Living with Kryptonite: August 2018

2018-08-31

2018-08-30

2018-08-29

漫画 What is Left Over After Fear Splits Off?

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I don't have any mermaids-of-color, I don't think. I should probably develop some. I have a Japanese one, Umiko 宇美子 I should update Umiko to be more of a lionfish or something. Shark fins or something for African or Caribbean mermaids?

2018-08-28

Mermaid MMCXVIII

2018-08-27

模倣子 Republicans Next Door

Essay in its own page...

漫画 Lenny Contemplates Proto-Joy

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Mermaid MMCXVII

Another mermaid tattoo that would probably not be my first choice.

2018-08-26

Mermaid MMCXVI

2018-08-25

漫画 Anger from the Undifferentiated Ego-Mass

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Mermaid MMCXV

Here's proof that I should probably never get another (mermaid) tattoo. I could never decide which one to get, and I'd end up getting covered in mermaid tattoos or something. Best not to open that box.

2018-08-24

Mermaid MMCXIV

Not the exact sort of mermaid tattoo I'd get, but how far wrong can you go with a mermaid tattoo...?

2018-08-23

漫画 I Need to Find a Unit

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Mermaid MMCXIII

I like the idea of a pattern running down the side of her tail, it could even be a kind of a logo or such...

2018-08-22

Mermaid MMCXII

2018-08-21

漫画 Parent out of the Environment

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Mermaid MMCXI

she puddy. I gotta do some sketching and expand my expressive range a bit, I think...

2018-08-20

Mermaid MMCX

2018-08-19

漫画 Screams and Violence

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Mermaid MMCIX

2018-08-18

Mermaid MMCVIII

2018-08-17

漫画 The Lure of the Doughnut Myth

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Mermaid MMCVII

2018-08-16

Mermaid MMCVI

2018-08-15

漫画 Anger only with Independence

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Mermaid MMCV

2018-08-14

Mermaid MMCIV

2018-08-13

Mermaid MMCXXXIII

This one is kind of gruesome. The leitmotif of mermaids being caught by fishermen (and eaten) is...how to say?...long-standing? Time honoured? I've seen it in MAD Magazine once or twice, by the way.

What sort of feminist commentary is this? On one hand, we have the mermaid, free, living comfortably in a frightening, dark and unfamiliar realm, able to lure men to their deaths with her powers, beautiful, alluring, etc., and yet here able to be caught and dragged in, and killed? by fishermen, men who are able to brave these harsh and dangerous environments.

Hmmmmm...