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Hi, I'm CM8x-Insanity and this is my art sideblog. I'm going to post anything relating to my webcomics (or unrelated doodles) in here. Feel free to submit fanart :D Check out FD http://fightingdreamers.smackjeeves.com/ and GG http://guardianghost.smackjeeves.com/

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Been playing Tomodachi Life -Living The Dream since it came out. And here's the gang so far! Featuring my OCs from Axel's Colorful World (which I should talk about more in here), Star Crossed Eyes, a few tabletop OCs, and of course Fighting Dreamers Plenty of things have been happening, I'll show them in the doodles and explain further under the readmore Check out the doodle thread on MY BLUESKY for more frequent updates. I'll use tumblr for bulk updates

Katy got a crush on Scraps, who got a crush on HotShot/Simon, which never worked out because Katy lost her crush, and Axel knew HS better because they were already friends

My Mii had to console Scraps

Katy would later get the trio to be friends

Puffs (Forrest Gump Energy) and Xzy immediately became besties and are constantly hanging out together. I see them as a QPP couple considering Puffs is Aro/Ace. (I have to make Puffs in SCE now as Xzy's friend from medical school)

Katy got a crush on Scraps again, which fizzled out because that man is oblivious as hell in this universe. He was attracted to AXEL now. MY DUDE. (I shot that one down)

I guess Sandy is into some Freak Stuff, has a thing for eldritch horrors.

Alvin is crushing on Sandy, which is cute

Molly is crushing on Wendy, which makes sense because Wendy is an incredibly strong ant woman

Xzy is crushing on Stewie of all people

Axel and Simon aren't a couple in their canon but I enjoy seeing them making heart eyes at eachother in this game

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I've been doing a bit more posting about this on my Bluesky but I picked up my 2Ds to play Tomodachi Life again back in April. With OCs I used in tabletops or one off lads.

Put it away for a bit, and just recently picked it up again and went "yeah I'll do a more advanced drawing of my current setup after the first thread"

I'm more into this to see who pairs up and what the offspring looks like. I have a whole system and everything

Gender confirms which species the child will be

Hair is the fur pattern (shifted slightly to the other parent sometimes)

Skin determines if it's the original color or lighter/darker

Everyone has distinct eyes so it's easier to tell what eyes the kid will get

I'm hyped for Living The Dream and I can't wait to throw the first gen into a mixing bowl once again to see how the kids work out.

I will be very disappointed if Katy and Scraps don't end up together in that iteration though. I had the idea that Scraps is a hopeless romantic and he'd love whoever he ends up with....but it just doesn't feel right to have them with anyone else now.

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Hey friends! I keep forgetting to post stuff in here!

But I recently entered the Rampage Rally challenge back in August. Didn't end up winning (background was a little too de-synced from the characters, stylistically) but it was still a fun time and I got to use my fella Axel who was previously a Minecraft avatar. Now turned proper OC!

He has LORE now but it's something I'm still working on in the background as some brainstorming stuff to chew on while I'm at work. Might make something of it later.

(Also check out my BLUESKY for more frequent updates)

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ART FIGHT TIME BABY LET'S GO

Hopefully I do more than just hit 5 people in the first week and vanish!!!

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I made an animation for the prompt "Unfinished" in the 3D challenge chat. This one was fun :D

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Here we go, I was musing about tweaking canon in Guardian Ghost and making Max trans masc the whole time and just didn't know that was a thing a person could be (lived in a town that wasn't exactly against the LGBT community but definitely wasn't diverse enough)

This is a mix of doodles I made a few months back with the same idea. But the hypothetical GG reboot would probably shift their ages to Max starting community college at 19 (the comic timeline taking place that year) and having the accident a bit after graduating and reinventing himself in preparation for the new people he'll meet. Ignore the timeframe in the doodles.

Here I'll ramble more under a readmore with a rough idea of how things go gender-identity wise.

So that first outfit for his revival. He was all dressed up and pretty for his graduation. But he reflected on how loose fitting the gown was, and his previous experiences with giant shirts and regular pants. And went "actually let's keep doing that but with something from the men's section" and picked up the first collared shirt he found at a thrift store. Upon doing that and requesting his hair to be cut shorter (the hairdresser went with a short bob and he was too shy to request it shorter) he found himself weirdly satisfied at the fact that he looked more ambiguous instead of feminine.

But that's normal right? Women sometimes want to be confused for other genders!

Then the accident happens, and Dave spots him.

Having had experience with his trans-masc brother (something he half remembers at this point), Dave saw this kid with very similar clothes to when his brother was questioning his ID, clearly this kid must be masculine, he/him pronouns or something. He's still kinda mid on the Understanding LGBT thing. But it feels right in his head.

So when he addresses this kid, he uses masculine terms on him.

Max is weirdly okay with this, excited(?) even. This thought stays in his head while he's recovering. He roughly cuts his hair into a pixie-bob the first chance he's alone. And raids the thrift store again for more masculine clothes.

Cut to starting college. Max and Dave meet again, they have their whole thing. Dave still using masc terms on him. Max doesn't correct him, even though he's still technically "a tomboy" like oh yeah I'm still technically a woman but I can't correct him now. Oh no (sarcastic)

Dave introduces Max to Clarence and Clara with he/him pronouns. Other students pick up on his masc presenting and roll with it. He continues to not correct them. Dave notices the full body cringe when the professors call him "Miss Max" and asks him about it. He eventually goes "My brother in Christ you're trans" And they have a whole discussion about it.

All while the whole Ghost Creatures Trying To Kill Us Again Every Night thing is happening.

His secondary arc is figuring out his whole gender thing and the last scene after the Big Finale Fight he is sitting on the ground with a shock blanket, beat up to absolute hell. He should probably go to a hospital. But the first thing he does is call up his parents like "Hey, I love you so much, also I'm not a woman anymore, please use he/him on me." He doesn't elaborate. (not until later, offscreen, when they meet him at the hospital)

And then by the epilogue he's fully transitioned and working out top surgery and is overall more confident...y'know besides the ghost monster gauntlet. He's friends with Dave's brother now on top of more online friends. He has a cat that's probably (definitely) a reincarnation of Dave, life is good.

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Randomly thinking about my own gender ID and how my lad Max (from my very old Guardian Ghost webcomic) is me but slightly to the left and gender swapped.

I’m currently IDing as NB/Demigirl but haven’t explored enough to see if I might like presenting masc.

And I had a realization earlier that I might have been accidentally trans-coding Max a little (I didn’t have nearly as much experience with other gender IDs and interests) but I wasn’t sure what direction. Did Dave call him by he/him and a then questioning Max got hit with gender euphoria? Or is he AMAB and didn’t even process his own ID because of anxiety.

…..this was gonna end with me saying he ends up transfem but honestly I like “AFAB but didn’t bother to correct Dave and later Clarence/Clara (he is fine with this)” better, and now at 21-ish he’s been on T for a while. He didn’t have words for it at 16-17 but was presenting neutrally that year. Hence the (not actually) misgendering by Dave when they first met as ghosts.

Also he had zero time to ruminate on those thoughts because of….the ghost monster stuff.

This wouldn’t change much if I were to write the comic now, maybe a small scene of Dave being like “oh yeah so you’re trans then” and Dave having to explain what that is. (Max also gets my “wtf is LGBT” stuff from high school) but that’s about it. Maybe other kids and teachers tilting their heads at the pronoun switch but adjusting quickly.

I have doodles I’ll show later

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Oh shoot! I completely forgot to promote my new Main Fursona here. It's a ghost cat thing!

The idea is that all my secondary fursonas (and even my human-doodle self) are plushies and mannequins being possessed. Which has some really funny implications

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So I found this Horse Race thing that allows you to make custom characters that run around instead of the default.....

Obviously I had to throw Scraps in there

Guess who wins!

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I made a Minecraft-ish animation earlier this week based on a weekly challenge prompt "Impact" This was a fun thing to make and I'm already picking away at another animation, albeit with an updated version of this guy

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Some doodles I did of my Fighting Dreamers ISAT AU soon after doing the cat versions. Just general musings (with more indirect spoilers under the readmore). Things get scribbly so apologies for that

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There's a discord where the 3D Community Challenge participants hang out, and between the bigger challenges are smaller, week long ones. This one was "Spore"

And because it's the last one before the next Big Challenge, I made it take place right before my Kinetic Rush entry, which you should also check out and get ready to see the next one at some point in March! :D

I have my other weeklies on my channel among other 3D experimenting if you want to check that out as well

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You ever see two future versions of you duke it out?

I had Gracie brainworms this past week, and the Weekly Challenge in the 3D chat was "Shock". So I took older models and recolored them, exported them as images, and then drew on top of them.

I had a third scene planned but I never got around to it, here's a peek at what these images looked like originally

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(this is doing numbers on bluesky so im posting it here too)

Your OC has been invited to Bonnie's multiverse podcast, draw them in the empty chair across from her as she introduces them💅🎙️ (smaller version under the cut)

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HELL YEAH I LOVE THIS KIND OF STUFF

Katy and Sparky are always cat scale, even in their more humanoid forms. So here are these two cats at cat heights sitting on a human chair. But they're young adults cat-age wise.

I imagine there being a universal translator in here, but all you hear is meowing for the interval it takes to boot up. Then Katy just blabbers on about men and fashion and other things the entire time. At least what's relevant to the Buffer Zone.

Sparky is just very weirded out by the whole thing and is paranoid about a monster that could come at any point and destroy things. He's also more annoyed about being talked to like a cat, this is very weird. Why is there a human(???) denizen here?? That doesn't usually happen??

Katy accepted the invitation and dragged Sparky into it without his knowledge.

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I've been messing with shapekey head versions of Sparky and Katy for the past couple weeks. This is a test run to see how they actually look in action. And I can tell you right now I have plenty of things to fix (barring the way the auto-weights worked out, that will always be an issue for me) - Hands need beans - a better pupil rig (they're spheres floating in a void fursuit head style and I don't know how to make them move together or go wall/cross eyed) - Fix Katy's teeth - Work out a pose library for the shape keys (??)

Overall I'm glad how things turned out. Their heads are working exactly as intended and I can't wait to translate it to other characters! (and also improve these two of course)

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Trying to work these lads out while I sell at a moderately dead convention

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Any Fighting Dreamers readers still following this blog?

I was looking through videos I made that were (very) roughly explaining how the rest of the series would have gone down, to do a master cut of what I managed to make back in 2023. And then I got to the Time Loop Chapter where Gracie shows up and joins the team for a chapter. The one cat with Time Dominant powers and loops the same mission over and over to save everyone, and drags Stewie into it.

Then I thought hey, you know what ELSE has time loops that I'm still mildly obsessed with?

So here's an In Stars and Time AU where the team is in the series instead, and Gracie and Stewie are stuck in the Torment Nexus.

For the normal FD readers eagerly awaiting said "Rest of It" video covering the stuff I posted back in 2023, I'll get to it soon, I have a few more things to work out. And also doing something similar in text because by god do I ramble in circles

But if y'all want to see my notes on this ISAT AU, I left it under a readmore. Mostly because I have VERY BIG SPOILERS (albeit indirectly) for ISAT. Especially if you're an FD reader that knows some of the characters and you put 2 and 2 together.

Some of this is also a bit obscure for FD too so like....I might accidentally reveal some stuff from the main canon I haven't explained yet.

So Hood Cat is this world's version of Loop. Switching to They/Them pronouns to disguise herself more. They look like they're burnt up and constantly wisping spectral smoke, and even vanishing into it for a bit.

They're from a future where she had to do the loops against the Monarch by herself. She crashed out, made another wish for SOMEONE TO HELP. And that someone was Stewie getting dragged into the loop with a new Gracie and them going through the loops together (Gracie still in control of it). Hood Cat was ready to tell her past self immediately then STEWIE IS HERE TOO. WHAT. HE CAN'T HANDLE THIS KIND OF STUFF HE'S TOO EMOTIONAL FOR THIS.

Gracie is The Islander in this case, adopted by one of Sandy's uncles after the island vanished and her memory got destroyed. She's the one who made her wish to stay with everyone because she was only with the team for a month and she will now die for them.

In what is the second go around, the Universe nudged Stewie to show up a bit sooner and get roped into the time loop. Also with his desperate need to protect his family.

The Monarch is Ramus, or rather the Secret 4th Cat in FD canon that was part of the First 3 and became the monsters. But in ISAT canon they're a resident of The Island looking for The First 3, their time freezing powers looking more like vines and fungus. The FD monsters are still played completely straight. The Time Tears are Time Mushrooms instead. Spitting localized spores.

I'll explain things better once I figure out how to say it coherently.