Showing off his fancy netherite tooth crown from Clown <3 I’m so normal about Funhouse Duo
Figured this time I would share some progress images because I think it was a pretty cool progression. Might post the speed paint at some point too but I’ve never posted one before so I’m not sure.
Paper sketch -> digital sketch -> flat colors
This comes from my headcanon that Branzy lost/heavily chipped a tooth in a conflict early season, haven’t decided exactly the context but I’m thinking it involves Rek somehow, mostly because I love him forever and want him to be involved hashtag bucketeers for life
i have made a new au entirely because i really like the. five minutes where Doc is pretending to be a vampire and Avid is pretending to be human and they're working together and i wanted More Of That. Owen is also here. because it amuses me.
Me: I wont draw Doc for all the prompts (proceeds to draw Doc for all the prompts)
got a couple of days behind but day 3! Transformation! Decided to go for batgundo au. I made Doc's bat form in this au specifically a fruit bat to reflect him being a vegetarian + not being a true vampire.
fun fact of the day: did you know many bats are important pollinators? Besides eating insects and fruit (and rarely blood), some bat species drink nectar. Some species that do so are even able to hover in flight!
In rotating links, today's charity is Bat Conservation International!
dmsp was like those old movies that were absolutely stunning and had a really captivating sense of magic and color that we cant really capture today and then you google it and the wikipedia reads out how the filming killed like 30 people and permanently wounded 6 others
things that always make me happy: serial commenters. there are three types
1) reading a longfic chapter by chapter, leaving an increasingly emotional comment on every chapter, descends into keysmashes near the end: outstanding
2) read one fic by accident, clicked the author name, now working steadily through the backlog and commenting on everything, I wake up to an AO3 inbox full of enthusiasm: precious beyond words
3) the longterm serial commenter whose comment begins with I don’t even know this fandom but because they have followed me from somewhere else: stunning. humbling. magical.
these are all *chef’s kiss* and I want to add one more:
4) left a comment a while ago, comes back and leaves another comment on the same fic, telling you that they’re coming back to reread the fic: angels. blessings. lifesavers.
I like AUs that cleave really close to canon, like, "What if this one thing happened differently or this one character had been different?" That's what I did with the actual AU I've written, and it's most of the ideas that run around in my head.
So I've been pondering off-and-on about whether a plausible fix-it AU for Bloodletting exists in that style. It is NOT EASY to construct one.
(My kid might disown me for this whole brainstorm.)
I did a whole essay working through a possibility in canon where things might have gone in a better direction.
(Is that really the last thing I wrote on my analysis tag? I have more stuff in my head. I guess it's more than it's now been so long since VSMP concluded that I'm kind of self-conscious of writing these huge walls-o-text. I guess I'm still writing a sequel novel on AO3 for whoever is still looking for VSMP fic, so I ought to get over myself about it. Some folks are still obsessing about VSMP, even if there are fewer of us. I'm getting resentful that the whole magical thing was a flash in the pan, and now it's gone.)
At any rate, I like this possibility, but then we're stuck in Oakhurst. The whole finale was a house of cards. Even though Cleo initially offered herself as the disposable sire, the fact that the only human willing to turn was Pearl makes that out come hollow, and it's impossible to imagine Doc allowing it to happen that way even if he was letting go of his death wish.
So, hmmm.
Doc was adamant until almost the very end that that the sire rule of the cure might be satisfied by, "cutting the head off the snake," i.e. killing everyone's uber-sire Scott -- who was conveniently the only vampire he actually wanted to see die. As the story went on, pretty much everyone dropped that as likely except him.
But we didn't actually prove that to be wrong.
Under the scenario of Scott being killed and EVERYONE curing... Owen would also have to cure. It's very hard to imagine that happening.
Also, technically each cure blows out a beacon, and we have more vampires than beacons. I can probably handwave that, especially after Abolish was granted a special ability to create a sort of portable mini-beacon in the finale, which they didn't expect to be the finale, and he barely got to use. I was never clear on what that did or didn't do, and I'm happy to say that it can be blown out to cure vampires.
Only Pyro and Apo actually wanted to do this, and Pyro sort-of doesn't by this point because he has reached murderous psychotic break and is planning to go home and kill/turn everyone -- cc!Pyroscythe said he would actually do that, as far as creator input goes. This is after Pyro and Owen murder Avid. That feels like a breaking point for him after which it would be very hard to pull him back. A Scott kill might be his best chance at it, though.
Shelby and Drift's minds might theoretically be changed if Scott is killed. That would be horrible for them, even accepting that their faith in him was largely the misguided product of his own manipulation -- or perhaps especially so. Cleo didn't want to go back but might to save everyone. I'm almost certainly missing someone.
Hmmm. I'm not sure I could make this scenario feel like a happy ending. I like exploring grey characters, but I also like happy endings, maybe even more twisting both together in fucked up ways. (*cough* TMatL.)
And I'm setting aside that this is after the earthquake of Avid's murder on Shelby, Drift, and Scott. It's no secret that I'm totally compromised by this thread. I'm also really attached to Doc and Scott as thematic opposites and archenemies. Since I wrote Doc dying as part of Scott's victory, I like the idea of Scott dying as part of Doc's victory in theory. But I don't know that I could make myself write a plotline that involved taking Scott out AFTER his apathy cracks or, like Reversal, using the shock to take him in the opposite direction as he goes in canon. Also, this imagines Shelby both losing Scott AND giving up revenge on Pyro. Woo.
Hmm. It seemed like a better idea when I started thinking on it.
What I really want is the REVERSE scenario, where Doc is faced with the choice to turn voluntarily to get everyone out. It makes for a really nice character arc for him... he refused turning from Owen because he didn't believe he deserved eternity, but he convinced Cleo to turn him if it would give him the chance to help just one person and then die. But to face with turning as the best way to help EVERYONE and then be faced with the inability to take himself out, plus the love of Cleo and, salvageably, Owen -- I guess that's the Bloodletting story I would actually want to write.
To get there, we'd have to turn or kill all the remaining humans. Pearl might still turn to be with Cleo. So we have Martyn, Ren, and Abolish, same as canon. Martyn and Ren die in canon, and Martyn was a self-destructive enough fighter that it's probably not that hard to take them out as a normal part of the war. (Martyn should never have been allowed to have the lantern AOE strike OMG -- c'mon, dude, you won a Life SMP!)
That leaves Abolish. And I really want Abolish to make it out. Because Abolish.
I'm two weeks post-op, and I am feeling stunned by how little we talk about metoidioplasty ("meta") as a community. This is not in any way dunk on phalloplasty- phallo is a miracle all its own, and there's a sorta-decent amount of good faith discussion about its pros and cons-
IMO metoidioplasty is highly slept-on. Are discussions being dampened by how hard it is to spell and say? Is it stigma around small penises? In a single procedure, meta can turn your natal junk into a correctly-positioned, sizeable, fully-functional penis with no change in sensation. Standing to pee is optional (and I didn't go this route). Are we seriously discounting this procedure because your miracle-penis will be small??
"Its not a penis, it's a 'micro-penis'". I'm not intersex so I'm treading carefully here, but this argument is intersexist as fuck, right? A penis isnt less "real" or valuable for falling below a normative line drawn in the sand (at around 3", for the curious).
I measured for the first time today.
2.25"
I refuse the supposition that that's not a "real" penis size. There's millions of 2.25" penises out there. Most penises are closer to 2.25" than they are to porn-star sizes- and as soon as the incisions are healed, it will be able to do all the things that penises do.
I spent all my teenage years thinking that being a trans man meant being doomed to forever be penis-less, to never feeling comfortable sexually. Are we really going to keep pushing that narrative just to reinforce that line in the sand?
I’m at a point in my Spanish understanding where I can watch native content with subtitles but the problem is that nobody on planet earth has any respect for the art of making good subtitles no matter what language it is
I hate when I'm having a thought, like fully having it. It is in my brain, and then suddenly it's just. Gone. Completely. Like I dropped it off a fucking cliff and I'm just staring over the ravine where it fell, like "ugh, I'll never find that again."
My brain handles my thoughts with the same grace and efficiency as an arcade claw machine handles the stuffed animals you'll never win.
Could you imagine making your own movie, making like 20 million dollars, and then going “awesome, now to install a DVD duplicating machine in my house and personally burn copies by hand like a medieval monk preserving sacred texts”
Like I need people to understand the mental image here of a multimillionaire internet creator personally overseeing DVD production in his own house like he’s running an underground bootleg operation out of a basement in 2007.
It’s weirdly charming because there’s something very “old internet” about it, this energy of “I made a thing, and now I will physically hand it to people myself like an artisan at a craft fair.”
The man really said: “The future of cinema is me standing next to a humming disc burner at 2am”
And like... I can't help but believe he's onto something
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