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ASSORTED THOUGHTS ON THERMODYNAMICS multi-color linocut tetraptych process under the cut

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i've got my eye on him

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The original 'virgin vs chad' meme

I feel like everyone is sick of those stupid soyjack vs Chad "my opinion is good and based and correct, your opinion bad and wrong and stinky" memes by this point, as they're some of the lowest forms of current internet 'humor.' But precisely because those memes are so bad and also everywhere, I feel it's worth giving some credit to the fact that the original "The Virgin Walk / The Chad Stride" was actually a brilliant meme.

"The Virgin Walk" image showed up first, and it was standard 4chan stuff - which is to say, highly negative. Just a whole bunch of random small traits that people can have, bundled together in an accusatory way to try and make people insecure about them having "virgin" posture, by the kind of people who genuinely worries about being an "alpha male" (Or possibly pointing out their own flaws as a form of self-hatred, flip a coin when it comes to 4chan)

And then, on another thread, someone made the Chad Stride edit to go along with it.

It's a great piece of satire by how simple it is. Just by taking the traits listed in the original image, then inverting and exaggerating them, the result is an absurd caricature of a man who does not (and should not) exist. Through exaggeration, it demonstrates how the people who constantly worry about seeming 'Chad-like' are chasing after behaviour that is utterly unhinged and disconnected from reality.

I think this gif demonstrates it perfectly by putting it in motion:

Virgin is a normal, if insecure dude. Chad is an absolute fucking maniac. (Not to mention all the references to violence in the image)

So, while it did degrade into those awful soyjak memes we all know and hate because that is the nature of the internet, I feel like it's worth remembering that in the original image that spawned this entire trend, you're supposed to laugh at Chad. You shouldn't want to be Chad, because he's the menace to society [ credit to the gif's creator: https://x.com/art_miguelito/status/1107313740033212417 ; thanks to @softwaring for linking it ]

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just two friends exploring the lakes prints ✦ patreon    

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Barn swallow feeding on mayflies, and being fed on by louse flies.

Recipe-notebook design for my friend.

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Process vid of this piece.

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Music track: Tension Rising by Aylex

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of course i've been playing nightreign, and of course my fav character is revenant, so in classic elden ring fan fashion, of course i had to do some fanart for her <3 (this took a reaaaallllyyyy long time loool i went waaaay to hard with the background)

i absolutely adore her, and she is my fav to play as; i only have 2 more bosses to beat!!!! :OOOO

(her darkness outfit is also so fricken pretty)

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welcome home revenant nightreign

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interview with angelocaris

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Blaghaargghagaa with mama

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wave shapes / print

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when you see your level 2 teammates trying to throw hands with bell bearing hunter in the castle basement

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not of the flesh life in my head where do we go? i could be next

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looked a cool artist i found and instead of her actual art the first result google showed me was AI art made with her work. i hate it here!!!!!!!