This is now a memes blog

[maycrofy]

To the followers of my previous blog.

I have decided to abandon @coolmaycroft simply because I got bored of it. I guess the recommended posts in the different tabs started to look repetitive and I wanted to expand beyond what I was already following.

I had about 900 followers on my previous blog but, after the bot swarm 2 years go, I was left with 13K follows; most of which are bots. So it's hard to gauge how much people really pay attention to what I post.

I also never felt my previous blog gave the emphasis to my art that I wanted. So I'll still be posting art and illustration scans in this new blog.

So... if you were following me because you liked what I posted and reblogged you're gonna want to follow this new blog.

[maycrofy]

I haven't been very active here due to things going on in my life, but I mustered the energy to make a drawing of Qifrey.

I thought Witch Hat Atelier was over hyped but it really meets the acclaim. The show is interesting without trying to be extra from the beginning. They do explain how magic works but the worldbuilding is left for you to ponder with only a few tidbits explained.

Qifrey ended up being my favorite character because the show will frame him in a way that it's fanservicey without being arousing. It's more like they put a glossy filter on him at times. Yet, the latest episodes have shown he is willing to use means to justify ends.

[whereserpentswalk]

They always talk about ableism they never talk about caineism.

[whereserpentswalk]

This is my worst post btw.

[coolmaycroft]

[coolmaycroft]

Sam Levinson saw Riverdale and said "I can do that"

[nradiowave]

Berezka art

inspired by some of character Imerald_art & BoobaZaur

[arturia-giallo]

Toph by prab [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

[nicoletteolivier]

I give my male character long, luxurious hair because I am trying to use my power and influence to get you all to grow your hair out.

[lilianade-comics]

Dannymay day 13: Freedom

[zombiecultivation]

2am thought: i wish english genre fiction was more campy and adventurous.

like, a lot of the premises of chinese (web)novels are objectively pretty wacky -- in fact there's a whole genre based around uninhibited AU/setting jumping -- but what i've come around to thinking is: we're already in cuckooland realm, why not take it to eleven?

at some point, the sanderson mantra of 'magic as science'/'ideal worldbuilding is highly ordered worldbuilding' gets really stale.

consistent ≠ orderly. systematic everything is boring. life is chaotic. knowledge is messy. give your characters and worlds some weird quirks and flaws. have some fun.

[coolmaycroft]

A pattern I keep seeing is that genre fiction that wants to be taken seriously follows consisten and realistic logic behind its worldbuilding. I like some of that but I can't shake the feeling that genre fiction is trying to emulate literary fiction to be "taken seriously".

[coolmaycroft]

Like, I enjoy the current trend of realistic world building in fantasy. It does sell me on the setting and I crunch worldbuilding videos liek candy.

But the weirder and crazier concept seem to be explored in science fiction these days with setting like The culture of Iam Banks. And fantasy isn't getting as weird when it could. Fantasy settings could have weird aspects of flora, fauna, social structures played to plant interesting questions without having to explain all things surrounding them.

[artbyblastweave]

Ran through J Michael Straczynski’s recent three-volume Captain America run, out of a morbid curiousity as to how the poor doomed sons of bitches who have to write Captain America for the next four years have been holding up. Best described, on multiple levels, as a comic that got lost on its way to 2016, and in a way that makes me vaguely sad

[artbyblastweave]

I think if you were following big-two comics in the mid-twenty tens you were probably aware of a visible tonal and narrative hitch where all these feel good, liberal-progressive socially minded books and authors suddenly had to reckon with the actual social reality implied by the election of trump and the underlying conditions that enabled it, how to reflect that within the universe, and they visibly never figured out how to grapple with it in a way that wasn’t paper thin and mealy mouthed, or else didn’t put the lie to the whole aspirational project. And then he got elected a second time

[coolmaycroft]

I think it wasn't that difficult to portray in comics since we rarely see the world outside of the superhero view so the world could've gotten grimdark in the span of months. But the thing is, this grimdark air could've made readers tired very quickly. I mean this isn't the 90's where we could portray drug addiction and surveillance without nuance, I feel people right now want escapism from their superheroes more than anything

[artbyblastweave]

And I am fairly contemptuous of this escapist desire even as, and perhaps especially because, I identify it in myself

[girlflowertelevision2007]

[bubu2ktb]

[artbyblastweave]

Ran through J Michael Straczynski’s recent three-volume Captain America run, out of a morbid curiousity as to how the poor doomed sons of bitches who have to write Captain America for the next four years have been holding up. Best described, on multiple levels, as a comic that got lost on its way to 2016, and in a way that makes me vaguely sad

[artbyblastweave]

I think if you were following big-two comics in the mid-twenty tens you were probably aware of a visible tonal and narrative hitch where all these feel good, liberal-progressive socially minded books and authors suddenly had to reckon with the actual social reality implied by the election of trump and the underlying conditions that enabled it, how to reflect that within the universe, and they visibly never figured out how to grapple with it in a way that wasn’t paper thin and mealy mouthed, or else didn’t put the lie to the whole aspirational project. And then he got elected a second time

[coolmaycroft]

I think it wasn't that difficult to portray in comics since we rarely see the world outside of the superhero view so the world could've gotten grimdark in the span of months. But the thing is, this grimdark air could've made readers tired very quickly. I mean this isn't the 90's where we could portray drug addiction and surveillance without nuance, I feel people right now want escapism from their superheroes more than anything

[deresjot]

(via Pin auf things i liked)

[maycrofy]

I really like the short hair on Frieren.

Erasable color pencils

[txttletale]

something i like about disco elysium is that although it has an obvious viewpoint (if you think the game isnt explicitly communist you're just wrong i'm afraid) it doesn't make the proponents of the other ideologies big silly goofballs to make this point--joyce and kim are wrong, both morally and factually, but they are wrong eloquently and compellingly. even measurehead, in the final cut, gets a long and compelling (and wrong! and fascist! to be clear!) monologue where he makes the case for his ideology.

[txttletale]

like it compares very favorably to a trend i see a lot in media that wants to Say Something About Fascism, which is to have a guy walk on and say 'im fasho the fascist!' and then he slips on a banana peel and goes 'bwagh!'. like--that's not a critique of fascism. you've made the fascist look bad, yeah, but not by attacking any substantial part of their politics or actions. anyone could fall over and go 'bwagh'. it's not even bad critique, it's just not critique, it's painting a groucho marx moustache and glasses onto a photo.

[coolmaycroft]

We really need media to take the ideologies it criticizes at their word.

People adhere to ideologies because they believe in them despite their downsides. People read in politics can probably tell there is no free lunch interpretation of these ideas, so they're willing to go along with the downsides.

Media that portrays their protagonists as the only ones that understand their worldview and opposing ones as shams, or as not thought out is shallow. Not saying it couldn't be entertaining media but most likely it will be bad.