February 2022 Skin Horse Wallpaper
Shaenon: This being Valentine’s Day month, I did a Nick/Dr. Lee wedding illustration. I love drawing these two, plus I kinda wanted to try drawing a hanbok. Last month’s wallpaper had a palette of secondary colors, and this one’s based on primary colors, go figure.
As usual, if you make a donation in any amount to the Skin Horse Tip Jar, or contribute any amount to our Patreon, we’ll give you a link to this wallpaper, designed for two computer desktop sizes and cell phones. Patreon contributors will continue to receive new wallpaper for the length of their contribution.
As a bonus, you’ll also receive this bonus February wallpaper from the archives:
Channing: I know Shaenon and I technically were in control, but I keep feeling a sense of relief that things worked out for these two, so that we can have pretty / happy pictures like this.
Lovely! I didn’t know what a hanbok was, so I had to look it up. Thank you, Shaenon, for inspiring me to learn something new today!
You both feel it, don’t you? That at some point your creations seized control of their world and you are now but observers reporting events.
Like Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle. 😉 Great characters take on a life of their own.
But the comforting thing is that when the curtain falls it won’t be “The End” – merely arrivederci.
Did Doyle feel that way about Holmes? It would be nice to think so, but I’m afraid I had the impression it was more “apparently, I’m not allowed to kill him off and go back to writing historical novels because the sodding public won’t let me.” I don’t think he hated him to the extent that Agatha Christie grew to despise Hercule Poirot, but I never got the sense that Holmes was “real” to him either.
You’re right of course, Daibhid. But just because Doyle resented his creation clawing his way back from the dead doesn’t lessen Holmes’ impact on the gestalt.
Indeed, given Sir Arthur’s occult leanings I expect he’d be open to the suggestion that in Holmes he created a tulpa!
In Doyle writing on the spiritual and the life beyond, he had his Professor Challenger believe it—but not Holmes. It’s said sometimes that Doyle realized that Holmes would never have fallen for it.
Reinforcing my opinion that Holmes acquired an existence independent of his creator! 😉
Nice!
For those more pedantically oriented, two tips on hanbok. 1) The knot is one-lobed. 2) For traditional Korean weddings, there is a different outfit, rather than the “regular” hanbok. But, then, traditions have changed…
I got distracted into spending a ton of time on websites looking at modern wedding hanboks, but a lot of those are farther from any kind of traditional design than I wanted to go, so in the end I went with an admittedly random mix of elements.
So pretty! I love everything about it!
Oooh, a threequel to Airmail and Reply! I’m loving these more and more with each instalment.
In the bonus picture I see Clark/Lois and Kirk/Spock, but what’s the picture in the middle?
Looks like Alana and Marko from the comic Saga.
That’s it!
The wedding approaches with speed. The outfits are chosen, we read. Though not to disparage, who knows if this marriage and linking will fail to succeed.
Is Nick Jewish? Just wondering because of his head wear…
Very. Read back, you’ll find him talking about it.
THanks – Got a link?
He’s talked about it several times in the comics. Maybe someone else will find a suitable link before I can later.
But you’ll get a much better picture (so to speak) by reading his LiveJournal.
*I* appreciate the link. Somehow I’d never favorite-placed it before. Nick switched to WordPress but hasn’t updated since his AG-I days.
Thanks 🙂
I usually don’t pay much attention to the wallpapers – I’m on Patreon to support Shaenon and Jeff, not for what I might get, and I generally like unusual landscape photos for wallpapers (including some that come with the standard Windows, actually).
But THIS one …
I downloaded it immediately when it hit my email. It’s my current wallpaper and will be for a while. Nick and Ginny are the bomb! I asked for the two of them for my sketch when I ordered the calendar, but admitted it was too greedy and that I’d be content with just Dr. Lee (I was secretly hoping for something like Dr. Lee holding a toy helicopter). Instead I actually got both of them! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” I chortled in my joy …
I also feel the need to emphasize how GORRAM ADORABLE this piece is. Bravo, *bravo.*