The Handmaiden has officially joined the Letterboxd One Million Watched Club 👀

i'm sorry but the moon is a complete boondoggle that should never have been put up there in the first place. we still have to send repair missions up there a hundred-plus years later all because taft was trailing in the polls and decided to learn magick. i don't know why he thought it would help him

The artwork shows a scene with a city and an autonomous bus in the center. There are passengers in the bus. Some are sitting and some are standing. The bus has dome-shaped roofs. A man in a long coat is standing outside the bus holding a briefcase. Another man is selling some fake or stolen watch behind the bus. There are buildings and bridges in the background with a few more characters. All the characters are skeletons. There are some autonomous mini cars around the artwork. The artwork is densely decorated with patterns and tiles. It is mostly green, mustard, red and blue.

"City of Dreams". A commissioned illustration I drew for @niedermeyer.online a while ago. Still one of my favorite pieces! Haven't shared it here on it's own yet and thought I should! Closeups will be in the comments.

Cover page of The Learning Company Software Catalog from Fall of 1991 with a group of children who are waaaay too excited to be playing "Super Solvers: OutNumbered!"

Hey, look. It's a decent scan of this legendary image!

maybe i've recovered from depression too much and have begun enjoying things no human should enjoy

partner just executed the worst guiness pour i've ever seen in my life. was fighting for his life against the foam and losing. non-alcoholic, into a plastic cup full of crushed ice. tasted like if soy sauce were chocolate but also grass. despite all of this, shockingly good experience

anyway best advice i ever got for the lifelong anxiety disorder that has sabotaged me since the age of 5 is to just see how much of the anxiety i can recharacterize as excitement enthusiasm and joy. i dont understand why brains do this switcheroo i must correct but brain science is Not my job

sometimes i get a lot of ideas about writing and get heart palpitations. used to think this was a fear/anxiety response but now i realized i am feeling the emotion of [checks notes] excitement

scaring him off every time he tries to get all "i could write a comic and you could draw it" by reminding him i, like the cruel movie studios, also have a horse limit

see also comics:
pros: can copy-paste infinite horses also
cons: have to draw at least 1 horse (IMPOSSIBLE)

for various reasons he's writing scripts designed to be filmed on a shoestring budget and although i appreciate that incredible art can arise out of budgetary and technical limitations, its funny to see him twist in knots trying to make a story cheaper while i prance with my infinite horses

my partner does screenwriting and (much love, I watch and enjoy a movie 2-3 times a year, great medium) i have been trying to lure him to the realm of prose writing by misquoting grr martin: come with me. you can have as many horses as your heart desires

“Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know. The page, the page, the blankness of eternity which you cover slowly; which you cover woodenly, ruining it; the page, which you cover slowly with the crabbed thread of your gut: that page will teach you to write.” —Annie Dillard

Yuko Asano on the hood of a black corvette with its lights flipped up and on. The scene is in front of a body of water and blurry lit windows on the horizon of the water. Yuklo is posed with one leg up on the hood and one on the ground, laying her hip against the car. She is holding a combat rifle. Her outfit is fure black, pleather in many parts, and full body coverage except from the clavicals to the middle of the bicep.

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Actress and singer Yuko Asano in ”Night on Fire!” (Japanese photobook) - January, 1987

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also i like clicking through links and amassing tabs. my gluttony disgusts me etc etc etc

I think the solution is to foster the discipline to... write out my thoughts/analysis on a source before moving on. get the coherent thoughts out before stuffing my brain with more information. but then that risks writing something out that the next source has already explained x10 better

free me from the research vortex (find useful source -> open -> read -> open sources they cite -> read -> 30000 tabs open -> brain too full to string a coherent sentence together -> stand up and stare out window like tortured academic -> go back to computer -> find useful source etc ad nauseam)

Bill Sienkiewicz

Bill Sienkiewicz

another day in which, on top of everything else, I'm mad about the SFF cover shift from "little pre-raphaelite painting you can put in your pocket" to "we gave the intern our Canva log-in"

Katsushika Hokusai, Bullfinch and Weeping Cherry, 1834
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

after this exercise i can successfully report that uh. waving a pair of leather boots in front of me would still probably succeed as a magic spell to make me reach for my wallet unfortunately

two pairs of legs on a red and white background, each wearing leather high-heeled boots, accompanied by a bird

trying this new thing where when i see something i think is cool i draw it instead of buying it/lamenting how i cannot buy it

A plush heart hanging on a white wall. The center of the piece shows an eye embroidered in various shades of red thread looking sadly to the right, with one red teardrop bead beneath the waterline. Surrounding it are a variety of red beads to transition into the red felt body of the heart. There are rays of gold thread and beads emanating from the center to the edges, ending in a gold bead border. There are almost a dozen strings of red beads coming middle to make a V-shaped fringe Completely hand embroidered. This is second version of this design

every demon wants his pound of flesh
#art

Art by • Yoshitaka Amano

Has anyone asked Pope Leo what he thinks about Daredevil? He’s the first pope who might plausibly have Daredevil opinions

Winnie Hollmann as Red Sonja in Esquire Magazine - May 1977

A watercolour drawing of a red Oriental Poppy with brown foliage and two studies of unopened buds.

May Morris was born on this day in 1862

Morris was a leading embroiderer and designer of the late 19th-century Arts and Crafts movement in Britain.

After studying at the South Kensington School of Design, she took over the embroidery section of her father’s company, Morris & Co., in 1885, aged 23.