Apr 6, 2020
Two Vek and Cad doodles I did for @niconicotastic based on our RP of them. Yes, those are Grubbabbies. It’s THAT kinda RP.
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Two Vek and Cad doodles I did for @niconicotastic based on our RP of them. Yes, those are Grubbabbies. It’s THAT kinda RP.
1) Fun in the sun with some lovely lady buns- wait...
2) Blitz the Bug Meister
3) The Splatful Malevolence
May commissions for @asianwarsaw
He was generous to buy four slots but at the moment the last one is delayed by the sheer size but I’m grateful to have drawn his Brigade characters. Thank you so much and enjoy!
Barracuda Brigade
Commissioned for @asianwarsaw / @blitzandthebarracudabrigade
It was real good to have this given chance to draw your troupe and expect more challenges in the future my friend.
Pics:
A & B. Pomes described.
C. King Midas.
Intro: Poem from The Conservative, Volume 1, Number 3 (October 1915).
Title: "The State of Poetry", Part 2.
Pics:
D. The title translates as "The Modern Religion of the Romans" (April 2022) by C. Florius Lupus.
E. The classic Greek lyre.
Text:
To Durus¹ now our keen attention turns,
Whose rugged page with manly passion burns.
Would that his apt expressions did not lie
Where syllable & tone must go awry;
A lesser sentiment we needs must feel
If "real" love be mispronounced as "reel";
While far from his loose line we long to roam,
When stately "poem" masquerades as "pome²"!
Next Hodiernus³ with his lyre⁴ appears,
And glads the modern critic's Midas⁵ ears.
Upon his shelves neglected classics rest,
While he reads Kipling⁶ & proclaims him best.
The well turned verse, the choice, harmonious phrase,
Are foreign to his new, corrupted ways.
Form is an error, elegance a crime,
To him who courts the plaudits⁷ of the time.
Ablest⁸ is he who can in rhyming reach
The lofty coarseness of a Cockney's⁹ speech.
No name we give to yon¹⁰ degenerate swine
That apes the filthy Whitman's vulgar line¹¹.
Pics:
F. Rudyard Kipling.
G. Walt Whitman.
H. Cockneys!
Notes:
1. Durus, here, isn't Quintus Laberius Durus, a Roman tribune who died in 55 BC - during Julius Caesar's 2nd invasion of Britain.
No, the Latin word durus meant "(physically) hard, tough & stern".
It came to mean "(someone) cruel, harsh, unyielding, oppressive & severe."
2. A pome is a fruit with seeds in its core & that's surrounded by eatable flesh.
Apples, pears, nashi & quince are all considered pome fruits.
3. Hodiernus is Latin for "(belonging) to today, the present day, current."
Since Lovecraft was into the Failing Western Culture theme, modernity was a sore subject to him.
Nothing, it seemed, was better for him than living in the older British Empire.
4. A lyre is a stringed instrument with a U-shaped frame.
It's part of the lute family & has been used since 2700 BC in Mesopotamia.
The Greeks used it to accompany songs & speeches!
(Theme Muzak!!)
5. King Midas didn't chose Apollo, the god of music, in a musical contest.
So, the angry god gave Midas donkey ears to mark Midas's poor judgement.
(Sounds like Apollo's a diva type.)
Embarrassed, Midas hid his ears under a Phrygian turban & only his barber knew what had happened.
Unable to keep quiet, the barber spilled this secret into a well.
But, reeds grew there - whispering the secret to anyone who passed by...
6. Kipling, Rudyard (1865 - 1936) was an English writer, poet, journalist & novelist.
His many works include: The Jungle Book, Kim, Gunga Din, The Man Who Would Be King, Captains Courageous & the controversial The White Man's Burden.
He's the 1st English-language author to win the Novel Prize in Literature in 1907.
7. A plaudit is "an expression of praise or approval."
(Like applause.)
Roman actors would shout "Plaudite!" after a play, commanding people to "Applaud"!
(Nowadays, we use cue cards in game shows to get audiences to respond.)
8. Ablest is a form of English able & means "(the) most able."
It has nothing to do with "ableist", which is "treating people differently because they have a disability."
Ablest is also different than British ablet, which is "a type of small, fresh- water fish".
9. Cockney is the dialect & accent of working-class Londoners.
Especially, folk in the East End - born near the sound of the bells of Saint Mary-le-Bow church in Cheapside.
10. Yon is an old fashion English word, here meaning "those, that."
HPL skipped the sense of "over there, in that direction."
It can also mean "that person, thing."
11. "Filthy Whitman's vulgar line..."
Walt Whitman wrote about the pleasures of sexual love - no matter who engaged in it.
In "Leaves of Grass", he used openly sexual language - which became a theme of his poetry.
What's rarely brought up is his racism towards Native Americans & his anti- immigrant sentiments - even though he was a 'champion' of inclusivity...
Next: Part 3.
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