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The Iranian Regime is going to execute rapper Toomaj Salehi for supporting protests of Jina Amini’s murder by the regime in his songs.

Iranian activist Elica Le Bon says, “Iranians in the diaspora picked up on the fact that the regime tends not to execute people who become known to the international community. We have seen many examples of prisoners that were either released on bail or had their sentences commuted through our “say their names to save their lives” campaign on social media, using hashtags to garner attention for their causes, and even before social media existed, through getting the stories of political prisoners to international media outlets. Once reported on, and once the eyes shift to the regime and the reality of its pending brutality, realizing that the action is not worth the repercussions, we have seen them back down and not execute. For that reason, this is part of an urgent campaign for readers to talk about Toomaj as much as you can, using the hashtag #FreeToomaj or #ToomajSalehi. Every comment makes a difference, and if we were wrong, what did we lose by trying?”

#FreeToomaj #ToomajSalehi #please boost

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I hear my mom shrieking downstairs, shouting up to me about “THE CATS! THE CATS!”

I run downstairs, thinking someone has died or something and see THIS:

I FEEL LIKE I NEED TO PUNCH SOMETHING TO GET OVER THE ADORABLENESS

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@sciderman i am sorry but you already draw yourself as him and you draw him with your hair, you've lost the fight years ago (we still love you tho dw).

#Scistopbeingemotionallyandmentallyrelatable2024

it really hurts to be this relatable guys

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I won't lie, there's a centrain magic to reading comics, maybe it's because you have more control over the direction, speed, voices and music when reading over watching something, maybe it's how creative people can get with panel lay-outs, maybe it's all of those things along with the different art styles and way people express themselves through their comic runs, maybe it's the fact there's SO many of them and so many different runs, AUs, versions, solo-stories and characters that while not every comics is for everyone, there's A comics for everyone.

And it's something that only animation can come close to capturing, occasionaly some games because they can give us amazing set pieces and action and stylization through gameplay. But to me live action movies just miss the mark exept a few and even then i just enjoy the comics more.

I think one big thing for me is the narration, because it helps me relate to characters as someone who's thoughts are pretty loud and narration-like, and the fact it's ME who decides how i make the characters sound and talk rather than having to listen to someone else voice the character in a way that i feel isn't "right".

So i'd say personaly it's comics>>books (i like books, and i LOVE fanfics but the visual part stimulates my brain more) >>>animation>games>live action

i agree wholeheartedly! i don't know, i'm kind of in love with the comic medium. but i love writing, also. i just - i really don't like the passivity of animation and television - i need a lot more stimulation than that to get my brain working. i like all the brain work you have to do when you're reading words. and i love the challenge of pulling off "comedic timing" when you don't actually HAVE the dimension of time in your medium exactly - so you have to work with panelling, and you have to work with spacing in your writing - and it's just so sexy and more active for the brain. like you're inventing a language.

comedy writing in comics is so, so fulfilling because you're a comedian, but your format is visual. you need to rely on visual language to carry it. and jokes are all about expectation and subversion and timing. a joke can fall so flat if that timing is off. and - i don't know, i'm obsessed with comics, as if they're some kind of form of visual poetry. it's taken for granted, i think. it's taken for granted.

i think you become more restricted the more dimensions you introduce - so - writing is entirely free. you can do WHATEVER you want, all by yourself, without needing to rely on the quality of your art software or the actors you have at your disposal or anything - you can conjure any visual you like. comics - more challenging, you're limited by your artistic ability but again - you're not restricted by voice cast - god, i love being able to conjure any voice at all in my head for the boys. i think if i was restricted by voice actors i'd have to write them differently, et cetera et cetera... i'd be dealing with VAs and saying "actually. your delivery is all wrong. i have to rewrite the joke." - i'm so particular about these things, you have no idea.

i remember the first time i watched the deadpool movie after having read the original script over and over YEARS prior and having heard it play out in my head in the most hilarious of ways and then. hearing ryan's delivery of those jokes and thinking "oh. it's not that funny actually."

sorry ryan. it might've been funnier if i hadn't read the script already and hadn't already had the movie play out in my brain way funnier than how you did it. sorry. my brain is a better cinema.

something i also love about print vs film - i've had this problem with a lot of adaptations - i despise film adaptations of books i love, just because - something is so sullied about having so many hands in the pot. actors. camera men. producers. directors. all these people - when - what i loved about the book was feeling close to the author. it's just me and him. we're together, intimately. and all of that intimacy gets lost when you know there's a huge film crew behind it.

kind of weird. i love reading a book and just, giggling over the pages, like it's a joke between me and the author. i don't know, i'm a weird little saddo who craves intimacy. so i like the intimacy of it being a one-man show. i love things where i can feel close to the creator. i hope that's why people like my things too. and it's why i like my things. i sometimes think "ouugh. why can't i work for marvel" but i think about how - i'm lucky i get to create what i want to create without having to compromise or answer to editorial. and what i create can always be unapologetically me. and that means more. that means so much more.

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about being a loser

#i felt that

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i’m going to kdxjdhdjhddjjdhs

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“Peter Parker’s supposed to be lame!” “Peter Parker’s supposed to be cool!” You fools. He doesn’t pull off the craziest shit while whining about his life for you to not understand that he does both

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peter “go slide down a barbed-wire fence” parker is not your uwu softboy you guys are just making stuff up because you hate me

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I was today years old when i learned BELTS are gendered.

#wtf why #fucking BELTS #belts #i was today years old #why #just why

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I feel that the 2003 Teen Titans cartoon has a weird chokehold over a lot of the DC fandom, particularly the parts that don't actually READ or even like COMICS, to the point where this show, whose creators openly admit had to be simple enough for a toddler to follow, largely informs a lot of fans' interpretations of some pretty complex characters, themes and continuity. The show, specifically, can tend to become nostalgia bait, and I think it's due time for a lot of this fandom to take off their rose-tinted glasses and let the show go.

Like I enjoyed the show growing up and I still have a soft spot for episodes like Lightspeed and Hide & Seek, but...frankly it's a simple show tailored to young kids that just does not, and was never meant to, do justice to the Titans' comic canon. This show could never have done Who is Donna Troy? and conveyed the unlabelableness of Donna and Dick's relationship, but it was never supposed to. Characterisations are intentionally dumbed down, themes are broken down into bite-sized morals, half of the show is dedicated to comedy, and character development is purposely few and far between because this show was designed for kids aged 2-11. And all that is fine but it's just not at all a reflection of what the Titans really are in print. It should not really inform any serious reading of the DC comic universe.

On the one hand, I really didn't need to see a Red X comic arc or Starfire talking in broken english in a comic, it's all just cheap nostalgia bait that people need to stop falling for. It's sacrificing theme in favour of cheap references. On the other hand, I do think the fans I'm talking about probably owe it to themselves to a) be a little more honest and critical about their engagement with DC media, and b) challenge themselves more when engaging in media to avoid wallowing in flanderized fluff.

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It's insane how casually the calls to end a genocide, not just the students in Columbia University but pro Palestinian views in general, are labelled as terrorists. The audacity to still publicly support Israel's actions even after the horrific bombings these last months and then turn around to say that the ones who oppose it are violent anti semites is just baffling

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Wdym "not too hot and not too cold" i saw it SNOW with my own eyes that day for like an hour, if not two..at the end of APRIL.

#not too hot and not to cold #comedians #our planet is so screwed if this is the weather chance #should i tag this as climate change? #possibly #maybe not

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Trans peoples lives should not be a debate. Trans peoples lives should matter to you regardless of your political standings. Trans people are people. Trans people are valid. Trans peoples rights are human rights.

If you believe otherwise, get off of my blog. I don't want monsters on here.

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Batman: I am the night. I am vengeance. I am the shadows. I am fear.

He/it and it/its users: *whispering* I know what you are...

#batman #batfamily #reblog #still thinking about this #like...so much rn #that and Bruce being an Addams

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Thinking about a he/it Bruce Wayne again (and a he/him Brucie Wayne, with a it/its Batman) because it just makes sense in my brain.

#batman #bruce wayne #brucie wayne #he/it bruce wayne #it/its batman #batman headcanon #the dark knight #caped crusader #the batman

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Actually you know what it would make perfect sense if people saw Bruce Wayne as being anti-cop and anti-batman. He should be pouring money into mental health services, orphanages, halfway houses, social programs. He should be issuing damning public statements about police brutality and how increased policing hasn't decreased the crime in Gotham, how "broken windows" policing has seemed to do nothing other than agitate people with no criminal records into more desperate acts, including perhaps putting on a stupid costume and following around obvious malcontents like the Joker and the Penguin just to get cops off the streets.

Commissioner Gordon blasts Bruce Wayne in the papers, calling him a stupid rich boy, commenting that he's still a fearful little orphan boy more concerned with getting guns off the streets than focusing on jailing the types of people who used them against his parents.

Bruce Wayne calls Gordon a warmonger, an overpaid bully trying to strip rehabilitative services from Arkham in favor of capital punishment. He points to Harvey Bullock, who has dozens and dozens of civil complaints for abuses of power and police brutality, and yet remains on the force without a single suspension. Quipping, "and why? Because Commissioner Gordon thinks he's brave. Because Bullock will charge his men into the depths of Poison Ivy's lair without waiting for backup? How many rookies has he gotten killed? I wasn't aware Gotham Police Department was in the habit of rewarding stupidity. Is it a prerequisite for making detective or just a bonus, Mr. Commissioner?"

Some time when they're staking out a suspected Falcone hideout as the Commissioner and Batman, Jim turns to Bruce and says "that's a smart way to stop people from suspecting you're Batman, if a bit expensive and over the top." There's a pause. Batman deactivates the infrared sensors in his lenses and turns to look at him. Jim feels a slight chill.

"What are you referring to, exactly?" The cowled crusader rumbles, in that characteristic dark monitone that so frightens the villains of Gotham.

Gordon waves his hand in a noncommittal gesture. "You know. The whole...'acab' thing"

"is that what you think?"

The smallest hint of a smile tugs at the corners of Batman's mouth. He looks back at the building, re-entering surveillance mode. "That's not a ploy, Jim. You are all bastards"

Jim Gordon's mouth goes on a rather different journey, twisting into a deep frown. "That's not funny."

"Do I look like a clown to you?"

"now THAT really wasn't funny"

"commissioner, I'm not as complex as you seem to be giving me credit. I don't like the police. They capture people to punish them for their crimes. But what have you done to prevent them? What amount of head-busting corrupt baton policing has made Gotham safer? What have you done to end the economic and social conditions in Gotham that cause crime to be so prevalant, and so violent? Nothing."

"well that's the pot calling the kettle black, isn't it? What has the Batman done for that? Fat nothing"

"that's why Bruce Wayne does it. Because Batman doesn't have that kind of power."

"so then why bother? Why do the Batman thing in the first place? Why run around in the tight outfits getting half-killed every night?"

"part of it is that I know if I catch the bad guys first they'll go to get help instead of to a morgue"

"part of it, huh? Then what's the rest?"

A movement inside the building catches Batman's eye. He stands up straight and steps back from the ledge of building. No getting around it. He doesn't have the height to land on the roof and make a subtle entrance to the skylight. If he tries his grapple gun he'll be seen, and lose the element of surprise. Through the window it is. He hates going through the windows.

He positions himself for a running start. "the rest, Jim, is hubris"

"hubris?"

"I like showing you up, James." and with that he takes his leap, wings outspread, gliding to that far window and going through the glass with a loud crash.

#this is fun