kalloway @kalloway@fedibird.com

How important is representation to you? If a movie, series, book whatever has a flavour of representation is that sufficient or do you need more?
What if it's a genre you tend not to get on with + representation you'd like to see more of?

Asking because this seems like another area where I'm out of sync with a lot of fans. I value representation highly but I don't get the all-consuming warm fuzzies others seem to just from the fact that there's representation.

Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowlooon-walled-city-illustration/

Accept Yourself

(part 1: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/112683890024137876 )
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater [参照]

#foxesInLove #comic

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Got involved in a discussion about female knights in the new version of Pendragon, and I averred that in my 20+ years of sword/axe/spear combat, gender has made little difference for the outcome of a fight.

The weapons do the work, and the weapons do not come in pink and blue.

There followed a lot of goal post shifting.

"Muscles and weight matter in MMA!"
Which is unarmed.

"HEMA isn't with lethal intent!"
Neither is any other modern martial art, including MMA.

"It's ahistorical!"
So's magic

You don't need to be trans to pick a new name for yourself

Sometimes you grow out of the name someone else picked for you, and that's okay!

They picked it before they knew you, and now that you're old enough to know who you are, you can totally pick something that fits

💜

Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish peom: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.

In the United States, we have plenty of current ongoing problems. But a lot of them are actually the hangover from past mistakes and disasters: slavery and Jim Crow, incredibly late and incomplete rights for women, etc.

One I don't think we talk about enough is how badly my generation (X-ish) was screwed up by the concept of "stranger danger." That people you didn't know were the primary thing to fear. It's statistically and logically nonsense, but so much bad is built on and supported by it.

the allegory of the nazi bar

#foxesInLove #comic

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(comic) Time Management Solves Everything https://workchronicles.substack.com/p/comic-time-management-solves-everything

#art to start🎨
...blaze of color

'All the Sun Long'
Artist: Karen Rieger
#painting #acrylic #AcrylicPainting

Round boi.

#birds #borb

I know deep down I'm an optimist, because I'm constantly saying stuff like "oh I'll do that later, when I have a bit more energy"