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Characters that remind me of Loki in one way or another:

Masked Stanley Ipkiss, The Mask (movie)

Betelgeuse, Beetlejuice (both the movie and cartoon)

Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

Discord, My Little Pony

Alastor, Hazbin Hotel

Ninja Ninja, Afro Samurai

Gonna do just 20 days of Wonder Woman-themed posts for the wonder women in my life, including my daughter, dandelion-witch, and for Shea MacLeod. (Somehow my days got off, so we’re doing a double day today because it comes out today!)

People always said selling a female superhero character in comics would be difficult at best.

Nevertheless she persisted.

She was given a short-lived television show in the 1970s, but it was cancelled after only 3 seasons.

Nevertheless she persisted.       

According to Wikipedia, in 2016, Sensation Comics featured Wonder Woman officiating a same-sex wedding (Issue #48). "My country is all women. To us, it's not 'gay' marriage. It's just marriage", she states to Superman. Wonder Woman's advocacy for gay rights was taken a step further when comic book writer Greg Rucka announced that she is canonically bisexual, according to her rebooted Rebirth origin. This follows the way Wonder Woman was written in the alternate continuity or non-canon Earth One by Grant Morrison, and fellow Wonder Woman writer Gail Simone staunchly supported Rucka's statement. Rucka responded to "haters" that consensual sex with women is just as important to Wonder Woman as the Truth is to Superman, surprised at the amount of backlash from her fanbase.

Nevertheless she persisted.

For years, Hollywood has resisted the idea of giving her a film of her own, anticipating that it would not be well-received.

Nevertheless she persisted.

Her film opens today, starring Israeli actress Gal Gadot. Personally, I hope it blows the box office records for superhero movies off the table. And I hope it’s as good as it looks. I feel like it’s more important than just another superhero film, and the deeper implications should make women want to support it.

1) I’m studying Forensic Psychology, and finding it a lot more interesting than I thought it would be

2) I ride western-style horseback for my university, which I’m really proud of

3) Even though I like to say I’m a mermaid, I’m not an incredibly strong swimmer. I still love swimming though.

4) I normally only watch T.V. shows or animes once the season is finished. it stresses me out waiting for the next episode, especially because I can’t stand cliffhangers. I drove my friends insane watching YOI.

5) I’ve worked at my grandparents’ nursery farm since I was 12, so I know a lot about flowers. Despite this, I can’t keep them alive for shit.

6) I read Tarot cards, and have had the same deck since I was in middle school

7) 2 seniors on my team introduced me to tea when I was freshman in high school. I hadn’t realized that hot tea was an actual thing. I now drink it almost everyday.

8) I bought all of my horseback riding equipment with my own money. I’m really proud of that.

9) I live really close to lake erie, and have gotten used to being close to a body of water. It bothers me when I’m not near it

10) I am always tired. I know a lot of people joke about it on here, but I can almost always take a nap.

11) I can also sleep almost everywhere- traveling for Winter Guard and Band in high school made it easy for me to do so.

Whew… you have no idea how timely this is. I’m on probation from my bachelor’s program right now because my GPA dropped 0.01% too low (yes, literally) while I had like 6 relatives in the hospital at once (including my husband and grandmother). The paperwork to review my case and let me back in is so much and I’ll be lucky to be done before 30… I’ve really been thinking about giving up. But I want that goddamn degree.

You 100% got this. Even though it seems overwhelming, you've got it under control. Just one little piece of paper at a time. One deadline at a time.

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In bonus terrible news, most of my state senators...

Thank you for sharing this. Even as a person with SAD, I didn’t realize all this. Do you think being on standard time year round would be equally harmful?

I don’t know.

I know there are people who get summer SAD, but I don’t know if it’s a light thing or a heat thing or if it varies person to person.

Super-early (compared to DST) summer sunrises can be compensated for by heavy drapes. But for me, there is no adequate replacement for real sunlight in the morning - SAD lamps just don’t wake me up or lift my mood like sunlight does, and the notion that sunrise wouldn’t be until NINE IN THE MORNING, which is after so many people have to be AT WORK, for portions of the winter is just.

Abominable.

Sunset at 4 is kind of a bummer, but that’s only a few weeks, and permanent DST meaning sunset is at 5 instead for those weeks? It’s still going to be a dark commute home!

I know historically, retail businesses want to hold onto DST to get more business - in the summer - compared to what they might get on standard time.

Also there’ve been previous attempts at doing DST year-round, if not in Oregon than elsewhere - and those got reversed because of the problems it caused in the winter.

WHAT IS THIS? Someone please tell me