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Hi all,
I’m Louis, an archivist who also happens to be an artist and author.
I have a website where you can check out my scribblings and stories and sundry other stuff. Here’s a convenient index of links:
I’ll be updating that list when appropriate, and will make posts here directing people to any new work.
Thanks for reading, see you around!
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We have 24 hours to make this the most voted on poll in Tumblr history
Genuinely didn't realise there were so many cowards on this website, but there you go.
Throwback thursday to when I was like 12 and I was putting out new writing DAILY...... Like entire Chapters of my then-current wips just, over an afternoon. What the fuck was I on
Nobody:
Me, age 12, just started drinking coffee:
I drew 14 pictures during the day, and wrote 32 pages a night. Now I can’t do shit.
A huge part of this is because you've gotten better! And now, when you're drawing/writing/doing whatever creative task, you're not just mindlessly throwing thoughts at your paper, you're thinking as you do it. Children can churn out a lot more work because it's not yet refined, but when you're older and have more practice, you work with all these thoughts running through your head about form and shape, color palettes or word choice. Now, you're making a dozen decisions with every moment of work, and you're also questioning the decisions you've just made, wondering if you can do it better. Don't beat yourself up about producing less work now than you did back then, because every sentence or shape involves a lot more effort for you now, than it did when you were ten and brand new to this hobby.
Also you have a job now and the never-ending bullshit that is laundry and dishes and feeding yourself.
okay, I actually really needed to hear this
Also, statistically speaking given the demographics of this site, you are now a disabled burnout.
friendly reminder to everyone that first draft just needs to exist.
it doesn’t need to be good, it just needs to be there. stories go through so many different drafts that nobody is gonna care if your first draft is a little messy.
you can’t edit and clean up something that doesn’t exist, so make it exist!
Sounds fake, but OK.
It was. A little sobering to read that you had never seen a cardinal in person before, ngl. Those things are everywhere where I live, and I see them all the damn time. I barely pay attention to them.
It was a good reminder to appreciate the wildlife I consider to be super common. Because cardinals are very striking birds for sure. I hope you get to see more of your wish list birds!
Someone made a comic about this with cardinals even!
At the start of this ask I assumed this person must live in the Vatican or something. Bit of a gear shift when I realised they meant the birds.
No offense but where are the male porn bots
Isn’t there a white guy to clutter up my feed?
Late at night I scroll and I block and I dream of what I need
I need a manwhore! 💥💥💥💥
Can someone PLEASE answer my question
do you ever just suddenly feel the weight of more years of exhaustion than you’ve been alive
i regret to inform you that this was george h.w. bush, 1988
One of the fun things about reading DTWOF today is that you'll be trundling along, knowing these comics are from the 1980s, and then *WHAM* 9/11 is in one of the comics, and you become that gif from the film where the dude go age fast.
“The old magic persists thanks to it’s unfathomable power.”
No, the old magic persists because the new magic can’t run the legacy spells I need to do my job, and keeps trying to install spirits I don’t want or need onto my orb.
Look, if the new magic didn't have a personality construct that kept trying to tell me which spells to use, maybe I wouldn't still be using the old magic.
Yes it had a deep blood cost, but at least it was a one time sacrifice and not this monthly bloodletting nonsense new age magic has
The old magic is robust enough to survive a decade of use and it's compatible with every wand, staff, scroll, and charm in our collection.
The new magic stops working after three days and every spell uses proprietary runes.
Our preferences, as an archiving institution, should be pretty clear.
You try to get guidance for the new magic and the king's sorcerers maybe will answer you in a few days with an unhelpful suggestion to buy the newest orb.
You need guidance for the old magic and a dozen retired middle-aged wizards will pop up to explain it to you rune by rune if necessary.
The new magic sells all my data to palantir.
My animation of a flour sack. Words can’t express how proud I am of these 11 seconds.
I’m so delighted people are enjoying this so much. It was one of my very first animations in freshmen year, after bouncing balls. I was so excited that I just poured time and love into this little guy, and I’m so happy a lot of people like the tiny story I told.
I like the little 'leg' wiggle after the jump!
Daily fucking reminder that Luigi Mangione is innocent, completely and fully. He has been convicted of no crime. He has had no fair trial. He is a SUSPECT. Luigi Mangione is entirely innocent and everyone needs to stop parroting this insidious propaganda that he “committed” the crime he is only SUSPECTED of. He is not a murderer. He is not a criminal. He is an innocent man.
Put this out about Luigi Mangione.
my soul leaving my body when the bread pops out of the toaster
Blanket coming off on a very cold morning.
The Vulcan children's hospital recently redecorated. I'm not convinced they chose the most logical option
What? They used perfectly logical colour theory.
I'm reading the Pathways to Work (benefits reform) green paper to be able to fill in the response form. And I want to set something on fire.
"We also need to be honest about the fact that, in the majority of cases leaving someone to be financially dependent on the state isn't the best outcome for them." Could they have found a more disingenuous way to say "fuck disabled people"??
Here's another, one of the five principles underpinning their reforms:
"Restoring trust and fairness in the system by fixing the broken assessment process that drives people into dependency on welfare."
Genuinely, fuck off into the sun. The unfairness and broken trust is from all the people who NEED welfare support are denied or granted insufficient amounts. Nobody with a brain and a heart thinks that unfairness in the "broken assessment process" is resulting in too many people getting approved. But that rather sums up the problem, doesn't it.
I couldn't make it to the local protest last night.
Why?
Because I'm too disabled!!!!
Think about how suited to work I must be.
