In the old Norse sagas, there are references to Fimbulvinter; a winter that has lots of horrible shit going on. This winter immediately precedes Ragnarok, aka the hugest, most kickass fight there could ever be. This fight, against Leviathan, the world serpent, will destroy the world regardless of how it goes, because Leviathan is so god damn huge that there's no way it can't. The fatalistic nature of the Norse beliefs leads someone to decide "Well, it can't be prevented, so the only cool thing to do is get really good at kicking ass and put on an amazing show." That's why the Valkyries would choose the most badass of the vepndrauthr (literally "guy killed by a weapon") to practice kicking ass all day in Valhalla.
So as we come out of a winter full of incredibly bad tidings, it's a funny coincidence that the world is ending. Not ending as in "we're all going to die", more like when the western Roman empire fell apart; the world we've understood for the last few generations is going to change big time. It's easy to dismiss the popularity of things like flat earth, hollow moon, or whatever as just people being people. And that's true, it is a way people behave, it's just that it gets way worse when people are scared. People get scared because they don't have faith in the institutions that are supposed to keep them safe, and for several decades now we've seen the absolute gutting of those institutions in order to shovel money upwards as fast as we can. As life gets shittier and shittier for the vast majority of people, they wonder "Why the fuck would I support this?" It's no coincidence that in this, the most scientifically advanced and literate time in human history, we're seeing a massive resurgence in mysticism and pagan beliefs.
Anyway I don't want to dwell on this too long because it gets dark, and I think people have enough driving them up the fucking wall right now. The new gods are dead, long live the old gods.
Did you know that the simplest thing in the world, a rock, is kind of difficult to draw/paint? News to me!
I like cussin, I like nappin, pretty good at both, not so much RAPPIN
I painted this part pretty inconsistently, normally I just go with flat 2 or 3 tone colouring but I had an ulterior motive for this one.
And it was literally that I just wanted to make his butt shiny, because a fat man with a shiny butt pulling his pants all the way down to pee is hilarious to me.
I can shamelessly admit that "A fat man pees, and then falls over" is the greatest joke I've ever
written
I'm relying on solid colour background voids a little too much, but at least the blue sky for this one is less abrasive than the predominant orange from the last one.
I think my lines are getting less trash, but they aren't out of the woods yet.
Coilguns are an actual thing but these ones have maybe a little scifi magic to make them more interesting
