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Eran Fowler

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🚫NO AI He/They #artsky #transart #lackadaisy crew Insomniac, illustrator, and background painter for animation. I make political POD designs on the side. eranfolio.com https://www.redbubble.com/people/eranfowler/explore

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · Jan 24

I have a huge backlog of art which I haven't posted here yet, so I'm going to do that. Going to make this a thread. Starting with some of my more political paintings.

Painting of a boy huddled in a corner, wearing VR goggles, surrounded by neglect and decay.

Wolves devour a fallen sheep, while the rest of the pack slaughters more behind them. In the center, a blood-stained sheep wears the skin of a wolf and eats along with them, attempting to convince the wolves he is one of them. The wolves are not fooled.

A smirking oligarch drips oil from a completely saturated suit, standing knee-deep in water with an iridescent chemical film across the surface. He holds an expensive coffee in one hand, and a smartphone in the other. The screen illuminates him with a ghoulish glow. Around him float the oil-coated bodies of countless people, and in the distance an oil tanker billows black smoke. The sun is a flat red disc in a smoke-brown sky, and silhouetted against it is a mountain in the shape of a stock market crash.

A hunting dog stands protectively over a family of pheasants, growling while her master lifts a shotgun. She disobeys his orders and her training. A flock of chickadees swoops around her, picking loose threads from her fluorescent orange hunting collar to free her from it.

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 9h

See, persecution is when people are mad at him specifically and say mean things about it. Black bagging someone off the street and sending them to a gulag is not persecution and totally fine.

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 9h

A hit dog hollers? He sounds like someone with skin in the game. Either he's ICE, someone he knows is ICE, or he's the kind of Nazi who just really loves what they're doing.

Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 12h

Meme of soldiers pepper spraying a protestor, with the words "A fascist government doesn't announce that it's fascist: it declares antifascists enemies of the state"

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 12h

I would love for this to be true, but it's misquoted. The clause simply lists them as people who could potentially BE impeached, it doesn't say that they automatically go en masse if the president goes.

Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 13h

They might as well indict her for jaywalking. Wow, what a criminal. 🙄

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 17h

To be clear: I am sarcastically paraphrasing what I know they actually believe, in a manner that demonstrates how illogical it is.

I'm also referencing this:
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread."

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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 1d

topical

a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, they're really laying it on thick here. So he's gonna die soon huh

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 1d

"It's not discrimination! Gay and straight alike have the freedom to marry someone of the opposite sex."

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 1d

This designer noticed an error in HBO's official logo vector, which many people insisted couldn't possibly be a mistake. Then the original pre-digital age designer got in touch with him to talk about it. I love this kind of thing.

“Who cares?”

YouTube video by James Barnard

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 1d

Oh man, I gotta watch this

Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 1d

Ahhh it's out now! I'm really proud to have done a substantial portion of these BGs. Stoked to see the whole thing fully assembled.

#lackadaisy #animation #indieanimaton

Fable Siegel, Lackadaisy Showrunner @fablepaint.bsky.social · 1d

Big props to Bryan and @thequeencryptid.bsky.social for the jazzy ear worm they embedded into all our brains while working on this

Bryan Teoh || Score Slinger 🎹 @bryanteohmusic.bsky.social · 1d

IT'S OUT!!!! I'm super excited to see this released to the world as well as all the things to come!
Shout out to @thequeencryptid.bsky.social for the fantastic lyrics and sultry singing, @lackadaisy.bsky.social and @fablepaint.bsky.social for bringing me on board this project!
youtu.be/BHq4ppmUPsA

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

THIS!! 👇👇

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, he literally asked to be Pope. The content or purpose of the accolades are irrelevant, he's just desperate to be the center of attention at all times. He's the toddler at someone else's birthday party trying to open their presents and blow out their candles.

Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 1d

They really don't think of their workers as humans, just cogs in the machine.

Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 1d

But you see, they have proven they are "one of the good ones" and surely they will be spared

Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 2d

He's a toddler with a loaded gun. It's not the toddler that's scary.

Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 2d

God he is such a toddler

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

The Senate has just passed the military NDAA containing 2 anti-trans provisions: a surgery ban using federal funds (dependents too), and a sports ban on military academy spaces.

This will be the STARTING point for negotiations with the House, which has even worse provisions.

Only 20 Dems opposed.

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway, I hope I'm not imposing my experience here. I'm glad you're writing about it.

Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 2d

But ultimately, parenting is not fundamentally a gendered experience, it's a caregiving experience. And that has a whole host of devalued, invisible labor dynamics which aren't talked about enough. That genderless labor is overwhelmingly gender segregated in society and that needs to be unpacked.

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 2d

And you're right, it can be difficult to parse how much of one's motivations and reflexes are conditioned by AGAB. I noticed cishetnormative dynamics arising in divisions of labor which we both had to actively work to overcome.

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 2d

Personally, I saw it as an opportunity to be the kind of man and father I wanted to see in the world. But I also struggled with the ways that everyone around me acted like I was following a regressive kind of motherhood, not a progressive kind of fatherhood, or a nonbinary parenthood.

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Eran Fowler @eranfowler.bsky.social · 2d

🙋🏻 If you're looking for input, I'm a nonbinary trans man who chose to carry two kids with my cis male partner. I think it's totally valid to lean into those questions in your writing, because they do arise in complicated ways.

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