#Sgms

[velvetskullgrls]

💙 Skullgirls x perfect blue 💙

It's my entry for the Skullgirls Halloween contest :)

Here's alt versions and other

Plus my process with it,I had the idea and didn't want to forget it so I painted the sketch and used it as a "map"

I'm really proud :D

[beingfacetious]

I bet you're gonna have a really great year. Yeah?

[rinbylin]

圣人有情而无累

dihua + 情 | 莲花楼 mysterious lotus casebook

[notaplaceofhonour]

I was raised in the People of Destiny cult (later renamed, and more well-known as, Sovereign Grace Ministries, now Sovereign Grace Churches).

The valorization of martyrdom and The End Times was so ubiquitous it was ambient noise. We stood in the church lobby theorizing about who the antichrist would be, we argued about whether Jesus would rapture us all before, after, or during the Tribulation Period where Satan would be given free reign over the earth. There was a strong Christian Zionist fixation on Israel as the final battleground and capital of the coming Messianic Age. But the one thing we were all certain of was is that we were in the End Times, that we were not of this world and couldn’t get too attached to our lives here.

We were raised to believe our sin nature made us undeserving of life, that we deserved death and eternal conscious torture.

My parents read us the Jesus Freaks books (a series by Christian Rap group DC Talk about martyrs). I spent “devotional time” reading Fox’s Book of Martyrs. We had guest speakers from Voice of the Martyrs, their pamphlets were often stocked in our church’s information center. We grew up with our dad listening to right wing talk radio and making us listen to songs about how the Godless atheists were outlawing Christianity in America, that we could all become martyrs soon.

The group’s theology was damaging & traumatic in a lot of other ways that contributed to the suicidality I have continued to struggle with for the rest of my life. For a long time I did not believe I would live past 20. There are times when the idea of giving my death meaning by using public suicide to make a political statement has appealed to me.

So now, seeing so many social media posts glorifying the suicide of a US Airman this week, I have been furious. Reading his social media posts, I recognize so much about the way I was raised in his all-or-nothing, black-or-white mindset, the valorization of death-seeking & martyrdom, and the apocalyptic fire-and-brimstone imagery of self-immolation. The moment I saw people I followed celebrating his self-immolation, I said to myself “this feels like a cult”

So when I learned he was raised in a cult too, nothing could have made more sense to me. His political orientation may have changed, but his mindset did not—it was no less extreme or cult-like.

I’ve talked about so many of the reasons this response from the broader left scares me, including how it’s laundering that airman’s antisemitic beliefs, but I cannot think of anything that would hit me in a more personal place than this specific response to this specific situation has.

When I see the images, I think: that could have been me. That scares me, and what scares me more is that so many prominent people are overwhelmingly sending the message to people like me that there is nothing else we can do that would have a more meaningful impact than killing ourselves for the cause.

I do not believe that. I will not even entertain it. And having to see his death over and over and over again, to argue against people who are treating this like an intellectual/moral exercise or a valid debate we all have to consider has been immensely triggering and fills me with a rage I rarely feel. It’s unconscionable that we are even putting self-harm on the table, and that pushing back against that is somehow controversial.

There is hope. Our lives do have meaning. There are far more effective means of fighting injustice. And the world is a better place for having you in it. Don’t fall into believing this is a way to give life purpose.

[shpulkabunny]

My sister suggested me this interesting idea for a new card. I really like the result :D

Reference: Pearl (Steven Universe)

[wickedcriminal]

What kind of dragons are Furious are Wodensfang and Little Tooth in the Half-Brothers AU? Are they still Seadragonus Giganticus Maximuses (Maximi?) or are they changed to DreamWorks species like Merciless and Horrorcow?

Or are the Red and Green Deaths just how SGMs look in this AU?

They're all Seadragonus Giganticus Maximuses! What I did for the AU is that I made SGM an umbrella classification for multiple different species of giant seadragon. Kind of like how wolves, dogs, and foxes are all canines.

For HBAU specifically, what I did is made all the Death dragons one species. Thus, the Red, Green and Purple Death would all look very similar. I really like how distinctive the movie design for the Red Death was, so that's what I went with!

Their DreamWorks design seems to have been built as Boulder Class, so I made some changes to suit the seadragon label. Since the Red Death lived in a volcano, I made it so that this dragon is typically at home in lava and other extreme temperatures, mainly underwater, hence the seadragon classification. (The Green Death would have resided in an underwater volcano until it woke up and decided to Have Berk For Supper!) The crown and tail emulate coral and can change color to decieve fish and smaller dragons. They're built like elephants and hippos with devastating jaw strength and can swim very well despite their size.

As for Furious, the Wodensfang, and Toothless, they're all one undefined species of SGM that are born very small, grow incredibly massive, and then get very small again in their old age. In the context of HBAU, this specific species of seadragon is so incredibly rare that they dont even have a name, and are just referred to as their umbrella class, Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus. (Since these dragons have a habit of being connected to Hiccups throughout the ages, perhaps that could inspire their official name?)

For some other members of the SGM family, I added Doomfangs and Leviathorgens! Considering how huge they are and them being seadragons, it just felt right to me!

[ace-robot-has-matcha]

Friday!

[fran-oewm9]

Some SkullGirls fanmade variants I did for fun!

Part 2: ★

(Extra images below)

[your-fav-is-divorced]

harry from scary godmother?

Harry from The Scary Godmother is Divorced!

[always-amity]

My designs for all the (named, rip to that little guy that Merciless ate in httyd1) Seadragonus Giagantus Maximus in the httyd books.

[velvetskullgrls]

I like them as a dysfunctional family 🤠

[parasold]

oh also speaking of me not posting in ages I finally pulled summer salt parasoul so i gotta change my banner at some point. maybe if i put it as valentine i can finally pull a nat diamond after nearly six years of not fucking pulling a single one

[rinbylin]

[toripar]

girl's night!!!!!!! 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩😻

[shpulkabunny]

Chibi Annie :D

I drew her a month ago, but I forgot to post this

[13thfunfa1r]

ABC fanart challenge! letter D: Double

haven't made any Skullgirls fanart in ages!