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22 YEARS AGO ON DECEMBER 18, 1998 - DREAMWORKS ANIMATION RELEASED “THE PRINCE OF EGYPT”

Because DreamWorks was concerned about theological accuracy, they decided to call in Biblical scholars, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim theologians, and Arab American leaders to help the film be more accurate and faithful to the original story. After previewing the developing film, all these leaders noted that the studio executives listened and responded to their ideas, and praised the studio for reaching out for comment from outside sources.

The animation team for The Prince of Egypt included 350 artists from 34 different nations. Careful consideration was given to depicting the ethnicities of the ancient Egyptians, Hebrews, and Nubians properly.

Both character design and art direction worked to set a definite distinction between the symmetrical, more angular look of the Egyptians versus the more organic, natural look of the Hebrews and their related environments. The backgrounds department, headed by supervisors Paul Lasaine and Ron Lukas, oversaw a team of artists who were responsible for painting the sets/backdrops from the layouts. Within the film, approximately 934 hand-painted backgrounds were created.

Be kind to everyone without expecting anything in return!

Find the silver linings in every situation!

Learn things even if people consider it useless!

Make art like you did when you were a child - as long as you have fun it doesn't matter if it's considered good or bad!

Make the world a better place and be generous for others in need!

Smile more!

Run in a meadow often! Or just spend more time in the sunshine!

Read more books written by dreamers!

Try to step into other people’s shoes more!

Assume someone has a kind genuine heart - don't let insecurity ruin things before they begin!

Don’t be afraid to be sad - pain is just a part of living your life to the fullest!

Notice your automatic unnecessary mean thoughts towards others (and yourself) and try to correct them!

Try to find magic in everyday things! Be excited for things other people don’t care much about!

Don’t be afraid to be yourself! Wear clothes you love and speak from your heart!

Know that you don’t have to be cynical to be intelligent! You can be kind, positive and intelligent!

Limit your social media - some sites are filled with cynical opinions and views!

If someone makes you happy, make them happier!

Be confident and love who you are!

Love your hobbies with all your heart even if people don’t really understand it!

When it comes to anything, just do your best! If you do your best, failing wouldn’t be a failure because you tried!

Don't listen to people who say life is meaningless and you'll die alone and other self-defeating views!

Fall in love with your life and appreciate your friends and family with all your heart!

Try out for things and be brave! Even if you fail at least you tried!

Bake sweet things and decorate them with love! Cook nutritious meals for yourself and loved ones!

Collect cute objects that mean a lot to you!

Do little things out of love to surprise people and make their day!

Fill up journals and diaries with your doodles and ideas!

Share good things, hugs and food with your loved ones!

Be fascinated in the world around you, whether it’s butterfly, tree or birds species!

Fall in love with learning new things!

Spend less time with people who take advantage of you or aren’t kind to others!

Learn to sing and play a musical instrument!

Take care of something small like a houseplant or a cat!

Learn a fun sport like riding a bike or rollerblading!

Remember the beauty in the world, and write about everything that makes you feel warm!

Have good role models that give you faith in humanity!

I finished the Bee pillow a month ago, but never posted pictures!

But here it is 🐝🍯🐝🍯

Elizabethan Peasant 2: More fool they, for I cannot read.

Elizabethan Peasant 2: Verily, and to compose as well.

Elizabethan Peasant 2: I wist not, but certain am I that thou shalt tell me speedily.

Elizabethan Scholar 2: Lusty fellow, knowst thou well what such a sum portends!

Elizabethan Scholar 2: Cease cease cease. Wither is the bee?

Elizabethan wife: [throws a writing slope before him]

Elizabethan husband: My keys, my keys! What, hast thou not ears?

Elizabethan wife: I thought thou said writing slope.

Let’s face it, if the world ends, so many of us will flee somewhere else for safety that we’ll end right back up in communities again. There’s going to be more to it than growing your own food and knitting handspun socks.

I’m linking to resources, but a many of these skills, being interpersonal, are best taught in live trainings by professional instructors, where you can see and feel all the interpersonal dynamics going on in the room, and by experience, trying them out on real people in an educational setting.

When the world ends, it will be helpful to be able to::

Run a meeting

Peacefully negotiate

De-escalate a potentially violent situation

Organize a community

Cope when you’re having a panic attack

Co-regulate to help a child keep calm

Identify community resources

Protest safely and peacefully

A lot of people use post-apocalyptic fiction to imagine a world that demands qualities that they have and treasure, that they perceive the modern world to consider unimportant. Most especially, it’s a genre where people who idolize violence and the military can imagine themselves as badass soldiers, except without the command structure and rules of engagement that define modern warfare. They want to imagine the apocalypse as a good war, a war where they can use their combative skills in a way that feels significant and meaningful.

I grew up around military veterans and I can see how important and validating that fantasy is for them. But from hearing them talk, and talking to a lot of other people who have lived in warzones, I’ve realized that it’s a fantasy, it’s a fabricated reality created to be as emotionally fulfilling for them as possible. It has very little to do with reality.

The best writers of post-apoc understand and acknowledge this, and we get creations like David Brin’s The Postman (I basically grew up on the movie version, which explains a lot about me), where ordinary people use the power of communication, knowledge, empathy, hope, collective mythology, and alliance-building to defeat the neo-fascist militia that used the initial disturbances of war and epidemic to achieve their actual goal, which was violently destroying democratic civilization and supplanting it with their absolute dictatorship.

Or if you don’t full-on get that, you get… some kind of acknowledgement that survival is a lot less glamorous, and a lot more backbreaking labour, than the video games make it look. But that’s the GOOD stuff, and even authors who know this like to handwave it with “Well that’s not who my PROTAGONISTS are” because they’re not into soft apocalypse worldbuilding and don’t want to spend their whole book answering “How do these people not all die of cholera from feces infecting the water supply?”

Because if you spend much time around actual armies, you learn that for every person whose job is to wield lethal violence, there are ten people behind them who set up camp, get everyone fed, transport them places, build their equipment, safely dispose of their waste and sewage, treat their injuries, make sure they have enough supplies on any given day, keep everyone trained, on task, and well-staffed, and decide what the actual battle plans are. And that’s in a society that has a massive peaceful civilian base providing a lot of the resources, and can therefore take up a lot of the slack of things like “paying for soldiers’ salaries”, the absence of which tend to make war much more difficult, because soldiers who need to generate their own revenue streams in a warzone are, um… bad news.

And then in a warzone, you don’t just have the armies; you have refugee camps of evacuated civilians, and those refugee camps need water, plumbing, waste disposal, shelter, basic hygiene, medical care, food supply, cooking, and distribution, childcare, child and adult education, community management, spiritual guidance, leisure and recreation, mental health care, and art and culture.

(And then you have civilians who live in warzones but not refugee camps protected by troops or truces, which means they’re doing everything in the last paragraph without very much guarantee of physical safety. But everyone wants their post-apoc fiction to look like the Fallout series; nobody imagines it will be like This War of Mine where you have to dodge sniper fire as you go out for bread or medicine or water.)

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♊ Gemini: Shape shifting

♋ Cancer: Invisibility

♌ Leo: Super strength

♍ Virgo: Animal manipulation

♎ Libra: Telepathy

♏ Scorpio: Mind control

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♒ Aquarius: Flight

Hey everyone! A while ago I was commissioned to do some guest artist cover illustrations for a new comic called Veiled & Vile created by Sam Lenn. 

The comic covers the story explores the lives of several incarcerated female super villains that have to work together to survive as well as escape. Throughout the comics it will go in depth about the characters’ complex pasts of super villainy as they try to break out.

The comic is available for pre-order HERE