rantsoftheburitsu

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reblog if you are BISEXUAL, SUPPORT BISEXUAL PEOPLE, or REALLY HATE DONALD TRUMP

:*3 @krispyklean You have just made this bi woman smile

In light of Pride month, I would like to give a big ol FUCK YOU to straight couples who use dating sites to pick up bi women for their ugly sexual fantasies.

31 and reading good fan fiction for life!

Reblog if you’re over 20 and still read/write fan fiction.

I’m curious!

Some of the most talented women in comics, on Tumblr and beyond, are joining us for a special Women’s History Month Issue Time. 

ASK OUR PANELISTS A QUESTION!

Maytal Gilboa is the founder and CEO of Emet Comics, a publishing company focused on empowering female comic book creators. In 2016 Emet Comics acquired Fresh Romance, a romance comic anthology from publisher Rosy Press.  Fresh Romance Volume 2 is currently in production and being crowdfunded through Kickstarter.  Prior to starting her publishing company, Maytal spent 4 years working as an executive at animation house, ReelFX Creative Studios, where she worked on films such as The Book of Life, and Freebirds.  Emet’s latest webcomic is Zana.

Sally Jane Thompson is an artist and writer whose work includes comics from Oni, Dark Horse, Image, Oxford University Press, The Phoenix and more, as well as live art, sketch reportage and illustration. She drew The Ruby Equation (with Sarah Kuhn, Savanna Ganucheau and Steve Wands) for Fresh Romance Vol 1, and is returning to the series to both write and draw Under the Oak Trees. Born and raised in Chicago, Ashley A. Woods is an illustrator who got her start through self-publishing her action-fantasy comic series, “Millennia War”. January 2015, she met Amandla Stenberg and Stranger Comics at a convention; six months later, she began working on “NIOBE: She Is Life” which went on to sell tens of thousands of copies and inspired many cosplays.

Afua Richardson [ pronounced Ah FOO wah ] is an award winning American Comic-book illustrator best known for her work on Marvel’s Black Panther World of Wakanda. Some of her other works include Wildstorm, Attack on Titan, X-men 92, Captain Marvel, All Star Batman to name a few. Afua is also a musician, voice actor, activist and mentor. As a recipient of the Nina Simone award, she is aptly called a Jane of All trades.

Suzana Harcum and Owen White of the webcomic Tripping Over You are a two-person comics team currently based in Arizona. They are a married lesbian couple who once flirted with each other by creating characters and drawing together, and continue to make LGBTQ positive comics today for the love of writing stories together.

Our panelists will start responding on Monday 27 March

Sweet lord! I died already! XD

Jaal audio clip #2

I feel the same way :-/

I can’t be the only one noticing a lack of species. They touched on a bunch of beloved races but I’ve heard nothing about the Drell. 

Are there no Drell in Mass Effect: Andromeda?? 

My life

The Three Laws of Fandom

If you wish to take part in any fandom, you need to accept and respect these three laws.

If you aren’t able to do that, then you need to realise that your actions are making fandom unsafe for creators. That you are stifling creativity.

Like vaccination, fandom only works if everyone respects these rules. Creators need to be free to make their fanart, fanfics and all other content without fear of being harassed or concern-trolled for their creative choices, no matter whether you happen to like that content or not.

The First Law of Fandom

Don’t Like; Don’t Read (DL;DR)

It is up to you what you see online. It is not anyone else’s place to tell you what you should or should not consume in terms of content; it is not up to anyone else to police the internet so that you do not see things you do not like. At the same time, it is not up to YOU to police fandom to protect yourself or anyone else, real or hypothetical.

There are tools out there to help protect you if you have triggers or squicks. Learn to use them, and to take care of your own mental health. If you are consuming fan-made content and you find that you are disliking it - STOP.

The Second Law of Fandom

Your Kink Is Not My Kink (YKINMK)

Simply put, this means that everyone likes different things. It’s not up to you to determine what creators are allowed to create. It’s not up to you to police fandom. 

If you don’t like something, you can post meta about it or create contrarian content yourself, seek to convert other fans to your way of thinking.  

But you have no right to say to any creator “I do not like this, therefore you should not create it. Nobody should like this. It should not exist.”

It’s not up to you to decide what other people are allowed to like or not like, to create or not to create. That’s censorship. Don’t do it.

The Third Law of Fandom

Ship And Let Ship (SALS)

Much (though not all) fandom is about shipping. There are as many possible ships as there are fans, maybe more. You may have an OTP (One True Pairing), you may have a NOTP, that pairing that makes you want to barf at the very thought of its existence.

It’s not up to you to police ships or to determine what other people are allowed to ship. Just because you find that one particular ship problematic or disgusting, does not mean that other people are not allowed to explore its possibilities in their fanworks.

You are free to create contrarian content, to write meta about why a particular ship is repulsive, to discuss it endlessly on your private blog with like-minded persons.

It is not appropriate to harass creators about their ships, it is not appropriate to demand they do not create any more fanworks about those ships, or that they create fanwork only in a manner that you deem appropriate.

These three laws add up to the following:

You are not paying for fanworks content, and you have no rights to it other than to choose to consume it, or not consume it. If you do choose to consume it, do not then attack the creator if it wasn’t to your taste. That’s the height of bad manners.

Be courteous in fandom. It makes the whole experience better for all of us.

Esp when your buying all the drinks

This me at work . . . I;m surrounded by back stabbers at work

Keep doing what you do! :3

I don’t know what’s going on but I’ve been getting a good amount of negative “criticism” about my cosplays lately. None of it has to do with my makeup, my costume or anything like that. Instead, it’s me being black that’s the problem. Almost every character I’ve done has made someone question why I’ve cosplayed them if they weren’t as dark as I am. People have called me horrible things, told me to stop cosplaying or to choose different characters. This sort of thing really brought me down because I already know I’m not “the best” cosplayer but for people to literally tell me I can’t cosplay something for a reason I can’t change? That’s ridiculous and honestly I don’t care anymore. Cosplaying is a hobby to me, I’ve made so many friends from it and I have so many great memories. I’m not gonna stop because some ignorant people fill my inbox with garbage. I’m gonna keep doing it for as long as I want and tbh I give zero fricks about anything negative people have to say about that. Everyone should cosplay who they want to. It doesn’t matter if you’re a different race, a different size, etc. Cosplay whoever makes you happy because I certainly will ♡

Yes! That’s not how you arrest someone! That’s just EVIL!

School officer who violently arrested Spring Valley High student has been fired http://ift.tt/1N8dLXl

:3

Contrary to Popular Belief Africa is Not a Monolith

“You don’t look African”

Considering Africa is a continent with 54 different countries and over 3000 different ethnic groups, it really shouldn’t surprise people that there is no one set look for an African. 

Afar people:

San people:

Amazigh people:

Oromo people:

Hausa people:

Masai people:

Edo people:

Wodaabe people:

These are just 8 of the over 3000 ethnic groups in Africa, and you can already see how beautiful and varied the people of Africa are.

THERE IS NO ONE AFRICAN “LOOK”.

This was my inspiration for Mileena’s teeth. When I get more practice, I will cosplay MKX’s version of Mileena’s teeth 

My first Cosplay makeup as Mileena from Mortal Kombat. Strangely the eye makeup was more harder than the teeth

This is for International Clown week last month Aug 2-7 2015

Changes to this page

So, when I started this page years ago, I wanted it to be a place where I post my comic art and what not. But, ever since my friend at the time and I had our fallout, I’ve had no motivation to draw. So instead of comic art and what not, I’m switching this page into my journey through makeup especially cosplay makeup. It’s fun, a lot faster than my drawing process and most of all it makes me happy. So sit back peeps and watch this lady paint her face and hopefully in the future, use her whole body for cosplay! :D 

Sandra Bland is one of many black women who have died in police custody.

Tanisha Anderson was a 37-year-old woman struggling with mental illness who died after Cleveland police slammed her head into the pavement outside of her family’s home in 2014.

Miriam Carey was a 34-year-old dental hygienist who made a wrong turn near the White House and was fatally shot by federal law enforcement officers in 2013.

Yvette Smith was a 47-year-old woman who was shot and killed by Texas police officers as she opened the door to her home for police in 2014.

Natasha McKenna was 37 years old when she was restrained by Virginia police, shackled at the legs and shot with a stun gun four times earlier this year. She stopped breathing and died at a hospital several days later.

Rekia Boyd was a 22-year-old woman living in Chicago when she was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer.

Mya Hall was a 27-year-old transgender woman who was shot and killed by National Security Agency guards after crashing a car into a government facility.

Shelly Frey was a 27-year-old mother of two who was shot by Wal-Mart security who accused her of shoplifting.

Darnisha Harris was only a teenager when Louisiana law enforcement officials fired two shots into the car she was driving in 2012.

Malissa Williams, 30, died after Cleveland police fired 137 times into the car that she was riding in with Timothy Russell.

Alesia Thomas was 35 when she was kicked to death by a Los Angeles Police officer.

Shantel Davis was 23 when she was shot and killed by plainclothes New York Police officers in Brooklyn in 2012.

Shereese Francis, 29, had mental illness and died after NYPD officers arrived at her home to help her family transport her to a local hospital. Four officers pressed on her back to handcuff her, and lawyers for the family later sued, saying they suffocated Francis.

Aiyana Stanley-Jones was only 7 when Detroit police officers barged into her family’s home with their guns drawn, shooting her in the head.

Tarika Wilson, 26, was killed and her 14-month-old son was wounded in 2008 after Ohio police opened fire in her home.

Kathryn Johnson was 92 years old when she was shot and killed by Atlanta police officers in a botched 2006 raid.

Alberta Spruill was 57 when she died after NYPD officers mistakenly threw a stun grenade into her home.

Kendra James was 21 when she was killed by Portland police officers in 2003.

These are just some of their names. We must say them and remember them for all women of color.

:3

If you're fifteen or older an still sleep with a stuffed animal please reblog this.

Hey Pretty Ladies! :D

In honor of Trans Day of Visibility, here are some wonderful trans YouTube ladies!

Kat Blaque, Raiden Quinn, Gigi Gorgeous, & PRINCESSJOULES

:*3

I lost a friend today and I don’t even remember the last time I cried this hard but Blake was everything man. So many laughs that he and I shared and he even laughed at all my corny jokes. Always made it a point to ask me how I’m doing when I looked down. Just an overall great person. I will never forget him. I saw this picture on Twitter a couple of weeks ago and I said “OH MY GOD IT’S BLAKE!!” and I never smiled so big, haha it’s my favorite picture. He was going to change the world, man. R.I.P Blake Brockington. #TransLivesMatter #LegalizeTrans

Yes please!

Reblog if you vote to keep this #BlackOut going all weekend

Amen to you!

like i realized a long time ago that a lot of ppl who write smut in fandoms aren’t necessarily writing the characters so much as projecting their kinks and fetishes onto their faves

which would be ok if so much of it wasn’t so disturbing and it didn’t compromise a fair chunk to a majority of fic content for cerain ships (much less smut content)

Perfect!

Do not forget Michael Brown

Do not forget how the media dehumanized him and tried to justify his murder

Do not forget how peaceful protests were painted as savage riots

Do not forget police armed with military grade weapons terrorized and arrested black civilians

Do not forget Darren Wilson being awarded over $400,000 in fundraiser donations for murdering an unarmed black child

Do not forget that this system was not built to defend us, but to control us

Do not forget Ferguson 

Fashion Goddess, I bow before you

I hope I still see this hashtag 3 months later (and so on) from now so I can be proven wrong that these three words isn't just some phase that's gonna fade out in months or years to come. 

Killer Bunny

My Dad says women don't like Monty Python, Reblog if you are a woman and like Monty Python.

When you think about it Ridley Scott is right. Look back at all the bible movies and animations that's been made. I mean it! Look at "Prince of Egypt", "Ben-Hur", "Ten Commandments", "King of Kings", that HBO animated series about Bible stories.  

I love this woman! Can she be my grandma?

About the French Minister of Justice, Christiane Taubira:

February 2, 1952: birth in Cayenne, French Guiana

1993-2012: she joins the National Assembly of France for French Guiana

1994-1999: she joins the European Parliament

May 2001: she is the principal author of Loi n° 2001-434, a law that officially recogizes the atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity [english], [french]

2002: she becomes the first black candidate and first black woman to run in the French presidential elections

2002-now: she publishes multiple books on the status of black people in French history and society

November 2012: she introduces Projet de Loi n° 344 to the parliament. this bill goes on to become Loi no 2013-404, which legalizes same-sex marriage in france in may 2013 [x]. [here’s one of her speeches with english subtitles x]

May 2013: she calls for the French government to redistribute land in the dom-tom (France’s Overseas Departments and Territories) to favour the descendants of slaves [x]

October 2013: she (justifiably) calls out the front national for being racist, antisemitic, anti-arab and homophobic. the party retaliates by threatening to sue her [x]

November 2013: she becomes the first black woman to be picked as Elle France’s Woman of the Year [x]

June 2014: she encourages the parliament to pass a reform that emphasizes the use of probationary periods and rehabilitation for young offenders (as opposed to harsh jail sentences with no rehabilition), in order to prevent repeat offenses and reduce overcrowding in french prisons [x]

July 2014: the court in cayenne gives anne-sophie leclère a 50 000 € fine, a 9 month jail sentence, and a 5 year ban from politics for comparing Taubira to a monkey [x] [video]

November 2014: she takes to twitter to speak up against the grand jury’s decision not to indict darren wilson [x]