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Zephyr (Faith Herbert) is a psiot with the power of flight. She is a member of Peter Stanchek’s Renegades and often acts as the moral compass of the team.

She’s so cute and positive and she’s such a sweetheart

Oh my god????

My chest just got so tight and I think I’m going to cry she looks like me

If you’re interested in the comics, Faith is from Harbinger (published by Valiant Comics). Her one-shot can be purchased here.

I need this. Right now. It’s funny how you don’t know some aspect of yourself isn’t represented in a certain media until it IS and you’re just sitting there, looking at it, drinking it in like you’ve been thirsty for 41 years. 

Wow. 

Faith has her own title! It’s super cute! Also you should buy it if you can, because supporting positive plus size rep shows publishers that there’s a market for diversity.

Faith series on Goodreads

outlandishreads:

im a simple girl.. i see book, i buy book, i let book sit on my shelf for months unread

Months? Oh, sweet summer child, I’m currently pushing myself through a programme where I’m reading everything that’s been on my shelves, unread, for 10+ YEARS. And yes, I’m still buying books. The programme is mostly to clear off the books I don’t actually want to keep, to make space for new stuff.

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ayn rand failing to understand that sesame street is for young children

god this is missing the best part
JIM HENSON
I think Ms. Rand and my character Oscar the Grouch would have a lot to talk about actually. I am laughing out loud at this idea.

AYN RAND
Why would I want to talk to him. What has he achieved or trying to achieve.

JIM HENSON
He has achieved what I think is the ultimate goal of your way of thinking.

lmao

Savage

I can’t believe I never knew that Jim Henson straight up murdered Ayn Rand. 

Let us never forget the time that Ayn  Rand asked what Oscar the Grouch “Has achieved or is trying to achieve”

Jim!  Jesus christ man!

flightinflame replied: the fact she othersise seems fine shows how well you are looking after her

I guess, I just wish she was in the main part of the house where I could watch her all the time. She’s in what’s essentially a box room right now, because it was the only place to put the two of them where they’d not have access to the outside and also be separate from the other cats and the dogs. I’m just going to have to remember to check on them more regularly and make sure she’s comfortable and healthy.

Well, that’s a thing that’s happened

We worked out in the last day that our calico, Scarlett, has gone blind. This has happened fairly quickly, in the last few weeks. She seems fine, if a little confused, hasn’t lost weight, is still up for purring and pats, she just doesn’t respond to us flapping our hands in front of her at all and isn’t looking up at our faces. I guess it’s a part of her getting old – she’s about seventeen – and as far as we can tell, it’s cataracts, so probably isn’t hurting her at all. No signs of anything that would suggest it’s due to a tumour or anything. Her safety isn’t at risk, because her and O’Reilly have been exclusively inside cats since we moved in with Mum two years ago, so she won’t get lost or anything, but I still feel like I should be doing something, even though there’s nothing to do. She naps all day when she isn’t being fed anyway, and so long as we don’t move her litter tray, food or water she should be able to find things easily, because she’s not disoriented, but still. I feel like I should be doing something.

Only twice have I ever actually seen a physical copy of an Octavia Butler book in all my trawling of bookshops, new and used.

First, I found a copy of Fledgling for $2 in a Salvos. It has european stickers on it – proof it was imported at some point, rather than bought here. I grabbed it, because it was like seeing some mythical kind of Pokemon that I knew I’d never see again.

Today, I was walking past Dymocks and on the markdown table I saw the Kindred graphic novel. Even though it was only published last year, it was 50% off, possibly because of the small amount of scuffs to the dust jacket. Possibly because they hadn’t bothered promoting it and it hadn’t sold. I certainly never noticed it in there before. It was $17.50. I bought it, because, though I don’t really have the cash right now, I knew it was my only chance.

I have no doubt I’ll struggle to find the others without buying them off the internet, but I can read them digitally on Scribd, so at least the lack of physical copies won’t stop me from being able to read them.

Still, it shouldn’t be so hard for me to find works by a groundbreaking Hugo and Nebula winning author. Oh, that’s right, it’s racism/sexism/homophobia. And if a book isn’t stocked by a shop, PEOPLE CAN’T BUY IT. Instead, let’s fill the shelves with Tolkien, Jordan, McCaffrey, and Pratchett and pat ourselves on the heads for stocking what will sell. PEOPLE WILL BUY DIVERSE BOOKS IF YOU STOCK THEM.

I will add that my Dymocks’ YA section is GREAT. Lots of queer and other flavours of diverse titles. But the adult fantasy sci fi section for the most part sucks if you want anything that isn’t by or about someone cis het white published by a major publisher.