me: i fucking hate pulpy orange juice so much anon 1: why are you trying to tell people what they can drink anon 2: wait i like pulpy orange juice what did she do????? anon 3: just because you dont like something doesnt give you the right to be a bitch about it. farmers work really hard on growing oranges and you just drag them through the mud like youre better than them me, again: frantically googling ‘how to validate self withou blog’ and hovering over the delete button
I just wanted to get some folks together to pay a tribute to somebody who’s not only been by my side for the duration of this amazing journey but somebody who has devoted his entire professional life to serve this country. The best Vice-President America has ever had – Mr. Joe Biden.
My name is Leon Langford, I recently published a book based off of love of anime, manga, and light novels and my desire for diversity in the YA lit world
I was hoping you could help with just a simple reblog.
Streetslam Volume One is on sale on Amazon Kindle for 0.99.
You can also download the !free!Amazon Kindle App to MAC, PC, and Smartphone to read the novel, if you do not have a kindle.
Summary: After the death of his mother, Devin Maxwell joins Titan Force, an organization that collects supernatural artifacts using super powered agents. Devin quickly rises to become a brash, yet successful agent under the field name: Streetslam. He forms a pseudo family with his friends and fellow agents at Titan Force.
Devin’s allegiances are put to the test after an enigmatic billionaire offers him the chance to revive his mother, but only if he turns on his new family and steals a mysterious item from the Titan Force vault.
Featuring: -A black main lead with superpowers. -Anime style battles. -Characters dealing with depression, poverty, abuse, and recovery. -A diverse and robust cast, featuring strong black women, strong hispanic women, and a trio of super powered sisters. -Anime tropes such as BIG ASS swords, long evolving story arcs, a military organization that has no problem hiring teenagers, and even a character with animal ears.
Thanks for all the support!
This sounds awesome…
Thanks for the reblogs @etheralhobbies I sold 9 copies today!
The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.
Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.
So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.
Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.
so my brother was telling me about this human resources certification he attended a while ago. in a panel, the panelist asked a bunch of people in attendance, “who here knows if an applicant for a job is right for it in under 60 seconds?”
hands shot up around the room, people smug about their ability to “weed out the riff-raff” when it came to hiring for their fortune 500.
“you should all be fired and probably in jail,” they said, waiting for the whole room to get uncomfortable, then continued, “because the only things you can really learn about a human being in under 60 seconds are all things that are fueled by prejudices and biases covered by american law. so now, i will teach you how to stop being racist, sexist, judgmental assholes and hire people that will better your company of employ.”
I need this to be force taught at all companies
This is a good example of why study after study after studyhas shown that discrimination against racialized people looking for work is very real. Oh, and don’t get too smug if you’re not in the USA – similar studies have shown that the same shit happens in Canada, Germany, the UK, Sweden – basically in every country you can think of.
“No, no, don’t look at us, look over THERE, where there’s NO MONEY AT ALL.”
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” Lyndon B. Johnson
Gravity Falls theory: in like eleven months there’s going to be a Huge Announcement that journals 1 and 2 are being produced, but they’re super limited edition
There will be ten copies of journal 2, buried near various elementary schools in Oregon.
And the only way to obtain journal 1 is by fighting Alex Hirsch in a denny’s parking lot
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