Jaune: I... I don't know. It felt like years, maybe even decades.
Weiss: Did you see anything connected to your past traumas?
Jaune: Actually, yeah. My whole childhood of neglect, my youth of wartime indoctrination, all leading me back to the source of my unfettered rage. After enough time, I was able to channel is and then replace it with something new.
Ruby: What did you replace it with? Peace? Tranquility?
Jaune: Nope! Righteous indignation! Now, let's break this fucking tree and whoever is keeping us here!
Hey if you're bored on YouTube, check out Drue Langlois animation. It's funny, surreal, and just. The artstyle is nostalgic and charming and the characters he creates are all rly original and interesting and tbh I really wish more people on here would watch dudes of hazmat bc it's fun and fucking weird. His series "staying positive in the apocalypse" is also a gem.
In which a foolish youth is spirited away into the marsh, and is saved at the last minute by a princess from a faraway land.
To celebrate, Here's the first of my character portraits: Anekh, a foolish youth.
By complete accident he looks exactly like my brother if my brother was an ancient Egyptian noble (sorry Nate 😂)
Anekh is dressed like royalty from the New Kingdom Period. He's wearing a pleated linen shendyt skirt, a broad-collar with gold, turquoise, and lapis lazuli beads, a headband, and his mother's cylindar seal - for making signatures on clay.
(For my history-enjoyers, cylindar seals were more prominant in Mesopotamia, where writing was impressed into clay. Anekh is wearing that seal because Tepwat Manu's setting reflects the 10 years of Esharhaddon's conquest of Egypt during the Late period. During that time, Egypt was controlled by the Assyrian empire, who imported Mesopotamian culture (and people) en masse.)
Anekh's head is shaved except for the sidelock of youth above his right ear. Historically, this style was reserved only for the children of Pharaohs, the legitimate heirs to Osiris, but in my story, its is just rich-people fashion.
Anekh hasn't ever had to work in his life, and now he's due for a rude awakening from the world.
Poor bastard.
Music is Robot Tune by French class - shoutout to Drue Langlois who makes the Dudes of Hazmat on Youtube - I got this song from the toxic waste chase, which kicks ass.
On this weeks show I am talking about some of my favorite YouTube channels.As well as that I’ve got a music recommendation and what I’ve been reading this week.******LINKS*******
MattttPatrick (H) Williams
Gaming Historian
Curious Archive
Drue Langlois
Josh Snares
Cheesy Studios
North of the Border
Thomas Game Docs
Jelle’s Marble Run
Techmoan
Linus Boman
Post Punk Podge and the…
Drue Langlois' series "Staying Positive in the Apocalypse" is one of my favourite animated web series.
The general format of each episode is that they introduce a special guest, do a satirical interview with the special guest and then at some point have that special guest turn out to be a terminator style robot. The hero "Plague Roach" then saves the day.
This film series reminds me of Salad Fingers in many ways, as it is set up in a post apocalyptic world with a character who often questions his sanity and constructs a delusion of the world around him.
I really like Drue's pacing and sense of humour.
The episode pacing is something I took note of because it uses a conversational slow and dry style of comedy with outbursts of physical comedy which drive the story forward and bring in new locations.
This episode is one of my favourites in the series and I think the comedy is done well. The narratives of these videos are usually pretty clear and as mentioned they often use the same structure of a robot special guest but I think that creates a lot of space for the writer to cram in a lot of jokes and refences. The delivery and visual style makes it feel very natural and casual and this is something which I want to have in my work but have struggled to achieve. I think using a simple premise more would give me a bit more freedom.
Bibliography
Staying Positive in the Apocalypse - Illusion of Lucas (2015) YouTube. Drew Langlois. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HKjN7G16NQ&t=1s (Accessed: January 21, 2023).
I'm not 100% sure why I so lovingly rendered/traced/dithered/ "hand drew clicked" Plague Roach here.
I loved the lighting and cinematography in this specific shot, and I really love his "positive no matter what" (or how little sense it makes) attitude that he is just *barely* able to keep together. Or how he's ready to beat the shit out of anyone who threatens said attitude also.
*OKAY, OKAY, I did it because he's got fucked up bottom teeth just like mine. fine.
Not sure if tumblr is going to "gray" the dither, but atkinson always transfers/scales really well.
Colectivo de artistas con base en Canadá y creado en 1996 formado por Michael Dumontier, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Drue Langlois, Jon Pylypchuk, y Adrian Williams. La obra de este colectivo se caracteriza por ser obra de dibujo y pintura a pequeña escala. Estas pequeñas obras iban generalmente acompañadas de un texto y eran de estilo aparentemente infantil. Este grupo se separó definitivamente en 2008. Solían reunirse todas las semanas para dibujar sobre un temo cada uno en su pieza y después intervenían los unos en las piezas de otros. Han expuesto principalmente alrededor de países europeos.