LUKA I CRAVE HOBOSUSHI SO BAD NOW :C
and this is made particularly funny by the fact that I’m sitting in a classroom full of weaboos-pretending-to-be-hipsters WHOOPS
Amazing Webcomic Recc
(Art is obviously Luka’s.)
Okay, just because I really want to re-read it sometime soon and it’s in my thoughts, I thought I’d mention Kagerou.
This baby of Luka’s is over ten years old, and it’s a fascinating read- the art alone makes it worth it, as Luka’s art evolved dramatically along the way. Where else have you seen a decade’s worth of sequential art? His writing and grasp on storytelling get better and better as time goes on, and it’s incredible to actually be able to track the evolution of an artist/writer.
The story itself is complex and fascinating, and certainly not your run-of-the-mill webcomic. Kano Jurgen finds himself in a world that is full of magic, stumbles into a plot to change the rules of the world, and everything is trying to kill him to boot- but then again, he’s not exactly normal himself.
Or, to give Luka’s synopsis:
Princess Tonbo summons a hero from another world to save her realm from destruction. What she gets instead is a psychiatric patient from Earth who apparently shares his brain with a dead serial killer (and many of his victims.)
Trigger warnings for tons of violence, blood, gore, a few pretty horrific psychological situations, and some nudity. Don’t expect it to follow many tropes, because they all get broken at one point or another.
This summary was lame as hell and doesn’t do it justice, but I started reading this thing when I was 15 and have loved it ever since, so GO GO GO! It’s currently on hiatus, but there’s a huge backlog of pages to work your way through, so it ought to keep anyone occupied for quite some time. :)
LOVE SONG FOR NAKED LADIES
i love your sagging tits
your full breasts
your flat chest
tattooed, pierced, in every color
one’s bigger than the other
do i spy a watch-this-space since the hormones haven’t kicked in yet?
exquisite.
[the ass is a given
let’s just move on.]
did i mention your tight belly?
your tummy that sticks out like a big half-moon
dipped in from the corset
draped with gravity, unapologetic
whatever size it catches my eyes
not to mention those incredible thighs
people are afraid of thunder because it’s loud and gives no fucks.
and
i like your love handles
and your boyish abs that get you sneered at
and your stretch marks
and your bumps and lumps
your freckles and your dimples
the little scar you show off because kids are clumsy
the medium scar just because you wanted one there
and the big scar you wish people would ask the right questions about
not that i’d know but
just from observation
i suspect life tangled with the wrong lioness
that’s what i think
and sometimes you take a pen and you connect the dots
join up the moles all over your caramel skin to spell LOVE
and FUCK YOU
and I’M WORTH THIS
times like that, i’m pretty sure you’re a pirate
because [insert booty joke here]
or maybe a princess,
you could put on that candy-pink dress
with a skirt that goes on a mile
and knock my ass flat with a lipstick smile
did you know light shines out of the eyes you think are too pale
your eyes so dark they’re black
and from between your big crooked teeth with the gap in the middle
hell
you can’t help shining, it’s what you do
you take down the drapes and pow
fuck yes i’m looking
and yes
you’re amazing
hahaha what the christ i went to ignore/shun somebody i’m kinda tired of seeing around the fandom and i found specialshera and an ask blog i actually like on my blocklist! fixed now, but gosh fuckin darn it the new tumblr sucks so hard.
Wait, that’s what happened?! That’s why I wasn’t able to see your stuff on my dash? Jeeez, tumblr D: I ought to check and see if there are any people I’m blocking/ignoring that I shouldn’t be.
Tumblr, why’re you so dumb??? :C
I just love watching Luka and co. have posts related to social issues and characters. Inevitably, I get to watch the reblog chain dissolve into butthurt people wwhining because they find inexcusable behavior okay and are trying to excuse it away because of their ignorance.
And eventually, no matter how eloquent the try to be, their masks slip as they struggle to reply to the snarky, blunt truth that is Luka and everyone.
It’s like watching a train rushing to hit a little car next to the tracks, missing because its conductor is asleep, and watching the dudes and dudettes in the car party as the train burns. It’s a thing of terrible beauty.
Anonymous asked you:Hi! I love your artwork! You have such a lovely style, and your coloring skills are just phenomenal. I am just wondering, did you go to art school, or are you self-taught?no art school here, i pick up what i can from spying on artists i dig and trying to reverse engineer their techniques. the rest is trial and error, which means lots and lots of very public fuckups, but i’m ok with it. i’m a salami artist and a pirate and i know it.
boy was i happy the day i finally understood what layers were for. snaaaap.
one thing i like about doing a chaptered comic is that i use the best art from each chapter as the preview icon, so the archive page is a nifty little gallery that shows my progress of ability and changing style.
(as an aside, i’m redrawing the early chapters, but it’s not out of embarrassment so much as a combination of embarrassment and a desire to make printable media happen despite having only shitty artifacted-to-shit jpgs of those pages.)
Cho and Heyoka from kagerou brofisting in sexy clothes.
another commission finally completed!
Art of my two favorite badass babes from the webcomic I’ve loved since I was old enough to know how to use the internet?
Hell fucking YES.
I don’t remember how I found Kagerou, but DANG am I glad I did. Just look at these darlings. CHO’S BRAIDED TAIL AND DEM GUNS OH MY GOD flaunt it hun. And Heyoka. DANG, Heyoka, you have the best fashion sense. Rock dat errything.
(no but seriously art of these darlings, and any Kagerou coolkids, makes me happyflail. :> )
Anonymous asked: Do you read Luka’s comic?
SADLY, I have not, yet. I totally plan to sometime in the procrastinate.
SPOILER: IT’S A HAPPY STORY ABOUT HAPPY PEOPLE DOING HAPPY FUN THINGS
SEE? HAPPY! HAPPY AS FUCK!
It’s a shame that many of the people involved are a bit too old, otherwise this could share Homestuck’s tagline.
But yes, this comic is a wonderful multi-colored dreamcoat of a mindfuck.
stpu
specialshera replied to your chat: Would You Be My Server?
Would you be terribly offended if a friend and I recorded ourselves singing this?hahaha, have at it and send me a copy!
FILKSTUCK GO GO GO
PS - Make sure your Sollux gags a lot.
SONA. PUCK.
WHERE DOING THIS.
WHERE MAKING THIS HAPPEN.
I hope Sollux feels like sharing.
THE BEE… IT INFESTS THE INTERNET.
BUTH BUTH MOTHERFUCKERTH
Oh. My. GOD. I literally screeched aloud when I saw this. XDDD
I have melted ;_; I miss kagerou so fucking much right now aaaaaaa I am feeling the welling of inspiration for the first time in six months aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaNo, wait. THIS is the most fun group pic I ever did.
Suddenly I miss Kagerou SO MUCH AAA. *runs off to reread favorite sequences*
List of some of my favorite parts of Kagerou, just because:
- everything with Orbkiller ever
- everything with Kid and Fuuka ever
- Heyoka when she’s gotten out of the institution
- Red actually having some kind of weird respect for a woman (always wondered: is it because she’s goddess or a fellow psychopath?)
- omfg, the detail of the art in the god flashbacks <3
- Dark’s solo journey through
a salvadore dali paintingKano’s head- everything with Starless, especially her reaction to Nick and Tonbo making out and that training sequence, oh my- probably my absolute favorite period of the art in kagerou too.
- aaaaaaaaaaa~ too many others to list
I have been following this comic since I was a tiny thing in highschool, so I have just so many feelings! <3
Wait wait wait, are we having a Kagerou feelings jam? Oh hell yes, I am IN on this. =D This is, and has been for the last five years since I found it during high school, my favorite webcomic, hands down, and has inspired me so much I don’t even. I LOVE all of the things listed above, but let me add a few of my own~
- First off, the art evolution. I’m just FLOORED. I’m still incoherent from lack of sleep, so I can’t quite say what I want to say, but just … AGH. Back when I felt like I’d never get any better, I found Kagerou and it went HEY LOOK HOW AMAZING I AM AND HOW I STARTED OUT KINDA IFFY ARTWISE BUT JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT THE BEST ARTIST DOESN’T MEAN YOU CAN’T TELL A FUCKING AMAZING STORY SO GET YOUR ASS OUT THERE AND WORK HARD AND YOU’LL BECOME INCREDIBLE TOO to me. /dork
- CHO. Holy shit, Cho. I love everything about her. Back when I was a self-loathing overweight kid (still overweight, but I’ve learned to not give a fuck), I didn’t really like her transformation as the art went on, becoming more full-figured. But now? I fucking LOVE that. I love that she’ll wear whatever she wants, that she’s brave and has a fiery humor but also knows how to care about others. She has the most amazing mix of childishness and knowledge, and I find that incredible.
- Heyoka. Dear god, I love her so much. SOOO much. I was in love with her design alone from the second she showed up on-page, and despite the fact that I knew NOTHING about gender or anything back then, I rooted for her with all my heart. She was snappy and reliable and clever and absolutely, absolutely fascinating.
- Kano. I love him So. Fucking. Much. I want to know more about him, I want more of his dorky little references and hints that he might not be who he thinks he is, I want to know more about his fashion sense and how he processes the world and just EVERYTHING.
- The Gods. AGGGGGH. Just, the concept of these things blew me away alone!!! The depth of their connection to the world, the creativity in their designs, their personalities, EVERYTHING. Then there’s T’caolin, the insane god, which just brings up so many ideas in my head with her actions and her ideology. I can’t even express how utterly impressed I am with the ideas surrounding the gods.
- Kano’s brain. Holy shit. I just … I can’t express how fascinating I found all those chapters that deal directly with it. I can’t. Too incoherent. Just know that everything therein blew my mind. (ORBKILLER ILU SO MUCH.)
- Flashbacks. Seriously, every flashback ever. The ones to Kano’s days at the center are particularly fascinating, because having Heyoka actually come out and be blunt and seeing her reactions to Kano is a perfect plot device. We get to see how Kano was even in the real world, and I want more of that.
- That brings me to the little hints and teases, because GOD do I have such a violent one-way kissmessitude toward those. The hints and unexplained things are just something I love with all my heart. The part with Kano in the last bit of the first book, when he gets to the point where the foxkids have to seal him? I must’ve reread that a thousand times. The part where he does the whole sucky-soul thing to T’caolin when she tries to kill him? HELL FUCKING YES. It’s all of these things, and more, like the flashbacks and hints in the Zones, that keeps me coming back above all else. I want to know. I may never know, because it’s that kind of comic, but I’m totally okay with that. I love the ambiguous quality, I love having to wait for answers, I love trying to figure everything out on my own.
Aand done spazzing now. Sorry, guys. ;;;; I just have all the fucking feels for this comic. ALL OF THEM. I recommend it highly.
Too much creativity!
So, as happens every time I NEED to work on homework and have little time for anything else, I’m insanely inspired right now to do a ton of things. There’s just so much I want to write! I’m dying to write more Young Avengers, as I’ve had so many plotbunnies about them in the past few months, and just ajdslf;kaj. I know everyone seems to think I’ve abandoned that fandom in favor of Homestuck, but that’s just not true. I love all of the babies. All of them. It’s just that at the moment, Homestuck is tickling my brain in ways that are more easy to articulate than the deep feelings I have for the YA group.
ANYWAY. I just wanted to make a brief post about how amazing Vastderp’s A Sailorman’s Hymn is, because there’s this song on my playlist that reminds me of it every time I listen and drives me insane with the urge to draw something for it. I keep listening to Coheed and Cambria’s “Delirium Trigger”, and it’s just so fitting that it hurts. I want to draw something or make a video that reflects that kind of pain and intensity and just~ AGH. The Sufferer and the Psiionic are so tragic and amazing, and Vastderp is a fantastic writer. (And if you Homestuck fans out there haven’t read his Brainbent AU, you’re missing out. You really, really are. To be honest, it’s become more than an AU now. It’s really amazing.)
Anyway. Sorry. Had feelings and wanted to recommend some things. =D;;; I’ll be shutting up now and attempting to do homework. /sob
I’d like a quiet moment between Kano and Heyoka, please!
Lillian you just triggered my favorite K/H drawing of all time. I am so happy right now ohmygosh :3
This right here is my very favorite. <3
no wait, liking’s not enough, too cute, reblobbing required.
Seconded. Oh my god, these babies. I love these two. I want more of them together because they tug at my heartstrings. (Okay, TEAR is more like it, but meh. There is little in Kagerou that doesn’t tear my brain to pieces in the best way. ♥ )
