Bro absolutely COOKED with this.

If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.

It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.

This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.

Y’know how trans women have identified a phenomenon where, even though they are women and may have known themselves to be women for quite a while, accepting cis women will treat them as though they are guests to womanhood, like lesser women, or like they’re new to it, or as though they could not possibly already know what it’s like being a woman?

Some trans people do that at trans men with transness. Trans men aren’t lesser trans or guests in transness who don’t understand what it’s like to be trans.

Trump admitted to rigging the election (3 times on live tv) , less than 30 percent of US citizens are supporters with his approval rating dipping with every bad policy. Trumpets are a loud minority and should be treated as such.

Also, remember that calling Trump-supporter's garbage started as a reaction to them calling Puerto Rico garbage. Straight up just throwing their own insults back at them.

Trumpies are like the annoying younger sibling who keeps punching you in the arm because he thinks it's funny and then siren wails for mommy when you finally hit him back.

A non-passing trans man isn’t inherently read as a cis woman btw.

Like. At one point, maybe this was the case. That was a time when the average transphobe thought being trans was “when a man was so gay he decided to be a woman” and the closest thing in their mental image to a trans man was a butch lesbian.

We don’t live in that time anymore.

We live in a day and age where the trans flag gets shown as part of the visual on news networks covering some major story that involves trans people. There are trans politicians. You can say “trans man” and for many people there’s a mental image that pops in their head. You can show top surgery scars on an advertisement and enough people will know what that means well enough to be angry that they’re “encouraging young girls to mutilate themselves.” We literally had a very well known celebrity come out as a trans man and watched the reaction from the public.

You can be a trans man who doesn’t pass as a cis man or a cis woman and is definitely read as a trans man.

You can be a cis man who gets mistaken for a trans man because you “kinda look like it”.

If you want to acknowledge the reality of trans men’s lives, you can’t pretend anymore that our existence is some total mystery to transphobes that hasn’t been discovered yet. They know about us. Stop pretending they don’t.

sometimes I wonder how y'all are obsessed with specific characters and I'm like "why them" but then I remember that sometimes its literally not your choice you just look at them wrong and all of a sudden they're taking up your every thought forever

to quote someone who was a genius on bluesky:

In the late 1930s-1940s, Michael Bond, author of Paddington Bear, saw Jewish refugee children (Kindertransport children) passing through Reading Station from London, arriving in Britain escaping from the Nazi horrors of Europe.

Mr. Bond, touched by what he saw, recalled those memories 20 years later when he began his story of Paddington Bear. One morning in 1958, he was searching for writing inspiration and simply wrote the words: “Mr. and Mrs. Brown first met Paddington on a railway platform…”

“They all had a label round their neck with their name and address on and a little case or package containing all their treasured possessions,” Bond said in an interview with The Telegraph before his death in 2017. “So Paddington, in a sense, was a refugee, and I do think that there’s no sadder sight than refugees.”

Paddington Bear - known for his blue overcoat, bright red hat, and wearing a simple hand-written tag that says “Please look after this bear. Thank you.”

Paddington embodies the appearance of many refugee children. His suitcase is an emblem of his own refugee status.

“We took in some Jewish children who often sat in front of the fire every evening, quietly crying because they had no idea what had happened to their parents, and neither did we at the time. It’s the reason why Paddington arrived with the label around his neck”. -- Michael Bond

Michael Bond died at 91 in 2017. The epitaph on his gravestone reads, "Please look after this bear. Thank you."

Please look after all the young Bears in Ukraine.

~David Lundin

SKFHKSFHKSDJFHFHDSHJ WHO DID THIS

I FOUND OUT TODAY THAT THE FUCKIN

THUMBNAIL IMAGE FOR "oh my god and they were roommates" ENTRY ON KNOW YOUR MEME DOESN'T ACTUALLY USE A STILL IMAGE FROM THE VINE

IT USES MY OLD, SHITTY ASS CALLIGRAPHY FROM LIKE 2017

I just woke up holy shit I'm screeching, only reason i found out is because someone on tiktok needed a screenshot from KYM for the background shot of a video and a follower of mine @'d me like bro this you????

i fucking hate my brain it wants to do so many things and it cant even focus on one of them. like its like "start an rpgmaker game!" "no, you should learn godot!" "what about your 3d models on blender??" "but you have that comic to work on!!" "you should also just draw more things in general" and im like SHUT UUUUPPP it feels like this

How is it that this post listed exactly the things by name that I've wanted to start on for the last 5 years and have not yet started on.

i need you to stop trying to formulate lines that tumblr users think go hard and start trying to talk to me with the function of communication in mind

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COUNTDOWN TO OPEN ASKBOX EVENT: REQUESTS WILL BE OPEN ON MARCH 29, 2025

Here's the countdown post to lead up to the openaskbox event/stream on saturday!

Openaskbox streams happen when i get to the bottom of my request inbox and need to refill it again!

For these events, the askbox will open for the first time in months and everyone gets a chance to yeet up to three free requests my way. There’s a few rules you gotta follow for your request to be considered (only shitposts, no assholery, keep the 75 max character count in mind, try to avoid dupes), and I'll elucidate further on these guidelines on the day-of post  

I will endeavour to write as many requests as I can during the event (which lasts around 6-8 hours) live on stream so people can hang out, chat, ask about calligraphy and the like whilst listening to some tunes. 

You can still pay me to write cards, but since I'll be frantically trying to get askbox cards done I up the price to five bucks a card if you'd like something written live. If your subscription to the channel renews, it'll get shunted to sunday

When stream time’s up, the askbox will close again and I’ll use the remaining hundreds of unanswered asks to fuel my regular 4 posts/day card posting schedule until the next time we run dry. 

After stream I'll spend a bunch of time filling my to-write document so there'll be a bunch of dashspam, then on sunday there'll be the usual 3pm calligraphy stream to get the next week's worth written.

See yall on tumblr and on the twitch stream then!

There are: 6 days left til we're open!

5 days left!

And I forgot that I didn't clarify starting time, so the stream will start and the askbox will be open beginning at 2PM EST on Saturday, March 29

four more days!!!

three days!!!!!

TWO DAYS LEFT!!

Fascists love art. And that's something that might make you uncomfortable because it's something you probably have in common with fascists, but it's true. Fascists love art the same way they love sports. It is a quantifiable measure of betterment and superiority. They will talk quite knowledgeably about their favorite art; the history, the techniques, the themes... If they're particularly well educated, they might talk about the artist's personal life, and all the ways they exemplify the human experience. It is inspiring to them, much in the same way it might be inspiring to you. For them, art is a world with clear winners and losers. In a word, Objective.

It's also part of why I find the AI art movement fascinating. It operates on much the same parameters as the fascist and caters to their sensibilities, deliberately or not. AI art strives to create a visually pleasing objectively accurate depiction of its subject matter, with as many of the flaws removed as possible. Form and function in one. This is appealing to the fascist (who also loves computers) as it comes with the veneer of Objectivism. This machine has not only demonstrated the correct way to create art, but the art it creates looks a lot like the art they already consider to be objectively superior! How validating. (It does not necessarily occur to them that one hand washes the other.)

Of course in practice, what they are applauding is a laundering machine. And while it benefits the makers of these technologies to tout their potential, that we're only just scratching the surface of what AI is really capable of, it seems we've already hit the limit. After all, we chose the winners in Paris in 1748. If we need to, we can always choose new winners and call it progress. But it's all people.

It's only ever been people.

(I know I will likely get comments along the lines of "fascists don't REALLY love art, all they're really doing is-" etc, etc... And that's understandable and I think you could argue it. However I'm hesitant to say there is a wrong way to look at art. Rather I'd like you to consider that love of something, while wonderful, does not and never will justify evil.)

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yknow i really dont feel like i should have to say this but um. stop referring to kinks as degenerate

like really just stop using that word ever but *especially* don't use it here

"degenerate" is a nazi word. Don't use it.