#this was from an episode of tom and matt on the park bench

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Arty Art Things ✨

Hellooo!

I've decided to post some of the arty things I've done either recently or in the last few years, well the pieces I'm somewhat proud of at least. All my posts tend to be a lot more wordy than they need to be but hey it's what I do here!

Conchúr White

Anyone one who's been on this blog for a bit will have probably have seen me talk about this lovely Irish fella. The pencil drawing is actually a year old as of yesterday, I only know that because screenshots of me flipping out about Conchúr following me on twitter popped up in my memories yesterday. I think I'd sent it to him at about 3 in the morning (I was not in a good head space at that point in time), so probably not what he was expecting to see when he opened his phone in the morning aha

The biro version is much more recent: I got bored while sat at my desk and doing research about university courses, saw a biro, saw my old drawing of Conchúr, had an idea. I revisited my GCSE art techniques and here we are. Again, I put this up on Twitter and now (at the the time I'm writing this) when you google "Conchúr White" it's the third top image of him which is a bit mad really. I think I spent all of about 20 minutes on Conchúr but another 45 minutes on the words behind him. The words are the names of the songs on his EP 'Bikini Crops', he doesn't just really love the idea of Channing Tatum driving him around at night in a daisy print bikini... Well maybe he does but what he does in his spare time is none of my business...

TechDif

So I mentioned that the pencil drawing of Conchúr came from a rough patch in my mental health and this one is no different! In fact this one came from an even worse circumstance so we love to see it. I had a bad, bad time in July and this started as a way of distracting myself from what was going on in my head. Without it, I can't honestly say I'd still be here so even if the final product of this had been a terrible mess I would still love it for keeping me alive. However, it did not turn out to be a terrible mess!

Now that the origin of this is out the way, where do I start with TechDif? Unlike Conchúr, I haven't really talked about them on here (unless you count one brief post about Citation Needed) before so I guess I'll do it here. The Technical Difficulties are a wonderful group of 4 British fellas who have had their fair share of fun online and even before. They did a radio show at university together, which went on to become their Reverse Trivia Podcast, later moving on to a panel show called 'Citation Needed': and a game called 'Two of These People Are Lying'. All of which I would thoroughly reccomend, they're one of my go to things when I'm having a rough time. All 4 of them are excellent! Tom Scott (red top, blue jeans on the picture) has his own YouTube channel which does content aside from TechDif. If you're quite nerdy and like science, linguistics, computers, or any number of other things you may enjoy Tom's channel. He is probably best described as "The Moderator" of the group, much like a tired teacher he tries desperately to keep everyone on track with what they're meant to be doing, but usually it does not end well for him. Then we have Matt Gray (space top, holding an ice cream) who also has a channel away from TechDif stuff, he does techy electronic things and has a series called 'Will it Soft Serve?' where he puts all kinds of strange things through a soft serve machine. Matt brings a very specific energy to TechDif and I can't fully describe what that vibe is but I love it. Matt and Tom also share a YouTube channel where TOTPAL is posted and they had a series called 'The Park Bench'. Moving on to everybody's favourite Gary Brannan: Gary Brannan (SATIRE hoodie, glasses) and can I just say, what a fella he is! He's just excellent! He is the one that will argue and rip into Tom the most (not in a malicious way) and hilarity ensues. There are some episodes where he is absolutely on it, getting all the points and others where he very clearly has no idea and that's where some of his funniest quotes come from. Given how badly I was doing at the time I made this, his response to it on Twitter was so so lovely. I specifically remember one tweet where he said I'd made him happy and although it was probably a flippant comment, it just made feel alright for a bit. Yeah I might be feeling awful right now, but I've made someone else happy so that's a nice feeling. Then last but certainly not least, we have Chris Joel (buffalo check shirt, beard)! I would be lying if I said he isn’t my favourite... His sense of humor is the one I vibe with most, he can get rather dramatic in parts and can chat bollocks like a champion. He has absolutely no online presence away from TechDif and, like Rens from Temples, I fully believe he’s a cryptid and lives off in a tree somewhere. 

The picture took me about 4 days to complete, well 4 nights because I did most of it between the hours of 12 a.m. and 7a.m. - I remember watching the sun come through my window each morning. It’s made up of lots of little pieces, all cut out and stuck on; even the sky and hills are made of separate pieces of paper. Nothing was actually drawn on the piece of paper it’s all stuck on, it’s not how I usually do things but if I messed up one little but I could just redraw it rather than ruining the whole thing. The most tedious parts to make were Chris’ shirt because I had to draw each square individually and then join the as well, and cutting out the ban-hammer in the bottom right was surprisingly hard. Every single detail of the picture is a reference to the podcast/shows, I still have the plan sketch and reference list knocking about somewhere. I listened to a lot of true crime videos while making it to the point that certain parts remind me of different cases: the brandy now reminds me of Peter Tobin, and the big spiral thing reminds me of Tim McLean (very harrowing case) - sorry that fact is a bit morbid but interesting nonetheless. 

I did post this for a little bit back in July, but I received some rather awful messages so I took it down. Generally, Tom Scott/TechDif fans are lovely but there’s been a few that have taken a disliking to me for some reason so I’m hoping they don’t resurface again. I’m in a better head space now though, so even if they do I’m more equipped to deal with it this time.

Hozier

This was a quick sketch I did in April, I was getting bored with lockdown and decided to summon the bog man himself. There’s not really much more backstory than that, no poor mental health story, no fun twitter story - he’s just here. He’s vibing. I will say I’m particularly proud of his nose, I just think it’s one of the best noses I’ve ever drawn. His hand is okay, but I think that the hands on my Conchúr drawings are better. So there is the Hozi-Boi...

The Corpse Bry

I’ve talked about Bry on here before as well, I love him, he’s excellent, top lad. He is a living Tim Burton character, he’s 6′6, very skinny, and his legs are longer than my will to live. I was watching ‘The Corpse Bride’ a few weeks ago and suddenly had an idea and so ‘The Corpse Bry’ came to be. I gave him a little panda friend because the panda has always been his animal - he used to wear a panda beanie all the time and his album had a panda on the cover. Again, there’s not really a fun story behind this one, I guess it’s somewhat fun because it’s the first art I made after finishing my psychology exams in October so it was nice to actually have the time to draw.

James Bagshaw

Ginger talking about Temples for the third post in a row? it’s more likely than you think! I did this one last week, I’d had a bit of a wobbly day and had group therapy on Teams in the evening and I just couldn’t concentrate on what was going on and I ended up doodling Mr James E. Bagshaw, the glitter crying fraggle man himself. It’s a bare-bones drawing that I could definitely work into more but I’m happy with it as it is to be honest. I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit and add the individual bits of fringe to his jacket, just thinking about doing that makes me tired. Maybe I’ll get around to drawing the whole band at some point...

Alice in “Wonderland”

This one is from about 5(?) years ago, it’s not my typical style and was a “study” based on another artists work (basically i just had to copy this fellas work). I’ll be honest, this one has a sketchy backstory that I won’t go in to because it’s not exactly a nice one, and because of that I also won’t say who the artist is that it’s based on. Despite this, I’m still really proud of this one and I’m so sad that I never got this piece back after I got taken out the class. I’ve considered trying this style again, I’ve even joked about doing another Conchúr drawing in this style as a nod to my progression through GCSE art, eventually leading to Conchúr drawn in ink on music manuscript and stained with neon paint and dyes - it would be quite the project!

So this has been quite a lengthy post so apologies about that but life goes on. Similar to the vinyl post, I’ll probably add to this as and when I make more art. Even if no one is reading these posts, I’m enjoying making them so that’s the main thing. It’s just nice to document things and the feelings that go with them. 💕

~ Love Ginger xx 

29/11/2020

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What Puts the “Fun” in “Fun Dead”? Chapter Eight (Final Chapter)

Fandom: Eddsworld

Synopsis: What started out with  a simple shopping trip on a snow day ends up with the latest zombie  apocalypse. Unfortunately, Mark doesn’t realize until he’s right in the  middle of it. Oh, well. Looks like no one else has noticed, either. He’ll just have to give them a few reminders.

Word Count: 1348

Original Post Date: Early 2018

Characters: Mark, Matt, Edd, Tom, Eduardo, Jon

Ships: None

Trigger Warnings: Panic Attack, Choking, Zombies, Fighting, Blood

Other Notes: Based off the events of the episodes “The Snogre” and “Fun Dead”; intended to take place within canon; discusses meta concepts; the neighbors and the main three are friendlier with each other now; each chapter has a picture to go along with it

Ao3 Link

Previous Chapter

Alternate Ending

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“Um, hello?”

“Is he going to wake up?”

“He better. We’d be wasting a lotta time and effort otherwise.”

The familiar voices were the first things Mark managed to make out. Besides his throbbing body, of course. His arm and his head ached like mad, like facing the consequences of breaking open a beehive. But he didn’t want to think about bee stings or crazy pain or probably being dead just then. Slowly, hesitantly, if only to get rid of his own scattered thoughts, the blond’s eyes fluttered open.

He was immediately greeted with a firm, powerful squeeze.

Mark yelped as he felt the death grip grow tighter, tighter, and he was choking, and this was his punishment, he had abandoned his friends and now he was going to suffer forever at the hands of a furious ginger-haired spirit-

Wait, a ginger-haired spirit?

Staggering back from the hug, the man with the butt chin took a moment to study the newcomer. He recognized him immediately.

“Matt,” Mark breathed. And not only him… yes, he could see Tom’s secretive eyes and Edd’s cola-stained hoodie behind the ginger.

“I’m so glad you’re alright, chap! Of course, it would have been a bit better if you hadn’t screamed directly into my ear.”

“I-I…”

Edd pushed past with an offer to help his neighbor up. “How are you feeling...?” Mark accepted the cola-lover’s hand after a moment, taking the chance to look around.

There were still rides, games, and booths in every possible direction. This was still the amusement park. Everything was still the same, besides the fact that it was day again and that episode feeling was finally gone. Which meant that he was still alive.

And if he was still alive…

“Wait,” the tall blond replied to Edd, “I saw you. I saw you die. How are you here?”

“What? Don’t remember dying… I remember everyone freaking out, before we managed to block out the mobs, if that helps.” Confusion written all over his face, the stocky young man walked Mark towards a bench. He motioned to the gauze and medical kit lying nearby. “Just stay here for a while, alright? Get yourself cleaned up. Now, I’ve got more people to work on.”

Edd took one more comforting glance at his neighbor, before heading back to the other two, and Mark suddenly realized what they were talking about.

A tent, a huge one, seemed to be shuffling and wriggling in the center of the clearing. The three men he had been so worried about stood just nearby.

Suddenly, a gloved Matt reached under the tent and started dragging out one of the green-skinned mobs. Tom restrained it, brute force pinning it to the ground with ease, before Edd made his move. Hands on its shoulders. A small flash of light. And the zombie changed.

It was only after two, no, three more rounds of this that it clicked. It clicked, and Mark remembered. Long ago, after each episode, Edd could heal those who had passed during them. How he did, no one knew, but his ability to revive his friends and neighbors made him quite the popular guy. They had always joked, saying the world went around him, calling it “Eddsworld”... The power had seemed to disappear after the trio returned from their space trip, but now…

Edd could still heal the zombies?

Dropping the gauze and disinfectant, Mark dashed toward the three Brits. He pushed past the blond Canadian that had just been rescued and whispered to them, “You revived them. Oh my word. You actually did it.”

“Um, yes,” Matt replied, “we did.”

“Then… I cannot stress this enough. We need to go back home, now.” Staring at their baffled expressions, the fatigued Brit continued, “This isn’t the only place that reeks of zombies, you know! Eduardo, Jon, the whole neighborhood is infected, and if we just leave them uncontained…”

They stared for another moment, and then, the four of them rushed to the car. Within minutes - and one last check to make sure ASDFLand’s mobs wouldn’t be going anywhere - they were off.

Mark beckoned to them as they exited their vehicle. Watching his neighbors rescue several zombies and take them to safety in their household, he took the chance to move towards his own. He was in front of the yard in a second, but felt himself slow down as he reached the door.

He ignored his trembling hand as it grazed the handle - telling himself it was just because of the falling temperature - and went to pull it back.

Nothing. The butt-chin man sighed in relief, beckoning to his friends. They were there in an instant.

In Mark walked, trying to ignore the bloody trenchcoat and beanie on the floor. He was about to turn past a corner when the sound of shuffling filled his ears, and he pressed himself against the wall, waiting for something to happen.

“Oh, sorry,” Matt said as he stepped up. “Just me.”

The blond let himself relax again for a few moments. “It’s fine, it’s fine.” Letting himself know his constant switches between relief and anticipation weren’t any help, he moved around the corner.

And Jon was there.

Shrieking, Mark pulled back, and Tom rushed up to straddle the zombified man. Then Edd burst in. With a skid, he ran straight into the fray. He slipped between the two in blue and pressed his hands to the Jonbie’s shoulders, Tom stepping out of the way.

Mark was about to jump in and help when another yelp sounded behind him. He whipped around. Cast under Deaduardo’s shadow, Matt desperately tried to escape his neighbor’s grasp. Mark rushed over, fingers trembling, and grabbed the brunette from behind. The three of them fell almost immediately, but Matt sprang to his feet just as fast. “EDD,” Mark heard Tom yell from behind, but the blond ignored it, focusing his attention on the hostile Eduardo looming above him.

For a deathly moment, no one moved, and Mark could hear nothing but his heart drilling into his chest. But then Edd leaped out of nowhere and rammed into Eduardo. Both brunettes tumbled off him, and Edd, seizing his moment, began to heal.

“...I think… we’re safe.” Slowly, slowly, Mark exhaled. He rubbed his sore arm and turned to Jon, who was now sitting compliantly with Tom and Matt as they patched him up.

His no-longer-zombified roommate seemed exceedingly confused as he arrived. “M-Mark? What happened? Last I checked, me and Eduardo were waiting outside for you and some weird barrel fell out of the sky…”

“It was another zombie apocalypse,” Mark began, “but it’s dying down now, thanks to Edward and his friends. Are you alright?”

“Yeah… where’s Duardy?”

“He’s right here,” Edd butt in, helping his dizzy neighbor up. “Mark, you think you can explain to these two what’s going on? We’ve gotta get back out there.”

As Mark nodded, Tom glanced out a nearby window, staring at the little flecks of white pouring down. “Looks like it’s snowing again. Let’s go, guys.” The three of them waved, Matt and Edd grinning, and immediately rushed out to fight some more.

“...Okay, what was all that supposed to be?” The first thing Eduardo wanted to do when he woke up was complain, as usual, but Mark ignored it. He stared out the window at the falling snow and sighed. Oh, how he hated the cold! But… there was one thing he hated more than the cold, and that was zombies. And he knew that he’d never want to see them again after today, and he knew he’d have to do something to make that happen.

So he pulled his roommates into a hug. A really long, really good hug. Then he went out to the shed and pulled out a shovel, an axe, and a bat. He smiled at that bat - it seemed familiar. And he went back in, still with that smile, handing the other weapons to his friends and asking, “Who’s ready to fight some zombies?”

And they did.

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Best Tv Shows Ever

'Lost' 2004-10

A cosmic mystery trip so complex nobody has ever really figured it all out – a band of castaways trapped on an island following the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, having a smoke monster and also the enigmatic group called the Others, several time lines, the Seventies back-story of the Dharma Initiative, each episode filled with clues to be argued over for years to come. Lost proved there was a broad audience around who needed their Television to be more unpredictable and difficult, not less – and Television would never be the same.

'Star Trek' 196669

The Star-Ship Business took off having a five-year mission: "To discover odd new worlds, to to locate new life and new civilizations," and it succeeded in making the most beloved of sci fi franchises, not just inspiring many spin offs but also codifying fanfiction as an art form. Gene Roddenberry's original sequence stays the basis, with William Shatner's awesomely pulpy Capt. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy's logical Mr. Spock, Bones, Sulu, Uhura and Scotty. They speak to strange and inexplicable lifeforms – Romulans, Gorns, Joan Collins. During its three years, Startrek suffered from low ratings until NBC pulled the plug, but thanks to the most doggedly loyal of TV cults (remember when "Trekkie" was an insult?), Roddenberry's vision lives long and prospers for this day.

'The Daily Show' 1996-Present

The fa-Ke news show that became mo Re credible as opposed to news that is real. Comedy Central started The Daily Present when Jon Stewart took over in 1999, but it hit its stride. The Daily Present got more politically abrasive as the news got progressively worse. Stewart had the rage of a man who had signed on at the finish of the Bill Clinton years, only to finish up with an America significantly more scary and more ugly for, as well as the anger showed. "It is a comic box lined with unhappiness," he informed Rolling Stone in 2006. While the franchise struggles on without him, Everyday alumni John Oliver and Samantha Bee keep that hard-hitting spirit on their own displays.

'Friends' 1994 2004

A team of twenty somethings in New York sit around complaining about their day jobs, their sex lives, their screwed -up households. It's a formula countless sitcoms tried to get right on the years (great try, Herman's Head), but it took the Central Perk crew to get the best mix of personalities, from Lisa Kudrow's flaky folksinger to the schlub-fox romance of David Schwimmer's Ross and Jennifer Aniston's Rachel. Even at the time, it was absurd how luxurious Monica's West Village apartment and large was, and also the storyline where she's banging Tom Selleck just gets more abdomen-turning the Blue Bloods stays that are lengthier on-the-air.

'South Park' 1997-Present

Trey Parker and Matt Stone touched America someplace special and deep, and also you got to respect their authori-teh. Year after year, this cartoon began, Matt Stone informed Rolling Stone, "we'd view success as finally acquiring to the point where we get canceled because no one gets it." So here's to not exactly twenty years of failure – and hopefully 2 more.

'The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson' 196292

Heeeeeeere's Johnny! There's a cause Carson stays the template for each and every late-night host, after ruling The To Night Show for three decades. Like a TV answer to Frank Sinatra, he epitomized Rat Pack cool, and his monologues were a sound track to generations of Americans boozing every night themselves to slumber. Nearly 2-5 years after he signed-off (and more than 10 years after he died), Carson's the ghost king who nevertheless haunts evening. When he abdicated in 1992, Letterman and Jay Leno started battling for his throne and never quit. (In his last display, Letterman cracked, "It looks like I am not planning to get The Tonight Show.")

TV Series Third Watch

'The Sopranos' 1999-2007

The crime saga that slice the the history of Television kicking off a golden age when abruptly something seemed possible. About how much you could get away with on the little screen together with The Sopranos, David Chase smashed all of the rules. And he developed an American antihero in James Gandolfini's New Jersey Mob boss, Tony Soprano, presiding over a crew of gangsters who also double as dads and broken husbands, guys seeking to stay using their murderous strategies and dark recollections. As the late, great Gandolfini told Rolling Stone in 2001, "I noticed David Chase say one time that it's about people who lie to themselves, as we all do. Lying to ourselves on a daily basis and the mess it creates." What an inspiring mess it is. Since it transformed the world, this specific poll was run away with by the Sopranos. Chase confirmed just how story-telling ambition that was much tv could be brought to by you, and it didn't take long for everybody else to rise to his challenge. The breakthroughs of the next few years – The Wire, Mad Guys, Breaking Poor – could not have occurred without The Sopranos kicking the door down. But Chase had a difficult time convincing any network to battle a story of a guilt- gangster who goes to treatment, while his mother plots to kill him. "We'd no idea this show would appeal to folks," he told Rolling Stone. "The display really unexpectedly made this kind of splash that it screwed all of US up." The Sopranos kept heading for the long bomb over six masterful seasons on HBO having a wild mix of blood shed and humor. When FBI agents tell Uncle Junior which mobsters they want him to finger, he says using a shrug, "I want to fuck Angie Dickinson – let's see who gets lucky first." The Sopranos is full of damaged figures who linger on in the long term parking of our national imagination – Edie Falco's Carmela, Dominic Chianese's Junior, Michael Imperioli's Christopher, Tony Sirico's Paulie Walnuts. E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt became Tony's lieutenant Silvio – Chase spotted him on early Bruce Springsteen album addresses. (As Chase told Rolling Stone, "There was something about the E Street Band that looked like a crew.") It might not have been possible without Gandolfini's slow-burning intensity – he was the only actor who could deliver Tony's angst to life. But the writing, directing and acting went locations Television had never reached before. Where Christopher and Paulie Walnuts get lost in the woods, realizing the Russian gangster they tried to whack is nevertheless out there-in the darkness, the Sopranos arguably hit its innovative peak with all the well-known Pine Barrens episode. They shiver in the cold. ("It is the the fuckin' Yukon out there!") They wait. And worry. The Sopranos never solved this mystery – for all we know, the Russian is still atlarge, yet another key these guys can not shake off. On The Sopranos, family loyalties flip, both in the streets and a T home. Beloved characters can get whacked a T any moment. It kept that perception of danger alive proper up to the final seconds. And not quite a decade after it faded to black in a Jersey diner together with the juke-box enjoying "Do Not Stop Believin'," The Sopranos stays the standard all ambitious TV aspires to fulfill.

'30 Rock' 200613

Alec Baldwin said it best: "You are truly the Picasso of loneliness." He's a point. The Liz Lemon of Tina Fey is one gal who spends her evenings working on on her behalf evening cheese playing Monopoly alone or viewing the Life Time movie My Stepson Is My Cyber-Husband. But Fey created her a timeless heroine -space experience at The Girlie Show to the backstage antics, having a crazy- deep bench that included Jack McBrayer, Jane Krakowski and Tracy Morgan. And Baldwin chewed up the role of his life, turning what might have been a generic sitcom boss into the only guy worthy to stand-by Lemon.

'The Office (U.K.)' 2001 03

Ricky Gervais created one of TV's most agonizing comic tyrants in David Brent – a bitter, awkward, pompous ball of vanities terrorizing his workers at a London paper organization. He fidgets, fondles his tie, cracks dreadful jokes, plays guitar ("Free Love Free Way"!), invisible to anyone except the longsuffering office drones who have to put up with him. This mockumentary raised the cringe level of sitcoms every where, spawning the remarkably great U.S. version (also on this checklist) while paving the way for the glories of Parks & Re Creation and Peep-Show.