#Make-up Revolution

[creed-of-cats]

"If voting changed anything they wouldn't let people do it-" grabs your face THEY DIDN'T JUST "LET" PEOPLE DO IT, MOST PEOPLE COULDN'T VOTE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. PEOPLE OF COLOR ONLY GOT THE FULL RIGHT TO VOTE 50 YEARS AGO IN THE US, THATS BARELY A GENERATION.

IF IT DIDNT MATTER AT ALL WHY WOULD THEY SPEND SO MUCH TIME GERRYMANDERING THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYWHERE?? WHY CAN'T FELONS VOTE?? WHY CANT PUERTO RICO VOTE? WHY DO THEY KEEP SWITCHING DATES AND LAWS AND TIMES AND WHATEVER THEY POSSIBLY CAN TO STOP PEOPLE FROM VOTING?? WHY DO THEY MAKE EFFORT AT ALL??

BEING DISILLUSIONED IS A REASONABLE RESPONSE. BUT PEOPLE FOUGHT AND DIED AND ARE STILL FUCKING DYING FOR THAT RIGHT, DONT SPIT IN THEIR FACE.

[snekdood]

"if we make america worse and more of a dictatorship that will be even harder to unravel and make it the way we want the country to be, maybe then everyone will join our Glorious Revolution!" bb girl you cant even be in the same room with someone who thinks you should vote, how in tf do you think you're gonna unite people to fight in The Revolution with you? it's gonna be you and your 5 friends, i hate to break it to you.

[probespierre]

look at my lawyer dawg im going to the scaffold

[whisperairwatchmebloom]

Mr. Andrew Hozier byrne sat down and said 100 years from now the Empire will have fallen and because of that we have hope. The fruits of our revolution are inevitable, our dreams are inevitable and propel us forward and because of that we have hope for an easier world!

Yes the despair and yes the hope 😭 the sun will dawn on better times

[elbiotipo]

There was a longer, better article about this, but it's interesting that virtually all fantasy is reactionary in the sense that the heroes are questing (almost, of course there are exceptions) to turn things back to what they were. Either stopping a great evil that is going to destroy the current world which is Fine As It Is, or living in a dystopian evil empire and try to return the Old Kingdom or the Old Republic which was good and nostalgic. It's always "the Old Days were better" or "we must preserve our current way of life", never "we will build a better future beyond our current society".

[wastinawaaay]

US politicians enabling hate crimes and war crimes and still acting like they have the moral high grand is mind blowing

[seilon]

my only complaint about 2005 dw is that we didn’t get more episodes with gung-ho mortal baby jack harkness. absolutely smitten by that fucker

[sage-nebula]

In season 1, Powder/Jinx was viewed by most as a screw-up, and a monster.

In season 2, Jinx will be viewed by most as a monster, and a revolutionary symbol.

In neither season did the majority opinion see her as a person. Those who did care about her as a person — Vander, Vi, Ekko (though he tried hard not to in arcs 2 & 3), and Silco, in that order — were heavily outnumbered by those who only saw her as the consequences of her actions, and not the eccentric, brilliant, but heavily traumatized and mentally ill girl she actually was.

There are some people who are angry that she is being seen as a revolutionary or peaceful symbol in Zaun. "It should be Vi!" they say. "How could they do this to Ekko?!" But here is what those people are missing:

Symbols are not people. They are iconography. A symbol can last long, long after its origin has died. Hence why doves are symbols; they can die fast, but their paintings last forever. This means that it does not matter at all to Zaun what happens to Jinx, in any way, once she is their symbol; even if she dies, that just makes her a martyr. Even better if it's an enforcer that kills her. (I could see Sevika arranging that.)

Jinx is just as alone now as she ever was. Symbols need to stay pure. Meaning that Jinx's off-color jokes and wild actions will need to be short leashed or she could risk losing that status. Even IF she feels this gives her community, she'll lose that real fast.

This is not the face of a girl who feels she is among friends:

And that is simply because she isn't. They don't know her. They don't need to know her. They need her to do her part (be the face on the murals, the martyr when we need it) and that's it. Jinx's action of blowing up the council was loved. But Jinx herself? No.

This is not an enviable position and it isn't going to benefit her, at least not in terms of her mental wellbeing. Jinx needs real unconditional love and support—what she got from Silco in his final moments, not the empty veneration of the masses who view her as an icon rather than a human being.

[skitskatdacat63]

"Arrogant, ruthless, and by all reports (including his own) utterly charming."

(I don't know why I drew this but please take Revolutionary War British officer George, I think it suits him, okay!!!)

+ George Russell the type of guy to t-pose in front of rebels

+ the usual

Okay first of all, process, as always:

I drew this in one day hahaha....Actually really fun! I haven't finished anything in almost a month, and haven't painted for even longer, so I'm kinda dying at the fact that 18th century George Russell got me motivated 😭 Sometimes when painting, I realize I have free will and can actually just start painting over the lineart, and that's the best moment of every drawing process 🙏

Also I'm very proud of his face!!! I've said before, but art progression is such a weird thing. You'll keep repeating to your self "I'm no good at [insert art thing.]" And then randomly realized you can in fact do it. That's me with drawing real people's faces 😭 I'm just so shocked I got his face pretty good in one try!!!

Okay about the pose and quote. God its so fun to misappropriate quotes for my own evil deeds. Both of these are from this one officer from the Revolution: Banastre Tarleton. Idk, I randomly saw his painting in a history video, and it's stuck in my mind ever since. And then yesterday, bcs I spent a lot of time looking at George, I'm like "hey you know what he kinda reminds me of-" and thus we have this.

I just found that quote about him from some historian to be funny, so I put it as a caption, as I would with Napoleon. This won't be an AU by any means but. I think if George was in the Revolution, he'd be the most stereotypical, evil British villain in American media type guy ever. And Tarleton is kinda that guy tbh, to the point where him and others like Arnold Benedict are the poster boys of evil Revolution guys. He even has a mocking nickname! "Bloody Tarleton/Ban", very "Osama bin Russell," no? 😭

Some notable moments from Tarleton's campaign that I think fit George: Apparently killed a bunch of American soldiers after they surrendered, making sure everyone was dead(😭😭), threatened to burn an American general's house down to make him surrender and then took him hostage, went toe to toe with George Washington himself and Washington even taunted him and Tarleton got a shot in, has a helmet named after him(very slayful.)

[ohwell-thathurt]

Hey! this was my contribution to the Barrel Of Monkees zine (Issue #2), beautifully put together by @lugosis!!!!

[lunarmoves]

I enjoy reading your questionably-stable to outright unhinged Sun drabbles. Always happy when I see that you have written a new one!

I am curious though. What would happen if y/n reaches a point where Sun's coldness/hostility towards them causes them to become so disheartened that they take a hypothetical opportunity given to them to leave. They would still feel very sad about it because they care for Sun a great deal, but his attitude towards them is concerning and disparaging. Though Sun clearly tolerates them above other humans, he still doesn't seem to actually appreciate or care for them as they themselves do him.

LOL im happy that you're happy!! i love writing questionably-stable to outright unhinged sun! i just think he deserves to go a little wild as a treat, yknow? having ur code reworked from a theater bot to a daycare bot on top of no rest from an assortment of children and the denial of your clear sentience/personhood in society would get to anyone, i think.

hmmmm i think it would in fact be an immense wake up call for him. like... one day you're just.. not at the daycare. and he chalks it up to nothing too major. but then you're not there the next day either. he does a little internal snooping and investigates the employee clock ins and realizes that you never showed up to work. in fact--as he scours through the employee list--you're not registered at all. where did you go?

he scoffs and brushes it off at first. whatever, you're gone, he doesn't care! one less human for him to deal with. maybe he can finally focus on things that matter (getting away getting away he needs to get out out out of here). but he just... can't stop thinking about you for some reason. he can't stop thinking about you and honestly how dare you still take up space in his processor like this! you aren't even here!

sun does a lot of self deliberation as a result, reflects on his actions. he replays the moments with you leading up to you leaving (you quit, he realizes, as he reads the logs). and at first he doesn't understand. why did you leave? he quite enjoyed talking to you. he even considered you a friend of sorts! spoke to you about things he would have never spoken about with other humans!

it takes moon interfering for him to realize that maybe.... maybe he was not the nicest or more considerate to you. it's whatever. it's fine. he doesn't care. he doesn't. he really, really doesn't. in fact, he grows to loathe you for leaving him like this. leaving him here with these other humans who don't have your eyes or your smile or your willingness to listen to him. you left.

sun spends day after day after day in the daycare. taking care of children and imagining a world where he had more control. maybe if he did, you wouldn't have left. he wouldn't have let you leave. this just won't do.

so he waits. and he bides his time. and he thinks and thinks and thinks. until one day, he's stepping out of a crumbling, smoking pizzaplex. taking that first step into society--actual society. seeing the bright blue sky above him and the trees that sway in the distance. he has one goal--segmented in his mind after you left.

he will find you. and this time he won't let you leave.

[theorahsart]

Incorruptible part 9

I enjoyed vm drawing young-maxime protectively looking out for his little family

[thatsbelievable]

[culperscomet]

when your card declines in therapy so they pull up september 22nd 1776

[oorevitcejda]

"i do not condone violence :(" LAAAME SHUT THE FUCK UP YES YOU DO IF YOU HAVENT SAID A WORD ABOUT ANY OF THE ONGOING GENOCIDES YOU ARE ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING IN VIOLENCE ITS JUST VIOLENCE YOURE USED TO BECAUSE YOU DONT SEE BLACK OR BROWN PEOPLE AS HUMANS

[ikuhara]

all i know is they should be besties