Happy Pride Month 🏳️🌈
Short comic I’m doing for patreon. A request for a comic with shapeshifting gone wrong. Here’s the first two pages so far <3
-COEY!
PAGES 3 + 4 PAGES 5+6+7
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Spotted Harrier aka Smoke Hawk (Circus assimilis), family Accipitridae, Coraki, NSW, Australia
Photograph by Evocati Joel
“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”
— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)
A goof trying to make a smol laugh and smile (I think it worked)
In my mind's eye, I see them sitting there, and Meryl is getting way too quiet and in her thoughts (probably wondering how she was going to convince the cities that Vash isn't who they think he is) and Vash, ever the one ready to remove the worries of others and putting it on himself, takes it upon himself to pull her thoughts back and try to make her laugh.
I'd write a proper story to pair with this if I was a better writer.... 👀but I wouldn't say no to anyone who wanted a go.
Wisptober Day 6: Vestige
"There used to be a mage living out in the woods, say the villagers. However, if you happen upon the vestige of the old atelier, all you might ecounter is a huge beast that has forgotten how to be human.“
Is this accidentally inspired by Witch Hat Atelier? Apparently.XD (I swear I only realised while doing the finishing touches.I blame it on me adding a cape.XD)
