Sooooo self-indulgent, I made this design for myself but after a few people showed interest i've set up a shop on ACG Goods for anyone to get one for themselves! 🦇❣️
Originally posted on Twitter, but figured I ought to show tumblr too !!
Devils Minion | Armand & Daniel by RENFIELDLING - ACGGOODS
Jasper, raised in a blended family of mortals and vampires in Bolivia. Who walked all the way to Texas after the slaughtering of his entire family. Nurtured only by the raw rage that kept his belly full and warm on the long, lonely, walk to America.
I’m a huge fan of western gothic, I think vampire cowboys are such an under utilized concept and Jasper is RIGHT there. I can’t help but project these fantasizes of him finding temporary work as a farm hand over that time, working in ranches or doing rodeos, even joining up with bad men to do bad things.
Whatever it took. He would do it. He had nothing else.
Running his body ragged, over years of seeking. Scars upon scars, callouses upon callouses. No rest for the wicked. The devils work, a stubborn man’s resolve.
Sweat and gunslinger ballads, old cowboys wailing on the radio, all of those songs being about giving up your humanity for the path to vengeance. Or Revenge, or justice and death. What did they know? What did they truly grasp about loss?
Summer nights drinking something harsh and just.. alone with the memory. With his suffering and hatred, his obsessions. maybe searching for someone willing to change a mortal with so much dangerous wilderness in his eyes.
Whoever did it had to know they were firing off a gun, a bullet that would rip through the following decades. No chance to bite it or swallow the smoke. Set into motion, put into play at last.
I bet the gift felt like coming home, steeled his convictions. I bet his blood sang to him in his mother tongue.
Anyway If you like vampire westerns you should check out Near Dark (1987)
collage i didnt have the heart to finish.
Lines lifted from The Vampire Armand + various sources describing the pre-Christian Legend of The Pelican, which was later adopted by Christians and attributed to Jesus.
“Like a pelican, being wounded in your side, Oh Logos, to your dying children you granted life, by transfusing them by your Life-Giving blood.”
Do you know what Foggy is up to in modern comics? Is he okay? I'm scared to check
Hello,
That's a good question, and I'm here to help you know what Foggy Nelson is up to.
Here's a summary so you can catch up on recent stories and perhaps read recent issues.
Spoilers below
In Chip's run, we saw that Foggy supported Luke Cage's mayor campaign.
This triggered the wrath of Firsk, who set up an ambush at Foggy's office.
Foggy was attacked and consequently hospitalized.
Foggy had some enjoyable moments during a camping trip with Matt (just kidding, but I think you should check out that part). Matt's intention was to assemble an army to fight against The Hand. While he brought Foggy along to protect him, Foggy ended up having some fun as well.
A small but interesting detail is that Foggy gains powers from the magic generated by Matt and Elektra's marriage.
However, unfortunately, it doesn't last long as we discover that Foggy wasn't actually Foggy. And that Fisk's henchmen actually killed him.
We find out at this point that Foggy is trapped in hell and Matt sacrifices himself to save him and others.
When Matt returns as a priest—don't ask me how, as the story up to this point has not given a plausible explanation for it—he attempts to visit Foggy in his office several times. However, there seems to be an unseen force that stops him from getting close to his friend.
When Matt finally reunites with his friend and reveals that he is alive, Foggy gets angry with him. He yells at Matt and walks away. Foggy's reaction is unusual, even for someone who has been misled by his best friend, who has a peculiar tendency to disappear and pretend to be dead.
In recent issues, we’ve learned that Foggy is possessed by Pride, one of the deadly sins that escaped from hell along with Matt. Unfortunately, Matt is no longer able to exorcise devils.
And that concludes our summary.
What will Matt do to save Foggy this time? I hope we find that out in the next issue.
collab with @nias-nook for her fic, A Stitch In Time! I drew, and she colored <3
A Stitch in Time - TrustingMuses - Gravity Falls [Archive of Our Own]
“Don’t you think you’re being a little paranoid? I know you guys haven’t spoken in a while but Great Uncle Ford’s cool!"
Soooo, I haven't been looking at Bill related posts much since the book dropped as I have mixed feelings on what TBOB and the subsequent site have revealed about him, his motives, his backstory etc., but (and maybe someone beat me to this) one thing I haven't seen anyone talk about yet is this,
So maybe I'm stating the obvious here, but this is The Unicorn Rests in a Garden, also known as The Unicorn in Captivity. This piece was a part of The Unicorn Tapestries. Its origins are shrouded in mystery and super interesting but I'm not really gonna touch on that here.
Now there is something to be said about how this one piece, and the rest of the tapestries tie to Bill. I'll briefly go over what the tapestry meant when it was made then dive into what contemporary interpretations of the piece say about Bill and his fundamental inability to redeem himself.
Also just want to establish before we get into this that I am...Not a scholar when it comes to this stuff. I just happened to recognise this tapestry and its symbolism when it dropped on the website and had to put my thoughts somewhere. I might add more later if I've forgotten anything, which I probably have.
Given this was a piece made in Europe in the Middle Ages, it's perhaps unsurprising that a lot of interpretations of it are biblical, but we can (mostly) safely assume Hirsch isn't going for a Christ allegory here. Then again, maybe he's going for nothing and all of this is pointless.
What is a little interesting in the wake of TBOB is its ties to marriage.
These tapestries are heavily theorised to have been made to celebrate a wedding, and their comparisons of love and marriage to a hunt that inevitably leads to the imprisonment and taming of your lover. Of course, Bill quite literally suggests this method in the book with The Love Cage that he uses in Weirdmageddon, but there's a million 'Billford is canon' posts out there so let's table that as it's pretty self-explanatory. Bill and Ford have been hunting each other for decades and Bill imprisons him in a so-called 'Love Cage' to try and convince Ford to be his 'partner' (be it platonic or romantic). This is what a victory in a relationship is to him.
What I'd like to focus on is the modern interpretation of The Unicorn in Captivity as a self-imposed prison.
"Look at that little unicorn! The beatific smile. He's happy now. He gets to live in a beautiful garden."
"Yeah, in a cage."
"A protective barrier. No one's hunting him anymore. Nor can he hurt anyone with that horn of his."
This summary of the piece is taken from the aptly titled Unicorn in Captivity from another animated series, The Venture Bros. (which, by the way, if you're looking for another show that's a whimsical and fun riff on 80s pop culture with a big mystery element, highly recommend), but this of course isn't the first piece of media to portray it this way. the most notable being The Unicorn in Captivity poem by Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
The unicorn is, on the surface, a prisoner. The Theraprism that Bill is now trapped in is a place he longs to escape, but that's the thing, isn't it?
He could escape any time he wanted to.
He could slip his head
From the jewelled noose
So lightly tied -
If he tried,
As a maid could loose
The belt from her side;
He could slip the bond
So lightly tied -
If he tried.
Bill, like the unicorn, is trapping himself more than the Theraprism is trapping him, but his situation isn't to be pitied, it's karmic justice. What's so satisfying about Bill's eventual comeuppance is that he's the one making himself suffer. The only thing Bill needs to do to escape is to admit he was wrong, to stop revelling in the suffering of others, but...Well, he chooses not to.
For all of his guilt about his parents and his so-called 'dark and troubled past', Bill has never regretted a single person he's hurt since. He didn't regret taking over the world, he regretted being caught. He didn't regret hurting Ford, he regretted losing him. Bill will probably be doomed to wallow in the Theraprism for all eternity, cursing his situation and blaming everyone else for his inevitable downfall. An overgrown child who once had too much power and lost it all throwing a tantrum for the ages.
But now he can't hurt anyone with that horn of his.
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