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IT’S BACK! I LOVE THIS VIDEO SO MUCH

Tu viens d’entendre un nouveau mot ou une nouvelle expression créée par un groupe de personnes marginalisées, et tu as très envie de t’en moquer ou de pointer du doigt l’atroce danger que ces quelques syllabes font courir au monde-tel-que-nous-le-connaissons.

Tu cherches donc une façon simple et efficace de transmettre ton mépris et/ou ton angoisse.

Alors évidemment, tu utilises le mot “novlangue”.

Parce que même les gens qui n’ont pas lu 1984 savent que la “novlangue”, ça fout les jetons.

Peut-être que toi-même, tu as lu 1984, y a longtemps, et la novlangue, ça t’avait bien foutu les boules mais tu sais trop plus pourquoi. Apparemment tout ce dont tu te souviens, c’est que c’était une nouvelle forme de langue et ça permettait au gouvernement très vilain de faire du mal au cerveau des gens, donc le parallèle te semble évident - même si, dans la vraie vie, c’est pas forcément le gouvernement très vilain qui utilise ce ou ces mots qui te révulsent, mais bon c’est tout pareil parce que les féministes islamogauchistes du LGBT contrôlent déjà quasiment le monde alors on n’est pas à ça près.

Ce que tu as un peu oublié, c’est que, dans 1984, la novlangue n’était pas l’enrichissement du langage.

C’était un appauvrissement.

C’était ça qui foutait les jetons en fait. C’était une façon contrôlée de faire disparaître les nuances du langage. L’idée était qu’en privant les gens de mots décrivant la différence, on les empêchait de concevoir la différence, et par conséquence, de la vivre.

Donc en fait, quand tu te moques de personnes qui, pour lutter contre des structures oppressives, reprennent, détournent, créent et adaptent des mots, repensent la syntaxe et s’approprient leur propre langage, c’est toi qui défends une langue plus pauvre, une langue qui se conforme à ce que toi, tu trouves acceptable.

Alors dis-moi, c’est qui Big Brother dans ton histoire ?

A Friendly Reminder

-Deadpool is insecure -Deadpool has chronic pain -Deadpool is submissive in bed -Deadpool is pansexual -Deadpool lifts up his mask so Hawkeye can read his lips -Deadpool is a blonde -Deadpool’s initials are WWW -Deadpool had an abusive father -Deadpool’s mother died from cancer -Deadpool fell in love with a teenager -Deadpool left her because he didn’t want to hurt her -Deadpool had a daughter -Deadpool didn’t believe she was his because she was too beautiful -Deadpool had to be dragged away from his daughter’s dead body by Cap and Wolverine -Deadpool carries Hello Kitty band aids -Deadpool is good with kids -Deadpool can’t be killed by Ghost Rider because he doesn’t think he’s done anything wrong -Deadpool hates himself -Deadpool used to curl up in a ball and mumble about his skin hurting -Deadpool is married to the queen of the undead -Deadpool reads his own comics

Conclusion: Wade Winston Wilson is a beautiful man who must be protected.

THE WHOLE MAP

How much of your map you draw depends on you and your story. Start with what is important to the story and when you have time, you can draw maps for other places as well.

When you draw the main area, whether it be an island, a whole country, or just part of a country, start with the outline and geography. Draw the main borders, add some geography, and figure out its climate based on its position. I would suggest drawing borders within an area after drawing the geography, as rivers are often used as borders and they can help give your world a more natural look.

If you’re making up the whole world with all its land masses and whatnot, I would suggest creating one giant landmass, cutting it up, moving the pieces around a bit, and then adding and taking away some coastal lands to change the shape a bit.

When focusing on an area and with a story in which characters travel, it’s a good idea to figure out the distance so you know how far and how long your characters need to travel. To do this, compare the map to a real-world map and come up with a conversion for distance (ex: 1 inch = 15 miles).

If you have trouble coming up with borders, coastlines, rivers, mountain ranges, and other geographical and political locations, grab some maps or an atlas and trace small parts of real world places for your map. Put them all together and you’ve got a whole new world.

Stuff to Include:

Compass rose

Names of geographical places

Symbols to represent settlements

Bodies of water

Geographical places such as mountains and deserts

Important major roads

A legend for these symbols

The trail that your characters travel on

SETTLEMENTS:

If there are important settlements in your story, it’s a good idea to make a map for your own reference. Some settlements are (in order of smallest to largest): hamlets, villages, towns, and cities. Of course there are other settlements, but the terms used and what they mean vary by region.

Before you make your map, you should consider the following:

What is the population? How many people make up a village or a city is up to you and it should reflect the population and the population density of the fictional region you’re writing in.

Where is it located? The first permanent settlements started small and sprung into cities while farms and villages popped up around them. These settlements were also near water and other resources, which brings us to the age:

How old is it? The oldest settlements will be near water no matter how much technology is available in the time period you’re writing in. Older settlements were not built with the technology needed to transport water to far places. How old a settlement is will also affect the architecture and the artifacts and structures found nearby.

What is the layout? Newer settlements will typically have an organized layout based on the geography around the settlement. Older settlements may be organized as well, but are more likely to have roads built around permanent dwellings and buildings rather than the other way around. If your settlement is organized, build the roads first. If it’s not, mark structures first and build the roads around them.

Roads & Buildings:

Like mentioned above, the layout of your settlement depends on geography, roads, and structures.

It would be best to start with the geography, such as hills, bodies of water, and forests. Once you have the general geography of the settlement, you can either put the roads down or the structures.

Organized settlements should start with major roads. How many you have depends on the population size. If there are only a few hundred people in the settlement, there may only be one or two main roads with several minor roads. The main road should lead people to important areas of a settlement, such as a government building, the roads out of the settlement, and other non-residential buildings or structures. However, there can still be residential dwellings. The minor roads should come off the main road(s) can lead to anywhere from residences to parks. To differentiate between the main roads and minors roads, draw the main roads as thicker lines.

Unorganized settlements usually, but not always, start with the structures and without a plan of what this settlement will develop into. While organized and pre-planned settlements are more likely to cut into geographical areas rather than work around them. If your settlement has less grid-like roads and more random placements, start by placing all the structures of your town before drawing the roads.

These types of settlements will still have some type of structure. For example, non-residential buildings tend to be in one area with the occasional stay building. This is usually where a main road ends up. Residential buildings are more random. How far apart they are depends on the type of settlement and what the people at that residence do. Farmers will have more land while those who don’t work off the land or who work outside of their home may or may not have smaller properties.

Draw the oldest roads in unorganized settlements first. The oldest roads usually end up being major roads whether they are straight or curved. The minor roads will go next or there may be no minor roads at all.

Now you have to name your roads and buildings. You don’t have to name all of them, but it can help for reference and it can help build your world.

If you are building a city rather than a smaller dwelling, there are more tips for that here.

GEOGRAPHY:

Climates and Ecosystems:

World Climate Zones

World Biomes

Tundra

Tundra Biome

Taiga

Grasslands

Grassland Biome

Chaparral

Savanna

The Mediterranean Biome

Forests:

Deciduous Forest Biome

Forestry Terms

Tropical Rain Forests

Temperate Forest

Forest Biome Regions

The Forest Biome

Sand:

Deserts

Anatomy of a Beach

Types of Dunes

Desert Biome

The Formation of Deserts

How Are Deserts Made?

Where Are Deserts Found?

Caves:

Caves

Cave Terms

Sea Caves

Solution Caves

Volcanoes:

Anatomy of a Volcano

How Volcanoes Work

Water:

Waterfall Classification

River Anatomy

Anatomy of a River

How Rivers Are Formed Animation

Freshwater Biome

Marine Biome

Lake Origins

Water Geography

Mountains:

How Mountains are Formed

Mountain Ranges

The Alpine Biome

Alpine

More:

Nations and Culture 2.1: Giving Land a Face

Fantasy World Maps

Glossary of Geography Terms

Fantasy Map Photoshop Resources

Fantasy Map Brushes

New superhero comic, Spark!

Hey, everyone! This is the creator of Little Girls Are Better At Designing Superheroes Than You, here with a post I thought you all might like. Writer Ted Anderson and I have made a pitch for a superhero comic!

The comic is about nine-year-old Lucia Marquez-Miller, who loves engineering, and uses her telekinetic powers to build and take things apart with her mind. She calls this power her spark!

As Spark, the world’s youngest superhero, she’s a junior member of a superhero team while also trying to live a normal life. Can Lucia juggle her friends and family while also saving the world from supervillains?

We’re posting a 15-page standalone comic here on tumblr to give readers an idea of what the book would be like.

Click “read more” below to continue reading the comic!

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#flâner episode 1 from #strollingseries  gaëlle & christelle talked about black french culture, “bande de filles”, afrofuturism, fatou, sisterhood & more

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Cleric: Are you a vampire? Vampire: Well it’s raining so technically I’m a dampire.

Ridiculously honored to have been able to do today’s doodle for Sally Ride’s 64th birthday. First female US astronaut, first LGBT astronaut, youngest astronaut to date, physicist, professor, author, and champion of interesting STEM programs for kids, especially girls. 

You can read more about her here, including a guest blog post from her partner Tam O’Shaughnessy. You can also find a video animated by the amazing Nate Swinehart, and narrated by myself and Tam, detailing some of the process work that went into everything.

Naziyah Mahmood is a woman of contradictions. She was a scientist for the European Space Agency, an artist and soon to be published writer/poet. Also, she is a deadly martial artist and weapons collector while being a peace loving woman of faith. Naziyah has overcome a tough upbringing and disability to become an academic of excellence……who can also kick your butt. (x)

WHAT A BADASS <3 <3

“I do get a lot of odd looks when walking around Glasgow, especially when I’m training. There is still that stereotype here that women dressed like me should just be in the kitchen. An old instructor of mine used to call me his ‘little ninja girl.’ I didn’t mind because it gave me an advantage. I was taken lightly and I routinely got underestimated, especially when sparring. I remember one male student who was well over 6ft reassured me by saying,

‘Don’t worry. I will go easy on you.’

He soon found himself on the floor.”

Sousveillance needs to spread

“i want an anime with non binary characters!!”

“i want an anime with a visibly disabled character!!!”

“no, a visibly disabled POC!!! and make them a woman!! and dealing with extreme poverty and homelessness!”

“well, what about a POC with severe mental and emotional trauma? and a narrative about the horrors of war and imperialism, and race supremacy!!”

“give me a woman who is as strong as the men in the power structure of her society!!! but don’t sexualize her!!!”

“give me an anime with a cast that’s diverse in terms of gender representation!!!!”

“show me the most successful anime of the past 30 years…that’s been written by a WOMAN!!!!”

“give me an anime with a cast of different races and religions!!! and show me a narrative that includes the way imperialistic white-dominated power structures oppress and devastate minority groups based on racism and destructive actions of war!!”

“give me an anime with character development and intense personal narratives!!”

“strong female characters and a narrative without sexism!!!”

“the best anime of the past twenty years!!!!! if not one of the top animes of all time!!!!!!”

“what should i watch next?????”

I didn’t know she’s been deported...

Simone Veil aborde pour la toute première fois sa déportation lors de l'inauguration d'un hôpital.

I want more :o

Animalistic Robots, by the very creative Robert Chew.

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Damn, this always brings a tear :’(

Let’s go to the sea, before sunrise. The city lights go out, one by one, the stars fade, then the horizon glows, almost like it’s on fire. It’s kinda rose-colored, right? First the sea, then it spreads to the sky, then to the whole city. It gets brighter and brighter till everything… glows. It’s really pretty. I know you’d like it.

I would've liked to see her fully dressed, but she's beautiful this way too!

Damn how could I not know that :/

"Wasn’t Kurt Cobain that guy who committed suicide?"

No. He was a lot more than that, you ignorant fuck.

The contrast between the calmness of an Aikido thrower and the panic of an Aikido “throwee.”

I apologize if this comes off as disrespectful to Michael Brown or Trayvon Martin. Or their families. Or YOU, the reader. I’m not about that. That’s not why I drew this.

I am just really freaked out that 40% of Americans (and 47% of White Americans) do not think that the killings and violence in Ferguson ‘raise any racial issues.’ Fellow White Persons, this is our chance to learn. This is our chance to change.

When Trayvon Martin was murdered because Full Grown Men in America are frightened to violence by the presence black children, the dialogue turned very quickly into a conversation about gun control.

And gun control is an issue that deserves our attention.

But it won’t change the massive poverty in Black America. The arrest rate. The education statistics. The institutional, systemic, casual, and passive racism that plagues our country.

And it wouldn’t have saved Michael Brown.

Anyway. I’m sorry if this comes off as disrespectful or insincere or preachy. I’m sorry if my execution (or personality) gets in the way of what I’m trying to say. I am an imperfect artist, an imperfect person, and I am, undoubtedly, blinded to a million things by my own glaring whiteness. So this might be… Lord, this might be awful. I’m so sorry if it’s awful. Really.

But. I just keep thinking… Look, my wife is pregnant with our first child. A boy. We’re nervous, we’re excited, we’re SO ANXIOUS because what the hell do you do with babies? WE don’t know. But if we were a black family… in this country… we would be so terrified. Because we live in a nation that murders the children of black parents, puts it on the news WITH RIOTS AND TEAR GAS as decoration, and still half of us don’t even see it as a problem. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine bringing a child into that reality, to face the odds we lay out for black kids?

That would break me. I’ve never known anything like that. No one should ever know anything like that.

So let’s talk to our friends about race. Lets talk to our families. And when actual victims of racism try to tell us what’s going on in, say, a peaceful community protest as they are being gassed and shot at by cops WE SHOULD LISTEN TO AND BELIEVE THEM. Let’s talk to each other about this until we are all on the same page.

And then let’s turn the damn page.

Ben Affleck speaks about Islamophobia X

Eliza Bennett

A Woman’s Work is Never Done

A series of photographic works titled ‘A Woman’s Work is Never Done’ Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of skin using thread to create the appearance of an incredibly work worn hand.  By using the technique of embroidery, which is traditionally employed to represent femininity and applying it to the expression of its opposite, I hope to challenge the pre-conceived notion that ‘women’s work’ is light and easy.  Aiming to represent the effects of hard work arising from employment in low paid ‘ancillary’ jobs, such as cleaning, caring and catering, all traditionally considered to be ‘women’s work’. 

The technique, I recall first applying to my hand under a table during a home economics class in school. I was totally amazed to find that I could pass a needle under the top layers of skin without any pain, only a mild discomfort.  As with many childhood whims it passed and I hadn’t thought any more about it until quite recently when I decided to apply the process to my hand to make it appear calloused and work worn like that of a manual labourer. Some viewers consider the piece to be a feminist protest, for me it’s about human value. After all, there are many men employed in caring, catering, cleaning etc… all jobs traditionally considered to be ‘women’s work’. Such work is invisible in the larger society, with ‘A woman’s work’ I aim to represent it.  (artist statement)

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Well then, here I am! Back again:) Bien bien , un petit article de chauffe pour parler un peu d'un jeu de rôle qui m'a fait beaucoup réfléchir. Et ouais, un jdr qui fait réfléchir, ça vous la coupe hein.

Ce JdR, c'est Eclipse Phase.

Dans un futur que l'on imagine pas si lointain, la Singularité s'est produite. La Singularité, c'est un point théorique dans le temps où l'on estime qu'une (ou plusieurs) avancée scientifique va impacter la vie des humains de façon significative. Tellement significative que cela aura des impacts proprement inattendus sur notre façon de vivre.

Nanotechnologie, numérisation de l'esprit humain, développement d'IA puissantes, colonisation du système solaire, émergence de nouvelles doctrines (économiques, sociales, etc...) et disparitions de certaines religions, voilà le programme d'un futur dépeint avec habileté par les créateurs de ce jeu. Ce sont des thèmes très classiques de la SF (la partie "Références et inspirations" est un vrai régal!) auxquels s'ajoutent des éléments scénaristiques intéressants que l'on attend pas vraiment quand on pense à un milieu qu'on imaginait cyberpunk (exploration spatiale par exemple).

Le tout est très agréable à découvrir et fait beaucoup réfléchir sur les limites de la technologie en tant que "grand sauveur de l'humanité". Quand des nano-usines permettent de fabriquer de la nourriture à volonté et que les êtres humains sont "immunisés à la mort" (transfert de l'esprit dans un nouveau corps si besoin, voir http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbone_modifi%C3%A9 ), alors tout s'arrange dans les relations humaines, non?

Certainement pas.

Intérêts corporatistes, oppositions idéologiques, choix de vie, volonté de créer de nouvelles structures sociales, désinformation, dictatures et complots prennent le relais des problèmes bassement physiques. Et c'est bien ce que j'adore dans ce jeu: à travers un univers très hautement technologique, on vient au final à réfléchir non pas sur les formidables possibilités technologiques débloquées, mais sur les problèmes sociétaux qui affectent toute l'Humanité (ou la Transhumanité, mais je m'égare).

Bon c'était un peu confus tout ça, il va falloir que je reformules certaines choses, mais j'espère avoir au moins transmis un peu de mon enthousiasme envers ce jeu qui m'a vraiment fait découvrir des problématiques tout à fait passionnantes.

Plus d'infos sur la Singularité (vraie théorie sérieuse, bien que critiquée et parfois polémique):

Wikipedia : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularit%C3%A9_technologique

Site de la Singularity University: http://singularityu.org/

This game is so awesome <3

Dishonored ~ ‘Corvo’ Cosplay by neoncowboy

Retour en France, entre tristesse, soulagement et appréhension

Ça y est, alors que j’écris ces lignes, je vis mes dernières heures sur le sol anglais.

J’ai dit au revoir à mes amis, mes collègues (et non, pas mes amours), et j’emballe mes derniers effets, lentement, en savourant chaque secondes.

  J’ai appris à l’aimer ce pays. Oh, je ne suis pas un Globe-trotter, je n’ai même pas tant visité le pays, au final. Mais l’ambiance, les gens, les pubs, les rues, le brouhaha sonore (anglais), l’architecture, la nourriture (si, quelque part…), le thé, les paysages, la pluie, le brouillard, tout ça me manquera terriblement.

  Mais je pense à nouveau à la France. Enfin, je n’ai jamais vraiment cessé d’y penser. A travers le hublot Internet, je me suis tenu au courant de ce qu’il s’y passait. A travers les couloirs blanc immaculés de ses fibres optiques, j’ai reçu les échos scandaleux de slogans haineux et de harangues nationalistes, homophobes et rétrogrades.

  Néanmoins, je suis bien conscient que de par sa nature, on n’a qu’une vision très extrême de l’info à travers les réseaux sociaux. Colères, scandales, pétitions, articles fumeux, brulots mal écrits, juste indignation, etc… c’est cela que l’on retrouve en 140 caractères sur Twitter, ou en une poignée de lien sur Facebook.

  Je sais que j’ai une vision déformée. Et pourtant, je n’ai pas envie que cela cesse. J’ai peur, même, de voir disparaitre ces luttes et ces indignations se diluer dans la masse oppressante du quotidien. Mais si ma vision n’était pas si déformée ? Si Lundi j’assiste à un acte raciste ou sexiste, au travail ou dans la rue, oserai-je élever ma voix et m’interposer?

  C’est terrible, avoir des (semi-)opinions et n’en faire rien. Encore pire, avoir des opinions et ne faire qu’en parler.