Rising Sun | WL Animatic

About time I finally posted these on here, haha!

This was my second year participating in Artfight, and just like the year before, I had a lot of fun with it! I wasn't able to get around to drawing everything I wanted to, but there's always next time. As it stands, I'm really happy with how all of these came out!

In order from top to bottom, left to right, we have the following:

Myah for Xspionage Mars for @kugelfische Solifero for @glacial-art Olive for lico Lilac for @squidpedia Maryl for @averageartisan Cloudia for @egostrawberry

Val for @dustyisegg GLaDOS for @electricphantasy The Voidmaster for @huecycles Skelly for Jermychan Nadia for cyberspace_draws Fara for @ahoy-aoi Alba for @l3gacyy I hope you all enjoy the drawings!

Howl to the Moon, to the Stars

The fandom hasn't decided on what his celestial title is, but I've decided I'm going with Eclipse so that I can give him Fenrir/Skoll + Hati imagery. I already give him a wolf motif, and this made the most sense to me

If you don't know, they come from Norse mythology: Skoll + Hati are two wolves that chase the sun and moon (eclipses happening when they catch one) and Fenrir is fated to kill Odin in the battle of Ragnarok. A couple versions of Ragnarok say Fenrir catches the sun, some say Skoll and Hati both catch the sun/moon, but there isn't one version of the myth.

Either way, the world ends when a wolf catches the sun, and I think it's fitting for Joel's win :]

Spidersona time! Watched ATSV and loved it may have gone a lil overboard with the effects but I think it works

Haven't posted here for a hot sec so here's some art

Elon Musk attacked democracy defender and superstar court lawyer Marc Elias as “undermining civilization,” taunting him by asking if he suffered “generational trauma.”

Elias’s response was brilliant and worth amplifying:

Mr. Musk,

You recently criticized me and another prominent lawyer fighting for the rule of law and democracy in the United States. I am used to being attacked for my work, particularly on the platform you own and dominate.

I used to be a regular on Twitter, where I amassed over 900,000 followers — all organic except for the right-wing bots who seemed to grow in number. Like many others, I stopped regularly posting on the site because, under your stewardship, it became a hellscape of hate and misinformation.

I also used to buy your cars — first a Model X and then a Model S — back when you spoke optimistically about solving the climate crisis. My family no longer owns any of your cars and never will.

But this is not the reason I am writing. You don’t know me. You have no idea whether I have suffered trauma and if I have, how it has manifested. And it’s none of your business.

However, I will address your last point about generational trauma. I am Jewish, though many on your site simply call me “a jew.” Honestly, it’s often worse than that, but I’m sure you get the point. There was a time when Twitter would remove antisemitic posts, but under your leadership, tolerating the world’s oldest hatred now seems to be a permissible part of your “free speech” agenda.

Like many Jewish families, mine came to America because of trauma. They were fleeing persecution in the Pale of Settlement — the only area in the Russian Empire where Jews were legally allowed to reside. Even there, life was difficult — often traumatic. My family, like others, lived in a shtetl and was poor. Worse, pogroms were common — violent riots in which Jews were beaten, killed and expelled from their villages.

By the time my family fled, life in the Pale had become all but impossible for Jews. Tsar Nicholas II’s government spread anti-Jewish propaganda that encouraged Russians to attack and steal from Jews in their communities. My great-grandfather was fortunate to leave when he did. Those who stayed faced even worse circumstances when Hitler’s army later invaded.

That is the generational trauma I carry. The trauma of being treated as “other” by countrymen you once thought were your friends. The trauma of being scapegoated by authoritarian leaders. The trauma of fleeing while millions of others were systematically murdered. The trauma of watching powerful men treat it all as a joke — or worse.

As an immigrant yourself, you can no doubt sympathize with what it means to leave behind your country, extended family, friends and neighbors to come to the United States. Of course, you probably had more than 86 rubles in your pocket. You probably didn’t ride for nine days in the bottom of a ship or have your surname changed by immigration officials. Here is the ship manifest showing that my family did. Aron, age three, was my grandfather.

[see image in comments]

As new immigrants, life wasn’t easy. My family lived in cramped housing without hot water. They worked menial jobs — the kind immigrants still perform today.

Some may look down on those immigrants — the ones without fancy degrees — but my family was proud to work and grateful that the United States took them in. They found support within their Jewish community and a political home in the Democratic Party.

I became a lawyer to give back to the country that gave my family a chance. I specialize in representing Democratic campaigns because I believe in the party. I litigate voting rights cases because the right to vote is the bedrock of our democracy. I speak out about free and fair elections because they are under threat.

Now let me address the real crux of your post.

You are very rich and very powerful. You have thrown in with Donald Trump. Whether it is because you think you can control him or because you share his authoritarian vision, I do not know. I do not care.

Together, you and he are dismantling our government, undermining the rule of law and harming the most vulnerable in our society. I am just a lawyer. I do not have your wealth or your platform. I do not control the vast power of the federal government, nor do I have millions of adherents at my disposal to harass and intimidate my opponents. I may even carry generational trauma.

But you need to know this about me. I am the great-grandson of a man who led his family out of the shtetl to a strange land in search of a better life. I am the grandson of the three-year-old boy on that journey. As you know, my English name is Marc, but my Hebrew name is Elhanan (אֶלְחָנָן) — after the great warrior in David’s army who slew a powerful giant.

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath.

I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

Defiantly,

Marc Elias

Tried out a new shading style and ended up liking it:]

Hello tumblr people I have no idea how to use this app, Here's a season 1 empires scott I did a lil while ago

My human design for Donnie :]

Origins Tommy :]