yipeee!

"is é sin an pointe" -Guilez

[incorrectpasswordip]

i want her to be free

isnt she lovely?

[ceruleanheaven]

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

[chocolatodafirst]

Simpler times

I'm so excited for the finale!! Also this page will be spoiler free until the online release 😌

[jaydendr4ws]

TADC x liminal spaces 🪑🌱

[dial-a-taako]

WOW I haven't been on Tumblr in so long. Still drawing TAZ stuff!! Heres my newest sketchbook cover :) I love this taako drawing

[sailermoon]

this is how new yorkers @ mamdani

[sailermoon]

[baraphalloplastyclinic]

I actually do think we should discourage women from becoming housewives. Do not become financially dependent on a man. That's how a lot of women ended up dead over the years. A man gets violent suddenly and you have to choose between homelessness or potentially dying at his hand because you have an enormous gap in your resume and no degrees or certifications or anything that will help you pursue a career that will allow you to be financially independent. He owns your bank account. His name is probably the one on the car. Try and leave and he can report it stolen. Where will you go then?

Don't become a housewife.

[ladyfoxfire]

And if you do become a housewife, take steps to protect yourself. Make sure you’re legally married, for starters; stay-at-home girlfriends have very little legal recourse to claim their partner’s assets in a breakup. Make sure your name is on the house deed/rental agreement, and have your car in your name, even if your spouse is paying for it. Have your spouse transfer money every month into an account solely in your name, so you can buy yourself things without needing permission, but also so you can save up to leave if needed.

If your spouse fights you on any of this, then don’t quit your job. The tradwife to poverty pipeline is real, and so is financial abuse.

[dressedupliketheking]

also, many women/people experience controlling behaviour and domestic violence from their partner for the first time during pregnancy. don’t risk thinking “he’s just stressed, it’ll get better when the baby comes” because it won’t. neither you and your child will ever be safe with that man. get out as early and safely as you can

[t0byinthesky]

I'm fascinated by how the animators for TADC handle Caine's impossible anatomy so well. There's so much to balance and they've somehow engineered a solution for his expressions to hold during speech.

I also traced Caine answering the phone from episode 4 to demonstrate his phonemes and mouth shapes.

[clowndraws]

mimicry

[beardedmrbean]

[ieatratsyummy]

They could never make me hate you, complex female character whose reaction to trauma was not pretty and digestible like how people think it should be.

[rowanisawriter]

imo the pov character should be lying to themselves and concealing shit from themselves constantly

[unyieldingsilence]

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[rowanisawriter]

exactly, bestie. Exactly

[gaylordthethird]

The 4pm bird gets the weird and fucked up spider

[insecuregodcomplex]

[lesbianboyfriend]

[tweet reading: Everything I say is a joke Unless you agree And in that case Speak to me privately I have even crazier ideas /end ID]

[aurumacadicus]

The kids on TikTok think that just because he was a classic country singer, Johnny Cash was conservative??? My babies he covered a Nine Inch Nails song in his seventies.

Classic country singers (the majority of which came from poor roots) were always talking about how much The Man sucked because they were taking money from poor rural folk. You’re gonna tell me that’s conservative?? Get outta here.

[aurumacadicus]

And somehow on the opposite side of the scale with the same exact opinion the conservative kids say “I like the old country music, because there’s no politics to it” Woodie Guthrie’s got a “this machine kills fascists” sticker on his guitar? You think there’s no politics in 9 to 5 or Folsom Prison Blues?!

[hermit-skrab]

For anyone confused there was a sudden and dramatic shift in the country music genre. It used to be a genre fixated on the experiences of people. Lived or common experiences that resonated with the common people. It was music that you listened to and it thrummed in tune to your soul because you had lived it yourself. And a lot of that was about ordinary people getting ground up in the gears of society.

The hyper patriotism, beer, and trucks chimera we have now didn't show up until after 9/11 and the world is lesser for it

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

[onbearfeet]

Allow me to post the entire lyrics to the Johnny Cash song "Man in Black", released in nineteen goddamn seventy-one and written about why he always wore black onstage:

Well, you wonder why I always dress in black

Why you never see bright colors on my back

And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone

Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down

Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town

I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime

But is there because he's a victim of the times

I wear the black for those who've never read

Or listened to the words that Jesus said

About the road to happiness through love and charity

Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me

Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose

In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes

But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back

Up front there ought to be a man in black

I wear it for the sick and lonely old

For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold

I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been

Each week we lose a hundred fine young men

And I wear it for the thousands who have died

Believin' that the Lord was on their side

I wear it for another hundred-thousand who have died

Believin' that we all were on their side

Well, there's things that never will be right, I know

And things need changin' everywhere you go

But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right

You'll never see me wear a suit of white

Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day

And tell the world that everything's okay

But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back

'Til things are brighter, I'm the man in black

That right there is an anti-war, anti-bigot, anti-mass-incarceration, anti-war-on-drugs (Cash was an addict in various stages of recovery who was pissed as hell about how this country treats people with substance issues), eat-the-rich protest song. And it was arguably his signature song, his personal manifesto. Notice that even the Jesus reference, which today would be a signal that the song is about to drop some racist dogwhistles, segues immediately into a line about "the road to happiness through love and charity". As in "Motherfucker, our shared god said love thy neighbor and care for the poor and the outsider, and we both know he didn't fucking stutter." He's throwing shade at self-described Christians who use his religion as a cudgel to beat people with.

Johnny Cash wasn't a conservative. I'm pretty sure if he were alive and in reasonably good health today, he'd knock Jason Aldean's teeth out (or, failing that, write a song so devastatingly memetic about how much Aldean sucks that Aldean would never work in music again).

Johnny Cash was punk rock. He just happened to be punk rock in the body of a country singer.

[outofthemouthsof]

Country music doesn’t come up on my dash much but it’s a big part of my world IRL, and I co-sign all of this. Johnny Cash wrote an entire album decrying the plight of native Americans. it didn’t all age well but it was damn enlightened for a white guy of his time. The ladies of classic country were singing about divorce and the pill at a time when that was considered quite shocking. Classic country told of the hardships of farmers and laborers and soldiers and prisoners and poor folk in general.

Also there’s loads of non-mainstream current country artists who are queer and BIOOC and outspoken and progressive. Nashville pop doesn’t represent the genre entirely even if it gets 90% of the money.

[gotmehookedonthekpop]

Old country songs I have on my Resistance Playlist (a sample):

Hazel Dickens - They'll Never Keep Us Down

Loretta Lynn - The Pill

Ray Campi - All of You Fascists

Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons

Woody Guthrie - Tear the Fascists Down

Woody Guthrie - This Land is Your Land

The Almanac Singers - All I Want

Pro-union, anti-oligarch, anti-fascist, very aware of the class war, etc.

[kittenwriter]

An interesting song telling the modern hardships of the common people is Tony Logue's "Yellow Rose," in which the singer discusses his wife working as a stripper at the eponymous club to make ends meet. It's this mix of being proud of her being good at it (she's "the queen of the Yellow Rose") and wishing that it wasn't necessary for her to be good at it because their financial position is quite precariously unstable and they have a young kid to worry about. (Of course, Tony Logue is also the guy who has the lines in another song "Why can't I get some help / For my fuckin' mental health." He has a great handle on describing anxiety.)

Or "Broke" by the Castellows which is a modern coal mining song, a wife afraid of the mountain killing her husband and lamenting the long hours and the strain it puts on their marriage even as she's reaffirming her devotion to him.

Modern songs that very clearly understand just how rough the working class have it, and that will never feature on mainstream country radio.

[aurpiment]

“It’s easy to assume”: someone’s misconception is about to be amiably corrected

“It’s tempting to assume”: someone’s assumption is about to be criticized

“It’s comforting to assume”: someone’s assumption is going to be read for filth

[amazoogle]

the enemy drank water today. did you?

[ewoly5]

i drank water three days ago. im several steps ahead of the enemy. this is what it takes to win