Somehow I managed to make this lively and sketchy and look like a woodcut.
More proof how much fun I was having.
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Got some momentum going here!
But he can’t just leave them with that tag!
I figure most of my regular readers had already guessed who this was, anyway.
There’s always good stuff out where soldiers are.
I had so much fun drawing these birch trees. It looks cold to me.
The cynicism and disloyalty of prisoners, just to survive.
FUN drawing lots of reindeer and lots of trees.
The thing about the military is — well, the thing about anyplace — if people aren’t given exact instructions or if a leader even hints at something, the Leute will go out and reinterpret what they were told.
Soldiers are especially notorious for this. They’re usually less than 25 years old — when the human brain fully matures and organizes — and they think like children. Black and white, looking for the loopholes, readjusting everything through their own lens. If you give a soldier an order to guard a prisoner and not specify limits of movement, and the prisoner knows where a really good party is, and the soldier is a little torqued about missing Saturday night, anyway, and the person giving the order is a Butterbar, guess where the prisoner will get guarded?
Winzig was a good child, a good son, and really is quite a good soldier. He obeys orders, he knows how to suck it up — but he comes of the era before the international agreements for protesting orders were in place for a more complete worldwide community.
Today, a soldier is required to question questionable orders and to voice his or her concerns. Then, it was Shut Up And Do As You’re Told. Soldiers were expected to be much more childlike and less responsible.
Which is weird, because it seems as though today soldiers are equated by many civilians with “kids” rather than the adults the Drill Instructors very quickly bully them into becoming. The military seems so weirdly sentimental today, even in its perception of itself. It seems to have forgotten that war and the military are the worst and final decisions, and that in the end the soldier’s job is to kill — and to die. Expecting them to really think about what they’re doing or having more than tactical goals is just messing up the mission statement.
Warriors make screaming charges against each other, led by the War Chief. It’s the PEACE chiefs who figure out where this is all really going and why.
It’s the women, by the way, who voted the War Chiefs in and out of office, because ultimately life is about the kids. A War Chief who forgot to whom he owed his duty and thought only of his own power and ego lost his job. Early love and fertility goddesses were also war goddesses.
Well, Winzig’s no coward. Or he’s like a lot of young soldiers — he thinks he’s invincible and nobody can touch him or his.
More fun drawing horses and camels! Right now I’m having fun drawing harpies and naked people. What’s up with the wanting to draw naked people?
I have no memory, so I have to research the machines every time I draw them, but it’s still fun. I know, I know, I keep saying “fun” with writing. It’s supposed to be, right?
