Moved here in the wake of the great tumblr nsfw purge of 2018. What's currently here are my archived posts from that blog. Multi-fandom artist and writer. I also have a DeviantArt under the same username.
You can discover the weirdest things digging into your family history.
For example:
Apparently, I have a great-great-uncle who was cursed by a witch after stiffing her on the repayment of one-dollar loan. (Why he borrowed a dollar from a witch in the first place is not recorded.)
I also have a great-grandfather, a beekeeper by profession, who’s alleged to have spontaneously combusted one day while tending his bees.
As far as I can tell, these events are completely unrelated – the two men are on different branches of the family tree, and never met – but I can’t help but imagine that somewhere out there, there’s a witch with unbelievably bad aim.
Petition to sit down all the people who make coma theories about Adventure Time and tell them “listen, this fucking show is about the last human living in a post-apocalyptic world where deadly magic has been reawakened following a global thermonuclear war that wiped out the rest of the human species, how much fucking darker do you want it to be”
Even though I thought my first Creative Writing professor was kind of a douche, he made a good point about this. One of our first assignments was to write in this eerie, otherworldly style (we were mimicking a specific author whose name escapes me), so we had to write about eerie otherworldly things happening. It’s no exaggeration to say that more than half the class had a “big reveal” where we find out that the story’s strange events and themes are all in the mind of some person in an insane asylum, or someone having a drug trip.
My professor said something like, “you just successfully wrote a world that feels separate from our own, but got frightened last minute and shoe-horned in normalcy. You showed that you were afraid to commit to something different and interesting.” Though I’m typically a contrarian and a piece of garbage, I am inclined to agree with my professor. I feel like people who write coma theories and the like are afraid to accept that the world of the story is separate from our own. They like everything wrapped up in this crazy little realism box where nothing out of the ordinary happens in fiction.
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This pretty well hits the nail on the head as to why I generally hate coma/dream theories and people who think they’re so fucking deep for coming up with it. In my book it’s LAZY, plain and simple.
I think the only times I can think of where “It was all a dream” really works are in pieces like Over the Garden Wall, Ink, Coraline, and Mirrormask. In all of those, the characters ‘wake up’ again in their ‘normal’ world, but there’s a very strong implication that the dream world is as real, if not more so, than the ‘real’ world, and the things they did in the dream world had a very direct impact on the waking world– not in an “I’m gonna be a better person” sense, but literally who lives and who dies at the end of the story.
Notably, in most of those, it’s stated flat-out within the first couple of minutes that the character in question is dreaming. It’s not a big reveal, it’s a fundamental detail of the setting.
If you’re gonna do a dreamworld, actually commit to doing a dreamworld.
Whatever it is you do, ACTUALLY COMMIT TO IT.
Another problem with coma theories in stories that aren’t specifically about a dreamworld is that it completely nullifies any character growth or change or hardship. None of it matters anymore, which is a betrayal of the audience’s investment in the world and characters. That’s why it feels lazy and unsatisfying- it makes all other plot threads and elements unnecessary.
@ubercream was it Ray Bradbury? Because that sounds like Ray Bradbury.
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Evil Eye is the story of two women, one Muslim and one Jewish, hunting vampires together. Most of the plot details are up in the air right now, and all the art I’ll be posting right now will be pencil sketches until I have time to sit down and do some digital art for it. The content on this blog will consist of my concept sketches/art for the comic, questions about the comic, and if anyone makes fan art of Evil Eye it will be reblogged here! (Please please PLEASE draw fan art and tag this blog in it I’ll love you forever if you do)
I knew when I sat down to come up with ideas for a comic that I wanted to tell a Jewish fantasy story, since I am Jewish and never see my people represented in my favorite genre, fantasy. The idea of them hunting vampires came from a twist on the blood libel myth, (the antisemitic idea that Jews drink blood/put blood in our food) where rather than drinking blood, a Jewish character was actively fighting AGAINST actual blood drinking monsters. Then I thought about how I didn’t want to represent only characters who were like me, and that’s where the theme of Jewish/Muslim solidarity comes into the story. In order to write the Muslim woman correctly, I am collaborating with a few Muslim friends of mine. By the way, if you see something problematic/islamophobic that I say or post, call me out!! The comic won’t be good without an accurate depiction of Muslim women. Thank you for reading this!!
And one last thing. There is no Kickstarter or anywhere to throw money at for this comic. I’m doing this for free. For once, this is a story idea on tumblr that’s not a scam!!
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