Life is Too Short and Love is Too Long

A very tiny percentage of creators go on to be famous, but that doesn’t mean that people don’t remember little things you did for years and years. Who came up with most of the world’s most famous jump rope rhymes? Who coined some of the famous idioms we use in daily speech? Who made up ‘Jingle Bells, Batman Smells?” Somehow, all of these things stuck and spread around.

When I was a small child, I saw a high school put on a production of the musical HONK. In one song, the mother duck describes various dangers that her baby should avoid in the water, including fishing line, which could strangle him. A member of the ensemble played the role of fishing line, doing a maniacal laugh and over-the-top strangling motions, and I found it hilarious– and to this day, that’s an example I often think of when talking about how ensemble members can still stand out in theatre. The guy who played the role might not even remember that he did that, but I do.

I took Suzuki violin lessons as a kid. The teacher made up lyrics to some of the songs, and she let her students make some up, too. Now whenever I hear the instrumental of one of those pieces, I always remember these ridiculous lyrics about a skunk that we sang in violin class. I don’t even know which student invented them!

In middle school, I found a video about atoms parodying Bill Nye made by some kids for a school product. It probably had less than 1,000 views, but I think of quotes from that video all the time. They had a parody of “We Will Rock You” with the chorus, “Protons, neutrons, electrons” that I think about a lot.

Two main characters are Spy and Scout. They are both mercenaries hired by the same company, who work on the same team. They notoriously do not get along and are complete opposites.

Also, Scout grew up without a father, but is convinced that his dad is the famous singer Tom Jones, who he’s had a lifelong obsession with.

One of the longest running jokes in the tf2 fis the idea that Spy is secretly Scout’s dad. This theory started because Spy had an affair with Scout’s mom many years ago and has had feelings for her his whole life. As it turns out, Spy actually IS Scout’s dad, and knows he is, but fucked off when Scout was a toddler and basically chose to never be part of his life until they were reunited by chance years later as mercenaries. Some of their teammates have caught on (Sniper and Heavy, specifically), but Scout refuses to believe Spy could ever he his dad.

Some years later, Spy and Scout are both in Australia for work. Spy is saving their teammate Sniper, and Scout is fighting in a nearby battle. Scout is mortally wounded, and just before his death, is found by Sniper and Spy.

At Sniper’s urging, Spy decides to confess the truth of their relationship to Scout in his dying moments. Almost immediately, however, he changes his mind and instead decides to keep up Scout’s fantasy that his father is Tom Jones, to give him peace as he dies.

Spy can essentially shapeshift (forgot to mention that), so he makes himself look like Tom Jones and then tells Scout basically everything he’s wanted to tell him for years but never could, and it’s a really emotional moment.

After that, Scout dies in Spy’s arms and we get this really heart wrenching panel.

I'm in this photo and I don't like it

it's a shame how the audience of agott's constant aurafarming are just her two teachers-slash-parental figures, two best friends-slash-sisters, and her crush who has too many things on her mind to even consider romance

redrew the art meme that was going round a few weeks ago because “make it good later” has never been that aspiration to me, it’s even been enough to just not make the thing I really want to make in the past.

Redraw of my phone case!! :D

[art backlog: march 7, 2024]