hard lesson
this is amazing wow
Wow, I haven’t seen this kind of dedication in a beta-universe Striders piece in forever - I’m fucking floored
The perspective, the knicknacks, the body language, the way it’s almost heartfelt, painful, distant but still shows in the grips of their hands that Bro’s there with the needle as surely as he is with the sword - Dave clutches at that edge in what could be bitten back pain or shame/disappointment
Regardless of what happened to get them here, they’re both still here
Seriously though, this image is fucking wild
The thumbprint swipe from turning the light on, opening the first aid kid, everything’s immediate, that line was crossed and they’re in there to make the correction with that Strider alacrity
Their toothbrushes, the laundry, Cal, the rinsed blood in the sink, their fucking reflections being just as obscured as the camera angle and still just as expressive - this is incredible and I’m still finding things to be in awe about. Even down to the marred walls. Everything’s there, everything’s indicative without being cluttered in a way that says something besides ‘lived in at close quarters’
I wanna art like this when I grow up, wow
