me: I wonder where does my love for a colorful bunch of brothers who adopt an awkward but lovable man as a father come from?
my childhood:
Welp, seems Daddy Soundwave is canon in the Skybound comics!
well, we're reaching the 'useless eaters' stage. it was nice knowing all of you.
I assume you're referring to RFK Jr's comments regarding autistic people.
I'll be honest. I'm tired. Exhausted, really. I've been trying to stay as separated from today's political scene as I can, mostly for my own sanity. It's absolutely not that I don't care, it's because it's so fucking bad I can't watch it happen in real time or else I'll start crying and never stop.
The fact that we're back here, again, dealing with the Cheeto in Chief and his pettiness, his greed, his hate, his imbecilic, shortsighted, egocentric thoughts and notions is absolutely infuriating. And terrifying. He's steamrolling horrible ideas through--with his little lap dog Musk humping his leg the whole way--and Congress is letting him.
His appointees are just as unqualified as they were before, but somehow worse.
They are truly pulling out all stops and going after everyone they either don't like, or think don't contribute to their own wealth. Case in point, the comments this human skin tag made regarding autistic people:
"Autism destroys families, and more importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which is our children. They'll never pay taxes, they'll never hold a job, they'll never play baseball, they'll never write a poem, they'll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted."
Gotta love his priorities here. "Autism destroys families, and MORE IMPORTANTLY, it destroys our greatest resource."
Sure, families may struggle and spend $$$$ getting their kids the help they need, and that can put a real strain on things. Some parents worry themselves sick about their child's future, what will happen to them when they're older. Sometimes it is really, really hard. Sometimes marriages don't survive. Sometimes parents really struggle.
But, whatevs, that's secondary to the TRUE tragedy, which is that these kids will never pay taxes or work.
(Always pay attention to the order of things said.)
He (and all his rich buddies) sees children as nothing more than the future cogs in the capitalism machine, earning more money for the billionaires filling his (and other Republicans') pockets to ensure they pay no taxes and get all regulations and laws rolled back so they can keep making as much money as humanly possible off the backs of those beneath them.
How . . . fuck, I don't even have a word strong enough for this. But it is mindboggling that someone would look at a child and essentially deem them unworthy of help, of life, simply because they won't be a good little slave for the capitalism grinder.
He's talking about my daughter, by the way. My autistic daughter, who is 17, going on 7. She is mentally and emotionally a child, who will likely never hold a job, never live independently. She'll likely never date, never marry, and never pop out more little cogs that rich assholes like this guy can take advantage of, and work to death so his billionaire buddies can make another few bucks to add to their already obscenely insane amounts of wealth.
Guys like this thrive on fearmongering. It's easier to get people on your side, get people to vote for you, get people to get behind what you want, if you appeal to their fear. Their anger and outrage. "Why should my tax dollars go to pay for such useless people?" Well, he's just zeroed in your focus, hasn't he? He'll get to the bottom of this 'autism epidemic'. He'll find the cause and eliminate it. And if people die in the process? If his hateful rhetoric spurs some of the more unstable into action against these 'useless' people in society?
Well, that's just one less useless resource, isn't it?
I'm tired. I'm just so very fucking tired of the hate. It's such a fundamentally unproductive emotion. Anger and hate and spite. So many people spend so much time focusing on others--their genitals, who they love, the color of their skin, their religion, how 'useful' they are to the meat grinder capitalism--instead of just minding their own fucking business and going on with their lives.
I couldn't imagine being so angry about how someone else lives, if they're not hurting me or affecting my life in the slightest. I just don't understand it. I really don't.
My favorite type of character dynamic (romantic/platonic or otherwise) is
"feral cats that are NOT allowed to be adopted separately"
Like gimme two characters that constantly fight, they hiss and swipe at each other and they break the entire house chasing each other
And than 2sec later they are huddled in some corner cuddling like-
Is it love?
Is is hate?
Fuck if anyone knows!
But they sure are somehow worse when they aren't together!
Local trash alien is forced to take a bath for the first time,, and he is not a fan, poor baby.
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I’m so happy you all are liking my au! The support is so sweet, so thank you all so much!! As an appreciation, here’s a small fluff piece until I can get some more plot stuff out!
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Please do not steal or repost! Reblogs are appreciated!! <3
I based this on a comic I saw on tumblr and obviously on the characters and setting of the "Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want To Be A Magical Girl" pilot animatic by Kiana Khansmith.
(For some reason YouTube links don’t get traction on tumblr, so let’s see if this works!)
Animated in Procreate Dreams.
I see you in the eye of Jupiter Circling through the reactor I still love you and I'm running out of words And I'm watching you stand in the flumes of phosphorus
Nothing ever stays undivided No, nothing ever stays undivided See what remains of love and the acid See what is left of us, how we ended — Reactor, Woodkid
I was. Possessed doing this piece I swear.
I inked all of C.R.A.B. and most of it is black in the painting lmfaoooooo artist life. Very much a wild ride doing all the gas swirls like Jupiter's storm cells into the cold of the water there, and hundreds of bubbles, and all the water webbing. A really fun exercise in value painting for the background, and a lot of horrible pain tbh because this song is painfully fitting for them and I looped it a fair bit when going wild painting.
Turning LPS into characters Part 2: #1613
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Did u see the new spiderverse artwork cuz I sure did knfiejge