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adjusted nova's design a bit more :)

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February drawing: Anxious

sorry this was a bit last minute i was too busy obsessing over helldivers 2

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IT'S MY 1ST HRT ANNIVERSARY. I've been taking this for 366 days now. I actually got my meds two days before but I decided to wait to take them because funny number lol

#sponge magic art #my art #furry art #furry #furries #fursona #red panda #trans #transgender #hrt #hrt anniversary

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The Flag of Japan but it's actually this hand towel with a perfectly-placed water stain

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here’s the closeted furries “hey man… can u bum me a cig” and “the one uncle nobody invites to the family reunion but SOMEONE keeps telling him where it is anyways”

if you want an idea of what john is like, imagine hau from pokemon sumo

ALSO the ppl who kept asking me for trans thomas art, HERE he’s trans in this au (; 

ft John:

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Commission for NewbishDM. Why does the buppy have a robo arm? Truly one of the biggest mysteries of our time.

#furry art #nsfw furry art #sponge magic art #furry #my art #nsfw art #commission #nsfw commission

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Hi, I'm Cy, they/them! I'm a furry/humie artist who loves dragons and wyverns and 70s rock and monster hunter. I also take commissions, more information here

and commission forms here

#woah commissions be upon ye

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Happy Neil Day! Please enjoy the very rare alternate Neil images!

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THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS AND ANALYSIS FOR HAZBIN HOTEL. I AM NOT A HAZBIN FAN AND ONLY WATCHED IT TO FORM FAIR AND HONEST CRITIQUE.

Also this post is really long.

So... I watched all of Hazbin with a friend and... it wasn't good. I didn't have high expectations because I saw the pilot when it came out and it gave me a really bad headache for the rest of the day. But I had higher hopes for the Amazon Prime series since it was, y'know, a more professional production with established companies behind it. But as we were watching it, more and more problems began to surface. Something that continues to bother me long after we finished it.

See, many criticisms about the show online devolve into the show swearing a lot and all of the designs looking the same, and while those are definitely issues with the show, they are not to the extreme people make it out to be. It kind of goes to show how the people who have made these points never actually sat down and watched at least an episode of it and just going with what everyone else said about it. That's beside the point. If you really want to make the memes of "Xyz if it were written by VivziePop", you could always address Hazbin's shockingly bad pacing and the team's "Tell-Don't-Show" writing style that permeates throughout this 8 episode experience.

That's the part that drove me up a wall, the fact that Hazbin tries to dump all of this lore, character arcs, and a plot of epic proportions in just 8 24 minute episodes, a little over 3 hours of total screentime. You can definitely tell that events (plot important events, I might add) are just glosses over or speedran through faster than the Olympic 100m. Relationship conflicts? Started and resolved in one episode. Angel Dust's traumatic experiences and abuse? Presented and resolved in one episode. Sir Pentious learning to be a good person? This one's even better. It happens OFF SCREEN. Not to mention, everyone just flat out states their problems instead of showing them. It's really all over the place. But I have a theory as to why it's like this.

The Hazbin writers are writing a musical instead of a serialized animated series.

Lemme explain.

Now I am not a big fan of musical theater. I respect the hell out of it and Hades Town was pretty cool. But I just don't like it. But as someone who was forced to be in various high school musical theater productions and a former musician, I know more than most about theater. And applying that logic to the show made some things about it make more sense.

It's important to note first off that theater and television are two very different mediums of storytelling. The primary focus of musical theater is... the theatrics. The songs, the performances, the dancing, etc. While it still needs to be there, story isn't as prominent like television and film.

You wanna know why Cats failed as a movie? Aside from everything else surrounding it, the pacing of the musical is incredibly lopsided, focusing most of the runtime on introducing characters with musical numbers and only really getting anywhere by the end of the second act. But the show is still very popular because the music and the choreography are so incredible.

Because story doesn't isn't top priority, things can be forgiven and hand-waved that normally wouldn't in television and film. Important plot points can happen off screen, usually because showing it on stage would be too difficult. Actors often flat out state how they're feeling or acting because the audience can't see their faces from that far away. Characters can go through complete arcs in one or two scenes to get the show moving along. It works in musical theater because of suspension of disbelief and the charm comes from seeing these events happen live.

These are all things that Hazbin does, and the show is filled with tons of theatrics and spectacle over a story. Hell, it even has a closer runtime to a Broadway musical than it does to a standard 13 episode season.

But here's the problem. What works in musical theater doesn't work in TV or film. When watching a TV show, there are certain expectations that need to be met and vice versa. It's like trying to talk to an Italian speaker by using Spanish. Some stuff may look or sound similar to each other, but it's not as compatible as you'd think.

Considering that VivziePop is a huge fan of Broadway, it wouldn't surprise me at all if her writing style was influenced by it. You could take Hazbin season 1 and adapt it as a Broadway musical and you wouldn't need to change much. In fact you could remove things for time and it would still be good. But this type of storytelling doesn't work in TV, especially serialized shows. Things need to be elaborated on further and characters need to be seen growing and learning instead of just telling the audience that they are.

tl:dr - Hazbin Hotel's pacing problems and writing faults make sense when you look at it through the lens of music theater, which doesn't excuse it because it's a TV show and not Broadway.

#very long post

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I just had to pay $800 out of pocket for school tuitions. Commissions are still open and the queue is clearing up, only got two left to do.

Google form link is right here.

https://forms.gle/XhBcQ6tfWzk1Zp96A

I'm opening commissions again! Come and get 'em while they're hot! Just DM me if you're interested.

Reblogs appreciated, thanks! <3

#commissions #furry art #commissions open #reblogs appreciated #help needed

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Badge commission for my friend Lucy!

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FINNIE THIS IS INCREDIBLE

"What're you looking at?"

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WHAT if instead of bear pride for hairy fat men we ALSO had cow pride. for fat women with huge milkers. ok now give me 10000 reblogs a kiss on the cheek and a nobel prize

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I wanted to play with clothing designs. So i drew me a rat in 90s clothes. Her name is Daisy 🌼

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Sometimes I think about what it'd be like to just be a real glutton and just be happy and fat. Just lounging around and waddling to get places. I think it'd be fun, especially with a fat partner or smth.

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The sheep with the Animal Factory (TM) smart phone.

Commission for @/jintally!

#furry art #my art #sponge magic art #digital art #watercolor #sheep #sheep furry #furry #furries #big sweater #sweater #commission #furry commission #anthro art #anthro #anthro sheep #cozy #soft #pastel colors