#also drawtectives is a thing

[dragonling348]

Eyy why not amiright

Last song I listened to: Time Alive by KC Katalbas, found it via spotify recommended and it's great vibes for the weather warming up and driving with the windows down

Currently Watching: Honestly... just binging Drawfee and Secret Sleepover videos when I have free time. They're great artists, funny good-hearted people, and have wonderful videos if you're looking for some easy seritonin

Currently Reading: Good Omens reread moment XD I love that book and I get really into the fandom when I can

Currently Obsessed with: My own ocs uhhhh android guys *points at Data and Lore and Vox from Hazbin Hotel* I HAVE A LOT OF OBSESSIONS IT'S CALLED MULTITASKING

Fav colors: Green and Porple! Disney villain colors my beloved <3

(just grabbin folks from my mutuals list that I see on my activity a lot, sorry if I missed you and don't feel pressured if you don't wanna participate) @goingnearlyinsane @novelroyalty @bookishcatcafe @raincloud47 @planariaareneat

TAG GAME

get to know you better game! answer the questions and tag 9 people you want to know better.

last song I listened to: at the time I was tagged I think 'love crime' (that one song from the ending of the hannibal tv series) but at the time I'm actually posting this it was 'personal jesus' by Depeche Mode.

currently watching: the Saw movies (I only have 'Saw X' left and I'll be done with that), the spiderman movies (all of them, in no particular order). Also I'm trying to find the time to properly watch the star trek movies again.

currently reading: Nothing. I'm searching for a 'complete Sherlock Holmes' edition to read all the stories thought.

currently obsessed with: umm, nothing actually. I'm still really into star trek, lupin iii, sherlock holmes and a lot of other things (batman?) but I not hyperfixated in any of them in particular at the moment :/

favorite color: deep red, dark blue (with black/gray undertones), forest greens, yellow...

tagged by: @hope-of-enterprise thank you for tagging me, I have no idea if I did this correctly though (also I'm pretty sure this 'tag game' started as a chain of reblogs or something but got 'broken' along the way and I'm too lazy to track the original post)

tagging: I don't think I even know 9 people but here, let me try by tagging some people that I have actually interacted with. @yirima-chai , @sawbones4117 , @starrycrowz , @kaklord , @kabbage-potato , @purpleenma , @scummybee , @bakersttardis , @current-events-mc

If you've already been tagged in this uhh, ignore it I guess.

[justatree75]

drawtectives midnight alley crack theory

maybe the eugene in the thumbnail ISN'T ACTUALLY eugene and is ACTUALLY his SECRET TWIN BROTHER who did the murder

[feeling--pink]

Bad art day today so I tried the Julia Lepetit method of getting by it aka drawing Eugene a bunch :)

[whatsvert]

The diffrent sides of Eugene

[allthecastlesonclouds]

some drawtectives doodles i've been doing in my notes to work of anatomy (and lack of, with buzz)! i'm especially proud of the york; the grandma needs work

and a couple off-handed ones that make me laugh :)

[lilbearuri]

My mind almost collapsed from trying to explain my friend who doesn't watch Drawtectives/ Drawfee the School AU with Villanous... that shit it's so meta and I never realized it till now

[wineonawhitetee]

Ok, I do not have much to contribute theory- wise, but I still wanna talk about some things. So, it's a Drawtectives Season 3 trailer visuals appreciation post!

First of all, holy shit, Julia, how much carpal tunnel did you order?!!?! This shot looks so fucking cool!!!! And the rendering???!?!?!?! Immaculate!!

Also, these character redesigns look like they're gonna be hot as hell and I cannot wait to see them!!

Also this was so beautiful, my jaw was on the floor!! The slow slide animation thing? Love that. I wish I could get a higher res version of this so I could use it as a desktop wallpaper!!

Also, the neon city 80s vapourwave aesthetic? That is so my jam!! Also the music fucking slapped! It was so fun and it matched the vibe so well!!

Also also, the thumbnail art looks so fucking cool!! But, it does strike me that Eugene(?) is in the thumbnail but not in the trailer. I wonder why?

In the art, he's eyeless and cast in red and there is a murder again....

So, I had a thought that maybe it was Eugene that was murdered? But that can't be right, because from the voice clips we heard, the crew didn't seemed too phased. I feel like of Eugene were dead, they'd have a grave-er reaction.

Also, Julia wouldn't do that to us! Right? I'm...I'm scared

Anyway, can't wait!!

[your-faves-as-pokemon]

Can i get jancy true of drawtectives.. Shes the only one i havent assigned one myself out of the main group (if ur interested york is a shiny ursaring grendan is a skiddo rosé is a zorua eugene is lunala :33 letme know if u agree maybe. If you have any opinion. I forget why i was following ur main but theres a chance its drawtectives related)

GOOD PICKS ! im not a fan of shiny ursaring but it does suit york :'D (also i followed YOU because you do drawtectives art and you followed me back. we found each other from whiteboard!)

jancey true of drawtectives is orbeetle!

based on: psychic type, tired eyes, appearance. relevant pokedex entries:

It’s famous for its high level of intelligence, and the large size of its brain is proof that it also possesses immense psychic power. It emits psychic energy to observe and study what’s around it—and what’s around it can include things over six miles away.

[spam-monster]

Putting Drawtectives season 3 stuffs here because it'll get lost in the discord - so anyway spoilers for new guy...

I'm calling him Twogene for now.

Quick comparison:

same earrings

Eugene has nose piercing, Twogene does not

different eye makeup - one red line vs two green lines

Twogene's hair is blonde but his eyebrows are still black - identical twin who dyed his hair to distinguish himself?

Necklace and harness is new.

Overall clothing vibe of wrap + big coat/cape thing + no shirt is same, but Twogene has tiddy and shoulder out making me think he's less innocent than his bro.

I mean it could be Eugene and something's up with him, but I feel like Jancy would have said it was him...and also making Twogene canon is just too heckin funny to pass up.

Lore thoughts are: Maybe we gets some Eugene backstory, but also kinda confirmation that Jancy was familiar with Eugene and his family before season 2?

(Also I don't think the victim is Eugene because I feel like Jancy or Twogene would have known that beforehand, but I do wager that he's been knocked out or is in Gareville or otherwise unavailable for most of the season.

[arley-ology]

I'm very normal about the Drawtectives season three trailer right now and I need to organize my thoughts about it or I will explode soooo putting that all into a tumblr post! This is less theorizing/analysis and more just me writing down things I noticed.

The beginning of the trailer is a slow zoom out on a box TV whose channels are being absent mindedley flicked through. I'm going to go through each of the broadcasts one by one

The first is an ad of some sort for a "Shimmer Park". The narrator for the ad is saying "Need a place to truly be yourself for awhile? Discover Shimmer Park!" This leads me to think that Shimmer Park is some sort of entertainment/play facility for children. Now it may just be my automatic distrust of any entertainment area geared towards kids that was spawned in me via reading Percy Jackson and the Lightning Theif too many times but something about the phrasing of "A place to truly be yourself" feels somewhat disquieting to me idk.

Next up is what appears to be a news broadcast of a local rally by MAPN. MAPN's logo is their abbreviation set over a clock face nkt unlike that on the clock tower we see later. In the middle of the news overlay is the name "Thomas Cornette" possibly the name of the reporter(?). The protesters signs are mostly obscured but the ones I can make out I'm 90% sure say "Not in our community (w/ a drawing of a rat)" and "Save our community". The horned protester in the front is yelling into the microphone, "Corperate overlords will never take our city!". We can assume the "MA" part of MAPN stands for Midnight Alley I'm not quite sure about the rest of it but if I had to guess it might be "Public News" don't quote me on that. To me just the way the clips are set up almost makes it seem like this protest against risk to Midnight Alley community is related to Shimmer Park in some way. The only thing we really know about the protest is it is somehow against corporations and (maybe) rats. There may be a link here to Papa's Pizza which we see later.

After that is the much calmer channel "Knitting with Janice". The woman knitting, assumedly Janice, says "It takes all kinds of threads to make a beautiful colorful tableau!". There's also a cat in a catbed in the background (adorable). Taking the dialoge metaphorically it's something to the effect of "It takes all different kinds of people and ideas to make a good and beautiful community." Now the use of the word tableau here is odd beacuse unless there's some secret knitting terminology I'm not aware of tableau is not usually a term used in fibre arts. A tableau is a still image of people/figures used to represent a more complex story (art/drawing connection??). Now maybe Janice is just knitting a tableau or smthing but the word choice here is interesting to me! Also the cat in the background caught my eye because of the rat themeing of this season. Cats are a major predators of mice. Maybe something like Art and Community beats the rat race???(we see rat race later) Also I'm getting big Bob Ross vibes from this lady please tell me yall see it too

Next we have a film noir (oooo!!). A woman is crying and she has just slapped a man in thr foreground. She says "I've never met a snake like you Jimmy." Snakes! Another predator of rats. But of course snake is meant metaphorically here as someone who is depictful and manipulative. Uhhhh I got nothing else on this one yall. I would say possible connection to the last channel like I did w/ Shimmer Park & The Protest but I refuse to believe that old lady Janice (both "J" names though) is capable of snake-like depict.

Another news broadcast! This seems to be from a news station other than MAPN as they have different overlays. The woman on screen says "In other news Midnight Alley is soon to throw their annual Rat Race". There's a poster for the Rat Race on screen (love a Juilia poster) that shows two rats w/ the numbers "8" and "4" on each of them respectively. I'm gonna ignore the place and date listed on there because in season two those details on posters never really came into play. There's more text on the poster saying "For more information and sign up please visit the M.A. [Midnight Alley] information center" and the bellow that it reads "Hosted by the Parks Department of Spire City". Literal Rat Race, interesting! Ofc in metaphor a rat race is used to describe and struggle of people for money and power that ultimately grants them no reward often used to describe competition in company/work environments #The Hustle. Now this is definitely connected in some way to the protest whether it be litteraly or metaphorically or both is yet to say. Also the Rat Race being sponsored by the Parks Department kinda makes me think of Shimmer Park having something to do w/ this. No matter what I feel like the Rat Race being sponsored by the Parks Department is going to be important somehow.

Papa's Pizza ad now! The guy w/ the Papa's Pizza uniform (owner?) is saying "Papa's Pizza has been here for generations, hand birthing high quality, cheaply priced slices for-". This is probably connected to the Corperation Protest we saw earlier. It seems like small business in Midnight Alley are probably being put at risk in sone way by larger corporations. Take note of how the Papa's Pizza guy's sentence cuts off here

A phone rings of screen in the static between channels.

This channel is a sitcom. A boy looks mischievously into the camera and says "RATS." before a laugh track plays. Someone off screen is holding a bowl of rats (?????) next to him. Now the way the last broadcast cuts off it makes it seem as if Pizza guy is saying "Papa's Pizza has been here for generations, hand birthing high quality, cheaply priced slices for rats." Its interesting how it makes it seem like Papa's Pizza guy - a person who's company would be effected by large corperation take over is in favor of rats - which are being used by the protesters to represent the corperations (kinda maybe?). This feels like it means Something but I can't peice together What.

All the TV programs are done now time to go over the rest of the trailer!

The TV is turned off now and we see Jancy's reflection in the black screen. Its an interesting shot makes it almost seemd like she's part of the programming. She answers the phone that is ringing, a rotary phone. Her tone drops as she revives news from the other end of the line and she tells them she'll send in the team (DRAWTECTIVES!!) right away.

Cut to black. "Children there's been a murder". (OUGH AAAAAAA IM GOING INSANE GOING RABID)

New design silhouettes!! I love them all already. I'm surprised by the lack of hat on Grandma (I like it!!) but other than that I don't really have any comments on them. York says "Do you think the house is capable of murder?". Grendan says "Unless... Murder Santa... I just write murder Santa down." These two might narrow down where at least part of this takes place somewhat. and finally Rosé says "Why are you so quiet daddy?" [Edit]: I've thought about it and I'm 80% sure "Daddy" is the name the Drawtectives have assigned to the Papa's Pizza guy so he/his business is definitely going to become important at some point.

Now we have what is most likely our setting, Midnight Alley! This season's logo appears on the background but I didn't grab a screen shot of that whoops. The clock tower here really stands out to me. Perhaps the spire of Spire City? Also this is just a very pleasing drawing!

The end scene of the trailer is of a rat jumping on to screen before menacing yellow eyes w/ slit pupils fade in behind it. I'm tempted to say cat for some reason. [Edit]: or as other ppl have pointed out the eyes could be from a snake! Now that I think about it snake probably does make more sense here

Also Eugene is in the thumbnail but he isn't mentioned at all in the trailer. This might just be because the fans love Eugene and Julia couldn't figure out how to include him anywhere other than the thumbnail but it also makes me a little scared

I said I wasn't gonna therorize but I wanna put down my ideas about when this takes place and where this takes place.

Now Drawtectives is very time-nebulous in general but this season at least seems very 80s inspired to me. The box TV, rotary phone, neon aesthetic for the logo, upbeat disco-y theme music all seem to point towards us not being in the modern day at the very least. Ofc we're going to be in Midnight Alley but Midnight Alley also seems to be in Spire City from what the poster said. York and Grendan's lines also suggest we explore a house at some point, specifically w/ a chimney/fireplace being important.

[Edit]: Now between the Rat themeing, the 80s vibes and focus on corperations I feel like I'm looking Huck E' Heese straight in the eyes and I didn't mention it originally beacuse I'm not sure how to feel about it except maybe Fearful

Anywho that's it for my very nothingburger post about the Season three trailer hope that any of yall that read through alllll of that nonsense enjoyed :]

[kerryeurodynesimp]

Some of the things I loved about the first ep of Drawtectives Midnight Alley:

The fact that Jancy has to IMMEDIATELY explain light to York. I laughed so hard.

York learning to read in a MONTH, but also imagining the psychic damage Jancy probably took to teach him.

Nathan studying fashion for Grandma’s new look, and it totally shows. Grandma looks sick in those platform sandals and the trans jacket.

Pork Era. Plus, York’s crop top for the slutty waist of it all.

Rosé picked up that book. Or at least bent down for it. Or at least learned books exist. Good for her! And I want her pants.

Jancy also looks sick. I need to like dress better to watch this season.

Muspionage

“Who do you think gave you the legs?” I lost it.

“He was a short, he was a tall, can I make it anymore obvious?”

“Hi, ponytail!”

Learning they all live together, and that nobody can cook, but Grandma pretends Rosé makes edible food.

Grandma trying to unlearn reading.

Incredible Twogene cliffhanger. And whoever this imposter is, the harness. The harness! But also, what have you done to and/or with Eugene??

[monimolimnion]

Are you excited by the prospect of drawtectives season 3 soon. Bc ive been vibrating all day fhsjfhsjch

I'M SO EXCITED OH MY GOD. i know they've been sitting on the first few episodes for a little while and i've been biting things the whole time like PLEASE!! BRING MY CHILDREN BACK I MISS THEM TERRIBLY (but also im glad they took so long because i want julia to protect her damn wrists)

for anyone reading this that fucks w drawfee but hasnt seen drawtectives yet, please watch the supercut they just released, it doesnt have any major spoilers and it's a great taster of just what's so good about the show, including but not limited to:

found family

a nonbinary character cracking their egg in real time

improv storytelling and worldbuilding+callbacks that resolve satisfyingly (in a way similar to a D&D show) but told in a unique way with VN-style sprites

bisexual panic

drawing challenges that are beautifully stupid (i feel like people can be intimidated by the show - or at least i was - bc it doesn't seem like drawtectives will be very drawfee but trust me the DNA is all there and it's less of a buy-in to start watching than you might think)

plot relevant cat

please it's everything good about d&d shows and drawfee rolled together and i love it so much please watch it please please please

If you watched the supercut and still aren't sure, please watch the ep they did with ProZD that genuinely nearly made me asphyxiate it was so funny and doesn't require any context going in.

oooooo you wanna 🅱eeze 🅱izza so bad ooooooo

[zestoflemon]

okay! heres more drawtectives star trek au thoughts bc i have a lot of thoughts :)

so all of this would take place in the lower decks era (2381), with jancy as the captain of officers rose, grendan, and york, and science expert eugene! also rosé, grendan, and york went to starfleet academy together bc thats fun

rosé is still a human, she's from tycho city bc its always funny to me when a star trek character is from the moon. she's a pilot and she learned to fly shuttles and runabouts at a young age. karina's hinted at there being some Dramatic Things in rosé's past so i briefly thought maybe she'd been recruited to section 31,, but then i thought maybe thats too much? so instead her Dramatic Thing could be that she had a conflict with a previous commanding officer that led to her being transferred off the ship. her off duty style would be very christine chapel or erica ortegas in snw vibes, she has so many chelsea boots its crazy

grendan is bajoran bc that just makes sense to me <3 their parents were in the bajoran militia so they lived on ds9 for a while and got interested in starfleet there! shes a science officer and specializes in exobiology (the star trek equivalent of walking dogs) his style is mostly earth tones plus science blues and soo many crochet vests and sweaters

york! klingon lore works really well with orc lore imo but he had to be green so! his dad is a klingon warrior and his mom is an orion starfleet officer, and york grew up with his dad on qo'nos before coming to earth to live with his mom and eventually join starfleet :) oh also since klingons mature faster than humans but i wanted him to be around the same age as grendan i just subtracted 8 years from what his human age would be, so he's technically the youngest of the star trek drawtectives but not by klingon standards?

eugene <3 i just think all the vulcan spirituality and katra and telepathy makes soo much sense for him! and i think he was with the vulcan science academy but then got really into studying the afterlife with holograms & androids so he left the academy to do his own research

i dont have a lot thought out for jancy yet but she's a betazoid bc i think telepathic jancy is neat :) and she was a diplomat before entering starfleet where she studied anthropology (and mystery solving)

also feel free to send me asks about this! drawfee and star trek are my two favorite things so i have a lot of thoughts about them but idk if im explaining them well,,

[bonetrix-arts]

Still at the con but I just handed off these lil fellas to the drawfee crew :3

I considered doing all drawtectives but then I was like "but Luce though" so I pivoted. And you KNOW I had to include a rhino on Grendan's ;3

I also gave them this lil sketch

I'll have to post the print I made for Karina when I get back to my tablet hehehe

I'm so glad I came!!!!!!!! The panel was an absolute delight, I WILL be doodling some of the freaks presented in it later for sure.

I also got a couple of the gacha pulls, no Luce tho.... I will try again 💪💪💪

I need to go back anyways cuz I was shaking so much I forgot to have them sign the thing I brought. But it's fine because I got one of the risos >:3

[aroace-elgyem]

Wanna draw Percy cause I just rewatched epithet erased for the first time in like 2 years and there's that art submission thing coming up but I also wanna draw drawtectives fanart cause season 3 hype but I also have schoolwork to do (_ _)

[terrac0tta-m0mmy]

14 or 6 for the ask game :)

Drawtectives ask game:

14- Favorite Official Art

Dude it's the beach designs from that one stream

These ones right here. The Jancy one is included in my mind, but I couldn't find it in the 2 seconds I was looking. Idk, maybe it's bc it's summery rn where I live, but these designs call to me so much. I also just like little slice of life things for them.

6- Favorite character design

It's so hard to pick, but I think Abayomi's design really inspired me early on in season 2. I also really like Rosé's season 2 fit. But also Eugene, he has so many star on him.