Rantings of a Neurotic Dragon

laughingsquid: Gracie the Kitten Snuggles With Her Owner’s...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:30:22 -0400

laughingsquid:

Gracie the Kitten Snuggles With Her Owner’s Beard

I don’t always reblog cute animal videos

But when I do, it’s usually because I made a lot of weird noises while watching it.

sassymod: darktwinteeko: unbadger: double-interrobang...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:01:00 -0400

sassymod:

darktwinteeko:

unbadger:

double-interrobang submitted:

Have you seen this? I think it’d be a real shame if you haven’t seen this

no i have not! gaaahhh i love ringneck parrots they’re so silly. ;v;

PEEKABOO

AHHH!!! <33!!!

I usually don’t like birds but OMG <3

Photo

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:30:21 -0400

gamebuddy123: THAT ENDING.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:00:32 -0400

gamebuddy123:

THAT ENDING.

Photo

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:30:17 -0400

imperialdalek: zilliah: fullmetalhobo: I FOUND A CUTE...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:30:21 -0400

imperialdalek:

zilliah:

fullmetalhobo:

I FOUND A CUTE THING

THE BIT THAT REALLY GETS ME IS THE VIDEO DESCRIPTION!!!

I took Noah outside to play for a minute. What he saw was Spider-Man. He loves Spider-Man. He ran right up to him and gave him a big hug. When Spider-Man took off his mask is what surprised me. It took him a minute to realize that he was looking at his Daddy! That’s when I started crying. Jason was home from Afghanistan for leave to welcome our newborn daughter Kali pronounced (Kal-ee) like California.

Don’t mind me i’m just gonna go weep of awesome adorableness.

Best welcome home greeting ever. I love Spider-man, so this is exactly how I’d want to be greeted.

puddletumbles: this goes for more than a romantic relationship....

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:00:47 -0400

puddletumbles:

this goes for more than a romantic relationship. friendships, family-ships, you name it.

Photo

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:30:24 -0400

clitoracy: exvin: cyanide and happiness dropping truth...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:01:14 -0400

clitoracy:

exvin:

cyanide and happiness dropping truth bombs

I often forget how much I love Cyanide and Happiness.

sendificator: ok welcome to Liberal Problems with emily where i...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:30:36 -0400

sendificator:

ok welcome to Liberal Problems with emily where i tell you why your cute well-meaning liberal slogans are actually really harmful

the idea of “omg lets just abandon all labels” is appealing from the liberal standpoint of “everyone is equal”— there’s no need to put everyone into little boxes, right? but the thing is that we are not equal. there are systemic inequalities in society, and many marginalized people need to use labels in order to find communities of people that are like themselves and understand what they are going through.

there is absolutely nothing inherently wrong with labeling oneself! in fact, when you tout this “why do you need to label yourself??? we’re ALL THE SAME” rhetoric, you are actually showing that you don’t remotely comprehend what it might be like to not have a name for what you are. in the case of many queer people, arriving at their “gross label” was a very long and arduous process, and just having a name to call themselves can be extremely empowering.

do not invalidate people’s identities in the name of “everyone being equal”!!!!!!!

madsmikklsen: fuckyeahrichhall: madsmikklsen: i love how men mock women for being overemotional...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:01:22 -0400

madsmikklsen:

fuckyeahrichhall:

madsmikklsen:

i love how men mock women for being overemotional and then lose their shit over a team losing an over-glorified game of fetch

Because all men like watching sports, obviously, right? You just did what you hate men doing, putting generalizations on a whole gender.

i know i did

irritating, isn’t it?

winneganfake: adventurotica: Toothless...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:37 -0400

winneganfake:

adventurotica:

Toothless cosplay

…..

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How in hell does this have so few notes?

darnni: textbookfangirl: agnaeoh: gaymur-gurl: alexandraerin:...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:01:22 -0400

darnni:

textbookfangirl:

agnaeoh:

gaymur-gurl:

alexandraerin:

breakthenorm:

redcloud:

thedaddycomplex:

futurefantastic:

jonny5fefrenzy:

-knock knock.

—who’s there?

-freedom.

freedom would never knock

freedom rings

And if it takes longer than 30 minutes, your freedom is free.

If you experience freedom lasting four hours or more, contact your physician immediately.

eagle sold separately

*Some restrictions apply.

batteries not included

limited time offer

side effects may include liberty and justice for all

this entire country is crazy.

cracked: Would people be so worked up about the Cheerios ad...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:30:21 -0400

cracked:

Would people be so worked up about the Cheerios ad interracial family if the mom was black and the dad was white? #CrackedClassic

5 Old-Timey Prejudices That Still Show Up in Every Movie

ceasepool: underthevastblueseas: Sarcastic Fringehead [video...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:00:40 -0400

ceasepool:

underthevastblueseas:

Sarcastic Fringehead

[video source]

SPOOKY

c2ndy2c1d: meehighmeelo: fyeahartstudentowl: bigbigtruck: jul...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:30:22 -0400

c2ndy2c1d:

meehighmeelo:

fyeahartstudentowl:

bigbigtruck:

juliedillon:

romy-chan:

I made this comic solely to explain how the interview went, so please ignore how ugly it looks. This was easier than trying to just write it down for me.

I am a very emotional person especially when I’m nervous, so this event hit me quite hard.

More news soon.

Oh honey. Oh god. I’m so sorry. Okay. This is not a school you want to associate with. These are bad people. They are not better than you. I don’t care how prestigious they think or say they are. Going there would have been a waste of your time, because you are so much better than anything they could offer you and they do not have a fucking clue what they are talking about. Trust me. I struggled through a college full of people just like that, and got nothing out of it but wasted time and resentment. All they did was tell me I was phony and a failure for wanting to actually learn how to draw and paint, and that is all kinds of backwards. All that self-important grandiose bullshit about illustration and technical skill not being “art” is just hiding the fact that they can’t paint or draw for shit. They live in an echo-chamber, and they only worship the absolute newest trends in the handful of areas of modern art they deem worthy, to the exclusion of all else. That is NOT art, that is elitism and egotism, pure and simple, and that sure as hell does not help the students. They are NOT better than you. Your beautiful artwork and expressiveness and illustrative style are powerful and important - everyone’s is. Saying someone’s work is “not art” and therefore not important is not a critique. It’s an asshole thing to say, and offers absolutely nothing of importance or value for potential students.

Now, that isn’t to say there is no value in modern and post modern and abstract expressionist etc. art - on the contrary. The more inclusive you can be in your influences, and the more you can look at and study, the better. (Branching out is always a healthy thing to do!) But if that’s ALL a school has to offer, if an art school tries to tell you that technical skill and illustration are invalid or unimportant, if they try to tell you that Rembrandt and Van Gogh aren’t worth looking at or studying because they are dead, if they dismiss artists they don’t approve of as “kids who like to scribble,” if they tell you that you don’t have a place there unless you conform exactly to what they want, then you need to avoid that place like the plague, because they are not there to help you, they are not there to teach you, they are there to find people who can make the school look even more self-important than it already is.

Sorry for the rant. XD I’m still haven’t quite gotten over how crappy my art college experience was. (For those interested, the crap school in question was Sacramento State University. After I left, I attended a handful of classes and workshops at the Academy of Art University in SF and Watts Atelier in Encinitas, CA ,which helped me SO much more, as the teachers were interested in actually helping students learn the skills that art schools are supposed to teach you. You know, painting and drawing and inking and sculpting and all that good stuff.)

Uh, so yeah. >_> Basically look for schools with a good technical program that stresses life drawing, painting, drawing. Art is one of the few careers where people care about your portfolio more than where you got your degree (unless you’re gearing up to work for a Pixar or Dreamworks or something, in which case it does help). So find a place that will help you be the best you can be, and don’t worry about how prestigious or fancy they think they are. <3

Echoing Julie’s remarks here. I spent my college years at an institution like the one in the comic that valued ~soul expression~ and AbEx over developing technical skills. At the time, I thought it was all peaches, because I was (and still am) super into making and observing AbEx art. Fortunately, I was required to take classes in Photoshop and Illustrator— without those, I would not have gotten a job after college.

I graduated without having learned ANYTHING about drawing, about color theory, about perspective or line weight or form. At thirt*coughcough* I’m still drawing like a high school kid and trying to make up for the damage of those wasted years.
Fuck “real art”, fuck “high art”, fuck “low art”. Learn, develop, grow, evolve, create.

I don’t often reblog stuff, but this comic and the commentary are incredibly important.

A lot of people ask me about college, expressing fear and nerves about whether or not they’re “good enough” or doing “the right art” to get in/do well. Fuck that, kids.

Find a school that will help you grow, no matter what art you do. Be open to criticism, yes, but if the school you’re talking to talks down to you or says that what you’re doing isn’t ~*~*~*”REAL”~*~*~ art, tell ‘em to fuck right off and walk the fuck outta there. That attitude is wrong. THEY are wrong.

You deserve to have an environment that nurtures your art and your skills and offers classes that will help you the very most that they can. Nothing will hurt you/your art more than cutting off the corners of your square peg to fit into a round hole.

/raises fist in solidarity

/extends middle finger at art elitist assholes

Wow what the actual fuck

i’m gonna stick my finger in my mouth just to puke all over them.

thefrogman: I believe that there are a small group of women who...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:00:51 -0400

thefrogman:

I believe that there are a small group of women who hate men just for being men. I believe that the textbook definition of the word misandry fits that description. I believe there are bad things that happen to men. I believe those issues should be addressed. I do not believe that a fringe group of women who hate men can be blamed for those issues.

Misandry was a dead word until recently. A group of men who feared the progress of feminism revived the word and used it to undercut the movement. They like having the power being a man provides and they don’t want to lose that. So they created a movement, found a bunch of legitimate issues that affect men, and tried to blame women for those issues. They called this misandry. It’s like conservatives using buzzwords like “death panels” to make people fear health care. They let people assume it meant Obama wanted to kill your grandma. They let there cute little phrase infect the minds of good people and convince them of falsehoods.

People are telling me that men cannot report rape without getting laughed at. They say this is misandry. It is the fault of women who hate men. But that just doesn’t make any sense to me. When I seek a logical explanation, it seems more likely that this is because men are supposed to be strong and women are supposed to be weak. And rape has been viewed as something that happens mostly to women. So if it does happen to a man, they must be weak. How did this idea of men=strong and women=weak start? I’m pretty sure it wasn’t because of misandry. It is an ancient patriarchy collapsing in on itself.

True feminism is about fighting inequality. It’s about erasing that strong/weak perception ingrained into our society. Misandry, as the term is often used today, is about trying to blame women for anything bad that happens to men.

If you want to fight to fix issues that affect men, go for it. But I would really consider distancing yourself from this term. It is used to evangelize folks into a movement that is very problematic. A group that can’t handle scrutiny of their comic books and video games, so they send death and rape threats. A group that calls women sluts and think they ask for rape if they show too much cleavage. Those are the people who coined this term, and you should want nothing to do with them or their language.

cristheweirdo: Objectification and…Men? by Jimquisition For...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:30:21 -0400

cristheweirdo:

Objectification and…Men?

by Jimquisition

For any guy that responds to women’s objectification in any media (yes, this video pertains to video games specifically, but it still applies to all other forms of media.) with “well men are objectified too!”, sit the fuck down and watch.

tardisheart: DO YOU EVER WANNA TALK ABOUT A THING SO MUCH YOU’RE GONNA EXPLODE BUT NO ONE WANTS TO...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:00:34 -0400

tardisheart:

DO YOU EVER WANNA TALK ABOUT A THING SO MUCH YOU’RE GONNA EXPLODE BUT NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT THE THING SO YOU CAN’T AND JUST WOW! LET! ME! TALK! ABOUT! THE! THING!

sorcererlance: jasonalanjr: southpawscopic: l-am-littlefeather...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:30:15 -0400

sorcererlance:

jasonalanjr:

southpawscopic:

l-am-littlefeather:

artalias:

enganld-ebooks:

ruem:

wunderscheisse:

blaien:

so this commercial is being taken down and off of tv after Cheerios got complaints from people about how this commercial is promoting bi-racial families. as a child coming from a bi-racial family i’m actually astonished and disgusted. it’s 20 fucking 13 people, get a grip.

Wait what

What then can we all just spread this around online cause it’s pretty damn cute

well if they got a problem with bi-racial they got a problem with me

People will find literally anything to bitch at. No, let’s ignore this cute commercial about cereal, let’s instead focus on a race issue! Are you fucking kidding me?! Is innocence really that lost? They could have all been the same race and it would be no different, but instead, because they’re a mixed race, that’s what sparks ire in people?! Are you fucking kidding me?!

This makes me sad. It reminds me when my nephew was in first grade the class had a project where they put together pictures of their family on a tree. When his teacher told him that me and his grandfather couldn’t be part of his family because we are not colored alike (he is Native American, German and Mexican while we are of European and Scandinavian descent). He was so devastated it was heartbreaking-why do people have to put their prejudices off on others? And why do they assume a family can only look one way?

THIS IS THE MOST PRECIOUSLY ADORABLE COMMERCIAL THO <333

If they don’t already, because I know they have chocolate cheerios, I really hope they make a normal/chocolate cheerios mix.

^ I’d love to see that happen, pretty much as the nicest “fuck you” for a limited time only~

Wow. WOW. I HOPE that’s made-up, but knowing the media, it’s probably true.

I may only be part white, part Latin@, it still rubs me the WRONG way when I hear people have a PROBLEM with things like this.

Uuuugh, but I’m just happy this commercial exists. We need more like them. Screw the haters. I am all for promoting bi-racial families.