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Catwoman (2018) #50

Bruce, respectfully, what are you talking about?

The first-edition of The Joy of Gay Sex, published in 1977, declared, “Vegetable shortening may be the best lubricant, since it is not only greasy but also digestible”[4] Such a statement perhaps gives new meaning to the companies boastful declarations that “Its digestible” and “Crisco has been making life in the kitchen more delicious for years.”  Similarly, in the 1978 sex manual The Advocate Guide to Gay Health, Crisco even earned an entry in the book’s index.  Discussions of the shortening’s use as an anal lubricant indicate its popularity, with statements such as: “The lubricant, typically the cultic Crisco, must be copious.”[5]  In fact, Crisco was so synonomus with gay sex that discos and bars around the world took on the name, such as Crisco Disco in New York City, which was one of the premiere clubs during the 1970s and early 1980s.  Other clubs or bathhouses, such as Club Z in Seattle, even featured murals with Crisco.  Thus, Crisco was conversely also one of many things that led to the formation of gay identities during the 20th century.

from this essay: http://www.columbia.edu/~sf2220/TT2007/web-content/Pages/drew2.html

If I tell you this is a horror dance number it still won't prepare you. That last move was so terrifying even the judge was like "Let go! Let go!" If you told me they're actually possessed I'd believe you.

The music is a remix of the song Mere Dholna from the Bollywood movie Bhool Bhulaiyya, a remake of the classic Malayalam horror-comedy Manichitrathazhu. It's about a young bride that seemingly becomes possessed of Manjulika, a dancer of the ancient royal court whose tragic death has turned her into a vengeful spirit, one who evokes the wrath of the goddess Durga Kali. In the iconic scene that is repeated across remakes, the groom and his family discover his bride dancing in the dead of night in a manic, disassociative fugue, wearing a moth-eaten dancer's costume and a face smeared in kohl, ash and vermilion. She's hallucinating that she's Manjulika dancing carefree for the court with her lover. The upbeat music is deliberately incongruous with the pathos and creepiness of the scene in reality, especially as it crescendos in the bride's head to the moment when the king decapitates Manjulika's beloved in a fit of jealous rage.

This specific number is by the all-male troupe B Unique, performed for the Indian reality talent contest Hunabaarz. It's a modern fusion based on Bharatnatyam that turns up the creep factor by 200% and is basically a showcase of contortionism and synchronicity. One of the most perfectly choreographed and executed dances I have ever seen. Truly incredible!

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(i'd never heard of this site before but from what i've found it's fully legal. It has a subscription model, but you can also buy comics individually and there's a bunch of free stuff too, mostly from small creators)

ETA:

a lot of people on the notes have also recommended

batcave.biz (despite the name, it's not just batman or dc or even superhero comics)

and there was some complaining about ads, so i'm also gonna rec

ublock origin (adblock for firefox)

it installs a user-login-time "startup" executable that ignores any windows directives to disable it on startup. doing so only removes the even-more-malicious taskbar-icon-creating advertisement-notification-creating process. no matter what you do, the sleeper "updater" process starts when you log in, and runs perpetually

it sends & receives encrypted network traffic both periodically and non-periodically. both are bad, both are suspicious, and a program doing both is more suspicious than the sum of their parts. and to boot: acrobat will polymorphically edit its code after such network activity

this isn't new: it has always done this. now, it does not even do the thing it is meant to: provide a way to interact with documents, which is amongst the very first features computers were built to provide. you can merely open PDFs and read some of their content in the narrow space between the requests for adobe to give them your money, and interface for features you cannot use (because you don't) or do not, have not, and will not ever need

adobe and microsoft would very much like the user's cultural norms around computers to allow for advertisement built into the local software and even operating system itself. the web being 100% advertisements was not enough! sure enough, acrobat will hijack the windows notifications system thing to give you the 2026 equivalent of pop-ups

i don't really know enough about windows software equivalents, so i'll paypal $20 to the first person that reblogs this with a list of 3-5 PDF reader/editor/etc acrobat equivalents that meet the following criteria:

open source, locally-built executables must match checksum of prebuilt distributed executable

no paid features/premium version/subscription/whatever

not a toy hobby project thing, must be windows-users-proof

KDE Okular: is a decent viewer and can also do basic annotations, and is so not-a-toy that you can even download it on the Windows app store.

Jason V1.0 (the circus performer) was a strawberry blond

Whose first impromptu Robin costume (long story) was this

Then several months later, for even more complicated reasons, Jason used a spare original costume in his size to join Batman on a case and mentions...

And he never went back to blond.

Then hsi whole origin got rejigged and he'd never been a redhead.

Honestly, as someone who was there at the time, we really weren't. That's been unfairly amped up by DC and some portions of the fanbase, I feel.

Dick was clearly outgrowing the role of Robin over in the pages of the much better selling than Batman, "New Teen Titans".

So the introduction of Jason Todd was a precursor to Dick giving up the role and then handing it on to Jason with in a way that bursts Bruce's heart with parental pride.

The fact that Jason was a blond carbon copy of Dick's origin was more or less accetped as necessary shorthand to get a kid with the right skills to be Robin up and running in short order.

Yes, there were some raised eyebrows and resigned sighs at the parallels or outright copying, but people were more glad to have Dick being able to be Nightwing and Batman having a Robin again, than anything, I think.

And I think it's important to note that Jason 1.0 lasted over four years worth of stories, including adventures with his old circus, some soap opera with him being adopted by someone else and moments like him being penpals with another junior hero, Kid Devil from the "Blue Beetle" series, and even helping out the Titans.

Street punk Jason 2.0, on the other hand, for all his having an interesting and different take, lasted little more than a year and a half of issues before he was gratuitously killed off.

I'm not even getting into militant activisim and mutual aid despite the treasure trove about stories on heroism and wanting to help and commity with this stuff but even without those, DC just doesn't care about the massive amount of everyday actors who are actually essential to any kind of matter of justice. Obviously, DC always had a problem with that, but it feels like it has gotten so much worse recently with the erasure of civilan casts.

And before you tell me "it's not the genre!" John Constantine. John doesn't fight his battles. John is some kind of manipulative PI from hell. Oracle!Barbara doesn't fight her own battles. What the fuck is stopping us from having an investigation journalism mystery Lois Lane where she, with all her contact network and her own actual damn skill, navigates a work of action and mystery and takes down supervillains and fights can happen but victory isn't ensured by who punches the hardest but by the legal consequences of the revelations she publishes?

Wonder Woman was an actual ambassador for ages. I made a post about how I wanted to hear about the paperwork and actually just see her do diplomatic work and I thought I was just being a nerd but people reacted to that and actually you know what we do really much want to see stories about Wonder Woman as an Amazonian diplomat!

Damian having a solo run where he is a medical first respondant who uses the skills he learnt as fighter/vigilante to get into dangerous places and combat zones etc. to rescue and heal peoples caught in the crosshairs of whatever fight or catastrophe is going on. It would rock. It would be awesome.

Don't get me wrong I love cool badass fights, there are some genres and contexts in which I would actually want there to be more cool badass fights. But DC's universe is currently running on practically only that, in such a varied great universe and that's why they're running on steam and keep making dumb changes to try to keep the stakes high because they worry they're boring now. They're constructing a world where no matter what they claim, the only efficient force at play in any conflict is violence. They have no other angle and they're panicking because they're aware that it's turning them boring and they're flying forward because all their solutions to try and keep things entertaining keep erasing the richness of their universe in order to try and make things more thrilling because they do not understand the gold they are working with. Don't get me wrong, DC is big and we do still have writers pulling cool shit, but DC editorial is having an identity crisis. They're not even writing detective stories anymore!! Their name is Detective Comics. Why should we care whether or not Batman is the greatest detective in the world if Batman's number one hobby right is physically fighting aliens...