i made a quiz to find out if you’re pirate, knight, cowboy, or vampire-coded :) https://uquiz.com/oNBCMs
Honestly i wish i was pirate coded, the adventure, the found family, the subtle eroticism of the sea.
But, in probably the biggest irony of it all, thats one of the biggest things that make me vampire coded, the yearning for life, for humanity and connections, loving the calm colors of the sea while drowing on the lights of a city and knowing im never getting our of here.
This concept actually came of a late night conversation between Mr. Squares and myself about the mechanics of fear. I’m especially enamored by the artist’s accuracy in translating my verbal abstraction to a visual delineation of the fear response I was describing, which the viewer gets to experience in real-time. (Vanity? Maybe. Our minds ❤️ )
The scenario is you’re working late, everyone else has gone home, and you’ve grabbed your flashlight to investigate a noise. The illustration depicts the exact second the beam of the flashlight glances over a hand amidst the jumble of equipment and cabinetry, and for the briefest of moments the hand remains just another inanimate object (an effect exaggerated by the monochromatic color scheme, which gives it a clay-like appearance), before you register it as a human hand attached to a human being, before, with growing alarm, you follow the wrist up and begin to discern a silhouette and realize Oh God, I’m not alone after all, there is another living person here, there has been another living person here, and the horror sets in. Their gaze becomes voyeuristic; how long have they been watching you from the dark? The fear lives in this very moment, in the realizing, in the jolting sensation of being entirely alone (or thinking yourself entirely alone, which is the same thing) until, very suddenly, this is no longer the case.
What makes humans weird isn’t that they have traits that are unheard of. In fact, many of their traits are rare, but often one can name other species with similar oddities.
What makes humans weird is they have so MANY rare traits. It’s one thing to have one or two in your species. But practically all of them???
“So they’re mostly hairless.”
“So like a Grovin?”
“Yeah but they also walk and run bipedally for REALLY long distances.”
“Ok, strange combo so far.”
“And thats barely the start, they’re also capable of sweating like Drask and have natural immunity to natural poisons and irritants like caffeine and capsaicin, they actually love the stuff and eat/drink them regularly.”
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