Index AuReignia

I still miss my cat,
But I can’t hear him anymore.

This sucks.

…it’s not fucking surprising at all.

Know the inevitable.

…Overall, though, seeing how much seething is coming from right-wing sources tells me everything. They want to blame “trannies” and “faggots” and “[RDCTD]ers” too damn hard, and are looking for any excuse to start a second Civil War.

Know what’s coming. Don’t be surprised, because…

…a goddamn mercy, one that now can never be afforded because they were there. Damn you for bringing them, you accursed commentator. …

…in the lottery of birth, and they were born to two unfortunate parents. They were also there when the shot rang out and he dropped to the floor, neck spurting crimson essence to the floor. One of them couldn’t process that maybe *he* was the one the bullets were aiming for.

Those kids deserve…

…The second instance, though, is personal.

That commentator has a wife and children. Now, the wife cannot be excused, for she entered a social and romantic contract with a known controversial personality without examining all of the red and black flags.

But the children… they didn’t have a choice…

…The opponents are correct, too, in some ways.

Except in two instances,

One being that the Second Amendment cannot be infringed upon. The right to bare arms has been a thing in our Constitution for 250 and change years now, and there is zero reason to change it save for general common sense laws.…

…Where the opponents of his message are now (understandably) celebrating that he can no longer spread vitriol on his own power, those in the audience are spending insane shares of time just to discredit opponents to the point of job loss.

The audience of this commentator is unhinged. …

…there’s no surprise that marginalized communities are being further targeted. Politicians are now calling for death to those exact marginalized communities, and it’s extremely gross.

And what’s worse, is that these people who want that death have too much power. …

I’mma keep it a stack.

What surprises me is that we had a commentator mVrked live in front of a captive audience, one that’s spread some serious rhetoric and has aimed venom to marginalized communities just trying to stay alive.

But what doesn’t surprise me is the aftermath. With his audience,…

Holy shit, that’s a big potato.

But also, because trucker,

Holy shit, that’s a Kenworth haulin’ said big potato!

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You brag, ‘I’m rich, I’ve got it made, I need nothing from anyone,’ oblivious that in fact you’re a pitiful, blind beggar, threadbare and homeless.””

Fuck you all. Fuck you very much, to those who dare drain the world of color all for the sake of a fucking profit.

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To the world we live in, I scream,

““I know you inside and out, and find little to my liking. You’re not cold, you’re not hot—far better to be either cold or hot! You’re stale. You’re stagnant. You make me want to vomit.

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The world tests me to no end, and it makes those around me suffer needlessly.

If I could make true the things in my mind, I would be happier… content… able to rest. But, alas, I cannot… I have not the power.

Not yet.

But maybe soon.

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If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.”

This is what resounds in my heart, and yet I am full of both love and hate.

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If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.

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A fire burns in my heart.

The world tires me, but it also makes me rage against the blatantly-dying light.

One that bleeds into the sea as hypocrites stab it repeatedly…

So I know,
“If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

Damn. The urge to just buy nearly $20k worth of backup batteries to have in case of a truck power failure is high.

But where’s the $20k? Not in *my* bank account.

The cover spread from a one page zine printout. The left (back cover) features images of a scale and gavel, with notes on First Amendment and filming rights, and the advice to “shut the fuck up.” On the right is the cover, a megaphone with the title text “PROTEST SAFELY.” Behind it are faceless protestors. The subtitle notes, “A brief collection of tips from around the internet.”

A spread from one page zine printout. On the left is an illustration of a protestor with the title “What to Wear,” including a helmet, goggles, ear plugs, gloves, a mask, a backpack, and layers/long sleeves/pants. Each have additional notes explaining their use. On the right is “What to Bring,” featuring illustrations of a backpack, money, water bottles, a mask, a granola bar and bag of trail mix, a first aid kit, folded shirt and pants, and an ID, with “DIY Defense” listed underneath it showing one protestor using a luggage case, one holding a trash can lid, and one using an open umbrella as a shield.

A spread from one page zine printout. On the left is “Protect Your Identity,” advising to cover up identifying features, avoiding photography of protesters, deactivating biometric phone-unlocking tools, and writing emergency contact and counsel numbers on your arm. On the right is “Be Like Water,” the motto of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and the text “BEWARE THE BAIT” with images of a palette of bricks and a masked man holding a crowbar toward a protestor with a sign, “Psst, free crowbar?” encouraging the reader not to engage with traps and undercover agents.

A spread from one page zine printout featuring the hazards of protest opposition, including tear gas, rubber bullets, and LRAD sound cannons and flash bangs. Caution tape images accompany the text explaining the dangers of each, how to flush out eyes that have been maced/etc, and how to extinguish a gas canister with a traffic cone.

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️

toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

Going to a Protest? Police are Watching! (🧵1/8)
by Andrew Greenstone (IG: comicsareforkids) and Ysabel Riina, 2020

Twice, apparently I’ve dishonored people today.

Yeah, that’s fucking great. Excuse me while I tear my lungs a new one while screaming from the fucking soul.

It isssss…
02:30.

And uh,
I had a burst of energy through the whole night because I couldn’t find where I packed my melatonin gummies from all the bags I used to pack the truck I was in.

And it was in the fucking bag of books.

Bruh.

Never thought I’d be happy about a cult…

Damn, apparently this Pope might be good.

His face, wrinkled with anger, contorted into something demonic and uncontrollable. Growls were already radiating out of him, but have begun to shift into roars born of rage.

It’s something he can’t hold in anymore: a scream that damns the world and its circumstances.

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Sometime in the next year, I’m about to have a serious canon event and probably an emergency home time request be filed.

I can feel it coming.

Bob, my cat, is probably on his last legs, and that genuinely scares me. Yeah, he’s old, but…

I’m of the Lutheran affliction when it comes to my religion, so I look at the pope as the leader of a massive, globally-accepted cult.

But, I can also respect Pope Francis because he did admittedly try to steer said cult away from some of its toxic traditionalist values. Dude had Jesus in him!

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Today started good.
Oh, I hate how it ended.
But maybe tomorrow will start better*.

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I can’t be surprised at the state of the world anymore. Queer people live in a hell that’s forced upon us by Pedophilic Puritan Hypocrites who, for some reason, want such a strict and rigid definition of sex because it’s what’s “right?”

Yeah, fuck right off.

The horrid memories of the past need to be replaced by what good memories there were. I just want to be happy.

I need to forget…