#But I think it's actually rlly cool

[stealingpotatoes]

It was incredible Barriss being a cringe fail lesbian being like "wait, the red light saber wielding, all black wearing, Darth Vader serving inquisitors aren't here to help people?" Get her a t-shirt.

I love her so much.

IN HER DEFENCE she had been in jail and felt SUPER betrayed by the jedi so when someones like hey you were right and she's thrown an offer she can't say no to. what else is she gonna do!! and most importantly she's never done anything wrong in her life ever

#tales of the empire spoilers #TotE spoilers #thanks for the ask! #also i have watched tales of the empire now and like. idk it was decent and i liked the barriss episodes they actually felt coherent #like they had a theme going even if it wasnt super strong and it was cool seeing her again #(THO MAJOR GRIPE VISUALLY 1. her head covering and 2. i feel like her designs kinda sucked lmao. come on ur literally star wars) #the morgan eps were so meh they did not rlly convince me to care abt her story #i spent the entire first morgan ep thinking abt merrin LOL

[beescake]

yea i very much agree with ur take on sollux in his relation to older technology, u get it

please id love if youd share some more of ur analysis on his character (as well as ur art bc that shit is 👌👌👌)

either way, thanks for feeding my brain worms

im glad it resonated!! :') always happy to explore his character, he contains multitudes!!!

i think i may be out of sollux analysis for now, in the sense where i don't have anything new to add that hasn't already been covered in these posts? (please add if there's more...)

why i like sollux (lackadaisicallexicon, 2014)

comprehensive sollux status guide (syblatortue, 2016)

bioware machine (lime-bloods, 2016)

fridgestuck (LaureledEevees, 2017)

mary sue (3d-gla22e2, 2019)

favorite sollux trait (3d-gla22e2, 2020)

doom-bound static (gendertrickster, 2023)

however i will say there's another thing i really like abt him:

his Range!

he has a v flexible face.. even with his neutral expression, you cant help but read a tinge of melancholy/pensiveness to it.

he deters people from getting too comfortable with him by acting crude, but no matter how unapproachable he looks you can't help but wonder if he's ok. seems like he's never content with himself.

just like karkat, anger gives him purpose = something to care about & react to. without it he can appear aimless/uncertain.

it's especially interesting when you compare him to aradia, who despite having endured a lot of shit, ends up enjoying the freedom of expanding her worldview, riding the unpredictable tide of the narrative and observing the changes. sollux... doesn't.

he doesn't like watching major things progress in a way he can't predict. the lack of certainty actually overwhelms him.

and it's pretty clear why; imagine the only reassurance you get after unknowingly killing ur gf is that "it needed to happen". the only way to appease that sort of emotional turmoil is by intellectualizing those events as inevitable and out of your control.

(hs, A6I5)

when you’re just a tool for the author, trying to sit out is just feeble self-preservation until you’re needed again. if you’re not called on stage to help/assist in some way, it feels like your presence spells doom (either you or someone else will get hurt). so you avoid Events as best you can.

#ask #anon #homestuck #sollux captor #2023 #vioart #i love expressive characters eheh my fave emotions to draw are actually anger and incredulity. vry cathartic for me #im also super relieved the prev analysis was received well ngl it was like. splitting my chest open it was . very personal #largely bcs my appreciation of him is weirdly abstract? seems as if i had to come up w sm conceptual meaning just to say i like his vibe #but rlly i was just working backwards frm that conclusion like wow this character looks cool lemme think harder abt why i like it #i may have sounded a bit callous too.. but truly he is 1 of my top 3 faves alongside karkat & aradia. i brain them regularly in rotation

[m0th-gh0st]

i feel like there was a greatly missed oppurtunity to have sammy teach audrey how to walk through walls tbh

#batdr spoilers #batdr #bendy and the dark revival #batim #bendy and the ink machine #sammy lawrence #im still so dissapointed at how little screentime he got tbh #i just think it would be cool to have him and audrey team up please please please #tbh i think all the characters other than audrey bendy and wilson were kinda poorly written but sammy got it the worst #actually no susie was also rlly good but everyone else got kinda sidelined

[potatobugz]

*picks you up and dips u in a vat of acid*

#south park #sp #pip pirrup #pip pirrip #damien thorn #dip #sp dip #dip is one of those sjips that i only enjoy if its outside of the canon . show if that makes sense #cuz otherwise like they were only in one episode 2gether and damien like. hated him #but *thinks about them anyways* #i mean as in. i only like it in rlly specific circumstances otheriwse id be indifferent toward it #these all mainly came about cuz im writing a damien and pip friendship fic thing #cuz id like to explore their dynamic actually (and also I WANT PIP TO BE HAPPY) #anyways i rewatched 'Damien' (the episode) so i could characterize him right and like honestly thats gotta be my fav episode in s1 #its fuckin hilarious #also DAMIEN MADE A CAMEO IN A LATER EOISODE AS LIKE A LITTLE EASTER EGG. HE WAS ON SUPER NANNY. LIEK THE TV SHOW #KM CRYING ITS FUCKING AMAZING #i love damien like ppl characterize him as being pissed off all the time and while yea technically true #he feels a lot more. immature to me #hes literally like an angsty little kid and the onyl reason he set pip on fire was to impress the 'cool kids' one might say #cuz hes weird and no one liked him #but i like him. #his weirdness is captivating #damien meeting the lame loser kid that he doesnt like and befriending him cuz they actually have a lot in common #(and damien is very very lonely) #also pip deserves a good cry honest to god #i want. him to be happy. nyow #i want damien 2 be happy too tbh #potatart

[vigilskeep]

almost every origin being more fun and compelling to play as a woman but Morrigan only being romanceable by men is so cruel of bioware. how dare. anyway love and light to Rory, I hope he lives the dream (kissing Morrigan)

its sick and twisted fr...

i’m having fun with rory though!! f!brosca is most notable for not being anything like her sister and performing this very masculine role instead, which whether she likes it or not kind of removes her from her gender in others’ eyes and has some really fascinating moments. (brosca origin is really incredible for this. taking a man’s role as well as a warrior caste role in the proving, leske saying hail to the sodding king! regardless of brosca’s gender... crazy. love it.) m!brosca is the more obvious answer for a tough carta dwarf guy and less blatantly has Something Going On, but also on top of that he was primarily raised and educated (insofar as he is educated) by his trained courtesan sister, which has a little sprinkling of fun gender to it in itself. in that he’s like the reverse of that action woman trope whose older brothers taught them how to fight. i’m not sure yet how far i’m pushing that—he still is the rough carta guy—but i think that’s going to be really fun to play off morrigan who in some ways has quite a prescriptive idea of what men are like or at least in her experience finds threatened masculinity easy to target. i don’t think “guy who will offer to do makeup and braid hair without batting an eye at any comments over it” is really a category of guy she’s adapted to especially when it’s not really what you’d guess from looking at him

#i think he definitely talks a bit fancy like rica had been trained to talk bc they practised all her voice lessons together #which is my explanation for giving him the charming elf male voice as a treat bc its my favourite #and he would probably get more heat for that in dust town if he didnt also hit so goddamn hard #... which is probably *why* he can hit so hard #but i think that only rlly comes across to other casteless i dont think the party are really reading that until they’re in dust town #it would be funny to switch him to a dwarf voice now lmao like it changes depending on who’s listening #actually that would be cool... #rory brosca

[strawglicks]

currently thinking about this one godawful take i saw about a year ago in the clashcord server where someone said- no, someone DEMANDED that you cannot ship cogs because they are evil and corporate.

the implication that shipping characters who are morally bad is problematic. the implication that because characters are morally bad, that they are automatically bad for EACH OTHER. the implication that characters who are morally bad cannot have a healthy relationship, even with another character who is morally bad and shares similar bad morals, which would likely make their bond stronger so what even is that load of dirty barnacles.

the FURTHER implication that every cog is flat evil with no nuance or complexity, completely erasing the depth of their characters. it just keeps going.

this is truly one of the takes of all time. this has LAYERS. several bad takes wrapped in one single sentence. this person publicly DEMANDED this in a busy chat in a big server. they thought they were cooking up a full coarse meal with this one. the confidence in such an abhorrent take is hilarious and it's stuck with me to this day. i still wish i could see their reaction when firesetter was officially canonized, and clearly treated as a ship that is, in fact, okay and encouraged to ship.

hell, lets use firesetter as an example:

Flint commits arson on a regular basis towards toons, the citizens of this town the company he works for is invading and colonizing. They seek confidence and pride through doing this as its the only place their arson is encouraged by the people they work for.

Graham is overlyconfident to the point of tearing others down for the sake of his own pride. Wants to take over the whole company one day just to fuel his ego, be on top, be the best, be praised by people that he sees as below him.

Meanwhile, these two are in a happy relationship in which Graham encourages Flint not to let people walk all over them while Flint is there for Graham in his more vulnerable moments (meeting of two minds when he was flipping out over the job). They are canon, encouraged to be shipped, have several references in the game and lore, and wouldn't you know it, their plushies are being released together with pride flags attached in like a week.

They're both shitty people and yet they love and support each other.

Make no mistake, this is not me complaining or being angry over this take. I was angry at the time it was freshly shat out of this person's mind, but nowadays it gives me a hearty chuckle. A guffaw even. A kneeslap perhaps. Getting angry gets tiring. Sometimes you have to laugh at it.

#toontown #toontown corporate clash #ttcc #i understand being annoyed when someone ships to the point they ERASE a characters flaws or bad morals. that is an understandable complaint #but that is not what this take was saying #i . i guess ill tag firesetter? #firesetter #I NEED TO CLARIFY TO MAKE SURE NO CREEPS FIND THIS POST AND THINK ITS A SAFE SPOT FOR THEM. #no proshitters this is not a place for you go away. #this is not me saying you can enjoy genuinely unhealthy and creepy ships. #this is me saying that characters who are bad people can still have a HEALTHY relationship #ok cool #edit: i feel like this post comes off as rlly aggressive and its BOTHERING ME #this is genuinely me having lighthearted fun LMAO #this is actually one of the few posts ive made abt bad takes #where im not like. upset #or bothered by it #idk felt the need to add this. i hate coming off aggressive when its not my intention #i just talk a lot

[girlboyburger]

wish i had a consistent character to show for this, but since i don't i just used icons :0]

blank template for those that want it under the cut

#different urls at the time of posting each of these too. from uglyramen to vhsanimal to girlboyburger #slowly my lines get thinner and thinner... #this was rlly cool to put together actually. i ended up digging up like #2016 and before art too #like 2015 is when i became a furry #its rlly evident that i used to just mimic the art styles of furry artists with styles i like #like straight up i found pieces tht i traced (didnt post) from like. okamiwolven and ashketchumsays (i think they go by luxebites now?) #waves my hand #its neat. idk. ive stumbled across pieces in the wild of young slash newer artists clearly referencing or tracing my art #i never thought id be the artist that ppl would learn through like that #im not encouraging creditless tracing btw. but. idk. its hard to articulate the kinds of feelings i get from seeing the cycle #of imitating/tracing to developing your own style but w my stuff #i think it makes me feel nice #its cool that some ppl find my art inspiration or aspirational in that way #this isnt like a weird humblebrag or anything btw its just cool #its also RLLY neat to see the things i was clearly trying to do come through stronger over the years #the lines on the coat of otto in the first icon was my attempt at including crosshatching esque texture #and now i do that For Real with cow's hair and more recently with shadowing #shrugs #ive rambled for too long now. hello tag reader. i hope u have a good night #my art #art style timeline

[can-u-not-14]

Heres picture of Mikey Ways bread for those who needed it today

#It actually scares me #Im tryung to think of a rlly cool joke to go with this but i cant #So just suffer with the equivalent of a joke without the punchline #Bread #I can't believe i tagged bread #Mcr #my chemical romance #mcr memes #mcr mikey #mcr tumblr #killjoys #my chemical mikey #mikey way #mychem #my chemical fucking romance

[salad-storm]

I love sashisu because they all very much love each other and are best friends but the shoko erasure is so blatant that it makes for a very interesting dynamic. Like yeah obviously she was part of everything that happened. Not that any of them would realise if you asked them though.

#shoko included btw. shes like yeah im not getting involved in whatever those two have going on <- literally already involved #this isnt talking bad abt sashisu btw. i love sashisu. i think theyre so so interesting #like theyre so questionable! they love each other! none of them have Actually Spoken to one another in 10 years! #me when i was there too idiot #ik theres jjk takes where shoko isnt as important to stsg/just there to be the lesbian friend and i hear those takes! #and reject them immediately. #look i just rlly love shoko and i think sashisu are soo cool and fun and horrible and queerplatonic #but its time to recognise that all three of them (and also canon and also the fandom) are making shoko smaller/less important than she is #we have all that stsg drama and shoko (there for it) just goes yeah okay. bye i guess. #god i just love them.. trio of all time fr... its very late so this probably doesnt make sense but whateverrrr #gojo satoru #getou suguru #geto suguru #ieri shoko #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #sashisu #sss trio #stormy in here #theyre my faves..

[1pcii]

some butch transfem!sanji sketches using insp from [this] post

(click for better quality // no reposts please but reblogs are greatly appreciated!)

#psii.png #ive been thinking about this since i made the linked post... king from kof you are my transfem!sanji muse #she is so cool and her gender is awsome #1pc #one piece #fanart #one piece fanart #op fanart #sanji #black leg sanji #trans headcanon #trans sanji #transfem sanji #fem!sanji #butch sanji #id in alt text #cropped versions under cut #I just realized I used non of the suits in the linked post and they're all from diff images #I may update that post now actually king has some rlly cool fits

[werchezdeeno]

aoughhhh argenti quest...how to be the most capable but cringefail at the same time? Hes the master at them simultaneously.

the way he rlly wanted to see wubbaboo 🥺

and i find his relationship with velite very...interesting. during the whole quest it felt like smth happened between them (?) Im not sure how to describe it. The thing abt hsr is time is only convenient to the story. Weeks will pass and the reader wont be informed. Exactly how many days were we in the sting or wtv it was? Definitely more than one day. I might have thought otherwise if velite was not part of the quest, but his behavior says more time has passed. He starts with annoyance than near the end feels affection towards Argenti. He talks as if they have gotten a lot closer over the course of the quest, which further soldified my thoughts. How much time passed from the events of the quest and Argenti's mssgs? Obviously quite a bit since Velite changed careers during this time and how Argenti helped.

Overall the quest was pretty cool, but it would've been so much better if they just added a scene like "___ days later..." or smth like that. Or "the next day". The timing kinda threw me off since it didnt take very long but felt as it should have.

But what himeko said at the end kinda made me sad for argenti. He's essentially looking for something that can't be found. Or maybe idrila can idk how aeons work.

#argenti #hsr #honkai star rail #wubbaboo #hhh and not jade #rambling lol #IM SORRY HES JUST SO #AUGHEOSDJSJSNS #this quesr made me feel thinsg #hes just so FAIL #but still wows me #its amazinf #amazinf #amazing #very unique character #yes i am normal about him #of course i am #what makes u think otherwise... #not abnormal abt him in the slightest 😍😍😍 #i kinda rlly wanna see velite again ngl #hes cool #the first npc i actually cared for lmao #but he went thru character development!!! #consumerism to slayism 🤩💅🙄 #so many thoughts #this better not be the last time we see argenti #i swear to god if the only interaction with him is texts... #analysis era

[p0th]

old EEnE screenshot redraw sorta!

#is it a redraw if ur just drawing the pose & outfit… #my EEnE phase was short lived but so god damn strong #goofy lil show #kinda mixed feelings on the drawing but I think it’s cool in a way #ok actually I lied rlly love how I rendered the clothes #eene #Ed edd n eddy #eene double d #eene fanart #my art

[furbyeggs]

drew a thing or something i suppose

#art #robot #robot wires #robophilia #robotfucker #i dont rlly like the wires for hair thing but i decided to test it out for once #if it looks bad that's because i use kleki #i swear im such a good artist #one of my irl friends follows my on here and i will cry if she sees it #she already calls me a robotwhore and a roboslut soooo #would be very very embarrassing #i swear im normal guys #im normal about robots #i am to be trusted with machinery #machinefucker #i am but a humble robotliker who gets called many many horrid names by my friends #(i tell them i want to take apart sun fnaf and look and his insides and they act reasonably horrified) #im literally aroace and they act APPALLED when i say something SLIGHTLY odd abt robots #IM NORMAL #IM NORMAL ABOUT ROBOTS #i swear #when i was little everytime there was a fictional robot on screen id get sucked in. like i wouldn't be able to stop staring until they were #gone #like id just be staring no thoughts #brain completely empty nothing in my mind but “OMG ROBOT!!” #i still do this sometimes actually but its not as bad #i just think robots are neat! they're cool #(on screen as in whenever i was watcing tv) #wires #do i need to tag this wireplay actually

[ask-the-bone-boys]

ATBB's Future

Hiiii y'all, its uh. been a minute huh

Now that it's been a bit over a year since I put this blog on hiatus, a loootta stuff has happened and changed and i've been doing a loootttta thinking!

Looking back on it, like really really looking, my biggest reason for the hiatus was that at some point the blog just kinda became more of a chore than something I wanted to work on for fun. Ask blogs are a lot of work, even when you're just using talking portraits rather than drawing out every individual answer, and with how much ask culture on tumblr has died out over the years there just wasn't really enough payoff to make it feel worthwhile to keep burning myself out.

I think it's a really good thing I stopped it when I did, because having to deal with all that in my senior year of high school would have been a nightmare. I've actually just finished up my first semester of college now, and there's no way in hell I would've been able to keep up at any rate! With all of this in mind, I've gained a newer perspective about how to approach things going forward.

I'm still really attached to this story. With how much time I've spent thinking about it and developing it in my head, I can't let it go, even if the blog isn't really working out anymore. I keep thinking of different ways I could fix the decisions I made early on, as well as the super cool directions I could take it in in the future, and I just. I GOTTA.

So, I've decided to reboot it entirely as a fic series!

This means that, unfortunately, there won't be nearly as much artwork to accompany it, but it's far more likely for the story to actually progress! Writing is way less draining for me and once I get going I can do it much quicker than art anyway, even though I do still sorta wish I had the spoons to just turn it into a full-blown webcomic instead haha

This DOES mean that updates won't be nearly as linear as they were here, seeing as right now I've mostly been working on backstory fics that took place before the blog's main story, but that can at least give you guys more context for how the characters interact with each other! I'll also state that while I do write faster than I draw, I still do it a hell of a lot less, so updates will still probably be pretty infrequent. But at least they'll happen at all, right?

As for the state of this blog itself, obviously I'm going to leave it up! I still love looking back on the old interactions you guys had with my characters and your reactions to certain plot points (your reactions to Fluff tagging along with the rest of the group were my favorite by far) and I think it would actually kill me to erase them. I'll be posting the fic updates here too, just like I did for Self Hatred!

And even if it's not going to be an ask blog anymore, because of how much I still miss that kind of interaction with you guys, I think I want to do a sort of "last hurrah" event, to finally send off the asking format with some good vibes.

You see, there's a character I made up around this time of year two years ago. He's a pretty cool guy, but he doesn't actually show up until a specific turning point later in the story. I've been excited for you guys to talk to him since the day I made him, but a little bummed lately that you may not ever get the chance. I still need to get a lot of stuff prepared, so I'm not quite ready to announce or start anything just yet, but there's a reason I waited until my winter break to start thinking about this seriously.

I think you guys would really like to meet him.

But anyway, that's about all I wanted to say for now! This is a very long post already so it's time I start wrapping it up. As always, thank you all so much for sticking with me, even though I really haven't been consistent through the years. I hope this change doesn't come as too much of a disappointment, and that you'll keep sticking around for the reboot!

#LONG ass post sorry guys but i wanted to cover all my bases 😌 #ooc #actually i think im gonna add the bone boys tag too just to make things less confusing for any chrono readers #bone boys #i might post some sneak peeks of my current wips a bit later just to prove i AM actually working on it lol #woulda put it here but its wayyyyyyyy too long n i didn't wanna add a cut 😔 #i hope you guys can get excited about the send off event tho... it probably wont last longer than a month but i think itll be rlly cool :>

[pepperpixel]

Some new art of a very very old oc of mine! From like, when I was an 8th grader in middle school to freshman in high school I think, I haven’t thought about this character or the world she’s from in like… years, but my brain suddenly remembered she existed! And so I drew some art of her!

Visually, she’s absolutely mostly the result of my child self sticking Toko Fukawa from Danganronpa and Peacock from Skullgirls in a blender and lettin it fuckin rip. Personality wise she’s a bit different tho… she’s into politics! As in,,, she’s in politics ghgh, she’s like the chief of the surveillance department for the country of (mostly) witches that the story takes place in. And one of the advisors to the head ruler witch,,, she sucks! Hardcore! she’s def a villain lol

#I made 2 videos for this story and she’s in 1 of them #the idgaf video. at the 30 second mark #but. even tho I specifically remember when I first designed her she had the eyeball braids! #or at least eyeball buns #16 year old me got rid of em!!! for no good reason! #they were fun and cool and fitting for her role and character!!! what the hell 16 year old me! #original #original art #original characters #my ocs #artists on tumblr #eyes #doodles #the other video from this story I made is the something’s not right meme lol #the difference in tone is fucking tremendous #that one tho is more… a lore tidbit… like… it’s background on a phenomena of the setting… #as a middle schooler I did not give a shit about major or minor or background characters tho. or even actually telling a cohesive story? #like. I started w a few characters. and then. went on to characters they were connected too. and then characters they were connected too #and then on an on and on it was just a web of vaguely interconnected dudes in a vaguely interconnected world #no. real narrative lol. but I had fun w it! it was cool. I wish I still had my sketchbooks w the stuff I made for it #I feel like it’d be a fun thing to look back on… sadly fire took them… damn u fire ghg #* ​shakes first at past horrible traumatic experience * #anyway yeah! enjoy art of evil eyeball lady w no name lmao #*fist not first… spellings hard #partial nudity #in the second pic. but also u can’t rlly see anything so. I think it’s fine? #I’ll still tag just in case tho

[sunnibits]

I just asked my irl friends this too but I’m rlly curious to know so: can you guys give me any recommendations for new food to try for someone who is an extremely picky eater who’s trying to practice expanding their palette?? like maybe some really simple foods that would be a good place to start, or alternatively pls tell me what food you would recommend to someone who has never eaten food before lmao

#literally ‘food recommendations for a beginner??’ LMAO #if it helps uhhh I rlly like pasta and carbs (even tho I’m gluten free) and like warm cozy food in general #tempted to start listing all the things I don’t want to eat but like. that would take me all day and feel really embarassing LMAO #potential oversharing but uhh I’m starting to think I may actually have a legitimate ed and it’s rlly hard… #but it just occurred to me that because I’m so picky there’s so much good food I haven’t tried yet??? #like most people have tried way more food than me at this age #but I’ve barely tried anything #and if I could just magically get over my good issues it would be so cool to be able to just?? discover food for the first time???? #so idk that’s a really comforting thought #but for now. eating hard and scary. so I gotta start with simple things #tw ed mention #idk I’m not even 100% sure yet but also like… I know. lmao #pretty sure I’m past denial at this point #gem don’t look