I'm not on your side.

Philosophers:

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Spy vs Spy but I'm back at it again with my nonsense.

Ages ago I loved these two as a kid and especially so when MAD came to CN. I somehow got reminded of them recently and had to draw them- with a twist of course :3c

this video is really fucking good. fuck big tech companies, fast fashion, modern auto, and those initial inhibitive greedy lightbulb fucks. planned obsolescence, creative waste, consumer engineering. 

shout out to plumber peach 💯

relationships and jobs are temporary. your shitty unpopular tumblr blog is forever

Spirit Sword 🐼

Commission for LopsidedInk on Twitter! :3

Higher res, timelapse video, and drawing stage snapshots on my Patreon!

you can pet the dog

Now imagine that's the actual novel. Tim struggles and fights against the authors will as he is slowly given less time in his own world. Seeing the very world he was born ignore him.

idle musings

There's a tweet that's gone viral where a person laments realizing that Star Wars "ripped off" Dune, and how learning all the elements Star Wars took from its inspiration tainted it. And I think it shows how poisonous the emphasis on originality in art can be. Because yes, it's wonderful when art makes something new, but it's also wonderful seeing how art plays on what came before, and the conversations it has with its predecessors.

There's going to be a lot of people talking about how much of an impact Goku from Dragon Ball Z has made on fiction in the wake of Akira Toriyama's recent passing, and all the characters who were inspired by him and his story. But Goku himself is derivative - he's inspired by the Monkey King from Journey to the West, one of the first novels ever written. He's far from the first character inspired by the Monkey King, either, and also far from the last.

None of this makes Goku's impact any less than it is. None of this decreases how Goku's story has inspired countless imitators. Just as Toriyama created a new icon from imitating what he loved about Journey to the West, so did Toriyama inspire countless artists to make their own iconic works with his take on the Monkey King's archetype. Goku is, in many ways, the heir to a legacy that spans back to the 16th century, and likely beyond - because I doubt the original Monkey King was formed in a vacuum.

We're taught to think that originality and imitation are opposites that cannot coexist, but they're not mutually exclusive. One can follow in another's footsteps and still take a new journey with its own unique twists and turns. The great works of art are not spawned in the absence of inspiration - they are in conversation with what came before and what will come after.