listen idk how many people can relate to this but i can't stop thinking abt. f/os that are touchy without even realizing it.
like !!! they always have an arm slung around your shoulder , or a hand placed on your back , or sometimes their fingers will barely graze over you because your presence is just so magnetizing to them. whenever you sit next to them there's a slow shift as they lean into you, gradually, maybe snaking a hand over yours or settling their head against your arm ...
... but then the moment anyone calls attention to it they're confused. maybe they'll be hanging out with a colleague or you'll just bring it up in random conversation , but when someone points it out they have to pause and self-reflect. me ? touchy ?? what are you talking about. when did this happen. (as if they haven't been non-stop holding your hand for the past 30 minutes)
trying to not complain about the discrepancy between how much content fictional women and poc have vs the white dudes in every fucking fandom im in, because no one owes me fanart/fic and i can make shit myself, but holy fuck can any of you name a woman?
Finally updating my commission post! I've grown so much as an artist since then and I had such a fun time putting this all together. It's so fun to see how diverse all my art is now! All the wonderful things I now get to proudly show off!
If you're interested in a commission feel free to DM me or email [email protected] !! If you can't commission me, please reblog or share this! It could get me my next payday and allows me to keep creating <3
Of course, if you do message me please be patient and follow basic art commission etiquette! [If you expect me to redo the art after I've already finished the piece expect an extra charge for the time that takes, asking for wips consistently is wonderful! But don't be rude about it, don't expect me to be on my laptop 24/7 to message back right away, etc]
the whole "if you don't reblog every piece of art you see, you hate me personally" attitude is so weird bc at its core is the idea i see in all the new-user guides that tumblr has no post-recommending algorithm. which. is blatantly untrue. y'all just talk about how much you hate it and you all have it turned off. idk man.
i'm sure that part of it is also the bizarre opinion that likes are equivalent to bookmarks, and reblogs are equivalent to likes. that's... also not true. everyone has the option to make their likes public, it's just that every new-user guide also recommends you turn that off. likes are likes, reblogs are bookmarks.
people say it's great that you can hide your liked posts from your page, but also if you don't put every post you like on your page, you're doing it wrong? there's just. there are like three layers of hypocrisy here and it melts my brain every time.
twitter is entering their "rts > likes" phase now that likes are private after they spent years calling us ungrateful for being demotivated by ratios lmao
THEYRE ON THEIR LIKE 1ST DATE ITS PRE EVERYTHING IMM
ALEX HAS PRETTY MAKE UP ON & KYLE JUST "omg pretyt" OR AKJSFHLJAWK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
OIFMADFIKJHAJKGHFKA FAWWWWWWWA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFHASKJFH MADIIIII MADI I CANT FORM WORDS ITS THEM!!!!! U DREW THEM!!!!!!!!!!
Toony Cowboy. Design is still work in progress, but loony toony cowboy here.
Dump Description and Up-Close of some Doodles under cut.
I'd draw comics but that takes a lot of energy. So that's a maybe...
The Doodles
Bonus out of context comic on the original comic.
Description
This Sun is a comic-relief character after undergoing a lot of traumatic events within a short-period of time back when he still worked for a FazCircus with his Brothers (he calls them Brodners) Moon and Eclipse as a trapeze artist. He is an abandoned animatronic alongside Moon (Eclipse mysteriously disappeared like the cryptid he is). After abandonment, he became an outlaw.
He's a hopeless romantic who struggles with verbally expressing his thoughts and emotions. So majority of the time he settles with stumbling around life as a super dumb dude because thinking takes too much processing power.
He's also enchanted with loony toon powers, so he can now consume food, cry, utilize a hammer-space, and make facial expressions. Plus other rubberhose animations and toony effects.
Due to his trauma, he is unable to handle high emotional situations (angst and tension). He needs to isolate himself to process it, but sometimes that makes it worse. Coping Strat: Run away from the stress either normally or by ragdoll flinging himself. Attempting to stay will make him ramble incoherently and make the situation worse, from his POV anyways.
He likes pies and bakes different flavors based on situations.
Pumpkin Pies means he's sorry.
Btw, the character next to Sun here is Eclipse.
Eclipse is an anomaly. I'll talk about him later.
This is kind of just random thoughts and feelings but thinking about it I want to say that I really do feel like miraculous’ handling of marinette as a mixed race Asian character has improved over the seasons and I am a lot more fond of it now that I was previously.
Early on in the show I felt like the writing was alienating marinette as much as possible from her cultural heritage and portraying her as more of an “outsider” to it rather than someone who has GROWN UP with it as a constant part of her life. Now it’s not that I don’t think there are mixed kids out there who have this experience, this is not what I want to portray with this rant, nor do I want to invalidate anyone’s lived experience. But I do believe that having marinette appear entirely ignorant to not only her mothers maiden language but also largely the culture in Kung food was incredibly alienating and uncomfortable to watch. Having adrien, her white love interest, explaining to her not only the most simplistic language elements but also simple cultural ones that she likely WOULD be familiar with just through merely being close with her mother, is incredibly hard to watch for me.
I am NOT saying I do not think it was realistic for marinette not to speak Chinese. Many kids from all kinds of backgrounds are not fluent in their parents native languages for a variety of reasons. But I do feel it unrealistic for her to not pick up some simple vocabulary and cultural elements even without realizing just simply because of having her mother be a big influence on her life. We’ve seen later on that Sabine regularly partakes in many cultural practices all the time and the evidence of this is not only all over their family home but also marinettes own ROOM. Realistically, marinette is more familiar with Chinese culture than adrien will likely ever be just purely as a result of having it in her home.
NOW for my original point to this rant, I actually feel like this attitude towards marinettes culture and the handling of it in the show has actually improved significantly. While I do personally wish her motivation for visiting in the Shanghai special was not so tied to only adriens involvement, I’m really happy to see her learn more about her family and be able to appreciate those ties she has.
But the main episode that I want to praise is Qilin. This is the episode we really get to know more about Sabine as a character and as a result, the way Chinese culture impacts her identity and as a result, Marinette’s. Now there’s definitely arguments to be made regarding whether or not some of this was stereotypical or overly simplistic, but I really don’t have much to say about that myself not being Chinese, and personally don’t take any major issue with anything depicted. What I DO want to praise is them showing how her mothers value of Chinese culture impacts their home’s daily life and routines. Most of all, despite it being offscreen, the implement of something as simple as sharing with us that Marinette regularly goes out to get dim sum with her mother is always really heart warming to me. It may not seem like much but to me at least, casually having Asian food and hobbies be more common in my life than my peers is a really relatable experience to me. Just simple things like getting dim sum often or going to the Asian supermarket are the small ways that I feel like being Asian impacts my life all the time in very small relatively inconsequential ways, and I really loved seeing marinette getting some of this background depth to her life.