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"The sands are shifting" Art by: Avery

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Guess who listen to fool gold sands

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he couldve been one of the greats @dingodoodles

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Lackadaisy!😹🎻✨

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I don’t know many people on this site. But you are all loved. More than you know

online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

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Every Rocky wallpaper I’ve done in order

(Idk what to post and I don’t wanna fall off)

(BTW, ya should check my pinned post out)

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I drew this for the 1 year anniversary of the Lackadaisy pilot, but wasn't able to finish this until now!

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How come you guys decided to steer away from an electro swing soundtrack for Lackadaisy? I love electro swing but I'm sure whatever's cooking is going to be fantastic!

Rocky was getting pretty out of breath with the wubdub and beat drops. Doing all of those by mouth is harsh on the lungs, donchya know?

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the history of animation in a nutshell

Early 1900s: hey what if comic strips could like move?

Late 1910s early 1920s hey what if we mashed this up with live action people?

late 1920s: hey what if this thing had sound?

Early to mid 1930s: hey what if this had people actually talking and also color?

late 1930s: hey you know that super cool movie that one lady animated with paper cut out silhouettes? What if we did that with painted cells? Would people even pay to see that? Never mind it turns out the answer is yes.

1940s: ah shit most of our animators got drafted and/or hate us now cause we weren’t paying them. IT’S PROPAGANDA TIME BABY. Also haha hitler got hit with a mallet and also the most racist depictions of Japanese people ever.

1950s to 1960s : oh what’s this newfangled thing? Television? What if you could air cartoons on it? Oh fuck no I ain’t paying that much to get the charecters to have different backgrounds and for the charecters to like, move fluidly. Also manga and anime are steadily growing more popular.

1970s: (Ralph Bakshi walks into a comics store and finds a furry comic) X rated animated movie? *cue the screams of mothers and their unsuspecting children now being introduced to the revolutionary idea that cartoons don’t equal kids stuff? WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?

1980s to 1990s: we can have full on animated Broadway musicals? Wait, what do you mean animated movies can count for the Oscar’s? What do you mean now they get their own catagory because the academy still thinks their for babies? Anime and manga are taking off in the west. SWEET JESUS WHAT DRUGS ARE THE JAPANESE ON SHOWING THIS SHIT TO KIDS. But also why is it so fucking good. Maybe some of these aren’t even meant for kids? Wait We can sell toys to kids with cartoons? Wait we can actually put effort into these cartoons on television? The fuck to you mean we can animate in 3D now? What do you mean we can have well animated, well written sitcom shows like the simpsons? What do you mean you can make cartoon charecters say fuck? What drugs are creators at Nickelodeon on? Do I even want to know?

2000s: oh my god, there is this one show that I really like cause it’s really well written and genuinely funny but I can’t talk about it because it’s animated and we all know cartoons are for babies right? Oh look it’s the transformers movie, look how far CGI has evolved so we can make the transformers in a movie.

2010s: holy shit I know these shows are for kids but they’re just well written and have so much meaningful things to say about the world. Wait, it’s cool to like cartoons now? They they have fandoms for this? Fuck yeah I’m in. (Enters one of the most notoriously toxic fandoms of all time) THEY HAVE GAY PEOPLE IN THESE SHOWS NOW? AND COMPLEX EMOTIONAL STORYTELLING? AND ADULT ANIMATED SHOWS CAN BE MORE THAN JUST SITCOMS WITH THE SAME JOKES AND STYLE? WHY IS IT THAT EVERY DISNEY CARTOON SINCE GRAVITY FALLS INCLUDE THINGS THAT GET MORE AND MORE FUCKED UP? WHY DO I FUCKING LOVE IT? WHY THE FUCK DID DISNEY DO THE OWL HOUSE DIRTY LIKE THAT?

2020s: I got this show I wanna pitch but it dosen’t fit into any box that the networks want and also I’m afraid that they’ll just randomly cancel it before I can finish the story I want to tell. Wait, I can just post the pilot on my YouTube channel, see if anybody actually likes this thing I made and just make the show independently? FUCK THE NETWORK! I AM THE NETWORK

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I’ve been meaning to make art for this show for SO LONG

Saw a talk put on by Tracy Butler and Fable Siegel and it was like my love came back full force

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Oh lord, here she comes. The deadly lady of the Rip Sands. ✨Neera ✨

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Redrew the first rocky drawing i ever drew!!! Horray!!!

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Question?

After Fools Gold are we getting a Sands animated series? Just asking for funsies.

Afraid not. I think after the OG fool's Gold series is done, I'm gonna take a break. I want to get into the animation industry and make a show for real. But atm the industry is destroying it's self, so I'm staying away lol. I mean it would be awesome if either: 1) Original Fool's Gold got turned into a fully animated series like Vox machina (There would be such cool actions scenes, I tell you what!) OR 2) Sands becomes a fully animated show I don't wanna stop making shows but I don't think I will animate Sands. Also because with a podcast the story is already being told. The fun thing about animating a campaign is it's new and exciting for me to work on. Plus no one knows what's gonna happen which fuels my excitement! I feel Sands will already feel done by the time we're finished publishing. I could see it maybe become a comic one day? But that's another conversation for another day haha. Thanks for the question! >:3

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Can we expect more of Asa in the first season of our favorite boozecats? I just love that cheeky bastard way too much 😭

Well we tried to stop Jason Marnocha from giving us more, but he was already half-way into the booth and wouldn't let go of the microphone.

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"I hope he's not dead."

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Since we've seen Serafine, can we request also seeing Nico in your style?

I don't see why not :)) Here!

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O, Gather Me the Rose

O, gather me the rose, the rose, While yet in flower we find it, For summer smiles, but summer goes, And winter waits behind it!

For with the dream foregone, foregone, The deed forborne for ever, The worm, regret, will canker on, And time will turn him never.

So well it were to love, my love, And cheat of any laughter The death beneath us and above, The dark before and after.

The myrtle and the rose, the rose, The sunshine and the swallow, The dream that comes, the wish that goes, The memories that follow!

- William Ernest Henley, 1849–1903