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druid-for-hire · 2 years ago

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[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

#dinosaur #evolution #comic #prehistoric #animal #wildlife #paleontology #biology #poetry #comics #original #my art #archaeopteryx has no direct living descendants i know #but i wanted something aerial and the dinosaur to bird connection is classic and well known anyway #also the chicken over any other bird is very on purpose #its the mix of truth and comedy and genuineness and the fantastic in the mundane #its me asking you to see something so wonderful in something taken so un-seriously #and to love it both ways #also the jurassic park thing #where someone saw the reconstructed gait of a dino #and said. hey hang on. i know that walk.#and pulled up footage of a chicken walking #which jumpstarted the entire study into the link between dinosaurs and birds #in the end take whatever you want from it i just thought id provide some insight #i always like it when other artists do #the point is that i enjoy when people laugh at the end and when they dont #and i like it when they cry. i like it best when they both laugh and cry. eeaao intent #anyway mourn your losses but to live is to change #also hi guys i finally figured out tipping after 5 months so no more annoying ko-fi link #the antidote to despair is awe

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 1 year ago

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

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joshuamj · 5 months ago

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Okay, but what if EoW!Zelda had to impersonate Link

#echoes of wisdom #the legend of zelda #loz #loz eow #zelda #link #josh art tag #the scenario i imagine is that nobody but zelda onows that link got got #and link presumably when on a whole quest to save zelda so people would know him or at least of him #so maybe zelda would feel the need to make everyone think everything would be okay #cuz look! links still here and taking care of things!#idk i just think its a cool idea and its one ive actually had for a while #a little while ago i wondered what the next loz game would be like and what i would want to see #and i of course thought of playable zelda #but i thought #what would cause zelda to be playable?#so i thought maybe something would happen to link and he would be unavailable so zelda would take his place #and then that idea fit so well with eow!#i think its fun seeing a zelda in the classic green. and the hat #imposter!zelda au

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mythosphere · 4 months ago

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Every time I see a hockey goalie with their helmet propped on their head I'm like omg...just like pericles....

#there is something wrong with my brain i fear #tagamemnon #classics #ancient history #hockey

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keferon · 1 month ago

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Guys. Guys they’re miners. They’re tiny cogless miners. Guys

I blacked out and filled the whole three canvases with sketches of them being itty bitty goobers. Figured Imma show you some haha

#maccadam #transformers #prowl #jazz #tf one #transformers one #tf one jazz #tf one prowl #jazzprowl #<- if you want it to be haha #I can’t stop thinking #like #I check ao3 very regularly and #okay bruh just. I know the movie absolutely wasnt about Jazz nor Prowl but I still feel the urge to write something about them #just like. slice of life thing but considering their life is kinda sucks because of the whole no-cog thing #Jazz talks smth like twice for the whole movie and Prowl doesn’t talk at all. That’s a lot of creative freedom to write haha #I want them to do their classic stealth missions type of shit but this time without any actual support from any kind of system #you get me #they both usually have some kind of command structure behind them. I want them to be absolutely broke low class tiny goobers #and still manage to pull their usual shady crazy stuff #idk #something like that

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akanemnon · 10 months ago

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I smell another existential crisis incoming...

FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

#deltarune #undertale #deltarune fanart #undertale fanart #crossover #utdr #crossover comic #twin runes #twin runes au #akanemnon #my art #kris dreemurr #deltarune susie #frisk #congrats susie #now YOU broke the child #seems like that “concussion” did a little more damage as expected #classic protagonist with amnesia #but something about that seems to resonate with kris...

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sysig · 10 months ago

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Permission to headbutt: Granted (Patreon)

#My art #UT #Sans #Papyrus #Ft. something smol and I do on a regular basis ♪#This could be Handplates or it could be classic Undertale I leave that up to you lol #I definitely picked up a lot of the style quirks lol - but there are some of the ones that I like myself! Like Papyrus' darkmode clothes lol #And Sans' shorts having the stripe in the front haha - little details ♫#Realistically it probably is Handplates tho just based on where my head's at lol - I love the Handplates dynamic :D #Handplates #I talked myself into it! Pfft ♪#I found myself relating a lot to Sans especially while rereading - I want nothing more in the world than for my siblings to be happy! <3 #So I gathered up a bunch of ideas of things especially me and smol do together and this was the most obviously cute one haha #Easiest to do! Tho I did still go a little extra on this lol #I'm trying to do more digital stuff ♪ It wasn't the best art day and I'm still a little nervous to jump right in :')#Not doing any sketches on paper beforehand feels weird but I guess it is thematic in a way lol #And I'm still pleased with how they turned out hehe #It really does feel nice to be drawing them again <3 #And doing silly sibling things! Hehe #I dunno how clear it is since it's so ingrained into how smol and I talk to each other lol family language!#One of us will literally just announce ''bonk'' and the other will prepare for/lean in for a headbutt haha #She is a tiny bit taller than me - it's not quite /this/ extreme but she does lean down for me! S'cute <3 #I like to think Papyrus would do the same hehe ♪ Let your lazy brother headbutt you! He can only reach so far!#On minimal effort anyhow hehe #It's just a fun way to be silly together ♫♪#Also yes I did show this to her and she cosigned lol - ''Cute'' -smol

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smokbeast · 2 months ago

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UTMV YCH SALE!! 24 USD EACH

I thought this be fun to try out! I never done it before but, if it’s liked I’ll do more in the future with other aus and also with SB fnaf or with DCA if anyone would like that! For now here’s these!

There will be four slots available for each Ych! (EDIT) There are three extra characters added now for more options!! ERROR YCH(OPEN)2/4 slots

FELL YCH(OPEN)2/4 slots

HORROR YCH(OPEN)2/4 slots

CLASSIC YCH(OPEN)1/4 slots

PAPYRUS YCH (OPEN)0/4 slots FELLSWAP YCH (OPEN)1/4 slots

SEAM ERROR YCH(OPEN)1/4 slots

DM me and sign the google form if your interested to tell me which one you’d like!

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eva-birdman · 4 months ago

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I don't know why I bite

#omg it's finally finished!!!!! raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!#my friend send me this tiktok sound telling me it's so jacobi coded and I had to do something with it #I wanted it to be an animatic but in classic me fashin I got carried away #that's the first coloured and finished animation I've made lmao I always end up dropping this kind of projects #wolf 359 #wolf359 #w359 #daniel jacobi #warren kepler #alana maxwell #renee minkowski #isabel lovelace #tagging them as well even though they're there for like a second or so #animation #my art

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happyheidi · 4 months ago

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𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 … <3

#something very soothing with these #cottagecore #curtains #warmcore #alternative aesthetic #chaotic aesthetic #warm aesthetic #sunshine #light academia aesthetic #classic academia #moodboard

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infinitemarilynmonroe · 4 months ago

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Marilyn Monroe on the set of Something's Got To Give, 1962.

#marilyn monroe #monroedit #something's got to give #1960s #vintage #old hollywood #hollywood #classic hollywood #golden age of hollywood #edit #my edit #60s #1962

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civetcider · 1 year ago

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making new OCs to cope with how bad i wanna be fishing right now (she/her for both)

#butch oc #butch4butch #anthro #safe fur work #furryart #civetworks #i dont have names for them yet #but im thinking ill just name them classic dude bro names or something like that #im so bad at making comics please be no typos ill die if there are #i had to not only do more then one background but also draw a car my hand will never recover #oakley and traver

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sofiaruelle · 15 days ago

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🌸The SDV gurlies in their Flower Dance outfits🌸

I wanted to keep it coquette/cotteage-core but i played around too much 😅😅. I still tried to keep it all cohesive to the theme of the event but with some my headcanons on their outfit choices lmao (like Abigail’s fit is mostly borrowed from someone or Haley fersure made Emily make her something new from scratch, etc.)

theres some other outfits under readmore that didnt make it to the final.