#memento mori story

[the-count-and-the-raven]

*tosses these into your enclosure*

eat up

[dudja]

My mind vs reality 😂

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[fallbabylon]

Folklore exhibition- Museum of Dartmoor life, Okehampton, UK

[ainulindaelynn]

I can't believe I forgot to post this, but I had a heck of a mail week and I'm so excited! 🤗

[larunart]

My first ever animatic - “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”

Made this as 1 of 3 projects for my portfolio to apply to Uni - and I got accepted, hurray!

Looking back ,now that I finished this months ago, I’d do a LOT of things differently if I had to give this another go. For one, I’d keep the shading way more minimalistic. I WAS aware that it’s not ideal to make it this detailed from the get go but honestly, I mostly did it for the fun of it.

Next up, I would have tweaked the design of the female character. Exaggerate the features more (especially body pasture) to highlight the fact that she is an old woman.

Lastly, I should have played WAY more around with the “camera” angles. Utilize more interesting perspectives (maybe add more backgrounds too) because as is, there is too much focus on shots of faces.

But on the other hand, it will probably be satisfying to look back on this flawed project in a couple of years and see the progress I’ve made since then! And I’m still proud that I DID manage to finish this. I actually got the initial motivation for this a couple years ago… I still have an old post talking about it up on this exact blog :P But back then it seemed too daunting so I put it off. Crazy how things work out.

Maybe I’ll return to this in the future if I ever feel like it. And if I do an animatic for the entire song, I’d give it a different story with other characters.

[seraphic-sibyl]

I should have been born a frog. I should have been born a frog. I should have been born a frog. I should have been born a frog. I should have been born a frog. I should have been born a frog. I should have been

[starlightandetherealshadows]

demo is in draft form in itch.io so we are full speed ahead for

MEMENTO MORI DEMO RELEASE ON FRIDAY!!! 4 DAYS!!

[azzimations]

the 3 power hour designs/doodles :)

plus some pre-horrors wwph and thdph bc I don’t feel like making them full designs rn

they all live in a frat house btw

[pendragonsgallery]

Drafting my fantasy book and realized like half of the songs on my main character’s Spotify playlist are also on the villain’s playlist and hrrrggghhhhhh

[monkey-mulch]

Two fish in a river, ignorant of the others lives, or, as you are now - -

The Trout was surprised by the bounty it found blocking the stream, in her bloated drowned glory. The Girl, who was once named Glenda, though had a different name given by her parents long before, had already been worked over by maggots, which, to the hungry trout, was nothing but a seasoning, like sesame on a bun.

Glenda had died, in what may have been an accident, or perhaps a scorned lover, though either way, the pulped wound in her head, leaving her eyes bulging out, was nothing but a blessing. She was dead, the river ate. What cared the trout of the circumstances? It was not the trouts place to know she had had dreams, and aspirations, and wants, and fears. The Trout only saw a dangling eye, meat, and a good place to lay its eggs, because the bloated body would provide food for perhaps another generation. The Trout, in its ignorance, would further create ignorance and enigma, as these bones would provide little clue of the life of the farmer who once was.

But to ascribe malice to the humble fish would be wrong. After all, the trout merely was doing what nature dictated was its place, to eat, to spawn, to die, to be eaten. Much, perhaps, like Glenda, who had lived, bred, had a child, died, and rotted in a river in the woods. in these ways, with glassy eyes, floating in the murk, the two fish were still alike.

[ufolily]

destiny

[auralina33]

Doodle I may clean up someday, but which stays as a doodle now. This is highly symbolic.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔗𝔥𝔢 ℭ𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔢 𝔖𝔥𝔬𝔯𝔱 𝔖𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔄𝔪𝔟𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔅𝔦𝔢𝔯𝔠𝔢. 𝔙𝔬𝔩𝔲𝔪𝔢 ℑℑ: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔚𝔬𝔯𝔩𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔚𝔞𝔯 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔚𝔬𝔯𝔩𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔗𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔗𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔰. ℭ𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔞𝔯𝔱 𝔟𝔶 𝔍𝔬𝔥𝔫 ℌ𝔬𝔩𝔪𝔢𝔰.

[improbable-implosions]

Like I mention in the show notes this time, I've been really enjoying the more modern books we're showing off on the podcast. Honestly, I'd really love to work out some way to feature more short story collections that aren't public domain, or at the very least, more specific modern short stories. I read a lot of them, after all, and there's been a good few that've really stuck with me.

For example, I've been looking for one who's title didn't quite stick with me. Thankfully, two stories from the same collection spring to mind, but I'll talk about the one I'm looking for most, first.

It's set in a society where time is used as currency, which opens with a scene of a group of street buskers doing some performance art, wherein they set their internal clocks to tick down simultaneously, such that the mob they were standing in instead causes them to fall, spelling out MEMENTO MORI in a town square. I have a faint impression of them describing the time bank as a series of analog babbage-engine style computers extending down and down for what feels like forever, but I'm not quite so sure of that as I am of the memento mori scene.

The second story, in this same black-covered scifi collection, swings a bit more horriffic, as a young woman struggles against the thrall of a claude glass, each time she stares, finding herself more and more strongly compelled to never look at anything else. There's a particularly vivid passage of her describing how a lizard that wandered into the house looks after staring into the claude glass, her perception of color forced into eye-popping contrast in comparison to life as it was before.

As for other details, I can tell you it's probably one of those "year's best scifi" collections, likely from sometime in the 90s, as it was being weeded from the school library in 2015ish. I have a faint impression of the cover having a ringed planet on it, and it was a standard-sized paperback on pretty cheap, well-yellowed paper. If you've got any guesses, feel free to reach out!

On a similar note, if you've got a story you feel is a good fit for paper cuts, I'd be happy to consider it. Doesn't even necessarily have to be something published, either, but I've found the show is solid cross-promotion for the tales within!

[bandaidfingers]

So excited I can finally post the 6-page comic “Lola” I made for Level Ground Comics’ anthology Memento Mori—all of which is readable on webtoons now