Artist, Kaiju Nerd, Comic Geek, and Sonic fan!

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Modern Trip the Sungazer

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THIS IS AN OLD PIECE

To tide my few followers over until my next artwork is complete, here's an old piece I called "Big Sisters"

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People liked that Shard and Whisper piece, so I'm following it up with Tangle!

You know these two would hit it off. But I wouldn't say they'd be BEST friends, cause Jewell is Tangle's best friend, that isn't changing here.

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Oh Shard...

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Tumblr needs more Metal

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Did I ever mention I love OG Shredder's design? Mirage Shredder is a great example of "less is more"

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Metal Sonic

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King Ceasar awakens!

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Childhood Villians

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Now that the TADC finale is out, I can finally reveal what was the inspiration for this piece. Seeing Zooble protecting Gangle got me in the theater

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IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY

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I T S T H E M I D D L E O F J U N E

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I T I S H A L L O W E E N T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

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World Heritage Post

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IT'S SUMMERWEEN TIME! TIME TO GET SPOOKY!

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Daddy's Home

I won't say what gave me the inspiration to do this, but the idea really ran wild

Disclaimer: This Comic Cover is fake

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If you can't take the heat...

RUN

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I've talked a lot about Shard and Belle, but I would also LOVE to see a team up between him and Whisper. These two would be heavy hitters against Robotnik

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I can imagine Whisper might have a difficult time trusting Shard at first, due to some of his similarities to the Shadow Androids. But when she does come to accept him, they’d be such a fun duo!

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Funny, that's the exact story I came up with in my AU (working title Sonic Fusion).

Whisper, along with several others, take a loong time to trust Shard, but his redemption arc eventually does pay off

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A while back I saw a post going around about how people hate modern retellings of Greek myths that confirm to the standards of the modern day because they're too cowardly to be "true to the myth." And, like, I get it, and I also think Lore Olympus kinda sucks, but "retelling an old myth in a way that confirms to the viewpoint of the modern storyteller" is actually the main reason we have any records of myths at all. If you want ONLY the original version of a given myth to exist, then pretty much all of mythology would have died back during the days of oral tradition.

People have been retelling myths with their own spin reflecting their own values and interpretations since before we invented writing. Homer didn't invent the Odyssey or the Trojan War, he just wrote a really popular version of those stories, and did so according to the values of his time. He made the Lore Olympus of his day.

So, like, yeah, hate modern myth retellings if you think they suck. You can even hate them for making choices that are worse than the ones in older versions of them that you like. But to hate them just in principle because they changed things at all is asinine. Myths are fluid things, to be retold and reinterpreted as the storyteller pleases. That's how they survive.

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Also, once you get over the petulant and frankly nonsensical complaint of "This isn't true to the original myth!", you get to have the much more fun adventure of analyzing how different versions of myth are in conversation with each other.

Example: I love Arthuriana, and almost every version of the King Arthur story works with the premise that Arthur was a nearly perfect King. This means each version in turn reflects a different author's idea of what a near-perfect king is. Is he a conqueror, or a peacemaker? Does he rule by might, or by diplomacy? Is he wise and experienced, or innocent and naive? Is he a furry? You know, important questions.

And even the adaptations that try to subvert our expectations by showing Arthur to be a bad king, actually, are playing into that conversation - because it is a pretty powerful statement to look at a history of stories about the best possible king and say, "No king can be good."

All of this isn't to say I love EVERY Arthur story. There are some that I dislike intensely, but even those have some interesting contributions to make to the conversation that is this folklore's history of retellings. And Arthur survives because we find new angles to tell his story from, even if some of those angles suck ass.