THIS JUST IN: local wasian boy attempts to court blasian boy and FAILS because he has NO CHARISMA
Im not sure if this is ship art or not, bc i didnt make it to be ship art? But lowkey they do have some potential, I see them having a similar dynamic to knuxouge
Ofc manighty is my goat, my OTP, the light of my life….. but I can dabble… two cakes you feel me?
Oh also espio will always be a part of me, even if I say that manic or Sonia are my new faves, let’s be fr… once an espio fan always an espio fan…. I fuckin love that guy…. Tho, to be fair…. Try to find more than one sonic character that I DONT like, I’ll find the good in any character… except one…. But I can’t say who publicly bc I’ll get death threats lmao
Me when it’s time to vaugepost something completely unrelated to the art 😛
Seeing how some people (and this includes writers!!) talk about "Shadow and Rouge's duo!" while completely, knowingly, excluding Omega frustrates me just a littlee.
Definition of you can always see the duo in the trio. Like c'mon guys, is Omega just nonexistent? If you ask me Omega is harder to romanticize so thats why they ignore him. Can we appreciate platonic relationships, too? Not always the "romantic-like" ones? What frustrates me the most is that Shadouge isn't even canon and people treat them like they are. Not saying you can't enjoy the ship or anything, but does Omega gotta be left in the dust for it?
About Glam: The prodigal son of Mighty the Armadillo and Manic the Hedgehog, he was born with one brain cell that hardly finds itself being used. What he lacks in wit, he makes up for in both heart and personality, both of which are larger than life.
About Lustre: Lustre, also affectionately known as “Chaos Baby”, is a tungsten ball of concentrated rage. “Born” a hater, they’ve shown nothing but contempt for their mom, Sonic, for their entire 6 months on this planet. Not that she minds; she finds the anger kind of adorable. Technically a clone grown within Shadow, Lustre bears resemblance to both of their mothers thanks to intermingling Chaos Energies. Although Shadow’s pregnancy with Lustre was far from easy, she has been slowly healing her bond with her baby.
i love cid skip and briar... live laugh love them... can you yap about them possibly
YYYAYYYYYYY YAPATHON!! uhhhhh i have a slightly older (like a week old) sketch under the cut
Ooooo you have to read my YAP if you want more art MWAHHAHHAHAHA or you can just ignore it but…. That’s mean 🥺
Uhhhh okay I’ll start with some changes from the first post I made abt these guys (bc idk where else to start)
Soooooo Skip and Cid are now 9 instead of 10, ik that’s not a big difference but I matters to ME, Briar is still 7
Speaking of Briar, I don’t think I was clear enough abt him when I first described him. (No evidence I was just re-reading it and felt I could clarify some things) he’s not mean, well kinda? He has no bad intentions, he truly did believe that he was owed things bc he was taught to feel that way. Think of it more like “I deserve lots of things” not “others deserve less than me” you feel me? He doesnt know hes being unfair bc he thinks he IS being fair, hes not selfish, just socially inept
Okay, Skip and Cid. Theyre like, that duo where one person doesnt speak and the other person translates for them. Like their minds just connected somehow and Cid will run up to you holding Skips hand and say like “they think ur ugly” or smth lmao
Idrk how Skip would communicate without Cid. It could be that they only say one word sentences, use sign language, or that they simply nod/shake their head. I like all those options for different reasons, but for now im going with the last one bc it’s the easiest.
Skip is like… Link, or Kris… or Gadget idk…. Like they don’t speak out loud but everyone knows what they’re saying. You catch my drift??
I think that’s all the changes/claifications?? Sooo onto the silly stuff ig
so thanks to my goat @mang0-draws , Skip likes bugs, and Cid likes anime and manga. Also bc of @binaryfinally she likes dinos too. Obvi her fave series is sailor moon, her fave sailor is mars tho. Her fave Dino is an Archaeopteryx bc that’s what was on her awesome dino shirt 💪💪💪
Skip’s favorite bug is a cricket, the sound helps them sleep. They’ve probably gotten in trouble in the past for putting bugs in Cid and Briar’s hair lmao. This has its upsides tho! If they find a spider they have no issue picking it up and putting outside, which Cid greatly appreciates bc bugs are creepy and gross
Also i didn’t even think abt briar having blaze’s pyrokinesis until other people drew him and I was like “hooooollllyyyyyy shit…. Fire baby…” I just love the idea of him spontaneously combusting when he throws a tantrum. Maybe he burns Cid’s marshmallow when she’s not looking to get back at her for smth lol, that wouldn’t effect Skip tho, they like their mellows charred (the correct way)
Even tho they fight, they’re still three peas in a pod, three petty peas… the fights last less than an hour usually, before they start to miss each other and make up.
Also, idk if this counts as about the fankids…. But idc I wanna say it anyway
So i have this hc that Manic’s foster dad had this record that they would listen to together, and theres a drum solo in one of the songs that Manic knows by heart. But he hadn’t listened to it since Farrell went missing, so Sonia got it for him (either as a bday gift or as a “congrats! Ur a dad!” Gift) and now he listens to it with Skip and Cid, maybe taught the solo to em aswell, though Cid BETRAYED HER FATHER and prefers to play piano with auntie Sonia. Skip likes the drums tho, they make up for her HORRIBLE BLUNDER. Briar is the musical prodigy bc his mom was, piano, violin, harp, shit even theremin, you name it, he plays it
I swear to god I have more to yap about but my mind is so gone recently, i cant remember what I wanted to say 😭😭😭 maybe if I lock in i can make another post abt them with more stuff lol, you want to wait tho…. Bc uhhhhh….. idk when I’ll remember lmao
I was like “dude im about to lock in on this comic so hard you’ll need bolt cutters to get me out of it” and then I drew Mighty in the Avril Lavigne hello Kitty fit
I also drew him in some kinda showgirl typa fit before that, but that’s not as funny now is it?
I got stuck not drawing anything for a hot second bc I was paralyzed by all the things I was forcing myself to draw, I keep telling myself I owe people art, even when they didn’t ask for it. I hadn’t made anything I genuinely wanted to in a while, bc I keep making shit that’s either for other people, just for the sake of posting, or just bc I want to see numbers go up.
Like when I posted abt team Chaotix and Espilver i got WAAAYYYYYY more likes and reposts. and since I started being obsessed with the random Rarepair I made up, it’s very obvious that less people are liking my posts. But Ive realized that even though there’s less likes or reblogs or whatever, so much more of what I DO get, is replies, asks, reblogs with text instead of just a quick reblog, I actually interact with mutuals now instead of just watching from a distance, I see the same profile pictures a lot more. Like numbers are down but the percentage of actual meaningful interactions is WAYYYYYY up, and like those are the ones that matter
Basically I gotta remind myself that art is for fun and I need to focus on creating something that matters to me, bc usually when it does, it matters to others too lol
Saying all this abt putting mighty in drag maaaan fuck my stupid baka life
That was actually clickbait lmao this is Rowan when she's 26! She still has the same desgin as earlier when she's 15. Although some stuff is technically redesigned. For instance, the top thingy majingys over her eyes were, for whatever reason, originally fur, which was dumb so they're quills now! Also, no, them being black instead of green isn't a redesign. 15 year old Rowan still has green over the eyes quills, she just dyes them black when she's older cuz why not.
ALSO, the idea that she once upon a time dyed her quills complete black is removed, no longer to be canon. She now deliberately just dyes the tips of her quills black.
FR!!! I also think it's important to mention that as a trans girl, I see a lot of other white trans girls appropriating asian culture because they associate it with femininity, which genuinely pmo as a wasian girl (i am more white than asian and am very white passing, so I can't fully provide input on this). This definitely ties into the larger point of the video, bcs I have not seen other people call out these issues and they are usually ignored, and when they are brought up people are just blatantly ignorant ("if i can't see it it doesn't exist"). even i don't feel like I've noticed the issue this person is talking about, but I am not in transmasc spaces so of course I wouldn't see it. I doubt this person has noticed transfem asian appropriation, but I have since I am in largely transfem spaces. but either way, this problem definitely exists in both spaces, and it definitely still needs to be addressed.
I saw a very useful video about this similar phenomenon even in cis white people. They said in the video white men emulate black men because they think it's more "masculine," and and white women emulate east asian women because they perceive them as "more feminine/cute/etc."
This ALSO ties into white trans men and nonbinary emulating east asian men because they perceive east asian maleness as a "more feminine" version of masculinity and therefore "more achievable/idealized."
i have my own gripes with this in regards to how other white trans men fetishize east asian men and how they might write erotic RPF or fanart, which in a vacuum might be whatever, but there's this undercurrent of "being east asian (or appearing east asian) is an automatic pass for me to fetishize you and make objectifying comments about you" which i personally have experienced firsthand and. aaauuuughghhhh i wish ppl would be more Aware of how their tastes in RPF or whatever (fantasies about celebrities who might never see it) affects how they interact with REAL PEOPLE they might actually talk to FACE-TO-FACE??? especially when it's rooted in racism like this
the perception of blackness as "more masculine" and east asians as "more feminine" is absolutely unacceptable and we should address it more.
