I love the added depth of the cute quirky, really dangerous world of Adventure Time.
And that includes Simon/Ice King.
But sometimes, when I stop watching for the art direction and the clever writing.
When I start thinking?
Ice King becomes really hard to think about.
My grandfather wasn’t the best husband to my grandmother, but he loved his children. And he really loved his grandchildren/us. My grandmother moved back into the house he bought, just for her, when they got married.
Even when she moved out/got divorced he lived there with my Uncle and his family.
The kitchen in there now is new, new everything, from the appliances to the floor.
But sometimes when I’m over there I swear I can still see him and his stack of newspapers, TV on, coffee in front of him. Cigarette smoke just hanging about whether he was smoking or not. He was an avid smoker, most of my family is or were. That house always smelled like smoke, from him, his son and is daughter in law they could smoke several packs.
Lung Cancer wasn’t a surprise, not really. Not for me and my cousins brought in the “D.A.R.E” program. It felt inevitable that someone was finally going to be diagnosed. It was everything else that took me by surprise.
I watched him pass away piece by piece;
First he got sick.
Then he started to forget events.
Then he couldn’t remember himself
Then we never were.
Then he was gone.
And I feel bad because when we realized it was too late and he wasn’t going to get better.
It’s not like saying good bye to someone who doesn’t even know who you are even means anything.
the *only* photo of me from glow massive.
lucky for me it was during one of those short times i wasn’t behind the bar.
costume was handmade by madison & myself.
it came out so good ^_^ too bad you can’t see the leg warmers i made all the way.
Why do people assume that if you have pale skin, you’re automatically white and have all the privileges that supposedly come with that identity?
Racism goes both ways. And for crissakes. WHITE IS NOT A RACE.
I personally am of Scottish, English, French and Native American heritage. Possibly African as well. I’m as pale and freckled and ginger as can be.
But I don’t fucking identify with “white”.
I’m sick of this label, because it’s inaccurate, vague and ultimately describes nothing about a person’s life.
—End Rant—
LOL
But Racism doesn’t go both ways and if you look white you’ve got White Privilege? It’s a fact that the lighter you are the more “beautiful” you are.
Getting angry and political up in hurr.
I generally side-eye the Occupy movements for racial and general stupidity reasons, but I enjoy the Chicago movement and I agree with the movement as a whole. But for anyone to react like that is ridiculous.
We shouldn’t have to work 3 jobs to “get by.” It’s a very American way of thinking and it doesn’t seem to work.
Dear bus driver,
From now on, please check the rearview when pulling away from bus stops. If there is someone running after the bus, take the extra two seconds to stop and let them on.
Dear ladies,
No matter how toned your body, leggings are NOT. PANTS. They are incomplete tights. Stop fucking wearing them as fucking pants.
Dear frat boys and sorority girls,
No one else cares. Shut up about it.
Dear universe,
Why is it that schools can have an African American Student Association, an Indian Subcontinent Student Association, as Asian Student Association, but if anyone tried to created a Caucasian Student Association or a European American Student Association, it’s fucking racist? They’re all racist. You can pretend that the Asian Student Association is open to any race that’s from Asia, or that the African American Student Association is open to any race that’s from Africa, but they are all still divided along racial - as well as ethnic and national - lines. Any group that excludes or includes people based on their race is racist. Just because the other groups are minority groups doesn’t make them right, or any less racist. What if I want to celebrate my French/Anglo-Saxon/Germanic heritage? Oh, wait. I’m white, therefore to do so would be racist.
Yeah.
Fuck EVERYONE today.
I’m going to go write my essay about the French fucking Revolution. See ya later, bitches.
k, but u rong doe.
Don’t talk to me today. I am legitimately serious. This Troy Davis stuff has me really on edge, and I don’t want to interact with you unless it is absolutely necessary. Don’t like that? I give about as many fucks about your feelings as your (because it damn sure ain’t mine) country’s “justice” system gives about those of us with non-negligible levels of pigmentation.
Okay what really makes me annoyed, is that “white people” are said to be the “racist ones” when it is equally spread out through ALL skin pigments. Just because someone is “white” doesn’t mean they are racist. Look at what YOU just posted; I take that as racism. Don’t be a hypocrite.
Racist against white people.
Okay.
Tumblr is unlike any other social network, but still reeks of something ever present in every single web-based social medium: it spurs with drama over the most idiotic and pointless things, like a rational human being, I usually tune it out. First of all I run a comic blog, the drama I need I get it from my comic reading, but sometimes, just sometimes I need to point out something that really gets in my nerves, this time it comes down to Mary Jane and her portrayal in comic books. It all started with this image:
Mary Jane // artwork by J. Scott Campbell (2009)
My eyes have read every single opinion regarding this artwork, from the people accusing the artist of being a sexist douche to inaccuracy/impossibility to achieve such posturing in a real human, the composition of her human form, you name it, I’ve read it all and frankly I could not disagree more with every statement made over this incredibly beautiful piece of artwork.
Want to know why? because beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and most of the people complaining scream “sexism” and point stupid conservationist ideas over a comic book character, showing in the proccess all the insecurity they are hiding from seeing a beloved comic book character renderend in a cheesecake pose. Tell me guys and gals, do you really have to make such a rant for it? It offends you that much? Is this something that will scar you for life and make you want to trow up everything you eat to achieve such a look? if you say yes to any of these questions, then Im very sorry for you my friend, but you are taking comic books way to seriusly.
On top of it all, somebody out there takes it one step forward and disrespect the original artist by making this:
This one doesn’t get credit, want to know why? even If I knew who the artist is I wouldn’t credit him for this travesty. Sure Mary Jane looks cool as your average indy girl who just woke up (even though she’s supposed the be a irrationally HOT super-model, something that people complaining must surely have forgot about), but the artist here didn’t make his own piece to make a point. The artist modified existing artwork to cover up what’s making so uncomfortable the people with major issues out there.
Sorry guys It doesn’t work that way, Comics Books, at least of the superhero kind is not a good place to point out your agendas, if a comic character is making you feel this insecure or even this enraged, is not the comic company the one with the problem, is not the artist who is commissioned and paid to draw such a piece of art. It’s you who have the problem, and instead of letting it affect your life, you should look for other publishers that puts out material more akin to your cravings for “realism”. I must say however that If I crave realism, I just have to read a paper, but that’s just me.
To end this point I’ll just say that for all the complaining you guys and girls did, in the comics business our voices are not heard in comic forums (the creators are the ones who hear you there), for the comic business we speak with our wallets and for all the hate the art of J.Scott Campbell may receive, belive me when I tell you that every time he publishes even a cover It sells like hotcakes.
Here’s some more (beautiful) art for you to hate:
All Pieces by J. Scott Campbell.
Okay, at first I thought this was a troll post, but then it wasn’t and I srs’d.
The difference between those other pictures and the original Mary Jane picture? At least those can be written off as casual poses.
1. Now, besides me not being able to do that pose that may just be me. But tell me ladies, how often do you squish your boobs like that? Unless you’re playing with them the answer is not often/never. It’s not comfy, and save for when standing/leaning it’s not something that happens that often on accident. Especially while holding something.
2. What is she doing to warrant her sitting like that? I can only assume she’s kinda sorta sighing wistfully at her man swinging around, but she’s obviously holding a hot beverage while monkeying around on the couch. I was aware that Mary Jane was supposed to be a hot model, I didn’t also realize she was a part time contortionist/breakdancer.
3. You’ve missed the bigger point, the problem is that all the women in comics are drawn like that, you can’t constantly write them off as cheesecake, I don’t care if they all look like hot Amazons, but make them look like plausible hot Amazons. Where boobs follow the laws of gravity, and hell even if they don’t where they’re not constantly being poked and pushed out. Or where the back isn’t arched as if they’re just waiting for someone to come and grab them.
4. When Tumblr was making fun of that picture they were making fun of the fact that no one sits like that to be comfortable and that it was just a silly pose for Campbell to pick. Simple as that, it had little to do with Mary Jane’s hotness (save for the boob squishing) and more to do with “Jesus Christ what are her wrists doing, why are her feet like that my knee popped trying to do that.”
5. “Sorry guys It doesn’t work that way, Comics Books, at least of the superhero kind is not a good place to point out your agendas, if a comic character is making you feel this insecure or even this enraged, is not the comic company the one with the problem, is not the artist who is commissioned and paid to draw such a piece of art. It’s you who have the problem, and instead of letting it affect your life, you should look for other publishers that puts out material more akin to your cravings for ‘realism’.”
6. “Taking comic books too seriously.” JESUS CHRIST LET ME BACK THE FUCK UP. HOW DARE I TAKE COMIC BOOKS, AN ART MEDIUM THAT CONSTANTLY INSISTS IT’S A SERIOUS MEDIUM SERIOUSLY.
HOW FUCKING DARE I.
HOW.
DARE.
I.
Haha you know what I’m looking forward to the most? The part where I roll up to Jourdyn’s house and yell “Get in the car, loser! We’re going shopping!” And then we’ll go to Old Orchard JUST LIKE THEY DID IN MEAN GIRLS OMG.
I’m obsessed with Mean Girls though
