Charissa Cotrill's Blog, page 72
May 26, 2013
May 25, 2013
flatbear:
I don’t really need a list, I have a very simple...
I don’t really need a list, I have a very simple reason or disliking it. It is actively reinforcing every negative stereotype I spend my days trying to break down.
At my store, I have had to actually walk outside and introduce myself to people that are afraid to come in. Comic book stores have an incredibly bad reputation, and some of them deserve it. But mine doesn’t, and I know there are thousands more that don’t either.
My comic store is a warm and safe place. People get kicked out for throwing around hate speech. New readers are loved, welcomed, and sent away with armfuls of books (for less than I should charge them SORRY). Without new readers coming in all of the time, our industry will die out.
And I feel like shows such as Big Bang Theory and Comic Book Men do their best to destroy the work that we (fandom, tumblr, and a new generation of creators) do. BBT portrays nerds as awkward, embarrasing, unable to talk to the opposite sex. Out of touch, ignorant, rude. Out of every 100 nerds I meet, only one is like that. Also let me tell you, nerds are flirty as fuck.
It just…it upsets me. I feel like the comic book/nerd community is portrayed in a more negative light than any other community, and it only serves to hurt us. What I want is a show about young men and women stumbling over a comic book store and embarking on a fucking fantastic journey head-first into nerdom and fandom and all of the amazing things that come with it.
A show that laughs with us, not at us.
And wow that was kind of a novel but, there you have it.
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Rebagelable by request! I just….my comic store is my favorite place on earth. It’s my second home, and I feel safer there than I do anywhere else. It actively breaks my heart to see people afraid to share that place with me because it carries the stigma of ‘comic book store’.
friendlyatheist:
stfuconservatives:
pilosopogyno:
This man,...
This man, James Verone, robbed a bank for one dollar. Why only one dollar? Because he knew that in prison he could get the medical care he could not afford with his part time salary as a convenience store clerk. He was approved for food stamps, but they did little to help his finances. Between his back problems, carpel tunnel, and arthritis, he simply couldn’t handle the pain any longer.
On June 9th, he sent a letter to his local paper, the Gaston Gazette, that stated: “When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me. this robbery is being committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body.”
He then took a cab to the RBC Bank, and handed the teller a note asking for one dollar and medical attention. He quietly took a seat in the lobby and waited for police to arrive.
Since Verone only stole one dollar, he was only charged with larceny. His bail, which he doesn’t plan to pay is set at $2,000, reduced from the normal $100,000. He’s scheduled to see a doctor this Friday, and hopes to get foot surgery, back surgery and to have a protrusion on his check treated.
To me, this is the perfect example of how disturbingly corrupt and unjust our health care system has become under HMO’s. For this man, or any person for that matter, feels that he needs to be imprisoned just to see a doctor, is ridiculous.
This is exactly what I hate about America. Why is it that you can buy an entire house with money you don’t have, but still can’t apply for health care if you don’t meet the requirements? That’s messed up.
This is what sick people in America are resorting to. But BEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD, right guys?
Wow. So sad.
ohari:
absinthe-cocktail:
stfuconservatives:
grrrl-riot:
I...
I saw this post among the slew of comments on this Planned Parenthood post regarding the decision on the after 20-week abortions ban in Arizona.
It was nice to see a conservative man standing up to the anti-choice bullies on the page.
The horrors we inflict on pregnant people by forcing them to keep nonviable pregnancies are just… I mean, I can’t even imagine. This is what late-term abortion bans do. I wouldn’t wish that woman’s experience on anyone, and good on her and her father-in-law for being willing to publicly stand up for choice now.
Of course, I don’t think anyone reading me will disagree with this.
paul7martin:
Everyone should do this during interviews…....
Everyone should do this during interviews…. especially Potash interviews, he’d get distracted which would make him mad. He gets so worked up.
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simplydalektable:
nevillegonnagiveuup:
justanotherdayinlife:
a...
I just got this joke. Granted, the last time I actually sat down and watched the whole movie was when I was 14, but for my entire life I thought it was a “you two are not good looking people” joke. I just realized it’s a “that’s obviously a dude in drag, but I don’t care about who you love when it comes to love” joke.
My god am I a fucking idiot.
She fucking throws glitter. How much more obvious does it get.
THE FUCKING EPIPHANY.
Apparently, in the Norwegian version she actually says “Brave of you to come out of the closet.”
OH MY GOD
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