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art, toys, and general nonsense. sparkles and princesses are my lifeblood. ➞ TWST: I play on JP, so spoilers are fresh and abundant! please mind the tags! ➞ pixiv: 1644763 ➞ feel free to use my art for personal things like icons/wallpapers/etc.! but please don't reupload entire posts or use my art for your edits (THIS INCLUDES VIDEOS, DUBS, TIKTOKS, PINTEREST, ETC). if you want to use it for something else, please ask first! thank you! ➞ I'm not currently taking art requests or trades, sorry! If commissions are open, there will be a post up about them. thanks for looking! ⭐

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Awww baby Skully is so cute, but what about Swing now, we deserve to see his little form too 😭

au where a little fantasy-puritan boy wanders into the woods and meets a scrungly fae, Halloween will never be the same 🎃

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I don't how long it will take for someone to ask and I'm already holding back the laughter as I'm typing... is Goodman Timothy named like this bc of Tim Burton?

no shade to Mr. Burton, I just needed a name and his was right there for the taking! 🤷 and isn't taking things thematically appropriate for them anyway?

that segue worked better in my head

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I wanted to do something with an even tinier babier Skully, except I couldn't figure out how to lead into it...

...so to heck with it. they fell through a time portal or something. it's not important, don't worry about it ⏳

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the squeakquel

(no worries, this is the last one) (...for now)

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Which TsumTsum stories did you enjoy? All of them are so chaotic in the best way possible it was basically a sitcom.

out of all of them? I am of course extremely biased towards Malleus' card story, in which he very proudly shows off to his tsum that he knows how to use this arcane tool the humans call a (each syllable carefully pronounced) "mi-cro-wave", almost drops it in the washing machine, and then throws it a big special party where everyone fights over who gets to dance with Malletsum. I still don't know how exactly they were dancing with a six-inch blob. it's magical.

however, it's hard to top "Jadetsum helps Jade hide a body except the twist is that it was actually setting him up to take the fall". watch out, you little bean, Jade'll get you back someday...

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Dropping in to wish you a happy pride, Ego 🏳️‍🌈 !! I salute your efforts to Twst Yuri with Georgina/Dylla and Alexandria and Dorothy 🫡 on that note, if Alexandria and Dorothy were to cameo in the story, as the camera is now panning towards RSA, what would their role be? How would they cameo?

happy pride!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 the Twst Yuri niche may be small, but we are determined (and also kind of lowkey thinking about Georgina and Dylla 24/7 anyway) (...or that might just be me) (regardless!)

Alexandria's gotta be in full Tournament Mode by now, so I like to imagine her juuuuust offscreen in every scene, shouting furiously at the RSA boys to Chin Up and Gird Those Loins and Stiffen Those Upper Lips! if you don't know her then she probably sounds like a weirdly Enid Blyton-esque drill instructor, but they all know that actually she's being very supportive and encouraging (and of course Dorothy is there to encourage her :)

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quick question, are we permitted to use your art as inspo for a fic? not reposting or ripping word for word, of course, but if we were inspired to write a story loosely based on an idea of yours, with proper credit, would that be alright with you? sorry if this has been asked before, love your art thank you either way ❤️💕

that'd be totally fine, thank you!! I am flattered to have inspired more Twsty shenanigans into the universe :D :D :D

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as penance, here's that Georgina/Dylla for y'all 🙇

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I totally respect that you mostly ship f/f, so I'll phrase this question as not the best or the most likely, but "what do YOU, Ego, think, if Yana Toboso had a big red button to make exactly one ship canon, would be the funniest and would make the fandom the most in a tizzy" I choose Leona and Neige

bear with me here, because this actually ties into something else I've been thinking about: between the Knight, Leia, and Henrik, Silver is basically the last remaining heir to all the land the Silver Owls stole, yes? but what with all the global territory disputes and treaties and general drama, it'd probably just be a huge mess that would get tied up in red tape for centuries if he, you know, tried to just give it back. however, for times like this, there is the traditional solution...

what I'm saying is, 99% of Briar Valley's political issues could be instantly solved if Silver marries Maleficia.

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I think I was also lost in the inbox hiccup. I was wondering, since you’ve mentioned multiple times that the character blurbs we are given of the TWST characters at the beginning of game are terrible, what you would change them to be? I do agree, but I also think it’s quite tricky to describe the sheer delight that are these characters in only a few sentences without spoilers.

okay I admit I've been pretty unfair about those, because it IS difficult to encapsulate...(gestures to the huge emotional mess that is NRC) in just a couple of sentences each. and in particular because some of them ARE meant to be surprising; like, for example, Epel being such an angry little scrungle despite looking Like That. so I will eat crow here! (sorry headmaster) (though to be fair I will say that my issue is less the descriptions themselves being terrible, and more that they make all the characters sound like terrible people...which, to be even fairer, they kinda are. just, uh, more entertainingly so.) but yeah, I must fully admit to my hubris, because the only way I can think of to be more accurate is just to add the same exact label to everyone:

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EGOO!! DID YOU HEAR THAT NEW BOOK 8 CONTENT MIGHT COME DURING JUNE/LATE JUNE???

IM SO HYPEDDDDD

OH YEAH THE HYPE IS VERY REAL!!!! it was on the schedule for after Kalim's birthday, so it's probably not going to be until. the very end of the month. 🫠 but at least we know it's coming now!

the real question is...are we gonna be getting Minajael and Rielle cards...? 👀 they frikking LOVE springing things on us completely out of left field (see: the RSA guys being a thing in the first place) so if/when they decide to drop 'em, I doubt we're going to have ANY warning. so I'll just be over here bracing myself for another month of "it could be nothing, it could be EVERYTHING", as is the usual Twst way.

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absolutely cheesed that silver runs everywhere despite having a perfect functional horse

horse gets tired. Silver keeps going.

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waking up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night: I FORGOT A MOM

I'm not super happy with how she came out -- in particular I think I broke style a little too much -- but at this point I need to call her done and maybe get back to her another day! in the meantime, the collection of moms is complete (for now) and there can maybe even be...a roadtrip round two??? 🚐

reminder: these are NOT edits and are not for free use; I drew and rigged her from scratch! please do not use these for your own edits or in your videos, thanks!!

non-gifs:

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do you like deuce! he looks so cute in his new birthday card...

THE SUMMER BOYS ARE BLUE!!! oh my goodness. I love when Deuce gets to dress up like a little Lord Fauntleroy and be all fancy for a little bit. 💙💙💙 ...although there is something wonderful to me specifically that Deuce is the one who gets to be a frilly lacy fancylad, versus Ace going full Victorian street urchin. it is the correct option, don't get me wrong, it's just also hilarious.

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idk if my previous message sent but are you okay w people taking your swing and skully posts as shipping content? i don't wanna cross your boundaries if you're not okay w that

oh huh, I'm starting to wonder if there was a big tumblr hiccup or I missed a page in my inbox or something! 🤔 but yeah, I might just ask that you not tag it specifically as the ship, because I think that might be a bit confusing for people who are specifically looking in the tag for overtly shippy content? (versus like, if you have a "this has vibes" kinda tag, if that makes. any sense. :') otherwise hell yeah, smash those old men barbies together. 👍

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Hi Ego! I’m not sure if my first message went through about a week ago, so I’m trying again! As a fellow Twst-er and Diasomnia lover, I really want to get into making fan art and comics like you do. Although, I’m not exactly sure how you manage to come up with such amazing ideas and drawings so fast, so if you have any tips (from you or the Dia-fam) I would love you FOREVER! (Which I already do because your art is iconic but still.)

oh no, I don't think I got it, thank you for resending!! 💚 it is always kinda hard to talk about where ideas come from so I'm not sure how helpful this'll be, but one of my favorite things to do -- and bonus, is always a good fallback for when you're feeling the urge to do something but can't think of what -- is to start out with like...adapting a particular scene or moment or whatever that sticks out to me. just thinking about how I would draw the characters and what they'd be doing, and any extra little jokes or acting I can add, that kinda stuff! I'm not an especially original person so having a kind of jumping-off point actually works a lot better for my brain. :B and half the time it spirals into being something totally removed from the original point anyway (and also twice as long and with more characters and, well, I can't complain when I do this to myself I guess).

although it also helps to just be. incapable of not constantly thinking about The Characters and connecting them to literally everything. so when someone says 'driving' while I'm busy thinking about Diasomnia (which is any given moment) and my brain goes 'ha ha diasomnia. driving. what if' and the next thing I know I've done this (sorry)

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Your comics about Sebek’s parents are so funny! I was wondering if you have any headcanons about Sebek’s siblings? I think the only canon facts we have is Sebek’s brother is a NRC graduate and Sebek’s sister calls him “Sebek-chan” and they both took Sebek fishing.

thank you! :> I love the Zigvolts a ridiculous amount for characters who have never actually shown up (...yet). I do think Sebek's siblings got a lot more of their dad's personality than he did; everything we hear about them makes them sound waaaay more chill, plus I think they say at some point that Sebek was the only one who had any interest in soldier training. so presumably they've got their own things they're off doing!

anyway, my 100% headcanon bits for them are that 1) they're a lot closer in age to each other than to Sebek (and it's kind of a big gap between them and him), and 2) they both inherited the scales and/or pointy ears. so Sebek is both the baby and also the most human-looking, and he is VERY prickly about both those things. 😔

(I would be SO happy to be proven wrong about all of this though, if they would just give us that Briar Valley hometown event and let us meet any of them--)