Have you ever wanted to go someplace you don’t speak the language? Where no one has heard of the place you come from and no one cares? Where the customs seem bizarre but no one thinks to explain them? Where it seems anything you imagine can come true but still some things surprise you?
Have you ever wanted to throw a dart at a map and just go there with someone you have never met?
I really like the aesthetic of this new look.
Plus the comic is beautiful.
Nice work.
Thanks!
I… kinda feel a sense of Been There, Done That; now just want to go home. Pack up mah toys and goooo hooome.
I used to have a bag all packed and ready in case I ever found a magic portal to another land… but I have since decided to focus more on the real world.
Narnia.
I did. I live there now. And I prefer it to the place I came from.
The question and the caption of the drawing seem to be adressing 2 different things. On the edge of sleep I often “go” to places I’d like to be, and live the stories I’ll never write while there.
‘I never knew just where to find
The answer to a real good time.
I never knew just where to look,
I never knew just what it took
Or where to find
Adventures…’
(New Musik)
Though I thrilled most to my own Dreamquest for Unknown Kadath after reading the Lovecraft original, I thrill nightly to new dreams and frontiers, courtesy of my being a full lucid dreamer. Dreamtime is a series of infinite worlds distinct from this waking world, this Ningenkai, and is usually a welcome escape or break.
i love that idea of throwing a dart at a map and going somewhere with someone i’ve never met. i think i’ve always secretly wanted to do that, ha.
Well, pick up a dart and chatroulette ;-)
“where the stories we write come true / and mingle while we sleep / leaving hints and traces for the morning”
…I like that. Sometimes I wish I could go to the places that exist in my dreams. I’m sure they are stranger than anyplace I could go in the physical world… and yet they often seem more inviting.
I’d think the stranger, then all the more inviting.
I think everyone desires a chance to completely re-invent themselves, from time to time. Maybe that’s one of the reasons going somewhere completely unknown with a stranger is somehow so appealing.
That’s how I’ve always thought to travel – throwing a dart at a map of the world and going where it lands… so many little places get overlooked in favour of bigger, more well known “exotic” places.