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Alice!!! What's the word? What's the haps?.... WHATS YOUR MMMAJORRRRRR?
Alice returns from college! And the story begins >:]
Thought: "Is'nt She Lovely" is one of the two songs Jax knows on piano but idk if we all ready for that convo
FINALLY my ass is working on this š
Gray has these dark circles around his eyes: a mix of natural marking on the skin that he was born with and having the sleep schedule of a chair
A doodle i doodle
MUGMAN tastes like bitter moonshine
BENDY tasting like straight ink.
Now, I've never had the chance to have moonshine but I have accidentally drank straight ink and THAT is bitter but in a different way that food is bitter.
What I'm saying is first kiss and both are SUPER grossed out about trying to kiss each other but they are stubborn freakers and keep trying until they stop being grossed out by it because damn it they are kissing one way or another.
....They eventually start liking the taste because of the association, like a Pavlov's effect
HA I love this
Mugman being like
"IS THAT WHAT I TASTE LIKE???"
"YOU?? THIS SHIT BURNS!!!"
Also this is a fun way to analyze their relationship. They both know the other is poison so why not take another sip?
FUN FACT! Most home brewed moonshine (which is what most moonshine was in that time period) was possibly poisonous. It was super easy to die of alcohol poisoning back then and common for people to poison themselves.
So with THAT knowledge plus basic ink poisoning.
They both are slowly poisoning themselves when indulging the other!
And also you can adapt to poisons by taking it in small dosages. These two were originally deadly to eachother. But after a while theu adapt and their dynamic become more digestible and as easy as drinking the morning coffee!
And while these poisons are still deadly to other, similar to how their relationship is confusing to others, it fits the other perfectly.
Had to apply this brilliant idea to my version of mugs and bendy :]
Since the Qwel situation is happening
I will not put Dandyās world character in my au as I was planning too. I was planning to add Tisha and Glisten as a main character with Felix and Amelia and coming soon character, but I wonāt. I figure it out soon. Sorry everyone. Iām working on the comic soon.
I think im gonna stray away from Dandy's world too in my AU.
Couldn't find a place to really fit em in anyway but now its like: why bother? Was never really into the game. Liked the backstory and designs but now its like: just another roblox game where roblox decs abuse others. What else is new?
TDAC MOVIE SPOILERS
I may be going insane and this movie may have ruined my entire life
Why are we so obsessed with romance???
In recent years, Iāve come to realize that a lot of fandom spaces have an insurmountable influx of people who just cannot go without shipping at least 2 people. And not just shipping, the urge to defend against and dismember anyone who doesnāt share the same views or ship or headcanons. The Amazing Digital Circus fandom was RUINED by the amount of shipping drama there was, among other things, and I watched from the sidelines as it seemed to multiply tenfold overnight RIGHT after gooseworks tweeted that there would be no romantic intent in the show between the characters present. Itās like if you tell people today that there is no romance in a piece of media, theyāll feel the need to shoehorn romance in and then make it everyoneās problem. MOTM is also a victim of this, to a lesser degree, but EVERYONE has to ship SOMETHING and itās become so suffocating to me that I have to try and avoid MOTM posts just to be able to breathe on Tumblr. Luckily, no one fights over those ships and are very respectful for the most part, which leads me to not abandon all hope, but it is just STRANGE how much I am surrounded with art and media that feels like it always HAS to have some kind of relationship and sexual media to prosper. but it is not without its problems and demanding ship material is included!!
Now, I know romance and shipping culture has always been a thing in fandoms and is basically one of the strongest pillars fandom spaces lean on. I am also highly aware that shipping drama was a thing long before I was even alive, all of these things have been here. But it has never been this BAD. People never used to dox other people or send death threats or harrass to this scale before over ships that arenāt even canon. This insane growth in toxic shipping culture has fascinated me, because⦠why?? Why is EVERYONE all of a sudden so obsessed with romance between made up characters? Even to the point where just saying you like when two characters are friends is cause for an uproar. I think back to the early undertale fandom, when aus were just beginning to gain traction, and all of the FUNNIEST and most memorable comics and fanfics were ones where the different au sans were hanging out, being silly, and platonically going through the motions and learning about their respective polar opposites. These cartoons led to deep conversations amongst people and gave the original characters different mirrors and filters for people to reflect on their arcs in the original game and grow more introspective povs. And no one doxxed each other when ppl shipped diff aus or didnt ship diff aus, at least the bullying wasnāt at such a wide scale.
But now, I can barely find any platonic fanfics and comics or media of any sort that doesnt get left behind, abandoned, harrassed out of the world, or just end up romantic anyway in the end. They are very few and far between already these days. I have even experienced this mental lazer focus mysef on romance, shipping, and gratification through my characters and for example: every time I used to see bendystraw I wanted to scream my fucking head off-it pissed me off and for my own reasons I have never liked the ship. I NEVER say anything about it tho bc thats fucking rediculous, i know how to respect other people and the old saying goes, āIf you have nothing to say, donāt say anythingā a GOLDEN rule that I wish the entire human population would abide by, honestly. I am sharing this though to show how STRANGE it is that we are feeling so strongly and getting physical reactions from MADE UP PEOPLE ON A SCREEN. After some self reflecting and turning into an adult, my frontal cortex went: hey, hold up, itās all fake. Tf u mad a, gurl? And now I can appreciate the bendystraw art-still dislike the ship but it doesnāt make my chest tighten to see it come up on my page.
My observations on this is that this all started growing slowly like a cancer when covid forced everyone inside and online. And is now coming to a head.
Something I heard too is that a lot of cliques of ppl that werenāt online nearly as much before are also now online. Our internet spaces are being melted together from the sort of clean cut separations that kept everyone of similar interests happy.
And no one is dating irl.Ā
Birthrate crisis left and right, social media and dating apps full of A.I. and catfishes, a lot of old school romantic values being forgotten in this new digital era, everything being so expensive that dating, third party spaces, and general enjoyment is impossible for the average person. Not to mention that work life balance has been so terribly destroyed that free time is a luxury. Romance is a luxury, and everyoneās mental health and ability to socialize is so out of wack from the lack of time and affordable medical and mental resources.Ā
My theory is that people of all ages are seeking that romantic gratification through online internet characters and shipping. We, as a generation, are sexually frustrated and emotionally neglected mammals, a lot of us would have been dating and experimenting as tweens, teens, and young adults. I am 22 and have never even shared a kiss, or a hug, romantically with anyone. I have never been on a date. While I was working part-time jobs I couldnāt imagine what dating would be like because I was bitter and angry all the time with no time or energy to enjoy anything life had to offer bc I had no money! I live at home! I got a new job recently and Itās like a breath of fresh air, I finally have the ability to budget and schedule my life, and it feels like I am building something finally instead of scraping to get by with a good work/life balance. Couldnāt be more grateful.
With this new job came a weight lifting off my shoulders. BREATHING ROOM. And with that, I could reflect on what I actually wanted with life and found some things
My friends are all broke, stuck with their parents, jobless, and miserable (like I was-I have the luxury of having a loving home life I just hate being a burden)
All they do is complain(no hate to them-all we CAN do is complain, we literally have no agency over what happens from now on bc the world decided to shit itself for us)
We have increasingly been talking and hyperfixating on our original characters and romance. Anything else is superficial and is there to fill the void
WE ARE ALL ROMANTICALLY STUNTED AND YEARNING
ALL MY FRIENDS ARE ONLINE-I HAVE NO IRL FRIENDS!?
I donāt even know if I want to date anyone. But I noticed I was thinking about it more and more now that I wasnāt highstrung with my financial situation bc I finally had a plan and budget, could actually plan dates if I wanted-I just donāt know anyone. At all. New state, and everyone I work with is old enough to be my grandparent. Iām still hurting for money, and honestly; people terrify me. Too many horror stories. It is also the fact that I probably want FRIENDS more than I want romance right now. I want companionship. And i think thats what everyone wants.
Itās just that things got so muddy in the waters, online spaces are becoming less sustainable and more like warzones, I donāt even want to post my art for fear of people CRUCIFYING me, and people are just sharing the misery they experience by having no real friends or lovers and using made up characters that arenāt even theirs to own in order to play out their fantasies and ignore the crushing lonlieness sweeping the nations as everything arounds us gets worse and weāre forced to just sit and ignore it for our sanity, which is dwindling anyway bc misery loves company and people are becoming more demanding and mean online.
Thatās just my take though, based off of personal experience and what I hear through the grapevine; I know theres a lot more to process for this topic but I am not a professional anything, I just wanted to share allat and no hate to anyone who does ship, I am a chronic shipper myself, I was just wondering WHY it has become such a crutch and why platonic relationships are rarely mentioned anywhere anymore. Iām curious how other people think, so please leave your two-sense down below I am intrigued to read. I wonder if everyone was able to step back and breathe and not worry as much about their IRLs, would any of this matter as much as it did before? Could people stop being so mean online? And could the fandom spaces finally heal and be inhabitable again?
We might need more Mugman without a shirt friend
A lil treat for yall
Psssttt questions are open about the auuuu
I have no words. Honestly. Spread the word, everyone needs to know this
Whiteboard doodle of papa bendy :3
No your honor, this will not be a healthy couple.
Update: they may just be a healthy couple after all
A doodle i did a while back :3
okay i just saw a blueink fankid as i was scrolling and i did not see them properly but i think thats cause my third eye opened
a blueink (or bendystraw ig im not your mom) fankid
who's a cup
whose horns curl around to make handles
EH? :DDD
This just reminded me- I have a fan kid for these two XD
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Heheheh im liking this style. I think ill keep it