#but for sonic... i just want to like my boy

[green-sketchbook]

edgey boy

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Shadow was hard for me to draw at first. I noticed that in all my early sketches, his spines, highlights, and shoes would always be different sizes. It was getting annoying so I figured I'd search for a character turnaround. I found two that helped (Team Sonic Racing and the Toonboom rig by Aixa) but I wanted something a little different. Longer torso, slightly smaller hands and feet, a colour change, etc. So, going off of Sonic's turnaround for Dream Team, I smashed this overly detailed reference sheet together. T'was about half a week of straining my back while bent over my tablet and forgetting to eat. His shoe bottom was the most painful; I had no choice but to simplify it. Damn air shoes. Please forgive them for not being 100% game-accurate. But anyway, that's about it. Enjoy! And reblogs are always appreciated.

[beevean]

I've been kinda following the reaction to recent IDW, Frontiers and now Prime's story stuff and after reading enough threads and comments I started wondering: is the mainstream fandom really this easily emotionally manipulated?

I mean it like, you have IDW, you got Surge being painted as this badass and a portion of fandom claiming her as the new girlboss, but suddenly one panel of her looking sad and scared and people go "o no poor babby she has the feelies 🥺". Or the Prime clip with Sonic and Tails that's making rounds right now. Apparently the pretty standard parallel/alternate universe plot of "a character meets a slightly different version of a character they are familiar with so interaction is going to be a little awkward" is enough to make some go into crying all over the keyboard mode because muh feels and muh angst.

Concepts like these sound emotional on paper and they can be executed well, of course, but like, is the bare minimum drama really enough to illicit this strong of a reaction from people these days? Or do fans just... imagine this high intensity of feelings because there are none in the actual source material and then run purely on that?

I don't know. I really don't. I've been feeling so alienated, and I don't want to think that everyone else is stupid and I'm the smart one to not fall for these obvious emotional manipulations.

It's like I'm seeing something different. I don't see Surge having a panic attack: I see her behaving in a wildly OOC way, because this behavior comes out of nowhere - since when does Surge, whose personality has been since page 1 "fuck yeah I wanna fight!", care about "being hurt"?. I don't see Sonic being horrified at the discovery about the true origins of Surge and Kit: I see an asshole who immediately brushed it aside and went to fight a traumatized girl with a grin on his face.

Do you seriously interpret this as HORROR? He doesn't care! He doesn't! What are you guys seeing?!

I've already talked about Frontiers in length. I see the game as empty. There is nothing there. I can't feel bad for Sonic if he gets better 1 minute later. I can't feel bad for Sage's death if she spent most of her time on screen being stubborn (for sensible in-game reasons, but still). I can't feel bad for Eggman being all sad because THAT IS OUT OF CHARACTER. "oh but bowser can be evil and a dad" "oh but muh humanization" it's out of character, sorry. 31 years, and Eggman not once displayed any characteristic that would lead him to feel genuine affection for anyone, let alone an AI. No, Eggman saving Sonic from lava to preserve a Chaos Emerald doesn't count as a good action of his. Sure, Eggman saving Tails from Orbot in Colors was uncharacterisically nice... but you're not going to use an example from a game written by Pontaff, the people you consider on par with the 11th plague of Egypt, as source of good writing, right? You would be consistent, right? :)

I don't even care about Prime. I really don't. It slides off my brain. Oh, Tails became edgy because Sonic wasn't there, okay, sure, there are at least a dozen fanfictions like that.

(the fact that I watched Netflixvania right before Frontiers, and I went through a similar feeling of "why can I only feel rage at this poorly written mess?", doesn't help my mood. I genuinely felt like I lost all my ability to enjoy things)

But I know what's going on with Sonic. The idea that everything from 2010 to 2019 was horrible, flat, OOC and nothing but Cringe permeated the fanbase. So now, any kind of emotional moment, no matter how shallow and try hard, gets praised to high heavens. Add a good dose of Adventure nostalgia (because muh Meta Era if the games reference the Classics, but thank you Lord Flynn for saving the franchise if the games reference the Adventure era), and there you go. (meanwhile I'm still here getting my heartstrings pulled by that one scene of Sonic realizing that he's all alone on Lost Hex and it's all his fault...)

I'm being bitter. I also realize that I'm sounding like an arrogant cock, and I don't like it. I wish I could see what everyone else is seeing. I wish I could love Surge and think of her as the best villain the franchise has to offer. I wish I could gush about how deep Frontiers is. I wish I could be interested in Prime and have something to look forward to. This is not fun. I don't feel oh so smart bitching about stuff that others like, I feel like a thief of joy and not a nice person to be around.

And yet, something as simple as hearing Maria say to Shadow "you used to run so quickly on these slopes", implying that edgy anti hero Shadow used to play on the ARK like a normal child with her best friend before tragedy struck, makes me feel more awful than anything else I've mentioned. So it's not that there is something wrong with me.

[maskofnova]

I think its a rite of passage to make an au at least once, and ive been thinking super hard about how Sonic raised tails lately. So obviously an age swap au had to happen. Aka, the au in which they are both team turbo nerd and Tails needs a Vacation as a dire medical suggestion. (more rambling in tags)

[ranvwoop]

this is the only image

[ra-vio]

I've been chanting this like a spell

[acidicpenumbra]

two "ultimate" level douchebags

[moonsidesong]

new friends arrived today!!!! stillness & motion is the biggest cd set ive gotten yet... six is so many!!! the case is so large!!!!!! wah!!!! (tge dust cover for paths revisited being Bright Yellow is also certainly . a Choice LOLLL)

[isaacz]

I wanted to draw the duality of my 2 main interests when i was like 10 I really liked my little pony and i was a HUUGE fan of jurassic park, being the reason i even started learning english in the first place !

[wereh0gz]

I hope one day we get a mainline sonic game focusing on a side character where sonic gets into trouble and need to be saved

[sleepybean427]

Sonic movie 3 comes out in December and October’s almost over, which means we’re almost 1 month away from the movie’s release

[seagull-scribbles]

𝔄𝔱 𝔩𝔞𝔰𝔱, 𝔰𝔥𝔢Ⴆҽ ɱį̷̩̠̯͇̆͗͂̕n̸̥̩̬̈́̀̃͝ͅͅe - ̴̧͇̻̳͚͕͉̱͚͇͐̍͛̈́m̵̛͇̓̌̋͂͆̒̇í̴̫̠́̓͗̂͝n̴̛͕̺̳͕̼͙͖̓́̈͊̑͛͂͠e̴̢͚̙̹̝̪̾͌̃̑̔̔͆͝ ̶̬̐̔̃̈́͊͗̄̏̔͘f̵̢̟̻̰̼̲̄͋͗̇̚͝ǫ̴͇̙͚͓̦̭̳̰̘̅̔͋̉r̷͙̬͍̐͆̇͊̃̕͠͝ẽ̵̡͔̘̺̝͇̻͇̄̂̌̈́̕ͅv̵̡̺̭̟̠̳̯̤͈͚̋̇̋ḙ̴̣̟̱̣̼̿̿͋̒͒̕͘͝͠͠ͅͅͅr

[tricksterlatte]

Yearning for another fandom historical event that makes me feel the way I felt when they confirmed Tracer was a lesbian. Please...it was so triumphant

[pacifistcowboy]

seeing everyone’s fantastic art on here really makes me wanna draw stuff but i cAN’T because i have dumb stupid writing assignments that will probably take weeks and it’s starting to make me lose it a lil

i want to draw the silly cartoon animals so bad. this is like cabin fever for my brain

[neoncherryblossom]

Two red eyes, piercing and deadly, stared down into his. Metal Sonic- but wrong- stood above him, his head propped against his fist, staring down at him in almost childish disapproval.

“…You look different,” he breathed, staring at the widened quills with white streaks. A metallic hum cut through the air, the thing peering down at him, inspecting him, like he was a tiny insignificant bug.

“Peek-a-boo,” the voice box crackled, the robot slowly covering its face and leaning closer, opening his hands out so that Eggman could see his red- red, why would he ever choose red- eyes again. “I see you.”

And two claws hooked under Eggman’s armpits and Ivo screamed.

Edit: Fic is up! Check it out if you want!

[disabledhedgehogs]

hmm... been thinking about how i want the tagging system for this blog to work. i think it would be a good idea to tag specific disabilities/disorders as well as mobility aids so if people come on this blog wanting to see highly specific content they can find it. but also ive seen disabled people say they don't like fandom stuff being posted in disability related tags which i can totally understand i can remember instances where ive looked up a specific disability on here and was greeted with x reader fanfiction and got pissed off. i don't wanna be That Guy you know ..

[fleetsonourgecentral]

Good that I give Royal Au so light XD

Talking about the Au Scourge's gang (Fiona and the destrutix plus Rosy) exist?

If yes imagine they made everyone VS everyone/gang vs gang XD

Rubs hands together OKAY SO. I have actually done a little bit of thinking about this, and I think both the destructix and the suppression squad are in this au. I haven't fully settled on what exactly the suppression squad's role will be - parental approved company for Scourge, perhaps? - but the destructix are the gang Scourge initially sneaks out of the castle to hang out with before he bumps into Sonic. Scourge's parents don't approve of them - they consider them ruffians, and they aren't as poor as Sonic/they're not quite commoners but they're still considerably lower on the class ladder than Scourge - hence why he has to meet up with them in secret. They're rebellious and troublemakers and Scourge is always getting into fights with other people with them, which he finds really fun

Unlike Sonic and co, however, they don't have any interest in taking down the monarchy. They're well aware Scourge is the prince, and probably hoping (most likely subconsciously) Scourge will give them powerful, high-up roles in the kingdom once he takes the throne. If they heard about Scourge's plan to overthrow his parents, they'd be down for it until they realised the next step of the plan would not be Scourge taking the crown for himself, but getting rid of the monarchy entirely and giving the power to the people. They don't want it gone, they're just waiting for the day Scourge takes the throne

Tldr they're Scourge's friends that his parents really, really wish he wasn't friends with, and they've forbidden him from speaking with them, but that just means he sneaks out to meet up with them. Trying to meet up with them without getting caught is probably why he takes to dyeing his fur whenever he sneaks out, and thus, they are indirectly the reason he eventually bumps into Sonic while disguised as a commoner - or, at least, definitely someone lower than a prince