#cebo draws

[nvr-pass]

[image description: a digital poster in a minimalistic style. a simplified graphic of an empty excel spreadsheet leans into frame from the right. next to it angled text reads "excel spreadsheets" /end ID]

i make fanart for excel. that's the kind of person i am.

[renard-dartigue]

Chist this is so heartbreaking. Tsutomu Nihei is one of the manga artists I absolutely adore. BLAME! is my favorite manga of all time. To see what the industry has done to him is awful. Cebo and Sanakan aren't even recognizable anymore. I hope Tsutomu san can go back to drawing what he loves again.

Message from Tsutomu Nihei, author of BLAME!, NOiSE, Biomega, Abara, Digimortal,...

The industry, rather I should say, the fanbase killed the author.

—

Comparison of the cover in context for the Master Edition and Tsutomu Nihei's old artstyle

[vr2]

cebo doodle

she says good luck for operation barrenland

[official-maverick]

cebo!!!

[stomach-rental]

It's Technically Half-size and not G/t, but, Cebo's got a weird stomach system and I wanted to draw him carrying Miki around

[nvr-pass]

[ID: the two bing cards from above but marked off in green. on AJ's card the following are marked off: plush toys, flowers, bbc ghosts, doctor who, taskmaster, shakespeare, acting / performing arts, drag performers, comedy, watching films, horror, language / accents / dialects. the following are especially highlighted: bbc ghosts, doctor who, taskmaster, shakespeare, horror and language / accents / dialects. there is a bingo in the horizontal middle row!

on mars' card the following are marked off: disability activism, 80s horror, plurality, media preservation, ghost files, selfship / self-inserts, gender and doug jones. the following are especially highlighted: 80 horror, plurality and media preservation. there is no bingo. /end ID]

[ID: a new bing card labeled as belonging to mx cebo placebo aka tumblr user nvr-pass. the first row is transgenderism, excel spreadsheets, dirk gently's, indie comics and lazytown. the second row is electronic music from the 30s/40s, folk punk, drawing / art, frankenstein (novel) and britcom. the third row is house md, embroidery (rip my fingies), free space, stardew valley and icelandic children's musicals. the forth row is sleep, voice syntheziser / vocoder, m*a*s*h, lingustics and art history. the fifth row is science fiction, disco elysium, ajj, horror and guardian (zhèn hún). /end ID]

ooooh this looks fun!!

[Image descriptions: Two variations of a bingo card. The first is labeled "how many interests/likes you share with Mx. Apple Juniper Orchard!!". In order, the first row of bingo squares read plush toys, flowers, ABBA, BBC Ghosts, and Doctor Who. The second row reads The Monkees, Taskmaster, 60s-80s music, classical music, and Mozart. The third row reads Shakespeare, acting/performing arts, free space, drag artists/performers, and comedy. The fourth row reads singing, karaoke, playing ukulele, history, and watching films. The fifth row reads horror, bats, cats, frogs, and languages/accents/dialects. The second bingo card is the same as the first, except it's blank. It's labeled "how many interests you share with!!". There is a blank space where the name should go. The only square labeled is the free space. End IDs.]

if you wanna reblog this with your crossed off version of my bingo card, please include an image description. if you need help describing it, ask me and i can give you a template to use! thanks for being accessible 👍

[addotes]

Día 3 - "Cebo"

[nvr-pass]

[image description: a digital drawing of petrichor on a grey background. the second image is a close-up of the same drawing. petrichor is smiling and holding a magenta mug with a lizard. theyre wearing a blue pullover and green, dis-coloured gardening overalls. their long, dark hair is covered in many different plants, flowers and vines. a lot of their skin is also covered in ivy and their freckles are forget-me-nots. /end ID]

it’s been literal months since i announced this drawing but who cares! here it is!

petrichor is from between the wires by @machinekisser and you can check out his amazing world building here <3

[wenkaart]

Subo una parte & alratito otra✨ Día 3 Cebo - - - #arte #artemexicano #art #mexicanart #draw #ink #inktober #inktober2019 #cebo https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Z9Z52g1GP/?utm_medium=tumblr

[whitehotharlots]

Queering the word queer

The discourse is in bad shape.

Before I can explain how it got to be so broken, we’re gonna need a little refresher course on the last 12 years of American culture and politics, to see how the two concepts melted hideously into one another in a process that strengthened the former while rendering both meaningless:

Venture back to October of 2010, and you’ll find the prevailing trend within liberalism was a belief that politics were very dumb and unimportant. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert epitomized this with their Rally to Restore Sanity, a response to the gauche concerns of the Tea Party movement, in which a parade of the most boring celebrities on earth (Sheryl Crow, John Legend, The Roots) gave speeches telling everyone to chill out. Attendees were encouraged to bring in hand-made signs bedecked with slogans of apathy. Popular ones included "Stark Raving Reasonable,” “Don’t Believe Everything You Think,” and (most ironically, 12 years later) “I encourage you... to stop drawing Hitler mustaches on everyone.” 

The times have very obviously changed.

What happened? Well, it turned out that politics actually are important, even if the people to whom they’re important are often unable to articulate why or how. The Tea Party was Koch Brothers astrotruf, and Glenn Beck was a big fat crybaby who didn’t actually believe anything, sure. But these movements were tapping in to widespread discontent that existed, even if it was understood stupidly. And then, the following year, Occupy happened. Young people facing lifetimes of debt, shoddy medical care, and little chance of personal fulfillment had decided that politics actually mattered... again, even if the movement was in retrospect comically dedicated to its own defeat, its discontentment was real. And this discontent was of the sort that our nominally liberal institutions couldn’t just will away through mockery.

So they started to admit that, okay, sure things aren’t great, and perhaps those things might be the fault of the political structures that, at the time, they controlled with a congressional supermajority. But it was still naïve to suggest that anything change. See, us humanities profs have been doing some research, and we’ve come to a conclusion that might shock you: The Personal is Political. You think you’re upset about the horrors of our criminal justice system, our militarism that somehow gets more incompetent the more profanely we fund it, or our almost incomprehensibly awful healthcare. But those are just symptoms. The true cause of these so-called “political” maladies are our--or your, to be more precise--personal inadequacies. Not enough people read the correct books, watch the right TV shows, or use this newfangled kind of magic justice language we are inventing on fly. Until these adjustments take place on the individual level, how can we possibly expect the structural stuff to change?

So here we see two prevailing trends that would shape the next decade: 1. the realization that the social conditions created by our politics were very bad and in danger of collapse, and 2. the insistence that the only proper way to engage with political structures was through apolitical means. This was a matter of life and death, we were told, which was why it was imperative we didn’t address any actual matters of life or death. 

Since left-liberals behave like dairy cows (and elected Democrats behave like 5th-generation abattoir owners), everyone went along with this shit. Many did so cynically. Many more did so with hesitation. But by the end of the Obama era, this was the consensus: the people who say nothing has improved over the last 8 years are looking at the wrong stuff. It’s ignorant to care more about wages and war and healthcare than about the racial makeup of NBC’s My Five Gay Dads, or the fact that we took the black lady off the syrup bottle, or how many Oscar nominations were just received by Mierda de Cebo de Premio Lloron, the director of whom was not only a lady but some kind of Mexican. Plus, a woman is about to be president, and so anyone who says things are going bad right now is probably misogynist.

Then Trump happened, and what had started as a cynical deflection to prevent mild structural reforms morphed into an all-consuming mania. Politics wasn’t just important--it was a matter of literal life and death that should shape every aspect of how everything is understood, discussed, and defined. There’s freakin’ Nazis holding torches on my MSNBC screen, after all. 

Rather than accept Trump’s rise as a consequence of their cynicism and steer the ship in literally any other direction, liberal institutions doubled down. They had no other choice: they couldn’t abandon the culture war stuff now without delegitimizing their leadership base--people who had grown fat producing takes about how biting your fingernails is privilege weren’t about to give up their media jobs and NGO sinecures. The Personal was Still Political, only now even more so. Being the wrong kind of person means creating the wrong kind of politics, which means you’re literally doing literal genocide. And, no, this doesn’t mean it’s bad to do actual genocide.... remember we got to focus on the personal, which is now the political. 

The political is no longer political, and personalities must now be replaced by capital-D Designations that are kinda sorta vaguely related to politics.  

The Designations--which, again, are the entirety of politics--are determined by a combination of about 60% identity markers, 39% aesthetic choices, and 1% the things a person actually does and believes. Doing Politics now consists only of determining the Designations of others, and striving to ensure that your Designation as one of the good folx does not come into question. And this is, seriously, like, so important. There is no other acceptable manner in which anything--literally anything, from the brands you and others consume to the movies you watch to the words you use to describe yourself--can be understood. 

However earnest or cynical it may be, the belief that the Personal is Political does not elide the fact that politics always redounds to a struggle over power. Politics now might be more superficial than it’s ever been, but this very superficiality has made the battle over Designations all the more vicious. In turn, this viciousness makes the Designations even more divorced from any sort of worthwhile meaning, which leads to more viciousness, and it just keeps going back and forth like that. 

A perverse trend that’s emerged from this milieu: the tendency of terms to acquire entirely new meanings while retaining the moral urgency associated with their old meanings. This applies to no term more than it does to Queer, which used to mean something like “gay in a manner that people find especially annoying” but now means literally nothing. No, seriously, I’m not exaggerating, this is how it’s defined: “’Queerness’” is an umbrella term that is both an orientation and a community for those on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum.” Or there’s this, less pithy proclamation of meaninglessness: 

Queer is a word that describes sexual and gender identities other than straight and cisgender. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people may all identify with the word queer. Queer is sometimes used to express that sexuality and gender can be complicated, change over time, and might not fit neatly into either/or identities, like male or female, gay or straight.  ��

So the word means nothing. Got it. But then... why are people so fucking angry and annoying about it? Well, because it carries immense moral weight. Because the term used to refer to people who were marginalized, this propriety should still be applied even to people who are explicitly adopting it in a manner meant to improve their social standing.  Because, seriously, they’re totally not normal. Because being normal means being empowered, which is bad, which is why we’ve empowered people who are not normal, but they’re still not empowered even if they have tons of actual power because they can’t be because they’re not normal. Because the Personal is Political. 

[gatozombie27]

Se que voy atrasada pero no me rendiré >:v Al rato subo los demás dibujos MR.MIAU #inktober2019 #day3 #cebo #inktoberchallenge #drawing #dibujo #kraken https://www.instagram.com/p/B3TCnTNJhPn/?igshid=1901ssxn1twxz

[missgrillomoreno]

Día 3 #INKTOBER2019 #cebo Lo terminé en el #coffebrake del diplomado, no hay mucho que explicar, solo que es una sirena poniéndose en peligro. #sirena #drawing #ink #sakuramicron #uniball #ocean #danger (en Departamento de Psicología y Ciencias de la Comunicación) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3LaFxDHwsY/?igshid=3p0xljuxbadu

[nvr-pass]

[image description: 3 traditional drawings.

1. a small pencil drawing of the nil. it's a large hole in the ground inside of which is nothing but darkness. there is a simple fence around it and a large sign that says "the nil: it's a hole!". there is a person leaning unimpressed on the fence. a child is peeking over the fence into the hole. two teenagers lean on a street sign nearby that reads "NO littering". one of them says "dude, we should totally like - throw this can in there and see what happens".

2. a pencil portrait of tim from the chest up. he has short, light hair and is wearing a collared shirt with a sweatshirt over it. his face is entirely smudged and there is a large eye on his throat.

3. another portrait of tim which is the same as the first one except that it's tiny, simplistic and made with fineliner and charcoal. /end ID]

characters and concept are from between the wires by the wonderful @databf and you can check out its amazing world building here.

they might not be 100% accurate, i made them in art therapy where i didn't have my phone to check .. it's just vibes. also i made these a while ago and delayed posting bc i was unhappy with the the petrichor drawing which i will now completely redo digitally :| i really like these tho!

[eduard-ftr]

English: I imagine this because I remember the manga Re-Monster Español: me imaginé esto ya que había leído el manga de Re-Monster #inktober2019 #ink #inktober #inktoberday3 #ilustracion #illustration #drawings #12pm #tinta #goblin #cebo #dibujos https://www.instagram.com/p/B3LHLPPHdmT/?igshid=1vmiqei1ox3x9

[hitomiart-blog]

El día 3 de este reto, se consiguió el #cebo!!!! 3/31 . . . #inktober #descuidado #imbecil #poder #power #mindless #ilustracion #reto #arte #art #tintachina #ink #rapidographs #bosque #woods #forest #dibujo #drawing #drawingthisinyourstyle #drawingchallenge #challenger https://www.instagram.com/p/B3LB2v2g-ZM/?igshid=1ghzako1xbg04