#lovos4017

[barbatusart]

so back when we were wrapping up SAD SACK i hid a cypher in the final page that when decoded would lead to a carrd site with a bunch of strange writings for a fictional religion + conlang stuff, unfortunately i hid it too good & nobody ever found it LOL & now that it's been over 5 years im honestly fine to just post it! below is a creation myth for the mots from uhhhhhhhh 2019, it was fun to try writing in real Ye Olde style. if you follow along with my other comic prelims ive posted, some of these names might look familiar!

disclaimer also, the fake religion in question is meant to be a misinterpretation of old extinct canaanite creeds where the folks who made it only had limited access to the already limited source materials + other writings from around the time period from different regions, so there is a Lot of cultural mishmash in here that i thought would reflect how people would actually mix and match the elements, similar to some modern day religions. just heads up!

1 The Earth began as Sea, Moon, and Stars. 2 The Sun emerged from the Moon, as through a window, and the Sun was in truth the LORD, come from a distant place in Heaven.

3 The LORD was weary and stopped to quench His thirst in the Sea, but the brine was sour and caused Him to be sick in the waters. 4 From His gorge and out of the Sea rose His organs, and They took shape and walked forth as his Brothers.

5 From the Sea rose the first Brother, clothed in robes of peridot, and at His left hip a crimson khopesh. 6 He looked upon the infinite Sea, and He breathed forth life unto the waters - fishes of every color, sprawling flora, and the people of the deep. 7 The LORD saw the wisdom of Heaven in his eyes, and the LORD called His name: BAAL KHASIS.

8 Then rose the second Brother, clothed in robes of emeralds, and in His left hand a crimson skinning blade. 9 He looked upon the people of the deep, and he breathed forth land, to split the Earth into above and below, as is Heaven and Earth. The Sea birthed clouds that crowned the lands, clouds that raged and spit cacophonous lightning and fresh sweet water, and the people of the deep migrated landwards. 10 The LORD saw the Earth's newborn storms in His eyes, and the LORD called His name: BAAL HADAD.

11 Then rose the third Brother, clothed in robes of golden topaz, and at His left eye a crimson maul. 12 He looked upon the land, and He breathed forth time - the sunrise and sunset, the seasons, the years, and old age. 13 The LORD saw the encroaching night in His eyes, and the LORD called His name: BAAL SHALIM.

14 Then rose the fourth brother, clothed in robes of pearls, and in His left mouth a crimson saw blade. 15 He looked upon the night, and He breathed forth coherence to the stars, the mighty constellations, the waxing and waning of the holy Moon, how it pulled the Sea's tides and bathed the shores. 16 The LORD saw the light of the Moon in His eyes, and the LORD called His name: BAAL YARIKH.

17 The LORD's Brothers produced for Him clothing of citrine to hide His nakedness. 18 And from His mouth the LORD poured the Sun's fire which He would fashion into any weapon of His choosing. 19 The LORD's brothers saw the infinite of all in His eyes, and They called His name: BAAL MUTH.

20 Then the five LORDS stepped into the Stars aside the Moon, above the lands and Sea, and They anointed themselves the LORDS of the Earth.

21 The Moon reflected BAAL MUTH's light and bathed the Earth's newborn land, and the LORDS' Shadows were formed on the land - weak, foul, and frail, each with one eye and half blind. 22 It angered the LORDS to see weakness in Their shapes, and They made war with their Shadows.

23 The first Shadow was Cacrinolas, a wicked man-faced wolfdog with the wings of an eagle. He opened his mouth and projected forth curses at the LORDS. 24 BAAL KHASIS's Brothers fell upon him in fury to tear the wings from his back. 25 With His burning khopesh, BAAL KHASIS beheaded Cacrinolas, and He cast the head into the Sea, 26 and He placed his wings into the Stars, so that they would become the celestial Nabu. But his grasp was not complete, and feathers of Cacrinolas fell loose and landed on the Moon.

27 The second Shadow was Forai, a vile beast with the head of a bull and innumerable hands. He opened his mouth and projected forth pleas for mercy so as to make the LORDS have pity. 28 But BAAL HADAD's Brothers fell upon him in turn to cut out his pleading tongue and take his hands from him. 29 With his burning skinning blade, BAAL HADAD removed Forai's genitals, and with his own hands Forai's heart, and He cast the genitals, the tongue, and the hands into the Sea, 30 and He placed his heart into the Stars, so that they would become the celestial Inanna. But unsteady were his hands, and the heart's blood fell and landed on the Moon.

31 The third Shadow Botis, a man-faced wayward serpent with a mouth of viper's fangs and a tail of rattling swords. He opened his mouth and projected forth poison from his fangs so as to make the LORDS sleep. 32 But BAAL SHALIM's Brothers fell upon him a moment before, to feed him his own poison and to take his fangs from his mouth. 33 With his burning maul, BAAL SHALIM broke Botis' skull in twain so that his brains ran free, and He cast the brains into the Sea, 34 and He placed his fangs into the Stars, so that they would become the celestial Ugarit. But His aim was not true, and one fang fell and landed on the Moon.

35 The fourth Shadow was Tuvres, a chimera with the body of both man and warhorse. So profane and so powerful was Tuvries that BAAL YARIKH's four Brothers could only restrain the beast and take from him his voice before he could speak, 36 so that BAAL YARIKH Himself could wield his burning saw blade and open his equine body to remove his entrails. 37 BAAL YARIKH beheaded Tuvres, and He cast the voice and the entrails into the Sea, 38 and He placed his head into the Stars, so that they would become the celestial Suen. But His grasp failed Him, and the head of Tuvres landed on the Moon.

39 So engulfed with wrath was BAAL MUTH, to see the holy Moon's light dimmed by such heavy handedness, such clumsiness, such carelessness. 40 So enraged was the LORD that his fire burned so hot as to burn even his Brothers. 41 So loud His roar, as though meant to crack the walls of Heaven itself. 42 The LORD BAAL MUTH opened His endless mouth, from where all things come and where all things return, where sound and light extinguish, where time folds inward, and He consumed His Brothers one by one.

[meanbossart]

old bday gift for @barbatusart!

[hunnymcbunny]

•what cannot be said will be wept.•

she’s beautiful and perfect and i love her 😫 @bbbarbatus

[barbatusart]

i adore liveread thoughts friend thank you so much hehehe 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 just heads up though a lot of seriously bad is eventually going to happen in it LOL

go read LOVOS4017 (THe Comic) it’s really fun, and cute, and i don’t think anything seriously bad happens in it! :y ♥

[skaiind]

an ink commission for @barbatusart of his oc EL from his comic LOVOS4017 🖤🖤🖤

[barbatusart]

so i constantly forget to advertise this thing, but i do actually have a patreon! admittedly i used to be significantly more active on here but COVID frontline burnout hit me hard, so for the moment it’s acting as a hub where you can access the nearly 3000 total preliminary comic pages ive done to date since 2018. the A tier is just a tip jar, & the$5 B tier gets you access to all my pages and behind the scenes stuff - that means the prelims for SAD SACK, hundreds of unpublished comics, & for those curious about SORTIE, that means the entirety of its prelim work is in B!

if you’re curious please feel free to hop on & peruse! my update schedule on here is still COVID Fucked Me inconsistent, so you’re all also more than welcome to subscribe for one month so you can see and download pages & then just dip lmao

i hope you enjoy! even at my slow break pace now, im always still very happy to entertain 🤓

patreon.com/barbatusart

[barbatusart]

goin thru my ipad & found some LOVOS4017 stuff from the summer

[barbatusart]

im an able bodied man myself but i always do wonder about mobility & other aid devices in scifi settings + their function And Then obstacles that come up in obtaining said devices because im american & love to talk about how fucked up our healthcare is 😵‍💫 if i ever get back on the LOVOS4017 horse i have one character who had a catastrophic c-spine fracture at work in the past, which qualified her for workplace incident coverage of a mad advanced c-spine-bypass device that functionally “cured” her quadriplegia, but then only X model which of course then insurance stops covering once arbitrary upgrades come out that her work doesn’t cover & it’s a huge to-do with arguing with future-cigna or whatever in trying to debate “medical necessity” of a device preventing fuckin paralysis. this is based on real patient experiences. did i mention our healthcare is a joke

[barbatusart]

doodle from february i forgot about feat. hateful $5 markers i have sitting around at work

[barbatusart]

Do you have a recommendation for a specific book of your work for folks who showed up for your Bg3 stuff? (Also if you read the parts out of order would that be an issue?)

welcome aboard!!! thank you so much for checking my bg3 stuff out, it's a pleasure to have you

as i said in my other post over here, im predominantly an extreme horror artist! i 100% decline to call myself an eroguro artist because personally i dont find the kind of gore & horror i do particularly erotic, but im super fascinated with the horrors of the body & the darkness of the general human experience, so thats the kind of stuff i tend to make. it isnt the worst most heinous Ever you'll find out there, but im fully aware that it's A Lot, so everything i make with @meanbossart is thoroughly warned for so nobody goes into our body of work unaware & gets a nasty shock.

bg3 in particular goes some pretty dark routes (some bits in a dark urge run even made me kinda reel back and go "jesus"), so id say for people coming in from bg3 your mileage may heavily vary. if torture & really extreme body horror doesnt bother you, you may be OK with SAD SACK (sus.space/sadsack) and its current wip sequel SORTIE (sus.space/sortie), but i would still recommend reading each book's individual content warnings thoroughly before choosing to spend any money. (everything is paywalled to further deter minors.) if you're on the fence about how much horror content is too much for you, or if you're curious about these titles but find the content warnings to be concerning, my DMs on tumblr+twitter and my IMs are always open if you have any questions about particular CWs or even need specific page numbers so you can either skip that bit of gore or be informed enough to approach the page number(s), take a Deep breath, and proceed when youre ready! for these 2 titles in particular, unfortunately they do have a linear story, so to fully grasp what's going on requires reading the books in order. again if it's something youre curious to the point of wanting to try but on the fence about, i am always welcoming of inquiring DMs to help make the experience thrilling + chilling but Not genuinely upsetting.

if you're OK with a little violence and body horror but not as splatterfest as these titles, im currently chipping away at the preliminaries for my giant project LOVOS4017 (lovos4017.the-comic.org) which is a love letter to TNG scifi and 80s cyberpunk anime. im currently on pause with the roughs since last year due to COVID frontline burnout, but ive by no means abandoned it; this IP is my baby that ive been workshopping the show bible for for over a decade & i want to see it through to the end B)

finally if you would like to read our work but want to avoid gore and extreme violence entirely, we do have some stuff that is violence-free! POOPPIX@YAHOO.COM (suscomics.itch.io/pooppix) is a comic with a really bonkers premise but no violence and no visible onscreen poop i promise about finding genuine human connection over unusual shared interests on the internet. ATTACK DOG (suscomics.itch.io/attackdog) is also a short solo comic i did myself about sex, quasi-submission fetish, & the requirements of true love (theres some mild gooey body weirdness but no gore i promise)

overall i thank you for showing interest in what @meanbossart & i do! we tend towards strange & unusual premises and presentations, but i hope that you find something within our body of work that entertains you. if you every have any questions about anything, please please please feel free to DM me at any time; my goal in life is to entertain & provoke thought!

[barbatusart]

as a note for new people coming in either from sads, sortie, or most recently my music work (hi everybody!), my current project is LOVOS4017 which is my i-hate-cyberpunk cyberpunk epic ive been workshopping for the past decade & doing the roughs for. unfortunately due to covid frontline burnout finally catching up with me, i paused the prelim work for the past year & change, but you can still read what i got up so far for free! i think there’s like 8 books of prelims available? idk there’s a fair bit lol

anyway if you decide to take a peek i hope you enjoy, LOVOS4017 remains my baby even with the recovery hiatus in effect

lovos4017.the-comic.org

[barbatusart]

OH MY GOD LETS FUKCIN GO

[barbatusart]

old doodle of 3 mots + the ref used, theres a Lot of rite of spring in the sauce lol

[barbatusart]

vulcan + 2 doodles of minge

[barbatusart]

hey this is a weirdly specific Sad Sack question that's kinda not even about Sad Sack, but I was rereading BOG tonight when I noticed the inscription at the bottom of page 288 (the author info page), and i just wanted to ask: what language/script is that?

my first thought was Phoenician or another old Italic script because some of the letterforms look kinda similar but based on letter occurrences I think it says "thank you for reading" written right-to-left, and if I'm right about that, that rules out pretty much all the scripts I could think of. anyway sorry for the late night linguistics nerd question, it's just been rattling around in my head lmao

no worries at all! the text was my first pass at a conlang i was working on actually; at this stage is out of date & eventually i need to go back & alter it so it reflects its current iteration lol

you may have seen it around elsewhere in my stuff as well ;)

[barbatusart]

ok well tumblr still getting mad at me & i seem to have exceeded my daily upload limit which i didnt even realize was a thing LOL ANYHOO IF YOU WANT MORE LOVOS IT'S ALL UP OVER HERE: lovos4017.the-comic.org TUMBLR IS KEEPING ME DOWN