mock rock

what makes you human?

[muttgirl]

Someone tell that teen girl running away from her broken home that she might run away from the next set of arms that will take her. When she leaves that new broken “safe” place please tell her she isnt the common denominator of all the chaos in her life, she feels that way all the time. Let her mourn the life she never had. Hold her in her grief. One day she will see the life she gave herself the opportunity to have and thank you.

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[colorofthisroom]

I love making stencils and pretty patches

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💔

[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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Easy shot

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Textless version of year of horsie

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The wounded angel

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And her wings have the largest feathers

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My Cat.

[ID in ALT]

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Cool cat

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[carboniila]

AU where Firestar adopted Darktail because I thought it would be funny

[blueperry123]

PRICES TURN

Price never thought children were part of his inventory.

Too old. Too set in his ways. Too much history packed into his bones. He liked things orderly, predictable, quiet when they needed to be. Babies were… none of that.

So when you told him; carefully, gently, already braced, he went very still.

“No,” he said immediately. Practical. Sharp. “That’s not.. we can sort this. Properly.”

You shook your head. Calm. Certain. “I’m keeping it.”

That was the moment John Price learned something unsettling about himself.

He could argue with generals. Governments. God, probably.

But not with you when you looked like that.

So he swallowed. Adjusted. Said, “Alright then,” like he was accepting bad weather instead of a life-altering event.

He did not buy baby books.

He did not talk to the bump.

He did, however, fix everything in the house that had ever been slightly loose.

When the baby arrived, he expected chaos.

What he got was…

The baby was calm. Alarmingly so. Rarely cried. Just blinked at the world like, ah. Yes. This again. Old soul behaviour. Tiny philosopher.

Price held him once. Carefully. Stiff as a plank.

The baby yawned.

Settled.

Fell asleep instantly against his chest.

That was it.

From then on, they were inseparable.

Afternoon naps on the sofa; Price reclined, baby tucked into the crook of his arm, both of them out cold. You’d find them breathing in sync like they’d signed a nonverbal agreement.

“You spoil him,” you’d whisper.

Price would grunt. “He’s got good instincts.”

The baby would blink awake, stare at Price for a long second, then go back to sleep.

Price never says it out loud, but sometimes, mid-nap, he’ll rest his cheek lightly against that tiny head and think

Maybe some things arrive late because they’re meant to be peaceful.

And if anyone asks him now whether kids are for him?

He glances down at the world’s calmest baby snoring on his chest and says,

“…yeah. Turns out they are.”

[homunculus-argument]

Between the nothingburger and the everything bagel, there is the somewhat sandwich.

[featherspiral]

shrug fighting the art block demons 💔💔 can't think of anything to draw and then once I do it always ends up stiff and uninteresting to me.. my stupid chud life.. I hate feeling like I'm stagnating even if I don't necessarily dislike the art I'm making

[enby-art-creations]

Weird harpy thing from 2020