Or Disgracy’s Angstgiving Malaise, if you prefer, but why would you?
Do you remember when I used to write stuff? Well I have forgotten and that is why there have been so many of these lately.
It was meant to be a response to that because I talk to myself. However, I rarely listen, so it was rather a bit over a year before it could be shown. Ordinarily, people would have stopped caring by then, but fortunately nobody cared to begin with. The only thing I got right was the bland layout.
It may strike you as decadent for one character to hog the rope belt AND the single suspender. Are you going to put up with that?
Through no deliberate thought by me the central figure (“dope”) is the most dignified looking idiot here through not having made any botched attempt to appear dignified.
And now that I have made this, what do I do with it? It has no purpose. There is no reason I should have spent so long on it. I lack even the motivation to update this page’s banner twits. The secret to online fame is to acknowledge and pay reverent homage to stuff that already exists, but that doesn’t work if it’s your own stuff, unless you referenced other stuff prior to referencing your own, and chances are people will be annoyed that you didn’t just reference the stuff you usually reference.
I didn’t say so in the past but generally these things conceal links to larger, more clear versions of themselves. I don’t actually believe that this conveys any information here on the page. I don’t believe the full size conveys much more, but it’s slightly more and that’s the amount I intend.
Most of the development for the background occurred before I had merged it with the characters, because at the image size of 20000×7000 pixels it was irritating having to deal with constant delays while I added large amounts of blurry computer paint (the fourth row is just a temporary mock-up that I have saved for some reason). Having multiple layers, then, made the situation totally unbearable. Then at some point I realized nobody would notice or care if I reduced everything to 10000×3500 and after I did, it became feasible to merge them and development escalated, now (then) that I could see where things were in relationship to each other better. The result was still an unsightly, muddy mess, but and I’ll think up a justification later.
This was removed from the space where the yellow creature eventually was placed because the character is sort of boring, and I thought it worth incorporating alternate modes of improper dress.
This was earlier removed from the same position not for looking too stupid, but I imagined this thing would not be pleased that others challenged its bow tie supremacy and would refuse to stand with them. At that point I had considered having the center dope also wearing a bow tie, which further complicated matters. I drew a new one into the background because I forgot I had made one already.
The creature elpse is mildly allergic to stripes, and so appears to merely be sneezing, rather than protesting. In fact this sneeze would have seemed to be directed away from the dope out of courtesy, which I cannot allow.
This pose was too interesting.
Of course I’m kidding. Most of these characters need to be in trash AND jail.
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PurpleSpace sez:
Sombrero Snake’s hat matches the color of its eyes.
The chap who was not included is wearing a nice shade of magenta!
Uvprimlurx sez:
I go toward purple easily! I don’t like having to consider the possibility that I have interests in common with these scalawags, so obviously that one could not be included. Even saying “chap” implies an unlikely level of worthiness.
As for the snake, I imagine it can’t see its eyes very well and is probably too dumb to understand mirrors, so any seemingly sound fashion choice with regard to such matters is surely a coincidence.
A fender bender sez:
I’ll have you know that the snake in question is an intelligent, witty and urbane fellow, and that your suggesting otherwise bespeaks a burning envy on your part of its fine wardrobe, as further witnessed by previous comments of yours that you find hats interesting, but alas, do not own any, in contrast to this esteemed gentlemen who apparently has an extensive collection of headgear from around the world.
As for the other creature, while its choice of footwear and noses do not speak in its favor, honestly, it’s difficult to come out looking bad compared to a dope, especially such a proud dope.
PurpleSpace sez:
Pahc was definitely worthy of not being included in that image; however, it must be brought to attention that he is also worthy of being in an image devoted entirely to himself?
Uvprimlurx sez:
fendy: Is “urbane” a fancy way of saying “deserves to be punched in the nose”? Because that would explain a bit. As for the hat, I’m pretty sure I had one of those in my apartment and now I’m not sure where it is. I have no proof that this snake has been any further south than Connecticut for its cranial adornment collection.
lespace: I’m not sure that dorfus is even worth devoting an entire trash can to.