I Like Monday 20
Back again! And this Monday, I like... the cartoon art of LetsSaveTheUniverse (otherwise known as Caterina).
No image this week, folks - you can follow the link to the art. And I do recommend it, even if you don't get the references because, frankly, I don't get a lot of them either! This is an insane mixture of Harry Potter, Doctor Who, the BBC's Sherlock AND the Robert Downey Jnr. movies Sherlock Holmes, a little bit of Supernatural, and something called Cabin Pressure, which I have never heard of before...
Parts of it are original cartoons, parts of it are cartoons made by taking a piece of dialogue from one show and putting it in the mouths of characters from another. The latter can be confusing if you don't know where the dialogue or the characters came from, but the confusion is part of the charm. And they are incredibly charming, with their simple bold outlines, tiny black-button eyes and U-shaped smiles. The style reminds me of Dick Bruna and Miffy the Rabbit; there is a child-like sweetness here even when mentioning frisky women and spying on high-functioning sociopaths who refuse to wear trousers.
And oh, they make me laugh! Ok, many of the jokes sail over my head - particularly the Cabin Pressure ones - but it's all so silly, I grin like a fool. My two favourites are the High-functioning Patronus (you'll have to click on it to read it) and the Bubble Pipe (particularly when you add in the bit of dialogue she's written below). (Interesting that both feature Benedict Cumberbatch's version of Sherlock Holmes, when I've never watched that show...)
So when I need a little sweet-and-silly cuteness involving multi-crossover fandoms, I take a look to see what new stuff LSTU might have put up, because even when I don't get it, it gives me a smile. :)
No image this week, folks - you can follow the link to the art. And I do recommend it, even if you don't get the references because, frankly, I don't get a lot of them either! This is an insane mixture of Harry Potter, Doctor Who, the BBC's Sherlock AND the Robert Downey Jnr. movies Sherlock Holmes, a little bit of Supernatural, and something called Cabin Pressure, which I have never heard of before...
Parts of it are original cartoons, parts of it are cartoons made by taking a piece of dialogue from one show and putting it in the mouths of characters from another. The latter can be confusing if you don't know where the dialogue or the characters came from, but the confusion is part of the charm. And they are incredibly charming, with their simple bold outlines, tiny black-button eyes and U-shaped smiles. The style reminds me of Dick Bruna and Miffy the Rabbit; there is a child-like sweetness here even when mentioning frisky women and spying on high-functioning sociopaths who refuse to wear trousers.
And oh, they make me laugh! Ok, many of the jokes sail over my head - particularly the Cabin Pressure ones - but it's all so silly, I grin like a fool. My two favourites are the High-functioning Patronus (you'll have to click on it to read it) and the Bubble Pipe (particularly when you add in the bit of dialogue she's written below). (Interesting that both feature Benedict Cumberbatch's version of Sherlock Holmes, when I've never watched that show...)
So when I need a little sweet-and-silly cuteness involving multi-crossover fandoms, I take a look to see what new stuff LSTU might have put up, because even when I don't get it, it gives me a smile. :)