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When i saw medieval illumination comic, i immediately bought and read medieval illumination comic. Definite recommend! The art is fantastic, especially the border art and the letter art!! The story is short and impactful!

There’s physical copies available, as mentioned, but you can also do what i did and get the digital pdf!

Preview of Basilisk, my personal favorite of my risograph comics, and the project all my other recent medieval-inspired art descends from.

Styled after medieval illuminated manuscripts and printed using a custom color palette requiring 5 risograph inks (including metallic gold), Basilisk asks the question: what would drive a teenage girl to create a monster?

Physical copies available here. To brag for a moment--this is my masterwork of riso printing and is even more impressive in person.

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Inktober 2024 But It's All Infinity Train - Day 1 to 30, all in the same post (I hit the new image limit, oops). Day 31 is a bit different, though, so it's kind of fitting, in a way

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Attempting to deal with some of my feelings regarding Infinity Train Book 3. And probably failing

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Infinity train is very aroace spec friendly and i recommend it to all my aro and/or ace spec friends (and all my other friends too to be fair).

What infinity train does that is, in my opinion, so aroace friendly, is that it doesn’t put its characters into inherently romantic relationships or setups, but it also doesn’t fall into the trap of giving some convoluted reason as to why they’re not (because for some reason, characters can never just be aromantic, they’ve always gotta be traumatized or hyperfocused on something else or not believing in love at all).

Reading Jesse and Lake as romantic is canon-supported, reading them as platonic is canon-supported, reading them as queer platonic or something else is canon-supported, so long as they care for eachother. Same with Ryan and min-gi.

Because, and this is likely due to infinity train’s short runtime but still, there is nothing for or against it. Romance is never important nor explicitly unimportant. The show is, somehow, miraculously, romance indifferent.

Being someone on the aromantic spectrum who does really like watching romance makes Nandor and Guillermo especially frustrating, because it appeals to neither my desire for good aromantic rep (neither of these characters are canonically aromantic or even aro-coded, at all) nor my desire to watch a romance

(Alternatively it makes infinity train way more fun, because every single character could be aromantic but also there’s two relationships that are very fun to ship romantically)

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just to continue harping on this, we got queerbaited by a show with canonically queer characters because while queerness has always been a joke, this showrunner and these writers figured out that it’s now a socially acceptable joke for their main characters to have.

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Being someone on the aromantic spectrum who does really like watching romance makes Nandor and Guillermo especially frustrating, because it appeals to neither my desire for good aromantic rep (neither of these characters are canonically aromantic or even aro-coded, at all) nor my desire to watch a romance

(Alternatively it makes infinity train way more fun, because every single character could be aromantic but also there’s two relationships that are very fun to ship romantically)

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Also about wwdits! It is noticeable that Guillermo’s gayness is treated seriously. He does have a legit boyfriend in season 4 for a while. It is specifically the bi/pan characters this show doesn’t take as seriously. It’s the bi/pan characters who always have serious romantic m/f relationships while every hint of same sex attraction is always sexual and played for a joke. And don’t get me into how every vampire is bi/pan while every human character is either straight or gay. (Almost like they’re implying everyone would be bi/pan if they thought about it long enough.)

Its. Specifically. The bi/pan characters. Don’t forget that!

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WWDITS finale analysis

Making the finale be about the documentary ending was genius. What else would it be about? Nothing else in this story ever changes, the only thing the ending changes is that the documentary ends. It’s perfect.

The fact that Guillermo goes from being upset that it’s ending, to insisting it has a good ending, to deciding to lie to the camera to make up his own ending is perfect. For the entire show, the vampires never changed, and Guillermo always kept insisting on change while never actually leaving the situation. He doesn’t leave any of the times he’s said he will, he doesn’t stay a vampire when he finally becomes one, when he does go to canon capital, he doesn’t seem to mind Nandor and Nadja being there all that much, and he returns to them again at the end of the penultimate episode. He keeps insisting on changing without ever actually doing so. An ending where he insists on a conclusion, only to instead simply fake one for the camera, and still not leave the situation, like he’s always been doing, what they’ve all always been doing, is very thematic.

It’s just this reminder: he’s like them. He insists that he’s not, he pretends that he’s not. He says he’s growing and changing and becoming something different, but he’s kind of the same as he’s always been, kind of wants to stay that way, kind of wants to fake the change and stay the same, stay like them and stay with them.

In this show entirely about vampires not changing or growing or learning simply because they can continue on without having to, the inclusion of a human character being exactly the same but masking as something different is intriguing.

You can kinda feel It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s influence. There’s this one video essay (by quintonreviews) about how sitcoms always have the characters in the same situations again and again, never actually learning or growing, because that would kill the premise of the show, and how over time that makes the characters feel less real. And always sunny subverts this by having the whole premise of the sitcom be “these people never grow or change, and they’re terrible for it and getting worse”. And i think wwdits does that exact same concept, except instead of forty-something’s working at the same shitty bar for decades because every plan they’ve came up with to get a better life has been shit, its ancient vampires sitting around the same old house for decades or centuries because why bother improving anything when you can just use hypnosis to get what you want and most of what you want is already here?

Which i suppose is what makes Guillermo special: he’s a human but he can’t be hypnotized and he is drawn to the exact same lifestyle of sitting around in this house doing the same thing over and over. Except he wants to pretend he isn’t like that. It’s great!

Now, all that being said, wwdits in my opinion does not beat out the queerbaiting allegations. Some say it does, because it has canon queer characters. But we weren’t baited with canon queer characters, we were baited with a canon queer relationship, with queer relationships being treated with the same seriousness as male/female relationships. And wwdits doesn’t give us that, after clearly baiting us until the very fucking end. And the actors and showrunner going on about how nandermo can be friends and being friends is no less important than a romantic relationship are infuriating because you know they’re not actually trying to make some big statement about the equal validity of friendship. They’re openly mocking us in the finale! How dare fans want an ending that provides conclusion to this baited ship???

So then how do my feelings about the genius of showing that these characters never change and Guillermo is in the end just like them, just pretending he isn’t match up with my desire for nandermo to be canon? Frustration! Because we could’ve had both so fucking easily! All they had to do was, when Nandor and Guillermo think the cameras have stopped rolling and are giving up the game, have them kiss. It would’ve been a perfect wtf moment. It would’ve matched the theme of the finale- the question of how much of this is being played up for the camera, how much of the documentary is even real? It wouldn’t have even involved the characters changing, since we wouldn’t know how long nandermo had been together, just that they got together at some point. It would’ve been cute and funny, wondering how long have these characters been together behind the documentary’s back? It would’ve fit the tone of the finale and the premise of the story and avoided the queerbaiting allegations and it would’ve been so easy within the episode they already created to just add in a kiss.

We just wanted nandermo to be taken as seriously as Nadja and laszlo. Thats not even that seriously! Because it’s a comedy and we all know that! But they can’t even do that much!

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there was one tumblr post i read last week that was like "my one hope for the finale is that we get more info on the doc crew" and i laughed at it, thinking that'd never happen. shoutout to you, whoever you were, you must've loved the ep

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what an absurd ending

so meta! so beautiful! i love the sudden shift to acknowledging the making of the documentary. guillermo getting upset that the documentary is ending and insisting it needs an ending only to create an ending himself by lying to the camera! meanwhile nandor builds an underground lair? HOW???? this finale switched tones at least thrice, but i think going extreme meta was strangely more fun than if the episode had kept to a more series-typical level of self-referential.

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protective. part 10 of my mob psycho 100 strength swap au where mob is just as strong as he is in canon but teru is just a bit stronger.

reminder to click today!

this whole comic almost died because of my inability to draw ritsu's hair, but then i remembered my only art philosophy- it doesn't have to be good it just has to be recognizable!

but in case you can't recognize it, image id under the cut *winks*

Strength Swap AU Original idea Strength Swap Comic: part 1 previous part

image id:

panel one is mob and teru sitting on the couch in the kageyama living room, wearing their school uniforms.

panel two is a close up of ritsu, looking annoyed, saying "Oh. Hanazawa is here. Again."

Panel three is a close up of mob and teru's faces. Mob says, "yes. he's also staying for dinner again." teru says, "nice to see you, little brother!"

panel four is ritsu again, looking even more annoyed, saying "It's... nice to see you as well."

panel five is ritsu saying, "Well, if you need anything, brother, let me know." and then the word "leaves" in asterisks because the artist still hasn't figured out how to draw that.

panel six is mob and teru on the couch while ritsu's silhouette can be seen just outside of the room. teru says, "isn't he your younger brother? And not an esper? He's so protective."

panel seven is a closer up version of mob and teru on the couch while ritsu's silhouette can be seen just outside of the room. mob says, "He just wants to make sure I'm safe." Teru says, "Don't worry, I'll protect both of you. I'm the strongest esper ever after all!"

panel eight is a close up of a shocked-looking ritsu. a thought bubble above his head reads, "Hanazawa is an esper? And stronger than my brother?!?"

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Aight, so a suspect has been caught. In the next couple of days we’re going to be bombarded with a cavalcade of information about Luigi Mangione. As we start this period I want everyone to remember:

The killer--whether he is Mangione or another man--is a living, breathing, human being. He has followed people you don’t like, held beliefs you disagree with, and possibly voting for politicians you think suck.

He still shot a man with the blood of millions on his hands. He still caused an outpouring of rage that caused BCBS to roll back its ghoulish anesthesia policy.

Carve that into your fucking minds. Mass media is about to do its damnedest to remind us to hate each other, not the top .001%. Do not let them do this. Y’all understand what I’m saying? Here, lemme spell it out more clearly:

DO NOT FUCKING PURITY TEST THIS GUY, ASSHOLES!!

And if you see people fixating on his purity over the message he sent, call them out on it.

We have lost again and again and again on healthcare because we keep letting the rich divide us. Remember: the people united will never be defeated.

Edit: A couple of people have asked me to not convict Mangione in my post, and they're right. Mangione has been arrested on gun charges, not for the murder, and regardless of the charge he obviously hasn't been convicted yet. It's too soon to lay Brian Thompson on his head. I've modified the post to reflect that.

That said, what I've said here applies to whoever the killer is. As the media circus plays out, a lot of talking heads will be pulling out all stops to remind us to hate each other, not the insurance CEOs. Do not fall for their tricks!

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this wwdits ep was so satisfying! spoilers!

guillermo tries for a promotion from his inconsiderate boss, and is instead given a photo (in the same pose as the glitter portrait from ep 1, but noticeably lower-effort than said glitter portrait). but he's not going down docile this time- he's known from the start of this job to protect himself and has been working his backup plan the whole time.

nandor and guillermo are both finally in agreement that guillermo shouldn't be a vampire- something nandor's always believed and guillermo only just realized- and that he belongs with the vamily- something guillermo's always believed and nandor is just admitting.

nandor, who has openly hated being a vampire and glorified his time as a warrior the whole series, calls guillermo "something cooler than a vampire, a warrior".

colin robinson gets sick of laszlo treating the creature as though he's not his own person, making him dance and perform for crowds, and try to be like laszlo. it's reminiscent of how laszlo treated colin in season 4, and I'm glad colin gets to have his moment of acknowledging how laszlo treats his dependents is not okay.

i'm not sure how i feel about nadja's storyline. her whole arc this season has felt very neurodivergent-person-in-corporate. and i think the season has done a good job making sure the joke hits right- it's funny how, with all these bizarre and terrible things happening in this corporate office, nadja is the one who's seen as out-of-place. i think the punchline of nadja getting another, better job without ever learning what canon capital does would've been a better joke than her falling for a scam. and it would've kept the joke where the joke should be- on a terrible corporation where you don't even need to know what is going on to succeed.

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Strength swap au’s next page has taken me three months because everytime i look at how i drew ritsu’s hair i lose all confidence in my ability to draw. And I’m not even sure when i gained any confidence in my ability to draw!

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another gravity falls animation! :3 hope yall enjoy!

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put three f/f ships you like in the tags. doesnt matter how obscure or embarrassing the media, go for it. and no, your m/m ship doesnt count as women