A mini pencil sketched comic about one of my Fallen London characters, Gracie, during the Nemesis ambition! She's a bit zee monster-y due to Reasons but more importantly, she's Angry! Also The comic is based off of (and contains lyrics from) the song Ship in a Bottle by Fin Argus.
I very rarely make comics but was suddenly struck by artistic muse and I'm very proud of how it turned out!
omfg im doin my drivers ed online learning rn and i got to a section on physics and this. is an actual quote:
"Keep in mind that the laws of nature and physics are present at all times while operating a vehicle" people are thinkin the laws of physics stops?????
"People who try to break these laws usually end up losing control of their vehicle" who the fuck is trying to break the laws of physics
Who Let Mr Fires Drive A Car
I find it truly baffling how much academia Wants Lucy's victimization to be Stoker punishing her. Like. She literally could not be portayed with more sympathy. There is no reasonable way to assume that Stoker had any condemnation for her character or actions baked into the text. Why do you want her to be punished???
For those worried about the crew having to do a whole job just for one person, flight staff only get paid for time they're in the air; if he'd cancelled, they wouldn't have gotten paid for zip.
So in other words, he gave them an easy day where they can spend most of it on break, and also airplane staff should unionize.
Also the plane likely has to get to NC somehow so you might as well have fun with it
the terror of being found by something seeking a frontier
sometimes instead of a horrid little monk, divine visions of lesbians dance in my head dispensing wisdom
I didn’t want to disrupt the post about hostile architecture I saw because it’s true that the main target is homeless people but I did want to mention that this architecture also hurts people who aren’t skinny. I want to preface this all by saying I am in no way trying to minimize how this impacts people experiencing homelessness I am just trying to add on to the discussion of how these are bad.
You think that someone who can’t fit into those weird little yellow seats is going to feel comfortable? No. It will only make them feel bad or excluded.
Look at this shit. It’s not good or nice.
It only adds to the ways fat people are made feel unwelcome and though we already needed to tear this shit down because it makes life a million times worse for people experiencing homelessness and so this isn’t saying this is why you should tear it down. It is saying that our society is fatphobic and that sucks.
This isn’t a side effect, hostile architecture is designed to drive EVERYONE who’s “undesirable” from public spaces. Homeless people are the biggest targets but also disabled people, fat people, elderly people, etc. Other things, like anti-“loitering” measures and increased presence of police and security, drive out even more people, especially people of color and teenagers.
You aren’t disrupting or derailing discussions by talking about your experiences, we NEED to talk about the ways that different kinds of people are declared “unwanted” and pushed out of society.
Yeah, we no longer have “ugly laws” on paper, but in practice and architecture, we still absolutely do. If anything, we’ve gotten worse and more hostile towards “ugly” (unhoused, disabled, fat, etc) people in the past ten years- and this is exacerbated in the USA especially by the way communities are built to be car-dependent and segregated by class and race.
Oh, Lucy. Lucy, Lucy, Lucy.
There are few characters in gothic horror, or fiction in general, that better exemplify the hell of being caught in a chronic state of highs and lows. I would jump straight to chronic illness--her battle with commandeered sleepwalking and vampiric exsanguination is very clearly that--but also the endless limbo state of one being preyed on by a stalker.
Right now, Dracula must be away, and so she's better for his lack of a new visit. His earth-boxes are being moved to their initial destination in Carfax Abbey, his respite in Whitby and toying with Lucy now paused. Lucy appears to be out of danger.
But she does not live in Whitby either. She must be on her way eventually. And even first-time readers can guess what's on the bleak and bloody horizon once she goes home.
It won't be a constant thing. A steep sudden drop and an ending. No.
Like sickness, like the menacing of a sadist who savors, Lucy's condition in Whitby has been a series of hills and valleys in wellness and ailment, joy and dread. The monster is jabbing a needle (two needles) into her over and over rather than skewering her in one go and being done with it. When he wants to collect a victim, he makes sure the uncomprehending fear, anxiety, and power play of the collection lasts.
More proof is to come on that front later. But Whitby's miseries are a great prelude. Highs, lows, hope, despair.
Lucy, Lucy.
I'm so sorry.
According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.
sheds a single tear
every august 18th my notifications break and i go, fuck, tumblr has failed me once again, but it hasn’t. it hasn’t failed me. it’s just the taking the hobbits to isengard-iversary. happy 12 years
It's called art
2006-2009 Toyota Rav4 (briefly visible in first shot)
2010-2015 Volkswagen Passat
I wish someone would put my post under the water, maybe I want to be lost at sea forever
I've got you bestie dw about it
Puts you in the water
Sorry could you speak up I can't hear you under all that water
Oh! Ok
Waterboards you too so you feel included
…Not a phrase I imagined myself typing today. But, via @heyMAKWA on Twitter:
“i'm not going to link any of them here, for a variety of reasons, but please be aware of what is probably the deadliest AI scam i've ever heard of:
“plant and fungi foraging guide books. the authors are invented, their credentials are invented, and their species IDs will kill you”
…So please be careful if you run across anything of this kind.
So I have this person. We never spoke. We don't know eachother.
But any day I play Elden Ring in the evening, it doesn't matter if I'm dueling or cooping or invading, I have like a 20% chance of stumbling into him.
When I'm dueling it's ALWAYS very close. I think I'm slightly better but sometimes he wins.
When I'm cooping and he invades, he makes all the smart plays. Which is mostly "don't fight huggingtentacles kill the host as fast as possible". You know. It's a smart play.
And when I'm invading it's always a breeze to co-invade with him. He never hits me unnecessarily. He always pays attention when I'm in trouble. He takes aggro really well and most importantly he knows that when fighting 2v2 you have to be sandwiching the host and the phantom and not be on the same side. Good co-invader.
We have a bit of a rivalry going on? Whenever we fight eachother it's always the most tryhard shit that you'll ever see. The kind of shit that makes Redditors disconnect in tears. All is fair game when we fight because god damn I if one of us loses the winner gets to do the "Bravo" gesture which might be genuine expression of being impressed but it's probably sarcastic.
It's always very hype to see him. I get very fired up. No matter how shitty my day is he always lights me up and forces me to play full force.
I hope he's doing alright.
Absolutely the hell not. Have we learned nothing from either Captain Howard or Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
