Legumes, Resume

art and things that I like

[timetravelturtle]

[timetravelturtle]

workin on a thingg

[rosetwirledwings]

Jean Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) Untitled (Bust) acrylic, paper, and tape collage on paper, 76x57 cm

[theunderestimator]

Punk’s (definitely) Not Dead (it has just turned activistic)!

Young Burmese punks attempt to combat their country’s rising homelessness crisis on week nights, as part of  the worldwide Food Not Bombs movement, by distributing clothes and meals that they cook themselves, financed by donations.

This Burmese project has been running for three years now, led by members of local punk band Rebel Riot:

“I realized I had to do something, rather than just sing about changing the system,”

Kyaw Kyaw, Rebel Riot’s singer/guitarist

Cudos to my friend of almost thirty years derlandstreicher for submitting this one.

(via, via & via)

[dropdeadrn-deactivated20190206]

I love this

[escapekit]

VHS Covers

Artist known as Steelberg creates nostalgic creative downcycles of today’s most popular television shows and films by imagining them as plastic VHS cases. The worn titles, with their distressed cover images, are reminiscent of the cases you’d rent from Blockbuster Video in the late 20th century—”Be kind rewind” stickers and all.

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[timetravelturtle]

I made this comic as a final project for my time class! I had a ton of fun working on it. I’ve been playing with this idea and this world for a long time. It started as an adventure for a D&D game I was running. Let me know what you think.

[cursegoat]

Potentially cursed object

[lesbiangeorgecostanza]

GET ME THIS

[bansheediaries]

UNHAND HER DAN BACKSLIDE

[timetravelturtle]

UNHAND HER DAN BACKSLIDE

[platholyte-deactivated20170718]

Vote 👏🏼 in 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 2018 👏🏼 Midterm 👏🏼 Elections 👏🏼

[amuzed1-deactivated20241106]

SERIOUSLY

[radio-freedunmovin-deactivated2]

If you vote in Democrats, they’ll be able to block Trump’s policies

[mewiet]

It’s not just that they’ll be able to block Drumpf’s policies for the (hopefully only) remaining two years: the entire House of Representatives is up for re-election in 2018. Whoever wins the House in 2018 will still control it in 2020, when we have our next census. This means we voting districts will get to be redrawn and if Republicans retain control of the House in 2020, they will make gerrymandering even worse than it is now, which already favors them.

But the odds are severely in favor of Republicans for 2018. The election is ridiculously lopsided: 23 Democrat seats and both (there are only 2) Independent seats (who Caucus with Dems) will be up for the taking compared to only 8 Republican seats. Not to mention midterm election turnout is always far less than POTUS elections and Republicans consistently turn out for midterms while non-Republicans fail to show up worse than they normally do.

It gets worse. This is the Senate race in 2018:

Arizona - Currently Republican

California - Currently Democrat

Connecticut - Currently Democrat

Delaware - Currently Democrat

Florida - Currently Democrat

Hawaii - Currently Democrat

Indiana - Currently Democrat

Maine - Currently Independent

Maryland - Currently Democrat

Massachusetts - Currently Democrat

Michigan - Currently Democrat

Minnesota - Currently Democrat

Mississippi - Currently Republican

Missouri - Currently Democrat

Montana - Currently Democrat

Nebraska - Currently Republican

Nevada - Currently Republican

New Jersey - Currently Democrat

New Mexico - Currently Democrat

New York - Currently Democrat

North Dakota - Currently Democrat

Ohio - Currently Democrat

Pennsylvania - Currently Democrat

Rhode Island - Currently Democrat

Tennessee - Currently Republican

Texas - Currently Republican

Utah - Currently Republican

Vermont - Currently Independent

Virginia - Currently Democrat

Washington - Currently Democrat

West Virginia - Currently Democrat

Wisconsin - Currently Democrat

Wyoming - Currently Republican

All of the states in bold were awarded to Drumpf, 11 of which are currently held by Democrats. Republicans hold a 52 seat majority right now. If they can maintain the 8 seats they have to defend, they only need 8 Democrat and/or Independent seats to have a 60 seat supermajority and the power to pass basically anything they want under Trump for two years.

If you think it’s catastrophic now (and it is), imagine Drumpf and the Republicans with a 60 seat supermajority for two years plus a Republican House with the power to redistrict in 2020.

[elrond50]

And that is why organizing now is critical. Getting people to run against every GOP House Member and tying every action by Trump to them. Make the 2018 elections ALL ABOUT TRUMP. This is also about taking back Governor’s Mansions. 

It is NOT impossible, but it requires effort. 2018 elections efforts SHOULD ALREADY BE UNDERWAY!

[positive-pebble]

@ all my american followers

[halfhardtorock]

I think one of the most disturbing things about the popular narrative we teach around the Holocaust is how the “No one knew,” myth still flourishes and is still widely spoken and believed. “No one knew what was happening until the camps were liberated! The world was shocked!” was taught to me when I was a child and was likely taught to many of you too. I’ve even heard it said aloud in Holocaust testimonies classes, even after we’ve read testimonies that directly contradict this falsehood. People are really fucking attached to it.

“No one knew!” has been repeatedly disputed and disproven, to the point where the mass narrative of it has become terribly indicative of people’s need to dispel feelings of guilt and shame above all else. Even above telling the truth.

Im p sure the original narrative of “no one knew!” was in part the result of low-level German and Polish bureaucrats seeking to avoid arrest and prosecution, because there was a dearth of specific written orders in regards to outlining the machinations of The Final Solution. Which allowed many to claim ignorance and innocence. But it also has been useful in the reimagining of the allies role in the Holocaust, reimagining their complicit silence and inaction into the shock and disgust of witnesses and good liberators.

Because people DID know. Jan Karski infiltrated the Warsaw ghetto before it was liquidated and witnessed firsthand exactly what was happening to the Jewish people. He was sent by the Polish Underground to the UK carrying a message for the UN titled “The Mass Extermination of the Jews in German Occupied Poland.” He had a direct audience with Roosevelt, where he attempted to provide details of what was happening to compel the allied forces to act before it was too late. This was in 42-43.

In 1944, the New York Times published a story about the Warsaw ghetto uprising WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING. This wasn’t a mystery in the states. People knew about the forced ghettoization of the Polish Jews and what they faced as they fought back.

Lanzmann’s Shoah presents several interviews with Polish onlookers outside of Treblinka who, in laughing and awkward remembrance, explained how they would slash their fingers across their throats at Jewish people arriving in cattle cars to “warn them about their fate.” This was in the early period of the Holocaust, before the mechanized, mass exterminations of Auschwitz.

Also in Shoah, several Polish women and men in villages outside of Sobibor (who smilingly explain that their lot in life improved after the local Jews were rounded up and transported to the death camp) acknowledged that yes, at the time, they knew of the fate of their neighbors. They knew they were going to their death and would not be returning. Which is the only way we can explain how quickly Jewish homes and businesses were taken over by their neighbors and city councils.

Like. I’m neck deep in Holocaust testimonials lately and keep knocking my head against this specific Holocaust myth and I feel horrified that it continues and people keep fucking saying it with little introspection on why the narrative is so attractive to them.

[mockiato-deactivated20200315]

Which just makes it hurt even more to think about all the Jews who were turned away or denied asylum. The world knew, the Jews knew that they knew, and we know! For their shame and desire to be the hero, they want us to forget, to believe we were alone, not abandoned. But much of the world turned their backs on us. We were abandoned.

[timetravelturtle]

Comic from a few weeks ago about a very special deli.

[timetravelturtle]

Still lives from my oil painting class. Definitely still figuring it out, but they were really fun to do.

[timetravelturtle]

Perspective drawings in a sketchbook from last semester’s drawing class. These were really nice to do.

[timetravelturtle]

Old thing from the summer.

[timetravelturtle]

Comic from last semester about a time I had to bike half an hour to get home during a huge rainstorm. Nature is cool and powerful.

[timetravelturtle]

Old comic from this summer

[epicroll]

One Sentence Adventures

Several Tribes have gathered together for feasting and competitions, and all of the tribal leaders have been poisoned

What’s your adventure?

[timetravelturtle]

Legendary Troll Queen, long thought dead, reemerges from hiding to retake her forgotten castle.

[timetravelturtle]

Lunar Greenhouse

Hard ground etching on copper. I really like the way this turned out.

I’ve been thinking about agriculture and vegetables a lot.