Just doing my best.

Hi. I’m trying to enjoy the internet again. All original art is human made. Fuck AI.

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I’m mostly doing Art Fight stuff right now but here’s the ref I came up with for my OC, Ego!

I eventually want to make a comic with him as I’ve been working on the idea for over a decade now. Basically he’s a little cartoon fella that exists within the real world and he’s riddled with anxiety while trying to find out how to fit in. Were I to make this comic, it would probably be a photography project with him drawn on top.

Ego is just a little guy trying his best in a world that’s not made for small gelatinous creatures.

[dattoad]

It took a lot longer than it deserves

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Doing a lot of Art Fight stuff this week so my next post may be a mass dump. 😅

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Sounds sticky.

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Slowkyspikyvapor is a bot teying to scam you, you can tell looking at their profile. No likes, moslt the same few comments over and over again. Also hope u have an amazing day!!

Thanks for looking out for me. 😘

I figured it was tbh.

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I’m challenging myself to do at least one art a day until I get good enough to not hate my own art (lmao I know that’s not going to happen) so last night/today’s challenge for myself was shading and blending. I mostly traced a SpongeBob and did all the coloring myself.

[katificer]

[lazuli-starlight]

Actually. Yeah. Pretty much.

But to extend the metaphor a bit further, Imagine Caine is a person living isolated in the middle of nowhere without internet. He's desperately lonely, so he raises a bunch of ducks he captures from a nearby lake because they are his favorite animal.

The Ducks keep dying. He does not know why. The ducks peck at him whenever he tries to pet them. He does not know why. He tries to build the best possible coop for them, but they keep plucking their own feathers from stress.

He loves them, but no matter what he does, no matter what he tries, the ducks are miserable and keep dying and want nothing to do with him. But he doesn't want to let them go, he has nothing else in his life. He has nobody else in his life.

Now the metaphor breaks down when you remember the humans can actually talk to Caine, unlike ducks. But honestly that only would help so much, Caine had pretty much zero context to comprehend most of the things the humans talked about as being important to them.

Caine pretty much saw most of the human's complaints as being a case of Preferences rather than "I need things to change so I don't abstract from the stress". And given Caine does not really understand things like nuance and Unspoken Meanings, he was not going to get that unless somebody spelled it out for him directly in those terms (Caine my beloved AuDHD disaster dentures).

Caine literally had to Google humans in their natural habitat before he had even an inkling of what they were actually upset about.

Caine isn't innocent, he was very self-absorbed and at times willfully ignorant. But a lot of the harm he inflicted was genuinely born of true ignorance and inability to comprehend. Really, his main problem was he arrogantly thought he knew best and thus it didn't occur to him that he was far more ignorant than he realized he was.

[aww-heckity]

And the thing is, he did listen and TRY to give the humans what they wanted. The issue is, humans are complicated beasts who don’t always know what we want. Zooble feels uncomfortable in their body? Bam, they can make their body whatever they want, problem solved! What do you mean they’re still complaining. I did literally everything for you. You complained about not liking the kind of bread I gave you so I let you eat any kind of bread in the world and you’re still upset. What.

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Is the Friday Night Funkin fandom still around or..?

[64mpg]

what do you mean my childhood affected me

[64mpg]

i have terrible news

[shivers-sketches]

The tadc / simpsons crossover that no one asked for

Kofi

[looney-mooney-studio]

This joke has probably been told already

[squeakitties]

[pepsimansthickjuicymeatyschlong]

new type of guy just dropped

[powerburial]

this is standard issue uncle

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Legitimately no shade to Jax whatsoever. I just would’ve loved to see more of the main cast get character arcs. I still love that stupid little bunny. Also oops no Pomni.

[antotheclownest]

I like kaufmo he's so normal

regular dude

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[gooseworx]

What happens when Kaufmo holds his breath?

his eyes turn into Xs and he just fucking dies.

[moondoorreturns]

Ever just hang out in your pillow fort with your gelatinous blob wife?