I Guess You Havent Heard The News That David Cameron Face-fucked A Pig.

I guess you haven’t heard the news that David Cameron face-fucked a pig.

In the news today; a man doesn’t sing the national anthem. Never mind the ongoing refugee crisis, or the child tax credits cut though, yeah?

This is a really beautiful answer.

would you rather the greek gods did or didn't exist? in your wildest dreams, would you want even a little of mythology to be true?

Who are we to say it’s not? There are people to this day who worship the deities of Greek religion. I think that mythology has the truth that you give it. 

I’m not a personal believer in any of the religious attributes of the myths, but I think they all hold at least a kernel of truth, depending on the person who reads them. Medea is the truth that betrayal and revenge shouldn’t always go hand in hand. Ariadne is the truth that thanks aren’t always given readily. Antigone is the truth that strength of character is celebrated and desecrated along lines of gender. These are my truths. They aren’t the same for everyone. 

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I’ve found myself watching a lot of dance in my study breaks. I think it puts you in a really relaxed yet contemplative mood. This is quite an old video, but it takes my breath away every time I watch it.

Hi! Thank you for such an in-depth and thoughtful reply! ‘Stitches’ and ‘Velvet Glove’ both sounds as if they will be extremely useful, thank you! I’ll give the others a look too, the wordless work of Rafael Sica looks particularly interesting :) All the best, Will xx

Hi! I'm a big fan of 'Building Stories' here, I'm a literature student looking either for comics that use the form/medium in a unique and innovative way to express their narratives, OR for comics that touch upon the themes of monstrosity and deformity, (I have so far focused on 'Epileptic' by David B. and "Black Hole" by Charles Burns.) If you know any comics that focus on the stigmatisation of people with 'Othered' bodies that would be fantastic! Thank you so much!

comicstudent Hello! Thanks for your visit! How can I answer your question? I’m not a great scholar, not as deep comics connoisseur so! I’m just a fan, as you are too! ;-) Well what can I now remember are the stories of the brothers Hernandez, which you can find in “Love and Rockets”. I also remember the great “Stitches” by David Small. We can not forget the powerful “Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron” of Daniel Clowes. Then there are other languages, “Ma circoncision” of Riad Sattouf. “Acht, Neun, Zehn” of Arne Bellstorf. “Insekt” and “Vier Augen” of Sascha Hommer. It would be nice you visit the catalog publishers like The Fantagraphics, Drawn and Quarterly and the like. The Le'Association from Paris, The Reprodukt from German. And the Cachalote in Brazil. Look for work of Rafael Coutinho and Rafael Sica, both Brazilians. By the way Rafael Sica does not use speech, point! Sorry for the translator;-)

Brazil Hugs.

Dinah Washington & Max Richter - This bitter earth / On the nature of daylight

I’ll be honest, I had a bad day today. Sing it to me, Dinah.

Embodiment and Empathy and my sprawling ideas...

So somehow my thesis on explaining how comics is an inherently empathetic medium has descended into an interdisciplinary dissertation that encompasses the fields of neuroscience and cognitive processing, medical humanities, disability studies, art therapy and the theory of art. The application of these theories seeks to analyse the embodied aspect of comics, but I feel like my tutors will be surprised when they read it given that it is the final piece of coursework towards my Masters in Literature.

Also, you can tell I've got a high word count, because I'm talking like this. ^