#so like my fursonas are representative of me but are really just characters

[fennthetalkingdog]

Dog shifts, dog shifts! For me, for a long time I didn't used to think of my shifting as "dog shifts." (Well, I didn't think of it as "shifting" either but you get the point.) Instead I like to act however I want, whether that be a bit more calmly and like a person or with a lot more stimming and strange behavior, so I always saw my shifting as an extension of that—I feel like growling, purring, meowing, or whining right now so I'm gonna, you know? But I'm just realizing that whenever I do that, I kinda get stuck a little in that animalistic mindset: I see myself as smaller than human-sized, so standing up feels wrong; I get urges to cuddle at the feet of people I like or headbutt them; I like sniffing things and crawling on all fours and communicating solely without words; etc etc. I always thought it came from my oversized imagination or from me having fun doing that (since I already make animal noises in my day-to-day life and just communicate some things by yelping at people). But I realizing now that those might've been shifts? Most of the time self-induced since I have fun making animal noises and then get stuck in a loop, but shifts all the same. And in that case, then I've been having animal shifts all my life O-O

But why am I talking about that? Because yesterday I made a pillow fort in a friend's room and something about it (maybe because it was really short so I had to lay on the floor in it, maybe because I had my own space away from anyone else's eyes) triggered that same mindset. I felt small again, more like an animal, and I could feel my tail more strongly than ever. When I poked my head out of the fort to watch my friend game, I bothered him by yowling at him and meowing a little and chuffing(?). And I purred a bit when he rubbed my hair. I find it so interesting that through all that, I still felt like a dog instead of a cat, just a very vocal one; trying to think of myself as a cat during that just fuzzed up my brain in a way that made me feel uncomfortable (it's hard to explain). But I enjoyed getting to basically have a dog shift in my friend's room, even if I didn't enjoy having to take down the pillow fort afterward. And since it was my first official shift that I knew about while it was happening (and because I still feel a lil doggy and that's the only thing I can think about), I kinda wanted to share it!

[seaofreverie]

You ever finish a drawing that you really like and then you spend the next three days randomly looking at it for minutes at a time like that could make it possible for you to absorb its alluring and magnetic essence with your eyes

[goqmir]

maybe this is a silly question but when picking a fursona can it just be like.......... whatever? like it doesn't have to be a real animal?

of course! i think a lot of people, especially non-furries talking about furries in pop-culture, have this need to fit them into little boxes-- only mammals are furries, but reptilian fursonas have to be "scalies" and birds are somehow "featheries" ive heard. and thats an understandable thing to think but that's just kind of not how ive seen any furry think at all :)

furries are just kind of any nonhuman creature! and anyone can self-identify as one even if they like dont have a fursona in mind :> for instance, i have three fursonas and none of them are actual animals!

here they are-- trinkit the yoshi, toby the fox*, and Leaf the plant chimera. trinkit was my first fursona, and i made her before i ever really identified as a furry :) i kinda just became one by default because i wanted to be a yoshi! and its fun! ive had people like? argue about whether im a furry or not with me?? which is hilarious because despite the fact that none of my fursonas are actual animals my furryness is pretty undeniable :3

toby is not based on a normal fox but is in fact a former human that was permanently put into a latexy rubber fox fursuit (which has a lot of other features but thats like. deep fursona lore). it started as a terraria character that i was playing with my friends with, and when i got the fox costume and shiny dye we joked about my character permanently being locked in the fox suit and it kind of altered my brain lol. but despite being a fox, toby is definitely stretching the traditional definition!

Leaf is a flowering plant that decided to be sentient one day. its lore is canonically that it was a flower that wanted different animal features-- bunny ears, cat's tails, big fox paws, etc-- so it learned to shapeshift itself into them! despite being based on many animals it's pretty far from the standard bunny :)

lots of furries have pokemon fursonas these days! my girlfriend is a hisuian typhlosion, and i have friends who are scolipedes, luxrays, eevees, giratinas, its really cute! lots of furries into being objects have fursonas that are plushies, pooltoys, and robots too-- trinkit has a pooltoy form too even!

sorry if i used your ask as an excuse to ramble too much ehehe but im pretty passionate about it! i think if you or anyone reading this wants to have a little nonhuman fursona that represents you i highly recommend it!! having fursonas, especially being a yoshi by default, really helped me feel better about my own body image and i love being a little creature :)

[you-cant-fuck-megaman]

friend got me the Battle Network Legacy Collection

Battle Network isn't my favorite series in the franchise, but I like it quite a lot and so it's been a lot of fun zipping through the games again and one of the biggest things i like about it are the redesigned takes on existing Robot Masters, particularly the way they get split into two components: a human avatar and a network avatar. a humansona and a netsona. a persona and a fursona, if you will.

one of my favorite things about shounen anime is that everyone has a fucking Gimmick. nobody just casually likes baseball--they also have to wear jerseys everywhere, scream all hot-blooded about the necessity of teamwork, eat dinner off of the home plate, and sleep with their bat on a pillow stuffed with balls. some people will say this is unrealistic, but those people have clearly never talked to a Pokémon fan. plus, y'know, that's what most kids and teenagers do: they find something cool and feel the need to bring it up at every opportunity, because they're growing and want approval for their burgeoning interests. meanwhile, i fucking love it when people are passionate about their interests and make it their entire personality.

so in my opinion, the best Battle Network designs are ones that lean into this and are complimentary on both the NetOp side and the NetNavi side, both of them coalescing around a singular Gimmick and leaning into it with the subtlety of a hammer. Dex and GutsMan.EXE are great because Dex is all in on "guts" as a concept, acting primarily with his heart and charging straight through, representing both an overwhelming emphasis on strength and his misplaced confidence in sheer machismo. Count Zap is basically the best fucking character in existence, both as a compliment to ElecMan.EXE and as a standalone villain, and the anime only made him even better.

there's the stinkers, of course. Speedy Dave is a complete nothingburger of a character, to the point where both the games, anime, and manga have completely different takes on him that head up in entirely separate directions, and with QuickMan.EXE having absolutely no relation to any of them. both Mayl and Roll.EXE suffer from needing to be The Girl for their dedicated character gimmick, as written by people who think that Being A Girl is enough of a personality trait to write about this year. WHEW. time to take the season off.

but there's always going to be stinkers. that's kind of the downfall with any long-running series that A: needs to consistently put out Moar Content and B: focus on character designs first and foremost and fleshing them out second. they're showcases to get you to engage with the gameplay, and then the manga/anime have to pick up the slack after the fact. it's like being handed a glass cylinder and then being told "make this useful"--there's only so much shit an anime can do with a glass cylinder, and they sure as fuck aren't going to make it a dildo.

i keep dropping the anime, i really should continue it and see it through further. it's not awful, just a very generic shounen most of the time; i keep wanting it to be unnecessarily overdramatic like the BN manga or completely fucking unhinged like Ruby Spears Megaman, and it really isn't that

[businesscasualart]

If you had a fursona what animal/colour would they be?

oh baby, I DID actually try my hand at fursona making once. Idk how much I like it in terms of it being MY fursona but I had a glorious time showing it to friends who love fursonas. For malicious reasons. I’ll get into it later. So I decided spontaneously, late at night, that I wanted to try my hand at a fursona. I always loved what one could do with anthro characters, but I’ve never been great at character design. I just haven’t been creative enough for anything exceptional. But a long time ago, loosely inspired by steampunk music, I had this idea for some type of slimy, smarmy, comedically evil businesswoman. A comedically evil businesswoman who was ACTUALLY slimy: a Hagfish lady <3 Not me exactly but something I’m fine being represented by comedically! I am also unsure if a fish qualifies as a “furry” exactly, but it doesn’t have scales, and my friend who know about furries didn’t object.

I couldn’t decide if I wanted her to have a tail or legs, or breasts or no breasts (bc she’s not a mammal). I’m a big fan of hagfish, they’re so fun and fit the personality of the character I think. But I picked it for metaphorical reasons too. Brace yourself for me being over dramatic and waxing poetic a bit.

I factually know I’m a good person, but I often am riddled with guilt and think myself a worse person than I probably am. Morally I’m probably okay, and I get told I’m morally okay often, but I see myself as like…licentious, lazy, harmful to those around me, greasy, perverse, manipulative, slimy. For no reason or event in particular. I’ve just been thinking of myself like that since I was super young. I think people call it Imposter’s Syndrome but I hesitate to call it that, I’d think that same way if no one thought I was good. A hagfish is a perfectly fine fish, it’s not harmful and it’s just living its life, but uh

Nasty.

They’re okay! They’re scavengers who eat like, carcasses. The only time they do harm really is in self defense, the rubbery slime from their bodies suffocating predators. But they’re so gross, they’re regarded as revolting to anyone who sees them, I don’t know anyone else who likes they. No one can get past the never-ending, all encompassing slime.

it’s sort of a….“I think myself gross on the inside, harmless on the outside. I make a character who’s gross and trying to appear harmless and nice” deal, combined with the fact that all evidence seems to say I’m alright, and there’s nothing truly reprehensible about hagfish either.

I hope this makes sense, it’s getting real late where I am. When I make characters, I like to give them traits I have that I don’t like about myself or things that represent traits I don’t like about myself. It makes me feel better somehow. It feels like putting forth something about myself that I can’t seem to get anyone else to see? I love my OCs, so I’ll start to appreciate/ease up on similar traits myself more? I wish I’d see other people like me with my hyper specific issues/negative traits in media, so I make em? Who knows why, but I think it may be a common thing.

anyway, I haven’t used her since think she’s still fun.

Comically evil business people characters are so beloved to me

anyway, making my friends look up videos of Hagfish slime and seeing the light in their eyes die was everything <3

[askcometcare]

I just wanted to thank you for making this amazing series. Cometcare/Sparklecare have genuinely helped change my life for the better. I always hated myself for being a furry, and all the stuff you’ve made helped me realize that feeling that way about what I like is silly! I went from always feeling like trash from looking at some cute drawings, to making a tumblr account just to express my gratitude to you! Keep doing what you’re doing! Can’t wait to see where it goes next!

OOC: thank you so much! there's nothing wrong with being a furry. i tried to represent that message in arc 3 actually even if i personally don't consider my art to be "furry art" since they're just kinda animal people and not drawn in a furry style (i do have a fursona though!) sly's entire experience about being insecure sharing her art is actually directly based on how i feel sharing my art with people IRL or with my family because of how people "view" furries and such, it's an experience that's very real to me.

i guess i just wanted to show a positive depiction of the fact furries aren't always what everyone interprets them to be. and quite frankly, there's nothing wrong with them being "that way" either. sly's speech at the end of arc 3 is actually meant to show how she copes with her dysphoria by having that idealized "ferrie" version of herself, which is also something i connect with and i know a lot of other people do too. it's a bit easier to have an escape from the world around you especially if you have general self-image issues or something like gender dysphoria or dysmorphia. and sometimes it's just fun! it can be fun! drawing animals is fun!!!

cometcare is really different from the main comic because there's so many more aspects of my life and experiences and the experiences of others that i can depict and represent that just isn't possible in the limits of the main comic. it's really important to me to be able to see myself and my life and teen and child years in these characters and hearing others say that they connect with them for similar reasons is just really special to me.

thank you for this message, it's really sweet and means a lot to know it's had such a positive impact on you. i hope you enjoy the rest of the AU (and main comic)!

[marshbarks]

the many. many faces in which stan marsh has taken within my personal writing. the many ways in which he permeates my mind and i find him within my characters near constantly, whether he wants to be there or not.

i find that, often, if i create a character meant to represent him or contain some of my emotions around/regarding him, then they are extremely close knit with a character who is supposed to fill some sort of role as 'me'. he is often in a hard-to-define relationship with the 'me' character, or in some cases, a found-family brother. it is difficult to pin down. but if there's a me, there will be a stan, and vice versa.

i guess the first category is "that's just stan", which admittedly, doesn't make for much of an original character, but i've got so many headcanons and such personal attachment through myself that... he might as well be. i think i'll only be sharing these obvious stand ins, for the time being. i got nervous writing out this post and need to hold SOME of my stanleys out of reach atm.

baker (art: me) | rayne (art: adrian+me) | gensi (art: me)

to start here is my classic "stan needs a fursona." sort of. the first one here is Baker, who IS just 'what if stan had a fursona'. the second is rayne who is a big dumb doggy who took all his best friends and left an ugly town he didnt wanna live in anymore, and is trying. SO hard to live somewhere else. however, he's also like. stan's fursona. the third is gensi, who is also currently sort of a blank character that i looked at and said "yeah, another blue/black dog in my possession, thats stanley alright"

then there's the people, who range from 'thats stan', to 'what the fuck'

stan (art: me), marshwalker (art: adrian+me), raven (art: quailxcrossing)

this first one IS just stanley. i don't really try and act like he's an oc, because he isn't. this is the culmination of my 18 years living with a deep attachment to stan. i love him so much the second is marshwalker, though he's taken on moonwander in original writing, because it is cute and honestly fits his werewolf theming better. this is obviously a tsot inspired version of him, but he spans a lot further than that. he works his way into personal projects i've been cooking for about a year now, and slotted himself so perfectly into the story that it's almost wild to think i've only had him for two weeks. he's more of an oc both with the changes made to tsot for our au, AND because he IS stan's oc. like. marshwalker is stan playing a character, moonwander is... an evolution of that same character. the third one is raven. which i just... didn't have the energy to name much of anything else. he is a companion to one of my primary sona characters, and he's a sort of sign of snapshot of my stan, from about 5 years ago. while stan has changed a lot, raven remains the same. he's one i'd call more original now, because of the fact that none of the story he has rings true with..... anything in south park. he's just my little guy who is a dog and drinks too much sometimes.

zherr (art: me) | marsh (art: me) | alucard (art: adrian)

zherr lou is the first one here, and he's inspired by a song i heavily associate with stan. he's...... he's fucking depressed, we'll put it like that. he's going through the worst of it all the time in his mind, and what does he have to show for the struggle? nothing. he's trying, so, so fucking hard to get better. it isn't working out. he's a loser. marsh is the second! creative name, isn't it? he was actually one of my very first "oh that's stan" OCs, obtained alongside another character who fell into a role of representing me pretty well. he's sort of just an emo boy with a serious. SERIOUS of case of bad luck. but emotionally he fills the niche of a stan. alucard is third! he's a bit of a funny story- because he sort of... is also inspired by sebastian of stardew valley? adrian and i were playing, and constructing SUCH a weird narrative, and stan wanted to play too! so. he got to make himself a guy to fit in that role. he's really cool, he's a demon and he only HAS one eye and he cares so much. SO much. he's loves his spouses.

lowell (art: adrian) | logan (art: adrian) | alluin (art: me)

now THESE guys. the first one here is lowell!! he's been my reaction to going absolutely fucking feral over post covid. he's a hellhound who had a bad life and was down on his luck and stumbled drunk into a cafe bc he got cut off at the bar, and saw the prettiest fucking man in his life and has been doing everything to get that man to love him (spoiler: they are husbands eventually) second is logan, based on a mix of the "opposite personality" universe from spookyfish, as well as... as soul evans of soul eater. adrian and i will just make characters that are Anything, okay. it's kinda fucking awesome. he's bitchy and ready to attack people. he's a guard dog for his best friend. he's red. i love him. what more is there to say really. and alluin is the third... ohh, alluin.. in a really big over simplification of the idea. alluin exists to fuel a "what if i lost him" view. the effort i'd go to get him back. the things i would be willing to change to be what was needed to house him. he is so SO deeply personal and important and i cant even get INTO it. he's everything.

hickory (art: me) | abica (art: adrian) | camp (art: adrian)

these three are fun! they feel more like explorations of an extreme, honestly? hickory is a board gamer. a little diy craft kit collector. he's a fuckin DORK and i LOVE HIM. abica is femininity! she represents a happy, healthy idea of it. the ideal version of stan- if he was feminine. she's also super cool and part of an awesome polycule and has so many partners and i think shes the sickest bitch in the world camp is sport! i mean. he's like literally a doggy based on gatorade. he's a jocky sportboy and he's sorta stupid in most other aspects and i think he's so funnnnnnn... guy who is eye candy to people who like 'em buff. he knows it, too.

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and i have more! i have a lot more. however, um. my vulnerability meter ran out and i got scared so here's these!!!!

[mars-ipan]

OH ALSO... if komaeda and hinata made fursonas of themselves what do you think they'd pick lmao. not what makes sense for them in a meta way, what species they'd *think* represented them best.

OHHHH REALLY GOOD QUESTION. going with hinata first bc i feel it in my soul. i actually have multiple answers for him.

hpa era hinata would ABSOLUTELY be like “hmmm…. something cool…. like a wolf… but everyone’s a wolf that’s so common… maybe a tiger? mm i dunno… what about a dragon?” and he’d eventually end up with something that’s a hybrid of like 12 different species (all top predators of course) and there’s like a whole page of backstory and this guy is soooo cool and awesome and everyone loves him.

sdr2 era hinata would be asked what his fursona would be by like chiaki or ibuki or smth and he’d be like “hmm i don’t know…. what animal Represents Me who Am I….” and he’d agonize abt it the whole game and never come to a conclusion.

POSTGAME hinata, if asked what his fursona is, would just go “huh? a wolf, i guess.” he’s more secure in himself now <3

komaeda…. komaeda’s a thinker. i’m gonna also split him up into different time frames bc goddamn these characters are so dynamic

hpa/sdr2 era komaeda would probably pick a “trash” type of animal— as a result how poorly he views himself. i can see him being the type that goes for a bug and having like a cockroach fursona. or a pest animal more regionally specific to japan but i don’t know their pest animals well. if he went for a mammal i think he’d pick smth like an american opossum. he would just… need to know what those are. but he’s always struck me as the “guy who picks up random facts” type of person so i think he would know. he would appreciate how despite being considered trash animals, opossums serve a lot of important roles in the ecosystems they’re in :]

servant…. servant. servant is already an animal to me he’s like a little pokémon. but if he were to assign himself a fursona… something commonly domesticated. not like a dog but subtler. a RAT YES A RAT!! smart and capable of being taught tricks but disliked by many with a reputation for being sneaky. mhm mhm mhm

postgame komaeda finally gets some fucking self esteem methinks. i think he still likes trash animals still has an appreciation for them. but i think it’d be fun if he had a dutch angel dragon fursona. no big reason for that i just think it’s really cute ^_^

[ditzydogxd]

Rambling about sonas because they are living in my brain

ok…so…I have a lot of different sonas, most of which you have not seen (either because I haven’t had a need to use them or I haven’t drawn them) that being said, I wanna talk about them.

I’m not really sure how I’d describe this. In my mind, all my sonas just kinda take turns piloting me around. Kinda like Inside Out. (With maybe a tiny bit of IFS thrown in there, because I went down a rabbit hole of researching that, but I am NOT a therapist) also a bit of inspiration from PetPyves’s persona project (in just different elements of me and my life broken down into separate characters)

So, here they all are (some pics provided, some not)

BARK:

Bark is essentially my true sona. Just a little cartoony version of myself that I draw from time to time.

THE THESPIAN: (old pics)

The Thespian (or simply Thespi) is basically a little Godsona I have for a campaign I’m in. They are known as “The God of Performance” but have also come to represent my occasional bouts of ego.

Ditzy:

Ditzy is my fursona (alien Bassett Hound, but I kinda imagine them being like Mort from Madagascar and is also like….10 other animals lmao), and she basically represents my neurodivergence when I’m unmasked.

Luxuria (Lux):

Lux is a succubus sona that I created for whenever the extremely…NSFT urges come on. She also represents the freedom of sexuality, and how it isn’t something to be ashamed of. (Side note: I AM AN ADULT AND SO IS THIS CHARACTER!!!!!!)

GUT5NG0R3: (not pictured)

This edgelord supreme is a representative of my “edgy emo phase” I had way back when, and how some of that phase (such a music taste and general style/storytelling) has stuck with me. (Also, cringe culture is dead)

Kiddo:

Kiddo is my littlesona, and represents my headspace and personality when I’m regressed. (If any of y’all come in here trying to calm me weird or gross for regressing, instant block)

Scribble:

Scribble is my ventsona, and used for whenever I make vent art/animatics (funnily enough, two of these screenshots are FROM a vent animatic I finished like…yesterday)

And so far….that’s everybody! I’m sure more are to come soon (maybe) but that’s all of them for now. Please feel free to ask questions about them, or anything else !!

(ngl, if anyone wants, I’ll make one of those Q&A blogs specifically for them)

[iwakuraz]

hello can i ask you about your ocs? your art of them is so cool, i’d love to know more about them

:0 YES!!!! THANK U SM thats so nice of you!!! going on a rant under the cut hehe. hope u do not mind that super bad at explaining so its all just me saying random stuff ajshdj. sorry about that

SO STARTING WITH THESE TWO

the one with buns is called rue and shes an oc I've had since like 2020 ,, shes kinda rude and mean but shes also pretty gay w/ the other character next to her. I think I'm gonna call the other girl paige? but I haven't reallyyyy decided on a name yet! one thing about me is that I'm pretty bad at naming characters. I named her after this one old art website I used as a kid though, the website was called 'paigeeworld'. dunno how many people remember paigeeworld but I do. and paige is def the kinda person to go on art websites like paigeeworld and deviantart. so thats why I'm thinking of using that name. also I named rue after the flower rue

I have a story for them vaguely planned out in my head but I need to flesh it out more. I have the ending planned out but uh. the other parts of the story? yeah. I only have those vaguely decided. they're pretty fucked up tho and .yeah . they make eachother worse probably.

rues birthday is 18th august, paiges birthday is 6th of june. these dates do mean something! paiges birthday is the same day that paigeeworld originally announced their closure (I think?) but rues birthday is something a bit more personal 2 me. their story isn't really connected with any of my other ocs, they're sorta just chilling. I started making a fun silly comic thing with them a bit ago but have barely gotten anything done with that cause school. :[

in my head, paige sorta reminds me of the stummy book song 'we all fall down'. thats why I gave her a cup. bc haha get it...... we're all just drinking out of cups waiting for the day when we can't get enough,,, I think her character item is gonna be a cup. always has a cup of like milkshake or something. yum I love milkshake. a song that I associate with rue is 'please tell me mr wonder' by siinamota. and rues character items is her plush of a bear and a bunny! her plushies are alive btw and talk to her sometimes. but I should probably draw her with her plushies more because right now I only have a slightly old animation of her with them. blehhh

there is another oc who is relevant to these two, her name is rini. but I haven't done a proper drawing of her in a while,, I have a drawing of her from 2022 and I am not showing that. rini is in the same class as paige and rue tho. shes the class representative

next here is dot. shes the mascot of my neocities site but I like her quite a lot :] shes a pretty big nerd I think. nerd bunny. her main source of literature consumption is reading old instruction manuals on how to use windows 98.

OKAY NOW TALKIGN ABOUT VIN MY FRIEND VIN!!!! definitely the oc I've posted about the most. full name is vincent but you can call him vin for short, or vinny for medium. I named him after the car seat headrest song vincent. his favourite food is salt packets (the type you get in restaurants) and his favourite beverage is vinegar. VINegar. I like him a Lot and hes basicallyyy my fursona :3 hes a lonely sad teenage cat and I love him so much!!! he doesn't talk a lot, but I think he communicates through likee his tamagotchi or something. again this is another character I have a story planned out for vaguely but I should flesh him out a lot more. I think right now I'm more just using him to represent myself. just know he is very very special to me -w-

AND. do u see the cat on the left. I think I will name them pepper. they're meant to contrast with vin, I think they're rlly energetic and fun and yeah!!!! :3c <- basically they are that emoticon! been trying to think of a name for pepper forever. I'm thinking maybe the name pepper will work. like yeah sure. I don't think they'd enjoy spicy food so they wouldn't like peppers. thats why I think pepper is the perfect name for them. peppers favourite food is probably dip dab? or whatever those things are called? yknow those weird lollipops you can get that come in a packet full of these weird powder thing and you're meant to dip the lolly into the powder? thats what pepper would eat

this is (tama)rini!!!! tamarini. basically the bunny version of the rini oc I mentioned earlier and then said nothing about! they collect tamagotchis and are very very very normal about tamagotchi. she looks sorta similar to dot, but thats not intentional. I just like the colour purple and I also like bunnies.

there are SOME others but these are my favourite ocs right now. holds them in my hands and shakes them.

[surlifen]

guide to surlis sonas

aka an excuse to Poast Images and drone on because I love to do that!

current main sona I think and closest to a truesona: this otter guy who remains unnamed because all the names that are my name have already been used at this point LMAO

art by nepeteaa and by me! I'd honestly draw him more often if he weren't hard to draw? surli was easy because. Fox. (and Generic Thin whereas my body type is, while still pretty thin, specific in a way that's hard for me to draw) and honestly I enjoy drawing him more oTL.... otters are super hard to stylize cutely + in a way that looks Like Me... surli does not look Like Me teebeehaiche

surli fennec surlifen main sona of the past and still like... kind of me it's complicated

imbages by jilf and vhsdruid

i kinda ended up disconnecting from his Design as a Whole and the alt palette didn't really fix it but nonetheless he's never leaving my possession. it's weird cause my brain can really only connect fully to one character per Thing/Setting as a Sona who is Me so ever since splitting off into otter I don't feel FULLY connected to either the way I once did to surli :( but I am experimenting with having multiple sonas and maybe ill try that thing people do where they also do sonas for different Aspects of themselves so I don't just have an army of Normal Nice Blonds

pokesona: liam

art by me, cicadaghost, me

not much 2 say he is me pokemonned! he's much Smaller Cuter than I am and I really enjoy his simple design + imagining him in the pokemon world :3 like what berries he'd like best and what specific cities/landmarks he hangs out at... hiking in ilex forest and visiting the national park yk

lee: bunny....sona....?

art by me, purrker

he was a bit of an experiment in "CAN I have more than one fursona?" and also "CAN I make a sona who isn't Exactly Like Me?" i've always seen people whose sonas have Supernatural Elements and been like how can you do that. I respect it so much but if EYE am a normal human person how can I connect to something with strange abilities and qualities. and I still couldn't go so far as like... my friend whose sona is an honest to god several stories tall kaiju with a backstory and shit, but lee has supernatural luck and a connection to/control of storms/lightning because that's sick and awesome and cool. and also glows and has cool antlers when he wants. he's not as me as the others but he's there and he's not... NOT me?

fucking... willie dustice, silver city "self-insert" joke guy

unfortunately I DO love his stupid ass. you know how sometimes in a comic or animated show there'll be some obscure reference to one of the creators or someone on the team like as a gag that goes over most people's heads well he's supposed to be that. his appearance is me at my worst (needs haircut + shave) and he has the OP superpower of putting people in pocket dimensions of altered reality he controls entirely but he ONLY uses it to make stupid filler bottle episodes like They All Have To Play Softball or Beach Episode or whatever. represents my oft-abused ability as a creator to Put Those Guys in a Situation. he's not so much a sona (cause if I made a silver city sona it would be genuine not this greasy freak) but he sure is Representative of Me.

horse: horse

i was challenged to make a horsesona. I don't plan to do anything with him but kept him around because I liked his design. someday I might make a more natural horse sona for in case I ever joined some kind of equine rp setting or some shit equivalent but for now my sparklehorse

spinxynsona: coast

art by capricorne, me, me

coasty woasty... made for the nephfei world for the spinxyn closed species. first closed species sona ive ever had and i think hes neat! nephfei is such a well designed world that is really conducive to stories and characters influencing each other's arcs but coast is just some guy he's just there. he just lives there and minds his own business. (he has no gifts or curses so nothing really requiring a Story) but maybe i should get him some Friends at least maybe i can have a sona who has Story OC Friends from other people and still be like yes thats me if i was friends with everybody's ocs

dnd character who was based on me: august

art by me, thembodino

it was suggested since I have a very hard time being In Character (i get so self conscious) that I start with a character similar to myself! so august is incredibly Just Me FR. if i were to go on an adventure i would be bad at it and terrified. his campaign is suspended due to Life but i accidentally, due to knowing nothing, picked a pretty OP blend of stats that has made him bizarrely competent (not like. the best in the party or anything but he really can hold his own and once like critted twice and turned invisible and flew and killed a dragon) and honestly that's hilarious and I like it for him

that's it! the rest of my characters are just characters not sonas though I still love them dearly, some of them even more than some of my sonas i won't name names though ty if you made it this far. i love to Talk

[fawnrats]

Salt, Equus, Zhihao & Adira are my OCs.

Salt is a cowardly white wolf with dark brown eyes who lived in North America during the late pleistocene. I've never drawn him before!

Equus is one of my new Primeval Age characters! she's a shy, clever & easily distracted dacentrurus. I haven't made a proper drawing of her yet, but here's a messy & slightly outdated doodle I made figuring out what I want her colors & patterns to be exactly, plus the link to her profile on primeval age where you can see her bio & official image! https://www.primevalarpg.com/import/5788

Zhihao is a saurolophus, & I haven't drawn him nor developed him much as a character yet ^^'

Adira is a tyrannosaurus. the last time I drew her was back when it was believed even adult tyrannosaurus had significant feathering, so she really needs a redesign for accuracy! she could use a rewrite too, not that she was ever a very developed character in the first place.

a while back I rewatched most of Seri! Pixel Biologist's Wolfquest 2.7 series that I loved so much as a kid :D I wanted to illustrate a couple things that happened in it, plus I'd love to redraw the fanart of Rain I did when I was a kid!

(the old Rain fanart in question.. I couldn't find the raw file so it's a cropped screenshot of when she featured it in an episode! at the time I went by Pancakes Plays, which is why she credited me as "Pancake")

moving on, I have a crapton of fursona ideas & a few existing fursonas, I think it'd be cool to draw all those fursonas I haven't yet & make a lineup of them all! hahaha it would probably be sooooo long! & it would take ages.. especially since I've been struggling a lot with making a design that sticks for my rat fursona! I think I finally have the shapes down but I'm still iffy on her colors >_< I haven't finished a colored artwork of her yet but here's a messy doodle & a WIP!

I hope my other fursona ideas aren't extremely difficult to figure out too q.q my other fursona ideas are a barn owl, a lynx, a barn owl-lynx gryphon, a blue calico cat, a glacier bear, & I think that's all? oh wait! & an opossum. most of my fursonas are just meant to represent me in my entirety, but I have this idea for an opossum fursona that more so represents my most intense feelings, if they were put on full display on the outside! In real life I'm a fairly mellow, shy & reserved person, my emotions don't tend to be really loud.. but my opossum fursona would be the opposite of that. energetic & colorful & excitable & loud & fierce & just super intense!! cuz sometimes that's how I feel on the inside, & it would be fun to express that with that character ^w^

here are my other fursonas that I have drawn already! I would probably draw everyone as anthropomorphic in the lineup, though I do really like my caribou fursona's feral design ^w^ maybe I should draw a feral version of the lineup too?

[watcher-comic]

okay hi

did i promise to make an art... lore dump post literally last month? yes. did i not do it for nearly a month? also yes. and im Very Sorry.

anyway! onto the ranting

So starting off with the obvious, Nanehi's color scheme is based off of the Shawnee tribe's flag!

Obviously more desaturated, but the blue sweater and two yellow stars were meant to show that he's native.

Alright, going in page order I'm just gonna throw around some easter eggs or fun facts or commentary...whatever....

Because this is the only good image I can find of it, Nane wears his parents' wedding bands on a necklace. Because his parents are divorced </3

On page 2, Nane has a poster up on his wall which is my current sketchbook cover in my art class. I believe it's somewhere on my art blog

Nane has a ziptie on his backpack! It doesn't mean anything.

Page 6: The white text that says "what?" is actually a reference to the first debut of Nane - an askblog!

(technically his first word was "huh" but i changed it to what for plot's sake)

Continuing with the black spaces on page 6, the panicked eye doesn't really mean anything. However, the twisted light switch was supposed to represent the noose that shows up at the end of the comic.

For page 7, there's obviously the audience design to talk about, but the things I actually wanna focus on are:

The doodle on the top left, which is Nanehi saying that he thinks he has tinnitus [which he then goes on to immediately deny in the next page]

And the doodle on the bottom right. His fursona is a bunny and if I could, I would've tried to fit more bunny imagery into the comic. But alas :pensive:

Page 13: All the different colored text were the responses I got from a select few people. I showed them the previous panels of the page and asked them what they wanted [there is one distinct person I didn't ask but I will get to them later].

I also want you to keep the... 3rd shade of green in mind [the "i want to see where this goes"]

For this panel on page 15, I wanted it to be known that Nanehi isn't a real person, and they know it. Everyone else's face is squared, even the simply doodled character in the background and the barely visible person in the foreground. Everyone except Nane.

Page 16: Man that's just mold on his shower curtain.

Page 17: There's actually a lot I want to talk about with page 17. Firstly, the design of The Audience. It changed, clearly. Before it was that weird circle thing, but now it's more humanoid - to the point of having hair similar to Nanehi's. The reason being, it's not entirely The Audience anymore. It's The Creator too. Nanehi was based off my fear of being watched and constantly having an audience. The little amount of comfort that the figure gives was... sorta supposed to be an apology to the character- as cheesy as that sounds.

(Also the fact that their text originally said "didn't they already answer that" but was crossed out to say 'we'. The Creator disguising themself as The Audience. And truly, what is to separate them?)

Another thing I want to point out is the dark grey panel. It's the same shade of grey I used for the askblog, and he's smiling in that panel, because during the askblog he was much happier around the audience- or the concept of them, rather.

And then of course, the dark blue text that reads "I know how this ends." That actually wasn't a response I took from someone, but rather a piece of... I guess dialogue, that I felt like someone would say. That specific someone being my friend Classi, who was the only person besides me that knew how Watcher ended. Purely because she had a very similar character and we thought that they'd be buddies.

On page 18, we have 3 entire panels in a different style. That being the style of the askblog.

(some examples)(the last image is where the avatar came from, haha)

On page 19 we have this panel, which you can probably assume what it is. It, I suppose, could both be seen as Nane standing, back to the audience, or as Nane hanging without the noose. You choose.

And of course, the last page. For some reason this fucks me up. Because this is The Creator talking to Nanehi. The Creator knows that Nane has no say in how their story ends, but they're given the illusion of control, because that's all they've been looking for. They wanted control over something, so the only way to prove such control was to show The Audience that they could end the story whenever they wanted. He doesn't know that he was talking to The Creator, he just assumed it was still The Audience. He doesn't know that he didn't really have a say.

This was what he wanted. That's how he's ending the story

[abysshare]

I didn't expect my OC post to blow up but I'm glad it is, people deserve to have fun!

Now here's a little guide, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Also this is not to say you cannot create these or anything !!! I am just a little afraid people get confused?...

I've been seeing people post Kinsona adopts and such. Now i know SOME people find their kinselves through art and i am not here to discuss kin for fun discourse or my opinion on it, but I'll say even if its for fun, I'm not really sure how this works.

So i thought i'd put the differences between everything.

OC / Original Character / Original Creation = A character that is made by yourself, or with/by others. It can be anything.

Inspired OC = An OC that is inspired by something. Another OC, official Characters, themes (ex: space, flowers etc ), etc. Still can be anything.

-Sona = An OC or Character that might be you or Your take on something.

Examples: • CharacterSona ;; A Sona that is based off of an official character. Is not usually a kinsona/self and is just a design. COULD be a redesign, but this is typically just one offs. ( Ex: RainbowDashSona, someone has made a Rainbow Dash design that may not look anything or appear as to the original ). These can look close to canon to being an alternate universe where say Rainbow Dash is a Jedi or a Transformer and doesn't know the mane six.

• Kinsona ;; This is you! This is your kin. Kinsonas are when someone is a character, object, oc, etc and is designed to what you think or know you look/looked like. Similar to character sona as they can be AU related or not. But this is typically You and not-not you.

• Systemsona ;; This is a mascot for Systems! This could be multiple things

A systemsona to represent the whole system

Multiple Systemsonas for multiple headmates

A singletsona to appear as a singlet for the system

• Fursona ;; A sona that is a Furry !!! This can be anything also. It can be a brand new OC to an official character. This can also merge with kin, system and character sonas.

• Therian OC / Sona ;; Similar to kin! This is you but your therian type. May or may not be furry related, but is usually an animal. Feel free to correct me on this one because i do not know if fantasy animals count here or if fantasy animals have their own name /gen

Self Insert = You but not in a kin or a therian way, this is your OC Thats 100% you. Can be anything.

Note ;; This is not to say "stop making kinsona adopts" !!! This is just saying "hey this is the difference". I love kinsonas and i love OCs.

Also if its still hard to see the difference, thats okay! They are all very similar and if your oc changes a lot into one of these thats okay too! Nor am i saying "hey ocs have rules actually".

I hope you have fun and i hope you enjoy your creations!!!

[xaeyrnofnbe]

hellooo

Heard you like random asks so I will inquire about Athzurea. What is it?

Also what is your favourite texture?

And I don't know much about zoology so what is your preferred animal?

1. YESSS IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED!! Athzurea is a for-fun worldbuilding project i've had in the back of my mind since i was eleven years old, it's a world populated with winged animals with their own social structures and traditions, reigned over by a pantheon of gods with about as much personal drama as the creatures below. for as long as i've had this world, it's been a bit of a dumping ground (affectionate) for all my ideas for weird creatures, nonsensical cartography, and magic systems. it started out pretty small, with a map i made out of pieces of paper taped together and drawn with a pencil, (and all the details kept strictly in my own brain,) but now i have tons of mostly digital maps, four primary continents, an elaborate filing system for everything i've written down, and a still very hypothetical phylogeny of creatures which takes into account the effects of godly magic on evolution. there are dragons, gryphons, a long list of winged felines, and more. also angels, sort of, which are called foxes.

and i have so many characters scattered across the timeline of Athzurea's history, all of which being very dear to me. one of them (Walker, a feather cat, chosen by the god of death to be his champion), was actually my first attempt at a non-binary character, back when i first made them. which at the time meant nothing, or so i thought. there's also the band of reincarnated friends working to bring back the unicorns, an assassin-goddess who flirts with a particular mortal for fun (🏳️‍🌈), and a party of colonists who are really bad at colonizing a strange new land because they keep pissing each other off.

and those are just a few of my stories in this world. it's a total passion project of mine, in case you couldn't already tell.

2. that's an interesting question. idk if it counts as a texture exactly but maybe gently flowing water? like when you stick your hand in a creek or under a faucet with bad water pressure. yeah. if it can't be a liquid then.... slightly fuzzy blanket

3. I COULD NOT POSSIBLY PICK. i love all animals so so so so much, even the ones most people find gross. so instead i will pick a representative of several random catergories that i feel extremely fond of (but i hesitate to call my favorites)

arachnid: tailless whip scorpion (their awkwardness endears me immensely). insect: yellowjacket (they really like me for some reason). pancrustacea: any isopod. bird: bearded vulture or kiwi bird. non-avian dinosaur: deinocheirus. feline: cheetah (my favorite animal growing up). canine: maned wolf (1/3 of my fursona). ungulate: pronghorn.

[ascendandt]

5, 16, 17 and 20 for cegerni god let me be remembering how to spell her name right

5- How did you choose their name and why? Was it simply based on vibes or is there any specific meaning behind the name? Are the reasons behind their name different in- and out of universe?

when i officially renamed her the conlang im workign on was really preliminary so i didnt (still dotn mostly LOLL) have any etymologies so i just picked sounds i liked that. her full name (cegerni tahwen tsrawe-hola) is firstname (dunno the meaning but it has one) patronymic, and "god's daughter" (royal familys last name)

16- Is there any memes or running jokes associated with the character, both in- and out of universe?

i make jokes about her having a wrist fetish all the time i just think its funny. also shes a huge baby who cant take insults which is the source of most of my stupid art of her

17- Are there any motifs or symbols associated with the character? How are they represented, in their design, personality or in some other way?

not sure if this counts but her clothes have a lot of trillium motifs, which are a symbol of divinity in esrahi culture (tsrawe is the primary god but she is one of a quartet traditionally, and the trillium is like a symbllic unification of the others into a single whole). also her fursona is mmostly a cat (small predator with a standoffish personality)

20- Bonus question: share any additional thoughts, art, favourite scenes, anything you've been waiting for a chance to ramble about

i have an alternate version of the story i think about sometimes where when her sister gets to be empress instead of her, she stages a coup and essentially falls into all her worst impulses. but in that one she breaks up with palim and that makes me too sad to actually implement 😅