EDIT: this is now available as a print in my ko-fi shop! link here [x]
alternate versions and commentary under the cut!
about the piece: this is my first time ever attempting to draw a back—and LET ME TELL YOU. I STRUGGLED. took me a solid 2 hours to figure it out—even then I had to go physically put down the iPad and go on a walk three separate times because I was so frustrated. the things I do to make fob fanart. if you’re confused by the pose, I originally meant for the figure to be laying down, but now it’s more intended to be as though the figure is leaning on something (most likely the headboard of a bed????)—although, the pose was kind of an afterthought as I really just needed to make a lot of space to add in the text (which, as always, is hand lettered except for the “dance dance, fall out boy”)
about the song: dance dance is one of my favorite fall out boy songs, if not my favorite fob song, but I think it’s important to acknowledge the slightly misogynistic undertones of the song. im not saying that the song is misogynistic, nor that fall out boy is misogynistic, but rather that the song was released in 2005 and as a society, we’ve grown in terms of how we speak about women in pop culture. a lot of media, specifically songs from the 2000s (ESPECIALLY emo songs, im looking at you “I write sins”) had this kind of borderline misogynistic tone that is not in any way okay (Im not trying to justify it!!) but was unfortunately normalized.
as an afab person, I love this song, I love this LINE specifically (“why don’t you show me the little bit of spine you’ve been saving for his mattress, love?” goes SO HARD for me), and I think my immense enjoyment of the song doesn’t prevent me from talking about how it fits into misogynistic culture (esp of the 2000s) and it does not mean i accept it
(but also, I don’t really listen to the lyrics of the song anyway—everyone say thank you to Patrick Stump’s enunciation)
anyway that’s it k byeeeeeee (and go stream fall out boy!)
p.s. I forgot to add my watermark so for the sake of me not wanting to go back and edit it in pls don’t repost with credit please and thank yew ?????
Any chance you have more doodles of casual intimacy between the surivors? me and my homies Love that Good Platonic Intimacy rep, never be afraid to kiss/cuddle the homies <3
doodles? No. Hajime being Good With His Hands? I do now!
pearl posting in 2023????????? more likely than u think
commentary + process under the cut!
➭ this is supposed to be a reference to “the birth of Venus” but as u can probably tell from the time lapse I was TOOOO ambitious and had to cut some things out (╥﹏╥) so it kinda ended up looking like that one lady w/ the umbrella from the haunted mansion ride at Disneyland
➭ tbh I’m not really sure where this idea came from (if anyone else did the Pearl + the birth of Venus thing pls tag them and I’ll give credit!!! I can’t remember if/where I saw this concept before) but Pearl has been on my mind for WEEKS—she is me I am her she didn’t do anything wrong (murder????? WHAT MURDER????)
➭ I haven’t made any actual art in a while so this was an ORDEAL and took a very long time to finish, I had to speed up the time lapse A LOT lmao :,))) likes + reblogs appreciated!!!!!!!!
I didn’t use a reference of mia goth because I got lazy and I started to lose motivation around the alligator so maybe don’t look at those parts??? thank u :,)))))