A drawing of Lil’ Gruesome from the Boardwalk Empire-style alternate universe of the Wacky Races @faustiandevil and I have been concocting (him more than me now, but still)
Also a bonus rough sketch of Dick Dastardly in 20s flapper drag
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Wow Ugarte how come you get to have two cartoon characters wearing the same fit as you… who also happen to have some interesting technicolor skin tones… (Even though in the Wacky Races gangsters AU I have Lil be more grey/pale rather than purple just as to have things be a bit more grounded in reality, but I only drew him in black and white here, so it doesn’t matter anyway. Still a bit of a self-promo I have the first chapter up already on Ao3, so maybe go check it out~ Pwease~)
I just find it funny that both Yetch and Lil’ Gruesome have the same white tux, but Casablanca is probably the most widely known Lorre movie even if he only appears for like 2 minutes in the whole thing. Also this became an accidental New Yorker comic, so I had to add the famous line. Yetch is me after this week.
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April 10: Scream
Day 10 of @hinnymicrofic TW: blood!
The scream is ripped forcefully from her lungs.
“Harry!”
She can still hear the sickening crack of the bludger against his skull, watches in horror, helpless as Harry slumps over and slips off his broom, plummeting to the earth. She can see a sickening streak of red, and his head doesn’t look quite right.
It isn’t until Peakes and Coote catch him that it occurs to Ginny she could have dived, could have tried to do something other than swallow the bile in her mouth.
Ginny has always fancied herself brave, but when she flies closer she has to look away. There’s so much blood, and his head is wrong, crushed or something, and he’s limp and pale. It’s horrible. Grotesque.
She goes to the hospital wing after they lose the match, and it isn’t until he asks what happened that Ginny remembers Ron is there. It’s a good excuse, that she went there to talk to her brother; it’s what she’ll tell Dean later.
She steals glances at Harry, slowly breathing in the reassurance that his chest is rising, the color is back in his cheeks, his head is wrapped in bandages but looks like it’s been put right. It’s the right shape, anyway, not the horrible bloody mess it had been.
It isn’t until she rows with Dean later about it that she realizes most people found it comical. Slapstick. But they hadn’t seen him, they hadn’t seen the crimson red pooling in his hair, they hadn’t been close enough to hear the sharp crack of his skull. They didn’t seem to care much that Harry had looked like he was dead.
Or perhaps such a thought didn’t suck the air from their lungs and carve a jagged hole in their chest, the way it had her.
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🇯🇵Elliott's Japan Trivia Corner🇯🇵
Today we're gonna talk DISEMBOWELMENT! 😃👍
Just kidding. I'm actually going to talk more about the cultural stuff that goes around seppuku, not the actual swish-swish. (Still, CW for suicide and graphic description of death)
For those who aren't aware, seppuku (or hara-kiri) refers to the act of cutting open your stomach, then having someone behead you to shorten your suffering 👍 It was a ritual suicide practiced (mostly) by the samurai, from the Kamakura period (12th century) up until 1991. Yup, you read that right. Seppuku was officially outlawed in 19-fucking-91.
Did you know that, in the Edo era, so many samurai were doing seppuku after the death of their lord, that the government had to ban the practice for that specific case? Fun times.
🤔 So, when can you perform 🗡seppuku🗡 ?
The short answer is: any fucking time you have a problem! 🥳 Boss died? Seppuku! Disagree with landlord? Seppuku! Bowed to someone at the wrong angle and embarrassed yourself? SE-FUCKING-PPUKU!
This form of ritual suicide is meant to either avoid dishonor, or regain lost honor. And in the Edo era you lost your honor like you lost a spare sock.
👉 Originally it was mostly done by warriors in battle to avoid being captured by the enemy.
During the Edo era, after the constant internal wars of the Sengoku period had ended, samurai found themselves without a good reason to show how metal they were by slitting their own stomachs open, and so they invented a bunch of excuses to do it anyway.
👉 As mentioned above, it could be when your lord died and you became a rōnin (a master-less wandering samurai), which apparently wasn't as cool as it is shown in anime, and kinda sucked.
(see the famous story of Lord Asano and the Fourty Seven Ronin)
👉 You could also commit seppuku to formally state your disagreement to your lord. Yes, samurai in the Edo era really went "I recognize the council has made a decision, but given as it is a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to KILL MYSELF ABOUT IT."
That specific practice sometimes even involved taping up your stomach wound, going to see your lord, telling him (respectfully) how much his decision sucked ass, and then un-taping your wound and bleeding out all over his tatami floor.
👉 Seppuku wasn't always exactly a suicide. In fact, most of the people who committed seppuku in the Edo era where condemned to do it in punishment for an offense. It was considered a way for the samurai in question to redeem himself. In fact, sometimes the "cutting your stomach" part was skipped altogether, the knife was replaced with a symbolic fan, and the guy was just beheaded. That was especially the case for court-ordered seppuku, because you don't really want to give a knife to a criminal you're about to execute.
Speaking of 🔥Honor🔥, you know who else could be dishonored forever? The guy cutting off the samurai's head to shorten his suffering! If he did it wrong, he would bring dishonor on himself AND his family for the rest of his life.
That part of seppuku required great swordsmanship, as you were supposed to sever the spinal cord but leave a small strip of skin so the head would remain attached to the body (hello morbid details my old friends...). Because when you order your enemy to commit ritual suicide, the last thing you want is to be assaulted by his flying head. 👹
A little vocabulary clear-up: you've probably heard it called "hara-kiri" more often than "seppuku". In fact, both words mean "cutting the stomach" and refer to the same ritual practice, but seppuku is a formal word used mostly in writing, while hara-kiri is more familiar and used orally.
And to conclude, I am legally obligated to say: DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME! If you have a problem with your boss, resolve it like a mature adult by replacing all their pens with crayons.
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Sometimes you get possessed and you draw a 25+ panel comic about a Boardwalk-empire style alternate universe take on the wacky races where most of the races are bootleggers, moonshiners, and mobsters, with two lost WW1 ace pilots participating and trying (and failing) to not get on the wrong side of their fellow participants.
Note 1: Lil' Gruesome is a blatant Peter Lorre ripoff because in the show his voice actor does a Peter Lorre impression. Lorre being a film noir actor who liked playing terrible people is being honoured here by being cast as a terrifying Gyp Rosetti stand-in, with some Hungarian flair delivered with the help of @faustiandevil
Note 2: Don't worry about Red Max, he'll be fine
Note 3: 'Piroska' refers to Little Red Riding Hood, 'Most, biztos jól össeszartad, nemde?' means 'you just shit yourself, didn't you?' (sorry if I made any spelling mistakes!)
Note 4: Really, don't worry about him. He's fine, everything's fine.
Featuring: Dick Dastardly in a not-so hidden romantic relation with Red Max, Professor Pat Pending, Penelope Pitstop, Lil' Gruesome, and Big Gruesome silently looking on
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Jimmy, Jimmy, cocoa puff, Jimmy, Jimmy, ride
Jimmy, Jimmy, cocoa puff, Jimmy, get me high
Love me if you love or not, you can be my light
Jimmy only love me when he wanna get high
Jimmy only love me when he wanna get high
Jimmy only love me when he wanna get high
Jimmy only love me when he wanna get high
Your mom called, I told her, you're fuckin' up big time
More Lil’ Gruesome and Dick Dastardly in drag, because they live in my head rent free. I’m also back in my fuck around and find out era with my art. I’m getting a bit bored with lineart.
Also to promo myself a bit, because I’m shameless: I started working on the Wacky Races Boardwalk Empire AU and already posted the first chapter on my Ao3 (same name as here, you just gotta be logged in to view). So if y’all like the 1920s, Weimar, Prohibition era, gangsters and such maybe you should check it out~
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