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Nuclear Explosion Tests, official US Navy released photographs, Silver-gelatin prints, 1952 & 1956 — source

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Ugh, another morning on tumblr... Decided to unfollow someone because I don’t like being preached at. Well, they weren’t preaching at me and it wasn’t even their post, they were just reblogging someone whom I thought was a little overblown. It’s not that I didn’t think they had a good point, but the comments, man, the comments.... I don’t know, it’s just that sometimes when people really get into virtue signaling, it makes me want to “be evil.” Like, you waggle your fingers and tell people not to do something and I’m like “Okay, dead baby jokes, comin’ up!” So, the nag was about how horrible it was that people were drawing Barbenheimer art - pink mushroom clouds and stuff because of the horrors of the dropping of the atomic bombs. Yeah, the point of that stuff IS actually minimizing the horror because sometimes you have to minimize the horrors of the world to get through it - it’s about the juxtaposition. Is it tactless? Perhaps. Someone on the comments compared it to making Holocaust jokes. Personally, I’m not so sure if it really is the same because I tend to think it makes fun of America’s war-machine as much as anything and the pervasive nuclear-fear we all have. Once these things had been unleashed on the world and various nations built them up, we’ve all lived in fear of them so I tend to think that this pretending that Barbie has become death, destroyer of worlds isn’t punching down on the victims but a release valve for a universal fear. That’s just my take on it. And of course someone in the comments talked about how they’re on a campaign to stop people from having ANY mushroom cloud art at all. Pheh. Forgot to get their name and block them. They shouldn’t be coming around my profile - because... that’s kind of my profile-header? I drew it in Illustrator to go with my Kitten. It’s my entire handle here. Is it because I “hate the Japanese” or “the minorities in proximity to the Trinity test site” or the Bikini atol? Fuck no. I chose my handle and theme long before Oppenheimer was ever announced (or being made?) and long before this Barbenhemier bullshit. I chose it after an old blog I had that was dedicated to my writing and since I liked writing a lot of apocalyptic / post-apocalyptic stories I went with something in that family of imagery. Specifically, the idea of “apocalypse kitten” comes from the trope of the “Post-Apocalyptic Dog” that follows a protagonist in these kinds of stories. I thought “If I were living after everything went to shit, maybe I’d like a cat.” I also have a short story that I wrote many years ago featuring a lone human in a deserted city (nukes had nothing to do with it, it was more of a supernatural situation) and her post-apocalypse companion was a kitten. My imagery was inspired by the Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority bit in Mike Nesmith’s “Elephant Parts” (making fun of suburbia and American-anger) and probably a bit by the Fallout game series, which I am a fan of. Yeah, person who wants to ban all art of mushroom clouds everywhere, good luck running up against he legions of fans of that video game series. *Rolls eyes.* I am not into the Barbenheimer thing, although I am hoping to see Barbie someday. I’m not doing fanart for it or anything.... so don’t come after me on that account. I’m just saying that sometimes something ISN’T meant to demean the victims and actually is more making fun of the aggressors or using dark humor to deal with a collective fear. And sometimes nagging people about it will make them want to do it more. There’s woke, and then there’s “lay off the cocaine and trucker’s pills.”