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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! ⭐

[egophiliac]

I really love the npc's in the newest update, and i was wondering what you thought of them! I love your art of certain npc's that catch your interest

what a fool I was for saying we weren't going to get any new characters in chapter 3, because those were some A+ excellent supporting mobs. they deserved sprites. >:( ...although that does mean that there's nothing stopping me from adopting Clair and Taris (Talis?) as the IgniPom duo from the 2024 New Year Beyblade Tournament. that's them to me now. congrats on getting screentime and voices, guys!

[egophiliac]

gotta think about Mina's some more, but I knew immediately what I wanted to do for Rielle 🎶

[egophiliac]

a quickie before the update!! lookin' forward to seeing more of these guys :D

[egophiliac]

idk if you’ve been asked this but what other media has influenced or inspired you’re comic drawing style? i really love how you do exaggerated body and facial expressions and the little style variations depending on the mood

it's hard to pick out all the individual Influences; I think overall it's kind of...an unholy mishmash of late 90s/early 2000s anime and western animation? for specifics though I usually cite Sailor Moon, Batman Beyond, and Ciné si/Princes et Princesses (which itself is a visual homage to the The Adventures of Prince Achmed). plus everything else that just gets picked up and unconsciously absorbed into my brain. :B

my love of whackadoodle style shifting in particular I think I can trace (at least mostly) back to Sailor Moon...I aspire to someday be as fucking funny as the animation in that show was. 😔

[egophiliac]

It's hilarious just how badly Lilia's plan to Run Away and Die Alone backfired

you gotta wonder what exactly he thought was going to happen...

[egophiliac]

Is Swing an orphan like Skully in your AU? Because I really wanna know what happened to Swing’s parents (or if he even had them)

honestly, I feel like any attempts at a Swing origin story should answer nothing and raise more questions. the only concrete part is that it involves a lot of bugs...somewhere...in there. the rest? maybe it's better we don't find out.

[egophiliac]

"bring to me your goodest boys," they said. and the boys were brought, and sunshine and sweetness spread throughout the land.

"no wait," they said, "now it's too good. we need some balance here. you got any spare weird little freaks hanging around?"

(this is how it happens in my heart)

[egophiliac]

re-emerging from the underworld like a Cerberus 🐾

(analogies are not my strong suit)

[egophiliac]

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 🎃

[egophiliac]

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

[egophiliac]

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 ⏳

[egophiliac]

the squeakquel

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

[egophiliac]

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...

[egophiliac]

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 :)

[egophiliac]

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

[egophiliac]

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

[egophiliac]

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.