Fanart for the boyos! The lads with their puppet counterparts, GROBB (will you accept him?), and the merch lord (he's also getting a crown after I heard someone refer to him as "merch king" last year).
Ahhh I haven't finished anything this fast in awhile. Twrp brainrot real?
The thing that really gets to my heart about how Laios’s autism is portrayed in his conflict with Toshiro is that his pain is centered and sympathized with.
How many dozens, hundreds of stories have we gotten about that obnoxious side character who just won’t take the hint and get lost, plaguing the main character who is never up front about their actual feelings but we’re supposed to relate to? How it’s played for humor half the time, a lighthearted burden on the main to make them roll their eyes before the Big Challenges of their story, with no thought to the pain and loss of the side character investing so much emotion into caring for someone who finds them a nuisance?
I think it’s even more poignant that Ryoko Kui is writing from a Japanese perspective that puts Toshido’s approach even more in the default, culturally enforced norm, but still asks “what about the feelings of the person who doesn’t have that all-important knack for ‘reading the room’ and picking up on all those invisible messages never said aloud?” and encourages us to care
i don't think I've ever properly ranted about this but the fact that Phobos is/was royalty is so funny to me. I mean he is Lord Phobos. That sarcastic, bread loving, possibly fruity, potato of a guitar player who thinks he's a robot was once in a position of power and prestige. That is just funny to me.
art from 2021. i was really really Goin Thru It in the early part of that year, but then i rewatched the Starlight Brigade music video and it was like a defibrillator to my creative spirit!!!!!!!!!!! the protag is SO satisfying to sketch. love u Strive!!