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Lauryn Ipsum
@LaurynIpsum
Eisner-Nominated Graphic Designer | Branding • Books • Object Typography • Narrative-Driven Design | Side Quests in Illustration & Modeling (she/her)
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Dec 6, 2022 • 9 tweets • 7 min read
I’m cropping these for privacy reasons/because I’m not trying to call out any one individual. These are all Lensa portraits where the mangled remains of an artist’s signature is still visible. That’s the remains of the signature of one of the multiple artists it stole from.

A 🧵 ImageImageImageImage These are all from posts from friends on my timeline. It didn’t take much searching to find portraits with signature fragments. Most people’s sets have at least one. ImageImageImageImage
Dec 5, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
You’re sad art has to be about money? It’s a fucking job.

Just say what you’re thinking. You don’t value and don’t want to pay artists. You don’t want to see it like any other good or service, becaue you want it for free, or at a price that doesn’t provide a livable wage. I’m sick of these bullshit bad faith arguments by people outside of the industry. You’re anti-worker but you don’t want to admit it because you like an app that feeds your vanity.
Oct 23, 2022 • 23 tweets • 17 min read
Gals and ghouls, it is finally time for unhinged Victorian greeting cards, Halloween edition.

As usual, we start with highlights.

Vengeful jack-o-lanterns
GOURD CAR.
A produce caravan
A pumpkin man contemplating cannibalism and mortality Now as you may know, Halloween has roots in the ancient Gaelic festival of Samhain. It marks the end of the harvest season, & is thought to be when the when the boundary between this world and the otherworld thinned, allowing the spirits of forgotten produce to re-enter our world
Feb 14, 2022 • 18 tweets • 12 min read
Alright my darlings, it’s time.
Time for this next installment of Unhinged Victorian Greeting Cards: VALENTINE’S DAY EDITION. ❤️

Let’s start with some tamer ones.

Previously featured fish and leek
Cannibal cottage
LOBSTER
Sentient boots (ft. straw and coins) As already covered, the lack of environmental regulations at the time meant toxic chemicals would leech into the food supply, bringing them to life.

Cursed with the knowledge that they could end up on the dinner table any day, Victorian era produce loved hard and fast.
Jan 22, 2022 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Harley Quinn is either a psychologist or a psychiatrist. The former requires a PhD or PsyD, and the latter requires an MD.

WRITERS PLEASE PICK ONE. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PICK ONE. THEY ARENT INTERCHANGEABLE. I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL.
Dec 31, 2021 • 17 tweets • 13 min read
New Years is fast approaching, & so it’s time for a new round of unholy Victorian era holiday cards—New Years edition! 🎉

We start as always with the least logical.

This dandy root man, and a half man, half robin—cursed with human arms leaving him unable to fly.

Buckle up. As Christmas time wrapped up, the previously discussed sentient snow men became less violent and more melancholy. They knew their time would be up soon.

These two snow parents didn’t have the heart to tell their poor doomed snow child of their impending fate.

But they knew.
Dec 30, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I’m happy to report I’m feeling infinitely more like a human today. I’m still having mild chest pain, congestion, and some light headedness. I haven’t actually tried any extensive walking yet, and I canceled both PT apts for this week, but I’m hoping to start again next week. 🤞 My resting heart rate doesn’t seem to have changed much, but I was already on medication to control my heart rate prior to the infection. (Still high for a normal person but lower than it was before the medication)

No clue what my walking and exercising HR will be like
Dec 27, 2021 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
I think we have a serious misunderstanding of what mild means in relation to Covid. Remember, mild just means you don’t need to be hospitalized/it isn’t going to kill you. I have “mild” Covid and have been coughing up bloody phlegm for days. I’m so sick of people acting like it’s just going to be a bad cold because of the vaccine. I’m vaccinated and boosted. It MIGHT be a bad cold for you. It might also be the sickest you’ve ever been in your life.
Dec 26, 2021 • 20 tweets • 12 min read
It’s Christmas Day!! It’s time to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas. It’s the thing that I think we forget due to its commercialization:

CHRISTMAS . IS . HAUNTED

And with that, I bring you another round of cursed Victorian Christmas cards! 🎄 As mentioned in the previous thread, food coming to life was a common issue. The disposition of your dinner could vary greatly. Sometimes it was jolly and just wanted to dance and spread holiday cheer!
Dec 17, 2021 • 18 tweets • 12 min read
I fucking live for unhinged Victorian Christmas cards. Some years I just share the terror with friends, and others I choose to spread the chaos. This year I pick the latter.

Let’s start with the truly inexplicable.

Frog + beetle waltz
Sky jellyfish
Mutant beet-man
GOAT
🧵 ImageImageImageImage I figured we should start with the most chaotic before diving into themes. I genuinely can’t explain those four.

But fear not, I have the homogeny you crave. DEAD BIRDS FOR LUCK. (Wren day on the 26th was a good luck ritual where you killed a robin or wren bc… that’s lucky?) ImageImageImageImage
Dec 17, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Hey you, yes you reading this, have you gotten your booster yet? If not, please go do so ASAP. Efficacy of the two doses with omicron is 30-40%, but it goes up to 70-80% with the booster.

If not for yourself, do it for those of us who are more vulnerable to illness. So many people I know have adopted a mentality of “getting Covid is inevitable” which 1. no it isn’t, and 2. Covid hasn’t become some minor inconvenience yet.

I know we are all tired, but we aren’t out of the woods, and there are very serious consequences for that mentality
Aug 29, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I’m teetering on the point of being afraid of going to my doctors appointments again, which isn’t exactly ideal when you need to go to said appointments to maintain human functioning. This is also why a lot of us have been deeply disappointed and felt betrayed when watching our friends going to indoor events that allowed any kind of unmasking, be it for eating/drinking/or distanced photography.
Jun 7, 2021 • 42 tweets • 13 min read
Re: degrees: as an AD, I have literally never once checked if someone had a degree (let alone checked where they went to school) before hiring or recommending them.

What I will check: your portfolio. Did I learn a lot going to art school? Yes, absolutely. Did I actively enjoy going to school? Yes! And I’ve taken lots of additional courses since graduating.

I do thing that in person art courses are really valuable—you will learn a lot. But you can ABSOLUTELY teach yourself.