Jinjin

@jinjin.bsky.social

Sorry about my posts

If any of you had watched The Minions Movie’s hilarious opening sequence with the reverence and attention it deserves you’d already know they were indeed frozen in that ice cave. Media literacy is dead

I love drawing because the way simple marks build up into something greater than the sum of their parts is like God’s greatest magic trick. Making the marks is meditative, it feels good. When they click into a convincing image the sense of accomplishment is unparalleled. GenAI bypasses all of that

I used to draw with a poorly thought out audience of “whoever’s on the internet” in mind….I’ve since pivoted to creating for one client only—my child—and I’m one million times more fulfilled

Queequeg, such a legend…saves himself from death by suddenly remembering he has unfinished business on shore…I wish this method worked for me 🐋

I fell behind with my reading and posting…in fairness to myself, knowing what comes next, I was loath to depart the peaceful verdure draped whale skelly in the arsacides 🐋

Ishmael slyly bragging that Tranquo, king of Tranque, invited him to stay for the holidays as a special guest and they went to see a whale skeleton together…sounds kinda romantic if you ask me 🐋

Partial list of silly names from Moby Dick: - the learned Fogo von Slack - Dr. Bunger, ships surgeon with a dent in his head - Fitz Swackhammer - Dr. Snodhead, prof of Low Dutch and High German - Tranquo, king of Tranque 🐋

“You Bunger! Was there ever such another Bunger in the watery world? Bunger, when you die, you ought to die in a pickle, you dog; you should be preserved to future ages, you rascal” Feels like I am reading Tom and Greg dialog from Succession and not Moby Dick 🐋

So many deep ponderings on the doubloon, but imo the Manxman has the biggest galaxy brain take with his assertion that the doubloon is the ship’s belly button 🐋

If you like me are loving the descriptions of how whaling work actually gets done (with accompanying metaphors on how it’s all a microcosm for life itself), may I recommend Emile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series 🐋