Latest Posts by kevinthecantaloupe - Page 4
YOUR character lives rent free in your head. MINE pays the rent by being my court jester whenever i summon them to entertain me.
2021 vs 2025
this was originally a meme redraw but for the life of me I can't find the original image. I definitely improved a lot even when drawing shitpost haha
"There are no principles a mortal can hold fast in the face of eternal, unending hunger" and it's over a panel of Falst and Dainix??
Falst's mom attacking him "it wasn't her anymore;" Dainix holding fast the ideal of hunting monsters to protect people- it being the only thing he could hold on to in the arena; "I can keep you safe! But I can't do anything if you don't shake off the Void;" "To the Dragon, hunger is fundamentally selfish... it doesn't even know what it's so desperate to have... when you hold the essence of hunger, stripped of pretense and pride- I wonder if you'll recognize the feeling;" "...you did it"
sorry I was rereading and saw this and got excited. These two guys have seen and felt principles and ideals destroyed in the face of the insatiable hunger of void corruption. And yet.
Look I think there's a short essay I could write here but currently all I've got is my brain going, "IT'S ABOUT DESIRE" and screaming.
kind of unrelated but I think it's also neat that Kendal and Alinua are with "you will break and then he will use you to break the world" as that also feels related to the chimeric plague and what the collector hopes to achieve by unraveling Vash's soul. I don't have a good connection with Tess so you get these two sentences instead of a post about that.
Got myself all prepped for the next Aurora chapter
So like, escapism being an inperfect coping mechanism, whatever, Isn’t it crazy that we can construct whole worlds in our head? Like, yeah those are my guys. Yeah they exist only in my head, but they are wholly real and have lives of their own. No they don’t know who I am. Yes I would die for them.
I can open up a comic, or a book, or a show, any story really, and bam, another world. One that feels just as real as ours, yet only exists in the minds of those who read the story. They don’t actually exist in the real world, no matter how much it feels like they do.
It’s crazy man.
so I've been thinking about school au a bunch lately and no I'm probably not writing the next episode anytime soon sadly but I can at least do some little doodles and think about details. Also I swear I keep changing the name of the damn school but i think I'm going for widdershins community college for sure now
READ SCHOOL AU PLEASE IT'S ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD LIKE MY MAGNUM OPUS!!
Falst playing card
Well y’all liked the Dainx card so I guess I’m doing all of the main cast now
@comicaurora
Not as happy with how this one turned out but the symmetry was HARD on my angry floofboi
Chapter cover art! Woo! Doesn’t look like red posted it on tumblr yet so I figured I’d put it out there
We ALMOST Had Lost TGS Media…
Sage’s Confrontation animatic has been RECOVERED!!!
Original description:
" This is a little storyboard challenge I set up for myself. :) I wanted to board something to music, so I decided to go with the track that originally inspired my obsession with the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was in highschool.
My overall thoughts on the musical are . . . elaborate and complicated, but Anthony Warlow's recording of Confrontation has always been the fan favorite. I've had the song memorized for some eight years now, which actually accounts for some of the weirdness of this assignment. The thing is that I've had it memorized so long that I don't actually listen to it much anymore, and I hadn't recalled just how deep Warlow's voice is, especially as Hyde! XD In the years since I had developed my own adaptation of the original Jekyll and Hyde story, which calls for rather different designs for the characters (i.e. Hyde is tiny! tiiiinyyyyyyy) which I fear do not match the voices nearly as well as I would like. :|
Also I'd forgotten just how SLOW the pacing is for this song early on! Please try not to fall asleep! "
Details of the recovery under the cut!
In 2013, Sage uploaded the animatic to Vimeo. There it stayed for a few years until it was linked in the description of Ch 2, pg. 33, where the scene on the page was said to be a partial remake of that animatic.
Around the end of 2024, the link stopped working. The rest of Sage’s work was still available, but the animatic had been completely erased from the site for seemingly no reason.
My first thought was to use the Wayback Machine archive, so someone in a Discord server tried it and managed to get a link! Unfortunately, the site was slow and you could only see the cover of the animatic.
But by MIRACLE, someone had saved it to their phone for years! As of Jan 14 2025, the animatic was recovered in full!
Special shoutout to @jekylls-crippling-depression for her service to the TGS fandom! Thank you! 🙏
I call this one
Fire Starter.
This is Dainix from @comicaurora. Not a whole lot of symbolism to say for this piece. I just wanted to draw my favorite fire boi <3
As for technical things, I used 6B Pencil from Procreate for the ink (I’ve been using it so much since I discovered it; WHY WHERE YOU ALL HIDING THIS FROM ME?) and a custom coloring brush I made. I used a whole bunch of chromatic aberration and red/blue rendering bc it looks amazing, but the hardest part was trying to render the fire in Dainix’s cruicible form. This was mostly a practice for an upcoming project of mine, but it went out of my control and ended up as a fully rendered piece.
woah this character is so cool i wish they were covered in blood their whole body trembling with a look of absolute horror on their face as theyre struggling to breathe in panic
My first ever post on tumblr and it's one of the silliest things I've drawn in a long while lmao So uuuh Kendal's Pro Skater
The raddest guy this side of Vash
Kendal's from Aurora, by @comicaurora (I'm so sorry) (It did make me laugh a lot while making it tho)
I always wanted to try making a pmv so have this test thing.
I would have done the whole thing but i ran out of ideas because there's so little scenes of them.
why is the timing all wrong what is going oooooon
I figured I would post that TGS essay that I did for my english class that I was posting about before.
The Strange Case of the Glass Scientists
Stories reflect the time period they were written in. Authors use their life experiences as inspiration for their stories. As society changes, so do the life experiences authors use to write their stories, therefore the stories themselves change to reflect society. When a story is rewritten by an author from a different time period, the changes the rewrite makes reflect the changes in society that have occurred. Such is the case for The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Louis Stevenson, and its rewrite, The Glass Scientists by Sage Cotugno. The differences between the two stories show how society has changed over time. The format of the story has changed, the way the characters speak has changed, and the story has been rewritten with queer themes.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written in prose. At the time, for a story of its complexity, prose was the only way to record such a story. However, technology has advanced since the writing of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, allowing for more varied forms of storytelling. Along with prose, stories can now be told through movies, video games, comics, and other such mediums. Even if Stevenson wanted to , he could not have told the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde through a webcomic, the technology just did not exist at the time. His options were much more limited than those of storytellers today. Cotungo had a greater amount of options available to them when deciding what format to tell their story in. They were able to make the choice to tell their story as a webcomic as society has advanced enough that the technology exists to give them that option. Comics are a popular form of storytelling nowadays, whereas when Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written, they were unheard of. The internet also did not exist when Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written. In order to read the story, the reader must have had a physical copy of the novella. To read The Glass Scientists, the reader needs a device and an internet connection. The Glass Scientists is a retelling of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but advancements in society have allowed their formats to be drastically different. The difference in format shows just how much society has changed over time.
Along with the medium, the language used to tell the two stories is different. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is approaching one hundred and forty years old. People do not talk the same way they did one hundred and forty years ago. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written in the 1880’s for an audience of people living in the 1880’s, meaning the language it uses is appropriate for that time period. The Glass Scientists on the other hand, was written in the 2010’s to 2020’s for an audience of people living in that time period, meaning that the language is much more modern. The English language has changed between the 1880’s and now. This is clearly shown through the difference in the dialogue between the two stories. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, while explaining his relationship with Dr. Jekyll, Dr. Lanyon explains, “But it is more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind: and though, of course, I continue to take an interest in him for old sake’s sake as they say, I see and I have seen devilish little of the man. Such unscientific balderdash would have estranged Damon and Pythias.” (Stevenson, 36) While this was once how people talked, it is evidently different from the way the characters in The Glass Scientists talk. The following is a conversation between Jekyll and Lanyon in The Glass Scientists,
(Cortungo, chapter 3, page 12)
Both characters are Lanyon, however they are speaking in a different manner, one which is appropriate to the time period they were written in. Lanyon in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde speaks much more formally, whereas Lanyon in The Glass Scientists is much more casual. Comparing the language between the two stories shows how society has changed over time.
Just as the language changes between the two stories, so do the themes. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the faults that Jekyll uses Hyde to indulge in are never revealed. One possible explanation , and one of the explanations The Glass Scientists gives, is that Jekyll is using Hyde to conceal his queerness. In his full statement of the case, Jekyll writes, “And indeed, the worst of my faults was a certain impatient gaiety of disposition, such as has made the happiness of many, but such as I found it hard to reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public” (Stevenson, 81). It is not the only possible explanation, however it is possible to interpret Jekyll’s so-called ‘fault’ as queerness. During the period when Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published, being queer was considered improper, and not something that was openly discussed. If Jekyll is queer, then as a man of high society, he could not both be out and maintain his reputation. This taboo also would have prevented Stevenson from confirming Jekyll’s queerness in the text, if it were to be the case. In the modern day though, queerness is much more accepted and discussed. As such, The Glass Scientists is able to directly explore the queer undercurrent in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In The Glass Scientists, Jekyll is canonically queer. The following panels are from an interaction between Jekyll and Lanyon,
(Cotungo, chapter 11, page 21)
While he is not comfortable being out, Jekyll in The Glass Scientists is undeniably queer, as shown through his relationship with Lanyon. Society’s views on queerness have shifted since Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written. It is no longer taboo to discuss or write stories about queerness. As such, The Glass Scientists is able to be explicitly queer, and is able to explore this angle of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This shift in attitude around queerness in the two stories shows how society has changed over time.
The Glass Scientists is explicitly queer, whereas Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is not, which is one of the differences between the two stories, along with their difference in format and their difference in language. These differences reflect the changes in society that have occurred between the writing of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and now.
OK I actually made two of these
Did I ever upload this here?? not sure. Here you go. ^^
Aw man Erin’s about to be going through it when he wakes up.
A retelling of me reading todays Aurora page:
- Page loads
- Audibly, ‘WHAT’
- I start hyperventallating
- In my head, ‘Ok Kevin, you gotta calm down they’re fictional characters and they’re going to be ok’
- Breathing slows
- Scrolls to the bottom half of the page
- Sees the last panel and nearly cries
I hope you’re happy Red
heat rock
if anyone's wondering about some of the decisions behind this one:
i lined + shaded with the dry ink brush on procreate because it looked similar to the one used in falst's flashbacks about his mother. it seemed fitting (even if this isn't a flashback)
he is so soggy. i tried my best with the hair and it came out better than i'd hoped
there's a sort of watery light on the center of the image because i wanted it to feel lonely and overcast. the edges are so close to him because i wanted it to feel claustrophobic
do you think the dainix rock is warm to the touch?
Trying to do more fan art of stuff I love so I did a little doodle of Vector from Castoff! And I gave him some birb friends. YALL GO READ CASTOFF what an awesome webcomic omg
Local wizard remembers his actions have consequences
(characters are Ariana, Marina and Sage from @castoff-comic made by @thestarfishface)
When Opening a Jar of Pickles:
Somehow always opens it with ease 🤨
Gives up after struggling for a bit (and going through all the stages of grief)
Runs it under hot water
Asks the person above to open it for them
Uses a knife as leverage
“If I can’t have this… no one can” *Throws it in the trash*
Doesn’t like pickles
