Hey everyone? This is not okay. In May, the US government officially adopted a policy separating children from their parents when they crossed the border. It was meant to act as a deterrent to anyone seeking to immigrate to this country. Don’t come with your kids, or we’ll arrest you and take your children away. Children should never be used as political pawns like this. It’s inhuman and cruel.
Parents, after being separated from their children, are being tried as criminals. According to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, “If you cross the Southwest border unlawful, then we will prosecute you. It’s that simple” So not only are families being torn apart, parents are being sent to jail. It’s really hard to be reunited with your child if you are in federal prison.
Please pay attention to what is happening at our southern border. Please care about these people. I know there is a lot gong on in the world, and it’s hard to care about everything all the time, but please don’t forget about the immigrant families. Call you representatives. Vote the people who support this policy out of office in November. Find a local rally/protest. Donate to a charity. Don’t let the people in power get away with this.
Sources are from The New York Times, the Boston Globe, and a video interview with Jess Session found on NBC news. Jacob Soboroff is a reporter for NBC news and MSNBC. 13 June 2018
Well before I talk about this comic at all, people will probably appreciate a warning that it is a comic full of gore and explicit sex, sometimes both at once, but it really is one of the best and coolest comics I have ever read, if not one of the best pieces of fiction I have ever known of.
It’s difficult to pick favorite designs with characters whose forms are so fluid, but I love how cartoonishly scary the Hekatons are when they loosen up their human guise
Pretty much all the worms are great, too, their sheer variety is tons of fun. I like how they can resemble absolutely anything depending on what they ate during their life cycle stages but it’s still just made entirely of fused parasitic worms. People probably think I always automatically prefer a full blown monster to a humanoid, but when a character can be both as they please, I think they end up enhancing the effect of one another. It’s fun to think some regular-looking guy is actually a scorpion bird octopus waiting to pop out and that his personality and actions are partially informed by that.
It’s also nice how themes of gender, sexuality and societal norms manage to be so important throughout the series without feeling “hidden” under layers of allegory, which is a common pitfall whenever fantasy beings are used as stand-ins for people. It helps, of course, that the series has fully human or ex-human characters as well, and that its nonhumans often still deal with realistic social problems entirely separate from, say, being made out of worms.
Even without great creature designs, worldbuilding and all that good character writing, though, just the sheer quality of its balance between drama and silliness would put it in my top recommended comics.
Also I appreciate that the author is capable of METICULOUSLY detailed, picture-perfect illustration work but gets FFAK out smoothly and efficiently with a looser, sketchier style that’s not only still pleasant to look at, but more inspiring as an attainable artist goal.
You don’t have to destroy your hands completely to make a great looking comic; you can just destroy them a little bit, and sometimes the result just has more personality anyway.
I always deeply appreciate with how thoughtfully bogleech writes about my work. ;u; Thank you again!
ohohoho and who is this spicy rapscallion of a young man???? Well, I can’t tell you much about him because I don’t want to ruin the surprise for the rest of my party members but I can tell you that this boy’s name is Cherimoya (you can call him Cheri 😉 (like the fruit)) and he is my newest character for my pal’s D&D one shot. He’s a half elf and he’s a bit rowdy but he likes to think he can charm his way out of (or into) anything.
“In Ultima Online, the player was a container — one you couldn’t open, but which held your equipped items, your backpack which was the container you could actually see, etc. Because of the freeform “gump” style containment system used in the Ultimas, you could position anything to any location in a container, which meant they were basically treated like maps, with coordinate systems in them. Then we added mounts. When you rode a horse, we simply put the horse inside the player, and spawned a pair of pants that looked like your horse, which you then equipped and wore. When we first did this, however, we forgot to make the horse stop acting like a horse. Pretty soon there was a rash of server crashes because the horse inside the player was wandering around, picking up the stuff it found inside the player, rifling through the player’s backpack and eating things it thought were edible, and eventually, wandering “off the map” because the player’s internal coordinate system was pretty small, and the edges weren’t impassable.”
A few years ago, when I was still in an all-girls catholic high school, one of my teachers told us in her weekly “it’s just a phase” lectures that lesbian relationships are toxic because unlike a man and a woman, two women understand each other completely, thus, making it harder for one to break up with the other, resulting in them being trapped in a lesbian relationship for the rest of their lives just because they got too cozy with having a partner that supports and cares for them.
Anyway can you imagine being straight and thinking that people understanding their partners needs are toxic im so glad i cant relate
I have a lot of pet peeves but I think the biggest one is when people say things like “oh it’s such a small town, only 35,000 people” like bitch my town has 200 people, you need to pick a new adjective
According to Wikipedia, a small town is 1,000-20,000 people. So although you are correct in stating that 35,000 people is not a small town (it is a large town), you are incorrect in thinking that you live in a town. You live in a village. You are a villager.
I…… don’t know what to do with that information……a villager…
tag yourself with your living place’s population and what youre classified as. im 278,508 city boy
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