My Aesthetic

Cute girls drawn dangerously close to large prehistoric creatures

I wasn’t crazy about this piece so I wasn’t intending on publicly posting it again, but it keeps getting stolen every five minutes so I figured I’d put it here so people at least know who to attribute the original thing to lmao

[Digital illustration, Procreate App, 2020]

there’s a future version of me who’s proud I was strong enough

By whimcity

I'm going to be incorporating "We no longer dare to imagine better worlds" into my vocabulary starting now

At this point I genuinely do not know whether the results of the presidential election will reach me via an actual news source or well.

An angel is a messenger, after all

Dragons

Daily sketch/painting #2, this time a unicorn [design based on narwhals -> “the tusk of the narwhal was sometimes sold as unicorn horn.”].

Art by Artem Chebokha

The Collectibles: Best of 2020

I made this comic for the literature festival ‘Québec en toutes lettres'. If you are in la ville de Québec, I believe you can find this comic displayed on a large panel or as a free postcard in these cute vending machines they’ve set up around the downtown. I don’t actually have proof of either, so if you are in Québec and you see my comic in the wild, please send me a photo!

The theme of this year’s festival is ‘climbing the light’ based on a line of poetry from Jean-Paul Daoust. My comic is a pretty abstract take on that. I was thinking about how great art can inspire people all over the world to create art, and how that art can then inspire future artists and so on, making this unending giving-and-receiving of light through our history. I was also thinking about birds (as I do sometimes), and how they do a similar thing with their songs.

The bird I’ve painted here is an Eastern Whip-poor-will, a night singer.

Actually cannot stop watching this

Good news the full version actually is on spotify!

Ok but you need to understand that if your business has shareholders, this is literally illegal.

In the U.S. it is federal law that a business must do everything within its power--including environmental damage and worker exploitation--to maximize investor profits every year, or those shareholders are entitled to sue the business and it will be dismantled to pay what they are legally owed.

Shareholders have too many rights.

The system needs to be overhauled massively, but shareholders should be able to sue for less and should be able to be sued (and prosecuted) for more.

You want to invest? Fine. That's what you're doing, and that's all you're doing. If you don't like the business's plans or how they handle their money, you sell your stock and go someplace else. You take the dividend payout you're given, and you're the last person in line when handing out money.

Your investment doesn't work out? That's what gambling is. Better luck next time.

We also need a law that says that if a company is convicted of a crime, it's board of directors and CEO are automatically guilty of committing that crime via conspiracy, and subject to the "for humans" laws rather than the "for companies."

That means if Wal-Mart steals millions in worker wages, the CEOs and Board are prosecuted as if they'd robbed a bank of that same amount. If Hobby-Lobby smuggles artifacts, the people at the top are prosecuted as smugglers and thieves. If a company dumps toxic waste into a river against regulations, well, if any individual human did it, we'd call them a terrorist.

And we need a law that makes it so that companies that settle with the government cannot admit "no wrongdoing".

This is also why enshittification begins almost immediately when a startup goes public.

“The ring is mine”

I had this idea for so longgg. It’s based of the Fallen Angel painting.

"Then suddenly a new thought arose – not from outside – a thought born inside himself: he would keep the Ring himself, and be master of all. Frodo King of Kings. Hobbits would rule (of course he would not let down his friends) and Frodo would rule hobbits. He would make great poems and sing great songs, and the earth should blossom, and all should be bidden to his feasts." --"The Story of Frodo and Sam in Mordor," Sauron Defeated (The History of Middle-earth Volume IX), edited by Christopher Tolkien, 5.