made these for discord pfp (i didnt know which one to choose ...)
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We're Addisons! All we do is advertise!
Finally got some official references worked out for these guys! I've had their designs in my head (or in half finished ref sheets and other sketches) for the longest time but I never properly finished something and wrote down notes about it. Here they all are now!!
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RadioStatic Week 2024
7. Free Day (Loser, Baby)
"You're a loser, baby~"
"A loser, but just maybe, if we..."
[Loser, Baby fanart's been done for RadioStatic (and I love them all aaaa), but I used this free day as an excuse to make my own chibi phone wallpaper version of my favorite Hazbin song with these two losers. ^^]
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Again the sickness speaking but here's something that has been going through my mind since forever:
I feel like a good way to mitigate a lot of discontent with the doa arc ending and in general the whole Dazai-being-flawless issue bsd has going on is by comparing bsd to Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. Please bear with me for two minutes.
When Sherlock Holmes was being published, people were intrigued and enamoured by Holmes' brilliant and charming, crimes-solving figure. People read the stories for the pure joy of being left gaping at his superhuman wits again and again; they didn't want to see him fail, they wanted to be shocked and amazed by his genius. When Holmes died and then came back, nobody lamented it being unrealistic, because realism was not what people were reading the books for! They were reading to be impressed, to cheer for the hero and then take satisfaction in seeing him turn out victorious. That's the author-reader deal that was made there: to impress and to enjoy being impressed.
As of recently I feel like we've been asking from bsd something it never promised us in the first place. Maybe it's just not that kind of series! Maybe it's more about surprising the reader with how the hero is going to make it and less about highlighting his flaws and insecurities. And like, that's okay! That's why Dazai getting away with it isn't it him getting away with it “again”, it's just how bsd is; in a way, it's what makes bsd bsd.
I think it really clicked with me like it never did before when I watched the last episode of season 5; because the arc ending felt so shocking and unpredictable, very deus-ex-machina trope, a little underwhelming in its lowering the stakes that were there the whole time, and yet so extremely on brand with bsd, I didn't even have it in me to be disappointed. It was so similar to the Guild's arc ending and even more to the Cannibalism arc ending, and maybe it really is just a pattern, maybe it really is what bsd aspires to be, and that's okay too.
Also, I can't stretch this enough: if it's not your cup of tea, that's fine. I can't say it's mine either. But I feel like criticizing bsd now for how it's always been falls quite short, because it really feels like demanding from it what it never promised to deliver in the first place. That's just as far as my current perception of the series goes, though, so feel free to disagree with me on this.
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Maybe AU maybe random thing maybe.. BUT. hear me out.
maxwell as a depth worm because he's a blind fuck, purple, lures people in, THE LIPS. the DRAMA. the AGRESSITIVITY. ( and also, how ironic would it be if They 'punished' him for using shadow magic by slowly taking away his sight and the feeling in his arms pre constant? leading him to have to stop the shows before he ultimately gets pulling in during the last one. Blind and tied up tightly in a dark place presumably deep underground. )
wilson as a saladmander purely because of the hair and because i want willow to be a RIPE saladmander ( cuz they can spit fire )
i actually haven't decided for SURE if it'd just be them having always been mobs or just got transformed when pulled into the constant, probably the later cuz it's funnier even tho it wouldn't make sens since maxwell's quote imply they're 'new' but shhhhh
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gideon stallings for @fizzytoo's zombie apocalypse save
after being separated from his roommates when the apocalypse broke out, gideon fought his way out of his hometown all on his own, carrying what little supplies he managed to scrounge up before leaving. he now finds himself in an unfamiliar town struggling to find safety and respite from the impending undead.
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