#that kid crow cillers

[comicviolence]

crow cillers panel redraw

i like to move it move it

[hazy2k]

drew asscastle and that kid from memory in art class today

[adamfaulknerstanheight]

once in a great while i will see someone reblog my old crow cillers fanart from my high school-era, now-deleted tumblr. i've screwed up a lot in the relatively short time since, but i think i've basically done right by that version of myself. i left home and never went back. i've done all the sex and drugs and partying bullshit i fantasized about as a lonely indoor kid. i drew the webcomic and cate wurtz read it and liked it. 16 yr old me would be overjoyed

[roryfrommybabysittersavampire]

had the best cigarette of my life while listening to the gun song and looking at the stars then finished crow cillers season one (continuation of the cigarette feeling, five stars). it's 3 am. I am not tired. took my meds that don't work. very hungry, room smells like the cold pizza that I had four hours ago, think someone else is awake so I don't want to go get the crushed box of Annies Neopolitan Bunny Cookie Crackers from the kitchen. it's 24 degrees out, there has been no blood in my left big toe since I came back inside. I think it might fall of this time. you're not supposed to rub frostbite because the ice crystals can tear your skin. that's not what's happening but I'm still thinking about it. when I close my eyes I get a visual very similar to the seizures that I had as a kid. complete nothingness, everything a perfect untouched surface, until it starts to crumble, but it's my body, made of pieces of scrap paper in an overflowing garbage can to show that a character is having trouble coming up with ideas. is it obvious that I've been infected? (I used that metaphor already in the last song I wrote this November.) and then I'm a stick figure, wiry, and then I'm gone entirely and it's perfect again. I've never been able to describe it, this isn't a real attempt to do so. it's 3:30 now. I can't come up with anything else. post

#diary

[moandkrill]

lamezone/crow cillers house md au

House - Varg Wilson - Moya Cuddy - Ynce Iche Chase - Somers Cameron - Emma Foreman - Ru'mel Thirteen - Jill Kutner - Jamie Taub - Gaige Masters - That Kid

[matrixonvhsanddvd]

everyone’s a critic

[swampgoblin]

“Don’t worry about it, nerd”

I liked this scene from the latest Crow Cillers episode enough to draw a little tribute to it. I’m pretty happy with how TK came out, but Cortney still doesn’t look quite right to me and I’m not sure why. Oh well.

[vilelemon]

idk how 2 caption this lmao but Nyello Everybody!! im pepe and i lov crow cillers w all of my heart even tho ive only known abt it for a month lol!!!!! i just drew som of my favorite kids from it bc i Love Them (also i severely overestimated jill’s height so just ignore all the mistakes n pretend she’s standin on her tip toes lmao i Tried My Best™!) anyways shoutout 2 @lamezone for creating such an amazing comic n these beautiful characters, and also 2 my pal @y2crittler for getting me into cc and Related Works!!!!! >:’3333 have a great day n feel free 2 message me if u wanna chat or anything!

[pepprs]

HEY EVERYONE GO FOLLOW MY FRIEND LAIKA!!!

their main blog is @pomania and they also have a sideblog for references and crow cillers (an Amazing comic by cate wurtz) which is @y2crittler !!!! they're really nice and cool and creative i know them irl and they're honestly one of the best people ive Ever met so please go check their stuff out and follow them and say hi!!!!! <:-33333

[some-triangles]

I haven’t written a read Crow Cillers post in a while, so, off the back of a really good episode in the middle of a wrenching but excellent season, let’s do it one more time.

WHAT IS CROW CILLERS

It’s a monthly serial webcomic which is structured like a TV show.  Each individual episode is about 30 pages long and there are 10 or so episodes per season.  It’s about some kids fighting an evil cult which is trying to tap the power of a shadow dimension, but as it goes on you realize that the cult is just... everything, all the time, the world, and the kids are just trying to grow up and be healthy and alive, but because they’re all gay or trans or disabled or fucked up in miscellaneous ways the world is trying to kill them.  The kids grow up despite this and the world is still the way it is.

This sounds depressing, and it is, but there are jokes - lots of jokes - and good art, and cartoons, and friendship, and everything that makes the world worth living in anyway.  The question of just how redemptive all of those things really are is explored, of course - particularly when it comes to the cartoons, and how feasible it ultimately is to get meaning and joy from media which is produced by the death cult that is capitalism.  But the answer is not always no.  Sometimes Lisa Simpson eats the bad guys. 

Be aware that Crow Cillers is a lot.   There’s trauma on top of trauma in here, and sometimes the whole thing descends into a despairing fever dream that can be difficult to follow, but there’s always a throughline.  And - if you think the start is OK but have some qualms, it’s worth sticking with it, because season by season it gets better and better and better.

WHERE CAN YOU GET IT

You can read the first three seasons for free here.   (It is hard to look at, yes.  That is on purpose.  You will want to read the pilot without the director’s commentary.)  The more recent seasons can be purchased individually here - or, you can get the whole thing through the author’s patreon, here.  I recommend that. 

WHY SHOULD YOU PAY FOR IT

Because good art is important, and the artist needs to eat.

[chelzone]

took a nap and had exciting dreamz, time to see if following that with woter an spicy mac n cheese can give me the strength to knock out a second drawing for da day

rlly wanna draw the last two remaining kids from Crow Cillers season 8, i THINK i got a good simple idea based off of somethin from da season's bonus art section thingy

[flanneldragonmainblog]

4lung seems to work closely with cate wurtz, or lamezone. You’ve probably seen cate’s comic crow cillers and a bunch of simpsons art by her. Her nsfw furaffinity account is lmndrp, which I would really recommend NOT checking out because it’s full of fetish art of kids and diapers. I have tried messaging 4lung about this, trying to figure out why she is buddies with this sicko, but have received no response. My goal here isn’t to stir up drama but this seems like something you’d want to know.

I JUST REMEMBERED THIS ASK FROM MONTHS AGO AND I WANNA SAY IM SO SORRY FOR IGNORING IT

[gltzgghln]

what are some of the animals from crow cillers even supposed to be like ik emma and that kid are dogs and doris is a toucan but what about the corvidaes?? are they even corvids??? i have a feeling cortney is a reptile of some sort and brother marcus is an axolotl. also elaine is a cat for sure

[karhs]

hey it’s time for another crow cillers post i wager! I missed posting about the last couple eps because i wasn’t in a position to read the episodes as they came out. im gonna start off with Ida’s Hands because it’s the most recent ep (and also very good), I might go back for the other ones later idk. rather than just warning for spoilers, im gonna go ahead n flat out say that this post will make literally no sense unless you’ve read the episode. so go do that!

alright so! in the interest of coherency I’m going to cover the non-Ida parts of the episode first

I’m really invested in Paisley! I can’t help but think of her as a successor to Emma, in a way? there’s the obvious note of her intense interest (admiration?) in Emma, but also the way she understands her world in terms of video games similarly to Emma’s use of television concepts, and she’s entered the Weird Dimension Voids in an act of defiance in much the same way Emma recently did. I’m proud of her for getting through the ol’ ‘nobody cares about you’ hell-zone seemingly pretty unscathed! It was also really heartwarming to see that Heaven actually does care about her, and even admire her some. They’re good kids.

Speaking of acts of defiance, I dig that Emma’s insistence on moving forward was so powerful that it even hit Joslyn somehow. Plus the throwback to Matrix Revcrowlutions (my favorite episode) is always appreciated.

Marcus being given more-or-less free reign of the school is definitely very very concerning, especially since he’s seemingly gotten over any of the redeeming qualities he used to have. If I ever go back for the episodes I missed I’ll talk about that more, probably.

It’s been a while since Howdy Crittler’s said stuff! It’s easy to forget that that’s a thing that happens. It’s also easy to forget that the series began with Pistachio... I hope we see more of her in the coming episodes.

I hope Vein gets eaten by that horse.

okay now for the real subject of the episode, Ida! and consequently Joslyn

One thing I find interesting is the mention of Ida as being a “tough nut to crack.” She certainly is! We barely knew anything until we got an episode specifically about her! But, more importantly, this is brought up in the context of her as a celebrity. What for, I wonder? Yeah, she’s an influential plastic horse mogul, but I can’t imagine that kind of thing would put someone in the public eye...

That aside, Beloved being confirmed as an ascended Ida is a really big deal! This is something folks had speculated at (particularly Astrid @webinarfantastic, who’s clever and observational as hell) but to have it confirmed gives some context to the both of them.

Personally, I’m getting very emotional over the fact that the one thing Ida carried over through her ascension was Joslyn. Literally the only concrete thing she kept was contact information for her, and I have to assume that was in some way deliberate? Like obviously this is heavy speculation but I’d assume that making it through that and keeping a cellphone with a number and a name logged would have to be the result of some really intense concentration on Ida’s part. She also retained more vague traces of Joslyn, like her domain being the amusment part where they had their last ‘date’ (props again to Astrid for catching this one)

I wonder what kind of life Joslyn and Ida would have if Ida hadn’t been afraid? If she had never felt like she had to suppress that part of herself? Like, so much of where Joslyn is at is because of their ‘breakup’, and I feel like if things had gone differently Ida wouldn’t have gone as far into Ynce Iche as she did. (if she even still got the opportunity to go in at all) I also can’t help but wonder if they’ll recognize each other now. Beloved obviously has some kind of standards for Joslyn, even if she doesn’t remember what exactly a Joslyn is, so I can’t help but feel like she’ll know the real one when she sees her, but I feel like Beloved may turn out to be almost totally unrecognizable compared to the living Ida. She certainly has none of her original shyness, at least, and with no memories and a different personality there’s not a lot Joslyn could latch on to.

Of course, that hasn’t stopped me from imagining that Joslyn could recognize her, maybe for some small gesture or another, an offer of cotton candy and a ride on a ferris wheel or something... and then Joslyn would cry, and then I would cry.

I also imagined Beloved using Emma’s arm as leverage to plant a big puppety kiss on Joslyn’s nose, which is certainly not going to happen but just. imagine.

...anyways uh this post, as expected, lost all coherency when I got to Ida and Joslyn. I would offer to do more analysis when I’m less emotional, but to be honest I probably never will be. I love Joslyn a lot and consequently I’m having an awful lot of feelings

[moandkrill]

1, 3, 6, 32 !!

1. what are 3 things you’d say shaped you into who you are?

one; DISCO ELYSIUM. definitely. easily. changed my life.

two; CAR SEAT HEADREST and the surrounding indie fur community. thru cshr I found that circle of niche furry webcomic artists and my art was changed forecer. reading crow cillers made me finally realise I wanted to pursue making comics.

three; okay probably cringe as hell but undertale because that's what got me into making art properly as a kid. making aus and Undertale fanart on my dad's work iPad is where I started OH

honourable mentions -- little big planet, neon genesis evangelion, serial experiments lain

3. 3 films you could watch for the rest of your life and not get bored of?

end of evangelion, my own private idaho, venom: let there be carnage

6. what’s the best and worst part of being online/a creator?

I'll start with the worst because I love to be negative. and that's the hypervisibility of it all. anything you say can and will be used against you. the best is being able to communicate w and collaborate w such a wide range of people and find people based on interests, find people you truly get alng with and who accept you rather than hoping you stumble across them (which is next to impossible in a small town!)

32. how many tabs do you have open right now?

I closed all my tabs before I went to bed. I can't deal with the clutter!!!

also bonus because I misread and I like my answer ;

36. are you an open book or do you have walls up?

call me the city of Derry with the walls I got up🗣️🗣️

[matrixonvhsanddvd]

Bro we are just standing