Vivacias - Under A Larger, Kinder Sky

kettricken :)

soooo, on a vacation trip a week ago, I stumbled over @xiranjayzhao's Iron Widow in a book shop in Copenhagen and devoured it last weekend. It was quite the fun read. (And I am not that inclined to mechs 😄 but the rage filled female power fantasy and the setting felt rather refreshing to me) And after finishing the book I had to get at least some art out of my system. As usual it didn't end up what I really intended it to be in my head initially, but also, as usual it has to suffice for now or I'll never post it.

my favorite excerpt from calvino's invisible cities

and i think its corny to act as if this type of post is intended to be a positivity post or a living rec list. it isn’t. thats a lovely & constructive way to use the notes, but the post is negative. the post is a call to examine racist behavior, not an invitation to talk about yourself as the specialest exception, or a request for book recs & positivity. so for you to then see anyone, including OP, in the replies being even a little harsh on the erasure & implicit bias that is the subject of the post itself, and get upset bc that kind of negativity isn’t copacetic w the wholesome, conversation-ending spin u want to put on the post? is corny.

it’s also cuckoo crazy for cocoa puffs how any time there’s a sardonic “name one [member of an under-represented group]” post, 100,000 tumblrinas will triumphantly Name One as if that actually addresses the complaint or exonerates them from the culture that generated it. you’re NOT passing!

owl thee ahhhhhhh……. 🫶😔💦

mind over matter principle.

hai :3 back with more faceless drawings of dina's tattoos and this time i actually share my thoughts on them woohoo!!

When designing them I wanted to go for a much more industrial, black-out look for them as opposed to something more detailed and intricate. They’re hard and heavy and in your face. They serve a purpose and are not meant to look pleasing or inspire anything but wariness. Imo the same way you don’t stop to marvel at the way a road sign is designed, regene tattoos have one purpose and that’s to inform you what you’re looking at is something to be wary of... Didn't stop me from making them look cool, but I imagine since they're standardized depending on the kind of regene that they are pretty to-the-point and featureless beyond bits necessary for identification.

this is going to have me on my hands and knees dry heaving

A man and his bunker - the first page of the self-insert framing story I drew for my next book (link to the pre-launch campaign below).

(I spent an obscene amount of time researching late soviet armored vehicle turrets for that cutaway, hours i will never get back)

But the bunker returns, later in the book - if you survive reading the main book, this is the intro to the back-matter...

The mighty tome this will be printed in will be launching TUESDAY on kickstarter - follow along here, and be first in line!

"to be loved is to be changed" but as in a horrific unasked for transformation. 🤍. btw.

simply not having heard of something isn’t like a personal moral failing that u need to get defensive about. but also, an intellectual comfort zone in which Black women’s work is never recommended to you & you never seek it out—that isn’t cultivated in a cultural vacuum. its not innocent. and if you’ve been through school i guarantee you’ve had Black women’s work assigned to you before so like what gives