#secret history of comics

[crowkip]

yeehaw, baby!

[karnaca78]

Based on The Secret History // Donna Tartt, 1992

Text: "A Pursuit" // Margaret Atwood (in The Animals in That Country, 1968)

[qwantzfeed]

Mario 34 is absolutely the logical midpoint between 4/World and 64, and it is exactly analogous to how the Ambassador-class Enterprise C is the logical midpoint between the Excelsior-class B and the Galaxy-class D, arising not from chronological progression but from being filled in, in retrospect, as the shortest distance between two set points.  i may have just written the nerdiest sentence of my life and i have no regrets

[charishcherish]

The Secret History art [digital, because Henry would be aesthetically opposed to it] based on one of Richard’s dreams. 2nd version without the text and pages that describe the dream (where I got text from) under the cut. 🍀 lucky four leaf clover so tumblr doesn’t chew up and spit out image quality.

^ stuff boxed in the green, specifically.

And a song that I listened to while drawing this.

[int3rnztstar]

book rec drop!! currently reading ‘speak’, to be finished tomorrow! I’ve been told the ending leaves much to be desired but i’m not so sure just based off what I’ve read (like 150ish of 198 pages) tbd tbh

bye! 🤟

[greensdelight]

something about francis being written comically by donna tartt in the secret history is very amusing to me (and henry is always there to put up with him)

[superman-the-secret-third-thing]

Batman and Superman discover each other's identities for the first time...

when they were assigned the same cabin a cruise ship...

This is the first actual crossover of the two- I believe they were technically in a story for the Justice Society earlier, but they didn't actually interact. This is Superman #76 "The Mightiest Team in the World!" (1952) with story by Edmond Hamilton and art by Curt Swan.

[fleeglefazbeagle]

A random shitpost dub I made based off a tweet by @xenoeatssalad in regards to the current bullshit with people complaining about IDW Sonic casually existing for the infintyth time.

It's a bit crap but I just had to.😅

[miroana]

“It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially” (Tartt, 31).

I am absolutely fascinated by the fame and reverence this quote from the Secret History has achieved. It terrifies me. Let me explain.

Who’s line is this? Oh, yes. Professor Julian Morrow. Julian, in his lecture on how death begets beauty, on how Dionysian madness lends immortality. Julian, who isolates the greek class, buries them in the glories of the past and in their privilege, and submerges them beneath illusions until his students can’t tell right from wrong and real from imagined.

These words are satire. This is NOT a lesson any teacher should impart, and should NOT be beloved and relatable. In one sentence, Donna Tartt summarizes the entire cautionary tale of the novel: the selective, warped, and obsessive view on life the greek class held, born from entitlement and cultivated by Julian, led the students to tear themselves to pieces.

What’s more, the way people quote it all the time makes this line all the more haunting. Widespread parroting of Julian’s teachings only reinforces Donna’s themes: human minds are easily manipulatable, it can be hard to think critically about what you are taught and what you read, and that the easy, self-assured conviction belonging to the reader that, “I, personally, would have behaved differently than Henry, Richard, Francis, Camilla, Charles, and Bunny” is nothing but another illusion.

[marandsviet]

[toothy-crow]

Camilla getting glass in her foot (based on the sculpture Girl bit by a scorpion)

[sloppy-biich]

Rate the new laptop set up 😵‍💫

[0-sunstranger-0]

there is something to be said about how for years I will see art, posts, discourse, fics etc. pop up on my feed of fandoms I've never been in but the second I decide to join and enjoy, THAT is when all of a sudden the universe is all like "nooooo :3 nu, now u must actively choose to seek it out urself lol ;3 also fuck u specifically :D"

[duckblr-secret-santa]

I know this is probably a very stupid question, but when are those who signed up going to get their secret Santa? I just wanna know ahead of time, but if you don’t know that’s a-okay

No, that's okay. Registration is open until December 1st, so you'll get your assignments after December 1st. So registration is open for 7 days.

First comes the sending of tasks that need to be completed by Christmas on December 25th, followed by giving Secret Santa gifts to each other and revealing their identities and gifts only when Christmas begins, more precisely on December 25th and the following days after Christmas, depending on who arrives to complete the given tasks.

I think I was clear. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

[characterswithanimalnamesfight]

A few characters I expected to be submitted haven't been so here they are some kind of preview. This poll will have no incidence on the rest of the competition

[evilhorse]

Alter Ego magazine #167