Mots et images

I was looking for photos of one physical condition that happens to penises and came across this photoset.

This is very good

WHAT!!!!

They don’t jump 36 feet into the fucking sky do you know how terrifying that would be the human race wouldn’t have survived because we’d have all had heart attacks while still in Africa

One of my favourite photos from my trip to Warsaw in 2006

It is actually a 1,700-square-foot house in Udmurtia, complete with a deck, hold, and masts — basically a place where you can live out your “Blackbeard” fantasy.

some people live places where summer autumn winter and spring do not exist like they do in the northern and southern hemispheres. which is why those tags say "not northern hemisphere". to include people who live on the equator. welcome to the lucky 10 thousand!

we DO reference seasons as a CONCEPT but it wasn't summer/autumn/winter/spring. it was wet season/dry season. that's it.

A map with a circle indicating part of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. /end ID]

i live in the southern US now, and while we do have distinctive summer and winter, the insistence that everyone has the same four seasons as europe really breaks people's awareness of and appreciation for the land around them. it makes me a little sad when the coffee shop nearby puts in seasonal window decals that show somebody else's seasons. why show colorful oak leaves for fall, when our live oaks shed their leaves in the spring? and yet people here keep insisting that everyone has to have The Same Four Seasons

like centering a world map on the international date line is equally as ‘logical’ but it’s not nearly as common because it positions North America in the east. the big scary political enemy of the ‘middle east’ becomes difficult to comprehend when looking at a map like this

Edit: this syndrome affects women, nonbinary folks and trans men. Please excuse the language in the informatic.

Ninguna mujer desaparece sola, hay un sistema que mira para otro lado.

people also seem less likely to see someone's shitty behavior as reflecting a shitty society than they are to view that behavior as being out of accordance with that society - e.g. a father who's excessively controlling of his daughters' marriage prospects isn't, in her mind, acting that way because he lives in a repressive patriarchal culture, but is actually outdated in his values - his cruelty is unmodern, ungentlemanly, stuck in the past, barbaric. we might think he's upholding the values of his culture perfectly, but the people around him who took issue with his behavior probably wouldn't see it that way

I don't know yet ! The book is doing quite well here in France so I'm definitely hoping for foreign languages adaptations, but it's traditionally published so it's entirely out of my hands. It'll happen if a publishing house in an english-speaking country decides to buy and distribute the book, which doesn't happen that often for this type of big graphic novel format that isn't quite as popular outside of the Franco-Belgian area. Fingers crossed though !

Off the dome, Fantagraphics is an indie pub who often acquires & translates works into English, sometimes in hardback. Their website has a contact form. Fans politely expressing an interest in seeing an English release won't guarantee anything, but probably can't hurt to put it on their radar.

I'm guessing that if you are not a translator, you can still contact publishing houses that fit the style of the book/original publishing house and pitch it to them. It would put it on their radar and even if you cannot translate it, they probably have their own translators for it.

Kids today will never know the joy of the Australian government-funded free-to-air porn hour on the "Special Broadcasting Service" TV network.

And so we watched the porn together, the four of us, and commented it while they wrote in my personal information in some hospital paper.

(also public transit. the history of public transit in the US is infuriating, because we had it! and then we destroyed it!)

Aerial Pruning Skills

He was KILLED BY HIS OWN INVENTION. And this company sees this absolutely insane machine, hears that it killed its own inventor, and goes “yeah I’ll buy that”.