Hansi stole the sun

Carn / 34 ! Art, games and music, storyboarder. This is 98% an art blog. I also have a RedBubble (Carnsy), check it out ! Ace Attorney - Xenoblade - Pokémon - Dissidia FF and FFXIV enthusiast ! My IM is open to anyone, send me nonsense !

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Vacation

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Deleted my main bsky account and giving myself a few more days to think if I'm deleting the nsfw one too. It's not like anyone will notice.

Ideally I'd delete my IG account too but irl ppl do send me stuff sometimes so maybe just empty the gallery.

Deleting my TW didn't feel remotely bad and there never any withdrawal. I expect the same now. Spending years of trying to share art only to stay a complete invisible nobody no one cares about is just painful. Realising more and more my artstyle probably sucks and ppl aren't interested is even worse, especially when i have a sickening need for vlidation on my art.

So I guess I'll exist only here, posting once every few months when I feel like it and if anyone actually kinda cares, I'm mostly active on discord anyway.

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pencil

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Petition for power bottom Ky. Petition for dominant Ky. Petition for non-submissive Ky. Petition for Ky not being a weak willed submissive person in the SolKy dynamic.

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25th anniversary AU SolKy thingathing

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ROBERT KYLE MY BEAUTIFUL KING!!!

did a redraw of one of my fave robo ky official arts to celebrate the awt reveal. (textless ver. and refrence under the cut)

my ones low key chopped af but whatever

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A very small comic of a dialog idea I had between Jack-O and Frederick

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Ky, you lucky bastard >u>

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Raining

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Freddie my beloved 🥺

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The men

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They stayed outside together

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A bit of a rant, sorry in advance.

I don't know what this weird assumption is that people shipping SolKy do so based on the moment they first meet. aor for instancen that any ship is based on the moment the characters 1st meet.

Like, guys, that's just not how things necessarily work. The kid Ky that Sol met and interacted with and the Ky that he met around GG1 are like meeting a completely new person. Not only did 6-8 years pass but they also do not get along at all and barely know each other at that point until they meet more often.

Before the end-ish of GGX it's even hard to pretend they'd want anything with each other. In fact Ky can't stand Sol. Being attentive and recognising each other's strength or potential doesn't mean all SolKy shippers are already convinced.

Just needed to clarify because I saw some posts and also was indirectly part of a convo my partner had with another person, and said person was STUCK on "But Ky was 15 when they met". Who cares ?? Imo Interest built when Ky was idk, 24 or something.

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my girlfriend and i started playing ff2 once again

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Woop ! I ll need to learn how to make the hat, i wanna cosplay her now

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malos image

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It really is faster to list the (adult) GG characters that are explicitly cisgendered heterosexual. Here it is:

Jokes aside, I really, genuinely, do think there's a lot of gender and sexuality stuff in Guilty Gear that they're only just now able to (whether by confidence or allowance from the publishers) explore in a deeper way.

There are the obvious things like Baiken having thrown away her womanhood/femininity as far back as Missing Link (1998!), Testament's gender and presentation have always been on a spectrum between vague to fully androgynous/agender, with a lot of early Japanese GG books/zines/materials either tiptoeing around their gender entirely or doing things like including them in both the male and female character polls in the ASW 25th Anniversary Official Character Collection book; Bridget's had obvious gender stuff since day one too. Even Justice has played around with gender to the point that the lone English translator of Missing Link accidentally gave her he/him pronouns. Sol Badguy is Freddie Mercury.

Then there's the more obscure stuff, like Kaihou Norimitsu (author of two GG novels, all of the Drama CDs, Guilty Gear XX, Dual Rulers, etc.) wishing to explore the possibilities of gender identity in both physical and social ways in a blog post from 2006, but lamenting being unable to because, well, it was 2006.[1] Daisuke Ishiwatari has also said things like how he's "transcended human existence" just like Testament, in regards to their androgyny (in 2002);[2] or how he gives each character "his very heart" and that Bridget was written as a cis girl until the last minute, where Daisuke changed his mind because he thought that Bridget "could become [Daisuke's] alter ego" in an interview from 2004.[3] There's more than this but I hope this is enough to illustrate my point.

I know Tumblr is the "haha everyone lgbt" headcanon firehose website, but there's just so much in Guilty Gear that I think, just this once, it's probably safe to assume there's something unique going on in that department for a very significant portion of the series' cast.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20060902161559/http://kaiho.at.webry.info/200606/article_3.html#comment

https://web.archive.org/web/20230219230435/https://game.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/arc/1022252341/248?v=pc

https://archive.org/details/artworks-of-guilty-gear-x-2000-2004-daisuke-interview-english/page/n8/mode/1up?view=theater

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I knew it. It wasn't just me. Daisuke's wording really stuck with me. I can't help but wonder why some didn't consider this during the discussions about the characters' gender. Because if (some?) creators are open to queer concepts back in the day, then Testament and Bridget's gender in strive would feel less like pandering or queerbaiting and instead a way to open up about the topic in general now that the culture is (partially) shifting to acceptance.

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I think that Bridget's case is the opposite of queerbaiting. It's the absolute recognition and acceptance of what she was meant to be and is and slipping away from the cowardice and kink bait of "It's a trap".

I am personally much less happy with how Testament's design was treated in Strive. We had a solid design of a person that is beyond gender, androgynous in their being. And they tried to visually push it but how ? By feminising their features and voice enough that they cater to cishet male fantasies thus making an easier pill to swallow. Eliminating the more masculine features was in my opinion a coward choice. I know we can excuse radical physical changes through "They re a Gear" but eh.. I'm not sure it was the right choice.

Also i can add one character to the cihet list?

• Johnny, in a painfully comical way xD