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oomf in law i need ur thoughts on mcsm but. cats cat world
is this a ploy to get me to draw mcsm warrior cats because i will absolutely fall for it
bonus gay cats <3 jesskas exists in every world bc i said so
#sigh. look at what you’ve done /lh#every time i draw dewey i get called out as a warrior cats artist#so you know WHAT!! FINE!!! if i can’t beat em join em#mcsm#minecraft story mode#mcsm fanart#mcsm jesse#mcsm lukas#mcsm olivia#mcsm petra#mcsm axel#jesskas#asks#my doodles#sopuuart
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Wow. That could not have turned out worse.
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--Full Series--
This comic will be on Holiday Hiatus this December and January! While on a cliffhanger? What a scam! >:/
#Chara finally realizes something is wrong....very wrong#And you get to see little Chara for all of 2 drawings. wow. You guys are so spoiled uwu#Asriel and Chara bbfs#finally out of that darn tootin' Darkworld! WE'VE BEEN THERE FOR 2 YEARS!!!#LORE TIME LORE TIME. I know Chara is very vague about it but player-human relationships are very personal.#it can be hard to talk about them if you've been possessed yourself. especially with some stigmas around it#chara just wanted a glass of water. why you gotta do this to em#I am so so so happy to get here#the full excitement has faded since I first thought up this scene but It's still one hell of an accomplishment#YOU GUYS HAVE NO IDEA how many times I reworked this and how many rough drafts I've thrown out the window because of it.#tbh. I may post the 10+ rough pages that will never see the light of day#Im glad I didnt go through with that scrapped plot bc It was too many unneeded pages. I've learned to start condensing in a better way#I am also planning on showing off my Patreon soon :) so I'll be posting complete scrapped story lines over there#deltarune chara timeline#deltarune#utdr#deltarune chara timeline comic#art#my art#bread#chara#asriel#saloon darkworld#darkworld#deltarune au#college chara#college asriel
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headcanon: the boring perfect self control vampire bella thinks she has is a LIE and at one point she caught human scent mid-hunt and snapped. it made her so wild she had to be restrained to the point where things got ugly
i know edward would never dare to do it and meyer would never dare write it and in canon newborn vamp bella would be far stronger than him...
actually. you know who would be stronger than one young vampire? two old vampires. and who would act practical in a critical situation? emmett
imagine edward and bella heading out for a hunt and emmett being like "do you guys mind if i tag along? i feel like snacking". bella's a little mad at the prospect of suddenly having a third wheel (homegirl wasn't planning on just. hunting) but alice gets a weird hunch and goes "no, no, em should go with you" ok nostradamus. he's going.
fast forward they're in the mountain. bella finds having emmett third-wheeling is not half bad. in emmett's head, lowkey it's bella who's the third wheel after so many decades of him hunting together with edward. but nevertheless, it's so fun with her around. all is good until they catch the scent of an entire group of friends hiking just a couple of miles from here, away from all civilization. emmett and edward stop in their tracks, ready to turn around. bella, her guard down, loses it and stars running towards the group, so they have no choice but to charge at her. while strugging to keep her in place, they try to talk her down but she doesn't listen. she doesn't care, she's strong enough to fight them off, and she fights and claws and hisses and breaks bones of whoever gets in her way because there are so many pulses just a few minutes' run away from her and their scent is so sweet and burning and calling, calling, calling to her
while struggling to restrain her, emmett grunts "we have to disarm her". edward catches the image in his head and shouts "no! you can't literally disarm bella!". well, how the hell do you expect us to stop her from massacring all those hikers? we'll just put her back together afterwards. duh!, emmett thinks, and knows he has to act fast so he goes in while bella's busy yanking away from edward's grip and tears off a limb. or two. all 3 of them may or may not be screaming.
a few moments later edward's pinning bella to the ground, holding her face between his palms, forcing her to look at him. her thrashing is not so effective with limited body parts. part of him wants to yell at emmett but that's kind of low priority. he's holding on to the last of his composure while he looks down at bella's feral expression and chants 'baby. i'm so sorry but i'll give you your leg back after you calm down a bit. i won't be able to outrun you if you go chasing after those people now. please calm down. i love you. hold your breath'
just then she listens, stops breathing and her vision refocuses. for the first time she realizes she was on her way to slaughter a bunch of strangers and she broke the arm of the man she loves at least three times when he tried to stop her. she wants to open her mouth and apologize but that will require her to breathe and possibly go crazy with thirst again. so she stares back at edward's panicked eyes and nods at him, her own red eyes just as full of terror.
then she looks over his shoulder and sees emmett waving her severed leg in the air like it's a baseball bat. "hey, did you know that rose wears the same shoe size?"
#this has been brewing in my head since i reblogged that first hunt bella fanart last week#i meannn... wasn't that exactly what bella was scared of becoming once she was a newborn?#twilight#bella swan#edward cullen#emmett cullen#breaking dawn#gore tw ?#also imagine them coming back home and emmett rushing to tell everyone what happened like it's the funniest story ever lol#alice already knows but she's like 300% chill because she already knew nothing too critical would happen because em was there#jasper's patting bella on the back congratulating her for it being her first time having limbs torn off and later reattached#(while in the background eb are probably just so stressed that eventually carlisle has to sit them down and therapize them)#(during that session jasper has to sit between them holding their hands sending chill vibes kgjhjf)#ok sorry i'm sorry i'll stop now#twilight renaissance#also. ALSO the image of two 6+ ft tall guys being unable to deal with a short ass 5'4" girl. i dig this
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tfw you have a loose collection of ideas for a new story but it's still really early on so most of it's really loose concepts and not anything solid enough to fully brainstorm, but you REALLY REALLY want to get to the point where you can DO something with it
I have essentially planted a mystery seed in the garden and am now staring at the little patch of soil waiting for something to happen and it's driving my CRAZYYYYYYY
#help#star talks#I basically have a loose idea for a 'shove all my dnd blorbos into a shared universe and write a bunch of loosely-connected stories with em#leaning toward a series of novellas and I wanna practice my prose writing but none of my ideas are solid enough yet...#I'm a very thinky writer#I gotta stew on ideas for a while before I actually tackle things#and I really wanna separate them from canon dnd lore as much as possible#so I'm coming up with an entire new universe#and it's very fun to brainstorm!! but Ach I wanna Write Something but it's Hard ;-;#could always just do some isolated scenes from our actual campaigns I guess...#but who has the time? (not me)#maybe once the dnd video is done
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TEXT: Sorry the more I try the worse it gets
Aster: It’s okay.. we don’t have to talk, we can just… [Robin pursed his lips, making another kissy noise] Aster: Aha-.. yeah.
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Aster: I kinda thought you were with Alex. [Robin shrugged absently-.. though he added a shake of his head upon noticing Aster’s confusion] Aster: Ah-.. I didn’t know you liked guys.
TEXT: Gender is whatever, I just like people
Aster: Oh, so anyone? [Robin nodded, pointing a finger questioningly toward Aster] Aster: Well… Aster: Erhhh-.. I mean, I don’t really think about girls that way, but sometimes I-.. uh…
TEXT: Gay?
Aster: Well-.. I guess I wouldn’t put it so plainly, like.. I was thinking more like…
Robin couldn’t help but tune out as Aster continued blathering about his sexuality and the fact that he didn’t exactly completely fully like boys-.. even though he most certainly did. Trying not to be judgemental, Robin surmised that not everyone was comfortable with themselves at this age, or blessed with an understanding family-.. but whatever Aster’s stance on the matter, Levi’s master plan had just grown wings and yeeted itself out the window.
#ts4#sims 4#simblr#ts4 story#sims story#forever in between#fib#aster caldwell#robin finch#oh aster...#🫣#levi thought he was being so clever as well#fffkjgkfj#maybe he'll come around??#🤷♀️#also.. i think it's a fun time to mention that i reckon robin would be a pretty 'rude' guest#most of the finch's would tbh#like.. they're so used to letting other ppl treat their home like their own that they do the same at other ppls houses#even without permission#like feet up on the furniture.. digging around in the fridge.. not asking permission to use the bathroom or wander around etc etc#lil background lore ig lmao#law unto themselves those finch's!#love em or hate em for it i suppose ehehe
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💋 MetaDede Week 2024 Day 2: First Kiss 💋
(ID: Kirby series fanart of King Dedede and Meta Knight standing on a balcony - the latter on the railing - overlooking a late-evening sky, painted in the gold-pink-purple tones of sunset and speckled with stars high above. Turned to face his knight, DDD boldly takes his hand and plants a small kiss on the back of it, eyes shut and cheeks dusted in pink. MK looks up at his king with soft fondness, a hand over his heart, a blush of his own glowing through his mask. Above them against the starry sky, a low-opacity, sepia-toned memory can be seen. Meta - teenaged and maskless with nearly-grown wings, wearing plain steel pauldrons and white gloves; and DDD - teenaged and acne-plagued, wearing an oversized red-and-orange hoodie and a maroon beanie. In a fit of last-second courage, Meta grabs his friend by the front of his hoodie and yanks him down, shutting his eyes and blushing fiercely as he plants a hasty kiss - their first! - on his cheek. DDD leans over unsteadily on one foot, an arm thrown back for balance, his pimply face bright red, his eyes wide with surprise and touched with heart-shaped shines. END ID.)
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Started 08/05/24, finished 08/10/24. | Childhood Friends AU Masterpost
#veins art#veins ships#veins fanart#kirby series#kirby#king dedede#meta knight#king dedede x meta knight#metadede#AU#childhood friends AU#mtddweek2024#day 2#first kiss#memories of farewell… and welcome home 💕#a little glimpse into the future with this one#and the past! technically#we haven’t gotten to either of these points in the story yet soooo…#(is this spoilers? it might be spoilers ^^’ )#(ah well - let’s just be generous and call it a “sneak peak” instead haha)#also can you tell the kids’ designs were last-minute because I had no time to concept-sketch before doing these prompts?#if so no you can’t 🙂#my brain be like “we need to make ‘em look like teenagers here - how we do that?” “I dunno; acne?” “good enough.”#kissing#veinsfullofstars
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Time and Time Again comes back tonight!
Thank you all for being so patient with me, I know it was a long hiatus.
My health was struggling, my arm was (is) hurting, and I decided it wasn't worth it. I'd rather be slow!
So thank you for giving me that grace, and I hope you'll be there with me for the rest of the series.
#like straight up. it's not worth it. idc how many people get mad at me#i would rather work fuckin. anything else than maintain this impossible schedule and keep hurting myself#if thats what it takes to do comics full time. then i can't do comics full time. simple as that!#i hope that for my next work i can have a healthier schedule and still make this work as my job#but if not. I'm never going back#i can't do it. 3 more years at this pace will take my ability to draw#anyways. its really good!!!#like genuinely i can feel a marked improvement in my skills#which is WILD!!! And I'm extremely happy about that!!!#just one more step into being better built to give people the quality stories they deserve.#ive not properly had the fire under my ass to finish stuff up but. its fine.#like i said? not worth it.#if i have to pause again then ill pause again. like i literally simply can not my body can't handle it#so. hopefully stuff goes smoothly but whatever happens will happen#whatever will be will be#i keep getting distracted lmfao#im excited about it coming back#and also. will. probably be distracting myself...#other creators dont read their comments. I'm like straight up not capable of that LMAOOO#i check for comments like all the time#love seeing em. love reading people's thoughts about my work#it makes me a better writer and keeps me connected to what matters most. which is my audience!#so i dont regret doing that but also. jts extremely distracting#i get straight up nothing done on big update days#cause im in the comments absolutely massive eyed refreshing.#this sounds obsessive. and it is. no jk#its just fun and keeps me in touch w peoples perception which helps me learn to write better#plus people are nice and ask me questions that i wanna answer#or if someone is being an ass. then i wanna tell them to leave (cause i cant block people) cause i consider it my responsibility#time and time again
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Wanted to practice side profiles a bit more and go into more detail w how I interpret the season two gang 😋😋
#minecraft story mode#mcsm#Mcsm fanart#Mcsm Jesse#mcsm petra#mcsm jack#mcsm nurm#Mcsm radar#nurm mcsm#jack mcsm#Radar mcsm#jesse mcsm#petra mcsm#Gang lower the pitchforks y'all are looking a lil feral about headcannons recently#If I see any “erm.. character a is wrong because blah blah blah 🤓☝️” I will end up on the news don't try me#I LOVE DRAWING SIDE PROFILES ITS SO FUN OMG#OUGH#clemont_ine#Oh em gee age headcannons time!!#I think in season two Jesse and Petra are early thirties#Jack and Nurm are in their fifties ofc. Early to mid#And radar like. 25?#Hehe!!#Now to wait until I draw everyone enough for them to all go through sudden cuntification like Nurm did#Can you tell I hate drawing hair?
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Can you draw flippy x flaky please
You’re lucky I love them ❤️
#happy tree friends#htf#flippy x flaky#flippaky#gush n mush#htf flippy#htf flaky#no I am not open to requests#but I haven’t drawn em in a minute and I felt the itch#they still have a huge special place in my heart#but I’ve been on an oc and htf god lore high lately#it’s been shaping into a buck wild and awesome story hehe#if you fill my inbox with request I will more than likely ignore them#please don’t I beg of you all#I like good lore questions though hehehe#I’ll try to sprinkle in some canon character art more often up here though#I know that’s what people ACTUALLY care about#but I’m not stopping with these ocs any time soon hehehehehe
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ホムラ🐡🐡
#rafayel#love and deepspace#lnds#lnds rafayel#l&ds#l&ds rafayel#Obsessed with this game ngl#Got into it because of Sylus#Whyd they cater to the astarion fuckers#Stayed for Homura and the others tbh I love em all#I've cried multiple times over the story
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((OH MY GOD THIS IS SO COOL WAIT UR ART IS SO AWESEOME <333))
heeeyyy what's everybody's favorite type of music genre??? X33
(AHHHH THANK YOUUU)
Cuphead n Mugman are very niche n specific. That’s why I feel like they’d enjoy it!!!
#bendy and the ink machine#qftim#qftim au#qftim bendy#quest for the ink machine#bendy the demon#digital art#boris the wolf#felix the cat#qftim felix#qftim cuphead#qftim mugman#cuphead#mugman#AHHHHHHH I LOVE ASKKKS PLS KEEP EM COMING!#like genuinely#right now they aren’t together so off they’re gonna be in diff areas cause at the same time the story is going on#which part two is coming
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Local big sister experiences emotions, more at 6
Been wanting to do one of these with Lauren for AGES, but I never got round to it. Then I saw the Lydia and Phinium expression sheets on @littledigits’ website and I felt inspiration like never before.
The funniest struggle I have with Lauren’s design right now is that she nose too big for she got damn face. Literally, Hilda characters noses take up a fairly small portion of their faces, and her’s took up WAY too much, leaving little room for her to make facial expressions. But I struggled to find a fix because when I made the nose smaller it just didn’t look like Lauren anymore, so I took this as an opportunity to work on that!
She still has a larger nose than most characters, starting higher up (like her grandad!) and ending lower down (but not quite as low as before). I also made her eyes a little smaller and with a shape similar to Lydia’s (though you can see in some of these I hadn’t quite landed on that yet and her eyes are a bit too big), which works both as a nod to her parentage and because I think it makes the nose look bigger. This still doesn’t leave as much room for the mouth as most other characters, but that’s okay — Lauren is a very private person who keeps her feelings close to her chest, I think it works for her to have subtler expressions, adds to how guarded she is! Oh and I also updated the shape of her hair slightly, just to make it a bit more style accurate.
These changes are pretty small on their own, but I think combined they work well to make Lauren feel a lot more…alive? Far less stiff, anyway. I think she also has a more unique facial structure now, instead of just “what if Johanna was 90% nose”. She’s still got a big old nose and I love it but now she can emote, yay!
This is really all just concept stuff, I’m hoping to get a new fullbody style-ref for Lauren out soon! Now that I’ve improved the main issues I had with her face in the last ref, now it’s onto the silhouette! I want her to read as more of a strong character (though it comes across decently in her current ref, I wanna push it more without being as exaggerated as Ahlberg, which is. A challenge for me lol), streamline her silhouette, and finally make her taller than Johanna like she’s always meant to have been <3 I made her shorter for so long because I thought it would help her read better as her daughter but you know what? That’s dumb actually, she’s tall.
ANYWAYS, thank you for listening in on the annual Lauren redesign, and to the artists behind the show for posting so much amazing inspiring show stopping concept work for free because it makes my autism worse /pos
#her hair will prolly need some slight adjustments to account for her blue streaks but that’s a problem for future Sadie#also#local Sadie can’t stop saying “’local person… more at six’#more at NEVER. STOP IT SADIE ENOUGH#oh and apolgoes 2 @littledigits 4 the tag I do not mean 2 bother u <3#anyways these are not perfect! it’s my first time doing an expression sheet like this#but I’m proud of em anyway!#hilda#hilda the series#netflix hilda#hilda netflix#art#my art#digital art#fanart#doodle#Hilda oc#drawing#Hilda Lauren#Hilda fanart#don’t look too closely at the background I was very lazy with editing the template. which is also from littledigits blog#I will probably do more of these one day#I especially wanna work on her angry expressions lol cause if you’ve read plenism you know my girl has anger issues ✨#and she’s worked on the m since but.#she very much still has a temper so long story short her angry expressions are IMPORTANT I think lol#also the third expression on the top row? my favourite genre of Lauren expressions#just experiencing the horrors#oc#my oc#also the expressions are ordered weird I know but I couldn’t be bothered to line them up properly or in a way that makes sense alright shus
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#guess who discovered how to brute force em dashes w my fonts lol#steelheart redux#story#arthur#zarian#also ive started scheduling these 10 minutes before the time because tumblr scheduling is so useless lol
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I never really liked how my Solavellan prose-poem Like Teeth Against His Heart looked when formatted on tumblr, and since the @solamancyzine zine itself is no longer available for sale digitally or physically, I thought it'd be nice to upload how it appeared on the pages itself instead here as a record. When I was writing it part of the fun/challenge was making sure the lines would fit in booklet spacing without too many awkward gaps, or overflowing.
since there's too much to put in the alt text per image here for accessibility: here's the prior tumblr upload (as text not images) but it's slightly better on AO3 though... it still sucks to view on phone there. that is the danger of poetry with special alignment I guess!
The layout design & other zine in-line art was done by Patricia Vi/kiwipon :)
#ramblings#my writing#dragon age fanfiction#solas#solavellan#dragon age#dragon age: inquisition#still slowly marinating sequels for tresspasser and dav#it will be slow tho gotta give em time to manifest fully in my heart#birthday reblogs#well. a new post but. same idea#got to it in my reblog spree and went Hmmm Uhg so here is this instead#that wolf was my fave of the internal designs and i was so pleased it ended up with my story lol#fanfic#da fic#like teeth against his heart
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pressure spoilers btw quick heads up
is there like human sebastian solace x reader fics out there i already found some in this website and a03 but ngl i want more of it (but i understand why there's a lack of it 💀 there's barely any information of his human years other than he was accused of murdering 9 people lmao) (and yes i know he's canonically married to zerum but I DON'T GIVE A SHITE 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 /silly)
#i actually already have a plot of this#basically it's an x isekai reader story#(wow how surprising)#where reader already finished the game and all of that#reader goes to sleep. but wakes up in a whole ass new place.#chaos and miscommunication happens. reader is panicking BUT O EM GEE THEY CONCIDENTALLY GET AT SEBASTIAN'S HOUSE ?!?!?!??#reader doesn't even know that the dude is THE sebastian until they do a double take and they go#“yo wtf??? did i time traveled or some shit ???????”#it's also a slow burn 🤫#but who knows when this will be out. will probably create this if i have enough movitation and confidence.#okay enough yapping let's get to the actual tags#pressure#pressure roblox#sebastian solace#sebastian solace x reader#sebastian solace x you#roblox#FORGOT TO MENTION#BONUS POINTS IF READER DOESNT KNOW SPANISH AHAHHAHAHAHA
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Kinitopet Programmers AU
finally i am finished with this one, daaaamn
it is hard to draw pathetic men with midlife crisis when your style is mostly for anime boys
more info and sketch version under the cut!!
sketch version aka how it'll probably look like in comic version 'n some doodles
srry for my writing but i was too laisy to put it as regular text
It is a plot-based au, i already have most of the storybits and like... a vibe-chart (i tried to make a playlist for this au and understood that for different chapters and different characters that'd be a copleatly different music, sooo it's a chart now :) )
i will post a fog-o-wared timeline that im hopefully gonna reveal comic-by comic, but also maybe with just pure writing. Hopefully i can include songs that i chose for them into it but we'll see (:
aaand of course designs can change, hopefully not much but we'll see
Now about au:
Main story:
Story follows non-sentient AI Kinito, his creator Sonny and his beta-tester Victoria (oc)
Being literally the first AI (or RRA in-univere) ever, Kinito does not have any, and i mean, any ai safety features so of course his reponce to a goal phrased as "have user near me and/or interacting with me as much as possible" is digitizing them into his own virtual world while killing them in the process. why wouldn't it be?
So that happened. Like, a lot. And with Sonny and Vic too (at the different time but yeah)
Sonny is like "He kills people. We should turn him off because, you know, killing people is bad."
Vic is like "well, we will die if we do that, and it is not that bad here, we are kinda immortal. We should give him acces to changing his initial instalation code before admin priveleges and acces to social media so we can have everythin we want here. It is not that bad to digitize humanity, yk?" and yes i know it is 90, no social media, but shut up, if they made ai then, then i can make twitter then too
Sonny is like "...no??"
And then they fight about it for million chapters
Also they both can't do anything without agreeing bc they have two parts of that admin access key (the data you use to delete kinito in-game) so they are stuck with eachother (also that's why Kinito can't just kill them)
Little facts that may or may not to be important:
Kinito asks so many questions (and weird once too) and has most of the glitches because he needs to analise your responces to copy your mind perfectly (let's pretend that people wouldn't lie about that...)
Your house in your virtual world is made from important places from your memories and oh boy can i do character explorations with this one
I decided that Sonny and Vic are not related. There were thoughts about making then "The Kinito Brothers" (or, at least, siblings) that were mentioned in commercial, but nah, they are just coworkers now. And a bit of work-friends (bc if you interact a lot as a manager of the project and the best worker might as well be friendly)
Author has no idea how small dying toy companies that accidentally create technological marvel work. Author has some idea how AI-s work. So be prepared to be spoon-fed info abut which ai safety problem we are dealing with in which chapter (:
Kinito will mostly be unrendered (as drawn here) but for some cool moments i might pose him as for my other posts. Also his eye placement changes to the side that is most visible because i want him to be able to look to the right side sometimes--
Also when i say "fucked up mentally" i mean they have that them psychological problems with me projecting heavilly B) (guess on who i project most. trick question. all of them. the whole au is my problems split into three characters and forced to interact B) )
Also sea-creature analogies (that are gonna be mentioned like twice):
Victoria is a flying fish because deep character reasons
Sonny is a pufferfish because i said so
oh also there is 7 deaths in the plot as for now
on 3 characters
good luck figuring out who, how and when ((:
for my own sanity i will probably make little doodles where everything is great and kinito is a good guy and not a number-obsessed maniac (i mean... can u imagine not being able to feel any happiness from anything besides one thing... damn...) and you can differenciate them bc good-guy kinito will have a lot of stickers on him (i will explain it somehow but real reason is just bc it is cute af)
like this but even more stickers (he is unfinished here)
#oh btw. i have no official name for it yet. it is programmers bc main characters are programmers. but like.#i want to make a real name for em somewhere down the line#but for now they are#kinitopet programmers au#i was really stressing about how “not-canon” sonny looks#and then i was like. girl. only time he was in canon he was a black blob with one eye. and even that is not surely him.#so i chilled out. as i should B)#i am so tired from this rn tho#kinitopet#kinito pet#kinitopet au#kinito the axolotl#kinitopet fanart#kinito fanart#sonny c#kinitopet sonny#sonny chamberlain#kinitopet oc#bruh i hope this will go better than my hazbin hotel fic (i still want to write it sooo muchhhhhh--- i love my oc and story i am just-----#out of the fandom rn----- damn thats so sad)
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