nobody tagged me but I wanted to do the “post 10 pictures that describe who you are without downloading any” challeng so here they are!! bottom 2 are like the epitome of my gender duality lol
Hey, peeps! Opening a run of "niche" coloured digital sketch commissions that are laser-focused on what I'm into at the moment: Pokemon (oh, no)! Similar to "niche" openings in the past, these commissions are offered at heavily discounted rates, but come with a set of rules to preserve those reduced rates. This particular run will have rates that are about 1/3rd the usual or less, but what is on offer is less free-form and entirely based within the Pokemon Reinterpretation / "Pokebestiary" / "Why Do They Obey" Project that has surfaced on this and the side-blog multiple times during my time online.
By and large this run is a "sponsor a 'mon" opening, focused on Pokemon I've taken an interest in, but haven't found time to draw. This run exists for those who enjoy the reinterpretation project and specifically want to see more art related to it / would like to support it in this way. Due to the nature of this run, WIPs will not be provided - the only deliverable is the final image(s) of the Pokemon chosen. All commissions are coloured and will be, depending on what you choose, busts or full-body. Final images will be delivered in .PNG format. All prices are in USD, and payment is taken up-front via Paypal invoice.
Details, how to order, TOS, and accepted 'mons are below the cut (the Pokemon list will change over time as interest in them rises / falls / migrates to new or old 'mons). This run will remain open until I take down this post:
Please note: what you are buying is an opportunity for me to make time to draw the Pokemon listed below. Outside of the subject chosen, you will not have a say in how I interpret these Pokemon. In essence, these commissions are "what you see is what you get". Please only order if this specific slice of personal work of mine is something you enjoy enough to accept these parameters; refunds will not be issued if you do not like the direction the reinterpretation takes.
The Pokemon currently available for this niche commission run are (will change throughout the summer):
Pokemon I haven't drawn yet:
ABSOL: full-body, $85 USD (include Mega Absol (regular) +$80 USD).
TOXEL and AMPED / LOW-KEY TOXTRICITY (set): full-body set of three together $150 USD (may include additional Toxel) (include Gigantimax Toxtricity +$100 USD)
Pokemon I have already drawn but will gladly draw even more of:
GRIMMSNARL: full-body starts at $85 USD, each additional $30 USD will guarantee an additional full-body, bust, or alternate (undone / loose pelt, shiny / collapsing colouration), may include Impidimp or Morgrem at random (not guaranteed, but more likely to be included the more you offer to pay)
HOOPA: full-body starts at $85 USD (Unbound / "Revealed"), each additional $50 USD will guarantee an additional full-body, bust, or alternate (necrosis, damage, regenerative cowl) of either Confined / "Obscured" or Unbound / "Revealed". If you have a preference as to which form per additional pay, please specify!
With "Sponsor [Pokemon species name]" in the subject line. Please include in the body of the email:
Your paypal address for invoicing,
confirmation of which Pokemon you would like drawn,
how much you would like to pay,
and clear confirmation that you have read and understand my TOS (included below).
If you chose to include additional full-bodies / busts with the base full-body, you are welcome to request a pose or expression of your choice if you would like! If you have other special considerations, please also include them in the body of your email. This is optional. If you have no preference, I will go with what I feel most inclined / most appropriate for the reinterpretation. If you leave me to my own devices, you may get a little bit extra out of your order!
Every time I see this creature he looks like if the wind blows on him a bit too strong he'll puff into a million seeds like a dandelion and scatter in the breeze
So I want to get a load of those "A trans person peed here and nobody was hurt" stickers, not merely for the punk activist reason of sticking them in places where I peed, but also so I can stick them in baffling, unreachable places.
Top of the Forth Bridge? There. Inchmickery, an island that does not have a regular ferry service? There. The ceiling of some very very tall building? There! I want you people to see the sticker and go "why did she pee there" and then "How did she pee there".
okay if this breaks containment I think my asian grandparents would be proud of this post being my legacy. but for their sake i must clarify my personal stance. NO SHOES IN THE HOUSE AT ALL
My meme-ish poster about executive dysfunction, or "The Sits" as we call it in our house. This is to share my experiences with exec. dysfunction, everyone's a little different ☺️
by the way. it never is too late to decide you want to be happy. the woman who helped me get hormones didnt start hers until she was 70, and i met her at 73, beautiful and smiling - and told me that the last three years of her life had been her favorite. your favorites might be ahead of you too. why not hang around and find out?
Bat Pussy has one of my favorite origins of any film of all time bc no one knows who made it, no one has ever come forward and verified having worked on it, and it seemingly just appeared out of the blue in the store room of a p*rno theater in tennessee
It's Spiders Georg! I've translated it into Angkorian Khmer, the language of Cambodia from 802-1351 AD. Because I like doing stuff like that ;)
You read the black consonants first, then the blue consonants, than the purple vowels. If there's no written vowel, use an 'a'. Magenta is punctuation - a dingbat marking the start, periods, and then a stronger period that tells you the paragraph/section is finished.
Here's what it says!
The original:
reallyreallytrying
Jan 8, 2013
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Transliterated into Latin characters:
1935¹ śaka, ekādaśi roc mārggaśira, 'aṅgāravāra, nu rilirilitroyiṅ kathā: Neḥh ’ālakṣaṇa kathā: ’nak cya pīṅ pi pratisaṃvatsara, toy vyat vakra saṃkhyā.
’Nak cya pīṅ śūnya pratisaṃvatsara.
Nau ru Jaṃrau Pīṅ, ’nau guhā cya daśasahasra pratidina, ga te krau daṃnuk ta caṅvāt ti mān ban dāṃ ta kāñ.
More detail under the cut!
How it’s spelled:
1-9-20-10-5 ś-k e-kā-d-śi ro-c|mā-ʳgg-śi-r
ʔ-ṅgā-r-vā-r nu ri-li-ri-li-tro-yi-ṅ|k-tʰā neḥ-
h|ʔā-l-kṣ-ṇ k-tʰā ʔn-kˣ cy pi-ṅ|pi pr-ti-sṃ-
v-ts-r to-yˣ vy-t|v-kr sṃ-kʰyā . ʔn-kˣ cy
pi-ṅ|śū-ny pr-ti-sṃ-v-ts-r . nau ru jṃ-rau pi-
ṅˣ ʔnau gu-hā cy d-ś-s-h-sr pr-ti-di-
n g te krau dṃ-nu-k|t c-ṅvā-t|ti mā-n|b-n|dāṃ
t kā-ñ .
1935th Śaka year, 11 day of the waning moon of the month Mārggaśira, Tuesday. On this day, Reallyreallytrying said:
This, the instruction which says “People eat 3 spiders yearly” is really because of a calculation mistake.
People eat zero spiders every year.
Of Spiders Georg - who lives in a cave and eats 10,000 daily - he is outside the boundaries of the set and should not have been counted.
¹ The Angkorian Khmer used a different calendar than we do, called the Śaka Saṃvat, or Shaka Era. It starts in year 78 of the Christian Era, so 2013 AD lines up with 1935 Śaka.
² The Khmer has a large number of Sanskrit/Pali words, similar to how English has a lot of Latin/French. These loans are marked with a degree symbol ( ° ). I decided to use very formal language here, so there's a lot of loans.
³ ‘pīṅ’ is a Modern Khmer word (or at least a component of several modern names) for spiders. My Angkorian dictionaries didn’t have a term, and this one has cognates in several related languages, so I decided it was my best bet.
⁴ I'm not certain that zero could be used in this way at the time. They were definitely using 0 in large numbers, but actually treating it LIKE a number is usually a later development.
⁵ Translations in brackets mean that the word has no direct translation. The best I can do is say the function they serve in the sentence.
⁶ I think I'm funny.
⁷ Angkorian Khmer doesn't have a word for 'and' - you can just put things side by side. I've chosen to move the 'e' in 'ge ta' so that it reads 'ga te' to replicated the original misspelling.
And here are some (undescribed) old guides to reading Angkorian Khmer. They're written in a slightly different style - especially visible in the 'ñ' - but might still help if you're interested!
kastrakomnenes
this may be one of the most interesting posts I've ever seen. What got you into Angkorian Khmer specifically?
Thank you!
I'm interested in cultural history and I love the First Millenium AD/Early Medieval period. I got really into Heian Japanese fashion, and then was looking at other cultures that existed around the world during the same period. Sometimes it was the fashion that grabbed me. Sometimes the architecture. And sometimes it was the script or language. Angkor has all three!
I find the script (characters used to write) to be gorgeous, and the grammar is similar enough to English that I can wrap my head around it. (Very little inflection!) I am endlessly fascinated by how people take scripts that do NOT work for their language, and smash them with hammers until they do - the way the Irish use Latin to communicate consonantal sounds, how English uses it to communicate vowel sounds, how Angkorian Khmer uses Braḥmi to communicate consonant clusters, etc.
There's a large enough surviving corpus (enough things with writing on them), and enough of it's online (even if the scan quality can be unbelievably bad) that I can really sink my teeth into it. There are enough grammars from India during the same period that we've got a good understanding of how Sanskrit/Pali works, and studying the differences between Indian and Khmer Sanskrit/Pali is really, really neat! Plus, Angkorian Khmer works COMPLETELY differently, so seeing how they incorporated all the Sanskrit loanwords into non-Sanskrit texts is even MORE interesting!
But mostly, I love the curves. I love how the characters stack. I love how the 'e' diacritic comes before the main letter and I always forget to leave space for it and then want to have a tantrum. I love that the last black character on that text I wrote becomes a spiral later on in history. Becomes half as wide, loses all those weird bits that look like diacritics but aren't, and just becomes a spiral.
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