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Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod, Traci Brimhall

#...this is going to make me backslide badly

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Poor 2d...

#plabstick bench... #stuart

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phase 2 redraw

#quality! #band meeting

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Liam's twitter is very Murdoc-coded. And I stand by that.

#murdoc niccals #trust me. this is real. #ps: it was my birthday yesterday. i continue being old!

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#oh them #loving murdoc's attire and pose #murdoc #stuart

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i won’t get shadowbanned here for saying I’M TAKING COMMISSIONS…please buy me i’m sick

#acquire a satsu

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#🙏

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World Damons Dae

#approp here for the stus #absolutely! oh absolutely! #damo #stuart #happy birth damo

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Hitachi DA-P100

Illustration by Akira Terasawa 寺沢彰

#stucore

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if you like a piece of media that is good eventually youll more or less run out of things to say about how good it is but if you like a piece of media that is objectively pretty mediocre but also somehow deeply compelling thats how the demons get you

#absolutely real phenomenon. look at this place.

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#oh it's so good and we're so blessed #i'm shaking. it's his song. it's his song. it's him. #you've all collectively had enough of the damonposting and are dragging me back down into the tarry neon pill-spotted stu depths #it's home here. it's home. #stuart

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wip of something

#satsuma goes to heaven. for this and everything. #so so so good. that is utterly him #stuart

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Fanart of @tothedarkdarkseas 's fic All Up The Seething Coast (ao3). This started out as a warmup and man I need to draw something better now because this art does NOT do the fic justice bhaha

Been in the feels, 2D is a character I relate to and resonate with quite a bit and The Fall is one of my favourite gorillaz albums (lmao I know), thus reading a fanfic about The Fall and a character exploration of 2d made me explode into a little million tiny pieces. Printing the entire fic out and eating it. Never recovering

#my eyes are saucers and i'm going to weep #fanart! for me! in the year 2024... what a gift #this is so kind. thank you. #i love the colours you chose-- i feel the neon rot is the very essence of plastic beach. fitting that it haunts the mirrored self. #and the stu outside the mirror is heavy in shadow. his eyes hang. sharp features now slope. it's so right! #you are much much much too kind! thank you for this! #stuart

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will u ever write for gorillaz again? i hope im not intruding/demanding or anything its just ur 2doc is possibly like. the only one i feel like i will ever ever enjoy. its so good. i miss it so much. but either way, i totally understand if u wont. hope you're well <3

Hello! It's not intruding at all; it's very meaningful to me to know there are people out there who enjoy my writing. I know I've lamented so much about it on my other blog (non-Gorillaz followers of this blog who didn't even know I wrote sad grotty fic, look away) that it must become tedious, it must feel overdramatized, but... it is true that writing carries a certain loneliness in it. At least, writing as I interacted with it did. It was difficult to put such a daunting amount of time and vulnerability into a more serious piece of writing, any piece of writing, and to then think it just disappears; it falls off the front page, and anyone who encounters it again for the rest of the internet's lifespan views it as "old," and therefore the author has ceased to exist in more than a few letters at the top of the page. All of that is to say that it really, really does mean something to me when someone like yourself reaches out. I never have anything but gratitude for that.

Will I write 2Doc again? Maybe! I certainly haven't thrown the characters away entirely, and I still have hope alive in my heart that something can stir my love in coming phases... one really great piece of Jamie art or really tawdry interview that catches something of the characters I loved could pull me back, I like to think! It's not really a question of whether I'd write 2Doc, but more whether I'll find the time to write again at all. I had many ambitions for personal writing that I never saw through, and even felt a spark and began drafting ideas for mostly-unrelated fic... but I'm sorry to offer the unglamorous reveal that working 40-50 hours a week can really tire you out mentally, and I haven't made the time for writing. I will never say never! But at the moment, writing has been more of a theoretical thing for me.

When we do get more Gorillaz news and art with a new phase, if there's something worthwhile there, I'd like to at least whip up some joking dialogue, maybe some short drabbles if I don't feel up to a full fic again! And I'm always happy to talk about the characters over on @tothedarkdarkseas if you give me the opportunity to ramble!

#reblogging here in case anon doesn't realize they sent it to my main!

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sorry i came back wrong do you still wanna hit it

#murdoc #the coffin dancer dances...

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2D but make him hee hee

#stuart #you've got a point

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I read All Up The Seething Coast on the train a few weeks back (cried heavily after the fact, mostly unrelated) and decided to go through all your other 2doc fics. Excellent shit, really appreciate how accurately you got their characters down + as a brit I love how you write their dialogue lol. Neat stuff, love your work :] Forever changed 2doc for me I love these nasty men in a mutually unbeneficial relationship

Thank you so much! I still feel I can't properly express what messages like this mean to me. This ask in particular came at a strangely divined time-- I had just looked through a few of the "stat" tabs on AO3 for the first time in a long long while, a bit wistful, and then navigated to Tumblr and here was this ask! I really am so glad you enjoyed, and er, also sorry about some of the clunkier Brit dialogue and narration, haha. There is an ocean between our dialects and sometimes I think I was just throwing the oar in the water and seeing how far it floated. I truly still yearn to see these nasty men in their mutually unbeneficial relationship drag each other down like anchors, and I'm grateful if anyone else is finding this weird catalogue and giving it the old college try.

Thank you for reading (especially Seething Coast, which unraveled my brain in irreversible ways) and for taking the time to reach out. It means more than you know!

#<3