Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) , Part II: Glorification of t... https://youtu.be/N5ZFsWceg9w via @YouTube

YES!

THE BEST PART WITH THE ALLOSAURUS!

* holds elbows to chest, cants wrists with thumb and first two fingers out, stands on tiptoe *

SKREEEEEEEEE

let's listen to The Nutcracker Suite in the middle of summer, hell why not

*Kevin Conroy voice*
BATMAN!

someone needs to punch that dude repeatedly until he starts saying more intelligent things, like "ow" for instance

more effective, someone needs to make sure that fucker can't be elected where he can harm people.

another thing you can sing to the tune of "My Sharona" is "Leyendecker"

remember when drawing Batman to use a softer line to emphasize the rounded forms of the lush, full buttocks which the character's known for

criminals are a cowardly and superstitious lot, and I must strike booty into their hearts

@matoakit @Kyresti Bear with me here; I agree with an online friend that, to some extent, you need to buy into a movie version of the police to make stories with police work okay. Kinda equivalent to buying into FTL travel or lasers making noises in space in movies.

EXCEPT with Zootopia, you can't. Granted the police aren't the RL version, but the story still relies on Zootopia's police being pretty terrible.

I fess up that I still really like the movie, still love the soundtrack, it's still gorgeous, and in 2016 I completely adored the thing. Some of what it had to say is still valid but... it lost a lot of appeal you know?

And, I'm pretty sure my Grampa *was* one of the few policemen who was also an okay person. He definitely was why I was so slow to adopt thinking that police as an institution need to be revamped if not completely discarded (I used to think you actually could sell them on things like de-sescalation); but knowing this individual who *didn't* and *couldn't* change how bad things are (and *were* btw), is why I really think this is a big systemic problem, that it *has* to be changed as a big systemic problem.

true story; the part of Zootopia where the police chief comes out with "the world has always been broken. That's why we need good cops," comes so close to talking about tikkun olam that it could have been something my Grampa said, and as such, it hit *hard*. It still kinda does.

Admittedly, of course, the NYPD are completely opposite to what I think my grandfather was hoping to do while there, and the police chief in the movie is a complete turd.

Oh. So there's a *them*, now.
#MovieQuote

oh YEAH the soundtrack from the part of Zootopia where suddenly it's Batman the Animated Series!

by the way, the part of the movie I liked most was how it suddenly became Batman the Animated Series for about 2 minutes there.

* cants wrists, thumb and first two fingers out, stands on tiptoe/digitigrade *
* to the "Case of the Manchas" score from "Zootopia" *

SCREEEEEEEEEEE

I would like to thank my Extremely Sicilian ex for how the exclamation "uhhh!" and cracking my knuckles (or trying to, I can't and she's an expert at it) has become my shorthand for a goomba, a kneecapper.

I've been lately realizing that a lot of what's effed up is a result of how capitalism wants to maximize ROI and is therefore very resistant to change.

A capitalist wants to reap the windfall of the next Apple, the next Jurassic Park or the next housing boom, regardless of how these things raked in that much money thanks to being new and unique. There's also a certain appeal to knowing you have a known moneymaker (like gas, or rent in the Bay Area). And then there's maximizing ROI by skimping on pay, employees, safety, maintenance, hours.

Consequently a lot of places where existence could be not-shit, are shitty. From Waffle House busting unions to studio executives planning to replace scriptwriters and extras with AI to jacked up rents to how fucking completely unexcited I am about anything superhero movie there is these days and more, it's all someone trying to maximize their ROI. Why would they change unless someone MADE them change?

And that's the government's job. Push change so that these guys have to figure out how to profit from unleaded gas, catalytic converters, relatively safe meat packing plants, etc. But of course when the government is thoroughly purchased, there's no way it will ever push the needed change. I don't especially love the idea of violent revolution, and despair of ever being able to push back as needed.

#drawing today, two headed land dragon takes a would be dragonslayer for a ride! Fairly overt violence and eye contact.

@FamiliarAlien you make wonderfully solid, expressive stuff!

@Oneironott thank you! Helps a bit.

What should I draw after I get off work?

The rest of learning from profound discomfort lately gets personal enough that it’s stuff I’d want to tackle in therapy if I HAD a therapist, but tldr is I tend to worry that I am or will be perceived as some form of fictional villain and therefore anything that happens to me is a presumed very deserved comeuppance (rather than the sort of random impersonal horrors that happen). Even after all the work I’ve done, my mind STILL holds onto that, if that makes sense?

I now think this suggests I’m actually NOT stupid, because I have enough brain power to scramble for possible technical solutions while also doing this horrible CPTSD stuff. (Similar to “I was never actually stupid, it’s easy for an experienced teacher to assume material they know is obvious when it ISN’T and express frustration towards me not getting it” which in turn is similar to “I was never actually the out of control monster which they taught me I was.”)

This has really established to me that the prior employers were truly bastardly, enough that where I thought I’d fucked up (this segues to my next point) that’s largely places they expected great performance and dismissed okay or good.

Larger point; whenever there’s a mistake my mind simultaneously plays out How Are these People Going to Punish Me and What If I Really Am this Inept Asshole Who Inevitably Fucks Up and It Won’t Stop Until I Die.