Today’s Weird reSWAN Sentence
“Nothing says ‘birthday’ like fake ass blood.”
i can’t decide // scissor sisters
no wonder why my heart feels dead inside
it’s cold and hard and petrified
lock the doors and close the blinds
we’re going for a ride
(via mehyewll-blog)
Tumblr and Puns
Most of the results of the LiveStream last night! I had a slight majority of Johnny people show up, so some reSWAN!-verse Johnny stuff is what we ended up doing! Captions are a thing.
We had a bunch of great conversation, and should you want to hear my end of the conversations (which is mostly followable), check out the video. I talk a ton about what things happen in reSWAN that haven’t been posted, and a lot of background information that informed it, and the kind of things I want to have represented it. Also my friend comes home near the end and tells a FUCKING WILD story about what happened to her last night, thus giving a title to the video.
(I’ll try to rotate the subjects of the streams, but I won’t really know what I’m drawing until I get there in most cases, so it’s a grab bag~ I hope you’ll come visit some time!)
wow now that it’s morning i wonder what the fuck i drew last night
Peggielene Bartels, A.K.A. King Peggy, is currently the King of Otuam, Ghana. She was chosen to be one of only three female kings in Ghana, and when she discovered that male chauvinists wanted her to only be a figurehead, she said: “They were treating me like I am a second-class citizen because I am a woman. I said, ‘Hell no, you’re not going to do this to a woman!’” When she encountered corruption and the threat of embezzlement to the royal funds, she declared “I’m going to squeeze their balls so hard their eyes pop!”
King Peggy has maintained her work in Ghana’s embassy in Washington, D.C. while making education affordable in Otuam, installing borehead wells to produce clean drinking water, enforcing incarceration laws to deal with domestic violence, replenishing the royal coffers by taxing Otuam’s fishing industry to improve life in the village, and appointing three women to her council.
“Nobody should tell you, ‘You’re a woman, you can’t do it,’” she insists. “You can do it. Be ready to accept it when the calling comes.”
Quoted from the Spring/Summer 2012 issue of Ms. Magazine.
What a beautiful badass woman.
King Peggy has been on my blog before but this is my goddamn blog and I will have King Peggy on here twice if I want.
MORE FEMALE KINGS.
Always reblog King Peggy, who is on my dash far less than she should be. Did you know she has written a book about her life? It is great, and you should all get right on that if you haven’t already.
(via propheticfire)
