This is why I find the discourse how AI might start killing us a bit puzzling. AI is already being used to kill people on a mass scale -- that's a problem that deserves the immediate response beyond any hypothetical threat
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia ✅ 10/10
A tour de force of animation, storytelling, historical accuracy and character development. If you can only watch one show a season, it needs to be this. Added to the pantheon of all-time greats for me and filled the Orb sized hole in my heart. Thank you Yamada-sensei! My GOAT for a reason.
From start to finish, it’s a gripping revenge story filled with well written, complex and memorable characters. Incredible art, animation, attention to detail in bringing Mongolian, Persian and wider Islamic culture to life in a way we’ve never seen before in this medium. As someone with next to no knowledge of Central Asian culture and history, this was a breath of fresh air and made me want to visit and learn more about the region and its people.
Sitara is going to go down as one of my favorite protagonists and I just hate we probably won’t get to see her story finished in anime format, but the manga will be seeing me. Stories like this don’t come around often so when they do, I have to support them to the fullest extent. Thank you Science SARU for yet another masterpiece. Life changing.
#天幕のジャードゥーガル #jaadugar
@colleensmanga For me, this has been one of the very rare occassions when the anime not only absolutely does justice to the source material, but actually elevates it. What an incredible piece of work.
@thatmangadude Great variety! Haha Asta isn't all that annoying after the early eps so I actually enjoy the anime too. Speaking of anime I definitely recommend the Jaadugar (Witch in Mongolia) anime- one of those rare occassions when the anime truly elevates the source material!
I hope you don't mind me spamming the timeline with random human-made art I found. Just a reminder that there are still human artists out there doing their thing.
And here is me messing about in Krita (which is free, yet I had only tried it recently!)
This is Sliman Mansour’s most famous work, and I decided to share it in a separate post.
It is called Jamal al-Mahamel (جمل المحامل), meaning “Camel of Hardship.”
Mansour first painted it in 1973, then created two other versions in 1975 and 2005.
Our Palestinian people today are not only displaced, carrying their cities and villages on their backs. They are also carrying the rubble of their homes, beneath which the bodies of their loved ones remain trapped. They carry their uprooted trees, their burned tents, their destroyed homes, and the remains of refugee camps.