[pure]

do not ask me to condemn retaliatory violence from a people shouldering ongoing genocide. i want the Haitian revolution to happen for shackled people everywhere. i hope every occupied colony on earth produces their very own Dessalines. i’m just silly like that.

[endruv]

There's a difference between rioting and destroying government buildings and stuff and kidnapping and murdering civilians. Even if Hamas somehow "frees Palestine" it's probably gonna end up as a shitty authoritarian government. Responding to genocide with another genocide solves nothing.

[pure]

let me give you some context. clearly, no one has demystified this to you.

after toussaint successfully helped organize a violent revolt that resulted in the independence of haiti, he was arrested and murdered, then napoleon sent troops to haiti in an effort to re-institute slavery again. dessalines responded by withdrawing the modicum of mercy his former leader displayed, because showing civility wouldn’t stop the french from attempting to enslave them again. if dessalines didn’t order the execution of the slave-holding class in haiti, including their families, my people would still be slaves right now. the haitian revolution is directly responsible for the abolition of slavery in all of the americas. it sent a shockwave of terror through the veins of every colonizer in the americas and stood as a beacon of hope for every enslaved african at the time (shoutout to nat turner). i’m free to be here typing this on a computer machine in 2023 because a group of brave africans got organized and took off some colonizer’s scalp in 1804 and sent a ripple effect of fear through the west. idk about you, but i’m here because my ancestors retaliated, by any means necessary. the Palestinians’ fighting back is long, long overdue. they don’t need anyone’s approval to free themselves or die trying, much like my ancestors did. your liberal moralizing is lost on me.

[bwooom]

i love you mirror versions i love you possession i love you cloning i love you simulacrums i love you shadow selves i love you digital copies of a mind i love you alternate timeline versions i love you tropes that play with identity and what it means to be a certain person

[officialpenisenvy]

they should cast clavicular in caligula by albert camus and have his pretty pasolinian crying face on the posters with the title CALIGULAR

[faki9999]

mary poor mary... :((((( sh2 fanart, havent posted in a while, more to come

[cainightfics]

i love when you guys send me asks like "do you think x inspired mr robot?" bc the answer is always yes. you know how literary critics say "the ultimate version of a genre arrives at the end of its lifespan, and is half parody?", like how don quixote was The End of chivalric romance?

to me thats mr robot. a parodic mishmash of a genre that begins sometime in the 90s and is a self-obsessed-yet-self-aware, vaguely anti-capitalist, vaguely anti-american genre of work that derides modern society while also being pessimistic about a genuine alternative. american psycho, fight club, oz, sopranos, the wire, better call saul, mr robot...

and ironically all of these series end just before their critiques hit mainstream consciousness in the real world. oz ends just before the war on terror and subsequent american military posts/torture centres/prisons televised how carceral control and moralizing is central to justifying empire. sopranos ended just before the 2008 collapse, which was made inevitable by greed and white collar crime and the collusion between the law and capital. mr robot ended just before the epstein files started to drop, revealing there is indeed a selection of affluent billionaires and politicians operating with impunity through the banal daily control over shipping and receiving, online algorithms, IP laws, manufactured instability after geopolitical conflict....

and then in retrospect these series are lauded as "predictive" or "ahead of their time" when they were just feeling the pulse of the culture that was obvious to anyone actually looking. lol

[extravapalooza]

pages from 'a world of plenty', a cyanotyped and handbound artist book using cyborgs to explore transness, gender, nature, technology + their intersections (and my last uni project ever !!!) ... gonna be posting more of the pages soon ^_^

[extravapalooza]

‼️ last day for 20% off the shop with code WEEKENDOFLUV ‼️🌹❤️‍🔥

[jae10velies]

the concept of performing a song about a movie that is about your past life which is also about an older movie which is all in a movie that we the viewers are watching

[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.’”

[1-420-666-6969]

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.

[hellonerf]

au based on a dream i had thats basically reworking my old caname ghost au but with more dubious implications and less blatant insp from aono kun 🤤

the dream that spurred this on went like this

probably unrealistic but what are dreams right... a dramatized cruelty from others because its funny and also because i think it was influenced by those animations of goth(?) kids(usually a girl) summoning demons to get revenge on their classmates. this one is a little more specific in the reasoning... and cana took a year or so to turn his horrible grief into using the dark arts for revenge (15 years old) 🙏 in that time he was a rly sad lonely kid i'd imagine and suddenly hes in a comedic hijinksy routine with a demon he summoned and his big little brother trapped in his old rabbit plush. this is how he views it actually! when he goes to school he cant take rus and rus has nothing else to do so he stays in cana's room (at least in the human world he stays there) he puts ame in his bag and wipes off his mouth so he doesnt cause suspicion at school. he carries him around sometimes bcz everyone is cruel to him he'd at least have his dollbrother. ☺️❤️(That kid who you judged for carrying around a stuffed animal in highschool? that thing was his dead brother. You never know peoples #lifestory)

if ame wants to emote he has to tell cana to draw him eyebrows. if cana wants ame to shut up he just wipes off his mouth. ame has little control of his rabbit plush body too because its difficult to move around. he can whack cana a bit though...

basically the old ghost au i had is this now cz 🤤 the other one was probably just an aono kun au and thats less funny. and im not as skilled as that author with that tone and themes. i can however envision specific situations that cause ame to lose control to his body! i love to tie ame to cana like a balloon. this au has no ruscan anymore sorry i mean u can see it that way but i realized thatd be misleading to say bcz Its All Caname to me. 🙂 so this is it now

[aurvain]

hats… are my worst enemy

[hyuji410]

[kaelio]

[phantomrose96]

Shipping options include “Express”, “Standard”, and “Make it take longer on purpose”

[phantomrose96]

Shipping options include “Express”, “Standard”, and “We’ll tell the warehouse guys to toss it around monkey-in-the-middle style for a few days until we’ve all had a good laugh then we’ll put it on the truck 4 real”

[phantomrose96]

This sounds like a complaint but it’s not. I want to order this thing that’s running out of stock but if I order it now it will get delivered while I’m traveling. I want the option where the USPS puts it on a closed-circuit choo-choo train for a week and then actually sends it to me.

[phantomrose96]

Real lore-knowers know

[phantomrose96]

I have great news for you

[greebledgoblin]

honestly surprised i havent seen anyone on my dash talking abt what is being done to Lexi Love

[greebledgoblin]

in brief summary,

a trans woman, drag queen and recent contestant on drag race has lost all of her social media accounts, and hence multiple bookings, because some washed up actress successfully sued her for the rights to "Lexi Love" because its what she named her business of....making shitty AI generated images. at one point she flat out said she didnt want her "brand" tarnished by association with a trans woman with a history of survival sex work, homelessness, and drug use. this poor woman has been through enough in life, was clearly going through a lot while filming a reality tv show, and now only has access to social media under her deadname.

Drag Race’ Star Lexi Love Is Fighting an AI “Artist” for Her Drag Alias. Now She’s “Forced” to Use Her Deadname

Platforms like Cameo and social media sites like Facebook have removed the drag star's accounts as a result of claims from an AI artist and

FUCK SELENA SCOLA!!!!!!

[coughloop]

Worlds oldest haunted house has passed away at the age of 207

[coughloop]

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of... maybe everything actually

[lastoneout]

Sorry we really went from free the nipple, take back the night, slut walks, and ending gender/sex segregation in sports being fucking milquetoast feminism 101 concepts to fucking girl dinner and "I just worry about fairness if we let trans girls play against cis ones" and "it was right of that woman to call the cops on a black man for existing near here in public during the day time because men are all violent monsters" and "radical feminism isn't transphobic we just need to kill all men including trans ones those oppressive traitors" and I will legit never be able to be normal about it. What the FUCK happened. I'd say I wonder what the feminists of my youth would say about this but I'm one and lemme tell ya I want to throw up. Go fucking read bell hooks or do something else useful please because all of this learned helplessness, gender essentialism, and transphobia dressed up as feminism is actively holding us back.

[rlyehtaxidermist]

the only reliable, effective way of "protecting children" is education. but people don't want to hear that because they don't actually care about protecting children, they care about protecting a mythologised ideal of innocence