jake-richmond:

Modest Medusa 748: There and back again, part 96

- Sorry that I missed the mid week Medusa update. I’m not sure what happened, except that I’ve been pretty overwhelmed with work. All of the sudden it was late Weds and I really didn’t even realize it! Hopefully I’ll have uninterrupted updates for you this month!

- If you’re looking for an easy way to support Modest Medusa please consider voting on Top Web Comics. It only takes a second each day and believe it or not it really helps bring new readers.

- I’ve been posting new Ghost Kiss pages for the last two weeks. If you’re a Modest medusa fan (and I mean you probably are, right…) this is where the two series start to connect, so you might want to check it out. The new episode concludes next week, but you can read most of it now.

- I’ll be at the Olympia Comic Festival this Saturday. This is very short notice, but I’m hoping it will be fun. I’ll have new Medusa and Combine stuff, so please come check it out!

- Speaking of Combine, the new issue is now available and awesome! It features 4 new sci-fi comic, including Ghost Kiss by me! The new issue is 80 full color large format pages for just $10. You can buy a copy at the Combine store! Back issue bundles are also available.

rosexknight:

usagi-zakura:

scraps-is-busy:

rosexknight:

Anon. Stop.

Look, I’m going to ignore the “Making a character everyone can identify with isn’t hard” thing because anyone who HAS written a character knows that’s not true.

But look. I’ve explained myself calmly and rationally and you’re being manipulative. You’re twisting my words and I’m not having that. I have concluded by this exchange that you’re nothing but an entitled, manipulative child. And if you are indeed trans, you really need to take a look at how YOU are representing your community rather than worrying about someone who isn’t out of respect.

I will leave you will one thing: I don’t owe you a trans character, anon. I don’t owe you shit. You’re the only one complaining I don’t have one. So don’t put words in my mouths or the mouths of my other followers.

Just saying, there is such a thing as terrible Trans representation. 

Originally posted by amerikankekosu

Like take this character for instance. He’s basically one big attempt at a Trans character (Or was marketed as such.) And it was BAD! Like really really bad. 

And being able to write a good LGBT is not the same as being able to write a good trans character. There is overlap, but it’s not the same. And you shouldn’t force somebody to create a character when they have a terrible understanding of such things.

Agreed. 

LGBT representation is good and all, but not every piece of fiction is going to have every sexuality or identity on the spectrum… That’s not because the writer is anti-LGBT (or whoever they don’t include), they’re just concerned about getting them right, and in a society where people get offended over everything I don’t blame them.. 

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This too XD

I mean people will rip you apart for any little thing you do wrong these days so…yeah

floralmarsupial:

Early B-day present for @moonpaw17

xkcds:

The top search for every state is PORN, except Florida, where it’s SEX PORN.

State Word Map [Explained]

the-pottydactyl:

This is an updated and official version of the previous “Unreal Estate” gifset.

The old one can be found here:

http://the-pottydactyl.tumblr.com/post/158659201221

pinkcolts:

hey-mishter:

frootiqueen:

enkhi77:

thankyoucorndog:

stark-buysexual:

aint-it-fun-alisha:

biculturalist:

white people are so bored of their white privilege that they wanna experience oppression for adventure

i literally laughed so fucking hard because omg

Is this true??

For clarification, there are a lot of articles and think pieces where a white person will “experience a different way of living” that entails things like wearing a headscarf for a day or working a low-wage job with Latinos or going to live in an impoverished area for “the experience”.

The problem with this is that it frames POC’s experiences as some kind of fantastic sensational otherworldly life, a costume almost, and dehumanizes them in the process. Instead, they could get a perspective by interviewing and talking to and EMPATHIZING with people that LIVE the oppressed experiences, but they focus more on LIVING it THEMSELVES as if that helps anyone. 

At the end of the day, they can take off the “costume”, go back to their lives as white (usually well-off) individuals; POC can’t. Hope that makes sense.

White people on safari

also those who go to “Poor” countries to volunteer for like 6 weeks and come back and go on about “finding themselves”

This is called ‘poverty tourism’. Started in 19th century London and is a huge market for white people with saviour complexes.
Allows these righteous people to go get feels by ‘helping’ POC for a short period of time while actually perpetrating and reinforcing the conditions that oppress them.

Adding on to that, y’all ever heard the saying, “you’ll go to another country to help but won’t look in your own backyard”? Yeah, that sums up poverty tourism. White people will use thousands of dollars to travel to a “poor” place when they ignore the SAME issues in their own zip code.

White students taking lavish trips with expensive equipment to “third world countries” and then feeling like they saved the world giving a poc child a small token, like a cross necklace or an extra expensive item they didn’t want to repack, and they come home feeling like they SAVED the poor poc kid.

But they sneer at the poc barista at the expensive coffee shop they frequent because “You should work FASTER and KNOW my order by now! That’s why you’ll never amount to anything.Fuck raising minimum wage you can’t even get my order right!” all while posting on social media how changed they are touching a poc child’s hand in another zip code far from their home country.

Sick isn’t it?

adurot:

You know she’s dead now, right?

listen up, cumslut…..

emissary-architect:

playing with ocs is either

or