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I've been Going Through It pretty hard lately. Times have been rough, and in these times I turn to escapism. And it got me thinking about the importance of it, and how it can save us. And how for me this has manifested in giant monsters beating the hell out of each other in movies, and giant monsters are very often used in allegorical n metaphorical ways for things.

So as a way to express my feelings n thoughts on escapism n vent how I been feeling I made this comic n put a lot of thought into it. While for me the Bad Times Beast here is depression specifically, I intend it as a general metaphor for Going Through It so I hope this resonates with other people saved by escapism too, and that whatever you're going through you are able to find the strength to get through. Even if you need some help from your special friends on the screen or in the pages.

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This is what the fight is like

Sooo, apparently the extremely tenuous and recent nature of the LGBTQ+ community's legal right to exist was not actually super widely known to a lot of people on Tumblr?

Which clarifies some stuff in retrospect. I have so often wanted to grab people by their lapels and shout, "Stop picking on someone for not meeting your entry requirements! We need everyone we can get, you asshole! DON'T YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THEY HATE US OUT THERE?"

Aaaapparently... no, they did not know. Or they knew and were a conservative psyop preparing the ground for our loss of legal rights. Fun times!

So: Look, it is bad. Shit is scary. They really do hate us out there. You're not wrong.

But: This is what we've always fought. This boat we're in with its antique fittings and strange markings on the floor is a battleship. Work has always been going on in the basements, and when shit gets tough, we clear away clutter and roll out the cannons.

I found this chart a couple weeks ago and hung onto it because it felt like the map to my first 25 years on this earth:

[Image description: A graph titled "Same Sex Marriage: Public Polls since 1988." It is from FiveThirtyEight's NYT column. It records the percentage of US Americans polled who would say yes or no to legalizing same-sex marriage, from 1988 to 2011.

The two lines begin with roughly 10% saying yes in 1988, and 70% saying no; the two lines gradually draw closer over the years, until by 2011, the percent saying finally dips under 50%, and the group saying yes makes a tentative reach for the majority. End of image description.]

After some great social change has happened, when everyone has admitted that gay marriage is very cute and Pride is a colourful parade, hooray, people like to pretend that it was just natural and inevitable and happened on its own. People just became less prejudiced! Courts just decided on a case! Governments just passed a law!

In reality, it was a vicious fucking fight, every fucking time. Every fucking where. There are a lot of people who deeply, sincerely believe that a hundred years ago, society had good rules about sex and gender and intercourse and marriage, and that changing those rules has made the world worse. They don't always agree on the specifics, but they can work together far enough to fight anyone with new ideas.

This is why we are a community. Even when we don't have the same experiences of attraction or identity, even when we don't do the same things, even when we have wildly different ideas of a good time. Because when these groups take aim, we're all under fire, and none of us is responsible for why they hate us.

In some ways I think it's a miracle that there seems to be a generation that did not grow up, as I grew up, constantly glued to news reports about What Percentage of Society Hates Us this month. I can't imagine who I'd be if my brain and heart and soul hadn't been tied up, that whole time, in the political question of whether I'd get to dream of a decent future.

I think that it will give us strength to have people who can imagine a world where no one hates us. Who believe in it so strongly they can taste it. That's my prediction: If you didn't know this was coming, you'll be a boon to us, because we have always needed joy so fiercely, in this fight, to keep us going on. We have needed drag queens and punk bands and "her wife" and safe space stickers. Parade floats and wedding days and little dogs with rainbow collars, badges and banners and meetups, because more than anything else we need to fight our own despair, and our fear that the world will never get any better than this.

It will. We know it will. We can taste it.

Look up to the history, organizations, and people who've got us this far for information on what forms of activism will actually advance our political goals. Look to the side to make sure the comrades within reach are keeping their heads above water, and that you're keeping enough joy going to stay alive. Look back to see who's more vulnerable than you are that you might have forgotten or been tempted to leave behind. Look after each other. Look after yourself.

We can do this.

To your battle stations.

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As a lab partner, he's not much help.

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You know a Godzilla and Kong inspired post-apoc rpg would be pretty cool

Playable species:

Human (with psychic options)

Android (inspired by M-11, a termintor ripoff from Godzilla vs King Ghidorah and Jet Jaguar)

Cyborg

Deathrunners, tool-using therapods with traits of both large theropods and dromaeosaurs. Come From Skull Island but were brought to mainlands prior to apocalypse. Use giant velociraptors like hunting dogs

Also various aliens in expansion packs

Lots of stuff to play with that isn't normally since you are generally playing at a smaller scale until reach high levels where you may have become a kaiju's high priest or reactivated an ancient macha. For intermediary scale:

Gunhed , the beer drinking robots (that came from a movie inspired by a movie script where Godzilla goes up against a military A.I)

Throw in the Kamikites: Kamacuras inspired creatures from Godzilla At World's End novel, as strange enemies

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les animaux de l'histoire

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It's funny, the novelizations have a more interesting timeline than the actual movies they lead up to! And Wikizilla's videos on them were great!

I remember the Kamakakites from those Novels. Still have most of mine, actually. I think I'm just missing the first one...

You know a Godzilla and Kong inspired post-apoc rpg would be pretty cool

Playable species:

Human (with psychic options)

Android (inspired by M-11, a termintor ripoff from Godzilla vs King Ghidorah and Jet Jaguar)

Cyborg

Deathrunners, tool-using therapods with traits of both large theropods and dromaeosaurs. Come From Skull Island but were brought to mainlands prior to apocalypse. Use giant velociraptors like hunting dogs

Also various aliens in expansion packs

Lots of stuff to play with that isn't normally since you are generally playing at a smaller scale until reach high levels where you may have become a kaiju's high priest or reactivated an ancient macha. For intermediary scale:

Gunhed , the beer drinking robots (that came from a movie inspired by a movie script where Godzilla goes up against a military A.I)

Throw in the Kamikites: Kamacuras inspired creatures from Godzilla At World's End novel, as strange enemies

#Youtube

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You know a Godzilla and Kong inspired post-apoc rpg would be pretty cool

Playable species:

Human (with psychic options)

Android (inspired by M-11, a termintor ripoff from Godzilla vs King Ghidorah and Jet Jaguar)

Cyborg

Deathrunners, tool-using therapods with traits of both large theropods and dromaeosaurs. Come From Skull Island but were brought to mainlands prior to apocalypse. Use giant velociraptors like hunting dogs

Also various aliens in expansion packs

Lots of stuff to play with that isn't normally since you are generally playing at a smaller scale until reach high levels where you may have become a kaiju's high priest or reactivated an ancient macha. For intermediary scale:

Gunhed , the beer drinking robots (that came from a movie inspired by a movie script where Godzilla goes up against a military A.I)

Throw in the Kamikites: Kamacuras inspired creatures from Godzilla At World's End novel, as strange enemies

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Cass content in detective comics

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being a cass fan is 100% believing that the cass story in Detective Comics #1084 is setting up for a cass solo (please DC)

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X-Men #18 (2023) Gerry Duggan C.F. Villa

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Laura

Art by Peach Momoko

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The Far Side for Thursday 3/28.

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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad - art by William Stout (2003)

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Detective Comics #1084

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Batgirl (2000) #59

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I played as Lady Shiva in a LARP recently, and most of what she did was give people therapy. Only a select few people sought her out for training. One of whom was Calvin from Calvin and Hobbs. He ended up getting a damn Stand from the whole thing (because Shiva can unlock potentials, and Calvin was the ONLY person to take her up on the offer!).

So so glad to see more writers heading towards the ideal Cass and Shiva dynamic: "I will never be your typical mother but every time you need to do some soul searching or get therapy from someone who truly understands, we can fight it out until you figure out what's blocking you. You get to be your best self and I get entertainment and to witness something that interests me. A win win"

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Blue Beetle, the Teen Titans and Peacemaker by Rafael Albuquerque