How to Finish

I drew this poster for Jon Acuff and his FINISH book tour. Big thanks to Jon for this collaboration, his book has some great ideas about how to complete creative and life goals.

2012 Artwork

Kyeong il Kim

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The sun is probably the closest thing we’ll ever have to a true Eldritch Abomination. Hear me out here-

dont talk or think about this please

source

This is how I used to teach a couple of students how to create vehicles or weird creatures when they had trouble coming up with ideas

Awesome!! :D

This is amazing

Charles Lee

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Here’s the thing about the air nomads.

I introduced a friend to ATLA a few nights ago, and they had only known two things about the entire show: the cabbage meme, and that Aang apparently wants to ride every large and dangerous animal he can possibly find. We got through the first five or so episodes, and my friend noted that Aang is exactly what a 12-year-old would be like if given godlike powers, and that this is literally just what he could do with airbending. He can’t even wield any of the other elements, and he’s one of the most powerful people on the planet, because he’s an airbender.

And that got me thinking.

This snippet from Bitter Work is one of the few pieces of concrete information we get about the airbenders, at least in ATLA. Iroh is explaining to Zuko how all four of the elements connect to the world and to each other.

Fire is the element of power, of desire and will, of ambition and the ability to see it through. Power is crucial to the world; without it, there’s no drive, no momentum, no push. But fire can easily grow out of control and become dangerous; it can become unpredictable, unless it is nurtured and watched and structured.

Earth is the element of substance, persistence, and enduring. Earth is strong, consistent, and blunt. It can construct things with a sense of permanence; a house, a town, a walled city. But earth is also stubborn; it’s liable to get stuck, dig in, and stay put even when it’s best to move on.

Water is the element of change, of adaptation, of movement. Water is incredibly powerful both as a liquid and a solid; it will flow and redirect. But it also will change, even when you don’t want it to; ice will melt, liquid will evaporate. A life dedicated to change necessarily involves constant movement, never putting down roots, never letting yourself become too comfortable.

We see only a few flashbacks to Aang’s life in the temples, and we get a sense of who he was and what kind of upbringing he had.

This is a preteen with the power to fucking fly. He’s got no fear of falling, and a much reduced fear of death. There’s a reason why the sages avoid telling the new avatar their status until they turn sixteen; could you imagine a firebender, at twelve years old, learning that they were going to be the most powerful person in the whole world? Depending on that child, that could go so badly.

But the thing about Aang, and the thing about the Air Nomads, is that they were part of the world too. They contributed to the balance, and then they were all but wiped out by Sozin. What was lost, there? Was it freedom? Yes, but I think there’s something else too, and it’s just yet another piece of the utter brilliance of the worldbuilding of ATLA.

To recap: we have power to push us forward; we have stability to keep us strong; we have change to keep us moving.

And then we have this guy.

The air nomads brought fun to the world. They brought a very literal sense of lightheartedness.

Sozin saw this as a weakness. I think a lot of the world did, in ATLA. Why do the Air Nomads bother, right? They’re just up there in their temples, playing games, baking pies in order to throw them as a gag. As Iroh said above, they had pretty great senses of humour, and they didn’t take themselves too seriously.

But that’s a huge part of having a world of balance and peace.

It’s not just about power, or might, or the ability to adapt. You can have all of those, but you also need fun. You need the ability to be vulnerable, to have no ambitions beyond just having a good day. You need to be able to embrace silliness, to nurture play, to have that space where a very specific kind of emotional growth can occur. Fun makes a hard life a little easier. Fun makes your own mortality a little less frightening to grasp. Fun is the spaces in between, that can’t be measured by money or military might. Fun is what nurtures imagination, allows you to see a situation in a whole new light, to find new solutions to problems previously considered impossible.

Fun is what makes a stranger into a friend, rather than an enemy.

Fun helps you see past your differences.

Fun is what fuels curiosity and openmindedness.

Fun is the first thing to die in a war.

OP went and ended hard with the last line.

Good stuff.

Diferentes razas de perro en versión guerrera, por Nikita Orlov.

listen….I dunno what that says but these are the fucking greatest

Maybe medieval people happened upon a T-Rex fossil and came to a relatively logical conclusion that dragons existed.

I’ve read a couple books on this actually, thats exactly what happened. Also cyclops are from looking at bones from a certain type of baby elephant. The giant note hole and tiny eyes made it look like a single eye.

Yep, can confirm! And what’s even funnier to me is that back in the dark ages, Greek people used to find a lot of prehistoric bear skeletons - and those look exactly like human skeletons, except they’re like eight feet tall or something - so they naturally assumed those were the heroes of legend, and made armour and clothes for them and reburied them with the most splendid and sacred religious ceremonies they could think of? Fast forward five centuries, Athens’ all modern and rational, philosophers and scientists aren’t taking any shit from anyone - but the problem is, people will randomly find graves containing giant-ass warriors, so that’s something that can’t be explained away and yeah, demigods were a thing and yeah, they used to be eight feet tall and sorry I don’t make the rules.

Some scientists suspect that the origin of the cyclops myths came about because of elephant skulls, which are vaguely human in shape but with a honking big hole in the middle for the trunk but easily mistakable for an eye socket without any flesh

A Chernobyl Horror Story by  Stefan Koidl

i’m a paypig

mistress told me to send money to people because i don’t deserve it

ill pick a few people who reblog this post to send 1000€, i’ll post proof later today

only “reblog for money post” that has a chance of actually working

sure why not

eeeh why not.

I mean hey it’s worth a shot! I’ve got experience with pay pigs, they’re usually not kidding around!

lets do this

Heck, I see no harm in trying.

Sure, why not. I really need the funds.

ehhhh sure

Doesn’t hurt at this point

Why not? :P

You’re getting tag-team parented on this one, Deku, you don’t have a prayer 

stole this quote from @innerarbitersoul 

my ko-fi :D

my patreon :D

insanity

If i lived here I would have to stay inside most of the time because going outside would cause my heart to explode and i think i speak on behlaf of most people too

So, it’s been a couple of years in the making, and I must thank everyone for their patience, as Bestiary Alphabetum vol. 1 and 2 are now available for purchase! As of right now, they’re only in softcover, but if the demand is high, I will upload hardcover editions as well. 

Volume 1:

http://www.blurb.com/b/8929384-bestiary-alphabetum-vol-1

Volume 2:

http://www.blurb.com/b/8929410-bestiary-alphabetum-vol-2

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Each Entry is clickable!  A is for Adaro

B is for Barghest

C is for Chupacabra

D is for Dryad

E is for Echidna

F is for Faoladh

G is for Golem

H is for Huldra

I is for Ijiraq

J is for Jorogumo

K is for Kappa

L is for Likho

M is for Minotaur

N is for Nuppeppo

O is for Ojancanu

P is for Popobawa

Q is for Quetzalcoatl

R is for Redcap

S is for Selkie

T is for Tarasque

U is for Urmahlullu

V is for Valravn

W is for Wendigo

X is for Xianfu-Zhiyu

Y is for Ypotryll

Z is for Zuttibur

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This has been an incredibly fun project, all the support I’ve gotten has been nothing short of amazing. Thanks everyone! 

-Nathan 

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