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In honor of Day of the Dead, here’s a repost of my comic about the San Francisco Columbarium and the man who spent 26 years restoring it.

This comic originally appeared on Medium at The Nib. Go check out my other work there.

true-me-snafu

Emmitt and the Columbarium.

lakesbian

ive just seen the american psycho characters drawn as my little ponies and honestly i dont think patrick should have been given that cd as his cutie mark. i think you're doing it wrong if you're not making him a perpetual blank flank

lakesbian

look if you're gonna draw characters as my little ponies you have to remember that the cutie mark can't just be any old imagery you associate with them. it has to be Representative. it's their Unique Characteristic. to quote the pony wiki page i just googled, "Twilight and Applejack point out in Call of the Cutie how lacking a mark means that ponies still get to experience 'the thrill of discovering who they are and what they're meant to be'." there's narrative shit going on here there's Themes. and patrick bateman is NOT unique. he has NOT discovered who he is or what he's meant to be. the end monologue of the book is literally about how he has absolutely nothing going for him in this regard & is simply a vacant, hollow person merely vacuously gesturing at the idea of having depth. and when he rants about music, that's what he's doing there, too. his lyrical analysis is shallow/vaguely inaccurate summaries at best and completely warped at worst. everything he has to say about music--and in general--is intensely fixated on commodities and on appearing normal and intelligent while being entirely devoid of any intelligent or individual thought. so no, his cutie mark is not music. mr "missing that hip to be square is about making fun of conformist squares & proudly proclaiming that its actually about how fucking Awesome it is to be conformist and consumerist" does NOT have a fucking cd cutie mark. He's a blank flank. He has no unique identity. There is no future for him. There is no self identity. He's a fucking blank flank. okay? sorry i got a little passionate about this. there is no exit and he has no cutie mark

lakesbian

@epeboch see, I agree, but also, being a blank flank is against the social norm, so I imagine he has a fake one that he wears.

ok now this is important intellectual discussion about the subject. i agree i was personally imagining him like. always having it covered with pants or something. but he would have a fake cutie mark. he would totally get a fake cutie mark tattooed or something in my little american psycho world. in fanart however if this cannot be briefly conveyed then i think for the sake of clarity with regards to his character it needs to be blank. just so its clear he doesnt have one

letourswordsdecide

After the first time he chops somepony up with an axe he stands there, feeling nothing, no catharsis, but he still can't stop himself from turning to look at his reflection.

It's still blank. He looks at the axe as though it is the thing that has betrayed him.

wormbraind

the teen titans powersets are so crazy because it’s like. girl whose father is the devil, from the bible. girl who can make the earth swallow you. alien princess with laser beams. boy who can do a backflip

wormbraind

#he does really good backflips

oh okay that clears it up. thanks

#He's the emotional resonator of the team

jume-pl

real-language-facts

there is a sniper who shoots everybody who comes close to figuring out what a language is

susanoos-wife

arizonaconservativegal

Because generally a data center just needs, at most, a zoning adjustment (often it doesn't even need that) and a building inspection but is otherwise a private endeavor that can set its own pace, whereas government projects are by nature slowed by excruciating amounts of bureaucracy every single step of the way, from initial budget approval, to design review, to hosting public comment session on the design, to pretending to revise the design based on public comment, to going back to public comment, to finally approving the design, to getting approval to bid out the contract for the work, to waiting for the procurement office to settle on which bid to accept, to going back for approval to actually enter into the contract (and actually, I skipped the part where they would have had to do all that for the design phase too), to finding out the contractor underbid and now has to go back for approval for additional funds, to now one of the electeds has decided that the park needs to have [insert pet project feature] so now they have to redo the design to incorporate that and now the contractor wants more money because the scope changed which means we're going back for funding approval yet again and if it was a big enough change, we might be going back to public comment too, to...

Seriously I wish I was kidding

radfemart

supreme-leader-stoat

One Piece is one of those things that I'm given to understand is pretty good but it's also been going for so long that it's effectively become its own bar of entry.

I've never heard anyone say "I watched One Piece for a while and it sucked." You know what else I've never heard? "I feel like watching 450 hours of One Piece."

jeneralization

For a franchise of that length, you need a curator of some kind. Ideally, this curator has seen the franchise almost all the way through and also plans to be in your life for a while. This person can patiently encourage you through the slow parts while drip-feeding information to keep you interested until the interesting parts come back. (You should also have a good enough relationship that they'll be okay if you need to take breaks or disagree with the interest in the series.)

As I am working through One Piece, I considered taking up Dragon Ball Z or Naruto. (I realized that was stupid and did not do that.) Those two certainly belong in the same category of "hugely influential, beloved for their presence in childhoods internationally, and far too difficult to pick up now as a casual viewer".

astraldrake

Night of the Hunt

thememedaddy

#i would use this to demonstrate haiku except #haiku traditionally aren't supposed to tell you HOW to feel just describe and let you react

ellakas

knight--error

CANNOT take credit for these, my sister in law made them. Behold.

eddis-not-eeddis

@i-am-a-small-hobbit

huariqueje

Supermarket Flowers - Peggie Blizard

American , b. 1942 -

Oil on panel, 18 x 24 in.

5ner

cursed-and-haunted

I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like "this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol" when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every "classical" looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad

cursed-and-haunted

In case you're curious here's what I mean.

Renaissance(distinct lines, stability and the individual man):

Baroque (bold, chaotic, dramatic):

Romantic(romanticize the simple hard working life):

Do you see the difference?

ashtabharya-deactivated20240717

because-im-freaking-greed

I know we all know that toph loves to cuss, but I just realized

She had an extremely sheltered upbringing, then when she snuck out to fight, she went to the Earth Kingdom version of WWE, which, if it’s like real world WWE, is family entertainment, and she never spent time backstage, she came she fought she left

I don’t think Toph knows any swear words

lostfan10000

She learns to swear from team avatar and becomes all powerful.

because-im-freaking-greed

I don’t think Sokka or Katara would know swears either; they grew up in a village consisting of them, Gram Gram, and a bunch of little kids and their moms

I don’t know if the airbenders taught aang swears or not but I know he’s not really the type to swear anyway

Zuko, on the other hand, spent about 3 years of his life as a young angry teenager surrounded by sailors