veliseraptor:

Ms. Marvel #17 (2017) | w: G. Willow Wilson, a: Takeshi Miyazawa

I can’t do a real image description because I can’t parse the visuals well enough, sorry, but here’s the narrative text:

[So why is it so hard to be kind? Why does being nice feel so…embarrassing?

Why can’t we just say, “hey, it could’ve been me. I’ve sent those emails. I’ve taken those selfies. I’ve tried to hide stuff from my parents. It could’ve been me, so I’m gonna help you through it. I’m gonna stand with you through the waves of mortifying embarrassment. And it’s gonna be okay. It’s gonna be okay, because we’re gonna make it okay.”

Imagine what would happen if compassion were normal.

Imagine how many people would still be here.

Imagine that.]

i tried to find guidelines for formatting comic pages, but couldn’t find anything for multiple-panel comics. Hope this works. ❤

[TEXT: So why is it so hard to be kind? Why does being nice feel so…embarrassing?

IMAGE: a white girl with blonde hair stands at her locker. she is taken by surprise as a girl in a hijab hugs her from behind. A smiling girl with dark skin and hair is walking behind them.

TEXT: Why can’t we just say, “hey, it could’ve been me. I’ve sent those emails. I’ve taken those selfies. I’ve tried to hide stuff from my parents.

IMAGE: the girl with dark hair joins the hug, as a white girl with blue hair and a black boy in a trilby watch from across the hall.

TEXT: It could’ve been me, so I’m gonna help you through it. I’m gonna stand with you through the waves of mortifying embarrassment. And it’s gonna be okay.

IMAGE: The girl with blue hair energetically joins the hug, as the boy hangs back looking dubious.

TEXT: It’s gonna be okay, because we’re gonna make it okay.”

IMAGE: The boy in the trilby reluctantly joins the hug, looking over his shoulder and announcing “long, dramatic sigh.”

TEXT: Imagine what would happen if compassion were normal.

IMAGE: several more students of various races and genders join in the hug, which has moved to the middle of the hall with the white girl in the middle of the group.

TEXT: Imagine how many people would still be here.

IMAGE: the girl with dark skin and hair is smiling happily in the middle of the crush of people.

TEXT: Imagine that.

IMAGE: The boy in the trilby pokes his head up, raises his hand, and says, “okay, I’ve used up my feels. let me OUT please!”]

pervocracy:

nuclearvampire:

You know something we don’t get taught often? Why bodies with uteri often have a slight pouche. You wanna know why? Because the uterus leans against the outside wall of the abdominal cavity. The uterus is literally making that little pouche, the belly that we call fat all the fucking time, and that’s why it’s so fucking hard to get a absolutely flat belly! And thank fuck for having a female anatomy professor who is old enough and feminist enough to not give a damn and cheerfully tell us all the details that a male professor might have thought unimportant. Cause fuck this society that ignores organs in order to fat-shame us.

Oh man, I really do appreciate the sentiment here but I have to interject as both a nurse and a chronic “um, actually”-er:

If you’re not pregnant and don’t have a uterus-enlarging condition like fibroids, your uterus is tiny. It’s about the size of a small pear. Also, it sits behind the bladder and a thick layer of abdominal muscle. It’s very unlikely to make a big obvious imprint through your skin.

So the bad news is, that little (or big) pooch on your belly is probably fat or loose skin. The good news is, fat and loose skin are also totally natural and healthy parts of your body, and you don’t have to make excuses for them.

How to make super easy super delicious hot chocolate

I made chocolate-orange hot chocolate tonight and it was SO GOOD. And it has TWO INGREDIENTS (or three, depending on how thick you like your chocolate) and not very many steps. YAY!

INGREDIENTS:

*chocolate orange, or other tasty eating chocolate.

*heavy cream

*milk (optional)

EQUIPMENT:

*small saucepan

*stirring implement of some kind (i prefer a wire whisk)

*mug

INSTRUCTIONS:

1) Acquire chocolate orange. If you do not have/do not like chocolate oranges, other eating chocolate will do, although the higher quality the better. When not using chocolate oranges i usually use those little Dove Promises guys.

2) Acquire small saucepan. Larger saucepans (and more chocolate) are helpful if you’re making chocolate for more than one person.

3) spread the chocolate across the bottom of the pan.

This is about a quarter of a chocolate orange Please ignore how dirty my stove is. Note that I didn’t spread it all that carefully, figuring that the chocolate would melt pretty quickly (it did).

4) Turn the burner on AS LOW AS POSSIBLE. Chocolate burns easily, but it ought to behave itself if you turn the stove on as low as you can get it and pay attention to the pot.

here you see the mostly-melted chocolate. I whisked it a little to encourage the last bits to melt.

5) Once the chocolate is mostly melted, dribble in some cream.

Notice that the chocolate clumped up a bit and didn’t want to mix in (especially near the edges). Fear not! This is just a thing chocolate does sometimes. Keep stirring and it will incorporate.

Keep stirring….

THERE we go.

6) Keep adding cream by dribbles and mixing it in until the chocolate doesn’t do the clumpy thing anymore. This will probably take four or five sets of dribbles-and-stirring.

7) Taste the chocolate. You might, as i did, decide that you added an insufficient amount of chocolate – go ahead and put in some more if you want.

(yes, i put in most of the rest of the orange. shush.) Stir until it has melted all the way in.

8) add a little more cream if you want, depending on how thick you like your drinking chocolate. If you like it thick enough to stand a spoon in, you’re probably done. Otherwise, add a bit more cream.

9) If this concoction is just too rich for you (and it is pretty damn rich) or if you want to stretch it without using up your ENTIRE stash of heavy cream (which is expensive), now is the time to add some milk. Just pour it in and stir.

10) Continue to heat on ULTRA MEGA LOW until you have reached the desired temperature. (because chocolate has such a low melting point, it will probably happen that the top of the chocolate is just lukewarm even though the chocolate has all melted in.) Keep an eye on it though, so it doesn’t burn or develop a skin from getting too hot.

11) Pour into a mug. If you want, deglaze the pan with more milk (pour milk in to cover up all the chocolate sticking to the sides and bottom of the pan, heat GENTLY and stir to get the chocolate off the pot and into the milk) to get a much-more-diluted-but-still-tasty drink. Why waste chocolate, right?

AND THAT’S IT! Enjoy your delicious treat.

atopfourthwall:

amimijones:

loisfreakinglane:

endless evidence that peter parker is most interesting as a former teen superhero defending and dispensing advice to current teen superheroes

atopfourthwall

GEE IT’S ALMOST LIKE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND AGING IS BENEFICIAL.

[First picture: Peter Parker, in the Spider-man costume with the mask off, is sitting on a couch looking up at Captain America, who is leaning behind it.]
Captain America: The kid is sixteen.

Peter: So? I was a kid when I started, and I turned out okay. Arguably. Right…?

[Second picture: Spider-man, Wiccan, and Hulkling are swinging high in the air between buildings. Wiccan is being carried by Hulkling.]
Spider-man: So, what’s the plan? To outsmart and outfight the Avengers and Magneto at the tender age of, what, fifteen?
Wiccan: Sixteen.
Spider-man: Kid, I was a teenage superhero, so take it from me… that is a terrible plan.

[Third picture: First panel: Spider-man is talking to Kamala Khan (Ms Marvel) in what looks like the hallway of a school. His suit is torn in several places, and his hair is sticking out a hole in the top.]

Spider-man: It’s a school day. And I’m guessing you’ve missed at least two classes already.

Ms. Marvel: Oh. Yeah. Heh. Um, I actually never ditch –

Spider-man: Relax, kiddo. you’ll be fine.

[Second panel: Side view of the conversation. More rips are visible in Spider-man’s costume. Ms. Marvel’s costume is not torn.]

Ms. Marvel: As a super hero? Or the whole inhuman thing?

Spider-man: As a teenager. You remind me of a web-headed whippersnapper who always wondered how he was doing. And he thinks you’re doing great.

[Fourth picture: First panel: Spider-girl and Spider-man are on top of a building. Spider-man is holding Spider-girl by the upper arms, as if to emphasize a point.]
Spider-man: Listen… you probably just saved me from having “KILLED BY TENTACLES IN A KIDDIE POOL” carved onto my tombstone. Let me give you some advice.

[Second panel: Spider-man is facing Spider-girl, who has her back to the reader. Spider-man is moving his hand in emphasis.]

Spider-man: There is an astonishing amount of powerful people in this world, and a lot of them are flat-out crazy. So… trust me… you will always be in over your head. Always.

[Fifth picture: Spider-man is sitting in a Japanese restaurant with Victor Mancha and Gertrude Yorkes. They are sharing a plate of sushi.]
Spider-man: Listen, I got into this game when I was your age, so I’d feel like a hypocrite telling you to stay out of trouble. But really, if you want to help, the best thing you can do is lay low while I try to clear Cloak’s name.
Victor: But… I have powers!

[Sixth picture: Peter Parker is talking to Miles Morales. Both are in costume as Spider-man. It’s unclear where they are, but lots of sparks are flying around.
First panel: Peter is looking backward over his shoulder at Miles.]
Peter: Don’t let anyone clone you. Seriously. And only date one girl at a time.
[Second panel: Image of Miles, listening with his head tilted to the side and a hand at his throat.]
Peter: And – if you find out a guy named Doctor Octopus is going to marry my Aunt May – stop it. And don’t lend anyone named Wolverine or Mockingbird moeny. You’ll never see it again.
[Third panel: Peter is ticking points off on his fingers.]

Peter: And once you beat up the bad guy leave the crime scene as soon as possible because they’ll try to make you clean it up.
And wash your costume, like, daily, because it will get funky and people will make fun of you.