LIMINOWL

Nerdy, nostalgic science student
Likes to draw and write
~ Wednesday, May 30 ~
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~ Thursday, May 24 ~
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GRADUATING IN LESS THAN 9 HOURS

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Concepts for a new commission—because I wanted to post something less bloody and more cheery right before my sappy graduation post.
Look at me! So fancy. “Commission nbd”

Concepts for a new commission—because I wanted to post something less bloody and more cheery right before my sappy graduation post.

Look at me! So fancy. “Commission nbd”

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~ Wednesday, May 23 ~
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“Betrayal hurts. But not as much as this is going to.”
“No, p-please…no, not my EYE!”

“Betrayal hurts. But not as much as this is going to.”

“No, p-please…no, not my EYE!”

(Source: liminowl)

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~ Monday, May 21 ~
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Black Widow by ~liminowl
Second in a pair of late-night doodles. Too lazy to draw explosions in the background, drew neon craziness instead

Black Widow by ~liminowl

Second in a pair of late-night doodles. Too lazy to draw explosions in the background, drew neon craziness instead

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I completely forgot to post this! I designed and drew the image on this year’s Colleges Against Cancer t-shirts. We handed them out at Relay for Life to registered team members. It’s really exciting to see people wear something you created, especially for such a great cause. I felt like a “real” artist hahaha

As co-chair of Cancer Education, I’m really satisfied with the work we did this year. Our committee was tiny and our resources limited, but seeing people learn facts about cancer and then turn to their friends and share them (this actually happened quite often) was really, really rewarding.

I can’t believe I’m graduating in a few days, but at least I made my mark (literally and figuratively)

*Photo is not by me, but by Will Verduzco, CAC’s photographer extraordinaire

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I am really happy and thankful graduation is here but I’m also nervous about the actual ceremony:

  • What my relatives get lost on my campus, and my parents have to find them in the middle of the ceremony?
  • What if the long, boring ceremony tires my younger cousins out and makes them whiny/snappy, triggering a chain of frustration among the rest of the family?
  • What if I trip in my heels on the stage and fall flat on my face?
  • What if they can’t pronounce my name and they make an awkward embarassing pause in the middle?
  • What if it doesn’t rain, so the ceremony is outside, but then it starts violently raining everyone is grumpy and wet? Or what if it’s just hot and cloudy and dank the whole time?
  • What if I cry or babble unintelligibly during my post-ceremony interview??
  • What if I don’t get to see everyone or take pictures with them before I leave campus to go to my sister’s ceremony?
  • What if I act like an idiot around Sanjay Gupta at my sister’s ceremony?
  • What if the food at the restaurant we’re going to afterwards is bad?
  • What if someone asks me, “AREN’T YOU GLAD YOU FOLLOWED YOUR SISTER’S FOOTSTEPS” AND I PUNCH THEM IN THE GUT

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~ Sunday, May 20 ~
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I know I don’t look like the girl on the right but whatever, I just really like that one.

I know I don’t look like the girl on the right but whatever, I just really like that one.

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Graphic artist Gia-Bao (GB) Tran’s graphic memoir Vietnamerica tells the story of his family’s escape and survival during the Vietnam war, and their struggle as refugees in the United States. A past Colorlines contributing artist, GB recounts his family’s story as he travels back to Vietnam to attend his grandparents’ funerals. It’s a remarkable telling of an immigrant experience through visual storytelling. Below are some excerpts from the 288-page full color book.






Never have I read a work of Vietnamese-American literature that resonated with me so much, and this time it happens to be a graphic novel. GB Tran is in the same generation as I am in terms of immigration-generations—his parents came to America and he was born here, just like me. The main difference between his family and mine is that his parents escaped before the fall of Saigon, in April 1975.
My parents did not.
Tran has encapsulated the pain and suffering of the war’s aftermath in a way I can finally understand. My parents have tried to explain to me how much luckier the people who left before 1975 were, how much things really got worse after that April. I have tried to understand, but I guess hearing it explained by another American-born Vietnamese really did it for me. What’s even more amazing is that Tran learned about these truths from family friends and distant relatives—me, I heard about it from my parents. So the fact that Tran was able to comprehend and then to illustrate all of this in heart-breaking works of art is even more remarkable.
In subtle ways, Tran also addresses how difficult it is to be an American-born Vietnamese, how we have to work hard to fit in an American society as well as try to make sense of our rich cultural history and our parents’ sacrifices. His skillful retelling of his grandparents’ lives has also inspired me to chronicle my parents’ stories and of their own lives and those of their parents (and maybe even ancestors) like no other Asian-American lit piece has. His stories are, like Maus and Blankets, brutally honest. If I have one criticism about this book, it’s that sometimes it’s hard to tell who the narrative is currently focused on—the maternal or paternal grandmother, for instance—but this is a trifle. It’s a good book, and I sincerely wish that it was required reading in American History classes.
The view of the Vietnam War in American History classes is always the same. And it’s always radically different from how my parents experienced it. It’s painted as a power trip, a futile exercise in American assertion of western ideals, a waste of countless American lives and absolutely nothing more. A lot of Vietnamese see it has Americans fighting to help liberate a nation of people being oppressed by corruption, evil, and Communism—and that the American war efforts were a godsend. It’s an opinion, a perspective that…kinda matters, considering it’s called the Vietnam War, but it’s never taught in schools.
But hey, what do we know?
*sarcasm*

brownanon:

Graphic artist Gia-Bao (GB) Tran’s graphic memoir Vietnamerica tells the story of his family’s escape and survival during the Vietnam war, and their struggle as refugees in the United States. A past Colorlines contributing artist, GB recounts his family’s story as he travels back to Vietnam to attend his grandparents’ funerals. It’s a remarkable telling of an immigrant experience through visual storytelling. Below are some excerpts from the 288-page full color book.

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Never have I read a work of Vietnamese-American literature that resonated with me so much, and this time it happens to be a graphic novel. GB Tran is in the same generation as I am in terms of immigration-generations—his parents came to America and he was born here, just like me. The main difference between his family and mine is that his parents escaped before the fall of Saigon, in April 1975.

My parents did not.

Tran has encapsulated the pain and suffering of the war’s aftermath in a way I can finally understand. My parents have tried to explain to me how much luckier the people who left before 1975 were, how much things really got worse after that April. I have tried to understand, but I guess hearing it explained by another American-born Vietnamese really did it for me. What’s even more amazing is that Tran learned about these truths from family friends and distant relatives—me, I heard about it from my parents. So the fact that Tran was able to comprehend and then to illustrate all of this in heart-breaking works of art is even more remarkable.

In subtle ways, Tran also addresses how difficult it is to be an American-born Vietnamese, how we have to work hard to fit in an American society as well as try to make sense of our rich cultural history and our parents’ sacrifices. His skillful retelling of his grandparents’ lives has also inspired me to chronicle my parents’ stories and of their own lives and those of their parents (and maybe even ancestors) like no other Asian-American lit piece has. His stories are, like Maus and Blankets, brutally honest. If I have one criticism about this book, it’s that sometimes it’s hard to tell who the narrative is currently focused on—the maternal or paternal grandmother, for instance—but this is a trifle. It’s a good book, and I sincerely wish that it was required reading in American History classes.

The view of the Vietnam War in American History classes is always the same. And it’s always radically different from how my parents experienced it. It’s painted as a power trip, a futile exercise in American assertion of western ideals, a waste of countless American lives and absolutely nothing more. A lot of Vietnamese see it has Americans fighting to help liberate a nation of people being oppressed by corruption, evil, and Communism—and that the American war efforts were a godsend. It’s an opinion, a perspective that…kinda matters, considering it’s called the Vietnam War, but it’s never taught in schools.

But hey, what do we know?

*sarcasm*

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~ Saturday, May 19 ~
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OK so The Avengers inspired some attempts at manly mens (I did this when I should have been studying for dbio lol)

I made the top guy wink as a joke, ok? Just in case people don’t get that

And yes I drew them from reference pics of cast members (see initials!) but then made them into different dudes with some small changes (moving hairline down, raising cheekbones, etc). Pretty fun!

Drawing = plastic surgery with no mess

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~ Thursday, May 17 ~
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This one’s old but whatever- I need to save my blog from falling any further

This one’s old but whatever- I need to save my blog from falling any further

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Just a random bunch of thoughts while watching ABDC tonight:

  • Was that Pepsi commercial supposed to make me want to want Pepsi? Because instead, it made me want some pasta in tomato sauce. It also made me realize that Nicki Minaj is a terrifying [possibly alien] being. TERRIFYING
  • When the ad for the new hip hop version of hollywood squares ended, I lol’d. But you know how people write lol but they actually laughed to themselves? No. I lol’d
  • Battleship = “this summer’s hottest movie”?? Sorry, Liam Neeson, but no.

Side story- when I went to see The Avengers in theaters, the dude next to me said “Battleship is going to be this year’s Green Lantern.” I mentally shook his hand. And then I whispered, “YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP”and then we all lol’d together

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~ Tuesday, May 15 ~
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Took my last undergraduate final today

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liminowl:

(Can you tell I am still thinking about The Avengers?)

When the heck was Mark Ruffalo on Sesame Street?!

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Took my last undergraduate final today

(Can you tell I am still thinking about The Avengers?)

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~ Saturday, May 12 ~
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