Welcome to the Table (Statehumans) Fanart and Ramblings with some extras on the side. This blog may contain adult content; minors please use discretion. Fanart Tag: #mur art
I ran out of space for links in Part 1 so it's time for a continuation! All my recent(ish) Welcome to the Table/Ben Brainard-verse art, sorted by topic and character. WARNING: LONG POST AHEAD!
(GEN) COMICS/MULTI-CHARACTER SCENES:
--> "5 Things You Did Last Week" (a.k.a. the time DOGE took over the government. Video format; multiple characters including Gov, "Gov," California, Texas, Wisconsin, New York, Oregon, Arizona, Canada, "DOGE," Florida, and...Russia??)
---> "Unnatural Disasters" (About nuclear testing in Nevada; includes Nevada and Gov; TW for heavy subject matter)
--> Grapes of (California's) Wrath (Arkansas, Oklahoma, and California- for wttt week)
INDIVIDUAL WTTT CHARACTERS:
Alaska
--> It's FUCKIN' DENALI!
--> Sweater Weather (feat. Maine)
Arizona
--> HOT TO GO!
--> "To the Town of Agua Fria Rode a Stranger One Fine Day..." (a.k.a. Texas is literally Texas Red in the song "Big Iron")
Canada
--> "Hey Gov, Remember the War of 1812?"
California
--> "Did you think I wouldn’t fight back?"
Colorado
---> Sleepin' With Peaches (Colorado/Georgia)
--> Rocky Mountain HIGH
Florida
--> Florida!!! (Mur's Version)
Gov
--> "I picked the wrong week to quit smoking"
Jefferson
--> "Bigfoot is Real and I Helped Him Commit Tax Fraud"
Louisiana
(See Florida/Louisiana section below)
Maine
--> Sweater Weather (feat. Alaska)
Maryland
--> "Like What You See?"
Nevada (One guess as to where I live now-- I am only *slightly* biased!)
—> Cheating at Uno?!?!? (feat. Utah)
--> 2 am at the Diner, Plotting Murder (Nevada/New Jersey)
--> Half-Broke Horse (a.k.a. Nevada is a Horse Girl)
--> "Bitch, You Made My Mascara Run"
--> "I Was a Dam Builder, Across the River Deep and Wide" (also feat. Arizona)
--> "And if I Pave My Streets With Good Times, Will the Mountain Keep on Giving?" (Drawing for Nevada Day 2024!)
--> Nevada Drivers... (feat. California)
--> Playing the Slot(Canyon)s (feat. Utah)
New Jersey
--> 2 am at the Diner, Plotting Murder (Nevada/New Jersey)
New York
--> Smoke Break
--> "Excuse me, these are my emotional support pigeons"
Ohio
--> Expression Practice feat. Wyoming, Ohio, and Texas
Texas
--> Expression Practice feat. Wyoming, Ohio, and Texas
--> "To the Town of Agua Fria Rode a Stranger One Fine Day..." (a.k.a. Texas is literally Texas Red in the song "Big Iron")
Utah
—> Just Me, My Husband, and his 135-million year old Dinosaur (Utah/Illythia)
--> Cheating at Uno?!?!? (feat. Nevada)
--> Dr. Pepper Creamy Coconut (a.k.a. Utah parties too hard)
--> Playing the Slot(Canyon)s (feat. Nevada)
Washington
---> Judgy Washing Machine (v. 2)
Wyoming
--> Expression Practice feat. Wyoming, Ohio, and Texas
SHIPS/DUOS:
Texas/California
--> Red and Blue Gays
--> Mechanical Bull...'Nough Said. (Part of a series of illustrations inspired by the fic "Shakdown" by Lune)
--> That HAT... (Part of a series of illustrations inspired by the fic "Shakdown" by Lune)
(Psst... Ask about the *super secret* third drawing in the "Shakedown" series and I *might* share ;)
Florida/Louisiana
--> "Forever." (for wttt week)
--> Road to Flor-dorado (a.k.a. Floui as Miguel and Tulio from "Road to El Dorado"
--> Snow Day!
--> MERRY CRISIS (feat. Gov)
California/Nevada
—> Mafia Queen(s)
--> "Most of My Sins Were Born in a Kiss on a Night Like This" (Historical Calivada!)
--> Nevada Drivers
California/New York
--> "When someone is so hateful it inspires you to be kinder"/"When someone is so kind it actually disgusts you"
I only personified bigger cities bc I don't think I could handle making a mf actually named like Butts or Climax. Imagine having a serious conversation about the Texan state economy w fucking DING DONG. Lmao.
Florida would have a good mine of people to shit on for their names if he was already excited about Frisco.
I read etiquette and homemaking guides from the 1800s mostly because they're a FASCINATING insight into cultural norms that we often don't think about. I honestly really recommend people crack one of these open at least once--it goes way beyond, like, "what to wear to a ball!!!"
The best ones have advice on decor, how to select high-quality furniture, childrearing, fashion, etc--from a contemporary perspective, and the things the authors feel the need to clarify vs the wild shit that will just casually mention like it's something everyone knows and agrees on is REALLY revealing of the culture and how it's shifted.
And while a lot of the advice is WILDLY bigoted or just outright funny, you'd be surprised how much of it is...just genuinely timeless, and shockingly compassionate.
They ALSO, as a writer, have INVALUABLE resources--because, again, they're talking about things that are so MUNDANE that a lot of the time nobody really sat down to formally document what normal, everyday people thought or cared about--because that's boring! But a book written to provide advice and information to, say, a young woman who's never run her own home before? You can fully expect an entire chapter dedicated to The Types Of Oven, and which features are useful and worth spending money on, and which features are a huge hassle to clean and a waste of space, and what to spend that money on instead.
And like. As a writer who frequently works in the 1800s? Fuck inflation calculators, this is the kind of thing I need. This is absolutely priceless.
Now that being said.
My current favorite 'etiquette guide' in the world is actually like....70% purely practical advice, written by a gentleman the groupchat has affectionately dubbed History's Most Autistic Man In The World, and thank god they didn't have Aderall back then
Because the AuDHD is strong in this one and as a result, in addition to the deeply practical and useful everyday reference points, we also have:
obsessed w using color-shifting brushes lately its giving irl rainbow pencil . anyway. flocali for da soul. the only person in the world more annoying than california is florida. one of the worst couples you’ll ever meet . stay far away from them
May I request some Mass/Ginny? And if not them, then maybe just some Virginia?
Thank you :)
You just remind me of the nights of smoke and dirty jokes
Darkened rooms with lonely ghosts
And they were beautiful some time ago
But time keeps rollin' us on
Some historical Mass/Ginny. The southern gentleman and the (ex)Puritan sailor (who by this point has a true talent for swearing like one). Name a more iconic duo.
I drew this while listening to like 4 hours of sea shanties so… take that as you will 😂
Let me know if you have HCs about these two! I’d like to know what, if anything, this scene inspires.
Close up of Mass’s face under the cut bc he’s a cutie
