Happy Pride Month!

Happy pride month!

Getting back into digital art again (woooo)

IMO one of the most oversimplified parts of bioshock discussion i've seen online is the difference between suchong and tenenbaum re: treatment of the little sisters. yeah suchong hates children and tenenbaum eventually redeems herself, but i wish more people talked about them within the context of the cycle of violence as a whole.

suchong and tenenbaum came of age during the second world war. both were victimized by the axis powers, losing their entire families. both were spared only by a combination of blind luck and their own wits, and both survived by collaborating with the enemy and experimenting on their own people. the cycle of violence is the literal structure of their lives. it's how they learned the world.

tenenbaum is only able to change because she understands her own place within this cycle. the little girls force her to see that you're not free from it simply by no longer being the one that's being hurt. it occurs to her after seeing jack's actions that there might be a chance at a life outside the language of violence. the effort of helping jack fills the chasm that abandoning your whole worldview might leave you with. it gives her a something to do with her own pain.

suchong cannot come to grips with this possibility, even when tenenbaum writes him a letter begging him to, because to acknowledge an alternative way of existence would require acknowledging the depths to which he has been hurt. in order to survive the war years he forms a theory of mankind that moving to rapture does not disprove at all: everyone is only in it for themselves. cruelty is the engine the world runs on, and you, in order to make it, must strike first, establish dominance, and become the mask. if the world is not "just like that", if everyone is not in on some kind of con, then what happened during the war was cruel, and abnormal, and there was no reason why.

the children freak both of them out because kids can tell when you're hiding something, even if they don't know the nature of what that something is. brigid eventually allows herself to crack before the innocent gaze of the children, but to suchong it's unbearable. it's a reminder of his own history of being trapped and powerless. as scientists, they do a lot of looking, but the girls look back.

So, I've tried drawing on my phone.

(Ft. The pointing Soyjak Sander Cohen because I gave up on actually drawing him)

Hey to anyone who will see this, this is the first time I'm making a post like this, please take the time to read and share or donate if you have the means.

A Palestinian man by the name of Mahmoud Helles came into my asks, sharing his gofundme to get his children and wife out of Gaza. If ANYONE that comes across this has the means to support his campaign, please do, I'm leaving a link below. And if you can't, that's totally okay, just please share, so the others who do have the means to help can.

Link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/zz4r7-save-my-children-from-death?utm_campaign=p_nacp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

I haven't drawn MK in quite some time. (+an oc I'm working on for fun)