#i'm not a GREAT artist but i was pretty good at certain things (namely horses)

[thebeautifulfantastic]

i really need to find a new hobby that doesn't involve writing or speaking or singing or reading so that i can actually listen to all the podcast episodes i have saved on spotify so i'm considering going back to drawing... but when the fuck will i ever have time for that?

[choochooboss]

Introducing your station master & Magma event host!

Since there's already a lot of passengers visiting this station and I haven't spared much time to get to know my fellow submas fans over Tumbrl yet, an introduction would be in place!

I'm Jun, nice to meet you! *offers a hand for for a shake* I am a devoted submas artist & a monthly Magma event host! I go by ChooChooBoss everywhere (Twitter/Bsky/Twitch/Ko-Fi)!

This will be a long post! I will write a short intro as well which you can just skim through but here is a more in depth view how I got into submas, my other interests and life in general, in case you'd wish to know more about your conductor on this silly train!

How did I get into submas in the first place?

PLA. I met this certain mysterious & cool fellow time traveler and got curious! After the cave scene I went to read his Wiki, found out about Emmet, and... yeah. The emotional impact blasted me right out of a miserable cycle I was going through back then and set my soul on fire!! A month later I set up my first art account on Twitter, and the rest is history. They've become my greatest source of strength and inspiration and I enjoy drawing them every single day!

I love both twins very much! I tend to vibe with Ingo a little more than Emmet, but I draw Emmet more. People say I remind of butler Ingo the most, hehe. I certainly don't mind because I'm a big fan of butlermas!! In fact I got into submas & started playing Pokémon Masters EX in April 2022, a week before butler Ingo banner rolled in, so they truly got a special place in my heart ahah! (pssst draw more butlermas for me pls pls pls-)

However I don't draw warden Ingo as much as I would like to. I still get pretty emotional over his fate ahah, I can't draw him without a single tear! This sweet & kind man leading a good life and being an inspiration to others has been torn from literally everything he had for seemingly no reason apart from his name, clothes and the muscle memory and even those are barely intact. It seems like a miracle he's still standing and breathing after put through everything judging by the wear and tear on his uniform and body. Despite all that he carries a positive attitude, assists everyone in need, and does his best to help people and pokémon understand each other, unconditionally... Oh, my face is wet again...

My other interests besides submas?

Monster Hunter! Zelda! Genshin Impact! Super Mario! Trine! Crash Team Racing! And many many more! My favourite genres are platformers, kart racers, and action games, with a side of rhythm games. I'm a big fan of co-op games! I also watch my sis play JRPGs!

Monster Hunter is the dearest to me out of all. I've been hunting for well over a decade starting from MHFU. The games have charmed me with their incredibly satisfying combat system, world building, creature design, great attention to detail, character customisation and the games being nearly fully co-op!!

Other things I do:

Pokémon is practically the only turn-based game I enjoy, mainly because of the characters and collection aspect. However!! I adore Pokémon Colosseum (the first pkmn game I ever played!) and it's double battle focus, so The Indigo Disc has been a delight after the long starvation for double battles, coming up with different combinations makes the battles much more fun to me!!... I sound like Emmet here do I ahahah! We also share the fact we are both left-handed!

Shuffle dancing, daily pull-ups, and expanding my ever growing VGM collection! I also enjoy traveling and taking photos to keep as a diary! I've played piano in a music school for 9 years, and I can also play kalimba. I've done casual boxing, gymnastics, horse riding and medieval swordfighting. I used to read comics/manga and watch movies and anime but nowadays I barely do that, I just rather use that time for drawing instead of just sitting and watching, unless I have company!

I share the apartment with my anxious brother and our two sweet female cats, Laku (11, stubborn and cuddly) and Kalevi (21, demanding and full of love) in a city center. My parents are both entrepreneurs and run a farm in the countryside & I have 4 siblings with me as the middle kid!

Where can you meet me?

I am a game artist by profession, with 4 yrs of studies and roughly 7 years of EXP in the field doing game art, UI design, character/prop design, in mobile games as well as PC titles, 2D and 3D. At the moment I am looking for work; I keep up the motivation and learn new skills by running my art accounts while looking for new opportunities.

I hail from the land of darkness, snow, salmiakki, metalheads and renownly reserved people, Finland! (UTC+2)

Despite having my roots here I am pretty much the opposite of a typical Finn in almost every sense ahah! I'm a small guy who's not afraid talking to strangers and laughs a lot. And I dislike coffee for the contrary, it's very popular amongst finns.

With the inspiration from submas I've finally stepped into the world of cosplay so you can usually meet this small and excitable Ingo in the biggest local conventions, Desucon and Tracon! Come say hi!

About my social battery:

I'm both social and socially anxious ahah! I love making new friends and talking to all sorts of people and writing comments, and gathering together with my mutuals to do cool stuff together! However my social battery is very small... I often struggle with my AD(H)D and anxiety issues, so my replies can be extremely slow. I'm easily overwhelmed when life gets busy and I deal with it by withdrawing to minimise the the stimuli and then sorting my stuff out one by one. This is a frustrating shortcoming, but I'm working hard to find a balance I can maintain without getting exhausted. Please be patient with me! If you don't hear from me in a while, please don't take it personally! In fact, it makes me really happy if you contact me, for any purpose!

Which pronouns do I go with?

I go by they/them! I am also aroace, so if I appear to show any sort of romantic interest, it's definitely not that. I love meeting new people and am quite interested in people in general so I'm excited to get to know you better, but the thing is... I have been confusing people on several occassions for saying things that could be taken as flirting. I am terribly sorry for that, that's just the way I show how I care!

I don't really identify myself by any specific gender either, but rather by my roles or interests (Magma host, submas fan, game artist etc.). Submas encouraged me to enjoy dressing formally even if I'm just sitting at home, because I love formal clothing in general and wearing them makes me feel confident and stand taller! I usually wear collar shirts and black or white slacks.

More about my AD(H)D:

I don't have an official diagnosis but deal with the same problems as AD(H)D people do; poor work memory, dissociation, hyperfocus (drawing and people), sleep deprivation, impulsiveness (juggling too many things and going with the wind), getting sensory/information overloads, and feeling like I don't fit in. I figured it out after I finished school & lost my job for that I am unable to handle big tasks without anyone giving me directions. It has taken a while but I've figured out things that help me manage my daily life as well as have a medication that mainly boosts my capability to get things started which is another great struggle ahah.

How do I manage to keep myself on track?

I use a Pomodoro timer to keep up a good flow and remember to take breaks! This is what I use the most:

I should set it up on my tablet as well. I think it's really cool to see how many hours I have actually put into drawing! Last year I clocked in well over 3k hours, ahaha!

How to catch me?

Right now I have great difficulty managing replies, but usually you can reach me by DMs! I check Discord and Twitter the most often! However I must ask you to respect my current DNI status. It means I am really overwhelmed so I wish nobody comes asking for my attention until it has been lifted, unless it's really necessary. I really love talking to you all but I also have to accept and deal with my own limits strictly like this or it won't work out.

What am I working on at the moment?

Besides the holiday set I have several short comics under works as well as one big comic (100+ pages!). That one is my personal greatest goal! I started working on it in June 2022 and I have currently 40+ pages sketched and 60+ thumbnailed.

I was afraid of starting any comic projects before submas, but the sheer excitement over them carried me over that personal wall ahah!

The story's beginning and end are looking good and somewhat functional but there's still a lot to work to do and holes to fill in the middle before I dare to start fleshing out the pages. I have little experience in writing or comic making so I hope you forgive if some things don't make sense or the dialogue is a little on the nose so to say ahah!

The story will be packed with action with the overall tone being on the darker side, but it sure won't be lacking in humor! The project's main goal is to make it a celebration of all things submas & to prove to myself I can handle a big scale project despite my shortcomings!

This train has reached the terminal!

Thank you for riding my silly submas train!! I adore reading all your tags and comments! They brighten up my day & fuel my passion even more!! I hope to bring many more fun things for you to look forward to!! See you again soon!

ALL ABOARD!!

[toonytoodles]

Random fun fact time! Ft. OCs! (Repost because I added more/ edited a lot of stuff)

Avery -

- Sneezes like a kitten, and most of the time she accidentally uses her fire breathe when she sneezes, so watch out

- Sleeps on a rock

- Is made uncomfortable by actual dragons, it's just... too weird for her...

- Has a strange and inexplicable extreme fear of eels

- Reacts to fear by singing/humming/speaking very loudly, and also by running and screaming (basically, how markilpler acts when playing horror games? yeah that)

- At least once a week her dad has to help her brush through her hair, he says they should get it cut but she absolutely refuses

- Owns a few pairs of gloves- most of which look nearly identical. Some are for different days, some pairs are for bedtime, and some are for special occasions, but she also has some different types and styles of gloves for different events

- Loves the holidays, dislikes the weather that comes with it

- Absolutely hates people touching/messing with her tail, even if it's by accident she gets kinda mad. That's hers- don't touch it. (Emma's the only exception to this simply because it can't be avoided- although Emma does try to touch it as little as possible)

- Slightly allergic to pollen

- She has a clicking-like purr

- If you scratch under her chin she'll purr and relax, but if scratch a certain spot on her neck she'll sleepily fall over

- Adopted as an egg and raised by her human father and fairy mother

- Has a Scottish accent 

- Works as a Glazier (glass blower) and makes potion bottles, also helps with making the potions, and occasionally costumer service and boring stuff like stocking/inventory

Emma -

- Plays with hoodie strings and/or hair when upset or nervous (it happens often, her hoodie strings are sorta worn out)

- She's a big fan of animals! Especially bears, puppies, and unicorns, she thinks they're adorable! When she was younger she used to like dragons quite a bit too

- She's a protective friend and big sister, and she's a little over protective over people she cares about

- Tends to read into things; if your tone or demeanor is slightly different she begins worrying that something's wrong or that she did something. She also tends to believe that no one actually wants to be her friend or wants to be nice to her, but that they're only being nice because they're afraid of her or pity her.

- LOVES HUGS!!! Absolutely loves them, hugging other giants, hugging people smaller than her, getting hugs, giving hugs, she loves hugs

- Once accidentally ate a fake candy cane decoration, off someone's front lawn, because she thought it was real gigantic candy, left out for giants (she was like four, so it made sense to her then, but she still gets made fun for it a bit by her family)

- Loves snow and winter

- Her favorite color is probably blue

- Is surprisingly good at sneaking up on people, for someone 30ft tall she's quiter than most borrowers

- Is the second oldest of five kids, her older brother Rory is 23, her younger brother Richard is 15, and her youngest sisters Aroura and Tiana are 6 and 8, and they're all pretty close

- Her dad is a size shifter, and so are Richard and Tiana, the rest of the family are giants

- She's ambidextrous

- Very cautious of her surroundings

- Hates surprises/being scared

- Bi-romantic and ace

Sofia -

- Can write without looking at what she's doing

- Only wears slip on shoes or shoes with Velcro/zippers, she never learned how to tie them, she couldn't figure out what to do with her head or look at what she was doing

- She's an artist! She likes to paint!

- Has a hard time saying "no," so when she says it, she means it

- Hates surprises and people sneaking up on her

- Has a pet python named Albert

- Probably the only person on the planet who has worse anxiety than Emma

- Don't call her "Soph" or "Sophie," and she gets mildly annoyed when her name is misspelled

- Typically uses right arm to carry head and left hand for everything else

- Has a weird sense of humor

- Has a million stuffed animals, has like 20 on her bed, but Rupert the blue bunny is her favorite

- She has an enchanted scarf that allows her to wear her head when needed, she doesn't usually use it because she's not used to it & it gives her anxiety (she's scared of the scarf falling off/being taken off unexpectedly) but she has it and uses it on occasion, mostly at home

- She doesn't let anyone else hold her head, it seriously freaks her out, her dad is the only exception, but Avery held her once for a group photo (her body took the picture)

-She loves singing and has a soft beautiful voice but is too shy to sing around anyone 🎶

- She was bullied when she was younger and doesn't like to talk about it, she already gets emotional easily and those memories hurt

- She loves Avery's jokes and has a bit of a weird sense of humor

- She's adopted, she lives with her human father (another fun fact, her dad is one of Avery's parents best friends!)

- Unlike Avery, she wasn't adopted as a baby, she was about 6-7ish when she was adopted

- Loves vegetables

- Gets embarrassed easily

- Doesn't go out of her comfort zone, she only does stuff when Avery basically forces her to

- She really likes Emma, but is also sorta scared of her sometimes, she's just scared of people and being looked at, so she can be a little overwhelming without meaning to be, it's nothing personal and she knows Emma wouldn't hurt a fly, she's just scared of people and sometimes Emma is a lot of person

- Doesn't want Emma to hold her (Emma respects it, although sometimes they work it out to where Emma can give her a gentle hug)

-Her favorite season is fall

-She loves rabbits and frogs, but won't admit she loves horses (there's a stereotype that all dullahans love horses, she won't give in)

-Hates confrontation

-Loves vanilla cake

-Hates strangers and people she's not comfortable around being anywhere near her

- Pansexual

- Sorta has a voice claim, but it's weird and sorta difficult to explain?

Andie -

- Has a French accent (picked it up from dad)

- One of my only OCs to have a voice claim

- Plays the flute

- Mean, selfish, and self centered, but somehow also a good person

- Sings sentences sometimes

- Scared of turtles

- Works as a bard/waitress at the family tavern

- Unfortunately she is heterosexual

Andy -

- Somehow didn't pick up their fathers accent

- One of my only OCs to have a voice claim

- Plates the lute

- Genuine and kind hearted, but also a bumbling moron

- Dreams of being a song writer, wants to be a professional musician

- Works as a bard/waiter at the family tavern

- Bi, but prefers women

Clementine -

- A book worm

- Likes to sing

- Practices magic, knows a few interesting spells

- Sometimes her and Avery fight over magic usage vs. potion usage (they know it's a dumb fight, but they don't care, at this point it's a joke)

- She's a white tailed deer

- She has great hearing, and is usually very aware of her surroundings

- She wants to be a magic professor as an adult

- Demisexual, pan, but prefers men

Pond-

- Elementals don't really have gender, she chooses to present as female and use female pronouns

- Can't "see," but rather senses vibrations, since she's made out of water she doesn't have eyes, but based on other senses she can get around just fine

- She can't smell either

- Doesn't care for romance

- Has 4 pet fish she keeps with her, named Karl, Frank, Phillip, and Fish

- She has a baby sister, Brook

- She's odd and can be off putting unless you know her pretty well, then her weirdness is sort of endearing

- She can tell her friends apart by the way they walk and their gestures, and of course their voices, but really has no idea what any of them look like, she knows their species and the normal traits of those species, but not much outside that

- She doesn't eat or drink

- Smart, but sorta reckless

- Sorta hard to hug :( but the others still try

Sapphire -

- Has minimal size shifting abilities, but prefers to be her true size, she loves sitting on her husband's shoulders or in his pockets (She's about 5ft in her bigger form)

- Used to be an adventurer, at one point she was a pirate

- Met her husband on one of her adventures

- Has a Scottish accent

- She has a sword her size (no it's not a toothpick or a toy or anything, she has an actual tiny sword) 🗡

- Makes potions for the shop and deals with customers

- Grew up outside of Tradeskeep, her and Kal retired from their adventuring career and settled down there

Kalvin -

- Used to be an adventurer/ mercenary

- Huge, ripped, has all kinds of scars, but his 4" tall wife is scarier than he his, he's basically a teddy bear

- Makes potions, does restocking, inventory, and doesn't as much anymore, but makes potion bottles

- Has scars/tattoos from various adventures

- Used to have dragon scale armor, he once saved a village from a dragon, but has sold it and no longer tells the story, he now claims it was a bear

- He's a great dad ❤

- Loves ale & meat, but not as much as his girls

- I cannot overstate how much he loves his family, he LOVES his wife and daughter, like a LOT, it pretty much defines who he is, he's a family man

- Met his wife while on a quest

- He used to be a nomad while adventuring and getting paid for jobs, he'd wander from town to town, until he settled at Tradeskeep and put up a shop

Ok so i know that's a lot, but it's there for anyone who's interested in all that ❤ I have other facts too, so if you wanna know any more just look around on my blog or send an ask, Q&A for OCs are open, and I'm open to art/writing requests/ideas! ❤

[meshugana1]

I have a married friend who I paint with weekly. She's short, and usually a bit timid unless she's talking about animals, which she loves. Recently she's been painting this pig for a protest piece, and I think she's getting a bit obsessed. She started bringing in snacks, and eating while she paints, which she never used to do. She's been snorting while she laughs, and I've noticed that she's a bit slower and more flirty. I'm worried that soon I won't have a friend, just a fat, dumb, horny pig.

   It was unnerving to see Catherine like this now. I remember when we first met. She was so doe-like in her mannerisms. Even watching her just stand and listen to our painting instructor was like seeing a nymph flit about. She rarely spoke but was all the same warm and the most pleasant company. I remember once I brought up my old family farm, I think that was the first time I ever heard her speak, but she perked up and flung one question after another about the animals I grew up with. She felt deeply for pretty much everything alive. When I mentioned slaughtering cows and chickens, she flinched but said nothing. I made a point not to talk about that in the future and we became easy friends.

   I was in a surrealist phase of my art when we met. It just felt so energizing to be able to take a thing and filter it through my crazy imagination and just put it on a canvas. Catherine was more about realism. She painted the most lovely landscapes I had seen since that disastrous year I spent backpacking in Europe. She even went so far as to include downright microscopic detail in her work, it seemed like she painted each individual blade of grass. But the ones that got the most attention from her were the animals she included. Her horses felt like you could ride them at any moment, anti felt like the birds she created would fly away if you turned your back on them for even a moment. Her work was truly inspiring, I was always focused on the big picture but she was the perfect example of the little picture. We even began hanging out outside our art classes. I would be a little embarrassed to admit how many wine bottles the two of us drank together. Even her husband and I got along well enough. His name was Zeus, can you believe that?

   He was a pretty good guy. Never made a pass at me, not that I’m great at recognizing when people are flirting. I’m still single at twenty-nine and have been for about seven years now. I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t find him attractive. He was six feet of bearded, well filled out, lumberjack looking man. Who wouldn’t? But it was sweet how devoted he was to her. He wasn’t an artist like us, but he made a lot of money as a woodworker. He had his own shop and he always came home to her smelling like sawdust. He always came during our girls night and pulled her chin up from behind and kissed her. I was really jealous. He was charming, funny, and number one in my book, handsome. He mentioned to me once that he had been married before but it ended ugly. Who would pass on this guy?

   But their loss was Catherine’s gain I suppose. After our classes ended we started using open studio night at a local community college as our girls night. But then things started changing when he started painting that pig. She was so excited when she first brought in her paints. “It’s incredible Franny! I had the most energetic dream I can remember!” she said.“What happened?” I said.“I was in bed, then suddenly I bolted upright and saw it. A pig.”“What’s so special about that? I dreamt that my head turned into a cow udder once.”“And remember the painting you made from that? It was inspired. And now I think I’m having the same thing happen to me.”“What was so special about it?”“I can’t describe it with words. It was just a pig, squatting in a pile of filthy mud. But it just had this nobility. This dignified beauty…you’ll understand when I finish it. Everything I’m saying will make perfect sense.”

   It was unnerving seeing her like this. She was totally possessed by this painting. After about a month of painting the most beautiful background, I had ever seen her make she stalled. Our brief sessions at the studio stopped being enough. She started going in early and staying late. It was just impossible for her to start painting the pig itself. She had the barn in the background, the pen, the mud. All of it spoke to her vision. It was obviously missing its centerpiece but it was quality none the less. I came in one evening to find her pacing back and forth, three empty plastic soda bottles littered the ground and she was taking bites out of a candy bar. “Catherine? Are you ok?”“No, I don’t see it anymore. I could see it so clearly but now I just don’t have it!”“Maybe you should take a break from this thing. I’ve never seen you drink anything that wasn’t made with ground up grass, the candy bar is new too.”“I have to eat something, I’m so slow recently, so tired. I can’t think straight.”“Like I said Cath, just take a break. It’ll be there later, in the meantime, you can try to get into the mindset of your little piggy.” Catherine stopped pacing just then. Her eyes were widened with understanding. “Franny you’re a genius! Snort!” she said. She leaped up to me with her short legs and planted a kiss on my lips. I had never had a gay bone in my body and I didn’t think she did either, but it was hard to argue as her tongue explored my mouth. We separated and she grabbed her painting with renewed energy and ran from the studio with a purpose I couldn’t divine.

   She stopped coming regularly after that. It was barely once a week that I saw her and each time I did I was more and more concerned. There was never a point when she didn’t have food in her mouth, and more still in her hand. Whenever she laughed she chortled at best and snorted at worst. Her manners took a serious dive, she openly scratched her ass and crotch in public. It was at the mall together for the first time that I ever heard her fart. We were walking and she actually stopped me. “Oh, wait. Listen to this,” she said. Then she squatted down and ripped the loudest fart I had ever heard. I swear it echoed through the entire building. It seemed like the whole mall stopped to hear Catherine snort and chortle at the volume she was able to reach. “I’ve probably got about four more of those in the tank before I’m empty,” she said as she rubbed her belly. It had begun to strain her clothing lately, and not only that but a muffin top peaked from the top of her pants. I can’t even tell you how many pants she tore in front of me. And I was forced to watch as she flirted with countless men as we hurried out of the mall, my protests didn’t seem to deter her at all.

   A while later Zeus gave me a call. “Listen, this might sound weird but do you know if anything strange has been happening to Catherine lately?” he said.“Yes, you can’t tell me you haven’t noticed. She’s eating tons of junk food, farting constantly, gaining weight and I hate to be the one to tell you, but she just won’t stop being flirty with everyone. I’m so sorry Zeus.”“No, no. I know all about that stuff. Was there anything weird before that though?”“Before? No, it just kinda happened after her weird dream.”“Dream?! What kind of dream?”“She had a vision of a pig or something, then got to work on painting it,” I said. Zeus used words I had never heard out of him before, and none of them were English. “Sorry Franny, Catherine and I might need to take a vacation away from all this, get her mind right,” he said. He hung up immediately. Not a second later my doorbell rang and I heard a familiar snorting chuckle, “Franny! Snort, you gotta see this. Oink, it’s so cool!”

   When I opened the door I gasped. My eyes watered from the smell, had she not bathed at all? But the thing that made me refuse to close my eyes was Catherine’s huge, upturned snout. “You like it? I got it done today. You were so right Franny, I just had to get into the mindset of the pig, now I totally understand!”“Catherine how could you do this? What would Zeus think?”“Oh! Do you know where he is? I am in such a rutting mood! I better go sniff him out, snort, see ya later. Feel free to finish that dumb old drawing of mine, oink, I don’t need it anymore. Bye bye!” Catherine said as she waddled away in her straining skinny jeans.

   I called Zeus several times. He said that it was some kinda stress that just got to her. He brought her up to a farm someone in his family owned to help her relax. He said she was getting better every day, but she had a ways to go. That wasn’t much unexpected but I didn’t expect to hear him say, quietly under his breath, “Damn Hera, why do you always do this?” I don’t know exactly what he meant by that. But I thought it best not to dwell. Catherine would pull out of this, I was certain of it, and when she did I wanted her to see her masterpiece finished. It was kinda odd though. As I looked at the partially painted pig I started to feel really hungry, and to my shame, I let out a louder than normal toot.

The End. Hope Y’all liked it!