In honor of Day of the Dead, here’s a repost of my comic about the San Francisco Columbarium and the man who spent 26 years restoring it.
This comic originally appeared on Medium at The Nib. Go check out my other work there.
Emmitt and the Columbarium.
i’m working on a play about 65-year-old lesbians, and my dramaturg is an older gay man who has been helping me with historical context and research, and also just in general giving me advice based on his own personal experiences.
fav thing he told me so far, said with a lot of love: “dyke drama was specific. it was always so specific. it was precise and narrowed and pointed. and also so dumb.”
also spoke to an older lesbian professor. i was asking her all these questions about marches and protests and summits and infighting and rallies and “what was it like what did this mean to you what was it like to experience that?”
and she kinda stared at me for a bit and said, “you know, it was a lot. and it was big and it did feel revolutionary. but also at that time i was mainly focused on getting my heart broken in a bar.”
and like. yeah.
another thing my dramaturg told me, from the perspective of a gay man who lived through the 80’s, was that whenever a young gay person asks him what the dating and play scene used to be like, he answers:
“we went to rallies and funerals.”
our persistence in our continued existence is big and scary and revolutionary, and the grief stretches on and the losses hit hard.
and because of that, i think it’s important to remember the dumb drama, and the first loves, and the first heartbreaks over beer. i think it’s important to go to rallies and vigils, and also dive bars and game nights.
it’s all so big and so small.
Ladies, are we fatigued this evening? Are we tired
We sleepy sis
Exhausted even
Based on the notes on this post, the situation is worse than I thought
can’t believe shinji got beat out by a honest to god squid
Fastfood workers carry more weight in society than any giant robot.
tired of pretending i dont like imagine dragons . "all their music sounds like its designed to be in movie trailers" and !!!! some bitches like brainless noise !!!!!!
"they're generic and engineered to be the most bland 'rock' band imagineable for the masses" when radioactive comes on i do the inhale-exhale thing with my entire chest u will never know simple joys and pleasures like i do.
keep glorifying mental illness
Okay. Being autistic makes you objectively hotter and closer to god.
Ben when his Sparrow siblings who he’s known for his entire life get horrifically murdered: Oh no. Anyway -
Ben when his deranged Umbrella siblings who he’s berated and known for like two days don’t invite him to the bachelor party:
can’t believe there’s going to be a new generation of pjo fans who automatically picture walker scobell when they think of percy jackson and not a hodgepodge of viria and burdge’s fanart. does that make me old
a character basically going “i’ll fuck you so good you’ll never be able to forget it” in an sbs kdrama was not on my 2022 bingo
There’s rumors going around GCPD: The Batman, a friend of Gordon’s, has been coming around crime scenes and helping out the detectives.
Some say he’s a cryptid. Others say he’s a vampire. Others say “I don’t care what he is, I saw him beat the shit out of a dozen men in ten seconds flat; I don’t want him near me.”
Whatever he is, he’s on the scene now, and all of the officers are on high alert.
—
Gordon: Come take a look at this blood spatter, big guy.
Batman: *glides over, glances around for a few seconds, then grunts*
Gordon: Exactly. And how about the window?
Batman: *turns toward window, points a flashlight at it, then pokes at a shard of glass on the floor* Hn.
Gordon: Yeah, I got that, but which one?
Batman: *mumbles a few syllables*
Gordon: Man, you really have a knack for this. Thanks for the help.
Batman, eyes darting around, jaw clenching, doing a little tapping thing with his fingers:
Gordon: Seriously, I owe you for this. Want to grab a coffee real quick or—
Batman: *launches himself out the window, but his boot catches on the ledge and he goes face-first down the side of the building. He lands in a roll, lays flat on his back for a few moments, then gets up and runs away*
Gordon:
GCPD:
Martinez: 👁 👄 👁
Gordon, rubbing his forehead: Please just…just don’t mention this in front of him—
It’s been almost a year since I started doing these little dice designs and I finally have compiled each collection into their own sets! Each dice set is available on my redbubble :)
if I had a nickel for everytime cha eunwoo played the male lead in a kdrama based off of a webtoon about an insecure girl who wants to change her face, I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
