RetroSpace

he/him | art blog | 80s enthusiast | California Making a MCSM AU

[retroden-85]

Hello!!!

Hi there! I’m RetroDen I’m an amateur artist and a social media noob. I make art for fun or for fandoms! Also, an aspiring webcomic artist! I’m cool with my art being used as banners / pfps, just ask for my permission! Reblogs are cool too, just please don’t repost my art. Please do not ask for requests or submissions. You can ask me questions, just please nothing weird.

I know that I am not the most consistent artist but, I really appreciate you for checking me out and looking at my art!

(P.S. blog intro is outdated, I’m 19 now, will update intro in near future!)

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80s Jesskas on the phone 📞🙃

[retroden-85]

Hey yall, been awhile with me (no surprise)

Haven’t really felt like doing MCSM stuff lately and wanted to focus more on my own things. So here’s a little showcase of my two OC stories for a change.

Top photo is of my story called Better Together. A slice of life tale that follows the lives of a friend group, that grow up together in a touristy California beach town throughout the late 70s - early 90s. It’s a heart warming, relatable, and hopefully a good depiction of the wonders and struggles of growing up in the late 20th century. The bottom photo is of my more grittier and darker story called The Unexpected Partners. In an alternate timeline where the 80s is more technologically advanced, but society has suffered from more extreme global conflicts and rampant crime and hyper capitalism. A vigilante detective teams up with a street criminal to solve a bigger mystery that’s swallowing up San Francisco. Funny how both my stories are set in the later 20th century and in California… I’m just a creature of habit I guess 🤷. Anyways I do plan to post more about these individuals stories in the future and maybe one day do more with them, like comics and such.

[retroden-85]

This fanfic will / does contain: Romance, Slow Burn, Fluff, Hurt Comfort, True Love, Horror, Thriller, Murder Mystery, Blood and Injury, Mild Gore, Abuse, PTSD, Grief, Death, Bullying, Body Dysphoria, Heavy Swearing, Guns, Drugs, 80s Typical Racism, 80s Typical Sexism, 80s Typical Homophobia, Toxic Relationships 

Chapter 2 TW: Homophobia / Homophobic Slurs

Focused relationships: Jesskas (Green Sus. Jesse / Lukas), Bintella, Harpvor, Mayden, NellEm

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65397763/chapters/208420906#workskin

Heyyy…. It’s been a hot minute since I’ve posted a new chapter. Me and my boyfriend took a break with the fic to focus on other things but now we wanna get back to making new chapters and posting them more frequently over the year. Thank you to anyone who has been interested or have been patiently waiting for this to update. We both really appreciate yall checking out supporting our work! We hope you enjoy this 18k lore / world building chapter!

[retroden-85]

Happy New Years Everyone! 🎉

One last message for 2025 below! 👇

Wishing everyone a happy New Years and hopes of 2026 to be a least a bit of a better year. There was a lot of highs and lows of 2025 but we have made it to 2026, and again wishing everyone the best.

I wanna mention in this post that I’m very thankful for the MCSM community and the people that I’ve grown close with and the many people who have supported my blog throughout the year. I look back on 2025 and have never been prouder of myself of my improvement in my art skills and style. But it wouldn’t have been as progressive if I didn’t have all the amazing support I had from my friends and people in the community. So to end off 2025, I made an art highlights of the year. I wasn’t super consistent with posting art so I have a few of my favorites of the year instead of highlighting one art piece per month. From top to bottom is late 2025 to early 2025. I did make a lot of personal or gift art for friends this year behind the scenes and those turned out great too.

One finally thing to say is I’m excited to post more art for 2026! More Jesskas, definitely more other characters from MCSM, and I plan to post more personal / oc art! In terms of Tainted Pasts, I know New Year’s resolution can be a bit hard to commit to and sometimes unrealistic, but I at least am gonna try to post more chapters for 2026 because only posting one chapter in 2025 was a whoopsie on my end, but also life gets busy. Anyways, I’ll see yall in 2026! Have a Happy New Year! 👋

[retroden-85]

Happy (late) Christmas everyone! 🎄🎁🔔

[p3tr1xx]

I'm really at a loss. I haven't had many commissions, I'm only $114/750 of the way, and I don't and can't get a job. Would people even donate if I did a gofundme? I'm so close to breaking down. Do people think I'm scamming? Or lying about where the money is going? I'm so frustrated.

I have a gofundme drafted, but I'm scared. I feel like people won't donate.

[retroden-85]

What’s up FNAF community! I made this 80s brochure ad for the Grand Reopening of Freddy’s for the FNAF 2 movie!

Inspo pic below

[retroden-85]

Heyyy uhh….. what’s up! I have a silly doodle to share 😅

In all seriousness hi yall! It’s been a HOT minute huh? Haven’t posted art in a few months and I also have not updated my fic in MONTHS even tho I kept thinking I would be able to, it’s still one chapter long 😭

I’ve been mainly doing well and have just been focusing on myself and taking care of my priorities. Adulting has really been kicking my ass. Finding jobs, schooling, focusing on my mental and physical health, etc. Also have been moving around a lot and have done a lot of traveling these past few months. And after all of that, I haven’t been having the motivation to draw or write since I’ve been getting pretty burnt out. So I decided I’d take a break from my blog, from my fic, and from posting. As of late tho, I’ve been getting back into art and I’ve started writing a bit again. I can’t say when I’ll get my next chapter out because I still have the rest of this year of holiday events and spring semester of college is starting up next month coming my way. But with all that being said, I still care a whole lot about Tainted Pasts, I still care a lot about the MCSM community and my blog and I hope you’re all doing well and remember to take care of yourselves! Also hope you guys had great Thanksgivings and idk if this is too late to say but happy 10 Year Anniversary MCSM!!!

[grublover4ever]

[retroden-85]

I’m dying lmao 💀

[endenagolor]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

come eat my jesskaslings

[retroden-85]

Is it ok if we get to see potential designs for the YouTubers?? (Including Cassie 'n Torquedawg??)

Here you go!!! I had fun designing them, their designs weren’t too hard to translate. Except Lizzie’s hair.. oof

For some extra context, all the characters except Torque is in high school. Torque is a much older character in this au and is one of the town’s mechanics, hence his outfit. I didn't include Sparklez because I’m still figuring out his character design and he’s planned to be in the later part of the fic, so I’m not in a rush to design him. One more thing, sorry for being on hiatus for so long. Life has been so busy and so much change is happening in my life right now. I had been feeling burnt out and having no motivation to work on stuff. However, I still really care about my blog and au and I am actively working on the fic with the spare time I can get. But thanks for all the support from my friends and the people interested in this silly au! Thank you for being patient!

[retroden-85]

Adding on to this lol. They will have alt outfits that will be way more obvious that it’s 80s. I feel like some of the characters don’t give it off well enough, even though I based them off outfits and pictures I researched about. I just wanted to draw them in outfits close to their canon designs. I didn’t want to take too many liberties at first so that they could be recognizable. But yeah, I would have made them look WAY MORE late 80s.

[retroden-85]

then again I only showed half of their bodies, maybe showing the bottom half would have sold the 80s look to me more

GAAAAAAHHHHHHH

[retroden-85]

Is it ok if we get to see potential designs for the YouTubers?? (Including Cassie 'n Torquedawg??)

Here you go!!! I had fun designing them, their designs weren’t too hard to translate. Except Lizzie’s hair.. oof

For some extra context, all the characters except Torque is in high school. Torque is a much older character in this au and is one of the town’s mechanics, hence his outfit. I didn't include Sparklez because I’m still figuring out his character design and he’s planned to be in the later part of the fic, so I’m not in a rush to design him. One more thing, sorry for being on hiatus for so long. Life has been so busy and so much change is happening in my life right now. I had been feeling burnt out and having no motivation to work on stuff. However, I still really care about my blog and au and I am actively working on the fic with the spare time I can get. But thanks for all the support from my friends and the people interested in this silly au! Thank you for being patient!

[retroden-85]

Adding on to this lol. They will have alt outfits that will be way more obvious that it’s 80s. I feel like some of the characters don’t give it off well enough, even though I based them off outfits and pictures I researched about. I just wanted to draw them in outfits close to their canon designs. I didn’t want to take too many liberties at first so that they could be recognizable. But yeah, I would have made them look WAY MORE late 80s.

[retroden-85]

Is it ok if we get to see potential designs for the YouTubers?? (Including Cassie 'n Torquedawg??)

Here you go!!! I had fun designing them, their designs weren’t too hard to translate. Except Lizzie’s hair.. oof

For some extra context, all the characters except Torque is in high school. Torque is a much older character in this au and is one of the town’s mechanics, hence his outfit. I didn't include Sparklez because I’m still figuring out his character design and he’s planned to be in the later part of the fic, so I’m not in a rush to design him. One more thing, sorry for being on hiatus for so long. Life has been so busy and so much change is happening in my life right now. I had been feeling burnt out and having no motivation to work on stuff. However, I still really care about my blog and au and I am actively working on the fic with the spare time I can get. But thanks for all the support from my friends and the people interested in this silly au! Thank you for being patient!

[legendoffreakshit]

Yo yo yo! It's me again! Two months later with a new chapter!

12k new words for the fic that I have a loving attitude towards when I'm not pulling my hair out at trying to write it! And this time I have some very lovely art to go with it of the previous chapter!

These lovely pieces of art were done by the amazing @solfice, go check them out and give them some love! They have really amazing artwork and some very good commission prices!

Do not every believe that I have abandoned this fic, I just work at a very slow pace, especially when life happens^tm. College starts soon, my boyfriend moved in with me, and I went on vacation! Mostly good things, thank god, but very busy!

Anyways, here's the link to the chapter, enjoy!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[retroden-85]

I’m that boyfriend teehee 🤭

[animus-enmity]

And I also drew my friend’s @retroden-85 ‘s oc Atari

Hope you like it Denny 🙂‍↕️

[retroden-85]

AHHHHHHHH I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

My dear friend, this was such a pleasant surprise! You drew him so so good!

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Happy gay month cuz you gay and stuff 🏳️‍🌈 ✨

I’m late to the party and it’s been awhile since I’ve posted, just been really busy this summer. But I hope yall been doing well! I’ll also try to get Chapter 2 out soon too!