Other cartoons that the publisher refused to print before firing Rogers:
A political cartoonist who had satirized every President during his 25 years at the paper is fired for drawing Trump cartoons.
“This is precisely the time,” Pittsburgh mayor Bill Peduto (often the target of Rogers’ cartoons) said, “when the constitutionally protected free press – including critics like Rob Rogers – should be celebrated and supported, and not fired for doing their jobs. This decision, just one day after Trump labeledthe news media is ‘our country’s biggest enemy.’“
Y'know, like dictators always do under fascist regimes.
Trying to find something to motivate myself and I found this little line from Van Gogh
It’s been 2 years since I originally drew this Van Gogh Wheat comic! I want to add a personal commentary! (Cross posting this from my twitter!)
As I’ve mentioned before, I drew this comic during a time when I was deeply depressed. When I posted it on tumblr it blew up with a lot of attention and quickly spread online. But at the time I was very numb. I felt exposed.
This piece is special to me. I’ve always loved Van Gogh and connected with the quote as someone non-neurotypical and as an artist. Lying on the the floor of my bedroom crying I’d be reminded of Van Gogh’s own wailing and depression and not feel so alone. The simple thought that someone now so widely admired could’ve been feeling the exact same pain I feel and understand it… it’s comforting.
I felt very worthless and pathetic and wanted to disappear. To some degree this still happens, but during this time it was especially bad. Van Gogh did not know his own worth, he never experienced his own fame and yet he painted and painted just to share his colourful world.
About a month after I drew this I started my first webcomic. (If you follow me then you’ll know that’s Griefer Belt!) At the time my comic was merely a way to entertain myself and keep me distracted from negative thoughts. I didn’t see it getting popular. Since then I’ve become so much more confident in myself as an artist and made so many new friends. Wonderful friends who support me!
Now looking at this little comic it reminds me of where I’ve been and how much I’ve grown in the past two years. My emotional health has taken me on a roller coaster of a ride and I’m sure it’s not done with me yet but I’m holding on. While it still feels like the depression never quite leaves I’m definitely in a better place than where I was 2 years ago.
It’s been sorta scary to share this but I hope you too will be able to reflect on your own personal growth. Be proud of how far you’ve come!
“If I’m worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat. Even if it is just grass in the beginning.” Vincent Van Gogh🌻🌾
Oh illiterate honey that isn’t the topic of discussion
always be suspicious when someone tries to derail a conversation by talking about people taking ‘advantage’ of a social safety net. brings this to mind:
why are there 5,000 people on this site holding back from doing something with literally zero repercussions for anyone in a world that will never remember the chances you didn’t take? don’t waste your time on this earth live your life slap some rice
Hi my job is literally to reset the shelves and honestly??
Slap that rice. Slap it good. patting down the bags makes it easier to stack more, which means when I have to do it it’ll be flatter and more settled and more likely that I can just slide it along without it slidin’ around.
You are doing me a FAVOR by slapping that rice.
rice man approves
Slap that rice. Slap it good. Slap that ricebag just like you should.
Meanwhile, “utter” works for the first (e.g., “you utter floorboard”) but somehow “utterly” doesn’t seem to work as well for the second (“I was utterly floorboarded”).
Utterly doesn’t work for drunk because it’s the affix for turning random objects into terms for *shocked*, obviously.
… huh. I thought that might just be the similarity to “floored”, and yet “I was utterly coat hangered” does seem to convey something similar.
I have to tell you, I am utterly sandwiched at this discovery.
Completely makes the phrase mean “super tired”.
“God, it’s been a long week, I am completely coat-hangered.”
Something is
Something is wrong with our language
Is it a glitch or a feature?
Feature
this neat feature is called collocative substitution, and it occurs when certain words are strongly linked to certain context and/or phrases. when you read/hear a pair of words that usually wouldn’t go together, your brain fills in the context with what would normally be inferred, given the originally phrased pairing. thus, finding out that there’s a term for this phenomenon may indeed leave you utterly sandwiched. lesser known or less strongly linked phrases and pairings may not be able to translate substituted words to appropriately fit the inferred context, so you were not utterly floorboarded at the club last night, but rather you were absolutely floorboarded, and as this explanation continues to drag on, you may by the end of it find yourself completely coathangered from read it all.
I, like all linguists I have met or even heard of, have a deep intricate love-hate relationship with the English Language because of complete and total coathangering like this
Human brains are little pattern finding machines, it’s so neat
The humorous things that get me through the day, peppered (hopefully) with my actual thoughts and some (maybe) interesting stuff I find along the way. On bed-rest at the moment, so I will be here more often trying not to go completely crazy :/
