Just A femboy looking for a serious ltr , so I’ll get to the point 🤗. I’m not here for the games , or ghosting . I’m here for something long term. Dating apps don’t work for me sadly.
Located: Texas . Willing to move to another state or have my future partner live with me .
Appearance :
A thick black femboy who loves dressing up sometimes . Height : 5’3. I wear glasses to read manga . My style is mostly goth/casual clothes from mostly anime shirts and chokers.
💙My hobbies:

• Anime : Some of my favorites animes are Tokyo ghoul , Sword Art Online , Yuri on ice , Future Diary, JJK, MHA, Yaoi(Love stage , Sasaki and Miyano)
• Manga : I’ve completed so many mangas from yaoi , Ouran high school host club , berserk , ect .
• Cosplay : I’ve done Pokémon & a Tokyo Ghoul cosplay before .
• Anime cons: I’ve been to at least 11 anime/Comic cons.
• Dueling (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
• Pokémon
• Yaoi
• Pc gaming
• Overwatch. I love this game have over 500 hrs .
• Marvel/DC
• Tv drama : The Vampire Diaries , Supernatural, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The 100.
• Horror- big fan of tv shows , movies like AHS
• Consoles I have are : Ps5, Nintendo switch , psp, ps vita, Nintendo 3ds , wii, gameboy , ect .

🩷What im looking for in a Relationship🩷

• [ ] Monogamous
• [ ] Single
• [ ] Loyalty
• [ ] Communication
• [ ] No kids
• [ ] Open-minded
• [ ] Common interest : Nerdy (Anime, Games, Star Wars or anything nerdy)
• [ ] Sure on what you want
• [ ] Mature
• [ ] 21+ in age

▶️MY TYPE:
TALL (taller than my own height) , very communicative, masculine(mostly beards and body hair) gamers/anime nerds. These are just preferences not a deal breaker .
✅Ps: for compatibility reasons I’m a 100% bottom.
If you made it this far, please message me an introduction about yourself. This is extremely important as it tells me alot about you and for me to give you a well detailed response. Mostly a name to call you , hobbies, location (state wise) and what you’re looking for . You may send pics in the first message if you may like 😊

If this content is something you want to see more of, comments below will be taken into consideration as we prepare to start finding the open submissions for a variety of writing and artwork competitions. If it's of no interest, let us know that too! This is YOUR subreddit!
Seeking Submissions for Poetry Chapbook Prize
Deadline: December 31, 2023
The winner of The Headlight Review’s 2024 Poetry Chapbook Prize Contest will receive publication (a perfectly bound book with a full color or black/white cover), an award of $500, and 25 copies of the book. A list of finalists will be announced sixty days after the close of submissions. All manuscripts will be judged blindly. The finalists who make it through the first round will be judged by esteemed poet Valerie A. Smith.
2024 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction
Deadline: December 31, 2023
The 2024 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction will be awarded to an outstanding, unpublished collection of short stories. Reading Fee: $30. Award: $1,000 cash advance, publication, and 53 copies. To Enter: Submit online with Submittable or by mail from September 1–December 31, 2023. Press 53 short fiction editor Claire V. Foxx will serve as the only judge. Winner and finalists announced by May 1, 2024; advance review copies sent to major reviewers and outlets; publication in May 2025.
Complete details at www.Press53.com/award-for-short-fiction.
After Happy Hour Contest (Theme: Animals)
Deadline: February 15, 2024
For this year’s contest, we want submitters to go wild—or domesticated, or sentient, or whatever other form of beastly you’re feeling. Submissions should feature some kind of animal that is integral to the story. Note that this doesn’t need to be a real animal—it could be a cryptid, a hybrid, or a human-to-animal transformation. Each $10 contest entry covers 1 short story, creative nonfiction piece, or suite, or up to 3 individual poems or flash prose pieces. Winners receive publication and a cash prize determined as a percentage of total entry fees (full details are on our website).
The swamp pink Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry
Deadline: January 31, 2024
Formerly known as the Crazyhorse Prizes, the swamp pink Prizes award $2,000 and publication to a story, essay, and poem. From January 1 to 31, submit a story or essay of up to 25 pages or a set of 1–3 poems via Submittable. Judges for each genre can be viewed on our website. The entry fee is $20; all entries will be considered for publication. swamppink.submittable.com/submit
2024 Bill Hickok Humor Award Deadline: February 28, 2024
I-70 Review announces the Bill Hickok Humor Award for a poem. The winner receives $1,000, and the poem will appear in I-70 Review 2024. Submit one to three poems with a $15 entry fee to i70review@gmail.com. Reading period: Jan 1 to Feb 28. No submissions before January 1. Submissions will be eligible for publication in I-70 Review. The judge is Alice Friman.
For more info visit i70review.fieldinfoserv.com.
The Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction
Deadline: April 4, 2024
The 2024 Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction offer $1,500 and publication by Orison Books for a full-length manuscript in each genre. Judges: Ellen Bass (poetry), Kaveh Akbar (fiction). Entry fee: $25. Entry period: December 1, 2023–April 1, 2024. For complete guidelines visit orisonbooks.com/submissions.
2024 Colorado Prize for Poetry
$2,500 honorarium and book publication: Submit book-length collection of poems to the 2024 Colorado Prize for Poetry by January 14, 2024 (we will observe a 5-day grace period). $25 reading fee (add $3 to submit online) includes subscription to Colorado Review. Final judge is Brenda Shaughnessy; friends and students (current or former) of the judge are not eligible to compete, nor are Colorado State University employees, students, or alumni. Complete guidelines at coloradoprize.colostate.edu or Colorado Prize for Poetry, Center for Literary Publishing, 9105 Campus Delivery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-9105.
Burnside Review Press Contest
Manuscripts of 50-100 pages of poetry will be accepted until December 31, 2023. Arda Collins will judge. The winning book will be published by Burnside Review Press in 2025. The author will receive a $1,000 prize, plus ten copies of the book. A $25 entry fee must be paid at the time of submission. Contest entrants will receive one Burnside Review Press title. The editors may select an additional manuscript from the submission pool for publication.
Visit www.burnsidereview.org for complete guidelines.
2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
Deadline: January 31, 2024
Submissions are now being accepted for the 11th Saroyan Prize. The awards, co-sponsored by Stanford Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation, are intended to encourage new or emerging writers and honor the Saroyan legacy of originality, vitality, and stylistic innovation. Two prizes of $5,000 each are given for works of fiction and nonfiction. Writers who have published four books or more are ineligible. Submit five copies of your work published between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2023, with a $50 entry fee by January 31, 2024. Visit our website for complete eligibility and submission details: saroyanprize.sites.stanford.edu.
Interim Poetics: The Test Site Poetry Prize Deadline: December 15, 2023
Interim will choose two winning books for the series—one title publicized as the winner of The Test Site Poetry Series and the other as the Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry. Both winners will receive a $1,000 award and their books will be published by the University of Nevada Press. Submit by December 15, 2023. www.interimpoetics.org/test-site-poetry-series
Driftwood Press In-House Contests + Additional Submission Opportunities
Deadline: January 15, 2024 (In-House Contests)
Driftwood Press is happy to share a plethora of submission opportunities for writers and artists! Our In-House Short Fiction & Poem Contests, in which every work submitted is considered for publication as winner or runner-up, is ending soon! For our yearly print anthology, we are looking for poems, short stories, comics, and visual art that will wow our readers with innovative language and strong craft. We are a paying market, and our published writers also get to take part in bespoke interviews about their work! Driftwood is also on the hunt for amazing book-length titles to grow our catalogue, so if you have a novella, poetry collection, comic collection, or graphic novel manuscript, we would love to read it! Visit us here for our Submittable page, and we encourage you to follow us on social media (@driftwoodpress) to learn about even more submission opportunities!
The Twin Bill’s Second Annual Baseball Lit Contest
Deadline: December 30, 2023
The Twin Bill, a baseball literary journal, is open for submissions for their annual contest for best baseball fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. The winner in each category will receive $100 and an engraved baseball trophy. The runners-up will receive $50 and will be published in our January 31 issue. Each piece will be professionally illustrated. Contest submissions are $10 and will be considered for both the contest and the Opening Day issue. thetwinbill.com/submissions/

I have absolutely zero experience creating AI art, but I'm a writer and have some animation experience, and have had the idea of creating a comic book style animation (something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxE9EODS588) using AI art.
I'd want to start with a shorter story I've written (less than 20 pages of prose) to see if this is a realistic direction to take my projects. If so, I might go for something longer and more ambitious.
It sounds like generating the same character repeatedly is difficult, and in addition I would want objects without backgrounds so I could manipulate them to create an animation, whereas most AI art I see online shows backgrounds.
Is this an appropriate use case and reasonable scope for AI art? For something like this, are there any services you would recommend? Last, I'm okay with paying a monthly fee for a higher quality service, but I know generating images takes a bit of practice adjusting settings and whatnot. Are there any free services that are useful for learning how to use these tools in general, so that I can be more efficient once I do start using a paid one?

You don't have to read. Thanks if you do though.
For starters, I'm not looking for any reassurance or guidance from anyone. It's all noise in my head that gets filtered out at this point. Nothing anyone ever says actually turns out to be true when I partly try to share my problems. I truly do believe I'm useless. I've had no real purpose ever since I was born, and I don't have any purpose now. Sometimes people say to "be patient", but I can't stand that. Thousands upon millions my age have achieved and done so much, and I'm not just saying that because I'm comparing myself to them. I know there isn't any point in that. I compare myself to my myself yesterday - that much I've learned - but there hasn't been any significant change in me no matter how I think or what I do. I can't escape the hole I've dug for myself. I have a single true online friend, whom I consider better family than my blood family. We chat regularly, we're both artists, and we're even writing a comic together as a passion project. We've shared a lot of private stuff between us, and I genuinely love that I get to know this person. Before I can let them down, too, that is. Other than them, I had a good circle of real life friends. Before they all turned to drugs, alcohol, or just became narcissistic assholes and I've had to cut myself from them. I've tried pulling every single one out of those paths and hold as tight as possible, because I know what it's like to be given up on, and I have failed each and every single time, only giving up when my mental state was so bad that I zoned out of reality, and the days became blurs. They still are, occasionally.
I feel the worst when I'm talking to my mother. She smiles and laughs occasionally when I'm around, but that's just because I'm at home all the time and she gets to ramble about our parrots. But I know that's not what she truly feels. It's like she's just hearing a good joke from a person she dislikes. I wouldn't say I'm hated, but I believe that she'd prefer having someone else in the room when I'm around. I never share anything with her - it turns into a lecture if I do, or I get bombarded with questions which I never have the answer to. I feel immeasurable shame and guilt just standing around her, not to mention around my step-father, where it's x2 worse. It feels like I'm constantly being judged by him, and I probably am. I'm 18 - turning 19 in 6 months - and I've sat in front of a PC my entire life. I always get teased about a girlfriend or irl friends, but that's just because I never share anything with them, as said earlier. Well, I don't have a girlfriend, though I had a male friend with benefits for a while. That is, until before he tried getting me to take pictures of myself or begging and talking me into the act even if I didn't want to. I broke it off eventually, even when he threatened to tell everyone about we were doing. (I called his bluff. We live in a country where if it's known that you swing the same way, you're likely to get beaten)
I keep telling myself I'll be better, but it never comes, no matter how many attempts I make on bettering myself. Sure, I exercise - a little less nowadays since I cant afford my gym membership anymore, now that I'm finished with high school and no longer get daily allowance from my parents, - I try to keep up basic hygiene, and I've become a little more social over the years. It's an improvement from the way I was in the past, but it all feels like it doesn't matter. The progress doesn't matter. In my eyes and the eyes of everyone around me, I wholeheartedly believe that they just see me as useless, or are about to. It just takes one bad day or mishap for them to do so. My older brother (by 5 years) has made many, countless attempts to be involved in my life. And after I pushed him away so many times, I got exactly what I wanted. Now he doesn't talk to me. He moved with his girlfriend - a lovely person as well - out of our apartment without so much as a 'bye', or even a text. I see him occasionally, and it's awkward each and every single time. We say our pleasantries, and then both stay quiet until someone else comes in the room to break the ice. It feels like I don't have the right to laugh with him.
I'm extremely aware of how self-destructive and bad this belief of mine is, but its impossible to ignore or change. And I really, really do want it to change. But I'm replaceable. Anyone can fulfil my role. I don't make money, and I don't make someone's day necessarily better by being around other than a single online person - which is sure to change. Sure, people might notice if I'm gone, but the feeling they have will go away after two days. I'm a mild inconvenience at best, and useless at worst. Both feel worse than being hated or despised. It's easy to ignore those people. But when I constantly disappoint everyone around me, and constantly disappoint myself, I can't set the thought aside. I'm a useless person. And by writing this, I probably pissed off 30% of people reading because I seem edgy. And the funny thing? I'd love to just say "No! - Wtf is wrong with you and why would you even say that?".
But I don't even know if I'm faking this for attention. I truly don't. Id say I haven’t gone through any serious trauma at all. I know people who've gone through much, much worse, and they still kick ass. In comparison, nothing is even explicitly wrong with my life. And its probably why whenever I've tried sharing my problems, I'm met with confusion. I sometimes wish that I DID go through something bad.
Maybe then people will have an easier time understanding why I always disappoint them. But, again, that just sounds like an excuse for attention.

My ASUS TUF FX504 is finally getting retired after many years of loyal service. I'm shopping for new laptops on amazon and found these ones below. Im trying to compare them online, but each site Ive tried has various issues, such as not having the options shown on the amazon listing.
My only requirements are 64gb ram, at least 1+TB storage, and an intel i7/i9 or ryzen7/9 processor for speed, (id prefer the higher numbers, but will settle for lower if it's a good deal. Preferably under $2,000.
I don't game like I used to, so if it runs Diablo 2 Resurrected, then I'm happy, lol 😂 I already have a gaming pc anyway. My laptop is mostly for art and video entertainment.
I am a graphic artist (mostly 2D stuff like comics) with an addiction to multitasking - I normally have photoshop open while alt-tabbing to chrome for hours at a time, and I get pissed when my computer locks up from it! I need a beast that shrugs multitasking off like it's nothing.
Otherwise my laptop is used for streaming hd tv and movies. Nothing too fancy.
These are what I've found so far. Which do you think fits my preferences best? I'm also trying to factor the best deal - I'll trade raw performance over overpriced gimmicks any day. Do you have any recommendations of your own?

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Just A femboy looking for a serious ltr , so I’ll get to the point 🤗. I’m not here for the games , or ghosting . I’m here for something long term. Dating apps don’t work for me sadly.
Located: Texas . Willing to move to another state or have my future partner live with me .
Appearance :
A thick black femboy who loves dressing up sometimes . Height : 5’3. I wear glasses to read manga . My style is mostly goth/casual clothes from mostly anime shirts and chokers.
💙My hobbies:

• Anime : Some of my favorites animes are Tokyo ghoul , Sword Art Online , Yuri on ice , Future Diary, JJK, MHA, Yaoi(Love stage , Sasaki and Miyano)
• Manga : I’ve completed so many mangas from yaoi , Ouran high school host club , berserk , ect .
• Cosplay : I’ve done Pokémon & a Tokyo Ghoul cosplay before .
• Anime cons: I’ve been to at least 11 anime/Comic cons.
• Dueling (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
• Pokémon
• Yaoi
• Pc gaming
• Overwatch. I love this game have over 500 hrs .
• Marvel/DC
• Tv drama : The Vampire Diaries , Supernatural, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The 100.
• Horror- big fan of tv shows , movies like AHS
• Consoles I have are : Ps5, Nintendo switch , psp, ps vita, Nintendo 3ds , wii, gameboy , ect .

🩷What im looking for in a Relationship🩷

• [ ] Monogamous
• [ ] Single
• [ ] Loyalty
• [ ] Communication
• [ ] No kids
• [ ] Open-minded
• [ ] Common interest : Nerdy (Anime, Games, Star Wars or anything nerdy)
• [ ] Sure on what you want
• [ ] Mature
• [ ] 21+ in age

▶️MY TYPE:
TALL (taller than my own height) , very communicative, masculine(mostly beards and body hair) gamers/anime nerds. These are just preferences not a deal breaker .
✅Ps: for compatibility reasons I’m a 100% bottom.
If you made it this far, please message me an introduction about yourself. This is extremely important as it tells me alot about you and for me to give you a well detailed response. Mostly a name to call you , hobbies, location (state wise) and what you’re looking for . You may send pics in the first message if you may like 😊

Hey there!
After about a year and a half I'm ready on going back into the Cosmere! I've been up to date up until "The Lost Metal" (and RoW sometime before it) meaning I have "only" the Secret Projects to fill in. After reading about them here and on Google I've realized there are several things I must have missed/misunderstand. Here's what I have figured out and got confused by:

1. Back in March 2022 Brandon had revealed he had written 5 extra novels during Covid 2020-2021. Four of them were written as books, three of them are Cosmere related ("Tress of the Emerald Sea", "Yumi and the Nightmare Painter" and the "The Sunlit Man").
   1. All four books were to be released at each quarter during 2023, also named "Year of Sanderson" due the Kickstarter and the merchandise and Brandon publishing independently.
   2. Book 5 was set to become a comic book and to be released sometime later.
2. A Couple of months ago, another Secret Project was announced.
3. A bit later on March, one of the yet to be released secret projects' first chapter was read online. It's name was "Isles of the Emberdark" and it's also set in the Cosmere.
4. Said book is often called online as "Secret Project 5", meaning I miss here something. It's either:
   1. The 5th secret project to be commercially released, meaning the previously "5th" will actually be the 6h.
   2. The 5th secret project announced back in 2022, meaning no details for the one revealed last March were shared yet.
   3. The March 2024 reveal was actually a show of a formed and an almost finished version of the 5th secret project back in 2022, meaning there's not really a 6h secret project, and it was since converted from a planned comic book to actually be a book.

In short: how many additional books titled as "secret project" are left, what will be their format and which ones will be set in the Cosmere?
Thank you in advance for any help :)

https://imgur.com/a/2cQLfvo
Message me if you have any questions or want pictures of specific volumes. I'm not breaking up sets. Must be over 18 for the explicit BL titles.
AUTHOR, TITLE, PUBLISHER, LANGUAGE, VOLUMES, COST (not including shipping), NOTES
Clamp, Clamp School Detectives, Tokyopop, English, 1-3, 10$, Sale pending
Clamp, Clamp School Paranormal Investigators (Light novel), Tokyopop, English, 1, 3, 5$ Light Novel, Sale pending
Clamp, Gakuen Specialized Police Duklyon, Kadokawa, Japanese, 1-2, 2$
Clamp, Man of Many faces, Tokyopop, English, 1-2, 5$, Sale Pending
Fujii Akemi, Moebius no tamago, Margaret, Japanese, 1-2, 2$
Gainax, Evangelion 4-Komi, Kadokawa, Japanese, 1, 1$, sale pending
Gainax, Evangelion Girlfriend of Steel 4-koma gag battle, Shonen-Oh, Japanese, 1, 1$, sale pending
Hakoda, Maki, Crossbone's Detectives, Wings, Japanese, 1, 1$
Hayakawa Tomoko, Wallflower, Del Rey, English, 1-36, 100$ SOLD!
Higuri You, Ludwig II, DMP, English, 1-2, 5$ EXPLICIT
Hiiragi Aoi, Baron the Cat Returns, Viz, English, 1, 3$, sale pending
Hiwatari Saki, Tower of the Future, CMX, English, 1-11, 30$, sale pending
Hoshino Masami, Watashi no Mono/Shonen, Flower, Japanese, 1, 1$
Ilya, Mammoth Book of Best New Manga, Running Press, English, 3, 3$
Ishihara Satoru, Dost Thou Know?, DMP, English, 1, 3$
Izumi Kaneyoshi, Seiho Boy's High School, VIz, English, 1-8, 25$
Judal, Vampire Game, Tokyopop, English, 1-15, 45$
Kabei Yakako, Kieli (Light Novel), Yen On, English, 1-4, 10$ Light Novel
Kakinouchi Narumi, Utahime Fight!, , Japanese, 1, 1$
Kakinouchi Narumi, Vampire Dahlia, Studio Ironcat, English, 1, 3$
Kamijyo Akimine, Code:Breaker, Del Rey, English, 1, 3$
Kanzaka Hajime, Slayers, Cho Bakumadouden, Kadokawa, Japanese, 1-4, 6-8, 5$
Kanzaka Hajime, Slayers Special, Kadokawa, Japanese, 1, 1$
Kari Erika, Vampire Doll Guilt-na-zan, Tokyopop, English, 1-6, 15$
Katsura Asuka, Le Portrait de Petite Cosette, Tokyopop, English, 1-2, 5$, Sale Pending
Kim Hee-Eun, Kiss for my prince, Infinity, English, 1-2, 5$
Kim Kang-won, I.N.V.U., Tokyopop, English, 1-5, 15$
Kouga, Yun, Crown of Love, Viz, English, 1-4, 12$
Kusunoki Kei, Diabolo, Tokyopop, English, 1-3, 10$
Maeda Tomo, Beyond my touch, DMP, English, 1, 3$
Maeda Tomo, Black Sun, Silver Moon, Go! Comi, English, 1-7, 20$
Mamahara Ellie, Love Terrorist, Kadokawa, Japanese, 1-4, 4$
Mamahara Ellie, Sweet Blood, asuka, Japanese, 1-2, 2$
Manabe Johji, Drakuun, Dark Horse, English, 2, 3$
Matoh Sanami, Fake, Tokyopop, English, 1-7, 20$
Miyamoto Yuki, Cafe Kichijouji de, DMP, English, 1-3, 10$, Sale Pending
Mizuno Tohko, Haruka Beyond the Stream of Time, Viz, English, 1-5, 50$
Morinaga Ai, Gorgeous Life of Strawberry Chan, Media Blasters, English, 1-2, 5$
Morinaga Ai, My Heavenly Hockey Club, Del Rey, English, 1-8, 25$, Sale pending
Morinaga Milk, Girl Friends, Seven Seas, English, 1-2, 5$
Morishita Suu, Shortcake Cake, Viz, English, 1-12, 35$ SOLD!
Murakami Maki, Gravitation, Tokyopop, English, 1-12, 35$, Sale Pending
Murakami Maki, Gravitation EX, Tokyopop, English, 1, 3$ Explicit
Murakami Maki, Gravitation Light Novels, Tokyopop, English, 1-2, 5$
Narushima Yuri, Katenrou, Zero, Japanese, 1, 1$
Natsume Isaku, False Memories, Sublime, English, 1-2, 5$ Explicit, Sale pending
Nitta Youka, Casino Lily, CPM, English, 1, 3$ Explicit, sale pending
Nitta Youka, Embracing Love, CPM/Be Beautiful, English, 1-5, 15$ Explicit, sale pending
Nitta Youka, Sound of my voice, Be Beautiful, English, 1, 3$ Explicit, sale pending
Nitta Youka, Spiritual police, Sublime, English, 1, 3$ Explicit, sale pending
Nitta Youka, Starting with a kiss, Sublime, English, 1-3, 10$ Explicit
Nomura Akiko, London Museum Nocturne, Kodansha, Japanese, 1, 1$
Obana Miho, Hone Bitter, , Japanese, 1, 1$
Ohmi Tomu, Midnight Secretary, Viz, English, 1-2, 5$
Ohtsuki Megumi, Yume made kiss, Princess, Japanese, 1, 1$
Omishi Ray, Cresent Moon, , Japanese, 1, 1$
Sakuragi, Yaya, Bond of Dreams, Bond of Love, Sublime, English, 1-4, 12$ Explicit
Sakurai Umi, Ojisama to Neko / Man and his Cat, PixIV, Japanese, 1-3, 3$
Shiina Ayumi, Anata to Scandal, Ribon, Japanese, 1-4, 4$
Sugisaki Yukiru, D.N.Angel, Tokyopop, English, 1-13, 40$, Sale pending
Tajima, Mimi, Koi Suru 1/4, Margaret, Japanese, 1-10, 10$
Takaguchi Satosumi, Shout Out Loud!, Blu, English, 1-5, 15$ Explicit
Takaya Natsuki, Twinkle Stars, Yen, English, 1-5, 15$, Sale Pending
Tanaka Meca, Meteor Prince, Viz, English, 1-2, 5$
Tanaka Meca, Sailor-Fuku ni Ongegai!, Hana to Yume, Japanese, 1-4, 4$
Tanemura Arina, Full Moon o Sagashite, Viz, English, 1-7, 20$, Sale Pending
Tanemura Arina, I.O.N., Viz, English, 1, 3$, sale pending
Tanemura Arina, Short-Tempered Melacholic and other stories, Viz, English, 1, 3$, sale pending
Taniguchi Tomoko, Aquarium, CPM, English, 1, 3$, Sale Pending
Taniguchi Tomoko, Call me princess, CPM, English, 1, 3$, Sale Pending
Taniguchi Tomoko, Just a Girl, CPM, English, 1, 3$, Sale Pending
Taniguchi Tomoko, Let's Stay Together, CPM, English, 1, 3$, Sale Pending
Taniguchi Tomoko, Miss Me?, CPM, English, 1, 3$, Sale Pending
Taniguchi Tomoko, Princess Prince, CPM, English, 1, 3$, Sale Pending
Tanikawa Fumiko, Mahou o Shinjiru kai?, Ribon, Japanese, 1-3, 3$
Tateno Makoto, Cute x Guy, Ribon, Japanese, 1-3, 3$
Watase Yuu, Alice 19th, Viz, English, 1-7, 20$
Watase Yuu, Ceres, Viz, English, 1-14, 40$
Watase Yuu, Fushigi Yugi Gaiden (light novels), Palette, Japanese, 1, 3-8, 5$ Light Novels
Yamada Nari, Ai no Shintairiku, Margaret, Japanese, 1, 1$
Yazawa Ai, Paradise Kiss, Tokyopop, English, 1-5, 50$, sale pending
Yuki Kaori, Fairy Cube, Viz, English, 1-3, 10$, sale pending
Yuki Kaori, Grand Guignol Orchestra, Viz, English, 1-5, 15$, sales pending
Genso Suikoden Brunch (gag comic), Asuka, Japanese, 1, 1$

I've been single for several years now and i still feel like a noob at dating hahah. Can't we just skip to the late night cuddles, the bullying as an act of love? Playing videogames together, sharing weird memes and visiting new places?
Anyway, my name is Jordy, i'm 27 years old, 1.79m tall with a dad bod, from Belgium. I've been working as a technician for a telecommunications company for the past 6 years. My career is going well and i enjoy my job however, my dream would be to open up my own nerd/geek café where people can play videogames, boardgames/D&D, read comics, manga, have LAN parties, host movie nights? Etc. But as a smart person once said:"In this economy?!".
Most of my hobbies include the things mentioned above hahah, you can also add anime, playing guitar and hikes on to the list though.
I'm a big time music addict. I love pop, rock, punk, edm and will listen to most things. My favorite artists are currently Lewis Capaldi and Jake Scott. You will hear me sing most of the day, every day - i'm sorry in advance (not).
Personality wise i'm an introvert. During my job hours i'm mostly outside and talking to strangers but it does empty my social battery. A party is the last place i wanna be basically hahah, it's not my cup of tea. I do however enjoy going to museums, concerts, cinemas, bowling alleys, etc. I'm also not a very serious person, i love dark humor and enjoy making people laugh. I consider myself to be a hopeless romantic who's love languages are words of affirmation and physical touch. I wanna emphasise that i'm looking for a serious long term relationship but once we are comfortable with eachother, you will notice i have a pretty high libido. I know that's ot everyone's cup of tea and that's ok.
I'm hoping to find someone with similar interests and who's looking for the same thing. Hopefully if we hit it off, we can close the distance! I'm not looking for just an online thing. When you message me, please introduce yourself. Ohh, and here's me: https://imgur.com/a/a1btyJX

Just like the title says, looking for some online friends to talk to at times. It’s kind of hard making sustainable friendships so I hope I get lucky with this post.
Anyway, my hobbies are reading (books, manga, and comics), gaming(ps5), and writing.
I would prefer two people at the most, as having a large quantity makes it sort of stressful to maintain lol. But nonetheless, I hope you guys are having a wonderful day.

Edit: If you are going to comment on the length of this post, please don't. This is not a simple snark but rather an actual critical think piece about feminism and Taylor Swift.

Introduction

Pertaining to Taylor Swift, "Female Rage" has deviated from its intended meaning after Swift debuted a new performance of The Tortured Poets Department during the Eras Tour. Now, according to Swift's use of the phrase, female rage is interpreted as public backlash against Swift's dating choices rather than as a response to the broader injustices against women and women's rights. This post examines Taylor Swift's flawed feminism, philanthropy, branding, and the controversial trademark petition for the phrase "Female Rage: The Musical". Swift's background as an entertainer, indeterminate politics, and alignment with capitalism over feminism pervades her legacy, again threatening her public tolerance as not just an individual but as a brand.

Once Upon a Female Rage...

If you were cognizant in the early 2010's, you've heard countless jabs at Taylor Swift in the media. Magazines, radio, or online. Music critics did not take her seriously as a songwriter; parents put a woman on an unrealistic pedestal as the ideal role model for their children; she dated too much and used men as lyrical fodder. No matter the story, it inevitably spread, conjoined with everyone's respective opinions, and you'd be left to wonder, "Why does everyone hate this girl so much?"
Taylor's target demographic has always been young or adolescent girls, more so when Swift herself was one. She made music that spoke to the awkward misfit, cultivating a para-social relationship with fans on MySpace, then later twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, where Taylor posted relatable vlogs showcasing the life of a homegrown American girl. Taylor had a delayed public "growing up" and, compared to her female pop contemporaries, Swift never "gratuitously sexualized her image and seems pathologically averse to controversy" (and, apparently, never even had a sip of alcohol until she turned 21). She was more than happy to spin this narrative to allude to an inherent moral superiority above other women in the industry (Better Than Revenge, heard of it?), engaging in the very slut-shaming that she herself endured (the Madonna and Whore archetypes). The victim complex arose with the need to prove Taylor as a different type of pop girl. Based upon her holy and clean image, Swift had been dubbed "a feminist's nightmare", and that "[To Swift] other girls are obstacles; undeserving enemies who steal Taylor’s soulmates with their bewitching good looks and sexual availability." Feminism and Tennessee-Christian country values don't exactly mix, it seems.
Years later, Swift befriended Lena Dunham and thus experienced white feminism osmosis, where Dunham taught Swift that real feminists defend rapists, makes insensitive jokes about rape and abortion, and prioritize all-white casts. Swift then declared herself a feminist in 2014, saying,

"Becoming friends with Lena – without her preaching to me, but just seeing why she believes what she believes, why she says what she says, why she stands for what she stands for – has made me realize that I’ve been taking a feminist stance without actually saying so."

I suppose the male-centric songwriting subject that permeates Swift's discography contained covert feminism and that we just didn't see that. Perhaps, the "Bad Blood" song and music video were written only in jest and not about poor Katy Perry, for Swift, as a feminist, would "never make it a girl fight" or tear other women down (though all Katy did was date your terrible ex-boyfriend and allegedly steal three backup dancers from your tour). In 2013, Swift said, in response to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's joke towards her serial dating, "There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
There was that time in 2015 Taylor said that Nicki Minaj was "invited to any stage [she is] on" (as if Taylor expects to have access to every stage, award, and platform that Nicki might not otherwise have as a black female artist...yikes!) in response to Nicki's criticism of the white + thin VMA nominations. Later, Nicki responded with confusion, as Swift continued, "It’s unlike you to pit women against each other. Maybe one of the men took your slot..". Of course, this 'beef' was 'squashed' when Nicki performed with Taylor at the VMAs, with Nicki quite literally only having 38 seconds of stage time without Taylor. Maybe all that parading around with a legion of famous white women - similar to the way Taylor might've done with her numerous 1989-era handbags - was in fact a stance against gender inequality, and that this display of "girl power" should be enough to constitute Swift as a feminist icon.
Even while Swift says that Dunham informed her feminist outlook, she dances around the exact contents of those beliefs: "what she believes, what she says, what she stands for" is not exactly insightful towards what beliefs Swift might have inherited. Taylor never broaches women's rights topics such femicide, FGM, forced pregnancy & marriage, sex trafficking, women in slavery, women's financial and political oppression, women's educational rights, women's health, or women's autonomy, so we can assume she only gives a fuck about "girls supporting girls" (whatever that fucking means).
Despite some questionable (and sometimes vindictive) behavior, Taylor as a young woman did not deserve every media lashing that she received. We cannot deny that most headlines and criticisms perpetuated a misogynistic rhetoric which has plagued Swift for a majority of her career. Acknowledging events such as the development of her ED, her sexual assault trial, "Famous" lyric and MV depiction of Taylor, and the explicit Twitter deepfakes, for example, as both disgusting and unfortunate things that happened to a young woman in Hollywood does not negate the fact that Taylor is mostly a performative feminist.

Get Your Fucking Ass Up and Be a Philanthropist, It Seems Like Nobody Wants to Be a Philanthropist These Days

In 2013, Taylor Swift cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the Taylor Swift Education Center at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee. The donation amount - $4 million - was the largest individual artist gift ever donated to the Country Music Hall of Fame, which is, of course, mentioned on Swift's website. The two-story facility features three classrooms, an instrument room, and an interactive children's exhibit gallery. Swift also performed at "All for the Hall" charity shows and has donated numerous artifacts from her career (such as notable guitars, tour costumes, etc) to the museum.
This was over 11 years ago, and it is still the only notable philanthropic contribution Taylor Swift has made.
For a woman of her net worth and stature, and a woman who recognizes the difficulties for women in film and music, you would think that Taylor Swift might establish a scholarship program for women to study the arts or something. Perhaps Swift might even consider becoming a member of organizations that support female artists, or one that supports LGBTQ+ causes (since she is now proudly an ally), yet she remains superficial with her graces. Broader philanthropy, such as donating relief aid to Palestinian women or women impacted by violence and discrimination will probably never receive any financial support from Miss Swift because then she'd be using her money towards philanthropies involving anyone but white entertainers.
She even says herself in Miss Americana, "My entire moral code as a kid and now is a need to be thought of as 'good'." Well, she's certainly thought of as good, though her actions say otherwise. She's more than happy to do a vaguely altruistic song and dance for a clip-worthy interview quote and mass appeasement, then fuck off to one of her mansions on a 20 minute private jet flight, rather than actually contribute to anything pertaining to the causes she has endorsed. Yet, far too many people continue to give a woman such as her their money, time, and energy, and she hoards these resources to herself.

I Like Some of the Taylor's Songs, But What the Fuck Does She Know About Feminism?

Swift continued with her self-proclaimed feminist campaign, positioning herself as a political activist and LGBTQ+ ally in the Miss Americana documentary. The primary focus of the documentary consists of the sexual assault trial, Andrea Swift's cancer diagnosis, Taylor's ED and body dysmorphia, media scrutiny, and, largely, finally speaking up about her politics publicly, mostly her opposition to the 2018 Tennessee Republican senate candidate, Marsha Blackburn, and Blackburn's beliefs. Swift says, following a scene discussing her experience during the trial,

"I just couldn't really stop thinking about it. And I just thought to myself, next time there is any opportunity to change anything, you had better know what you stand for and what you want to say."

We must ask ourselves, though: when has Swift ever spoken up to change anything? Okay, pulling her entire catalogue from Spotify because they didn't pay their artists enough and similarly pulling her catalogue from Apple Music are changes that she leveraged due to her revenue potential and power, but they are not pertinent to the average woman's rights. Moreover, these are issues that directly impacted Taylor's income, which was enough reason for her to protest in the first place. Swift has sold the most units for a female artist in first week sales, is the first female artist with 100k monthly Spotify listeners, is the first female artist to win the Album of the Year Grammy 4 times, and is the first female artist to do X, Y, and Z, all while being inoffensive and family-friendly to boot. The actual Taylor Swift seems unwilling to compromise the brand of Taylor Swift by contributing in meaningful ways to feminist causes, especially if it is for women outside of America and Hollywood.
The reason political anthems such as "The Man" and "Only the Young" of the Lover era feel disingenuous and corporate is because, well, it is. Taylor has taken every opportunity to advance her career or public image at the expense of other women. What is truly genuine to Taylor's outlook on other women is vying for male attention, taking down female competition, and vocalizing feminist injustices only if they directly impact her and her money. Some will argue that it's satisfactory for a woman with such a huge platform to even TALK about feminism, but that just isn't enough. It's even less impressive when you candidly look at the scope of her feminist lens: "If I was the man, then I'd be THE MAN", or "I really resent the ‘Be careful, buddy, she’s going to write a song about you’ angle, because it trivialises what I do", and, of course, "We all got crowns". Feminism, but only when it happens to me. It gets worse when you look at Taylor's track record of copying other famous women and removing other female artists as potential threats to her pop prowess.
It's good for PR to align yourself with certain blanket feminist and political beliefs, therefore good for branding, therefore good for ticketing and merchandise sales, therefore good for business. And Taylor Swift is a business.
She's not a feminist. Taylor Swift is a capitalist.

I Can't Pay Those Sweatshop Workers a Livable Wage or Benefits! How Else Would I Make My Billions?

Recently, Taylor's team filed to trademark the phrase "Female Rage: The Musical" after Taylor said during Paris N1 of the Eras Tour,

"So you were the first ones to see The Tortured Poets at the Eras Tour...or as I like to call it, 'Female Rage: The Musical'."

This trademark petition was filed last week on Saturday, and news comes about just as numerous unofficial fan-made merch designs have cropped up with this phrase plastered on Fruit of the Loom basics. I'm of the opinion Swift's team motioned for a trademark so that they can send out cease & desists to all those that make knockoff merch, which disrupts potential sales for Bravado, UMG's choice merchandising company; however, since it was filed earlier, perhaps Swift has bigger plans with the bizarre use of the gendered phrase. One Swiftie referred to the phrase "female rage" as "a funny Eras Tour joke". Could it be a possible fourth version of the Eras Tour Movie? Whatever the reason, the motion to capitalize off of such a concept is disgusting, but not unsurprising, for a woman that profits on her vain feminism.
Swift, through her company, TAS Rights Managements, has also trademarked over 200 phrases, including "1989", where she owns the property rights to this calendar year on keychains, phone cases, sunglasses, stationary, bags, beverage ware, clothing, entertainment services, your subconscious, and, of course, Christmas ornaments.
The vapid consumerism in Swiftie culture is, frankly, disgusting. Bravado's sustainability statement is non-existent, the quality control is abysmal, and the materials they use are horrible. The materials, such as acrylic and polyester, are made from petrochemicals. This means they are non-renewable, shed microplastics, and are quite toxic in production. The manufacturing process to make all of those lazy-rushed Eras Tour logo graphic tees is a huge blow to environmental well-being. Apparently, though, Swifties don't give a fuck. They sell out products in seconds and either have to face the manufactured scarcity or buy from a scalper that resells for 200% of the already ridiculous retail price. This doesn't include the environmental impact of vinyl records, CD, and cassette production, of which Taylor produces many variants that sell unsustainable amounts.
If we're talking about women's rights violations, why is no one acknowledging the women that work in the inhumane sweatshop conditions that have to pump out fugly t-shirts and hats? The millions of plastic microfiber dander they are inhaling, or the toxic dyes that touch their bare skin? Are they being compensated fairly for their skilled labour and are they in safe working environments? Do these women have minimal bargaining power, and do they have authority over their worker's rights? Is Taylor Swift female raging at their injustices? Does Taylor Swift ever feels bad that her wealth was built on the backs of women of color, disadvantaged by the demands of the global economy and garment industry? Do you think she ever says a little white feminist prayer for them before she goes to sleep at night?
What's even crazier is not that Taylor herself doesn't care, it's that Swifties don't care. There CANNOT BE ethical billionaires. You only make a billion dollars if you are exploiting other human beings for capital gain. Based on public perception of the possible "Female Rage: The Musical" trademark, it seems like Swifties are already asking for merch with this phrase. "If Taylor made it, I'd buy it." Oh, cool. So not only do you champion Miss Swift's avarice and billionaire status, but you also are unashamed to admit to your blind consumption of her music and merchandise, no matter where they might originate in production or sincerity. Just as Swift takes and takes and takes, Swifties' consumerism of Taylor Swift cannot be quelled.
The tortured artist's most vulnerable and sincere poetry...available now in 21 different versions!

I Am Tortured Poet, Hear Me Whinge

Look - even if Taylor's intention is to characterize TTPD as more "tortured" and "angry", the main thread of the album is "I was ghosted by my decade-long situationship with a controversial indie boy and my fucking stupid fans wrote a 'Speak Up Now' open letter prompting me to drop him" anger, which is adequately expressed in the lyrics and performances. The extent of Taylor's "female rage" on TTPD is on tracks such as "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?", which contends with relentless media scrutiny; "But Daddy I Love Him", where Swift firmly states she'll date whoever she likes no matter how "Sarahs and Hannahs" may react; and "The Albatross", a track mythologizing her reputation and the consequences of dating her. Of course, these coincide with deep psychological wounds that formed during Swift's early years in the media, and so, from her feminist perspective, these subjects tackle the misogyny and double standards that she faced.
Yet Taylor Swift still has no grounds to be claiming that TTPD best exemplifies female rage and therefore she, in the context of this album, is female rage incarnate. As the daughter of a stock broker and mutual fund marketing executive, Taylor was born into wealth and allowed privileges like trips and subsequent relocation to Nashville all so that she might get a record deal. Her father even invested at least $120,000 into the then-fledgling label, Big Machine Records, which ensured Taylor's place with Borchetta after leaving her dead-end development deal with Sony. The fact that her parents were able to buy her a fucking brand new guitar for Christmas and pay for music lessons says so much about the financial security and safety of her childhood.
Money is privilege and protection, and despite Swift's experiences with misogyny and loser boyfriends, she does not know what female rage is.
Her rage is derived from her frustrations with her obsessive fans pulling the moral superiority card on Taylor in response to her rebound with Matty Healy. That's literally it. She's just pissed that the monster she created is no longer obediant, it's become a feral, sovereign entity that depletes the world of its natural resources and thinks it is more intelligent than it actually is because it's mommy has started to talk to it with big words. Apparently, 'illicit', 'elegy', 'nonchalant', and 'precocious' are considerably big words for the oafish monster, and I find it strange that this level of literacy is present in a group of fans that allegedly have GPAs of 3.5 or higher, but I digress.
Taylor Swift has never been one paycheck away from destitution. Taylor Swift has never experienced racial discrimination. She may have instances of gender discrimination, but she possesses the ideal white, blonde American beauty standard and therefore reaps the benefits of being a conventionally attractive woman. Taylor Swift has sufficient social capital. Taylor Swift is a billionaire woman prolonging her victimhood though she, as a woman, has mostly had control over her image and music (unlike her contemporaries). Taylor Swift is NOT entitled to be championed for her "female rage", nor should she be. Taylor Swift has never even been the struggling artist, for fuck's sake. I don't give a fuck if she's trying to fill the empty lunch tables of her past. Taylor Swift purporting herself, her unpolished album, and her lukewarm feminism as a musical bleeding with female rage is asinine.

Sigh Try and Come For My Job, Poors

Out there in the world right now is a 23-year-old woman, a recent college grad, who works as a barista. She has to wake up and get ready to go into a minimum wage job because she cannot get a job in her field. She doesn't have healthcare benefits or sick time, so she has to go into work no matter how she's feeling. All day long she is berated by vicious customers and creepy men, and, exhausted from being on her feet, she knows she has to go home to her shitty roommate that never does the dishes and her roommate's shitty dog. To comfort herself, she considers getting a treat, but thinks against it when she remembers that matcha lattes cost $15 and they taste like milky dirt. She knows that she needs to buy groceries this week, and so the woman resolves to go home, but notices that her gas tank is low. She goes to put gas in the car, but the pump stops at $27.86 because that's all that she has in her checking account. The woman, bereft and reeling, sinks into the driver's seat. "Well," she thinks, her head in her hands, "at least I don't have Taylor Swift's job. I just couldn't imagine."
Fame is somewhat of a choice. If at any moment Taylor feels that she is misunderstood, misconstrued, or overwhelmed by public opinion, she can LEAVE the public eye - Lord knows she has the retirement fund and residuals to do so. In "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart", the TTPD song about meeting the demands of your career-zenith mega-tour while in the relationship trenches, Taylor ends the song by rambling,

"You know you're good when you can even do it with a broken heart...you know you're good...and I'm good, cause I'm miserable, and no one even knows!...try and come for my job."

Yeah, obviously we wouldn't know, you recently passed the billionaire threshold and are the most famous and in-demand performer in the world right now. Taylor Swift makes an estimated $10 to $13 million dollars A NIGHT on the Eras Tour. Furthermore, the Eras Tour movie grossed $261.6 million globally, (which, as the producer, Taylor takes home 57% of the ticket sales) not counting the streaming revenue from Amazon Prime Video and the estimated $75 million deal that Disney paid to have it on Disney+. We're not even considering the income from cheap plastic popcorn buckets and drink cups plastered with colored squares in her Era-specific likeness.
It's funny. Taylor Swift often said that being famous wasn't hard, that she "isn't complaining". I'm sure it is difficult to always have to present in a good mood, else you'll end up misrepresented in the media, and I'm sure it's invasive to virtually have no privacy or semblance of anonymity. Still, Taylor Swift shows up each night of tour and performs. For a majority of her career, she has penned her sad songs while on the road. Most of "Red", her breakup album, was written in the thick of the Speak Now World tour. Now, some Swifties say they almost "feel bad" for attending the Eras Tour with Swift's revelations in this song, that they have had a 'dimmed experience' upon hearing Taylor's misery whilst performing. Despite the fact that Taylor said that "this was the happiest she's ever been" at Gilette Stadium in May, the lyrics "boohoo, woe is me, smile for the cameras and make the fans happy!!!" are jarring for Eras attendees.
While Taylor Swift was making double-digit millions a night in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and feeling miserable, Ana Clara Benevides Machado passed away due to heat exposure. The concert promoters, Time For Fun, are now the subject of a criminal investigation due to their lack of adequate hydration and safety. Taylor Swift cancelled the Sunday show that was to follow and offered VIP tent tickets to Benevides Marchado's family, which was a kind gesture, but perhaps incongruous to the incident of which they were offered as consolation. Everyone grieves differently, of course, but I'm not sure attending the very show at the very same venue that my daughter or sister passed away in two days prior, where the singer CONTINUED the show despite her death, would be healthy for closure.
There was no female rage at the show as Swift never saw Benevides Machado pass out. There was no female rage towards the disregard for fans as humans while Swift elected to proceed with her Brazil tour dates despite the country being in historic heatwaves (at risk of overheatting herself). If Taylor Swift was so shaken by touring with a broken heart or a fan's passing, she wouldn't have added an additional North American leg of Eras just two months after the Matty breakup. She's brokenhearted but willing to mend the cracks with your money and move onward with her worldwide female rage induced pillaging.
No matter what happens, even if you die at a Taylor Swift concert, Taylor collects a big fat check and flies away. She doesn't know you as anything other than a conversion rate or earning potential despite what her nearly 20-year long parasocial relationship with fans might otherwise indicate. She knows that, while some Swifties are without disposable income, they feel obligated to spend on a "48 Hours Only!" exclusive vinyl variant instead of necessities because they are so entrenched in Taylor Swift's intoxicating celebrity, they'll prioritize materialistic fandom before their needs. This is good enough for her because this means she can expand her real estate portfolio and finance her cat's lavish lifestyles. They're worth an estimated $100 million dollars. Her three cats could pool their net worth and solve world hunger.
While you and I might be denied bereavement leave and barely surviving the current political and economic climate, Taylor Swift has to, instead of gets to, perform for stadiums at full attendance for three nights in a row across the globe. You and I might be replaced by AI at our longtime jobs, but Taylor Swift is threatened with losing more and more money each time you listen to a "Stolen Version" of her songs. If we don't buy every variant of all of her albums, then who is going to pay for the fucking cats?
It is tone deaf to spend as she spends and lives as she lives in this economy, but this is her reality. She was able to donate $100,000 to all of her tour truck drivers, and that's wonderful, but it leads me to wonder about the ethos of the 2020s where one woman can hoard such life-changing amounts of money. Remember in 2014 when she gave a fan $90 ($120 in today's money) to get Chipotle because she had no fucking clue how much it cost? This is a 34-year-old woman who is increasingly out of touch with the reality for working class people and women in general. Normal everyday adults must wake up and go to their thankless jobs, and yet Taylor Swift, despite all her riches, incessantly references the lows of her life and career as a public figure and entertainer to farm sympathy and drive sales. And still, the corporate women have latched onto "I cry a lot, but I am so productive! It's an art!" as their cubicle battle cry.
Do you think that, from up in her private jet, Taylor Swift gazes at the world through her poetic, tortured eyes, and thinks, "All the little people, in their cars, walking, going about their lives...all those girls that don't support girls...do they know that I've made an album about female rage?"

Conclusion/TLDR

Thank you for reading. I would love to hear your critical insights towards this entire ordeal: TTPD, the trademark, the implications of it all.
TLDR: Taylor Swift is a bad feminist and is delusional to think that the TTPD eras set exemplifies female rage at women's injustice.

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IS Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes MOVIE ON NETFLIX, CRUNCHYROLL, HULU, OR AMAZON PRIME?
Netflix: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is currently not available on Netflix. However, fans of dark fantasy films can explore other thrilling options such as Doctor Strange to keep themselves entertained.
Crunchyroll: Crunchyroll and Funimation have acquired the rights to distribute Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes in North America. Stay tuned for its release on the platform in the coming months. In the meantime, indulge in dark fantasy shows like Spider-man to fulfill your entertainment needs.
Hulu: Unfortunately, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is not available for streaming on Hulu. However, Hulu offers a variety of other exciting options like Afro Samurai Resurrection or Ninja Scroll to keep you entertained.
Disney+: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is not currently available for streaming on Disney+. Fans will have to wait until late December, when it is expected to be released on the platform. Disney typically releases its films on Disney+ around 45-60 days after their theatrical release, ensuring an immersive cinematic experience for viewers.
IS Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO?Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes movie could eventually be available to watch on Prime Video, though it will likely be a paid digital release rather than being included with an Amazon Prime subscription. This means that rather than watching the movie as part of an existing subscription fee, you may have to pay money to rent the movie digitally on Amazon. However, Warner Bros. and Amazon have yet to discuss whether or not this will be the case.
WHEN WILL 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes ', BE AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD?
As of right now, we don't know. While the film will eventually land on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD, Warner Bros has yet to reveal a specific date as to when that would be. The first Nun film also premiered in theaters in early September and was released on Blu-ray and DVD in December. Our best guess is that the sequel will follow a similar path and will be available around the holiday season.
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So, whenever questions like "what are your hobbies" or "what do you do in your free time" come up, I have a hard time answering. I'm a massive geek, and I'm really into stuff like video games, comics, anime/manga, Star Wars, etc. But I feel like that's not what a lot of people think of when they think of hobbies. You'll see it all the time online, people telling people who like things like video games to "get a real hobby" or something like that. And a lot of it has become my aestetic too. I'm known for wearing cool button up shirts, mainly with my geeky interests on them, as well as stuff like earrings and necklaces of the same nature.
Also, I think this is my autism/ADHD at play, but I'll sometimes struggle to get myself to do my hobbies. I'll be like "I could be reading comics or manga right now" but just won't. When I do, I love it, but for some reason, it's hard to get myself too. With video games, it's a special thing. I almost exclusively play single player games, and I'll play one at a time, and in my sort of journal thing, I'll often describe the events of what happened in the game if I played it that day, and I'll even give a set of 2 or 3 days a title like it's an episode of TV, based on things that happened in my day and what happened in the game, and it's fun to come up with a clever title.
I also create stories a lot. I say that instead of calling myself a writer cuse the vast majority of it is just in my head or in notes, I don't often enjoy the process of writing it down in something like a novel or script format, i just like coming up with the characters, setting, plot, etc.
There's a good amount of stuff I'd like to get into, but I just can't afford it. Like, I'm super skinny, and I thought kickboxing or boxing classes would be a good way to get some muscle, but I just can't afford it.
Despite how I'm making it sound, I'm actually a really happy and positive person😂, but I dunno, do you think I need better hobbies? How do I answer the question "what do you do in your free time?"
(Sorry this is so long btw, lol)

Me and you. Not two peas in a pod but more like 2 rabid animals in a cage. Every moment we found some time together, it would be filled with insulting jabs, belittling, almost insulting phrases to knock each others confidence. Why?...well we aren't really sure. It wasn't like anyone got hurt or we went too far, but the rivalry that came out of nowhere seemed to stem from some sort of unrequited attraction that we were too stubborn to admit.
A few years later, we've moved on with our lives and the old high school days seemed to be behind us. We matured, grew out of our spite and went about our mundane adult lives. I changed my name, moved across the country and essentially started a new life. I wasn't flowing with cash at the time so i found that the best way to save money whilst getting a new connection in the city was to put an ad online for a new roomate in the apartment i chose to stay at.
Unbeknownst to yourself, you were also looking for the same deal and so you hastily accepted the ad, not knowing that it was in fact your old high school rival that was to be your roomate. Will we still hold the same grudge like angsty teens or find more common ground through our grown up eyes?
Greetings all, i hope the above premise caught your interest. If it did, feel free to read on.
I am a 21 year old male based in the GMT timezone and i am seeking to roleplay with a literate female writer about the above plot. I am a literate writer myself where i write multiple paragraphs and I'd say im pretty detailed with my writing.
Availability wise, i am mostly free throughout the day as im in between jobs at the moment. I don't mind what timezone you're in but it would be good to know so i can generally keep track of timings on your end.
I want to write with someone passionate, detailed and who i can talk to OOC and develop a good connection with as i feel like its important to enjoy the company you write with. I will always be open and transparent with my thoughts and feelings and i trust that you will be too.
I also prefer roleplaying on discord so it'd be handy if you preffered it too.
Reference pictures for characters are always preffered. To preface, i don't use realistic ones.
If you're interested, feel free to send me a chat and introduce yourself. I'll get back to you as soon as i can.
See ya~

Not looking for love, a relationship, or anything like that, platonic friendship only. Friendly flirting and being weird is fine, just don't be creepy.
Me: I'd describe myself as chill, easy-going, a bit goofy, and definitely a night owl. I try to match the vibe of whoever I'm with. I like PC gaming, watching movies and TV shows, anime/manga, and web comics. I'm an open book and love to listen to people talk. Also LGBTQ+ friendly.
Looking for: A friend ages 21+, in reasonable timezone (My timezone is PST). People that play online games (not required) and have discord. A person who'd want to watch movies, binge tv shows, and play games is preferred.
Dms are open. If you're interested, please introduce yourself there (I don't bite unless you're rude).

Hello,
I know that the “suggest me some Comic YouTube channels” posts are just spam at this point, I want to ask you to suggest me some YouTube channels that make content IN comic shops.
Since I don’t live in the US and the nearest comic shop here is two towns away, I’m doing my comic shopping mostly online. So, I really miss the feeling of actually going to the shop every week and check the new releases.
I know “The Comics Den” YouTube channel but I need more if you got ‘em.
Cheers.

Hi, I'm looking for people willing to play a visual novel game and answer some questions about the experience. The study is a part of a Computer Science thesis.
Here's the deal:
💻 It's all online through a Google Form
⏰ Takes around 30-40 minutes total
📝 You answer some basic questions about yourself
🎮 Play through a visual novel game, make choices
🔂 Play it again with slightly different scenarios
✍️ Give feedback after each playthrough
What's a visual novel? It's a game where you read text and your choices change the story. Basically, it's like an interactive book/comic with visuals.
Anyone who can read in English is welcome! You don't need prior experience with these types of games.
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Hi, I'm looking for people willing to play a visual novel game and answer some questions about the experience. The study is a part of a Computer Science thesis.
Here's the deal:
💻 It's all online through a Google Form
⏰ Takes around 30-40 minutes total
📝 You answer some basic questions about yourself
🎮 Play through a visual novel game, make choices
🔂 Play it again with slightly different scenarios
✍️ Give feedback after each playthrough
What's a visual novel? It's a game where you read text and your choices change the story. Basically, it's like an interactive book/comic with visuals.
Anyone who can read in English is welcome! You don't need prior experience with these types of games.
The survey is totally anonymous (apart from collecting the e-mails).
Interested? Click this link to get started:
https://allocate.monsteHZZFTGVY
Share with friends who'd be into this!