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Emily K@heyemilyk.bsky.social |
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Geek, Cartoonist, Jew, Ace, my stuff is on EmilyK.art, my insta is updated most frequently though - www.instagram.com/sadfunnytrue/
microblog mainly on Mastodon, @EmilyK@spacelase.rs
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Jon Maki
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Yeah, this. I get why it's a problem as a matter of principle, but as a practical matter what difference does Biden's mental acuity *actually* make? He's not surrounded by toadies and third-rate blaxploitation villains eager to turn his ravings into actual policy. Just get him past the finish line.
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Courtney Milan
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Trump can say he'll distance himself from Project 2025 as much as he wants, but in his last term he appointed every faithful FedSoc judge he could get his hands on, and that's basically the entire game.
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Popehat
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New York Times, July 5, 2025: “Biden’s Stumbles And Gaffes During His Criticism of President Trump’s Internment Camps Vindicate Age Concerns”
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Emily K
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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Emily K
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I bet it’s based on a manga. You could read that! Often they only adapt a portion of the full story.
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Peter
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the latest Snowden leak: his brain from his ears
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Emily K
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especially since it's apparently pronounced "Karm"
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Emily K
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My stepmom (one-time professional oboist, arguably one of the best in the country if not world for a while) can hear things other musicians can't (my dad, for example, but he's very gracious haha)... I should ask her about this too
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Emily K
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Maybe you're confused by "Modern," when I should've wrote "Contemporary." Japanese works were/are an immense influence on Millennial and Gen Z artists. We grew up with that work, not the Yellow Kid. Watterson read Nemo, not Ikeda, but we had more than just him.
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Frostellicus
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Mr. Hutz, aka Miguel Sanchez, I hope you saw the post going around earlier: No one is above the law No, one is above the law!
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Emily K
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LOLL
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Emily K
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It begs the question, "Does the increased technical ability here start to erase the artistic intent of the composer?" Stravinsky didn't want it to sound like a classical excerpt, he wanted it to sound ancient, and maybe even uncanny.
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Emily K
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Interestingly, Rite of Spring's infamous bassoon solo was written in such a way to PURPOSEFULLY make it sound rough around the edges - it was imitating a folk instrument - but musicians have increased their skillset so much that it's expected to sound pitch-perfect. Ask anybody trying to audition
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Emily K
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I think it's a multi-prong thing. Fleischer influencing Tezuka also points to Jewish cultural influence on manga/anime culture today (he liked the way Fleischer made everyone's eyes really big, just like he liked how Takarazuka actresses used makeup to emphasize their own eyes on stage).
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Emily K
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It’s basically a game of Six Degrees of Separation.
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Emily K
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I think you mistook my saying “can be traced to” with “is only influenced by.” Without a doubt though, things would be different today if it hadn’t existed.
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Emily K
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Additionally, Kobayashi was able to take the success he found with the Revue and put that into other forms of entertainment that themselves became influential.
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Emily K
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The influence and reach of the Takarazuka Revue on the aesthetics of modern comics, animation, and I’d argue some live action work, absolutely goes back to its influence on the culture that influenced those things. Osamu Tezuka, Riyoko Ikeda, Sailor Moon, Utena, they explicitly build on it.
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Michael Hobbes
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Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Michael Hobbes
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If you're so concerned about the stakes of this election you could just... spend the next four months writing about the stakes of this election. A constant drip of articles calling the Democratic nominee unfit is also not a great strategy for winning!
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Emily K
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The fact that the viability of Biden’s candidacy is being decided not by his stellar record of getting shit done for America despite the most dysfunctional Congress in history, but by him looking like a doddering old man on TV for an hour, sounds about right for the times we live in
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Emily K
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I’d have to ask him specifics, I’ll do that next time we chat— my guess is that the fingerings required to play the music are such that they’re almost physically impossible to do, unless you have impeccable technique- but purely a guess.
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Emily K
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Space after the ellipses too. Unacceptable
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Emily K
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(Israeli and Jewish lesbians walk up to a Dyke March)
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proud rebel scum ⚛️
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it's not like this stuff ever stopped existing, but the past 8 years have absolutely made people think they have permission to just put it out there.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
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This is almost word for word what I tell students. Even if you’ve been disillusioned by what’s happening at the state and federal level, you need to get out and shore up your local politics.
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Emily K
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This fits the spirit of haiku more than most I've seen posted, because it doesn't just make an arbitrary 5-7-5 block of text but includes essentially a kireji in the third line. No kigo, but that's fine
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Emily K
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Yeah, he didn't make it easy for anyone.
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Emily K
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Sailor Moon - one of the most influential anime of all time- goes back to Takarazuka Revue in even more explicit ways. Famous lesbian superhero couple Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune were originally going to be Revue performers. They were based on two specific "Takarasiennes" from the '90s.
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Emily K
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You know that company "Toho"? The ones that made Godzilla? Yeah, that's the abreviated name for "Tokyo-Takarazuka Theater Company, for managing the Takarazuka Revue and other entertainment holdings. So Godzilla also goes back to this magnificent gender performance theater.
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Emily K
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Virtually every piece of modern comics/animation can be traced back to the Takarazuka Revue, a Japanese all-women theater that - while not explicitly queer - absolutely is part of queer culture. "God of Manga" Osamu Tezuka based his characters on the way performers stylized their make-up.
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Emily K
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Jews invented manga.
Ok not so simple, but "God of Manga" Osamu Tezuka's narrative style was profoundly influenced by Milt Gross's "He Done Her Wrong," one of the earliest examples of what we now call the "graphic novel."
(scholarly paper here) media.wix.com/ugd/aa7d16_7...
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Peter
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the worst dudes online are the guys who are like “the time for electoral politics is over, it’s time for guillotines.” yeah bud i’m sure you’ll stop posting and get the ball rolling on the guillotines any minute now.
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☀️ Starshine
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[type of guy who can’t manage a 20 person discord without it imploding into petty feuds voice]: i am going to lead a revolution of the workers
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Emily K
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I doubt it’s perceptible to most ears. And you can hear much more of it in your own section. But a world class orchestra struggling *even a little* to play one of the most well known and beloved classical symphonies ever composed is a shock.
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Adam Serwer
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I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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Emily K
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Agreed. It's one of Dad's favorite pieces. One that he calls "a gift of human artistic spirit," or something of the like. (another is Rite of Spring) And he composed it when he was completely deaf
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Emily K
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I'm skeptical this guy is American
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ONeillJones
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A job I was looking forward to just fell through because I requested a very basic “please don’t feed my work into the AI garbage chute pls” clause in the contract That was apparently against company policy and non-negotiable If anyone needs a book cover I have an opening in my schedule
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Emily K
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Don't forget, expressing joy - especially from a marginalized culture/community - is an act of resistance to the oppressor.
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Emily K
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Beethoven refused to compromise his artistic integrity, even if it meant the musical skill needed to perform his works to the fullest didn't exist until long after his death
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Emily K
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According to my dad (double bassist, Phila. Orchestra)- Beethoven's 9th is, in its entirety, virtually unplayable at points. People can play more of it now than ever thanks to everyone being better at their instruments than in 1824, but "certain points I wouldn't want a mic held up to the basses."
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Emily K
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"boys, boys, you're BOTH insufferable"
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Emily K
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The shruggers are the ones who embody the evil of this moment
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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the most bizarre thing is the number of people i see in my tiktok comments go to bat for gavin newsom as the savior of the democratic party
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Emily K
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I don’t want to hear another fucking thing about the best strategy to win this election being some kind of second-guessing tea leaves-reading Hail Mary. Whoever the Dem nom is (Biden prob, but whoEVER), we pound the pavement getting people to vote for them. Voter outreach is what we have (for now)
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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all of this for donald fucking trump of all people
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Josh Gondelman
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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.
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