May 7
How would Clifford respond if Blue surprised her with a 25 foot hug? We've gotten Lil Clifford a couple times, but it'd be fun to see Big Blue
do NOT ask clifford the color of anything
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How would Clifford respond if Blue surprised her with a 25 foot hug? We've gotten Lil Clifford a couple times, but it'd be fun to see Big Blue
do NOT ask clifford the color of anything
Why are so many completely inane things/media banned in China?
Because Western media equivocates "not selected for mass distribution" with "banned" in an effort to portray the Chinese government as more censorial than it actually is. For example, the 2018 release of the Disney movie "Christopher Robin" was claimed by Western news outlets to have been banned in China and speculated to be related to social media sites in China banning far-right memes using Winnie the Pooh as a stand-in for Xi Jinping.
However, the idea that the movie was banned comes from a distortion of how the film industry works in China. Put simply, China places a limit on how many foreign films can be distributed in Chinese movie theaters per year, and foreign film companies will bid for access to these coveted slots. Films that make the cut are able to earn their foreign rights holders per-ticket sales in China. All other foreign films must be sold to Chinese distributors for a flat fee, making them far less profitable.
Disney simply did not choose to bid for a slot for "Christopher Robin", prioritizing other films for release in China that year. It wasn't banned, it wasn't censored, it was just not one of the few dozen foreign films to appear in Chinese theaters in 2018. But because the West wanted to make folks think Winnie the Pooh was being banned in China, they turned a relatively uneventful business decision on the part of Disney into an example of "ridiculous Chinese censorship".
ask game!
making an ask game purely out of boredom
if you had to dye your hair, what colour would you pick?
in an emergency, who would you call?
favourite scent and why?
who is a role model in your life, real or fictional?
three people you wish you could meet?
would you rather be permanently moving/on the road, or live in the same place for your whole life?
describe a dream you had recently
favourite accessory you own?
how would you survive an apocalypse or at least attempt to?
dream pet?
song you listened to in childhood?
how do you show affection (this can be platonic or romantic)?
favourite film?
piece of media that left a lasting impact on you?
any “paranormal” or unexplainable experiences?
favourite type of chocolate?
drink of choice?
a compliment you’ve received?
best gift you’ve gotten?
dream car?
describe a nightmare you’ve had?
favourite time of day/night?
a hobby you tried but didn’t stick with?
movie or tv show you want to watch?
dream room?
share one outlook you have on life?
a favourite lyric?
favourite way to spend time alone?
share an adventure you went on?
what are your opinions on the person asking?
For the au: does caine still have (former) ringmaster powers that he hides to seem more human, or did he straight up get nerfed?
Hi! Thank you for the ask!
To answer your question, his powers were nerfed. He has about as much control over the circus as the humans do, although he's so used to using his admin privileges that sometimes he forgets he doesn't have them anymore.
park x reader who is assaulted by a patient? tyyy!!
Ohhhhh the ANSGT!!!!!! thank you for requesting!!! <333
Word travelled fast. Faster than it should have, honestly. Here you were sitting, cradling your arm, the bruise already forming, telling everyone that you were fine even though you were most defiently not but you'd put on a brave face for everyone and go home and cry rather than have everyone worry more than they already were.
Dana and Robby were already circling you like hawks, Mel kept asking if you needed something, Dennis was handing you water and Trinity was rechecking your injury to make sure that the wrist was just bruised and not fractured. The small crowd was already attracting more attention than you wanted at the nurses' station.
Hiii, I was just wandering if you wouldn’t mind blabbing about the symbolism and stuff behind some of your design choices with the horse men that you might not have mentioned. Like with pestilence and death specifically I feel like there’s a lot of symbolism I’m picking up on without fully understanding. Like with Death’s sickle, both a homage to the classic scythe and a nod to the “reaping/harvesting” of souls. And with pestilence I feel like there’s something that I’m skirting around without grasping. The multiple legs strike me as a deliberate similarity to insects, and if I’m right I think that the rider is bound in a body bag type deal, similar to how disease and pestilence is so often both spread through the improper disposal of body’s, and how wide spread pestilence leads to mass graves filled with disease and the horrible anonymity that comes with being just one face in a pit of hundreds etc? All of this is, ofc, to say that I’ve adored your series of the horsemen so far and would go absolutely rabid for some insight on some of your design choices<3
My horsemen of the apocalypse! I will add the original commentary and some extras, less about the symbolism and more about what brought me to design them the way I did.
The symbolism is for you to chose, there is no wrong answer.
WAR
I can't bring myself to represent war with a cool knight. It's horror. War is a bound child crowned with shrapnel, tied to a wounded horse that is being pulled forward by unseen people.
I've read a handful of books regarding war. A lost quote said that it should be shown as horror, it should make generals vomit, it should make you sick. I haven't seen war but my family has.
It was the first horseman I've designed, and it was in my sketchbook for months (maybe over a year, maybe even more) before I had the courage to draw it. I was really scared about how people would react to a mutilated child.
Recommended reading: The Red Crown - Mikhail Bulgakov, a short story about a man coping with the loss of his brother in the war
FAMINE
Someone who lived thro a famine shared that their head was only occupied with thoughts of food. Famine consumes your mind. All animals were eaten. Neighbors gave their pets away cuz they couldn't do it themselves. People walked around town as if in a dazed dream, slowly
Recommended reading: The Last Witnesses - Svetlana Alexievitch, a collection of testimonials of people who were children when WW2 began. Some quotes below;
'''A cat! A cat!' Other children saw it and started chasing it. The educators were local habitants, looked at us as if we were insane. In Leningrad there were no living cats left...A living cat was a dream. Food for one month...We talked about it, but they didn't believe us.''
''During the first year of evacuation, we didn't notice nature, everything that was nature provoked in us only one desire - taste to see if it's edible. Only a year later I noticed the beauty of the Urals''
''I dreamt of catching a sparrow and eating it...''
''A candle burns and the shopgirl cuts the bread pieces. People follow her with their gaze. Her every movement...with burning eyes...crazed...and all that in silence.''
''People walked slowly through the city like shadows. Like in a dream...a deep dream...As in, you see it, but you think you're seeing a dream. Those sluggish movements...floating...As if a person walked on water and not on land.''
''In Leningrad there are a lot of monuments, but one is missing that should exist. They forgot about it. The monument to the dogs of the seige. Dear doggy, forgive me...''
I don't like talking about it. It made no sense to draw Famine with a horse.
PESTILENCE
Based on the notes of a doctor who said the most frightening thing about viral disease was how it didn’t frighten. People didn’t know or didn't care. They lived and spread until it was too late and they became another name on the record
The clothing being made out of shredding plastic is no coincidence; pollution is a form of pestilence too
Recommended reading: Notes from a Countryside Doctor - Mikhail Bulgakov. Roughly translated quote below;
''Ah, I verified that here syphilis was frightening precisely because it did not frighten. That was why I evoked that woman.* I remembered her with a kind of affectionate respect: because she had been afraid. But she was the only one!''
*Early in the chapter, doctor mentions a woman that appeared in the clinic with a letter from her soldier husband, where he wrote that he had syphilis and told her she should go to the doctor too.
DEATH
Recommended reading: Voices of Chernobyl - Svetlana Alexievitch. The Death of Ivan Ilitch - Lev Tolstoi
“Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.”
Death is the only horseman that doesn’t need to mount their horse; they will reach everyone eventually. Who is the saddle for then? Open ended question because this one you have to figure out personally
Many people pointed out how the horse is a Clydesdale. Good eyes! I purposefully asked a friend to guide me towards what type of horses are the sturdiest and most-friendly looking. I drew the horse grazing. It's not injured, it doesn't gallop. It's grazing peacefully because life moves on.
This is the only design that had a painting serve as a base - The Reaper, by Alexey Venetsianov. Not much or nothing at all is written about, I saw it in a book. It is a literal reaper but it haunted me, as if it's portraying more than a person.
The choice to make it a woman was due to a book about a crematory (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty) that connected women to death because everyone born is bound to die.
Ahhh, I don't want to give it all away. It's fun to figure things out. About them all. From the enviroment, to the movement, to the horses themselves. Many people even mentioned details that I did not notice and didn't add purposefully that were so inspired and amazing. I truly mean that the interpretations of the public enrich the works even more than my own words. And it's an honor to share that work with everyone.
Thank you anon!