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literally acted too cocky

>>23162982
The Moomin drawings are great because she drew the creatures originally and only wrote the text later to fit them.

Another writer who was primarily an artist: Mervyn Peake. His stuff for Gormenghast is perfect.

>>22459015
Tove Jansson may or may not have been "artist first, writer second", but Mervyn Peake definitely was. So why would you get a Gormenghast without his illustrations? Answer: you wouldn't.

This is exactly Steerpike.

There has never been a more reprehensible, detestable little shit in all worlds or histories, real or imagined.

He is L I T E R A L L Y me

Fuchsia told me "you've changed"
I said yeah bitch I Groan up

>>19546613
What the fuck was his problem?

>>16706658

>Steerpike vs Titus
This shit was so badass fighting in a flooded room with Peake's artist prose made it so much better.

>>13100501

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>>11874024
I love the character descriptions in the recap, though:
>...so limp of a brain that for them to conceive an idea is to risk a haemorrhage.
>His main defects? The unsufferable pitch of his voice,; his maddening laughter and his affected gestures. His cardinal virtue? An undamaged brain.
>If ever he had harboured a conscience in his tough narrow breast he had by now dug out and flung away the awkward thing - flung it so far away that were he ever to need it again he could never find it.

>>9722436
'Equality,' said Steerpike, 'is the thing. It is the only true and central premise from which constructive ideas can radiate freely and be operated without prejudice. Absolute equality of status. Equality of wealth. Equality of power.'

Steerpike.