dancinbutterfly:

mime-god:

My mom saw this on Facebook and I thought it should be shared here.

To my coastal comrades, please stay safe.

This is true. We didn’t lose our ENTIRE house in Ivan. But you see in places the roof came off and pictures we sent on were basically reciepts for the fact that everything was destroyed anyway by black toxic mold.

Yes. Toxic mold is going to happen if you get ANY kind of water damage at all.

Here’s something NO ONE teaches you in hurricane evacuation unless you’re in Hurricane Alley:

Take ANYTHING you possibly can that was handmade(think school art projects, gifts from friends of art you can take out of the frame, knitware from grandma), stuff inherited from a relative especially paperwork like marriage licenses and family bibles that hold your history and pictures that are non-digitized. If you have insurance you can rebuild and if you don’t you can find donations of additional clothing food even housing, though it will be a struggle I know. But let look here’s the thing.

Pieces of your history are the one thing, aside from your physical safety, you cannot replace. Trust me on this ok?

The Katrina people lost everything but I come to you as a multiple hurricane survivor who was displaced and made precariously housed on the homelessness scale twice by hurricanes in less than 20 years.

My first major evacuation was when I was 8 for Opal. My mom gave me a suitcase and sent me into my room and said “Go see what you want to bring that’s just yours. We can buy new toys and new clothes but we may not come back. What can’t we buy no matter how much we want to if the house is gone when we come back. See how I’m bringing these pictures of you and your sister and this that my mommy got me for my wedding? What is like that for you?” It was heavy shit to lay on an 8 year old but she was right … I don’t remember but it took more than six months to get back into our house in any real way and at 8 the toys I brought were THE comfort items and not much else and even then? I didn’t need for much because I had the irreplaceables.

Ivan gets lost because it was right before Katrina and was not a racist catastrophe but let me tell you: we never real moved back. Not really. Same situation- photos, letters, handmades, gifts from the dead, records. And this time we lost it all in slow motion.

These two major ones don’t count the fact that I had at least one(1) evacuation every two or so years after Opal until I was 25. After more than a dozen evacuations, you learn what to take.

Hear my experience where federal officials don’t listen to what Floridans have tried to teach.

If a storm is going to make landfall at a Category 3: You are facing a very real possibility that you might NEVER go home even if the building is still standing. Take what CANNOT be replaced. You don’t know how life will be when you return – the crises, stressors and obligations of hurricane aftermath create massive restrictions you cannot predict. You may not have a chance to replace it.

Please signal boost this with my addition attached because every time I hear a report about people lamenting how it’s the pictures they regret the most I just think “Someone should have told you. You deserved to be told as part of basic evacuation procedure.” I’m trying to post this to help fix that. At least a litt.

vanillogical:

bisexualgambit:

the-huntsmans-homebrews:

chronically-illustrated:

viostormcaller:

kirbylover246:

mister-christmas:

100acrewoods-girl:

rainbowloliofjustice:

It’s amazing how there is a generation of people who hate Stan Lee for ???

The man, even in his early years denounced racism as a special type of evil that can’t be defeated with a bullet. 

Marvel was the first mainstream comic to show a gay marriage. 

And the accusations of him sexually harassing a nurse were false. and proven to be false. 

The man has denounced racism and promoted tolerance and diversity for years, much more than what most people who age would have ever dared consider. Hell, he created Black Panther, the first black comic hero. 

But all because the man didn’t want to make Peter Parker black and bisexual he obviously is a racist and homophobe… Despite…

Luke Cage

Falcon 

Storm 

Spider Girl (Corazon) 

Miles Morales

Moonstar

Karma

Black Panther

Shuri

Kimura

Lady Deathstrike

Echo

Jubilee

Monet St. Croix

Hulkling

America Chavez 

Northstar and hosting the first gay marriage depicted in mainstream comics IN 1992 WAY BEFORE GAY MARRIAGE WAS EVEN LEGALIZED

Valkyrie  

Wiccian and many others…

But y’all asses over here fucking ignoring the shit out of them like the only thing Stan Lee and Marvel ever made was Spiderman and Peter Parker all because the man doesn’t think that you should redefine established or preexisting characters. Why?

Because he believed in creating NEW characters, new characters who had their OWN personalities, who had their OWN stories, who had their OWN fans

He wanted to make new things, not redefine what already exists. He wanted to make NEW characters and stories that people could connect to. NEW characters who could stand on their own as opposed to just being “This character but now xyz.” 

He wanted characters who had their own life and vibrancy to them. 

Yet y’all asses fucking mad he didn’t make Peter Parker black while you ignoring the fuck out of Miles Morales. Yet y’all asses are mad he didn’t make Peter Parker bi or gay while ignoring the fact that the Marvel comic version of Deadpool and Loki are both bisexual. 

Y’all fucking ignoring the POC and LGBT+ characters that exist in the Marvel universe all because you wanna be like ~~uwu 20gayteen~~

Until y’all asses start recognizing POC and LGBT+ characters THAT ALREADY EXIST you don’t get to say shit about anything else being gay. 

DON’T SIT THERE AND IGNORE CANON LGBT AND POC CHARACTERS AND THEN ACT LIKE STAN LEE WAS A RACIST OR HOMOPHOBIC BIGOT

Fucking exactly. Fucks who hate just to hate and purposely ignore facts piss me the fuck off. If you do that shit fuck you.

Thank you for this. I’ve been really distressed about the discourse saying he was racist/homophobic/sexually harassed people, and I haven’t had the energy to do more of my own research, so I appreciate someone with a broader knowledge sharing this information.

I realize this isn’t D&D specific, but I want to signal boost it.

Stop making up scandals for the sake of a little drama, gosh dang it.

This post is wild…. Cause i’ve seen nothing but valid criticisms of Stan Lee and his works and Stan Lee wasn’t even involved in half of the characters listed… even some of the things posted… are wrong. Northstar wasn’t depicting gay marriage in 1992…. Alpha Flight #106 in 1992 was Northstar’s coming out (Still very important as he was the first superhero to come out… it’s also worth noting he wasn’t the first comic book character to come out but the first hero, and even that’s a bit meh considering Northstar’s background but that’s not my point) 

my point is that people are allow to be critical of other people. Stan Lee did a lot to push comics forward and was a pretty good activist during the days of Civil Rights. But this post has misinformation and it’s still valid to be critical of a public figure, especially one as complex as Stan Lee.

100% Like, OP was straight-up just listing queer/PoC Marvel characters, which, yeah, absolutely signal boost that, but Stan Lee had nothing to do with the vast majority of them. Stan Lee was incredible in many ways, but don’t attribute his successors’ achievements to him.

And, moreover, on the subject of “new characters of marginalized identities” vs “old characters redefined into marginalized identities,” like, Stan Lee himself was fine with that, at least some of the time. He responded positively to Iceman being gay, and in fact Iceman is a perfect example of a classic character being retconned/revealed as more than what he originally was.

And while new characters are great, for sure, they’ll *never* get the same recognition and renown as redefined classic characters. I mean, same year that we got the initial Iceman solo series, we also got Generation X, a series that featured a lesbian black girl, a gay white boy, and a gay Korean-American boy, the latter of whom was a *new character* created for that series. His name’s Nathaniel Carver, aka Hindsight. He’s fantastic. He’s also received nowhere *near* the level of buzz and awareness that Iceman has since coming out.

New queer and PoC characters are important and excellent and need to be made, but very, very rarely do you see them reach the same heights as classic characters; not for lack of quality, but for lack of exposure. That’s why redefining the identities of old characters, when possible, is not only great to do, but should be done.

caribbeansappho:

caribbeansappho:

caribbeansappho:

listen… i’m a lesbian and i know full well what oppression based on love is like… but i wish white gay folks wouldn’t act like sexuality is the only reason anyone’s ever felt that

there are people in my family who’ve been disowned because they married someone of a different colour to them… i’m mixed race and the very concept of my existence would’ve been illegal in the us when my parents were born. the supreme court only ruled against discrimination of mixed-race marriages in 1967! that’s barely 50 years ago. homophobia is an awful thing to experience and i know that from first hand experience but i’m begging you to remember that gay people aren’t the only ones being killed for who they love. please remember the struggles faced by Black and brown people when you talk about oppression. please have some solidarity with your nonwhite friends (especially your nonwhite gay friends!) when you talk about dismantling the systems that keep us alone and isolated. please remember the horrible history that is anti-miscegenation laws when you talk about equal marriage rights, because they aren’t just for white gay people.

this is okay for white people to reblog

hojabby:

broccoli-goblin:

hojabby:

I had my boss, who’s well I into his 70s and has been all across the world, tell me: “jannah, I don’t think you see this yet, but there will be no one like you, I pity those who think they can go out in the world and find a replacement, you’re nothing I’ve seen before.honestly I’ll be talking about you beyond the grave. Nothing about you is cliche”

And all I said before was that I felt basic sometimes.

Beautiful

Yeah I think that was his way of saying I’m weird as fuck because before that I talked about how I think ducks should have a say in suburbia laws. I’m a graduate assistant.