Human Landfill

This is your occasional reminder that one of the things I’m most disappointed about with Age of Ultron introducing Clint’s family is that it means we’ll never see a Netflix series based on Matt Fraction’s run on Hawkeye, complete with the awesome that is Kate Bishop and Pizza Dog.

Let’s give you some very brief background on the situation here. Venezuela is, on paper, a super-rich country. They have more oil than anyone else on Earth. But thanks to cartoonish levels of government corruption, their economy’s shit the bed so badly that it’s no longer recognizable as a bed. As a result, Venezuela is sort of collapsing as a nation (they’re now experiencing food shortages so severe that one citizen we spoke with reported defending his mango tree with a crossbow). Since the Venezuelan government is largely responsible for the clusterfuck, they tend to clamp down brutally on journalists who write about it.

At least five journalists have been murdered in the country since 1992, all for writing stories that weren’t the literary equivalent of a government blowjob. That means that when these guys get death threats, it’s not the same as the bullshit you have to tolerate every time you express a negative opinion on Twitter about a Marvel franchise. There are plenty of reasons to think they’ll follow through – they have the means and know where you live.

“I published an article criticizing the government’s corruption,” said “Dolores,” a Venezuelan newspaper columnist, “and I received an anonymous call in which an unknown person told me that I was going to get my head cut [off] if I kept writing those things. Next week, I published another article of the same kind, and I received another call where the guy told me my house address and my son’s name.”

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, at UMass Amherst, April 6, 2016 (via linguisten)

February 21st is International Mother Language Day.

ok so now think of one native american cartoon character you know of or a sports team relating to native americans whether it’s their actual name or their team logo, or a town you live in or near with a “native” name bet a lot of these things came to you right away i bet you didn’t even have to think 

In light of it being October, and Halloween time, I figured it’d be cool to make a list of horror (gruesome/scary) anime that you should watch/rewatch during October…

Another

Corpse Party: Tortured Souls

Deadman Wonderland

Elfen Lied

Gantz

Gyo (this is more of a parody movie, but it’s still hella gross)

Hell Girl

Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni

Ichi The Killer: Episode 0

Kiseijuu

Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne

Perfect Blue

Shiki (my personal favorite)

Tokkou

Tokyo Ghoul

Umineko no Naku Koro Ni