Just realized I uploaded this on my other socials but not on here. A couple years ago, I was really interested in re-imagining Swan Lake as a comic, but never got far with it and put it to the side. The story found its way back to me, and I'd love to have another go at it and work it into a graphic novel after I publish my debut graphic novel trilogy KLOUD 9 (coming in 2025!)
These are some rough character designs I was playing around with for my take on the Swan Lake characters. I wanted my Odette to be a magical Filipina princess, as my dream of helping work on the first Filipina Disney princess movie seems too far off at this point in my career. So I don't really want to wait, and I'm just making my own haha!
Based loosely on Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale with a number of elements from Peter Tchaikovsky's ballet, including the title, "Sleeping Beauty", the entire musical score, as well as the princess's name, Aurora.
One of my all-time favorite Disney films (along with Fantasia). Sleeping Beauty is a great movie. It's a really simple story, but the art direction and music are really amazing. I mean the art is so unique and beautiful, I can't overstate that enough. No other Disney production really mimics it. The Forbidden Mountain feels like a real place, they totally nailed the mood with this one.
Best character in the movie would have to be Maleficent, the Mistress of All Evil. She looks pretty much like most goth girls. In fact, there's strong evidence to suggest that Maila Nurmi, more commonly known as "Vampira", was used as a live-action reference for the animation. The character is just so sinister and Eleanor Audley's voice is so expressive. She even has a pet raven named "Diablo" (the Spanish word for "devil"), I mean, how much more goth can she be?
making a playlist of siren songs. as ins ongs that sound like emergency broadcast noises because my playlists "songs to have good dreams to" and "can we please skip this song? no" and "airport 2, the sequel to airport" are not jarringly dissonant ENOUGH
WAIT WAIT in the new Libertines song they lead into the chorus with, “And the radio says,” … is this a Blur reference??? Are we having a “This is a Low” moment???!!
My Brain...feeling feels for the gibbering horrors
In lieu of a more substantial post, here's a book-themed mess.
In lieu of a more substantial post, here’s a book-themed mess.
Public Service Announcement: Do not adjust your twitter
First though, given the continuing whatever-the-hell on twitter, while I’m maintaining my account there (@Neuron2sumthing) in lurk/broadcast only mode, I’ve broadened out a bit and you can now find me on mastodon (@[email protected]) and tumblr (@neurontosomething), in…