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my endpaper illustrations for the Illumicrate editions of Song of the Lioness ✨

one of my favourite childhood series, it was such a dream to work on these!!

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self discipline is so hard like. i know the sucker who's in charge...a pushover who hates authority and loves hedonism

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i think deciding to love someone continually is like reading the same book again, but each time finding a different line that hits deep and makes you think about something you didn't realize before. and you decide to read it again and again, knowing you'll never get enough of it, knowing you'll always find something new about them to love.

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we are all sinners

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Since we keep getting "live action" CGI remakes of already perfectly adequate animated movies, and because people need to understand that animation is a medium and not a genre, I have prepared this primer about the importance of Visual Language for Conveying Information.

Can you tell what the personalities of these two mice are?

Can you tell now?

Which of these two tigers feels safer to be around?

Which of these three dogs is the funniest one?

If you can answer these questions, then you already have experience with the idea of visual language and stylistic choices being used to impart narrative meaning. If you can understand why these choices were made to impart meaning, then you can understand why animation is a medium for telling stories that has its own inherent value, and is not merely a "placeholder" for the eventual implementation of photorealistic presentation (aka "Live Action" CGI). Animation does not need to be "corrected" or "legitimized" by remaking it into the most representational simulation of observable reality.

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thinking about that time my mom ordered a bottle of vitamins online and they arrived with the tamper seal broken and she was going to just take them anyway and in desperation i had to bust out the “you know they never solved the chicago tylenol murders” to get her to mail them back

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Not the Tlaib-Greene caucus joining hands again

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big beautiful world full of books i haven’t read

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the choctaw vampire hunters in sinners, photographed by eli joshua adé, smpsp.

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Red Flower, Sequim WA 2016

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so it turns out that time actually does go by faster as you get older. just like how adults told me it would when i was younger. pisses me off

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Magneto was Right, X-Men: The Last Stand

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Oops it me

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i could get so much done in a day if i didnt decide my day was over at 4 pm. too bad theres no solution oh well