[and-fishing-equipment]

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly

[ligma-enigma]

ive watched this like 20 times and it just gets funnier

[georgiedoodles]

Reblogging again, bro is FADED

[ivyblossom]

[casey-jane-lewis]

Fanfic authors: READ THE WHOLE FUCKING PAGE

[cthonical]

THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND VALUABLE LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN AS A WRITER. I SAY THIS AS A READER AND A PROFESSIONAL GENRE EDITOR.

[thetyrannosaur]

[shigeoreum]

hashtag MORE corporate superhero homosexuals

[redstonedust]

while i hope the AI boom dies out i also hope we start acknowledging data center water overconsumption as it's own unique issue because like. it's not AI itself that harms the environment it's the hardware hosting it, right? same reason nfts and cryptocurrency were also bad for the environment. the root problem isn't going away so long as we allow big companies to continue hitching their wagon to the next big tech trend. i worry if they don't get stronger regulation we'll just be repeating the same issue whenever the next toy comes along.

[zenpencils]

James Rhodes - Is that not worth exploring?

[hanneflute-deactivated20190107]

This made me cry a little. The number of people who tell me they used to play the flute but that they weren’t ‘talented’ enough or they gave it up to, you know, do life… This is just so beautiful.

[redstonedust]

the worst part about grief is that it feels like the world should be horrendously earth shatteringly changed, and to an extent it IS but its also the same. to everyone else it's just another tuesday. the world moves on. you have to go grocery shopping.

[gael-garcia]

Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams

[fluentisonus]

musée des beaux arts, w.h. auden

[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.

[jerseymuppet]

my chemical romance is the funniest and weirdest band ever. They’re all fucking losers who would genuinely rather play dnd than hook up with groupies. The singer used to work at Cartoon Network. The bassist is on the fbi watchlist for crimes against disney. One guitarist is a guitar god but he also used to keep a little action figure of spiderman in his pocket all the time, the other is like a little lap dog of a man, but he’s also on the fbi watchlist for death threats against a us president. They refused to be on the twilight soundtrack, one of the most popular franchises at the time but then they preformed on yo gabba gabba and re-recorded one of their songs in simlish.

[somethoughtseeds]

[bogleech]

This is one of those true, declassified government things that always sounds made up but one of the things Henry Kissinger did with his career was use the CIA to help turn small, prosperous socialist nations into fascist dictatorships just to keep those nations powerless and possibly to keep socialist systems *looking* doomed and futile to the American public, like maybe just to scare Americans out of demanding better infrastructure or universal income. Yes it sounds like an insane conspiracy theory a maniac would invent. It also happened multiple times and several generations of people around the world are still living in misery because of it.

[luxflora]

[pfaugh]

Operation Condor - Wikipedia

[xeansicemane]

Remember folks, the two types of conspiracy theory are "Things the CIA or FBI has admitted to doing" and "Antisemitism"

[amoklime]

this. blooper.

[1shirt2shirtredshirtdeadshirt]

Shatner: … shit.

Nimoy: That’s alright, baby. I made a mistake this morning.

[emmett-in-the-real-world]

You’ve heard of Manhandle Him Monday, Touch His Tit Tuesday, Wet Man Wednesday….now get ready for…

Slap His Ass Saturday

[languageadventurer]

Learn the Alien Languages of Star Trek: a Masterpost

Vulcan (Vulkhansu)

Vulcan Language Research Project

Vulcan Language Dictionary

Vulcan Writing Systems at Omniglot

Korsaya

Vulcan Language at Memory Alpha

Vulcan Language Institute

Vulcan Language Official Tumblr (No longer active, but still good info)

Cardassian (Kardasi)

Cardassian Language Tumblr

Kardasi Dictionary

Kardasi Grammar Summary

Cardassian Writing System Part 1

Cardassian Writing System Part 2

Cardassian Writing System Part 3 (Numbers)

Kardasi Quizlet Class

Cardassian Language at Memory Alpha

Klingon (Klingonese)

KlingonTeacher on Youtube

Learn Klingon Facebook Group

Klingon Teachings 

Klingonska

The Klingon-English Dictionary by Marc Okrand PDF

Klingon Language at Memory Alpha

Duolingo Klingon Course

Klingon Language Institute

Klingon Language Assistant App (For Android Phones only)

Klingon for the Galactic Traveler by Marc Okrand

Conversational Klingon by Marc Okrand

Power Klingon by Marc Okrand

Romulan (Rihannsu)

Imperial Romulan Language Institute

Romulan Writing System on Omniglot

Central Institute of the Romulan Language

Romulan Language and Culture Institute

Romulan-English Dictionary

Romulan Language at Memory Alpha

Ferengi

Ferengi Language at Memory Alpha

Ferengi Writing System Part 1

Ferengi Writing System Part 2

Bajoran

Bajoran Language Project

The Bajoran Language File

Bajoran-English Dictionary

Bajoran Language at Memory Alpha

Trill

Trill Language at Memory Alpha

Trill Language at Holowiki (Not sure how accurate this is)

Dominionese

Dominionese at Memory Alpha

Borg

Borg Language at Memory Alpha

Andorian

Andorian-English Dictionary

Andorian Language at Memory Alpha

Andorian Languages at Memory Beta

[mia-cooper]

This is the post I’ve been looking for all my life.

[soraaarts]

So I redrew it…uh Lesbians

[soraaarts]

Uh, gays

[pilgrimattinkercreek1974]

Oh ok so it turns out ive been borrowing grief from the future ! it turns out ive been preparing to lose the things i love rather than basking in the light of them while they last. Maybe i should nt do that