PETA: They’d rather spend their money on publicity campaigns than on the animals in their care. PETA killed 73.8% of the animals in their care in 2015 (x)
FCKH8: Is a for-profit company that exploits oppressed groups for money. They’re also wildly uninformed, and spread misogyny, cissexism and bi/panphobia, as well as stealing their posts/designs (x)
Autism Speaks: They spend most of their money on researching a way to eliminate autism, heighten the stigma against autism and don’t have a single autistic person on their board (x)
Please support other, better charities, and feel free to add any others you can think of to this.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure: CEO makes insane amounts of money, they deny a lot of requests for wigs/help with treatment/etc., and have attempted to sue other charities that use the color pink as part of their anti-breast cancer campaign. ( xxx )
The Salvation Army: They promote the hatred of LGBT+ people, work with fundamentalist Christian groups to support conservative politics and rip off and exploit workers. ( xxx )
Wounded Warrior: They take money that should be spent on veterans and blow it on huge opulent parties for the company bigwigs. 26 million in 2014 alone wasted! ( xxx )
^ Important reminder to NOT waste any money donating to these groups
Reblogging because of the added info about Wounded Warrior.
A good way to know if a nonprofit you’re donating to is allocating their money in the right way is to check out their Charity Navigator rating: http://www.charitynavigator.org
Signal boosting, the bell ringers are out in force, and this info is too important.
Charity season is coming up in not even two months, so I feel like this is important to share now before it’s too late.
like a fedora-grabbing Indiana Jones, here’s the second of our two essays on issue #38, looking at the two big monologues that dominate the issue.
Tim: When the first issue of this arc came out, my commentary noted the return of Persephone’s narration, and how its changing role in the
series impacted the way we perceived her actions and motivations. Now, as we
approach the end of this penultimate arc, her narration is one half of a pair
of monologues that (almost) bookend issue #38. At the beginning, we have
Ananke’s drunken ramblings to Robert Graves. At the close of the issue, we have
Persephone’s cryptic remarks and her descent in darkness as she seemingly
vanishes from existence.
These two speeches do more than frame the story in this
issue though. The way the comic presents them, and the way we are encouraged to
engage with them, speaks volumes about the two characters we’re dealing with.
And, as we draw closer to the end of The
Wicked + The Divine, I think they are not only guiding how we are supposed
to interpret these characters, but the series as a whole.
We’ve known the claim has been bunk for a good long while, but let us return to Ananke’s claim that the recurrence moves civilization forward.
Now, obviously we’ve realized that these are almost certainly lies and that the recurrence has mostly been a vehicle through which Ananke continues her existence. But in issue #38, Ananke gave a curious response to Minerva.
In the same issue, it was revealed that the letter from Ananke shown in issue #28 was meant for Minerva. An early bit: “This century is all it threatened to be. It is harder than ever.”
There are more examples throughout the books, but it had long been apparent that Ananke felt that the 21st century had made her task harder than ever.
But issue #38 was the first time when she remarked that perhaps it wouldn’t keep getting harder.
Enter “1373: The Transubstantiation of Lucifer.” Yes, there are small things to learn, such as two years clearly not being an absolute rule. But the real revelation is that Ananke has intentionally wrought mass destruction upon civilization in the name of making her job easier.
All this, of course, raises the question as to what other humongous historic disasters Ananke might be party to. I’d heavily recommend thumbing through @twatd‘s 6,000 Years of Murder for ideas (my mind instantly jumps towards the Indus Valley).
Once upon a time, Ananke told Cass that we could have had men on Mars thousands of years before the rise of Rome but for The Great Dark.
Then she says that she’s the remedy to this shortcoming.
But Ananke’s relationship with civilization is, in truth, much closer to that of her story’s Great Dark.
Alex: Examining Ananke’s claims in #9 has been on our to-do
list for a while now, so thanks to @bookofpoems for handling it for us.
(And with a bonus TWATD namecheck to boot!)
This is something I wrote about a little in my last essay,
but the only real signs of lasting impact that any Recurrence (and by
extension Ananke) has left on the world are the Black Death and World
War Two. Not the greatest indicators of progress.
Also, that
flashback image, with its stone circle, seems to imply the Recurrence
began in Europe? Standing stones do predate the druidic tradition (appearing as
early as 3000BC) but don’t go as far back as the Sisters’ game of stories
(roughly 4000BC).
daredevil interacts with the xmen a fair amount but no one’s ever called him out on being matt murdock but that doesnt mean they havent figured it out it means telepaths are just really polite
on the other hand psylocke did read his mind once and almost lost her gourd cos his brain is such a fucking nightmare of crazy sensory input overstimulation and mental illness. maybe no one DOES know who daredevil is bc the other telepaths value their sanity too much to try and dig into the psyche of a blind catholic man who runs around dressed like the fucking devil
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