#internet artifact

[mugenfinder]

Arcueid and Ciel art from Gyokusaijima 2004.

[siryl]

"Beacon II" by Ryan Bliss.

[freshluxbreeze]

every time i see daisuke ishiwatari's old illustrations i wish that there was some sort of video or even a book of him explaining his art process because the level of color knowledge, posing and composition ideas stuns me everytime it's like seeing someone who is capable of putting what's in their head on the page. like it would be stupid to say that skill level was/is rare lol but im like. flabbergasted for some reason

[rohirric-hunter]

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[acreaturecalledgreed]

ppl who have read through it say that the august few: amygdala is as pretentious as it is stupid as it is vibrantly creative

and like yeah lol 

i havent read it yet but i could have told u this from listening to fennah talk for five minutes

this is the kind of guy who thinks that saying he takes no stance at all on the politics of his book means that its more intelligent than if he did

hes the sort of guy who i get the impression feels that having Strong Feelings About Anything means that you are wrong simply for having strong feelings (this is based on vibes from what hes said in vids etc; he has not to my knowledge outright said anything like this im not trying to slander anyone, this is just the impression he gives off)

but he is kind of a textbook example of why “kill your darlings” isnt bad advice, and why sometimes you need someone to say “idk man this doesnt read super great” 

watched a livestream with him and the guy stumbles reading through passages of his own book, not b/c hes a bad reader but b/c he Really likes using as many words as he can to say anything

anyway fennah is one of those internet creators who makes me cock my head in both admiration for that devotion and bravery in really putting his stuff out there and boldly and proudly embracing how weird it is

but also in a wince, because it really, really is frustrating how much thought he seems to put into literally everything except what it is he’s wanting to say or share with the world, and what seems to be a massive aversion to researching aspects of culture, nature, economy, environment, even parody (as he describes the book as a hyper-parody of the animal kingdom, which i can see and it does have this really over the top extremity to it that i think is fun! but needs to be handled better) 

he talks about how he likes his characters to not behave how they look like they Should behave- but then at the same time elaborates that he designs his gentler characters to outwardly show traits more in line with herbivores than carnivores, like his more intense and violent characters, which is both like, textbook visual queueing and also feeds into the whole “herbivore soft weak gentle carnivore big scary mean powerful” thing which is just. massively inaccurate

anyway the entirety of fennah’s works and their history absolutely fascinate me in this really detached way and i am rolling them over in my mind and inspecting them like a neat bug

i will read the book eventually and probably enjoy it if only b/c excessively wordy hyper detailed prose is genuinely fun for me to read, and i know its going to have me rolling my eyes A Lot

[phoenixofthestars]

read the first 3 chapters of My Immortal and was dealt 3d8 psychic damage

[theversevoyager]

Upon the vast, celestial stage, where heroes bold and quests of grand design unfold, In realms of magic bound by artifacts untold, A twist reveals itself, altering what we saw, The heroes' tales rewritten, now to ponder. This is the summary of your work so far: 1. Created a sci-fi poem based on a twist revealing events and heroes.

[carpejugular]

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[mugenfinder]

From Goyokusaijima (2004)

[butchdykekondraki]

look at this look at this NOW

[siryl]

“Klein Bottle” and “True Banchoff Klein Bottle” by Clifford Pickover.

[stupidstupidratcreatures]

it is really bad to like internalize political beliefs and general knowledge of the world from memes i know this. but this one image i saw almost five years ago that had sonic the hedgehog saying "there is no cloud, only someone else's computer" did like. make a lot of things click for me

[cyrsed]

ohh my god someone made a 8800 blue lick rd gmod map i'm redownloading gmod right now bc i thought i might never be able to access it (blue lick rd) again TToTT

[prokopetz]

Based on the notes it's pretty clear that when a lot of folks picture early YouTube they're basically just imagining modern YouTube minus the ads. I guess the "full episodes of fansubbed hentai downsampled to 360p and posted in 2–5 minute chunks" era is something you had to experience first hand to really appreciate it!

The thing that always throws me about Internet history is that YouTube was bought out by Google only eighteen months after it launched, and Google began implementing ads and content filtering less than a year after the acquisition. The initial free-for-all phase of YouTube's existence always feels like it was a lot longer than that – and, like, I was 22 when YouTube first came online, so I don't even have the excuse of the distorted chronology of childhood to account for it!

[sharkieboi]

watched The Amazing Digital Circus last night (all episodes that are out at least) and I’m having like every single thought about it

[rhythmicreverie]

In the land of shadows, where secrets lie, A hero rises, with heart that won't die. With quests grand and epic, unlikely heroes unite, Their hearts ablaze, as fate they fight. Magical artifacts glimmer in the night, Guiding them onward, through the endless light. A decision looms, with consequences dire, Yet in this realm, only courage can inspire.