Vinnie Tesla ❎ @VinnieTesla@octodon.social
I wrote "The Erotofluidic Age," "The Eidolon Initiative" and various other works of whimsical filth. I overthink things.
@joXn Heeeere's what that reminded me of. It was tickling at the back of my mind until I happened to blunder onto it just now. https://twitter.com/rabihalameddine/status/936805899338792960
Writing comics is really visual composition. Pay attention to the size and number of panels per page. Pleasing comics have a distinct rhythm. Just for fun, read through your favorites and count - 4, 3, 4, 5, splash! #makecomics
roses are red
violets are blue
in surveillance capitalism
poem reads you
and shows you ads
for flower shops
and tracks your clicks
and never stops
it cares not about
if privacy's harmed
the money is green
when people are farmed
twitter is cyan
facebook is blue
your friends are the product
and so are you
I've discovered a new office game: ask your co-workers "how many holes are in a straw?" and letting them fight it out.
Infrastructure porn: the Counterweight of Damocles
@tauroid I was hewing to my model a little more closerly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_6:28
Consider the badger of the honey.
He careth not,
Neither a shit doth he give.
Lewd fruit, French Revolutionary Calendar Show more
Oh btw I've decided that "pachyderms" should be the Mastodon equivalent of "tweeps." Make a note.
I love how angry my fellow Mastodon noobs tend to bee about the "toot" terminology.
Microblogging and dignitude were never meant to cohabitate. my pachyderms.
@kalcobalt Only if you regularly check your timeline. So it really depends on how you use Mastodon and how you picked your instance.
❝Mexico in the 16th century—to speak of only one of its poetries, the Aztec—had eleven subgenres of lyric poetry that remain known to us: eagle songs, ocelot songs, spring songs, flower songs, war songs, divine songs, songs of orphanhood (also known as “philosophical reflections”), tickling songs, and songs of pleasure.❞ — Eliot Weinberger
I’m here for the tickling songs.
Why am I getting so much spam about 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄??
Valuable post about what happens when an artist's image going viral. It's by @lubellwoo (Lucy Bellwood) and covers both the intangible benefits, and the dollar earnings- with REAL NUMBERS. Read and learn!
To save time (and stay sane) pick 1 or 2 panels per page to be "throw-away" panels. The dialogue remains, but the art is a head in silhouette, or the character's coffee cup, or a tree outside the window. They should be panels where the context is already clear from one or more of the surrounding panels. This can save you an hour or more a day. It adds up.
The script may describe a detailed shot for every panel, but the script doesn't have the right to rob you of sleep and family. Be judicious.
@joXn a couple times I have ended up down the Eastern European ethnic rivalries of Wikipedia rabbit hole. It's hugely passionate, richly detailed, and often as unfamiliar as Volume 2 of a random epic fantasy trilogy.
There are some seriously rotund squirrels out there this month.
@ailispaw "I am sick and tired of this MFing duck on this MFing truck"
