Woo! Got my desktop booted up for the first time in a super long time, and guess what I found? The precursor to the current character design I use for my character in Thoughts! This little gem happened right in between the super crappy, quick sketch style I used to draw in and the current less crappy more time consuming style I use now. More fun trivia: I believe this was the first comic I ever coloured. It’s not official Thoughtscomic stuff, but I thought you might like to see it.
Also, this picture serves as a handy dandy guide as to why my hairstyle is continually changing in the current comic: it denotes what mood the character is in, either a happy-go-lucky-pie-in-the-sky mood or a mischievously-destructive-and-slightly-violent-mood.
By the way, I’ve never understood what “Pie in the sky” is supposed to mean. I’m also too lazy to google it. Anyone care to enlighten me?
Link of the Post: An old favourite Onion article of mine
From the ankle down,
Nikki
PS I love how the mood thing looks like a zombie. *shrug* Don’t judge me.
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If I uh. Get ahead on my homework. I’ll have a chance to finish up some At Odds stuff.
Wish me luck?
Fuck you, you brainless fart in the tub! I wouldn’t piss on you if you were on your knees begging for it with a funnel in your mouth! I’d consider killing you if I thought you were actually alive you fucking twat! You aren’t worth the brown stain left on the mattress during your conception!
Heh, sorry I had to get that off my chest. It was bothering me for some time. Although it does provides an excellent segue into our next foray into the mind of me. Let’s talk about insults and the need to be mean. We all feel it, whether it be for a fleeting moment stuck in traffic taking particular joy in safely (read: arrogantly) cutting someone else off. Or alternately, making the one person we care about most cry, as Dane Cook said, “that one little tear” we ALL feel it. Let’s examine the need to be mean.
Being “mean” doesn’t always have to come from anger, but often enough does. Let’s start ourselves off with a ‘textbook’ explanation of anger. Anger: An emotional state that may range in intensity from mild irritation to intense fury and rage. Anger has physical effects including raising the heart rate and blood pressure and the levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline[1]. The external expression of anger can be found in facial expressions, body language, physiological responses, and at times in public acts of aggression [2]. Being mean can be referred to as “aggressive anger”, meaning anger manifested in hurtful, selfish, destructive or violent behaviour.
When someone pisses you off extensively what is your first instinct? Mine have a whole range depending on who it is that struck the foul chord with me. For example, a friend vs. a random douchebag at a bar. A friend does something to piss me off and I just want to talk it out right then & there, for better or worse. I’m not a very violent person, which probably has something to do with my not being one of those guys whose entire life is driven by a self-induced testosterone overdose. So I’d rather just have it out with someone, be it a quiet discussion or a screaming match, at least you get it out of the way. But change the situation and I’m at a bar and a guy decides he has a problem with me these situations have been known to very quickly escalate. I couldn’t count the number of times I’ve tried to talk / weasel my way out of a bad situation at a bar and been responded to with a punch in the mouth from some oversized gorilla with a brain the size of a small grape. That isn’t to say I haven’t instigated things coming to blows in my time, when a woman is the instigating factor in a conflict men turn into animals.
Begin mean for no reason though, can be hilarious if I might be so bold as to promote it. Indulge people! It’s a blast! I know I’m not the only one either, don’t even try to fucking crucify me people. I know you all picked on your siblings. You all have cut someone off in traffic. Pranks on your teacher, neighbours or innocent nobodies, it all counts! I’m not trying to encourage you all to go out and maliciously do something to hurt someone or endanger someone’s livelihood, I am however going to say this. Throw a little anarchy in your day. Do something out of the norm for you. If you are the guy who helps an old woman across the street at every opportunity, try being the guy who tosses pennies off a small bridge at unsuspecting locals. If a guy asks you if you can sell him any pot, send him on a wild goose chase around town for hours that cannot lead back to you and ends in exhaustion with no pot to show for it. Have some fun at someone else s expence. BE AN ASSHOLE, the world loves an asshole, we celebrate them, make television shows based around them even.
Alternately I could source you to my old article about the benefits of being nice if I had a copy of it. Sadly it was lost in the downfall of ‘Mad Musings’ former home on iseedead.com. But, fuck it. No one wants to read the past, skewer forward people!
Hold onto your hats and stay cruel!
-Jeffrus
Dsiclaimer: Be a dick, but don’t hurt people.
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[1] “Anger definition”. Medicine.net. http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=33843. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
[2] Michael Kent, Anger, The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine, Oxford University Press
BTW – I’m aware I didn’t go crazy with my cites & sources for this. I don’t want to hear a word.
I can’t speak as to the status of the new episode of ‘At Odds’, I haven’t spoken to Matt in a few days. But I have been working on a new article. Assuming all goes well and I don’t get buttfucked into a time delay look for it by Friday!
Fuck my feet,
Jeff
Wow. I wasted my entire holiday with things like video games, homework, and the occasional hangout with friends or family. How did I not post a single comic??? I have a few in the works, mostly in pencil right now. I could say that I’m going to get some up before I got back to school, but we all know I’d be lying. I just haven’t taken the time to sit down and ink anything. Or finish it digitally. However, I have been working on a bit of a comic strip for my English class, but no one really wants to see that. It’s about literary things (GASP!).
I’ll try to get a comic update posted soon. Maybe within a week? We’ll see how things go. Expect stuff from Matt! Pressure pressure pressure pressure!!
Hehehe…
Yours in evil footlessness,
Nikki.
So here I am, awake well after midnight and planning to get up early in the morning, and writing a little something to while away my insomnia. What the hell is wrong with me?! This is one of those nights where you just lie in bed and stare at the ceiling and hope to Batman that you fall asleep soon, but then you run through all of the things that you should have gotten done that day, or all the things you want to do in the next few days and then you start to stress and panic because you didn’t do any of the things that you should have done and you won’t have time to do the stuff that you want to do. (By the way, I’m a huge fan of run-on sentences.)
It really doesn’t help that I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep in more than a week. If anyone has any idea what’s been waking me up at 3:30 or 5:30 in the morning, please enlighten me. I’m not designed to want to suddenly snap wide awake at these Batman-forsaken hours of the night if I don’t have to.
On the upside, I don’t have to worry about the play anymore – it’s done and I have two or three pictures to show for my stage-makeup skills. I have one or two still rattling down the pipeline, but that’s what happens when you get near strangers to take pictures for you because you’re too cheap to bring your own camera.
Picture 1 - Preliminary stages of Adam’s makeup. There were a few too many people trying to be ‘helpful’.
Picture 2 – The Marley roar.
Picture 3 – What can I say? The overall effect was impressive.
The stage lighting kind of destroyed the makeup detail in these pictures (it looked much better from the audience), that’s why I had some good ones taken backstage. I’ll try to remember to post the other pictures once I get them. I just wanted to show these as proof that I DO stuff other than classwork.
Yours through insomnia,
Nikki.