Beanbagstab

♡ comms full ♡ Sonic Fanartist In my SonAmy era 💙🩷 https://beanbagstab.carrd.co/

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Hey guys, reposts and dubs are fine with me I only ask that my watermarks are kept, credit is given, and that the content isn’t edited in a way that changes/ contradicts it’s original meaning

I hope you guys can respect this and thank you! :D

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wisp wingmen

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did you know?

sonamy can ONLY be canon if its yuri, they told me so

Did you know...?

Sonamy can ONLY be canon if its yuri, they told me so.

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Sometimes I feel so strongly about sonamy I fear I come off as aggressive… I’m really not trying to I just feel very strongly about them

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Aurora 🩷💙

#WIP

a mutual recommended me a song that fit Sonamy, which then inspired me to start making this 😋 song is "Aurora" by K-391, RØRY

Honestly I got sort of burned out partway through this. Clearly it's not finished and honestly it'll probably be a while till it is. For one, my apple pencil decided to revolt against me during the second page, so making the final lineart was a royal pain 🥲

and secondly, I'm honestly very tired of spending so much time and energy over big projects and then having every. single. one of them. flop whenever I post them. I get it, mkay? People don't really like my art. I try not to care. I'll probably finish this eventually— because I do want to eventually— but not a minute sooner than when I really am personally motivated to do so. Unless this like actually breaches 1K. 🥲

anyway, here we are! I don't mean to complain. I've just been really tired lol. And I have a lot of other art projects I wanna give energy to right now. 💙

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Sonamy drinking

Sonic’s getting sleepy but Amy wants to keep yapping

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THEY ARE SO CUTE I LOVE THEM SM

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👰🍃💑

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back at it again with more sonamy

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💙🩷 doodle

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Idk if this is a hot take. I hope sonamy has a little bit of angst between them in sonic 4 (with a happy ending of course).

Don't worry anom, because you're right and you SHOULD SAY IT!!!

You don't have any idea how I'm begging to Sonic and Amy have this super angst layer in their bond! Not only because of the romance, but because I really think is kinda impossible to NOT have.

Sonic at this point is very traumatize. He saw and did a lot and no way he okay. The explosion of angry in the last movie shows that he not healed totally. He still not talking about his feeling, still hiding things for his loved ones. He is not okay.

And I can feel Amy will clock him. She probably will see this and Sonic will not like this AT ALL. A thing is when you let people enter, when you give your hand, but is different when someone can read you. Is out of your control.

Besides, I know Amy will have her own problems.

BAM! You have the conflict!

Because Sonic leads with a lot of people, but never to someone so active in bond and and understand like he is. Tails, Knuckles and even Shadow were very...passive about knowing about Sonic in the sense that Sonic establishes the bond, reaches out, and listens to feelings. It's Sonic who says what he thinks is necessary to help the person, but not necessarily to vent like others do.

But Amy won't. She'll probably ask questions. Investigate, find out more. She'll want to know more than just the surface level, she'll really want Sonic to open up like Tails, Knuckles, and Shadow did. But Sonic is a mess, and it's going to be chaotic.

And don't even get me started on the fact that Sonic possibly also sees that there's something wrong with Amy that she's trying to hide, just like he does, and that bothers him.

Ugh, the story writes itself!

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When your afraid of water but your friend can’t leave the water😔

star crossed lovers♥️ Enjoy!

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Diva, have you seen the Sonamy loungefly backpack?

It's ADORABLE

I HAVE!!!

I’m so happy we’re getting more sonamy merch I used to pray for times like this 🛐💙🩷

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I'll always prefer the reading that Sonic has had feelings for Amy atleast on a subconscious level since Adventure 1 much more than the more common interpretation that it didn't take him until IDW/Frontiers, cause the deal isn't "oh Amy had to mature and change herself before getting Sonic to like her" but instead "Sonic is emotionally stunted when it comes to how he feels towards love". Not only is it far more charitable and fair towards Amy, but also the more interesting character read for Sonic

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Too many of those fan-works gloss over the fact that Sonic is a total bum. Like why should Amy have to overcompensate when Sonic keeps flaking on her? It's not even a case of "oh he's just not interested" cause if that was the case he'd outright say it instead of leading her on, there's a reason why Knuckles says "you playing around with that girl's heart again?" in Sonic Heroes, this is a HIM problem. I get that Sonic's supposed to be static so acknowledging potential characters flaws is treated as a no-no, but it points out a inherent contradiction when trying to apply pathos to this series

Exactly!

This is what happens when you get too caught up in “which gender is allowed to love in which way” because you end up missing key characteristics.

Sonic is very very luck that Amy likes him since he is much more emotionally withdrawn than she is. To the point it makes him a total bum in romance. Sure he’s around when it truly matters but for all the stuff he puts her through, she has all the right to get so worked up about it.

What holds this tenuous relationship together is the absolutely insane amount of trust they both have in each other and the fact that they both have pure intentions.

(which eliminates a lot of the toxic attributes people falsely apply to their relationship)

Amy isn’t in a tragic pitiful situation, she is exactly where she wants to be. Sonic and Amy are for all intents and purposes perfectly content with their dynamic. We have to remember that these characters are not normal people who make sane decisions.

Sonic likes running

Amy likes loving

So they’re in a relationship where Sonic can run forever and Amy can love forever.

It may seem exhausting to other people but not to them. Not to Sonic and Amy.

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I have a question, did you ever read something in sonic fandom, like comic or fanfic that made you not enjoy sonamy as ship? I mean you still love it but you can't enjoy it like you used to. Did you have experience with something like that? And if you did what made you enjoy sonamy again?

I’m so sorry you opened a can of worms with this one anon…

When it comes to fanworks, I’m deeply dissatisfied with those which depict Amy as a scolded woman who is on a repentance journey looking to become someone finally worthy of love and wherein Sonic has only recently started to like her due to her new, ashamed personality.

This genre of sonamy has some of my least favorite works by far.

Note: If you’re “not woke enough for this” then you should just skip this entirely.

Works where Amy is saying things like:

“I’ve been so horrible to you Sonic no wonder you don’t like me, I should ignore my feelings to make you more comfortable”

“I know you’re never going to settle down (and god forbid I challenge you in any way) so I’ve decided that I’m done being crazy and would like to “share my love with the world” whatever that means so I hope that this, in some reverse physiological way, will make you love me. But like if you don't, that's fine too. I feel empowered in my ability to compromise myself into oblivion”

And then Sonic is saying things like:

“Heh, what do you know, little rosy’s all grown up. I gotta say, you were pretty crazy back then and actually, I was really afraid and uncomfortable this whole time. I've just been uncharacteristically a push-over about it and you’ve just been too crazy to notice.

“I’m not good at romance so thanks for shrinking yourself down for me Amy, I really appreciate the effort and in a reverse physiological way I really like you now and I think it's my turn to Man Up and make some advances”

“I’m so glad both of us have matured into people neither of us recognize.”

Uncharitable recreation aside, I understand to some extent the appeal of these works. It feels good to watch our favorite fictional characters grow up with us and a part of growing up means being filled with things like insecurity and change. It feels good to see Amy finally be accepted by Sonic. Like she has overcome something big and can finally have her reward. However, it is a very hollow acceptance. The thing she's overcome is her personality (👎) , and the reward is a well behaved sonic (👎👎).

I think, on a larger level, a lot of people see wanting romance as cringe. A lot of people see a woman pursuing a man to be cringe. As we all know, women (as objects of desire) cannot yearn for a man unless she wants to be seen as weird, male centered, and putting her own self worth down.

It reads as if the authors/ writers are trying to teach people a lesson on how a good healthy heterosexual relationship should look like. Often instead what ends up happening is a relationship where the woman puts the comfort of *her* man above her own and stunts herself emotionally to the point of losing herself.

In canon, Amy doesn't care if she “shouldn’t” pursue sonic. It's in her nature to love without a filter. Likewise, Sonic doesn’t care if their relationship is “weird”. It's in his nature to live without a filter.

I get the impression lot of these works are so insecure or ashamed of the past sonamy dynamic that they feel the need to “fix” them by trading in 2000s heteronormal dynamics for the heteronormal dynamics of say the 1800s or something. They’re too focused on making a “See! Sonamy can be healthy and normal!” type of statement to realize that there is now no space for a proper romance to blossom at all.

These fanworks are so incredibly reluctant to sit in real character-oriented conflict ( the most interesting part of any romance imo) that they whisk it all away in an effort to be seen as “right” and “as it should be.”

In my observations, a lot of heterosexual romantic works are so incredibly plagued by things such as centuries long engrained patriarchal ideas and (more recently) heterofatalism that a lot of these “fixed” sonamy attempts overcorrect and become just another flavor of unhealthy which is something these works are so clearly trying to avoid. And a flavor of unhealthy that is, in my opinion, much much more cynical and filled with misogynistic undertones than even their most “toxic” of 2000s era canonical portrayals contain.

In my opinion, sonamy and sonamy fans seem to be stuck somewhere on the spectrum of “Lol women crazy” misogyny (Fanworks where amy is seen/treated as irrational by the reader and sonic) and “women are pursued not pursuers” misogyny (Fanworks like the one described in the beginning). I think many people who write these stories think they’re going from misogyny to feminism when they’re just going from misogyny A to misogyny B.

Both of these dynamics fail to give Sonic the proper agency and emotional intelligence needed for a proper romance. Ultimately, both interpretations treat sonic as a boy who should not be expected to change, do any emotional labor, nor should express any true emotion other than comfortable happiness. And Amy is treated as a woman who must grow up and conform to the world around her (as all girls becoming socially acceptable women should do if they even dare hope to be loved).

Because of this, I feel like a lot of these fanworks lack proper tension or chemistry that is contingent on these characters as people with unique personalities and instead rely on the presumed attraction expected from Girl and Boy. Which, aside from insulting, I find very very boring.

I think, obviously, Amy is capable of self reflection and growth as a character but I find that in a lot of fanworks that are focused on this, they start from the idea of “fixing her” which is the wrong attitude for such a idealistic and hopeful character such as Amy Rose and which I believe has led to less interesting stories and a less compelling character overall. And Sonic, I think, obviously, should not be expected to change into this perfect romantic boyfriend but similarly, a lot of stories treat Sonic’s affections as him fundamentally compromising his being and becoming less authentically himself.

Notice how in romance, Sonic changing is unthinkable and Amy changing is a prerequisite.

Although we know a lot of *this* is just for show. Tropes play out. Sonic will discover Amy is now more attractive and his "can't settle down” mentality will give way to lust or responsibility. Amy’s new maturity will still break occasionally when she hugs him too tightly and clings too closely. And the lovers, the writer/artist, and us the reader will all act as if, through these little breaks, we can still recognize the pair of hedgehogs they’ve become.

Also, I’ve read stories where the author/artist dips their toe into this genre with various levels of tact/ talent and it's possible to do so in a way that doesn’t become too horribly cynical as I’ve described and is actually explored in worthwhile ways. I myself like to dip into this genre with the intention of subverting it from time to time. That’s basically the origins of my old comic Shooting Star Lover. And the thesis for my Hanahaki AU.

When I really think about it, it’s not really the fanworks themselves that make me upset. it’s what they represent and how they influence the culture at large. Sometimes I can’t help but feel that there are many people out there who truly see these story beats as ideal depictions of maturity and I feel like the bar is in hell for proper emotional intelligence. It doesn’t help that it seems like a certain writer for the games/ comics seems to be a huge fan of this genre of Sonamy…

And what I do to make myself enjoy Sonamy again is to start drawing what I’d like to see and rewatching/ rereading my favorite fanworks. I get so fed up when I see something that seems so obvious to myself but is virtually completely nonexistent online so it fuels me to try and bring something new or interesting to the fandom. It also gives me a better understanding of creating and the thought process behind making fanart and so it makes me more sympathetic to every creator out there- even if I don’t really like their work.

Lately it’s also been really refreshing to reread my favorite fanworks of other ships that I like. Bakudeku from My hero Academia and Reaclair from I’m in love with the villainess are my current go-tos. I also recommend watching a new series or starting a new book or going to a new place as a palette cleanser.

I try to remind myself that life is too short and the world is too shitty to dwell on all the things I don’t like so I try to spend my time actually making things and engaging with the stuff I do like/ stuff that inspires me.

Tldr:

My Problem:

I don't like when Amy is written to be ashamed of herself and I don’t like when Sonic is coddled by the author/artist, especially when it's treated as some new, moral way of loving.

My Solution:

Touching grass

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Sonamy snow day ❄️