#literally. allegorically. for the vibes. its just hard to pin down the abstract thought of 'oh we should High Rise the Vatican' you know | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sforzesco · 2 months ago

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"Since you've named yourself after Julius fucking Caesar, perhaps I'll follow in your lead and choose one of the conspirators." "Interesting," says Giuliano. "Should I worry about finding you at the center of some kind of conspiracy that ends with my death?" "Not from me," replies Ascanio. He sounds tired. "Not anymore."

informally, some kind of. conversational follow up to the last comic. I'm trying to get the atmospheric conversational whimsy out of my system because I have a vision of the vatican as a body in active decay, a point of infection spreading out and poisoning the well, a jaw unhinged that people walk into over and over, and I am so close to figure out how to convey this visually. maybe.

#not that there's anything wrong with atmospheric whimsy but i kind of want to get into the gross body horror of it all #literally. allegorically. for the vibes. its just hard to pin down the abstract thought of 'oh we should High Rise the Vatican' you know #(High Rise by JG Ballard is what i'm referring to here) like how do I achieve this. well. first. is i must lay out the vatican and become #intimate with the visual set pieces. then i can talk about how this building could literally be hazardous to your health #however. drawing the vatican. is very. uhhhh. man I do not know enough about medieval-renaissance architecture to be inventing #anything and that one book that collected interiors of rooms and houses in renaissance art is NEVER ANYWHERE EVER #and if it is then it's always around when i cannot afford it. i feel like i am in a specific kind of torment torture box #i will not be defeated tho. i can design a vatican through other means.#ANYWAY. i think antidepressants would've made ascanio an unstoppable menace in the vatican #there's a bunch of stuff being referenced here but my pdf reader does not want to cooperate with me so basically we're playing around with #ascanio's household staff (alessandro) that whole thing wrt to ascanio & acts of piety/charity (such as covering dowries etc)#uh. that's it! this time i didn't accidentally call giuliano by his brother's name. which is . sherhhg. so there's a fic i was writing.#italian renaissance tag #komiks tag

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