Mes dessins de 2022 (partie 1)
J’ai fait beaucoup de dessins en 2022, parce que j’ai dessiné beaucoup de petits trucs, ahah, alors je vais partager tout ça en plusieurs fois.
Commençons par le commencement! Ça ne sera pas complètement dans l’ordre chronologique mais pratiquement
Tout d’abord, j’ai fait une série de mini-portraits, d’abord pour diversifier les personnages que je dessinais, ensuite parce qu’on m’a dit “un qui est-ce RPZ, ce serait drôle” et que je l’ai pris 1er degré mais j’ai vite lâché à cause de ma difficulté à rester focus en dessin, ahah...
Toujours en début d’année, j’ai joué à Gris, un superbe jeu, et comme j’aime très fort Sarah Carter, j’ai vu une similitude entre le personnage et la protagoniste du jeu. Ainsi, je me suis amusé à dessiner Sarah habillée comme si c’était elle, la protagoniste. Je suis plutôt fier de ce dessin! :D Je me suis amusé à le faire aussi, un vrai plaisir (à la base, je voulais faire quelque chose de plus complexe mais je me suis déjà mas mal défoulé avec ce dessin, ahah
Il est connu que M.T. est HC comme ultra grand dans RPZ, et personnellement, je HC Thomas comme étant plutôt petit alors je me suis amusé à imaginer M.T. attrapant M.T. par le col pour le trimballer partout, parce que c’est marrant. Et donc, je l’ai dessiné!
Kumiko est ma plus vieille OC à être encore vivante dans ma tête. À la base, elle était un self-insert dans Shugo Chara (donc ça me semblait logique d’avoir un nom japonais, vu que l’œuvre l’était, fallait être cohérent) puis elle est devenue son propre personnage
Je l’aime fort, et je suis désolé de la faire souffrir mais je ne sais pas comment la rendre heureuse, pas encore
Sur le serveur RPZ, il y a un défi “Fashion catalog” auquel j’ai participé les deux fois. Voici ma première participation! J’ai eu à dessiner Daniel, dans une jolie robe de ballerine adorable et je me suis beaucoup amusé alors j’adore ce dessin!
Comme y’a beaucoup d’autres dessins encore, je vais revenir avec une autre partie très vite pour partager le reste
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Good morning, crew mates.
Last night when I should have been asleep, I read about the rumored behind the scenes bullshit that tried to take our pirates away from us. This morning, I'm thinking about Batgirl and that Scooby-Doo film that both got canceled despite being almost complete. I'm thinking about Coyote vs. Acme. I'm thinking about Turner Classic Movies.
But also, because of my current WIP set in a similar (but OFMDified) world, I'm thinking about another IP owned by Warner Brothers now. One that even before Zaslav the Destroyer arrived, was canceled earlier than it was meant to be. One that was also groundbreaking in its own ways. One that's offering me a type of consolation in these trying times.
I'm thinking about HBO's Rome.
It was absolutely not perfect, especially around certain things to do with in-world consent and sexual assault. I'm not making this post to litigate that, though I will say that it was made in 2005, when we as a society certainly weren't having mature conversations about consent.
[Also that it was set in a society so patriarchal that daughters didn't receive their own given names, just names that said who their fathers were and designations that told you where they fell in the birth order (i.e. the daughters of Lucius Vorenus are named Vorena the Elder and Vorena the Younger).]
But it did pave the way for the sort of gritty, trope-inverting, epic series we saw different networks take a stab at in its wake. Many people say, correctly, that Rome walked so Game of Thrones could run. And yeah, GoT eventually ran right off a cliff, but the fact remains that networks, including HBO again, became willing to make large initial investments in shows with lavishly and lovingly detailed sets and costumes, top-notch casts, and beautiful but expensive effects in part because of the prestige and lasting praise for Rome.
So what does this have to do with OFMD? Besides being canceled after two seasons when there were plans for more, the way it redefined a setting and genre that previously felt stale, and the way people will probably talk about its unanticipated influence for years? I'm thinking about scenes that I'll never forget, and how both shows have those indelible moments, and how emotionally cathartic certain moments from Rome feel in the context of the cancelation of Our Flag Means Death.
I'm thinking about the rivalry between two characters in particular, Atia of the Julii and Servilia of the Junii, and the way the show depicted their conflict during their bitterest, most desperate, and most devastating moments. Obvious spoiler warnings for the second season below, including the death of a character, but also TW for a brief mention of rape, and for canon-typical (but not especially graphic?) attitudes toward and depiction of suicide. Because Rome was ugly, and if the show had one guiding principle it was to remind viewers that Rome was ugly.
But also: a character reading another for absolute and utter filth, and two truly terrifying curses, in case there are any studio executives you're feeling angry towards.
Firstly, there's the moment when Servilia curses Atia, inspired by IRL lead curse tablets found in Roman Egypt iirc.
"Gods of the inferno, I offer to you his limbs, his head, his mouth, his breath, his speech, his hands, his liver, his heart, his stomach..." indeed.
The second, which I won't embed because it is quite dark, features some things that I'd guess lots of folks have increasingly wished on Zaslav, especially "let [him] taste nothing but ashes and iron" for me.
And last but not least, some hope. Even if our efforts for a reversal of the decision or a move to another network don't come to pass, we will still be here. Artists will keep creating and figuring out new ways to share their work with the world.
Zaslav is not the first executive to destroy an industry but the fundamental human impulse of art is eternal. Remembering that makes it feel much more possible to look at this whole fucked up situation and these fucked up capitalist ghouls who aren't unique at all and point to their predecessors and say "go and look for them now."
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