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Off With Her Head - Art Print
🕑 Added 2019-03-22 03:46:01 +0000 UTCDead Insane Children,
One of our inmates wrote and asked, "When are you releasing Off With Her Head as an art print?!" And I realized... Hey! We've not released that image as an art print! A shame too, because it's one of my favorite poster images from Omri.
So, thanks to her gentle reminder we've decided to make "Off With Her Head" what you'll get for March if you're at the $75 Tier. Or if you're doing the 3/$35 Tier you can select this as your next art print. Either way, more tentacles for everyone!
Have I ever told you how much I love tentacles?
When I was a wee lad, maybe 8 years old, my mother dated a grumpy guy who had a boat. He wasn't a very nice guy and also wasn't particularly fond of children. One day we went out on his boat to explore some big ol' Texas lake. We stopped offshore for some swimming and fishing and lunch.
I was an excellent swimmer but also a bit nervous when it came to encounters with creepy crawlies of the deep. Grumpy guy knew this and decided it would be funny to throw me from the boat into a patch of lake grass. Lake grass sounds harmless enough when you're sitting on shore reading about it. But when you're a kid in the water it feels like a million slimy tentacles wrapping themselves around you just before you're pulled down to a watery grave.
My mom broke up with grumpy guy but the horror of the lake grass tentacles stuck with me until a few years ago. This is a useless, even dangerous fear to carry around. Especially when owning a sailboat, diving in the ocean, and being in constant contact with the sea.
So I started throwing myself into the ocean. Hundreds of meters off shore. At night. Naked.
And I'd just float there waiting for tentacle-monsters to rise up from the depths and bite me in half. Or at least nibble my bits.
But nothing ate me. And I learned to relax and love tentacles.
The moral of the story is that you have to run towards your fears. Or maybe even jump into them - naked!
From Shanghai with Tentacles,
-American
Comments
And thanks for sharing this personal fear. And how You fought with it.
Oh, Gods!!! This is freaking awesome news! So gorgeous art for March's patreon. Thanks a lot!
VitAnyaNaked
You told us a very instructive story, thanks. Everyone really should overcome their fear. No matter what we fear. It is not easy, but it is for our own sake.
SUGGESTIONS for the Studio name: Wonder Wabbit, Mirror World, Wonderful Illusions, Brutal Bunny. I've been thinking about it since you showed us the logo and how the name wasn't exactly what you wanted, so here are ideas!
Scott Cuthbertson
Hey American. Great story. And beautiful work from your team, as always.
Wendy Jaa
That's the one I suggested. Perhaps next month! 😃
Davinellulinvega
You should never run on a skyscraper's roof it's forbidden.
Wendy Jaa
But why were you naked? 😂
Happy for everyone who wanted this, though personally, I've been hoping for "The Watcher, The Self, The Shadow" (at least, that's the title of the post, so I'm guessing that's the name of the artwork as well) to become an art print. Out of all the artworks posted here on patreon, it is by far my favorite. It even rivals my love of "Alice With Sunflowers" from Otherlands, which I have a signed and framed copy of.
tried running naked on the roof of the skyscraper to overcome my fear of heights. ended up arrested. what did I do wrong?
Looking awesome as ever!
Love the story, maybe I'll picture floating in the ocean late at night when I can't sleep.... Love the art also 😊
Some things are usually better naked
awe I never understand why people are mean to children :(
Beautiful image and a traumatic story somehow told in a rather funny way to go with it X3.
