QuipDraw

Christian, Canadian, male. This blog is mostly things I find funny. I may have accidentally named myself after a board game.

[secret--psalms--saturn]

Do yall have a fave webtoons

[quipdraw]

Rise From Ashes (finished) – imaginitive and tightly paced story about a happy little ghost and the rookie ghost-hunter-cop who catches her like a pokémon.

Seed (finished) – Near-future sci-fi with a grounded take on sentient AI.

Hand Jumper (ongoing) – superpower setting with a coldly calculating protagonist running headlong down a slippery slope.

Stagtown (finished) – Psychological horror series that starts as an anthology before becoming an ongoing story.

Soulwinder (cancelled) – High budget, imaginitive and exciting. Really good showcase of the webtoon medium but unfortunately ends abruptly in the midst of a climactic moment.

[feefal]

Genuinely curious, what makes you so interested in rot and decay? I notice it's in a lot of your art, most of your fruit people were paired with a rotting, moldy version. I think you had some mushroom people drawing like that too iirc. And your newest piece is a decaying mermaid. What draws you into those themes?

All your art is beautiful and amazing btw!

It’s kinda silly, but I had a very religious upbringing and was taught I’d live for eternity and that I must devote my life to god in order to gain a spot in heaven - which sounded like absolute purgatory to my child self. I didn’t even ask to be born, and now you’re telling me I have to keep this bit up FOREVER? A lifetime is already overwhelming, let alone eternity.

As a cope I got really into death, rot and the natural cycle of life. Let there be a conclusion to this short window of existence

[feefal]

Also - isn’t it kinda messed up to have kids if you believe in the concept of hell? You pull an innocent soul from the abyss, and now they run the risk of eternal damnation.

The whole “It’s our duty as gods chosen people to create families in his honor” spiel just sounds like pushing the consequences onto your offspring. Like those chain emails that say you’ll die if you don’t send it out to 5 new people.

[quipdraw]

Look, if existence can be worse than having never been born, then logically it can also be better. Where you see a risk of eternal damnation, religious parents see a chance at eternal paradise for their children.

[notatzimisce]

I will never shy away from the word goon. goon is the only way to describe a particular type of henchman, lackey, or thug. look at these guys. they're goons.

[sternfleck]

Thoughts and prayers to my European mutuals suffering under their omega heat

[such-justice-wow]

please don't call it that

[bourtange]

republicans: homeless people should be ground into sausage and fed to schoolchildren

democrats: persons experiencing houselessness should be ground into sausage and fed to schoolchildren

[greater-than-the-sword]

*should be humanely mined for their nutritional value and redistributed to low income schoolchildren in need

[greater-than-the-sword]

The thinkpieces are titled, respectively:

"Yep: kids should eat the homeless."

And

"On the subject of the nutrition of unhoused persons: how a new ethical viewpoint on anthropophagy could pose a solution to the student food insecurity crisis"

[asmrgaret]

it’s weird that professional letters are supposed to start with “dear.” i don’t even call my mom that

[asmrgaret]

my darling hiring manager. my springtime rose. if hired i will bring a strong work ethic to this position

[only-tiktoks]

[justgarb]

I saw the skirt, got super excited, and was not disappointed

[torchickentacos]

Prev tags via @lostlegendaerie because I am LOSING IT at this

[randomencounters]

Encounter: “hi, I’m Guy Faerie, welcome to the Flavor Forest on Dungeons Dragons & Drive-Ins”

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[posevr]

Oh, is your WonderMachine not good enough to make any money to pay people?

[art-damaged]

Wim T Schippers "Peanut Butter Platform" / museum visitors

In 2011, an iteration of this 1969 floor-bound installation was damaged on several occasions while on view at the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam.

The work itself is true to its name: 1,100 liters of creamy peanut butter spread over a 14x4m expanse on the ground. Unfortunately, this iteration of the piece was installed without guardrails, which led to four separate visitors accidentally stepping onto the artwork.

In the wake of these events, museum officials refused to cordon off the piece, explaining that such an intervention would not be aesthetically pleasing. They did, however, send each of the museum visitors a bill for the restoration of the piece, which involved museum staff applying new layers of peanut butter to even out the surface.

[ladyphlogiston]

[a-simple-gremlin]

Re: the comments about the artist’s reasoning behind making this

I think if someone’s goal is to make you think about what makes something art, it’s perfectly reasonable for your answer to be “it isn’t”

[greater-than-the-sword]

You can tell apart the right wingers who want to better this country from the "right-wingers" who are just vengeful haters by how they react when they hear about residents of Seattle or Portland or LA trying to improve anything.

[greater-than-the-sword]

Some of you are Jonah sitting under a fragile leaf raging about how you would rather watch the city be burned with fire from heaven than that people should wake up and go wow this place sucks, we need to change what we are doing

[shimyereh]

Whatever are the upstairs neighbors doing?       (And must they do it now, at 3am?) It sounds like a stampede, like they’re subduing       A stegosaur, or ripping out the stem Of some invasive vine. Perhaps they’re gluing       Large boulders to the wall? I don’t condemn Shenanigans; but could they rearrange The furniture by daylight, for a change?

[hydrachea]

> turns on my computer

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

> disables a new AI fea

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[pawthorn]

Really hate that most people don’t understand the difference between “self-expression” and “artistic-expression.”

I say this as someone who sells pottery, and many people who see my art assume I am using art as an outlet to “express myself.”

I am not.

I use art to challenge myself. A lot of what I do is the equivalent of doing a hard sudoko or a half marathon, answering the question of “can I do this?”

I use art to question things and explore ideas. Finding physical synthesis between concepts and working out a design to its end state.

I use art to make money. I make some things just because I suspect they’ll sell well, and I keep making them when they do.

This idea that an artist is “putting themselves out there” every time they create is not only stupid, but harmful, and it kills critique and analysis.

Yes every creative work is influenced by its creator, but the most preliminary step of analysis is to define the purpose of a work of art (functional, narrative, entertainment, persuasive, decorative, ceremonial, etc.) and a vanishingly small percentage of that is self-expression. Even then, it’s generally tied to the self’s relationship with something else—perception, society, etc.

It’s very tiresome to have people assume they know you because they like (or dislike) your art, to make assumptions about who you are and how you approach the world. It’s nothing new— people called the Impressionists insane and the Fauvists degenerate. And now people are expected to hand out their identities and traumas to prove they have the right to explore certain subjects.

But to actually understand art, you have to contextualize it beyond assuming it’s just what the artist felt like making at the moment and it’s somehow coming from their deepest soul, or you’ll badly misinterpret most art you come across.

[blanklystaringatwalls]

oh goodness! oh dear!! oh no!!!

[deedis]

norp

[deedis]

nop i dont tink so

[npdclaraoswald]

A doll youtuber I watch has made a video about the history of Polly Pocket, and she's describing the plots of the dvd specials, one of which features an elderly woman named Ms. Throckmorton, and my reaction was