Sketches and Souvenirs

OMG KOTTERI!!!! (◡‿◡✿)

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:59:06 -0500

OMG KOTTERI!!!! (◡‿◡✿)

single ladies devastation comic.jpgBased on my favorite Razer...

Sun, 19 May 2013 03:42:00 -0500

single ladies devastation comic.jpg

Based on my favorite Razer and Aya babby headcanons (oh god I’m sorry if I ruined them ffff)

I’d like to think Aya and Razer can be capable of making and/or adopting both organic children and mecha children someday. (`v`) Because fandom is freedom and I love all these baby headcanons omggg.

But not without Razer saying an insensitive thing as always, and then ruining everyone’s day.

yosilog: A.I.Afrom the awesome GREEN LANTERN: THE ANIMATED...

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:05:37 -0500

yosilog:

A.I.A

from the awesome GREEN LANTERN: THE ANIMATED SERIES
for a robot she sure has a nice tooshy

That’s Why It’s Also Called
“Nice Butts: The Animated Series”

yosilog: Here’ some GLTAS fanart for y’all ‘

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:32:23 -0500

yosilog:

Here’ some GLTAS fanart for y’all

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animationtidbits: Mulan - Visual Development

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:07:26 -0500

animationtidbits:

Mulan - Visual Development

10 Things You Might Not Know About Asian American History

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:06:06 -0500

18mr:

gondoleia:

by Jenn Fang

It’s almost the end of May. Do you know your Asian-American history?

Most of America isn’t aware that May is Asian-American Heritage Month. It’s a celebration that started in 1978, when Congress urged President Jimmy Carter to declare the week of May 4th ”Asian-American Heritage Week.” (That date was chosen to coincide with the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants on May 7, 1843, and with the completion of the first transcontinental railroad — built largely by Chinese laborers — on May 10, 1869.) More recently in 1990, following another vote by Congress, President George H.W. Bush expanded Asian-American Heritage Week to encompass the entire month of May.

Sadly, Asian-American history and heritage is rarely taught in U.S. public schools. So for those of you who’ve missed such curriculum, here’s a list of 10 factoids you may not have known about the history of Asian-Americans in this country:

1). The first Asians whose arrival in America was documented were Filipinos who escaped a Spanish galleon in 1763. They formed the first Asian-American settlement in U.S. history, in the swamps surrounding modern-day New Orleans.

2). In the years between 1917 and 1965, Uncle Sam explicitly outlawed immigration to the U.S. of all Asian people. Immigration from China, for example, was banned as early as 1882, when the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed. It wasn’t until the Immigration Act of 1965— which abolished national origins as a basis for immigration decisions — that nearly 50 years of race-based discrimination against Asian immigrants ended.

3). Because of their race, Asians immigrants were denied the right to naturalize as U.S. citizens until the 1943 Magnuson Act was passed. Consequently, for nearly a century of U.S. history, Asians were barred from owning land and testifying in court by laws that specifically targeted “aliens ineligible to citizenship.” Even after the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, American-born children of Chinese immigrants were not regarded as American citizens until the landmark 1898 Supreme Court case, United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which established that the Fourteen Amendment also applied to people of Asian descent.

4). Among the earliest Asian immigrants, virtually all ethnicities worked together as physical laborers, particularly on Hawaii’s sugar cane plantations. On these plantations, a unique hybrid language — pidgin — developed that contained elements of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean and English. Today, pidgin is one of the official languages of Hawaii, a state that is itself 40% Asian.

5). Despite the Alien Land Law, which specifically prevented Asians from owning their own land, Japanese farmers were highly successful in the West Coast where they put into practice their knowledge of cultivating nutrient-poor soil to yield profitable harvests. By the 1920s, Japanese farmers (working their own land, or land held by white landowners that they managed) were the chief agricultural producers of many West Coast crops. In fact, the success of Japanese farmers is often cited as one of the reasons white landowners in California lobbied to support Japanese-American internment following the declaration of World War II.

6). Many of the early Asian immigrants who worked as laborers on plantations and in factories were instrumental in the formation of the American labour movement, helping to organize some of the first strikes and unions throughout the country. Japanese plantation workers, for example, engaged in the first organized strike in Hawaii in 1904.

7). Anti-miscegenation laws that denied marriage licenses between interracial couples specifically prohibited intermarriage between whites and Asians. For example, the 1922 Cable Act revoked the citizenship of any female U.S. citizen who married an “alien ineligible to citizenship,” a phrase repeatedly used in legal documents to refer to Asians.

8). Unlike Irish immigrants, who predominantly entered the United States via the Ellis Island immigration center, most Asian immigrants entered America by way of Angel Island Immigration Station. Unlike at Ellis Island, where immigrants might spend between two and five hours waiting to be processed, the Angel Island facility’s unspoken goal was to limit the flow of Asian immigrants into the country. Between 1910 and 1940, many prospective Asian immigrants were detained for as long as two years at Angel Island, stymied by U.S. immigration officials hoping to find reasons to deport them. Some of the detainees wrote poems in Chinese on the walls of the Angel Island detention facility; these poems have since been translated and collected into anthologies.

9). During World War II, Japanese American internees — including both Japanese immigrants and their American children — were forcibly relocated from their homes in the West Coast to remote relocation camps. Even still, several young Japanese-American men went on to successfully lobby the American government to be allowed to volunteer as soldiers in World War II, often to prove their loyalty to the United States. The 442nd infantry regiment, a segregated Asian-American unit composed almost entirely of Japanese-Americans, fought in Italy, France and Germany and is still the most highly decorated regiment in United States Armed Forces history.

10). In 1982, a young Chinese-American man named Vincent Chin was brutally clubbed to death by two white men in Detroit, Michigan. The crime was motivated, in part, by anti-Asian sentiment stemming from widespread loss of auto manufacturing jobs to Japanese competitors; Ronald Ebens, one of the attackers, was heard saying “it’s because of you little motherfuckers that we’re out of work” to Chin moments before the attack. Despite pleading guilty to second-degree murder, Chin’s killers did not serve any jail time for Chin’s murder, and were only fined $3,000. Vincent Chin’s death served as a flashpoint that ignited the modern Asian-American political movement.

And that’s just for starters.

gracie-law: The Three Dragons, then and now

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:03:44 -0500

gracie-law:

The Three Dragons, then and now

Photo

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:02:34 -0500

moremoxy: bwrwglawyma: moremoxy: mmemento: moremoxy: mmemento: I miss GLTAS so much, can’t ya...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:29:55 -0500

moremoxy:

bwrwglawyma:

moremoxy:

mmemento:

moremoxy:

mmemento:

I miss GLTAS so much, can’t ya tell?

kingkaiser: a mess

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:50:36 -0500

kingkaiser:

a mess

I stayed up late writing a detailed novel called “How to...

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:47:00 -0500

I stayed up late writing a detailed novel called

“How to drive away your tumblr followers in 30 seconds: By drawing nothing but Aya x Razer fanart: A Memoir”

Kingfisher Girl? more like Workhorse girl. :’(

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:45:00 -0500

Kingfisher Girl? more like Workhorse girl. :’(

lordsquiggleshire: pixelnoton: #tw: dynamite gal Oh wait now...

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:29:54 -0500

lordsquiggleshire:

pixelnoton:

#tw: dynamite gal

Oh wait now I get what triggers are

"The problem with Seth MacFarlane’s humor, as always, is that he’s almost always punching down..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:25:31 -0500

“The problem with Seth MacFarlane’s humor, as always, is that he’s almost always punching down instead of punching up. He’s picking on people who have always been picked upon, and he thinks he’s hilarious for doing so. What’s more, he’s making a lot of money from other people who enjoy that sort of thing. But that doesn’t make him funny. It makes him one of those fratboy douchebags who seem to be everywhere in life, even into middle age, making uncomfortably insulting wisecracks that always seem to end with the protest that “I’m just joking.” The result? The two white guys are the straight men in this bit. Everybody else—foreign, old, female—is ripe for the ribbing.”

- Joel Mathis, “Seth MacFarlane’s Racist, Sexist New Show, Dads” (via seriouslyamerica)

inbetweenthelineart: razaya: fotisha: Quick Razer paint I did...

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:46:43 -0500

inbetweenthelineart:

razaya:

fotisha:

Quick Razer paint I did the other night before bed

is it even legal to be this late to a fandom

WELCOME TO THE FANDOM!!!!! And your art is absolutely gorgeous!

Yes

It is never too late, friend. You are here and you are loved.

steveholtvstheuniverse: cerebus92: What happen when Pepper Ann...

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:44:12 -0500

steveholtvstheuniverse:

cerebus92:

What happen when Pepper Ann tries to buy a comic book?

1998

More than a decade later and this is still relevant

pascalcampion: The Dance

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:42:44 -0500

pascalcampion:

The Dance

cspainey: Artist Porblemz™! In fairness, this feature has saved...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:03:35 -0500

cspainey:

Artist Porblemz™!

In fairness, this feature has saved my ass more times than it’s bitten me in it.

[more comics!]

REBLOGGING TO THE SPEED OF LIGHT BECAUSE TRUE STORY TO ME EVERYONE

yoisthisracist: anonymous asked: All this racist shit over a black Johnny Storm is hurting my...

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:46:46 -0500

yoisthisracist:

anonymous asked: All this racist shit over a black Johnny Storm is hurting my insides.

Dear Nerds: If you’re getting upset that fucking Hollywood is too diverse for you, you need to have a long, hard look at the inherent racism of your racist-ass medium.

Young Justice Update from SMGO

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:52:13 -0500

bluelantern714:

Hey all,

We wanted to get this into another webisode, but have some external business things that keep delaying that.

Briefly here’s an update:

1.        Paypal updates are forthcoming, we’re letting a few prominent members of the community talk with our account manager on behalf of the community. If this still won’t be enough proof for you, we’ve been told that we can probably get featured in their upcoming app gallery on Paypal’s website. They’re building it now, so it might take a while.

2.       Packages – There’s still a lot of debate on if these are realistic. First thing we need to point out is that we (SMGO) will indeed have to purchase the licensing rights for these packages – and we have planned to do so from the start. It is now explained in the FAQ (http://www.smgo.tv/learn/faq) on the site if you have more questions

3.       The Goal – The other main source of resistance has been the sheer size of the goal. A lot of people feel that this goal is simply unattainable, and therefore not worth trying to achieve. That is a self-defeating prophecy. We determined this goal based on the sheer size of YJ’s active viewing audience and the estimated production costs.

4.      New name and Picture for the campaign – We know that not everyone can contribute monetarily, but it was suggested early on that we might be able to engage the artistic side of the community by asking for some media to replace the (mundane) picture we have up in the box on the save YJ page. If you’re interested and are up to a challenge here are the rules:

a.       No characters,or logos (even the font is not acceptable)

b.      (Respectful) Hashtags are encouraged

c.       Inside Jokes are encouraged

d.      Nothing obscene – keep it clean

e.      If you want to claim credit for a piece, put it in the bottom right.

We can wait to see your ideas and work ! Start to post on our Facebook wall!

5.       Q&A – we want to set up a quick Q&A session sometime this week – likely Wednesday night. Might do a uStream or IRC, if there is a preference please let us know. Topics will be about us, and things related to this fan campaign.

Best,

Dave and Chehin

I saw in the comments that there’s discussion of changing the Q&A from Wednesday to Friday, which I think would work better for most people. Thought I’d also let you know that I’m one of the people speaking to the account manager. Anyway, hopefully all this division in this usually very compassionate fandom will be cleared up soon.

Reading up on these concerns, and thanks for speaking to Dave about them!
Though I think it really isn’t as much as people not being compassionate, as much as people being hesitant about the policies, wanting clarification. Especially since, like other have said before, the relationship between corporations and shows getting green-lighted is very toxic right now :C

Yet, definitely if you guys can afford to, and want to get active to getting YJ and eventually, GLTAS back, do pledge!