Silas-kai - Myura

2017.01.31 - Happy 20th Anniversary, Final Fantasy VII!

Todoroki Shouto ✧ BNHA Movie: Two Heroes

Nah dude, some police are genuinely trying to make the world a better place. They go through a lot of shit so that they can try and help people. I hate most of the shit police do. I don't like being told what to do either. But people are fucking killing cops. That's people killin people and it's fucked. You're the death of your own cause if you condone violence and murder ya dumb fuck. Black lives matter, let's protect them by not murdering good people and giving nazis any sort of argument.

Gonna break down this response as clearly as possible. 

The origins of the police are evil. 

It has been shown repeatedly that the police were formed to oppress the working class and (1, 2) and enforce white supremacy (1, 2, 3). In fact, the early U.S. police grew directly out of slavery.

The police aren’t the people you think they are.

The police don’t care about you – they don’t even have a constitutional duty to protect you. They’re allowed to take your property without your consent (the NYPD seizes so much property they can’t even log it in their computers). In fact, cops are more likely to steal your property than burglars are. They commit hundreds of crimes and human rights violations against people like you & me and get away with it because they cover for each other.

Cops tend to be unusually aggressive, authoritarian, and secretive (Greene & Heilbrun, 2011). They are more than twice as likely to commit domestic violence than the rest of the population, and (once again) they cover for each other when doing so. The police are on the side of neo-Nazis (1, 2). In fact, many times the police themselves are the neo-Nazis/klansmen (1, 2, 3). And even besides all this, cops do all kinds of other shady shit – for instance, undercover police are used to instigate fights during protests and rallies.

The police terrorize those of us who are marginalized.

The police disproportionately arrest Black people for drugs even though white people use drugs more often. They disproportionately pull Black people over for traffic stops. The police terrorize people with disabilities.They are viciously anti-indigenous – and always have been. Police terrorize sex workers. There are countless examples of police brutalizing homeless people (1, 2, 3). The police have a lengthy history of brutality against the LGBT community (1, 2). They terrorize women of color and get away with it (1, 2, 3). They kill massive numbers of people each year – and a disproportionate number of their victims are Black and native. On top of that, recent data suggests cops may kill up to twice as many people as we even thought they did. And while police love to defend themselves by saying they have the most dangerous job, that’s not even close to being true.

The police’s best kept secret: We don’t need them! 

A world without the police is completely possible (1, 2, 3, 4). We have resources for resolving violence as communities without the need for state intervention (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 – as some examples). We as communities are better capable of resolving violence than the police are, because we don’t have the vested interest in the status quo that they have. Even if a few cops are well-intentioned here or there, it doesn’t change that the role of the police is to work against the vast majority of us in the interests of the (white) elite few. 

Why are you so invested in the police when they are complicit in your dehumanization?

My dog and my bunny were playing in the back yard and I thought other people might enjoy watching as much as me

Sonic then Tittys! 

an ex art student’s lament

Firstly, thank you! And secondly I will show you :)

1) Base. Capsule part is on another layer so it’s easy to edit

2) Gradient. I usually just color pick from the actual capsule colors or I just make my own

3) Add in the “back” of the capsule. Some capsules have it being dark or light, in this case I picked light. I usually stop it right around the pecs or on ferals, the neck. Doesn’t matter if this bit is messy since it’ll get covered up in step 4

4) Time to make the capsule actually look like there’s fluid in there. I add the surface of the liquid with a squished oval shape that’s a lighter color than the gradient below it on a new layer. Then I add some highlights for shine

5) Bubbles if you want. You could also get spoopy and add things like bones or whatever

6) Final touches. With an overlay layer, I add more highlights onto the torso for shine and outline the outside of the capsule for a more bottle-like look. I also add a bit of shadow on the neck and a lil behind the liquid’s surface. Of course feel free to add more shadows and stuff to the chest and whatnot

Included are a few examples of some capsules I’ve done so you can see how they vary a bit. 

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