#this is funny to exactly two people

[kitnapz]

mr. gingerbresident! they hit the second candy cane!

#this is funny to exactly two people

[moeblob]

Ohiwe (lady) and Ohime (man) aka the fire deity after they get punished.

Originally just "Oh", the fire deity had a bit too much fun with punishing humans and so in a means to stop them, the elder gods split them into two. So now they have to be together in order to have their "full" power but as before the split, they get restless and like to wander. So while one stays in their city, the other gets to go out and travel and see the world and check on the other deities.

Also, as a whole/singular being Oh would use they/them. After the split however, it's definitely not the same and so Ohiwe likes using female pronouns and Ohime uses male pronouns. That way when discussed as one, it's back to they. That feels best for them.

#my characters #i posted the unified base version to my side blog but they arent very exciting it was just a lil doodle #however as i sit here waiting for my throbbing headache to go away im dying squirtle i figured id try to doodle #before i work on the comm and unfortunately my head still hurts so back to medicine i go #also also ohime is much more mild in his commentary where ohiwe is sharp and harsh #and ohiwe is definitely more fond of running the city than ohime but that also means she gets more restless quicker #so he unfortunately is stuck in the city more than she is because she needs to wander #she still does most of the planning as she wanders and then talks it over with ohime when she returns #i wanna make a funny joke about how they are indeed the last two brain cells type of thing #but also they are on the same wavelength almost all the time cause they started as the same person #but its always a bit of a jump in their logic to other people while they remain on the same page #like ohiwe says something and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS #and everyone else is like no ??? but ohime is like WE HAVE TO TAKE A NAP #or something and ohiwe is like exactly ! glad one of you in the room knows whats up

[egophiliac]

Um…hello! Your art is like a HUGE inspiration to me how you draw everyone is so unique, I love it! So I just wanted to ask what inspired you and your art to what it is today?

(hopefully I explained that correctly ;w;)

oh my gosh, thank you! :D :D :D I've been feeling pretty down about my art lately, so this was a super nice message to wake up to! one of the easiest traps to fall into is forgetting that other people are seeing your art without all the baggage and hangups that your brain has given it, and sometimes...they might actually like it? hmm. 🤔 (seriously though, that really is incredible to hear, thank you! 💕)

inspiration is really really hard to put into words. so I apologize if none of this makes sense! :') a lot of it comes from looking at things I like, trying to break down what it is that I like about them, and smooshing all those pieces together into some kind of amalgamated homunculus. I'll see something that uses a lot of straights vs curves, go "ooh", and then just start throwing those in there until it is fully absorbed into the gelatinous mess that is Developing An Artstyle. or I'll see some pretty soft-style shading, go "ooh", and then decide I'm not meshing with it and try something else. just, like, being open and trying different things and seeing what sticks, I guess!

overall, I would say I was mostly shaped by the Western media landscape of the early 2000s, when anime was becoming more mainstream and starting to show influence on Western cartoons; I think particular works that influenced me were Sailor Moon, Utena, the works of Takahashi Rumiko, Samurai Jack, Batman Beyond, and Bone. (there's also the French movie Princes et Princesses -- which is itself a homage to The Adventures of Prince Achmed -- which...yeah, you can basically take one look at it and see the effect it had on me.) and there are probably a lot of other things that I didn't consciously realize!

on a more philosophical level, one of my teachers once said to me that "the art that you like to look at isn't necessarily the art that you should be doing". which is something I try to hold onto! I had been trying really hard at the time to be, like, a more realistic traditional-style painter, and was getting really frustrated because that kind of art isn't fun for me to do. it wasn't until I gave myself permission to actually try out different things and not lock myself into what I thought was the kind of art I should be doing, that I realized I actually just like drawing little dudes making weird faces at each other! (I definitely still have some hangups about this, but I am getting better at it! ...I hope!)

#just sort of (waves) general art #i guess #there is definitely some of the Career that leaks into things too #there's a couple of posts where i can point to exactly what project i was on at the time #whoops #tangentially i do think it's kind of funny when people describe my twst fanart as being not anime style #because my stuff in the non-japanese sphere of things often gets described as being anime style #i just think it's funny how relative it is! #two worlds...one family...

[introspectivememories]

do you ever think about how marco is one of the last people who knows how close shanks and buggy once were? do you think he ever looks at shanks and instinctively searches for buggy? i bet you marco looks at shanks surrounded by his crew and still thinks that shanks looks lonely. because back then, you could never find one without the other. if you insulted shanks, you insulted buggy and vice versa. they were attached at the hip. if you got one of them alone, you better savor it because in the next five minutes, the other one would come find them. like in my heart i know every time marco sees shanks these days all he thinks is where's the rest of you?

#marco who has first hand knowledge about how close shanks and buggy used to be #marco who never knows what to think when he sees shanks these days bc what happened? where's buggy? #where's the rest of you? #marco who hears about buggy's arrest and his first thought is 'oh fuck shanks isn't gonna like that' until he remembers that they dont talk #marco who privately thinks that shanks' less than who he used to be #marco who wonders what exactly happened to roger's cabin boys #i like to think ace asks him once why he always gets that funny look on his face whenever he sees shanks and marco doesn't know how to expl #the seas greatest mystery. bc how do you explain that these two people who were once so close don't even seem to think about each other #anymore. how do you explain just how well buggy and shanks clicked? how do you explain what they used to be to someone who has only ever #seen the broken remnants of what they are now? #head in hands head in hands head in hands #fushichou marco #marco the phoenix #op marco #akagami no shanks #op shanks #shanks one piece #buggy the clown #buggy one piece #op buggy #shanks x buggy #shuggy #one piece

[kicktwine]

oh so alisaie’s exaggerated bully behavior is 80% fanon. saying this she casually picks up a large rock

#say one thing wrong to me and you will have a wonderful few days with the rock #if angry silly girls have 100 fans etc if they have 0 fans i have died #sorry i saw a YouTube meme i vehemently disliked on principle and got mad at the only child behavior- #kipspeak #she is just short tempered and uses anger to mask other more ‘shameful’ emotions!!! alphy did the same thing with just deciding not #to express them. which is still not good and I think why he breaks and ends up teary so often now #this shortness does not translate to actually being mean to people. she only uses being mean as a shield for herself and being snarky #Is just fun for her. it’s fun for Me. you have to inconsequentually tease people or they’ll never learn to laugh at themselves #the twins and thancred 🫵 do this thing where they have big emotions but they don’t want anyone to SEE they have big weird emotions #so alphy pretends he doesn’t have them under a veneer of dignity and alisaie pretends the emotions are Something Else. thancred is #just so emotionally constipated he has trouble expressing anything. he’s got enough baggage for a flatbed #anyways. alisaie is such a compassionate and kind girl and she learned how to make snarky jokes and went ham. and she hates appearing sad o #weak or vulnerable so she blocks it off with an unapproachable emotion so no one pities her and they maybe get on with the plot #it is in fact also great at getting ppl to move away from the sad or embarrassing topic. even if the tradeoff is being more offputting #she would never (grabs youtube meme) she would never seriously bully her brother. this is sibling ribbing only. Cain instinct #just leave her be she is learning how to snark humor and she loves it she loves being sharp. alphy has wit he just keeps it close #my brother didn’t learn how to tell or receive a joke until he was 14 he took everything so seriously. he can do it now though and he’s #HILARIOUS. Don’t tell him I said that. my man knows exactly where the funny points are even if he hasn’t learned when to stop yet #too many tags. Whatever. jokey snark alisaie who sometimes compliments is happy alisaie grouchy snappy angry alisaie is way too stressed #very easy way to tell between the two. even alphy can tell between the two I believe! He tends to rib back in protest if they’re having fun #and try to stop her if they’re not having fun. case in point ‘what is that supposed to mean?!’ vs ‘alisaie ryne was only trying to help.’ #I know they’re twins but that’s such an intensely older sibling thing to do that it reels me #LONG TAGS AND THREE EDITS TO ADD ON SHORT I resent this stereotype taken too far into ooc behavior. it happened with nya #It will happen again and as a postscript let me regale you with Things U Can Notice About Character Motivation and Actions— #I’m not done let me s #she and raha are friends now I decree. ‘haha you like me’ SPUTTERING PROTEST FROM BOTH

[emmuhhhhhhhh]

The thirsting over Logan Sargeant has me in a chokehold.

This man is literally your typical garden-variety frat boy, and it tickles me to no end that my European F1 besties are throwing heart eyes at him.

You are not immune to the US fratboy propaganda

#google is fratboy one word or two (split conclusion) #I can name at least six people who look EXACTLY like him from my graduating high school class #idk he is funny though so maybe yall are thirsting over than instead #I’ve been sent two tiktok edits of him from my dear British friends and babes… that is a man who’s got illegitimate tickets to watershed #EVERY college quart back looks like him #huh?! #logan sargeant #f1

[wormy-worm]

ok u know what maybe if the world isn't ready for sunrazer post that means that the world IS ready for Amoveous siblings post. This is Milo and Enho and theyre my DARLINGS and i love them SO MUCH. i have. SOOOOOOOO many thoughts abt them but after the previous post massacre i do not really feel like typing all of that xoxo love <3

#THESE DRAWINGS HAVE BEEN SITTING IN MY DRAFTS FOR MONTHS LOL #meart #original character #robot oc #ily enho ily milo my darlings my angels my loves my funny robot guys. #ive posted abt Andromeda on here b4 if u remember her Enho is her best friend !!!!! #Enhos a battle robot who doesnt want 2 fight people.. #hes the oldest sibling and theres a lot resting on their shoulders! #shes supposed to be this big metal protector but U.U she just wants to hide in his room.. and make music for the internet.. #him and andy have this whole arc abt like. autonomy and identity and junk #being as andy is a government experiment who was raised to be a superhero who. has not yet realized that she HATES being a superhero lol #Enho inspires her! #milo um. does his own thing. he was the second amoveous bot and he is lucky to have been built without the responsibility of a battle bot #which means hes a LOT weaker. doesnt have a million weapons and lasers and such like enho does. no one expects much of him. he HATES IT!!!! #he wants to be POWERFUL! he wants to HURT PEOPLE!! he wants to be USEFUL!!! hes ANGRY ALL THE TIME #its EXSAUSTING. #yk that tinkerbell thing thats like. cuz shes so small she can only feel one emotion at once. and its so big it consumes her entirely? #hes that. he lives entirely in extremes. everything is 100% for him #he jumps to conclusions so quick and so violently.. hes incredibly impulsive and it gets him into a lot of trouble. #hes also a total NERD!!! GOOB!!! says mlady unironically. likes bad computer games. wears a stupid tie everyday. cartoonishly schemes 24/7 #enho for the record is also a pretty angry person. they just dont rlly express it. they dont express much of anything lol. #shes semiverbal on a talkative day. he can be REALLY REALLY PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE THO. THAT MF CAN BE SO PETTY. GOOFY ASS #but shes TERRIFIED she'll lose control of her emotions and her body and that shell hurt someone someday. absolutely terrified. #enho is as afraid of his strength as milo is of his weakness. theyre both two ends of the same extremes in a lot of ways. #polar opposites and yet exactly the same. they resent each other a lot. they need to learn to meet each other in the middle. #anyway ''i dont feel like typing all that'' and then i ramble in the tags for ten million years lol ToT I LOVE THESE GUYS #theyre my oldest ocs in this universe and i have so many thoughts if you have any questions feel free to ask me lol

[gwinverarrouz]

My object head OCs whomst I almost never draw, haha. I like them! They just... don't really have stories, so I don't think about them a lot compared to some of my other characters.

The last three were art pieces I made for past editions of the Object Head Zine (these ones are free for all, you can download them!), and the dates written on the first set actually correspond to when these were finished. So 2017, 2019 and 2021. ^^

The middle row is from last year's inktober, thought it'd be fun to include them too. Different styles~

#mydrawings #MyCharacters #object heads #draw this again #technically? #Object Head Zine #i still like these zine pictures! even if i would do things differenty now i worked hard on them #i remember being so proud of that microscope because i had only started drawing digitally that year aw #hm since i never post about these characters why don't i ramble about them a little in the tags #the fireball head one is a girl btw #since it's impossible to tell with that diving gear #the zine theme of that one was “elements” so i thought #“hey wouldn't it be funny if there was a fire object head who was very passionate about diving” #also these four are not all from the same “universe”- the flowers and the other two live in different stories #the flowers are more like “people who happen to have an object instead of a head” #“and also everything in this world is in black and white except their heads because aesthetic” #while the microscope and the fireball don't... exactly have a physical body...? that you can interact with? #like you could theoretically put your hand through that labcoat and the labcoat would be real #but all you'd feel beside fabric would be a slight resistance and some static #although that would be a smidge rude #he's preparing a microscope slide don't bother him

[sludgeguzzler]

there should be a cattegory of person whos like "the weird freak i have a homoerotic relationship with who i follow around and criticize affectionately" like a bestfriend but different. a worstfriend

#theres my bestfriend (sweet kind funny interesting awesome) and my worstfriend (all of those things except i Have to kill him. i need to) /j #talk #sometimes you dont work in a relationship but you DO work in a partnership. ''partnership to what'' everything man. and nothing. #queerbait but real and devoid of the bad part of queerbait #two weird gay people that have a Thing with eachother that noone can exactly define but its still There #im important to you youre special to me etc etc etc #im having thoughts and feelings excuse me #oh also on this scenario youre also a freak. you knowing that is not important but yes you too are a freak.

[enden-k]

ngl i kinda missed doing this, havent done these since childe and my thoughts and analysis of him and his childhood trauma/his past and how it changed/affects him now 😭

#always like takimg apart a character that ppl often misunderstand bc of one of their major traits that ppl see only that and misinterpret #like childes lust for battle and challenge (ppl thinking hes a bloodcrazed maniac loving to fight and kill everyone and everything) #or haithams rationality (ppl thinking he lacks feelings and care and that hes just an ice cold rude sussy bitch who dislikes people) #its funny how exactly these two i love sm and always get annoyed wjen i see ppl say or characterize them like that #so ill def put haitham into tje kaveh post too #personal #tbd

[moeblob]

(inhales) I'm so sorry I love Schwarz von Lichtenstein Loengram. He's my son now and I'm terribly sorry but I love him so, so much.

#Schwarz von Liechtenstein Loengram #did i just copy and past his name from the wiki? yes #fantasy bishoujo juniku ojisan to #im just gonna use the japanese title name as the tag cause it exists and the long eng title is too long #anyway hi i think im sick and this took me over 2hrs to draw #im praying tomorrow i feel better #his character in the anime style is identical the the lead of another anime which is really funny to me #bc i kept telling people about my son schwarz who looks exactly like (famous character) #and people kept going ah gotcha and then i showed them his official ref and #they flipped out cause EVEN HIS SWORD IS THE SAME WTF #and someone said oh scrolling by thought it was just (famous character) in a spin off or smth #tsukasa jinguuji #i forgot to tag sir father in law.... oops there we go #sorry about that sir even though you are one of the main two characters i forgot to tag

[catcatb0y]

Honestly though saying (or implying) that vocaloid or vocal synths in general "devalues the human voice" is SUCH an incredibly shit take for SO many reasons.

Like yeah Saki Fujita getting so many other roles in voice acting because of her contribution to Hatsune Miku (the anime cameos and stuff are usually done with her original voice, them modified to be robotic) is a bit of an outlier when most other vocaloid and sythns don't have that influence.

You can even sort of wave off the dozens upon dozens of people who go for realistic tuning- like whenever a synth has any sort of clarity, there are like five people commenting about how real they sound. Clearly people do still care about human sounding vocals, because they go nuts over realistic vtuning.

There are many different aspects of vocaloid that use human voices, too- from Set It Off's duet "Why Do I?", human rap artists using Miku's vocals as background, and the entire CONCEPT of Project Sekai which releases AND COMMISSIONS songs for vocal synths and real people.

But the sheer number of vocaloid producers who use their own vocals as back up (MikitoP, PinoochioP, and I believe Kira off the top of my head), the number of producers who can sing and/or do self covers (again Kira, GIGA, Ayase, Teniwoha, syudou and so many more), and the amount of vocal producers who have gone forward with legit musical careers after working with vocaloid (Kenshi Yonezu, most notably, who did work for years under the alias Hachi)

I mean, hell. There are vocaloid producers who go on to become vocaloid vocals themselves- like nostraightanswer, the vocal provider for DEX, who has made both vocaloid and original songs. Some even duets.

That's not even including creators like JubyPhonic, Rachie, Will Stenson, Lollia, Octavia, Razzy and Co., and SO many other HUMAN cover artists who gained following or honed their skills on none other than vocaloid covers. (And that's just a handful of English Cover artists, not like Sati Akura a Russian cover artist or Ado who has commissioned songs from vocaloid artists)

It's also not including UTAUites who input their own voices to use for covers.

"Devalues the human voice" is such blatant bs. They ARE human voices. They are OUR voices. "You'd think by now that we would have learned, behind every piece if art is a human to be heard." (- CircusP, 'Better Off Worse')

#and another thing #about bad faith interpretations #'it isn't that creative' #is just astronomically funny to me #because oh yeah I forgot how Detrimental (Maki ft. Big Al) sounds EXACTLY like Afraid Of Everything (Luka) and Better Off Worse (vFlower) #and Misery Loves Company (DEX) which are all by the same creator Circus-P #Usseewa sounds EXACTLY like Idiot and Cute Girlfriend (sydou) #Piece Of Art sounds exactly like Machine Gun and Games and Boom! Boom! Boom! (Kira) #hell even producers like DECO and wowaka who have styles that they tend to follow still sound differeng #Rollin Girl. Unknown Mother Goose. Two Faced Lovers- they're all distinct songa #Animal. Cinderella. Vampire. Zombies. and other DECO songs from the same line are still all uniquely different #hell 'no creativity'? #say that to (Not) A Devil where Miku duets HERSELF in the tuning style of two different producers (DECO*27 and Pinocchio P) #the people making duet covers with UTAU and VSythn Teto #vocaloid has always been a haven for creatives #for the artists who draw. the designers who make outfits. tuners. lyricists. MV makers. cover artists. #I'd say there's never been a more cohesively creative community #which is a little biased but genuinely #there's such an incredible outreach from the community as it grows #as it has grown

[mars-ipan]

gotta say i've been in quite a few fandoms but i don't think any of them are quite as unabashedly queer as the gomens fandom is. it's very comfy here

#marzi speaks #i mean it's bound to happen when the show's like the queerest love story of the fucking generation #but in a lot of fandoms i see a lot of like. arguing over tiny inconsequential things or a fear of being too weird #but here? none of that. #no fighting over what labels anyone would use because they aren't human! they don't need human labels! #nobody is weird about aziraphale being fat. he is drawn fat he is written fat and he is lusted after by a solid chunk of the fandom for it #people fuck around with pronouns for the characters all the time bc they can. that makes me happy #the fanfic is all so so queer. down to the kinks #no bullshit top/bottom discourse either. everyone just seems to live and let live #idk it's just very. refreshing #i've spent a lot of time in fandoms where arguing and queerbait (cough cough ACE ATTORNEY coughcoughcough) occur #and while i can handle that and have even learned to find it funny #it's. very nice. to see a space that focuses less on exactly how these two fictional characters are queer and are they Gay or Bisexual #or Do Not Sully My Cinnamon Roll Character With Your Smut They Would Never (note: they would) #but instead just. focusing on being queer #it makes me very very very happy

[willowcrowned]

nothing like going to lowe’s for some extra potting soil on a fine friday morning in may and being the youngest shopper there by at least forty years

#it was SO funny #i cannot emphasize enough that I saw exactly two (2) people that were under 65 #and both of them. it should be said. were wearing capri slacks #willow’s life

[asteralien]

video called "pirate shirt tutorial that actually makes sense" with a thumbnail clickbaitingly copying bernadette banner's style, which does the exact same thing as bernadette banner's video but more confusingly and without a diagram in the video itself, also failing to understand that bernadette banner's channel is primarily a history channel and not a sewing tutorial channel so telling people they don't have to hand-sew the pirate shirt or they don't have to thread-pull is unnecessary because bernadette banner literally said "do this however you want, i just do it this way because it's how i learn about historical dress practices" in her own video. couldn't ask for better youtube entertainment

#source: i'm an idiot and i've made two of bernadette's pirate shirts and they're fantastic #understanding that her diagram is not a pattern but a guideline on how to make your own pattern #is like. not that hard to get. she gave her measurements and then explained how to get your own #to be fair!! everyone learns differently! there are many comments saying that this other video made sense and helped them #which is absolutely fair and good. more knowledge is never a bad thing #it's just the presentation of this other video that i find so funny #'yes i CAN explain how to make a historically accurate men's shirt better than the actual historical dress historian' #[footage not found] #just the way of explaining the shoulder seams...........so much more confusing than bernadette's diagram #also calling the reinforcement patches on the neck/cuff splits??? useless/pointless?????? #sorry i want my garments to not fall apart because i can't afford really nice fabric lmao i will be reinforcing those points. thanks tho #also 'no one is talking about neck gussets i couldn't find any info' HUH ??? #i just want to know if they looked anywhere besides youtube because there are absolutely people talking abt neck gussets #i should not be such a bitch about this. it's not that big a deal. again in the end: more people sharing knowledge is Good #but my friend!!! come on now!!!! #aster chat #ah fuck lads i want to make another poet shirt because that's exactly what i need going into what i'm sure will be a blazing summer #another long sleeved shirt with three yards of fabric to smother myself in #that do Not go with any of my work appropriate trousers