December 2010
One of my more realistic goals for the new year is to continue to work on letting go of anger and jealousy.
I get angry a lot, quite often for legitimate reasons, but I allow it to take over my thoughts for hours, days, weeks, and it’s impossible for me to get anything done in that time. For the past year or so I’ve been working hard on recognizing when I’m crossing from upset...
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Katie West: Thinking Out Loud →
erikamoen:
Sometimes I stop and think about all the people I follow on Tumblr (or on the internet in general), many of whom have amazing blogs that are jam-packed with entertaining, hilarious, beautiful, inspiring things.
But then I start thinking about what their names might be. You know, their real names,…
Oh my goodness, I relate to this so much. So much.
I understand that by making...
Bowtie pasta, fish sticks, and custard.
Yes, my lady just made me 11th Doctor dinner.
Pet Peeve
People who insist on singing the Cake version of “I Will Survive” every time the song comes on, even though 99% of the time it is the Gloria Gaynor version playing.
somnimiles asked: What do you think happened to the Mayans?
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http://www.politicususa.com/en/shut-up-barbie Hi,...
I find that people who are faced with oppression either become the biggest opponents of oppression, or the biggest supporters of it. Oppression is like having a live bomb in your hands. You can either try to diffuse the bomb, which is hard and it’s not fair that you have to do it, or you can hand the bomb to someone else, and it’s not fair that *they* have to diffuse it. ***BUT*** you...
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Why are none of the Lesbian pirates black? Or...
Not offended at all, and in fact this fits in well with my unintentional, unofficial Megan Talks About Sociology Day that I’m having today. So, waaaaay back when I was first creating the Pirates, I was going to have a racially diverse cast. But then I thought about my source material, the stuff I was parodying, and they were all white. Now, with any satire you have to pick which things are...
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vito_excalibur: IM IN UR STUDI0 DRAWIN UR D00DZ →
Okay, this lady makes me look absolutely lazy next to her. Same principle as my Dressed to Kill post, only with an entire guide for how to draw superheroes. Nearly 20 pages of sociological role-reversal.
“I considered switching the guys into stereotypically masculine poses instead of stereotypically feminine ones, but decided that the point was that those poses are no more natural to us...
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Sociological Images
My “Dressed To Kill” drawings (the one about female superhero costumes/poses) are included in a post on Sociological Images today, alongside other graphics about how ladies are portrayed in games and comics. It already has its first “what about teh menz?!” comment, too! Awwwww. But seriously, I love Sociological Images, bringing to light how the media perpetuates various...
New Year's Resolutions (AKA, my new update...
2 pages of Lesbian Pirates every week until the series is done at the end of the third arc.
A chapter of Meaty Yogurt posted on the 15th of every month, with one-pagers once a week
A chapter of Down Where It’s Wetta every other month.
Comes to about 35 pages of comics per month.
I can do this. (Can I really do this?)
Character Design: (For Groups/Teams) 2
yamino:
These next characters all wear the same outfit, but in completely different colors. The simple design is enough to register them as one team, but aside from their identifying colors, they also each have a unique and immediately recognizable silhouette.
A good test of your character designs is if you can tell each one apart merely by looking at their silhouette. If you can’t, then...
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I can't be the only one who ships this.
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The Grand Lady Comics Creator Tumblr Census 2011
ladiesmakingcomics:
Feelings of blogger inadequacy, I haz them.
I feel like every now and then I’ll find like ten lady comics creators on Tumblr that I didn’t realize were on Tumblr, even if I know their work. I know there’s no way in the world for me to know everyone on the internet and their social networking handles, but I can’t help but feel bad about it. SO! If you are a lady comics...
Every now and then, when I’m drawing… I feel like God.
“I have a GIANT box of tampons, and lots of craft supplies. I’m just...”
– My roommate just walked in and said this. She has a bit of a passionate love for Regretsy.
I have 44 followers.
jetbunny:
megansfridge:
So fucking weird.
MY FRIDGE HAS MORE FOLLOWERS THAN I DO
ABOUT THREE TIMES AS MANY
IT MADE ONE FUCKING POST
Yeah, that’s right. My fridge has 44 followers. Surreal.
Secret of Kells
I cannot get over how awesome this movie is. Listening to Aisling Song over and over. If you ever get a chance to watch it, WATCH IT!
The Scarfiest of Scarves
Every time you think you have the world’s best mother, I want you to think about the following picture:
Yes, that is a replica of the 4th Doctor’s 16-foot-long scarf (season 14 version) that my mom knitted me in three weeks for Christmas, all by herself. I have the warmest neck since Tom Baker himself. I have to wrap it around my neck several times since I’m not that tall.
...
This room suddenly smells like farts, but I didn’t do it, and no one else is home and the cats are sleeping upstairs.
Did I just smell the exact moment when my eggs went bad?
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Mystery Solvers
One of my coworkers brought in her daughter today. She’s interested in art big time and her mom wanted to encourage her. That girl reminded me so much of myself at that age. If she can hold on to that enthusiasm, she’ll go far.
I doodled this to show her how my tablet worked, and made up a story for her. Ted and Ernst are a team of private detectives. Ted used to be in the Navy and...
“Megan, Liz Lemon is not a role model.”
– Trucker Lewis, but I ignore him because turning on the Food Channel during sex is awesome.
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Digital art is “real” art, and I will kneecap anyone who says differently…
…but sometimes I feel like there is a piece missing from my digital art. The tactile feel of graphite as it crumbles against the frictioney surface of the paper, it connects me to the work, makes it real for me.
“Maguppin” is not a word, but when I heard it, I pretended I knew what he meant because I didn’t want to look dumb.
That’s how words happen. Someone makes one up and the rest of us try not to look like idiots.
The song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" can...
Santa isn’t real, he’s just your dad dressed up.
Santa is real and your mother is having an affair.
Who made up this song?
Oh, this is fun. Kate Kane's iPod list by J.H....
dcwomenkickingass:
Someone asked Amy Reeder on Twitter what Kate would be listening to her on her iPod as seen in Reeder’s variant cover for Batwoman 0. And this is what J.H. Williams said:
“Let’s say Mad At The Dirt by The Joans, followed by My Destiny by Leaves’ Eyes, followed by Dead Girls Are Easy by The 69 Eyes followed by Can I Come Over by Younger Lovers, followed by Lose You by...
jetbunny:
Megan: “Yeah, Mary, that sounds like me. I’m just gonna go sit in my chair at my computer in the office and NOT check Tumblr. That’s me, right there. If you were gonna write a biography about me, the first sentence would be ‘Megan sat down at her chair in her office and DIDN’T check Tumblr’, and it’d be totally accurate. That’s all me. That...
After a few minutes of silence while I look at Netflix...
Megan: If you ever want to watch a man suck his own dick, rent Shortbus.
Mary: ...
Mary: Wh-what?
Mary: What prompted that?
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Bump in the Night
I go through this like once a week.
Morning Update
megansfridge:
This morning a solitary crusty spoon was found in me.
I want to die.
POST FROM THE EGGS
jetbunny:
megansfridge:
We will expire on January 5th.
hey thanks fridge
Ah, here’s the Tumblr for my fridge. Thanks for the update, Eggs!
yamino:
rosalarian:
yamino:
rosalarian:
Maybe if the eggs would post on Tumblr that they’re expired I would notice.
Meg, your eggs have had a tumblr account all week, and you never added them, so they went bad just to teach you a lesson!
That is really petty of them. There are nicer ways to gain new followers!
I think they were trying to get your attention by posting tons of egg...
yamino:
rosalarian:
Maybe if the eggs would post on Tumblr that they’re expired I would notice.
Meg, your eggs have had a tumblr account all week, and you never added them, so they went bad just to teach you a lesson!
That is really petty of them. There are nicer ways to gain new followers!
Maybe if the eggs would post on Tumblr that they’re expired I would notice.
“You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.”
– Ricky Gervais (source here)
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"Symbolic victory?"Are you referring to DADT going...
What I mean by that is, the repeal of DADT only helps a small group of people, while everyone else is still waiting. Is it good that DADT is gone? Yes, of COURSE! It was a bad law that needed to go away.
I wouldn’t think it was tiresome if the whole country got marriage equality, but I’m tired of celebrating on a state by state basis. If the Employment Non Discrimination Act was...
I'm tired of symbolic victories.
How about some wide-scale change?
The writing process
Check Tumblr.
Write a sentence.
Check Tumblr.
Write a couple words.
Check Tumblr. Check Twitter. Check Tumblr again.
Delete a sentence.
Check Tumblr.
First drafts are always shitty. Even if you don’t think they suck, they do. They are filled with problems, inconsistencies, lazy wording, cliches, boring rambling paragraphs, stiff characters, and plot holes. You can’t always see them very clearly because you’re too close. Or sometimes, they’re all you can see.
Some of the best writing advice I ever got was that first...
Everytime you say "real women have curves," I want...
sheresists:
nicolettemason:
Real women are tall. Real women are short. They’re wide. Gaunt. Their bones can stick out of their collarbones, or be disguised by curves or fat. There are real women with breasts and real women with flat chests. There are real women who have had to have their breasts or ovaries removed, and not having those doesn’t make them any less of a real woman. There are even...
Who is your "never going to happen" pick to play...
dcwomenkickingass:
The UK web site Totalscifionline.com did a poll of its readers of who they think should play Wonder Woman in a movie *. See who they picked after the jump (hint: Wonder Woman totally has, too, and I’m sure she liked it, too.)
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Olivia fucking Wilde needs to be Wonder Woman. For reals.
I am not famous.: REBLOG WITH YOUR FIRST USERNAME... →
jetbunny:
someone out there, go to neopets and look up “yaboofernoodle” and tell me how badly my pets are dying
All of them are crying. You are the worst virtual pet owner the world has ever seen. :P
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Dressed to Kill
Whenever I complain about how females are portrayed in mainstream superhero comics, inevitably half a dozen people pop up to tell me this:
“Men are idealized in comics, too.”
Yes. Yes they are. I am aware of this. While I think the idealism is harmful, that isn’t actually what I have a problem with. (Well, not the main thing.) Because while the men are impossibly muscular...