If anyone's interested in the presentation I gave @pcaaca, in mid-2021, here it is. Black Magic: African American Public Memory in Contemporary Tarot: https://t.co/mOEAJnTzZk
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@WolfyTheWitch I started following you from your Jesus art and stayed for a lot of other mythical art, specifically your scenes from the Odyssey. Love your interpretations and it's an honor to see your skills grow and branch out. 🖤
Sharing this remarkable image, José y Maria, by Everett Patterson, seems even more urgent this year. In the past, I’ve delighted over the clever visual puns (Dave’s City Hotel, Weisman cigarettes and Mary’s “Nazareth High School” sweatshirt) and in the reminder that Mary and Joseph were, like this couple, desperate young people looking for lodgings, when there was “no room at the inn,” as one translation of Luke’s Gospel has it.
In the past few years, there has been an intense debate (mainly online) over whether Mary and Joseph were refugees. To me, it seems clear that they were, at least during the “Flight into Egypt” where they flee a murderous king, leave Galilee and travel to Egypt to take refuge. That fits the classic description of a refugee: someone who leaves their homeland out a “well founded fear of persecution.” Some people say, well, they were still in the Roman Empire, which is beside the point. Do we really think that a poor couple from Galilee would have considered Egypt their homeland? Popes since at least Pope Pius XII have agreed. He called the Holy Family the “archetype of every refugee family.”
But before that, as a couple looking for lodging, they mirror thousands of couples and families today who have been denied “room at the inn.” In the United States, couples and families (and children) looking for “room” have been harassed, rejected, arrested, beaten, imprisoned and tortured. “No room at the inn.”
I will never understand how people can treat other human beings like this—even if they are, or are assumed to be, somehow breaking the law. Christ is present in every person, and every person has infinite dignity--whether you are Joseph and Mary, José y Maria, or an unknown person looking for room for their family.
If we delight in making room in our homes for our Nativity scenes, and delight in making room for Baby Jesus in the creche’s manger, can we make room for Christ, who is present in every migrant and the refugee? José y Maria, pray for us.
(Image: "José y Maria," Everett Patterson https://t.co/74UW24kf6Y)
'E.g.' comes from the Latin 'exempli gratia,' which means "for example."
Also, 'i.e.' comes from the Latin 'id est,' which means "that is."
Way to remember
e.g. = example given
i.e. = in essence
BL shipping has been a load-bearing pillar of the entire anime and manga fandom since OG Gundam. Many series “made for men” deliberately bake ambiguity into male friendships to get a foot in the Fujoshi market.
You’re the ones changing the hobby under the guise of “gatekeeping.”
Shame on you @amazon@PrimeVideo.
After years of fans hoping for an English dub of Banana Fish, you give it to us as AI generated garbage?
It’s disrespectful as hell. Was a queer trauma narrative handed to a machine because paying real actors is too hard?
Fix this, or I personally will not work with you as an actor EVER AGAIN on any of your dubs.
This is not ‘the future.’ This is erasure.
Oh dear, I seem to have missed the 25 year anniversary of Banjo-Tooie. Let's see what I can find from my design archives about it that might be entertaining. First up is some early thinking about abilities, including a stretchy neck move that could have been fun!
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A candidate putting out ads where they are personally speaking English, Spanish, Urdu, Hindi, and Arabic is one of the most American things I’ve ever seen in politics. You absolutely love to see it.
Covid-19 vaccines, credited with saving millions of lives during the pandemic, set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study. https://t.co/r3wjVEZ0x2
I think the sparkling vampires in Twilight were kind of cool. As a teenager, I read all 4 books thinking how off-putting and problematic much of the narrative was, but Edward sparkling in the sunlight was neatest change to vampiric lore.