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Bam. 🇵🇭. 30. (she/they) — Just a potato who draws & has unpredictable interests 🌻

[potatobam]

*dusts this blog off after sooo long*

heyo..... it's been a while since i've used this blog. so many things have happened in the past years & well, thankfully i'm still here!

first off, i've decided to change my url here from bam-o -> potatobam

so! I haven't really left tumblr. i've just been mostly posting at @gotchibam over the past years & making pokemon art there. I needed a fresh start at that time so I had to move blogs.

nowadays though..... i've been missing a lot of things. I feel like I might've isolated myself even further during that period so the longing for how things used to be has been getting to me now, I guess? I have a different main associated w/ that sideblog but i'm not really even posting there anymore (it's been more than a year I think). i've been stuck in a phase of "just gotta keep trying to get my life together first before I indulge in anything else" and tbh.... that has costed me a lot. i've had to put off talking w/ friends, participating in things I care about, & anything else really that isn't about working / trying to survive. it was difficult. even worse when I lost my mom last year. my dad already passed away last 2016 so it's just me and my younger brother now.

I am doing okay right now, just that I always have this feeling of wanting to reconnect w/ people. I couldn't back then as i'd always end up burying myself in commissions. especially during the time that my mom got sick & hospitalized. she's in a better place now, and I know that she'd want me to also make peace w/ that & change my life for the better.

sorry for the long post! just want to give people context as to why i've been inactive here & why I felt like coming back again. i'm not even sure if i'll really be active here, but I do like the idea that I have this place to fall back on. I did have this blog since 2015 & made a lot of memories w/ it, so the people & things i've experienced here feels familiar & comforting in a way.

[gotchibam]

Btw I've finished all the ko-fi doodles now so they should all be posted soon!!

Also! I want to take a break from doing the doodles for a while so I'll be opening full body comms again! (maybe chibis too?)

Since I'm in my deltarune phase, I'm gonna be picking comm requests for deltarune (or undertale) characters for now :) UT/DR characters x OCs are also very much welcome!! I kinda want to draw some sappy stuff atm so if any of you have some self-shippy (or OC ships) stuff drawn, I'd be happy to draw them for you!

I'll have a form ready soon if anyone's interested! Style preview of the comms & pricing will be attached there :) Feel free to fill out the form even if your comm request doesn't involve any deltarune / undertale characters! I'm just most likely to pick ones that have them in the requests since I've been itching to draw more of utdr lately 🥹

Gonna probably have to limit them around to 2-3 slots for now though! It's been a while since I've done them so I want to reassess how much effort & time it'll take me to finish them :)

Thank you guys so much for supporting me & my work!! 💛 It's always very much appreciated! ;w;

[gotchibam]

Request form is up now!!

Here's the link to the google form :)

[dreari-daize]

Thinking about the concept of Toriel being left unattended while Kris and Susie run off to the bunker. Thinking REALLY hard about it

Where did Ralsei go, you ask? Ha ha! Ha.

Anyways

[sergeon]

For those who asked where Spamton is

[tenna-cious]

I just read a toritenna fic SO GOOD it inspired me to actually draw fanart of these two??? OUGHHH and now they wouldn't leave my mind 😩

Also read somewhere that Tenna's flavor text for calling Toriel in the Japanese version is "My sweet Toriel"??? 😭😭😭

[hun9rybug]

one-sided doomed Tenna/Toriel yearning... hnngnnhhhghhhh

[hun9rybug]

coming back to say more because this is killing me. doesn't matter if it's platonic or romantic or a secret third thing; Tenna clearly cares very much about Toriel and what she thinks of him.

In his eyes he exists solely to entertain her and her family. He loves her children like his own, if his relationship with Kris is anything to go off of. The Dreemurrs — and to some extent, the Holidays — were his entire world. The divorce and subsequent losses of Asriel, Dess, Noelle, and Kris as viewers tore him apart.

Tenna is written as a parallel to Asgore, Toriel's literal ex-husband, in so many ways. When Toriel enters the dark world, he keeps her 'protected' in a giant gacha ball — he won't risk losing her. He calls her "this dark world's one and greatest treasure!" and refuses to give her up. He can't let go. He's stuck in the past. He just wants the family to be happy again, like the old days.

And she never even learns that he exists, not as anything more than an old CRT. She throws him out in the rain if Susie doesn't get take him fast enough. But even after dropping him off on the curb, she still puts a tarp over him when it rains. He knows she doesn't know he's alive in there. But she does it anyway. Do you think it broke him all over again?

[sticky-vicky-0-0]

I wrote a Toriel/Tenna fic set during ch 3 where Toriel wakes up and gets to meet the secret third parent to her kids! truly catastrophic amounts of tenderness and yearning and miscommunication/misunderstanding in this fic, but "shipping" doesn't feel like the right word for what I'm doing with them — it's more like I'm heating them in a microwave like popcorn and they're enjoying each other's warmth before they pop away in different directions. lol. lmao. I hope you enjoy!!

[tenna-cious]

more toritennas bc I love them so much 😭

[potatobam]

spreading the toritenna agenda here on main as well :^)

[moveslikekeithrichards]

working with little kids is so dangerous. you get one kid who has a unique way of speaking & then spend the rest of your life with an internal monologue like “me’s go bathroom?”

[moveslikekeithrichards]

other thrilling destructions of my vocabulary:

the kid who replaced his hard G sounds with soft ones, leaving me incapable of thinking of glasses as anything other than jlasses

kid who would holler "DID" any time she finished her work no matter how many times we told her to just raise her hand

kid who began her scary stories with "once a time" and her friend who began his with "paw time"

middle schooler i had during student teaching who pronounced magritte as "mah-gritty"

the kid who said "i got boogies comin out my nose" while sobbing and the kid who said "theres his puddle of cry" while describing a drawing, both of whom i think of when im crying

kid who said that if he was 80 he would get big and turn grandpa

kid who, for no reason in particular, would just say "like a little feet" as a standalone phrase in relation to nothing

edit how could i forget. the kid who got sneezed on and angrily said "whyd you blessyou on me"

[abigaildebusk]

Some more work in progress.

[bumpscosity]

when drawing requires you to draw

[bradbradleyart]

some more deltarune magmas

[clowns0up-felix]

Anyone else fw Queentenna ? !?

[livray25]

iiit's

slee! py!

tiiiime ⭐️

[arrowsperpetualcringe]

Mettatenna comic wip.

Mettaton in the light world thinking Tenna is a really shy ghost + Tenna accidental rizz

[potatobam]

btw I might post / rb deltarune stuff here every now & then so please blacklist it if you have to!

[potatobam]

*annoying dog theme starts playing in the bg*