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eustace winner learns about pride flags
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I’ve got the immune system of Vislor Turlough
we’ve gone from the yee haw agenda to the ye olde thot programme
Ah yes, those slutty slutty Landsknecht shorts:
The bare-legged / hot-pants look was fairly common, since the whole point about being a Landsknecht (or Reislaufer, their Swiss equivalent) was to look outrageous.
Most period illustrations of Landsknechts are black-and-white woodcuts…
…though in 1905 a book called „Geschichte des Kostüms“ - History of Costume - assembled a bunch of black-and-whites and added colour.
If they look excessively gaudy, they’re not, because these next prints were coloured in-period by an artist called Erhard Schön, and it’s fair to assume he was representing what he saw.
In short - or in shorts - those reenactor costumes are spot on. :->
Something mentioned nowhere in this post that I have just learned from googling: these guys were not Ye Olde Medieval Dandies. They were 15th-16th century mercenaries. Pretty hardcore, too. They were exempt from sumptuary laws (ie the rules that said you couldn’t wear certain colours or cloth or styles) and apparently their response to that was technicolour thotpants.
I was complaining earlier about costuming in both “historical” settings and in fantasy/scifi. This is exactly what I mean when I say a knowledge of actual history would enrich the conceptual creative palette for things like “hardcore mercenary outfits.”
say what you will about IT (1990) as an adaptation but i think the creative choice of changing the narrative so that eddie kaspbrak could come out as a virgin, share (unprompted) that it’s because the only people he loves enough to fuck are the members of his 80% male childhood friend group, and then immediately kick the bucket is actually the greatest thing ever. Amazing. no notes. genius work.
we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist
female characters are always lighter than male characters. strong characters are almost always dark. aggressive characters are almost always dark. peaceful and intelligent characters are almost always light. even amongst darker characters the lightest one is usually either the leader or the girls. dark is evil and light is good.
if you try to explain this to a white person they look at you like youre insane
briefly pursuing a career in animation radicalized me on this. So many stories from the industry about how you have to start with your character design as dark as possible, because INEVITABLY you'll get "notes" from higher-ups asking you to make them lighter.
In a class about making a pitch bible my teacher once role-played as a shitty executive with a classmate, pressing them in intentionally abrasive ways about why they made their characters diverse. He emphasized that we had to learn to defend these things, because the racism in the industry is extremely deliberate.
Ronald Wimberly's comic essay, Lighten Up, stays evergreen
as soon as i read richie's reflection about the werewolf guy in the movie, i knew it was going to come back to haunt my nightmares. lo and behold! it did!
there is just so much to be said about richie's biggest fear being, essentially, himself. his own repression and avoidance, his own inability to sit still with his emotions for more than half a second.
the shapes pennywise takes are never just the literal thing he becomes; those are always representations of deeper, more complex fears. however, with richie's it's especially striking and it really has you sit there staring at his name on the wolf's varsity jacket in abject horror, perhaps because richie didn't even fully realize his fear until it was looking back at him. he is terrified something Bad is brewing inside him, ready to burst out whenever he's too exhausted to keep it at bay. he is terrified that as soon as the façade falters, he will become nuclear. i am distraught
Black indie animated projects that you should check out!
I thought I’d share the ones i’ve seen and link the channels in light of recent events. beating myself up for not having done this sooner tbh
Wheels and Roses - roller derby & magical girls!
The Three Tomes - a vampire love story
DizzyCat - slice of life adventures of 2 cat siblings
Crocodile Dance - a thriller combining myth and Afrofuturism
Furious and Fat Cat - comedy about 2 childhood friends who reunite as roommates
The Ebony Witch - disney/don bluth inspired fantasy series
I Don’t Want To Be A Magical Girl - yall probably know this one but I’m putting it here anyway
Please reblog with any that I missed!
Waves - 2D animated short film directed by Jason Raymond. Really sweet coming of age story about a young black boy who learns to love himself and his culture, instead of erasing it/ hiding it from others or being ashamed of who he is.
Hair Love - 2D animated short by Matthew A. Cherry. Heartwarming story about a black father learning to do his daughter’s hair and bonding with one another.
The next IT movie remake where theyre teens in the 2000’s is gonna end with young Mike scrolling 27 years in his phone calendar and adding “IT back maybe?” For the beginning of summer and then cuts to him waking up in a cold sweat 27 years later to his phone blaring that calendar notif to him and a news report on the tv saying a new kid has gone missing
they’re going to save the day with the power of rejection and suicide🥰🥰
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figure drawing for all it's worth (+ creative illustration)
framed ink
will eisner comics and sequential art
will eisner graphic storytelling and visual narrative
understanding comics (+ making comics)
folder of various animation production art
burne hogarth drawing dynamic hands
perspective for comic book artists
michael mattesi force drawing
the animator's survival kit
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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:
late late happy women's day ‼️
on april 20 2024 I singlehandedly made persona 4 trend on twitter bc this tweet somehow morphed into discourse about trans people and then immediately started rping ken amada and akihiko sanada from persona 3 pretending to argue about misogynistic watermelon slices on discord
ok second time's the charm. booster has batman call a very important league meeting whatever etc
adult kay wearing a nice suit just because