next in line for starlight express-ification is Blinky!! blinky train. blinky sleeping car. i was honestly at a loss to do for him until the image of the sleeping mask, shorts, and giant legwarmers came to me. he's a sleeping car on account of the whole 'don't wake him up' thing watcher world had going on.
apparently it's way easier to plan scenes and plotpoints for a fanfic if i draw them first, so here we are <3 featuring me rambling abt this scene under the cut!!
i was specifically thinking about Haym and Rikki's entire relationship?
especially very early on, right when Rikki is properly assigned as Neon J's apprentice and whatnot. this was meant to be the moment Rikki realizes they're not coping very well with leaving Ban behind in Beachside Archipelago, and how they're actually gravitating towards Haym because of how similar he feels to Ban - yknow. being the same model and all
cause Rikki has some serious issues with needing absolute control over every aspect of their life. and right now, they're stuck with a job they don't exactly care for, trying desperately to suck up to Neon J so he'll actually promote Rikki to a DECENT job designing security bots for Vinyl City, not BABYSITTING 1010
(which isn't even babysitting, moreso than being monitored 24/7 in a localized space where they can't be shady since Neon J doesnt. trust them. at all. for various valid reasons)
so witnessing Haym pull some stupid but well-meaning stunt to force Rikki show off how good they are at fixing and repairing shit makes Rikki go????
A LITTLE FERAL????
BECAUSE THEY UNCONSCIOUSLY PROJECT ALL THEIR UNRESOLVED FEELINGS ABOUT BAN ONTO HAYM
but they only realize this when their body shuts down and cannot act the way they would've wanted, seeing Haym entirely fucking wrecked being very similar to how they found Ban when they first met makes them spiral a little
Haym doesn't even KNOW he's not the original Yellow model, he has his suspicions but is overall kept in the dark. befriending Rikki is something he does entirely out of genuine curiosity, motherfucker has no clue he's in the middle of a 4 year long unresolved break-up between two losers who are constantly pining after each other both romantically and platonically
im thinkingggg Haym might be seeking out Rikki's presence mostly because he's noticed that they treat him slightly different than the others. not necessarily better, just different enough to get him curious. so the need to build an identity away from 1010 as a group/unit and his inherent curiosity just gets him into this mess
i feel like i’ve been WAITING for the other shoe to drop wrt people’s opinions about watcher for this very reason. not that i think the reaction is completely not understandable but the greater the parasocial relationship, the greater the fallout as soon as public opinion shifts. you don’t have a relationship with these people they’re just content creators, chill
Just a fun question! What are your favorite at mediums that you don’t draw/use?
Okay I love this question-
Two mediums that elude me beyond belief are
Paint (any paint, acrylic, oil, it’s like a whole wild world and I can’t make it do WHAT I WANT-)
And colored pencils (don’t judge me okay I’m a alchohol marker kinda girly. I can’t get the layering right with pencils.)
Paint is such an amazing medium because not only does it enable you to create LARGER pieces of artwork on nearly ANY surface you want! But it’s so fluid and malleable to work with there’s very little you CANT do with it! I have a huge respect for any painted artwork that takes time, specifically realism but I still appreciate other works as long as you can tell it has meaning/took time.
Colored pencils are nice to work with for little things for me but like- I don’t understand how people layer them??? This is also a pretty common medium for hyperrealism. These differ from charcoals and graphite pencils because it’s not just a matter of lighter or darker anymore- it’s a matter of completely different colors.
Yeah you think your just gonna use orange pencils?
NAH THAT SKINTONE HAS UNDERTONES OF GREEN!!! YOUVE BEEN FOOLED!!
Anyway- I have a huge respect for people who use these mediums because I have genuinely tried and they elude me.
But the important thing to remember is that every medium takes talent and practice and therefore all should be admired :) !
You know, I think if I was obscenely wealthy what I'd do is commission artists to make a piece of their own choosing and then give it away to some poor broke sod for free/open up a commission slot where I paid but someone that normally couldn't afford it got the commission
Basically, my house would fill up at some point, you know... and I gotta pace myself, so I'd really have to say sometimes "your art is great... but I don't think it's what I personally am looking for in my house specifically"
So instead I could make it so that people who can't normally afford art could get a piece (I've been there plenty)
If I had the money to do it, it would be a win win win. An artist would get money and get to create, I'd get to see a picture of their work, and someone who didn't have the money to buy art would get art which is very important to me
*big breath* qUINCY QUINCY GET OUT OF THERE,, YOU CANT JUST GIVE UP RIGHT NOW!!! do you know how to cut that rope or uhh untie that handkerchief on your mouth…?
[*Struggling noises*]
[ I'm afraid that Sigmund's done a stellar job at restraining me. I cannot move at all. But even so, i dont plan on giving up so easily. There must be a way out of this mess.. ]
i don’t have very many ‘guilty pleasures’ but, when i was recovering from top surgery, laying in bed with nothing to do, i started watching the evan and katelyn youtube channel and, even though most of their projects are very 2013core and don’t really align with my tastes, my brain has started associating their voices with the comfort of a pseudo-parental presence even though their resin experiments are sometimes hard to watch because they are literally ADHD: the couple
You probably forgot about the promised spoon, I did for a while. I did finally make it tho!
One guy suggested it be “very texture”, so I decided to try a plated kinda look. It might not be the wanted amount of “very”, but I thought it would be cool.
im literally so mad about x now mfjfhfgk i don’t keep up with whatever shit hes getting into because i simply dont care but now im So Mad that he doesnt have the backbone to call the racist trucker convoy bad. what unheard of brilliant take does he think hes making here. Finally Somebody Stood Up For The Racists