Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s press conference on NC HB2; or, how M and I learned that the thing where people spontaneously cling to each other and cry while watching the news does not in fact just happen in movies.
It is a damn powerful thing to hear someone in a position of power so decisively and explicitly affirm your humanity in ways and along vectors that society at large seems to have declared negotiable. To hear someone with the power to act look at injustice and say, absolutely and decisively, this is not what America is, and this will not stand.
When you create new characters, what are the things you think about when you're looking for a name for them? As finding the right name can be a real pain I find personally.
It is and I struggled with it for years. but I came to the simple but shocking revelation that you don’t have to name the character… you have to think what would the parents of this character named this character.
because that’s what would have happened. would the parents name the character something biblical? something pop culture? something about the family history?
then you have to think about the parents or the lack of parents and then you start building the world around this character so the name, one way or another, does reveal itself
I made the mistake of giving away a lot of my favorite names to my characters like Deena and Jessica and Christian and then when it was time for me to have my own children most of my names that I love were taken by characters that I’ve done such terrible things to that giving these names to one of my kids would been really off-putting.
why does this have 32k notes? it’s just a picture of a knife in a ranch bottle, is there some unspoken joke that 32 thousand people share? what is going on here, i dont get it. it’s just a fucking picture of a knife in a ranch bottle. is there some spiritual connection people have to this picture? is there some ominous and mystical reasoning that this has 32 thousand notes? do people reblog this because it makes them look like some indie blogger? or is there just something funny to this? someone please explain
no one tell him
Scheduling this to post on March 15 because it needs to happen.
The ides of March have come
Beware the ides of March.
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Is DC going to use the 2017 crossover as a way to show once again how "evenly matched" Cap and Batman are? Last time I checked Cap has the super soldier serum, a hell of a lot longer to develop his fighting skills, and when it comes to Batman's gadgets - well if Cap can get through some of what Stark hit him with in Civil War I think he can deal with Bruce Wayne. Just saying is all. Also, if we get "movie Superman" who kills people isn't it a bust unless The Phoenix rolls into town?
(I just noticed that the intro says “Eisner-Award winning” – I’m not. I’m “Eisner-nominated.”)
Anyway, getting to hang out with Nkenge was a tremendous honor. She’s a badass.
EDITED TO ADD: YES, I AM VERY SHORT. THANK YOU.
Super great interview. I love this quote about Portland from @kellysue, “There’s a real spirit of the individual here. It’s a confederacy of eccentrics. I love that. I feel unjudged.”
Finding a place you belong is so important. When I read this, I instantly thought of my neighborhood (Ghent, Norfolk, VA).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghent_(Norfolk)
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