Scoundrell De Batte

Late-30s Nonbinary Punk from the PNW. They/them pronouns. Illustrator, writer, and aspiring voice actor. Coffee lover & fiercely fat-liberationist.

[batscoundrel]

Big sketch project from 2024 I didn't give an official name but generally referred to as the "Possum Style Flex" or "99 sketches, 99 styles."

The idea was relatively simple, albeit a lot of work: draw a single OC (in this case, Appalachia "Appy" Anarchette Possum, the protagonist of a comics project I've been quietly working on for like, three years and counting) in the manner of 99 different artists that have influenced your own artwork, in any way, to any degree. The project took almost exactly a year.

I figured out a lot about my own approaches to different things like shading and body part emphasis while working on it, and some things about others' process through study! It was also fun to research some of the names I didn't know behind some art styles that I did.

Sometime this year I wanna take my nine favorites, refine 'em, and color 'em. Artist list at the end! I also wanna, at some point, do anothe round cuz there are some that I can't believe I missed. Really, two years ago me? No Maxwell Atoms? No Gooseworx? And oof, I really need to get more black artists on my influence radar. (For the names that are typed, it was because the name written down in the sketch itself was either misspelled or, in at least one case, incorrect/miscredited. DESPITE THIS I STILL MISSED A FEW, and they're spelled/credited properly in the artist list.) Artist List (with the work(s) they're most known for/I know 'em most for) - 1-9: Bill Amend (FoxTrot), Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes), Jim Davis (Garfield), Jhonen Vasquez (JtHM, Squee!, Invader Zim), Rob Liefeld (influential 1980s/90s run in Marvel and later Image), Akira Toriyama (DragonBall), Sophie Campbell (Wet Moon, storied run in IDW Ninja Turtles), Ed Roth (the "Rat Fink" image series), Phil Foglio (Girl Genius) - 10-18: Matt Groening (The Simpsons, Futurama), Eichiro Oda (One Piece), Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon), Dan DeCarlo (Lengthy run on Archie, to the tune of becoming its "house style" for multiple decades), Penn Ward (Adventure Time, Bravest Warriors), Charles Schulz (Peanuts), Junji Ito (Gyo, Uzumaki), Jim Henson (The Muppets), a vast quantity of credited and uncredited illustrators and animators - 19-27: Maurice Sendak (Where The Wild Things Are), Bryan Lee O'Malley (Scott Pilgrim, Seconds), Craig McCracken (The Powerpuff Girls, Kid Cosmic), Danny Antonucci (Ed Edd N' Eddy), Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe), Ken Sugimori (Early-gens Pokemon key art), Quentin Blake (illustrator for several publishings of most Roald Dahl books), Paru Itagaki (Beastars), Ian Worthington (Big Top Burger) - 28-36: Edward Gorey (Illustrator, cartoonist for first iteration of Addams Family), Jamie Hewlett (early Tank Girl, Gorillaz), Olive Brinker (Rae The Doe), Osamu Tezuka (Black Jack, Astro Boy), Felix Colgrave (Double King, DONKS), Theodore Geisel (alias Dr. Seuss), John Scieszka (many 90s childrens' books including The Stinky Cheese Man and Math Curse), Lisa Hanawalt (Tuca & Bertie, Bojack Horseman), Mike & Matt Chapman (Homestar Runner) - 37-45: James Stokoe (Wonton Soup, Orc Stain), Mike Mignola (Hellboy), Shigeru Mizuki (Kitaro), Jamie Smart (Bear), Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), Fil Barlow (creature designer for multiple cartoons and movies, famously including Ghostbusters), Max Fleischer (and his studio; several older western cartoons including Betty Boop and Popeye), Daisy McGuire (GastroPhobia, PepsiaPhobia, Yellow Brick Ramble), Jen Wang (Koko Be Good, The Prince & The Dressmaker, In Real Life)

- 46-54: Tracey Butler (Lackadaisy), Scott Benson (Night In The Woods), Hayao Miyazaki (and his studio; Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke), Bruce Timm (character design/art direction for several animated DC comics adaptations, famously including Batman TAS), Todd McFarlane (Spawn, much of 90s Spider-Man), Jeff Smith (Bone), Bill Hanna/Joe Barbera (and their studio; several 60s and 70s western cartoons including The Flintstones/Jetsons and Scooby-Doo), Q Hayshida (Dorohedoro), Tim Burton (Illustrator, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy)

- 55-63: Steve Purcell (Sam & Max), Naoto Oshima (key art for 2000s Sonic The Hedgehog media), Yuko Shimizu (sloppily credited here as just "Sanrio," I'll go back and change it if I post a cleaned-up version), Richard Scarry (the Busytown books), Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants), Hirohiko Araki (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure), Joe Murray (Rocko's Modern Life), Arlene Klasky/Gabor Csupo (and their studio; several 90s and 2000s western cartoons including a large amount of Nickelodeon's pre-Spongebob output), Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan)

- 64-72: Takeshi Koike (Redline), John Dilworth (Courage The Cowardly Dog), KC Green (Gunshow, The Anime Club), Ed Emberly (illustrator, numerous you-can-draw style books), Chuck Jones (prominent Warner Bros. animator), Yusuke Nakano (here misspelled as "Nanako," key art for N64-era Zelda games) Jack Kirby (extremely prominent/influential 60s/70s superhero comic illustrator, too many examples to list), Camila Fortuna (illustrator), no doubt some very talented designer that I could not turn up a name for (based primarily on the older Ninja Turtles figures but a lot of figures of this era had this sort of Chunky And Maximalist Grimacing Look to them)

- 73-81: Deon Koster (Lethal League Blaze, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk), ONE (One Punch Man, Mob Psycho 100), Evan Dorkin (Fun With Milk & Cheese, Eltingville), Tatsuo Yoshida (Speed Racer), Lauren Monger (Habits), Don Bluth (and his studio, many examples of pre-3D-standard non-Disney Western theatrical animation), Rob Schrab (SCUD The Disposable Assassin), Wally Wood (many older EC Horror comics), Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack)

- 82-90: Johnathan Wojcik (Awful Hospital), Steve Ditko (much of early Marvel), Kazuki Takahashi (YuGiOh), Charles Burns (Black Hole and various commercial illustration work including OK Soda), Takeshi Obata (Death Note, Bakuman), Alex Norris (Webcomic Name), Tatuski Fujimoto (Chainsaw Man), Craig Bartlett (Hey Arnold), Mary Engelbreidt (illustrator) - 91-99: Tim Jacobus (Goosebumps cover illustrations--if not all of 'em, nearly all), Ryoko Kui (Dungeon Meshi), Mattie Lubchansky (Boys' Weekend), Maya Kern (illustrator), Kazuhiko Shimamoto (G Gundam), Alexandra Steible (art director, Rayman 1), Shaun Tan (illustrator), Heidi Smith (character designer for ParaNorman), Nick Park (and much of Aardman Animation's "house style," Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run)

[batscoundrel]

Rebageling this in light of having a post escape containment recently, cuz IDK I still think it's neat. (Are self-reblogs lame? Do people still do that? I'm doin' it once at least.)

[gougeddoll]

antique victorian spiked dog collar

[batscoundrel]

Was having a convo with a friend in light of the (thankfully now reversed, let's keep it that way) Update That Would Have Killed Tumblr's Identity, and it became a fairly tumblr-ass conversation itself; so why not, I might as well post it: Him: "Y'know, there's a sort of carcinization effect to websites, except they keep trying to evolve into tiktok or twitter. Which is strange, because those are some of the least well-adapted forms in the ecosystem." Me: "Well yeah, it's cuz it's not natural carcinization, CEOs keep forcing them into that shape. I still say the natural state of the website is the forum or the geocities/angelfire page; twitters and tiktoks are like, the pugs of websites. Yeah, they're technically surviving but like. Look at that poor thing. It's not healthy." Him: "Does that make wikipedia one of those deep sea tube worms? An enormous colony of symbiotic cross-links around a single source, surviving for centuries on just dust and hot water?" Me: "...I'm posting this to tumblr." Him (playfully): "Damn, can't call dibs on the notes to it now. Oh wait, they rolled that back already!"

[millionsknives]

gun to your head what are your top 3 albums of all time. no honorable mentions, no ties for third place i want to know your TOP 3 ONLY.

[chesh-ires-deactivated20210426]

being nonbinary and a fan of non-human creatures isn’t easy. like i’m constantly struggling with the fact that i’m both like “i wish there was more enby representation in humans” and “i’m the same gender as mewtwo and that fucking rips”

[ckret2]

the tension between “representing NBs only as nonhuman characters is dehumanizing and othering” and “but monsters, aliens, and robots are so much cooler than humans”

[mypunkpansexualtwin]

[batscoundrel]

Perspective flip/framing shift that I've been exercising lately: Place just staunchly refuses to accommodate fat folks? (Non-specialty clothing store without a plus-size section, pub with unreasonably tiny little seats, etc) Start treating that as old-fashioned. Quaint. Behind The Times. Cringe. Cuz it is.

"Oh wow, they won't even carry that in, like, a 2X? That's pretty backwards of them."

"And every seating option was how narrow? Huh. Maybe the owner's trapped in the past. Couldn't be me."

While it doesn't solve the issue in the short term, it feels like a reasonable strategy for longer-term. Shift the blame off of fat folks for existing and onto companies that have no reason to casually exclude them.

[blackboard-monitor]

ask game for aging tumblr population

what's your favourite kitchen appliance?

do you have a collection of anything?

what's the best job you've ever had?

what's the worst job you've ever had?

what's your favourite piece of furniture and where did you get it?

what's your go-to recipe when you want to make something that requires minimal effort?

are you married or do you intend to get married?

do you have kids? do you want them?

are you on good terms with your parents?

do you have siblings? do you hang out with them?

do you vote?

what's the biggest purchase you've ever made?

what are your hobbies?

what's a hobby you'd like to get into?

do you collect anything?

how long have you known your oldest friend?

are you a member of any clubs or associations?

have you ever changed fields in your career or education?

how many wisdom teeth do you have and have you had any removed?

what's your favourite beverage?

do you have any living grandparents?

do you have nieces/nephews/godchildren/other kids in your life that aren't yours?

what's the coolest place you've visited?

what's your most recent degree and has it been useful to you?

would you rather own a dishwasher or a laundry machine if you could only have one or the other?

do you make a list before going to the grocery store or just wing it?

what's your favourite household chore?

what chore do you hate the most?

do you have houseplants and how are you at keeping them alive?

what's your living arrangement? (who do you live with, in what kind of building, do you own or rent or other?)

[batscoundrel]

You know what, sure, why not! This seems fun and I wanna get back into the swing of properly tumblr-ing rather than just lurkin'. Max 3 questions per person even though I imagine responses will be limited if they're extant

[batscoundrel]

Big sketch project from 2024 I didn't give an official name but generally referred to as the "Possum Style Flex" or "99 sketches, 99 styles."

The idea was relatively simple, albeit a lot of work: draw a single OC (in this case, Appalachia "Appy" Anarchette Possum, the protagonist of a comics project I've been quietly working on for like, three years and counting) in the manner of 99 different artists that have influenced your own artwork, in any way, to any degree. The project took almost exactly a year.

I figured out a lot about my own approaches to different things like shading and body part emphasis while working on it, and some things about others' process through study! It was also fun to research some of the names I didn't know behind some art styles that I did.

Sometime this year I wanna take my nine favorites, refine 'em, and color 'em. Artist list at the end! I also wanna, at some point, do anothe round cuz there are some that I can't believe I missed. Really, two years ago me? No Maxwell Atoms? No Gooseworx? And oof, I really need to get more black artists on my influence radar. (For the names that are typed, it was because the name written down in the sketch itself was either misspelled or, in at least one case, incorrect/miscredited. DESPITE THIS I STILL MISSED A FEW, and they're spelled/credited properly in the artist list.) Artist List (with the work(s) they're most known for/I know 'em most for) - 1-9: Bill Amend (FoxTrot), Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes), Jim Davis (Garfield), Jhonen Vasquez (JtHM, Squee!, Invader Zim), Rob Liefeld (influential 1980s/90s run in Marvel and later Image), Akira Toriyama (DragonBall), Sophie Campbell (Wet Moon, storied run in IDW Ninja Turtles), Ed Roth (the "Rat Fink" image series), Phil Foglio (Girl Genius) - 10-18: Matt Groening (The Simpsons, Futurama), Eichiro Oda (One Piece), Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon), Dan DeCarlo (Lengthy run on Archie, to the tune of becoming its "house style" for multiple decades), Penn Ward (Adventure Time, Bravest Warriors), Charles Schulz (Peanuts), Junji Ito (Gyo, Uzumaki), Jim Henson (The Muppets), a vast quantity of credited and uncredited illustrators and animators - 19-27: Maurice Sendak (Where The Wild Things Are), Bryan Lee O'Malley (Scott Pilgrim, Seconds), Craig McCracken (The Powerpuff Girls, Kid Cosmic), Danny Antonucci (Ed Edd N' Eddy), Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe), Ken Sugimori (Early-gens Pokemon key art), Quentin Blake (illustrator for several publishings of most Roald Dahl books), Paru Itagaki (Beastars), Ian Worthington (Big Top Burger) - 28-36: Edward Gorey (Illustrator, cartoonist for first iteration of Addams Family), Jamie Hewlett (early Tank Girl, Gorillaz), Olive Brinker (Rae The Doe), Osamu Tezuka (Black Jack, Astro Boy), Felix Colgrave (Double King, DONKS), Theodore Geisel (alias Dr. Seuss), John Scieszka (many 90s childrens' books including The Stinky Cheese Man and Math Curse), Lisa Hanawalt (Tuca & Bertie, Bojack Horseman), Mike & Matt Chapman (Homestar Runner) - 37-45: James Stokoe (Wonton Soup, Orc Stain), Mike Mignola (Hellboy), Shigeru Mizuki (Kitaro), Jamie Smart (Bear), Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), Fil Barlow (creature designer for multiple cartoons and movies, famously including Ghostbusters), Max Fleischer (and his studio; several older western cartoons including Betty Boop and Popeye), Daisy McGuire (GastroPhobia, PepsiaPhobia, Yellow Brick Ramble), Jen Wang (Koko Be Good, The Prince & The Dressmaker, In Real Life)

- 46-54: Tracey Butler (Lackadaisy), Scott Benson (Night In The Woods), Hayao Miyazaki (and his studio; Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke), Bruce Timm (character design/art direction for several animated DC comics adaptations, famously including Batman TAS), Todd McFarlane (Spawn, much of 90s Spider-Man), Jeff Smith (Bone), Bill Hanna/Joe Barbera (and their studio; several 60s and 70s western cartoons including The Flintstones/Jetsons and Scooby-Doo), Q Hayshida (Dorohedoro), Tim Burton (Illustrator, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy)

- 55-63: Steve Purcell (Sam & Max), Naoto Oshima (key art for 2000s Sonic The Hedgehog media), Yuko Shimizu (sloppily credited here as just "Sanrio," I'll go back and change it if I post a cleaned-up version), Richard Scarry (the Busytown books), Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants), Hirohiko Araki (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure), Joe Murray (Rocko's Modern Life), Arlene Klasky/Gabor Csupo (and their studio; several 90s and 2000s western cartoons including a large amount of Nickelodeon's pre-Spongebob output), Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan)

- 64-72: Takeshi Koike (Redline), John Dilworth (Courage The Cowardly Dog), KC Green (Gunshow, The Anime Club), Ed Emberly (illustrator, numerous you-can-draw style books), Chuck Jones (prominent Warner Bros. animator), Yusuke Nakano (here misspelled as "Nanako," key art for N64-era Zelda games) Jack Kirby (extremely prominent/influential 60s/70s superhero comic illustrator, too many examples to list), Camila Fortuna (illustrator), no doubt some very talented designer that I could not turn up a name for (based primarily on the older Ninja Turtles figures but a lot of figures of this era had this sort of Chunky And Maximalist Grimacing Look to them)

- 73-81: Deon Koster (Lethal League Blaze, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk), ONE (One Punch Man, Mob Psycho 100), Evan Dorkin (Fun With Milk & Cheese, Eltingville), Tatsuo Yoshida (Speed Racer), Lauren Monger (Habits), Don Bluth (and his studio, many examples of pre-3D-standard non-Disney Western theatrical animation), Rob Schrab (SCUD The Disposable Assassin), Wally Wood (many older EC Horror comics), Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack)

- 82-90: Johnathan Wojcik (Awful Hospital), Steve Ditko (much of early Marvel), Kazuki Takahashi (YuGiOh), Charles Burns (Black Hole and various commercial illustration work including OK Soda), Takeshi Obata (Death Note, Bakuman), Alex Norris (Webcomic Name), Tatuski Fujimoto (Chainsaw Man), Craig Bartlett (Hey Arnold), Mary Engelbreidt (illustrator) - 91-99: Tim Jacobus (Goosebumps cover illustrations--if not all of 'em, nearly all), Ryoko Kui (Dungeon Meshi), Mattie Lubchansky (Boys' Weekend), Maya Kern (illustrator), Kazuhiko Shimamoto (G Gundam), Alexandra Steible (art director, Rayman 1), Shaun Tan (illustrator), Heidi Smith (character designer for ParaNorman), Nick Park (and much of Aardman Animation's "house style," Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run)

[batscoundrel]

Intersex culture is getting your hopes up scrolling through a big queer flag artwork post and still being unsurprised when you hit the end

[batscoundrel]

Self-reblog of a post from a few years ago cuz this has gotten so much better since I posted this. Like there's still a long way to go but it brings happy tears to my eyes that it's gotten DISTINCTLY better since I made this back in like, 2021 or w/e.

[batscoundrel]

For the time being I've at least updated my look and finally gotten with the times on adding age n' pronouns. Getting some ideas for a custom background I'll like better than the old one that was very 20s Me.

[batscoundrel]

I have so many likes saved up I should really just reblog 'em at this point

[sesamie-moving]

the dash is in tatters. please say something nice to the person you reblog this from. it's so sad to see you all so sad

[batscoundrel]

Raye I know we barely, BARELY talk anymore and I really need to reach out more but it's been an honor to know you since the fandom's actual early days and your blog here is a consistent source of joy. You've actually got me considering fanart again and I haven't drawn Rayman fanart since we were posting it to geocities pages.

[batscoundrel]

Okay so I've never seen anybody that I follow talk about The Teeth(TM) and I'm starting to wonder if they're just like, something that was only rolled out to some people? And what it's there for? It's been there for at least several months, possibly over a year at this point, I'm not really sure because it's also become such an expected part of my dash that I just sort of stopped thinking about it.

Anyway, it never stops wiggling and it appears to be clickable but like hell I'm clicking something like that

Does anyone else have The Teeth(tm)? Is Tumblr playing a prank on me specifically?

[batscoundrel]

For additional clarity, this isn't A Bit and it's in the lower left hand corner of my dash

[batscoundrel]

Okay so I've never seen anybody that I follow talk about The Teeth(TM) and I'm starting to wonder if they're just like, something that was only rolled out to some people? And what it's there for? It's been there for at least several months, possibly over a year at this point, I'm not really sure because it's also become such an expected part of my dash that I just sort of stopped thinking about it.

Anyway, it never stops wiggling and it appears to be clickable but like hell I'm clicking something like that

Does anyone else have The Teeth(tm)? Is Tumblr playing a prank on me specifically?

[batscoundrel]

Just found out people were confusing my blog for dead because I've gone so long without actually posting or reblogging ...I guess that *does* technically make the blog dead in a sense but like. *I'm* not dead and I still lurk a lot around here. I dunno I should post more. Actually I've got an idea for one I've been meaning to make so lemme get on that.

[wannabesugarboi]

[howieduet]

Seeing and knowing

[teaboot]

okay but like. This exact concept is what finally got me to be open about being queer in my day to day.

I was at work. I can't go into detail about the situation, but someone was outed without their consent. And nobody was saying anything, and it was quiet, so I outed myself, too. So at least neither of us would be alone.

I was worried about the consequences. I'd never considered my identity a secret, but I wasn't open about it, either. It felt like it wasn't relevant to my job. If someone asked, I'd tell them, but otherwise, what did it matter?

After the incident, I met privately with a higher up. Told them what had happened and why it wasn't good, and made some suggestions on what to do in the future to keep everyone safe to be in the closet or out of it on their own terms.

To my absolute amazement, they told me that others had come forwards anonymously to say the same things. Then word spread. Meetings were had. Policy and procedures were put in place. A training course on gender and sexuality was implemented for the very first time.

And of course there were protests- people who dug in their heels and kicked up a fuss and didn't want to learn about "all that bullshit", and when those people showed their colors, their superiors realized that they weren't actually good representatives of the sort of environment they wanted to provide our clients, and a small number were actually let go.

I went to a meeting again the other week. And do you know what happened?

The meeting lead introduced themselves by name and pronouns, and asked everyone to please state their name, and, if they wished, theirs as well.

I was near the front. I introduced myself with He/Him. I thought I'd stand out like a sore thumb and feel like an idiot for hoping for better.

Two people down, someone introduced themselves as They/Them. Someone I'd never spoken much to before.

Then, She/they. At least two "anything fine"s. A he/her.

It was incredible. And it wasn't even a whole year ago.

There are so many of us, now. Even more, as we teach and learn about ourselves, and it's not so scary because there are others like us.

I'm not as loud and proud as I hope to be some day, because I'm still scared, a little, but I am here.

And I've learned that being openly queer isn't about just expressing myself for the sake of it, bringing personal details into places it doesn't matter-

-it's about telling someone, it's not just you. I'm in your corner. There are more of us than they think. There is power in numbers, and you are not alone.

And I kind of love that

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

I bought a cheap bisexual flag bracelet at Pride this year, and I wear it daily in work. I'm a lecturer - many of my students are fresh faced eighteen year olds leaving home for the first time, and possibly considering the scary step of living openly for the first time. It's important, I think, that they can plainly and easily see that one of the authority figures in their brave new world is openly queer, and that's okay. Plus, it lets them know I'm a safe person to talk to about the whole thing.

Visibility is super important

[batscoundrel]

It’s a magical thing, as scary as it can be to put yourself out there. I worked as a supervisor at a tiny coffeeshop chain for a while that was casually queer-friendly (as coffeeshops are often wont to be) and sort of...stumbled into being the catalyst that made it actively so. I’m they/them but I present very traditionally masc (for various safety reasons I won’t get into), so you wouldn’t really know from looking at me, and one day I was just...tired of everyone assuming and took a risk. I put together a very polite and company-appropriate, but very firm, email to all supervisory staff about my pronoun situation. I expected confusion at worst and maybe some fumbled attempts at getting it right sometimes at best. I did not expect for the operations manager to step forward and give their pronouns too, with an apology for having not stepped up to tell anyone and just living with the discomfort until that moment. Things progressed rapidly from there--everyone’s pronouns got entered in the time clock system alongside their name, unless they explicitly didn’t want them in there. Same with the signatures of supervisors’ emails. It became part of our introductions to new hires. I suspect some sort of hiring policy or bias may have been lifted because I started seeing a noticeably greater number of trans, nonbinary, and genderfluid folks being hired. Hell, a store manager got let go at one point when it was discovered they had been going out of their way to consistently and deliberately misgender any genderqueer employees when they weren’t around to hear--a decision made by an HR manager that was extremely new to dealing with anyone who wasn’t cishet but still knew enough to know that was toxic behavior. All that, just cuz I had a brief burst of courage to raise a hand and go “um, I’m they/them.” You never know who’s out there waiting to be their more honest self. You never know who will be able to take that step forward if you take it with them. <3 Visibility isn’t just important, visibility breeds solidarity and community.

[jtoons-deactivated20230904]

Kind of in a terrible place rn. Idc anymore about modesty

[batscoundrel]

Maybe some music will lift your spirits a bit--Maisy at least seems to be having a good time! (I hope it’s not too indulgent that I threw my own toon possum gal in there, it just seemed right.)