Sarcasm on the Rocks

Mostly dead blog occasionally posting fanart now. Enjoy.

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Elliot Alderson - Mr Robot

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i have a weird feeling that the suicide squad movie will somehow be responsible for the rebirth of scene kid culture and its something i knew would happen eventually but i never thought it would be so soon

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Later this year high schools will be filled w/ guys trying to act like the joker in that “edgy on purpose lol u mad” kinda way and scene girls w/ pink n blue dyed pigtails giggling about how “lol im SO CRAZY LAWL X3″

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i cant believe you two made me read this on my own dash

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look at this shit. we’re gonna have to relive some dark times. myspace is aboutta make a comeback. preps will have to hide in fear once again. the hot topic CEO is rubbing his hands together as i’m typing this. get ready for thousands of deviant art suicide squad ocs complete with scene hair and too many belts.

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if someone does that “rawr means i love u in dinosaur” think im holding you personally responsible

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XxXx get fucking ready xXxX

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I. Swear. To. Fucking. God.

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Hi, I’m Jane Bak, and I’m interested in painting forests as background art!  Looking for freelance work/job in background painting, but I’m also interested in storyboarding/sequential arts. My portfolio can be found here.  Email inquiries at jbakart@gmail(dot)com. Thank you for appreciating my work and supporting me over the years, and I hope to continue to make good art for you all!

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About to available for freelance again at the end of this month, send inquiries at jbakart(at)gmail.com!  I’m very grateful for any reblogs, likes, and any help to spread the word. Thank you!

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Into The Badlands + Text Posts (part 2)

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The Art of Carl Burton

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This is so calming.

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“ Marine Art of  Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky “  …  This 19th Century Russian Armenian artist is noted for the translucent waves in his paintings. 

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Found this on the subway. Canadian media covering the topics the American media just ignores: maple syrup shortages and foursomes with Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau.

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As a wuxia fan (mainly movies, my series knowledge is low) I’m fascinated by how people unfamiliar with wuxia are interpreting The Widow and the “villains” in general.

The Widow isn’t supposed to be a villain. She’s not the heroine either. If you identify with her because she’s awesome, the narrative wants you to identify with her. If you’re a little scared of her because you realize her particular brand of post-apocalyptic feminism has a deeply self-serving strain and she wouldn’t hesitate a second to kill any woman who challenged her, the narrative wants you to be scared of her too.

To draw a wuxia parallel, if you haven’t seen the movie Hero, I have to spoil it for you now. Jet Li’s character spends much of Hero trying to kill the emperor. The emperor is a ruthless tyrant who’s devastated entire cultures, but Jet Li decides not to kill him at the end in order to accomplish the greater purpose of unifying China, fully conscious that his refusal to kill a bad person means his own death. Many wuxia narratives have no villains at all. This isn’t moral relativism, this isn’t a “Game of Thrones” ripoff (hahahaha) it’s just the different way conflicts are set up.  

Ultimately, Quinn isn’t the villain either. He’s a deeply evil and disgusting person, but he also represents stability and order. I do think we’re going to see him get his just deserts, either this season or the next—but he’s not the “Big Bad” in the sense of a typical US season action show arc. The overarching conflict of Into the Badlands isn’t Baron versus Baron, it’s involvement versus detachment. Sunny and Veil long passionately for escape, for detachment in a Buddhist sense, but they’re constantly becoming involved in earthly power struggles, much against their will.

I don’t think Into the Badlands is going to have a bummer of an ending like Hero, though. Gough and Millar must have an eye to what US audiences need and want from this kind of narrative. Since this is such a hybrid concept of a show, I have no idea how it’s going to end. Perhaps Sunny gets to the verge of killing Quinn, but pulls back in order to accomplish some other goal. People will die, but I can’t predict who.

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@iguanamouth look its your brethren 

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a really intense sketch commission for charachump

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the inevitable

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Actor over 40: action hero, love interest to 20-something female protagonist, superhero, dramatic lead, half of a buddy comedy duo, head of important organization, complex villain

Actress over 40: somebody's mother

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ITB (mild spoilers)

super excited about Into the Badlands because ASIAN MALE LEAD HOLY SHIT WHEN DOES THAT HAPPEN

Like sure, Daniel Wu is in a typical role of sword wielding martial arts master, but so are the other regents and barons, so he’s not really exoticized since everyone else is like that. He’s also in a romantic role, which does HUGE steps in breaking the stereotype that Asian men are sexless.

But I’m also wondering how hundred of years into the future, society went backwards in terms of gender roles. How did we get from 2015 to a world where women are just “taken” as wives, how boys are the fighters but girls are the nurturers, how there is only one female Baron and her motivation is that a man wronged her. Like, this isn’t so much a critique of the show or it’s writing, just curiosity.

ALSO, why no guns? Why only melee weapons? (besides, I guess the Widow’s shurikens which are long range) Wouldn’t killing be easier with a gun? Is the NSA going to track me down for typing this?

ALSOOO lowkey crush on daniel wu but whatever yo i aint blushin or anythin...