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Tomorrow, April 1st 2025, we have a massively important State Supreme Court election here in the state of Wisconsin. It will decide the balance of the state supreme court, and it's vitally important that we get Susan Crawford elected. Elon Musk has literally poured millions of dollars into Brad Schimel's campaign, and we are fighting for our lives here. I've already voted, and if you haven't yet and you live here... make sure you do.
But no matter what happens tomorrow, no matter what the result is, the fight is far from over. ICE agents are grabbing people off the streets, our public institutions are being systematically destroyed, and our international and diplomatic relations with historically close allies are just, honestly, fucked right now. Today is Trans Day of Visibility, and trans and queer rights have been under steady attack by the right. As a nonbinary person and member of the trans community, I'm genuinely scared for a lot of my friends right now.
But we fight. We stand up. We survive.
If we accept defeat, we are handing victory to those who want us dead. By living and fighting, we carry on to the next day and then the day after that. I know I posted it right after the election last November, but there's a pretty famous Joe Hill quote everyone should keep in mind: "Don't waste any time mourning. Organize!"
Go out, hug your friends. Build a local community if you can, and get involved in your local politics. Make sure you call your Reps and Senators every day if you can, and for pete's sake fucking vote.
We can make it as long as we don't stop fighting.
Remember that on April 5th at 11AM Eastern/10AM Central you can join me for the Critical Thinking Witches' Collective's April Brew virtual event! Attendance is free, and you can register here!
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*Insert loss joke here*
Is anyone making a comic about life in a craft and fabric store? I have some friends that would read that.
Not a comic (or about fabric), but my friend Lee wrote a pretty entertaining book about working in a craft store during the Glue Slime craze. https://www.amazon.com/Glue-Famine-Lee-Bradford/dp/1983969567
Not exactly a craft store, but “Missing Threads” reminded me of something I used to read. A bit of a search pulled up “Worsted for Wear” (http://www.worstedforwear.com/). It was a knitting comic, not fabric, but close enough to click in my brain.
No one has found an/or pulled the Drama tag! It is not short packed!
*looks at I Hate November* Yeah… there’s never been drama in this comic, sure…
I meant missing threads.
Wapsi Square wandered off its slice-of-life start, so evolution is possible.
… “wandered off?” Do you also refer to nuclear explosions are somewhat warmish? They’ve not wandered off, they’ve yelled “Fark all this noise!” and ran outside and took the next train to WTF. It’s actually one of the poster children on TVTropes for ‘Plot Kuzdu” and “The Chris Carter Effect” – both of which are pretty spot on from here at least.
To be fair, tickets to WTF were on a pretty good sale… hmm.
(Yep, still do read it intermittently, but mannnnnnnnn have they gone to a dimension where no one’s ever even heard of rails, much less being on them.)
I recently did a re-read, and am trying to figure at exactly what point it left the rails. Yeah, odd things showed up fairly early, but they were also kinda small and didn’t affect much. And it just kept going, and going and going, and all of a sudden it’s really really weird.
Well, I believe they are measured in “Sunshine Units.”
OH YEA! I forgot about that comic i dropped off right after the thing w the time loop was fixed
”Slice of life’? That sounds boring.’
‘Well, have you tried reading the first couple comics? It would only take a minute.’
‘Nah, it sounds boring.’
‘Hundreds of fans love it and check for updates every day.’
‘Nah, sounds boring.’
‘You’re not even going to give it a chance, are you?’
‘Nope, sounds boring.’
The real person this is based on was genuinely confused at the concept that a comedy comic was a THING.
I remember being confused that DRAMATIC comics were a thing. I never understood Mary Worth or Prince Valiant!
To be fair the poster she has up implies it’s darker then it apparently is