Anonymous asked: What happened to your red panda character?

Answer:

She’s still around, I just haven’t drawn her lately. I was actually thinking of her just recently though, so interesting timing on this ask.

I’ll try to draw her again soon!

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lordtableshark asked: If you could upload your consciousness to the internet so that you'd be immortal and get to zip around all day having fun internet adventures, would you?

Answer:

glassshard:

No. You couldn’t exist in the internet and stay sane.

The internet is a multifaceted dischordia without objective truth. Inhabiting it would be falling through a flapping flock of a billion magazines all jumbled and screaming around you like a ransom note. An entirely new dimension is born with every Retweet. Every Like. You’re someone’s mortal enemy in one reality while in another you’ve made a stranger halfway across the world smirk, bettering her life for a fifteen second duration that she won’t remember the next day. Nothing is real. Everything is a panic. Freak out! Here’s a cookie recipe. Holy shit, our species is doomed! But look, a hedgehog in a teacup.

Look a while longer though, and you see the segregation. This is a proper insane asylum, with cells. The inmates don’t mingle. Everyone knows what ward they prefer to stay on. Their screams are heard but not heeded, and no one changes their tune. What noise! This isn’t a symphony; it’s not even a crowd in an arena shouting at the same stage. This is a shrieking, swollen swarm of rats all boiling alive together in the same bubbling cauldron of spunk and tears.

I’ll take my finite flesh years and be grateful :)

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Anonymous asked: You are not going to seek political asylum abroad?

Answer:

unsoundedcomic:

Efffff that. Let THEM leave. This is my fucking home and I love it more than they do. People who go around saying they’re going to leave the country? I don’t like it. If you let people chase you out - short of them literally firing weapons at you - you never loved your homeland anyway, and probably don’t deserve it.

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

Leaving the country is not a solution, it’s a retreat.

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Anonymous asked: can you please talk about those protections to curtail executive power I'm really, really scared and could use the reassurance thank you

Answer:

notbecauseofvictories:

THINGS A PRESIDENT CANNOT DO:

• Reverse any Supreme Court decision 
• This includes Obergefell v. Hodges, which made same-sex marriage a constitutional right; Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, which reaffirmed a woman’s right to choose first articulated in Roe v. Wade, another Supreme Court case. Grutter v. Bollinger, which instituted affirmative action, the entire body of Civil Rights case law, plus anything related to due process, including the right of minors to due process, your right to an attorney, Miranda rights, inadmissible evidence, etc.
• (Even if Trump appoints the worst possible SC nominee, they still can’t reverse any of these decisions without a really significant case coming before the Court with new facts, and then they have to write an opinion stating how this case is different than that other case…it’s unlikely to happen.)
• Write law or repeal any existing law
• While traditionally, presidents have exerted influence on the legislative agenda (see, Obama’s role in advancing and promoting the Affordable Care Act) they cannot actually write or pass legislation. Bills, joint resolutions, concurrent resolutions, and simple resolutions must be introduced in the House by a Representative.
• Presidents cannot strike down law. Only Congress can repeal laws, and only the Supreme Court can strike them down as unconstitutional.
• Presidential influence is just that—influence.
• (And if—for example—you are hated by 95% of the party you joined last week, and burned all your goddamn bridges by insulting them at various points in your campaign…..they’re unlikely to partner with you in crafting legislation.)
• Make any law or declaration that infringes in any way on the rights of the states
• So in the US, most of the rights are reserved to the states. You name it, it’s a state-run power. Criminal procedure and law? States. Medicare and Medicaid? States. The definition of marriage? States. Insurance, health departments, housing, unemployment benefits, public education, all these are state programs. And the president cannot infringe on those powers given to the states.
• (This is why down-ticket voting is so important, because Mike Pence as governor of Indiana had 800x the power he’s going to have as VP.)
• Declare war.
• This one is the most complicated, because with the advent of our “conflicts” in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc. there has been a significant shift in the articulation of the war doctrine, and it is one of the least restricted of the president’s “restricted” powers. But, despite all that, a president still has no power to declare war.
• Unilaterally appoint heads of administrative departments
• Unilaterally make treaties with foreign nations

Essentially, while presidents have a lot of power, it’s mostly unofficial—they can’t make sweeping laws, they can’t overturn existing rights, the most they can do is refuse to enforce them (which is absolutely a threat! and a problem! but we aren’t electing de facto royalty.

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Anonymous asked: Art mom ashley, help me. I want to make my own comic, but I always lose enthusiasm with my work early on and have zero motivation to keep working on it. I don't know why, I have together over 20 pages of different projects I wanted to do, but I just seem to not have the drive to push forward and then I feel like a failure and it just makes it all worse. Any advice, art mom?

Answer:

glassshard:

Well, this doesn’t sound so much like an art problem; it’s more a problem of self-discipline and motivation, no? You have to be very strict with yourself. Pick the project that you feel the strongest about, shelve the others, and set deadlines. Put aside time each day to work on the project, even if it means not doing fun things. Maybe you need to give up watching tv or movies, or playing video games, or playing on your phone to make time for it.

That does sound very motherly, doesn’t it? :)

But yeah, if you can’t muster up the self-discipline to do the work, the work will never happen. You have to ask yourself how much you really want to make the comic happen. How much are you willing to sacrifice?

The truth is, we’re all creative. You’re not really that special just because you have some good ideas or you draw okay. What makes an artist truly noteworthy and successful is their drive and their work ethic. A successful passion project is 5% inspiration, 95% perspiration. Get out there and sweat.

Preach it, girl! This is something a lot of people don’t understand about making comics. It’s a LOT of work and you have to be really dedicated to it.

The internet is filled with partially-started comics that died after only a chapter or two. Sometimes it’s just not possible for the artist to continue for one reason or another, but most of the time it’s because they find out it’s more work than it’s “worth” to them. How much is your story worth to you?

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