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Great night with an even greater friend.❤ @unravelling-the-sky

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Concept drawings for a graphic novel collaboration I plan to be illustrating later in the spring. It’s going to be very insect-centric and hopefully really violent! :O)

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Gatsby en mode hangry…mon bras s’en souvient

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Dealing with demonic possession is a little like being a Barber. Most problems are solved by taking a little off the top.

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Bold Sirius no more shall show her face  As she doth use when Phoebus is in place But these and all the fixèd orbs of light Shall be involved once more in Horrid Night. Like robes the elements shall folded be In the vast wardrobe of eternity. Then, my unsettled soul, be more resolved- Seeing all this universe must be dissolved.

Hester Pulter, “Universal Dissolution” 

Pulter is comforting herself or reconciling herself with death with knowledge of the death of the whole universe, which is very bold and beautifully written. She also uses pronouns in interesting ways- instead of just relying on gendering everything as male, there seems to be an even split. 

Source: Women’s Works Volume 4, ed. Donald W. Foster and Tobian Banton, pg 187

3/28/2016

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But thou'rt still striving to be free As if none were in bonds but thee.  Though, for a time, thou'rt clothed with earth, Ere long thou'lt have an happy birth. The chirping bird will break its shell,  The infant leave its loathed cell,  The sleeping dust will rise and speak And will her marble prison break,  The flower her beauty will display.

Hester Pulter, “The Perfection of Patience and Knowledge” 

Another beautiful poem by Pulter. There is a very Christ-like, resurrection undertone to this poem, but the subject is a woman (maybe her daughter) which interesting. 

Source: Women’s Works Volume 4, ed. Donald W. Foster and Tobian Banton, pg 176

3/28/2016

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‘Satan in Eden’ Gustav Dore’s Illustrations for John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1866)

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Be fucking selfish. I don’t think people get told this enough and it’s kind of sad. Selfish doesn’t always mean in a bad way, sometimes putting yourself first is important. Heck, I say do it all the time.

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When I’m hurt it’s fine, when you’re hurt I’m supposed to care..wtf

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Dear Millennials,

Do you hate the way Baby Boomers talk about you?  Well, I want you to remember something:

The Baby Boomers were also the generation of the Hippies.  And the so-called Greatest Generation said the exact same things about the Baby Boomers as the Baby Boomers say about Millennials.

The exact same things.  The only thing missing was the word “selfie”.

Hippies/Baby Boomers were called lazy and entitled.  They were called selfish and self-important.  They were treated as if they didn’t know how to work or show proper respect for their elders and everybody thought that they wanted some sort of special treatment.  The Baby Boomers were perceived as this group who thought everything was all about them.  If you asked the Baby Boomer Hippies, at the time, they’d say they were just exploring sexuality and fighting racism and trying to do away with the old ways because the old ways weren’t working.  They fought and they protested and they were passionate.

Then, to borrow a phrase from The Dark Knight, “you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain.”  That’s what happened to the Baby Boomers.  But, there’s a third option.

Remember.

Remember what this feels like.  Remember what it’s like to be in your teens and twenties.  Remember that it’s not easy.  Remember everything the past generation says about you.

Because there will come a day when the Millennials are in their 30s and 40s and 50s.  Where the President and Congress will all be Millennials.  Where you will be the establishment.  You will be in charge.

And there will be people of your generation, your age group, who will look at the Post-Millennials and say “Look at how selfish and disrespectful they are!  What is wrong with their music?  What is wrong with their hair?  They can’t be separated from their technology for one second, can they?!  People in my generation knew how to work hard!  They weren’t lazy and entitled like these kids are!”

It will happen.  Don’t let it.

Fight it.  Fight for yourselves now but, when you’re older, fight for the next generation.

Break the cycle.

If you hate the way you’re treated by the older generation and the media, then remember that and don’t do it to the ones who come after you.

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