#knowhere

[cocomocomochi]

Screenshot redraw

Thought about how this scene could’ve been punched up a little since the screen gets darker and all knowheres eyes open and glow but very little changes in posing and dynamic.

Love how it turned out personally

[alegalcara]

So, in response to the question i made, i decided to do a little something

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And yeah

(Btw, i did the last panel laughing the hell out of me and tearing up while wondering what life choices i had done to lead to this.)

Btw, the au belongs to @somedorkthatdraws

[cartoon-buffoon]

There's this new point and click horror game that came out recently called "The Island of Doctor Morose" which is an absolutely fucking BEAUTIFULLY stylized game using the aesthetic of Dr suess to create a loose adaptation of the book "The Island of Doctor Morue" with added elements of HP lovecraft, it's fucking phenomenal and I'd recommend anyone to check it out if they love body and cosmic horror—but there's also a character within the game called Knowhere which is based on one of Dr suess's "prexisting characters" and I wanna acknowledge how fucking hot he is

[raccoonfallsharder]

knowhere & the snap.

warning: discussion of forced disappearances.

honestly I have way too much knowhere-lore built up in my head. so many things i scrapped from rack & ruin because they didn’t add to the plot and would take up so much space to explain. i love to think about how the snap showed up in different places (lookin at you, florescence) and how the local culture tried to make sense of it. knowhere, i think, was particularly haunted by it — and not just because their population had likely been quartered since thanos’ visit a few — hours? rotations? — earlier.

but even before the guardians, mcu-knowhere was a shelter for fugitives and refugees (admittedly, it becomes a much safer, happier shelter after ownership changes hands). when the snap occurs (and no-one on knowhere knows what it is or what’s going on — not till word spreads to them sixth-hand from ravagers and outlaws who had run-ins with rocket or nebula or kraglin or carol), there’s this period of time where no-one knows what’s happened. i think, in that interim space of not-knowing, the people of knowhere call it the disappearance.

but not like, abracadabra, i’ll make you disappear.

this is a disappearance that recalls government dissidents being hauled from their homes in the dead of night, or entire towns and villages and planets being quietly wiped from maps and history as new emperors and organizations move in. children walking over thresholds at curfew, only to find that their parents must have been dragged away hours earlier. loved ones, vanishing without a word — all their belongings left behind in their homes; no sign of struggle.

the knowheremen don’t really believe that some shadow orgs or secret police have silently, stealthily kidnapped their loved ones. well, not all of them. certainly there are some who truly think that in another couple-dozen decennia, there’ll be reports of mass graves somewhere on the skull. and maybe they’re right. after all, there used to be rumors that if you pissed off the tivan group often enough or badmouthed the collector around the wrong person, you’d wake up to find yourself in the darkest and twistiest of the mines.

but if those graves exist, they’re not because of the snap.

no, most knowheremen don’t really believe that this disappearance is the same kind of thing as the ones they remember from their pasts — not when they’ve witnessed people turning to bone-dust and shrapnel before their eyes. still, they carry the feeling of it with them from their home-planets and star-systems across the universe. their own hushed whispers from pre-knowhere homes echo in the empty bone-streets; their own history of tragic backstories rattle around in their brains.

that whistleblower got disappeared. that guy turned state and they disappeared ‘im. did you hear? they disappeared all those protesters.

anyway. that’s how i think knowhere tries to make sense of the snap. and i am so happy that they get the future they deserve someday: one where the skull becomes a haven, and the city becomes a neighborhood.

and there are no disappearances. not like that. not anymore.

[albertonavajoart]

Rocket Raccoon (WHAT!?)

[where-is-the-sam-standee]

The Sam standee is on Knowhere from Guardians of the Galaxy!

[vertigoartgore]

2024's Fall of the House of X Vol.1 #2 cover by cover artist Pepe Larraz and colorist Marte Gracia.

[thedarktowerdames]

Art Credit to Mark Brooks