Elk

Sayonara

[despair-and-rage]

Hi! I have many names, but usually go by Elk or Valo. My pronouns are they/neos (em/ember/ber/bers/emberself)

I am an adult! Minors can interact with posts and send asks but pls no DMs

I draw stuff sometimes @bone-byrd

[rrrmasashi9]

my American OC, Jack, talking about the U.S.

I’m Japanese, but I like drawing characters from different countries. This time, my American OC, Jack, talking about the U.S.

Before working on this comic, I learned a lot about America from people here on Tumblr, and I’m really grateful for that.

This is only Part 1, and there’s more to come. I think Japanese readers will enjoy it, but for American readers, it might feel a bit obvious or not very surprising, so maybe a little boring.

please keep scrolling

As for why I decided to make a comic where Jack talks about America—he’s actually the most popular character among my Japanese readers. When I ran a poll, the most common request was to have him talk about his home country (the U.S.), so that’s what inspired me to create this.

＜NEXT＞

[messsssmer]

"Whimsy" is truly a wretched term. What maketh thee so carefree?

[fireknightqueelign]

thy mother

[messsssmer]

Art thou for fucking real

[electricpurrs]

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

[bone-byrd]

Fight me on Artfight!

[bone-byrd]

JOIN THE HITLIST

RAHHH

[bone-byrd]

yeah hes a little cold

FIGHT ME ON ARTFIGHT!

[cleancore]

[yugirimistwalker]

this post is so fucked up because whenever it comes up on my dash i will without fail spend at least 30 seconds dragging a sponge around my screen like an idiot. no matter how many times i see this post it still gets me and now im about to do it again for good measure

[boulevardofbrokenmemes]

wheeeeee

[alexanderwales]

Grim Reaper holding a scythe must have been a much more potent symbol when scythes were in common, everyday use, when people had actually used them on crops, sharpened them, felt the grains falling by the thousands in a single swift sweep. The scythe still exists as a symbol, sure, but it's one that has little visceral meaning to the people that look at it.

[booksandchainmail]

#everyone's in the notes going 'modern grim reaper should drive a combine harvester!!!' but they are missing the point I think#a combine harvester is not a common everyday tool for anyone but a farmer#and farmers are a much smaller percentage of the population than they were back then#and a combine harvester is not a thing you hold in your hands#it's about the warm wood against the skin of your palm#it's about your arms flexing out in the sweeping arc of the harvest – the muscles working; the sun on your back#the soft shushing sound of the grain falling before the blade#the perfect sharpness of the steel – a sharpness you have yourself honed with your own whetstone#the smell of cut greenery rising up around you as you work#the way you can see each individual stalk fall but each one is irrelevant in the cluster of its fellows#..............actually the increased emotional distance of the combine harvester vs the scythe is a funny parallel to the increased distanc#which the average modern person has from agriculture and the source of their food#death bears a scythe because farming is THE foundation of society#it is what most of society spends its time doing#and all of society is deeply aware of how the harvest is going because even if they live in distant cities#when the harvest goes bad the cities starve#only the very wealthy can insulate themselves from such things and even they would be wiser not to#all of this changed a lot and very quickly in the last few centuries (tags via @aethersea)

[bone-byrd]

[louisegluckpdf]

they won't tell you this in therapy but sometimes the best way to stop catastrophizing/anxiety is to interrupt your spiraling with "girl what the hell are you talking about"

[ytpreviews]

It's not a cure but you have no idea how many times this image has helped me with my OCD

[notgreatthanks]

This tag has been more effective than any meds I’ve ever taken

[rabbitology]

People love characters with low / no empathy or are apathetic about everything until they actually meet someone like that. Suddenly the person in question is horrible and abusive.

[thegalvanizedstaff]

btw your witty and creative friend could have npd, the family member that believes fortune tellers and always closes the windows could have stpd, the friendly neighbour that always asks how did your day go could have aspd, the not-so-talkative sweetheart you're dating could have dpd, the classmate that always shares jokes with you could have szpd. personality disorders ain't as special or rare as you think, you just don't know them enough. it's not always obvious!!

[proxima-centauri-ii]

aspd/npd culture is having a lot of people who consider you a friend but you dont consider them a friend

[notahorseindisguise]

WOAH just saw spiderman eating pizza on a roof

[notahorseindisguise]

oh shit he ate the whole thing . he just like me frfr

[notahorseindisguise]

spiderman just left the pizza box on the roof but then came back a minute later and clearly felt bad for littering so now hes swinging through downtown holding an empty pizza box

[notahorseindisguise]

hes hit a street light

[notahorseindisguise]

he's swinging away now clearly very embarrassed and he thinks nobody saw it. i saw you spiderman

[nycswebhead]

fuck

[solargeist]

the tomodachi fandom is so insane I just saw the word mii-lested

[evilblockwizard]

quackity and the no-good-very-bad polysubstance black-out