digitallyFANGED

The Tumblr of Tabby |AroAce|She/Her|Age 41|. Loves video games, art, anime and tea. Mostly into Detective Conan, Lupin, Mega Man, DOOM, Monster Hunter, Tezuka. Is a crab. Professional Portfolio Reblog Tumblr

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From Veronica Tucker via Pinterest

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General life update for people who follow me: Other than a few zine arts I've already done and not posted yet, and an upcoming obligation for my city's pride month, you will see no art from me for the next few months. I have some family affairs to get in order and will take significant time.

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CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT: TABBY

The next spread artist is a one-of-a-kind Lupin III veteran. Say hello to @digitallyfanged !

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I'm part of a thing!

I actually first saw a few episodes of Lupin at my very first Otakon.

...in 1998. I was 13.

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I am proud to say that you are a little younger than my mom at least by her standards

Hahaha, is she an old nerd like I am?

At this point, I'm referring to myself as a fandom auntie.

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reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

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>.> I do believe, statistically speaking, @digitallyfanged and I have been friends longer than most of the people on this hellsite have been alive.

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We've known each other since I was in middle school I believe.

... For the Internet's record, I'm 41 now.

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Top 10 anime betrayal in DND tonight

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Day 6: Identity Reveal

The princess has wanted to see the face of the knight who saved her

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Day 5: Rain

Tiny little canvas

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Day 4: AU

The priest warned them to make sure all the wards around the temple were kept up. That it kept the fearful and dangerous tengu out.

But one day, one ward was missed and the tengu slipped in. He doesn't seem all that bad, Ran thought.

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Day 3 Domestic Ran gets Shinichi to school

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Day 2 Gender Swap Ran wants to date the smartest prettiest girl in the school.

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Round 1, mutual pining.

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Vote now for Midnight Festival 2: Yokai Enamel Pins From Another Realm on @BackerKit!

This is a cool yokai pin collection launching soon. They're voting for alt designs and I submitted one. So if you like my design and the pins, plz vote? (And if you want, back the pins when it launches. The creators are cool people)

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I've been seeing artists use those multiple color pens to do really impressive artwork, so I wanted to give it a go. It was fun! …..Just… uh.. don't do it in your sketch book…. Hard to tell in the picture, but there's several rips and the paper is almost destroyed. You need thicker paper.

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And… it's me! My branding on my portfolio has been vaporwave for some time. But here is myself, in my horrible eye searing vapor wave newness.

I've fallen in love with bright colors some time ago. I still kept the dragon part, but added horns. I also wanted to put in a corvid/magpie part, as people joke I like shiny trinkets. Ditched the wings (never drew them anyways) and she's more like me now, with rounded face an all.

And I fell in love with sukajan jackets. I missed out getting one in Japan while I was there.. maybe next time! But here I am, I hope you like me.

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I want to talk about something near and dear to my heart: Louhi.

She appeared as an OC when I first got into the Mega Man fandom... 20+ years ago. She was born mostly out of the frustration of no female characters in the MMX fandom. We had...Iris. That was it. And me, I wanted a badass lady maverick (Which we wouldn't even get until Command Mission, ung) So I set about making myself a Maverick lady. She was a big ass dragon humanoid reploid, who liked to cannibalize other reploids. I loved her, she was cool!

...Then I went to graphic design school. "You should make this character your branding!" said one of my teachers. And like the agreeable little millennial, I did so. Louhi became my brand ambassador. (Maybe it's no wonder I never got any interviews when I graduated...) But yeah, in the long run, that was a mistake. Louhi became my avatar, and a "mirror" for me. And in the end, that ruined her, because while she still had the cannibalistic joke side of her, because she was that mirror of me, I was too afraid to actually DO anything with her, and it kneecapped her. No back story. No stories. She interacted with Sigma in some pictures, but... nothing else. I kept trying to force my personalty traits on her, and because it clashed, she just became... an object. Like I doll I could dress up. Not me, but a boring version of me that shared nothing I valued anymore. (I don't like having long hair, I don't like having open skin clothing, I don't wear glasses anymore, I don't like makeup even tho it's technically not makeup she's wearing, I don't have a strong personality anymore like I did as a teen/young adult)

Add to the fact she was Louhi, and I was Tabby, and it confused the fuck outta people my avatar had a different name from me.

So... I'm cutting the cord and letting her go free.

Wait, no, don't panic!

I still love her! She's not going anywhere!

But, she's going back to what she should be- a original fan character for Mega Man X that I can be silly with and not feel constrained into a box. She can continue to skitter around on walls like the xenomorph rip off she is.

Think as Louhi as the 90s anime that is dark and still cool to be around. But now we're in 2026 and I'm feeling more bright new age anime.

So, what's next? I'm changing "me". Louhi will be Louhi. I have a new avatar that will be the online branding of Tabby(digitallyfanged) So, things will be switching, for the first time in like, 20ish freaking years. Good lord.

Changes coming soon :3

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An image I couldn't get out of my brain. Artemis in a little SLS costume

Speedpaint here: