#instead of doing spiderverse fanart

[fernsfabulousfloweringfacility]

i did a tihng

[zombie-vodka]

'WEEN DAY TEN - SPIDER

im like if an autistic little boy was not a little boy and was emo and really liked nicolas cage. lol.

[pocket-notebook]

Beetlejuice when he discovers that there are other things he can eat besides bugs

[girakia]

*sees lack in peni and margo fanart* tsk. Gotta do everything by myself

Also traditional bc spiderverse changed my life and I'm copying the way miles's sketchbook looks in my sketchbook. Spend the last two days drawing like this I feel peak

[ultrainfinitepit]

The Miguel stickers are selling really quickly. If these sell out, would anyone be interested in restocks?

[zecoritheweirdone]

hey guys,, who wants to see this new dsmp au i've thought up of instead of working on my other countless, already existing aus.

still trying to come up with a proper name for it,,, right now the working title is shattered reflections...? buuuut i'm not too content with that yet.

the basic plot is, via ~wacky shenanigans~,, ranboo, tommy, and tubbo,, all from different universes,, end up getting misplaced together in the multiverse or something like that, and now have to hop from dimension to dimension, trying to find their way back to their respective homes(and maybe they'll find that the real home was the friends they made along the way).

still need to iron out a few kinks(how did this start, how do they travel, how does it end, etc etc),, but like. it's been rotting in my brain ever since the idea first came to my head, so i figured i might as well share it here? in case anyone else's interested,, dkdnsksms.

ranboo's from a magical girl-like au!!! why? mostly because i thought the idea was fun,, ekenkssjks. tried my best to emulate an anime style into the design, 'm hoping it came across? i've been imagining, if this au were animated like spiderverse,, they'd look a lot like how peni parker was animated,, dkdmskdm. you'll never guess what his magical girl form is themed on /lh.

tommy, as you can prolly tell, is from a royalty au! youngest prince of the antarctic empire,,, design is slightly based on some fanart i saw on reddit, by someone called em0kii, i believe? i say slightly because i only thought to search up "antarctic empire fanart" for inspo after i was done with the lineart,, and by that time it was too late for me to change it to something that better fit the cold environment the kingdom's based on(and by too late i mostly mean i was lazy),,, dkdjskj. still, though, i'm pretty happy with it!

and then there's tubbo! he's from a post-apocalyptic au B]. not one with zombies,, but... idk, maybe something exploded? haven't thought too hard about the cause, but just know that his world is in a not good shape. i'm sure it's fine tho. my main thoughts when drawing him were to make him less colorful and saturated than the other two,, since his universe is a bit darker than theirs,,,, and to make him look a little intimidating(big coat, goggles, scarf, lots of sharp edges, plaid). after all, if you're a 5' something teen in the apocalypse, living all on your own– you wanna try and make yourself look as big as possible to try and ward off as many threats as you can. and if that doesn't work, you can always just hit 'em with a bat.

bonus doodle under the cut:

tfw you wake up in the middle of a forest, with no memory of getting there, with two weirdly dressed strangers right there beside you. like. what the fuck.

[chaifootsteps]

i want to bring attention to a HH fanartist who has been getting some negative attention on twitter for drawing human versions of the HH characters as all white. normally I'd be skeptical of someone drawing human versions of poc-coded characters white (for example, drawing human garnet from SU white would be very off-putting for me because she's meant to be obviously black-coded) but this artist has no problem drawing other characters who are obviously poc (they drew very good spiderverse fanart in the past) so it just goes to show how poorly viv is at racial coding and how non english speakers are at a disadvantage because they won't know that the characters are supposed to be poc without someone translating viv's obscure trivia. they had to make a statement because of the backlash they got from HH fans and it's just really sad to see. people should be demanding better racial coding from viv instead of expecting non-english artists to magically know that some of the HH characters are poc without any indicators that they're poc

https://twitter.com/BAIZEJINTIAN/status/1760745884411908126?t=2JJw652asXMzVHPeNTNM0A&s=19

Sure, they could hold Viv accountable for doing such a piss poor job of making it clear which characters are meant to be poc or even take a milder stance of "It's a misunderstanding and nobody's fault," but why do that when they can harass a stranger? After all, harassing strangers is at least half the fun to this fandom.

[sbk-zgvlt]

MASTERLIST

Because I’m insane.

SEBEK ZIGVOLT

Baskverse: Spiderverse meets Sebek, except there's no spiders. [Baskverse Tweets]

Cat, Crocodile and Yuu: Instead of meeting a certain Heartslabyul freshman, Yuu and Grim meet a loudmouth from Diasomnia.

Family Friend AU: Somehow, everyone’s parents are acquainted with a certain Diasomnia freshman.

Lost and Found AU: Sebek saves Epel from an incoming branch. He cannot save himself.

Mall Sebek AU (Sebek Gets a Paycheck): Sebek works in a retail store called Not Claires and a fast food place called Not Jolibee after hearing about Yuu’s world’s hellish lifestyle of being a fast food/retail worker. And gets a boyfriend out of it (Ace). [Fanart] 

Manifestation AU: Malleus’ outburst leads to some unforeseen consequences. Namely, a physical manifestation of his powers in one Sebek Zigvolt.

NBC Sebek AU: Sebek attends NBC instead of NRC. [Fanart]

Pomefiore Sebek AU

RSA Sebek AU: Sebek attends RSA instead of NRC. [Fanart]

Sebek Chime: What would happen if Mama Zigvolt decided to move away from Briar Valley with her husband instead?

Sebek the Accidental Internet Sensation: It starts with a near-death experience in Harveston and ends with a Magicam account...

Storybook Madness: The cast get transported to their respective fairy tales. To Diasomnia’s surprise, Sebek is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, Sebek wakes up in an island about to be invaded by pirates.

STYX Sebek AU: Sebek takes a different path in the forest, and finds himself in STYX after an overblot gone...right?

Theater Kid AU: He’s a theater kid in denial man/lh

DIRE CROWLEY

Dire Need of Yuu AU:  The au where a young Dire Crowley takes the place of Yuu, as he tries to go against the endless time loop made by his own doing.

[billygoat26]

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Name/Nickname: BillyGOAT (Elsewhere you might see me as CallMeToes or StillToes. The nickname originated from auto correct, to put it shortly)

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Fandoms I’m in: Undertale/Underverse, Gravity Falls, TOH (The Owl House), anything to do with Marvel is awesome, Spiderverse (does that count as Marvel anymore?) Honkai: Star Rail, Helluva boss, Hazbin Hotel, The Amazing Digital Circus, Eddsworld, South Park, Sherlock (BBC version), Wuthering Waves, MHA, Ramshackle, SMG4 stuff (mostly Puzzlevision/anything to do with Mr Puzzles), JJK… (This list CAN and probably WILL grow as I either join more or think of more)

What do I do here: Art. Plain and simple. Though there may be some random things I post that have nothing to do with art, I’ll mostly be posting art stuff (Edit: Oh past me, how silly you were... Now I mostly reblog stuff and sometimes rant)

More about me: Jokester, I play the viola, singing is fun when I’m alone lol, I have two cats (Maui and Loki)

I'm currently working on an AU of my own for Undertale called Ambertale. Character designs are a WIP, and once I figure all that out then I’ll work on an official comic! Just… don’t expect it too soon, life is being life and free time is on vacation lately. (Edit: So the comic has just been sitting in my iPad for ages now and I don't wanna continue it right now- might continue it when school decides to not school or when it's summer break. For now, no comic.)

With that, have fun staring at all my random posts!

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Ambertale Character Designs:

Ambertale Papyrus by rurunyaa

Ambertale Sans by me

Asher reference sheet in progress (I think- updated version anyways)

Ambertale: A Day in the Life of Sans:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3 (coming soon)

[dreemurr-skelememer]

Yo there! I’m very sorry to bother you at this time but I’m hoping if you’d be so kind to check the post that I pinned on my blog and maybe give it a little help by boosting/sharing it? it’s for my cat :((( and we need help to get him the tests that he needs. Thank you if you do as it would really mean the world to me and I understand if you don’t, still appreciate you and stay safe! Btw, please do send me a msg to reply or answer the ask privately instead as I dont want other blogs to think im a spambot or what, sorry for asking this, praying you’d consider! 🥲🙏

you literally only started reblogging and posting 40 minutes ago. only reblogging spiderverse fanart and mildly popular cutesy things.

you are nothing but suspicious there are soooo many scams around tumblr that go "hey can you check my pinned? donate pls" and i just do not buy it.

i was open to the idea but you literally have only started reblogging and posting shit like 40 minutes ago

[rainbow-pop-arts]

Hello, fellow Trigun fans! Welcome to part 1 of my Trigun Maximum vol 4 thoughts for @trigunbookclub

Some thoughts on TriMax chap 21-23 under the cut!

Jessica is a number one Vash simp, y’all can’t even compete with her

Y’know, since the Project Seeds happened I always thought it was because the earth was dying. Because of that, I never thought the earth would still be around even for hundreds of years

THIS WAS ACTUALLY WHAT I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT! Plants don’t last forever so after a long time humans would become extiiiiiiinct!! ( ＞Д＜ )

Omg, more humans will come. Hopefully they’ll pick up the humans on Gunsmoke and find a more stable planet OR they’ll make Gunsmoke stable

Homies high-five

Meryl and Milly sure are having fun ╰(°∇≦*)╮

Yaaaay, they’re having a party! (〜^∇^)〜

KNIVES JUMPSCARE (*WHEEEEEZE* Look at this dude-)

Oh, what’s he gonna do with his angel ar-

[BRWOOOOSH] Oh

Oh no, Knive’s brwoosh cut the satellite signal ):

Oh, he mad

And so, Vash and Wolfwood are off to another journey

…………..Um…what a way to start a chapter

Anyways, this was how Hornfreak met Knives. I guess the sound waves only works on humans. Dunno why Hornfreak decided to do a massaccare with his bandmates

I actually saw this panel on Pinterest but it said slurs instead

So Knives killed Hornfreak’s bandmates and Hornfreak witnessed it

ANYWAYS, back to Vash and Wolfwood!!! ╰(▔∀▔)╯

I think they’re mad that Vash and Wolfwood didn’t tell them before leaving

Look at ‘em go

Woah, look guys!! It’s the panel where the pic I took for my “Say No to Drugs” poster was from!!

Oh no, there’s trouble! I wonder what kind of-

……………

“ P a t h e t i c “

OoOoOoOooo, glimpse of Meryl’s past

Ew

Damn bro, they really yassified Zazie in Stampede. Zazie appeared only one episode in the ’98 anime and got killed by Wolfwood on the same episode.

Meryl gets kidnapped by Zazie’s bugs, to be continued

That’s all for part 1! ヾ(*▼・▼)ﾉ⌒☆

Bonus: So I had this thought that TriStamp!Knives and Miguel from Spiderverse have some things in common. They’re both buff men in skin tight suits (in Knive’s case I think his suit is skin), they can have blades on their arms, they’re terrifying when angry, they’re a leader of something(?), there’s one person they wanna attack the most(???), and that's all I could think of. Do you guys think there's more that they have in common?

I also googled "trigun spiderverse" and was shooketh when I found fanart of Knives with Miguel!(⁀ᗢ⁀)....I just didn't expect that people would ship them wth (;° ロ°)

[robotpussy]

It's been less than a week and the fandom has already gone full tilt again with the papi~ and hypersexualized Spicy Latino racist stuff to the point where trying to find fanart or post/tag commentary that doesn't feel like he's reduced from a complex flawed character into a sex toy feels like a challenge right now.

between the antiblackness towards hobie brown and the racist fetishization of miguel I can tell it's going to be a long week in the spiderverse household.

it's a shame because I've seen people say "we're doing this because his personality sucks but he's attractive" so instead of evaluating why you think his personality sucks (like idk.... reading up about the character) you just.... go the racist fetish route.... ok!

[minquiec]

Why GiftedEyes is kinda special to me

Oh my goddd it's been a while since I yapped 😭 I've just been busy I promise I never stop the yap but this is uhmmm smth new that I haven't really posted about cause I literally came up w it 3-5 weeks ago but it's a oc PLUS canon not oc X canon cause it's a platonic pairing between an oc and.....GOJO SATORU OUT OF ALL PPL but yea enjoy I think

This is but a temporary diversion from jipunk hshahaha cause thinking abt moving on makes me wanna throw up cause I don't like change 😍😍 but I realise it's okay to like multiple things at the same time and it doesn't define me 🤺 so anyways

(I still love all my ocs and characters and ships and what not I never move on I just can't multitask and fixate on two things at once [me trying to self affirm LOL])

So how the fuck did I get here

How did I join the masses and suddenly become a gojo satoru enjoyer? Tbh idrk cause I've been into jjk for a while and it kinda appears in phases where I'd be pretty into it for a week and then ease out and then repeat for the next couple of months but this time round it's especially bad for some reason bc???? Hello??? I suddenly grew heart eyes for gojo satoru?? Scratches head fr but LAWD ITA SO FUN cause fanart wise jjk is a way more popular series than spiderverse and i can literally feel my starving body being replenished

But besides him being obviously a pretty boy I've actually grown to like his character a lot

So you see ☝️🤓 the problem w me is whenever I like a character I always gotta really REALLY like them to the point when I start analysing their personality to see if I actually fr like them and that's how it lasts longer than an average "he fine I want him"

And w gojo I think I realized I rlly like characters who have compassion for other ppl? 😭 but it's gotta have layers idk I have a range of types so maybe I'm just talking bs

Cause it's not rlly obvious w gojo but he's really kind in terms of his compassion for humanity which makes me ssooo 🙂‍↕️☝️😭🙏🙆‍♀️🤺🫶💔💔🧍‍♂️🗣️📈📈🔥🔥‼️🆙🆙 and it shows in the way he treats his students (ignoring the fact bro stepped on peoples faces in shibuya but you sort of get what i mean not really) and in that one line where he said smth like "no one should take the youth away from young people" and im going to leap because of his own youth that was taken from literally his birth cause of his groundbreaking, historic birth with his six eyes AND limitless

So very obviously he didn't have a normal childhood, probably put on a pedestal and worshipped which meant he grew up! Kinda weirdly! And when he met suguru he could probably experience his youth for the first time (geto!! Suguru!!! Was his first and last blue spring!!!! Blue spring is a poetic way of saying youth!!!! I'm gonna LEAP) and that youth was prematurely taken away at FIFTEEN and SSEECONNDD YEAR when riko was killed which could basically be a metaphor of the death of their youth with their morals and principles being thrown into a clothes dryer and tumbled around

And I'm not gonna. Get into how much stsg make me wanna tear my hair out cause tbh I Will Cry cause I've cried atleast 4 times about them before and I'm trying to keep my peace and they actually make me so sad bc the depth of their connection Makes Me Want to dddiiieeeee 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ they're so much more than just ahaha silly ship tgt and it drives me crazy but I'm not gonna get into it bc once again; I'm Gonna Cry

Anyways back to sat or oo gojo, he can do very easily be that cold typical guy that doesn't care but instead he chooses to hold the responsibility of the jujutsu world on his shoulders alone bc unlike the higher ups who are fucking useless!!!! He doesn't want the youth to suffer for the mistakes (they inevitably do anyways though 💔) cause I saw this tweet where he literally, could've solved the whole shibuya incident in a split second if he wanted (hollow purple the whole place and easy as that) but because of the innocent people involved he chose to literally risk vulnerability by over exerting to the max like wtf did you see that he's insane he's crazy he's gojo satoru (which in the end cost him his temporary freedom 💔💔💔 but I digress)

But uhmmm that concludes why I like him so much rn 🙏🙏 I saw this rlly good tweet where it mentions from who I believe is a jjk screen writer?? And mentions that gojos attractiveness stems from his ability to show weakness and that he isn't all invincible in terms of character and im like uuueEEEEEE but I appreciate him a lot

So ofc as any normal person would deal with loving a character, obviously my crazy ass decided "wow!! What a tragic character who's so, so lonely!!! I can't stand this and my heart cries for you so I'm gonna give you a companion because the canonical media treats you too painfully!!!!!"

Like a normal person does

So now we enter mins crazy bitch domain, my mind palace, my noggin if you will and all this takes a sharp detour to Cringeville but when have I ever gaf

A key aspect of Ruri's character is that she revolves around the failure of authorities in her life, starting from young where she is exploited for monetary means because of her jujutsu talent. I kinda made it on purpose that she parallels w satoru in a way where both were deprived of a normal childhood due to their talent? She is then failed again by the higher ups in the incident where she loses an eye due to their mistake and it's important to note that during this time (around ~2006 to ~2007) the star vessel plasma stuff happened and haibara dying due to higher ups so it really just solidifies that theme of children being exploited and burdened for the mistakes cause by the generation before them.

So because of this, there's already a different kind of connection between all of the surviving students of this time (mmm sort of minus suguru cause he went off and uhm,, started his cult and became public enemy #1)

On top of this initial connection of trauma, prior to it ruri and satoru had a more whimsical thing going on where they both have special eyes kind of (hence why I named it GiftedEyes cause they're technically both gifted in their own sense and they got fucked up eyes hahahaha) and during this time period, he's just very cheeky and cocky and she barely tolerates him bc ehhh he's just like that but he's nice in his own fucked up way

For shoko and suguru it's more of a normal friendly close relationship cause ruri's canonically likeable HaHaHa she's just very nice to be around so the 4 are in this close friend group tgt but I won't get tm into their dynamic or whtevr the fuck they have going on

So after the star ves incident and ruri's accident, she disappears for like ATLEAST A DECADE I THINK,,, TO HEAL?? (I'm still working on this but all ik is the higher ups took her away for healing) so none of the three see her again till 2018 (WHAT REALLY FUCKS ME UP IS THAT SHE NEVER GOT TO SEE SUGURU AGAIN,,,,, there's one situation where she actually sort of walks past mimiko and nanako in a public setting and she recognises a bit of his CE [this shit ain't canon, making this up cause it's part of her CT ajjajaj] but she brushes it off)

But anyways the dynamic changed when they meet again as adults in 2018 where instead of barely tolerating his shenanigans, ruri grew to be one of very few people who actually indulge his personality (as masked as it might be bc cmon now) because seeing familiar faces after all they've been through makes her sad 😞😞 it doesn't help she's older AJAJA only by a little but she's biologically inclined (ruri: oct 20 shoko: nov 7 satoru: dec 7 suguru: feb 3)

And while I say indulge, I don't mean she's actively encouraging it LOL she still has that stoic calm personality from adolescence but it's more like she turns the other way whenever he's being goofy (she buys him sweets and souvenirs whenever she comes back from missions)

And its cause like, the idea of someone who's on the top of the chain, the world even, finding comfort in an old friend makes me soooooo sssssssooooooo aAAAUYYEEUUGGHHHHHH it's what he deserves after so long so this is my coping okay and it kills me cause i think he (bear with me here lemme be cringe) would find a lot of comfort in her presence again cause sometimes it's like she's a time capsule from the distant past where he was actually happy and can't help but almost revert to the silly cheeky version 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ he may be suffering from his breakup for the past decade BUT atleast he got his girl SPACEBAR friends to support him (shoko and ruri)

Platonic love also really makes me sob cause like ,,, it's the way you've formed such a connection and affection (non romantically) strung by the mishaps and tragedies you've suffered together,,,ueueue but yea that's it i think i need to honk shoo mimimi they r special to me

[42flower]

WHAT'S UP DANGER

#42FLOWER. — an independent, selective, sideblog for MILES MORALES of EARTH 1610, as told by the spiderverse movies. depicted by NOX. cross-over & oc friendly. read rules below before interacting. no password required. follows exclusively from @novaragno.

DISCLAIMER: if you don't love me at my oc, you don't deserve me at my canon. mun is of age, muse is a minor. therefore, there will be no smut on this blog. any sexual content will be restricted to dumb teenager jokes. keep fl*werpunk and fl*werfang away from me.

✧  o1. asks & threads.

If you want to make a plotted thread, y'all just need to hit me up ! Be it on my DMs or Discord ( that I only give to close mutuals ), if you send something I should answer it pretty fast. And if you want to continue a thread based on an ask, there is no problem with that, no need to ask !

✧  o2. roleplay memes.

I do reblog karma here ! This means that I would prefer that you reblog a meme on my blog from the source ! I do not like the notification clogging it does ! I am BEGGING you to reblog both memes and musing posts FROM THE SOURCE. It’s such a pet peeve of mine.

Since many people tend to do that, I have decided that after 3 times someone reblogs a meme from me ( instead of the source )  without sending any, I will softblock said person. This rule does not apply if the source of the meme is broken.

✧  o3. language & grammar.

English is my third language, so be ready, there might be some spelling errors and mistakes, heck, there might be some on this page only ! You might find some posts in italian or french.

✧  o4. godmodding.

is of course non-authorized. Killing my muse without so much of a warning and us plotting beforehand will make me automatically drop the thread. METAGAMING unless warned or talked about before is also non-authorized.

✧  o5. art & credits.

The art used on this blog ( icons & graphics ) will come from official art, screenshots, and concept art. in the cases fanart is used, all artists will be credited properly. if an artist wishes their art to be removed from their blog, i will do so immediately.

✧  o6. crossover & ocs.

Both are great ! Usually if you have an about page, you’re already halfway good to go. For crossovers, I have to know the universe your muse is from / you gotta have a verse I can work with, as for OCs, I love OCs to bits and I’ve been an advocate for ocs since 2016.

✧  o7. shipping & nsfw.

I am more than okay with shipping, if of course we’re both on the same page about it. One-sided crushes can happen, both from your character and mine, but if the feelings are unrequited I will not push you for a relationship nor should you expect yourself to do the same towards me.

NSFW will happen only in the form of violence and dark themes. For specific triggers, please shoot me a message.

✧  o8. Blacklist & triggers.

I have very little squeaks, however I understand that others do. If you need anything tagged, tell me so ! I will not interact with T.he A.mazing D.igital C.ircus, other Glitch Production works, as well as any Vizpop Production muses. If you are a multimuse or have a verse that connects to those, please have a tag I can block.

✧  o9. AI art & other stipulations.

I WILL BLOCK YOU IF I SEE YOU USING AI-GENERATED ART. if you are unaware of the problems ai-generated material causes for the art industry, be it illustrators, writers or animators, i implore you to educate yourself on the matter. as someone who would like to enter the industry one day, THIS IS A DEAL BRAKER TO ME. i understand the curiousity and wanting to do it recreationaly, however, BE AWARE that those do cause harm too and feed the machine.

PLEASE TAG YOUR INTERACTIONS WITH MAE // FOXTAIL // SERA // GORE AND PAPAYA // AXOLOLT // GLORY. Their presence is pretty triggering for me. Thank you ! Their URL is enough. I WILL ALSO NOT INTERACT WITH PROSHIPPERS. if we're friends & i find out you're a weirdo, i don't care how long we've been friends, IT'S ON SIGHT AND I WILL NOT BE COVERING YOUR ASS EITHER. i'm a recovering survivor of grooming and abuse and i do not wish to be exposed to that kind of content nor people who actively get off it, and that is my right.

I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR LACK OF COMMUNICATION. as a roleplay partner and friend, i try to be as communicative as possible, and i believe that enjoyable interactions, be it ic or ooc, reside on all parties communicating their needs and wants. IF YOU FAIL TO DO YOUR PART, THAT IS NOT MY FAULT. don't be wishy washy about it, i take things at face value; give me CLEAR STATEMENTS.

[skiimbii]

> the 'ship' of theseus theory

I'm sure people have already talked about this concept a million times over, and I won't be new to the party, but the name I came up with on a whim is funny. I needed to share it somehow. So, I'm here!

It's scribbled on a post-it note on my corkboard: if you change one core aspect of a character with every chapter that you write, at the end of the fic - is it still the same character? Or is it just a glorified OC? Is it still the same ship? Not a crazy premise, of course. But it's something that I find myself thinking about a lot when I read various AUs online. It can definitely be hard to write a good AU without changing a single aspect of a character - and honestly, it's usually necessary to change stuff because oftentimes backstories changing means that personal values change - but I feel like there's a moment where your 'ship' stops being the same thing you started out with. Just like the original paradox, I don't think it's possible to know when you've gone too far until you've already placed yourself firmly in "I've mischaracterized them! Gotta add #OOC to the tags" territory. However, this doesn't stop me from wanting to be able to pinpoint that moment. Is there a way to figure it out? Can there be a formula made, or is it something that you need to figure out on a case-by-case basis? What parts of this ship can you replace without changing who the ship is, fundamentally? It's a hard idea to figure out! I don't think there's a solution, really, but I like the brain workout it gives me.

You can make a very barebones solution to this problem, I've found, by watching the second Spiderverse movie. Specifically, I'm talking about 'canon events'; things that need to happen in order for Spiderman to become Spiderman. Thinking about a character and their personality as a chain of events instead of one giant incomprehensible web of traits can help make the ship easier to navigate. Peter Parker's uncle must die in order to create Spiderman; [insert character's name here] must do [insert event here] to become who they are in the present. Everything else that happens is merely additional. I'll reiterate, it's a very barebones way of fixing things. But if you're confused, or new to the writing game, or just not very good at figuring some of this shit out, it's not a bad starting point, I don't think. And, much like in the movie, you can break this rule, if you think you want to do your own thing. (I think I'm clever.)

This isn't just for individuals, of course. I didn't call it the ship of Theseus for no reason :). If you have a ship that has, for example, the very best dynamic - #rivals_to_lovers - and you change it to #childhood_friends_to_lovers, for an AU you've thought up ... how far can you take changing the genre before you've ended up with a completely different pair of characters? When an author understands how to change the dynamic and really toe that line, I find that those fics tend to be some of the best pieces of writing I've ever read. It's about being able to fix that ship to fit your needs in that moment; to make it a galleon or a schooner or a yacht or a battleship, without changing the name painted onto the hull. (I would give examples of fics that have done this beautifully, but unfortunately my ao3 subscriptions stay between me and god.) The ship doesn't even have to be people, in all actuality. This little thought experiment of mine extends to be as general as just the concept of AUs themselves. It does get a tad convoluted at that scale - I'm thinking about that joke about how the darkest franchises have the most fluffy fanart - but it's still a track that can be followed. When you change a setting, you don't just change what background you've dropped the characters on, but rather you've changed the very heart of the story itself. If you were born in a different planet, or country, or tax bracket, you wouldn't be who you've grown up to become. Same concept, even if they are fictional. (In that line of thinking, any #yume or #Xreader fics could play around with that idea. I think it would be fun to ask yourself how you would act differently if you were raised in a different universe. Imagine yourself as a ship!) I like to think about changing settings as a form of translation, specifically translating songs; sure, you can translate the lyrics directly from one language to another, completely literally, but that'll just end up sounding clunky. Talented translators know how to bend and shape the words and phrases into the next language to sound just as good as the original lyrics. Good authors can change the setting while still maintaining the character as the character. Change a pirate into a college student, but keep their sense of (perhaps criminal) adventure, or whatever your situation might be.

You can read all of this and completely disagree, it's all welcomed. I'm not trying to say that this is the only way to create good media, because it isn't. Art is subjective, and this is an idea that came to me while eating breakfast, so it has no horse in this race. But, if you're like me, and you want to make something that follows the rules of canon without needing to actually follow the rules of canon - maybe it will also help you, to think about it as a boat. Or maybe you're tired of the nautical references. My ship passes you in the night, and we're both good because we're still floating.

[nocek]

Hi I'm back I guess?

So for the update: the funny story immediately continued with nerfing me with 2.5 days of migraine (fun times, 0/10 do not recommend) and then life got busy and I was still too bummed out to share any drawings or anything.

Good news is that yesterday those 5 shorts got taken down from youtube. Annoying process but it has worked.

until it didn't

because of course it didn't

the lovely thief just sent counter claim

because of course they did

if one of those shorts had like million views and rest of them had couple hundred thousand it must be worth it i guess? plus like 5 dmca claims would probably hurt their revenue?

anyway the fun part is that all of this process was in my native language but now the counter claim is suddenly in english (yay customer service? that's very helpful with legal jargon and all) that requires me to send them proof of me taking legal action against them in 10 workdays starting now

so with that I'm not longer bummed out. I'm fucking pissed off.

like seriously fucking pissed off

and worst of all I know i can do shit all to them. I'm not an us citizen, i don't have money to sue them in us and I know that it's a piece of fanart so it's fucking pointless

the best I can hope for is that they just want to have the dmca cleared from their account and after that they will have the fucking decency to delete the shorts and won't touch my art in the future

but my faith in humanity took a hit so I'm sorry to say that from now on I'll have to add some annoying watermark with the "do not fucking repost" clearly visible. At least when I'll draw for popular fandoms. Which also pisses me off.

Which sucks because usually when I fixate on fandom it holds me for a long time :S and I have new spiderverse stuff to post. But I guess after that it's time to fall back on god ol buckynat or maybe TRON requires a mandatory rewatch XD that's like as niche as it goes

But to end on positive note. To be honest I just now read the lovely notes you left on this post which tbh made me cry a little. Because when I was writing that I was processing my neediness for like idk popularity? Even if I know that if you get too popular weirdos on internet will start to notice you too and I'd rather avoid that.

So I want to just thank you. You are all right and from now on I'll focus on being productively pissed off instead and continue drawing out of spite (again, sorry for the future watermarks :S) so plan for today is nice drawing of Gabriella in Miguel in silly Halloween costumes.

Because self indulgence is the way!

Do you want to hear a funny story?

So you know that I was drawing spiderverse comics lately. Because they are fun to do. And I think people like them. I mean the most popular one has like 4K notes? That's lot for me when I usually dwell in tiny fandoms made out of like 3 people and their dog. So it's nice, everybody is having fun and I'm grateful.

but

BUT

I just found out that somebody took few of that comics. Cut them up and run the text through ai reading voice and posted it as reels on fucking youtube.

And it's not even that I'm stumped why even turn 4 pictures into video. First time I see such a time wasting thing but ok. People do like different things.

And even lke some effort was done to erase text from speech bubbles so it appears as the ai spews it aloud but it's not even about it

I had pictures taken and posted somewhere else. Usually without credit. At least this time it was credited? I guess I should be grateful.

What fucking gets me is that those comics have several hundred thousand views and few hundred comments each.

Like fucking seriously.

I don't know what's the point

I don;t know what should I feel about this

I mean unless you can make money on youtube reels? Then I can at least be pissed about it. Nice clean feeling?

Because what gets me is that most of those comments are nice so I should be happy about it? I guess? But I feel like a pathetic peeping tom looking for appreciation that wasn't given to me actually eve if I did the thing

ugh

I'm just tired

this day was already shitty so i guess it's time to give up and take a nap

next comic will be delayed