued throughout the crowd as they all raised their faces upward trying to see what was on the roof. Sure enough, standing atop the roof was a mysterious cloaked and veiled figure carrying a large sack. It would seem that things have taken a particularly interesting turn, indeed.

Jenny also craned her neck to get a better glimpse, squinting her eyes in an attempt to identify the person on the roof. It didn’t took her very long to realize exactly who it was up there.

“What the bloody hell is that damn daft lizard doing up there on the roof?!”

Madame Vastra stood tall and erect up on the rooftop of 13 Paternoster Row, where she had a wide, open view of the street below from such a high position. She boldly removed the veil off her face in one fluid motion to reveal dark sunglasses and a smoking pipe hanging out aside her mouth. Truth be told, she had chosen these certain accessories mainly for aesthetic purposes, rather than any practical functions. Then, without wasting another second, Vastra reached inside the sack she brought with her and proceeded to toss handful after handful of actual money down into the assembled horde of people. Hundreds of hands immediately shot up in the air to catch the money as it fell down like rain all around them, causing everybody to cheer wildly with hysteria. First it was free soup, and now they’re getting money, too? It really couldn’t get any much better than that!

Jenny couldn’t help but beam at the miraculous sight before her, and she eventually gave Vastra a signal of her approval. That made Vastra smile proudly to herself as she continued to lavish generous amounts of money upon the hapless poor and homeless. Together, these two formed a significantly formidable team in their efforts to help their fellow citizens who were less fortunate than themselves.

Newspapers soon immortalized the fantastically charitable exploits of ‘Jenny Christ Souper Star’ and ‘Madame Vastra the Money Moses’ within the city’s collective public conscience forever.

#vastra and jenny #dw femslash #femslash february #paternoster gang #madame vastra #jenny flint #Prompt 9 #2017

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the-typhonian · 7 years

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I was tagged! Thank you!

I tag: @amdk62rulez @pajamapartyonrasbarque @thetwistedrope @obsidianservant @pathlesspagan @eobeth

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? One day I wake up & I’m happy. I don’t worry about bills and I can read my comics / books in peace.

2. What is your greatest fear? I suppose being outed or shunned by my family for my sexuality.

3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Low self esteem.

4. What is the trait you most deplore in others? I hate liars.

5. Which living person do you most admire? Not sure.

6. What is your greatest extravagance? n/a

7. What is your current state of mind? Pretty stressed. I could be doing school work but I don’t feel like it RN. It’s not even that it’s due right away -- I have plenty of time to do it.

8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? na

9. On what occasion do you lie? Yes, I try not to though. I feel bad about it.

10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?

Body weight.

11. Which living person do you most despise? Bill O’Riley. Hated him for years when I was an atheist. I don’t even know if he’s still alive but I still hate him. #2 would be this one professor I had who refused to treat me like an adult

12. What is the quality you most like in a man? Kindness.

13. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Kindness.

14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? 'lol’ ‘okay’

16. When and where were you happiest? Whenever i’m deep in a comic series.

17. Which talent would you most like to have? I think it’d be pretty cool if I could play the guitar.

18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? Appearance.

19. What do you consider your greatest achievement? Finishing HS with a college degree.

20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? I’d want to be a cat. Just a really chill cat.

21. Where would you most like to live? I don’t really care.

22. What is your most treasured possession? My god statues & then my other collections. (Zoids, DC comics stuff.)

23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? na

24. What is your favorite occupation?

Artists, writers,

25. What is your most marked characteristic?

dunno

26. What do you most value in your friends? Their honesty & compassion

27. Who are your favorite writers? Greg Rucka

28. Who is your hero of fiction? Renee Montoya // The Question.

29. Which historical figure do you most identify with? none

30. Who are your heroes in real life? haven’t thought about it

31. What are your favorite names? Renee, Maria, Rosa

32. What is it that you most dislike? Liars

33. What is your greatest regret? Wasted a year with awful friends & still do it sometimes

34. How would you like to die? Jetteson me into the fucking son

35. What is your motto?

"Chaos keeps the sun rising.”

#im so bad at these #thanks for tagging me!!#i love doing them #regardless #anyone else who sees it should do it too

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literateape · 6 years

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Spoilers Ahead: America as "The Walking Dead"

by Chris Churchill

SPOILERS FOR THE WALKING DEAD AND THE UNITED STATES!! ONLY READ FURTHER IF YOU ARE CAUGHT UP ON BOTH AND YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT!!

Good old, poor old, heroic old Rick Grimes, huh? What a guy. A man of integrity and honor. A man who understands that humanity is important in a human. Boy, he really gets it. He’s our guy. For those who don’t watch AMC’s biggest current hit, “The Walking Dead” I’m referencing the hero of the show, the former sheriff, Rick Grimes, current leader of group of post-apocalyptic survivors in that show. I love that show. I’m one of the few who nearly never criticizes its acting, writing, and story arc, even though I probably should.

I don’t criticize because it’s not real life and it’s not supposed to be. It’s supposed to be as stupid as the premise that some vaguely scientifically-defined plague will make most of humanity a wandering hoard of magically evil, flesh-eating monsters. Yes. I believe my favorite show’s premise is stupid, yet I hope against hope that one day it will come true, because let’s face it, I don’t know most of you people, and they make it look fun on television.

We had thought that the mission of America was very much like the mission of our protagonist, Rick Grimes. We thought he was the real hero. We thought there was no other way but his. It was Rick Grimes’ way or a bullet to the head.

WE thought WE were the real heroes right up to the 2016 election. Then a bizarre parallel developed between America’s political divide and the collision between the hero, Rick Grimes and his crew with the new villain, “Negan” and his crew.

Now, I’ll just come out and say it. I voted for Hillary. I was as shocked and devastated at the utter (electoral college) annihilation of my candidate and all the hopes and dreams that we had attached to her campaign as anyone on her side was. But, like in the eventual collision between Rick and Negan, I should have seen this coming.

I mean, the way Negan’s guys were kind of everywhere. That should have tipped us off. Roadblocks and booby traps were becoming all too common.

Tea Partiers, like Negan’s “saviors”, had been whistling in the woods for years now. But we weren’t really sure how strong Negan was until the night he smashed Hillary and Tim, or maybe “our bravado and our heart” (i.e. Abraham and Glenn) over their heads with that barbed-wire baseball bat. Then there we were left, sweating, crying, bleeding, in complete shock, relegated to working for the “bad guys” and wondering, “what the hell just happened?”

My wife pointed something out the night that Negan took out a couple favorite characters on that show. Rick Grimes could be seen as just as bad as Negan depending on from which side one views the events leading up to the massacre. Maybe Hillary using the term “basket of deplorables” was the same as Rick killing a bunch of Negan’s guys at an outpost while they slept. Maybe Rick and Hillary assumed the “others” were expendable.

Here’s why the Democrats are Rick’s people and Trump’s Republicans are Negan’s people. They both were going around killing people under the guise of protecting their own way of life; their own worldview. Rick’s group did their survival thing by earnestly claiming moral superiority to the groups they had defeated up until that time and assuming that same moral superiority when asked by a virtual stranger from another group (the character of “Jesus” from the “Hillside” community, for you Walking Dead fans still following along) suggested that “these other people are bad and you should kill them.” In reality, that’s not a good enough reason to kill a bunch of people. It seems like you’d, kind of, investigate a little before doing something that drastic. Maybe Hillary and her crew should have investigated a little before using the “deplorables” line. (Or whatever else people want to attach to Hillary, true or not, that made them hate her.)

Negan, on the other hand, had a whole thriving community going on his side too. The problem was not whether or not he was helping the people in his community but the way he was doing it. That coupled with his own personal moral indiscretions with women.

For those who don’t follow Walking Dead, Negan rules with violence and chaos. He also keeps a stable of young ladies around for amusement. I’ve heard evangelical Christians say that they don’t care what Trump does in his personal life, so long as he is fulfilling their agenda. Negan uses violence in the way that Republicans use the “free market”. Let the system shake itself out. If you aren’t strong, you’ll be weeded out. No favors, no entitlements, no helping the weak. Just do your part and no one gets hurt.

Negan also let’s his underlings hash things out between them. You have to let them fight it out and then back the winner…after he wins. (I swear I’ve seen Trump do that.) Of course, Negan’s brand of “firing” someone is a little different.

So, it seemed for a while that Negan won. He certainly shut down any meaningful opposition for a while. As on the Hillary side of America, it was a bleak time on the Walking Dead for a while.

But here’s why I obsess on pop culture as metaphor for America:

Art doesn’t just imitate life, it sometimes predicts it.

So right now, America is dealing with the fact that maybe one side wasn’t as righteous as it was pious while the other side might be finally admitting that their guy isn’t really a “savior” after all. But I saw the season finalé. I’ve also read enough about what happens in the comics to know what’s going to happen.

SERIOUSLY SPOILERS AHEAD FOR BOTH THE SHOW AND THE COUNTRY:

See, Negan, eventually does get caught. Not for colluding with any nearby community. Simply for having an inhumane ruling style. He’s not killed. He doesn’t even remain a villain forever.

I watched the season finalé in theatres recently. Negan is under arrest and is told he will be in a prison cell for the rest of his life, as an example of what not to do and a reminder of a bygone, failing way of life. That’s what a great number of people in America think about the current administration. But (and this is from the comic book, it hasn’t been in the show yet), as Negan lives out his days in the cell, he actually becomes a serious asset to Rick’s people in an upcoming war with an even more insidious and destructive threat.

In the future of this country as in the future of The Walking Dead television series, it seems that the only way that we will continue to survive is by both sides seeing some value in the other. By understanding the value of each other’s ways of life. By coming together to pool our strengths to defeat a common enemy. There’s always a common enemy.

The “walkers” (the undead creatures that serve as constant threat on “Walking Dead”) are a device used to heighten the stakes of what is basically a metaphor for the development of human civilization. They are the unknown forces that can kill us all. Somewhere along the way, they (the fear) stops being such a problem. The problem becomes the other survivors.

We’ve gotten to a place in human development where the metaphorical “walkers” are much less of a threat to us than ever in the history of mankind. The threat comes from the other humans. We know that all we have to do is learn how to walk together and there will be nothing to fear. Even if the dialogue is stupid sometimes.

#thinly veiled metaphor #The Walking Dead

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theliterateape · 6 years

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Spoilers Ahead: America as "The Walking Dead"

by Chris Churchill

SPOILERS FOR THE WALKING DEAD AND THE UNITED STATES!! ONLY READ FURTHER IF YOU ARE CAUGHT UP ON BOTH AND YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT!!

I mean, the way Negan’s guys were kind of everywhere. That should have tipped us off. Roadblocks and booby traps were becoming all too common.

So, it seemed for a while that Negan won. He certainly shut down any meaningful opposition for a while. As on the Hillary side of America, it was a bleak time on the Walking Dead for a while.

But here’s why I obsess on pop culture as metaphor for America:

Art doesn’t just imitate life, it sometimes predicts it.

SERIOUSLY SPOILERS AHEAD FOR BOTH THE SHOW AND THE COUNTRY:

See, Negan, eventually does get caught. Not for colluding with any nearby community. Simply for having an inhumane ruling style. He’s not killed. He doesn’t even remain a villain forever.

#thinly veiled metaphor #The Walking Dead

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It has begun. The blog that will bust the doors wide open.

I’m sure you’ve heard of muck raking and I am not one for buck taking so the buck stops here. I am going out into the world to finally once and for all get to the bottom of all the nonsense and do some cold hard journalism. Pie a la mode style. Meaning i may have a cold creamy gal riding on top of my crisp apples... but watch out she bites. She is one icy B and a half. Nevertheless I will go on to announce that as a promise to my never ending ever growing swarm of listeners I never sacrifice my integrity for a back alley handy and a warm plate of dessert. One other thing I would like to mention is that my theme songs will be extensions of my soul and eventually will amass to form a discography intent on making any record collection obsolete whether it be a slew of Blondie and Barbara Streisand Albums or the record collection owned by Kenny “The Tits” Daffledinger. When asked why they call him “The Tits”, “The Tits” replied “Well Jack, I’m what you could call a connoisseur. I don’t buy nothin’ unless it makes this phrase pop out of my mouth, ‘Oh lawdy lawdy I do declare these be the tits what my eyeballs oogly googly googling at’ I must say that 8 or 9 times a week, and that’s just while I’m out with my grandma. I am also a certified fan of the female anatomy particularly of the booby area so I’m goin’ for a 25% tranny swap under the hood if you know what I mean.” I reply, “No Kenny, but go on, I am enthralled.” Kenny adamantly exclaims, “Well tell me this now Jack, WHY is it that girls get to have sweater puppies when my apartment complex wouldn’t even let me have a pet rock. WHY is it that man has not yet evolved to lactate? AND WHY have you never just racked on a pair of 36 C donkey pillows and gone with the partial sex change. Aint got shit now Jack where are your answers? Well ill tell you what, my chesticles will never see the light of day with you in the room that much is for sure. These are my Tits. I am The Tits. My tits are the Tits so call me Tits, remember... The one with the bangin butterscotch hard candy nipples.” And that was all “The Tits” was willing to share with us that day he said something about pollen in the air and ran off to get some alkaline water from the water store just adjacent of the senior citizen version of hooters, droopies on Mackeral Blvd.

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The Avengers vs. Proust

The Avengers vs. Proust [Read on AO3]

I’m trying to wake my muse the hell up so I’ve forced my self to write something, anything and this is what came out.

Warnings: None really, some language

Genre: Humor, Vignette

Word Count: 4k

Summary: In this collection of vignettes based on the famous Proust Questionnaire; Earth’s mightiest heroes wax philosophic about virture, ponder politics and wonder whether the last season of Game of Thrones is truly the lowest depth of misery.

Do not copy, rewrite, translate or post my work anywhere. No permission given to copy, translate, rewrite or post my work.

Captain America

What is your greatest achievement?

The thing is, the moment right after winning every great battle alongside the Avengers feels like the most significant thing I've ever done. However, I'd still like to believe that the truly greatest thing I'll ever do is yet to come. It would be great if it were under less dire circumstances than usual.

What is your current state of mind?

Cautiously optimistic.

What is your Greatest fear?

Given the nature of what it is I do, I think I'll skip that one. Wouldn't wanna give anyone any ideas.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

A sense of belonging, certainty, purpose. A job well done, preferable with pie afterwards. *sighs* Yes, apple.

What is your greatest regret?

Waiting.

What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

Rabid Patriotism. *chuckles*

What is it that you most dislike?

Bullies.

What is your greatest extravagance?

I'm a bit frugal by nature, possibly a byproduct of my growing up during the era that I did, but I've been known to collect some rare sports memorabilia.

On what occasion do you lie?

I'm always honest. Unless you count lies of omission, but even then almost never. I find it can almost always be avoided.

Who or what is the greatest love of your life?

The internet. So helpful.

Who is your favorite hero of fiction?

Atticus Finch (To kill A Mockingbird) or Jefferson Smith (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington).

Who are your heroes in real life?

All of the people who dedicate their lives to serving and protecting their fellow man with integrity, dignity and compassion. Our men and women in the armed forces, first responders, doctors, nurses, sanitation workers, teachers, community volunteers and so many more. There are so many unsung heroes, people you walk by everyday whose efforts are invaluable, unquantifiable, essential and touch all our lives.

What is your most marked characteristic?

I've been told I'm pretty spritely for a centenarian.

If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?

Been there, done that. Got the shield to prove it.

What do you most dislike about your appearance?

I wouldn't dare be ungrateful considering what I went through to change it.

What words or phrases do you most overuse?

Golly and neat, for which I am teased mercilessly.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

As often as my stubbornness has served me, it's also bitten me in the tush. There's a way to be principled and not obstinate. I'm working on it.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Hypocrisy and Greed.

What traits do you most value in your friends?

Fidelity and empathy.

Which Historical figure do you most identify with?

I've recently learned of Eddie the Eagle...

What are your favorite names?

Sarah, Margaret, Arnold and James.

What is the quality you most like in a man?

Integrity.

What is the quality you most like in a woman?

Gumption.

What living person do you most admire?

Tony Stark. I know admitting this will only add fuel to the fire.

What living person do you most despise?

Depending on the day, also Tony Stark.

What do you consider the lowest depth of misery?

Letting down loved ones. Losing loved ones. Worst still if one begets the other.

What is your most treasured possession?

My memories and an old compass I was issued in the Second World War.

When and where were you happiest?

The moment my enlistment form was stamped with something other than '4F'.

Which Talent would you most like to have?

I wish I was in anyway musical.

Who are your favorite writers?

J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Tom Clancy, Ron Chernow... I could go on.

Where would you like to live?

My current home.

What is your favorite occupation?

My current occupation.

If you were to die and come back as any person or thing what do you think it would it be?

That's another 'been there, done that' and I came back as myself.

How would you like to die?

Preferably not the same way twice.

What is your motto?

It's less a motto than a quote:

"What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" -George Eliot.

Author’s Note: Hopefully you enjoyed this. I tried to keep Cap's characterization as such that you would recognize him from every medium; comics, movies and animated series. If I'm being honest he mostly a mix of Comic book Cap/Avengers Assemble Cap with only a pinch of MCU. This isn't beta'd, but I tried my best. Blame any oversights, poor spelling or grammar issues on the American Public School system, my parents- anyone but me.

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