#Lmk if I should tag more

[hajihiko]

Family Business

[seven-saffodils]

just watched L.A. Confidential (1997) for the first time and this movie! def the most ACAB cop movie, truly amazed they went for it. [spoilers/discussion under the cut]

i keep seeing reviews that are like, but why did the russell crowe character, whose whole thing is that he beats up abusers and protects women, punch his girlfriend kim basinger? but this is a noir (a genre about corruption and decay) about police. he doesn't just punch her out of the blue, he's in the middle of beating up a shady journalist for the police captain when he learns that there are pictures of her hooking up with his goody-two-shoes colleague. where once the captain had him intimidating gang bosses into leaving, now he's just the captain's all-purpose muscle, going from a kind of gray morality right into "just following orders" territory.

he's hopped up on violence that he's having some cognitive dissonance about, he feels betrayed by the one reminder of the ideals he hopes to live up to, and most importantly it makes thematic sense that he betrays her and himself by hitting her. the police force, which he had seen as the instrument of his vengeance on abusers everywhere, has perverted him into a tool of abuse even before he hits his girlfriend. as Audre Lorde says (in a completely different context but hear me out), the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

now. could this have been accomplished by him raising his fist at her with real intent and catching himself and crying about it? absolutely. but this is a 90s man movie for men, and also imo noirs are at their best when the audience finds themselves rooting for someone irredeemable. the tension that comes from that, the disquiet—we need more of that feeling about our big action stars.

or maybe i'm reading too much into it.

[seven-saffodils]

"estimate" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in "actual government estimate," newsweek points out that it "was not supplemented by verifiable evidence" and it was literally just a doj spokesperson making a rough guess. bc they don't collect statistics on police killings of pets nationwide!

but! from the data they have, it seems like there is a lot of unnecessary pet death happening. we just can't know how much.

[nightjar-jack]

Something something "eat your heart out" or however that phrase goes...

Had one hell of a visceral dream the other night, and knew I had to makes something about it.

A paper collage of an anatomical heart made from pomegranate flesh. Made a few small digital alterations to fix the colour balance and not have them bleed into each other :)

[iwantmochisoup]

- july 2024 sketch dump -

[jellitchi]

isat au by @/isjaszzz and @/kunehokki

[seven-saffodils]

more info: https://apnews.com/article/jackson-mississippi-police-death-pauper-funeral-1de284aff5c79cb2d4cc97699d259e5f#

Defund and abolish is making more and more sense. End qualified immunity for police, too.

How many more are buried there?!!!

[artilite]

PARTY ROCK IS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT 🔥

Loop x Porty MK, idea courtesy of isatcord!

[teaableu]

Cyborg boy

[harryzroze]

concept art macaque >:3

concept art + weird doodles + ref for the second mask :3

I thought it was cool how the concept art looks like 2 faces a little because of the way it’s being ripped off so ayeee sneak a lil angst in there

[yellowvixen]

puppet and master (which is which?)

[seven-saffodils]

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[ibblescribbles]

TRASH 🚮 Speedpaint | Alt under cut:

[valkyriellis]

[fellow-fandom-fruitifier]

Macaque my beloved

More drawings n stuff under cut cause it’s getting a lil 2 longgg😌😎😎

Silly goofy idea that 6EM & SWK genderswap sumtimes 2 have a “girls night out” (named by SWK) 4 funsies (they r the entire gender spectrum & I won’t b taking any criticisms)

Sketches cause I like them:

Also the fit’s r from Lego Monkie Kid S2 E7: Shadow Play, & Taylor Swift’s Era tour, specifically Midnights I think (one of my besties is a Swiftie & the 2nd I saw it I was like “that’s so 6EM-core”)

[u3pxx]

INLAND EMPIRE [Easy: Success] - Abort! You clearly have not thought this through. You won't like what you will see there -- and you will never *un-become* it.

watching an lp where they didn't continue to look in the mirror, so just brain-empty playing around with that idea