the elusive tabbyhusky

Those guys knew all about making film work hard to frame action and gags, and telling a story with movement and expression and very few words.

(Even Furiosa’s engine-grease warpaint - and the less pronounced version on the Warboys, as seen above - it’s a classic silent movie trick. Clara Bow used to have dense, heavy eye makeup to make her eyes even more attention-catching and expressive.)

Yay, commissions !

I’ll really hope at least one or two of you will ask me something or my ego will bleed.

(In case you can’t read my shitty handwriting : [email protected])

Inktober #6-Hidden

Buzzards lurking from the darkness, waiting for a prey

Inktober #3 - Collect

In the fashion of a crapulance of the MadMax game.

Ok but you know the Keeper of Seeds probably carried some extra seeds with her.

Congrats Mad Max: Fury Road and the team behind it on six(!) Oscars!

Okay, a little background here before I start spamming you with pictures of a potato at Wasteland Weekend.

Sometime after @furiroad​ noticed that a potato falls out of the bottom of the War Rig when Furiosa kicks the Rock Rider off her legs in the Canyon, it was decided that the Potato Lives, and @fadagaski​ wrote a fic to immortalize the Potato’s sacrifice. (I love this fandom.)

Fast forward almost a year to Wasteland Weekend 2016, and a group of oldnew friends called the Clan of the Boltcutters are getting mildly tipsy on home-made alcohol infusions. By one means or another (I’m not entirely sure if anybody remembers how we got on the subject) a toast was made to Fadagaski’s Potato fic.

At Fadagaski’s suggestion, I got my hands on a potato the next day, and the following adventures ensued…

Potato arrives at Wasteland City to see the tribes that have gathered and experience the wonder for itself.

Hmm, nothing much going on here right now.

Wait, is this actually any safer than riding in the cargo hold?

Ooh, good view from up here.

Potato finally finds a little patch of the Green Place and feels at home.

If I remember correctly, the Potato originally came up Friday night, when we sat down at the end of that long day to try out some fruit-infused alcohol and do a Tell. I think the original idea for the Tell was to actually tell the story of Fury Road as a group, just very casually. But that very quickly got diverted into talking about the 500 days after Fury Road, and all of us coming together.

It was a moment perfectly captured by @thebyrchentwigges‘ @flamethrowing-hurdy-gurdy story of Boltcutters all talking over each other and cackling fit to make the coyotes howl, and I’d had more than a little peach gin at that point, so I don’t quite remember the entire sequence of the conversation, lol, but more or less we were talking about ‘the story of us’. And into that din I just said “The Potato.”

And there was this half second of absolute silence (where I think quite a few of you mimicked Max’s ????? face) – and then everyone burst out laughing and talking over each other, talking about the original story and the fanart and the sequel, and the shipping and just how amazing the whole thing was.

And then @yohunny goes, “Wait, what potato?” Which had us all rolling with laughter and falling over each other to catch her up on the joke.

At some point someone asked if we had a potato in camp, and we pretty quickly confirmed that no, no one had actually brought a potato to WW. I am missing the next bit of the story, though, because next thing I knew the next morning @thatonezombiecosplayer was totting around a good-sized russet potato. As pictured above,of course. ;D

Okay, yeah, I have absolutely no memory of those details of the Tell that night (I’m also blaming the peach gin). I just remember raised glasses tea cups and “to the Potato Fic!” and then me going “OMG Fadagaski needs to know that this is a thing that just happened.”

humans: we’re going to plug two of them together and see if we go twice as fast

vsa: last time we gave you a warp core you threw it into a sun to see if the sun would go twice as fast

humans: hahaha yeah

humans: it did tho

vsa: IT EXPLODED

Impulsive, passionate to a fault, the social structures they build to try and regulate this hotheadedness ironically creates even greater levels of sheer bull-headedness. Even their “cooler” heads take action in months or weeks.

vulcan science academy: get what

klingons: you vulcans are a bunch of stuffy prisses but you’re also tougher, stronger, and smarter than humans in every single way

klingons: why do you let them run your federation

vulcan science academy: look

vulcan science academy: this is a species where if you give them two warp cores they don’t do experiments on one and save the other for if the first one blows up

vulcan science academy: this is a species where if you give them two warp cores, they will ask for a third one, immediately plug all three into each other, punch a hole into an alternate universe where humans subscribe to an even more destructive ideological system, fight everyone in it because they’re offended by that, steal their warp cores, plug those together, punch their way back here, then try to turn a nearby sun into a torus because that was what their initial scientific experiment was for and they didn’t want to waste a trip. 

vulcan science academy: they did that last week. we have the write-up right here. it’s getting published in about six hundred scientific journals across two hundred different disciplines because of how many established theories their ridiculous little expedition has just called into question. also, they did turn that sun into a torus, and no one actually knows how. 

vulcan science academy: this is why we let them do whatever the hell they want. 

Vulcan Ambassador: Because humans are fucking terrifying. We had a massive world war and nuked ourselves practically back to the stone age and it took us a couple hundred years to build our way back up to space travel and eventually warp tech. You had a massive world war and nuked yourselves back to practically the stone age and you built a warp drive ten years later. If we give you even more advanced technology we’re afraid you’ll take over the universe.