this actually makes… a terrifying amount of sense once you understand trump’s lies in the context other than “things that are either true or false.” i’ve read a lot of takes in the past few weeks but the one that stuck with me was that he’s signalling to his followers “you have to love me more than you love the truth.”
5. Ah yes, that good ol’ assimilation. You know, that thing where you better look like a good ol’ nuclear family or die. And we can try to make you look like us, with conversion therapy! Oh, sorry, with repeated electric shocks and long term emotional abuse!
Some potentially helpful thoughts for anyone interested:
Be kind to yourself, and it will have a positive impact on your drawing.
Let yourself be okay with where you are now, even if you know you can do better. You will improve with each step you take, as long as you keep moving forward.
It’s okay to get frustrated. It’s okay to keep trying.
Remember that it’s a miracle to be alive. You have the choice to embrace your art, your self, and your wonderful presence in this mysterious world.
just a post to let you guys know that i make mini-tutorials from time to time! they’re simple little tutorials that are always under 1 minute long. you can find them on instagram.com/loisvb, and this particular one here - http://www.instagram.com/p/BI5VFCWgvf8!
“Y'see son, America is a ravenous monster casting a long shadow over the rest of the world, its bloodthirsty warmongering matched only by its insatiable consumption of resources, and as Americans we’re silently complicit in these global crimes.
Sept. 11 was just a reminder that when you fund and arm a man against the main competition to your imperialistic aims, then all but ignore that man when he becomes a threat to you himself, your chickens have a way of coming home to roost.”
so let me get this straight. if obama. a black man in the 18th century in this scenario. had been elected president. of a country that didn’t exist yet. he’d disarm the militia. and give them cleaning supplies instead. and we know this because. he wants to make guns a teensy bit harder for criminals to get today. flawless logic.
Episode #205 - The League has tracked Maleficent (with Jafar and Trident in hand) to the Godmother's tomb. Belle has learned to control her transformations, Ariel now wields Excalibur, and Jasmine has finally been freed from her lamp. Can Cinderella lead them to victory before Maleficent acquires the final piece in her plan?
That Disneypocalypse image I made a while ago was fun. In a continued attempt to get back into the swing of doing personal work I thought it would be fun to revisit this idea. A few extra details:
-Cinderella's armor is glass because practicality is boring.
-Ariel wears a large, purple octopus beak around her neck.
-After being set free, Jasmine turned her lamp into a dagger in the hopes it could kill Jafar.
-Maleficent bears the scars of being stabbed in the chest by an enchanted sword
pretending for a second that gun-free zones don’t work, you’re left with two choices in the scenario above: give every sheep in the herd its own wolf, or go out and hunt wolves to extinction. it’s pretty obvious which one’s the safer bet for the sheep.
a good cartoon in bad cartoon’s clothing.
Since dogs are technically domesticated wolves isn’t that what sheepdogs are?
you mean like some kind of organized protective force? held to a higher standard than the general populace? and which is the reason sheep don’t have to open-carry their own wolves for self-protection, ultimately only endangering themselves more?
(just watch out for them if you’re a black sheep, jesus)
I suppose the sheep should just be free to admire and collect sheepdogs in the privacy of its own home. It’s always cute to see a sheep bring its sheepdog to a big empty field and point it at squirrels.
what if i want to own my own husky? or maybe my own chihuahua? and what if the sheepdogs regularly kill black sheep with impunity?
thats great dude just keep them on a tight fuckin leash and also:
1) dont tell me you “need” a “hunting” dog that can bite 800 times per minute
2) dont pretend you need that dog for protection while ignoring it’s far more likely to harm a member of your own family
3) dont act like the dogs of today are anything like the dogs people were allowed to keep as pets 200+ years ago
i mean christ if there were 40 to 50 cases a year of owners taking their dogs into playgrounds and unleashing them so they can maul a dozen kids to death you can bet there’d be dog reform real fuckin fast and congress wouldn’t let petsmart dictate the terms.
the tooth fairy ain’t a boy scout, he’s got bills to pay like anybody — once in a while, he stumbles on a cache of hot teeth. if a kid needs to “lose” a couple more this month to make the books come out even, what’s it to them? something in it for em, if they can keep their mouths shut
pictured are the three most dangerous things in the hands of unhinged rightwing extremists, whose fetishism far exceeds their understanding. a good cartoon.
i think i saw this cartoon in highlights magazine when i was a kid
it’s interesting that over time the Big Evil Media Controlling Outsider in the reactionary hivemind has shifted from jewish people to muslim people
lets see if we can unpack this. trump is using (his understanding of) the constitution as a weapon and is shielding himself with the claim he’s doing it to “make america great again,” often the rallying cry of old white men who want to roll back on the rights and advancements made for everyone else in the past 70 years.
the dragon is an amalgam of both political parties, gay rights proponents (judging by the rainbow wings), just about every government agency, and its weak underbelly is the vague concepts traditionally held up as the opposition of the sort of men who like trump and which always translate to “things i don’t like.”
militarism? he’s in a suit of armor and armed with a sword. nationalism? as defined by “opposition to foreigners,” yes. cult of personality? do you even have to ask?
finally we see what hitler himself wrote about propaganda in art:
Propaganda must always address itself to the broad masses of the people. (…) All propaganda must be presented in a popular form and must fix its intellectual level so as not to be above the heads of the least intellectual of those to whom it is directed. (…) The art of propaganda consists precisely in being able to awaken the imagination of the public through an appeal to their feelings, in finding the appropriate psychological form that will arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses. The broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form reasoned judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children who are constantly wavering between one idea and another. (…) The great majority of a nation is so feminine in its character and outlook that its thought and conduct are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning. This sentiment, however, is not complex, but simple and consistent. It is not highly differentiated, but has only the negative and positive notions of love and hatred, right and wrong, truth and falsehood.
i only wonder why, if you’re going to pay to put that shit on a billboard, you wouldn’t at least ask an adult to draw it.
Cartoon philosopher Chuck Asay demonstrates how modern society has evolved past petty indoctrination and xenophobia and is educating our children to have true agency as citizens.
“Which do YOU think ‘truth’ is?” he asks the reader. “A collection of culturally transmitted tradition and folklore, or what one perceives and accepts with experience and self-reflection?”
