The Centaur and the Mermaid
transcript:
A comic strip in four panels:
Panel 1. On a shore, a beautiful mermaid and a young centaur meet. They look at each other.
Panel 2. Close-up portrait of the two protagonists, both look away, blushing.
Panel 3. Later, at sunset, the two admire the sunset together, side by side. They're a couple.
Panel 4. The happy couple watches their two half-human, half-seahorse children playing in the water.
Narrator: A few years later...
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Kiloku@burnthis.town
That's genius
★yngmar@social.tchncs.de
Ow, I had to think for that one 😁
viq@hackerspace.pl
life finds a way 😂
greenCoder@functional.cafe
For the curious folks who wonder how it worked in practice ... notice the arrow and the shell.
davidrevoy
@greenCoder Thank you for noticing this two symbols; the shell with its shape and the arrow (and role of hunter). It was unconscious at the storyboard phase, then became intentional. #symbolism
4 ★fell@ma.fellr.net
I kind of want to see those grandparents 😄
Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al
Not pictured: The third kid, Blort, who was lucky enough to end up with fish top and horse bottom.
davidrevoy
@Legit_Spaghetti 🤣 LOL! 👍
4 ★farah@beige.party
@Legit_Spaghetti
📎 889cdfc93876e51b.mp4 ★davidrevoy
@farah @Legit_Spaghetti No one wants to play with poor Blort 🥲
farah@beige.party
@Legit_Spaghetti Thank you! This made my day!! 🥹😂
★Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al
@farah Oh god this is the best thing I've seen all year!
★Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al
@farah
reads the artist's bio
Wait, hold up, you made this using only free, open-source tools?!? That's even more impressive. If you don't mind me asking, what's your preferred drawing software? I've been using Photoshop since forever, but I've been itching to move to something else.
pink@norden.social
@Legit_Spaghetti
★wrote some blog posts about it: https://www.davidrevoy.com/index.php?tag/linux
davidrevoy
@pink @Legit_Spaghetti Yes, only with Free/Libre and Open Source software, my main tool is Krita, and right now on a Debian Plasma KDE X11 operating system (fully described on the link Pink sent, thank you Pink!).
I also have a humble Ytb channel if you are not allergic to French accent: https://www.youtube.com/@DavidRevoy/videos (mirrored on Peertube too, https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/c/4742f338-1ded-4798-bd85-93e8de367476/videos?sort=-originallyPublishedAt )
19 ★DelphineM
🤣
★Pauvre Blort...
cnx@awkward.place
oh , @farah and @Legit_Spaghetti, poor @Blort indeed
★Blort@social.tchncs.de
@cnx
Lol. Not sure how I got dragged into this, but I'm here for it and now considering changing my avatar to dead-fish/horse kid...
Bonus unrelated fun fact: Not sure if Deevad realizes, but we actually met in person many years ago at an early Krita sprint.
@farah @Legit_Spaghetti
★davidrevoy
@Blort :blobaww: I had no idea! Like, around this era? https://www.davidrevoy.com/article114/krita-project-an-old-challenge-won-2-4-very-soon
@cnx @farah @Legit_Spaghetti
Blort@social.tchncs.de
★Yup. 😉
@cnx @farah @Legit_Spaghetti
Lana@beige.party
@farah @Legit_Spaghetti
Not to be dramatic but I would die for Blort
★peha
@farah @Legit_Spaghetti OMG!
★feff@comicscamp.club
@farah @Legit_Spaghetti
I love Blort~
★DarthParadox@kind.social
@farah @Legit_Spaghetti Since both parents had human heads, clearly fish-headedness is a recessive gene that the centaur was also carrying.
patrick@retro.social
"It behooves you to play with him, he is your brother"
★temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe
@farah @Legit_Spaghetti Blort should be right side up, with the lower body of a hippopotamus (literally river horse) :)
3 ★(Still terrifing, probably)
Poslovitch@wikis.world
it's so cuuuute :blobfoxheartcute:
drq@mastodon.ml
Note to self: don't overthink it too much
th3rdsergeevich@mastodon.ml
@drq I think biology would be a "party pooper" in this case.
drq@mastodon.ml
@th3rdsergeevich I think, even before biology this relationship is going to be a challenge. The fun will start at the intersection of geometry, anatomy and Newtonian mechanics.
greenCoder@functional.cafe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BDyEB4T84g
shadowwwind@fosstodon.org
@kxkx_uwu
Faintdreams@dice.camp
this is beautiful.
★ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
awww
★momo@social.linux.pizza
★Your drawings are beautiful and the storys, the thought process behind all of them, are similarly beautiful. And that applies to all the works I have seen from you so far! So from the bottom of my heart: Thank you so much for being the person you are and for the art you do! It brights up my timeline and always puts a smile in my face. Thank you!
davidrevoy
@momo
aww
★thorcik@mastodon.com.pl
took me a while :D
riquisimo@mastodon.social
This is so clever!!
ygor@floss.social
It takes a little boldness, and a little bit of magic.
Hatebunny@social.hatebunny.ca
it's beautiful, but I have... questions.
Chip_Unicorn@im-in.space
@Hatebunny Love... finds a way.
pantaRhei@freiburg.social
Nice One! 😆
... and now I wonder how many European languages this is obvious in without further explanation.
E.g. in German it's "Seepferdchen", that's literally "little sea horse", thus the comic works directly. 🤔
Ann_Effes@berlin.social
@pantaRhei
Works in German.
dgouttegattat@social.incenp.org
@pantaRhei In French the “official” name for a seahorse is “hippocampe” (from the scientific name of the genus, hippocampus), but “cheval de mer” is also commonly used, and that is literally “sea horse”. So it works in French as well. 😀
JorisMeys@mstdn.social
but but that's not how biology wor*SLAP*
vinnie@mastodon.gamedev.place
it took me a few good seconds to understand haha
ToonLink@fandom.ink
Aaaww little seahorses. :blobcataww:
★davidrevoy
@ToonLink Thanks! I wanted to insert a seahorse emoticon and then I remembered it doesn't exist and this https://vgel.me/posts/seahorse/ I read earlier this week.
3 ★ToonLink@fandom.ink
Oh wow, that's fascinating. There's even a mandela effect going on. o:
Some of the responses are amazing, though. "Wait, no, that's an X" sounds like an old tumblr meme. 😆
★jujudraw@mastodon.art
ces dessins sont extraordinaires. C'est magnifique.
★f4grx@chaos.social
@jujudraw je plussoie!
davidrevoy
@f4grx @jujudraw Merci
J'ai testé pour cet épisode une nouvelle configuration pour mon crayon numérique sous Krita: avec d'avantage de grains. Je partagerai ça bientôt sur le blog.
f4grx@chaos.social
@jujudraw je vois qu'effectivement ce crayon a plus de grain. Mais au delà soyons clairs tu as surtout bcp amélioré ta technique dans les qq dernières années que nous te suivons. Ce dessin est extrêmement précis, expressif, et délicat, déjà dans le crayonné, sans parler de la mise en couleurs super travaillée.
Les heures de travail ne mentent pas.
★davidrevoy
@f4grx @jujudraw Merci de remarquer tout ça.
Oui, je travaille dure. 😊
2 ★Wildebeest@mastodon.social
★👌 🤩 😍 pour l'idée et la réalisation
...
... ...
(par contre, 😬 pour la nuit à venir : mon cerveau commence déjà à mouliner, pour essayer d'adapter ça à l'ornithorynque...
La nuit va être longue 🙃 😁 )
davidrevoy
@Wildebeest Merci!
( Alors, ça a été la nuit? 😅)
★Wildebeest@mastodon.social
★Oh oui.
C'était facile : castor + canard noir (et quelques gènes de capybara).
Et paf ! Ça fait un Nornithorynque ☝
🙃 😁
yon@sakurajima.moe
This is clever in the dumbest way, and I call that entertainment. Well done!
kabel42@polymaths.social
great, now the ear-worm is back... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v_R180kIGs
LetoOfTheDesert@rivals.space
❤️
Zekovski@pouet.chapril.org
🥰
enthusiast101@ieji.de
I had to think about it for a minute but the children becoming sea horses is actually incredible. Awesome work!
Aoi_X_Kaizaki@mastodon.social
Imagine your father is a minitour and your mother is a mermaid, but you get the human half from both.
That mean's you're just...
Some guy.
★davidrevoy
@Aoi_X_Kaizaki Haha, that's a good idea. I'll try to keep it in mind, maybe there is a way to make a comic strip around this drama.
4 ★sman42@chaos.social
Hi, thanks for all.
your work. Just beside your fantastic current work, I am just curious if there is any finalizing work planned for Pepper & Carrot? Would love to see a great end! :) #fanboy https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1020/the-end-of-peppercarrot-and-my-next-project
davidrevoy
@sman42 Thank you 💜 Yes, I'll make a new production report soon about it, but to be short: I have a long episode I keep doing in background (aside the weekly comic strip) since June. I like doing both this way. I'll continue Pepper&Carrot, I have a story to tell for the book five. Thank you for asking.
2 ★derek@social.coop
Something happened between the third and fourth panels that would probably deeply confuse me if I pondered it too much.
davidrevoy
@derek Yes, just a recommendation for curious: don't look for it on Rule 34. It did cost me a pack of brain cells when I typed "Centaurs" into the search field. I had to immediately stop my research to save my sanity. 😅 #regrets
6 ★breizh@pleroma.breizh.pm
@derek Ah, the human imagination, source of so many wonders and, um… other things.
★davidrevoy
@breizh @derek 😆
dat@social.g33ky.de
@derek that's where the magic happens!
Now… don't at seahorses the males carry the young? ★
dgouttegattat@social.incenp.org
I wonder if you’ll receive a polite request to completely change the story, from someone who deeply respects your creative choices but doesn’t want to expose children to romantic relationships between characters of different species… 😁 ★
davidrevoy
@dgouttegattat 🤣 haha. If I receive that, I'll make sure to make a series of strip about various breeds of mythological creatures. Like, what type of eggs result of a Draconian and a Harpie? Do you obtain a sort of Pterosaur?
3 ★dgouttegattat@social.incenp.org
Now I kinda wish you do receive such a request. 😁 I’d look forward to that series. ★
viq@hackerspace.pl
@dgouttegattat and worst outcomes for a hydra hybrid 😂
davidrevoy
@viq @dgouttegattat lol, Hydra meet Cerberus. :blobaww:
3 ★viq@hackerspace.pl
@dgouttegattat I was also thinking about Medusa or something fire breathing 🤔
★viq@hackerspace.pl
@dgouttegattat but, while those can be *dangerous*, I do like the imagery of a Hydra Cerberus :D
viq@hackerspace.pl
@dgouttegattat Hydra and Chimera, but every time a new head grows it's of a different species 😂
★greenCoder@functional.cafe
@dgouttegattat or a dragon and a donkey
🖼️ 3d0d6743a0415499.png ★louischance@piaille.fr
awesome like always 😃
davidrevoy
@louischance
Thanks!
farah@beige.party
Awww 🥰
★njsleviathan@mastodon.social
oh cuz they're seahorses! I got it, i got it, very cool 😎👌
★mavis@blorbo.social
This is SO cute 😭💖
★cjust@infosec.exchange
What would John Pinette say about all of this?
likely something along the lines of
I say, neigh neigh!
agturcz@circumstances.run
💜😁
★Jmvars@mastodon.social
I feel kinda bad for the dad, though. He only gets to hang out with his kids near the shore while the mom and kids get the entire ocean.
davidrevoy
@Jmvars True, they do have clearly more in common with the mermaid mother on this aspect.
jrdepriest@infosec.exchange
this is really sweet.
★Illdisposed@mastodon.social
Clearly cheated on the centaur boy with the siren man
LaVi@livellosegreto.it
omnia vincit amor 💕
(Ille es Latin, le antique Roman lingua. Ille significa que le amor pote vincer cata difficultate - #Interlingua
It's Latin, the ancient Roman language. It means that love can win every difficulties)
★leboucherducoin@piaille.fr
cute
★Cameron@troet.cafe
★Adorable! 😍😍😍😍
GoodNewsGreyShoes@mastodon.art
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!🤩🎉✨💯
It all makes so much sense, now! 🥰🐟💕🐴
★davidrevoy
@GoodNewsGreyShoes 💜 :blobcheerbounce: Thank you!
★jak@defcon.social
this strip gave me a smile and hope. In this period, your art is a breeze of fresh air. Thank you :-)
★davidrevoy
@jak 💜
eowyn@pouet.chapril.org
C'est adorable 🥰
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