MaKe Believe @onceuponameerkat - Tumblr Blog

I've been lucky enough to get some paid work that I can't share yet so I haven't posted art in a while but I had to do something for the American Girl 40th anniversary. I have been reading these books since I was six years old and these girls have a huge place in my heart. All 20 historic girls in one place!

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Check my Patreon out if you’d like to support the comic, even a little bit helps. Or just to check out the reward tiers, there’s some neat bonus stuff and I tried to make them fun: https://www.patreon.com/waitingforthet

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An Artemis plush being in the NASA Mission Control Room during Artemis II's journey is the sweetest thing and it makes me very weepy 💖

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🕷️Sailor Moon (1992)🕷️

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A very American Girl holiday! Probably my last major art for the year so I returned to something familiar and comforting to me. This year has been weird and long but I'm still kicking somehow.

nick-nellson

The Sound of Music (1965) dir. Robert Wise

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by 0ache

art republished with artist’s permission

idknwhatputhere

And thats how you do a meet cute

dickgreyson

lads actually who has the midwestern republican wally screenshot

sonicrainbooms

this?

givemewallywestorgivemedeath

This actually highlights one of the best aspects of Wally’s character growth tbh. When Wally starts off in Mark Waid’s run he still has a lot of these ideas, I mean look how he reacts when Pied Piper comes out as gay

He throws himself off a building for pete’s sake.

But by the end of the issue he’s telling Superman about his best pal Pied Piper and how great a friend he is

(in this run Wally also fights an evil conservative politician)

Mark Waid’s run of the Flash has Wally facing his own biases and changing for the better. Pied Piper and Linda teach him a lot about the world and about caring for people

(Pictured: Pied Piper teaching Wally to care about the Homeless and people in poverty)

Linda especially had her issues with Wally, she dealt with a lot of racism and sexism, and she wasn’t putting up with anything from Wally.

They had their fare share of differences before they got married.

Wally was definitely a hard headed conservative as a kid but throughout his time being the Flash he changed his ideals entirely. Thanks Linda and Pied Piper and thanks Mark Waid.

(He even apologizes to Red Star for being a butt face. He was who he was getting mad at in the ‘mid western conservative’ panel. He calls him a commie, I’m pretty sure. But as the Flash he apologizes for being an idiot as a kid)

dasenergi

Mister Rogers

alittlechaotics-blog

And I'll never leave.

thechanelmuse

Jackie Ormes, the first Black American woman cartoonist

When the 14-year-old Black American boy Emmett Till was lynched in 1955, one cartoonist responded in a single-panel comic. It showed one Black girl telling another: “I don’t want to seem touchy on the subject… but that new little white tea-kettle just whistled at me!”

It may not seem radical today, but penning such a political cartoon was a bold and brave statement for its time — especially for the artist who was behind it. This cartoon was drawn by Jackie Ormes, the first syndicated Black American woman cartoonist to be published in a newspaper. Ormes, who grew up in Pittsburgh, got her first break as cartoonist as a teenager. She started working for the Pittsburgh Courier as a sports reporter, then editor, then cartoonist who penned her first comic, Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, in 1937. It followed a Mississippi teen who becomes a famous singer at the famed Harlem jazz club, The Cotton Club.

In 1942, Ormes moved to Chicago, where she drew her most popular cartoon, Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger, which followed two sisters who made sharp political commentary on Black American life.

In 1947, Ormes created the Patty-Jo doll, the first Black doll that wasn’t a mammy doll or a Topsy-Turvy doll. In production for a decade, it was a role model for young black girls. "The doll was a fashionable, beautiful character,“ says Daniel Schulman, who curated one of the dolls into a recent Chicago exhibition. “It had an extraordinary presence and power — they’re collected today and have important place in American doll-making in the U.S.”

In 1950, Ormes drew her final strip, Torchy in Heartbeats, which followed an independent, stylish black woman on the quest for love — who commented on racism in the South. “Torchy was adventurous, we never saw that with an Black American female figure,” says Beauchamp-Byrd. “And remember, this is the 1950s.“ Ormes was the first to portray black women as intellectual and socially-aware in a time when they were depicted in a derogatory way.

One common mistake that erased Ormes from history is mis-crediting Barbara Brandon-Croft as the first nationally syndicated Black American female cartoonist. “I’m just the first mainstream cartoonist, I’m not the first at all,” says Brandon-Croft, who published her cartoons in the Detroit Free Press in the 1990s. “So much of Black history has been ignored, it’s a reminder that Black history shouldn’t just be celebrated in February.”

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utilitycaster

"why should I get invested in shows if they'll just get canceled" I was deeply invested in Heroes (2006) and it was not canceled, it just got really terrible. I also got really invested in the sandwich I had a few weeks ago despite it only lasting like 15 minutes. You must embrace the ephemeral. You must be willing to love things that may not love you back, that might betray you, or that may die an untimely death. As the great philosopher Mr. Mitchell Lee Hedberg said "I'm not gonna stop doing something because of what happens at the end."