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Ignoring the complexities and well-established enmeshment of fascism in Western culture for the sake of simpler stories to inspire rising to this moment in history only builds fair-weather fighters ill-prepared for the rigors of revolutionary action. It also widens the rift between those newly awakened to the struggle and their neighbors that have lived it for generations (and have built and maintained systems of community support and resistance that have protected them for just as long).

This video is important because it knuckles down on something so many people aren't okay with: If you spit in power's eye, it's gonna hit back. And you gotta just be square with that.

Main Character here says "You'll get in trouble." And the hero of our story does not go "Naw cause I'm just and good" or "they'll have to catch me." They just accept that consequence is part of speaking truth to power and that's just part of the package. Cool. Fine. Throw the fucking punch.

John Rogers is the creator of two of my favorite things:

Leverage and Leverage: Redemption, show(s) about criminals who team up to punish billionaires and corporations who take advantage of regular people in ways that the law won't punish. It's a great heist show, it's hilarious, it's satisfying in a vengeance sort of way, it's deeply nerdy in sometimes subtle ways (criminals using aliases from Doctor Who, anyone?), and seeing the characters and relationships develop is really nice, too.

Mr Rogers: Be kind

Steve Rogers: Do the right thing

Growing up my family made these things called cheese noodles. It's a mennonite thing. It's more commonly known as vareniki- don't at me if I spell it differently than you, there's about 4 different spellings in the family cookbook, and anyway it's an anglicization of a word not written with our alphabet. It's originally a Ukrainian dish, a version of pierogi I think? Filled dumpling noodle. pretty much everybody does some kind of filled noodle I think.

The one that became popular with mennonites used farmer's cheese, which later became cottage cheese. I think it's usually served with a ham or pork gravy with most mennonite recipes, my family always served with a cream or milk sauce instead. (sauce- take milk or cream, add salt and pepper to taste.)

The cottage cheese takes on this real interesting texture when it's cooked like this, and the egg noodle is always good. You plop butter on it as you cook them (because you do them in batches) and then Mom would always cut mine up for me (when I was little) and we'd put the sauce in.

It's a lot of labor. you gotta make an egg noodle dough roll, roll it out, fill it. that's more than I can do, right now. maybe if I get a pasta roller, I could do it, but it's just beyond my abilities right now. and my mom and grandma are dead, and I just don't really talk to the rest of my family, so I just don't get to have cheese noodles.

But I saw this recipe for lazy vareniki- this is a sweet version, so I subtracted the sugar and put pepper in the cottage cheese mixture. It doesn't need much rolling out, it took me almost no time to make from start to finish, probably 30 minutes max. and it was really good. it's not cheese noodles, not really. it's not quite the same, how could it be? but it's really a lot closer than I had any reason to expect. It's really good, it's scratching that itch and it barely took any effort. I could get some good amish egg noodles and cook them first and mix them in and I think that'd be pretty much as close as I can do without more machinery.

The last time I had cheese noodles was not long before she died, and my brother and I went to visit her, and she made sure to show us both how to make it. She wanted to be sure that we knew how. She spent that whole trip telling us goodbye and neither of us was really ready for that, but she seemed to know it was the last time.

Speaking as a weirdo kinkster who makes adult content.

We are not collateral damage, we are the targets.

But I don't like the implication that there's some adult content it's OK for banks to censor. That's just not what their role should be.

Sex workers should be able to get paid. Kinksters should be able to sell kinky content. Porn stars should be able to get paid for making porn.

If you're worried about adult content that involves minors, I agree that shit is bad. But we already have laws against that, and, importantly, IT SHOULD NEVER BE THE BANKS DECIDING TO ENFORCE THAT.

I don't think that was a good idea and I am glad that is over

I KNOW HOW MY FILTHY MUTANT ABILITIES UPSET YOU, SCHMIDT. DON’T WORRY–

–YOU WILL DIE PURE. NO MAGNETISM 

It is really Magic.

But let me the answer the question I think you mean. What is it like to work on a set that uses outside properties?

The guy is one of the premier designers of Magic, he's been at it for *decades*. Of course he's going to love working on a set that imposes different design conditions than the norm. I bet he fucking *loves* it just because of that factor.

The asker also forgets that as much as Mark loves the Vorthos side of things, he's still a designer, and to him, it's the *mechanical* side that matters. And UB gives them great opportunities to explore mechanics in a way they don't normally.

Because we are seeing that right now with the world situation and the fight against the Orange Fucker and Muskrat. All kinds of people gumming up the works, including people within the government itself, saying “no, I’m not doing that.” and many of them will be fired or removed. But people are digging in their heels for the small moment of mercy it will grant us.

OH.

I’m crying @comicgeekscomicgeek because I needed to hear this right now. To see my own words, to know that someone read the thought I shouted into the void and remembered. Thank you for being my Sharon Carter and reminding me that I do have a choice.. there’s always a choice.

Look, I rarely post here.

But like... this.

It’s so temporary that the halloween stores don’t even have a real sign, they just hang up a banner outside:

I make my little blorbos, and then I put them in Unpleasant Situations that would upset but compel me as a reader, and just do this over and over again something breaks.

Wanted to show off this cool commission I did for @thephyrrus a few weeks ago of their badass aquatic elf Nishara! 🌊