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[thedeceasedgod]

I made gifs out of the legend of the fifth sun animation by Louise Fogerty because I’m going feral

(Warning there is both bottom and top frontal nudity)

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[katiajewelbox]

Happy New Year's Eve to all my friends, near and far!

Compared to the last five or so years, 2024 has actually been a fairly happy and progress-filled year in my personal and professional life. I am incredibly grateful for this change in my fortune, but I know that it isn't luck alone - these positive developments were the result of hard work and careful planning during the times that were the most difficult.

Looking back on 2024, the accomplishment I am most proud of is finally submitting my PhD thesis. Although I was originally on track to complete my postgraduate degree at Imperial College by the end of 2020, the pandemic and later my Dad's final illness and passing understandably derailed the plans. Being in an emotionally and financially abusive relationship while having a steep learning curve on family legal and financial matters did not help matters. Despite these challenges and their deep negative impact on my mental health, I was able to return to working on my PhD thesis in 2023 with the kind support of both my supervisor Professor Colin Turnbulll, my wonderful mental health counsellor, and my Mom.

In 2024, I also took significant steps towards starting my own business based on science communication and plant science expertise. With advice from the Imperial College Imperial Enterprise Lab, I hope to develop my social media based science communication hobby into a proper new career direction that makes use of both my scientific experience and my public speaking skills. Sharing ideas with my dear friend Barbara McNaught inspired me to pursue self-publishing a book on plant science for plant lovers in the future. Also, I had the valuable opportunity of presenting two talks on plant biology at Garden Museum via Samia Mirza-Qureshi's support. I'm excited to see where this new career path will take me.

This past year, I have reconnected with an important of myself as an artist and storyteller. Thanks to being part of the Escaflowne and classic adventure fiction fandom, I have rediscovered my love of creating inspiring stories and characters. I have also started drawing again and improving my art skills with the aim to possibly take an art course in the future to learn all the basics in order to elevate my character designs and concepts to a higher level. My friendships with creative and curious people like Louise Parada-Fogerty, Daniel Parada, Jonathan Middleton, Chuka Nwobodo Nancy Yuan Brittany Nichols, Mira Bella, Jess Terrell, and many others helped me find this important part of myself.

I have many dreams and ambitions for 2025, and I intend on keeping myself healthy in body and mind so I can achieve them.

I hope anyone reading this also has milestones and accomplishments they can reflect on today, as well as many things to look forward to in 2025.

[louisefogerty]

Character design

El Charro Negro, from upcoming webcomic Sun King Tonatiuh.

[tlatollotl]

Even Mexicolore is on board with Dream Rider!

Support this Kickstarter! There’s only a week left!

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[aztec-religion]

Nanahuatzin By Louise Fogerty

[nonoboymusic]

WEEKEND MUSIC: CBC BAND

On April 8th, 1971, the CBC Band, one of Vietnam’s most popular rock groups, began to play Hendrix’s “Purple Haze.” As guitarist Phan Linh ripped into the opening riff for the crowd of American GIs who had come to the My Phung bar that night, a bomb exploded, killing a teenage Vietnamese girl who had come into talk to the drummer, an American GI and injuring many more including one of the band’s singers. 

For the next few years, the band, comprised mainly of Phan Linh and his siblings, as well as his wife Mary Louise (the one injured in the bombing), continued to gig around Saigon, embracing many aspects of hippie/counterculture aesthetics and philosophies. A working band since they were barely old enough to hold instruments, the CBC Band catered to American GIs who would hang around Saigon’s many night clubs including the My Phung, Kim Kim, and Sherwood Forest.  As the Americans began to withdraw and the advancing of North forces made the fall of Saigon seem imminent, the band went into exile in Thailand, playing gigs and seeking asylum in Australia. 

Like most Saigonese bands who had formed within the American occupation’s wartime economy, the CBC Band specialized in covering American and Bristish rock. However, there are a couple of tracks from this time which are sung in Vietnamese, and have a sound unlike any American or British bands of the era. These have surfaced on the Saigon Rock & Soul compilation put together by the  awesome but also super neo-colonial Sublime Frequencies reissue label, which specializes in rereleasing old pop and rock records from Africa and Asia. 

“Tinh Yêu Tuyệt Vời (The Greatest Love),” one of two selections from the Saigon Rock & Soul album, shows the CBC Band’s proficiency in rock n’ roll as well as Phan Linh’s fucking great guitar playing and the band’s youthful, energetic, driving style. They sound like an American garage band that is funkier than it should be. Besides the psych-rock, acid-rock, whateveryouwannacallit-rock from the era, you can hear Phan Linh’s appreciation for Motown and styles which resulted in aspirations of groove.

It’s a cool record. The production is great, the guitar tone has a nice crunch, the harmonized “yeah-yeahs” are playful and fun, but aren’t stupid. There’s this slightly delayed drum break to start the record... it’s cool and dirty and fun. 

Phan Loan’s voice is the truly remarkable thing though, and more so, her mixture of the Vietnamese language with her Americanized vocal stylings which had studying to reproduce for a decade. More than just a solid covers band, the group, who had been playing together since they were little kids in the early 60s in order to secure money for their family, contributes a wonderful twist to the rock genre in their mixture of western rock sub-genres and their own Vietnamese tonal qualities.

After being turned down for asylum by Australia, the band took refuge with Tibetan monks living in a monastery outside of New Delhi. Reporter Frank Mariano with ABC News, who had covered the CBC Band in Saigon, found them on July 15, 1975, and captured this footage.

What I find striking from this powerful acoustic performance in the monastery courtyard, aside from the entire context of the band’s situation, is how they take the opportunity to sing a really moving (and catchy) song about their refugee status and their love for the country they are now exiles from. It’s hard to put this subject matter into song, probably because most of the time when we hear songs about marginalized or suffering peoples it comes from white people who wear the imagined suffering of others as a badge of pride, often to exploitative ends. (think “we are the world,” or the brilliant parody “African Child” by Infant Sorrow)

"We love our cities and we love our palms. / We don't like killing and we don't like wars. /  We love our jungles and we love our seas. / Oh please here us! We just wanna be free."

The unnamed song, sung in English, and written about the band’s recent experiences is powerful and layered. This is because, unlike many of the era’s counter-culture anthems, the lyrics are taken from lived experience, a powerful and layered lived experience. A band who plays for an occupying force to survive, but also plays the music of their occupiers because it speaks to them like nothing ever has and actually gives them philosophical tools to speak back against this oppression, not only from the US, but from the South and North Vietnamese, neither of whom are crazy about rock n’ roll. 

This song, sung in harmonies with a driving groove impressively carried out on just two acoustic guitars and drummer Van beating a suitcase with drum sticks, doesn’t have the pretension and bullshit white activism which plagued/and still plagues, so many Americans of that generation who commented from afar on the plight of the Vietnamese, and who haven’t thought too much about us since.

“We love the south and we love the north / Oh, lord please give us a course / We love our music and for this we ran / Our land was Vietnam”

What’s funny is that this band idolized American musicians who strove for an authenticity of suffering which due of their citizenship and whiteness, those idolized bands could never attain, not in the same way as the CBC. I remember watching The Beatles Anthology as a kid and George Harrison breaking my heart a little bit, commenting on the hippies at Haight Ashbury, center of the counter culture movement:

In short, Harrison went in expecting stylish, forward thinking artist but, “instead it turned out to be, just, a lot of bums.”

I’ve come to understand Harrison’s take on the hippies and the counter culture as I have myself moved across and out of certain scenes and now look on youth cultures from a different vantage point. Of course, it’s not one thing or the other, artists or bums. The point about this song, however, is, it’s hard to sing about war, or exile, or all these things which so many writers, especially of that time tried earnestly to do, but ultimately sounded pretentious in doing so (except maybe John Fogerty because of his unmated songwriting skill, the immortal grit of his voice, and the ambiguity and poetry of his songs). The CBC Band’s is profound. That they would sing at all is profound. That they would sing, in exile, about a home now gone, is moving, especially for me, and I’m sure other children and grandchildren the war. 

The band eventually found asylum in the US in Houston. To this day, the aging band gigs regularly, playing the songs they played at the My Phung club in Saigon all those years ago. On April 8, 2011, a very unique reunion was held. The CBC Band performed for vets who were at the gig forty years earlier, some of whom suffer from PTSD from the events of that night. Finally, the audience got to hear Phan Linh and his band finish “Purple Haze.” Amazing story. 

CBC Band Website

Aside from the linked videos, biographical information on the band was taken from Michael Kramer’s (problematic) book Republic of Rock. 

[katiajewelbox]

A noble Mesoamerican lady from the forthcoming graphic novel series by Daniel Parada and Louise Fogerty "Dream Rider".

[louisefogerty]

Yohualtzin’s bedroom layout, from “Sun King Tonatiuh.”

[louisefogerty]

Character design 

Consuelo the Landlady, from upcoming webcomic Sun King Tonatiuh.

[louisefogerty]

Character design

Loki, from upcoming webcomic Sun King Tonatiuh.

[louisefogerty]

Character design

Mummies of Guanajuato, from upcoming webcomic Sun King Tonatiuh.

[louisefogerty]

My second year animated film created while at Middlesex University. The Norse god Thor has his hammer stolen by the jotun Thrym, who has but one condition to give it back... Based on the poem "Thrymskvitha" in the Poetic Edda.

[katiajewelbox]

Welcome to the world of Dream Rider!

Enter a world where dreams become another reality! Dream Rider is a sci fi thriller set in a fictional world inspired by the fascinating cultures of Pre Hispanic Mesoamerica. This suspenseful tale follows a man seeking to unravel a dark conspiracy involving corporate shamans who use the power of dreams and visions to influence reality. Creators Daniel Parada and Louise Fogerty have created a richly imagined, entirely indigenous world inhabited by humans as well as mythical races inspired by Mesoamerican folklore. Their passionate attention to detail is seen in every page of this beautifully illustrated graphic novel. If you love indigenous American culture and history, Dream Rider is for you! Please check out the Kickstarter link to learn more.

Version Espanol:

¡Entra en un mundo donde los sueños se convierten en otra realidad! Dream Rider es un thriller de ciencia ficción ambientado en un mundo ficticio inspirado en las fascinantes culturas de la Mesoamérica prehispánica. Esta historia de suspenso sigue a un hombre que busca desentrañar una oscura conspiración que involucra a chamanes corporativos que usan el poder de los sueños y las visiones para influir en la realidad. Los creadores Daniel Parada y Louise Fogerty han creado un mundo ricamente imaginado, completamente indígena, habitado por humanos, así como por razas míticas inspiradas en el folclore mesoamericano. Su apasionada atención al detalle se ve en cada página de esta novela gráfica bellamente ilustrada. Si te gusta la cultura y la historia indígena americana, ¡Dream Rider es para ti! Echa un vistazo al enlace de Kickstarter para obtener más información.

Link to the official Kickstarter campaign:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zotz/dream-rider-vol-1?ref=thanks-share&fbclid=IwAR0LfPFgn7PHCsABJgtZR1CrrVnyElVdVDyZXSH1uo4UAnYA2Nd-MKF_e4U

[tlatollotl]

Have you heard of Dream Rider? This new comic by Daniel Parada and Louise Fogerty takes place in an alternate, futuristic world inspired by ancient Mesoamerica. In this episode, we interview the creators about their creative process, what the project looks like, and how future readers can help bring this project to life!

As a side note, I was blown away to learn that West Mexico was the inspiration for Daniel to first pursue this project.

Click here to support the Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zotz/dream-rider-vol-1

[louisefogerty]

Character deigns for my 2nd Year animated short, Thrymskvitha.