He just wanted to lick him like a dog. (There was supposed to be some incredibly meaningful text on the art here, but I'm afraid I had to abandon this idea for some reason)
The number of references I looked through to create this is unprecedented, but I like how it turned out. Though I still can't believe I came up with this and actually saw it through to the end.
I obviously missed Valentine's Day (February 14th), but I don't even care anymore.
My dreams of owning a dakimakura have finally come true~
So a bit of backstory 'cus I love to yap.
I think I've said this before, but the dakimakura as a concept has always been funny to me. It's like peak cringe activity, and I've always liked the idea of having one as a "joke". The joke is usually just that it's a kind of unpopular character (or in the case of the Kun3h0 dakimakura, it is deliberately unsexy unless you're objectum.)
But, I just could not justify putting in that much effort into a gag, so I've been sitting on this idea until I finally found a character that would still read as a joke, but that I still genuinely liked enough to be comfortable owning for an extended period of time.
And then Dishy consumed my soul. I don't know how well it comes across in my sporadic posts, but Dishy has become a very meaningful character to me. Moreso than almost every other blorbo I've had in the past. Besides just what he represents as a character, he is also a marker for some major turning points in my life that I don't want to forget. So I finally decided that "he was the one" for this project.
I worked with my buddy m2rs0 to get this together. It was a commission, so I gave a lot of the direction, but she's the one who really brought this thing to life~ I absolutely adore the results, and I'm glad to have him to just chill with me~
But, I do sort of fear the day when someone walks into my room and I have to explain exactly what it is. (But that's a part of the dakimakura experience, isn't it? XP)
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