Howl

My name is Hawk and my hobbies include drawing, reading, writing and crying over drawing on the wrong layer. they/them

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

"How to reason with a War CRiminal"

Graphic designed by Rafeal Pereira

[thelegendofjenna]

I'm trying to take the high road but I'm like, dragging myself bleeding and sobbing along the high road while looking so so longingly at the low road

[rattyjol]

#AND that fucker taking the low road is going to get to Scotland afore me. very annoying.

[prokopetz]

It's always fun when an author claims their work contains no politics, because either they're blatantly lying, or they genuinely think they're telling the truth and you get a lot of insight into what assertions about human nature they regard as so obviously and self-evidently true as to lie outside the political sphere.

[jesncin]

everyone has a different metric for whether a character reimagining is faithful enough or "it's so far off it's basically an OC" in relation to that character's source material. For me, my one and only rule is "does this reimagining engage with the source material?"

Because you can have a character be reimagined as the dynamic opposite of their source material, but that would still be in conversation with the text they came from. A 180 flip is still engaging in response to the source material, which various canon do all the time.

but when a reimagined character's only link to the source material is "sharing the same name"? And even then the name feels barely justified to this new character? Well.

[tsarina-anadyomene]

it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there

[gsot]

[drmajalis]

[prokopetz]

"Fuck canon" has its virtues as an interpretive stance, but you've gotta know what the canon is before you can fuck it.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

me: I would like people to make medieval movies that aren't muddy grey and brown grimdark stories about white dude bullshit and are instead colorful and fun and include women and people of color

everyone in the notes, for some reason: have you watched this children's fantasy movie from the 1980s? have you heard of this pirate anime that's not at all medieval whatsoever? you should watch this animated DND podcast thing that's only vaguely a medievalism! you should just PLAY DND! have you watched this children's show on disney+? you should watch this animated medieval film that includes a Black character (who's drawn so racistly that he could have been plucked straight out of an early 20th C cartoon and you wouldn't be able to tell)! ok OP but I actually WANT a grey and brown muddy medievalism and here's why!

I am going to chew my own arm off!!!!!!!

[epiphainie]

people get so mad when you tell them that their lowbrow entertainment they enjoy is actually lowbrow

[epiphainie]

everyone wants their self-indulgent romantasy to be considered high literature and whatever new mainstream pop boy/girl to be treated as the next beethoven and their gay fluff show on streaming apps to be revolutionary art changing the world and like, they're not. and that's okay. i'm literally watching the stupidest show right now and it's fine. it doesn't have to be more.

[epiphainie]

there's also the argument of how pop culture used to be the trickle down from high culture for the longest time but now it's an ouroboros eating itself as access and willingness to engage with high culture have been systematically destroyed and diminished through the last decades so your popcorn flick moviemaker now only gets inspiration from other popcorn flicks when their foreparents used to actually read literature and see art of all kinds and your pop musicians used to listen to all sorts of new and old music rather than just their contemporaries/competition and maybe this absence of any sort of culture outside of our easy algorithms is why everyone's so defensive of what they passively consume and so attached to it as a part of their identity but that's a discussion for another day

[pimientosdulces]

ocs

[edibleteef]

Fabric painting appreciation post

[abbiistabbii]

The Germans really cooked making "Hobbyless behaviour" an insult. It is both devastating, applicable to a wide range of people and behaviours, and doesn't resort to swearing.

Man ranting on the internet about the Superbowl halftime show or complaining that something is "woke"? Hobbyless Behaviour. Girls mocking another girl for not looking right? Hobbyless Behaviour. Mindless vandalism? Hobbyless Behaviour.

It is more powerful than "get a life" or the English "You're Sad" because it gets to the central point of the matter, and that is wonderful. Danke, Deutsch.

[technofeudalism]

[cassdrawsthings]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that absolutely nothing justifies what the US has done, is doing, and will do in Iran, and as always there's going to be an immense amount of fabricated nonsense to retroactively excuse unforgivable war crimes and atrocities committed by the US government.

You should not support the troops, who freely volunteered to do exactly this type of thing. You should not excuse the callous slaughter of innocent civilians because you dislike their government. And you should not buy into any narratives painting this as anything but a violent reprisal for the 1979 revolution that overthrew a US-backed puppet regime.

This is not bad because it's "bad for the American economy," or "putting American lives at risk," or "bypassing the legal process for starting war." This is bad because it's subjecting the Iranian people to unfathomable cruelty and bloodshed and violence for no reason other than that the US thinks it has the absolute mandate to force its will upon the entire world and rain down hell from the skies when it doesn't get its way. It's bad because Iranian children are being killed in air strikes on their schools and Iranian people in general are going to starve and freeze and die of preventable diseases.

Nothing can justify this atrocity. Nothing can convince me that Iran poses an offensive threat to the United States, beyond challenging its regional authority in a place it has no business in. Nothing can convince me it's possible to murder children for their own good.

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

The standoff with agents happened on Jan. 8, one day after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis. Wooten’s refusal to comply with ICE was captured on video and posted to Facebook. 

The agents tried everything to intimidate the guard.

 “You can’t come back here, bro,” Wooten can be heard in the video saying to an agent wearing a mask and sunglasses. “I’m talking to your manager,” the agent said. Wooten responded: “No, you’re talking to security, I’m in charge.”

ICE left empty-handed. Wooten said he just stood his ground, “10 toes down.”

“I was doing my job like I’m supposed to,’’ Wooten said. “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. I just want to make my family safe because I’ve been here three years.”

[theconcealedweapon]

[sycamorality]

hi guys! discord is doing a survey on how people would like ai to be integrated into discord. take it and say fuck no to every question. when you get to "in general, how do you feel about discord inegrating ai features?", respond that you would actively get everyone you know off of discord and wouldn't pay for nitro or other shop items if they added ai features.

[unscriptd-deactivated20260317]

Albert Lynch Jeanne d'Arc en prière

[manyother]

Albert Lynch (1860–1950) was a French painter of Peruvian ancestry.