Autor: biggerisbetter1987

jora-bora:

I think it’s pertinent to post the image I had signed by Stan Lee two years ago here. I wanted to see my character stood next to his, and let him know he inspired me 

I try to keep my SFW and NSFW stuff separate, but I can’t deny that the man was a tremendous inspiration to me.

Almost as if I knew in the back of my mind, I was talking with my mother over lunch about what plans for the future I had. I never said it, but Stan Lee’s quote came to mind when she talked about some jobs making luxury items.

“I used to think what I did was not very important. People are building bridges and engaging in medical research, and here I was doing stories about fictional people who do extraordinary, crazy things and wear costumes. But I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed.”

-Stan Lee, 2014 

This quote resonates with me, because I know my profession is merely a luxury to most, but there is a value in making people happy and seeing them enjoy your work.

It doesn’t even matter if that work is based in sexual fantasy or just for fun. As long as you make one person happy with your work, it’s important. It matters, and it’s worth it.

When I had that poster I made signed, I couldn’t see his face as he scanned over it. But my brother’s fiancee, waiting at the exit could. And she told me that he got an ear to ear grin as he looked for a place to sign.

I like to think that he got the message, that he and the amazing people he worked with inspired another generation of artists.

Rest in Peace, Stan. You’ve earned it.

spideyhoe-spoilerman:

The man. The legend. A beautiful constant in a universe where everything was unpredictable, we had him. From dust to dust and into shadows. We will miss you. I find it fitting I came across this terrible horrible news in a class where we were discussing goodness and hero’s and legends. Thank you, Stan, for creating incredible hero’s, for giving me a universe to fall in love with, for bringing so much joy to my life through you hero’s. You are a hero Stan. We stan Stan Lee. Much love and prayers to the family.

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listened to Bohemian Rhapsody today…
i’m so very sorry

If this post gets 100 notes I’ll recreate the entire song through memes

OK so I’ll do my best to get this done soonish–it may be a week or two, but I’m doing it

My masterpiece… is complete.

op did not put in this much work for 160 notes

@musicalsandtrees

I don’t know who to tag… This is a fuckign masterpiece

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I have never seen an advertising campaign more evil, more insidious than the one for the army currently airing in the UK

“This is belonging”

We’re introduced to a group of earnest young men. they’re white, they’re black. they drink tea. they play practical jokes. they quote popular TV shows. they talk about sports. they face their fears. it’s loving and domestic and all too easy to overlook the guns and camo and helicopters blaring overhead.

make no mistake, these adverts are aimed at the young and disenfranchised. poor people, people of colour, people who have been bullied and abused by society and made to feel like they don’t belong anywhere. Join the army, they’re told, and you can have the love and acceptance you crave but have always been denied. Elsewhere, you might get called racial slurs. you might get called a pansy or a fairy, but not here. You belong with us.

For example: Islamophobia is rampant in the UK. here we have an advert of a Muslim soldier praying while his squadron, armed to the teeth, sits in silence. the message is clear – while the rest of society may despise you, here, you will be respected. this is belonging.

here’s one called ‘expressing my emotions’, featuring a white man in his 40s – practically the posterchild for the UK’s current mental health crisis.

you don’t have to worry about bottling up your feelings in the army. after all, this is belonging.

here’s another one called ‘can I be gay in the army?’. we’re told: “I was really worried about whether I’d be accepted, but within days, I was more than confident in being who I was.” Clearly homophobia is a thing of the past in the army. don’t worry. this is belonging.

and it works. while the response to these adverts from an unfortunately vocal number of people is basically “fuck you, we’re racist and proud of it!” there are young people being taken in by this. I have met gay children, trans children who are determined to join the army because, after being rejected by their parents and peers, they’re now being told “here you will be accepted. here you will be loved.”

fuck that. don’t be groomed; don’t let the vulnerable and desperate people in your life be groomed. we need to fight the root causes of these problems in our society and stamp them out so that wielding a gun and cowering in some blown-out building in a country you helped destroy is no longer seen as some sort of salvation. fight racism. fight homophobia and transphobia. fight the stigmatisation of mental illness. fight the system that prioritises the rich and leaves the rest of us to rot.

don’t be taken in by something that offers easy answers, chews you up and spits you out, destroyed, guilty, with PTSD and nowhere to go. where do you belong when you can’t fight any more? where do you belong when you can no longer be used?

you are not immune to propaganda

Plus they started airing these just around the time of exam results days, purposely targeting young people who are worried about failing/have failed their exams and are scared about their future. It’s fucking disgusting