Confessions of a Suburban Beatnik

fluxthepolice:

YO THIS SHIT IS NOT OKAY.

signal boost to all my followers, PLEASE share this where you see fit.

you will most likely never hear this story on American news stations if you live here.

all i ask is that you help raise awareness on this topic.

This is some major shit. Please reblog.

(Source: fonbaligi, via rosengeist)

kaxen:

a-game-of-romance-and-winchester:

So let me tell you about the shittiest parent on the motherfucking planet.

I work at a grocery store and this man comes in with his 11 year old son. He buys a pack a cigarettes and a two cases of beer. The son was holding a two dollar drawing pad and placed it on the belt and I guess the dad didn’t notice it at first but when I was about to scan the pad he asked where’d it have come from and turned towards the kid and asked “Did you put that shit up there?”. He told me to put it back and then told his 11 year old child that he “ain’t paying for that gay ass notebook.”.  So I looked at the kid, who was close to tears and saying how he ran out of paper at home and my heart broke. So I gave the pad to him, for free, and told the dad I would take care of it. I gave the kid some tokens for a game outside and said I would look forward to buying some of his drawings and paintings when he’s all famous. He kids face was so priceless and I thought everything was good. But then, about 10 ten minutes after giving the kid his notebook, I walked outside and saw this. The drawing pad all ripped up and tossed on the pavement. I could only imagine what happened in the parking lot, but I know that that poor kid heart is fucking ripped apart, just like this pad.

I’m fucking horrified that there are parents like this, who, just because it’s not masculine or gender specific they won’t let their children follow their true passions or explore interests that lead to their happiness. Even more so, I’m horrified that parents don’t care about the fine arts anymore because it doesn’t have job security. Since when did it ever matter to a child if their passion makes them money or not? Parenting is about supporting whatever makes your child happy. Have some fucking consideration for your child’s wants not your homophobic and anti-art ideals. 

How homophobic and vocabulary-deprived do you need to be to …instead of calling a drawing pad a drawing pad, you call it a “gay notebook” 

…I mean like… ugh… 

I can only hope that this kid manages to have a healthy adulthood despite his abusive father… and that he leaves his father behind to rot.

(via inkclaws)

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The painting is done! Here’s Colin, Atticus and Grace from Jackie Barbosa’s erotic romance GRACE UNDER FIRE, a fun little menage set in 1795. The voluptuous Lady Grace is flanked by her two boyfriends, Colin and Atticus. They have designs upon her virtue, but Grace doesn’t mind too much.

I have a huge… HUGE… backlog of art to post from the past year. This is the latest sketch for Jackie Barbosa; I’ve been designing and doing art for an upcoming revamp of her site since late last summer. I’ve done about 8 pieces so far for her; this is the ninth. It depicts the characters from her story GRACE UNDER FIRE, which is a fun little menage set in the mid-1790s. (You can see some of the other art I’ve done for her here.)

So, here’s Lady Grace, flanked by her two boyfriends, Colin and Atticus. They have designs upon her virtue, but Grace doesn’t mind too much. 

everythingiskismet:

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