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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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Is Ruth asexual/aromantic, or is this a joke about a nerd girl we know that everyone asked out and no one ever succeeded? Both?
Both. Mostly the former, but both.
Does Troy Harrington do any voices for that series?
It’s not on his resume. 😛
So what company owns the dubbing rights to this series?
Victory Sunstar has the rights, but they’re currently in bankruptcy.
Magical Soldier Princess Z is a remake of Galaxy Fighter Hiromi, which was a better series, but you kids won’t watch it because it isn’t CGI. At least I was able to replace my Arctic fansubs.
Actually you’re thinking of Magical Starlight Empress Z, which is totally different.
Magic Soldier Princess Z is an obscure series from the late 70s. It was originally released stateside as the bastardized dub “Soldiers of the Sun” (where it got combined with the unrelated series “Lost Whispers” and “Destiny Police” which was weird) in 1982 by Silver Rhythm. Silver Rhythm lost the rights to MSPZ in 2002, when Victory Sunstar snatched it up. Victory Sunstar put out a DVD release in 2004. It didn’t sell well, so it went out of print in 2007 — and with Victory Sunstar’s legal and financial problems there doesn’t appear to be any chance of a rerelease.
(As an odd coda, Silver Rhythm has tried to release a version of Soldiers of the Sun WITHOUT the MSPZ footage… And it doesn’t really work)
And Kelli and Sally were the *worst* names to use for those characters. Ugh! Thank the gods for the mute button.
I just hate Captain/General Rayburn. I mean they made General Yamazaki from Destiny Police an older version of Tanaka from MSPZ. As if it made any sense to combine those two characters to bridge the “generations”
What, did the guy just happen to grow his left arm back somehow?
You know, when I was a kid watching it, it always weirded me out that the character designs changed so drastically. When I found out they weren’t meant to be one cartoon, it made more sense.
My heart rate still doubles when I hear the theme song, though.