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CASTING CALL! Start here

Casting Call, my human AU Spamtenna comic (with a little Mettatena sprinkled in). Old and gay, in MY salad? Well, yes!

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Enjoy!

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Your stuff is very alive and cool, with a feel of a fresh nighty air and made with personal but contagious joy ✨💨

(wanted to write that a few months, when you started that cool comic but there was no anonymous askthing and i always use it like a sneaky cockroach, better late then never[?])

Omg thank you 😭 That's so nice to hear!

That comic really opened up a whole floodgate of shitty old men in me, huh? Well, I'm having fun, and I'm glad it's coming through haha

(And I'd never be mad at a compliment from a mutual!! Love your work a lot too, and you know it!)

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These human men still haunt me on a daily basis!

Working on giving BSE Tenna a more defined hair look to differentiate from Old, it's now a bit more structured and voluminous. (Stan's differences don't need to be exaggerated any further lol. Did add an 80s bleached mullet look for the Addispam comparison!)

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Buncha human AU stuff I never posted on here. Stan and Anthony still live rent-free in my head every single day.

I miiight be working on a follow up to Casting Call...

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hello I love your art. What’s your favorite type of Au

ty! I'll assume this is for Deltarune, which is the main thing I post on here.

The obvious answer, I love a human AU. But in general, I'm into the whole idea of reinterpreting characters in interesting ways that can explore/reveal their personalities from different angles and push them in ways the canon doesn't.

I like stories that explore some physical aspect of a character's being or experience, how their interaction with the world through their bodies changes with the circumstances they're placed in. How a body made of wood or plastic or code would experience the world on a sensory level is very interesting to me (and is a big element in my writing).

So any story that kind of changes "the rules" of how a character experiences the world around them in a way that tells something about them as a person is up my alley.

(This is something that is very central to Spamton as a character, his body keeps changing, and that affect the way he feels things and moves around the world, so there's a lot to work with there! AUs that change the nature of the transformation to play in that space... @qknala 's vampire AU comes to mind, love that one!)

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did you put your freak on a leash yet?

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Spamtenna human AU shout out bonus round!

As a self-proclaimed human AU connoisseur, I want to shout out some of my favs in the genre, spread the love and hope we see more of it! We're all passionate for balding has-beens around here.

(this is also serving as a little archive for myself for the works I love)

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Art!

Who doesn't already know @officialspec 's human AU? Probably the most popular and most imitated never replicated flavor. I especially love his crusty old Spam design, an absolute classic.

Next up on the list we have himboification on bsky , with this absolute banger phalloplasty gag that gets me every time. Trans Spam always gets my seal of approva, and this is really great.

An oldie (by spamtenna standards, so still pretty fresh) but goodie, this incredible design by foolishrat6 on bsky was the first human Tenna design that really stuck with me. Absolutely love it, and it has a very dear place in my heart. The pick in his hair...!

Human-turned-puppet AU comic No Strings attached by @spedles (and the swap!). Love their work in general, their puppet Spam is so expressive, but this really got me.

This Human Spam & Cat TV Monster Tenna by @extrashortshorts isn't technically a full human AU but it's so goofy and funny and cute that I can't not include it.

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Fics!

Can't go without my #1 fav, Prestige Television by @luuton-ao3 ! We've been chatting about our Human Men (TM) for a while so I may be biased, but I love these freaks so so much. Their Tenna is... whoa mama! Spencer is probably the winner of Most Receded Hairline in the Spamton awards, and I love him for it. Super good story and setting that I can't get enough of!

Loving Him Was Never Enough by ziggityzappz is a must, with the classic coke-fueled Tenna cucking.

SUPERSTAR SAVIOR by vampyrebite is a lot of fun, great characterization and dialogue, t4t men dancing around each other in the TV Time studio in the 90s, gotta love it.

A new favorite, It's Me and My TV Against the World by @vanillasweetpie . Really haunting, interesting exploration of Spamton's Addison depression era falling in love with his actual TV, go give it a read!

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And of course, can't complete the list without tooting my own horn - Casting Call (comic) / You Won't Get A Second Second Chance (fic). Stan & Anthony have long since crossed the event horizon to just becoming my OCs that I'm completely obsessed with, and I'm not complaining.

This is an incomplete list of just a few of my favs. I haven't seen every single human interpretation of them out there, so if you have any of your own recommendations, feel free to shout them out too, I need more human spamtenners in my eyeballs.

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He got a slurp of that fresh taste of NEO

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The final chapter of You Won't Get A Second Second Chance is up :'')

Thank you everyone who followed along! It was a wild and crazy ride for me writing... is that right? Nearly 45k words of human AU Spamtenna? These middle ages men really got me good.

It feels very bittersweet to say goodbye to this story. Hope you like it, leave a comment if you did!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Boyz at the roller rink

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Big shots celebrating after winning and award. Some things can only happen after everyone else has left the party.

Read the latest chapter of You Won't Get A Second Second Chance!

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Casting call was so unexpectedly sweet 🥹🥹 i love old gays

And i love how you draw the kisses, so soft 💕💕

Thanks for reading! The kissy page was a last minute self-indulgent addition, and I'm very happy with how it came out. Kisses are, unsurprisingly, very hard to draw, but it was a fun geometry puzzle.

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love to see roulxs getting rejected yet again #keeponlosing

His primary purpose in the narrative is to be humiliated and rejected at every opportunity!

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CASTING CALL! (Part 4) - END

Spamtenna / Mettatena human AU comic

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

That's a wrap yall!

I'm so emotional... played myself with this. This whole comic started out completely unplanned, off the cuff, the page count changed on a daily basis, but it's all done now.

I'm gonna make some funny epilogues, maybe I'll even get to the original gag that kickstarted the idea in the first place, but this is it for the main comic :')

If you want more from this setting, read You Won't Get A Second Second Chance.

Thanks for reading! Hope you liked the journey these shitty old men took you on!

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This fucking guy! Smash him with a hammer!

he was supposed to be holding his business card but he lost it in the divorce.

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Kicking my feet I love the way you write the dialogue between Stanley and Ant in your comic. It feels so just old gay men. Old queens.

Thank you! It's really fun to write their dialogue, they have a lot of personality and conflict that need to be expressed. Dramatic old bitches... I love them.

The thing I really wanted to focus on this year in my works this year was dialogue, so it's nice to see it paying off.

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CASTING CALL! (Part 3)

Spamtenna / Mettatena human AU comic

Part 1

Part 2

To be continued!

At the 20 page mark, we now have a final pagecount? I have planned 27 pages + 3 page epilogue, so I'm.... 2/3 of the way there. If scope creep doesn't get me. These old men are killing me, scoob

My fic in the same setting, You Won't Get A Second Second Chance, just updated too! 3rd chapter is up, whole 5k+ words of it. If you like these old assholes and want to see Stan's life after his downfall, how they reconnect, and a lot of pining, check it out!