Test Number Three.
Necropolis will launch at the end of August as an ongoing weekly webcomic. Stay tuned!
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We [Fraction and his wife, Kelly Sue DeConnick] were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there I started to realize that if I had a daughter, there would come a day when I would have to apologize to her for my profession. I would have to apologize for the way it treats and speaks to women readers, and the way it treats its female characters.
I knew that if we had a daughter, because I know my wife and I know the kind of girl she wants to raise and I know the kind of girl I want to raise, she was going to look at what I did for a living and want to know how the fuck I could stomach it. How could I sell her out like that?” Fraction continued. “That conversation is still coming, and I’m bracing for it in the way that some dads brace for their daughter’s first date or boyfriend. I became acutely aware that I had sort of done that thing that lots of privileged hetero cisgendered white dudes do. ‘I’m cool with women, and that’s enough.’ It’s not enough. It’s embarrassing to say, because we somehow have attached shame to learning and evolving our opinions, culturally, but I became aware that there was a deficiency of and to women in my work, and all I could do at that moment was take care of my side of the street.
"— Writer Matt Fraction on his role on expanding the profile of female characters in the Marvel Universe. (via goodmanw)
(Source: comicbookresources.com, via nowherezone11)
i’m worried that i shouldn’t start identifying as some sort of (gray) asexual because i’m actually just scared of sex and intimacy thanks to trauma
I think that people with a trauma history are put under a lot of pressure to “reclaim [their] sexuality” and…
- minority friends are your reason for standing up against casual racism
- minority friends are not your justification to contribute to casual racism
- PoC*, not minority
- the people close to you shouldn’t be an excuse for you not to be racist, you should just not be racist because it’s WRONG and HARMFUL and it hurts people you dont know
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LOOK AT PLUTO.
PLUTO YOU WILL ALWAYS BE INVITED TO MY PARTIES, OKAY
Reblogging for pluto.
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i love how men mock women for being overemotional and then lose their shit over a team losing an over-glorified game of fetch
Because all men like watching sports, obviously, right? You just did what you hate men doing, putting generalizations on a whole gender.
i know i did
irritating, isn’t it?
His team must’ve lost. You know that some men get really emotional during that time of the year.
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Basically, this Sunday I was VERY bored and so I decided to dedicate my free time to a project I hold dear.
Back in my childhood, Lady Oscar has been one of my favorite heroines: brave, fierce and… well, cross-dressed. So I decided to use my cosplay skills to reproduce one of her uniforms.
My favorite color is blue, but the blue uniform was too common, so I picked the illustration above and added a little touch of me.I’d also love to add that, in order to make this cosplay, not a penny has been spent. All materials are random pieces I saved from previous works and… a Christmas tablecloth. YES. YOU HEARD ME.
I am absolutely satisfied and, being done in two days, this is by far one of the quickest and most detailed works of mine. I still have to work on trousers, hat and sword, but I can say that the dog days are over.
VIVE LA FRANCE!
This is AMAZING!
*cereal spills out of slack jawed mouth* hol y sh it
The spread of the black death.
Poland
Poland, tell us your secret.
Poland is the
oldnew Madagascar.If I remember correctly, Poland’s secret is that the jews where being blamed all over europe (as usual) as scapegoats for the black plague. Poland was the only place that accepted Jewish refugees, so pretty much all of them moved there.
Now, one of the major causes of getting the plague was poor hygiene. This proved very effective for the plague because everyone threw their poop into the streets because there were no sewers, and literally no one bathed because it was against their religion. Unless they were jewish, who actually bathed relatively often. When all the jews moved to Poland, they brought bathing with them, and so the plague had little effect there.
Milan survived by quarantining its city and burning down the house of anyone showing early symptoms, with the entire family inside it.
I reblogged this tons of times, but the Milan info is new.
Damn Italy, you scary.
Poland: “Hey, feeling a bit down? Have a quick wash! There, you see? All better”
Milan: “Aw, feeling a bit sick are we? BURN MOTHERFUCKER, BURN!!!!!”
Also, this might have something to do with it: from what I understand, O blood type is uncommonly… common in Poland. Something to do with large families in small villages and a LOT of intermarriage. The black plague was caused by a bacterium that produced, in its waste in the human body, wastes that very closely mimic the “B” marker sugars on red blood cells that keep the body from attacking its own immune system. Anyone who has a B blood type had an immune system that was naturally desensitized to the presence of the bacterium, and therefore was more prone to developing the disease. Anyone who had an O type was doubly lucky because the O blood type means the total absence of ANY markers, A or B, meaning that their bodys’ immune system would react quickly and violently against the invaders, while someone with an A may show symptoms and recover more slowly, while someone with B would have just died. Because O is a recessive blood type, it shows in higher numbers when more people who carry the recessive genes marry other people who also carry the recessive gene. Poland, which has a nearly 700 year history of being conquered by or partnering with every other nation in the surrounding area, was primarily an agricultural country, focused around smaller, farming communities where people were legally tied to, and required to work, “their” land, and so historically never “spread” their genes across a large area. The economy was, and had been, unstable for a very long period of time leading up to the plague, the government had been ineffective and had very little reach in comparison to the armies of the other countries around for a very very long time, and so its people largely remained in small communities where multiple generations of cross-familial inbreeding could have allowed for this more recessive gene to show up more frequently. Thus, there could be a higher percentage of O blood types in any region of the country, guaranteeing less spread of the illness and moving slower when it did manage to travel. Combine this with the fact that there were very few large, urban centers where the disease would thrive, and with the above facts, and you’ve got a lovely recipe for avoiding the plague.
Interestingly enough, as a result from the plague, the entirety of Europe now has a higher percentage of people with O blood type than any other region of the world.
WHY IS THIS ALL SO COOL
When Tumblr teaches you more about the plague than 12 years of school ever did.
Just to throw a nod in, as a medieval historian, this is all credible, and is the leading theory as to the plagues effectiveness at this point. So. Enjoy your new knowledge!
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