It's the anniversary... of the founding of the Avengers. Which is not what Steve was thinking about.

[Avengers #34 (2026)]

ID: A tweet by user @ h1w0rld reads: 9/11 and covid are an interesting dichotomy that represents how collective grief can be enhanced or suppressed by propaganda depending on what are the political interests "Never forget" x "It's over, get back to normal"

Two replies posted by Cathy Kimport @ PurpleNinjaGirl: Ever think about how 22 years post-9/11 we still can't bring 4 ounces of sunscreen and a nail clipper onto a plane, and yet 3 years into an ongoing pandemic we're able to walk around a cancer treatment center maskless? | sure do. I don't demand a perfect world I just want a world that can install hepa filters in schools and hospitals with the same expediency that we installed enhanced security screening facilities in every international airport in the world. End ID.

the vibes dissonance of ppl online can be crazy. did you know the artist behind those cutesy crow comics that do big numbers on here ran hiveworks into the ground so hard that 100 artists who worked w them came together to put out a statement abt how they and their work had been absolutely fucked by the incompetency and malice of it all

I agree it’s a real shocking heel turn sorta thing, but I also think it’s very important to note—and potentially misleading to omit—that Isa Melançon (SecondLina of Crow Time fame) was, according to the statement from the Hiveworks artists, only one of the people they hold responsible for the collapse of the network. They also lay a good deal of blame on Xellette Velamist, the owner of Hiveworks and Slipshine, for some of the really sketchy stuff. Melançon comes off looking pretty bad here but she’s not a lone villain.

i'm super curious to see what the responses to this are

feel free to put why you do/don't shave your legs, or any other nuances in the tags! reblogs for reach are appreciated :)

The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.

I’ve just cast a spell on you all—your day will be over just by watching cats.

The thing I drew for Christmas.

If they make a big deal of it, it would just take a while so…. It’s easier to smooch and just get back into strategy talk :))

My piece for For My Star!! Thank you for inviting me!!