Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

YOU MEAN NOW AS IN RIGHT NOW NOW?

BUT WHAT IF YOU MEANT NOW AS IN THE NOW BEFORE I COULD OPEN PHOTOBOOTH?

WHAT IF YOU MEANT NOW AS IN WHEN YOU POSTED THAT QUESTION AND IT’S TOO LATE NOW AND WHAT IF I DIDN’T DO IT RIGHT BECAUSE RIGHT NOW FOR YOU WAS NOW BUT FOR ME IT WAS THEN AND WHAT IF THE WORLD IS GONNA END BECAUSE I DIDN’T DO IT AT THE RIGHT NOW BUT A DIFFERENT NOW?

OH GOD WHAT HAVE I WROUGHT.

Aww, you guys, you’re very welcome and I’m just happy to be introducing such a fantastic group to so many people! They deserve all the credit for being so inspiring, also yeah I went a bit loco this weekend but don’t be too disappointed if I don’t produce much during the working week- I have a full time job drawing now so I’m usually completely knackered when I get home =.=

Well, that makes me feel better about posting about them! Sometimes I worry that it’s just annoying TL:DR fodder for most people, but it does help to get it out of my system. Sometimes I get the impression that people think I’ve got my shit together and know who I am and what I’m doing at all times, and that’s simply not true. Everyone has doubts and fears and troubles, and we all deal with them in our own ways, or don’t. The only way you’ll find out that everyone around you is the same is by telling people about your own weird and messed up reality, and suddenly it doesn’t feel so strange and lonely anymore, because there’s a thousand people just like you and six thousand who have it worse.

Also gosh, you’re making my shadow blush.

Yes! Although I’ve deleted the videos now (not to erase all evidence, it’s more that people who stumbled across them would get confused and might think I was still running the askblog- I’m keeping my youtube account purely for animations now). Anyway, I always felt weird talking and the last video was the most successful, if one of the hardest to figure out.

Having M.O.D. as a silent robot actually has a lot more comedy value to me, especially with her initially having been designed for singing and recitals etc. and being based on silent cinema in the first place it just makes sense.

TL:DR Britain is weird okay?

Wow, points for probably being one of the most interesting and hard to answer questions I’ve had to date, and yes, I know precisely what you mean. Probably shouldn’t be flattered that you get that from the comic too, but cheers all the same ;)

I’ve considered the fact myself a couple of times, and really I can only suppose it’s because death is such an integral part of our history and culture. It’s not something that we gloss over or pretend doesn’t happen- I was always very aware of what death was and what it meant to people from a very early age. Certainly, you use phrases like ‘kicked the bucket’, 'pushing up the daisies’, 'joined the choir invisible’ etc. but that doesn’t diminish the concept for us. It’s a part of everyday conversation, it’s a part of our childhood stories, it’s a part of the games we play and the nursery rhymes we sing in the playground. British comedy, too, is obsessed with it. Taking one of the heaviest taboos of philosophy and turning it into something hilarious is an everyday activity; because that’s how humans deal with things like that. Laughter really is the best medicine, and death is an ever present fact of existence.

There is also a very prominent obsession with time, and how little of it we have. When I moved to Vancouver one of the hardest things I had to get used to was the more casual approach to time. Showing up 'on time’ included being five minutes late, later for some people, depending on where they were from, and even now at my job they don’t mind if you show up at half past the hour as long as you work that extra half hour in the evening. In the U.K. being late is one of the worst sins imaginable- or, at least, that was how I was brought up to see it. School, work, even just meeting up with friends to see a movie. The idea of being late, wasting time, not wearing a watch- it’s just not done. I’ve seen people boasting to each other about how accurate their timepieces are, it’s that big of a deal.

The U.K. also has a long standing reputation for murders, ghost stories, fairy tales that would scare you right out of your wits- but there’s no real way to tell where the myths and facts cross over. My country has a horribly bloodstained history. A lot of the time the blood was on our hands, but, being an island, we’ve also been a gigantic target since the dawn of time. Vikings, Romans, Normans, you name it- why do you think the English language is such a mad mashup?

So, yes, Britain is dark, and there is always an acknowledgement of death in what we do- be it ominous or absurd. It was a country built on blood and salt water; there’s was never going to be any way for it not to be dark and twisted, but it’s still home. It’s a charming, welcoming, ravenous little beast of a country with a crooked smile that’ll go for your jugular as soon as offer you a cup of tea.

Do visit some day if you have the time.

1) Currently? Vancouver.

2) I was involved in a tragic accident when I was a child: I was dropped into a large vat of tea by a passing gryphon, who had mistaken me for a sizable piece of cheese. Unfortunately the tea had been left to steep for too long and the resulting levels of toxicity mutated my gene structure. To this day I have been cursed with abnormally high levels of Britishness.

Well, yes and no- really it just stands for Red Green Blue, so you’re right but a bit ahead of what he is. Mostly it’s just a play on the use of the RGB colour model used in the display of images in electronic systems, such as televisions and computers (not that RGB has anything to do with those ghastly things).

skfjaklsf oh shit!

That just made me laugh far harder than it should have XD

Uh, sorry. He’s not really a cat person, or an animal person, or an anything person, come to think of it…

1) Soon. Ish. Maybe.

2) *SQUEALS OF JOY*

I get followed by best pony

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