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A sketch that kept getting out of hand.
The American stereotype of the British, a stuffy Mr. Banks type banker with a bowler hat and monocle and cup of tea. Bulldog because fuck it.
Y Ddraig Goch stuck on the bulldog's side up to his arms, struggling to break loose and frothing at the mouth. The Scottish Unicorn being his usual taciturn self.
My heritage - an Irish Wolfhound trying to just play his harp, sewn to the crushing reminder and religiously wrong Ulster Stag, reaching his red hand for aid to his owners...
A Manx cat lounges in the sea, munching herring; Guernsey and Jersey cows just floating around the bottom.
I'm gonna offend everyone... watercolor on card stock, 8"x11"
The American stereotype of the British, a stuffy Mr. Banks type banker with a bowler hat and monocle and cup of tea. Bulldog because fuck it.
Y Ddraig Goch stuck on the bulldog's side up to his arms, struggling to break loose and frothing at the mouth. The Scottish Unicorn being his usual taciturn self.
My heritage - an Irish Wolfhound trying to just play his harp, sewn to the crushing reminder and religiously wrong Ulster Stag, reaching his red hand for aid to his owners...
A Manx cat lounges in the sea, munching herring; Guernsey and Jersey cows just floating around the bottom.
I'm gonna offend everyone... watercolor on card stock, 8"x11"
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Portraits
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File Size 239.1 kB
Half the reason I posted this is to see what you'd think XD
The stereotypes our countries have of each other... you probably haven't had bankers with monocles and bowler hats since 1910, but David Tomlinson cemented the image in our heads XD The most famous scotsman over here is probably Groundskeeper Willie, and I know literally no Welsh celebrity or novel more trustworthy than "Prydain..." It's very fun to draw things you don't know shit about, because then the result is much more interestingly weird than if you had known. ^^
The stereotypes our countries have of each other... you probably haven't had bankers with monocles and bowler hats since 1910, but David Tomlinson cemented the image in our heads XD The most famous scotsman over here is probably Groundskeeper Willie, and I know literally no Welsh celebrity or novel more trustworthy than "Prydain..." It's very fun to draw things you don't know shit about, because then the result is much more interestingly weird than if you had known. ^^
Were they demolished by, like, the mods and swinging London?
And isn't the accent a class affectation? Honestly, the hardest thing to wrap my head around is the existence of nobility in Britain, independent of having money. Working class, lower class, middle class, lower middle class, upper class - the vocabulary words don't mean the same thing! Bourgeoisie even...
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011.....uture_lea.html This whole article about the "aspirational 14%" is so damn dead-on for both countries (probably more so America, with the whole 'mobility' fetish we have), but the vocabulary word (lower-upper-class, upper middle class/low upper class? what?) I have no idea what it would be.
And isn't the accent a class affectation? Honestly, the hardest thing to wrap my head around is the existence of nobility in Britain, independent of having money. Working class, lower class, middle class, lower middle class, upper class - the vocabulary words don't mean the same thing! Bourgeoisie even...
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011.....uture_lea.html This whole article about the "aspirational 14%" is so damn dead-on for both countries (probably more so America, with the whole 'mobility' fetish we have), but the vocabulary word (lower-upper-class, upper middle class/low upper class? what?) I have no idea what it would be.
It's really impossible to change a societal inequality as long as the class divisions exist and incentives for the inequality remain; even after the French Revolution the second estate still had to be paid the cens and the champart for their tenants to retain the deed. C'est la vie.
Nothing stops a revolutionary like comfort, the saying goes... and no country knows how to breed a safe neighborhood complacency like England.
(We had the title in the 1950s, but then we faced the riots of literally everyone who wasn't square, nuclear-familied cishet whites. Britain to me always felt like a foot in the mid-60s; up until at least Thatcher you were fighting over things like the dole and racial communities and subversive youth culture that we were fighting over under LBJ (and I'm completely sorry about the early nineties... we had a recession, you had a collapse).
America always gets its cultural issues over with way too fast, we never seem to solidify our position on anything before we move to the next reeeallly scaary thiiing, which means every attempt to fix our systems goes, over the years, two steps forward, three steps back. We identify years by what we were scared of our children doing (Drugs, hippies, metalheads, abortions, gays) and every four or five year period we're really really panicked about one or two things (the mid-eighties with Satanism, the late eighties-early nineties with crack and gang violence, the early '00s with stem cells and terrorism, the late '00s with cyberbullying, most of these are goddamn ridiculous ("Rainbow parties") and were created to scare parents into watching the news and increasing ratings).
So when an actual problem comes along, we treat it the same as the bullshit. We give it a few months worth of ratings, then forget about it, and in the absence of attention the problem gets worse.
Every time something makes the news in America, it falls out of the news a month later. About half a mile south of where I'm typing this used to be a housing project (read: Ghetto) named after Ida B. Wells, a really tough community, gang violence, crack, basically a war zone. In 1996, an incident with two nine-year-old boys who ordered a seven-year-old to steal candy - when he refused, they threw his two-year-old brother out of an eleventh-story window - made national news, and liberals and conservatives and rich idiots and racists of every stripe flew in and demanded the community be shut down (I can't figure out the logic of what they were going to do with the residents, though) and replaced with another public housing project that would surely fix all these problems.
So the community was condemned, the entire population was forced to relocate, and luxury condos were drawn up over the site.
No private developer would dare build in a neighborhood with such reputation without hefty grants from the city government, so our taxes went up.
(This happens more often than you'd think in America; since there's virtually no public companies that do this sort of thing, private companies take bribes from the government and build it shoddily and market it savvily, often with little regulation. If the companies are contested, they say "It's capitalism and we're underbidding the competition" - did you mean the competition that you ran out of business five years before by questionable means and fucked with the industry standard so that any upstart rivals would face such significant overhead as to discourage the venture?)
And now it's collapsed again, but people have already helped and so they're like "Well, we can't fix it like Hollywood, so why try?" (You guys may be exposed to Hollywood, but our culture IS Hollywood by now, and we've absorbed all the terrible life lessons and attitudes that come with it (being entitled to the hot girl by virtue of being the protagonist, throwing away your meds will make you a better person, someone will come and tell you you had great power in you all along, abandon your current relationship for a tumescent fling and gain happiness) and it fucks us up pretty bad.)
So we just kinda sputter around hating our lives and trying to feel better by fixing things and gaining things, but nothing really ever helps, does it?
(Oh god, I'm so sorry! Sometimes when I get into cultural analysis I just start typing and can't stop.)
Nothing stops a revolutionary like comfort, the saying goes... and no country knows how to breed a safe neighborhood complacency like England.
(We had the title in the 1950s, but then we faced the riots of literally everyone who wasn't square, nuclear-familied cishet whites. Britain to me always felt like a foot in the mid-60s; up until at least Thatcher you were fighting over things like the dole and racial communities and subversive youth culture that we were fighting over under LBJ (and I'm completely sorry about the early nineties... we had a recession, you had a collapse).
America always gets its cultural issues over with way too fast, we never seem to solidify our position on anything before we move to the next reeeallly scaary thiiing, which means every attempt to fix our systems goes, over the years, two steps forward, three steps back. We identify years by what we were scared of our children doing (Drugs, hippies, metalheads, abortions, gays) and every four or five year period we're really really panicked about one or two things (the mid-eighties with Satanism, the late eighties-early nineties with crack and gang violence, the early '00s with stem cells and terrorism, the late '00s with cyberbullying, most of these are goddamn ridiculous ("Rainbow parties") and were created to scare parents into watching the news and increasing ratings).
So when an actual problem comes along, we treat it the same as the bullshit. We give it a few months worth of ratings, then forget about it, and in the absence of attention the problem gets worse.
Every time something makes the news in America, it falls out of the news a month later. About half a mile south of where I'm typing this used to be a housing project (read: Ghetto) named after Ida B. Wells, a really tough community, gang violence, crack, basically a war zone. In 1996, an incident with two nine-year-old boys who ordered a seven-year-old to steal candy - when he refused, they threw his two-year-old brother out of an eleventh-story window - made national news, and liberals and conservatives and rich idiots and racists of every stripe flew in and demanded the community be shut down (I can't figure out the logic of what they were going to do with the residents, though) and replaced with another public housing project that would surely fix all these problems.
So the community was condemned, the entire population was forced to relocate, and luxury condos were drawn up over the site.
No private developer would dare build in a neighborhood with such reputation without hefty grants from the city government, so our taxes went up.
(This happens more often than you'd think in America; since there's virtually no public companies that do this sort of thing, private companies take bribes from the government and build it shoddily and market it savvily, often with little regulation. If the companies are contested, they say "It's capitalism and we're underbidding the competition" - did you mean the competition that you ran out of business five years before by questionable means and fucked with the industry standard so that any upstart rivals would face such significant overhead as to discourage the venture?)
And now it's collapsed again, but people have already helped and so they're like "Well, we can't fix it like Hollywood, so why try?" (You guys may be exposed to Hollywood, but our culture IS Hollywood by now, and we've absorbed all the terrible life lessons and attitudes that come with it (being entitled to the hot girl by virtue of being the protagonist, throwing away your meds will make you a better person, someone will come and tell you you had great power in you all along, abandon your current relationship for a tumescent fling and gain happiness) and it fucks us up pretty bad.)
So we just kinda sputter around hating our lives and trying to feel better by fixing things and gaining things, but nothing really ever helps, does it?
(Oh god, I'm so sorry! Sometimes when I get into cultural analysis I just start typing and can't stop.)
The internet! Where I can express my individuality by wearing a guy fawkes mask and being societally fatphobic and incoherently libertarian along with countless others!
And fuck the mainstream, it exists to validate your existence and actions, not make you question them. You'll only pay for the first one.
And fuck the mainstream, it exists to validate your existence and actions, not make you question them. You'll only pay for the first one.
I think my experience of growing up, trusting in culture as presented to me by my parents, television, the commonly-held beliefs and perceptions of my peers-- only to gradually and continually (to this very day) awaken to the implicit betrayal of that trust as the blinders are slowly pulled back on the complexities of how the sometimes-pathological avarice of mainstream society impedes equality, social justice, and general progress.
Trust the food? Not only is it probably low-quality, but it may well be toxic, or infected with drug-resistant bacteria. Trust elected officials to make wise choices for the collective good? How can _anyone_, when the Supreme court says money is speech and corporations have the right to political speech? Trust in regulators and businessmen alike to face hard facts about the long-term environmental impact of rapid oil/gas drilling with fracking as implemented today. The list goes on. I'm pretty sick of every insincere, corrupted, unethical, and/or socialpathic bastard out there, and yet they seem to seek and find and corrupt power, dragging my entire world down.
I can think of more constructive implications to the Internet. :P
Trust the food? Not only is it probably low-quality, but it may well be toxic, or infected with drug-resistant bacteria. Trust elected officials to make wise choices for the collective good? How can _anyone_, when the Supreme court says money is speech and corporations have the right to political speech? Trust in regulators and businessmen alike to face hard facts about the long-term environmental impact of rapid oil/gas drilling with fracking as implemented today. The list goes on. I'm pretty sick of every insincere, corrupted, unethical, and/or socialpathic bastard out there, and yet they seem to seek and find and corrupt power, dragging my entire world down.
I can think of more constructive implications to the Internet. :P
Slowly you learned there was more advantage to them in hiding everything from you. Slowly you figure out that nobody likes the real world and would rather fuck it up than fix it, because it's easier. It's a slowly growing gnaw at your insides once you learn you're being lied to, and it's worse now than it's ever been.
What with Canada and Australia slowly turning evil, Russia becoming even more so, the EU losing its grip, the UN slipping out of power with Russian influence pulling its punches everyplace, with social conservatism and illogical beliefs on the rise, with most of our technology on the verge of collapse (resources of helium and phosphorous are almost gone from the earth, meaning electronics and computers will be almost impossible to manufacture and the collapse of phosphorous fertilizer will mean agriculturally we'll be unable to support more than a 1.5-2 billion population - 3/4 of the planet will starve to death), it becoming more and more environmentally dangerous just to maintain ourselves (I remember when fracking was a theory and we were all just worried about stem cells), the ocean life of the planet about to collapse (the shelves are almost depleted of fish, algae is mutating at terrible levels, science has conceded that ocean acidity is irreversible and the coral reefs are doomed, and fukushima's turned the entire pacific ocean radioactive (thanks to that alone, the new chance of developing cancer is 2 out of 5 over your lifetime)....
The fact that it's easier to die than live now just scares me. Our one Soma, our one pacification, is the internet, and it's about to die under the weight of its own juggernauts and the rising costs of bandwidth. oy...
What with Canada and Australia slowly turning evil, Russia becoming even more so, the EU losing its grip, the UN slipping out of power with Russian influence pulling its punches everyplace, with social conservatism and illogical beliefs on the rise, with most of our technology on the verge of collapse (resources of helium and phosphorous are almost gone from the earth, meaning electronics and computers will be almost impossible to manufacture and the collapse of phosphorous fertilizer will mean agriculturally we'll be unable to support more than a 1.5-2 billion population - 3/4 of the planet will starve to death), it becoming more and more environmentally dangerous just to maintain ourselves (I remember when fracking was a theory and we were all just worried about stem cells), the ocean life of the planet about to collapse (the shelves are almost depleted of fish, algae is mutating at terrible levels, science has conceded that ocean acidity is irreversible and the coral reefs are doomed, and fukushima's turned the entire pacific ocean radioactive (thanks to that alone, the new chance of developing cancer is 2 out of 5 over your lifetime)....
The fact that it's easier to die than live now just scares me. Our one Soma, our one pacification, is the internet, and it's about to die under the weight of its own juggernauts and the rising costs of bandwidth. oy...
People wish for it, but there's too much inertia in the world to elicit change. A revolution on a satisfied stomach isn't much of a revolution.
And we've given ourselves a 1984 dystopia of constant surveillance, because it's more convenient to us than to not have the technology for us to play with. That's how they win is by convincing ourselves that the battle was never here.
And we've given ourselves a 1984 dystopia of constant surveillance, because it's more convenient to us than to not have the technology for us to play with. That's how they win is by convincing ourselves that the battle was never here.
The main issue I see here is that Wolfhounds are iconographically associated with Unionism much more than they are with Republicanism (it's not a coincidence that the Irish Guards' mascot is one, for instance). If you want a breed that would be more symbolical of Irish independence, a Kerry Blue would come to mind.
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