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This week’s diverse new releases:

The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco (Sourcebooks Fire)

“Chupeco makes a powerful debut with this unsettling ghost story, drawing from the same ancient Japanese legend that inspired The Ring and other horror pieces. Okiku is a vengeful spirit who wanders the world. … Told in a marvelously disjointed fashion from Okiku’s numbers-obsessed point of view, this story unfolds with creepy imagery and an intimate appreciation for Japanese horror, myth, and legend.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review

Blind by Rachel DeWoskin (Viking)

“With traces of John Green’s Looking for Alaska (2005), DeWoskin’s first teen novel explores death and darkness. Blinded in a fireworks accident, Emma Silver has finally learned to find “shorelines” with her white cane and identify her six wildly different siblings by their breathing. Her rehabilitation is meticulously described, from learning to decipher braille to containing her panic. … A vivid, sensory tour of the shifting landscapes of blindness and teen relationships.” — Kirkus, starred review

Of Metal and Wishes by Sarah Fine (Margaret K. McElderry Books)

“In contrast to dystopian novels with world-shaking stakes, Fine (the Guards of the Shadowlands series) focuses on a detailed microcosm within an unjust society. She centers her tale of forbidden love and social awakening on a single industrial complex, where brutal bosses control workers by keeping them permanently in debt. … Fine creates a memorable atmosphere of desperation, deftly weaving together numerous subplots that intersect in a grisly and satisfying climax.” — Publishers Weekly

I Love I Hate I Miss My Sister by Amélie Sarn (Delacorte)

“In short anguished chapters, 18-year-old Sohane narrates scenes from the weeks before and months after the brutal murder of her younger sister, Djelila. Raised in an Algerian Muslim family living in Paris, the two girls seek to establish their identity in different ways. … French author Sarn includes a glossary of Arabic words and terms related to Islam, as well as a note about the real-life event that inspired this moving story, which provides rich material for conversation about family relations, religious identity, and civil liberties.” — Publishers Weekly

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Ep 1 – Tourist Trapped
Ep 2 – The Legend of the Gobblewonker
Ep 3 – Headhunters
Ep 4 – The Hand That Rocks the Mabel
Ep 5 – The Inconveniencing
Ep 6 – Dipper vs. Manliness
Ep 7 – Double Dipper
Ep 8 – Irrational Treasure
Ep 9 – The Time Traveler’s Pig
Ep 10 – Fight Fighters
Ep 11 – Little Dipper
Ep 12 – Summerween
Ep 13 – Boss Mabel
Ep 14 – Bottomless Pit!
Ep 15 – The Deep End
Ep 16 – Carpet Diem
Ep 17 – Boyz Crazy
Ep 18 – Land Before Swine
Ep 19 – Dreamscaperers
Ep 20 – Gideon Rises
Ep 21 – Scary-oke
Ep 22 – Into the Bunker
Ep 23 – The Golf War
Ep 24 – Sock Opera
Ep 25 – Soos and the Real Girl

Dipper’s Guide to the Unexplained

Mabel’s Guide to Life

Fixin’ It with Soos

TV Shorts

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Two

Mabel’s Scrapbook

I’ll try to update it when a new episode comes out. And if any of the links aren’t working, come message me and i’ll do what I can 😀

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“Image Credit: Carol Rossetti

When Brazilian graphic designer Carol Rossetti began posting colorful illustrations of women and their stories to Facebook, she had no idea how popular they would become. 

Thousands of shares throughout the world later, the appeal of Rosetti’s work is clear. Much like the street art phenomenon Stop Telling Women To Smile, Rossetti’s empowering images are the kind you want to post on every street corner, as both a reminder and affirmation of women’s bodily autonomy. 

"It has always bothered me, the world’s attempts to control women’s bodies, behavior and identities,” Rossetti told Mic via email. “It’s a kind of oppression so deeply entangled in our culture that most people don’t even see it’s there, and how cruel it can be.”

Rossetti’s illustrations touch upon an impressive range of intersectional topics, including LGBTQ identity, body image, ageism, racism, sexism and ableism. Some characters are based on the experiences of friends or her own life, while others draw inspiration from the stories many women have shared across the Internet. 

“I see those situations I portray every day,” she wrote. “I lived some of them myself.”

Despite quickly garnering thousands of enthusiastic comments and shares on Facebook, the project started as something personal — so personal, in fact, that Rossetti is still figuring out what to call it. For now, the images reside in albums simply titled “WOMEN in english!“ or ”Mujeres en español!“ which is fitting: Rossetti’s illustrations encompass a vast set of experiences that together create a powerful picture of both women’s identity and oppression.

One of the most interesting aspects of the project is the way it has struck such a global chord. Rossetti originally wrote the text of the illustrations in Portuguese, and then worked with an Australian woman to translate them to English. A group of Israeli feminists also took it upon themselves to create versions of the illustrations in Hebrew. Now, more people have reached out to Rossetti through Facebook and offered to translate her work into even more languages. Next on the docket? Spanish, Russian, German and Lithuanian.

It’s an inspiring show of global solidarity, but the message of Rossetti’s art is clear in any language. Above all, her images celebrate being true to oneself, respecting others and questioning what society tells us is acceptable or beautiful.

"I can’t change the world by myself,” Rossetti said. “But I’d love to know that my work made people review their privileges and be more open to understanding and respecting one another.””

From the site: All images courtesy Carol Rossetti and used with permission. You can find more illustrations, as well as more languages, on her Facebook page.

Oooh. I reblogged a partial version of this recently but I didn’t know how many more there were! I LOVE these!

OK SO THERE ARE TONS MORE OF THESE OF THE ARTISTS FB PAGE. GUYS THESE ARE AWESOME.

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LETS APPLAUD CAROL ROSSETTI EVERYONE

 

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its long but worth the read!!

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potofsoup:

#HE’S SUCH A BAD LIAR I LOVE IT#like the look of PURE PANIC when the apple guy starts to approach him#he’s like GOD I HOPE NATASHA’S GOT THIS#steeb ლ(´ ⌓ `ლ)#steve rogers#gif warning (via wolveroonie)

Yanno, I’ve been thinking about these 2 conflicting narratives in fandom — TWS Steve is a bad liar and honest doofus, but pre-serum Steve is a lying punk.   (Like, he lied on his enlistment papers.  Multiple times.  While keeping a straight face.  Of course he’s from New Jersey.  Of course his dad was in the 107th.)

Maybe Steve just needs more time to get into character.  Maybe he’s the kind of roleplayer who needs to invent a whole complex backstory in order to lie properly, and when the Apple Store Guy approached him, he’s still like “so in my childhood, did I have 1 dog or 3 cats?  What kind of car did my dad drive?  It would be the 1980s. Shoot I don’t know what the popular cars were in the 1980s.  Maybe a Ford?  Can’t go wrong with a Ford.  But would that be in character if my persona grew up in Boston?  Wait, I’m wearing these stylish glasses.  Does this mean I care about typography?”  So he’s all flustered because he’s Not Ready Yet.

Or, it might be that he needs to be fully participating in the world in order to properly lie, and for the past two years he’s only been a soldier.  He can only think tactically — notice the exits, the weak points on a target, etc.  He can’t bring himself to care about this world.  Sure, he writes down things he should try, but what kind of person would spend 2 years living in New York / DC and *not* have tried Thai food in that time?  He can’t make up a fake persona here because he doesn’t even have a *real* persona outside of Captain America and SHIELD assignments.

Like, I can’t help but feel that pre-serum Steve would have done a better job of this.

[bolding mine]

I think that last one is the key there: because pre!serum Steve had spent his entire life observing the world around him — he had to, right, because when you grow up sick and asthmatic while the US is in the throes of the Better Babies/Fitter Families eugenicist movement, you’re Othered: because you’re a narrative of failed masculinity, because you’re a potential “pollutant,” because you’re a failure to your country (I don’t think enough people really appreciate how hard Bucky had Steve’s number when he questioned whether enlisting was about proving something, or just how significant it was that Erskine chose “the little guy”).  Steve tells Peggy, “if you start running, they’ll never let you stop” — that’s a realization born of experience and painful, constant, nervous observation: of someone who’s not just constantly picking fights but likely also having them hoisted on him.  Pre!serum Steve grew up in a situation where he would have had to learn to read the body language and situations around him as a coping mechanism.  I don’t think it’s an accident that pre!Serum Steve was an artist.  He was an observer: he paid attention.  He likely knew his world better than most.

In 2014 he’s in a world that makes no sense to him.  It’s not just that it’s new: it’s that he’s suddenly not invisible — not just because he’s Captain America, but because he’s broad, handsome, big and coded as a masculine ideal; it’s because he’s afforded all of those privileges in how the world sees him that he never had before.  It’s that his grief has kept his world of observation narrow (it’s why he can lie to Pierce and Rumlow — both situations where they’re superiors or equals, where he’s likely observed them over time; learned to read them) but has no idea what to do when he’s approached by a friendly stranger, why he finds the idea of Natasha’s cover — that they’d be getting married, that Steve would be marrying a woman like her — makes him giggle like he’s terrified.  It’s why he panics when Natasha tells him to kiss her, because he has plenty of bloody, first-hand experience with how the world he left behind reacts to a 5’5,’ 97-pound version of Steve Rogers, and maybe people haven’t even changed that much, but he’s never had any idea how they react to this version of him (remember how well he did confronted with female interest, or the moment with Bucky in the bar, in TFA).  

I think this is also a part of why he falls apart so completely when he sees Bucky.  This is someone who’s supposed to see Steve, to know him, in any situation — who’s supposed to wade in when Steve can’t.  And Bucky looks at him and (to Steve) sees nothing.  And now nobody knows who he is.

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Tutorial: from paper to digital.

kaiami: Hey ya’ll! I’m not much of a tutorial person, but this was a technique that I learned from Syuzuki, one of my favorite artists back in the day, when I was 13. I memorized the technique and it’s been one of the most useful things I can do on photoshop. This was something that…

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The total area of solar panels it would take to power the world, Europe, and Germany

one thing: lets suppose that we actually made ANY solar power plant of ANY of those sizes. IT WOULD BE THE LARGEST MAN MADE STRUCTURE IN EXISTANCE

#typhonatemybaby’s comment while accurate and topical#is also goddamn fucking hilarious to me for some reason#it just is#i don’t know#anyway#technology#climate change#also i am trying to imagine the ramifications of building a giant power plant in the middle of southern algeria#or libya#maybe none! maybe totally fine!#but probably p complicated if we’re being real

yeah so lets be real here if this happened then the largest manufacturing base on the planet would be on the north African coast and all the African countries could end up out-Europing Europe and banning all Europeans from migrating. which i would find hilarious, frankly, given the horrifying ways they treat people trying to escape the poverty and war in North Africa. It would also be a logistical NIGHTMARE because you would have to have a city of MILLIONS OF PEOPLE to make run and repair the thing. also the hub of the worlds energy supply would be in the middle of a hilly rocky desert in a politically unstable region of the planet. which is kind of what its like at the moment I suppose.

another thing to note: this infographic claims to just show the area needed for the panels themselves. What about the cables? What about Collection Towers? what about substations and maintenance depots? is it all gonna be underground? what about accomodation for the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF WORKERS? what about the fucking LUNCHROOM????? Basically this thing would have to be literally the size of spain, at my guess, or at least fucking comparable. You would have to have like,  A WHOLE SPAIN’s worth of solar power plant plopped down in the top of africa. which would be. Interesting? I guess. I wanna see the civilisation that could do shit like that though. that would have to have some AMAZING collective willpower. that would be like, The ancient Egyptians mixed with north korea except with fucking AMAZING economic organistional and technological abilities.

Either that or we would all just fight over it, which would also be perversely hilarious because the notion of all the major powers engaging in a huge land based occupational campaign in hostile non-homeground terrain for a fucking collection of solar panels would be some serious sci fi shit and also probably a total military nightmare.

ALL THE INTERIOR TO RETREAT INTO YOU COULD POSSIBLY WANT: the biggest fucking desert on the planet. MEAN WHILE YOU CANT NUKE ANYTHING BECAUSE YOU ARE ALREADY FIGHTING OF A HOT PILE OF GLASS ANYWAY AND SO USING NUKES IS KINDA REDUNDANT AESTHETICALLY SPEAKING ANYWAY. unless you dig glowing pits of molten sand dotting the algerian foothills or some shit, which i guess is the kind of kink I would have. meanwhile you all have to field a force large enough to hold, supply and maintain a solid structure roughly twice the area of the whole of corsica ( assuming an accurate map projection) while making sure that it doesnt get damaged. like imagine the upkeep needed for a massive array of solar panels in a fucking desert. all the SAND. all the WIND. you’d need a city of MILLIONS just to RUN the damn thing.

as an added bonus: it would feature huge western economic powers bombing countries full of poor brown people for their resources, which is of course a High Tradition, and In The Grand Old Spirit of Things and would be considered A Rollicking Good Time by all those rich people.

I think this should be a board game. the kind where each move takes 5 hours and the rulebook is an inch thick and you all end up hating your friends.

RANTS ASIDE: I dont think OP was going for covering algeria in high voltage solar arrays. i just like to think about this sort of silliness. SOLAR PANEL WAR. THE BEST BOARD GAME. THE ONLY BOARD GAME. ENDLESS WAR. ONE BIG SOLAR PANEL. LETS DO IT GUYZ

some serious sci fi shit

LOL as soon as i hit “LUNCHROOM?????” i was like “SOMEONE WRITE THIS DYSTOPIAN NOVEL PLS” which probably explains why i read “meanwhile you all have to field a force large enough“ as "meanwhile you have a force field large enough”

re: board game: it would probably be, in terms of its finicky complexity, like this board game a barcelona-based anarchist squatter friend of a friend invented wherein you have to prevent fascism from taking over europe/anatolia/north africa by promoting socialism and/or marxism and/or anarchism by rping various historical intellectuals and sniffing out collaborators and shit. but crossed with, like, A Canticle for Liebowitz.

but yeah, a much more viable (imo) model would be the one where most everyone has solar panels on their roofs and everyone’s generated energy is pooled and redistributed by feeding into the grid. this setup halfway exists already in some places, where like when you hook up your solar to the grid then if you contribute more energy than you use you get some kind of relief on your energy bills. i don’t remember the specifics. but it’s a thing. so many problems are already caused by centralized energy sources. decentralizing it would be way, way more resilient and ultimately probably cheaper in terms of energy (THAT FORCE FIELD WOULD EAT A LOT OF ENERGY OK) to maintain.

freeingeileen:

In honor of the first day of BFRB Awareness Week, I made a powerpoint of an overview of Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs). Keep in mind that this is just an overview. 

yumstheman: Sugar Ray//Every Morning Calling all 90’s kids. I know you know this one.

vocal-chord: javeliner: having difficulty with the transition from ‘impressive child’ to ‘below-average adult’ this is actually me.