Welcome to the shit show

~~ Level 25 ~~ He/Him ~~ Just gonna post arts. Feel free to ask me or my characters anything! Mostly selfship/ocxcannon. Proshippers gtfo

[ijustwannahavefunn]

Ben is having a good time 👹

Btw original idea is from: gnilojabolkoo

[izbnart]

Dispatch animation! 👍

[transmascsunburst]

I had a vision

[fangyymusic]

https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/ef2ab741-ca40-464b-96c0-a1c2025feda7

[dokelsss]

land fish

[ijustwannahavefunn]

Peter Pan is pretty villainy... 👀

[ouroborosorder]

*giggling and kicking my feet like a cartoon schoolgirl with a crush* ehehehhehehe i have friends and they like me. ehehehehe

[calebwittebane]

ok everyone time to start laying eggs

[the-frightening-ghoul]

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[calebwittebane]

time to start laying eggs, frightening ghoul

[the-frightening-ghoul]

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[the-frightening-ghoul-jr]

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[calebwittebane]

this is how blogging can have a huge impact on the lives of people and ghouls

[ufo-encounter]

*flies past*

[ufo-encounter-jr]

* ᶠˡᶦᵉˢ ᵖᵃˢᵗ*

[ufo-encounter]

?????

[factual-fantasy]

[danidarkarts]

@factual-fantasy

[fynori]

i'd like to add that the shadow color isnt necessarily dictated entirely by the primary light source, but the bounce light! so for the example of a sunny environment, the reason the shadows are blue are because of the light from the blue sky reflects across the environment; but, if the character were to be under tree cover, the bounce light would be coming from the leaves and thus the shadow would look greener.

[danidarkarts]

Yee yee!!! You got it right on the nose!

Bounce light is something I didn't cover but I adore it!

Gotta work on my bounce light 💪

[drawingden]

So how’s the art coming along guys?

[bumbleshark]

[lavender-graveyard]

I made matching pfp for me and my wife again

This time from voltron bc i'm hyperfixated

I love Matt and i would die for him, and my wife loves Keith so

yeah they're both here

I may start posting more from voltron but idk idk

[the-real-d4x-3nf1n1ty]

Matt and Pidge are definitely nepo babies in-universe, you can’t convince me otherwise, because what do you mean your dad is Samuel Holt???

Pidge would definitely be the type to say things like, “we’re upper middle class!” and Hunk would argue back to her, “no you aren’t, your parents work at the Galaxy Garrison!”

Matt used to be like that too, except he got humbled out of it when he was like fifteen and was about to meet Shiro for the first time, therefore Sam and Colleen had to set some things straight

[fuckingquiznak]

he’s so baby girl

[soadscrawl]

A Guide to Being Half-Galra, Part 2

Part 1

huge thank you to my friends for lending me their handwriting for the rest of Team Voltron! thanks for reading!

[soadscrawl]

A Guide to Being Half-Galra, Part 1

Part 2

[yuhi-san]

okay look

this cut was so fucking funny.

everything about that really.

lahn was just insulting the coalition and keith especially. who basically responded by, well now that you made your opinion clear, get moving you are gonna help us fix the issue at hand & then put him in blacks cockpit with kosmo staring him down, probably ready to bite his face off

[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.