That moment when you stare at a jpg for a full minute waiting for it to move before you realize it isn’t a gif.
Like a wizard in the muggle world!
This is what a REAL rape prevention campaign looks like
All the awards.
DO ME A HUGE FAVOR AND REBLOG THIS!
This is perfection in a campaign
Reblogging to the main blog because this is absolutely perfect.
This is so awesome, I have no words.
So I reached a pretty wimpy milestone~! 100 followers, go me!! And go all my followers too, because you are the stars!
Anyway, it’s giveaway time!! Time for me to blow lots of money on you gorgeous people :3
The wonderful prizes:
From the Teahouse shop
- 1st place (as in first name picked) will get a copy of all 3 released Teahouse chapters and $20 worth of additional merch! This $20 can be used on a shirt or any amount of items that add up to or less than $20
- 2nd place (the name picked second) A copy of the chapter of your choosing and a lovely little charm of any character
- 3rd place (the name picked 3rd) Any singular charm of your choosing!
- AND THERE ARE BONUSES!!!
- The ever wonderful blog, teahousewebcomic wants to add a few surprises for each winner! Details of these surprises will be given out as the giveaway’s life comes to an end so you’ll have to keep an eye out!
DA RULZ
- this giveaway will run from now, until July 31st! Surprises will be posted around the end of this time.
- you do not have to follow me! Seriously… this isn’t even majorly a Teahouse blog… I just love Teahouse and want you to love it too! But follows are nice.
- please keep this to a maximum of 5 reblogs and 1 like. It’s not nice to clog people’s dashboards up with this junk!
- The winners will be picked by a random number generator.
- AND PLEASE REMEMBER that Teahouse is an 18+ comic. Reblog with that in mind…
- Have bunches of fun!
Well, everyone! Reblog away! Best of luck to you!
The Guardian has a break-down of gay rights by state: see where your state stands.
The first time I found this, was on a survivalist blog. Their logic was that in case of a social breakdown, it’s safer to live in a place with higher morale (meaning ore christian people). And that you could tell how moral/religious people were, by how they view gay rights. I have no idea how I would be safer in a state that doesn’t even have clear laws against hate crimes, as a female/genderqueer atheist pansexual person of colour.
Look at their age, they look like they could be the same people.
Also, that slogan, “Race mixing is Communism,” doesn’t make sense, at all.
What if you found the girl of your dreams? What if, just as it seemed you were going to live happily ever after, you found out she was literally the girl “of your dreams”? What if you woke up? Would you do like Fiona, and go back into the Dream World, navigating through a surreal land of monsters and tyrants? What if “It was all just a dream” wasn’t the twist ending, but just the beginning?
Such is the premise of “YU+ME: dream”, a webcomic I created 10 years ago, started drawing 8 years ago, and finished 2 years ago, with a total of 847 pages. It uses a multitude of art styles and mediums, including watercolors, vector, and even clay puppets. Sometimes it’s silly, sometimes it’s scary, sometimes it’s romantic, sometimes it’s an adventure. It can be read online at http://yume-comic.com.
June 18th is “YU+ME Day”, the day I both started and ended the comic, six years apart. In commemoration, I am doing a giveaway!
The Prize: A set of the comics, in paperback form, 6 volumes. Volumes 1-3 are in black and white, volumes 4-6 are in color. All volumes include bonus comics not found online. All of them signed.
To Win: Reblog this post. A winner will be chosen by a random number generator. Your ask box must be open so I can contact you and obtain your address. You must live in a country where it is legal to receive the books. Due to the LGBT content and (very brief, non graphic) nudity, many countries won’t let them through customs, so check with yours, first.
Winner will be chosen on June 18th at 11:59pm.
I am going to have a musical movie marathon next week.
I have a pretty good list of ones to watch, but it seems incomplete. So tell me what your favorites are. I really wanna know.
REPO!, Sweeney Todd (in consert), Candide (in consert), Starship, Into the Woods, Love Never Dies, Dr. Horrible, Gypsy, Notre Dame de Paris, RENT…
Woman demanding care at St. Mary’s (St. Louis) hospital is arrested for trespassing, dies in jail
RICHMOND HEIGHTS • Anna Brown wasn’t leaving the emergency room quietly.
She yelled from a wheelchair at St. Mary’s Health Center security personnel and Richmond Heights police officers that her legs hurt so badly she couldn’t stand.
She had already been to two other hospitals that week in September, complaining of leg pain after spraining her ankle.
This time, she refused to leave.
A police officer arrested Brown for trespassing. He wheeled her out in handcuffs after a doctor said she was healthy enough to be locked up.
Brown was 29. A mother who had lost custody of two children. Homeless. On Medicaid. And, an autopsy later revealed, dying from blood clots that started in her legs, then lodged in her lungs.
She told officers she couldn’t get out of the police car, so they dragged her by her arms into the station. They left her lying on the concrete floor of a jail cell, moaning and struggling to breathe. Just 15 minutes later, a jail worker found her cold to the touch.
Officers suspected Brown was using drugs. Autopsy results showed she had no drugs in her system.
And the flip side, what happens to black women at the hands of the cops, in addition to the kind of medical treatment we receive.
So a poor woman with thrombophilia experiencing deep vein thrombosis, showing CLASSIC syptoms… has a pulmonary embolism and dies because no one would listen to her.
America…. I as a woman of color am done with you.
This is so sad, and it makes me want to cry.
Step 167: Send follow-up emails when necessary
I am just awful at responding to email in a timely manner. The main issue, I think, is that I do not base email response decisions on a normal person email decision-making rubric, which would look something like this:
Instead, responding or not is based on on how excited I am about the email in question, and this process does not look the way you’d imagine:
Unfortunately, and as always, I never can realize that others may go through a similar process as I do. So when I send an email and get no response, this is my mental flow:
There is some cognitive dissonance at play here, and I get the impression that I am not the only person who sometimes thinks and acts this way. So there is one thing that some especially grown-up people do to break the cycle, which is send a follow-up email.
Carolina of GirlHabits had asked about a week ago if I was willing to do an interview for her blog. I was super excited to be asked, started to draft a response, decided it wasn’t compelling enough to prove to her that she had made the right choice in interview subjects and didn’t send it. But Carolina, bless her heart, sent me a follow-up email. And this time, I responded immediately, which I should have done in the first place.
Follow-up emails are so likely to jog someone into action, and if the email is to someone in a professional context, it demonstrates that you Have Shit Together.
So thank you, Carolina, for being such a grown-up, and helping me be one, too.
Some handy charts for what to expect when you contact me. T___T
