August 2015 Wallpaper: Spring Water
Shaenon: Sometimes I spend a lot of time coming up with clever art styles and visual references for the Skin Horse wallpapers, and sometimes I say, “Forget it, Mucha pastiches always look good.” I figured the water cooler deserved her own illustration.
If you make a donation in any amount to the Skin Horse Tip Jar, or contribute any amount to our Patreon, we’ll send you a link to the wallpaper. Patreon contributors will continue to receive new wallpaper for the length of their contribution.
As a bonus, you’ll get this Whimsy manga wallpaper, starring Nikko-Hime and his unicorn pal:
Channing: Man, I never realized it until now, but Bubbles was totally born in the wrong era, because she could have been like a world-famous advertising icon had she been born in Art Nouveau days. And before someone calls me on it, I know she is only loosely applicable to the word “born.”
Something that working with Shaenon has done for my artistic taste is that I now appreciate Art Nouveau as much as I do its hip, widely-popular cousin Deco. I like to delude myself that it makes me more culturally savvy.
….I really want “The Magical Adventures of Nikko-hime and Kirin-chan” to be a bonus story in one of the books. And then I want a reaction from actual Nick after reading it.
Seems too vibrant a personality to just be called “the water cooler.”
I think her full name is Bubbles Britta Cooler. We’d have to check her business cards to be sure.
A non-drawn scene that’s circulated says her name is Olympia. Last name either Waters or Washington. Bubbles is just the name the others came up for her.
She does kinda seem the type that might be too shy to bring it up in conversation.
Bubbles sounds frivolous enough to be her name as a one-name model for Art-nouveau.
I’m a Patreon supporter, but haven’t gotten any link to this month’s wallpaper. Looking back, I think I’ve gotten only two distinct wallpaper links since April (though one of them was included in several different messages).
I just sent out the link to this month’s wallpaper. If you let me know what wallpaper you’re missing, I’ll send it right over to you. Sorry about that!
Actually, looking it over, there have only been three wallpapers since April: the ones for May, June, and August. I didn’t manage one for July.
I just got the link for this month’s wallpapers and downloaded them. Thanks.
I have the following wallpapers (one or two of which I might have gotten from earlier tipjar donations instead of recent Patreon support): the Mucha-pastiche with “Cybernetique, Psychologie” etc; the “Insanity” motivational poster; “See America with Black Ops Social Services”; “Mixing Madness and Girls!” etc; plus this month’s two.
Love my bubbles. Go Girl.
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