#i'm finally back from the dead Ovo

[ananinidraws]

How do you do chat's expressions so well with just their eyes? (since they have a mask with a smile on it)

My god this ask has been sitting in my inbox since... January this year, i am so sorry for the delay anon Ovo

Anyways, thank you! I'm not really sure how to answer this, but i can give you a good example that sort of helped with inspiration, that being Gromit from Wallace and Gromit. I really love the way they're able to convey his expressions without having a mouth. It's all about making the eyes, eyebrows and general face shape expressive, like for example for Chat, making the eyes have creases underneath them whenever they're happy, to simulate a smile, or giving them eyebags whenever they're worried or exhausted uvu

[paper-mario-wiki]

What is your favorite bar from the myriad of good bars from Kendrick Lamar involving drake, i.e. Euphoria, Meet the Grahams, & Not Like Us?

note: when I say "Drake" I mean the constructed pop star. when I say "Aubrey" I mean the human being and actor behind the narrative that is "Drake".

Euphoria my favorite bar from this track is the whole "I'm the biggest hater" refrain. i like it because that singular section alone completely obliterated Taylor Made Freestyle. by paraphrasing the late DMX's famous quote about Drake, he is demonstrating how you can respectfully and powerfully use words from the mouths of dead predecessors to discredit your opponent, further showing how much of a stupid tactless clown-show popstar-turned-con-artist Aubrey Graham is in using the AI mockery of Tupac's voice to taunt Kendrick, the current voice of the West Coast and-- to many-- the people's successor to Pac.

6:16 in LA with a slightly lighter tone than the other disses, i consider this song to be a person to person sit-down and final warning to Aubrey that Kendrick is willing to provide. he explains that OVO is full of moles and wires, Aubrey is being hustled with nobody on his side, and going as far as saying "you can't sleep, these images trouble you" hinting at the fact that he would be going after Drake's personal failings that he thinks about when he goes home at night and stops being Drake. which he totally did in meet the grahams. also, bonus points to my favorite rhyme scheme in the song, just cuz it's so much fun to say:

Your lil memes is losin' steam, they figured you out The forced opinions is not convincin', y'all need a new route

like, what a perfect little two-bar rhyme scheme.

meet the grahams in this song, the most powerful lyrics to me (and the ones that usually make me start tearing up) are the ones where Kendrick stops being sorrowful and starts being angry.

You a body shamer, you gon' hide them baby mamas, ain't ya? You embarrassed of 'em, that's not right, that ain't how mama raised us Take that mask off, I wanna see what's under them achievements, Why believe you? You never gave us nothin' to believe in

this reminds me of every traumatic scolding i ever received as a child. i think that the word "disappointed" isn't strong enough to convey the feeling here. something closer would be "let down", because Kendrick's whole thing recently has been peace and uplifting people. he was willing to tolerate the competition for the game, but there were so many times that he warned Drake to not mention Kendrick's family. ultimately, in this stage of their careers, what they were fighting for was not fame or power, it was their legacy. they were fighting over how they were going to be remembered, and Kendrick was not about to let his pacifism make him passive in watching someone pretending to be a part of his culture stain how he will be written about in the records of Hip-Hop history. in specific, i love the line "take that mask off, i wanna see what's under them achievements" because he is BEGGING Audrey to respond honestly, as himself. he is begging him to cast off the facade of "Drake" and speak with any amount of dignity, because at this point there was no more room to speculate on whether or not he actually was who he claimed to be with regards to his music. at this point, the consensus was pretty thoroughly in the camp of "the actor Audrey Graham has been co-opting the image of the American Rapper for his career".

Not Like Us i think i love the bar "he has all eyes on me and imma send it up to Pac" because it goes back to the core of what this is about to Kendrick in fighting for legacy. the media, specifically the white dominated media, sucks the culture (that is to say, Black culture) dry for all it's worth monetarily, and in the process there have been many twisted caricatures or unfair narratives left in the wake of black creatives who are no longer alive to defend their own names. there's an entire tangent about how tabloids disproportionately affect black creatives due to the very fact that white supremacy discounts the respect these names have to the (largely un-melinated) higherups in hollywood, and as a result there is less PR dedicated to keeping their image clean, but i think im not qualified to go off on it. the point is, Drake disrespected Pac's legacy (and continues to do so by owning his ring, really, instead of having it be in the possession of someone who's at least from the west coast), and Kendrick wanted to put some honor on his name. he made sure that he was not just mentioned in the shameful (Taylor Made) and angry (euphoria) parts of this beef, but also its most triumphant moment.

[sashibunbun]

For all the talk of the SCotUS talk that's going around it more than confirms that people can't remember more than 6 months before unless it's super duper big.

Like you STILL have people thinking the President appoints the Supreme Court judges, in spite of Scalia dying under Obama (almost a year before Trump's inauguration Feb 23, 2016) but not getting replaced until over a year later). The reason behind why it didn't happen? Mitch "the Glitch" McConnell blocked EVERY SINGLE NOMINEE until Trump got in. So Niel Gorsuch wouldn't have been a Trump nominee had CONGRESS not been the final say on yeah you can be a judge, and this was kinda known.

Then 4 years later after RBG dies, Mitch ignores every reason he gave back in 2016 to ram through Trump's nominee. Hell, PEOPLE WERE COMMENTING ON THIS hard because it showed Republicans before the split being caused by 2022's light spotting were big old hypocrites and that right there was something tangible they could point to.

I can see how people could forget Thomas had to fight in Congress and get investigated because of Anita Hill while his CONFIRMATION HEARING was going on in congress. But goddamn half my page in October 2018 was nothing but Kavanaugh going through the same.

For fucks sake, I know a good majority of you had a meh education, but some it seems like you didn't pay attention then, and continue to be so monumentally brain dead that you have ACTUAL FUCKING EXAMPLES, IN LIVING, RECENT TIMES waving in front of your face but CPG or whoever didn't say it so "hurr durr durr not what's happening". Like do a rectal craniotomy. Half of you aren't even actually surprised at the Trump Immunity verdict because you already thought that, despite even the worst funded school I went to spending a week on balance of powers, it showing up on standardized tests, AND ONCE AGAIN ACTUAL EXAMPLES AS RECENT AS FOUR FUCKING YEARS AGO, you honestly already think it's an ALL POWERFUL position. I mean, fuck, I've put out elsewhere that the only reason some people dislike Project 2025 is because the wrong color red came up with it, because man they all focus on their premi...Presidential candidate, meanwhile you have Marjorie "Meth Queen" Greene, Lauren "Beetlejuice Handjobs" Boebert, and Matt "Drake's newest signing to OVO" Gaetz literally stopping everything in the House and the Senate (which, yes Libertarians and Right Wingers THE VOTING FOR BY THE PEOPLE IS CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED, and yes everybody to the left of them IT'S A POPULAR VOTE) has people in it that have been there since H.W. Bush. For fucks sake, my own state has one of those, and the other, aside from a short break in the mid-00s has been there since W. Bush. Good luck getting them out because the only time you guys actually try anything is every 4 years and then it's to only pay attention to what was one of the most hand tied, has to go through basically 3 other groups, can barely sneeze without congressional approval, and still kinda is positions.

I swear half this shit should be classified as horny on main behavior because it just screams watch me crank one out with all the mental, philosophical, and political masturbating y'all do.

Now watch as the groups I called out in the senators are elected by popular vote being constitutionally protected part call me all the names. I wish I had a fed job, you know how good those benefits are, I wish I was a loony who got my university brainwashing because good paying jobs. Fact is I'm tearing down a LOT of talking points and I know both sides would love if I wasn't just some Joe Shmoe with a GED*, who at least payed attention in school, and barring that has a memory longer than a handful of months. Hell, I'm not even a Centrist politically, unless by Centrist you mean everybody to the right of Bakunin and left of Himmler. But fuck if I won't slap idiots on both sides for being idiots. Yes these rants can get rated E for everyone because some of you all need blunt force trauma to get something into your brain that doesn't just vanish into the ether when it's convenient.

*before you ask how I could have a GED but pay attention in school, I was school lazy, you know not turning in work, and would have just had a diploma. If not for the quirk of 10th grade, pay the lab fee or get a no credit, and then the next year it being eliminated precisely for why my lab fee wasn't paid until the second semester of 10th grade.