ᴀʟᴡᴀʏs ϟ

Lunar new year is coming up so I drew this based on the beautiful fat horse sculpture in nanjing

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The moral injury caused by Trump’s policies

This is what I have been experiencing since the dumbest people in the world joined hands with the most despicable people in the world to reelect the the most despcable man (also a pedophile rapist) after he promised to do all the things they insist the did not vote for.

It’s just so crazy to realize that, as a white guy, I am only now starting to see and experience the America that Black and Brown people have lived in for 250 years. I just didn’t see past the mask. I think I was afraid to look, to be honest.

When America ripped off its mask, I knew we’d find a monster underneath. I had no idea, could not imagine or even comprehend, the Lovecraftian horror of anger, rage, racism, hate, proud ignorance and lust for violence that has always been there.

I grew up in a house with two deeply racist, incomprehensibly stupid, tirelessly revanchist dipshits. I had a front row seat, and even I could not see how truly irredeemable and despicable they truly are.

No wonder my parents had no friends when I was growing up, and we rarely visited extended family. It all makes so much sense, now.

be a lurker. just read things and think about them without feeling the need to weigh in or call out or disseminate everything you encounter. it's so nice and so freeing and it's a good way to learn things.

To surface.

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the kiss, pastel on paper, 36”x42”