Why be ordinary when you can be so much more ?

Because Tumblr is a never ending source of inspiration.

[wha-archive]

Hehe, Brushbug. New episode of the anime tomorrow! Shirahama posted these to her twitter today.

[aquilacalvitium]

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

[aquilacalvitium]

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

[underratedgrapeju1ce]

i'm so fucking over it

[bad-faith-misinterpreter]

Oh so you'd rather use eugenics on animals and abuse them instead? 🙄

[underratedgrapeju1ce]

i was about to get violent then i saw the handle im crying

[wolfythewitch]

People are mad about Agamemnon making Odysseus join the war as if Odysseus didn't make Odysseus join the war

[kyri45]

Fand-Home Prints series by Kyri45

or- what home feels like for every fandom. :)

[pien-art]

Sometimes you just need to go on your old Nintendo DS Lite and play MySims (2007) and create your ultimate self and then go drown in nostalgia forever and ever and ever. And beat your squash highscore.

Prints available here! Also available as a print with a blank bg here :P

[thebristolboard]

“The Militarization of the Police Department – Deadly Farce,” an original painting by Richard Williams from “The 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things of 2014″ in Mad magazine #531, published by DC Comics, February 2015.

[spaceraptor]

Here’s the original, for comparison. And here’s a bit more about the artist and why he created the piece above for MAD Magazine.

[pennamerequired]

Richard Williams on Norman Rockwell:

“For most people, he was the painter of ‘America,’” he added. “But even he said his vision was what he wanted ‘America’ to be. It was a mythical ‘America,’ a place where all people were decent, honest and full of good will. His work was full of gentle humor that made you feel a little better; even if you knew it wasn’t really true… you just wished it was. My parody of Rockwell’s painting simply says, ‘That myth is dead.’”

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I think it’s relevant to add that even Norman Rockwell chose to leave his cushy job at the Saturday Evening Post because he wanted to make artwork that was more radical. The Post had rules that wouldn’t allow him to do artwork depicting black people as anything other than servants. The job paid really well and that was a huge reason he continued on. But he wanted change that and so he moved to Look magazine.

A lot of people know about the very first piece he did when he left the post which was the The Problem We All Live With which depicts Ruby Bridges walking to school under federal protection.

But I don’t think enough people know about Murder in Mississippi which depicts three real civil rights activists who were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and sherriffs. The magazine ran the sketch instead of the finished piece because they felt it had a more striking statement to accompany the article. Norman Rockwell would finish that version after publication which is here

Rockwell’s legacy is sanitized because he decided to maintain his job at the Post for so long despite his frustrations with not being able to express himself. The civil rights movement was just his final straw to change what he could with the little time he had left. Look magazine received a lot of hate for Rockwell painting these as well.

Another favorite piece of mine is The Right to Know which depicts an integrated populace questioning their government. In 1968, the year of Vietnam and the year the Fair Housing Act only just got signed in months prior:

But I think it’s important to include the caption Rockwell originally wrote for the piece as well. I think it represents how a 74 year old Rockwell felt about the America he believed in and the people in it:

We are the governed, but we govern too. Assume our love of country, for it is only the simplest of self-love. Worry little about our strength, for we have our history to show for it. And because we are strong, there are others who have hope. But watch us more closely from now on, for those of us who stand here mean to watch those we put in the seats of power. And listen to us, you who lead, for we are listening harder for the truth that you have not always offered us. Your voice must be ours, and ours speaks of cities that are not safe, and of wars we do not want, of poor in a land of plenty, and of a world that will not take the shape our arms would give it. We are not fierce, and the truth will not frighten us. Trust us, for we have given you our trust. We are the governed, remember, but we govern too.

[batboyblog]

I’d just like to briefly say even Rockwell’s seemingly feel good Americana pieces are often more political than people today realize for example

likely the most famous picture of a Thanksgiving dinner ever painted and you see it all the time.

What you may not know is its actual title

“Freedom From Want” it’s a part of a series of 4, including this now famous meme

“Freedom of Speech” These paintings were illustrations of FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech where The President laid out a vision that would become what the Allies were fighting for in WWII universal human rights that became a part of the UN charter.

So this homey American Thanksgiving scene was also a bold statement that no one in the world should go hungry

Rockwell’s work was very political, he used that Americana small town America vibe of his work to make what he was saying feel very close to the viewers he was trying to reach and also his optimism of the human spirt but for sure not blind to the need to build a better world.

[leviathan-supersystem]

internet politics and real-world politics have gotten so separated, and pretty soon all this internet weirdness is gonna come crashing into real life and politicians are gonna start throwing around words like “SJW” and “anime communist” and “dark enlightenment” and it’s just gonna be the most ridiculous fucking thing

[heritageposts]

date of origin: 13th of april, 2015.

[leviathan-supersystem]

happy 10 year anniversary!

[august--and-everything-after]

[headspace-hotel]

This post.

This fucking post.

It is in some ways, the only piece of evidence I have that there was a time Before.

[sentientsky]

repeating this to myself forever and ever

[blu3b3rryj4mp1r3]

beanie baby dragon is crossing your dash

[ikimaru]

realized I didn't have any pics of the twins! ✨

[lereadinggrinch]

Just found out you can change the kudos message on ao3 and honestly? Best day of my life

Every time you leave kudos on one of my fics, you’ll get one of these messages:

[robs-your-robins]

Bruce Wayne is beloved by the Rogues. I mean, can you really hate such an innocent, naive, pretty fool with a big heart? Yes, he has to be kidnapped and held for ransom but that doesn't mean they want to hurt him and he sort of abuses that affection. He's not proud of it.

Bruce faces legal trouble, and he's actually ready to fight it, he's got the case in order but is he really going to say no when Harvey Dent strides into the courtroom, demands to act as his lawyer? No. He's going to let Harvey work, all he's got to do is look helpless and smile when Harvey pats his hand and call him "doll".

Bruce is in the middle of a hostage situation with Scarecrow and there's a dozen other hostages. Bruce immediately bursts into tears, starts trauma dumping and Scarecrow immediately kicks into psychiatrist gear, talking Bruce through his panic attack and ruminations while Robin slowly sneaks the hostages out. He gets to free the hostages and talk some shit out.

Harley has him tied up on an office chair and is threatening to shove him out of the window when Bruce just asks her whether he looks OK, because Batman might show up and he hasn't called Bruce back since their last date. Harley immediately stops rolling him toward the window, spins him around and gives him a lecture on toxic relationships, how he needs to work on himself and love himself like she did when she left Joker.

He's not proud of playing up the dumb billionaire but if he can talk rogues down and get them to focus on doing good, he's willing to play to ditz.

[cringefailvox]

it's incomprehensibly cute that velvette and shok.wav text each other and that she can easily decipher his barks

[why-i-love-comics]

DC/Marvel: Batman/Deadpool #1 - "The Cosmic Kiss Caper!" (2025)

written by Grant Morrison art by Dan Mora & Alejandro Sanchez

[almondcroissantsandink]

silver tongue

[monsterritory]

It's giving "I am So Fucking Tired I slept in a God Damn Office Chair for a Bloody Week and had to Manipulate Mansplain Manwife my way through Three Fucking Deals and a Throuple Therapy in a spawn of one week just to get my Stupid Fucking Stick fixed I am so Fucking Ready to take every classical substance known to a 30s man and Black The Fuck Out for at least A Month I literally Never want to hear Any Word beginning with a V ever again."