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The Washington Post, May 19, 1912

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historical drama/sitcom where two gay best friends (woman and man) get lavender married--and proceed to spend the Fancy European Honeymoon their parents paid for acting as each other's wingman

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post-bloodloss clarity

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i've been following you since 2011-2012 and seeing machete evolve is just so... wonderful. he's really coming into his own, and now he even has a special (and very cute) friend! even moreso seeing your art evolve over time has been really spectacular. i am just...... stunned every time i see one of your pieces, even if it's a sketch. thank you for being an amazing artist and a constant inspiration for 13 years (phew!) <3

Aa thank you so much, that's such an uplifting thing to hear ;_; It's always sort of surreal and humbling to think that there are people who have been keeping an eye on my art and characters since the very beginning, 2011 was a lifetime ago.

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Have you considered selling merch? Some stickers pins or patches of the boys would go hard

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I feel like in the future Machete/Vasco may become niche figures that are discussed mostly by queer historians, and there are few people who are super interested in or know a lot about what survives of them. I wonder what kind of completely made up facts might circulate around them like they're true (Did you know? 🤔 That this MEDIEVAL POPE ⛪️ had a SECRET HAREM?? 🤯 REAL. NOT CLICKBAIT. GONE WRONG.)

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This made me think of Machete being flattened from cuddling or just generally being a dog that looks like he was squished by a boulder like a cartoon

Also I am constantly in tears over Vasco and Machete

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This made me think of Machete being flattened from cuddling or just generally being a dog that looks like he was squished by a boulder like a cartoon

Also I am constantly in tears over Vasco and Machete

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Look as a Jew I don’t know from saints, but these very good boys and girls live at the Vatican and I love them very much

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My aunt's dog vaguely looks like kid named ear, methinks

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Have you ever watched the devil wears Prada? There's something about machete that really reminds me of Miranda, and it really does make me think that a top position at a magazine or museum, or even as an academic would make a lot of sense in the modern!au. (Would be funny if he was an early modernist cultural/art historian or specialising in religious iconography from the canon period?)

Machete has been compared to Miranda a handful of times over the years, but I had never seen the movie until a couple of months ago. And now I kind of get what they might've meant by that.

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What the fuck is up with borzoi by the way, those fuckers are never just doing dog sit. Those things don't play fetch or bark at the postman they're always looming or being foreboding or predicting the exact date of your death or some shit

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math test machete, what crimes will he commit

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Hi I was thinking about your sad gay dogs and how their paths have diverged since you created them and this need from folks to save then and anyway anyway I wrote a poem.

A past that never existed

A future that cannot be

Fiction rendered soft fantasy

Created destined for tragedy

And yet the world asks so

Can they be remembered

Wherever they do go

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Can I offer you a Vasco and Machete in these trying times? @canisalbus

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From a historical standpoint, I feel like Machete could be a figure sort of like Robesperrie (not sure if that's the correct spelling). Seen as controversial during life, after death everyone immediately wiping evidence of them being friends and saying they didn't support him, and then later on research seeing him as a more nuanced view how he actually was.

When I was writing the response to that ask I tried to think of a historical figure I could potentially compare him to. Robespierre was the first one that came to mind, but that's because someone had previously pointed out the similarities they seemed to have.