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Batman and Geralt

LO- Bork Circle

Hellsing- Unraveling My annual Walter drawing.

LO- Rose Room Blue Seat

The meaning of nostalgia is a pleasant feeling of familiarity with something from one’s past. On a personal level it’s a moment of catharsis, used on a grander scale it’s a marketing weapon. In recent years I’ve come to grow weary of this word. An obvious example is Disney, though they never say the word, it’s clear this creatively bankrupt company on a long list of others like Square Enix, Shueisha, Bethesda, any company that’s ever uttered the word “reboot” or dug up the past to push a product, knows that there’s a notably large audience of adults that are more than eager to invest in something familiar in a misguided attempt to reconnect with something they’ve lost. On a lower scale, there are numbskulls that try to give the impression that they are about to extensively dissect a piece of media, only to say that the value of said piece of media has nostalgia as a strength, effectively only saying that being old is a value and not realizing they’ve invalidated their argument because they couldn’t be bothered to put in the effort to properly actually chart out some actual thoughts. The use of it in most modern contexts is either grossly manipulative or a bone headed attempt at sounding analytic and witty. Sadly this is what happens when we live in an age where large groups own large quantities of familiar properties and large quantities of money in order to continue remaking media and blanketing the public conscious with it and keeping people in a seemingly never ending entertainment cycle. My advice? Look down more often. Look at the various other projects being made by creators of smaller stature and support them. There are many recent examples of creative groups and individuals that were burned by the big money and now they’re struggling out of irrelevance and spiting companies who failed to acknowledge who provided the media that made them rich in the first place; namely Obsidian and Hideo Kojima. Then there are those that aren’t famous with credibility to pull in big investments. Recently I had a wish, I wished that something/ anything would be created in a similar vein to Invader Zim or an early Tim Burton film. I wanted a piece of media with grim or adult humor and writing coated in a child friendly appeal. On October 28th, I got my wish when I came across Hazbin Hotel, a wonderful aloof animated musical pilot episode lead by a Ms. Viviene Medrano. What I saw was a testament to the power to be found from a creator who truly believes in their idea. There are many creators around us with great potential to go to high places, we need only help push them. I ask people not to be led on by nostalgia, it’s okay to look to it for comfort, but don’t encourage big money to pervert the ideas of people once upon a time had sparks of inspirations and a pure desire to entertain audiences with a new idea they sought to breathe life and identity into.

Oopsie Inspired by: I Have No Mouth and I must Scream

KH- Beating up Old People

KH- GIVE ME THE PUPPIES