The Holocene Mass Exinction Event

i made a drawing based on all the time i have been spending in the time vortex lately. references that last episode of doctor who, utopia, with a bit of spoiler-type action. please not to be clicking unless you know or want to know pivotal dramatic climax of same!



( there is more drawing underneath this! )

comments and critique welcomed! although i did already notice the dodgy right eye... and the dodgy hair... frankly it's all a bit dodgy to my eyes at this point. i should probably try again or somesuch.

In honour of random wireless access and staying up until all hours making art projects, I present some machinima induced picturage:



Meanwhile, I've been getting all sorts of terrible headaches -- just got the third one today that is so excruciating that it is making me nauseous. Ah, finals week, how shall I survive you?

Title: Sub Rosa
Author: Professor Pangaea
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Disclaimer: Mr. Holmes and sundry other characters are now in the public domain, but of course I give ultimate credit and thanks for their existence to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Summary: "One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve. The truly beautiful and noble puts its lover, as it were, at an infinite distance, while it attends him more strongly than ever." -- Henry David Thoreau




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[In response to the question, Why is Hamlet so important in Russia?]:
"I think because it is the source of Shakespeare's questions. Why do we live, and do we have to live? Do we live for the light, the truth, or for lies and intrigues? Do we live to say that, 'I, Man, an the most marvelous being in this world?' Or is it that, 'I am different from animals only because I wear a suit'?"
-- Innokenti Smoktunovski

"I personally think that Hamlet is an absurd hero. His first soliloquy suggests to me, when he says that 'My uncle is no more like my father than I am to Hercules,' -- is what he picks out of the air to compare his opposite silhoutte to: Hercules. In other words, implicit in his first soliloquy is, 'I'm no hero, ladies and gentlemen, don't look at me to get everything right. Because it's not me."
-- Ben Kingsley

"Here is a man who is in the middle of life and death, who is concerned about issues, who is very much not cool, and not sympathetic, and not -- but someone who is fiery, and hot, and full of life, and pain, and anger, and anguish."
-- Nicol Williamson

[On Hamlet's wordplay, etc.]:
"It really is like Muhammed Ali. I mean, he's round those bum-a-month guys -- I mean, he dances rings round them."
-- Nicol Williamson

[On the closet scene]:
"It's a domestic scene. Domestic crisis -- of enormous proportions, and somebody in that room is dead that was alive at the beginning of the scene. Nevertheless, it ends with, 'Goodnight, mother', and all that that means -- a valediction to that relationship in its previous form. 'Goodnight' -- goodbye to the old mother, incidentally you, who I've just seen, at last, after all the clutter; I've burnt all the toyboxes, and I can see you at last, goodnight you, whom I've seen for the first time in my life, and you have seen me, you've seen me grow up, because I'm dragging a dead body out of your bedroom. This is me, a man, doing this. Not a child."
-- Ben Kingsley

[On Hamlet's behaviour at the end of the play]:
"I had very much the feeling that here was someone who did want to live, but suspected, as people sometimes say...'I think I'm gonna die.'"
-- Nicol Williamson