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Koji Morimoto’s opening animation for Dirty Pair: Project Eden (1987)

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“Big Fish & Begonia” animated feature film by B&T Studios and Studio Mir (Legend of Korra) will be released this summer in China.

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Realized I can post some of my concept art for the Fable Legends heroes since The Art of Fable Legends came out late last year!  This is my development work for Glory, the evil-queen-to-be – she was the first character I ended up working on, so I owe a lot to Mike and the lovely Sarah Morris for helping me Fable-ify my shape language. :)

This stuff is probably 2-3 years old at this point, but what the hell!  I still kinda love it.

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“Okay, three, two, one, let’s jam.”

For Accompaniment

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CLOD CLUB

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Les Cités Obscures by François Schuiten

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A reddit user received this in the mail with a note from the USPS, that said “The carrier who services your route was involved in a Industrial or Motor Vehicle incident. Due to the incident your mail came in contact with blood” (Source)

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ok but why is ‘potato’ always used negatively in phrases? ‘couch potato’ and ‘he looks like a potato’……… what the hell have potatoes ever done to you? potatos are the mvps of the food world, the backbone of many dishes. they never let u down. potatoes are the real winners here and we should feel honoured to be described as one

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Amita is a vicious child of the North who has forsaken her home and taken up arms against Kyrat. Allied with Sabal, she forms the lumbering two-headed elephant at the head of the Golden Path. Considered armed and dangerous.

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my hobbies include being overly polite to service staff and pissing off bratty children

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Matt Murdock + Favorite Outfits

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That post you reblogged is shitty though because it is important to acknowledge if ship dynamics are abusive or unhealthy because not everyone in fandom is an adult who can tell the difference.

Oh FFS.

I’m probably going to regret this when I’m more awake and haven’t been sitting in the ER for three hours but you caught me in a fighting mood, so. It is what it is.

I’ve been lowkey annoyed at this attitude that seems to be taking over fandom for a while, and this is just the straw that broke it. If you think it’s important to deconstruct the relationship critically and examine why it’s a flawed relationship and/or an abusive dynamic, knock yourself out. That is your perogative as a participant in fandom and I’m sure there are plenty of people that would love to read your meta. But at the point you start coming at other people about how they consume and enjoy media, you’ve crossed the line from litcrit into concern trolling.

It is not my job to protect people from the content of the media or the internet. I am not their mommy. If you consume something that makes you uncomfortable, then sure, talk about what made you uncomfortable. But don’t come in my inbox and tell me I have a responsibility to put up disclaimers beyond tagging my work. As a fandom author, your ONLY responsibility is to make sure the work you’re posting belongs to you and that you tag it accurately so readers know what they’re getting into (CNTW included). If a reader wants to talk to me directly about how something I wrote is not working for them or makes them uncomfortable or triggers them and needs a warning, that’s fine and I welcome it.

But it’s not okay to come up on someone and tell them it’s their responsibility to dissect what they enjoy as escapism. If you want to do that it’s on you. Personally, as someone who enjoys the fascinating and complicated depiction of dysfunctional relationships IN FICTION, I don’t want to take the time to do that. Fandom is the arena I come into to escape having to be on point about real world issues. It’s not the place I want to spend time examining social justice issues, because I do enough of that IRL.

And on an unrelated but equally annoying note, nobody has to disclose their personal trauma or history for fandom to decide they’re “allowed” to write about certain things. It’s super fucking rude to either assume something about a person’s background or, worse, ASK them about it (because wow no, if someone wants to talk to you that’s one thing but asking is fucking invasive and it’s not any of your damn business).

So yeah, talk all you want in your own meta on your own blog about how you dislike XYZ ship for whatever reason, but it’s nobody’s responsibility but yours to police what you consume and make sure it’s “problem free.”

Hell, half the ships I really enjoy, the dysfunction is WHY I enjoy it, because conflict is what creates compelling narratives. I don’t need to be informed about the dysfunction, and I definitely don’t need to slap up giant disclaimers about it. Read tags, avoid things you don’t want to read, and stop lambasting writers or artists who ship things you don’t like. It’s not your damn business.

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Casanova: Décors et Costumes par George Barbier (1921) collection of costumes and sets by George Barbier for Maurice Rostand’s La vie amoureuse de Casanova, with 24 full-page line cuts in his characteristic Art Deco style. colored en pochoir by Jacomet.

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Just 1 week left before the pre-orders for The Art of Loish ship out! You can still pre-order one now at this link and then your book will be sent out with the first batch next monday (14 March). After that you can still order it - I will make a post with links and info about that!

The mailing carton and card set you see here are exclusively for kickstarter backers. The book and slipcase are for anyone who orders the book! It’s 25.5 x 25.5 cm and printed on a matte, lightly textured paper, and comes with a brown kraftboard slipcase. It’s 152 pages, with about 69 pages containing new or never-before-seen material, 8 new digital paintings and 24 pages of tutorials and tips.