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The Mighty Nein animated series just won an Emmy for design.

The police ruled it a suicide. The family and local community demanded an investigation. The police refused to change their ruling.

Juliana Nzita, A 16 year old Black girl, was just found hanging from a tree on church grounds in Charlotte, NC. Police have ruled it a suicide, despite hanging ourselves from trees being like the one communally agreed way Black folks ain’t killing ourselves.

Every time I go on Twitter or Facebook I learn about another recent lynching or missing Black person going mostly unreported. Half the reason I keep an active account on either of those sites is because they’re the only place I can find out about the violence happening to Black and Trans people reasonably quickly.

Non-Black and/or non-US based people often wonder why so many left-leaning Black folks in the US try to operate alternate justice systems within smaller community such as restorative justice, transformative justice, etc. when “all over the world, activists and their ancestors have fought for access to legal systems like this” and this is why.

Our legal system is explicitly designed to kill and enslave Black people. Our legal system from the cops to the lawyers and courts (one of the few times we got justice) to the prisons is legalized slavery where prisons are privatized and corporations are encouraged to maximize their profit by incentivizing every part of this system to hold as many people as possible.

Black folks can be proven innocent after years of time in prison or on death row and still killed by the state or dying in prison because the goal was never justice, it was to keep culling and controlling the Black population.

And outside of the system, we are lynched, raped, abused, trafficked, and robbed by those involved in our legal system, lives often irreparably destroyed, entire lives disappeared with no justice because that is the point, not a flaw. It’s almost always those in the legal system or their families and friends doing this, so that it can be ruled a suicide or a runaway or intracommunity issues and swept away.

Horsie pin kickstarter is LIVE and already over halfway funded in the first hour and a half!

The Mighty Nein: Adventures on the High Seas fan trailer is finally out!! I’m so proud of my friends for this. So much love and hard work and it looks amazing! If the CR team sees it it would be a dream. Give it a look and let them know your thoughts!

During the stop, Lorenzo had 3 coworkers with him in his truck who have all been taken into ICE custody.

His family described Lorenzo as a hardworking family man who didn’t deserve to be killed. All he wanted was to provide for his wife and see his sons become great people. His eldest son recognized his father by his cries and pleas when trying to identify who the victim was.

The Salgado Araujo family has set up a gofundme to help with funeral and legal costs, and to help keep their family supported since Lorenzo was the sole provider.

deathly curious how good the average tumblr user is at distinguishing dinosaur skulls from non dinosaur skulls

if you'd rather buy a plushie - here's the shop he and his wife run!

his wife also been in an accident and has been down and out due to illness and injury

ppal + gfm + site shop

I love the mighty nein 🌟

her story is a beautiful trans allegory. her story is about being fat and being brown. her story (like many of sam's pcs) is about being jewish. her story is about young motherhood and conservatism. her story is about womanhood and what it means to be a woman. her story is about loving your family. her story is about resenting your family. her story is about alcoholism and overcoming addiction.

"Omggg I love your art style soo much!!! Absolutely scrumptious. But I have a question, do you have any tips on finding your own art style?? Because everytime I draw I feel like it changes 24/7 😭😭 I'm not very experienced, but art is something I enjoy so I was just wondering"

Firstly, thank you so much!!

Art styles are a bit of an overrated topic imo. I genuinely believe that everyone naturally has their own 'art style' no matter how much they try to skew the way they draw. Art style isn't just something visual, it's also innate-- an amalgamation built from all your inspirations, tastes, the little lazy short cuts you take, the topics you decide to draw, etc... I wouldn't be too worried about 'finding your art style'. instead, focus on having fun with art and it WILL come out. Even if you don't see it, others will! If anything, exploring *different* art styles is absolutely a great thing! You can pick and choose your favourite parts of every 'style' you try out, learn what you like or don't like, and it forces you to go outside your comfort zone and continue learning. The mindset of committing to an 'art style' feels very limiting to me, and could stagnate your artistic progress.

To this day I also wonder if I have my own 'art style'-- but I notice it in little ways. Colours I like using, topics or compositions I repeat subconsciously, certain elements I like drawing... I know it'll always be there no matter how far I try to branch out.

Text of the full letter available here.

They are doing this the extra cruel way on purpose. If they knew which people to send this letter to, then they could have just as easily just automatically mailed them replacement licenses. But forcing them to make arrangements to travel to a DMV, present themselves in person (to be potentially humiliated/deadnamed by the DMV employees to their faces), and to be unable to drive themselves to their work/school in the interim, are all just ways of making this process even harder. And because there’s a National Driver Register database that lists individual drivers’ status and history information, it’s not necessarily even as simple as just moving to a different state and get a new license issued there, because it will presumably show their previous license as being suspended.

Someone has been comparing this to the day in 1938 when the German government invalidated all German passports held by Jewish people, forcing them to surrender their old passports and instead have passports stamped with a “J” for Jewish on them.

For trans people, carrying an ID that misgenders them opens them to intrusive questions, harassment, and even violence.

I’ve also seen people boost the following organization for those who relocation is financially not an option:

Local organization helping with the cost of replacing driver’s licenses: https://lgbtqks.org/donate/