macksting

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Trans, mother and housespouse, early 40s. If you followed me because of a meme or I had something nice to say about Peter S. Beagle, I apologize with tongue in cheek; you'll find me dubious company. Mostly here for the musicians, artists and sex workers.

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macksting@macksting· 21h

I would probably commit crimes to get this in higher definition. How, how do you make your characters look so goddamn amazing. I mean, there's so much more than looks to love but SERIOUSLY. I wanna be just like her I swear and that's such a bad idea.

ID: Comic panel crop. Ro from Heartstrings sits on a log with her chin propped up on one hand, wearing slacks and a white dress shirt open to the third button or so. She is slightly flushed, her shaggy hair hanging unkempt around her face, as she smiles dreamily. The wrist of one hand shows a tattoo sleeve is hiding under the shirt.

macksting@macksting· 21d

That's reasonable. Unfortunately, I can't think of an example of a character saying something that's normal to them but sounds utterly horrific and/or bizarre to those around them. If only there was an example of that somewhere in fiction. Someone saying "lol just like my childhood" to great shock.

ID: Yellow Brick Ramble panel crop. Ozma looks mildly surprised and concerned, pauses, and asks, "Why are you all LOOKING at me like that?" /end ID

macksting@macksting· 24d

I think about Berthold Brecht's "To Those Who Follow in Our Wake" a lot lately. And, as someone in the replies was surely also paraphrasing, Oliveira's words in the wake of the Pulse massacre. (I bet Bsky will be as uncooperative as ever with these images.)

Transcript of the third and last part of a poem, translated from Bertholt Brecht.
III

You, who shall resurface following the flood
In which we have perished,
Contemplate —
When you speak of our weaknesses,
Also the dark time
That you have escaped.

For we went forth, changing our country more frequently than our shoes
Through the class warfare, despairing
That there was only injustice and no outrage.

And yet we knew:
Even the hatred of squalor
Distorts one’s features.
Even anger against injustice
Makes the voice grow hoarse. We
Who wished to lay the foundation for gentleness
Could not ourselves be gentle.

But you, when at last the time comes
That man can aid his fellow man,
Should think upon us
With leniency.

—Bertolt Brecht, An die Nachgeborenen first published in Svendborger Gedichte (1939) in: Gesammelte Werke, vol. 4, pp. 722-25 (1967)(S.H. transl.)

Social media posts by meakoopa responding to a post where Josh Barro complains, "I think this is unfair. It is not weird to oppose gay marriage and also be horrified by the murder of gay people." Meakoopa quote-tweets, "Oh sorry if we are being unfair, unfortunately you guys murdered all the nice gays and now there's just us: the assholes. The queers who were nice/patient/gentle all got shot or bullied to death, all that's left are me and the other pissed-off cockroach motherfuckers."

macksting@macksting· 29d

(Repost from Mastodon: ) If I had a nickel for every time a Sam Neill character fumbled a baddie named Claire, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

ID: Screenshot from Until The End Of The World, a Wim Wenders film. In a messy study full of paintings and books, a man and a woman stand, the woman looking away as the man, played by Sam Neill, says, "No, Claire, I'm sorry." /end ID

ID: Screenshot from the movie Event Horizon. Doctor Weir, played by Sam Neill, is in a mildly padded, tiled room, wearing a jumpsuit. He looks in the direction of the camera with a desperate expression and asks, "Claire?" /end ID

macksting@macksting· Jul 2

Piss and whine, you fake socialist. Deliberately trying to make room for the dismantling of the rights of women by attacking the rights of a few of them? What next, relitigating segregation? You know who your allies are in this fight. You know you're standing with fascists. You like it that way.

Social media post by Anthony Oliveira: "The queers who were nice/patient/gentle all got shot or bullied to death all that's left are me & the other pissed-off cockroach motherfuckers"

macksting@macksting· Jun 6

I apologize for breaking this. orz

Cropped image of the reposts, quotes, likes and saves. Notably, 666 likes.

macksting@macksting· May 3

Is this something?

ID: "we drank from the hose" style post that reads, "We the Elder Folk: remember when the music; drank from the chalice of blood and still have sand in our teeth; a mangled pile of words follows that overlap too much to read; don't know what a video game is; attend mass or else we would all be moving at C forever timeless; know what you are; Live in the cracks; are afraid we have to kill you again; eat three square meals a second; obey the profane commands you hear when you are going to sleep; and won the Game. /end ID

macksting@macksting· May 3

Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

[ID: Industrial warning label. Text says, Warning! This machine does not know the difference between metal and flesh, but cares a lot, so please stay out of its way. It would be very sad if it accidentally hurt you. /end ID]

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macksting@macksting· Feb 19

XD Thank you. I needed this tonight. I have found the dopamine. I will now go to bed.

macksting@macksting· Jan 29

@spice-aisle.bsky.social I managed to get way behind on Heartstrings, just caught up. heartstringscomic.com/comics/579/#... This hit really hard. I used to have a seemingly endless well of anger, and little feels worse now than frightening someone else. Poor Ro. Rough day.

ID: Page from the comic Heartstrings. Ro, a punk rocker, confronts a young and frightened little shit who is attending the same meeting. Ro's fist is clenched, still at her side but her body language is threatening enough to scare the other woman. Seeing her fear, and her own clenched fist, Ro becomes afraid of what she may have been about to do, and/or of the fear of others, and unclenches it and walks out of the meeting. Others present call after her.

macksting@macksting· Jan 27

ID: A guy in a hotdog costume is saying something, in a still shot from a sketch where a hot dog themed car has crashed into a building, and he is trying to take control of the situation, saying, "We're all looking for the guy who did this," when it is almost certainly him deflecting blame.

macksting@macksting· Jan 14

ID: Popeye walks with someone, explaining to him, "A comic artist ain't no different from nor me or anybody excep he knows how to draw pitchers an is crazy in the head." The other guy agrees.

macksting@macksting· Jan 4

Because of Peter S. Beagle's "The Ballad Of Eleanor Roosevelt", when I hear someone with a degree of fame say they're nobody's saint, I always think of Brecht. "Unhappy is the land that needs heroes." Great joke on your second sponsor's part, btw.

[ID: A page from the Bertholdt Brecht play The Life Of Galileo. Highlighted are the lines, "Unhappy is the land that has no heroes!" and the reply: They lead him to the door. When they reach it, Galileo begins to speak: No. Unhappy is the land that needs a hero." /end ID]

macksting@macksting· Jan 1

ID: Slowpoke in a wizard hat wields a wand and casts a spell of swirly rainbows and says, "Woosh. You will now have a good 2025."

macksting@macksting· Jan 1

ID: Slowpoke in a wizard hat wielding a wand casts a spell with sparkly rainbow swirls and says, "Woosh. You will now have a good 2025"

macksting@macksting· Dec 26

[ ID: question/answer format. People also ask: Is eating shoe polish dangerous? Shoe polishes contain petroleum products, benzenes, carbon based dyes, etc. All of these substances have severe ill effects on the body and are known carcinogens. Be it inhalation or ingestion, ... Or ingestion of benzenes or nitrates over a period of time can cause stomach cancer. Feb 7 2017 ]

macksting@macksting· Dec 21

ID: Smiling children warm their hands together over a poorly pasted image of a dumpster fire. The children are labeled Traumatized Folks; the dumpster fire is labeled Dumpster Fire Childhoods. /end ID

macksting@macksting· Dec 7

macksting@macksting· Dec 5

Nor for the glorious, glorious bullshit. <3

[ID: Screenshot from Space Pirate Captain Harlock. Harlock says sardonically, "So, being an alcoholic is useful for once!" /end ID]

macksting@macksting· Nov 21

rose

I've never met anyone like you.
There will be others soon who
Like you elected to take your leave.
It first requires shutting out others,
Countless voices of friends and lovers,
So you can be certain they will not grieve.

As we walked, we spoke with various
Electorate who knew on sight they hated us
And though you never turned any nays to ayes,
You reached therein a common ground
Where barren fields have I but found,
And each walked away a little more wise.

In awe I begged at length to know
How you turn a mind from hate to sew
A seed of revolutionary thought.
How I might reach another mind.
You suggested I read some Hegel,
Admitting for others you likely would not.

You asked what I desired from us,
In harshest terms, and I, nonplussed,
Stammered that I had no real notion;
That we two shared joys and burdens,
But I sounded so pained and uncertain
It would be the last of our conversations.

You pushed others out and pulled away,
And every November on that painful day,
I wonder if I should have held on tight,
Disregarding your desired ending
In hopes of all my efforts sending
A message that you should not go without a fight.

You re-entered and burned, descended,
Brighter before, now undefended,
And now, I sift, burned by your embers.
Did you take a vote amongst your plenty
Or did one decide for all absentees?

Drowned, not waving, but still remembered.

macksting@macksting· Nov 17

*hugs?* That always feels so insufficient. How does one show they care over the internet? And what use is it? It's better than not knowing people care, I guess.

macksting@macksting· Nov 8

Adding alt-text (hope it's satisfactory)

[ID: Julia Kaye autobio comic. Julia listens to the new Sabrina Carpenter album while packing a suitcase. She says "This music is well-made but feels like it's for girlier girls than me. Ones that... didn't go through the trauma of not having been able to experience the sort of girlhood they wish they couldn't had and now feel too changed to embrace girlier media. ... Oh." She sits back and cries a bit. "That's not processed at all." /end ID]

macksting@macksting· Nov 5

[ID: El Goonish Shive panel. Grace and Justin talk to each other in the card shop while a customer looks on. Grace says: That was a joke. Nobody can tell when I'm joking. I should buy a small sign that says "just kidding." Justin laughs a little at that, and she replies, No I'm serious. /end ID]

[ID: El Goonish Shive panel crop. Grace and Justin talk to each other in the card shop while a customer looks on. Grace says: That was a joke. Nobody can tell when I'm joking. I should buy a small sign that says "just kidding." Justin laughs a little at that, and she replies, No I'm serious. /end ID]

macksting@macksting· Oct 31

bsky.app/profile/ykkp...

ID: Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou panel. Director Alpha, a solemn and somewhat majestic alpha-series android, looks down pensively, lit from beneath, and thinks to herself, "I wonder how many times this makes the northern route."

macksting@macksting· Oct 12

ID: Panel from Rom Spaceknight, a Marvel comic. The robotic-looking superhero Rom ducks and shields his face in a manner that looks like dabbing. This is distinct from the other panel in the previous post where he also does that.

macksting@macksting· Oct 12

Make him dab, like he does in the comics!

ID: Rom Spaceknight, a robotic-looking superhero from Marvel Comics, ducks and shields his face in a manner that looks like a dance move called dabbing. /end ID

macksting@macksting· Oct 2

I have now caught up with Heartstrings and wait patiently for the next page. Mostly patiently. It would be difficult to explain why I made this silly edit but I assure you, everyone in my gaming group fuckin' lost it.

ID: Ro from the webcomic Heartstrings, a butch dyke punk singer, looks out of sorts as she begins her show; her eyes have been replaced with the Special Eyes from the bug-eyed Mass Effect meme and she in fact says into the microphone to her adoring fans, "I have special eyes." /end ID

macksting@macksting· Oct 1