David Perry

Hahaha, you're probably right.

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2025, from Mallory Bash!

#mallorybash #stpatricksday #saintpatricksday #stpatricksday2025 #saintpatricksday2025 #irish #green

It's March 10th, and you know what that means... It's MARIO DAY! I LOVED the battle level, so here's that, Mallory-style!

#mallorybash #mario #marioday #supermariobros #supermariobros3 #supermariobattlelevel #flyfighter #sidestepper #illustration #fanart #mariofanart #supermariofanart #nintendo

Super close! #14 is The Legend of Zelda, #20 is Venture Brothers, and #23 IS Jhonen Vasquez, but it's Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (not Zim).

I've illustrated Mallory in so many different styles. Give it your best shot!

#mallorybash #cartoon #cartoons #illustration #characterdesign #game #cartoongame #matchinggame #guessinggame #guessthecartoon

Mallory Bash and the gang have gone to Kanto!

#mallorybash #pokemon #kanto #avabaker #isaacaldo #sakitsukino #vulpix #spearow #cubone #gastly #tangela #diglett #oddish #ditto #anime #illustration #fanart #pokemonfanart

Happy Valentines Day 2025, from Mallory Bash! Mallory really loves gyros.

#mallorybash #valentinesday #valentinesday2024 #happyvalentinesday #happyvalentinesday2024 #february14 #feb14 #avabaker #isaacaldo #sakitsukino #gyro #gyros #love #heart #hearts #illustration #cartoon #comic #webcomic

But then, finally, we go were argument is abandoned entirely: dismissal, mockery, and petty gaslighting. The grease trap of discourse. The slippery dregs.

Only after those have been addressed can you wade into what's left: conjecture, suspicion, belief, or generic assertion. What remains in this space is so subjective that it's inarguable, and so this is the last bastion of a weak argument; it's the place rushed to when the outlook of success is poor.

I have a system for breaking down an argument. First, I deal with what can be empirically proven--things with material evidence. Then, deal with things that can be reasoned through using the structure of logic, i.e. deduction and induction. (1/3)

#argument #discourse #discussion #logic #reason

We can't navigate the complication of it, so we perform in spite of it, until we [think we] believe our own performance.

We don't know the difference between what we've constructed and what lies beneath it. One is driven too often by a desperate, secular attempt to synthesize meaning from social validation, and the other is the indestructible unknown reality that terrifies us.

--is the inability to see the difference between impassioned efforts toward identifying the truth of a situation and the emotional satisfaction of acting in adherence to the tediously curated identity/persona we've build for ourselves.

I'm beginning to believe that the greatest folly of the Millennial generation--the thing that gets us into the most chaotic trouble as a society--

As I'm finishing up the Mallory Bash film screenplay, promotional art has been necessary for a few things.

#mallorybash #milkcartonkids #avabaker #exodus #coyotegirl #animus #darkgarden #brookwoodforest #moonblush #moonblushvillage #nightdrift #illustration #littleredbird

They're burying themselves in each other, seemingly addicted to the reciprocated affirmation. Even Twitter didn't feel this pedantically adolescent and emotionally incompetent.

My experience here hasn't been particularly positive. It generally seems to be full of exactly the worst stereotype of Progressivist laymen and their self-unaware affectations, assuredly blocking any dissent of such sufficiently meticulous reasoning that they haven't the will to navigate it.

Just a little Saki splash art.

#mallorybash #saki #characterdesign #illustration

I'm not inclined to take Rolling Stone magazine as a particularly salient source of information on social morality.

An argument of convenience, not relevance. The parallel is that both are writings which communicate the views of an author. In the one case, generally a single author; in the other, many authors. A book is a collection of content created by a single..."pleb." Ironic name-calling, given its meaning.

Because whether I like something or not is no indication of its effect on the world, and I'd rather know its effect than be satisfied--or comfortable.

One of the defining prerogatives of an ideologue is to wave off any reasonable dissent as pedantry, so they don't feel an obligation to understand it before lazily criticizing it.

It isn't that it's senseless or misunderstood, it's that you don't care for the effort to acknowledge it.

If you've found yourself so embarrassed by discovering you were wrong that you can't bring yourself to tell the truth, you can be sure that you haven't fully matured.

Most adults have built up unconscious mental filters so elaborately obfuscating that they don't have to realize they're doing it.

"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." - Isaac Asimov

This entire comment section is the fearful, simple-minded madness of crowds. An echo chamber and nothing more. A representative microcosm of BlueSky, as it happens.

Your mental model of the world is a blinding, frantic fiction.

We're already a quarter of the way through the 21st Century! This is gonna be the busiest year ever, with the completion of the Mallory Bash film script bringing a return to a brand new L.A. pitch season!

#mallorybash #newyear #happynewyear #newyear2025 #happynewyear2025 #saki #avabaker #isaacaldo

...and Christmas!

...Star Wars Day, Mallory's Birthday, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and...

#mallorybash #holidays #holidaypostcards #postcards #illustration #digitalillustration #digitalpainting #avabaker #isaacaldo #sakitsukino #2024

It's New Year's Eve! Time for a retrospective of all the Mallory Bash holiday postcards from 2024.

Here's Valentine's Day, Mario Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter...

#mallorybash #holidaypostcards #postcards #illustration #digitalillustration #digitalpainting #avabaker #isaacaldo #sakitsukino

Art vs. Artist, 2024!

#artvsartist #artvsartist2024 #davidperry #characterdesign #illustration #screenwriting #animation

Merry Christmas 2024, from Mallory Bash!

#mallorybash #christmas #merrychristmas #christmas2024 #merrychristmas2024 #isaac #saki #santa #santaclaus #sleigh #reindeer #illustration