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⚠️NEW EX- SPINDLEHORSE MEMBER - KENDRAWS SOUR EXPERIENCE WITH VIVZIEPOP DOCUMENT AND EVIDENCE. ⚠️
So…this is a VERY big important post guys, so be alert and spread this as much as you can. You may know artist KenDraws, who was responsible for boarding on the Hazbin Hotel pilot, as well as WRITING too. Here is the links to the boards they did below:
Recently, I was given the opportunity to be handed a document they had created not that long ago, about their experience with Vivziepop, and why they and Viv aren’t fond of one another anymore and don’t work with one another. The document includes commentary by Ken themselves, and screenshots of conversations they and Viv had together. The timeline of the screenshots go from 2017, where Viv was developing the pilot, to 2020, where she was pitching the show, where Ken lists everything that Viv had done. Before I post the link, I want to show a message that Ken had said in the end, to why they made this document:
With that said, I ask that you PLEASE read all of this, to get the full context, and as I said, PLEASE share and spread this across the fandom and community. Here is the document link, all written by Ken.
DOCUMENT LINK: https://docdro.id/zyvFyCb
Do with this information as you will, but I ask that you spread this, so more people can see what kind of person Vivienne Medrano is, and more importantly, how something like this won’t happen again.
For now, I have no commentary, I’ll say my thoughts on my own posts, but for now I just want to get this out. PLEASE take the time to read it all, and please spread the message, and don’t pester KenDraws. Thank you.
Mad Ramblings #1: New aesthetic/literature idea. Pseudo-Solarpunk or Faux-Solarpunk.
1: Pseudo Solarpunk: So the idea came from for for designing “eco-friendly living”. But usually they come from corporations or governments. But mostly there made for fixing or making things better. But most of the time they never fully promise or they never get made. Most of the time there just made for looks. Examples include Dubais’s “sustainable” city or Saudia Arabias the Line City. There plenty of more examples. But I recommend looking into Hanzi Freinacht article We Must Reclaim Solarpunk from Authoritarian Regimes it’s really good and its what inspired me to come up with this idea.
So basically imagine a setting for a dystopia where the solarpunk is just aesthetics and no practical use. Or can only be used by a select few, aka the elite while the lower classes suffer. Basically the modern day but worse. Also add some authoritarianism into it and you got pseudo solarpunk or faux solarpunk. I might make another post probably going in much more detail, but no promises.
It’s currently 1:48 am, decided to write this before I forget it, feel free to do what ever with this idea.
Wait I thought European dragons where influence by geco-roman and ancient celtic myths? Then again it could be possible. But if I remember must legends of European dragons usually live in places like Africa and India. Which make sense that both places of venomous and large snakes living there.
Chinese influences on European dragons in the early Middle Ages
Yesterday, I read a chapter about the Parisian saint Marcellus from the book “Time, Work & Culture in the Middle Ages” by French historian Jacques Le Goff. In it, he alludes to the hypothesis, that dragon depictions from the Merovingian era have been influenced by Chinese motives that have come to Europe through cultures from the Central Asian steppe.
That certainly makes sense to me, since the Huns have had a presence in Europe up until the 5th century, but I’ve never heard of this hypothesis before. Le Goffs sources are all in French (for example “La Civilisation mérovingienne d'aprés les sépultures, les textes et le laboratoire” by Edmond Salin), which I can’t read, and a quick search in Google Scholar didn’t bring up anything interesting.
Does anybody know if this hypothesis is still considered? The book is from the late seventies, so maybe it’s something that never caught on or has been discredited since then, but I haven’t found anything on that, either.
Night Emporium by Yuri Hill
Wayne Barlowe is a legend! I have the original copy of Expedition and I hope Cryptozoo becomes a thing because Barlowe is an underrated storyteller in my opinion.
Paintings and Drawings by Wayne Barlowe for an unrealized project called "Cryptozoo." Barlowe hasn't revealed much about it other than that he's written a screenplay for it and has been shopping it around for years now. Personally I can't imagine how this would work as a movie, but it seems ideal for the Barlowe's Guide format...
Griffin
Phoenix
Manticore
Another sketch for the Griffin design
I dont know what to say but this is pretty cool!
I always get a lot of comments about the 2-key pony keyboard. I wanted to explain how I think they could work. I've been told there is an input device called orbiTouch which works on the same principle.
Is that Jerma??
i know it’s pretty stiff competition but I’d REALLY like to nominate Stygiomedusa gigantea as a hot contender for “most fucked up thing to blindly brush up against while swimming in the abyss”
kindergarten field trip day
Might redo this one. Its been a while I’ve done anything weirdcore or dreamcore related.
Louis is also canonically a child trafficker, he sold herbivore children to be eaten.
Beastars fans are so funny. Louis is a literal cannibal and you all are like “woah, Haru had a few consensual and non-abusive hookups in high school? :/ yikes”
Observation: Nurse sharks are Marine cats
I’m sick of all the brooding vampire stories. Like, I want a vampire like Elle Woods from Legally Blonde. Just a girl who’s all in the pink girly stuff and OWNING IT.
Like, Imagine a family of dark Victorian Vampries who are very traditional with a vampire daughter who’s wearing a Y2K pink sparkly jumpsuit with her nails freshly painted and her familiar toy poodle in her purse.
“Oh yeah! My Dad is Zachaeus Van Hellwrithe the III! I know he looks like SUUPPEER intimidating but, like he’s super sweet. We even got our nails painted together! :)”
She’s not treated like an outcast from her family and they fully embrace her pink sparkly quirkiness.
This is the most disgusting and horrifying thing a A.I has ever created.
I love it
I’m actually doing it. Expect a monster dating sim… eventually.
Wanted to keep this a secret for some more cuz i still got a load of work to do (not even halfway done yet lol) but i couldn’t help it.
In the meantime, why don’t yall ponder the eligible bachelors/bachelorettes? Who is fave?
This perfectly describes beastars.
Here I see a countless "how herbivores are opressed" and "how carnivores are opressed posts, and while usually they get uncomfortably too close to paralleling each to a real instance of opression (i see herbivores' opression compared to gender and carnivores to race a lot, for instance), which is not really possible due to the nature of herbivore/carnivore dynamics in the actual text, i do largely agree with a lot of the points. However, a thing I really dislike is how in these posts the struggles of one side are always used to negate the struggles of the other. I don't actually think the point of the manga is "are herbivores or carnivores the ones who have it worse", but rather how these conflicts clash in a way that pushes society's entire narrative.
I think one of the best things about Beastars is how it allows us to analyze some things about our on society without being a complete parallel to it, and how it presents the unique perspectives of each of the characters. In every one of them, we are shown how society at large has affected their sense of self-worth and put them into a box.
For carnivores, their opression is largely focused on society's refusal of adapting to their needs and forcing them into submission to create a more friendly and palatable image. Not only meat-eating instincts are incredibly hard to supress, specially under emotional turmoil or stress, but they're even asked to literlly hide their fangs and claws. I think Riz is the character that represents that opression in the best way. The society he lives in is simply not made for him (breaking things is not unusual), but instead of large-scale adaptation process that help make bears' lives easier, they're forced to take pills with terrible physical AND psychological side-effects that don't even solve the problem to its full extent. Easy solutions that don't account for the roots of each problem are an emblem of the narrative. That's true in the case of bears but it softly extends to every other carnivore, who live in fear of hurting or even killing the very second control is lost, which is something society at large completely fails to adress.
On the other hand, herbivores are characterized by their fear of dying. And it really isn't too prejudiced, it's a completely real and justified fear. You are as likely to be killed by a random carnivore in the street as you are to be killed by a carnivore that actively likes you and enjoys your company. There's no winning scenario other than mantaining your distance. And while it's true that some herbivores have a superior class standing, that goes mostly to middle-sized ones like deer and horses. Small herbivores have none of that privilege, and their lives are seen as expendable - especially in the case of Haru, who is one of the best herbivore narratives imo. There's also the fact that society puts most of their worth in their bodies, both sexually (like Cosmo, who is seeked out by carnivores for that exact reason) and as products (like the cows being exploited for their milk). As a result, specially small herbivores rarely have any authority at all.
I think the best way to explain how their opression goes both sides is with predation cases. Let's take Tem's death for example. His death is manufactured by the media to spread fear-mongering and vitriol against carnivores, and carnivores close to the incident are much more likely to receive bad treatment. However, this doesn't actually come with any benefit to herbivores. The authorities made zero effort to actually investigate Tem's death. Riz did absolutely nothing to actually clean up the scene or his tracks and even Pina acknowledges that catching him should have been ridiculously easy, yet they did nothing. The incident was used to increase conflict between species without addressing the root causes of it.
And it's seen time and time again. The mayor refuses to do anything about Haru being *literally* kidnapped and having her life in danger simply because it might put his image and management under a bad light. Yahya uses his power and influence to get what he wants (cough murder juice), and what he actually does for society (catching criminals) doesn't actually do anything to solve the root causes of those issues, because conflict benefits him. It is "those in power" who can feed from the vitriol in society. And "those in power" cannot be pinned on one or the other either, because just as the company owners with influence over the economy are mostly herbivores, the police who violently enforce society's rules and enjoy positions of power are carnivores.
That's why I don't think that what it is to be taken from the manga is as easy as "carnivores are the most opressed" or "herbivores are the most opressed", but rather "carnivores' and herbivores' opression is used to manufacture conflict in a way that benefits those in power and perpetuates the status quo".
Beastars Religion in a Nutshell
The idea of a religion based on venerating/worshiping prehistoric animals, sounds really interesting! But sadly it hasn’t been well developed. For some reason its only dinosaurs that are venerated.
I could understand that Paru doesn't know about other prehistoric animals. But the whole thing could of been way cooler. Imagine a polytheistic religion where a species, taxa or whatever worships a prehistoric ancestor.
If you wanna know what the prehistoric animals on the right. They are, paraceratherium, Gorgonops and Tiktaalik.
This is way better, what was in the movies. It actually looks like a theme park!
Early Jurassic World concept art by John Bell
https://jpnostalgia.tumblr.com/
I’m definitely Chad and Paul
Which frog are you? I'm Charles and Chad.
I actually saw this in the walking with dinosaurs live show in CT. I used to have an behind the scenes book and dino slippers. But back then the T rex didn’t have feathers. It was really awesome and I still have fond memories about it!
Giant animatronic dinosaur outside bbc hq! Wow! Credits: BBC
Alex gives no fucks. AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND!
GET THEIR ASS
Please reblog to help this lady
it won’t “ruin your blog” imagine if you were in her shoes
The Hello Hole
Abyssalcore
What is abyssalcore about?
Abyssalcore is about the ocean abyss and the animals that inhabit it. I always liked the ocean abyss and deep sea animals in general. Also the cool vehicles like submarines and ROVs used to explore the ocean. Shipwrecks like the titanic looked really cool as well. So I was bored and decided to make it.
Visuals
deep sea creatures
research submarines
shipwrecks
ROVs
whale falls
marine snow
hydrothermal vents
bio-luminescence
Is it me or does the bottom wyvern, look like the dragon from Shrek?
Who wore it best