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A Lilbit of Everything!

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Just a chill blog where I post a little of everything! Enjoy your stay ^-^ she/her mid-30s Header/pfp by me! (It's Julian Price Lake near Blowing Rock, NC)

Hey there welcome!! Sorry for the mess

Figured I'd show you all around my side blogs while you're here *shoves the dog away from under your feet*

Good Omens - @ineffable-hyperfixation everything ineffable! Actually has some commonly used tags! Have fun!

Pokémon Tournament! - @which-is-the-very-best Individual generations went head to head and eventually Snom won! Hopefully there will be more polls in the future!

Lucifer - @deckerstar-family a mostly abandoned one now, but lots of fun gifs and art and such if you wanna have a nice scroll! Also well tagged!! Wow!

Go ahead and pick a room to hang out in while you're here! Enjoy!

Anonymous asked:

Fox update!

It keeps coming around! Never as loud but just as stinky (I think I just have a sensitive nose for that kind of thing, I always smell a really earthy, dirt kinda smell before I hear it) and, for some wild reason, my dog simply Does Not Care about it 😂

It walked right up to my parents sliding glass door (they have one leading to the deck off their room) barked at the door, and my dog apparently just?? Raised her head??? Like, "what? I'm sleeping?" and laid back down???

I've seen that dog try to tear the door down before because she thought she heard a cat tip toeing around

Mom and I have come to the conclusion that she views it as a weird cousin hanging around ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and at this point Mom's just trying to figure out how to keep the fox out of the compost lol

Hopefully that's all the drama we ever get out of the two canines!

(thank you so much for your and some of the commenters responses! Really put my mind at ease! As well as walking her on a leash that first morning just in case, and her being completely uninterested in anything outside! Which is so rare because she's part border collie part hound dog...she LOVES random scents!)

enjoy your new fox friend! I am NOT seething with jealousy right now. I'm NOT. I'M NOT

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My darlings the answer is salt! (Kidding eat things however you like lol but I do recommend trying some salt! Super yummy!)

Also! Ask your doctor about grapefruit and your meds!! Usually it's only heart medication that you should avoid grapefruit completely! Most other meds you just shouldn't take within 2 hours of eating the fruit! (And you really shouldn't have it every day lol)

But again please ask your doctor to be sure!!

“The Militarization of the Police Department – Deadly Farce,” an original painting by Richard Williams from “The 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things of 2014″ in Mad magazine #531, published by DC Comics, February 2015.

Here’s the original, for comparison. And here’s a bit more about the artist and why he created the piece above for MAD Magazine.

Richard Williams on Norman Rockwell:

“For most people, he was the painter of ‘America,’” he added. “But even he said his vision was what he wanted ‘America’ to be. It was a mythical ‘America,’ a place where all people were decent, honest and full of good will. His work was full of gentle humor that made you feel a little better; even if you knew it wasn’t really true… you just wished it was. My parody of Rockwell’s painting simply says, ‘That myth is dead.’”

I think it’s relevant to add that even Norman Rockwell chose to leave his cushy job at the Saturday Evening Post because he wanted to make artwork that was more radical. The Post had rules that wouldn’t allow him to do artwork depicting black people as anything other than servants. The job paid really well and that was a huge reason he continued on. But he wanted change that and so he moved to Look magazine.

A lot of people know about the very first piece he did when he left the post which was the The Problem We All Live With which depicts Ruby Bridges walking to school under federal protection.

But I don’t think enough people know about Murder in Mississippi which depicts three real civil rights activists who were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and sherriffs. The magazine ran the sketch instead of the finished piece because they felt it had a more striking statement to accompany the article. Norman Rockwell would finish that version after publication which is here

Rockwell’s legacy is sanitized because he decided to maintain his job at the Post for so long despite his frustrations with not being able to express himself. The civil rights movement was just his final straw to change what he could with the little time he had left. Look magazine received a lot of hate for Rockwell painting these as well.

Another favorite piece of mine is The Right to Know which depicts an integrated populace questioning their government. In 1968, the year of Vietnam and the year the Fair Housing Act only just got signed in months prior:

But I think it’s important to include the caption Rockwell originally wrote for the piece as well. I think it represents how a 74 year old Rockwell felt about the America he believed in and the people in it:

We are the governed, but we govern too. Assume our love of country, for it is only the simplest of self-love. Worry little about our strength, for we have our history to show for it. And because we are strong, there are others who have hope. But watch us more closely from now on, for those of us who stand here mean to watch those we put in the seats of power. And listen to us, you who lead, for we are listening harder for the truth that you have not always offered us. Your voice must be ours, and ours speaks of cities that are not safe, and of wars we do not want, of poor in a land of plenty, and of a world that will not take the shape our arms would give it. We are not fierce, and the truth will not frighten us. Trust us, for we have given you our trust. We are the governed, remember, but we govern too.

I’d just like to briefly say even Rockwell’s seemingly feel good Americana pieces are often more political than people today realize for example

likely the most famous picture of a Thanksgiving dinner ever painted and you see it all the time.

What you may not know is its actual title

“Freedom From Want” it’s a part of a series of 4, including this now famous meme

“Freedom of Speech” These paintings were illustrations of FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech where The President laid out a vision that would become what the Allies were fighting for in WWII universal human rights that became a part of the UN charter.

So this homey American Thanksgiving scene was also a bold statement that no one in the world should go hungry

Rockwell’s work was very political, he used that Americana small town America vibe of his work to make what he was saying feel very close to the viewers he was trying to reach and also his optimism of the human spirt but for sure not blind to the need to build a better world.

When you learn how to crochet/ knit or really any type of fiber arts, there will be a voice in your head that tells you that you should make something for everyone for the holidays.

Do not listen to that voice, for it is the devil.

why is it able to instantly liquify a bay leaf but struggles with garlic 😭

it’s fine—I turned it off and started trying to fish out the bay leaf bits with a fork

okay actually though. How bad is it really to have bay leaf in there?? looking it up

Okay so it’s Not Ideal but I’m just gonna blend it more and Deal With It

I’m giving the swiffer a 4/10 rating for its ability to clean ceilings btw

^^^ This. The COMBINED population of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) is only about 2.6 million. That's not small town numbers, sure, but compared to NYC (20.1 million in the metropolitan area)? LA? (12.9 million "")?

Minneapolis is being made an example of because they're the most bitesized target, and if you're doing a shock and awe campaign like this you need to not choke on national tv.

(And they're still having to fight for it. Minneapolis isn't taking this laying down, and more power to them for their courage.)

my dad thinks the concept of shipping is hilarious. my parents are cool, they know about my online presence, it's fine. dad doesn't scroll my blog or anything, though--he's usually too busy watching dubiously homoerotic pro wrestling clips or playing valheim--so his idea of shipping culture is bizarre

damn near every time I mention im working on a fic or piece of fanart, he gasps in hopeful anticipation and asks "tamatoa and heihei?!" and he always acts bitterly disappointed

no, dad. i'm not writing or drawing anything where a 50 foot crab and a literal chicken have any kind of relationship at all. you've been asking me to make this ship happen for almost nine years now and the answer has always been no. it's a running gag, of course, but--why would you even think of that?! what kind of shit do you think happens on ao3?!

I have decided to make my dad's vision a reality

behold

happy holidays. My dad is threatening to print this on a shirt

Op did he like it or did he love it

he says he's gonna wear it to work

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