#dr. c

[chimerabal]

I bought highlighters for them (the 'sonas).

[rubyceazaart]

Bunch of ocs i drew together for a Reason but it turned out like a sitcom

[fungsly]

Sillies

[theredqueenandthebloodwyrm]

Visible Depictions of Faith

This is just me quoting favorite lines from the episode "Visible Depictions of Faith" with Nav the Poet and Rabbi Lenette, from the podcast Office Hours with Dr. C.

Sidenote: I WILL be paraphrasing, because I dunno where to find transcripts for the podcast, though I'll try and keep everything as close as possible to what's been said, just cutting things to keep it concise.

"There's a member of the X-Men who's canonically Muslim, Dust, she's Afghani..." (Sooraya Qadir is her name, Dust is her superhero name, she's awesome and badass) "And she checks that box, of we don't need any more" (referring to characters who are muslim/other faiths/from south asian/central asia/ or what's called the "Middle East") "We've got half a dozen white mutants from New York". - Dr. C

(pfft he ain't wrong, love Dr. C)

"In western media, the general stereotypes of South Asian men, background characters at a gas station, or a taxi driver, it's usually a guy in a turban" - Nav the Poet

"I remember in Wonder Woman (the movie), and I appreciate it because it's historically accurate, in the background were a couple of Sikh soldiers, cause hundreds of thousands of Sikhs served in the British army. Someone recognized that and put that in, it was still a background character in a two second thing." - Nav the Poet

[fellinesca]

Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)

[fredseibertdotcom]

“We started out to make a record, and ended up with a band.” The saga of Dr. C. Or, the end of my fantasies of my pop recording career.

Well, not exactly. The appropriate quote should have been, “We started out to make a film, and ended up with a band.” And, in my case, pretty much the end of the idea that I would become a pop music producer.

My friend, partner and brother-in-law to be, Alan Goodman, was in film school at Columbia in New York, and sometime in 1976, one of his professors was making a short film. It was about... well, it doesn’t really matter. But the star, a character called “Dr. C”, was played by pianist/singer Rusty Cloud. The doctor had a soul band and we recorded a demo that Alan asked me to produce.

Rusty Cloud, photographed by Charlie Reilly, circa 1976

I was more than eager. After a few years of recording blues and jazz musicians, I was eager for pop, my comfort zone. And soul? Yes! Rusty had written an original, the band –keyboards, bass, guitar, drums, saxophones and trumpet– was modeled after the classic Memphis powerhouse Stax Records. Rusty brought some guys, Alan and I did too (in fact, Alan played trumpet on the soundtrack).

The demo hit the right notes for me (pun intended) and right then and there we started thinking about making Dr. C a working band that might have a chance to be signed to a actual record company. My indie company, Oblivion Records, had just crashed and burned, and anyhow, I wanted to taste the real thing.

Dr. C, performing at "Home," upper East Side, Manhattan, New York, circa 1977 (L-R) Irv Waters, guitar; Cleveland Freeman, bass; Rusty Cloud, vocals & piano; unknown, trumpet; Jim Clouse, saxophone; Bruce Kapler, saxophone; David Longworth, drums

Long story short, we shuffled a few folks in the group, started playing “showcases” around town. Alan and I presaged the branding and advertising we’d do during the 80s and put together some hype materials.

Written by Alan Goodman, Designed by Mark Larson

And? Nothing. I couldn’t pull it off. At least, that’s how I looked at it. It wasn’t that we weren’t good enough, I thought, the band was great! So what if Rusty couldn’t really reach all his notes? We rocked. Soul music fronted by a white guy? Perfect! We just needed to hustle. And hustle more.

I was a decent producer. The material was decent. The hustle? In retrospect, it wasn’t me. At least the get-a-band-signed type of hustle wasn’t.

Dr. C quickly ran out of gas. My hopes for a pop recording career did too. I didn’t realize it at the time, but soon enough I was working in radio, then television, where I belonged.

PS: Not for nothing, Rusty was also a talented jazz musician and composer. I leaned on my friends and former employers, Mike Mantler and Carla Bley to give us a day in their Grog Kill Recording outside Woodstock, NY to put some of Rusty's work on tape. Frank Olinsky, who in the future would part of the design collective Manhattan Design that designed the MTV logo for me, illustrated an awesome album cover, that like Dr. C., was not to be.  

Fred Seibert

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RCQ

[roxirinart]

Style studies! Aventurine and Ratio in the style of Arcane :)

[linnytheseagull]

Here's how to spot a Mad Scientist:

Is very smart in a specific field

Probably hasn't slept in the past 4 days

Depressed

Slowly decends into madness/spirals/gets obsessed over something to the point where they destroy their lives over it

Here are other minor signs you might want to look out for (doesn't apply to all Mad Scientist):

Very pathetic. A loser, if you will

Is gay

Wears glasses

Has a best friend who is extremely friendly and also a poet

Graying hair despite their relatively youthful appearance

Can be a little bit silly (as a treat)

Note that not all Mad Scientists are actual scientists. The Mad Scientist can be disguised as something else and may try to trick you; do not be fooled. Look for these traits to identify a real wild Mad Scientist.

Now you are ready to go out into the wild and find your very own Mad Scientists to hyperfixate on for the next month! Hope this helped❤️

[vaguely-concerned]

thinking about not only the specific people lucanis pulls in to represent the 'locks' in his psyche, but the storytelling that happens in the structure/order of them. the underlying ideas are presented something like:

the lucanis who went into the ossuary never came back out again; he died down there (the boy caterina raised is gone forever) -> you're putting yourself in danger doing this (by being close to me), you should leave because I can't bear it if you get hurt because of me -> it doesn't matter even if we do try this, it won't work anyway (again because of me) ('you know what he's like, you can open the door but he won't walk through it' :'( oofie doofie) -> what if the real secret is that there was never anything but the monster in here from the beginning. you should leave, there was never anything here worth saving in the first place. (implicitly: what if I deserved what happened, all along.)

it runs pretty cleanly from outward-oriented attachment anxiety ('caterina won't even want me back like this, she won't recognize me (the same way I no longer recognize myself)) and gradually deeper inwards until we reach self-image and self worth. or you know, the harrowing basic lack of it lol.

"careful -- they'll know we're not right," spite says in one of their first scenes... but clearly, some very deep part of lucanis has feared or suspected for much longer than that that there's something inherently not right at the core of him, way before any demon entered the picture. and the voice he gives those lines to is the person who should know him better than anyone in the world, who he has loved more than anyone in the world -- and who deliberately chose to hurt him so horrifically anyway. 'It's better if I'm just a monster and deserved what happened than it is to allow for the idea that the brother I love doesn't really exist and maybe never did'. it's better if he's fundamentally flawed in some way that needed fixing to help him survive, and that's why caterina chose to hurt him again and again -- out of love. (this one I think he might have a very sad wakeup call on one day if he ever ends up with the responsibility and care of a child of his own in some way and realizes just how alien the idea of ever intentionally hurting them for any reason is to him. oh buddy. also interesting that he keeps caterina as the outermost lock -- there IS a distance he keeps there that he hasn't with illario. he doesn't resent her 'anymore' he says, but he also keeps her carefully further away from his deepest self.)

as far as I could tell the only note in the mind prison that's fully hidden and needs to be uncovered is the sad painful helpless stupid little truth that even after all this, even knowing what happened... he still loves his brother. is there anything illario could ever do that would make lucanis completely stop loving him, do you think? sometimes the trouble with unconditional love is that it is, well. unconditional, even when some terms and conditions probably would have been in order haha.

that's the pattern you see there again and again; he would rather destroy and abandon and imprison himself at every turn than let go of love, even when it's just scraps, even when there's only ever enough of it to hurt him. it's only when rook shows up and as it were takes his hand and walks along with him that he can entertain the idea of changing the story of what walking out the door might mean in the end.

[aq2003]

ten and martha in flatline, i hope everyone sees the vision [x]

[chimerabal]

for any of you that follow my main and was like I Wish To See The Similar Mad Science Design- found it! Added a colored animal crossing ver. of my ✨FURSONA✨ as proof of colors bc they're the same.

Shes a smilodon :)

[rubyceazaart]

Also I've complied all my recent refs for my silly oc crossover idea into a nice clean group pic version of this. This one looks better, but unfortunately doesn't have the cute characters interactions as the previous. At least it looks nice!

[aueua]

love these guys. the musical chairs

[derangedrhythms]

[…] sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in […]

Jane Austen, from 'Sense and Sensibility'

[beckyblah]

[biscylbenzene]

vent art about my crippling mad scientist addiction