One moment from Adventure time that stuck with me big-time when I was a kid was the episode where the Lich first showed up, because in the climax Finn is pursuing him and he chases him down into what are clearly the ruins of a contemporary subway station. And that blew my little mind, because up till that point I’d been parsing it as one of those impossible gonzo mishmash anything-goes constructed worlds, and then abruptly without fanfare here’s strong evidence that there’s some kinda throughline between the world you recognize and the inexplicable fantasy setting on screen. Here’s some strong recontextualization of what Finn the human means, in the singular like that, now that we’ve got a subway recognizably built by modern humans. I mean this was my statue-of-liberty-on-a-beach moment, except it wasn’t even the salient twist of the episode- it was just there, a background setpiece which didn’t have especial attention called to it beyond being where the bad guy of that week’s episode had been chased off to. Love shit like that, clear but understated signifiers that you’re actually been looking at a post-apocalypse this whole time.
weirdest part about being an artist (and, to an extent, a writer too) is feeling like. shameful that you aren’t creating massive pieces of art. how dare i not line and color and shade every drawing. how dare i only draw two poses. how dare i only write 1k words. how dare i not write an entire book. how dare i
