I Know Nobody Asked, But I Draw Eldritch Horror And Cute Snakes As Well. This Is Ladon, The Dragon From

I know nobody asked, but I draw eldritch horror and cute snakes as well. This is Ladon, the dragon from Greek mythology that guarded the garden of Hesperides. He was killed by Heracles as his 11th labor. He was called “Ekhidna Hekantonkephalos” which means “hundred headed serpent”, but I decided to interpret that a little bit differently, so I made a dragon that turns into snakes instead of a dragon with 100 heads. Also, yes, this is his human form.

YES I SURVIVED PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION AND MADE A CELLS AT WORK COMIC ABOUT IT BECAUSE I CAN!

The original Cells at work and all its characters belong to Akane Shimizu!!!

I am too dumb to draw mangas, so read left to right:

To explain some shit:

1. I had azithromycin because I’m kinda allergic to penicillin and I researched how it works. Basically, lots of the antibiotic collects inside the granules of phagocytes (aka. macrophages and neutrophils) and then they de-granulate upon encountering bacteria and fuck them up. Degranulation in Cells at Work is represented with their weapons, hence they got cool new weapon!

2. Azithromycin is a bacteriostatic which means that it causes them to stop reproducing and blocks their protein production. “Molecular machinery” refers to bacterial ribosomes, DNA and other components necessary for protein production.

3. The pills I got were light blue, so I made the antibiotic into blue lightsabers because I can and it’s cool.

4. I had to ship 1146 and 3803. I just had, sorry not sorry.

5. My artstyle is shit for Cells at work, but I don’t care one bit. I’m going to disappear from Tumblr for a little while to work on my actual webcomic that looks decent in this shit artstyle.

6. Yes I was sick for two weeks, it was most likely acute Streptococcus pneumoniae sinus infection. And I also got conjunctivitis, because of course I did. I’m fine now and this comic served as a very good catharsis.

The absolute best thing I’ve seen in months!

sorry what

This warms my cold dead heart

Bonus

Heyyy, sorry for not being active like, at all this month. I was very sick and was also preparing for some final exams (and I was not as successful as I hoped to be).

Anyways, I drew this last night out of boredom and I love it a lot. 

No, I absolutely did not get the concept wrong. In fact, I know exactly what you mean: in Russia traditionally Slavic dragon is called “zmey,” whilst more traditionally western dragon is called “drakon”. and they are two distinct beings. However, Tugarin is 100% a zmey, because:

a. That how he’s called in every possible reiteration of the story including the poem from which the fairytale originated in which you can totally see that the princess simps for Tugarin:  https://lukoshko.net/story/alesha-popovich-i-tugarin-zmeevich.htm

b. He is never described as a “drakon”, he is described as a large, imposing man riding a black horse which spits fire. He is also associated with bad weather which makes him a zmey since zmeys are said to be able to control weather throughout the entire Slavic mythos.

And you completely missed the point of my post. I just wanted to call out the creators of the cartoon for racism. Because they COULD have made him fearsome AND not racist you know? I mean that was already done with Shan Yu from Mulan.

 And also what made you believe that fearsome =/= hot? Cuz, I have bad news for you, since there are lots of outright monstrously terrifying characters that people simp for because they are hot (Alucard from Hellsing Ultimate immediately comes to mind).

I am unhealthily obsessed with Slavic dragons in particular, since I’m making a webcomic in which the main character is a Slavic dragoness, so like... I do know what I’m talking about.

Racist Russian BS

So, for some reason I found out that my favorite Russian fairytale had an animated version. I’m talking about “Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin zmey” which is a story about how Russian princess had an affair with Mongolian dragon and then Alyosha killed the dragon because HoW dArE hE fUcK tHe PrInCeSs.. This is standard Slavic shit because in our mythology dragons have a human form which is irresistibly hot and they are also so amazing at sex that people who spent the night with a dragon lose interest in having sex with humans completely. 

Anyways, how do you think Russians depicted a Mongolian dragon who is supposed to be Adonis level of hot and superhuman sex machine in the unholy year of 2004?

Like this.

I honestly wish I was joking. For comparison, here’s an illustration of the fairytale from NINETEENTH CENTURY (1868 to be more precise):

Tugarin is the one on winged horse. So i’m asking: WTF Russia? If your art from 21st century is more racist than art from 19th century, you’re definitely doing something wrong. I would like to ask Russians on Tumblr if they have an answer, but I think the answer is Putin, am I right?

Anyways, I wanted to draw Tugarin in my own way, just to cleanse my mind from this racist BS and I ended up with this:

I think he’s hot enough. Also, I mixed Asian and Slavic dragon designs because he is in a Slavic story, but he also is Asian, so I kinda wanted his design to reflect this. Would you watch this fairytale as an anime with cool fights? I know I would lol. It’s much better than alll the racism that’s happening in the cartoon. Which is a shame, because the story is good and the characters are fine. The only problem that the cartoon has is racism (and some misogyny, but that’s normal for Russian cinema in general, so I didn’t touch on that).