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[Davey Do]

[Davey Do]

sirI said:

LOL!

Love the little blue blob man-eating dude. 

Thank you, sirI. That is actually a recreation of one of Robert Benfer's characters from the Claymation series, "Klay World". His later ones, from 2013, were great, however there's a lot of Dark Humor, like characters getting shot or sliced in two and bleeding red clay.

I wanted to see if I could do something similar, without the red clay bleeding, and have the character return to a homeostatic state.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

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[GrumpyRN, NP]

Davey Do said:

Is that a "Do Rag"?

[GrumpyRN, NP]

Davey Do said:

Ooooooohhhh!! Cruel and funny at the same time. 👏👏👍👍

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GrumpyRN said:

Ooooooohhhh!! Cruel and funny at the same time. 👏👏👍👍

You know that that's one of the great things about animations, Grumpy: Characters can be crushed, shot, or killed and no living thing suffers.

Take the classic Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote cartoons for an example. We watch Wile E. run off of a cliff or crushed by a falling rock, and it's funny! It's ludicrous humor because we can identify with the situation, but nobody really experiences any pain, so we're okay with the incidents.

Dark Humor, my stock-in-trade, is the same way, but many get offended by it because they cannot see past the reality of the situation. I'll use a dark humor situation where I was the brunt of the joke.

In 1976, I was in an MVA, suffering a closed head injury and multiple internal, external, & orthopedic injuries. Part of the treatment was to have bilateral casts on my arms and my right leg in traction. I felt like a miserable victim, but my older brother gave me a Get-Well card with a contorted character on the front of it, all covered in wrapped bandages.

I opened the card, and the inscription read, "So, what else do you do?"

That was the first time in a month where I actually laughed out loud because the situation was ludicrous. I knew my brother loved and cared for me, and like other members of the family, and friends, felt overwhelming emotional pain of the trauma of which I suffered.

But my brother was able to see past the pain and manipulate the situation to make it humorous and give me the best medicine of laughter.

It's like Edgar Cayce said: "Overcome fear by see the ridiculous yet funny side of every situation".

Thank you for your comment, Grumpy. Being who you are, I'm sure you can identify.

[Davey Do]

GrumpyRN said:

Is that a "Do Rag"?

BTW: This is great! 😍

[Davey Do]

About a month ago, I experienced severe hip pain & received a diagnosis of degenerative arthritis for which is slowly being treated with good results, and my activity has been increased. Today, I did some yard work and e-biked for a few miles, then returned to my art room and applied some ice.

Aside from responding to some posts on different sites, very little art has been done, and I found myself bored. Thinking of the reply to @GrumpyRN, I remembered not feeling bored while I was in pain, which resulted in this animation:

 

[GrumpyRN, NP]

Davey Do said:

I felt like a miserable victim, but my older brother gave me a Get-Well card with a contorted character on the front of it, all covered in wrapped bandages.

I opened the card, and the inscription read, "So, what else do you do?"

 

Davey Do said:

But my brother was able to see past the pain and manipulate the situation to make it humorous and give me the best medicine of laughter.

Must be something about brothers.

A lot of years ago I had a teratoma and had to have an orchidectomy. I was lying in bed post op feeling a bit sorry for myself and my brother appeared with a brown paper bag. Inside were some plums, he then said to me, "I tried to find nuts to give you but I could only find these plums". Cue the nursing staff and other patients laughing and my mother getting all concerned and upset with him.

I thought it was hilarious and just what I needed at the time.

Brothers!!

 

I'm glad you are feeling a bit better and are able to move about. As they say over here; "Old age doesn't come itself". Take care.

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GrumpyRN said:

my mother getting all concerned and upset with him.

I thought it was hilarious and just what I needed at the time.

Your mother, being a caring person, wanted to give you heartfelt empathy, when your brother, and mine, wanted us to laugh at the situation.

There's a time for empathy and a time for laughter. 

It seems that empathy may potentiate our feelings of being something of a selfish victim, while humor causes us to get outside of ourselves and gain a new perspective.

This is a journal entry from yesterday:

 

We need to be very careful when, like our brothers, we use dark humor. It's funny when someone we know & love has fun with us, but it can feel apathetic and hurtful if some ambiguous bystander pokes fun at our pain.

GrumpyRN, I feel like you "get it" and am giving you carte blanche to have fun with me and my submissions without negative reprisals.

Thanks for the communication, for which I enjoy.

 

[GrumpyRN, NP]

I was reading your last comment and my brother literally just contacted me saying that he has finally got a date for his hip replacement operation. It has been held back for quite a while - the NHS is great for life saving operations/treatment but life enhancing stuff can take a bit of time - and my daft brother decided to have a heart attack this year which put any surgery back at least 6 months. So the point is that finally I can maybe get my own back on him.

As an addendum to the NHS, all treatment is free at the point of use so no bills. Biggest expense is usually parking or the coffee you buy in the hospital cafeteria. Down side is that there can be a wait for non urgent treatment.