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brb tearing up about oscar saying this, brennan's face when he says it, and then oscar going on to talk about how being in a dome full of people coming together to create an environment of community is something that is needed. :'))
the virgin loss.jpg versus the chad xkcd Seven Years
Don’t forget the latest version, Ten Years
@vividaway Randall Munroe is an internet cartoonist who runs the ‘xkcd’ online comic series, which has run from 2006 up to today, with new comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Xkcd isn’t an ongoing story, just a series of funny, wholesome, depressing, or oddly scientifically informative comics.
In 2010, Randall’s fiance was diagnosed with stage III breast cancer. He didn’t share too many details at first, but things tended to bleed into his comics: sometimes funny, sometimes sad.
Often in this time, other cartoonists would write in guest comics for Randall, or he’d put in short filler pieces, to try and fill space while nonstop cancer treatments took up most of his time.
In 2012, he posted a comic called ‘Two Years’, about the time since the diagnosis. It’s the one that hasn’t yet been posted here (although parts of it are included in the other comics), and it commemorates some of the things that had happened in the two years since the diagnosis.
There are representations of Randall and his fiance being together for her treatment, worrying together, traveling the world, and getting married. It’s still depressing, but it’s a lot more hopeful, showing how they’ve still managed to have happy moments together, and things will still get better.
Themes of cancer continued in xkcd, but they increasingly became less about fear and nihilism, and more about hope, or just cool facts related to cancer.
At the top of this post is the comic posted in 2017: Seven Years. In it, Randall and his wife are traveling more, trying to have fun and continue old and new hobbies, with cancer ever-present in the background of it all. At the end, the two of them observe the 2017 solar eclipse, and despite all the uncertainty that comes with the thought of another seven years, agree to watch the 2024 eclipse together too.
There are just about no cancer comics between that one and the most recent comic, the one I posted: Ten Years, written in 2020. It’s by far the most hopeful of the three in the little series: the two of them are happy, they’re playing with rabbits and riding on handcarts and going out hiking and stargazing, together. At the end, Ten Years breaks the format with a conversation in which they talk about how unbelievable it is that it’s been so long, and share their worries as well as their hopes. It even ends on a much more lighthearted joke about immortality.
It’s a good comic. Definitely in my top two comics wherein internet cartoonists express emotions about an illness suffered by their wife.
“The ten-year cancerversary is traditionally the Cursed Artifact Granting Immortality anniversary.” -Randall Munroe.
And now, at long last, Fifteen Years:
Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.
I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.
Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:
This person wrote a manifesto I ain’t reading all that but this is literally the type of behavior im talking about the idea hobbies all cost money is so removed from reality if you have the time to pick up your phone and write 7 paragraphs on how im victimizing you with my offhanded post you have the time to watch a movie on YouTube with your very same phone instead come on now. How is you freaking out on the internet helping any of these issues
things that dont cost money: hiking, walking, birdwatching, identifying plants, drawing (you have a pen, reading (library), collecting rocks, dancing, singing.... etc wtc etc
if you cant find a hobby you can afford, thats a you problem. and if youre posting online, you have a device to do that, get some free games, trawl wikipedia, study something. stop picking fights online and do something else.
if you can write an essay about it on your phone you can write fanfic or poetry or something on your phone also and it will be much nicer for everyone involved, including you
As someone who has been both skint and a chronic hobbiest, there was always a way for me to find something free to do to not go crazy. Like, who didn't steal pens from stores? Writing out your frustrations on the back of bills is perfectly reasonable, and I'd say a healthy pasttime.
Hello everyone,
Just a little post to let you know I'm not dead. This year has me burnt out from being online more than my work forces me to, so I've been trying to find a lot of peace in what I can do in the real world.
I've actually also been put off digital art as a whole with what feels like every platform being flooded with AI.
As a positive, it's been the final straw to push me into finally learning how to paint traditionally. I thought I'd share my first attempt!
It's bastard-hard. So if you have any gouache tutorials you could recommend me, I'd be grateful!
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All
I like the green yuri manga
Cressida Blackwater
I imagine she would have a LOT of Baroque-style oil portraits at her home - though they definitely wouldn't include the new *cough* additions.
I'm playing with Clip Studio Paint to see if I enjoy the interface better. I am in love with the colour mixing palette. Also, what do we think about the rendering style? I'm playing around to see what feels like me.
I think its fun to go from a campaign of Corazon bullying Merilwen to a campaign of Cressida bullying Robin. Cosmic balance
In just a few short hours our explosive playthrough of the brand new Discowlrd TTRPG arrives!
Tune in to this incredibly special Oxventure featuring the illustrious talents of @domjallen!
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Merilwen outlives her friends.
So before my hands took me out of the picture and before the last season of the Oxventurers' Guild, this is what I was working on!
In my mind, I was caught up on how much longer elves live, and how Merilwen being a true neutral has led to her making some pretty bloodthirsty decisions. What kind of person could that develop into, if left all alone for centuries, I wonder?
Wyrdwood, but as 3 AM sketches.
No erasing, just a sketch and then inking with a painful 0.005 micron, only 9 minutes each. Practicing them from memory to lock them in as well as play around with posing, nothing crazy though.
Wracking up debt Morven, Lug with tea? Lug seems like a guy who'd like herbal tea?, Cressida deserves a temper tantrum, Yawning Willowfine, Happen, and a terrified Robin.
Robin Oatcake the sweet sweet boy (young man) you are. Loving that he's not just being played as a vessel to Morvan because he has so much to offer to the group.
He's the heart of the team. He's the only one who can really talk to people! Willowfine, Lug, and Happen are good people, but have lived so separately from normal people their entire lives, and Cressida is just doing her own thing. Despite being "usless" compared to Morvan, he's saved their asses so many times already by just being a good person.
He's wants to help!! He's doing so good at helping!!
Under Maintenance
The moment Willowfine mentioned her feathers, my mind was caught in how hard it would be to remove the keratin shealth around her own new growth. And the discomfort of walking all day in chainmail, heavy against her feathers, a reminder of her greater purpose and heritage.
She's so SO strong, but sweet and kind, and a little socially awkward (thinking about the fight with the racist farmers). It kind of gives me Laios Touden vibes.
Anyway, I love her. So here's her trying to preen her own feathers back when she was in her hometown.
A Blood Debt is owed to the Wyrdwood...
Oxventure D&D returns TONIGHT!
I'm so ready for shit to hit the fan.
I was doing some introspection on the pairings I kept gravitating towards and decided it's due to the key persistent traits of the characters the players choose when they aren't GM.
Andy: insecure (Corazon, Chancey, Edvard, Purvis are all constantly seeking external validation)
Jane: powerful (Prudence, Zillah, Margot, Garnet all vary in morality, all could kill me easily)
Mike: cognitive dissonance (Egbert a dumb paladin, Barnaby an elitist criminal, Silas a cowboy layman afraid of horses)
Luke: innocent (Dob and Delacy are sponges to the world around them, and that leads to impulsive and morally questionable choices)
Ellen: earnest (puns aside, Merilwen, Lilith, and now Edie all have a weight of sincere commitment to the people (or animals) around them, rather than being self-absorbed or hell bent on a specific goal)
Johnny: world-weary (Kazamir and Nate are both aged above the people around them and wise to the world they live in)
I'm keen to hear other thoughts. I'm not really across the guest episodes, so I don't have info on the one-shot characters. I know Andy once said something about enjoying playing pathetic men once, but I love all his soft, nervous lads.
I wrote a whole thing updating this but then I DELETED IT accidentally. But I need everyone to know I'M STILL RIGHT about the Wyrdwood party.
Feeling Spritely
The moment Happen described his sprites, I was lurched back in time to a high school obsession with Brian Froud’s ‘Faeries’.
Attempting to honour that style was a strong reminder for why I don't do traditional media anymore. It’s so hard and SO much work. Kudos to everyone who does.
Robin understands the needs of true wine connoisseurs, grape adjacent ingredients... 🤢
Wyrdwood Chapter Three has dropped! You need to see this one! 💀 🌳 🔗 https://youtu.be/Pu-GlIu0Gqo
