#in the true drawfee way

[teethbomb]

Made this while I was watching drawtectives. Hag yuri upon you

[scrolpencer]

babetectives part 2 - women edition ✨

(over here is part 1)

[natjennie]

taking my new sleep med everyone wish me luck.

[soup-child]

I haven't rewatched drawga in a hot minute but for some reason ryjinah's when it's bones it can be both has entered my lexicon

[ottororin]

rewatching my own videos to remind myself why i make them in the first place~!

(long post)

so it's 0:32, and i've been feeling rather burnt out and unhappy lately, so i'm gonna watch some of my own youtube videos and (in no particular order) tell you what i like and like about them :)

1. ONE COLOR, ONE SONG DRAWING CHALLENGE

i usually avoid watching this one because it embarrasses me so hard that the audio issue in this video had SUCH an easy fix, and yet i didn't bother to check it until my mom pointed it out like ...several months later. but i watched it again tonight and realized just how fucking funny i was in this. usually, my videos are 40% script 60% improv (not on purpose, but sometimes that's just how the videos turn out), but with this video, the improvised parts were so intentional and hit just right. from the intro all the way through the calls-to-action portion of the video (which i normally hate doing)

so yeah, minus the audio issue, i can appreciate that this is probably--in my opinion--one of my better videos!

the drawing is super cute, probably one of my prettiest, the story is adorable and relatable (if not cliche), and i put a surprising amount of animation into this video too!

2. Styling ATARASHII GAKKO! like K-pop Groups | Suzuka and Kanon

why do i sound so smart in this video??? fshasjfk like. it's good, it's well-structured, well-worded, crispily-delivered, well-edited. the pacing felt really nice. my only critique would be that maybe i seem to be lacking that "Dumb Bitch Charisma" that i usually bring to the table. you can tell— or at least I can tell— that i'm doing a mina le/safiya nygaard impression in this video, and it's really throwing me off ajsmmemdw

i barely recognize myself in this facecam era, mostly because it needs so much planning, and maybe i'm not As Natural on camera...either that or my face isn't as expressive as my voice. unsure.

3. Drawing myself into my favorite shows!!

this video is so cringe, but there's a reason why this was my "homepage" video for so long. it just felt like the best video to introduce people to me: it's so sincere, it's so true to my humor, and the video concept in itself just strikes the balance between "BIG IPs" that the general public should be familiar with, and ME. like, what to expect from my videos going forward:

cold open

the accidental in-universe admission that i don't post as regularly as i would like to

the musical intro

the on-the-spot, but intricate storytelling

the animation

the giggle in my voice

i sound really happy in this video, which i don't actually remember being--this happy in real life at the time of recording.

making this video, was when i first started working for drawfee -- so i got a lot of new viewers on this, if i remember right... for that reason, it holds a lot of memories for me.

[allthecastlesonclouds]

tell me about drawtectives. what is this little show.

oooooh my god oh my god. they are my guys. so.

drawtectives itself is a youtube series created by julia lepetit on Drawfee. it's an rpg mystery show– s1 is a murder mystery, s2 is just a mystery– that doubles as an art challenges show. she draws all of the backgrounds and npcs and most of the assets (the 'cutscenes', you could call them) and then the team gets together, knowing absolutely nothing besides what julia's asked them to prepare, and does some funky improv to create a very funky storyline.

there are 3 players and one dm; the pcs are rosé, york, and grendan/grenda/grandma/gma, and the Big NPCs are Jancy True (s1/s2) and Eugene Finch (s2) and they're, in their own words, a found family, so. beloved. their backup plan if all their jobs fail is to move out east and open a bookstore. jancy and eugene have fully accepted their titles as mom/ancestral ghost and son despite meeting each other likely once before the drawtectives dragged them together. overall though if i had to summarize, it's a bunch of friends getting together, making a bunch of puns, appreciating julia's art, and laughing together. the vibes are 10/10 so loving. in writing the transcripts i've written (Karina laughs) (Nathan laughs) (All laugh) So Many Times it's just fun.

so there's three pcs. first one we meet is gyorik 'york' rogdul, who's a half-orc come to the city to learn about his mother's culture. he is the character we have by far the most lore for– if I compiled all the lore I had about the Northern Tribes and Wild Trains, I think the document would be multiple pages. he's also illiterate, which was an interesting decision for the english major of the group to make (in other words, York Will Not Be Illiterate For Season Three bc Y'all Cannot Read) and morally gray if you think about it too hard (he killed his own brother) but yknow he's hot so it's okay. they're all hot any crimes committed are okay. he's also aroace (confirmed by the player, which is!! vibes!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TELLING ME @axolotllee!)

rosé is the Human Rogue and the youngest of the party; her main trait in s1 was Millennial and she Dealt with that. she, in contrast with York, has so little lore we are scraping the barrel. she was a thief, then left everything about that life behind and changed her name to rosé when she went to work for jancy. she lied on her resumé. she knows how to sew; she's sewn Pockets of Holding on most of her clothing. she bonded with a stray cat that lived outside her last apartment. she's three credits short of graduating college. she's, in addition to being a drawtective, jancy's intern, and cried when jancy got her a cupcake. she won't tell her best friends when her birthday is or where she goes to school or what her last name is. that's all we know about her and i love her and she could probably kill someone as she has multiple knives on her person and does not use them. she's bright and funny and can be pretty dark but really does find the humor in it which is. wonderful.

so grendan highforge starts out as The Snobby Rich Boy which. already love the trope something Always Happens To Them if they're a pc. then through s1 they make an offhand comment about a character (faucon, whose name is pronounced 'falco') and how if her name was pronounced that way it'd be grenda. faucon asks how they feel about it. they are caught very off-guard by that and then ask to be called it for the next hour or so. then the next witness calls him gma, and then grandma, and then. yeah she realizes she's genderfluid. and he uses any pronouns and has a full beard and also wears a romper and loves dogs and the player is the Most Experienced TTRPG-er so through maybe using resources a bittt grandma is the most observant character of all of them. he's also a dog walker and a lightweight and does canonically have druidic magic though that was Not Touched On Much and showed up to their first day on the job slightly stoned (they did stop doing that though.) she carries around a box to make the height difference (york is 7'. grendan is 4'. rosé is 6'. you can see the formatting issue) slightly less difficult. she doesn't know how rhinos reproduce but has had a fascination with them since a police chief said one might've committed a crime. i think they could kill someone by talking too much but they don't actually have the strength or dex to do Jack Shit.

and jancy true is the head pi (a great many of the characters are puns and i love it so much) and is there to make sure things get done and clues don't get missed. she has a cochlear implant and uses a cane and solved s1 just by Reading The Paper and hearsay. she solved about half of s2 before Someone Stopped Her. she says hello children to the drawtectives and it is such a fond thing. eugene is. a guy who i love. julia started the show thinking he would be some mysterious character to join them and then made the wonderful improv decision– avoiding having to do npc-npc conversation– of saying 'yeah eugene is spinning a camera on its stand' and rosé just says so gleefully. 'guys. i think he's stupid.' and he became their son. his character is a lot of The Plot of s2 so i don't want to get into it too much but. jancy and eugene my beloved.

they're just. such a family. to quote nathan (grenda's Player) from the s2 talkback: "That's one of my favorite things about this show, is we came in with these vague ideas for characters, and just playing them with each other, they became friends and became better people as a result of knowing each other and solving mysteries. ... Like, we all kind of independently made our characters people that either were distant from their families or, you know, just had tenuous connections to other stuff, and so these are, like, the realest connections they have in their lives."

and then karina (rosé) about 10 seconds later: "Yeah, we love a found family where they bond over just being the worst."

god. them. they're chaotic and loud and feel very real to me. they have excitement and are pretty bad at social cues but they love each other and want to die together because they would hate too much to be separated. i could articulate this better but it's one in the morning and they mean a great deal to me.

[the-writer-nerd-ro]

From the second I heard about You Awaken In A Strange Place, created by Jacob and debuted on Drawfee Extra, I knew I wanted to do a game night fic.

Jacob has the instructions for this game at pay what you want prices, so I recommend not trying to learn how to play from my little (extremely long) fic.

Shout out to @feeling--pink and @thestrangecarrotcake and my real life partner for providing suggestions to make this a little bit more improvised. I couldn't have done this without y'all.

You Awaken In A Strange Place

“It’s called You Awaken In A Strange Place, a totally improvised TTRPG. All you need is a game master, a few players, some paper, and some six-sided dice.” Marian gestured at the game of Yahtzee, which they’d raided for the game.

“How does it work?” Morgan asked, the most excited to roleplay. She ran a home game with her roommates and had been trying to get The Candy Bowl to play D&D with her for years, so it was surprising that her brother had been the one to bring a TTRPG to the table.

“There are five of us, so not everyone is going to get to pick a category, but everyone go ahead and roll two dice, add up the numbers, and tell me.”

“Eleven,” Morgan said.

“Four,” Hunter said.

“Seven,” Maddox said, smug that she’d beaten Hunter.

“Snake eyes,” Sara said with glee, not caring that she got last place.

“Okay, Morgan, pick a genre, write it down so you guys don’t influence each other, Maddox you’ll pick a location, and Hunter gets to pick a random adjective.”

Once everyone had written it down he collected the slips of paper.

“Okay, our game will be a Rusty Western, set in a town where it’s always winter. This is actually incredibly cohesive.”

“Western?” Maddox was surprised, “I didn’t know you liked Westerns.”

“I took a class on Western short fiction in college, it’s a fun genre.”

“Huh. Neat.”

“Okay, now, in the same order as your first rolls, everyone will say one true thing about the world. Anything you say is true and we will adapt to it, once we start playing you can make up new things about the world, but you’ll have to roll to see if it’s true or if it’s true in a way that’s bad for you.”

“Ooh, fun,” Sara’s eyes gleamed. Nothing was more fun than negative consequences in a low stakes game.

“Morgan, you’re first.”

“Right, since it’s always winter and it’s a western, instead of gun fights people have figure skating duels.”

Marian grinned and wrote that down.

“Maddox?”

“Uhhhh… This is hard.”

“It can be anything at all, big or small,” Marian encouraged.

“Instead of livestock like cows and horses, people have domesticated reindeer and polar bears,” Maddox said after a minute.

“Hell yeah,” Hunter said, surprised by her own excitement.

“Alright, Hunter, what do you think? And Sara, I’ll let you add two things because you didn’t get to pick any of the categories.”

Sara flashed a thumbs up.

“Okay, there’s a nearby town where it’s always summer and we hate those guys.”

“That’s a good one. Sara?”

“Okay, my two ideas are, some people in town are robots and this town is really invested in Christmas.”

“That’s a good way to bring in our adjective,” Marian said appreciatively.

“Okay, now everyone roll again and we’ll see who gets to create their character first.”

“Eleven,” Maddox said, gloating.

“Six,” Sara said.

Morgan held up four fingers.

“I got a twelve,” Hunter said, bursting Maddox’s bubble.

“Alright, Hunter goes first. You have to come up with your character and four skills. Everyone, including me, will come up with four skills and those will be the only skills we can roll on for the whole session. One skill you’ll be great at and get a + 2, another you’ll get a +1, then the next two you’re bad at and you’ll get a -1 and -2 respectively.” Marian took a deep breath.

“Is that all?” Hunter teased.

“If you would prefer, I can let Maddox go first.”

“No, I’m ready, give me a second.” Hunter grabbed her pad of paper and began to doodle.

“Okay, his name is Frost McClane, he’s an outlaw, and he rides a polar bear.”

“What’s the polar bear’s name?” Sara asked.

“Hmm… Noel.”

“Yayyyyy!” Sara was very pleased.

“Skills?” Marian asked, wanting to make sure the ball kept rolling.

“Okay, +2 to figure skating, +1 to mechanics, -1 to stealing, and -2 to singing.”

“Why’s he an outlaw if he’s bad at stealing?” Maddox asked.

“Because it’s funny.”

Sara peered over at Hunter’s sketchpad.

“Oh, you’re drawing him? That’s so cute! Can you put a cowboy hat on Noel?”

“Nobody can draw a cowboy hat, Sara, but I’ll try.”

“Alright, Maddox, your turn.”

“Okay, my character’s name is Nick North, he hates Christmas, he rides a reindeer, and he’s a bounty hunter. The reindeer’s name is Killer. +2 to riding, +1 to figure skating-”

“You have to pick a different skill from Hunter,” Marian interrupted.

“How are we supposed to duel if I don’t have figure skating as a skill?”

“You would just roll flat, with nothing added or subtracted.”

“Did you just invent this guy to duel me?” Hunter asked.

“Duh. Okay, +1 to lassoing, -1 to forgiveness and -2 to Christmas cheer.”

“He sounds charming,” Hunter snarked.

“I like him,” Morgan said, having a bit of a big brain moment.

“Okay, great start, Sara, your turn.”

“Okay, I’m playing a robot who works at the saloon, they’re kind of dilapidated but they’re trying their best. Morgan, maybe you can help me come up with a name. For skills, I think +2 to bartending, +1 to flirting, -1 to business management, and -2 to conflict resolution.”

Marian snorted, clearly delighted by how this character creation was going.

“Alright, Morgan, bring us home.”

“I’m playing Santa Claus, +2 to omniscience, +1 flying, -1 to square dancing, -2 to holding grudges.”

“So Nick can’t forgive and Santa can’t hold grudges. And anybody can square dance,” Sara said excitedly, glad that dancing was on the table.

“Has anyone here actually square danced?” Hunter asked.

“I have,” Sara said, “I bet my robot has. Does anyone have a name suggestion?”

“Oh, yeah, sorry, I was thinking about Santa skills. You should be named after a drink since you’re a bartender. How about Screwdriver?”

Sara nodded thoughtfully. “First name Screw, last name Driver.”

Hunter couldn’t hold back a laugh at that.

“Alright, I’m going to add four skills everyone can roll flat on. Let’s add animal handling, kissing, we’ll add a general perception check and…” Marian hummed, deciding whether or not to add an actual method of violence to the game or leaving it up to figure skating. “Snowball throwing.”

“Sounds great,” Morgan said.

“I’m not kissing anybody,” Maddox said.

“You don’t have to. Okay! Five minute break so I can come up with a plot, you can talk amongst yourselves or get more snacks or whatever, I’ll be in my bedroom.”

Maddox got up to get more charcuterie and Hunter kept working on her drawing.

“Where’s Petunia?” Maddox asked from the kitchen.

“She said she had to work, they got a big order or something?” Hunter said.

“They’re doing the flowers for a quinceañera,” Sara said.

“Oh, cool.”

“Are you guys excited for your trip?” Morgan asked.

“Oh, yeah, it’s going to be so fun,” Sara said with a grin.

“I can’t believe you’re driving that whole way,” Maddox commented.

“It’s going to be so fun,” Sara said again.

“You’ll have to send us pictures,” Morgan said.

“Have you seen the “I eat at every Margaritaville in the country” video?” Sara asked.

Maddox scrunched up her face, “That sounds vaguely familiar. Is it by the guys who did the Rainforest Cafe one?”

“Yeah! Hunter said we couldn’t stop at one.”

“Buzzkill,” Maddox said.

“No, I said we couldn’t stop at one and stop at the Rainforest Cafe.”

“So we chose Rainforest Cafe.”

“Good choice. Get me something with Tracy the Tree’s creepy face on it,” Maddox requested.

“No promises,” Hunter said, stealing a piece of cheese off of Maddox’s plate.

“We’ll get souvenirs for everyone,” Sara said.

Hunter was concerned about who was included in everyone, since they were on a budget.

“I just want a seashell,” Morgan requested.

“We’re going to Lake Tahoe,” Hunter said.

“A lake shell, then.”

Marian interrupted the conversation then, stepping back into the dining room with a conspiratorial look in his eyes.

“Alright, guys, you awaken in a strange place.”

Instantly, their attention was rapt.

“Screw, you’re the most familiar with this place, it’s your saloon, but you’ve never seen your saloon in such a disarray. There’s broken glass everywhere, and three strangers passed out at the bar. We’ll resolve who wakes up first of the others in a second, but what do you do right now?”

“Can I clean up a little?”

“What skill do you use for cleaning? If you make a convincing argument I’ll let you roll for it.”

“Bartending. I’m literally tending to my bar.”

“Fair enough. Don’t forget to add your +2.”

Sara beamed and rolled. “Nine- wait, eleven.”

“Great! That’s a success so… You clean up no problem, and you find a broken key.”

“Do I know what it’s for?”

“Not yet. Everybody else, roll your two dice and we’ll decide who wakes up first.”

“Five,” Morgan said.

“Seven,” Hunter and Maddox said in unison.

“This could not have worked out better. Nick, Frost, you awaken at the same time, right next to each other.”

“I lasso Frost,” Maddox blurted.

“You don’t need to, because Frost is handcuffed to you, though you don’t remember how that happened.”

“Shit,” Maddox said, fully embodying Nick. “Can I do a perception roll to try to figure out what’s going on?”

“Of course, give me a roll.”

“Okay, okay, I’ve got this… Ten.”

“Great, everyone has succeeded on their rolls so far. You get the lay of the land pretty quickly. You’re in a bar, you followed an outlaw in here and now you’re handcuffed to him, you still don’t remember how that happened but you know in your cold little heart that you were not just chasing someone, you were running from something else. Then you look to your left and see Santa Claus. Frost, you have an action before Santa wakes up.”

“I’d like to do a mechanics roll to wriggle out of the cuffs.”

“Alright, add your +1.”

“Oh… That’s a 4.”

Marian held back a laugh.

“Sorry, Hunter. You tighten the cuff on your hand and it cuts into your wrist a little. You all start with 10 points of health. So mark down that you’re at nine now.”

“Damn,” Hunter muttered. “Do I remember how I got in this predicament?”

“Give me a flat perception roll.”

“Eight.”

“Okay, that’s a partial success. Also I should mention, whenever you completely fail a roll you get a +1 that you can use to bump up a roll in the future, it wouldn’t do you any good here, though. Let’s see… On an eight, you also notice Santa. You’ve never much cared about being on the naughty list before, but maybe it’s becoming a pressing issue now. Morgan, you wake up.”

“Great! Do I remember what happened?”

“You tell me, what do you roll to remember?” Marian trusted Morgan’s TTRPG background.

“Omniscience.”

Marian grinned. “Go ahead, add your +2.”

“How does a 12 sound?”

“You rolled a 10 and got a 12? Incredible. Yeah, okay, you remember pretty much everything. You came to this town looking for Nick, who you found chasing Frost, and you were able to corner them both in this saloon. You handcuffed them together but before you could teach them some moral lesson, there was a blast of warm, powerful magic that put the three of you asleep and temporarily shut down Screw.”

The wheels in Sara’s head were turning.

“So Santa was after Nick… Wait! Is Nick Santa’s son?’

“That’s up to Maddox and Morgan.”

“Yeah, sure,” Maddox said.

“Absolutely! This is so fun,” Morgan said, clapping her hands.

“Did you plan this?” Hunter accused.

“No, but I did set up my character to be Santa Claus adjacent, I didn’t know Morgan was going to be Santa Claus.”

“I wanted to be Santa Claus from the second Sara said the town was super invested in Christmas, but when Maddox created Nick I did consider the possibility that our characters could be related.”

“Why didn’t you mention that to me during the break?” Maddox said.

“Because it’s all supposed to be improvised, I didn’t want to meta-game.”

“Alright,” Maddox said with a shrug.

“Okay, I'm gonna turn it over to you guys for a bit, try not to talk over each other I want to make sure everyone gets a turn, what would you like to do?”

“Can I make a perception check specifically to notice the key?” Hunter asked.

“Go for it.”

“9. Wait, I'm gonna use my point to bump it up to a 10.”

“Alright, full success. You see that Screw is holding a key that you're sure goes with your handcuffs. You could probably try to steal it with your other hand if you wanted to.”

“No, actually, I'd like to try to flirt to get the key.”

“Okay, roll and tell me what you say.”

“Seven.”

“Partial success. What do you say?”

“Is it just me, or do you hold the key to my heart?”

Marian sat back and waited for Sara to respond, fully giving them the scene.

Sara understood the assignment.

“If this is the key to your heart, I'm afraid it's broken. Uh, Screw hands over the broken key.”

“Shit.”

“But, and if you'll allow me to also roll flirting, I say, ‘I'd be happy to help you fix it.’”

“Roll to flirt. +1.”

“Oh, eleven.”

“I think North is probably completely enamored with you,” Marian said.

“Yeah,” Hunter said, completely enamored with Sara.

“That's cheating, they're real life dating they can't date in the game too.”

“If you're not gonna kiss anybody Madds then we gotta get our classic Western romance somewhere,” Marian said.

“Whatever. Can I try to break these handcuffs by force?”

“What would you roll to do that?”

“Uhhhhhhhh…”

“So that's a no.”

“Okay, then I want to yell at my dad.”

“No roll required to yell at your dad.”

“Why did you do this to us?!? You broke the fucking key!”

“Language,” Morgan said, fully embodying Santa Claus.

“Oh, because of your list? I don't care about your stupid list. Either get us out of these handcuffs or get out of here.”

“I don't think you can talk to Santa like that,” Hunter said.

“Oh, what do you know? I know you're on the naughty list too. That's how I've been tracking you filthy scum outlaws.”

“That feels like world building, roll to see if the naughty list actually has tracking abilities.”

“Uh… Five.” Maddox screwed up their face at the failed roll and marked down the +1 for later.

“Okay, that's a failure so. .. It totally does and you've been using the copy you stole from your dad to track bad guys, but you realize all of a sudden that you don't have your copy anymore.”

“Son,” Morgan said, “I understand why you're upset but it seems like someone is sabotaging us, we need to focus on that before we focus on our interpersonal issues.”

“Someone ruined my saloon,” Sara said, “it's usually not like this Mr. Santa Claus it's usually much nicer.”

“I know, I know everything.”

“Everything except who's sabotaging us,” Maddox muttered.

“Can I roll omniscience again to see if I can figure out who's sabotaging us?”

“Yeah, but eventually you're going to need to roll other skills.”

“Got it. That's a six.”

“Can I help him?” Hunter asked.

“How do you help?”

“Well, everyone can roll omniscience, can't they?”

“Huh, I guess you’re right. Give me a roll and if you succeed then it bumps up Morgan's roll to a partial success, if it fails then you share the consequence. And we'll say that a partial success does nothing in this instance.”

“Seven. Sorry, Morgan.”

“It's okay, thanks for trying.”

“Okay, Frost, you do not achieve omniscience. Santa, you're met with a barrier, as hot and uncomfortable as the magic blast that put you to sleep and tore through the saloon. This barrier keeps you from being able to attain more information, and you take one point of… I think it's called psychic damage?”

“Cool,” Morgan said, unphased by the damage and excited about the unfolding mystery.

“Maybe we should get out of the bar and investigate. I think Nick is probably pretty stressed now that he knows his list is missing and he really, really wants to find it.”

“Alright, does everyone want to leave the bar?”

“If he goes I go so that I'm not being dragged,” Hunter said.

“I follow Frost, but I lock up the saloon.”

Morgan shrugged. “I guess I'll leave too.”

“Marian, is my polar bear nearby?”

“Uh, sure, what do you want to do with it?”

“We don't have a brute force mechanic but I was thinking maybe if I roll well on animal handling then Noel can break the cuffs.”

“Okay, but if you roll badly you'll take more damage.”

“Got it.”

“I got a… Nine.”

“Okay, he's able to break it enough for you to wriggle out, but you deepen the scrape from before and take an additional point of damage.”

"But I'm not attached to Nick anymore?”

“Correct.”

“Okay, now I roll to lasso Frost.”

“Okay, add your +1.”

“5.”

“Okay, you slip on a puddle and land in the dirt. Normally this would be a soft landing, because of all the snow, but there's no snow. One point of damage.”

“Am I the only one who hasn't taken any damage?” Sara asked.

“Don't jinx yourself,” Morgan said.

“Jinxes aren't real,” Hunter and Maddox said simultaneously. One of them could have been owed a soda, if jinxes were real.

“What happened to the snow?” Morgan asked. “I’m pretty sure that there was snow when we got here.”

“I’m not gonna make you roll for perception or omniscience, there was definitely snow when you got there.”

“I bet it was those summer people,” Sara said.

“Was that in character?” Marian asked.

“It can be.”

“Right, okay, good guess, Sara has solved like, both of the mysteries so far.”

Hunter squeezed Sara’s hand under the table, very proud of her girlfriend.

“Of course… Those people have always hated me,” Morgan said. “Ever since I told them Christmas in July was not a real holiday.”

Marian cracked up at that and it took a minute before the game could continue.

“I bet they have my list…”

“You mean my list,” Morgan said. “Wait, you lost the list?”

“I didn’t lose it! It was taken from me when you did your stupid handcuff trick. If you hadn’t handcuffed us then I wouldn’t have lost the list.”

“You wouldn’t have lost the list if you hadn’t stolen the list.”

“Is that why you followed me here? Because of your stupid list?”

“No! I came because I care about you, and I miss you.”

Hunter leaned over to Marian while Morgan and Maddox staged some family drama, “Can me and Screw get on my polar bear and ride away while they’re distracted.”

“Screw, do you want to sneak away with Frost?”

“Yeah, but I also want to figure out what’s going on…”

“I want to go find those summer people, I’m not just trying to escape,” Hunter said, as the Santa and Nick fight continued in the background.

“Oh, then, yes!”

“Alright, Hunter roll for riding, and Sara if Hunter fails the roll you can roll to help.”

Sara flashed a thumbs up. They weren’t being particularly quiet, but neither Morgan or Maddox noticed, since they were so into their little argument, which really fed into Maddox’s debate background and Morgan’s roleplay background.

Hunter rolled quietly and then held up ten fingers.

Marian nodded.

“Sara, roll perception to see if you can figure out the correct direction to go.”

“Eight,” Sara said in a low voice.

“Okay, you see some tracks but you’re not entirely sure which way they’re going, so just pick a direction, left or right.”

“Right.”

Marian rolled a dice to see how well Sara’s luck was gonna hold, but he didn’t say anything to confirm or deny whether or not they were correct.

“Yo, Nick, roll me a perception check.”

“12.”

“Yeah, Screw and Frost are completely gone. But you do see polar bear tracks leading to the right.”

“I get on Killer and follow them.”

“Roll for riding, +2, Santa what do you do?”

“I'd like to fly up and try to catch up to them sooner so that it doesn't turn into a fight.”

“Okay, +1 to flying, and if you succeed I'm gonna have you roll for conflict resolution.”

“I rolled a four.”

“The heat magic is too strong and you're unable to get off the ground, I'm not going to make you take damage for that.”

“Nick, let me ride with you.”

“Hell no.”

“Roll me a flat holding a grudge roll,” Marian said.

“What about my riding roll? I got a nine and I'd like to bump it up to a 10.”

“Hold onto that and roll for holding grudges.”

“Shit. I got a 2.”

“Okay, so you haven't forgiven your father but you realize it's silly to harbor this grudge when there is a more pressing matter, so, despite your best wishes, you allow Santa to ride on Killer with you.”

“Okay, fine.”

“Alright, you guys take off and make good time but it's only fair to allow Screw and Frost a surprise round. What do you two do?”

“Do I see the punk from Summertown?” Hunter asked.

“Perception.”

“That's a five.”

“You do not.”

“Then I roll to flirt with Screw.”

“Useless,” Maddox muttered.

“What did you roll?”

“12.”

“Why do you only roll well for unimportant rolls?” Maddox asked.

“This is important, as far as we know we're alone so I'd like to enjoy my time with the cute robot bartender.”

“What do you say?”

“I'm not much of a thief, but I hope to steal your heart.”

“I roll to kiss Frost.”

“I'm so glad I added kissing,” Marian said with a chuckle.

“Uh, seven.”

“You share a lovely kiss but because you're a robot you do shock Frost a little, Hunter-”

“I know, one more point of damage. Why am I the one taking damage? Sara is the one who rolled badly.”

“Because it's much harder to hurt a robot. While you're kissing, two other things happen. The first is that Santa and Nick catch up to you, the second is that you are suddenly pelted with snowballs. No additional damage from the snowballs.”

“I thought there was no snow,” Hunter said.

“The four of you look over and see, standing on top of the last snowbank, a man wearing sunglasses, a Hawaiian shirt, and a black cowboy hat. He says, “You idiots, I've lured you all here, and once I destroy the last of the snow and ice, your town will become a ghost town and Summer will reign supreme.”

“That's some heavy handed exposition,” Maddox said.

“Was that in character?” Marian asked.

“Yes, and I try to lasso him.”

“Roll.”

“Seven.”

“He dodges out of the way but you somehow manage to lasso the naughty list, which is now back in your possession.”

“I immediately take it from him,” Morgan said.

“Roll to steal.”

“9, but I bump it up to a 10.”

“Okay, yeah, you steal it from Nick.”

Maddox glowered at Morgan for a second before remembering this was a game and that nothing had been physically stolen from her.

“You said there was ice left?” Hunter asked.

“Yes, there's a frozen lake nearby that this man intends to melt.”

“I challenge you to a figure skating duel. Nick, will you be my second in the duel?”

“Uh…”

“Roll forgiveness to see if you trust Frost enough to be his second in the duel.”

“I rolled a 10 that becomes a 9.”

“Okay, you agree to be his second but because you don't fully trust him you can't use your rolls to help each other. But, since he’s a summer guy I think it’s only fair if he has a -1 to figure skating.”

“Thanks for throwing us a bone,” Hunter said.

“Should be -2,” Maddox muttered.

“Yeah, yeah. Go ahead and roll. Hunter, add your +2. You just both have to beat my… One.”

“You rolled a two and got a one?” Maddox snorted.

“Yes. So, you’re guaranteed to win, but let’s see how well you do.”

“I got an eleven,” Hunter said, looking proud.

“I got a four,” Maddox said sheepishly.

“Okay, well, you both do very well against the summer outlaw, but, at the very end, the ice begins to crack and both Nick and the outlaw go under.”

“Roll to lasso Nick,” Hunter said immediately. Even when their characters were enemies, Hunter wasn’t going to let anything happen to her cousin.

“Go ahead.”

“Shit, I only got an eight.”

“Can I give the help action to save my son?” Morgan asked.

“Of course.”

“I got a 12.”

“Okay, together, you save Nick. Maddox, you take one point of damage and I think I’d like you to roll forgiveness to forgive your father and Frost.”

“Okay, it’s only fair… I have a -1 but if I use the failure I just did I roll flat… Ten!”

“Great, it seems like you forgive them, but you tell me how it happens.”

“Frost, you’re free to go, try to get on the right list.”

“If I can interject,” Hunter said, “Frost looks at Screw and nods and says, ‘I think I have a reason to go straight.’”

“Roll to kiss,” Sara said, happy to have sat it out for a minute but eager to join in now.

Maddox rolled her eyes as Sara rolled the dice, getting a very cinematic 12.

“Okay, those two have their movie magic kiss while the sun sets, what does Nick say to Santa?”

“Hey.”

Morgan held back a laugh, sobering up so she could add to the scene.

“You can have the list back, if you would like. I know being a bounty hunter is important to you.”

“It is, but… I think I want to use the list for the right reasons. If you’ll let me come back.”

“Santa scoops Nick up in a hug. ‘I have wanted you to come home for a long time.’”

“I roll to have Christmas cheer but it’s unlikely.”

“I think you have an extra +1,” Marian said, unsure if that was true but throwing Maddox another bone.

“Okay… Then I got a nine.”

“Can I start singing a Christmas carol to give the help action?” Morgan asked, while Sara and Hunter kissed in real life to signify the fact that their characters were still making out.

“Yeah, no one has rolled singing yet I would love if you rolled singing. If you get a partial or complete success Nick can be bumped up to a ten and feel the spirit of Christmas in his heart again.”

“Big money, big money… Seven! That’s a partial success!”

Maddox high-fived her sister. “Nick’s heart grows three sizes and he doesn’t even mind the fact that a robot and an outlaw are making out in the background. Also that other guy is dead right?”

“Yeah, super dead,” Marian said.

“Well,” Sara said, pulling away from Hunter, “should we celebrate at the saloon?”

“Yeah,” Hunter said, “Let’s have a square dance.”

[drawtectives-correct-quotes]

The Case of the Secret Admirer: A Drawtectives Visual Novel Fan Game!

It's Valenmas Day here in Fancy Town, and what better way to celebrate the day of love and festive gift-giving than a good ol' game of deduction! A mystery, if you will.

When PI Jancy True receives a letter of confession from an unknown source, no one is safe. Not even her own co-workers. But the victim can't solve her own crime, no no! That's where you come in! Help a distressed Jancy True on an oh-so-special Valenmas Day! Which of the three Drawtective hooligans had the beans to confess their feelings to their own boss?

Well, in order to figure that out you’ll have to get to know each of the drawing detectives more. On a personal level, even. After all, this case is quite personal. It’s almost a perfect meet-cute setup, if only you weren’t the most ironic case of dichotomy around. Despite your high-power love connections, you’ve never been able to get a date yourself.

It’s a tale of mystery, romance, plot twists, and confessions, oh my! Will you find out who Jancy True’s secret admirer is? Will you break your case of misfortune and bad luck in love? There’s only one way to find out!

The Case of the Secret Admirer follows you, the player, as a Detective of Love working under your father’s private investigation business: Bow & Arrow Detective Agency. When you’re called to a typical love case, you quickly find out it’s anything but. These clues are harder to decrypt than any previous case, but at least you have your one-time ability.

This visual novel is a fan game of the YouTube series Drawtectives, owned by the Drawfee Show. With a mystery to solve and romance in the air, there are three endings to discover plus an additional fourth secret ending!

And that isn’t the only secret hidden within this game...

I imagine there are a ton of questions swirling in your head, and that’s great! However, before you send over an ask, check out this FAQ post to make sure your question hasn’t already been answered.

From who’s on the team to the content rating to a proposed release date, check out the FAQ/Q&A post here!

It’s important to see where the game is along the development timeline. That’s why I made a post all about transparent progress. You can check out the progress post in more detail or simply check out the to-do list here!

[birbwaifu]

Was tagged by @snail-of-fire for this little question game! Thank you so much for the tag! I won’t be able to tag anyone but I do like filling these out time from time!

Last song: Cupid - Twin ver. (I am not immune to tiktok popular songs)

Currently reading- I, The Forgotten One (enjoyed this in the “I want to be sad” way but had no idea what I was doing during any battle sequence)

Currently watching- honestly I don’t really have time/attention span to watch series anymore so the closest thing I watch is Drawfee on YouTube! I put their videos on in the background while I draw!

Current Obsession- shout out to my one true obsession The Evertree Series! Love u forever and always mwah mwah

Thank you again for the tag! And if any of my mutuals see this and want to fill it out as well, tag me so I can see your responses! All mutuals are tagged in my heart 🥺💖

[radishthefool]

Kindness Goblins, Three-Leaf Clovers, and Mariana Trench Divers: About flooding the internet with words of kindness, calling out to the invisible majority of kind people, and finding each other at our lowest points.

I'm currently going through yet another episode of deep shit due to an unsnarlable mix of deep shits. I feel helpless and alone, and often it gets so bad that I end up having a nonverbal breakdown on top of everything else.

I realised one of the reasons that latter snarl happens is because my adhd masking behaviour becomes more and more untenable to maintain, and I end up either needing to write entire essays or not communicating at all.

And if I know the other side won't understand or maybe even read my essays because they're not familiar with neurodiversity, I lose all willpower and hope to even begin the unsnarling process.

So this time, I decided that my coping strategy was going to be to post kind and helpful and fun comments underneath youtube videos. I also call out trolls and bigots, and explain in excruciating detail why I think their comments are unkind. I call it being a kindness goblin.

Even if only I do it, and nobody reads them, at least I fulfill my urge to be kind and helpful. But already I've gotten comments back thanking me for writing a compliment, or sharing an idea. So already I'm cheering up some people or helping them.

For too long, trolls and bigots could foul up the internet unfettered. Despite not being fed, they thrived, and have now also contaminated the real world. Trolls and bigots could easily imagine they were the loud majority, and kind people felt invisible, isolated, and alone.

But if stupid trolls and bigots can change so much for the worse by repeating the same three flawed arguments over and over and never getting into actual conversations, and if the host of the waffle house can spread far and wide, then surely us kind and diverse and creative and empathic people can manage to start a movement towards a culture that is kinder and more fun. First on the internet, and then beyond.

And if I explain my goal in the comments and on tumblr, the kindness may even spread, inspiring others to be kind and helpful and fun. And then if comment sections are filled more and more with kindness and empathy and true attempts at connection and communication and helpfulness, surely that will have real-life effects further down the road.

I've seen kindness and (neuro)diversity going hand in hand time and time again. (Neuro)diverse people flock around kind and creative youtubers like Brennan Lee Mulligan and Dimension 20, Drawfee, and so so many youtubers/tiktokers who live in the art, diversity, feminist, and progressive corners.

We've seen what people can do when they're too sensitive to injustice and too aware of nitty gritty details to gloss over a company's attempt to replace an open-source agreement with a greedy stranglehold. Especially if they retalliate without having to fear for their livelyhood or safety, let alone their country's stability.

The current world calls out for that very same mix of petty, unrelenting, thorough consequences for those many petty, greedy, openly hostile and mean companies' actions.

We need visible kindness, we need to visibly try to help and support other people, kind people need to find each other and connect, we need to combine all our diverse forms of kindness and creativity to address the world's current infestation of meanies in totally new ways that don't have to involve violent revolution, poverty, and chaos. The many kind people don't need the few meanies, especially now that we have the internet to help and support each other.

So by now impulsively writing this rambling long text, I hope I can reach the people who already kind of think like me, who are used to having to work hard to understand and be understood. Who get me without me having to kindly and patiently work around bigoted insecurities, around translation issues between different modes of thought. And especially who don't require my unending patience and creativity to work around the privilege like the people who've never had to change anything about themselves to fit in, and now feel as if they have suddenly and unfairly come under attack when those who've worked so hard to be allowed to play along at the fringe in return start demanding a fraction of the effort we've been putting in all our lives.

Thanks to the Black Lives Matter activists, I realised black people asking and explaining nicely time and time again meant it was easier for those who are content with the current situation to ignore them. Most of us non-black people literally only heard them once they got angry. Some of us finally got it, many more responded to the perceived slight of their familiar and safe status quo with increasingly open and heartless viciousness.

I realised the same was happening to other non-white people, to women, to neurodivergent people, to LGBTQ people, to (mentally/chronically) ill people, to all those people who find themselves in multiple of these groups, or different ones altogether (to a lesser extent than the cruel effects of systemic racism on black people of course, but the process of exclusion is similar every time).

It was happening to me, and I had never realised that that was what was going on. The world sucks right now, and especially kind and (neuro)divergent people cannot ignore that pain and injustice. Either because we can't escape it, or because we can't forget it, or both. We feel bad, but a lot of that stems from us not being able to just continue on while the world is so bad.

I feel so angry. And so sad. For myself, but especially for all the other marginalised and excluded and suppressed people. And I will not stay conveniently invisible any longer. If I feel super bad because the world sucks, and because my body and brain suck, and because nobody around me actually helps me, and because I know there are so many kind people out there suffering at least as much as me, while maybe even blaming themselves like I did. Trying not to be a bother, like I did. Trying to get the people we (think) we depend on to finally get it when we explain it just right, like I did.

So I will speak up. Not as neatly and concisely as I'd like, because my brain and my body and my emotions are severely snarled. I thought I'd have to condense my entire adhd web of thoughts into a catchy single headline, or many neatly organised and well-structured chapters to maybe get to get one step forward. And I'd still like to do that. As you can maybe tell, I love writing (and when I'm not bone tired from everything, I can actually edit my writings very well).

But I know there are others out there who think like me, who will get me, or who are willing and able to work on getting me. And all I can think of right now is to throw out my snarled windweb on the internet, and hope it tangles with some like minds whose cognitive networks of associations and ideas and ideals can connect to mine.

I'm realising so strongly that the more I feel like I'm going off into the deep end, the more I'm actually connecting with my true self that's usually so well hidden behind that neurotypical mask that even I don't really know her yet.

And until recently I had no idea where I could find like-minded people. I had honestly given up on the idea that it is even possible for (neuro)divergent people like me to talk to people without exhausting ourselves and then still more often than not ending up disappointed because they still didn't get us at all.

And often, they were the ones who got angry or upset from that interaction. Because it 'didn't make sense,' because they didn't expend any effort to try and understand, because it was easy for them to turn around and just continue living their life as before.

But now I do know. There are so many similarly-thinking and/or similarly-feeling, and/or similarly-motivated people out there.

And if their minds are as associatively wired as mine, they will come across either this message or the ones hopefully following from and spreading outwards from it, and will spread their own messages that got inspired from reading these.

And if their thought processes work differently, but somehow their mind latches on to something I've written here, or something someone else writes or says or creates or does because of it, then these ideas and thoughts can get translated and transformed into other types of ideas and other forms of thought. And then we've got ourselves a stew going.

I hope that by bothering the world with my long-ass writings, I will find my fellow long-winders, wide-thinkers, and high-hopers.

So step one is being a kindness goblin in youtube comments. And I'm doing that. Step two was writing this, and I did it. I've been wanting to do this forever, but my (mental) health was never good enough for long enough to work on it consistently. To structure it properly. To develop the ideas in a sequential way.

But maybe it's better this way. My mind actually prefers working in many parallel and not-so-parallel processes at the same time. Of connecting and associating and spreading out and circling around points of interest and then reconnecting and rewiring but differently. But more.

I kind of like the idea of approaching these boringfied and invisibled world problems in my adhd way, just seeing where my thoughts and ideas and impulses takes me, and then watching what happens because of it.

After all, creativity does not happen after well-structured, logical, and well-worn sequential steps from a single rock solid axiom. It happens through a more divergent thinking process (which contrasts with convergent, more linear thinking).

Creativity happens if we allow our mind to meander, when we feed it with potentially connective thoughts and ideas and experiences, taking everything into consideration, not suppressing or dismissing the 'bad' or 'silly' options, trying to find new areas of overlap, of crossroads where diverse concepts can come together in new and previously unpredictable ways that only make sense once they've been connected.

For that, we need flexible, widely-connecting and widely-connective minds where many tabs can stay open. Mental systems that allow for empathy, uncertainty, comparison, connection, reasoning, feeling, and change. A mental network that isn't so strictly and narrowly wired that it can't accommodate any new information without threatening to collapse in on itself, thus triggering extreme reactions.

Step three will be adding some tags. Tag one will be 'kindness goblins.' I enjoy the image of many wildly different little creatures, hyperactive and stoic, flexible and stubborn, unpredictable and rigid, fast-talking and quiet, all of them unique yet unhasitatingly supportive. Our unified chaos would surely overrun and overwhelm lumbering trolls and rooted-in-place bigots.

Tag two will be 'three-leaf clovers.' Initially I just added that icon at the end of my youtube comments as a little present. A gift of kindness, and a small token of my appreciation for reading until the end.

But after another commenter asked about its meaning, I came to realize it's a beautiful symbol: three-leaf clovers are more common than four-leaf ones, but you'd never know it when looking at how often we see them represented online and in different media. Similarly, kind people are an invisible majority. There are more kind people than jerks, but you'd never know it from all the jerks we see online and in most media.

Tag three will be for people who are in the deep end right now, or know what it's like to end up there. I will call us the Mariana Trench Divers, because we go deep, explore all the nooks and crannies of our own minds and the entire world until we run out of breath, but we always end up coming back to give it another go up there.

Often those returning from the deep bring cool but weird stories. However, it can be disappointingly tough to find the people who will listen and care. Or who do listen and care, but that's it. Causing our stories to never move beyond these passive listeners. The stories run aground at the first stop.

There seem to be so few of us, and we've always been told we're uniquely different and nobody could ever understand us because our minds just don't make sense. So it's no wonder all of us feel like nobody else cares.

But I care. I love hearing new information, or old information but through a different lens, I genuinely adore weird ideas, unexpected connections, and unfinished thoughts. They get my own mind going. And then, if I can throw my own ideas and connections and experiences back into the mix, and then that gets absorbed in other people's mindwebs and gets their creative juices flowing, and those results come back around to me, and so forth, then I'm at my happiest.

And plenty of other people care as well. Did you know neurodivergent people make as much sense to each other as neurotypical people do to each other? It's true, researchers found that autistic people find it quite easy to communicate with each other. And I've experienced time and again that the same is true for adhd people.

And sure, those two groups, and all those other marginalised groups, can think very differently from each other as well. However, we can find each other in shared experiences, in a shared awareness that we need to work towards understanding and connection, in a shared willingness to actually do so, and a shared capacity to explore options of making it possible.

We don't actually have to fit in the world as it is now. It has been sterilised and monocultured until any trace of diversity and creativity and kindness has been driven to the fringes. Except the fringes are now online, and we can find each other, and all our beautifully different minds can surely come up with ideas that, compared to the boring, mind-numbing world of today, will be kinder, more creative, more diverse, and more fun.

☘️

[spooky-dice]

@egodb jacob referred to york as arospec and asexual on the drawfee discord, and that he likely wouldn’t know those terms or think of himself that way but that it’s still true. i don’t think a direct screenshot of this is available sadly but it is canon

aroace punk. any pronouns all presentations chill guy named grandma. disaster sapphic girlemployee. platonic polycule with a shared fictional eldritch king boyfriend. butch lesbian boss mother. tits out makeup on grown adult baby son. drawtectives understands queer rep like nobody else.

[natjennie]

hey favorite online medias. stop putting people I don't know in your content pleaseeee thank youuu <3

[cesium-sheep]

I was watching drawfee and they mentioned that their smart tv has a live-streaming anime channel so when I got up I was like "oh I should look for that"

turns out our smart tv has a ton of channels I genuinely want to watch, but it had randomly assigned us the kitchen nightmares section when we first turned it on so we just never looked around after finding something less irritating to default it to. they even have the local news, so they may have jeopardy livestreaming as god intended. multiple true crime channels, way better default than those "5 recent cases" I'd been watching a lot last month. I did find the anime channel, but it's hxh subs rn. a whole channel for the pbs digital studios videos matt loves. a game show channel. top gear. genuinely so many good options for "just put something on in the background" or "idk what I want to watch let's just see what's on" that we've been sleeping on for literal years

[knochengeier]

Drawfee Classpects???

I set a while ago to spitefully Classpect the Drawfee crew because they rightfully made fun of homestuck.

PREFACE:

I should state clearly that this is not meant as an attack on any members of Drawfee, and that I will be leaving out the majority of the negative aspects of the analysis. It should also be mentioned that this is more of an analysis of their online personas rather than who they actually are.

I did mention that I would leave out most negative things, but some things are core to a persons persona something they consciously and willingly put out into the world; again, this is not what I actually think these individuals are like, and is not a reflection of how I feel about them as a person. Things like "Julia doesn't know media" and "Jacob is the bad boy of Drawfee" that are explicitly stated as part of the persona is free game.

So, without further ado

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Caldwell, Prospitian Muse of Breath:

A Muse is the embodiment of and the inspiration to others through their aspect. The Muse class is one in a pair of incredibly powerful and rare classes known as the “master classes.”

Breath is the aspect of individuality, drive, optimism, and most importantly freedom.

As the Muse of Breath Caldwell inspires others to be themselves and be free, motivating creativity and driving others to pursue their dreams. Caldwells unbound optimism and resolve is a force to be reckoned with, in fact he so embodies freedom and enthusiastic ambition that he left Drawfee to pursue his own creative endeavors on the west coast.

Caldwell commands not only the forces of Skaia, but Skaia itself; his inspiring aura would be strong enough to end the war between Prospit and Derse in an instant, and even those that opposed him would find it hard to stay committed to their cause for long.

Caldwell would have the power to: a. control the wind, weather, and possibly even lightning by freeing the electrons from their atoms (though that might be an active ability) b. bypass any restraints, physical or otherwise, by any means necessary which c. Also means that he can most likely teleport at will and d. Probably turn incorporeal.

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Nathan, Prospitian Sylph of Hope:

A Sylph is a person who passively invites the healing and generation with their aspect.

Hope is the aspect of possibility, inspiration, and positivity.

As the Sylph of Hope Nathan is the light that helps others with his positivity and inspiration, not only does he help people but he inspires them to create their own hope. A Sylph of Hope would be able to see the potential for positivity in everything, and seek to be as amiable as possible, in turn helping others do the same.

Drawfee is as much a show about success as it is failure, it’s something that people can watch and say “These people make mistakes just like me” and they inspire hope for those down on their art.

One of the longest held of these humanizing aspects of the show is the apology at the end of every episode, which only became a thing after Nathan disliked a drawing so much that he was compelled to apologize, and it stuck. As much as that drawing might have sucked it inspired others who weren’t happy with their art to keep at it, and we are reminded of that after every episode.

Nathan is one of the first members of the crew to assure somebody that even if the piece didn’t come out the way they wanted, that it still looks good and is impressive nonetheless.

Nathan is the glue that holds this session together; with the presence of a prince, a bard, and a lord this session should have been doomed since the start, but Nathan’s pure awe inspiring hope promoted the best in everybody.

Nathan’s powers would include: a. A buff akin to bardic inspiration that could affect people to fight harder b. Healing abilities c. Probably an energy beam d. Manifestations of other’s hopes and dreams in the form of glowy specters like a JoJo stand.

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Julia, Dersite Lord of Void:

A Lord is the embodiment and commander of their aspect, not through inspiration but rather assimilation and domination.

Void is the aspect of confusion, secrets, and doubt.

As the Lord of Void Julia is the sovereign of secrets; unpredictable, unknowable, and the proprietor of unknown knowledge Julia uses her runes and studied knowledge to summon hideous abominations creatures from the void.

Void players have an inextricable link to the furthest ring; the furthest ring is the incomprehensible and unnavigable space that exists outside of the universe. The furthest ring acts as an impassable border between universes inhabited by massive eldritch gods called the “Horrorterrors.”

Julia would not only have the ability to traverse the furthest ring and visit other universes, but she would also have the ability to bend the horrorterrors to her will. She would be able to switch in and out of grimdark mode at will, and most likely would not be adversely effected.

Julias powers would most likely include: a. The creation and manipulation of black holes and the general desperation of physical matter b. The ability to turn invisible and probably teleport c. The ability to erase peoples memories and mute their senses, and d. The ability to speak, read, and write the language of the horrorterrors.

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Jacob, Prospitian Prince of Rage:

A Prince is a destroyer of and with their aspect.

Rage is the aspect of fate, defiance, and rejection.

As the Prince of Rage Jacob is the destroyer of and through failure, negativity, and rejection. Jacob forged his own path, he destroyed his fate as a writer and destroyed the limits and expectations for what an artist could be, and he got a job at college humor despite the odds.

Jacob is also, or was, a punk; a subculture that is predicated on the destruction of barriers through rebellion.

Even though he can use Rage for good he often doesn’t; he is well known for stirring discourse, his particular brand of Rage elicits anger and hatred thanks to his flaming hot takes.

He is also known for his infinite petty anger at dumb things ex. “see animals shouldn’t live under ground,” “lizards shouldn’t have to lick their eyes,” “muppet is short for man-puppet,” “mayo is food lube,” and “if god’s ever been mad at anything I’ve said, he hasn’t done shit about it.”

Jacob’s abilities would be: a. Becoming physically stronger the angrier he gets, or somebody gets at him b. The ability to create and control lightning c. The ability to pacify or remove the anger from somebody d. The ability to make people fear him or e. turn against their own allies.

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Karina, Dersite Knight of Heart:

A Knight is a person who precisely uses and exploits their aspect as a weapon or a tool.

Heart is the aspect of emotion, passion, and identity.

As a Knight of Heart Karina uses feelings as a weapon. Not only does Karina use her powers to literally use the emotions of her characters (see Schmidt and Nando) as a tool to effect others, but she also has deep passions like Neopets, Digimon, and Yugioh that she uses as a weapon to torment the Drawfee crew.

Karina is passionate about her identity, never missing a chance to mention any of her favorite things like Beelzemon, Seto Kaiba, catboys, or her Texan roots (Bucky’s).

Karina would have honed impulses, knowing when and where to act and how to do (or draw) something challenging. She also has the ability to hype up her friends, strengthening their resolve.

Karina’s abilities would be: a. She can create a powerful glowing weapon by materializing her soul b. She could find out the weaknesses, emotions, and insecurities of enemies c. She could split into multiple versions of herself to create a veritable army of clones, and d. Enter a soul form where she is basically impervious to most attacks.

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David, Dersite Maid of Time:

A Maid is a person who heals and regenerates their aspect or with their aspect.

Time is the aspect of machines, music, and endings.

As a Maid of Time David heals time; more often then not time is not an abstract thing, and the responsibility of time players is to keep the timelines in order and fix paradoxes.

David, as the chief editor for Drawfee is responsible for taking whatever dumb shit the crew gives them and edit it to make the video palatable.

David is also interested in theater (see “Artists Draw Posters for Musicals (They've Never Seen)” one of the only episodes in which they appear) which is related to time through music.

An interesting thing to note about Time is that it is often equated with heat, fire, and lava, something David has experience with, revealed in the episode “Drawing What We're Thankful For In 2019” in which Nathan depicts David with an overheating external drive (something that is also mechanical).

David could: a. Essentially freeze time, making moments last for hours b. Heal paradoxes in the time line c. Fix events so they go favorably, or d. Speed up time to heal a wound

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Tristan, Prospitian Mage of Light:

A Mage is a person who understands their aspect by experiencing it.

Light is the aspect of fortune, luck, relevance, and knowledge.

As a Mage of Light Tristan has an innate and personal understanding of lore; Tristan, through his interactions with pop culture, knows a lot about said things.

Mages often experience their aspect in a negative way, seen in the frequent possession of Tristan by the Lore Librarian, and his burden of knowledge about absurd and obscure facts about nerd media.

Tristan is one of the only people on the crew who understands how the game works and what the final boss’s deal is, but you know he’s going to be cryptic and vague about it because it’s funny. Tristan would have the uncanny ability to know what something is without having seen it before.

Tristans abilities are: a. Foresight, he can tell exactly when and where something will happen and manipulate them in his favor b. He can give people luck or take it away c. He can manipulate light and probably use it as a projectile, and d. Know exactly what has to be done at any moment.

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Willie, Dersite Bard of Blood:

A Bard is a person who invites the destruction of or with their aspect

Blood is the aspect of bonds, stability, and unity.

As the Bard of Blood Willie actuates the severing of bonds and the dissolving of stability.

Willie is a change maker, he breaks down the stable and familiar structure of the established group dynamics in Drawfee often in an antagonistic way; Willie is well known for his hatred for Jacob, and his very presence elicits the rage in both of them.

Videos in which Willie appears are marked by hostility, but through him new and interesting things get made.

Being a bard isn’t all bad, Bards of blood are not one sided; A bard of blood has the ability to destroy using the bonds they have, uniting a group of people under a cause to destroy something, like rallying the crew against Jacob.

Willie, like a lot of the crew, has a lot of buffing abilities; utilizing his bonds he can make others more powerful and fight harder than they could otherwise.

Willie’s abilities are: a. Control of literal blood b. Group sync, he acts as a conduit through which the coordination and damage output increases, and c. Dismantle, he can break the bonds of atoms and make physical matter crumble away.

[lorbanery]

I'm going to derail this ever so slightly. Because while it's absolutely true that there was probably a major amount of executive interference that led to this final product, I'm genuinely worried that there might be an artist issue here too.

If you're not familiar with Drawfee, it's a Youtube channel originally under the College Humor brand but went independent after CH imploded. It's run by four professional artists who have a formal art education, with the occasional guest artist. While they've branched out into a lot of other things, their main content is taking a (usually) fan-suggested prompt and then chatting as each of them takes a turn at drawing something based on the prompt.

Now, I love these guys. They're one of our household's favorite channels, we've been following them since they were under CH and we watch almost every drawing prompt video. That said, there was a video a while back that I had to ask my partner to turn off because it was genuinely pissing me off.

I don't remember the context, but at some point one of the artists brought up Rocket Power, the early '00s Nickelodeon cartoon by the animation studio Klasky Csupo, which led to a conversation about Klasky Csupo's Nickelodeon shows in general. Their opinions, collectively, were that the art on those shows was ugly, and they spent at least as much time as it took whoever was drawing to finish their piece to find new ways to reiterate that point.

And to be absolutely clear, they were not using "ugly" to mean "interesting" or anything else like that. They were specifically mocking those shows for being "ugly" and making it clear how much they hated that artwork.

Like, I cannot stress this enough that even as a child watching each of these shows premiere I understood that the character designs were literally representative of the natural variation in human bodies and faces, just exaggerated. You know, like art and especially animation does. Babies have weirdly shaped heads; some people have big noses; some people have big chins; other people have almost no chin at all; some kids are fat; some people have big foreheads; some people have tightly curled hair that does whatever it wants no matter how many combs and styling products you use. Klasky Csupo cartoons were one of the only places you could find "normal" people on TV.

They weren't actors who were cast, first and foremost, because they existed on the spectrum of traditionally attractive. They weren't characters designed, first and foremost, to be aesthetically pleasing to recreate the look of a cast of traditionally attractive actors. And as a fat kid who spent their childhood feeling so horribly, viscerally ugly, these shows were so fucking important to me. Even Rocket Power and As Told By Ginger, which I was watching in high school.

And then to hear these professional artists, these formally educated artists, who normally relish the opportunity to get weird whenever they're designing characters? Go on and on and on and on about how ugly these characters are, how horrible their character designs are, how much they just cannot stand even looking at them?

Yeah, it worries me. It worries me what art schools are teaching their students about what kind of art is "acceptable". It worries me about what art schools are teaching about what aesthetics are "good" and "bad" and how much of that is being internalized by their students uncritically. That the only characters who are allowed to have "ugly" exaggerated features are characters who have something "wrong" with them. Because the Drawfee artists aren't that much younger than me, they're old enough to have watched at least Rocket Power while it was originally airing. They've had time to break out of that mindset, but they haven't.

Because, to be absolutely explicitly clear, I don't expect everyone to like every aesthetic. But I do expect people who appreciate art so much that they made it their career to at least appreciate different aesthetics for what they are, rather than painting aesthetics they don't like personally as just "bad" and "ugly" with no redeeming qualities or purpose.

They De-Tumblrized Ms. Frizzle

[jackgoodfellow]

"Why, Jancy True, as I live and breathe!!!"

Now with fanfic!

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I wanted to make a background that looked like it could appear on a Drawtectives episode, and then I got carried awaaaaaaay. Which was very Julia of me, I gotta say. She is on some absolute next level shit, and I loved Season 2!

Image description:

A digital illustration in great detail and brightly saturated colors, depicting characters from the YouTube series Detectives in a beautiful cafe. In the foreground, Jancy True stands holding a disposable coffee cup, and looking up at Joebeans, surprised, nervous, and blushing.

Jancy is an older thin white woman with silver hair in an undercut, a black cochlear implant in the ear that is facing the viewer, angular features, and a fashionable sharp purple and gold coat with a red gem pin next to her private eye gold and purple pin.

Joebeans stands across from her, several feet taller, with her arms spread wide and a big smile on her face as though she is declaring something. In one of hands, she is holding a disposable coffee cup in the form of a bucket.

Joebeans is a middle-aged orc woman with bright green skin and large golden curly hair. She has blue eyes, magenta lipstick, white teeth with large bottom fangs, silver hoop earrings, a strong jaw, and large breasts. She is wearing blue jeans and a light-blue denim top. Her top's buttons are straining a little over her breasts. She is wearing large silver hoop earrings, and a brown belt with a large golden belt buckle that says "JB" on it.

In the background, Rosé, York, Grendan, and Eugene are hiding behind the café counter and peaking eagerly over it at Jancy and Joe. York is clutching Eugene's face to his head affectionately, smushing Eugene's cheeks.

The four characters in the background are partially obstructed by the counter, but Grendan is visible as a pair of brown eyes with brown hair and a garden hat with a daisy on it. Rosé is behind him, with her hands pressing down on Grendan and York's heads. She has brown skin and pink hair in buns and bangs. Her eyes are wide and shining; the irises are pink. York is an orc with a blonde undercut and pointed ears with gold piercings. He has green eyes and is looking affectionately up at Eugene. Eugene is a handsome young white man with a nose piercing  and short wavy black hair. He has brown eyes, and he is wearing an indigo and lavender shirt with sharp shoulders.

The characters are in a sunny open-air cafe with an open criss-crossing wood beam ceiling that has plant life poking through, as well as flower pots hanging from the ceiling. The sky is blue. The back wall of the cafe is a curved glass window that shows a variety of green plant life, flowers, and trees. The counter is violet with an alcove for colorful bottles, an embossed baroque pattern on the front. There are brass caffeine machines on the back of the counter. There is a large ceiling-height door open-wall door that shows a vague city street in the background. The floors are cherry-wood boards, and there is a matching tapestry and rug set featuring symmetrical geometric designs in pink, yellow, and green.

All other images are various close-ups of the first image to show detail, as well as an alternate version that shows only the cafe setting with no characters, and the video is done in the style of Drawtectives, in which the empty setting is shown first, and then the characters fade in - first Joe, then Jancy, and then the other characters behind the desk.