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Pride sale time

These facilities chew you up. They suck the life from you and grind your body to dust to extract every ounce of profit they can.

As someone who works at UPS, this captures the hopelessness of these jobs. Just endlessly busy, grueling work that wears on your mind and body. Meanwhile, the people who receive the fruits of your labor don't even think you exist, or even worse yet, blame you for the destruction of their wares (when it's not even our fault most of the time).

This speaks to how invisible UPS, FedEx, Amazon, USPS, warehouse workers in general are to the public, and how those companies want to keep it that way. There is a cost to "fast and free delivery", and that cost is the emotional and physical toll of the people, actual real fucking people, working these jobs.

They're also dangerous, in case you didn't realize. Amazon warehouses have had to evacuate because bear spray got into the HVAC system. At UPS, I have a "Death and disembowelment" insurance because a 60 pound box of furniture comes down the chute at incredible speeds due to its weight and could break my bones if I'm not paying attention. You can also get trapped inside of trailers, buried behind mountains of packages or even jammed up against your wall because the brake on your rollers is broken. I've had packages show up to my door with drops of my coworkers' blood on them.

hyper beam

May the SILLIEST team win!

Static was WILDLY popular in Brazil (a country where the population is over 50% black) and we had re-runs for YEARS on open television. Everyone who was a kid in the 2000s knew and loved him. As a result, every single Brazilian Con has a LOT of static cosplayers!

So, a couple of years ago, Comic Con Experience (the biggest con in Brazil, which is actually also the biggest con in the world!) invited one of Static’s creator Denys Cowan as one of the guests of honor.

Now. Thousands of people attend his panel. And cosplayers went NUTS because they could show their Static cosplay to the creator himself! What none of us expected was Debts Cowan’s reaction:

He cried on stage.

He had never seen Static cosplayers - especially not so many of them! And he had no idea the show was popular here! No one ever told him his character was so beloved! Years and years of reruns and he had no idea! He obviously created the character with his experiences and his community (Black North Americans) in mind. Still, he accidentally touched a whole other community of black people who could see themselves on the screen as a superhero!

Anyway he is a lovely person and one of the best, most memorable guests we had. And I think this is a nice reminder that your art might touch people you can’t even imagine would when creating it.

oh my god

oh my god, wow

that has to be it! there's no way this makes sense otherwise

Natural Black Hair Tutorial! Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.”