Crappy Attempts at Art (and other things)

It is so so important to show that queer people have always existed and are allowed to live long, happy lives. Young queer people–especially those in conservative areas–need to know that being queer is not a death sentence. Despite the many struggles we have faced, throughout history there have always been queer lives filled with joy and love. and you will find yours.

Beautifully, I’ve just discovered the photographer has all of these images available on their website to view:

I love the fact that the show has changed who was responsible for the Genosha attack here

In the comics making it Xavier's Evil Long Lost Twin Sister was honestly such a stupid cop-out, both because it was so random and also because it had the same energy as "This homophobic politician must surely be actually a closeted gay man himself!" as if the abuses and atrocities that minorities suffer are somehow always our own fault and not the fault of our oppressors

Here?

The people responsible for the Genoshan war crime are both 100% human

Bolivar Trask is a pathetic snivelling weak minded bigot, typical of many like him

And Sinister is quite literally the personification of the coloniser and the slave-trader. I mean he's LITERALLY an upper class asshole from Victorian England for one thing and during that time he bought exploited mutants from freak shows and insane asylums to use in his experiments, similar to the way IRL anyone who was "Deformed" or who was anything other than a neurotypical, physically average cishet white christian male was at risk of being bought and sold as a commodity from such places by people just as despicable as this fucking mad science Dracula is

And his colonising extends to his own genetics. The man appropriated mutant culture in the most literal way by harvesting their DNA to alter his own to give himself superhuman abilities and immortality

Instead of diluting the impact of the story by going "Oh, Xavier has an evil twin sister we've never seen before" this is very much a story about the evil of the oppressor destroying a safe space that the oppressed have created for themselves

Now you've made me realise they totally should have used Mr Sinister in X-men First Class instead of weirdly making the head of the hellfire club a nazi mad scientist or whatever they did to Sebastian Shaw.

Mr Sinister is an evil mad scientist who is obsessed with a master race, plus he's immortal too, so why WOULDN'T he try and work with the Nazis if he was around at the time.

Shaw's whole role in the film feels like it should have been written for Sinister instead honestly

And ironically the film that came out right after would have been a better place to introduce Shaw as the villain, since it was all about the Sentinels and Shaw in the comics was involved in directly financing those to make money playing both sides, because like all arms dealers, he's got no problem if the weapons he's selling are being used against people like him, as long as they aren't being used on him specifically

happy 420 and day i reserve a spot in hell

its that time again folks

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happy 8 years to this post

an interesting take on this from matt braly, creator of amphibia

Imagine being a business that has managed to get THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE, and you've managed to make it so this is a bad thing.

You did it. That's late stage capitalism in one sentence.

"What was promised as infinite growth proved to be finite" feels like a very concise summary of every business person ever everywhere.

the wii is considered a retro console now.

THE WII IS CONSIDERED A WHAT.

remember when you used to be able to play snake with the… hold on what’s it called

hmm. don’t think i’ll be calling it that. anyways i was gonna say remember when you could play snake with the buffering circle on youtube but. now i have other concerns

Harlan County, U.S.A., 1976

#us coal mining is a fun bit of cultural connection with us over in wales#ultimately we both got fucked#and had to fight tooth and nail for unions#ironically thanks to tectonic plates we were essentially mining the same mountain range#thousands of miles apart#what you call blue ridge mountains#we call Yr wyddfa#west viginia and all the coal towns are siblings as far as im concerned#we were raised on the same stone#that makes us kin Via: @scottish-valkyrie

@ruffboijuliaburnsides yeah

Here's the full suit! It's in Japan ofc haha. And not a fursuit! This person is just costuming as a human-sized cat. Not anthro or related to the furry fandom. Kid me would have cried tears of joy if I saw this irl. Cat but big. Very Beatrice Potter.

Ugh, I keep seeing this post and it keeps rankling me every time.

It's an amazing fursuit.

Yes, it is a fursuit. Yes, "costuming as a human-sized cat" is fursuiting. Yes, the creator (Mikeneko Yamada) is a fursuit maker specializing in cat suits, but has also made a tanuki, a bear, a shiba inu, a frog, and several more that I've seen. Yes, the fursuit is both hyper-realistic and anthro (it's on two-legs, thus exhibiting human-like behavior and that's all anthropomorphic really means). No, fursuits don't have to be cartoony sparkledogs to be fursuits. Hyper-realistic fursuits (like this) and quadsuits exist. They are still fursuits. Yamada, the creator of this fursuit, blogs their exact process making fursuits with the EXACT same processes other fursuit makers use to make fursuits, down to the jawsets and head rigs and air fans absent from many non-furry mascot costume work. This is a fursuit.

And that's okay!

Idk why people feel the need to distance themselves from liking furry. It's such a wide genre. It's not all Disney's Robin Hood, Beatrix Potter's art is furry art too! People like to try and compartmentalize it into the tropes that make them cringe but for everyone out there participating in furry fandom some way you don't personally like, there's another person out there doing something like this you think is cute or fun or interesting. It's diverse, and people on the internet need to stop acting like they're allergic to furries every time they see a furry do something they actually like.

“the arts and sciences are completely separate fields that should be pitted against each other” the overlap of the arts and sciences make up our entire perceivable reality they r fucking on the couch