It’s even more awesome if you know the story behind it. See, the orchestral score doesn’t actually specify the use of a huge wooden mallet. In fact, it doesn’t specify any particular instrument at all: it just describes a completely hypothetical instrumental sound – “brief and mighty, but dull in resonance and with a non-metallic character (like the fall of an axe)” – and leaves it to the orchestra director to figure out how to actually produce it. Apart from the Big Fucking Mallet, past attempts have included custom-made bass drums, smacking a wooden crate with a sledgehammer, and dropping heavy objects onto the stage from a great height.
I don’t know if Mahler actually intended to troll entire generations of orchestras, but if he did, it totally worked.
There is something so amazing about receiving an email informing you that someone has left a comment on your fanfic. It’s like, “Brain Secretary cancel my next appointment, I need to read this at least ten times and bask in the feelings of validation.”
There’s a book out there that’s either one of the last great unsolved cyphers or a massive medieval hoax. Welcome to the weird world of the Voynich Manuscript. And no, it isn’t solved yet.
I did this comic for The Niblast year (The Nib is an amazingly great place for comics on Medium if you don’t know that already). You can follow all my work on Medium here.
Heyo! This is why I haven’t been posting art that much this month, haha… with this comic I was trying to figure out baby!Esfir’s relationship with her demon (who she just gave that nickname to herself, hehe) and try to do something actually plot related instead of gags . I tried new stuff and learned a lot, even if it did take so long! Glad it’s done.
If you want a little more, here’s some really old comics I did of Esfir and Faas meeting (idk if they’re still canon but hey, it might help): here and here.
If anyone’s unaware, this is just a oneshot comic of my OCs Esfir and Faas. Please don’t repost anywhere else!
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