Strangely enough I don’t think there’s a French word that quite rhymes with 方 / song / bong / Hong Kong / Bei Fong / Wrong 🧐

Omgggg tysm for sharing! Can’t use most of my art apps on Linux T-T

Sentiment of our times indeed!

It’s safe to say that most of these aren’t dogwhistles they’re just regular whistles. Barks in fact.

Alright that concludes this slightly unhinged detour into chronically-online 💿🐎 our regularly-scheduled programming of me being terrible at marketing my own art may resume.

Exhibit D: As she sings about no longer pleading allegiance to herself once she sees the light and meets her husband, heavily implying her allegiance is now to him and him only, she and her back-up dancers perform a national salute. She does this again in the penultimate scene with the gogo dancers

Exhibit C: These Black actors aren’t just back-up dancers they are literally seen multiple times in roles of servitude to her and the framing reinforces this by visually putting them in the literal margins!!!

Exhibit B: In the same exact scene the sirens in the bottom-left corner are all Black women. Sirens are evil creatures who lead men astray. And with the unsubtle digs at what’s his face’s Black ex-girlfriends in Opalite? And the opalite necklace with the eight lightning bolts????? HELLO?????

Once you name them they come to life at the stroke of midnight

More info on third illo: www.instagram.com/p/DNPFbaRIGXc/

🥰 Thank you! It’s hand-lettered. I think of it as a version of my real handwriting on its best behaviour lol

Beaudrillard would be having the time of his life if he could see us now fr