#no point

I havent really gotten to drawing lately since ive been busier so take my older stuff Check alt texts

now. that said. i'm going to need the cis men with a contrary bastard streak to use the ladies for the same reason. ask them to prove you're not a passing trans man. disrupt the government by literally taking a shit.

I’ve been re-reading Susannah Clarke’s Piranesi again (as I do whenever I want to Feel Things). One of the characters, Arne-Sayles, is an academic with a theory that Ancient Man was once so in tune with the natural world that Man and nature could interact, influence one another and wield one another’s powers. But when Man became too concerned with progress and his own abilities, he lost his access to these natural powers, which then departed the world entirely and left humanity to a less inspired, more profane, weaker existence.

That already sounds kinda Tolkienian, right? Elves and the other powerful “faerie” elements of Middle Earth faded or retreated to Valinor and left behind a world in the hands of Men to become increasingly more modern but also less (for lack of a better word) magical? Well, Clarke gives us the names and full (fictional obviously) bibliographic citations for several of Arne-Sayles’ books and articles about this very Tolkienian concept, and I’ve just noticed today that the listed publisher of several of his works is Allen & Unwin — the real life British publishing house that most famously put out The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.