#putting it all together into a little comic

[orangejamidiot]

I wISH Metal would get the Surge treatment ]:

Ik the comic writers can’t do anything without SEGAs approval so I don’t blame them, but I feel like it would finally do Metal justice to be the sorta “bad end” result of Surge like, lemme explain:

Both Surge and Metal are depicted as at least analogies of abuse if not just flat out abuse victims. With both of them being forced to be killing machines and thematically “repeat the cycle of abuse.” But where they differ is how they continue. While Surge has dun goofed, she’s shown that she is willing to put in the effort to be a hero. That people showing her love makes her feel well, loved and wants to be better. She wants BOTH her and KIT (important later) to have better lives where they can CHOOSE to be good people.

Metal isn’t given that choice but he SHOULD be given it but not understand how to not repeat it.

Victims of abuse often end up repeating the behaviors that were imposed upon them. Sometimes knowingly, sometimes unknowingly. It would be SUCH an impactful story arc for Metal to be given the choice to rebel against Eggman and TAKE IT, but still end up repeating the behaviors “his father” put into him. Building his own robot empire in an attempt to give other automaton a chance at a better life? But programming them all to act in very specific ways? Depraving them of their own free will like Eggman did to him??? Having to use the little critters to power the machines??? Sonic confronting him about it and Metal not understanding why Sonic doesn’t want him to rebel /OR/ Metal finding his methods superior bc they aren’t driven by the need for world domination and are instead for other Robots like him????

Anyways, back to that point about Kit from earlier; I feel like Metal could also be used as a good analogy for how important support networks are to people in abusive situations. Surge and Kit are quite literally Sonic and Tails with a thick coat an angst coat slapped onto them/pos They’re shown to hold each other up and together. Even if Kit’s was originally programmed into him, the comics show they do develop a mutual bond that equally reciprocated even if they have two different love languages.

Metal doesn’t have that. You could make the argument that now he has Sage but ehhhhhh? I, don’t personally see it. Not yet at least, anyways. Sage gets treated far better than Metal does and Eggman and Sage’s relationship is actually a decently healthy example of a father/daughter dynamic. Metal “has” Cubot and Orbot if you wanna stretch but they aren’t shown to interact much. Especially a mutually supportive dynamic.

It’s always Metal and Metal alone that deals with Metal’s problems. No one is there to correct him. It’s just Metal and Eggman.

GIVE ME MY SONIC & METAL SONIC ANGST GODDAMNIT SEGA, IM SCRATCHING UP THE FUCKING WALLLLLLLSSSSSSSSSSSSS

metal/neo metal sonic ramble

never not thinking about how robots in idw have text like this

but neo metal sonic has the same text as all the organic characters

he also expresses clear emotion just like an organic person would, if not with a bit more robotic logic behind it [save when hes in a blind rage]

HE EVEN EVILLY LAUGHS AT ONE POINT

neo metal is proof that metal is VERY MUCH CAPABLE OF EMOTIONS LIKE ANY ORGANIC [if it wasnt already obvious when he's just metal] i think its sooo crazy that IDW shows metal is the most 'human' out of all the eggman robots yet he's arguably treated the worst, not even being able to Speak in his standard form.

ik sonic is just being his usual dick self here but he kinda has a point in a way. metal almost definitely WANTS to be able to talk and express himself. but he's reduced to his lesser, albeit still very powerful, form.

oh and don't even get me started...

it's so sad to me how even though he's still very capable of emotion, eggman has literally programmed out any hint of rebelliousness. like sure, it's most likely that even if eggman HADN'T programmed out metal's rebellious streak, he'd still be evil, but this leaves not even a CHANCE for redemption on metal's part.

which makes it even more ironic that sonic says this...

sonic fails to comprehend that metal literally CANNOT become a better person. eggman literally repeats what neo already told sonic, metal is programmed to kill and to be loyal to eggman. he has NO choice. hes been under eggmans control forever and when he rebelled he was beaten and reprogrammed to never be able to rebel again. metal has basically zero autonomy outside of eggman's orders [which is in great contrast to neo, who seems to be working FOR eggman's wishes, but still very much absorbed in his own power and emotions].

i don't really know what this whole ramble is about. i think while the comics seem to push the message that metal is going to be evil Forever, i also think it would be devastatingly tragic if he didn't get a redemption in the comics. y'all cant set up a horrifying depiction of abuse like this and tell me 'oh yeah and he stayed in that state forever'. i think if another fight happened at one point or another maybe they could TRY to figure out how to program OUT his anti rebellion streak? lol? even WITH that he did hesitate when sonic offered for him to be a good person again.

he literally hesitated when SONIC. IS THE ONE WHO OFFERED HIM A TRUCE. like he's literally programmed to believe sonic is his copy and he needs to kill him I don't think i can understate how insane it is that metal, despite all his programming and lack of automomy preventing it, for a split second, considered sonics offer.

thats all for tonight. metal sonic deserves the whole world. please reblog or comment your thoughts id love to talk more abt how hes characterized in the idw comics, might talk abt reflections next. bye !

[radioactive-yuri]

one of the few things i'm accepting into my own worldview from the sister imperator comics is the fact that she was the one that designed nihil's entire costume. just imagining her taking her sweet time measuring him, putting various different outfits together for him, doing his make-up, maybe even giving him an ear piercing just to drive the aesthetic in. placing all sorts of different accessories on him before settling on the grucifix necklace. just treating him like a doll, really. combing his hair and telling him he looks so, so pretty, and ignoring his needy little whines because she's so focused on her job. sorry what was i talking about again i think i passed out

[dollilacs]

Tutor Me.² ⋆.ೃ࿔:･

Pairing: Senior!Dean Winchester x Tutor!Reader | Supernatural

word count: 1.6k

Summary: you and dean hang out for the first time that doesn’t involve tutoring.

masterlist taglist — pt1 pt3 (soon)

It had been a week ever since you and Dean took the test. Now you were just waiting for the results to come in.

You sat at your desk tapping your pen against it, dean noticed your anxiousness “doll? You okay?” He asked. You turned your attention to him.

You gave him a nod “yeah- just.. nervous.” You mutter, gripping tighter onto your pencil. Dean licked his lips and faced his direction back to the teacher.

“Now- as everyone knows you took a test last week, some of you did good.. some did- pretty bad.” Your teacher said as he started handing out the test results.

You and Dean were sitting at the end of the class so you were the last two to get your results “good job- both of you.” Mr.Smith said.

you grabbed your test out of his hands preparing for the absolute worst.

Even though most people considered you smart, you still had many doubts about yourself.

You looked at the grading on the test, a wide smile spread across your face.

You got a B+.

You feel a pair of hands wrap around your neck, then another paper appears in front of your eyes.

You read the name on the paper ‘Dean Winchester’.

His lips brush over your ear “I got.. over a D.” He grins “you got an A.” You smile out as you look up at him “seems like I might need to tutor you.” Dean joked, You roll your eyes.

“Don’t get ahead of yourself.” You scoff out “I just can’t help it- I make myself so proud.” Dean said, You let out a light laugh “yeah you should be.” You say, putting you paper down.

Dean was expecting you to get upset and ask him to thank you for even getting him this far, but you didn’t- you just let him be proud of himself.

“Thanks, doll.” You had to admit you were getting attached to dean, he was everything you kinda pictured.

“how ‘bout today.. we can go wherever you want.” Dean said.

You nibble on your bottom lip “comic store?” You suggest “sure, sweetheart.” He smiles.

the bell suddenly rings which interrupts the sweet moment you were having with dean.

You stand up from your seat and throw your backpack over your shoulder “see you after school, dean.” You say giving him a little wave.

“I thought we were past first name bases!” Dean shouted as you walked out of the classroom.

“I’m not calling you ‘babe’!” You shout back, completely disappearing from his sight.

Dean fiddles with his fingers for a minute before grabbing his things and leaving the classroom.

You were gonna be his and Dean was gonna make sure of it.

Later after school you waited outside for dean as usual, your eyes darted around looking for Dean.

Then you finally spot him but this time, he’s with a girl — or girls, there were two girls and they were all over him.

You normally found it stupid the way so many girls would flirt with him day after day, but this time you felt a little different.

You felt upset, a little hurt that he was talking to two different girls.

Though you had never shown it you still felt it.

Jealousy, sadness, maybe a little anger. All of these feelings were bubbling up in your chest just waiting to explode.

You let out a sharp exhale and looked away from the scene.

You stood there for a few more minutes hoping he was done talking to them but when you looked back in that direction, they were gone.

“Jerk.” You mumble to yourself, stepping off the sidewalk and walking across the street.

You sip on your coffee as you look around the comic store.

you are looking through the new marvel comics when you suddenly feel a hand on your shoulder.

You turn around and see Dean standing behind you “surprise doll, where did you go?” He asked, slipping his hands in his pockets.

You pinch your eyebrows together “what do you mean- I said I was gonna go to the comic store.” You said.

Dean shook his head “no we were- me and you.” Dean gritted through his teeth.

You smacked your lips together “well my apologies for not wanting to bother you while two girls were all over you back there.” You said in defense.

He knitted his eyebrows together “You mean Chrissy and Sophie?” Dean asked, you shrugged “I don’t know their names!” You exclaimed.

Dean let out a light chuckle “doll, I don’t like them like that and even if I did- what’s it to you?” Dean asked, you tensed up.

You swallow your saliva “it’s nothing to me.” You insisted, dean licked his lips “then you have nothing to worry about.” He said, grabbing the coffee from your hands and taking a sip.

“That’s mine!” You hissed, throwing Dean a glare “hey you know what they say, sharing is caring.” Dean says with a wide grin.

You knit your eyebrows together in anger as you snatch your coffee from him “you’re buying me a comic book.” You say before grabbing one of the newest comic books and shoving it in his hands.

He looks down at the comic book “Batman? Can’t you pick out anything more- interesting?” Dean stated.

You roll your eyes at his comment “Batman is interesting, besides I need more for my collection.” You say.

“Well then, anything else you wanna add to your collection, doll?” Dean suggested.

you shake your head “nope, I think I’m good..” You hum out walking to the cashier.

Dean places the comic on the counter “is that all for you today?” The woman asked as she scanned the book “hm do you guys have any board games?” You ask tapping your finger on the counter.

“uh.. they should be over there.” The cashier says pointing over to a stack of board games “great! Wait here a minute..” you say before walking over to the shelf.

“Your girlfriend is lucky to have you, you know.” the cashier says, deans mouth curves into a smile “I’m lucky to have her, even if she is a bit- nerdy.” Dean chuckles out.

The cashier smiles at Dean's words as you walk back up to the counter, placing down a board game “now that’s all.” You say, the cashier scans the item.

Dean looks at you “I thought you said you were good with your collection.” He remarked.

“I lied.” You said with a smug smirk.

Dean kisses his teeth and pays for the things that you got “you both have a great day!” The cashier shouts as you both leave the store.

Dean carries the bag in his hand while he’s walking you home “I appreciate this dean.” You say, he smiles “it’s the most I can do.” He says, looking over at you.

God Dean was so head over heels for you, he could never take his eyes off of you no matter what.

That’s why it was so hard for him to pay attention in class, the only thing he could think about was you.

He could just drop this bag and devour you- “Ow shit!” Dean groans out, he looks up and sees a pole in front of him.

He rubs his forehead “dean- you okay?!” You stammer, he stumbles back a bit “yeah-” he hisses out as you rush to help him stand still.

“Let me see..” you mutter, gently removing his hand from his forehead “how did you even do that..” you ask, letting out a light laugh.

Dean licks his lips “I wasn’t- paying attention..” he admits, you giggle “well don’t you worry, I can take care of that.” You say, wrapping Dean's arm around your shoulder.

He leaned on you, resting his head on yours as you helped him walk the rest of the way to your house.

Once you reached your house, you sat Dean down on your couch “you have to be quiet.. my parents are sleeping.” You whisper, dean only nodded and gave you a thumbs up.

Your mouth curved into a half smile, you walked over to your fridge and grabbed an ice pack and wrapped a small rag around it.

You gently placed it on the bump of his forehead, he hissed at the sudden pressure on the bump “ouch..” Dean winced.

“It’ll be okay..” you comfort, placing your hand on dean's cheek. He leans into your touch “sit down..” Dean mutters as he grabs you and pulls you onto his lap.

You let out a small yelp at the sudden grab from dean, you shift into his lap finding a comfortable position.

Dean looks up at you with tired eyes “you’re such an angel you know that?” Dean mumbles, you let out a small chuckle “sure.” You respond.

He grabs your hand and removes it from his forehead. “I mean it.” Dean says locking eyes with you, you could feel your face heating up but couldn't show it.

But at the same time you wanted to, you wanted to stop fighting these feelings and just kiss him, confess your love to him.

“Doll, I have a question.” Dean's voice wakes you out of the small daze you were in “yeah..?” You respond, dean wets his lips before speaking.

“I- was wondering.. would you wanna go to the prom with me?”

“Yes.”

You didn’t even think about it for a second, you knew what you wanted and you wanted him.

His eyes widen “seriously?- you’ll actually go with me?” Dean beamed, you nod “I mean it.” You exclaim.

Dean has never felt this much joy in his life other than the joy he felt when he got to sit in your room next to you.

Just as Dean was about to speak you suddenly placed a kiss on his cheek “you’ll get a full kiss at the dance.” You whisper in his ear.

Dean was smiling ear to ear like a total fool, but he was a fool who was just in love with you.

nini yaps: chat.. I’m still working on unfinished drafts..

tags!!!: @halsteadwichester @suckitands33

© 2025 dollilacs rights , do not copy my works or post on different platforms. <3

note: none of the dividers or pictures belong to me!! all credits go to the owners.

[shellsstardew]

this is actually so good i love it. what’s your art process like?

Loved that ask! I finally have the time to answer it! Did you mean all of it? I'm gonna assume you meant all of it, hehe. Let's go!

THE WRITING PART

Let's just say my note app is FILLED with scenes for the comic. It looks like this :

So in green, how I write the scene and in red, the complete list of all the parts I want to write. The red one is really handy because I can look at the overall story super easily (and count how many parts before the kiss hehehe), this is also how I keep track of scenes I add up in between some of them, sometimes I also slide a scene at an another point in the story if i feel it works better.

I have this planned until the kiss (and then some), and I know what I'll do with them once they get together but didn't bother writing down yet, because getting to the kiss is gonna take a WHILE anyway. Hahaha

The list helps me not having to write them in order too! Usually I take walks with music on and this is how I think about most of my scenes (at the beginning of the comic it was in bed instead of sleeping because I was way too obsessed haha)

Sometimes a scene get born just by listening to a specific song, so then I have to put it a loop to be able to write it in my head, and when that happens, it becomes the song I put at the beginning of the parts! It was the case for Jalousie by Rori for part 15 and New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down by LCD Soundsystem for part 35 :)

THE STORYBOARD PART

So I have a template for my storyboards and it looks like this :

Same as before, helps me to see the overall thing and let me draw out of order. I also like do draw a little checkmark when I finished a line-art, it gives me a little dopamine rush haha

As you can see, Shane was supposed to fully laugh at the end of part 28 but I cut it and replaced it with a snort because I thought it would hit way harder if i saved the true belly laugh for the end of their talk. The amount of times something like this has happened is so funny, like I took back so many Shane smiles in other parts because I couldn't help making him already all mushy hahaha (this is not to torture you guys this is so when he does laugh it FEELS DESERVED!).

Also when he finally opens up, I had to add a bunch of Elliott's lines pressing him on for more details cause that boy shouldn't open up that easily! In the draft he's just babbling like it's no problem it's so funny to me

Adding to all this that I rewrite a lot and often at every step of making the comic. Saying this to people who want to write but get discouraged when it suck at first, I know the struggle haha

will do THE DRAWING PART later cause that post is already too long haha

[luvo27]

FINE I GENUINELY CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT IT SO

the fandom is of course called cloudward ho and it was airing when olethra was very small and she gets into it a while after its off air and the canon previous crew were all actors and montgomery was also a writer for the show. maxwell caught like the last episode as it aired or something like that and his grandfather like. owns the company that produced the show or some such and olethra is really into it also because her late grandmother was the lead and honestly she probably gets into the show because comfrey mentions it in like. a home video of olethra as a little baby and possibly the other crew members are in the video as well because they were of course all friends

anyways olethra and maxwell definitely meet in an online roleplay group and start out friendly enough until they find out maxwell hates some of olethra's favorite episodes or something like that and then they start vagueposting about each other but they're. in the energy of brennan lee mulligans arguments for why you should date people at your dnd table. they care too much about their roleplay characters and the story they're telling with them and so do their best to put aside their disagreements there

anyways they meet because the og cast of cloudward ho is doing a reunion panel or something like that!! possibly for a reboot possibly for a sequel spinoff show but also maybe for something like a comic adaptation? and olethra has two cosplays, one is for her grandmothers character and the other is for maryas character

also olethra writes self insert rpf of the actors. i dont know if she publishes it (i think she might. if she does like. one person reads it and that person is daisuke and he cries when she writes him and her grandmother together.) and she also writes self insert fic for the show. maxwell also absolutely writes fic for the show but i think he doesnt publish it and is also hoping to like. reboot or write sequels himself

cloudward ho: modern fandom au where olethra and maxwell meet online and have beef

[size-two-shrimp]

We're bein' abnormal on this wonderful Wednesday night boys >:]

[cozylittleartblog]

Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

...Turns out gay sex actually was the solution.

(This is basically a redraw, come read the real deal over at Tiger Tiger)

[antichrists-plus1]

[They're in love.]

[marionmorse]

hooolyy SHIT

"what a shame i'm so sorry! i'm horrified! You two just happened to end up in the same room. Oh no, there's only one bed! Oh no, there's a chilled bottle of champagne waiting for you! Oh no, you'll have to spend several days in close quarters!"

lois lanes watching them like 'exaaactttlyyyy' she knows what tf is going on

these bitches are soooooo maaaddddd they should just kiss about it </3

they stiiillll haven't touched the champ-

D- 'DEATHSTROKE' SAYS WHAT?

the way i just want like a 15 issue long comic run of bruce and clark hating each other for a whole cruise only to slowly put their differences aside and get closer and all that is crazy

i like to think they had the champagne together after this issue :)

[marclef]

today's lesson: things that Fakey probably shouldn't ask to fellow Fake Peppinos

(featuring DMW Peppi-no from @pizzabox-box)

(my poor dear Fakey might be a little too curious 👁👁💧)

[stars-and-branches]

"he would not fucking do that" but its me reworking the fic im writing because I originally had Tim doing something early in the morning despite knowing full well that he would be honk-shooing it face-first into his keyboard for like ten hours instead

[random-cockroach]

@keferon OKAY BUT LISTEN YEAH I would loved if it was just fun ehehehe and sassy flirting with the demon no one sees pfffht, literally summoned a demon just to flirt with, and I guess it could have been going for a long time, just little strips with their funny adventures and then plot can go to the fact that he wants to give him a body and Shockwave would agree or that they just stay the way they are and just hang out like this together (Alo I remember that you wanted to put Ratchet (I keep writing Ratched instead of Ratchet buuuh) and Drift in it as another demon and their summoner thing whghweghgwe but I like how you made two separate stories for them that happen at the same time, okay I am actually PRETTY MUCH invested in this story, I like a lot how it goes and gets tangled and how mixes up with idw ideas and other stuff a lot)

BUT NOW that you changed it that way, you made a few more things that reader might be interested a lot in, like that promise he made and you mentioning that he will regret it, how their relationship progressively develops, plus the fact that Blurr was a frivolous slob gifted with dark magic AND how the tables turn upside dow and he get consequences for what he did in the most unpredictable way for him and how he surely changes in his behaviour, getting more and more concerned about his promise and maybe truly loving someone for the first time in his life and wanting to change something. And then figuring out that that same demon actually was a person before, someone he knew, someone respectable, kind, shiny, absolut sun of a person, who died (I am still on my knees waiting to know how exactly he died...) miserably to the point that he absolutely can't stand his life as a demon and NOT EVEN being able to kill himself!!! And Blurr was a pupil in his school, he saw him, he gifted him an ability to make his magic work for him, gave the freedom to live among everyone to all who was poisoned with this dark magic. OH WAITA HGSDHAG the thing that beastformers can't walk among transformers and the fact that dark spellers also could not, and how these events happen at a close times, OKAY so dark spellers got their kind of freedom thanks to Senator Shockwave (OH MY GOD what if Orion can see Shockwave and will recognise him right away COUGH) BUT I am wondering if beastformers will get some kind of an official declaration or some kind of school to be educated in and I wonder if Deadlock/Drift (I think after leaving he will change his name from the last episode...) will volunteer to be a teacher t be something more, or he will just end up with Ratchet wandering around the world, or maybe there will be a whole damn revolution where all monoformers and beastformers leaded by Drift go against the system, and maybe these events happen at the same time as a Senator Shockwave fighting for the rights of gifted... Okay I'm getting carried a little bit ahsghag excuse me... OH I GOT carried away A LOT I wanted to get back to the point that Blurr, now figuring out the past of Shocwave, dealing with all the events, dealing with what he has done and find a way to free them, at the same time STILL having adventures and fun since I'm sure he can be a good mood lifter to moody Shockwave and even see him in a really good mood since he is... well, not just a demon made of hatred but the wonderful kind of person in his previous life... (okay being carried away but what if Orion might declare the freedom to beastformers (AJHGAJHSDJAH OH MY GOD I IMAGINED JAZZ AS A PANDA HAVING A ROMAN WITH PROWL AND PROWL NOT KNOWING ABOUT IT OKAY SORRY) after seeing what it lead to after Senator Shockwave. And maybe Ratchet will be able to get his sign back freely after revolution will be successful or he will be forever blind just to be free and safe with his husband OKAY LISTEN I think it is obvious that I really like the thing you do....

[kipkiphoorayy]

how it feels getting crumbs for the sequel of your all time favorite movie that child you used to pray for and came out when you were in elementary school (i’m a college animation major now)

[cobra-wives]

flashback to 1981

[narratorsandall]

I like them 🥺