#please return

[willowgrove]

Ao3 is down, maybe this is my sign to actually get some work done.. Nah, cry about it on Tumblr instead.

[luadusk]

Waiting for my husband (my brother) to get back from war (getting me more flour for bread) while taking care of our sickly children (loading the dishwasher, cuz he is getting me flour, so he cant do it 😢)

[infernothechaosgod]

Me 90% of the epic mickey

[very-super-silly]

jpc i miss you please come back

[tothecrucifieddeer]

I came to crave your strong hand, delicate in its nature and in where it applied the pressure. Y'isreal, I couldn't remove myself from the blood or the bruises--I loved your white hands and pink knuckles. I loved you in your rage.

I would've loved you if you stayed. If the baby lived. If I was forgiven. Even as I love you because those things didn't happen. The night sky is an inky black. I think it is you watching still, the silver stars bits of wisdom trapped in your eyes.

There is nothing to give you but my scared body and ugliness. I am not profound. Just a beggar. A hated pet. Your hatred just fell a little closer to love. Come home and I'll do it all over. I love you. I promise. From the moment you took the pills out of my hand and told me to live.

That's it. That's all.

[king-troxler]

Currently in a long distance relationship with AO3

[angelscometrue]

i wish in the future we have a movie of my favorite dead boys detectives.

[joannaliangart]

please return (2020) 2.4 × 25.5 × 25.5 cm Disassembled clock, pieces from a 2019 planner, hot glue waves, seashell, sequins, broken glass, acrylic paint, fishing line

Please return is about when we perceive time as relentlessly swift, washing over and overwhelming. When time feels less like an order of events and more like a mess, and nostalgia has the uncertain future pleading with the past to please return.

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aka this piece was made 6 months into the pandemic when time and The Vibees were all just mush

this was my favourite piece of mine for a long time! I got new fav pieces nowadays but I still think he's pretty cool

Wip photos:

Starting point; looking for inspiration in my random materials bin and found an old planner from 2019:

Clock disassembly:

Painting and glueing pieces of the planner+shells/sequins:

Adding ocean waves out of hot glue! this was something I figured out a long time ago like a year before I made this piece; I was hot gluing two pieces of cardboard for something else but then was like uhhh nope nevermind and tried to rip the cardboard apart again. I was like woahh the 'ripped apart' hot glue looks like ocean waves... So I kept that in my back pocket and tadaah in this piece I got to use my fun lil technique c:

I do wish I hadn't used fishing line to attach the clock hands though lol; conceptually I was like ah its hanging precariously thats why I don't want to like glue a lil stand to the back of it so it sticks out. But. I think it just looks bad lol it's too visible while trying to be invisible haha

Here's how I wrote about this piece back in 2020 for my ib art class:

After spending 6 months in a pandemic, the boundaries of time were blurring even more than usual. I was trying to come to terms with my last year of highschool, my unstable-looking future, and what felt like the ending of the world all happening simultaneously. I found an unused 2019 planner I kept, inspiring me to use it. I also wanted to experiment with an unintentional discovery I made in 2018: pressing hot glue between two surfaces and pulling them apart quickly makes the glue look like ocean waves. The sea resembles a crescent moon and the shore, the sun. Broken seashells and glass symbolize struggles, and whole seashells and sequins symbolize successes in everyday life. I love putting unassuming phrases into different contexts to create a greater impact, so I used a part of the planner’s “please return to” message on its front page. I suspended the clock hands above the painting to represent time on a grander scale, never to be fully understood by the smallness of human life.

another description I wrote of it in 2020:

This piece is about losing memories with the passage of time and its blurry boundaries. The sea resembles a crescent moon and the shore, the sun. Broken seashells and glass symbolize struggles, and whole seashells and sequins symbolize successes in everyday life. I suspended the clock hands above the painting to represent time on a grander scale, never to be fully understood by the smallness of human life.

[desi-yearning]

Travis Head wowwwwwwwwwww hattrick fours!!!!!!!

[saspas-corner]

Time for revolution, bois.

[egophiliac]

immediately had to drop everything to draw this in a fugue of utter delight. I'm SO glad that 1) at least one character does, in fact, sleep in full-on Scrooge cosplay, complete with the little pompom on his hat, and 2) of course it's Rook. of course it is.

[mike-png]

Pre-vampirism Armand/Arun

[tothecrucifieddeer]

I don't believe I was ever human. Ever since I was small I knew something was different--electric in my skin and in my wriggling wire bones. But you, you were human once.

I can tell. In the timbre of your voice. I can hear it.

[supertaliart]

Still siblings, after everything.

This is the last page I had planned for this story! I might add some extra goofy bits to it later.

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[evercelle]

[mimefish]

nevermind everyone winner's symbolism cancelled. we cannot have another scar earth/mercury/comet situation again. I vote we all lay down our weapons and join hands in peace and accept that the one true symbol for Joel is the Car. wherever he goes whatever flavour of symbols you particularly enjoy. Car. Just Car. Because it would be really funny