Our Lady of Immaculate Depression

Be authentically, obnoxiously, joyfully aromantic about life.

This is the new flag, the old one was more vivid and in a z shape, but it's been made more neutral to be inclusive of people with seizures or sensory issues.

Each stripe represents a different aspect of disability:

Red: Physical disabilities

Yellow: Cognitive & intellectual disabilities

White: (And this is the key one I think) Invisible AND undiagnosed disabilities

Blue: Mental illnesses

Green: Sensory disabilities

So, which'll it be- soft knuckle or hard knuckle?

That's right. Four new sets of one-off boiler-basher type gauntlets are now available, either individually or as pairs. Need to get a new hand accessory on? Drop me a message.

Choke. Just think about it, seriously. Think about what choking is and imagine speaking while it’s happening. That would fuckin’ hurt, man.

Hiss. Look, it’s just not possible, okay? No matter how “evil” you want your character to seem.

Snarl. Animals snarls. The Beast from Beauty and the Beast snarls. The Hulk snarls. You know who doesn’t snarl? PEOPLE WHEN THEY’RE SPEAKING.

Shriek. Come on, 99% of the time, “shriek” is not the word you want.Let’s face it: if you put an exclamation point at the end of the sentence, your reader gets the picture. Don’t bring to mind banshees and screaming toddlers.

Hiss is a low, threatening whisper. Raw, guttural, vicious. It is NOT a literal hiss like an animal, it is a tone of voice that serves the same function. Someone will hiss that they’re going to cut your throat- a message from one person to the other.

Snarl is the same kind of thing. Not literal, it’s a tone of voice that serves the same function. It’s raw and gutteral like a hiss, but more savage than vicious. It’s loud, it’s showy, it’s intimidating. It’s very alpha male, big man, look at how fucking dangerous I am. I’ll take ALL of you on. Even if they’re snarling at one person in particular, nobody better back them up or they’re gonna get fucked up too.

Shriek. Come on, seriously? We’ve all heard people shriek either in fear or outrage. High pitched, loud, out of control, feminine. Men can shriek, but it’s funny and emasculating. Think angry italian women throwing pots and pans or ladies on tables who just saw a mouse.

What makes the villain the villain (inasmuch as it's useful to examine TLT characters through that kind of simplistic lens) is that when the chips are down and he has to choose, his priority is punishing the wicked, not saving the people left behind.

I would invite anyone whose engagement with their cause consists of finding the 'correct' group of people to hate, to consider whether 'evil emperor' is the next career move you see yourself taking, and if it isn't, to gently suggest disembarking from the hate train.

Plumboy 21XX: “retro” indie game. creator just posted something really dire on Twitter & you’re not sure if you want to keep your preorder even though they promise it’s gonna help find episodes 1 and 5 of the animated series

Gug: game released in 1999. You remember it being good. It’s not.

The bodies were also posed and undignified attitudes that accentuated whites' dominance over them: the lynched were shown handcuffed, bound, hanging, gagged, and tied to stakes, and the dissected had been flayed, propped up, with playing cards and placed in their hands and cigarettes in their mouths, posed in chairs, or dressed in outlandish clothes or hats.

The dead bodies were often stripped nude or partially sold, while the revelers tended to be well, even festively, dressed. The white groups project an air of jubilant camaraderie and tend to look directly at the camera in an un-selfconscious, even proud manner.

Souvenir images of both types were often distributed in the forms of photographs or postcards of the anatomists or lynchers with the body. Actual body parts such as fingers, ears, patches of skin, and bones were seized, sold, and collected as souvenirs.

Lynched bodies and grisly human souvenirs served as warnings to Blacks that whites could torture them, murder them, and defile their bodies with impunity: any African american, literate or not, could read the same clear warnings and professional portraits of groups of jocular white physicians and physicians-to-be posing with flayed, dissected Black remains."