#my apologies for the quality of the image

[jemichiart]

The new volume of the @seaunseenzine is out now, so I can share my illustration, featuring Atlantic Mackerels this time. 🐟

You can get this gorgeous zine about the life in the seas from https://seaunseenzine.carrd.co/ and support marine conservation. 💙

[localicecreambiter]

look at how I inconsistently shade these manga panels. very classy. very demure

[foe-of-fate]

[earthrealm-konquest]

━ ⋆ Smoke's MK3 skin in MK1 is so tempting to purchase, so too cope the missing money I have to get it I drew instead..

[rswx-eclipse]

WHO LET HIRANO BE SO MAJESTIC

his smile (especially when its directed towards a certain someone....) is EVERYTHING TO ME RN

LIKE??? HELLO???? SIR?????

[theoverthinkingpumpkin]

🦈: Hello transformers fandom. It's been a while. Sound systems be upon ye (alt versions under cut)

[lacecap]

my fav forever and ever

[blueberrybanee]

Happy Birthday To Me~🎵

I apologize for how late this post is, I've been pretty busy this week and today 🫠 but I finally managed to get this done! It's my birthday! (Again! My last one didn't feel like it was that long ago...)

This is a very big day for me, probably one of my biggest, super special birthdays yet :)

I really wanted to draw a lot more characters, but that was simply much more than I had the energy for, so I decided to draw little plushie versions of two of my ultimate favorite Bounty Hunters and their adorable sidekicks + my Mandosona :))) (I gotta stop putting so much effort into these simple drawings omg I'm so tired)

Bonus; My birthday cake! It's ice cream cake :DDD

[crystallizedday]

Mkay, so I just woke up & I feel like spitting some facts today while I’m still in my BATDR hyperfix, especially since I’m pretty sure not a lot of people have this idea as well & I wanna get it out there somehow.

So…

The Ink Demon is like… written SO fucking well in this game, or at least as I interpret it.

& I figured this shit out like GRADUALLY.

The first tid bit that hit me like a fucking truck was how CANONICALLY the Ink Demon is in DESPERATE need of any kind of love and affection. While it’s hinted at a little bit in the games, the smoking gun comes from the VOICE ACTOR FOR INKY HIMSELF Sean Crisden.

Yes, I looked through his entire Twitter to find this again just to prove I’m not insane.

Like… even if Sean isn’t caught up entirely on the lore, there’s no reason he would say this only knowing the Ink Demon through his lines. After all, my guy has to be told about the character to voice him, so for him to address this pretty much makes it as close to being confirmed officially as we can.

The second thing that hit me like a truck was the YouTuber Pastra’s review video on the game, where he details how the Ink Demon’s mocking in the last chapter is towards HIMSELF, not Audrey, & he’s just projecting all HIS shit onto her.

Not even I caught this, since I always thought Inky was right about the “your life is a lie” thing due to her not being fully human.

But then Pastra emphasized the “mistake” bit. Audrey wasn’t a mistake, far from it. The Ink Demon, BENDY, was. HE was a mistake, born solely to be a living mascot to entertain, & when he came out WRONG, he was locked away, neglected, abandoned by the man who created him.

So he looks at Audrey, someone who was made by the same man who made him, someone who was treated so much better because of how she came out “perfect”, & tries to bring her down on the same level as he is by berating her.

& while this is stretching a bit, him comforting her at the end feels a bit like he’s trying to comfort himself, tricking himself to believe there is SOMEONE like him, someone who was ABANDONED & lied to, & thus giving Audrey the opportunity to live so he can indulge in that comfort.

It’s a BIG stretch, but god DAMN is it a gut puncher!

Like I’m sure he also did it to manipulate her & shit, but like… he can have MORE than one reason to do shit, & if he really did try to comfort himself like that, if that really is true… then I’m gonna fucking sob, man.

BUT THAT IS NOT FUCKING ALL!!

Cause I got ONE MORE mind blower I had, mainly (but not entirely) on my own after that one!!

& it has to do with Baby Bendy.

A LOT of people think Inky got his mind split in two when he was imprisoned as Baby Bendy due to how different he acts around Audrey.

But I beg to differ.

I think the Ink Demon is ABSOLUTELY still conscious & in control as Baby Bendy. He just couldn’t do shit to anyone before Audrey came about & accidentally freed him (cause I am ALSO subscribed to that theory Pastra addressed in his video), so he just minded his own business.

Perhaps his new emotional responses spoken of in the Keepers’ tapes come from him being more powerless & vulnerable where the only thing he COULD do was cry.

& the reason he acts so friendly towards Audrey once she meets up with him near the city? Because she was kind to him, she actually gave a shit about him. She apologized to him about hurting him & wanted to take care of him.

NEVER in Inky’s life has he EVER had someone genuinely care about him & his well being, something he always wanted from ANYONE but never got. So when he finally has that opportunity with Audrey, he jumps to it, going along with it, even if he desperately didn’t want to visit the Gent labs again.

More evidence of this is detailed in a post by @jupiter-jellies titled “Ink Demon VS Vesty” which I really like (I apologize for the tag, I don’t know if there’s an easier option to showcase the post itself, but I still wanna credit you nonetheless) as it makes sense of the sequences of events that happen from when Baby Bendy first joins your party to when he disappears & the Ink Demon comes to stop you from entering the Keepers’ area. Seriously, that shit blew my mind when I read it cause it explains WHY Baby Bendy went missing & why the Ink Demon would try to stop Audrey from going THERE in particular.

It just makes sense that the Ink Demon was still HIMSELF in both forms, he just acts differently to compensate for his lack of powers & to be given the love & affection he always wanted.

… But then it gets sad.

Cause the more I thought about it, the more fucked up it became. The ONLY time the Ink Demon EVER got someone to reach out to him & make him feel cared for… is when he’s in a “perfect” form. Only when he was cute & innocent & TRAPPED against his WILL could he be EVER loved, that if only he came out RIGHT in the first place, then he would DESERVE all the love that Audrey offers him.

If Joey & the others neglecting & abusing him when he came out wrong when he was JUST created didn’t solidify this idea in his head, Audrey treating him like a friend in his “perfect” form & an enemy in his true form DEFINITELY sealed the deal to him.

& it only gets worse.

I was re-listening to Joey talking to Audrey at the tail-end of the game to try & snap her out of the dark mindset Inky put her in when I realized something.

The Ink Demon was RIGHT THERE, listening to his abuser talk directly to AUDREY the ENTIRE TIME, telling her how she was loved & how she’s not this monster, that she was his pride & joy, his ONLY success…

& that PISSES Inky off.

In INKY’s point of view, only after Joey had a creation that WASN’T an abomination did he suddenly have a change of heart, that all it took was to get something he always wanted to be a better person as he completely ignores his biggest mistake that was RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM.

That… has GOT to sting, really bad, to feel abandoned AGAIN in favor of the “better sibling” that Audrey was.

I have a feeling that he didn’t crush Joey SOLELY so he couldn’t get through to Audrey. I think he also did it because he couldn’t take LISTENING to him talk like this anymore, to be reminded that he was a failure that didn’t deserve the love that Audrey got, & lashed out to shut Joey up.

This is ALL very headcanon-y, but… it really does paint the Ink Demon in a more complex & tragic light.

The Ink Demon was NEVER just a mindless monster that killed whatever it wanted on sight. He was capable of emotion, & he could’ve potentially been capable of being something so much more if only he got the proper care & reassurance he DESPERATELY needed.

& GOD I love his character for it, he’s my favorite character in the game BY FAR because of this, GOD I hope this is canon so I can give massive props to the writers for this game!!

[libr-0-cubicularist]

Merry Christmas @hey-adora I figured it was long overdue that I drew something for one of your many wonderful AUs.

Pinecone deserves all good things and I love her very much.

[magister-magolor]

Magolor's Ears

EDIT: THIS POST IS FALSE. it turns out his ears emote a bit in the cutscenes of Kirby's Return to Dream Land. They were still intended to be horns pre-release though, and I wouldn't be surprised if Traitor Magolor was designed with that still in mind!

Y'know, when the original Kirby's Return to Dream Land came out I think Magolor's ears were still intended to be horns. They don't move at all in-game, they were referred to as horns in concept art,

and Traitor Magolor DEFINITELY has fully visible horns.

It was only in later games, specifically Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe onwards, where they started to move and emote like animal ears.

Obviously we can see for sure that nowadays they're just cone-shaped animal ears in the Magolor Epilogue in Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe, but this is still very interesting to think about!

Not visible in the image I used, but also note that the concept art mentioning horns ALSO says that the horns in the boss fight are just his horns extending.

[serialbxwl]

metallica: animal edition 🐂🐖🐇🦌🐕🦎🦁

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

old solar doodle from back in march in reference to that one post about him playing cello (you can't tell me he wouldn't play an instrument i don't believe you) (yes specifically cello or base i dunno he does have violin or viola vibes)(couldn't say for percussion or band cuz i was an orchestra kid so sorry bout that)

[1emon-snickers]

yall wanna see my dialtown fanart from march 2022? of course you do, here you go

[donut-button]

A collection of Sam & Max cartoon production art is archived in this google drive here. All were pieces of artwork sold by Animation Legends. Majority of these are scans whilst some others are photos taken by the people who purchased the artwork from the store.

[kiwikitty-ie]

Just some old paintings that I am still proud of.