edie v @ summer grass, winter worm

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i like moths and reading about other countries. 30 they/them pixel art -> https://dollarchive.neocities.org/ comic -> https://grassworm.net/ <- comic

Pixel art version of the cover for anaiis & Grupo Cosmo
"Summer grass, winter worm" comic panels. 1 - Shadowed in the foreground, Thulia holds a pencil and mumbles, frustrated, Nyima looks on from a short distance behind. 2 - Thulia holds forehead, anxiously grimacing. Nyima bends over to look more closely. 3 - Nyima jolts Thulia out of the reverie. NYIMA: what's wrong Mister Thulia?
Sickos "yes... ha ha ha... yes!"
"Summer grass, winter worm" comic panels. 1 - Thulia grins, pointing to the panel border while grabbing it with the other hand. THULIA: Well, then! --You should know that in all technicality the fig cannot truly be called a 'fruit'-- 2 - A silhouetted and internal view of a fig fruit. "Not fruit but flower-- a world sealed within a sec of skin, dark." "syconium" 3 - A wasp curled up inside of the fig. "inflorescence" "This is where she, the agaonid, is born. Her siblings dig a fresh canal together."
Rough sketch of "summer grass, winter worm" comic panels. 1 - Thulia looks up at own speech bubble. THULIA: In previous studies the rate of survival from egg to adulthood has been like 12%... 2 - Thulia with swollen red eyes holding a joint. THULIA: 12% of 3500 is 420 LHAMO (off panel): You are fired
Panels from "Summer grass, winter worm". 1 - Thulia (tiny and flustered, with big eyes) appears like a bug in Lhamo's palm via extreme perspective/foreshortening. Lhamo smiles in profile from the right side of the panel. Her eyes are wide and her nails are very sharp. LHAMO: Perhaps I can advise-- if you'll only tell me more THULIA: oh-- it's nothing all that important-- 2 - Lhamo's hand, silhouetted in shadow in the foreground, pinches at Thulia's waist with sharp nails. THULIA: I was talking to Songtsen about-- bug mating and--
Comic panels from "Summer grass, winter worm". 1- Nyima and Thulia ascend stairs on a hill, carrying a light mesh cube with branches and moths. "When only a few ghosts were left, (moths, that is,)" 2- Nyima looks at a moth on her fingertip with starry eyes. NYIMA: Go on! --fly away! 3- Close-up on the moth fluttering its wings but not flying. NYIMA (off-panel): Is she too weak? Already ...? 4- Nyima and Thulia sit in the meadow. Time passes.
Summer grass, winter worm comic panels. 1. Nyima tugs at Songtsen's robe with a plaintive expression. NYIMA: Songtsen, can't we try making peace silk? SONGTSEN: It's not my decision to make... NYIMA: You're the expert; won't you talk to her? 2. Songtsen touching their face and looking concerned. SONGTSEN: There are a number of considerations... NYIMA (off-panel): Then consider them! SONGTSEN: More labor in processing, and for less product after all...
Comic panel from "Summer grass, winter worm." Nyima looks at silkworm eggs in a piece of cloth. NYIMA: They're sort of... blue? THULIA (off panel): That's the worms!
Comic drawn with ink directly on paper. It's an absurd conversation between a scene horse and a little sparkle fairy about a band making a bomb using a can of beans.
Lineless digital art of Wicked Lady from Sailor Moon
"Summer grass, winter worm" comic panel. Nyima and Songtsen talk to each other in profile in the foreground (viewed from behind) while Thulia moves between them in the background, appearing three times in this single panel. THULIA: Right now they're in their teeny-tiny baby phase, "instar 1" NYIMA: I used the special soap and everything THULIA: They don't have any defenses yet so we have to be extra careful SONGTSEN: Don't touch your face. NYIMA: My face is clean! THULIA: Hey... Are you listening to my bug facts?
"Summer grass, winter worm" comic panels. 1 - Songtsen holds a lantern toward a darkened outcropping, their profile illuminated. SONGTSEN: There's a structure just past that cliff. 2 - Songtsen and Thulia peek over the edge at a chorten. "Smart-- to block the light! We won't wake the gompa!" 3 - Now at the base of the chorten, Songtsen holds up a sheet. Thulia, crouching and opening a duffel bag, points. THULIA: Anywhere you can pin it is fine SONGTSEN: Can't you do this? THULIA: I'm too short!
Pixel art version of the album cover for "The Mocking Stars" by Lausse the Cat. A painted blue cat dances in front of a smiling moon.
Comic panel from "summer grass, winter worm". Thulia and Nyima sit in the front seats of a car, while Songtsen, outside, knocks on the window. NYIMA: Can we listen to American pop music? THULIA: Like what kind? NYIMA: I don't know the kinds. [knock knock knock] NYIMA: Yes, yes SONGTSEN: Can I come in? NYIMA: It's open! SONGTSEN: You are in my seat.
"Summer grass, winter worm" comic panels. 1. Nyima and Thulia climb a hill toward a Dolpa-style chorten. THULIA (struggling): Like I'm being watched... NYIMA (making glasses with hands): Chenrezig is always watching 2. Nyima makes a two-handed mudra and looks backward toward struggling Thulia (small). THULIA: Maybe you can help me get Chenrezig off my back? NYIMA: Why?
Tomodachi life screenshot of Songtsen saying "It seems like everyone on Rokkenjima 2 is suddenly super into being nonbinary!"
"Summer grass, winter worm" comic panel. A minivan approaches a small wood bridge over a deeply flowing river. Thulia's head and arms poke out of the driver's seat. Rain falls heavily. SONGTSEN (from inside car): It wasn't always such a problem-- but we seem to get more rain with every passing year THULIA: Oh, geez... SONGTSEN: Past about half a meter, we run the risk of flooding out entirely.
Pixel art of "Summer grass, winter worm" characters Venerable Lhamo Yeshe Rinpoche, Songtsen Utpala, Thulia, and Nyima Pema
"Summer grass winter worm" comic panel showing the front windows of a car. Thulia sits in the driver's seat (on the right of the car, viewer's left) singing. Songtsen sulks in the passenger seat, and Nyima reads in the back.
Pixel art version of the cover to "Kokoro" by Sababa 5 & Yurika
Two comic panels from "Summer grass, winter worm". 1 - Thulia (left foreground) extends a hand toward Songtsen, who sits in the driver's seat of a car. SONGTSEN: Can I help you? THULIA: License and registration, please SONGTSEN: Am I speaking to an officer of the law? 2 - Thulia, in profile on the left, looks annoyed at an angelically smiling Songtsen. THULIA: Nyima said you don't have a license. SONGTSEN: Hm... (The balloon tail extends over a long silence, forming a four-petaled flower.) SONGTSEN: I don't need one THULIA: (bold) Yes, you do.
Pixel drawings of Songtsen and Thulia from Summer Grass, Winter Worm
Comic panels from "Summer grass, winter worm". 1- Songtsen emerges from a doorway, eyes peacefully closed, one hand raised. Nyima storms away, arms crossed, grumpy. Thulia holds up both hands with two fingers on each. SONGTSEN: All things will develop according to their own natural time-- early rising does nothing to indicate health NYIMA: Say what you will! THULIA: I mean, four worms? You could round down to zero! SONGTSEN: They could not even fill a single spool of thread. THULIA: Not even a spool! 2- Nyima storms past Thulia, who gestures with clawed hands. THULIA: If it helps, I haven't had any worm luck either! NYIMA: As if you could beat me!
Comic panel from "Summer grass, winter worm." Thulia, in the bottom left, looks up dreamily at a flowing sequence of orchid mantises and dancers (in a Chinese style) made up of similar shapes. "Graceful as her namesake, a flower bobbing in the breeze." "It's said she attracts more bugs than even the bloom." "aggressive mimicry"
Pixel version of the album cover for Love Heart Cheat Code by Hiatus Kaiyote, a blue-on-white illustration of a figure wearing a crown, one hand posed, the other holding a snake whip. This pixel version adds bright colors around the edges. Original size 100x100, here blown up to 800x800
"Summer grass, winter worm" comic panel. Songtsen and Thulia face each other in profile before a draped cloth illuminated by a single directional lightbulb and covered in various moths. SONGTSEN: Then you'd consider this effort a success? THULIA: Yeah! Well, what I really want is to help the rare ones-- (you know, conservation!) --so keep an eye out for these moon moths, ok?
"Summer grass winter worm" comic panel featuring Songtsen and Thulia sitting next to a Dolpa-style chorten draped with a white sheet illuminated by a bulb, on which moths have started to gather. Thulia holds both fists over face. SONGTSEN: You blinded yourself, didn't you? THULIA: N... no ... ...
Thulia grinning and saying "hoo hoo!"
2 Panel digital comic. 1 - "Even when the first adult dies, and I can collect an examine the body," a moth being pinned in close-up, "I still can't find a match for those inky markings" 2 - Thulia looking thoughtful. "You know--this species may still be unnamed (until now) which means-- we could name them..."
Photo from Books with Pictures in Portland, OR showing staff member Cicely's recommended zines, including "summer grass winter worm" chapter 1 and "This is The Full Story of my Top Surgery"
"Summer grass, winter worm" comic panels. 1 - Songtsen holds a lantern toward a darkened outcropping, their profile illuminated. SONGTSEN: There's a structure just past that cliff. 2 - Songtsen and Thulia peek over the edge at a chorten. "Smart-- to block the light! We won't wake the gompa!" 3 - Now at the base of the chorten, Songtsen holds up a sheet. Thulia, crouching and opening a duffel bag, points. THULIA: Anywhere you can pin it is fine SONGTSEN: Can't you do this? THULIA: I'm too short!
Pixel version of the album cover for "Seed of a Seed" by Hayley Heynderickx, progress 1/4
Pixel version of the album cover for "A Paradise In The Hold" by Yazz Ahmed, progress 1/4
"Summer grass winter worm" comic panels. 1 - Thulia stands in front of a whiteboard, writing with a marker, looking over shoulder toward the viewer. Text on the whiteboard says BUG MEISTER THULIA'S ENTOMOLOGY 101 "bugs for beginners" along with a diagram showing stages of the insect life cycle, labeled egg! -> worm -> pupa -> imago. THULIA: Today we are talking about the life cycle! all our moths are born out of the egg as itty bitty baby caterpillars! Adolescents enter a period of hibernation -- metamorphosis -- a chrysalis or cocoon. Then, they reach perfection-- the adult final form! A winged moth to reproduce and carry on the species. 2 - Thulia, in profile at the left side of the panel, beams at Nyima with a thumbs up. Nyima, on the right side, looks at Thulia inquisitively. NYIMA: So you're going to take care of them until they become adults? THULIA: That's right!
Three comic panels from "Summer grass, winter worm." 1 - Songtsen sits in meditation (on a lotus-shaped cushion) with drifting clouds in the sky above. "I start to wonder, is there anything you don't do?" 2 - A continuation of the previous panel, with Thulia (tiny) now reaching above the horizon line. "Songtsen!" 3 - Songtsen's face, shadowed, in profile on the left of the panel. In the background on the right, flustered Thulia climbs over the edge and toward them. THULIA: There you are! Hey! I've been looking for you! oh! Sorry! are you busy?
"Summer grass, winter worm" comic panels. 1 - Lhamo Yeshe and Sangye speak to one another in profile in the foreground, eyes closed. Thulia listens from the background, sitting down and holding a phone. LHAMO: Your request is heard and noted. SANGYE: Thank you, Rinpoche. 2 - Thulia gives a thumbs up and a big beaming smile. Lhamo turns in Thulia's direction. THULIA: That would be really helpful for me, too! LHAMO: Thank you, novice.
CGI face protruding from the wood of a drawer pull
Three comic panels of "Summer grass, winter worm" featuring Chodron, a Tibetan Buddhist nun with a shaved head and glasses. 1 - Chodron, at the bottom of the panel, looks up at her own speech bubble, which is filled with flowers. CHODRON: The prevailing current theory posits wildflowers carry dormant spores within their stems-- 2 - Chodron's eyes in close-up smile toward her speech bubble, which shows a caterpillar eating a buttercup. CHODRON: --which, once consumed, consume you from within! 3 - Chodron holds up a piece of yartsa gunbu (caterpillar fungus) smiling casually. CHODRON: Our data will contribute to this study. 4 - A very small panel at the bottom of panel 3. Thulia, tiny, in a labcoat, cheers. THULIA: everybody say "thank you Chodron"
2025 Summary of Art where each month features a comic panel from "Summer grass, winter worm"
Kimmy Robertson as Lucy Moran (Twin Peaks) reading a giant hardcover book titled "TIBET"
"Summer grass, winter worm" comic panel. Nyima looks into a bug tank (foreground) and Lindsay waves from a seated position in the background. LINDSAY: Tashi, Nyima NYIMA: Sorry, I don't remember your name. LINDSAY: It's Lindsay... ... ...
A woman removing silk cocoons from a woven spiral structure
4 comic panels from "Summer grass, winter worm". 1 - Close up on two silk worms with a few strands of thread. From off-panel: Oh, we have some starting to spin over here! 2 - Nyima rolls up her sleeve and picks up one of the silkworms with an expression of concentration. Thulia looks on. NYIMA: I like to pick them up like this, but you need to wash your hands first 3 - Nyima deposits the worm in a tilted, woven spiral structure designed for worms to spin silk. NYIMA (off panel): Then-- the perfect space to spin in comfort 4 - Lindsay claps in the foreground. Nyima shrugs, farther away. LINDSAY: Amazing! How much silk is that? NYIMA: What? I don't know
Digital pencil & watercolor sketch from "Summer grass, winter worm" of an old Tibetan woman with a teapot in one hand, adding ingredients to a teacup with the other
"Summer grass, winter worm" comic panel. 1 - Chodron looks to the left in profile. CHODRON: You know the story of His Holiness' exodus? 2 - Thulia looks up at Chodron, expressionless. THULIA: No CHODRON: Or Trungpa's? THULIA: No CHODRON: It was like that.
"Summer grass, winter worm" comic panels. 1 - Nyima pushes open a door, frowning. NYIMA: (accusatory) What about you? Have /your/ worms started hatching? 2 - Thulia, caught eavesdropping, sweats. THULIA: oh hi Nyima
Comic panel from "Summer grass, winter worm" Thulia smiles, hands together. THULIA: On the plus side, they have plenty of time for fungal infection!
Panel 1 - Songtsen stands serenely, hands in a meditative mudra. Thulia, seated, waves hands in dismissive anxiety. SONGTSEN: You've been restless. Join us tonight for meditation THULIA: oh, no, I'm not really ... Panel 2 - Songtsen holds a teaching mudra with a flat look. Thulia smiles in desperation. SONGTSEN: Actually there have been significant studies into the entirely secular benefits of meditation upon concentration and mood among other [cut off by edge of speech bubble] THULIA: OK I'll try it!
Two digital comics panels drawn with pencil and watercolor brushes. 1 - A ghost moth on a stem in the foreground. Nyima looks on from the right side of the panel, eyes big and sparkling. NYIMA: For the goddess? We can do that? "In daylight the ghost moths are drab, camouflaged" 2 - Thulia and Songtsen in the foreground on one side of a table that holds a tank of plants and bugs. On the other side of the table, Sangye looks at a notepad while Nyima listens, impressed. THULIA: Sure, there's lots of similarly spiritual names! (For example... ...) NYIMA: Wow! SANGE: I have more.
Pixel version of the cover for "A Paradise in the Hold" by Yazz Ahmed. Arabic and Latin text surround an intricate golden illustration floating above a geometric shape with purple gradient on a black background.
2 Panel digital comic. 1 - "Even when the first adult dies, and I can collect an examine the body," a moth being pinned in close-up, "I still can't find a match for those inky markings" 2 - Thulia looking thoughtful. "You know--this species may still be unnamed (until now) which means-- we could name them..."
Thulia waves arms in the air, saying "moths! moths!" with a delighted expression. Thulia kneels in the grass, saying "there they are! my moths!" Close up panel of moths in the grass.
Poster for Disney's "ZOMBIES"
Digital pencil sketches of several figures with attention paid to the folds in their robes
Comic panels featuring a close-up of a tiny moth among grass and wildflowers. In panel 2, a large foreshortened boot appears, accompanied by crunching sounds, and the moth takes off in flight.
"Summer grass, winter worm" chapter 1 (print edition) on a shelf with several other zines at Floating World Comics
Two panels showing a hand using chopsticks to hold a fried silkworm pupae, with a bowl of them in the back. 1- "Silkworm pupae, lightly fried" 2- "With green garlic and peppers"