No way out

idiot jail for ignorant beasts

Sisyphus

one must imagine sisyphus ouppy

not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl… what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

If ANYTHING is a heritage post it’s this.

What do you mean it’s only from 2020???

This is the funniest thing I have ever seen. If I were a professor I would pin this to my office door.

LMAO

There were like 30 seconds where I was like, “Ah the joke is that Orcas are technically the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family–this is a joke about the whale making false claims about its whale heritage on an admissions form, hence why its lawyer is also a dolphin.” And then I realized, “Oh. KILLER whale.”

Biology professor and law professor using the same comic for very different reasons.

I haven't been on here a lot lately and I want to talk about why.

I still like this place. I'm happy I started coming here. I only tried this place and opened an account last year, after I went through some personal stuff and became a lot more creative in my own little way, after 30 years of not really acknowledging that side of myself. What I found here made me happy about the world producing people like this. I'm so pleased that so many creative people have an outlet like this and it's become a little obscure ("Is Tumblr still around?!?") and pretty much the people here are left alone to just make beautiful or interesting or silly or emotionally powerful things. I love that, and I love the resulting site.

And I'm still trying to do creative writing. I do it all the time. But I have to wonder if anybody else is going through the same thing I am: I find I am no longer interested as much in general creativity, in this place, in the solace that I find here, except in a very abstract way. I'm happy this place exists, and I like coming here, but right now I'm thinking about something else. It's like my entire brain has been rewired to prioritize something completely different. America has gone off the rails, it is being attacked, my home is being attacked by fascists, and everything in my brain that makes me who I am has kind of been reconfigured to be concerned about this. Secondary ideas have fallen away or been deprioritized. I am doing a lot less professional development work, which is bad because I'm not making a lot of money and I need to generate more business for myself (except that I'm kind of used to being poor now and I'm not really worried about it as much because I don't need as much money). I've backed away from several personal projects that have nothing to do with work as well.

What has replaced all this? Fighting fascism.

When I do my marathon 6-hour brainstorming sessions, fully half the work is about fighting fascism in some way. I guess you could say I've become radicalized, but it's in a non-violent way; I'm radical in the "everybody should get out the vote, we need to fix the country" kind of way, not in the "hide in the woods with guns and freeze dried food" kind of way. How we can make the system work for us, but also how to exploit other systems. Sabotage, manipulation, disruption, obstruction.

My track record for long-term project completion is not good, but I've literally never felt any impetus as powerfully as I see the need to expunge these terrible, terrible people and their terrible, terrible ideas from public life. In fact I feel like all my life, I've been able to make some progress by visualizing things as enemies or nemesis, like my own lack of executive function, or fear of commitment, or whatever; it helps me somewhat to think of these things in an abstract way as an entity that I must overcome in a righteous fight to defend myself.

It's different now though. This is a much more concrete antagonist. Trump, the corporations, Musk, even Fox, even abstract concepts like the indifference and bigotry and intentional ignorance of the average Republican voter, these are much more tangible enemies, much easier to conceptualize as opponents. There is a dragon and it needs to be slain. It's much easier and more convenient to organize my entire thought process around this. I'm not going to slay the dragon myself, but fortunately that's where the metaphor breaks down; what this fight calls for isn't a lone knight with a sword, it's togetherness, unity, effort from everybody according to what they can spare. And I find I have a lot of effort to spare.

So I'm going to do what I can.

I still love you people. I'm still going to try to help out if I run into somebody who's got writer's block and doesn't know where to go from there; I have a magic solution that works every time (Michael swam gave it to me; thanks @michaelswaim ... I heard you say this in an interview on a podcast and I internalized it and reworked it a little bit and it's a goddamn miracle), and I won't be able to hold back if I meet somebody here and they're struggling with that. Why would I not hold out my hand? It costs me nothing. And I'm still going to come here and look at the beauty and the complexity people make and talk to the friends that I've made here. And of course, if you've read or reblogged anything I've put on here recently, you know that I'm trying to leverage this place to fight fascism in my own way. I know it doesn't do much to post here, but there's an off chance somebody could find information in one of my posts that helps them in some trivial way, tells them about a protest or a method of protest or makes some kind of point that helps get them through the day and understand that this fight isn't lost and we have to keep fighting. And hopefully that will inspire at least one person. But that can't be a priority in my life anymore.

I've lost a lot of time for everything. I don't have a whole lot of time left to be around at all, and I'm going to spend it doing something good, something concrete, even if it's just waving a sign and bulking out the crowd. Not that I'm content with that; I'm trying to do more.

But just know that if you haven't seen me around it's because I've been preoccupied. I'm happy to have this place as a haven and I'm going to come back here when I think of it just for some peace and quiet and silliness and light and air.

Thank you all for contributing to the site. If you read this, I apologize for being so long-winded. I've got a lot of sources and information about the fight we're in and I might replace my pinned comment with that stuff just to try to contribute, again in a small way.

Good luck, everybody. And take heart. We can win this. We are going to win this. We deserve to win this, and we have what it takes. The bigger the monster gets, the bigger we get. The more people they screw over, the more people will join our side, and their whole game is screwing people over. So take heart, contribute what you can, and I look forward to when politics becomes boring again and I can just come here and roll my eyes at somebody's gorgeous 100-hour oil painting of two brightly colored gay dragons making out in a post-apocalyptic but somehow cottagecore city landscape or whatever. Right now I have to go to the dollar store and get some D batteries for my megaphone.

Thanks, you guys

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Do you like the wheel of the sky

Well I like that it doesn't take 5 minutes to scroll past.

You don't have to compensate it not taking 5 minutes to scroll past by reblogging it a bunch of times

Everybody always so bold when dunking from the other parallel dimension 😔

"Redraw tumblr post" time of the year again, based on this one specifically that i found weeks ago but I needed to do something with it hfgjdh (with the original post being on tiktok). I just love canon Blaze being absolutely ass at cooking💜

Don't think I laughed at this kind of humor in like a month or two

Mimcepa the Mimic

Hello, everyone!

Candace Hicks: "Notes of String Theory" (2022)

woah thats real pretty :>

I'M DOING AN EXPERIMENT

To prove something to a friend, please

REBLOG IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

LIKE IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS DON’T BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

:)

REBLOGGING SO HARD.

Muscle memory fighting so hard not to like and Reblog and ONLY REBLOG OMG

This post has 1 closing parenthesis.

EVISCERATED

For those that don’t know, Brock’s mom and dad both bailed on their kids to go dreamchasing for a bit and he had to look after NINE siblings on his own

In other words,

SHOTS FIRED

Brock also just kind of left those same 9 siblings so he could travel the world with a 12 year old and his electric rat

Brock literally hung tight until his dad came home, gave said dad a stern shit-talking about how much of a worthless deadbeat he was to his face, refused to set one foot out of Pewter City until he was sure the dude would stay and take care of his damn kids, and then left to follow the dreams he was never allowed to follow because he was too busy cleaning up his parents goddamn mistakes.

But, like, go off, I guess.

If the one in the first pic is his mom, why does she look younger than him?

Because she’s not the one who had to raise 9 kids.

world heritage post

I thought it would be fun to do a more monstrous take on changelings, I've been doodling those critters all week. Their design is loosely inspired by flesh flies.🪰 If I do their other growth stages, I may show off different color variations.

Despite appearing rather horrifying, they are just hungry little guys who aren't really malicious. They do bite though.

Another one for horror/fantasy setting that- I.. need to name.. this project sooner than later.

Last hour..

Short animation I did during my free time

some progress + first sketch