thinking about maverick begging phoenix and bob to eject and then having to leave them out there
thinking about maverick having to wonder if they’re okay
thinking about maverick going through the events of the day over and over and blaming himself
thinking about maverick being told that phoenix and bob are alive but he doesn’t really believe it until he’s looking at them with his own eyes
thinking about maverick knowing he needs to be the one to tell rooster because rooster’s like him (a curse, not a blessing) and won’t really believe it otherwise
thinking about maverick and how desperately he wants iceman’s advice after this hell of a day
thinking about maverick and how he has a single, blissful moment of realization that history didn’t repeat itself today; he didn’t lose anyone during training, coyote and phoenix and bob are all alive and safe, things could have been so much worse
thinking about maverick’s heart aching as rooster pushes him farther away (he still lost someone)
thinking about maverick’s blood running cold as warlock tells him about ice (things are worse, this is worse, this is worse)
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comics as an art form make me insane. they’re so difficult to do well. there’s so many different ways to make sequential art work and most of them are deeply unintuitive. onomatopoeia that feels completely ridiculous to put down often reads seamlessly. panels on a page become a fractally nested image composition challenge that’s only possible to lose because if you do a good job no one will notice. you have to direct the readers’ eyes on a specific path across the page but also account for the fact that they won’t follow it. comic time isn’t linear. if the order of events isn’t crystal clear the story becomes incomprehensible. sometimes you need to do this on purpose. all this for a medium almost universally considered less effective than animation and less respectable than plain text. even its own name doesn’t take it seriously
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I cant stop thinking about that horse pic
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The greatest injustice ever faced is that I almost certainly started the still thriving "clown husbandry" tag on here, but any discussion about it (from a know your meme page to a youtube video with 500k views) says it's a joke of "unknown origin" or credited to this post, likely bouncing off of mine (which was actively circulating at the time with like 30k notes):
This is a tragedy for many reasons, most of all because it wasn't just an offhand joke but actually a direct response to some of the funniest online hate I ever got:
They're erasing the truest history of tumblr: its desperate need to seethe and argue over every obvious joke with more than 10 notes.
anyways here is the canonical pet clown. according to me
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