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[youhavethewrong]

by @beetlemoses

[santapau]

New Secret Knots comic: "Cryptid".

[marvelsmostwanted]

There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most — public praise on the Sunday news shows — in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.

I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.

As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.

The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.

The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.

As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.

I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.

I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.

All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.

Sources:

• NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text

• Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)

[glindauplland]

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (2025) + TUMBLR REACTIONS

[suiheisen]

you're doing amazing sweetie KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (2025)

bonus:

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[mercurio-shadowz]

Shadow is Rouge's n1 fan (and hater, currently)

+ Sonic is here literally just to be a little prick

This took so long @_@

[thankstothe]

folk hero really

[valdotpng]

an accomplice turned victim his apology, long overdue

[sailorsun546]

That's ✨Color Relativity✨ baybeeeee

I see others have mentioned James Gurney and Marco Bucci as great artists to look at for more info on the subject, they are fantastic. If you can get ahold of a copy, Jame's Gurney's book Color and Light is a nice place to start.

A way to study this is to study how light interacts with the environment. All colors that are possible are bound by the color of the light source.

The yellow-orange light of the street lamps casts everything in orange hues. The closer an object is to a light source, the more saturated it is and also the closer to the color of the light source it is.

If we are outside in the middle of the day, things tend to be their local color (that is, their inherent individual color). The "white light" of the sun contains all visible wavelengths of light, so within the bright light of the sun, all colors are visible.

As the sun sets, the color of the light in the atmosphere changes completely.

Suddenly these cacti, that we know are green, are hue-shifted towards orange where the light touches them directly. This can make them brown in places, as green and orange are far enough apart from each other on the color wheel that they begin to neutralize one another. (more on this in a moment)

Let's look under water.

Technically we know this guy is purple, but it doesn't matter because no red wavelengths are making it down there far enough for us to be able to see them. Everything is aggressively hue-shifted towards blue.

Whatever the local color of these fish are is completely overpowered by the green hue of the light (i presume because it's reflecting off a fuckton of algae in the environment and that is making green light bounce around like crazy)

Every object reflects light and that light bounces around and mixes with every single thing around it.

No color exists in isolation. Put a brightly colored object next to a white object and you will see that color reflect of the surface of the white object. That is Color Relativity on a small scale. On the largest scale we're talking about lamps, streetlights, the sun and the moon.

It's time to talk about this thing.

You probably know about Complimentary Colors by now, and Fun Fact: Most commercial color wheels are bullshit because they completely neglect the existence of Magenta. I like the wheel pictured above, so if you want a physical color wheel look for a CMY Color Wheel (cyan, magenta yellow). All other color wheels are wrong. I will die on this hill.

I want you to think of the color wheel as a physical space through which color must pass. Remember how I said orange and green begin to neutralize one another? The closer colors are on the wheel, the brighter the colors that they will mix together. The further apart they are, the "muddier" that mixed color will become. True complimentary colors will completely neutralize into a neutral gray or black. Colors that are only sorta complimentary will make a flavor of brown.

Here is my wheel that I have disassembled. (I wish the colors leading to the center showed a greater variety of desaturation and neutrals, but it'll have to do.) The center is a perfect neutral grey, and as the colors radiate out from the center they get more saturated until they reach the edge, at which they are the most saturated they can possibly be.

When I was a child I was told that "red and blue make purple :) " and every time I tried to mix a nice, bright purple I got a dusty, almost brown concoction. That is because a "true" red and "true" blue are much too far away from each other on the color wheel. The further away from each other they are, the more desaturated your mixture will be.

Take your starting colors and draw a straight line between them. This isn't an exact science, but it gives you an approximation of how bright or dull your resulting color will be. See that little star? Look how much closer to the center, and therefore a neutral, the mixture from Red and Blue is compared to Magenta and Blue.

That's cool, but how does this relate to the cactus from before?

Well we're starting with an object whose local color is Green, and bathing it in Orange light. So, you're mixing green and orange light together. That green object is going to start to look more brown as a result.

To achieve this digitally, you have to take your local color and literally pull it towards the color of the light source. It's like taking a color and scooching it to the left, if that makes sense to anyone at all.

All I did here is take my local color (pink!) and scoot to toward the color of the light source or atmosphere, and adjust my saturation accordingly. I think of color as being in a constant state of tug-of-war across the wheel. If I have a starting point (local color) and a light source color, I know which direction to yank my local color towards.

Lastly, I think this guy's Instagram is a really neat place for learning more about color interactions. I find the more I learn about how light works, and how our eyes perceive color, the better I understand how to apply color in my art.

GOD I hope any of this made sense at all!

[climbingthefloors]

obsessed with this baby hippo from thailand's khao khew zoo.. she has been so utterly betrayed by the world

[selkiesparrow]

Zoozve, my beloved

[staff]

Tumblr Tuesday: KPop Demon Hunters!

Well, here's hoping you love Kpop, enemies-to-lovers, neon hues, and derpy familiars. What am I saying, this is Tumblr. Huntrix and their frenemies have taken the dash by storm, and your fanart is dazzling. Please enjoy this small selection 💜 (Beware, spoilers ahead!)

@bunnilily:

@fuck-it-darling:

@chaaistheanswer:

@howdy5455:

@kunayoo:

@gabbiecasso:

@kkelsey--spring:

@malotte00:

@nocusbonkus:

@yumeastra:

@letoscrawls:

@matyldr:

@laiwaqing:

@starrforge:

@bedbuggie:

@pyrlemon:

@giadin-a:

@camriod:

@mxxn-archive:

@danicloth

@miacat7:

[bearloonz]

Something happened yesterday.

[starryswirly]

I'm finished with art for the semester soooo here's what I've been workin on! All assets are my own. I used a DSLR camera along with Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint

⚠️Prints and stickers available here!

Feel free to send asks about the unaltered photos/photo locations, cause some of the original signs were pretty interesting tbh

⚠️Prints and stickers available here!