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[flightless-stargazer-bat]

finally setting up a pinned post here, as well as revamping this blog in general!

as for my commissions while they never officially closed i haven’t done anything with them in a while so they’re open yet again! i’ve updated my prices to stuff i feel more comfortable with <3 feel free to message me if you have any questions any questions (or just wanna chat i don’t bite promise :3)

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as for info important to this blog, these are the tags i typically use

#my art - where all the art i make goes

#my ocs - my homemade little freaks

#bats commissions - anything to do with my commissions, whether it be updates or finished commissions

#the yapper - posts where i’m just saying shit (i don’t do these often but. still)

#tw (trigger here, ex blood, eye trauma, etc.) - i will be tagging any trigger warnings this way going forward. feel free to let me know if you need anything tagged!

for characters i don’t own i tag them using whatever is closest to their full name (with characters without last names having their series name instead)

ex : spamton g spamton, ralsei deltarune, petey the cat, etc.

for my own characters, if they have a distinct enough name i’ll just tag that, but if they don’t i use oc : name

ex : snail swirl, trouble tracker (distinct enough to tag in their own), oc : mercia, oc : star (not distinct enough for me to not worry about them getting sent to unrelated tags)

currently fixated hard on deltarune, especially spamton, so expect to seen basically just that for the foreseeable future sorry not sorry <3 bye for now!

[pumpkinnkidd]

nubert :)

[pumpkinnkidd]

DELTARUNE THE 24TH!!!!

[casprisunn]

different, a spamtenna comic

[spamtonspammyspamspam]

i'm finishing up a spam x self-insert request right now, i might post it as today's scheduled post :3c it's quite the big undertakin

here's a lil preview because i love the way i drew spam here🙂‍↕️

[sasmev]

Don't know if you're taking requests rn, but it'd be nice to see some touch starved stuff.

It's always cool to send me ideas☆ Whether I manage to hit them like you'd hoped, though, is anyone's guess.

[sasmev]

Hi! Would you be willing to draw Spamton and Tenna doing rehabilitative exercises for their various joint pains? They could help motivate eachother to keep up with their routine

Wrote Physical Challenge first and then I realized

[cinnamonsly]

happee 1 yr anniversary to chapters 3+4 (and to these two idiots in particular)

[bigshotautos]

In regards to the kissing issue Spam and Jevil have, I feel like we’re really missing quality forehead kiss content. There’s just something so tender and loving about it! Jevil would still carry the bulk of kissing duty but the idea of Spamton just bapping his teeth to Jevil’s forehead is really cute

he makes the kissing noise behind his closed teeth and says 'mwah' out loud after

[vinihyperfocus]

I saw a post about it and felt inspired <3

[vinihyperfocus]

Yeah, I have no idea why saying that Queen has responsibility in Spamton is almost taboo. Everyone agrees that King and Tenna were abusive and have a responsibility to their people, everyone agrees that Carol has a responsibility to Susie too. So I don't know why Queen would somehow be the exception. Especially when Carol and Queen are big parallels to each other.

The most I can think of as to why Swatch is mentioned more often is because we see him commenting on and doing things related to Spamton (Spamton mentions him, Swatch resells Spamton's tie without credit for double the price (I thought a darker character from a drawing program would have more ethics about that, oh well), there are more mentions of the Swatchlings regarding Spamton, but Queen has none)

YES YES YES!!! I totally agree with this! 👆👆👆

He was asking for help the whole time in ch2. In ch3, Tenna basically said he'd even accept help from the "mailman," literally saying he was the last person he wanted help from (but he was the first to want to help him (and the only person he already knew) btw!!!). Tenna didn't even mention him by name or anything, just the fact that he wanted Spamton's help was enough for him to show up.

It's the people from the mansion who deleted all of Spamton's files, they're the ones who don't mention Spamton's name, it's the Addisons who refuse to talk about Spamton if we try to talk to them before the NEO fight.

Meanwhile, we have Spamton trying to reconnect with Tenna, asking Kris for help and saying that he used to scream his friends' names until he lost his voice in the trash. In the NEO fight, he changes the setting to "heaven" when he mentions friendship and says he will live for himself and his friends.

I always get so frustrated about how the fandom ignores the fact that Spamton decided to help Fun Gang. He could very well not help and live in Castle Town just like all the other darkners. He's helping Fun Gang much more than all the others who are treating Castle Town like a resort lol

The interpretation that Spamton doesn't accept help is always followed by interpretations that ignore that Swatch is a violent classist (not just towards Spamton) and a bootlicker, the Addisons are ableist and steal Spamton's ideas because they have terrible products, Tenna isn't an abusive boss, and Queen wasn't a dictator. It's ignoring all the flaws of the other characters to place them on Spamton (who proves to be the opposite) and vilifying him because they can't consider that the homeless disabled person could be the victim.

Even if Spamton wasn't accepting help from the government... that's not how it works! xD They shouldn't give up on Spamton and avoid talking about it as a taboo subject. It's still their responsibility.

[vinihyperfocus]

I saw a post about it and felt inspired <3

[moskvishacreates]

As a service worker, I have undeniable evidence (/jk) that Spamton was not an asshole during his time as a big shot: Swatch has nothing negative to say about that time and even called him a “valued customer”. Considering he’s willing to talk smack about modern day Spamton, he’s clearly not holding back out of professionalism. If Spamton was an asshole, the FIRST people to know would be the butlers and service staff where he lived.

Yeah! Swatch only complains about post-downfall Spamton, and the one (1) complaint he has, which his dislike of Spamton revolves around, is that Spamton tried to acquire NEO, a machine Swatch helped create and has some sentimental attachment to. He doesn't bring up any other wrongdoing or perceived wrongdoing from Spamton.

Also, something else I find interesting is that Spamton (being autistic and emotionally neglected) misread their dynamic and perceived Swatch as a friend; he says that Swatch always listened and was a "shoulder to cry on", so Swatch must've at least sometimes listened to him talk, and in some cases vent, which is enough for Spamton to get attached. Meanwhile, Swatch only describes him as having once been a valued customer, implying only a professional relationship.

And this kind of dynamic, where Spamton is misreading the situation and perceiving their relationship as closer than it is, could very easily go wrong, with Spamton (unknowingly) making Swatch uncomfortable by expecting emotional investment from him and possibly crossing some boundaries, but the lack of complaint from Swatch implies that he didn't perceive whatever he did for Spamton as being that big of a deal; he saw it either as a small favor or as just a part of his job, and he didn't mind it. (Or even if Spamton did mistakenly cross a boundary at some point, he'd stop if directly told to, so it would be clearly understood as an error and thus wouldn't be something worth complaining about years later.)

While Spamton believes Swatch had maliciously pretended to be his friend, I think Swatch had no idea how important this little bit of interpersonal attention was to Spamton; he didn't realize Spamton's standards of what counts as a substantial friendship were that low, and he probably didn't realize he needed to clarify that they weren't friends (or maybe didn't think it was too big of a deal if Spamton had thought of him that way, not recognizing how strongly attached Spamton gets, and that this could go poorly later).

[spamtonspammyspamspam]

can you believe in my 4+ years of being a fan of spammy this is my very first time drawing spamton neo?

[spamtonspammyspamspam]

i got a new phone with a great camera and i still manage to have a blurry photo i suck so bad XD

[olimar-posting]

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[moskvishacreates]

It's interesting that Spamton uses both object-based (CRT; Cathode) and personifying (the man; Gameshow Host, "businesmen") labels for Tenna, while Tenna exclusively labels Spamton as a mailman, rather than just mail, the way the Addisons refer to Spamton, and I think this at least partially stems from how both of them describe themselves.

In contrast to the Addisons calling themselves ads, Spamton refers to himself exclusively as a salesman, using a personifying term rather than an object or purpose-based one (the Addisons call him "unwanted mail" though, with "unwanted" making it not a neutral descriptor, but an inherently devaluing one). Meanwhile, Tenna commonly uses object-based descriptions for himself, even calling himself a CRT, so he doesn't strictly avoid object-based language. This is likely at least in part due to a TV, even an old one, being seen as having value, while spam emails are seen as worthless, so Spamton has a stronger avoidance of reducing himself to just being spam mail.

As a result, Tenna uses exclusively personifying language for Spamton, calling him a mailman, similarly to how Spamton describes himself as a salesman, while Spamton alternates between personifying and (usually neutral) object-based descriptors, calling Tenna a "CRT" and a "man" only a few lines apart.

[quenderine]

Some sketches with Phoebe I love her dearly