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Nathalie F

@loopyyylupe.bsky.social

Concept Artist & Illustrator. She/Her Embodiment of things Serial cover artist (and occasional colorist) for IDW Sonic comics prev: Ivy Road Games Portfolio: nathaliefourdraine(.)com 🔞🔞🔞

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Nathalie F@loopyyylupe.bsky.social · 6d ago

Finished Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, it's a nice short read. The way it fears how words kill the abstract and the horror of infinite roads never traveled (the should've could've would'ves) through eulogies is great. Choosing negative space for the large fonts really stands out to me.

Passage from Invisible Cities: "When a man rides a long time through the wild regions he feels the desire for a city. Finally he comes to Isidora, a city where the buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral seashells, where perfect telescopes and violins are made, where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third, where cockfights degenerate into bloody brawls among the bettors. He was thinking of all these things when he desired a city. Isidora, therefore, is the city of his dreams: with one difference. The dreamed-of city contained him as a young man; he arrives at Isidora in his old age. In the square there is the wall where the old men sit and watch the young go by; he is seated in a row with them. Desires are already memories."
Nathalie F@loopyyylupe.bsky.social · 2w ago

I like jumping into media blind so when checking out Insectopolis, I was surprised to take home a 1x1 ft graphic novel! The art is great and I appreciate the balance of care & fatalism. Some dialogue felt a bit hokey but the book's focus was science non-fiction so no huge deal. Here is a good panel:

cicada screaming "SEX"
Nathalie F@loopyyylupe.bsky.social · 2w ago

Finally played Idols of Ash, really fun movement and a cool small scope idea. I've learned I would rather pulp myself on the ground 50 times than get caught by a giant centipede.

Nathalie F@loopyyylupe.bsky.social · 3w ago

Finished The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago, I enjoyed it! I got used to his style quickly, though I am sad the eng loc softened it. I like how insulated the stream of consciousness prose feels, and it's pretty neat to use a poet's heteronym as a vehicle for multiple analogies.

Nathalie F@loopyyylupe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tsai Ming-liang's The Wayward Cloud has such an interesting flavor. It's a surrealist-dry comedy-drama-erotica-musical, which you'd think "that's a lot of genres!" but the film purposefully uses it to club the viewer's head over and over. It's blended so well & the ending was a perfect bow on top.

A view of two hallway corridors, from a fisheye lens camera high up in the corner. A man climbs the wall on one side and a woman crouches with bags on the other
Nathalie F@loopyyylupe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This template popped up in a server so I thought it'd be fun to try. Here's a few games I think are neat and don't often see mentioned. (STRAFTAT and Devil Daggers are borderline cheating but I recommend them too much not to include)

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Nathalie F@loopyyylupe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I watched Exorcist 1 & 3 for the first time, 1 was solid, though felt a little meandering at times. Exorcist 3 was fucking awesome, I really enjoyed it. The slow constant escalation to that climax was so riveting. Such funny little bits in each scene too, it really felt like they had fun making it.