#violence

[glittergroovy]

get some rest

[druidshollow]

random assorted canopies

[losergarment]

[thedearidiot]

« Why the desire to “restore us to our senses” or “get to reality” has so often leapt straight to “extremely aggressive undertakings,” epitomized by bloody shock—even when the artist is well aware, as was Artaud, of the flattening effects of such a literalization—remains an open question. (Francis Bacon also judged himself quite harshly whenever he used explicitly violent subject matter, especially that which had the potential to introduce the boredoms of narrative or morality onto the canvas: a bullfight, a Nazi armband, and so on. Nonetheless, Bacon remains known for his splayed meat carcasses, crucifixions, screaming faces, scenes of unexplained but haunting bloodshed, injured heads, and imploding bodies.) »

- Maggie Nelson, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning.

[kathaynesart]

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It is done! I feel both like I spent far too much time on this update yet not nearly enough. Some poses are a bit stiff but hopefully the battle itself still reads. I know not much progress was made plot wise, but trust me, there’s a few things in here that are going to become very important much later on in the story.

Leo’s Ninpo: The keen reader might recognize that a number of Leo’s attacks are ones he picked up from Gram Gram, but with a bit of that added portal flair. I really wanted to push the boundaries of where he takes his skills, but stay true to the belief that rather than becoming a heavy hitting powerhouse like his brothers, his strength lies in his ability to calculate and react on the fly. I also wanted to give some level of limitation to each of their gifts. For Leo, it’s less the number of portals he creates that exhaust him, but rather the size and amount of energy that passes through these portals and his ability to keep them stable during the transaction. He has also become much better at keeping his portals well protected (so that portal pirates can not interfere or rather, so that the pirates aren’t killed by stray laser beams rushing through). As far as the Portal Choppers, we’ll be coming back to those and how they work later on in the story…

As always, thank you for your patience, hopefully the next one won’t take as long to create haha.

[kropotkindersurprise]

Black Panther Party member Kathleen Cleaver on non-violence. [source]

Non-violence is a very non-functional approach in a society that's based entirely on organized force and violence. A country that was created in violence, land was taken in violence, a society that's perpetuating itself through violence in the ghettos, in Vietnam, in Africa. Wherever you look, there is organized force and violence at work to maintain this society. There is a world of difference between 20 million unarmed people, and 20 milion people organized and armed to the gills. That's Power.

[austim]

Scrub Daddy vs. Liquid Nitrogen

(or a Scrub Daddy being hit with a mallet when it’s hot, cold, frozen from dry ice, and frozen from liquid nitrogen)

[sleepy-bebby]

Sea turtle launches attacks on a scuba diver cleaning his tank only to be foiled time and time again.

[darkstalker-elise]

my wacky woohoo pizza girl (rival?)

[whatbigotspost]

Damn a lot of gen X and millennial teens sure were Guinea pigs in the horrific experiment* of all the “scared straight” and “behavioral corrections programs” and “military schools” and “therapeutic boarding schools” and “pray out the gay camps” and other fucking abusive “give us your troubled teens and we’ll fix em up” bullshit that was extremely popular in the 90s and 00s.

They’re telling all the stories now and have been for years and the depths of the horrors are mind boggling. They’re making all the docs and writing all the books and pulling back the lids on all the seedy underbellies and throwing the terror into the light so we can all stare at all the traumas that occurred and in some places are still occurring.

*btw we can say beyond all doubt none of this shit “worked” to help ANYONE of course. Except the abusers who got to get rich off of abuse. So many of the survivors will be the first to say they’re deeply fucked up by it and many haven’t survived the experience. Messed up beyond words.

[cuties-in-codices]

an unpleasant awakening

in a copy of konrad von würzburg's "trojanerkrieg", ca. 1441

source: Nürnberg, GNM, Hs. 998, fol. 15r

[justcatposts]

No violence, only love

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[boot2004]

It’s time to bring this one here

[catgirl-kaiju]

TERFS LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE CHALLENGE

[politijohn]

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