Honkey Kong

Drawing of Red Sonja, relaxing with a cup of ale in her hand.

Age of Innocence, when May breaks Newland. Winona Ryder is a devil incarnate in that scene.

An introduction post.
I am a freelance concept artist and illustrator based in western France.
I explore mostly sci-fi themes for movies, games and books.
Furthermore, I am currently working on my first art book, a compilation of personal works.

this is up there with Japan beating South Africa at the 2015 World Cup.

for the first time ever Italy has beaten England at the Six Nations! to think just a few years ago people were calling for Italy to be kicked out of the competition.

its all too sick. the world has real problems, serious, dire, urgent problems, and instead of addressing them these malignant psychopaths keep creating new ones for their own depraved amusement.

they're dragging us to hell, and hooting with delight at every step.

here's hoping Australia will do something sane for once and not follow the US into another bullshit war. and not just to 'protect' Australia. the US is a rabid dog, and must be treated like a rabid dog.

Jino's dark gift: VULCAN

#umbralchains

I don't care what the fanboys say, it deserved to be cancelled the first time.

Broncos struggled under the high ball in England and tonight. Mariner has that weakness. If he can't get steadier hands, Arthars needs a return.

Talty was good, really tried to light something up towards the end of the game.

Broncos as much beat themselves with too many errors.

at least the roosters lost too.

kurt fucking capewell

I'm planning to read the Makioka Sisters next. It and Naomi are both classics of Japanese literature, and its always good to read the classics.

'Lord Mushasi' is a bloodier historical story where psychosexual fascinations and revenge drive a man to obsession that can never be satisfied. Specifically a fascination around beautiful women 'dressing' severed heads, a grizzly part of samurai head taking culture.

Great stuff!

'Naomi' itself can be read as a critique of 'The Tale of Genji' and has shades of 'Lolita', though it predates 'Lolita' by some 30 years. A shallow read could see it as being about a 'rotten girl becoming a bad woman'. A deeper one says 'groomers deserve nothing but misery'.

Junichiro Tanazaki's 'Naomi' and 'The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi' were both great reads. Very much about the intersection of sexuality, power, and gender but explored in very different circumstances.

Freddie herself was a great female lead. The mystery was a bit shallow but the dialogue and character work kept the pages turning. I'm told its one of the lesser Fletch books, so I might make a mission to read the others.

I finished Fletch And The Man Who the other day. It's the first Fletch novel I've ever read. It was a fun read. the back and forth between Fletch and his designated love interest, hard nailed crime reporter Freddie Arbuthnot, was great. Some real 'My Girl Friday' banter.

at least I'm reading more this year.

I checked out Lapvona because people told me how dark, strange and even 'gross' it was but mostly I found it boring. I don't know if it was meant to be medieval or not, but it ended up both being a bundle of cliches without anything really new to say or entertaining enough to look past that.

Zeynep and Kawtar by Luana Saitta. A muscle-bound woman with a sword and a classic pinup beauty with a long braid.

A little sword and sorcery pinup @minillajovovich.bsky.social

Scar

the transhumanist cult is spiritual poison and as wholly apocalyptic as any religious one.

the psychopathic disassociation of social media, where you see all the horrors of the world interspersed with off key jokes and nice art. it really is a concussion machine.

Everyone likes some kind of brain dead slop. My brain dead slop of choice is the Extraction films. Chris Hemsworth just murdering his way through people while everything explodes around him. Love it.

people say medieval dog illustrations are inaccurate, but I'd like to present a counter example

I enjoyed Stoner, but its a 'forgotten' classic for a reason. It puts me in mind of Thomas Hardy at his more existential (Jude the Obscure). But where John Williams falls down for me is where Hardy thrives, in that Hardy's writing can be so particular at times it can only be the product of Hardy

The book 'Stoner' is held up to be a 'perfect novel' and it sort of is, but imo its 'perfect' in its stripped back style it ends up somewhat colourless. There are worse written books with far more literary power on the basis of their imperfection.

big fan of pig orcs

Orc raiders