🐚 ms_xenophora 🐚 @amylsacks@mastodon.social

#collage #MastoArt #photoshop

"Buzzard's Bake Shop 2" - Four panels of alternating white cakes and cake mix boxes, against vertical stripes of red and blue stars on a white background. A "painted" question mark is over each cake. Accompanying text reads, "Ballot Cake Mix, USA" on boxes. And "How do you like yours" in red and blue, diagonally between the panels. A two-level line of tiny armchairs divides the comp in half horizontally.

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/327151

Kinda' getting into writing out desc. of my art, in case ppl w/visual issues want at least a vague idea of what I'm posting. Sorry if it's dull for every1 else. You can view my pieces *w/o* all the rambling here, though:

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/327151

Over there, your company will be just an occasional Aunt Joke, + info on some of the picture sources.

I don't make money from this so please don't sic any corporate lawyers on me.

Have a great week, Masto. [raises mug] ☕️ 🥐

One account of the "fun" brought to my fair city yet again yesterday by fascists. Don't read w/o your mental armor buckled on:

https://crimethinc.com/2018/07/01/portland-holds-it-down-against-fascists-and-police-the-clashes-of-june-30-2018

And they ladle out their shitty *Handmaid's Tale* GIFs when cornered, in case I needed yet another reason to feel like that book was overrated and never deserving of a second read.

Dear God, you clowns. You make the system sound like absolute SHIT, insist that it's the best that anyone should ever hope for in its current state and then wonder why participation in it is so damn unpopular.

🖕🖕🖕

Fun to watch these schmucks toy w/the idea that non-voters could deserve even more shaming than we who failed to choose the liberals' latest ordained one. Wait no actually it's another layer of tired bullshit. Wake me when a liberal somewhere can grasp that their constant wheezes of, "A vote for anyone to the left of my ordained one is a vote for the RW" may in fact FEED the public's learned helplessness and FURTHER DEPRESS voter turnout. Gah!

Oh, hey... peeking in at Le Birdhouse while resting my tired feet. Speaking of tired, Kathy Griffin and several of her giggly, ultra-rich pals are still mining this vein right now. JFC. I remember the 90s and *Women Aloud* on cable and feeling so much happiness at seeing talented female comics get some space of their own. Thank Dog I had no idea where it'd all gutter out. 😫

Nice. I'd forgotten about that T. Fisher King dude, but it's good that he's still reliably a piece of bought-and-paid-for Big Blue Bovine excrement.

🙄

Remember that no matter how much misdirected hate you feel towards Lefties who reject your horrible candidates, your tactics dealing with them should remain the same. Always pretend they have tons of power to alter the course of human history, but never offer them anything but insults & threats when they don't conform. Scream at them each & every time something bad happens that the blame is theirs & that you'll enjoy seeing them suffer. These are good tactics.

Delicious garden herbs, coming in by the handful now. 😋

McFems the age of horrible Clara Jeffries, a woman who Left-punches other women while publishing dapper Nazi shit, probably think they're pioneers in sleaze. But sadly they're not. Every generation has a plentiful supply.

To cement my rep as graying, flabby old fart who's never any fun, I also need to reminisce for a moment: in the aftermath of the 2000 election, I had a college-age feminist tell me that some pro-choice group (NARAL? Seems their style) was dropping leaflets on campus lying point-blank about Nader: saying he was pro-life, which he was not. Just to make sure that young liberal women would be too frightened to do anything but vote for shitty Al Gore.

I used to draw and write this kind of "edgy" shit in my 20s... but at least in my defense I wasn't monetizing it, or kissing the ass of a rag like the NYT. Also eventually I gave it up b/c even leaving aside the potential to hurt marginalized people, honestly it got boring as hell. My cohorts never moved on from that stuff, which I suppose is one reason I moved on from cartooning, and them. :/