#this is a shitpost more than anything tbh

[thehecklingmouse]

Kaveh taking mehrak to a dog park to make friends

[leathercircuits]

My new job wants me to wear a white button up, black slacks, and a blazer. Like ok, do you also want me to wear shades and eerily murmur "Mr.Anderson…" too?

[sysig]

You will soon learn to appreciate Charm (Patreon)

[bambiraptorx]

theorizing that part of the reason for draxum's fighting style so often involving using vines to attack is that it's meant to keep people away from him in a fight, because the horns on his helmet are a something of a massive liability if someone ever got close enough to grab them

[mothbaaalls]

hang in there little yippie... hang in there...

[sad-and-t1red]

but maybe the moment all's really went downhill for mozart das musical was when they cut leopold lines during "was für ein kind" when he's like "my father used to beat me when i was a child btw, you're very lucky that i totally wouldn't do that to you"

[r-aindr0p]

"magical boys"

*BREAKS DOWN A WALL AMD CHUCKS MINI ROLLOS TO ANYTHING IN SIGHT*

WHERE?!

*visibly shaking* I am normal about this reversal trope of magical girls. I can definetely be trusted to not squeeze this mozarrella with a bowl cut to death. *mini rollo definitely being squeezed to death*

No idea if it's three anons or one but that's really sweet ✨ pls beware depending on which guy you plan to eat some of them give food poisoning or hallucinations (thinking abt some as those small colorful rainforest frogs)

I love magical girl animes very much, grew up watching tokyo mew mew (and somehow managed to watch wedding peach all on youtube a long time ago, i did not understand the english subtitles at all lmao, rewatched it years later and loved it), so imagine my surprise when I stumbled accross the first (if you ignore saint seiya) full on magical boy anime in 2015 and ever since I wanted to draw my own, and now I have my musketeers :)))

A lot more magical boy yapping under the cut because I love this trope so much

Anime I'm talking abt is 'Binan Koukou Chikyuu bouei-bu love' btw ! It's on the parodic side but not as much shitpost-ish as 'magical girl ore' for example. It takes itself "seriously" in it's own way. (and the ending song talks about 2 characters of the show that drifted apart and how there's 3 meters only separating them but it's enough for one to miss the other and aughhh my heart I could yap about this for ages)

LOOK AT THEM (couldn't find a decent pic of the season 1 clothes, this is season 2 and the pic is still low res augh)

Like, I was ?? idk in my last year of middle school maybe when I found this ?? fantastic discovery. Pink wombat mascot with the voice of an old man gives cute bracelets to 5 guys to save the earth. They have to say "love making" and kiss their bracelet to transform, I'm crying And here's the villains of season 1 and season 2 (twins) (silver haired bowl cut annoyed guy is my favorite, what a familiar description....)

There's 3 seasons in total to this anime and season 3 has a new cast of guys but years later at the same school !

Scenario is basically the same as season 1 but with different guys and villains, but omg the otter..... I love that yellow otter so much..... (look they have magical ace and deuce ) Villains of season 3 are called "edelstein knights" or something (ince again an angry guy with ridiculous bangs considered a villain, my beloved)

Other legit magical boy I love a lot is 'Fairy Ranmaru' !! It takes itself more seriously than binan koukou, in it's own scandalous way I'd say. They went ham with the fanservice during transformations it's crazy-(especially uruu's transformation) def +16 at least They do try to talk about serious matters and feelings/emotions in general. I cant' really tell if it's well written since I'm really an easy audience, I should watch it a second time... It's a visual experience at least if you're into that kind of designs

Blue guy my beloved.... Not showing any more, you can find the transformations on yt crunchyroll literally published them

Alright one last "magical" boy/girl, it's not even exceptionnal but it's a fever dream shitpost that has a special place in my heart : 'Classicaloid' So a girl's father created humanoids with the memories of classical composers and went to get milk, leaving them all. The classicaloids eventually decide to squat at the girl's house. They have magical powers called "musik" and have a small transformation animation. So to a certain extent I do consider this a magical people anime.

Here's everyone from season 1 (untransfromed) Beethoven and Bach (maybe mozart too tbh) are the most recognizeable but good luck to guess the others :') (Liszt and Tchaikovsky are genderbent) They are all so whacky together I love them so much, bach only speaks in musical terms "andante, pianissimo etc.." Chopin is the looser of all times, Mozart is.... Mozart, and Dvorak (season 2) became a pigmy hippo for literally no reason The animation is nice but the ending song illustrations ??? dang

First two pics are from season 2 endings, they all represent an important location for the composers or something related to them (for example Chopin's is the père lachaise cemetery in paris where irl one has a tomb) Really I'm amazed by all the ending art pieces, I can't put more than 10 pics per post, I would've showed them all otherwise eeee) On the thrid pic you actually see mozart in his musik outfit ! An in one ep he even lets his hair loose ahierjh

(takt:op is absolutely in my watchlist)

If you made it this far thank you for listening to the yapping, wether it was interesting or not ! :)))

[opalwatch]

im sorry for posting so much the autism is so strong today

phantom troupe music tastes inspired by @spidersinyourshoes

chrollo: -only listens to classical composers because he can't stand "modern sounds" (why else would lacrimosa be playing during uvo's requiem? /j) -thats all

feitan: -only listens to two genres: screamo and vocaloid -only listens to two subgenres of vocaloid: super upbeat silly stuff (popipo, age age again, etc) and maretu (and also tokyo teddy bear) -he really likes poppy's more recent albums

pakunoda: -eva is saying she listens to mitski, and i agree, but i think thats more of a machi thing -wait no she bets on losing dogs canonically (rip kuropaku) -billie eilish -modern covers of old swing songs (lady gaga's cover of "That's Life") -oh she also listens to lady gaga -loves the Heathers soundtrack tbh

machi: -just enjoys girly pop music -melanie martinez (but she only pirates the music because she hates her, she really likes portals. she likes the fairy vibes) -mitski, but she tries not to get too sad over it -penelope scott, and is eternally angry she was bullied off the internet -songs that trend on tiktok, but the good ones that evoke villainry vibes >:) -olivia rodrigo -chappel roan

shizuku -more alternative rock-esque -she forgor (jk) -glass animals -fall out boy and panic! at the disco (she hates pray for the wicked she HATES IT) -bo burnham

Hisoka -diddy (IM JOKING) -melanie martinez (started listening to her after the allegations EVA WROTE THAT) -pray for the wicked (he likes the other p!atd stuff too) -chappel roan (does hot to go dance in shower) -lady gaga (he listened to Judas and that's what gave him the idea to betray the troupe)

Illumi -claims he's "too sophisticated to listen to music" -borrows Kalluto's MP3 player to listen to the fnaf songs secretly -Shalnark showed him Chrissy Chlapecka and he started crying

franklin -imagine dragons (im sorry) -listens to 100 gecs with kortopi sitting on his shoulders (theyre sharing a set of wired earbuds) but he doesnt really get it (also the earbud keeps falling out cuz his ears are too big)

Phinks -i have the really unpopular opinion that phinks is a republican -listens to joe rogan podcast and ben shapiro (im so so sorry) -country rock -cries to "I'm Just Ken" -Queen

Kalluto: -video game fan songs (FNaF like tryhardninja and CG5) -undertale soundtrack -the hazbin hotel soundtrack (kikyo found out and grounded him for a week)

Shalnark: -there is no correct answer other than gay pop -chrissy chlapecka -jojo siwa (he heard pakunoda listening to it ironically and didnt understand it was a joke) -PAiDA -chappel roan, i fear this is common sense

Nobunaga -doesnt listen to music, listens to podcasts and brags about it

Kortopi -100 gecs (no one else can explain why he likes it)

Bonolenov -eva says system of a down but i dont know anything about their music so -eva says he blows into his arms and just enjoys the sounds -enjoys old warped music from early radio

Uvogin: -trap -Queen (eva says the two genres cant coexist in one person but idc im RIGHT) -eva says cannibal corpse (idk who that is why am i letting eva (a nerd) dictate my shitpost)

this was mostly for shits and giggles but i stand by shalnark, chrollo, feitan, and machi

[gaywineauntsstuff]

okay so i am genuinely confused as to why we are acting like jason was not angry as robin i mean a big part of his whole character was that he had a strong sense of justice and sometimes went too far joker himself said he was more brutal than the first robin don’t get me wrong he was a sweet kid but taking out the fact that he was still too violent sometimes takes a lot out of his character

Tbh I think it’s a fandom thing

Jason was angry as Robin

But he wasn’t the Angry Robin(tm)

It’s like how people went “oh dick isn’t this dumb himbo who needs Jason to come save him” so then everyone went “he is filled with rage and wants to /can murder everyone with ease he will feel no guilt”

Like people showed evidence that Jason wasn’t this rage filled murderous loser as Robin. Therefore he’s a sweetie pie who never did anything wrong ever.

(However let’s be so real if we are making quick shitposts, then yeah if you wanna make Jason more complicated/ highlight the extreme change he goes through from Robin to redhood it’s just easier to make him the sweetie-pie Robin)

++ THO it’s not all fandoms fault

Jason’s Robin run is arguably the one that goes through the most extreme changes

The flying Todd’s? Where he was diet Grayson

To the tires

To the orphanage to the tires

And so on

So it’s hard to piece together.

++

I think it’s also to do with their relationships to Bruce

-Tim and Dick both chafed under the Bats control and argued with him about it.

- Dicks favorite hobby seems to be calling Bruce out on his shit in various loud and dramatic ways

-tim had the YJ and dick had the titans

-Jason especially post death is more used as this tragic rough around the edges sweetie who disobeys once and gets blown up for his troubles

Anyway that’s my 2 cents I could be entirely wrong here I just go here lol

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

reposting one i read on reddit that got removed but i just need to know what tumblr thinks:

AITA for finishing in my girlfriend during the full moon, thinking it was not possible for her to be fertile?

I know the title sounds weird, but I promise this isn't a shitpost, metaphor, or a joke. I (20M) was raised by a single dad, never knew my mom who left me as a baby, and growing up I didn't really have many female (or male, tbh) friends.

The reason I say this is that I don't know all that much about female anatomy; yes, I had sex ed in school, but seriously don't remember anything except "wear a condom", basically.

I met my girlfriend "Beth" (21F) in college and she's the best. It's my first relationship, her second. We've been together for a little more than a year now, and had sex for the first time about half a year ago. After the first couple times, Beth told me that she has a really regular and average period that she's been keeping track of with an app since she was literally 14, plus in the last few years she also started taking her temperature to get even more accurate results; I didn't understand exactly how this works, but she was so reassuring and confident I didn't question it.

Ok, now this is where I might start sounding like an idiot... So she told me her period is an extremely regular 28 days, and she has literally only strayed from this pattern once since she was 14. I also am aware that moon cycles are 28 days. (Correction here: since this incident, I Googled and it's actually about 29 days... but that's besides the point I guess.)

Women tend to be associated with the moon, like Artemis; I truly, deeply believed that the moon phases and all women's menstrual cycles were inherently connected, but just like, different women had their more fertile days with full moons whereas for some it corresponds to a different moon phase, like the new moon, and this is why women differed.

So the reason Beth told me about her period being super regular is that she was confident she knew when she was or was not fertile, and told me she wanted me to finish in her on safe days. We've been having sex like this for the last four months where she tells me the window of time she's safe, she's happy, I'm happy, it's working fine.

I started noticing that the moon tends to be really full and bright every time we have unprotected sex, maybe not necessarily always on a "true" full moon, but definitely around that time. I made a mental note that my girlfriend is a "fertile during a new moon (when you can't see the moon)" sort of girl. If you're wondering why I never just outright asked her about this, it just seemed really obvious to me and I didn't see the point in talking to her about something potentially a little embarrassing for no reason.

June 3rd was the most recent true full moon, and I decided to sort of surprise her by inviting her to my apartment and just pouncing on her wordlessly as soon as she came in. She was into it, we had sex, I finished inside her, she didn't complain or stop me at all.

While cooling off, she remarked that she didn't remember telling me about her safe days in a while, so I must be tracking her period, which she actually thought was sweet lol. I said, "well of course it's a safe day, the moon is so bright". She asked me what I meant, and I said something like "I know you can't possibly get pregnant during a full moon".

She seemed really confused and started getting a bit tense, questioning me more, and I, also confused, started explaining to her about the moon cycle thing I fully believed up until that moment.

This is where she freaked out completely, jumped up and asked me if I was a complete moron. She started yelling at me and freaking out about how insane and irresponsible I was for finishing in her. I was truly shocked I had no idea what to say, especially because it WAS still truly a safe day, but she actually just grabbed her stuff and stormed off before I could do anything.

Well, after she left I googled a bunch of stuff and yep, turns out I'm completely incorrect. That being said, it WAS still a safe day for Beth and she wasn't actually upset about me finishing in her or anything, just the reason I did, I guess. So, AITA?

So generally I don't want to rerun posts from reddit unless it's your own story, but we'll make an exception just this once

What are these acronyms?

[w3ndytheraccoon]

About time I make an intro post ig

DNI if you are: A paedophile, a zoolophile, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, racist, a bigot in general, or support these people. Use your common senses, people. Other than that don’t be a dick and idc what you do, not my problem.

On that note, please don’t send me donation asks. I am a jobless minor. I cannot help you.

Now that that’s done

Hi, I’m Wendy/Raccoon/Other names as well !

I like blue & yellow and raccoons alot if you can’t tell (tbh I just like all animals)

Lesbian oriented AroAce and Agender

My preferred pronouns are he/him (but any is fine) ! :D

As mentioned above: I’M A MINOR !! Keep that in mind and do what you want with it

I can’t read tones very well, so clarifications, through tone tags, parentheses like I do or any other way, are appreciated !

For some reasons my personality, morals, philosophies, opinions, styles and about everything about myself (besides basic shits like fav animals, colour and fruit) often switch around and contradict eachother like a randomised machine on what seem to be a daily basis, so if you see a post of mine that said something and another post that said the exact opposite, I promise I’m not lying or doing it on purpose :,)

I was also cursed by a witch as a child to be a pathological and compulsive liar (because apparently THAT also stays consistent) so um. Ik I said I’m not lying but I might. Idk. But it isn’t on purpose ! Usually anyway. Take everything I said with a grain of salt because it rarely stays consistent is what I’m saying

TW !!! I post/reblog alot of things that can be triggering and while I try to tag them for filtering, I forgot alot, so these are trigger warnings for thing you may see on my blog:

Flashing lights

Swearing

Blood & Gore

Violence

Deaths

Cannibalism

Weapons

Abuse

SA

Sexual content

Suicide idealisations

Self harm

Dehumanisation

Disassociation

Eating disorders

General mental illness trigger warning

Politics

Not trigger warnings necessarily but ik some people don’t like shipping in general so yeah

My fandoms (I’m in alot of them, but these are the main ones/stuffs you can expect on my blog):

Anything Greek mythology related

Hermitcraft/Traffic series/Dream SMP/Empires SMP/literally anything mcyt

Musicals. Idc which just. Musicals.

Tangled the Series, Ducktales the Reboot, Pokemon, Gravity falls, The Owl House, Amphibia and various other children shows

Bungo Stray Dogs, My Hero Academia, Demon Slayer, Detective Conan/Magic Kaito and various other animes

Danganronpa, Minecraft, Cookie Run and various other video games

YA novels (Percy Jackson Series, Small Spaces, Keeper of the Lost Cities, and The Land of Stories/A Tale of Magic specifically and the occasional Harry Potter bashing (Fuck JK Rowling !!)) (send me some recs in ask !)

My OCs !

General shitposts

My tags (these were created later so if you see a post of mine that I didn’t tag tell me so I can go tag it):

#wendy's stuff: My own posts

#wendy rambles: Same as first one but for longer/more nonsensical “rambly” posts

#wendy's add-on: Posts that are not mine but I add something, either in tags or as a reblog, that I think is significant enough for its own tag

#saving this for later: Posts that I think are helpful

#me with my friend(s) <3: Anything that includes/references my friends whom I adore very much

Speaking of which, my friends (not the same as moots (you guys are still cool tho I just dunno enough to consider you a friend)) !:

@shiloh-the-shidiot

@coffeeclawz

@your-local-squip-fanatic

@thementallyillapollochild

@echo-stimmingrose

@the-portrait-of-dorian-gay / @boykisser777

@calciferthesilverfox

@athenas-wise-girl

@feral-goblin-kid

@mythologymakesmeconfused

@muddy-mutt

My qpp isn’t on here but I’m including her as a special shout out since I mentioned her alot and she’s very cool. Bee if you ever decide to get Tumblr and is reading this ily <3

My twitter account where I just repost stuff, idk why anyone would want it but I’m just throwing it here

[eldritch-aces]

hello tumblr.com! after a very lengthy hiatus we have figured out that former tumblr user valerian-es is actually several people! we’re probably going to be redoing a lot of our tag sorting as a result, so here’s the gist and who we are now. in general, however, if you’re not sure who’s who, you can collectively just call us Ace and any of us will respond and (He/It) pronouns are a safe bet regardless of who’s fronting.

Meet the Aces!

🪄 Valerian E. Song (He/It/Fae/Hex/Neos)

Main host guy and if you followed us before, probably the one you’re familiar with. Literally a red panda wizard. Loves collecting playing cards and designing tabletop systems. Local Ace of Wands.

🏆 Guntram Asmodeus Grimchild (It/That/He)

A silly little jester guy who loves to chat more than anyone else. Primary hobbies include cleaning, annoying people, and crocheting. Local Ace of Cups.

⚔️ Guinevere (It/Any)

A suit of enchanted armor cursed to have a person inside, and also sometimes a horse. Don’t worry about it. Enjoys recreational violence and a big fan of cool medieval weapons. May refer to itself in the royal we, in which it is referring to itself (suit of armor) and itself again (horse) and not the whole system. Yes, it is confusing. Yes, it doesn't care. Local Ace of Swords.

🪽 Valkyrie/Angela (She/Any)

A totally gorgeous diva in the body of a difficult to comprehend angel(?) form. Local Ace of Pentacles.

Tagging System:

#🪄🏆⚔️🪽 - Denotes who was fronting when a post was reblogged/made

#eldritch original content - Denotes something we made, usually digital art or some other kind of effort post.

#eldritch fave - Our favorite posts, for better and for worse

#eldritch rambling - Low effort text posts or general yapping

#(blank) tag - Denotes a post is either about one of our ocs or reminds us of an oc (if we feel like it’s not in poor taste to make that association, if we accidentally tag an oc on a personal post or something let us know and we can remove it for your comfort no questions asked)

#guntram saturday - Doesn’t always mean Guntram is fronting, but discussions about our new habit of cleaning/self care every saturday that he started!

#reference - All encompassing tag for posts we want to look back at later

This blog is kind of just a personal space to shitpost, yell into the void, talk about writing, etc. We don’t get super wrapped up into fandom these days tbh. We might talk a little bit more about our journey with plurality and getting our life back together but I’m not here to take things super seriously. If you’re blocked it’s probably not personal I just need to curate our peace better.

We don’t religiously check everyone who follows up, but we’re probably going to start posting more nsfw memes and talk about sex every once in awhile so we’d rather minors don’t follow us, not anything personal just an internet safety thing.

Enjoy our blog!

[tboyblogger]

finally finished the profile for the danseiroido!! this took way too long just because drawing anime headshot is my biggest nightmare... and then ended up not even looking That anime LOL... i've already had a few comics up in the tag (search em to read!) but. a brief intro is that i basically just made them idols (somewhat) and threw them in the same boygroup to write sitcom/4-koma slice of life random jokes, as i always do! they also share the same universe with my entire vocaloid neighborhood setup (but this will - might - be for another day)

there isnt a deep overarching plot as for now, its just daily lives of a boygroup that doesnt really do anything idol-like and occasionally featuring others around them from the vocal synth ville. oh and idk if i can call them a polycule because they dont really think or operate that way But! i do want all of them to fool around and have their own "ship moment" (if you want to call it that? i dont really label these things and i want to write it that way) tldr they all fuck one another. every single ship in the group canon (EXCEPT the obvious anyone x len. timeout for him he got his ass kicked out whenever they do it...)

my concept/idea for it (not much tbh this is just me rediscovering my love for vocaloid - though one can argue it never went away - and started make up random shits for them so its pretty much spontaneous and not a serious project or anything) is a parody of sort on stereotypical otome/bl genres and boygroups and anime tropes and obviously the vocaloid fandom/history. but i dont think i know enough about bl nor anime nor boygroups so at the end of the day its just guys hanging out XD hm i should just tag my other vocaloid stuff something else too considering its an elaborated world now, with these guys in it, but... that... really is for another day...

wait forgot to say also making len the leader is idk vocaloid meta funny or sth since hes the most popular but here hes just a wee child not even allowed to getting involved much (to be fair its cause most of the involvement are either freakish or sexual. or both) hes already more than involved in the irl success go away little boy. but Boom! funny ass kid leading army of 6 gay ass men (one of them isnt even a man. but only when its convenient) (sometimes there are 7 of them)

also: everyone learn vietnamese to understand how funny their viet names are rn

SORRY I KEEP EDITING. but they also have a playlist... just for funsies. some of them are serious canon lore related the rest are probably all shitposts

[pastel-rights]

I LOVE your art style! How did you came up with it?

huh? my art style??? uhhh, i mean i uhhhh if you want, i can explain how I got to this point but. sometimes, things just. happen yknow???

honestly my old art compared to the more recent of what I've done probably looks. very very jarring side by side since it looks like it was drawn by completely different people lol. For example, look at this early 2017 character concept verse a late (November) 2024 character concept.

It's. Definitely a lot to take in so uhm. Buckle up! [cue a heavy metal version of bye-bye-bye playing for atmosphere reasons]

So, I've been drawing as a hobby since about... 2009 give or take? However, the earliest art I have on hand is probably from... 2016 or 2015 tbh??? Although, I only really started keeping a fr fr log of my art from 2019 and onwards so, let's start with what I actually have to show.

It's all about the basics, anon!

Growing up, my art was inspired by the shows I watched growing up! in particular, shows like "Codename: Kids Next Door" and "Tom and Jerry" were my rock in childhood times (since I wasn't allowed to watch Spongebob until I was much older and a majority of my "childhood" tv shows didn't start airing until later in my life, like Bubble Guppies (which aired in 2011) and Team Umizoomi and Octonauts (which both released in 2010) which, by then, the television was run by my younger brother's needs mostly, and I didn't get a say.)

So, I guess you could say my art was inspired by those two shows mostly???? of course, not... fully? hold on let me show you guys the earliest art I have to work with here-

these are all from 2019 since it's the furthest back I was able to save my art but. Looking at it, it doesn't look like it was inspired in the way artists are normally inspired by their environment. At least, that's not how it feels to me.

my art at this point was very... a lot of it was traditional in comparison to now, for starters. The color grades are completely off, the lining is. interesting. A lot of one shot one result type of shenanigans. Of course, it shares its origin with my childhood entertainment in general, which is being very cartoonish in style! On traditional grounds, I fucked around with a lot of different methods, some just pencil, some with markers, blah blah blah yada yada yada.

which, character design is my passion /ref if you couldn't tell. but my art style has always been very cartoonish and stylized, even in my earliest days. Big eyes, wild hair styles, noodly limbs, you know, the cartoonist hallmarks! If nothing else, my art style is more reflective of who I am as a person?? like the cartoons that formed me, it's very expressive and full of color and whimsy and in its own way, it's my way of thanking the world that taught me happiness and joy, and I draw to give others that same feeling.

Whether that be my friends' OCs or silly shitposts, I draw for the joy others get seeing it! Here look at this picture of my friend (@sxftriina)'s OC, Ocean, I draw way way back when lol

...

but at some point, I realized. My art didn't make me happy anymore. I didn't have fun drawing anymore. and it just became more of a chore to make than a fun hobby or a good time. I couldn't find the joy in art anymore. And I couldn't create anything I was proud of either.

I got stuck. It didn't matter what I drew, what things I tried. I couldn't make myself happy again. and while my art might not have suffered.

I did.

art was nothing more than a chore. something I had to do because I wasn't good for anything else.

and it made me severely depressed, among other things happening during those times.

so what does a burnt out depressed artist do in crisis times??????????

...

he joins tumblr, of course.

I wish I was joking. I'm not.

anyways so it was like 4am and I was like "let me join tumblr why the hell not maybe I'll find something there" and uhm. well I didn't find anything initially. and every day was as depressing as the last, and I eventually just. felt like giving up. I ran an askblog and drew a ton still because while it made me unhappy, I felt unhappier just. doing nothing. Lesser of two evils I suppose?

that was until I uh. I met someone really special to me. Even now.

if you're reading this, uh. hi lupi!

This was around the time I found Identity Five at the end of 2020, and began drawing fanart for the game, which restored... some joy to art? Not completely, but, I wasn't so miserable drawing during this time of my life. It felt like a chore still, but, at least now I was having some semblance of fun doing it. Not completely fun though... I was still stuck in a funk. I didn't know why.

And then, I met Lupi. At the time, she was following me through her askblog account (she still does) and I got curious and decided to check it out for myself and. I think if I never checked out Lupi's blog that day, my art wouldn't have taken the direction it did, and, I would have never regained my love for my craft.

Of course, I feel silly even talking about it so... I took a different direction with my art after scrolling through Lupi's art, which sometimes I'll do, even to this day just for fun sake. And this time... I don't know.

It just felt different this time. It wasn't the best, and it certainly wasn't easy either. But for the first time in over a year... I had genuine fun drawing again. No negative feelings attached.

Just... fun.

A lot of fun at that. A lot of things from this era of my style stuck. Like... a looooot. My color choices, my mini style, the flow, a lot of what I learned from this era stuck with me, even now.

it retains so much of the past yet it means so much more. it's still cartoonish, still small and squashed, funky hairstyles, noodle limbs, fun clothing... the whole nine yards.

Of course... this is only 2021 art. My art now, while similar... it's not the same. And it's all thanks to ONE RED HAIRED MOTHERFUCKER. not ginger, red haired. apples are red, not orange. /ref

It was the first time in. several years that I've drawn something just for me. Even if it was something small and silly while waiting for an after-school activity to start. It was something I remember really fondly, a feeling that wasn't just fun but. actual joy.

Not only that but, for as simple as it is, it marked the start of a very, very... very long long of stylization like never before. You take what makes you happy... piece by piece, bit by bit...

you learn... you grow... you improve upon skills you have... body language, expression, detail... all those things. You meet some really cool people along the way... you talk, you laugh, you cry.

you get inspired and you want to show them something new, something cool... and in doing so, you make something you never thought was possible. Not with your skills, and not in a million years.

But, you learn. you laugh. you watch. you grow.

you figure out what you like. cool colors, fun dynamics, shading, lighting, storylines... things like that. you inspire others, and those people inspire you in turn.

you learn some cool new poses, you draw some fun fanart for your friends aus, you try new things and those end up sticking.

sometimes it's just you and one other person, who stuck through, watching you draw until a piece's very end. because they like you for you. and they care. sometimes they never leave your side, and they continue to inspire you to this very day.

you have fun with what youre doing. there's not really any need to rush, you know? you look at new media, you talk to the people you care about the most, you make things to surprise them with. and they're happy. and you're happy.

and you want to keep drawing.

but you can't forget to draw for yourself sometimes. something just for you that others can enjoy, but, it wasn't made for others. it was made because you love yourself and you deserve something special. it's important to draw what you want for yourself.

and sometimes, it becomes your staple.

you put your best foot forward, you give it everything you've got! because it's not a chore. it's fun. it's a hobby.

and it makes you happy. your art becomes recognizable, people compliment it and enjoy its presence. even in passing.

...

I love my art style too, anon. i know its been a long while of me talking. telling my story, my experience with my art. how it built me. how it ruined me. and how I found myself again.

I didn't know how to answer your question when I first got this ask.

Because, I didn't know how I came up with it. In my mind, it just happened. But, I think I have an answer for you now.

For real this time.

My art style is a culmination of everything and everyone I love. Navi, Pins, Beth, Yuu, Tae, Klai, Joe, Rina, Lupi, Four, pretty much everyone I surround myself with on a day to day basis. Bit by bit, piece by piece, my art style is fueled by the love I have for my friends.

Every improvement over the years has all been so I can show them something fun, something new. So I can keep surprising them with each new piece I do.

But, it's not just my friends.

It's you too, anon. Whoever you are. Wherever you are. Every like, every reblog, every comment and compliment. Every ask, every live reaction.

Thank you.

Thank you for helping me find my joy again. I hope I didn't disappoint.

[fleshengine]

(currently brain-fogged from medicine rn; please forgive the length, because it makes me very chatty - this woulda been better as a reblog, but, well. Feel free to ignore if you'd rather.)

The thing about the headcanons is that it's an extremely common explicitely stated opinion that all headcanons by other trans people (one could say cis if one meant cis) is universally of inherently lesser value. I don't think you intended your addition that way necessarily, but OP definitely, for sure, believes that, and you did kinna at least echo it yourself by going out of your way to assert how transfem intelligent and well-thought out transfem headcanons, which would not be necessary to just say that "TME" transfem headcanons often fetishize us or project an image of us that you personally find unflattering. You have also said before* that you feel quotation marks transfem headcanons are uniquely basic readings of themes and character traits that rise organically out of the text, as though transfem headcanons tend to have some objective truth to them that other trans headcanons don't. That only Minority Group X writes MGX narratives well is a reasonable enough assertion, but it's still curious that you used that very common and familiar "transfem art rich with meaning, other trans art loldumb" trope. Like that specific combination of effluent praise for the way transfem transfem headcanons work in addition to criticizing non-transfem transfem headcanons makes it feel more about the competition.

But it is also just strange to me sometimes the extent to which I seem better integrated with the wider trans community than a lot of transfems on here, because I've never felt anything but trust and delight when others put effort into that kinna thing. Equating other trans people to essentially the same as cis people when it comes to writing transfem fiction is bizarre to me, very XKCD 2071. Like, my non-transfem friends are not only very respectful, but just, like, smart and capable of handling that kinna depth too, even about transfem characters? I mean, I personally plaster my blog with Rhea Ripley for the exact reason that she's a cis woman who happens to look clocky as hell in a way that's very gender envy, and that's the primary basis for a lot of my transfem headcanons because that body type is literally my body type. It kinna sucks to have "trans woman visibly identical to a cis man with boobs" put down as an inherently trasnmisogynistic depiction. If a lot of "TME" people are putting that rep out there for very butch trans women, that's like, something they should be thanked for. If someone takes a big masculine character and puts boobs on him and calls that a trans woman, I'm going to be like "hey, thanks for recognizing that as a valid mode of existence!" Except, honestly, I never see that from anyone of any gender, just people talking about how there's apparently so much of it, so I feel both erased and demonized as the wrong way to be a trans woman, which I also get directly whenever someone has an absurdly negative reaction to the way I present myself as one and I get accused of being "half-detransitioned."

*I did a quick search on your blog to make sure I could have a fuller image of what you specifically have said on the subject

This bitch took me shitposting about trans headcanons seriously.

Jokes aside, that addition to Connie's post was what the cool kids call hyperbole. I've seen a handful of transfem headcanons made by trans women that I think are dumb and boring, and I've seen transfem headcanons made by TME people that are genuinely really great. For the record I do mean TME, not TME trans, not cis, I mean people who are not transfem. But those are outliers in my experience and I felt like complaining about that.

The "Minority Group X writes MGX narratives well" thing is a thing for a reason tbh. It's not cut and dry obviously, but I think experiencing something firsthand makes writing about that experience easier. I'm a white girl who alternated between growing up in the forest and suburbs, I have a hard time writing POC characters because I simply have not lived that life. But I can write transfem narratives all day. As for the "transfem art rich with meaning, other trans art loldumb" trope, I could talk about that all day, and I'd like to sometime! But you're bringing that up in relation to me complaining about specifically transfem headcanons. So even if headcanons count as art (they don't) this specific kind of art would already be weighted experientially, so I don't think it applies.

Yeah! Don't get me wrong, I love it when people headcanon characters as transfem, even if I don't agree or think it's kind of weird to think so. I like that I exist to people, and there's plenty out there that IS good. I've just found that it trends towards bad, though I'm certain a bit of it is negativity bias.

I also like Rhea Ripley, (I'm a big fan of Ripley). My issue with "guy with boobs" isn't that it's inherently transmisogynistic or anything, I mostly just find it lazy. It feels a lot like "hey what if this guy was a girl?" My only issue with it irt transfeminism is that I don't want people thinking of me, a trans woman as "guy who is a girl." It's a valid mode of existence, and I know big transfems who look like guys. But the process people seem to go through when making headcanons like that has always seemed lazy.

I don't really know what to say to that last one. I know lots of butchy trans women, and I myself will probably become much butchier when I get further into my transition and can pass like that. If it matters, I think a lot of "headcanon discourse" is essentially meaningless fandom drivel. It doesn't particularly matter if one person sees a character differently than me ya know?

[l4v3nd3rv01d]

☆ SMG4's Afterlife After Show

I have my own version of the whole "all the dead smg4 characters exist in a space together and hang out" thing but they're not like. In heaven.

They're just kinda in this never ending white void liminal space type area ?? They've got a peaches castle in there so they have a place to actually live. As for why it's there?? I dunno and neither to they. It wasn't there to begin with and only just recently showed up. Smth abt that castle never being used in an smg4 vid again or at least fir a while idk I forgot my thought process behind it.

Other than that there's a gateway window type thing the group can use to check up on the living cast. Honestly since I've decided they have a castle the gateway is probably a painting. Tho an individual can also just project themselves back down to the showgrounds or wherever but that's just tiring and can't ever really last long so it's not done as often.

The gateway is how they watch the weekly (uploads) adventures and the projection is more so how they check in on one specific person. Axol does this the most, he sits with Melony while she draws or naps.

This au started initially by me having the thought of "What if in Western Spaghetti when the simulation starts tweaking out around Axol and Desti they glitch into like fucked up mangled versions of themselves cuz of how they died?" With Desti obviously having a stab wound and a halo (based off that one merch piece where she also had a halo) and Axol being ALL FUCKED UP. In fact here's a doodle of the idea for said appearance (<— This is in the context of this au so that's why he's so calm. I'll be drawing the aforementioned scene some other time tho).

But yeah that's how the idea came to be so initially everyone was gonna have somewhat fucked up forms

Axol and Desti were just covered above

Zero was similar to Axol with the exposed ribs and had a broken half of Eldritch Zer0's horns.

Niles had that missing texture pattern Axol had on the covered side of his face and the other half of Eldritch Zer0's horns n some other shit

Wren was bruised asf from being crushed and also permanently sopping wet cuz he was in that tank when he died (fucking pathetic soggy cat)

Oh and Spudnick would have been covered in cracks and Fred would have been covered in missing texture patches if i had ever got to sketching them

However

This is no longer the case. Mainly because I just don't like the idea anymore. Maybe I'll still use the designs of smth, maybe I won't. Who knows?

I do wanna do some stuff with this dumb little au concept thingy of mine over here tbh. Being either drawing out scene ideas I've had, shitposts I've thought up, doing an ask blog with them, or maybe making an actual comic with this idea I had where they get a chance to reunite with some of their living friends again. I dunno and it'll be a while before I actually get anything interesting out but yk. Wanted to come ramble on endlessly again abt my newest interest lol.