Palimpsest Monotype

YouTube video by AnikaNillesVEVO Anika Nilles - Pikalar

youtu.be/q0kqZEgjQtU?... she’s incredible, I finally understand what Ginger Baker meant about drummers who have ‘time.’ She has all the time in the world when she drums, she knows exactly how to fill every space and is in no rush to get there.

I know I still need to lay down some atmospheric shaders, but I’m still really happy with how this page came together and what it decided it needed along the way.

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False Truth by Anika Nilles on Apple Music Album · 2025 · 15 Songs

music.apple.com/us/album/fal... Apparently this is Rush’s new drummer, for touring and possibly new material.

I’m not sure how to convey how awesome this prog fusion work is, just imagine you expected to go to a derelict barn and I surprised you with a fully functioning state of the art themepark

Ozymandias never knew peace. Neither will they.

If you could do the work you wanted to do, like the job or career you’d be most fulfilled/satisfied/happy doing, in the way you’d want to do it…would it still matter to you what other people called your job? Should it? I think it should.

Unnamed Waters by Hello Meteor on Apple Music Song · 2020 · Duration 2:56

music.apple.com/us/album/unn... May you always keep your head above the waters and below the parapet

Hey, we may never have sufficiently advocated for ourselves or the less fortunate, but we sure bought a lot of shit because of unresolved trauma from the great depression and some weird belief that capitalism couldn’t hurt us again.

Don’t try to make art at the end of your day. I’m not saying it’s a bad idea but in my experience it’s too much like trying to go up the hill backwards, it can be done but it’s more often rare, and rarer the sense of reward for the effort.

It’s 3 pm, and I’ve been up for twelve hours.

Red Bull it is.

I saw the Gabbie’s Dollhouse movie today. It’s a much better version of James Cameron’s Avatar-and I don’t even hate Avatar.

Seriously, go see Gabbie’s Dollhouse. It’s gonna break your brain.

It’s a cheap tactic but people who believe they have power often goad others into false battles in order to weaken them before pursuing their actual goals.

holy crap P.G. Wodehouse is like the most fun I’ve had reading in like twenty years, I cannot believe how good this writing is and I’m only twenty pages in

Anyway. Cat woke me up early so I watched more of @patstaresat.bsky.social’s Silksong playthrough and worked on my comic. People always take the most work to get right, in life and in art

Fascism is a cancer phenomenon in human endeavor.

I am afraid this may be a symptom of human civilization that underpines our accomplishments as a species, something we will have to always work against.

This is how we get a public who feels unwilling or thinks they are unable to stand up for what is right, and allow bad leadership to do even more harm. It’s the refusal of self-care at a communal, societal, environmental and cultural level.

In a larger scale, this leads to jaded indifference in the suffering of others, of inequality, of abstract harm. It leads to the idea that if misfortune befalls someone, they must somehow be at fault and deserving of it.

Abhor cynicism. Abhor intolerance and intellectual dishonesty. It is a sign of pain that desires to spread itself.

This gradually builds bad leadership. Bad ideation. Control at any cost, the ultimate prize.

Thinking more on this, I believe personal frustrations and unresolved issues in individual lives can gradually build up leading to strange and unproductive thinking in at least some people, begetting cynicism and intolerance. A belief that life cannot improve, and resentment towards those who try.

Up late early, musing on groupthink and how these modern times might reveal an aspect of humanity preferring to do reliable harm at great cost over uncertain good.

I’m not saying Lego can’t make something worth that much, but really, what the fuck is the point of a lego set that costs A THOUSAND DOLLARS.

A THOUSAND DOLLARS, PEOPLE.

okay, shit’s getting real now. the composition is beginning to unlock but also lock in

so much of what I do is staring at what I’ve done and making sure it’s what I want to be doing

making comics burns a ton of brain energy

favorite new @procreate.com feature I’ve discovered:

1) draw thing
2) go to layer it is on
3) select ‘select’
4) go to different layer
5) three finger drag for copy&paste, select ‘cut’
6) @procreate.com subtracts whatever was on the first layer from the second, allowing negative space extractions

getting places

Comics have been fundamentally misunderstood for at least few decades now. They’re not like video games or tv or even rock music, if you read them but don’t ever make your own you’re doing it wrong.