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this month's bugs. the outrageous one at the top right is real, Austrospirachtha carrijoi, a rove beetle that parasitizes termite nests
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more moss piglet
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weezard doodle commission
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Hi ! Your art is absolutely amazing ! I've seen your incredible moss piglet has been tattooed on someone and I was wondering how to ask you permission to get one of your bug doodles tattooed as well ? The moss piglet and the magical sea snail are absolutely adorable !!
every artist is different on this but my own stance is anyone's welcome to get any of my bug doodles tattooed and i won't demand any kind of payment which would be unenforceable anyway but if you'd like to toss me a tip then that would be extremely cool
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I love the way you draw creatures and bugs so much!! 馃馃
that means so much to me because i love the way you draw creatures and bugs!! 馃悓
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i now have proof that this has been tattooed on at least one person and that makes me extremely happy
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moss piglet
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would u be willing to do a uhhhh props with the bugs for the ko-fi commissions. specifically would u be willing to draw a mafia boss spider (his name is don opilione)??
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yeah! my usual thing is $5 for a bug regular style and then you can always pay me a few bucks extra if you want like a hat or whatever on it.
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on it boss
Today is Give a Mouse a Sword Day. So you should get on that pronto
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big thank u to the folks still sending me ko-fi bug doodle requests
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HEY if you like dungeon synth, this drawing was actually a commission for a musician and the album it was for just dropped. fwiw i think the music whips ass.
(i eventually decided to give the rat a tail)
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everyone鈥檚 been having so much fun making skeksissonas i had to join in. skekUrg the sommelier and skekAk the chef.
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what are your favorite "wuxia-adjacent" kung fu movies?
hm okay so i started compiling a list but once it got to almost 50 films i realized that i was doing that thing again where i get too excited about recommending shit and go way overboard, plus i was starting to split hairs as to what counts as wuxia and i hate getting fussy about genre delimitations. so instead i'm going to just recommend three films that feel wuxia-adjacent to me and that i particularly love. in this case i'm thinking of movies that contain gravity-defying martial prowess and larger than life characters and stories, but aren't full-on Ti Lung in a big robe flying around on wires chopping up 500 dudes style wuxia--which obviously i also love but i'm sticking to the question's parameters here.
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The 8 Diagram Pole聽Fighter - this and the next film were both directed and choreographed by Lau Kar-leung, who for my money is probably the greatest martial arts director of all time, or at least in very close competition with Yuen Woo-ping. the fights are great, every single character in this film is at an 11 on the intensity meter the whole time, and the final setpiece in this is one of the most insane things ever put to film.
Dirty Ho - most comedy in martial arts films is tolerable at best and excruciating more often than not. this has probably the best gag hit-rate of any kung fu comedy i've seen, and also has some of the all time greatest scenes of dudes having deadly martial arts duels while pretending to not fight, which is a favorite of mine. also like the last film this stars Gordon Liu who fucking rules.
Crippled Avengers - had to include a Venom Mob film in here. directed by Chang Cheh, the king of old school Shaw Bros gorefests, this one has a perfect mix of absurd bloody violence, superhuman stunts, and roiling homoerotic tension. i could just as easily recommend Five Element Ninjas which is also a classic Cheh/Venom Mob bloodbath but if i had to choose just one i'd have to go with this.
anyone who's into classic martial arts cinema is likely already very familiar with these films but while i considered going for some deeper cuts, these were the ones that really kickstarted my own journey into the glorious world of Shaw Bros martial arts films and are thus very close to my heart.
while i'm at it, i am going to include a bonus recommendation for what assuredly counts as just a straight up wuxia but it's an all-timer: Duel to the Death. at one point in this film there's a giant ninja that explodes into a bunch of regular sized ninjas. another time a guy's head gets cut off, delivers a monologue, and explodes. perfect film. i love movies.
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Demon core Arby Form-link Vignette!!
Arby is a character of @bowelflies/@bowelfly. Version without radiation noise below
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i absolutely love old 60s-80s wuxia movies and have watched probably close to a hundred of them just in the last year, especially if you include some of the more wuxia-adjacent kung fu films of the era, but without question my favorite wuxia subgenre is the string of films made mostly in the 80s plus a few from the late 70s and early 90s when hong kong and taiwan movie studios started to get really weird and high concept in an effort to stand out and were churning out all kinds of movies about wizards having laser battles and shit, but since computer graphics weren't really a big thing yet everything had to be done either with practical effects or just hand-drawing the effects on the film.
i say this without an ounce of irony or condescension. there is absolutely nothing "so bad it's good" about these movies. they genuinely fucking whip ass and the amount of effort and artistry put into such weird and wild concepts is mind-blowing, especially considering many of them were made to be practically disposable and some of them only survived to today by the grace of someone happening to save the original negative or just an intact 35mm print from being tossed in a dumpster.
to that end i've been compiling a list of films in this my most beloved of genres and if you love wizard shit then you really owe it to yourself to track some of these down and give them a watch:
EDIT: forgot to mention that many of these you can find on public torrent servers like rarbg and there's a surprising number just on archive.org and youtube. but also if you can spare the cash, many excellent old hong kong movies are starting to get really nice physical media releases from boutique DVD and blu-ray distribution companies
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