TRAINGEEK2K

some train posts but other stuff too

[faggotrodentsyndrome]

lapidot rocker au: night time impulses

Lapis, after getting her guitar set up by Peridot, goes home with a thought in her mind. She wanted to thank her one more time for some reason. This is still a new experience to her, after all. She later confides in Bismuth who in response, gives her some friendly advice.

[creative-apple]

idea from my brain and not my friend

[yourgreenpalminmine]

Thank YOU for reading Your Green Palm in Mine!

Scroll down to see the original attempt at this drawing I did back in August, a day or two before I started production on the comic!

Past few weeks have been a blur and I have neglected posting on Tumblr. Whoops! I’ll try to get back on that. In the same breath, I’ve been taking a well deserved break from drawing and posting.

I don’t really remember what I already have written regarding my sappy feelings about making this comic… but I’ll try to cover new ground. I was at my absolute worst when I started the production of YGPIM- without getting too much into it, it was very much a “I’ll do something to fill the time before my set date I plan to leave this world” kinda project. I had been going through an intense health flare, I was in pain, and too weak to move or accomplish much. My garden was a failure as I couldn’t maintain it, and the realization the dreams I had would never be attainable absolutely broke me. I could never seem to finish my art, much less write anything… so why was I here. I’d never impact anyone because I believed I was incapable of creating anything.

But yet, here I am. I made a webcomic! I FINISHED A WEBCOMIC! I FINISHED IT IN EIGHT MONTHS? I’ve impacted countless people, my health has turned up! I run, I garden, I go out with my wonderful friends, I cook, I sew, I play with my dog, I live! I’m alive!! I never expected all this to happen, especially at my worst. But here I am! Here we are!

So thank you, all of you. For everything. It’ll be a bit before I touch comics again- my summers are busy. But I hope to return to them this fall.

-Dantès

[guga-foods]

"Guga, we can't film you cooking a 'bumblebee' steak. That doesn't make any fucking sense."

"I already caught the bee, Angel."

[kabber]

[phillip-bankss]

grug dont have to change!

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[parkchanwoohoo]

I'm really trying hard to be a "It's everyone's first time learning something everyday" kind of guy but also if you don't know shit and you know you're, for whatever reason, a person who doesn't have context about something, why fucking talk. Like why are you talking. If you know you don't know what's being discussed why are you opining about it and getting confused when everyone is like, shut your empty headed mouth for the love of god? Are you ALSO learning for the first time that this is insufferable?? As though half the time these people aren't also insufferable pedants who'd blow a gasket if someone started talking about their loser hobbies wrong

[parkchanwoohoo]

"Here are my thoughts on this topic"

"You are completely off, you have gotten multiple basic facts wrong, you also lack x and y context"

"Well I didn't know that because I don't really involve myself in this topic" THEN SHUT UPPPPPPP OH MY GODDDDDDD

[parkchanwoohoo]

I'm really trying hard to be a "It's everyone's first time learning something everyday" kind of guy but also if you don't know shit and you know you're, for whatever reason, a person who doesn't have context about something, why fucking talk. Like why are you talking. If you know you don't know what's being discussed why are you opining about it and getting confused when everyone is like, shut your empty headed mouth for the love of god? Are you ALSO learning for the first time that this is insufferable?? As though half the time these people aren't also insufferable pedants who'd blow a gasket if someone started talking about their loser hobbies wrong

[parkchanwoohoo]

"Here are my thoughts on this topic"

"You are completely off, you have gotten multiple basic facts wrong, you also lack x and y context"

"Well I didn't know that because I don't really involve myself in this topic" THEN SHUT UPPPPPPP OH MY GODDDDDDD

[visjules]

A comic about pools

[kamilloid]

I don't know if anyone has done this before, but I've been thinking about it for a few weeks-

I MEAN-

it's literally them!!!

[undasura]

watever

[ekiloria]

:^]

[la-morfin3]

I absolutely adore your chubby Lapis and saw that you are open to receiving requests, so would it be alright to have her struggling with her old “Bob” outfit and Peridot just being absolutely smitten by the blue gem?

but thats not what shes asking, peridot

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[what-is-love-babey-dont-hurt-me]

You guys ever see a DNI that makes you break out into laughter and almost cry

[what-is-love-babey-dont-hurt-me]

If graphic design is your passion then !!! GET OUT !!! 🚫🚫👎‼️🥶🥶🚫