casey

34 - he/him - here to collect images

[corantus]

on sunday a pipe burst in the ceiling above my desk (getting sewage water & debris everywhere) and all of my electronics got destroyed, including my computer & tablet. at least $2000 worth of stuff (including my external hard drives with my all my art from the past decade)

thankfully at least my current computer’s hard drive survived. but everything else got wrecked. i’m going to consult an attorney but i don’t know what’s going to happen with my landlords. i do comms fulltime as my only income & i can’t work until i get my computer & tablet replaced

i’m sorry for the delays on comms because of this, will try to keep everybody updated

[corantus]

thanks for all the kind messages on this - i didn’t want to try crowdfunding til i had a better idea of what i’ll need. but it’s going to be $700 to replace my laptop & tablet:

Support Ted "corantus" Kaufman

Support Ted "corantus" Kaufman

[corantus]

523/700 !!! i am so absurdly grateful 🥲

[lovesicklobotomy]

[metal-autistic-coven]

Happy pride month to him

[catdaggers]

I'm honored that I apparently give off comforting vibes but I'm 30 and so tired of people only wanting to use me as romantic/sexual training wheels

[catdaggers]

Was looking back on posts and it's wild how true this still holds. Had a woman who eventually made clear that she saw me (a trans man) as a way to get more experience with women

And a very socially inept friend who clearly had very very strong feelings for me and no amount of me telling her to back tf off sunk in

[scientistman]

[sophsun1]

Community – 1.03: Introduction to Film

[cobbbvanth]

WWDITS | first and last talking heads

[iliothermia]

[paperstreetlocal]

[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.

[awoooniper]

back on the path of the wolf

[tammycraps]

I need y'all to see how this porn spelled ménage à trois

[jerkcityhd]

http://www.jerkcity.com/_jerkcity2787.html

http://eyetooth.tumblr.com/

[encryptidarchivist]

count dracula? uhhh ok. one

[cool-jpgs-of-wizards-with-swords]

🧛 nathing vrong vith me

[iamthetruestrepairman]

women’s bodies weren’t “made” to do anything, nature didn’t “intend” anything, no human action is “unnatural” and there is no inherent “purpose” to a human life

[iamthetruestrepairman]

people weren’t designed to do anything because they weren’t designed at all. Hope this helps 🤩

[livingvampires]

"it doesn't make sense for him to be fat" i dont give a fuuuuuuckk i dont give a fuuuuuck

[artschoolglasses]

I just think characters like Halsin and Blackwall should look a little more like sumo wrestlers and a lot less like shredded, 0% body fat, dehydrated Marvel superheroes.

But maybe that's just me. 🤷‍♀️

(L-R: Asakoryu, Kirishima, and Tochinoshin)

[swagoraphobia]