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Honestly, this artist is one of my favorite people. From the sense of humor on display in MGDMT to the quality of those thick, tabletty tapered lines she forms all of her extravagantly proportioned characters with, coelasquid pretty much nails where I’d like to land as an artist. Not as in I want to ape her style or make work like she does, but just the way it’s clearly developed over time and is a labor of love. Everything’s aggressive but rounded, completely unapologetic in its unique personality. I’d like to be able to say that about *my* work someday. But I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one of her characters from MGDMT move, and while I’m fully aware she’s done animation work before to see a comic character transition so fully into an animated one in just a few frames is just straight-up impressive. Anyway, I’m getting a new tablet this week and hopefully it means making more art. See you awesome peeps then.

Managed to keep my hand steady enough to do some cleanup. Fiddlin’ with the Clip Studio animation tools.

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I DO DOE

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I’ma keep this right here for future staring.

Some of my favorites in particular

Amanda Schank

Caitlyn Kurilich

Rem

Stephanie Kao

Young Kim

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I HATE when people, but especially medical professionals, mistake a caduceus of the rod of Asclepius. Say it with me now: One snake is for healers, two snakes thieves and tricksters. To be fair, Hermes would be grasping the caduceus when delivering someone to Charon at the river styx, so maybe this is actually what the sculpture’s of? Like the wavy bits are the water and that’s supposed to be a muscle-bound hermes like whoa charon back off one minute i’m not getting in your boat the drachma are for this fella behind me

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Holy FUCK this role wasn’t whitewashed and the actor isn’t crazy famous. I knew it wasn’t going to be whitewashed but this is just, like. Life-affirming. After all the book adaptations of the past ten years to get Luke Cage AND this in a single year feels, like. Awesome. Just wow. Thank you.

‘American Gods’ Casts Its Shadow: ‘The 100’ Actor Ricky Whittle to Play Lead Role in Starz TV Adaptation

“American Gods,” Starz’s TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s beloved fantasy novel, has cast Ricky Whittle in the lead role of Shadow Moon, the premium cabler announced Thursday.

The series posits a war brewing between old and new gods: the traditional gods of mythological roots from around the world steadily losing believers to an upstart pantheon of gods reflecting society’s modern love of money, technology, media, celebrity and drugs…”

Keep reading at variety

Get the “American Gods” book here 

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Maybe it’s the sedatives I’m on but this is making me motion sick. Awesome.

David Szakaly @dvdp

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....No. Those things are all unhealthy behaviors to be sure, any of which may be indicative of possible suicidal ideation. But merely wishing you weren’t in the world isn’t being suicidal. That word means something more concrete, and while it doesn’t actually mean holding a gun to your head, it means you’re in an unsafe enough state that you need to be kept from your imminent self-destruction. As in your life will end without intervention. 

Suicidal is a word that clinicians use in the context of someone’s safety; it isn’t something we can redefine because we want to draw attention to other forms of suffering. The word means a thing, and just as a fever is not a cold, you can’t say any of that other stuff is someone being suicidal. That isn’t to say their pain isn’t legitimate, or that they don’t need help. But there are only two instances in which police can detain you on claim alone; Domestic abuse and attempted suicide. Cops can’t force you into an ambulance to be taken to a hospital for observation for smoking. I appreciate what this post is trying to do; Too many people trivialize pain and too many people trivialize those who wish they weren’t around. All of the examples given require empathy, require connection; Those are behaviors that indicate someone is hurting and needs help.

But we need words like suicidal to mean what they mean. They have power, legal and clinical, and they are necessary, and this post is simply overzealous in its relativistic attempt to give more weight to those in need. It’s the old tightrope act of empathy: Folks too often rank pain, as though someone who is going to hang herself without intervention is in more legitimate pain than someone who would be grateful for cancer. And that’s idiotic; pain is pain, and it’s all legitimate and important. Nonetheless, the latter person is not suicidal. That’s not what that word means, and we don’t get to pretend otherwise to make people stop trivializing their fellow depressed humans. So I get it, but a swing and a miss. Noble, but wrong.

Being suicidal doesn't necessarily mean you're holding a gun to your head.

Sometimes, it means smoking a cigarette in the hopes that you’ll get cancer and die. Or jaywalking across the street without looking, because you don’t care if you get hit by a car. Sometimes it means having sex with a stranger, hoping you’ll get an STD and die. Or not sleeping and not eating in the hopes that the exhaustion will kill you. Or even not washing your hands in the hopes that you’ll get sick and die. Sometimes it means being cruel to the people you love or ignoring them, because if they leave you’ll have less reason to go on living. Or not setting your alarm for work, so you’ll get fired and have less of a purpose. Sometimes it means partying hard in the hopes that your liver will fail and you’ll die. Or putting yourself in dangerous and potentially painful situations, so maybe it’ll be the last straw. Being suicidal doesn’t necessarily mean trying to die. A lot of times, it means not putting any effort into living.

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Radfems are the least rad feminists. This is what we call “irony.” Not hipster irony, the real stuff. The hard stuff.

Honestly I have been blocking MRAs and "Radfems" left and right recently.

Because seeing sexist, rape apologist, homophobic, and/or transphobic shit on my dash just will not fly.

I ain’t got the energy or patience to see that shit, and I know that if I look at it for more than a fraction of a second, I’ll want to start a fight. And starting fights with bigots on the Internet is just not a smart idea.

Also, I only just learned what “Radfems” are and it drove me up a fucking wall. Feminism is about equality and inclusivity for everyone of all genders. If you knowingly misgender someone with malice or disgust in your heart, if you genuinely think you know better than that person what their gender or sexuality is, you are not a feminist. You are a bigot. Period.

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I wish they rode the T in Boston instead of the subway in NYC... I just wanna witness these events, like the wispy mane of a unicorn disappearing in to the brush.

(photo by fannyrighteous)

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Urrbuddy read dis. Tankem.

Lob-Stah pg 5

Oh look, a page of Lob-Stah came out

http://www.thesilentchord.com/comics/lob-stah

Click “Most Recent Page” to see it. Or start at page 1. That’s fine too.

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Wow. Just... Wow. Hair. Such hair.

Amandine Comte

https://www.behance.net/lartcommeunique

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can you throw it all in one folder and organize by date modified? Then you can select chunks at a time based on when you downloaded them. Likely you downloaded things you needed or thought of in groups -- i.e. man in repose, those fifteen pictures of a dude seated a particular way will be grouped together when you organize by date modified.

I have so many unsorted reference pictures on my computer I don’t even know how to begin sorting some of them *sobs*

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Accurate. So flippin accurate.

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Quick bit about Paris and Beirut.

I got home about two hours ago, and read about Paris. And Beirut. I can never really fathom how conviction can lead you to take life-- or worse, I can, and it disgusts me so much it makes me wish I were something other than human, something lacking the propensities for horror we all share. Amidst all the well-wishing and concern we all share unspoken shame. Shame about our inaction, sure, but the deeper and more meaningful shame of what we are. What we're made of. Our commonality with the horror.

Exceptional faith and murder go hand in hand so often it's de rigueur, it's boring. Hearing about this stuff hurts like empathy pain, like seeing someone burned and knowing what it is to burn, seeing someone wretch and knowing what it is to wretch. Seeing someone hate, and knowing what it is to hate, makes me ashamed to be a person, to walk in this white skin in this world of exceptional pain. I feel guilty that I walk at all.

The opportunity, I suppose, is for those who go to Paris' aid, for those in Beirut and elsewhere who find empathy and love despite the destruction to treat each other so well that it shocks in the same way. To recover so resiliently that much as we know what it is to hurt, much as we feel the hate of the angry and the violent, we also know what it is to survive. That each of us who has seen some small measure of horror, however personal, knows what it is to pass through the fire and breathe another day.

My heart, my love, my deepest hope for human survival stretch across to those continents tonight. May we inspire the world and show them all that our survival, and our capacity for forgiveness, is as great as our hatred, and our capacity for destruction.

Greater.

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yarp. go click.

Hey guys! Lob-Stah is officially live on thesilentchord.com so go look at it! #threewholepages #comics #webcomics #thesilentchord #lobstah

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Wada = Best 

Wanda and Vision

Fashionization

HeroesCon 2015 commission

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Dunno why but this made me emotional. I just don’t think I’ll ever be motivated enough to live a life I’m proud of. Too many years squandered, too many opportunities wasted, too little time left. If moping were really what I do it would be easier to pick myself up by my bootstraps, but I’ve spent so long trying to find a way to subsist and keep on livin, putting one foot in front of the other, only to realize I never got anywhere. What if I -can’t- make things happen? What if it’s not possible? I’m too limited, or not talented enough, or it’s too late. As long as I’m alive I’ve gotta try, obviously, I’m not saying I shouldn’t try. I’m saying futility is exhausting. I can’t help but feel nature gave me a way around that, nature gave me a way to not feel exhausted, to get out while the getting was good, and I didn’t take it.