#concepts

[philosophybits]

What I give is the morphology of the use of an expression. I show that it has kinds of uses of which you had not dreamed. In philosophy one feels forced to look at a concept in a certain way. What I do is suggest, or even invent, other ways of looking at it. I suggest possibilities of which you had not previously thought. You thought that there was one possibility, or only two at most. But I made you think of others. Furthermore, I made you see that it was absurd to expect the concept to conform to those narrow possibilities. Thus your mental cramp is relieved, and you are free to look around the field of use of the expression and to describe the different kinds of uses of it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, in Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir, by Norman Malcolm

[nictelsm]

What I think the Midnight Crew would sound like.

Honestly, Voxus Clubs Deuce didn't really fit his dwarfism and Hearts Boxcars from the same dub didn't have the "coarse accent" as described somewhere in the comic.

[prokopetz]

One of those goofy maid animes, except the viewpoint character isn't the hapless master or mistress of the house, but a regular-ass janitor who ended up on this crew due to a paperwork mixup at the temp agency and can't figure out what the fuck is wrong with her co-workers.

[rainbow-taishi]

Silly concept:

Imagine an isekai language learning app about a character who uses multilingual phrases as spells to fight off evil forces but got their abilities sealed so you as the player (as them) have to 're-learn' it by retracing your journey across different regions 😂

[scaphismpriest]

killa 007n7 and his little imp

[paradoxbeta]

iterator

[millissaaa]

Operetta Phantom 🕷️🥀

[boomerdangs]

[PART 1] What if: The Amazing Digital Circus X Gravity Falls?

OKAY— so i loved the new episode ofTADC and what kinda person would I be if I didn't mash up my two interests with some friends? Thank u @samo-nkey and @biggielean for the yap session on these guys! They came up with most of the ideas for this lil silly fest, I was just autistically staring the whole time drawing these up

Next up I wanna do Stanley and Dipper! And eventually get up to Fiddleford. If y'all like this enough, I might go over more my thoughts and draw a lil on how this lil au would go in my head

Part 2: Stanley & Dipper

Part 3: Fiddleford McGucket

[COMMISSIONS OPEN]

[ddarker-dreams]

recently, yan anaxa's been pestering you for a date. he went so far as to write a thirty page report on the alleged benefits. somehow, he included quantitative and qualitative data, although you have your suspicions about bias in his sampling.

in a desperate bid to be rid of him, you issued a challenge: you'd go on a date if he could create a new color. he went quiet, mulling over your proposition, before accepting and slinking off. in the days that followed, you celebrated your cunning. he'd been so occupied with fulfilling your impossible task that he had no time to bother you.

just as you were getting acclimated to living a normal life again, there's an incessant knock at your door. opening it reveals one very self-satisfied anaxa. from behind his back, he procures a flask, wherein an unknown tonic sloshes around.

he created a hue outside of the color spectrum.

[snippit-crickit]

hmmmmm i had wondered recently how i would go about designing an anomaly which do not wants to be perceived

it is on a spectrum,,,,, Normally people cant see it but those who can see it as a sort of tiger but pinpointing exactly how it looks like is impossible because its appearance is different every panel/scene and shifts,,, what it does is that it eats memories of people and erases the people that they consumed from the memories of other people, so its like they never existed at all (and it ate Banksy) (wait who's Banksy??)

agentlady/corrine can see it because its her personal torment and felix/moustache guy can see it because he just sees things other people dont

i think she somehow got manipulated by it into helping it and is trying to fix her mistake and catch it before it hurts more people? Also a callback to the blackroom comic because why not

i think the perspective of being forgotten might be double scary for artists???its their gist afterall thankyou for coming to my tedtalk im just freestyling over here i love drawing concepts!!!

[disease]

[unnameablethings]

concept:

supervillain × henchman with the twist that the supervillain is a sort of cartoon foppish dramatic gay villain with gonzo schemes and no bodycount. and the henchman is secretly a grimdark ultrapowerful Apex Predator supervilllain who came to Stake Out the competition. got mistaken for a henchman and found this so fucking funny hes just 100% committed to the bit.

hes carrying around boxes of fucking Acme Corporation sticks of dynamite. hes dressing in the matching stylish outfit. hes managing the other henchmen to execute gonzo schemes flawlessly. genuinely the most fun hes ever had in his life

his dumbass gay boss has literally no idea the lengths he is going to behind the scenes to make sure nobody interferes with any of this shit.

(apex supervillain, in his Supervillain Disguise. homoerotically and terrifyingly flirt/threatens flamboyant supervillain. smash cut to this poor man lying face down on a couch unpacking this with the very attentive henchman)

("hes going to eat me maybe????? but GOD that was the HOTTEST fucking thing thats ever happened to me. but i might DIE?? do u think he LIKES me...."

henchman: i think he does :3)

the ruse comes out when someone who the apex supervillain didnt catch comes to ACTUALLY challenge/harm his gay boss in public and apex supervillain is like. yeah no we're not doing this. time for the power of unfathomable violence.

gay supervillain promptly has a FULL MELTDOWN. oh my god the blood. and also. "you LIED TO ME???"

apex supervillain, apologetically: "I was waiting to see if you'd ever figure it out yourself. And the longer it went the funnier it got."

gay supervillain: "I TRUSTED you!! you were my BEST HENCHMAN"

apex supervillain: aw. past tense?

[incognitopolls]

For example:

if someone says an object weighs 10 pounds, do you have a sense of how heavy that is?

If someone says an area is 2ft by 8ft, do you have a sense of how big that is?

If someone says they're 3 miles away, do you have a sense of how long it will take them to arrive?

If someone asks how many people were at an event, can you easily estimate a number?

(Or whatever units you're most accustomed to. Assume the person asking the question uses the units you're used to.)

Anon is autistic and struggles with this, and they assume it's related.

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[prokopetz]

Video game which initially appears to be, and is promoted as, a cozy small-town life sim, but after about ninety minutes the town gets firebombed, all of the quirky NPCs you've been building relationship hearts with die, and the mechanics shift completely to a Pathologic style survival sim. If anyone complains to the developer, they simply mildly point out that it was clearly marketed as "Ghibli inspired".

[bloomingsalma]

our home should have colours and flowers. daisy sims hilditch / christine atkins / stephen darbishire / marie-louise roosevelt pierrepont