#but i needed to redraw her regardless

[vermwerm]

KILL.

[surreal-duck]

Tuesday is chuu day! (x)

[chiquilines]

Hi guysssssss its been a minute

I havent posted in a hot while due toooo many things one of which being im not that much into mha anymore... i still really really love all my girls, tgchk mmjr midjoke miryumi etc still hold a dear place in my heart, and I'm gonna keep drawing them, just less. I might start posting more art from different media, but regardless im not gonna be able to post much in the coming months cause I am about to have a very very busy time academically, so Im gonna have less time for drawing :( anyways, thanks to everyone whos been liking my my hero art, it means a lot to me and i appreciate everyone who takes the time to look at my silly self endulging wlw!! This isnt a goodbye btw, im just taking the opportunity to be sappy :) see yall in the next post!!

[luckykero]

follow up to the last one

[thefanboyhub]

Random ass head cannons I have for SBG gang yuh let's go:

Note/Update: Disregard the eye color thing for Aiden cuz the author has confirmed that his eyes are contacts ✨

Tyler will call people he likes (platonic or romantic) princess regardless of gender, mostly uses it when he's teasing them or in like idk a passive aggressive way. Like "No shit, princess." Or "Okay princes, calm down." Always paired with an eye roll tho.

Taylor hates Taylor Swift because of the annoying jokes people do with her name.

Adding to the last one, Aiden found that out when he made a joke once and she looked like she was about to throw him out the window lol.

Logan has helped everyone get their zodiac charts and read them. He fucking memorized them too. Little nerdy boy <3

Ashlyn doesn't initiate physical touch(hugs, hand holding, cuddling, ect) with people often (cannon btw), but when she does it always makes whoever was chosen feel special.

Ben listens to literally everything. All music. He's polyjamours.

Tyler is actually pretty good at guitar and was something he's liked since a kid, he loves music with heavy guitar in it. He also named his guitar Mel, like Melody. Only people to touch it was Taylor and Ben.

I see some people say Tyler has Logan tutor him but like. No? Tyler is hella smart and doesn't need to be tutored? Like c'mon. BUT Logan does have Tyler help him work out (Logan's body before and after phantom realm goes crazy man) after the whole almost died to phantom thing.

Aiden use to experiment with hair dye before he fell in love with blond. Also his eyes are red, it's not contacts. It's just his eye color lightening s he aged or smt. Fight me.

Ashlyn hates sour food and loves the more bitter stuff. Aiden loves sour food and hates bitter stuff. They trade food sometimes so they don't have to suffer.

Ben and Aiden know ASL, Taylor is learning to talk to Ben better.

Logan can draw but he doesn't do it often but he loves to watch Ben draw. It makes him want to draw too.

Taylor draws on her friends arms, Tyler will pretend to hate it same with Ash but they always ask her to redraw things when they fade. Aiden once had Taylor do an detailed tattoo like design on his arm in class. It didn't wash of for almost three weeks.

Aiden actually has sensitive skin, the wrong fabric gives him rashes. No one but him knows what fabric won't, it's all based on touch.

Tyler can cook really well, and even enjoys it sometimes. Can't bake for shit though.

Aiden knows ballroom dancing. Rich families or old fashioned one tend to know how to ballroom dance (I use to know)

That's all for now

[doppel-doodles]

SUGARUSH DOU

A redraw of amazing fanart that was made by @jayjaysmind in my style just look at these sillies:

I love it so much, I love Jay so much and I love these two sillies so much-

To anyone interested there will be some ramblings about Mk and Klaras dynamic below the cut as I can’t help myself-

Klara and Mk knew each other before the start of the main series mainly due to the fact her mother Shui was already well acquainted with Pigsy.

And right out the gate these two just clicked. They share a lot of personality traits, such as being very extroverted, high energy individuals that love being loud and of course their shared interest in jttw or well the monkey king more specifically.

Klara would describe Mk as either a really cool cousin, the awesome kind you wanna impress or a really dorky older brother that you can really mess with.

And most of all she is glad he doesn't know about her illness, or at least not to the extent her family does. That means he doesn't feel the need to do a lot of things for her, to be unnecessarily gentle with her or to waste his time looking after her.

They can just play! Roughouse as much as they like and talk until her throat gets all itchy and the coughs become hard to hide...

he doesn't need to know how bad it is, it isn't that bad in the first place!

Meanwhile the noodle boy is equally as fond of her, there is never a dull moment with her around and even if there was, just give her a dare and watch as chaos unfolds. He can suggest anything and she is up to try and that flexibility makes hanging out so easy!

It really doesn't feel like he is just babysitting her at all since Klara is a very independent kid, sure she may play a little to rough on occasion but really how bad can a little bruise be?

But she is still a lot to deal with. Not even he can keep up with all her energy, all her volume and he knows she doesn't mean to, that controlling herself is very hard for her.

Regardless he wouldn't trade thir time together for anything!

After the pilot however things changed.

But I'll leave it at that:>

[pocket-gems]

What do you think a singular opal looks like?

I designed one ages ago, and I'm more than glad to revisit her for this! A lot of my old gems need a quick redraw. While I'm no longer the fastest at this, I wanna say that I appreciate these asks and requests regardless ^^

[jlalt]

AAAAAAAAAAAA I ACTUALLY FINISHED ALL THE HIGURASHI VOCALOID STUFF!!!!!!!!! IM SO SO SO GLAD WITH HOW ALL OF THEM TURNED OUT, ESPECIALLY THIS ONE!!!!! i need to draw hanyuu more shes so much fun to draw!! (plus i just love her regardless<3) honestly, this might be my favorite out of all my vocaloid higurashi redraws, but that might just have to do with dreamin' chuchu having such a great album cover

[signsofthreecomic]

Every time I do these panel redraws, I feel like I learn something new about crosshatching and contrast and texture. I'm actually starting to learn more about clothing folds! Volume 4 was WILD yall.

I need you all to understand the first scene, the one with the Prof in the dining car, is so gay. Like I get it now! I get why fans of this manga ship Holmes and Moriarty! There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY half of their interactions are straight.

We'll see how far that carries over into my redraws lol.

Regardless- just finished volume 5 and Irene Adler is here! I can't wait to play more with her design, especially since I need to practice/stress test it for next year's mini comic.

[quibbs126]

Heck I don’t actually remember if Pure Vanilla/Dark Cacao was a request or if it was something I just planned to do on my own. I know it started out as my own idea, but sometimes that happens and then before I get to doing it, someone requests it and I just make it a request, and I don’t remember if that happened here

But regardless, this was a drawing I made of the idea for a purecacao fankid on it’s own, and I’m posting it as such

Now you’ll notice that this isn’t my usual format. This is because this isn’t her official design, it’s just that last night, I had this idea for a design of her as a young child with Dark Cacaoian clothing, and so I just wanted to make a quick doodle to show you

It was just going to be that picture in the middle, as it’s more sketchy and rough, and clearly not how I usually do these fankid requests. However when I finished, I realized that I made her too small. See, if I may explain some things, for my poorly drawn comics and other things that use that particular brush (it’s the Narinder Pencil if you want to know), and I don’t like enlarging pictures drawn with it because the lines get all blurry and it loses its texture. Prior to the Charcoal Cheese comic, for my poorly drawn comics I tended to enlarge the sketch to fit the screen, and then I’d completely redraw the lines. But here, I had already colored the whole thing, plus it was multiple layers to redraw, so I didn’t want to. But I couldn’t just crop down the canvas to fit it because my square canvases are already 500x500 pixels, they’re very small (and also I think the small size might account for why they may not show up in the best quality, but I’ve been using this size for over 2 years and I’m set with it, and I feel like changing would be too much effort). And I feel like making it even smaller would just tank the quality even more

Though to be honest, I’m glad I made a second version with my proper sketching process, as I was better able to figure out her colors and design

Speaking of her design, yeah this is sort of what I’m thinking for her look, at least in terms of hair, dough and eye color. She’s not gonna keep the braid though, that’s just a kid thing

I feel like maybe I should give her streaks, but I’m not sure where to put them or what color

Also I realize that I forgot to put KitKats on her design. I wasn’t planning to originally since this is a little kid’s outfit, but also in some of the artbook drawings, young Dark Choco had small Oreo shoulderpads, so maybe she should have something similar. I had an idea for her wearing tiny KitKat shoulderpads, but I forgot them. Ah well

Hmm, does she look like a purecacao kid? I’m looking at her and I feel like she looks more like her own character than related to them. Maybe it’s the lack of streaks

Oh yeah, and one more thing I want to add, I’ve decided she’s a post-canon kid, as in Pure Vanilla and Dark Cacao got together after the events of the Dark Flour War and canon in general. The story in my head goes that Dark Cacao developed feelings for Pure Vanilla, but was hesitant to tell him about it, maybe because he’s socially awkward and wasn’t sure how to, maybe because Pure Vanilla and White Lily had something going on and he didn’t want to stir up drama between them. But regardless, Dark Cacao felt that it wasn’t so much of a big deal since they were immortal, he could tell him when he felt it was right. But then the Dark Flour War happened and Pure Vanilla seemingly died, with Dark Cacao never telling him how he felt. But then years later, Pure Vanilla came back, and while Dark Cacao was of course overjoyed, it also caused him to realize that even being immortal, they don’t have all the time in the world, and he needed to tell Pure Vanilla how he felt, and so during the events of Odyssey, he confessed to Pure Vanilla, and then likely sometime after Dark Enchantress’s defeat, they got together, and later had this girl

Also this means she has a (probably) 30+ year older brother in Dark Choco, but it’s all good

I feel bad just keeping her unnamed, but I don’t know what to call her. *sigh*

Any suggestions?

But yeah, I just wanted to show y’all this idea. Don’t know when I’ll be finishing her, but I’ll draw her officially at some point

[dragon-tamer-1]

I'm going to start the Pokemon Black Artlock, so I should post the rules.

Artlock Rules and Info

- Same basic rules of nuzlock, if a pokemon faints, it's considered dead, catch the first pokemon per route, and nickname them.

- Running with no duplicates, so if I already caught the pokemon or its species, I can go for another encounter.

- Here is a special rule: I am allowed use of the new event cartridges I have, though no overleveled pokemon. For example, I can get Victini in Castelia City, but I can't use a Genesect unless I'm either late game or not at all. Probably won't, but I will have them for encounters in the cities. The only one I plan to actually use is Victini. Also going to give myself a master ball from the event for the Victini(it will be virtually impossible to catch Victini otherwise, I did catch it in Pokémon White when I was testing it out, and it took over 40 Ultra Balls to catch it with only 1hp left).

- I will count it as an official run if I can get past the second gym(Lenora and her retaliating Watchog).

- I will draw every encounter I catch, and how every pokemon dies. Might draw anything that I think would be neat to draw in between.

- In game trades are available, and can catch needed pokemon for the trade.

- Gift pokemon and static pokemon count as separate encounters.

- Certain areas that are split(example: Pinwheel Forest) can be separate encounters.

- Should I find a shiny(unlikely, but always possible), I'm allowed to catch it, regardless of if I already encountered something on that route, or if I have one of that species already.

- The only trade I do with another game is to get Celebi to get the Zorua(an event I already had access to since before I got the event cartridges) and I will trade it back as soon as I have the Zorua.

And I think that's it. I'll be posting all the art here, and even use this as the masterpost for everything to follow. If I wipe anytime up to and during the second gym, I will restart. And depending on the new run encounters, I'll redraw the encounters, but otherwise I will keep the drawings from the previous run as canon.

Also, @bluepallilworld thought you'd be interested in following this, since I've been talking to you about pokemon stuff lately.

Starter First Encounter Second Encounter Dreamyard gift pokemon Dreamyard Encounter Wellspring Cave/Route 3 Encounters Pinwheel Forest Exterior/Team update Stephanie Evolved Second Gym Defeated(no art) Pinwheel Forest Interior/Nacrene City Trade Skyarrow Bridge/Liberty Island/Castelia City Third Gym Defeated(no art) Route 4 Desert Resort/Relic Castle encounters + Leefs evolved First Death Sand Criky evolves Fourth Gym Defeated(no art) Route 5/Driftveil City/Shauna Evolves

[askfallenroyalty]

It occurs to me that we never saw kris or suzy in the epilogue (though I think the latter was mentioned once? Idk). Did uh… are they doing decently?

// the darkworld arc had been abandoned/retconned. while there IS a UT-universe version of Kris and Susie (assuming Frisk isn't Kris in UT, tho Kris is still very much their own person regardless) in AFR, we will only know Susie in the redraw. (again... assuming UT Susie is Suzy and not a sister like the catty and catti situation.)

x-x we just know too little about DR we don't even know how the universes mirror each other and the timelines are all WHACK. its a nightmare to write for or even theorize about. i esp dont wanna think about how they'd change in the time skips of AFR.

anyway in the redraw we'll see a LOT more of Susie as Frisk's whole journey is about befriending her. i didn't add her and MK into the epilogue because we need a proper foundation that the redraw will provide. at that point, my Susie would diverge from canon Suzy heavily as her story would be quite different.

uh. speaking of that arc...

So. My original plan for the rewrite was for Gaster and Riverperson to have worked together in the prime timeline. then gaster got yeeted from time, leaving his work behind. Then, Chara would run away to the underground looking for a purpose and an escape from Asriel's BS and the island. (though, thinking on it, logically Mt.Ebott wouldn't be on monsterland... as that's exiled from humanity. so idk about that anyway)

Anyway exploring true lab Chara accidently uncovers an artificial darkworld and gets stuck as a ghostly narrator again, this time as a cherub with Feylow. Frisk, Susie and MK would be the party and they'd have to make their way home together. I've heavily considered this portion being a fangame-only material, for better play-value.

but uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

ughhhhhhhh.

ugghghh.... gaster.

The story itself can keep gaster to a bare minimum. The guy is scattered across time. he's not directly involved at all. at most we know he did SOMETHING to chara in the prime timeline with their soul and now things are on the fritz (what caused this AU) up until fake DW, where they're possessed again.

(˘･_･˘)

I just don't want to play with DR canon at all anymore. darkworlds are inherently going to tie into that. and granted, in UT canon there's entry #17 that implies a growing darkness... it's not a stretch that Gaster could of done this. And he DID have a DT extractor, and the timeline is vague but the similar wording (and how old the core is) could imply he was around Chara's time. None of this is a stretch

buuuut working with Darkworld, even if it's a fake one, is too close to DR canon and we just don't know much yet. when i first did the darkworld, i thought it'd be a fun excursion into the same chapter 1 area... but i got too into the improv and imagination side of things without understanding the original at all. (and bad improv) it didn't really hit me that DR was it's own game and lore until Chapter 2, and I realized just how early on we are into that game's story.

I just... I can work with what I've got, I can avoid DR canon as much as I can but ultimately, I'm working with 2/7ths worth of puzzle pieces.

I don't wanna do any of this. Gaster used to be a "free for all" in the fandom to do whatever timeline/lore thing you wanted to pull of cause he was free real-estate. but now DR is treating him more and more as a character and I don't wanna touch the guy as he's going to be jossing the story.

idk what to do in all honesty. The darkworld portion IS important, Chara goes through major character development that the Continue Arc is built on. But I've been struggling with Feylow as a concept, and well, this. what the hell am I going to do.

[quirkthieves]

"🎧" for Inari, Nobi, Hii and Mioara :)

This needs to go under a cut because hii's literally gets a line by line analysis... oops!

INARI:

Bloody Mary by KANKAN & FAKE TYPE

First of all, naturally, it is the cunt being served here. Kankan has a powerful voice that is complimented incredibly well by the jazzy backing. The whole song is full of energy. The visuals are also stunning in every way possible. It fits on sound alone.

However, the song is also about disrupting the food chain (metaphorically and literally) and eventually becoming the very carnivore you overthrew by gorging yourself on meat? Is this not the core of Inari's character? She is consumption incarnate.

The imagery in the song of the other animals that she recruits eating meet makes me think about her meeting with the Marakuma brothers; "Kneel before me, and I'll allow you to eat openly and unabashedly", despite having just eaten one of their brothers whole. First she dethroned the top of the food chain in the kemono world (oni/the demon clans), and then went for humans-- and in a way, her takeover has allowed for kemono to live openly, but at the same time, it's all at the mercy of her fangs...

NOBIMARU:

Ghost in Kansai by Inukai ft. Gumi

Again, starting with aesthetics: Wooma's artstyle always reminds me of Nobimaru, and the combination of traditional & modern aesthetics works well for the urban fantasy setting of Kemono Jihen. Furthermore, Inukai has a really unique way of tuning Gumi (using her English VB for Japanese, which changes how syllables are pronounced), and the formal, robotic, almost-stilted sound of her voice layered over the high energy techno-traditional backing reminds me a lot of Nobimaru's excessively formal and almost-stilted way of speaking.

(I even started a wip of a redraw of one of the shots ft Inari and Nobimaru. We'll see if it ever gets finished)

As for the song itself, the lyrics of the song, the narrator (the girl/gumi) is singing about the "monster" (snake guy) and how he's built himself up and craves more and more power and popularity, regardless of the fact that it's all dirty/trash. theres also the line "i wish i could live as a child" (free and innocent), alongside the overall narrative of the song. From what I can glean, Gumi is some sort of powerful entity that can control the fabric of reality, but at the whims of whoever commands her (denoted by the scarf around her neck). In this song, it's the snake man, who she laments about being greedy, power-hungry, and not appreciating that she "rustled all this up for him"-- who is then destroyed by the monk, who places his scarf around her neck. this serves as a prequel for the song Idolatry, which ends in Gumi taking off the scarf to bring back the snake demon, despite the destruction it causes because she can't reconcile with her new life and the "boredom" of peace/not being used.

Anyway. I know that was a lot but back to Nobimaru... It makes me think a lot of how cynically he views his own situation and how unchangeable it is, (such as refusing Kabane's request to join Inugami, calling himself a bad person, talking about how he can't do what Kabane does, because if he could... "what would all this dirty work have been for?")...and how all of that goes to building up the power of a greedy individual using him solely as a tool, but being a tool gives him his only purpose. He loves Inari, but he hates her also... he resents the empire of trash he's given her, but he couldn't live otherwise. He bitterly remarks on the others around him, and all with a detached cadence....

HINATA:

Great news, I've already done a song meta analysis for her and it really fucks severely so you're getting it here, too

∴flower×Miku『FrankenX』/ NILFRUITS×harumakigohan

this really fits a universe where she lives (oen of the last lines is “i barely survived”) but thats how it is in my brain

ok so. i have a lot to say on this one please ignore my cringebut stims all over this shit

anyway the theme of the “frankenstein complex” is obvious in this song and i think its even referenced in the description or comments but it’s defined as “the fear of what youve created”. technically the term was coined for computer science and AI but here it’s being used more liberally and so im going to use it liberally in my analysis

I think Hinata feels responsible for who Robara is, and Robara is responsible for what Hinata is. While their abilities set up the idea that Robara can manipulate Hinata’s form as needed (see: the decorations), it’s revealed to us that Hinata is essentially his babysitter: She feeds him, she’s the one who has to cut his hair, to remind him to shower, to dress him, to decide what they do next and where they go. And while you’d think that’d give her power in the relationship, it’s all because of his emotional manipulation– he purposefully refuses to learn how to care for himself so she won’t leave him, and she’s desperate for him to become independent (quote “Sometimes Hinata will reach her limits and snap at him, so he’ll get up and boil noodles to keep her happy”.)

But, y'know, I have to think about Hinata feels. and we don’t have to guess– there’s multiple parts that imply she feels directly responsible for his emotional development as well. Even though he’s an adult and made the choice to be who he is, she feels so guilty that she can’t fix him– she’s afraid of what she’s “created”. even though she was five too, seven, ten, 13, 15, 18, 20, 25… all of her energy and time has been devoted to “creating” Robara, even though it’s all being pulled by his agenda. but she doesn’t know that!

ok past the concept and into the lyrics now

“This ugly, patched heart, please break it quickly”

heartbreak is the loss of a lover, and while it usually just refers to being dumped, i think this could be read as just a pure desperation to get out. to leave, maybe even for him to die– just to get out of here, even if it’s heartbreak

Ah, ah, I’m sick of everything Whose fault is it? Well, no worries Let’s go play somewhere else Ah, ah, why it’s gone bad Was love’s fault

this song in general takes on a really childish tone at times and as we’re aware this “relationship” started when they were 5. both Hinata and Robara show a lot of signs that their maturation emotionally is really stunted, and not only that, but the incident that started everything was Hinata going over to his home to play.

So with that bad kiss Comfort me again please Bad smell, bad smell, XXX this ugly, patched sc-ar-t… Undergo necrosis, undergo necrosis

there’s. honestly a lot i could say here but robara is truly hinata’s only companion. i don’t think his possessiveness and jealousy allowed for a lot of friends, and after 20 years even if she hates his constant need for physical attention it is her only “comfort”. not to mention the medical themes and themes regarding death surrounding ogreham as a whole and their characters albeit underexplored (given that they were really the SIU’s de-facto “medics”)

 Ah, I’m sick of everything, I’m gonna be gone suddenly Come on, just get out of here, “Parasitic-You” such things as “Dreams Come True”, I don’t need them anymore Put me out of my misery, Girl Girl Girl

Hinata’s reason for staying around and being alive is because Robara couldn’t survive on his own in her eyes, but I think she’s afraid of and or knows that she’s going to die someday– or maybe she dreams of just disappearing. Robara’s a parasite, a sick twist on how a rose feeds on the energy it gets from the sun (Hii), a theme reiterated constantly in the manga. She’s given up on having hopes and dreams on her own outside of him, and I think…I don’t know. It’s just sad

Patrons are limited, wanted to protect, loved them so much Wanted to touch, wanted to stare at, wanted to tell, dimly watched Still young, our nightmare

Hinata wants to protect Robara but she also wants to protect people FROM Robara. Not only that, but it’s mentioned in a twitter post from I believe…2020’s? Hinata’s birthday that the heart necklace Hinata wears was a gift selected by her and Robara going to the store and asking what’s the most popular among couples so they could have some sense of being a “normal” couple. Everything they do is just a farce at playing house, because they started dating when they were FIVE. nothing about their relationship is normal or real, and she KNOWS that. She wants to be one of them, but the rest of her life is here.

So with that lightning kiss I gave the first cry Bad smell, bad smell, XXX “I can’t stop thinking about you” Spit words like a slave!

Once again returning to the theme of decay, especially a decaying “heart”– decaying MEAT, which underpins a lot of the imagery between them. Not only that, but the last line emphasizes how much of a pretend game their PDA is– and while the quote is supposedly said by the other person in this song, I think even then it fits with how Hinata could’ve began to view the cycle the two of them were trapped in. As little sympathy as I have for Robara, she did genuinely care about him, and her perception of him seems to be that he’s trapped by his desires and inability to change.

So you were just toying with me with those poisoned lips!

Hinata never got the chance to realize that Robara was fucking. lying? he was just lying and manipulating her. In the manga he admits that she was too good for him and he couldn’t let her go, but in side material from Aimoto we learn that Robara’s incompetance was INTENTIONAL. he was aware that she wanted to leave him and pretended to be helpless so she wouldn’t because she’s too kind. While it’s true there was an underpinning of apathy towards his own physical care, It was very much intentional on his behalf. He was just fucking messing with her head he could have stopped all of this if he wanted but he didn’t want to lose someone who devoted herself to him so entirely because he knows he’s a piece of shit

Come on, just get out of here, “Ministering-You” Ah, apperlapapp or papperlapapp? Enough is enough

Once again, I’m coming from the perspective of her living because. Fuck the end of Ogreham lol but. I think this is her finally realizing that this is intentional and the second line is about how all of it is or was nonsense, and that the semantics don’t matter. It’s over.

ok thank you love you . thank you for coming to my ted talk

LACRAMIOARA:

ok after that doozy this one won't be quite as in depth but i'd be utterly remiss if i didn't mention the band that inspired Lacramioara and Leopold's entire existence

a large portion of the characters in their verse are explicitly inspired by specific bands/songs (ie: Johnny Strings and Cross DeVille are both inspired by The Devil Went Down to Georgia), and they're no different! Although the similarity in name (strigoi) may lead you to believe this song led directly to Mioara's existence, it was actually a few different Powerwolf songs that kickstarted it-- I was originally thinking about making both her and Leopold werewolves (or, well, werewolf-angels). I went back and forth on it a lot.

Anyway, you'll notice there's a reference to this song in their official titles-- "Sons of God and Sorrow". Just as a little homage.

But really, heavy metal insane christian vampire angels is just such a badass concept. youre with me on this one right.

[gynandromorph]

Hey Jessie question;

Does Jessie consider Samwich a prophet? I get the feeling (and correct me if I'm wrong) that Samwich was chosen to be raised up less out of deliberate choice and more they were the ant Jessie happened to choose. While I feel like Samwich considers themselves a prophet, or at least a clergyant, of Jessie, does Jessie reciprocate in the act of being the Prophets God? Or does she just continue life and Samwich watches from the sidelines? If the former, how does Jessie react to someone with the blind devotion of a prophet? If the latter, does Samwich understand they are not part of Jessie's life at all?

And;

I keep thinking about the panel from the Shiloh soda comic where Shiloh is finally commanded to get the pop. The fact it's right->left to show the uncanny nature of the act. Shiloh's withering expression. The fact they're arguing over a problem Jessie created and then had to solve. The fact the solution is disatisfactory being reflected in layout and design. It's such a good character moment for the both of them. Makes me mental. Scratches the good parts of my brain. I like it

i think jessie doesn't consider samwich a prophet, and probably doesn't think of them much outside of when they insert their presence directly in front of her. a prophet imo would need to act as a mediator between God and the masses to deliver info that God won't, for some reason, just communicate to everyone directly. to jessie, sam is probably more like a spider she sees in the corner of her room; she knows she's not supposed to want to kill it, and it's probably catching bugs she doesn't want to deal with, and also it's more effort than she wants to put forth to go kill it. later in the comic, she might see sam as vaguely friend-shaped due to their constant availability to provide unrequited and unconditional emotional support while jessie ruins her relationship. to sam, they might be closer to an apostle or missionary than a prophet. their relationship is not particularly special from jessie's point-of-view, which has always been abundantly clear to samwich.

that is to say that sam would function exactly the same regardless of whether they ever had direct contact with jessie or not, whereas a prophet would not be able to... prophesize without some form of contact from god. jessie's actions naturally insinuate her beliefs and psychology, like above, which sam has spent hundreds of hours collecting info on and poring over, then distilling the deductions and promulgating them. i definitely think they self-identify as clergy (although idk if jessie sees any of them in such an official light, they are all just oomf's to her or something even in person).

also yeah i noticed it read RTL and i just did not feel like drawing two separate panels instead. i liked shiloh's extremely subtle smirks too much to sacrifice it and try to redraw it, specifically.

[olde-scratch]

needed an art dump for all my (admittedly not very good) sketches for souichi from my saiki k/junji ito crossover so heres his house layout

and no it's not harsh black on white its ao3 dark mode colors (very pleasing to the eye) so u don't need to worry abt eyestrain

heres the whole house and its layout

i dont actually know if they would have a wall around their house, but i assume they would bc that seems like a staple in Japanese properties regardless of price. their yard is smaller than pictured, i just didn't wanna obscure it too much.

the house looks bad but it gives u a good idea of what it looks like so

in case u cant read my writing bc of the stabilizer, next to the tv in the 1st floor is the shrine. next to the stairs is the washer and dryer and then the bathroom.

the 2nd floor notes explain that the hallway is covered in various framed pictures of the tsujii family with a significant jump from right before fuchi's attack to after. (ill probably go more into depth if souichi ever brings anyone over, but souichi is normally smirking or obviously annoyed in most pics pre-fuchi, but just looks miserable or actually in pain in any after)

the attic. i havent decided whats up there, but ive decided that the door is locked and souichi stole the key. i might have mentioned that the house didn't have an attic, and i like that idea, so i think the attic's totally unuseable due to the insulation and stuff. souichi probably would have cleaned it up if he wasn't injured, but yk.

the downstairs is def inspired by the anime "inuyashiki" it's so heartwrenching i watched it twice and cried both times. highly recommend. it's basically if light yagami got turned into a robot alongside an old man and it's only 10 or 11 episodes but GOD im gonna make more references to it at some point.

souichi's bedroom

souichi’s the standing thingy while the other thingy standing against his wardrobe is that weird statue thingy he has which ive decided it a halloween prop he got and decided it was a hone onna he captured and sealed

for reference, souichi's about 5"4, but his hunch (which is probably more dramatic than shown) makes him seem a lot shorter. canonically, he's like 4"9-11 but everyone thought he was 5"4 so i figured i'd make him 5"4.

theres stuff in the bookshelf i just didnt feel like putting anything in there. the emptiness on top of the shelves and the actual shelf is intentional bc souichi cant comfortably reach them!! he also doesn't have that cloth over his light bc once again he can't reach it. that's also why his hone onna is propped between the dresser and the wardrobe rather than hanging, bc he couldn't put it up and no one helped him

i also hope that the proportions are right. souichi wouldn't be able to reach a top shelf within the wardrobe and i think he's a bit too tall in the second pic but u know what i mean

the thingy with the wheels by the door is actually a thingy i have irl! its got three levels of tiny shelves with abt 3 inch walls. i use it to store my sewing stuff and any fabric or yarn i need for current projects. its also a lot taller. (sorry that its blurry and the lines are thicker than the other stuff i had to resize and didn't feel like redrawing)

his wardrobe's got clothes in it, but i think his bookshelf would probably have a few books and then his dolls everywhere else. his kokkuri geisha is top-shelf and constantly berates him when he talks to it about giving it a proper place to sit. souichi can't move her tho bc her box is so heavy and no one wants to touch it anymore. (it was put there temporarily and misako and shuji kept putting off putting her elsewhere)

if anyone wants a closeup of any room just ask!! ive got heights for all the characters planned and i might sketch out some of the pictures on the walls

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Hello! I saw this blog the other day, and I wanted to see if you could redraw my OC? Anyway, this is Melanie, a character in my AU who is the daughter of Greg and Black Diamond/Carbonado. I used a base by Artistic-Raven on DeviantArt that was derived from a piece by dreambigstars, since I can't draw worth a damn. I hope that's okay!

As for color references:

Hair and Eyes: Same as Steven's

Skin: A little darker than Greg

Gem: Black

Shirt: Basically Greg's old Mr. Universe shirt (black with a yellow star)

Pants: Navy blue

Shoes: Black converse

A little more about Melanie:

She is Steven's older half-sister by exactly two years.

Unlike Steven, Melanie aged normally, which is why she looks like a normal 16 year old.

She's about the same height as Lapis.

Her weapon is a chakram.

In Future, her hair is now in a pixie cut, her shirt is now a deep purple, and she has a denim jacket tied around her waist.

If you are unable to do it, I understand. Thanks in advance!

• By submitting a gem I assume you have read the rules and agreed for me to judge •

The base was traced by someone else other than the original artist right? I'm not sure if the artist consented to that, and I assume no. Consider this one done out of pity I guess? Because the whole "I can't draw" some people do is just tiring.

Do you think every artist starts drawing and starts drawing perfectly, do you really think art works like that? I started drawing veery poorly and if I didn't continue, I would not be able to draw this piece for you. Consistency and learning is important in something so subjective like art and if you get stuck on "I draw bad" you'll never get around.

A good idea is still a good idea regardless of the style, and the execution of that idea matters. If you excuse yourself on that, you'll never start. We have more information/help than ever before, people who do bases for free and tutorials!

A negative mindset is a snake that never stops biting itself. I wanna draw > I draw > It looks bad > I don't wanna draw. Art is a way to express yourself, not to repress.

You need to focus on what makes you happy. You don't wanna share it because you think it looks bad? Then don't. Keep it to yourself until you think it looks better and you're proud to share it. Wanna learn how to draw? Look of tutorials, seek help and information and DRAW.

Or if you don't wanna draw, then just commission artists! There are so many choices!