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Because we can all use a bit of good news, here’s how Vietnamese people are dealing with COVID-19:

“western media wont talk about this but the vietnamese government is helping citizens fight the coronavirus by offering free /proper/ meals for people in quarantine areas and free groceries/necessities for a whole neighborhood in lockdown”

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“- here people will be placed in quarantine due to travel history, showing symptoms or recent contact with current patients - the neighborhood in lockdown is because the 17th patient, possibly a “super spreader”, resided there”

“some korean travelers are also in quarantine so they were given korean meals because what if they aren’t used to vietnamese food”

“i ran out of characters but this is also meant to poke fun at how the usa and some european nations respond to this outbreak, both their government and people. anw if you constantly think of countries in the global south with your shallow eurocentric bias then karma will get you.”

“Muting this now reach me through DM if you need to! Appreciate all the good sentiments”

“your gov may be shitty but extend your appreciation and support to doctors & healthcare workers on the frontline of this crisis! if you cant wear masks, wash hands often, avoid touching MEN (Mouth Eyes Nose), and avoid crowds (PLEASE). the system is in shambles so be proactive”

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“The Vietnam government makes sure the neighbors of the “super spreader” number 17th has enough food for 14 days. The citizens in quarantine be making friends, cleaning up the place together, giving out roses for women patients for International Women day, even fall in love lol~”

Source: https://twitter.com/yvescloudedcat/status/1237389224875196418

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I haven't even watched this program before, but like... I don't know how to react to this, I have so many questions

... What is this timeline we're in??

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Psh and they say us whites have no culture

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GILLIAN ANDERSON IS REALLY OUT HERE ASKING FOR FREE VIBRATORS ON TWITTER DOT COM I LOVE THIS WOMAN

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I dont know anything about dragonball and have no intention of getting into it, I just want to know what leads Vegeta, who I understand is the prince of space or something, to turn good, settle down, get a beautiful wife and wear a pink blouse

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Interview: Shilin Huang, Creator of Amongst Us and Carciphona

Shilin Huang ( @okolnir​​ )is a Canadian freelance artist and comic creator, known for her long-running series Carciphona. She has a Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Western Ontario. Carciphona is a long-form fantasy story set in a world where demon-magic is forbidden. The series follows a young sorceress named Veloce, and the mythical assassin assigned to kill her, Blackbird.

Shilin’s newest book, Amongst Us, based on the webcomic of the same name, is an alternate universe comic that reimagines Veloce and Blackbird as musicians and girlfriends in the modern world. You can support the physical release for Amongst Us book 1 on Kickstarter today.

The first book of Amongst Us is coming soon. How do you feel about the release?

Eager and relieved!! I had worked for so long to make the web format viable for print format, as well doing all the extra drawings that were necessary–like covers–that I had to keep under wraps, it felt great to know that that part is finally done and I can release my child into the wild. I was very worried too before the launch of the Kickstarter, because though I am the one who made this story, I am not quite a slice-of-life type of person myself, and it was hard for me to see value in this mundane, not-plot-driven kind of story as a printed book. But I was very lucky to have that worry dispelled!

What drew you towards creating comics and artwork? Was it a dream of yours?

I’ve been drawing since before elementary school because I enjoyed it, and somewhere along the way, I wanted to create my own characters, and then I wanted stories for them. It was always just me doing what I felt like doing, more so than something that I aspired towards achieving consciously. If I had to analyze the allure myself, maybe it was because people and the world are so interesting, I’ve always loved thinking about their nature and circumstances, and art/storytelling was the best way for me to explore and share those thoughts.

Could you briefly walk us through your creative process for making a page of Carciphona or an episode of Amongst Us?

Carciphona is a long, plot-driven story, and so the scale of preparation required before the page eclipses the actual drawing of the page itself. [A] small moment has some larger impact in the plot, character development, and accuracy of world-building. So I usually spend about half a year or more writing out an entire volume, read it over many times over the course of the years, before I do the same thing with sketching the entire volume on the computer, rearranging pages and panels and entire scenes for best delivery, before I finally commit to drawing out each page in detail on the computer. 

Where Carciphona is like an elaborate set course where I chop up and measure ingredients and time their cooking with a careful game plan so everything can be served as they should, Amongst Us is more like an omelette that I’m making to taste. There is still planning and writing ahead of time, but each episode is much more self-contained, and I do more of the planning of the episode within the episode itself, adding and taking away details as I see fit before I feel like it reads naturally enough for me to fine line, colour, and paint.

You talk about being a self-taught artist, how did you learn to create artwork? What are some of your favorite educational resources?

While I did come across many tutorials, they were mostly short ones here and there made by my peers, so I don’t have any favourites in my mind that I can share ): . I learned by just looking at the art of my peers at the time and drawing a lot myself, thinking about what I could learn from each time I see something great, and what I could try next time to make the next drawing look better to me. When I had just started drawing digitally, the internet was quite new, drawing tablets expensive and uncommon, with no social media to share art or find resources. Over time, I did try to learn more properly by doing studies and seeking out professional tutorials, but I found that I hated it and decided that I’d rather learn and make mistakes at my own pace and be happy than to commit to effective and efficient learning and make myself dislike drawing.

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1: What book did you last finish? When was that?

The Stone Sky, last of the Broken Earth trilogy. around a month ago

2: What are you currently reading?

Postcards from the Edge, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, and Her Body and Other Parties 

3: What book are you planning to read next?

The Outsider by Stephen King

4: What was the last book you added to your tbr?

The Ten Thousand Doors of January 

5: Which book did you last re-read?

It

6: Which book was the last one you really, really loved?

The Stone Sky

7: What was/were the last book/books you bought?

Sawbones i think, i do get on buying streaks until i’m buried. the hubris to think i have the time to read all this

8: Paperback or hardcover? Why?

paperback usually, bc i like holding them better

9: YA, NA or Adult? Why?

Adult preferably but i’ll read YA for sure 

10: Sci-Fi or fantasy? Why?

fantasy bc i’m a messy prick who likes magic

11: Classic or modern? Why?

only one i’d choose modern. there’s so many character ideas and types of people finally being written about now. youknowwhatimean

12: Political memoirs or comedic memoirs?

comedic

13: Name a book with a really bad movie/tv adaption

The  Hobbit movies were flaming trash

14: Name a book where the movie/tv adaption actually was better than the original

The Umbrella Academy was a comic but my god was the show better. other than that..hoo...Princess Bride

15: What book changed your life?

Lord of the Rings, ripples of change from brother to me

16: If you could bring three books to a deserted island which would you bring and why?

okay so if we’re discounting the obvious ‘survival books’ and the *actual* Hitchhiker’s Guide i’d say  The Stand, my 3-in-1 Lord of the Rings that totally counts, and The Red Throne

17: If you owned a bookshop what would you call it?

I Got Stacks

18: Which character from a book is the most like you?

Faramir but don’t read into that too much 

19: Which character from a book is the least like you?

Jack Torrance 

20: Best summer read?

My Best Friend’s Exorcism & American Gods

21: Best winter read?

ee cummings The Enormous Room & The Shining

22: Pro or anti e-readers? Why?

i mean live your best life, whatever. i prefer physical books though

23: Bookdepository or Amazon?

24: Do you prefer to buy books online or in a bookshop?

bookshop but i do order a lot bc i work nights and sleep a lot of days

25: If you could be a character from a book for just one day who would you be and why? (Bonus: any specific day in the story?)

Legolas bc boyyyy the ability to tell my brother about the world would just be too good; and i could do mysterious elf shit

26: If you could be a character from a book for their entire life who would you be and why? I wouldn’t mind changing genders to have Hermione’s smarts and access to a magic system. besides genderfluid Granger doesn’t seem far fetched and hello polyjuice fun

27: If you could change one thing about mainstream literature what would you change? (i.e. more diversity, better writing, better plot etc.)

more diversity

28: How many books have you read so far this year?

going back to 2019 i read 12. but just 2020 i’ve only finished 2. i’ve got like 11 started and it’s a real problem

29: How do you sort your shelves? (i.e. by color, author, title etc.)

..sort..? 

30: Who’s your favorite author?

N.K. Jemisin 

31: Who’s your favorite contemporary author?

Margarat Atwood

32: Who’s your favorite fantasy author?

see above for N.K. but Neil Gaiman is a close second

33: Who’s your favorite Sci-Fi author?

Ray Bradbury 

34: List five OTPs

SashaxChichi from Akata Witch/Warrior

ElphabaxFiyero from Wicked

SyenitexAlabastarxInnon Broken Earth Series

EssunxHoa           (same)

GeraltxYennefer  Witcher Series

35: Name a book you consider to be terribly underrated

can a Discworld book be said to be underrated considering how beloved it is? but The Hogfather is just so good

36: Name a book you consider to be terribly overrated

Atlas Shrugged

37: How many books are actually in your bookshelf/shelves right now?

no idea...a few hundred though i think

38: What language do you (most often) read in?

only know English

39: Name one of your favorite childhood books

Wrinkle in Time & It’s Like This Cat

40: Name one of your favorite books from your teenage years

The Dark is Rising

41: Do you own a library card? How often do you use it?

I do but never now bc we owe them fines, the shame

42: Which was the best book you had to read in school?

Of Mice and Men was a fave 

43: Are you the kind of person who reads several books at once or the kind of person who can only read one book at a time?

See mess above

44: Do you like to listen to music when you read?

sometimes 

45: What is your favorite thing to eat when you read?

apple slices

46: What is your favorite thing to drink when you read?

coffee

47: What do you do to get out of a reading slump?

like a slump where i can’t finish a book? i start a new one like

a fucking quitter

48: Where is your favorite place to read?

couch propped against mah man

49: When is your favorite time to read?

in the evening, late

50: Why do you love to read?

Because stories light up the mind. escapism. it’s just damn

fun. i love feeling like i was part of the journey. cheesy but true, i love

that tired feeling when you finish a book.

Your turn @timaeustumbls and @zaphtiera

Bookish Questions!

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Creator spotlight: Floyd E. Norman

Floyd Norman (born June 22, 1935) is an American animator, writer, and comic book artist. Over the course of his career, Norman has worked for a number of animation companies, among them Walt Disney Animation Studios, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Ruby-Spears, Film Roman and Pixar.

Norman had his start as an assistant to Katy Keene comic book artist Bill Woggon, who lived in the Santa Barbara, California area Norman grew up in. In 1956, Norman was employed as an inbetweener on Sleeping Beauty (released in 1959) at Walt Disney Productions, becoming the first African-American artist to remain at the studio on a long-term basis. 

Following his work on Sleeping Beauty, Norman was drafted, and returned to the studio after his service in 1960 to work on One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) and The Sword in the Stone (1963). After Walt Disney saw some of the inter-office sketches Norman made to entertain his co-workers, he was reassigned to the story department, where he worked with Larry Clemons on the story for The Jungle Book. 

After Walt Disney’s death in 1966, Floyd Norman left the Disney studio to co-found Vignette Films, Inc. with business partner animator/director Leo Sullivan. Vignette Films, Inc. produced six animated films and was one of the first companies to produce films on the subject of black history.  

Norman and Sullivan worked together on various projects, including segments for Sesame Street and the original Hey, Hey, Hey, It’s Fat Albert television special conceived by Bill Cosby, which aired in 1969 on NBC.In 1972, a different Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids Saturday morning cartoon series was produced for CBS by Filmation Associates). In 1999, Norman and Sullivan created a multicultural internet site, afrokids.com, designed to present a variety of African-American images to children.

Norman was a recipient of the Winsor McCay Award for Recognition of lifetime or career contributions to the art of animation at the 2002 Annie Awards. Norman was named a Disney Legend in 2007. 

In 2008, he appeared as Guest of Honor at Anthrocon 2008 and at Comic-Con International, where he was given an Inkpot Award. In 2013 Norman was honored with the “Sergio Award” from The Comic Art Professional Society (CAPS). (X)

Websites: afrokids.com / blog / twitter

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Mary Oliver

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This was the funniest hour of my life

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literally cornered Toast, i love it

i found the ducky suit

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