This Could Be Better

this girl was showing all the signs of being a secret mermaid so i pushed her into the pool and she turned into a forty foot long mosasaurus which is tbh way cooler

not really sure how to get her out though

for those of you asking why i pushed her into the pool in the first place: i work for a duplicitous small town aquarium and i'm trying to kidnap mermaids to jump through hoops and shit to entertain tourists and make money. fucking obviously. now that i know she's actually a mosasaurus though i Have fallen in pure-hearted love with her

I know the "independent artist" scene has changed considerably with time and economic shifts and all that but it's really funny to me thinking about how someone can be like yeah my biggest creative inspiration is David Goddamn Lynch and then make something with writing on par with a cartoon for children and sell sweat shop plushies about it

so many people out there who will say they're "inspired" by something like David Lynch's ouevre or Revolutionary Girl Utena and not realize that they are aping the visuals without understanding that these works are most notable for the language they're constructing out of these visuals, which is all very purposeful, and not just someone going "I have to get weirder!" without depth of thought paid to the artistic decisions in question. you have yet to graduate beyond characters turning to the screen and verbally explaining the moral of the story and you are Starving for richer artistic meaning. try learning from the indirect message instead of what you're immediately presented. most of the time it isn't even that indirect tbh it just isn't accompanied by narration telling you what to feel and think so maybe get past that step first

I know the "independent artist" scene has changed considerably with time and economic shifts and all that but it's really funny to me thinking about how someone can be like yeah my biggest creative inspiration is David Goddamn Lynch and then make something with writing on par with a cartoon for children and sell sweat shop plushies about it