#ph_skssshbbq

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revenge for @0mochi0 >:3 a situation ive been wanting to draw anyway even before artfight!!

the most feasible way i can get these guys to interact... is flipp catching the escaped meat near the diner </3 they dont have life outside of work so this is the easiest way (it's a terrible first impression)

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attack on @miniimoose's blip :D a very silly one... ive got a fondness for disaster irkens with unattainable crushes on their bosses that they HATE...

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That unforgivable thought!! That noncompliant abnormality!! Isn’t it about concealing it all and living on!!?

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i am so so so so sooo excited for artfight (esp since i know wayy more iz ocs than last year 🤭) IM ON AF AT ~WhatAPhantasia!!!

i havent added every character i wanted to yet.. i am worried i have like WAY too many but IDC i will add more!! sphecia im definitely adding just to have her there for the theme :3

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I SCRATCH AND SCRATCH, BUT IT JUST STAYS PUT, THIS PERMANENT TATTOO!

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hi ive never seen you in my life until just now but i just wanted to say i love citrus and all of your ocs really theyre fucking banger. keep it up ✌

HI THANKS FOR LIKING THEM ‼️‼️‼️ ive been having a ton of fun with skssshbbq lately so im very happy to see that other ppl think its cool QvQ

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OH, IRK, IT'S YOUR FAULT!

i love flipp sooo so much. speedran an mv for them because this song BANGS!!!!!!!

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skssshbbq doodles from the past week :3 (as always, the flipp-khi stuff is an au!)

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but i know its my fault.

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the grill-lord's 5th favorite thing to do: messing with his employees like rats in a skinner box

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DIDN'T ANYONE EVER TELL YOU NOT TO PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD?

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YOU'RE TAILOR MADE FOR THIS DAY AND AGE CUZ YOU'RE POWERLESS AND LOOK LIKE PREY!

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idk maybe you should've tried harder and then you could've become an invader. /j

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i've been reorganizing flipp's backstory before the steakhouse, and i think i'm solidifying them as an elite-in-training aspiring to become an invader (not particularly because they WANT to, but it's what everyone around them wants + would praise them for...)

they only got so far because a lot of fellow soldiers and affluent commanders thought their eagerness to assist was endearing and kept them around. other than that their abilities are pretty average, and absolutely CANNOT be assertive or sneaky. their combat abilities only just barely passed, it was NOT an impressive display.

(the test gives them a bit of an identity crisis. they realize they don't know what they like outside of "being helpful." that's why the service drone comment pangs so much. they're a soldier, not a drone. right..?)

anyway. flipp does eventually pass their final test. they saw it as their escape from food service hell. unfortunately, a certain grill-lord doesn't like the idea of losing an employee... i might make a thing for that soon :3

pre-steakhouse flipp looks so skeebo 😭😭 eyes so full of hope... oh how the time flies...

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ehehe... im having fun!!! i finished the ref for the main main characters in sksssssh so hopefully soon i can do fancier things wif them :3c tbh im still not happy with the colors of sploo-khi onward (and i want to revamp citrus ALREADY) but we ball

sploo-khi only has a diverse workforce because there's no labor laws for them ^_^

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and yet flipp still respects citrus. they justify it to themself that he's just looking out for them. they dismantle this idea pretty soon afterwards.

the whole "i'm irken" thing is flipp thinking that the perfect irken needs to be completely devoted to the empire, nothing else, yk? i wanna do more with that idea...

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misc little ramb about skssshbbq development hell‼️ (about developing the restaurant itself, plus sploo-khi and flipp things)

designing skssshbbq stuff is SO HARD. what do you MEAN i have to worldbuild. this SUCKS (its so fun but so much work.)

im fighting for my LIFE over here man. im so insistent on keeping sploo-khi's color palette plastered all over the restaurant and other related imagery because he's SUPER self absorbed and you know he'd do that and force people to think it looks good 😭 logo design is hard.

im value mapping my concept art rn! colors TO BE ADDED LATER... i have to plan out the colors now cuz if i dont all my skssshbbq art will be inconsistent and ill HATE myself for it LOL (but this also means i havent been able to make rendered pieces for it 💔💔) SOON HOPEFULLY!!

i worry that i draw flipp and sploo-khi too much together but i cant help it... theyre so fun to draw together!! but i feel like it goes against what the whole story is about! flipp does not have equal power to sploo-khi, and sploo-khi doesn't rly care abt flipp!!! so it feels like i'm making the conflict seem much more focused on mad employee vs boss rather than employee stuck and jaded by the system... but then i realize im overthinking this and no one will think that LOL. i love stories guys.

ah and. i've been worried about my depiction of sploo-khi. i've elaborated on it on his toyhouse page for now. eventually i'm gonna replace it with a theme which'll make these thoughts less visible, so i'm placing a screenie here for posterity.

OH AND. here's the end of my twitter ramble about it.

yeah sorry for the long post, but i feel like these are all important to mention. skssshbbq has a ton of complex topics anyway and i worry abt ppl misinterpreting me or me making a misstep somewhere <_< so i'm hesistant to share things abt it... well!! communication is important so tell me if that happens!!!

EDIT: okay i am less worried abt it bc i asked my friends abt this and they brought up some really interesting narrative points + things i didn't even think about. thanks guys!