What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse…

☀️The morning sun has vanquished the horrible night☀️ 23, any pronouns. Trying to be an artist. Commissions not open. Please read my intro post, it’s more comprehensive :3

[chibishortdeath]

—Hello and welcome—

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I’m an artist I guess, not professional yet, but trying to be. Your local accursed one. I guess this is a get to know me kind of thingy d(^^ ;).

As far as name goes, you can call me any part of my username :3. I’m not particularly comfortable disclosing my name and gender at the moment, but I’ll add them to this whenever I am.

Huuuge Castlevania (the games only) fan. My favorite character is Simon Belmont, although I like most characters from the series :). I recently got really into Transformers and made OCs for it, so you may also see a good amount of that as well. My favorite character from that is Ratchet :)!

I also have a lot of non established media OCs and projects for them, so hopefully those ideas work out eventually. A little prone to neglecting them unfortunately (ToT ).

—Things I’m not cool with—

If I am uncomfortable with you for whatever reason, I will just block you!!! :3 But just in case—

DNI: pro/comshippers, maps, zoos, loli/shotacons, homo/trans/aphobes, terfs, generative ai supporters, general bigots and racists (might add more, we’ll see)

I am aware DNI lists don’t usually work as like a repellent for people, but that’s not exactly what it’s for since people in the above will probably get blocked once I notice them anyway lol. It’s more for people to know they’re safe from that kind of stuff here.

That being said, please be aware that my art often contains some dark and violent themes! I try my best to tw, cw, or mature label things whenever it’s not something found in or common in the media I’m drawing about, but some things do slip through the cracks, I am but a person. Just know this account is mature d(>< ;).

Please stay safe and block me if you’re uncomfortable with anything I post!!! :O

—Things I am cool with—

Comments are very cool :D!

My asks are open again! Say anything you’d like :). Ask games, doodle requests, just random thoughts, whatever! I do really appreciate asks when I get them, although tumblr hasn’t been giving me notifications for them for some reason idk why (_ _ ).

I will get very giddy if you draw fanart of my OCs or other fanworks like fics and stuff, it means a lot to me. (TwT )

Tag and @ games are also cool!!!!!!

If there’s anything I feel like I’ve missed or didn’t phrase correctly, I’ll add or edit it later d(u_u ). This is kinda an ongoing changing kind of post anyway.

Welp, I’m back off on my quest, see ya! \(^w^)

[chibishortdeath]

I haven’t drawn Castlevania stuff in a while, but uhhh erm uh Christopherrrrr :3

[chibishortdeath]

Sometimes (often) I forget that I made a tumblr partially because it has a random text post function and I can just say things. Arg, I am forgetting my own goals.

[chibishortdeath]

I’m gonna be so blunt, I actually despise how infantilized a good deal of the minibots are.

Kinda long ish so I’m shortening it for ease of scrolling, it’s under here ⤵️

Most often it’s Bumblebee and Cliffjumper because they’ve got widely agreed to be cuter designs than other minibots and also often times interact with the main typically teenage human cast of the series they’re in, but I’ve definitely seen it done to others and sometimes unfortunately in the media itself (we do not talk about Tailgate’s holoform design)— save for characters like Gears or Huffer or something where the fandom seems to view them as too old or ugly or unimportant for this kind of treatment.

But it’s just so extremely tiring to see some decent fanart or fic or something and all of a sudden who should be maybe a human equivalent of like a 18-25 year old is being treated and portrayed by everyone else and the narrative like a poor innocent baby toddler. I hate it especially though for the reasons that I suspect people do this.

Fandom seems to have this problem where if a character is in anyway whimsical or hopeful, or heck sometimes even other forms of energetic at all, they’re considered a child. It is childish and naive to be happy. It is childish to be passionate or determined. Adults are supposed to harden up and stagnate. Welcome to the real world, bucko. It’s a very boring take on people and age in general.

And then there’s the other obvious reason: the characters are short. This is just a particular peeve of mine as a short person, but ya know hi hello I am an adult at the great numbers of 4 foot 11 inches hello fandom hi. But it could get into some other conversations about how people treat people with say dwarfism or other conditions or reasons for a short height— conversations that I’m personally just mentioning and not going into further because I’m fully aware I’m not an expert and don’t feel comfortable speaking on topics I’m not qualified for.

Another reason is the positioning of other characters being “above” them, stuff like Optimus Prime being very “dad” coded towards the Autobots and sometimes very outright considering Bumblebee like a son, and this one just comes from fandom not really knowing how to handle dynamics beyond a family unit. Or even family units outside of the stereotypical. Like if Optimus is “dad”, that means Bumblebee (Cliffjumper sometimes included) need to be “kids”, which means child and tada we’re infantilizing them so they fit that role better. This then also gets translated to anyone older than them is now “parent” and now they’re behaving comedically 5 years old while being active participants in war 💀💀💀.

Somewhere in here you could fit something about the general social obsession with youth and how older looking or acting minibots don’t get this treatment and are therefore ignored and also the possibility of Optimus Prime just being old enough to reasonably have adult children is not even considered, but idk how to articulate all that.

I guess I could also say something about how Cliffjumper often times gets his personality sanded down or entirely removed in favor of being more child-like when this happens because him being paranoid, clearly stricken with war ptsd, and a rough and tough guy doesn’t mesh well with the little baby depiction people want based on his cuter, more Bumblebee like design, which defeats the purpose of having both of them for anything other than “awww they’re twins now! And one’s sweet and the other one has temper tantrums! How adorable!”

Like whatever ok most of this is bullshiting and speculation on why this phenomenon happens, but the takeaway here— I don’t like it! It’s annoying! It’s a little infuriating sometimes! Bumblebee and Cliffjumper are young adults, they wouldn’t even be combatants if they weren’t! They’re characters with complicated personalities of their own and they don’t need to be shoved into the Little Baby box all the time!

Also— please take some interest in the other minibots! Gears, Huffer, and Brawn have some interesting things going on in the Marvel comics (I’ve been reading them lately, it’s cool, Huffer makes friends with a random truck driver over mutual homesickness and Gears briefly gets along with Spiderman and isn’t a dick to him—)!

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags a non-canon ship that’s been on your mind lately

[samthecookielord]

Man i hope im not mischaracterizing or flanderizing the character....

>looks inside source material again

>they are exactly like that

>sometimes even more like that than i remembered

[premium-unleaded]

Ironhide dropping a classic old gay man pose, Bumblebee is about to break some awful news and Sunny don't know how to use a chair

[chibishortdeath]

Fun fact! Not even the only time he’s sat like this! Same leg crossed over and everything lol.

^ A couple of differently cropped versions of this for anyone’s use (plus an example) (unfortunately the first one is a white background and not an empty background, but it shouldn’t be too hard to remove if you’ve got an image editor :3)

[mangonetics]

you can't make adaptations of video games because either they're made by people who didn't play the game in which case it's a bad adaptation and it sucks or it's made by people who did play the game in which case it's made by gamers and therefore also sucks

[chibishortdeath]

Writing is so hard cause I’ll be like “oh boy I have a wonderful idea!!! This will be peak!!!” and then I sit down and I’m like ohhhh I need to know where to start this and also it needs that prior context to make sense and ah fuck I can’t just drop that heavy of lore without establishing anything else first this’ll have to be a flash back for later and where is this whole thing starting anyway—

[eptck]

you have to be kinder to people with memory issues.

you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.

you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.

you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.

you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.

you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.

you have to be kind. you have to be kind.

[chibishortdeath]

WOAH I POSTED THIS TO INSTAGRAM AND TOTALLY FORGOT TO ON TUMBLR—

Happy very last minute Pride Month everyone :3

Also hey there’s a speedpaint ^ whoohoo

[chibishortdeath]

Sometimes I catch myself doing the doomscrolling ritual of Instagram on tumblr and just liking random posts instead of also reblogging and I immediately feel like I’m polluting a fragile ecosystem.

Tbh, what’s really happening is that I’m tired and don’t wanna write out tags rn, but I still want to show support. If ever I like anything any of my moots or people I follow post and don’t do anything else, the reblog is in spirit ughggh 🥀.

[castlingvanias]

celebrating isaac in belmont curse i wish he and carmilla interacts

[chibishortdeath]

Shitty screenshot but ISAAC. ISAADC WE GEOT FUCKIENG ISAC IN THIS ECONOMY IM GINNA DIE THATS SO FUCKING COOL—

AND THATS A BANGER CARMILLA DESIGN TOO SHES GIVING SOME RONDO VIBES AGAIN

AND WE HAVE A RELEASE DATE AND SHES SHREDDED HELLO??? HER NAME IS ROSE??? SEVERAL BLOODY TEARS REFERENCES IN REGARDSE TO FHE CURSE AS WELL WE FUCKKNG WON THUS IS AWESOME

[cynicalcyrus]

First Ironhide drawing

[chibishortdeath]

Sometimes I suddenly think about how the first time I tried to write a fanfiction it got no notes and nobody saw it and then I feel a little sick and I like I shouldn’t do anything ever again.

[chibishortdeath]

Oauuu I didntn expect anyone to seee this and I then look back at tumblr for a sec and the now the fic has notes

(´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀) my mutuuals, thank you 💖

[chibishortdeath]

Sometimes I suddenly think about how the first time I tried to write a fanfiction it got no notes and nobody saw it and then I feel a little sick and I like I shouldn’t do anything ever again.