#flesher

[gladoswantscake]

Throwback to when I discovered FG’s level editor 3 years ago (part 8)

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran, DJ Flesher, 2024

[idiotcoward]

Flesher - Tales of Grotesque Demise

I’ve tried to post this review like four times but my internets been out all day. I believe this should work now though.

So let’s just start with, I think there are three primary schools of death metal or styles that most bands have different levels of influence of: technical, melodic, and brutal. Obviously there are other influences to the genre. Progressive Death, slam metal, dissonant, deathcore, but to some extent you could describe those as combinations of, or specific expressions of, what to me are the prime three. For example, Cannibal Corpse’s album “The Bleeding” feels like a primarily brutal album, but with melodic flourishes, while most of Suffocation’s or Gorguts works are more technical while still having brutal influences.

This album… well… to me it’s just brutal. Now that’s not a bad thing, there are loads of Brutal Death Metal albums that don’t lean into melodic or technical stylistic choices, but in the case of Flesher, it didn’t feel like they had much that stood out to me other then being able to successfully produce death metal. It’s well produced, the riffs are chugging and intense, but I felt myself wanting more. Feeling like there’s nothing that stood out to me. Nothing that made the bands personality or individual identity or message stand out. Felt like brutal death metal, and I love brutal death metal, but there are other bands that just have that Je ne sais pas, That pizazz that makes them special.

What do you think? Am I insane and totally misinformed here? Or does this make sense to you?

[sbdm666]

Wisconsin

[emeraldcity1900]

the history of animation in a nutshell

Early 1900s: hey what if comic strips could like move?

Late 1910s early 1920s hey what if we mashed this up with live action people?

late 1920s: hey what if this thing had sound?

Early to mid 1930s: hey what if this had people actually talking and also color?

late 1930s: hey you know that super cool movie that one lady animated with paper cut out silhouettes? What if we did that with painted cells? Would people even pay to see that? Never mind it turns out the answer is yes.

1940s: ah shit most of our animators got drafted and/or hate us now cause we weren’t paying them. IT’S PROPAGANDA TIME BABY. Also haha hitler got hit with a mallet and also the most racist depictions of Japanese people ever.

1950s to 1960s : oh what’s this newfangled thing? Television? What if you could air cartoons on it? Oh fuck no I ain’t paying that much to get the charecters to have different backgrounds and for the charecters to like, move fluidly. Also manga and anime are steadily growing more popular.

1970s: (Ralph Bakshi walks into a comics store and finds a furry comic) X rated animated movie? *cue the screams of mothers and their unsuspecting children now being introduced to the revolutionary idea that cartoons don’t equal kids stuff? WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?

1980s to 1990s: we can have full on animated Broadway musicals? Wait, what do you mean animated movies can count for the Oscar’s? What do you mean now they get their own catagory because the academy still thinks their for babies? Anime and manga are taking off in the west. SWEET JESUS WHAT DRUGS ARE THE JAPANESE ON SHOWING THIS SHIT TO KIDS. But also why is it so fucking good. Maybe some of these aren’t even meant for kids? Wait We can sell toys to kids with cartoons? Wait we can actually put effort into these cartoons on television? The fuck to you mean we can animate in 3D now? What do you mean we can have well animated, well written sitcom shows like the simpsons? What do you mean you can make cartoon charecters say fuck? What drugs are creators at Nickelodeon on? Do I even want to know?

2000s: oh my god, there is this one show that I really like cause it’s really well written and genuinely funny but I can’t talk about it because it’s animated and we all know cartoons are for babies right? Oh look it’s the transformers movie, look how far CGI has evolved so we can make the transformers in a movie.

2010s: holy shit I know these shows are for kids but they’re just well written and have so much meaningful things to say about the world. Wait, it’s cool to like cartoons now? They they have fandoms for this? Fuck yeah I’m in. (Enters one of the most notoriously toxic fandoms of all time) THEY HAVE GAY PEOPLE IN THESE SHOWS NOW? AND COMPLEX EMOTIONAL STORYTELLING? AND ADULT ANIMATED SHOWS CAN BE MORE THAN JUST SITCOMS WITH THE SAME JOKES AND STYLE? WHY IS IT THAT EVERY DISNEY CARTOON SINCE GRAVITY FALLS INCLUDE THINGS THAT GET MORE AND MORE FUCKED UP? WHY DO I FUCKING LOVE IT? WHY THE FUCK DID DISNEY DO THE OWL HOUSE DIRTY LIKE THAT?

2020s: I got this show I wanna pitch but it dosen’t fit into any box that the networks want and also I’m afraid that they’ll just randomly cancel it before I can finish the story I want to tell. Wait, I can just post the pilot on my YouTube channel, see if anybody actually likes this thing I made and just make the show independently? FUCK THE NETWORK! I AM THE NETWORK

[fuzzyghost]

[possible-streetwear]

[stilldoingthisforme]

[neechees]

I GOT A HIDE TO WORK ON LADS

[youremindmeofthebabe86]

[ffactory]

[gladoswantscake]

Throwback to when I discovered FG’s level editor 3 years ago (part 5)

[garadinervi]

James Joyce, Art direction by Katie Aldrich, Illustration by Vivienne Flesher, The Boston Globe, 1984 [AIGA Design Archives]

[barredandromeda]

I hate people who flesh

[lonely-dog-song]

i try to make fan-characters that fit into a story's universe, but i only recently realized that i could also make them fit into the story itself. like, even when i see other people draw their OCs meeting the main characters, it never ocurred to me to also do that. but now it's an extra thing to think about and it's fun!!!!!! :•)

[comparativetarot]

Four of Cups. Art by Darryl Flesher, from The Leeds Tarot Card Project.

“The 4 of cups tarot is a wounded card, it holds a heavy feeling of sadness, regret and remorse. In reverse it does also hold a feeling of hope and reflection, which is really quite a beautiful thing. These double-sided emotions are something I wanted to portray, with hard times come good, tears of both sadness and joy.”