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vent art blog. mostly whump. if u see me interacting with anything no u dont

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by golly i have got to use this blog more ...

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i wanted to get him outta the tree ...

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does hickory have insane climbing abilities like goats have? bc the hooves?

yes.

i'm also taking this ask to talk about a related headcanon for hickory i lean into.

like, the picture i wanna paint with him (the cliff-scaling hooves, the smidge-like strength, the crazy competency with tools and whatnot) is one where all the elements are working together to hide something he's compensating for;

hickory has brittle/sickly troll hair.

roll with me; we don't see him use his hair for anything, right? he doesn't leverage it when building the raft, or when attempting to fight chaz, or the funk bubble. and even though growly pete uses his hair like a lasso, hickory employs actual rope for it.

ergo! weak troll hair.

he can barely stretch it, it hurts when he does, and it's more likely to rip out of his scalp than pull something else in.

this is a closely guarded secret in the bounty hunting world. he's told very few people, and trusts even fewer to touch it.

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friend asked if the reason hickory hides this is because there's a stigma around weak hair.

to which i say no;

its more of an. occupational hazard reason why,,,

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attempting to load back into rhonda for the road home

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//posts more old vent draws here

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Could i draw some of your oc's? Im such a big fan of every art piece you do...you're so talented.

ah !!! yes please, i absolutely adore it when people gift me doodles of my silly beans!

thank you for the compliment ;//v//;

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Could you draw Dooru for the OC meme in 19 or 20? Or maybe both? I think he's super cute and I'd love to see more of him!

20. Sleeping

flopped in a heap and too tired to remember to tuck himself in all the way

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"Oh!! That’s the one that does the comics I’ve seen!!" "I love their art!" "Uhh attic somethin? Idk the anime but it’s good comics" "my eyes are blessed I'm melting" all things whump folks have said about you this day, and honestly you deserve it all and more, 10/10

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh gee !! thanks for tellin me ;;v;;

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lemme just tell you that there is a certain oc whump discord server that just fell in utter love with your art and portrayal of reigen

👀 💦

IS THERE NOW

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i have nao

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Hey, so where does this latest comic fall in the timeline? Is this when Ritsu kicks him out? Or is this a reworking of when they first found him? Or is this another occasion altogether? At any rate it is perfect and A+++

It was conceptualized somehow as both of those and I never made up my mind which one I wanted to stick with.

And now we’ve got fics for each occasion so uh  

Choose your own angstventure??? i guess

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I just wanted to briefly mention it but I really love how you format your comics. Especially in the most recent one! The first page is clean and precise and then when its learned that Reigen isnt breathing, they become disorganized as mob panics and they try to bring Reigen back. Then once he breathes again, the organization is back. It could just be because mob was panicking or maybe because Reigen was the one thing keeping him... idk, together? Anyway, just a nice little thing I noticed ❤

://) you noticed !

Something very much done on purpose; I’m glad it seemed to have the intended effect.

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Okay I know the other anon probably meant lemonade but the mental image of Reigen drinking marmalade is just DESTROYING me help

....

well.                      i mean.

it wouldn’t necessarily be out of character

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So is this latest comic a what-if instead of Reigen laying on Death’s lawn, he had been sipping marmalade on Death’s porch?

dfgkhdnfgkjdnkgjdhg 

yeah i think that’s the proper medical term for this

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Sorry if this is a little excessive but it's very hard for me to put into words how absolutely gobsmacked happy I am whenever I see your art on my dash. I've never been so satisfied with feeling pain as I have been while reading your comics, and just thank you so much for making me cry specifically in a way that is enjoyable. To sum it up, you rock and I love you. I hope your life leading on is filled with lots of good fortune and happiness <3

gh dh jokes aside, i’m glad that it’s been an overall net positive for you :’ ) 

i’ve got a small reputation for angsty crud but i really do hope it provides, as it does for me, some kind of catharsis. a way to give negative feelings a place to go and, in most cases - follow it up with support from some folks.

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Ohhh, geez. Do you think Ritsu ever like. Walks by when Reigen is sleeping on the couch and just checks if he’s breathing every now and then? Or waking up in the middle of the night and going down to check, because coming across someone that’s not breathing is pretty powerful nightmare fuel...

well i sure do now

ritsu was understandably , very shaken up by the experience. nice to know that any time he’s hovering over reigen now, it could be to check on him.

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Hi! I love your last comic, and your work in general. Could you please tag it as "resuscitation"? Don't feel bad, i didn't even have the tag blocked because I didn't come across it on tumblr before, but i would like to know a post contains it in advance.

Sure thing! I’m gonna add a cw: before it, so it shows up as 

cw: resuscitation

Hopefully this helps! Thanks for sending me a message about it ♥