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This 2021 engraving of a chicken threesome is aptly entitled Wary Optimism by Pennsylvania wood engraver and letterpress printer Andrew M. Moroz. Moroz is a member of the national American wood engravers society, the Wood Engravers' Network (WEN). This print appears in the catalog for the WEN Fourth Triennial Exhibition 2020-2022, juried by two of my Wisconsin colleagues, Tracy Honn, retired long-time director of the Silver Buckle Press (Madison), and Jim Moran, recently-retired Master Printer and Collections Officer at the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum (Two Rivers). On wood engraving, Andrew Moroz writes:
Attracted by the liveliness of the marks and the degree of fineness the tools produce, I enjoy the methodical process of engraving with burins on the end-grain of maple. Subject matter draws from personal experience and interests, but is concerned primarily with a search for imagery that has universally held meaning.
Reflecting on jurying this show during the pandemic period, Tracy Honn writes:
I discovered my understanding of the work had changed because the world was reoriented. Thinking about the Wood Engravers Network helped remind me of the extra in the ordinary. . . . The current disruptions of life-as-we-knew-it happened abruptly and nearly simultaneously. It is the all-at-onceness of this crisis that reveals the black and white of our days. In the midst of a pandemic . . . we create places of safety through our imagination and activities of comfort. This is what wood engravers do all the time.
I am excited and deeply honored to serve as the juror for the Fifth Triennial Exhibition of the Wood Engravers' Network, 2022-2024!
View more engravings by members of the Wood Engraver's Network.
love characters that suck. their actions are inexcusable and i want to put them in a jar and examine them. love some barely-redeemable or not-redeemable-at-all bastards i can rotate in my mind. love characters with fatal flaws that comprise a huge part of their personality, give me some truly reprehensible decisions by this mf i will eat that shit up. i neeeeeeed someone to psychoanalyze please please please ple
I love that one Sarah Z video essay about the Sebastian moran x moriarty ship that the Sherlock fandom created out of thin air just bc they so desperately desired a kinky murder husbands dynamic and I do wonder if those fans every watched nbc Hannibal and felt catharsis
hey do you guys remember when the bbc sherlock fandom was so mad that there wasn't a sebastian moran that we all just collectively. put him in. and we all collectively decided that he was michael fassbender. and we as a whole wrote 6,167 fics about him on ao3 alone. that's actually so fucking funny if you think about it. do you think michael fassbender knows
The whole goncharov thing reminds me of when the Sherlock (BBC) fandom collectively fancast Michael Fassbender as Sebastian Moran and then we just moved on from there. Like mormor was my primary ship, and one half the ship did not even exist in the show. We made gifsets, copious fics, fanvids, I was obsessed with a cosplaying rpf couple who dressed up as our modern day interpretation of Moran with BBC Moriarty and they were many more than them. Anyway, what I am saying is that it’s not that surprising we can use that hive brain to mass hallucinate an entire film, if it wasn’t as a joke it could even become someone’s primary fandom for a while here on tumblr dot com and I think that’s beautiful
I keep thinking about Sebastian coming home covered in blood, bruised up, maybe with a more serious injury of some kind. & Jim takes care of him & makes him feel loved and worthy of that love, even if Jim tends to be cold or standoffish towards him in many ways ( specially his sense of humor) & mostly towards the beginning of their relationship.
I just love the idea of Jim having an overwhelming sense of protectiveness & care towards him whenever he is hurt, & mostly because Sebastian was the first one to initiate the absolute softness & tenderness towards Jim when he would get hurt at the beginning of their relationship (if ever)
On the outside Seb is rough around the edges, covered in scars, tattoos (probably/ most likely?? At least has to have a few right?) has a stubble & general resting bitch face (unless he knows you or likes you enough to not scared the absolute shit out of you, by his sheer killer presence.) is Fit as FUCK, can literally kill you with one hand if he so wishes.
My point being, that Seb & Jim are the absolutely, warmest, most loving, dotting, caring people in the whole planet, but only for each other. & if either one of them sensed that the other needed them to burn the entire world just to keep each other warm. They absolutely would without hesitation & I think this dynamic is mostly agreed upon among the Mormor fandom to a degree. & we can all agree Jim & Seb are just precious little murderous meow meows. 😂