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this weeks vgcnb’s a wildly old pull: david o’reilly’s MOUNTAIN. which predated his next one “EVERYTHING”. it was a quiet contemplative paid app game during the freemium boom.

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Rocketeer Bob Maddox is testing his Triple Valveless "beast" jet kart.

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"heaven is a prison"

a short story influenced by the wild manga of Kazou Umezz (Drifting Classroom) and the wild film "Riki-Oh: Story of Ricky" and my own desire to get out of here alive.

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My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books

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Balancing work and art is so dang hard. I know it’s not news, but goddamn is it frustrating to have to spend my most productive waking hours making blueprints and bursting with ideas.

Getting home, there’s so much to do that can only wait for so long before it piles up. Dishes gotta be cleaned, laundry needs to be folded, and goblin piles gotta be put away. Living in a pigsty makes an environment condusive to depression, but dealing with it takes energy.

How did I make art in the past? Well, I ended up neglecting some area of my life and it invariably came to bite me.

Anywho, just had to scream into the void that this shit ain’t easy. I did muster the energy to do some figure drawing last night, and the results are pleasing enough that at least I’m reassured that I can still do a reasonably proportioned render of a human being.

My brushes got lost in the move, so I’ll try and get some so I can ruin my decent pencil sketch with color. Might post if the result isn’t too embarrassing.

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Gamer cats

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i ask evilhenchman#1 to play my theme music while i cast evil spells from my wizard tower and she puts on "overture from the phantom of the opera" but i tell her no that's not right, so she switches to love shack by the b-52's. which is the correct song.

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here's a landscape tutorial!

i focused on natural environments for this one, if you find it helpful I'll be back with how I learned to draw buildings.

let me know if it helps! and have fun drawing ✨

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Couldn’t find this anywhere when I needed this specific, highly obscure reaction. This is the best I could do whilst on my porcelain prison.

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no nightingales

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A little princess,,,

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I mean, it’s all so good. (Spoilers ahead)

Lust is personified by this desperate ruthless guy who exploits the talents of those beneath him (very Harvey Weinstein of him) and generally lusts after power.

Greed is a lonely senile dragon who hides away counting his basically infinite wealth, his bank is just a caricature of basically any modern large bank.

Pride thinks himself a benevolent philosopher king who establishes a brutal system of patriarchal legalism that he fancies will last 1000 years. His system collapses in on itself the minute he’s not there to hold it together. He’s pretty much a standin for any despot, but doubles for a personification of patriarchy.

Sloth is literally an omniscient academic with perfect knowledge of everything that has, is, and will happen to everyone everywhere. She doesn’t really do much in spite or because of what she knows. Her church blindly follows her words, growing gardens and studying. She and her followers represents an inwardly focused academia that theorizes much and does nothing. Read: theory bros.

Envy is hivemind that lures new members by promising to make them happy and fun by joining their group. They like spectacle, entertainment, and ratings-driven news. They represent the shallowness of news and entertainment, but also mob groupthink and changing yourself to fit in.

Wrath is angry about everything. What right does the world have to produce men who would commit genocides and warcrimes? He’s so angry that he wishes to wipe away everything, and is equipped with the strength to do so. His forces follow strength and commit these same sort of warcrimes and genocides in his name.

The villain game here is so strong. Maybe the strongest. I’ve never seen the 7 sins done better.

kill six billion demons deserves credit for doing a seven deadly sins thing and making gluttony an awful imperialist ruler who destroys everything so she can use people’s resources to live a life of eternal luxury instead of just a fat guy who eats a lot

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Wherein Allison is hungover. And some other stuff happens, I dunno doesn’t look important tbh

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The inability to take action is also what really ate our boy Jonathon, so I’m starting to see a recurring theme in this horror.

Also the mate literally tries to swim to safety, and during this time period sailors thought swimming was an insanely unlucky thing to do, which highlights the desperation even more

The Captain's audio log continues to blow me away. It really brings the horror home. The absolute misery when he says "first August" - in the book, that was just a date. But here, the way he says it made me think about how his last entry was supposed to be the last night of the journey. They'd rejoiced about it being over, and here we are two days later and he's lost in fog and despairing. It's brutal.

Also. "We seem to be drifting to some terrible doom." Is that the first time he's spoken of the future? Like, he's talked about worrying his crew might get into a fight or something, but I think this is the first time he's speculated on the outcome of this voyage, and it's such bleak talk. I can only imagine the inability to take action is eating at him as much as the dread of what will happen next.

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Also, let’s acknowledge that we need dense living solutions. Most counties won’t even allow these to be built because their zoning only allows single housing which leads to massive urban sprawl, congested transportation, less natural land.

This design is very practical given current incentives to developers. We could discuss how changing current ordinances (maybe federal zoning laws) could change this for the better (or worse), but very practical solutions are seldom the most aesthetically pleasing solutions.

And you know what? 5 over 1s look fine. You see them a lot in the bigger cities, and that might be a lot of the hate towards them, but I’ll take em. I live in one. It’s nice to live 10 minutes away frim downtown at a relatively decent rent.

Fuck it, Urbanism hot take night, none of you bitches actually know what gentrification is

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Here’s some more context to White Chain’s inheritance. Not only did Solomon David give her power that can literally move stars, but he’s previously stated a desire to pass on his power to a worthy heir.

This rigid tyrant, a self-styled philosopher king and literal patriarch who has watched 25 generations of his sons wither away unfit for rule has chose WC, a transfem angel he held in contempt, as the only worthy heir of not only godlike power but to be his people’s protector.

Boy, that certainly is a curse.