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Some of my personal favorite screenshots from my fic “all for nothing” Andrew perspective rewrite of all for the game

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Back on my DC era

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Thinking about Andrew and Neil and the “it’s always yes with you thing” and thinking about how Neil doesn’t say that because he constantly wants to fuck Andrew or anything like how Andrew seems to interpret it (talking about the “dont always me”) but because he trusts and knows that Andrew will never ask for more than he’s willing to give you know and I think that’s a core part of their relationship the give and take because it’s easier for Andrew to view relationships as transactional because it guarantees that whatever he needs from that person will be there because he’s owed it (even if that’s often not the case it’s a mental reassurance that allows Andrew to let himself in some capacity get closer to people) and I just think the amount of trust between the two of them is so sweet because even after Neil breaks his deal he tells Andrew “it’s always yes with you” he’s still willing to be there for Andrew even without that transactional reassurance that Andrew often needed not to mention Neil helping the twinyards break their deal too because I think it goes further than making the twins talk to eachother and getting Katlyn to pressure Aaron, Andrew agrees because Neil is asking him to get his shit together, because Neil who’s stayed even after learning all that shit about him has stayed and has faith that Aaron will stay too GRAHHHHskfjfkoa i should keep writing my all for nothing fic

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[ciricearts]

omg the ttk guy!!

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[koiagain]

I guess you could say he’s ve… he’s a very h…

[wingkink]

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

[my-castles-crumbling]

Happy pride, everyone! Remember to blame even the slightest inconvenience on the homophones this month, it’s your god-given right 🏳️‍🌈

[my-castles-crumbling]

Jfc of course you guys give like 400 notes to a post with an embarrassing typo. So homophonic of you.

[fairycosmos]

fucked that you can’t fix other people especially when you really care about them. Oh so im just supposed to be there for you while you suffer. like a useless cunt gargoyle

[stillnaomi]

using violence to liberate people from sweatshops, unsafe mines, and grinding poverty isn't the same as using violence to impose those things on people. the idea that violence is morally repugnant regardless of context is a belief that every oppressor throughout history would love for the oppressed to hold

[cooibeanies]

Reading a marauders band au fic rn and shocked to my utter core because Peter’s a traitor 🥹

[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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Neil eating and apple while staring at Aaron:

Aaron who recently became certified to practice medicine: what?? Why the fuck are you staring at me???

Neil: an apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Andrew taking Neil’s apple from him to take a bite:

Aaron: fuck you.

[freesiadotcom]

*trying not to doxx myself* shoutout to that one thing in a place somewhere

[los-copa]

her name was Juniper Blessing, she was 19 and she was just doing her laundry

[wispthicket]

From one of her friends on a Reddit post.

[scramratz]

I think people would be less suicidal if they were allowed to talk about being suicidal without risk of being sent to the Torture Dungeon