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How you feel about about the Spider Boys Trio x Sandy? Because I seen you drew the four of them before?

I'm like 99.4% sure I only drew the Spider Queen + 'Spider Boy Trio' + Sandy once, back in the BAV ask blog.

Like is this what you are talking about or-

Personally I like to think the only one who actually 'gets along' (a bit of a stretch ngl) with Sandy is Huntsman, given that whole interaction in 'To Catch a Leaf'. They have potential for any kind of positive relationship, at the very least. I'm sure Goliath would be indifferent, and Syntax would be like, a paranoid freak. Spider Queen... So long as Sandy isn't trying to ruin her plans, or her dinner, then she's indifferent. But as soon as he does the oh girl she is pissed.

If by 'X' you mean shipping (and not just a general dynamic) then, I mean, I guess I'm indifferent to it (I fear Sandy doesn't have that much rizz to pull not just one, but THREE members of the spider clan).

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wait I wanna hear abt what the shadowpuppet dynamic is without the toxicity (considering they are 85% toxicity by volume /pos)

Funny thing is that since so much of shadowpuppet is centered around toxicity I doubt that without it, it would still be shadowpuppet. Like that's like 85% of the appeal gone so to speak, haha.

It gets worse when you realise that the root/cause/catalyst (whatever you want to call it) of the toxicity is kind of not even Macaque or the Mayor themselves, but it's Wukong and Lady Bone Demon.

And so by removing the toxicity you're actually removing those two from the equation. Or at least, you change the narrative so severely that- when the dynamics between Macaque and Wukong change, and when the dynamics between the Mayor and Lady Bone Demon change, then Macaque and Mayor COMPLETELY change as people.

So this is really a question of who they are as people without Wukong and Lady Bone Demon, and who they are to each other.

Spoiler alert: Absolutely nothing.

But I guess if you poke around a bit, you might find some left over desire to be seen and not lonely from Macaque, and an unconditional drive and longing to be dedicated to someone other than yourself from the Mayor.

I think, if you think of it that way, they might still be perfect for each other.

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Too late.

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Would u draw like- shadowpuppet and jiankong, but erlang reverses roles with mayor, and wukong reverses with mac?? I dont know if this makes any sense but I thought itd be very cool to see in your style :,)

Thank you !

They sit.

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come to think of it. Have Bai He and Hershey ever met??

(if yeah then im sorry i'm slow :/)

but if not. How do you think that meeting would go?

No, not quite! Though I have to admit- it has to happen at some point, regardless if I made something on it.

The only instances where Baihe and Hershey would ever meet is if-

A. Baihe goes to the Mayor's apartment. Which is, never going to happen unless it is under dire circumstances. Even still, hardly likely.

B. When Mayor is taking Hershey out for a walk, and Baihe just so happens to be in the vicinity.

I think she would like Hershey, purely surface level. "Cute dog!" sort of thing, and she'd give Hershey some good hearty pets and head rubs, all while thinking about if Mao would like to be friends with Hershey (Mao, who is right there, does not agree). She might ask why Mayor has a dog, and they'd reply something along the lines of "Her old caretaker passed away", which would both upset and distress Baihe immensely, because now she can only think that Mayor surely must have killed the previous owner, but had decided to spare the dog because of how cute she is.

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Do you think Gu Lan ever looks at Baihe and sees that 5 year-old girl, the one they held in their arms after birth, the one they wove flower crowns with, the one who they fed the ducks with. The one they watched die in front of them... the one they killed on that faithful day-

and then they're brought back and this Baihe isn't her. This Baihe has a different family. This Baihe likes the beach. This Baihe plays with cats. This Baihe is alive.

I know they diffrentiate between themselves and Ling... But to they ever see it? see the way Baihe is now, How she was back then? And maybe then they finally tell Ling, Ling, who's soul they keeo, now their own. This is not their Baihe.

or y'know maybe they just briefly noticed and went "well i'll be! 'this life and the next' type a story!" (its in a cowboy accent please humor me) and then just moved on with their tormenting of Macaque and occasionally Baihe as well if she got roped into something.

Absolutely not. Definitely the second one XDDD.

I mean the thing is- Mayor isn't human. They... might have... relearned some of Ling's humanity, having not realised they were capable of it in the first place, but that doesn't mean that they are actually capable of the full range of what empathy is supposed to be. Sympathy at best. Ling's Baihe is, honest to god, nothing to Lán. They do not care and so if they were to notice they wouldn't be sentimental about it.

It's complicated. They acknowledge that Ling's existence is tied to their own, and that they were someone before LBD, but somehow they don't retain the same attachments and emotions- nor do they even try to.

I think in a way, Blue will... actually never make that connection, because it does not concern them. Just like how they never acknowledge Aigou and Xiuying. It might just be a case of, well, they're different to how they were before. And so were these three. So is Baihe.

If they were to make the connection, it would be no different than comparing one child to another. They just so happen to have the same name, the same interests, and the same soul that escaped Lady Bone Demon's grasp before she could deliver it mercy.

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did the samadhi fire burn all of LBD's curse out of Baihe, or does she still have traces. Like-

could she make itty bitty ice crystals or are her powers completely gone?

I left it vague on purpose, but for the most part it doesn't seem like it's coming back any time soon. Because just like Lady Bone Demon, there's just a lot that needs to go unsaid and not understood. There's always going to be this... anxiety about it. It could come back tomorrow. It could come back in ten years. It could come back just before Baihe dies and it'll kill her off in that moment, not letting her have the mortal death she deserves, because in the end she might very well just be cursed to be consumed by the curse, if no mercy is given beforehand. It could also never come back at all.

But to answer that second bit- I like to think it's an all or nothing situation, just like with the Peach of Immortality. You either have it or you don't. And once you have it, it just keeps consuming until there is nothing left, and moves onto the next vessel.

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this was the plot of BaV, Right??

(also! HI!! it's me again- I feel like a weirdo because i keep stumbling into you everywhere and i've highkey been pestering you for like a month now im so sorry ;-;)

Bwahah yeah that checks out.

(don't worry- it's okay lmao)

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Spoken For - [LEGO Monkie Kid Animatic]

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deadpool mayor wasn't just an excuse to draw mayor flat ass, was it?

Whaaaaaaat pft- that's CRAZY- of course it wasn't.

I never need an excuse to draw the Mayor's flat ass.

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Hey how are you doing

I just found out that Nuwa is wukong mom because of the stone egg that wukong came out of was nuwa’s stone that she left

POV: Erlang meeting wukong mom be like

Doing fine, thank you!

I do wonder exactly what it's supposed to be like to meet the mother of someone who doesn't have an established motherly relationship with that someone. Would it be no different than strangers meeting each other?

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Decay

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Commission for a good friend of mine :D

Her name is Mip! She's a kobold, very goobery. We had to pretty much turn her from a wordy description and idea images into the final design that she is! Lots of process behind it but I think we both like how she turned out in the end :))).

(Ps. Commissions are still open!)

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I don't know if I've ever told you this, but I really like the different ways Macaque and Lan talk/think/move/feel.

(especially how Lan doesn't use verbal contractions)

Oh my god...

I've been waiting for someone to notice how Lán doesn't use verbal contractions.

Or rather, "I have been waiting for someone to notice how Lán does not use verbal contractions", haha. To this day I'm not exactly sure why I decided the Mayor should have this... Speech quirk? Because LBD does not have it. Ling also does not use verbal contractions. It might just be a vibe thing. Because verbal contractions tend to be associated with colloquial language, which is more of Macaque's thing.

But yes! I've always tried to distinguish those two by how I write them. Thank you for noticing :)))

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I really like your art and I'm really curious on how u came to find your art style

It's very recognizable.

Since I only ever draw Mayor and Macaque on here, I think the only correct answer is that after trying to mimic the LEGO style (+ some fandom artists), I kind of just, drew them both again and again. And again. And again. And again. And again. For three years. And counting.

I was fresh off my 'drawing people really skinny era" where everyone I drew was a twig, so there's some curses sketches in one of my sketch books where Macaque and Wukong are thinner than tree branches. But the LEGO style and other artists in the LMK fandom forced me to put some muscle and fat and rounded shapes into these characters and I'll always be glad for that.

But I think drawing the same two characters is definitely good for finding a style. Seeing what works and what doesn't.

In the end, it's all about finding good artist models, taking some time to study art rules and tips whenever you feel like you're in a stump with your progress, and drawing so many times that it becomes second nature to you and you make it your own.

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"You're the One That I Want"