I am Cathy Leamy and I make comics at Metrokitty.com and I tweet @metrokitty!
I work in medical writing and editing and I like health communication!
I also like gross bodily things.
100% certain han and lando once got married for a scam and forgot to have it annulled so they were technically married for several years and one day lando comes in and goes “real quick: are we solo-calrissian or calrissian-solo? also, i want a divorce” and han is like baby no where did i go wrong we can still fix this
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Because treating people fairly often means treating them differently.
This is something that I teach my students during the first week of school and they understand it. Eight year olds can understand this and all it costs is a box of band-aids.
I have each students pretend they got hurt and need a band-aid. Children love band-aids. I ask the first one where they are hurt. If he says his finger, I put the band-aid on his finger. Then I ask the second one where they are hurt. No matter what that child says, I put the band-aid on their finger exactly like the first child. I keep doing that through the whole class. No matter where they say their pretend injury is, I do the same thing I did with the first one.
After they all have band-aids in the same spot, I ask if that actually helped any of them other than the first child. I say, “Well, I helped all of you the same! You all have one band-aid!” And they’ll try to get me to understand that they were hurt somewhere else. I act like I’m just now understanding it. Then I explain, “There might be moments this year where some of you get different things because you need them differently, just like you needed a band-aid in a different spot.”
If at any time any of my students ask why one student has a different assignment, or gets taken out of the class for a subject, or gets another teacher to come in and help them throughout the year, I remind my students of the band-aids they got at the start of the school year and they stop complaining. That’s why eight year olds can understand equity.
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Harry Clarke illustrations for a 1919 collection of Edgar Allan Poe stories.
I love Harry Clarke’s work so freaking much, aaaaah
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28/01/2018 - Royal Rumble: Asuka wins the First Woman Royal Rumble Match
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one thing i really liked about thor ragnarok that i havent seen a lot of folks on my dash talking about was its critique of imperialism and the ultimate message that a nation founded on the violent takeover of others doesn’t deserve to exist and will be the author of its own destruction, though its people may be innocent of their country’s past crimes
another thing i really liked about thor ragnarok is jeff goldblum’s painted nails
also it’s a great story about how the destruction and/or theft of land, though incredibly traumatic, does not signal the end of culture and identity, which is held within the peoples of the diaspora (he’s māori and has jewish ancestry so like!!! holy shit yes). taika waititi not-so-secretly appropriating a marvel franchise for the purposes of de-/post-colonial storytelling is a power move and now my hype for black panther has been reinvigorated
i also liked jeff goldblum’s blue eyeliner
how about the gilded fake history falling away to show the more violent, imperialist truth, and the way thor was not allowed to shrug off how he was part of a legacy of violence and conquering of innocents, but in fact forced to face the ultimate consequences of the evil done by his father (which he has been complicit in bt failing to critically consiser Asgard’s past, as we all must consider our culture’s past in order to move past it, which involves accepting consequences and consciously working to do better)
also jeff goldblum’s one armed gold robe was iconic
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Here’s my travel diary comics from MICE this past weekend!
This weekend, Oct. 21-22, 2017! Come and visit me and my comics pals at the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE) in Cambridge, MA!
Free admission! Bring your friends! Bring your foes! Bring your whole family!
I’m selling my comics at table D03, just inside the entrance, on the right. I’ll also be on the Comics and Medicine panel on Saturday at 11am.
Saturday: 10-6; Sunday: 11-5
University Hall at Lesley University, 1815 Massachusetts Ave. (Porter Square), Cambridge, MA.
Workshops, panels, and loads of comic book creators! See you there!
a while back my best friend linked me to a thread on homemade My Little Pony transformation hypnosis tapes
that’s a really loaded sentence so let me ease into it
they were like, hour long recordings you were supposed to lay down and listen to and focus on nothing else, that started off with some relaxation techniques then eased into like, “feel your hands becoming hooves. remember pinkie pie’s happy memories. imagine yourself literally becoming pinkie pie. imagine your pink mane. you are literally pinkie pie”
all with the goal of putting you in a mental state where you were convinced you were this cartoon pony. and it was full of people like “wow! this was so relaxing. i felt like i literally Became rarity”
the problem is that human brains are kind of, buggy? so people, especially if they listened to the tapes too much, started like, accidentally going to this mental state they’d created at random inopportune times. the thread was suddenly full of people desperate to know how to stop it because they were turning into rainbow dash in the middle of driving on a highway to work, or whatever
anyway, i’m just burdened with that knowledge forever, now. i think about it a lot
i grow more powerful with every message I get about my URL
A few weeks ago on Ajax, I mentioned that one of the things I really like to do when I’m running a D&D or Pathfinder game is make newspapers that report on the party’s adventures. Someone asked about them in the comments, so I thought I’d post them here, too! These are the ones I made when I was running a party through the Pathfinder Carrion Crown Adventure Path.
(That series of adventures is, by the way, mostly excellent. It’s a horror-themed campaign, but in the way that it works its way through all the big monsters on your way to fighting a lich at the end, set in a grim and cheerless gothic horror country that’s essentially Paizo’s answer to D&D’s Ravenloft. The first adventure involves ghosts in a haunted prison, the second deals with a Frankenstein, then werewolves, draculas, and finally the Lich. The only big misstep is the fourth of the six adventures, which tries to go Lovecraftian and ends up doing some pretty dodgy stuff about fish-men using the women of a particular town as breeding stock. I didn’t want to deal with that, so I went off-script for a big haunted house adventure instead, with just vaguely creepy stuff happening all the time. It was a big hit and my players loved it, and still talk about that time they were menaced by birds with human faces! Anyway…)
These two were tied into the second adventure, Trial of the Beast, a really well-written and well-staged adventure where the party has to defend a Frankenstein (the Beast) in a court of law against murder charges and root out the real culprit. It’s a really interesting adventure that plays with expectations, and part of it is that these townsfolk are getting super riled up, and the party only has a Phoenix Wright-style three days to gather enough evidence before they become a torch-wielding mob and execute the Beast themselves. That’s something that can actually happen, and changes where the adventure goes from there. So if you’ve got riled up townsfolk, well, why not show the media that’s getting them all riled?
The big gag about the papers is that they’re meant to be sensational and frequently inaccurate tabloids. The first one, for instance, is my sensationalized rewrite of the information that the PCs get when they arrive in the city of Lepisdadt, with the smaller story being a report on their previous adventure. True to form, the paper gets everyone’s name wrong: Gr’garr the Bloody was actually Gregor, a somewhat naive homeschooled half-orc Cleric who liked to sing church songs, and “half-pint seer Ilya” was Ella, a halfling con artist/sorcerer who did not in fact know any divination spells. “Charmingly dimwitted knife enthusiast” was, however, a pretty good description of Mel.
That one also has my favorite joke I wrote in one of these, the one about a horrible massacre that we need not speak of, with a citation for FOUR PAGES of bloody recounting later in that edition.
The second one, however, has my second-favorite joke: referring to an adventuring party as “a traveling carnival specializing in breaking and entering, vigilante justice, and, curiously, legal services.” That’s basically every adventuring party ever, if you’re playing right.
The “big orcs” in the below-the-fold story in the second one were actually trolls, because I figured that very few common folk would know what a troll was, as very few of them would ever survive an encounter with creatures that were meant to pose an appropriate challenge to 5th-level adventurers. I do not remember why one of them was nice to the traveling merchants, as that’s not in the book, but playing good cop/bad cop with some doofy trolls that were trying to steal things from Castle Frankenstein sounds like something I’d do.
Anyway, I really like making these goofy handouts when I should be writing things for my actual job.
Good times, right Worst Party?
I wish you could all see the look of utter delight on my face right now.