At long last, I am now able to post a preview for my double-page spread in Final Frontier: A Vashwood Space Zine! I also designed the endsheets, but you'll have to order the zine to see those :3c
There's PDFs, a whole print zine that's going to be about 300 pages long, plus some awesome merch available for purchase until March 15th. Go ahead and check it out!
Final Frontier is a space-themed Vashwood zine featuring the work of 56 Trigun creators. This stellar collection of fanworks all about Vash and Wolfwood in spaaace is available for pre-orders starting NOW ‼️‼️
Blast off to the stars with us and grab your copy of ✨ Final Frontier ✨ here:
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Our Bundles
Space: the final frontier... We all know how the famous line goes. This project is not only a love letter to Trigun and the Space Western genre, but sci-fi of all kinds with a nod to the roots of fannish culture in mid-1960s Star Trek communities.
Final Frontier is available in various bundles split into digital and print editions!
🌌 Digital Bundles
✨ MIZAR & ALCOR ✨ AKA the digital editions of our books! Final Frontier, our SFW main zine, is 300 (‼️) pages strong; Final Frontier: Total Eclipse is our NSFW add-on zine across 180 pages.
✨ BLACK HOLE ✨ combines our SFW main zine Final Frontier (PDF) with all digital merch and the short story MISSION LOGS. Add our NSFW zine Final Frontier: Total Eclipse (PDF) to your bundle!
>> Grab your digital copy of Final Frontier on Itch.io 🚀
🌌 Print Bundles
✨ SIRIUS A ✨ is our print edition zine option! Final Frontier is a A5 perfect bound soft cover book collecting 300 PAGES (‼️) of sci-fi Vashwood fanworks. Bundle it with Final Frontier: Total Eclipse (NSFW, PDF, 180 pages)!
✨ EVENT HORIZON ✨ is our merch-only bundle, the short story MISSION LOGS (PDF) and all digital versions automatically included. Expand on your bundle with our double-sided standee (125mm)!
✨ SUPERNOVA ✨ is our full bundle combining Final Frontier (SFW, A5 book, 300 pages) with the above merch. Add Final Frontier: Total Eclipse (NSFW, PDF, 180 pages), our standee OR BOTH for an all-inclusive bundle!
>> Grab your physical copy of Final Frontier on Big Cartel 🚀
Want more?
There are great things written in our stars, we can tell! Here are some specials you can unlock by purchasing our physical bundles:
EARLY BIRD ✨ Be one of the first to grab a print edition of Final Frontier and we'll add this exclusive riso print by cherridayys to your order ‼️
STRETCH GOALS ✨ No space expedition is complete without some mission goals, right? With each milestone reached, we will add a goodie or feature to our bundles, with an extra special treat if we reach the big 100.
We're ready for liftoff! Are you? 🚀
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i always convince myself i dont sound that weird and then i go out in the world and get involved in anything longer than transactional small talk and its like ohhh thats right ive only been hanging out with gay people who speak in riddles
May we introduce you to @pepper-arts? 💫 Pepper's style harnesses the soft and nostalgic feel of colored pencils in digital form. Everything they draw is so purposeful, one cannot help but fall in love with their vision.
We're BACK and we proudly present: The full crew for our expedition to the stars 🌌 we're super stoked to welcome and work with such a talented lineup of Vashwood creators!
It's quite a big team, so make sure to scroll to the end 👇
So, my Dad is a 73-year-old Mexican man who has lived here since he was 16. He was in Watts during the riots in 1965; in 1992, when I was in LA, as soon as the Rodney King verdict was announced, he called me, told me what was coming, told me how to stay safe. He has survived horrible living conditions, being kidnapped, physical abuse, prejudice, discrimination. He learned English, got his green card, pays his taxes, works hard, and has three daughters.
I thought he would be devastated today.
But he wasn’t.
He saw that I was sad and angry, and he asked me why, pretending he had no idea. I almost started crying. And then he said, “no se me chicopale.”
It means, don’t lose heart. Don’t give in to despair.
I asked him why he wasn’t upset.
He said, basically, “The world has always been this way. There are always people who are afraid, who are racist, who are awful. This is not new. And it will never go away. He won. We can’t do anything about that. All we can do is what we can do. Fight for what matters to us. Take care of each other. And don’t lose heart. And here, I got these unsalted cashews for you and a bag of jamaica drink mix and can you show me how to use the new washing machine because it’s not working.”
And, for reasons I can’t articulate, I feel a little better.
As a Jew who just spent two hours talking to a rabbi for the first time in thirty years, please give your dad a hug from me.
Tikun olam, the rabbi reminded me. Literally, it means world repair. It means we live in an imperfect world, and instead of looking to the Heaven of the next world, it’s our duty to be a light in THIS world – to protect those people who need our protection, to work for social justice, and to improve the world as a whole.
i want a shirt that has a QR code on it for some kind of horrible malware so that if anyone ever tries to film me in public their phone will automatically scan the code and be reduced to a functionless brick
I’m an art history teacher, and was summoned from the depths of hell that is writing letters of recommendation before the Nov 1st deadline to provide this spooky image with some context!
This is probably some iteration of the concept of memento mori. My Spanish is rusty but the text in the foreground translates to something like "I used to be what you are, and you will be what I am." The text in the mid ground definitely says “la muerte no me ...” (something like ”death doesn’t [insert verb here] me,” but it’s really blurry and I can’t read the rest.
Essentially, it is a reminder of the inevitability of death, and in many contexts it is used to suggest its humility as well: this skull once contained a brain and a consciousness, and represents the existence of a whole, unique human being that has been reduced to an anonymous, lifeless vestige beneath the flesh that, while never seen in life, was nevertheless once alive and provided the scaffolding onto which the flesh took shape. From a physiological perspective, the topography of the skull is a really important part of shaping how our faces look, but to the layperson most skulls look indistinguishable from one another, especially in comparison to the face in life.
As for the hood worn by the figure holding the skull in the foreground: I saw similar ones being worn during the procession of La Macarena (an icon on the crying Virgin Mary) during Holy Week in Sevilla, Spain in Civilizations (an art history docuseries on PBS that I like to show my students). Those of us from the US might associate this kind of hood with the Ku Klux Klan, but that is definitely not what is happening here (it turns out that the KKK probably stole the idea of the anonymity-guaranteeing hood, because of course they would). Some cursory research has revealed that it is called a capirote, and it is worn during Holy Week to conceal the identity of the wearer and direct the attention onto God instead (notice how the hat is tall and pointy, gesturing up towards Heaven).
The history of the capriote is super interesting: pointy hats have oftentimes been associated with sin, humiliation, and/or evil in the western world. In the medieval world, Jews were sometimes forced to wear a pointed hat (called a ‘Judenhat’ or ‘pileus cornutus’) to distinguish them from Christians. Some sources describe the wizard or witch’s hat, which is pointy, as resembling the horn of the Devil and symbolize the wearer’s allegiance to them. You may be familiar with the 'dunce cap' (a tall party hat that ‘slow’ students were forced to wear in classrooms as a form of humiliation and punishment, which yikes), the or the capirote worn by penitents during the Spanish Inquisition (a form of public humiliation and punishment from the same family as the ‘scarlet letter’ and stocks and pillories) as well as prisoners, like this figure in a Goya etching or these figures in Goya’s early 19th century work The Inquisition Tribunal. They are used nowadays in some Catholic brotherhoods as a part of their regalia.
everyone has dreams about being lost at school, late to work, cant find bathroom etc but whats yalls most common Uncommon stress dream. ill always have dreams about having various problems with my fish tank
Currently Begging™ the head of the Facilities team at my place of work to install a projector in my room that i asked for back in july so that My Students Can Fucking See The Slides like can i get three cheers for public education in this Renaissance Hellmouth of a country
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