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Today I got whistled at by some construction workers on my way to the train station.  They’ve been building a new townhouse along the road I have to walk up to go anywhere by myself since I can’t drive.  As I approached, one of them walked toward me.  I did what I always do when this sort of thing happens - I didn’t break my stride, kept walking, and just acted as though they didn’t exist.  Once I made it past they sung the Batman theme song at my back (I was wearing a Batman t-shirt).

I’m sick of just ignoring it every time this sort of thing happens, though it is the safer option.  But even so, there’s not much I can do.  If I chew them out, I’m the outnumbered, smaller, physically weaker, crazy aggressive ‘bitch’.  It would be easy for them to hurt me.  If I ignore it, men keep doing it and I just have to take it which sucks because it happens so often that I start wondering if it’s because of me.

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gailsimone: kenshiro28: gailsimone: shortbrunetteandsnarky: gailsimone: I had nightmares for a week after reading this series. What is this series? It looks awesome. It is from a series called GYO, by Junji Ito, one of the all-time great masters of horror comics art. It’s a manga series, it’s been collected into English editions, only a couple books so it’s not hard to get the whole story. The thing is outlandish and surreal. I don’t want to spoil it, but it is gripping as hell and nightmarish in the BEST possible way. GAIL SIMONE READ GYO Dude, I am a HARDCORE Junji Ito fan. I think he reinvented horror comics. I love everything he’s ever done…last time I was in Japan, the only manga I couldn’t bear to not buy were Japanese editions of his work. Like everyone, I love Uzumaki, I think it’s brilliant. But I think his most remarkable achievement is Tomie. I’ve said this a lot, but I think he invented the first genuine new horror archetype since Michael Myers (the unkillable serial killer), in Tomie. I think he created the first genuinely effective and terrifying succubus, an archetype that has never achieved any kind of massive significance in fantasy fiction. You see Dracula, and you know that is the VAMPIRE archetype. The Werewolf is the CHANGELING, etc. But there’s not a succubus that has that kind of iconic power. Until Tomie. If the movie adaptations of her stories were better, she would be a worldwide sensation, and THE iconic succubus archetype that could spawn a hundred imitators. I loved Tomie.  I reckon some of the reason she hasn’t gained as much traction as other horror icons is because she originated in manga, and comic books still aren’t seen as ‘serious literature’ by many people.

gailsimone:

kenshiro28:

gailsimone:

shortbrunetteandsnarky:

gailsimone:

I had nightmares for a week after reading this series.

What is this series? It looks awesome.

It is from a series called GYO, by Junji Ito, one of the all-time great masters of horror comics art. It’s a manga series, it’s been collected into English editions, only a couple books so it’s not hard to get the whole story.

The thing is outlandish and surreal. I don’t want to spoil it, but it is gripping as hell and nightmarish in the BEST possible way.

GAIL SIMONE READ GYO

Dude, I am a HARDCORE Junji Ito fan. I think he reinvented horror comics. I love everything he’s ever done…last time I was in Japan, the only manga I couldn’t bear to not buy were Japanese editions of his work.

Like everyone, I love Uzumaki, I think it’s brilliant.

But I think his most remarkable achievement is Tomie. I’ve said this a lot, but I think he invented the first genuine new horror archetype since Michael Myers (the unkillable serial killer), in Tomie. I think he created the first genuinely effective and terrifying succubus, an archetype that has never achieved any kind of massive significance in fantasy fiction. You see Dracula, and you know that is the VAMPIRE archetype. The Werewolf is the CHANGELING, etc.

But there’s not a succubus that has that kind of iconic power. Until Tomie.

If the movie adaptations of her stories were better, she would be a worldwide sensation, and THE iconic succubus archetype that could spawn a hundred imitators.

I loved Tomie.  I reckon some of the reason she hasn’t gained as much traction as other horror icons is because she originated in manga, and comic books still aren’t seen as ‘serious literature’ by many people.

(Source: chaz-mcfreely)

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