#I think of clowns

[ninjagirlstar5]

It's about time I did Akane, huh?

Okay, first things first: I wasn't the only one who didn't realize that her OG design had a ponytail, right? Right? Like, sure, her overworld sprite makes it pretty clear that she has a ponytail but if you're only paying attention to the character sprites themselves, the shape of her hair makes it look like she has a bob-cut of sorts, not a ponytail. I didn't even realize her hair is a ponytail until I saw the CG cutscene of Kiyoka's death and went, "Wait a minute. That's a ponytail." So the first thing I did was make her ponytail a bit more obvious. Her hair ribbons also just, blends in with her hair due to having the same tone. If you look hard enough or once you notice them, you'll see them in her design, but that's still a poor choice in shade if you can't see that piece of accessory at first glance. So I brightened up the red color of the bows to make them stand out more. Especially in her hair/headdress. Aside from that, the rest of her OG design was pretty good. Akane takes her job as a maid very seriously, to the point that she doesn't like it when she's compared to those fake maids from maid cafes. So it'd make sense that she'd wear a formal maid outfit. All I did was make my own interpretation of her design. I covered up her chest as she's the kind of person to put emphasis on her professionality on being an actual maid and not one of those "wannabe maid cafes" that she so detests. So she'd cover her skin a lot more, even when she does have a, uh, more sultry side to her that she keeps under wraps. (Which she chose not to filter as a Despair.) I made her dress a little longer, her sleeves reaches her elbows now but they're rolled up a bit for convenience, changed the designs of her apron and heels, and replaced her collar necklace with a bow cause I couldn't make the necklace look good with the type of collar I gave for her top. And with her Despair form, I just removed what she already took off in that OG sprite: the bow, the apron, and let her hair down, which I made her fringe slightly more messy. I always found the...middle part?? Of her dress looked weird, so I had it stop around her waist instead. I kept her color palette the same as black, white, and red are a great color combo and ties into her connection to Monokuma as the mastermind. Not only that, white is most prevalent in her color palette in her Pre-Despair form, to emphasize "purity" and "good", but once the apron is removed in her Despair form, black overtakes the white, which can symbolize evil, misfortune, and even bad luck. Bad luck in the context of how screwed everyone was upon realizing who the mastermind is, anyways!

I love Akane. I can fix her, I swear- (I'm joking, I'm joking-)

#DRA #Akane Taira #Danganronpa Another #DRA Spoilers #sprite edit #Star's Art #girl I'm sorry for all the BS you've been put through #but you also committed so many crimes #like #messed up background! #still mass murder! #also I don't know why #but every time I look at this design #I think of clowns #*i don't know why* #*i just do* #i think it's the way I put the colors on her design???

[nnobodoodles]

Huh.

So I randomly remembered Croc is pretty much Italian.

#if Buggy had wheels he'd go Chop-Chop Car #this might be the stupidest thing I put effort in #Anyway I love them #One Piece #Cross Guild #Dracule Mihawk #Sir Crocodile #Crocodile One Piece #Buggy the Clown #OP Spoilers #One Piece Spoilers #just to be safe #in greek we say the same thing but use “scooter” instead #which is arguably dumber #Mihawk doesn't think highly of Buggy he's just guessing the wasted potential #nnobodiusart

[magnusbae]

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

#i said i wont ever rant about this bc it's unseemly but HONESTLY. #you simply cannot complain about not having enough of A or B or C and then never reblog / interact with the content you love. #If you LOVE something you cannot just leave a like and silently wait for more to happen #I know countless of content creators that simply stopped doing art/writing fic/making edits #You need to understand that fandom content is made FOR the fandom FOR the engagement FOR the entertainment and fun it makes. #If a content creator does not have fun IN the fandom-- why would they spend the scares free time they have on making this content? #And we're not talking about things that you don't like-- no one expects you to reblog things you don't like. #However I think it's safe to say that when a post has more than 5k it's not some random shitpost with no value. #tumblr issues #tumblr #content creators #buns.txt #something something please don't starve your local clowns

[ciil]

what makes us any different?

#my art #alien stage #alien stage spoilers #i finally scratched the itch in my brain just a lil #anyways i am fondly thinking abt comic of ivan antagonizing sua and respectfully sir ur a clown (me saying this while crying) #tfw ur both dead eyed dark haired high achievers who love deeply and would risk it all for ur person #i love that they r so similar in the lengths they'll go to but they're also like ewwww at each other #ivan and sua alien stage u'll always be famous to me

[the-midnight-sugar1]

I don’t think he hears genuine laughter very often

#I love the idea that pomni laughs at one of his jokes #like a really stupid pun #and he wasn’t expecting her to laugh cause no one does #not even kaufmo could get laughs and HES A CLOWN #And he’s just mesmerized #when was the last time he heard someone laugh? like REALLY laugh? #idk but I think he’d want to hear her laugh again #tadc showtime #showtime ship #caine x pomni #showtime tadc #pomni x caine

[eriochromatic]

winter outing featuring cross guild and company 🌨️🌨️🌨️

#one piece #cross guild #portgas d ace #monkey d. luffy #ace #roronoa zoro #perona #nefertari vivi #buggy the clown #dracule mihawk #sir crocodile #erio art #erio stuff #sort of set within impel down au but not really lol #its definitely modern au but i dont think croco would have devil fruit powers in my impel down AU LOL but i added it bc...it looks cool... #vivi is here bc she wanted to see snow ok!! so she is w/ croco during her winter break!!!

[kayvsworld]

marvel watching their new quantity-over-quality projects flop, realizing exactly how hard they fumbled the bag on setting up an ongoing Avengers Team Movie Series and frantically being like “ok ok maybe we uhhHHHHH try to get the OG avengers back. the circa 2012-2016 mcu zeitgeist avengers those ones were popular we can bring back the interest” is so sad.

like babe do u think u can simply turn back the hands of time. do u think u can simply bring back the characters u killed off for shock value and expect the same level of engagement. more importantly do u think you can simply afford a 2023 robert downey jr

accept ur failure with grace. steve is in the 40s now & tony you CHOSE To Do That,

#i love to see clown behaviour on twitter via mutuals and immediately rest my head on my desk #kayvswords #DO YOU THINK YOU CAN GET ANY OF THESE PEOPLE TO SIGN MULTI PICTURE CONTRACTS WITH U AGAIN #for less than infinite dollars #do u think u can make a good movie again answer quickly

[chinchilla-clown]

When you think Sun is winking at you but no his eye is just busted :-(

(I was thinking "huh i copy paste the dca's face a lot :-/" so WHY NOT incorporate that in universe with a comic!! The facial changes are subtle but it makes sense this way idk. I'll be drawing them a bunch anyway and I'm a sucker for asymmetry. Next one will be Moon talking abt their eyes too)

Bonus:

Biblically accurate DCA enjoyers rise up <3

#these comics feel like slowburn but honestly we've been slowburning for these clowns since 2021 YALL CAN WAIT #theres a progression sorta i think maybe #biggest inspiration is restinsodaroni's comics tbh their dca/yn content is so!!!! chefs kiss!!! #anw i just have a bunch of ideas between simp y/n and dca that arent inherently romantic #they just think ur a silly billy :-) /aff #fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf moon #fnaf sun #dca x y/n #simp station #simping in the daycare au

[vastpotato]

Love that tma is so traumatic constantly that we all gloss over the fact that Jon was kidnapped and forcibly moisturized while tied to a chair for a month.

Every time I think too hard about it it actually freaks me out. And Jon never talks about it again which also freaks me out

#the fics of his time there always make me so sad #did the circus even actually feed/water him #I do not want a creepy clown moisturizing me thank you #did they even understand that he gotta pee??? #someone make me stop thinking about it #it’s making me so sad and distraught for Jon #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #magnuspod #jonathan sims #the archivist #Jon sims #the circus #the circus of the other #the stranger

[muwitch]

right in front of his dead daughter salad

#bg3 #enver gortash #ketheric thorm #durgetash #gortash x durge #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 oc #dark urge #durge #mu draws #this is a classic meme ok #teth the black #that's how yall think their meetings were going #admittedly drawing things never happening in my own canons lol #but i enjoy being a clown #just silly sketchin

[sualne]

a good looking buggy to make up for the silly ones

#buggy the clown #one piece #my art #described in alt text #il est deux heures du mat arrggg #forever fond of impel down buggy and his stupid ponytail (ilh) #i want to draw him with a bunch of different haircut and cute outfits. i think he'd look good in a toréador inspired fit

[stealth-black-leg]

Thinking about the Cross Guild/Strawhat Tripartite parallel.

You have the ever-lucky clown and the trickster god

the current greatest swordsman and the next in line

and the transgenders

#one piece #cross guild #buggy #luffy #gear five #mihawk #zoro #crocodile #one piece crocodile #sanji #jokes aside ive been thinking about this for a while #id love to see these matchups #zoro gets the chance to become the greatest swordsman #mr zero and mr prince get a long awaited face off #and we see buggy reacting to gear five which i think has endless comedic potential #gomu gomu no meme #kir's originals #clown #crocoboy #emo swordsman #chibi nasu #marimo #rubber boy

[cringefail-clown]

turnabout kids and their sprites! ive had an ask laying around in my inbox about them for far too long lmfao, so ive finally decided to draw em out

jane: mime porcelain doll + poppop

dirk: seagull + hal

roxy: wizard figurine + frigglish

jake: gcat + his dreamself

#homestuck #homestuck turnabout #turnabout au #homestuck au #jane crocker #jake english #dirk strider #roxy lalonde #poppop #frigglish #lil hal #hal strider #gcat #ive thought if it should be frigglish or mutie thatd be roxys sprite but i thunk frigglish fits more #since in canon mom was the one who got mutie i imagine in tb itd be rose whod get mutie this time #idunno if this makes sense homestuck is too complicated for my brain sometimes #also jane gets harassed with mimes instead of clowns #i think it fits with kurloz giving her nightmares through chucklevoodos and parallels with johns clowns nicely #while still making jack pissed off about his new fit bc of all the frills hell have to wear #leading to him becoming jack cat?? cat noir?? *miraculous ladybug flashbacks*

[denkies]

#this is canon btw (source: revealed to me in a dream) #anyway i think every woman in the series should clown on denji more. as a treat. #chainsaw man #csm #power chainsaw man #denji chainsaw man #denji #lesbian power + bisexual denji solidarity (i don't take constructive criticism nor do i care about denji saying he doesnt like men) #its okay guys he was just in the denial phase of bisexuality. hes normal about it now #aki hayakawa #aki chainsaw man #denji hayakawa #power hayakawa #THIS IS AT 12K WHAT THE FUCK

[critterbitter]

THEY WON!! (They didn’t win first, but they sure won our hearts.)

Look upon them your honor. They’re having the time of their lives.

Elesa’s first taste in stardom! She won third place. Ingo got to the third bracket and then Litwick Ate Shit against a dewott (sorry buddy).

(A bonus emmet, if he were to enter:

Man’s decked fully as a jester with his clown eel.)

Masterpost for more pokemon shenanigans!

#(stares at the panel where ingo and emmet activate braincells over elesa’s head: this. i like this.) #clown to clown communication #anyways yeah ingo’s dresed as a fancy galarian tea man. verrry similar to an outfit from pokemon masters me thinks. #elesa’s based off of ‘man i miss vocaloid’ #and some inspo from the twin dragons! #and emmet’s uHhh (checks notes) jester. he jestering. #(also victini) #but yeah! look at them go #pokemon #art #sketchbook #myart #submas #fanart #pokemon ingo #subway boss ingo #submas comic #subway boss emmet #gym leader elesa #ingo #emmet #elesa #nimbasa trio #blitzle #tynamo #litwick #pokemon coordinator #nimbasa musical #character design #clothing design

[jestroer]

Dream is a total wanker, and I don't even want to mention him on my blog really, but I honestly could never fucking forget the "WHY has GRIAN, who in my opinion is not great at PvP, killed me at least 8 times in PVP games, yet I have NEVER finished ahead of him in buildmart". Still the funniest fucking shit ever

#he sucks so bad but he is also such a fucking clown #i do not know how anyone can take this guy seriously. he's like a 14 year old fr but hes like 24 i think #the buildmart rant will forever be engraved in my brain. WHY did GRI- #shitpost #idk i should probably tag for like dream mention #cw dream #yea