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ForeverAflame
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Technical Writer/Editor ¶ Certainly wishes he could force himself to make art sometime ¶ Aromantic ¶ Don't forget: if you don't like canon, get rid of it.
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Quick: somebody commission Alex Ross to illustrate Frieren, Fern, and Stark like this.
Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman illustrated in oil paints by Alex Ross. Each part of the three-part image is a crop of a larger painting. Each character's head and upper chest are featured.
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Once again, I apologize.
An image taken from the "Bohemian Rhapsody" music video by Queen.
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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"Face down on the floor" ↔ "Hanging on the edge of tomorrow"

But the arc of history trends towards the edge of tomorrow…
October 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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I'm sorry, but I saw this and immediately drew a visual parallel between these things and the thrones on which Organization XIII sat in Kingdom Hearts.
A screenshot from a Kingdom Hearts game. Colorful characters stand in the center of a white, brightly lit room. They are surrounded by white, inward-facing thrones that are very, very tall (as tall as tall trees, and tall enough that a normal person could not jump up to sit on them or jump down from them safely). A black-robed person sits on each throne. Many of the people have hoods that completely cover their heads.
October 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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A single-panel cartoon, "The Far Side," by Gary Larson, from August 5, 1983. A crowd of what appear to be sheep. Two wolves in sheep's clothing stand up in the center of the crowd and remove the masks of their disguises. A third is standing up and removing its disguise. An unmasked wolf exclaims "Wait a minute! Isn't anyone here a real sheep?" All the sheep in the crowd are, on closer inspection, just shoddy costumes (presumably with more wolves inside), suggesting that there are no real sheep—only hapless infiltrators.
September 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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My favorite part is the slightly enlarged left arm, presumably hypertrophied by Nephilim Power.

What a cool design. "Had it not been for the vows to your god, I would have married you"
A frame from the Ghanaian film "13.30 Kaba Church," in which a child about 10 to 12 years old brandishes a dagger. He threatens someone off screen with the blade, saying "Had it not been for the laws of this land, I would have slaughtered you."
September 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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James Cameron, on the other hand…
August 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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A panel from an illustrated comic. An old master in a robe with a staff says either "That's scary…I don't know…" or "I don't know…that's scary…" depending on whether you read from left to right or right to left.
August 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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A panel from an illustrated comic. An old master in a robe with a staff says either "That's scary…I don't know…" or "I don't know…that's scary…" depending on whether you read from left to right or right to left.
August 4, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Animation directors discussing the fourth episode with their crews:
A comic book page from Immortal Hulk #40 by Paul Mounts & Matt Milla (colorists), Ruy José and Belardino Brabo (inkers), Joe Bennett (penciller), Al Ewing (writer), and Cory Petit (letterer). It is the issue or chapter's title page. The Marvel character "The Thing" (Ben Grimm) dominates the composition, hunched in a fighting pose and looking toward the reader's point of view. He says "I know you know what time it is" to the Hulk, who appears in the foreground, emerging from the upper right corner and next to the reader's point of view. The Hulk has a dumbfounded look on his face, which is barely visible. They're on a wet boardwalk extending from a shoreline amusement park (maybe a Marvel comics version of Coney Island). The issue's introductory quote or possibly title is "So Here's The Thing," which appears in huge text along the bottom of the page, just above the comic book issue's credits.
July 31, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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I'm looking around for an artist to commission to illustrate a Surge the Tenrec version of that scene from "Pink Flamingos."

I don't even know anything about the Sonic franchise, but I'm always entertained by a hyper-aggressive character who loves to Externalize the Violence.
In the film "Pink Flamingos," a reporter asks Babs Johnson "Could you give us some of your political beliefs?" and she responds "Kill everyone now."
July 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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I played a funny trick on the #Splatoon3 players who forgot to destroy my far-forward Squid Beakons.
July 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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I thought he preferred the general body plan of the pterodactyl.

(Pictured: the character "Sauron" from Marvel comics, who is famous for turning himself and possibly other humans into dinosaurs. I apologize for this false misunderstanding in service of mild humor.)
Spider-Man confronts the Marvel villain "Sauron." Sauron looks like a humanoid pterodactyl. He says "With the DNA we liberated from the grave desecration you call a museum, I have perfected the saurianization process. You rice-paper puppets will be given forms befitting Earth's dominant species." Spider-Man replies "You can rewrite DNA on the fly, and you're using it to turn people into dinosaurs? But with tech like that, you could cure cancer!" Sauron says "But I don't want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs."
June 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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He seems like the sort of guy who would get along well with absolutely real American baseball players "Sleve McDichael," "Bobson Dugnutt," and "Mike Truk."

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A screenshot of white text on a blue background from a video game released in Japan in 1994 as "Fighting Baseball." The text is a list of names of fictional American baseball players. None of the names are very realistic, because they are each based on real names with several letters altered. Some names are very absurd, like "Sleve McDichael," "Bobson Dugnutt," and "Mike Truk."
June 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Screenshot from Final Fantasy 7 President Shinra says "The Promised Land will soon be ours." He is a murderous corpocrat. His company is the de facto world government. He is obsessed with a place called the "Promised Land," which in the religion of the nomadic peoples of the planet is a metaphor. He believes it is a real place, hidden on the planet, where he and his fellow elites will get whatever they want.
June 9, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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"Play Rivals of Aether 2! We have Makoto already."

The "Makoto" we have already:
Olympia the rat-shaped woman from Rivals of Aether 2. She's explicitly based on Makoto from Street Fighter.
May 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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"Just get married already," is what I thought.
This is an illustration of a black-haired female tour guide from issue 105 of "Komi Can't Communicate" by Tomohito Oda. The tour guide has just observed the two main characters doing something obliviously romantic, emphasizing how they could be in a happy relationship, even though they currently aren't. The guide has a look on her face suggesting that she is having difficulty restraining excitement. There is text in the illustration. Readers should read the text right-to-left, as the comic comes from Japan. The first text is the guide's thought, and it says "Just get married already." The second text is the narrator's explanation, and it says "[This] is what she thought." The last text is an indicator that issue 105 has come to an end.
May 19, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Your image's dimensions are smaller than the dimensions of the version I found earlier, but your image looks like it has fewer artifacts. I'll have trouble deciding which to use as a reaction image in the future.
This is a screenshot from the video game "EarthBound." It shows the final boss of the game, Giygas. The foreground features video game's character status interface, showing four characters, named "Bryan," "Lisa," "Ridge," and "Dan." There is a dialogue box at the top of the interface showing stream-of-consciousness dialogue from the game's final boss, Giygas. The background features a tiling pattern. The pattern shows a distorted, melting, nightmarish face made of and surrounded by swirls of blood, torn meat, or inflamed flesh. It's possible that the tiling pattern is actually a clever alteration of the boss's appearance in the previous game of the series, "Mother."
May 10, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Seconds later:
May 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Sexual activity:
May 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Is this what they call "Girl Dinner"?
May 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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This reminds me a bit of "Haah / Waaw."
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An edited version of the box art for the Xbox 360 video game "Halo Wars." The left side of the image is doubled to the right side and mirrored, creating a perfectly symmetrical image. The title now reads "Haah Waaw."
May 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Like Shel Silverstein, she looks like she's "Crouchin' on the Outside."
The album cover of "Crouchin' on the Outside" by Shel Silverstein. Shel Silverstein appears as a man in his 30s or 40s. He has medium-light skin and is a thin man. He has a dark, thick, short beard and dark, thick eyebrows. He is wearing a denim outfit and sandals. He appears on a cold beach and is walking through the edge of the surf. His pose is very strange and dynamic. It's a partial crouch that gives the impression that he is moving to his left and toward the viewpoint, almost like preparation for an attack, and his hands are slightly tense. His expression is a snarl. His chin juts out, and his thick eyebrows and prominent supraorbital ridge shadow his eyes, which glare at the viewpoint. He is menacing and alien.
May 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Sometimes I will see photographic records from megaprojects like dams and hydroelectric plants, which require fearsome and monumental engineering, and think that these things are also beautiful.
A crop of a promotional image from the Gainax/Shaft animated series "This Ugly yet Beautiful World" which only shows the title text in a white serif typeface of all capital letters. The poster is using the crop as a reaction image to represent how the fearsome and monumental engineering triumphs of modern megaprojects like dams and hydroelectric plants are also beautiful.
April 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Scroll to the last paragraph for a spoiler-filled explanation of the joke I am attempting to make. A shoulders-up illustration of Soma Cruz, the main/player character from the 2003 Game Boy Advance video game "Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow." Soma is a tall, thin, pale high school senior. He has grey eyes and straight, chin-length silver hair. He is wearing a white trench coat with very wide lapels and a white fur collar. The trench coat has narrow blue fabric ribbon sewn along the edges of the lapels, and small silver diamond decorations are sewn along the blue ribbon every few inches. He's wearing a black shirt under the trench coat, and it has a narrow collar. The image is edited to include a speech bubble above Soma intended to imply that he is speaking the post to which the image post replies. This is because, in "Aria of Sorrow," Soma becomes aware that he is the reincarnation of Dracula, heir to Dracula's powers of dominance over the supernatural. He discovers this when he is transported to Dracula's castle while viewing a solar eclipse in 2035. The castle was torn from the Earth in 1999 and sealed "within" a solar eclipse after the vampire's "final defeat," preventing Dracula's spirit and power from connecting with his subsequent destined body until the next similar eclipse.
April 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM