Poe Dameron #27 begins with Leia in the Millennium Falcon after the Resistance leaves Crait.
Okay, I might as well say it. Am I the only one with whom the ‘opening scroll’ sits uneasy? Don’t get me wrong, the Leia scene is as heartbreaking as it gets, for good reason. But the whole ‘evil FO – Luke’s sacrifice to save the Resistance’ in your face thing… Ugh… Crait was pointedly so much more complicated and convoluted, and personal, than that. And yeah, I get it, I get it – it’s Poe comic, so kinda Poe’s POV, and Poe’s POV is generic Resistance POV (sorry, Poe, but it is – Rose is there precisely to provide contrast and insight in her media), so it’s fairly uncomplicated and unchallenged – FO=evil, Luke=Jedi hero legend=saved the Resistance as was expected of him. And I know the opening scrolls in SW are usually in your face and dramatic with epithets, since these are still fairy tale coded narratives, so the ‘sides’ need to be established each time, so the viewers’ sympathies start of on the POV side. But kinda… Maybe I want the narrative to start asking the right questions. And I know it’s too early for canon supplement materials. And I know Leia can’t be depicted pondering Luke’s confrontation with her son (lest there be spoilers), or her son’s obvious meltdown (c’mon, the king of empathy Hux picked up something was very OFF with Ren’s acute reaction to Luke). I know all this – as an informed viewer, as a narrative scholar. I think I just need the challenges of TLJ to resonate, truly, deeply. And they do. In Rose’s supplement materials. In the comic adaptation of the movie, even. I just don’t know if I can trust Poe’s narrative to be meta-savvy enough to be a deliberately ‘limitation bias’ perspective, or if it’s a broad sweep of the story axiology (the latter is, of course, easier to assume).
TLJ can be a nuanced story but you better be the only one thinking the First Order isn’t evil
they’re really evil
they blow up planets and kidnap and enslave children and massacre villages and torture people and devastated Rose’s homeworld in horrible ways you can read the details on that in Bomber Command
on Crait, Kylo was attempting to drag a giant laser cannon into a position to incinerate everyone in the Resistance. I mean heck you can claim to believe he wouldn’t have fired it. But I wouldn’t ask the Resistance to bet their lives on it after the First Order systematically picked the rest of them off, causing the deaths many good people they loved, like Paige Tico, and Admiral Ackbar, and Amylin Holdo
Crait was all full of personal drama but it was also about people trying to kill other people, which is why it was a tense situation, in a big epic space opera war story
well it was life threatening and tense for every single character you’re supposed to care about outside of Kylo Ren. Such as. Luke, Leia, Finn, Poe, Rose, Rey, Chewie, C-3PO, R2-D2, even minor characters like Kaydel Connix and Nien Nunb
tbh you are not the only one cause I’ve seen this take floating around and I’m going to be increasingly cross each time it appears
The vaccine was pulled from the market, despite evidence finding it was safe
Lyme has quickly become one of the most common infectious diseases in America, with many as 300,000 people infected every year. And public health officials fear the bacterial infection, which jumps from ticks to humans, will only spread farther and faster as climate change makes more parts of the US habitable for ticks.
Lyme can be treated with antibiotics. And there are many ways to prevent tick bites. But there’s no vaccine available if you want extra protection against the disease (unless you’re a dog).
Yet in the late 1990s and early 2000s, a vaccine called LYMErix was sold to prevent between 76 and 92 percent of infections. Hundreds of thousands of people got it — until vaccine fear knocked it off the market.
The LYMErix story is worth retelling today. It’s a stark reminder of how anti-vaccine mania of the past few decades is leaving us all more susceptible to disease.
The Lyme vaccine was effective Lyme first appeared in the US seemingly out of nowhere, spreading between ticks and people in Connecticut.
By the 1990s, it was possible to be infected with Lyme from a tick bite in much of the northeastern US — and there were around 15,000 confirmed cases a year. (Today, there are more than 35,000 confirmed or probable cases of Lyme each year and many more cases that go completely unreported.)
Recognizing the increasing public health hazard, the drug manufacturer SmithKline Beecham (now called GlaxoSmithKline) developed a vaccine that targeted the outer protein of the bacteria that causes Lyme. The Food and Drug Administration approved it in 1998.
The vaccine worked by targeting the bacteria while it was still inside the tick’s body, the website History of Vaccines explains. The bacteria would be neutralized before the tick ever had the chance to transfer the bacteria into the human body.
LYMErix wasn’t a perfect vaccine, as Gregory Poland, a Mayo Clinic vaccine researcher, explained in a 2011 retrospective in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. It required three doses over the course of the year, and was not approved for people under age 15. It was optional, and doctors had a hard time assessing whom to recommend it to (there were few maps of Lyme-carrying ticks’ range at the time). And the vaccine only protected against the North American strain of Lyme. Finally, it was somewhat expensive at $50 a dose, and it was not universally covered by health insurance.
But it was effective, preventing Lyme in up to 90 percent of the people who were vaccinated will all three doses, with few side effects. And at first, the vaccine was pretty popular; about 1.5 million doses were injected before 2000.
Another way science-rejecting dimwits hurt people.
Bob’s Burgers is one of the greatest (animated) shows on television, and let me tell you why:
First of all, the family dynamic. It is so obvious that the family truly loves and cares about each other, which you don’t see in shows like Family Guy and The Simpsons, or other shows in this category. A theme you see in a lot of these shows is familial abuse typically perpetrated by the parents (Family Guy, the whole family tortures Meg; The Simpsons, Homer frequently strangles Bart; American Dad, Stan is abrasive towards the entire family), where there is none of that in Bob’s Burgers. Bob and Linda love and support each of their children. They accept Tina’s awkwardness, Gene’s eccentricity, and Louise’s ambitions (while still talking her out of bad decisions).
Another thing is that they’re not actively out to get any one character. Of course Bob is typically going to be at the center of chaos, since he is the main character, but the writers don’t regularly pick on a character for the sake of it.
Continuing this, these are characters we can relate to and see ourselves in. We enjoy them because we see ourselves in these characters. They’re almost like extensions of ourselves. And even characters that are the most minor have their own personalities. They have characters from every walk of life, and they’re entertaining. From Marshmallow, the tall, beautiful black trans woman (Oh, hey Marshmallow) to Teddy, the perpetually upbeat, gullible plumber (DON’T FEED A GUY A SPONGE, BOB!), there is something for everyone.
The humor is different than conventional animated sitcoms, yes. But it’s funny because of its straightforward attitude and delivery. They don’t rely on abuse, cheap cutaways, or degradation of other groups of people for laughs. They do it by connecting with their viewers.
If you haven’t watched Bob’s Burgers, please give it a chance. It is so worth your time.
After everything that happened in Ragnarok, imagine Thor hearing about Steve and Tony’s fight and being like “Really?! Thats why you all stopped working together?! Just get over it! I did! I’m still friends with Loki and he’s betrayed me three times since breakfast! This petty mortal shit is nothing!”
Loki: “Can confirm, poisoning his mead right now.”
Thor: “Ha! I’ve built up an immunity.”
Now I feel I was cheated on Civil War
Steve: “Well, we disagreed about this big political thing, and I mean big – almost every country in the world was involved.”
Thor: *nodding* “Right.”
Steve: “So we started to fight, I mean really fight. We each had about half a dozen friends backing us up.”
Thor: *nodding* “Always best to bring your friends along”
Steve: “And by the end, it was just me and Tony, and we… we really pounded each other…. no holding back.”
Adapted from a workshop I did at my high school Writing Center. One of my more helpful powerpoints; let me know if you need any clarifications. This is all my original work; please don’t remove the source.
Good to see common sense and decency is outpacing the erasure of a talented gay woman of color. You’d be wrong, however, if you thought there weren’t larries in the replies defending this bullshit.
Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles did not make this bold statement at an event whose theme was the Catholic Imagination. Lena Waithe did.
Lena Waithe.
Y’all really just put the face of a male celebrity who got pissed when an author of an article insinuated that he was LGBT supportive….over an out black woman….the audacity
It’s worth noting that Lena is also wearing the black lgbt pride flag, which makes this (if possible) even more yikes.
If I must suffer, so will you. I’m democratic like that.
It’s an all POC inclusive flag (hence the black and brown stripe – this was stated when the colors were added here in Philly) and not an exclusively black flag, but it remains HELLA GROSS to have some not out white dudes shopped in.
New original 3D animated movie: Ducks. The secret life of ducks when humans aren’t looking.
Whenever ducks fly south in the winter, they’re actually flying to a big city of ducks where they talk and have jobs and have traffic lights with pictures of ducks in them and every billboard and storefront is a bird pun.
A generic duck guy is a young adult who feels inadequate because his dad is a big broker in the bread stock exchange.
He accidentally reveals the secret life of ducks to a human child, and now he must take her south with him to duck city. On the way they get into hijinks and find out about a big duck conspiracy or something.
I was thinking at first this was an actual movie
It will be if you just give me 3 years and $150,000,000
How many times would “duck” be confused between the physical action and the animal in question?
12 times for comedic effect. 1 time used ironically in a sad moment in the end of act II. And 1 time in the last act when the protagonist has to say something badass when he defeats the bad guy.
This winter, ditch the binoculars and rediscoverbird-watching with the hot new movie…….DUCK!!!!
If this post gets 100,000 notes I’ll start working on the script.
Well then…
Let’s get to work.
Without further ado, and over a year in the making:
Okay so @q2qcomics and I are currently apartment hunting for the fall and I just stumbled upon the weirdest apartment ever.
Like at first, wow this looks nice:
How can it be only $650/mo?? Something’s gotta be wrong with it.
… And then you find the floorplan:
Like… WTF is this place? And you realize it’s on bottom of three “apartment units” (Clearly this was meant to be one big place).
This is your enterance:
Have fun living in the maintenance hallway under the rich folks.
It comes with such stunning features as:
Creepy ass long murder hallways.
A room with many doors (all closets).
A bathroom that’s clearly just meant for storage.
And whatever this thing is in your kitchen.
I hope you like wine, A LOT.
this. this is a video game apartment. be wary of lurking assassins. any stray chests probably contain loose gold or weapons
honestly I’d totally live in this amateur counter strike mapper’s first map
I don’t give a shit that the bathroom is in another timezone its cheaper than anything around here
This is literally the first level of Hitman 2
What the fuck
what does it all mean
Providing this complex pre-dates Hitman 2 I like to think the devs had been there and it pissed them off so much they loosely based a mob bosses compound on it.
Procrastination Station 