#december boys

[spaefo]

destiny ?? so silly.. !! >o<

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF sticker club stickers for December!!

[egophiliac]

messing around with techniques! I...like the foxman and the catboy a lot okay

also, a couple of quickies that honestly don't deserve any more effort than I've already given them:

[mayordea]

legacy of lunatic freakin kingdom

[driaswrld]

🪷 — DRIASWRLD PRESENTS . . . A ROYAL AFFAIR

LADY DRIA WRITES . . . ˚ ༘ *

🪷 dearest gentle reader, this author finds herself compelled to impart the news of the most exciting arrival of the year! prepare the carriages...

SOCIETY PAPERS

🪷 A NEW SCANDALOUS SEASON IS UPON US. . .

— PRINCE GOJO ANNOUNCES BETROTHAL TO CHILDHOOD FRIEND ( but wait ! PRINCE GETO has suddenly arrived ! )

⋆ one. ⋆ two. ⋆ two (b) ⋆ three ⋆ tba. ⋆

— COUNT NANAMI GETS ABSOLUTELY DESTROYED IN PALL MALL BY HIS FIANCÉE'S SISTER ( the game we play called love ! )

— FORMER KNIGHT KASHIMO HAJIME STUMBLES UPON THE INN KEEPER'S DAUGHTER ( a classic retelling of love at first sight ! )

— KING SUKUNA FALLS FOR HIS DOTING CONCUBINE ( such passion and raw devotion ! )

— PRINCE MEGUMI GROWS FOND OF THE NEW KITCHEN MAID ( ah, young love ! )

— ITADORI, THE BLACKSMITH'S SON VIES FOR THE PRINCESS' AFFECTIONS ( how cute ! )

[mirasorastone]

@kyri45 I just wanna say I love this au with all my heart!

[lynx-doodles-indie-games]

fluffy boy!!

[one-time-i-dreamt]

MCR opened for the Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour and my Swiftie roommate got REALLY into MCR but in like a boy band way.

I woke up shaking.

[brainfreeze27]

id below cut

[image ID: Drawing of shirtless Pete Wentz on the floor of a mall surrounded by Christmas decorations, saying "Please, it's Christmas!" The next image shows Patrick Stump looking angry, about to swing a comically large candy cane down on Pete, saying "It's December 10th!" end id]

[turbo-tsundere]

Content warning for gore, blood, burns & body horror.

A king with no crown and a holy fool.

(The element of venom/poison, stabbing/puncture wounds and destruction of a whole body is present in both of their deaths. Kokichi's pristine white clothes also end up being shoved down the toilet, and the poison made it difficult for him to breathe, so there's plausible callback to Miu also. Karma at its finest?)

If I could be the devil, you could be the sinner.

(Don't mind them, they're just spilling their guts)

(...)

(Concepts for scenes from a Gonta-centric survival horror game I'll never make. But it was fun to daydream about - maybe one day I'll finish other sketches and doodles relating to it into a more presentable state. The Cat Lady OST was playing on constant repeat while I drew this - Lily of the Valley, Don't Follow the Light, String, Plainwalker, Early Winter, Storytelling, Susan's Blue Sheep (alone again) - those in particular are now stuck in my brain when I look at those drawings, and what I imagine the "game's" mood to be like, at least the opening segment.)

(I felt both heartbroken and like a monster when drawing this one... But I wanted to draw something that doesn't conveniently erase nor tuck his mangled, swollen face away from view. Sure... in game it looks goofy. But I think mockingly disfiguring him was the point in all of this, too. And given the venom, the Schmidt pain index, how it rates some wasp species, the fact that those robot wasps could be packed with anything necessary really... it had to be awful. Really, every stage of Gonta's execution was excruciating and enough to kill a person on its own, but due to his strength he likely suffered through them all. I remember begging in my head he was at least spared the flame, that he was already gone by this point... But it's foolish to pretend it definitely was the case.)

I wanted to post something new, but I was either busy, ill, or focused on something else, so another sketchdump with oldies and wips it is. This time strictly 2020-21 stuff, drawn during the first few months after finishing the game; mostly to process the post-game/Ch4 sorrows. All very emotionally raw, very edgy stuff that I felt, to be honest, too shy to show before.

Like with any wip I posted before, I do hope to finish some of them properly one day, even though I don't know when. But that's fine, I've signed up for a very long ride with the bug man. Taking it easy is the priority.

Speaking of long-term projects, maybe there's no need to, but I do want to talk about my Gonta fancomic, so here goes.

It's a bit long, so I will continue under the cut.

(Some panel teasers first! ...Gonta sanity fine.)

I took a few months long break from personal drawings - an *actual* break, not just sitting in front of a screen, tired, stewing in guilt that I'm tired, and that I can't magically muscle through burnout, or headache, or exhaustion.

My brain was stuck in a loop of berating myself for underperforming, not doing well enough, for taking so long on "mere" 27 pages, when in the past I could finish a 90-page webcomic chapter much faster. I wouldn't let myself rest, because I didn't do enough; but I couldn't do enough, because I didn't allow myself to rest. And it's been going on for months and months.

What a stupid, unconstructive thing to do to myself. I was only spiralling down, intimidating and overwhelming myself with work on the one thing I specifically wanted to keep doing out of joy, not ambition and pedantism. So I decided to just say "fuck it" and stop for a while. Like, actually stop, do something else and try to feel unapologetic about it.

So I briefly took up sewing, a creative activity I had no personal stake in, and then I started PVP-ing in DS3 (sorry if I happened to kick your butt in there. Rest assured my butt gets kicked just as much), which did wonders, too, as non-artistic pastime.

And, in the end, it seems it worked.

I finally feel this internal drive to draw again. Sadly, I can't spend all of my free time on the doujin (I might need to open commissions soon), so my pacing will still be glacial... But there was an internal change from "I have to, I have to, I must..." back to "I want to". And this is all that matters.

Still, that makes me think... while technically I don't have deadlines, the comic has taken so much longer than I thought it would - and it will take a while still. Thus, I wonder if I shouldn't change my approach re publishing it.

The initial idea was to post it all at once when it's fully finished, but I debate releasing it one page at a time instead, while it's still work in progress.

Thing is, I don't think it would be good for overall pacing. I don't want to sacrifice it, plus I can't guarantee regular uploads, esp since I don't exactly work on the pages in chronological order (While the first page is done, it was drawn after I finished a few in the middle & at the end; and there are still a few important pages/panels in first half I'm a bit too afraid of touching just yet, wanting to do them justice. This is how I work in general, jumping around rather than sticking to overly strict linear order.)

The compromise would be to post like 3-5 pages per post, making it so each upload covers a specific scene, however, same issue arises - I can't promise regular uploads. In the end it feels like a half-measure. But maybe it's a good idea, despite that impression?

There's a secret option, too - if this takes absurdly long, my plan was to just post the storyboard, after replacing some panels/pages with already finished drawings. The thing is readable as is, and long finished on that front anyway. My personal deadline for that was "right before my current lease ends", but, well… I plan on extending it anyway, and again... it's just a back-up option for when everything else fails. In the end, I just want to finish the comic, and present it how it's meant to be presented, however long it will take.

All those things considered, I'll stick to the original plan for now... and then we shall see. I simply wanted to share where things stand currently, and where they might go.

And that's it! If you've read this far, thank you. See you in the undetermined future.

[royalarchivist]

Sneeg: That was very uncool. 🙄 /j

Fit: God, I'm trying to– I'm- I'm roleplaying, bro! I am roleplaying!

Sneeg: Oh, I'm sorry. Do you want me to be the Egg, or do you have somebody for that?

Fit: [Laughs]

Sneeg: Alright, my bad, I gotta go, my bad. [Laughs]

Fit: Yeah, you're a real comedian. You're a real comedian, my friend. You're a real comedian! 😒

Special thank you to @genevawrenn for letting me edit their clips of this moment!

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Sneeg: That was very uncool. /j

Fit: God, I'm trying to– I'm- I'm roleplaying, bro! I am roleplaying!

Sneeg: Oh, I'm sorry. Do you want me to be the Egg, or do you have somebody for that?

Fit: [Laughs]

Sneeg: Alright, my bad, I gotta go, my bad. [Laughs] I gotta go. Oh wait, hold on–

[Sneeg crafts a sign and writes "fck you" on it]

Fit: [Reads the sign]

Fit: [Slow turns to look at Sneeg]

Sneeg: [Runs away and laughs]

Fit: ...Yeah, you're a real comedian. You're a real comedian! You're a real comedian, my friend. You're a real comedian!

Sneeg: Get away!

Fit: Why are you running? I got no weapons!

Sneeg: Get away from– get away!

Fit: Why are you running? I've got no weapons!

Sneeg: Get those bloody knuckles away from me, bro! I see the calluses! [...] You mad at me 'cause I used the wrong sign color, right?

Fit: Yeah, that's– you're– that's 100% why. It's not canon, dude. It's not canon! How could you not care about the canon?!

Sneeg: I'm not egg-shaped either, my bad.

Fit: IT'S NOT CANON!

Sneeg: I can't fix that–

Fit: The signs need to be white with a brown trim, dude! Ok? And they have to have gears on 'em!

Sneeg: My fault.

Fit: And a mustache!

[tinyowlet]

[perksofbeingpoet]

and how lucky is todd, how lucky to have found a home in other people's hearts.

knox comes in without knocking, two t-shirts thrown over one of his arms like a waiter in a posh restaurant, the seams soft and worn. "you said you like this colour", he smiles, sitting down on todd's bed because it's no big deal, because he's comfortable enough, "and i think we have the same size."

they're sitting over a trig assignment, the tips of their hair brushing as they lean in close over the paper. meeks is frowning, exhaustion and frustration pulling at his eyebrows. "maybe it's- it-", todd starts, but the words clump in his throat and he's not that good at maths anyway. meeks smiles, a reassuring warmth in his eyes like dawn fog in summer. "no, go on."

charlie is laughing, laughing in a very big way because that's the only sort of laughter he's capable of - clutching his sides and doubling over, blindly grabbing at a street lamp for support. "you know", he says finally, wiping his eyes, his words slurred from drunken laughter, "you're way funnier than you give yourself credit for."

cameron drags his shirt over his head, already running, and todd is trying to catch up. warm, peagreen grass tickles his feet as he races down the short stretch of hill, throwing his shirt on top of cameron's which is already crumpled up by the peer. cameron yells "first!" and sputters lake water when todd jumps in after him, laughing, wet-haired.

"c'mon, one more sip." todd shuts his eyes and shakes his head, his exasperated chuckle doing nothing to hide the heat in his cheeks. "this is silly, you don't have to do this." pitts rolls his eyes and waves the spoon like a weapon until todd nods and lets pitts feed him another sip. "if this is the only way we'll get some food into you when you're sick, i'm ready to commit. now come on, there's still half a bowl of soup left."

[machetelanding]

1989

[xcitrix]

Happy 3rd of December, take this crappy sketch I made 🫡

[mx-paisley]

IM COOKIN 😇😇

So like Will Wood and Mad Hatter 's aesthetic combined together are you seeing what im seeing rn