Old Grumbling Gus

Longtime designer in the ultra-indie salt mines

[Old Grumbling Gus @independelier]

@LauraRbnsn But what if our heads are as materially dense as concrete, and I am unable to parse your reasoning to a comical degree-- what say you then, ma'am

[Old Grumbling Gus @independelier]

@Gallup oh gee, better stop tracking that before your Daddy gets mad then

[Old Grumbling Gus @independelier]

@grok @Star_KoSHiN @EdosaOsaretin This is the funniest thing I've ever seen.
"That's from American Horror Story: Freak Show—Season 4, Episode 6 ("Bullseye"). It's the scene where Maggie (Emma Roberts) nearly drowns Ma Petite but backs out."
You just said this abut the same clip in another comment string

[Old Grumbling Gus @independelier]

@mixcenturion @DucDeVinny I remember in the old times when you met someone and they called themselves "pagan" you knew that was just shorthand for whatever actual belief they practiced, but if they called themselves "neopagan" that meant they believed Atlantis was a bubble city with a functioning economy

[Old Grumbling Gus @independelier]

@dirtcup_art If I might make a suggestion, Baobab Press accepts open picture and board book submissions-- their catalog could be a good reference for you

[Old Grumbling Gus @independelier]

@dirtcup_art This is a weird pull I know, but it's the first example that comes to my head for better or worse

[Garrot @fsdfgs]

terror troop

[Old Grumbling Gus @independelier]

@dirtcup_art Vegas In Space

[Old Grumbling Gus @independelier]

@dirtcup_art if that's not welcome feedback, sorry, all the amazing people are crushed and depressed and it just makes you want to say something and anything

[Old Grumbling Gus @independelier]

@dirtcup_art the meaning of any obsession or thought strand to ever captivate or motivated you is that it contributed to The Chromatic Fantasy. Even if you decide to never do anything again and live in a cozy burrow like a Beatrix Potter character for all time, you did great and deserve calm

[Old Grumbling Gus @independelier]

@picklepresspoet Seemed like you might genuinely need something nice, don't have anything offhand so here's just a photo taken after my daughter crawled into my lap to watch me finish some artwork

[Old Grumbling Gus @independelier]

@dirtcup_art But where does the wild uncontrollable moon-lunatic chaos of Cow And Chicken fall on that spectrum? That one felt simultaneously repressed and proudly degenerate at the same time

[Old Grumbling Gus @independelier]

@lindzmcleod You're one of the many writers making SFF exciting again in the last ten years, I want to read that so much that if you ended up self-publishing I would be willing to present one of my portfolios and offer to make you a cover for free. Someone pick this up for the love of God

[Old Grumbling Gus @independelier]

@GerbasiCaterina Not an expert but the IP and visual elements gotta be locked down, hyperspecific terms like "planeswalker" prolly trademarked sometime- but 'mana' is 100% safe, Larry Niven came up with it as a spin on 'manna from heaven' for a metaphor. Tabletop mechanics also safe

[Old Grumbling Gus @independelier]

@GoranGligovic Imagine how funny the fan backlash would be if some random Disney suit realized that the Star Wars EU had that Dark Crystal-style saga about oppressed muppet aliens, made a show out of it and declared it canon

[Old Grumbling Gus @independelier]

@dirtcup_art Let none forget Milford Earl Thomas sacrificing so much for his beautiful 35mm silent gay husband folktale film with an antique handcrank camera just to make the world better

[Old Grumbling Gus @independelier]

@dirtcup_art It's not exactly what you're looking for, but Lady Sybil from discworld is a hearty and eccentric rich swamp dragon breeder who wears fire-retardant clothes and shaves her head because of all the extremely dangerous fire

[Old Grumbling Gus @independelier]

@GerbasiCaterina Heya! I have some artbooks-- you did a lovely commission for me a little while back and I'd love to help. I'll be home from work in two weeks, if you dm to remind me then I'll set a day aside for high DPS scanning and fileshare

[Old Grumbling Gus @independelier]

@dirtcup_art The shape logic on your characters' hands is such a Goddamned delight, they're always so fluidly expressive while retaining structural physicality. It's fun to look at your characters grab things in the same way that it's fun to watch the drawings move across a 2d animated film