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Thank you SonicandShadowzine!!!! I’ve been so excited the last few years and finally it came today!! It’s such a wonderful piece of art and I’m so thrilled to add it to my collection!!! @sonicshadowzine you guys made my day 🥹
The stickers are so cuteeeee!!!!
Also thrilling I got one of the playing cards I hoped for !! Black Arms Shadow my beloved,, thanks so much!!!!
A Sonic the Hedgehog fanzine exploring the relationship(s) between Sonic & Shadow! Digital preorders...
The Black Arm did not understand. The blue hedgehog, their so-called champion, had been defeated; his body, his mind, his pride, should have been broken.
And yet.
[ AO3 ]
Notes: Written in 2022 for Live & Learn (@sonicshadowzine)! I was honored to tackle a Shadow the Hedgehog 05-AU alongside my fellow contributor Alex (@spacecolonie)—thank you for your help all throughout this project!
here is my piece for the Live & Learn (@sonicshadowzine) charity zine - a Sonic POV poem featuring an absolutely beautiful illustration by @rayactive-factory!
full text is below the cut, or read on AO3 for some longer postmortem comments - both versions have fancy spacing (albeit not as nice as ray's)!
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you tell me that we’re nothing alike
that you will always be colder than me,
and I will always be brighter than you
and you tell me, “it isn’t that I want
to have been created this way;
it isn’t that I want this—
to fall short of your grace”
but don’t you realize, my heart,
that cold is only the absence of warmth,
and dark is only the absence of light?
don’t you realize, my love,
that you are as much a part of me
as I am a part of you—
that you were always the pieces
I’ve been missing inside?
don’t you realize, my heart,
that you have somehow always
been a part of me—
and I have somehow always
been a part of you—
across eons and distance,
across paradox and linearity—
against the push, the pull,
carried with the ebb, the flow
of temporal existence?
that we find each other again and again,
the quantum memories of colliding stars
scattered atoms and photons
woven into gossamer:
the interlaced threads
of an inextricable me
between the threads
of an inextricable you
and don’t you know, my love,
that my grace is not a height to reach—
but an ocean within my soul
vast with unending love for you?
and don’t you know, my love,
that even if you feel you must climb—
my embrace is a sanctuary
safe for you to fall into
and if I am the sun, you are my moon,
and if I am the sun, you are the flower
turning to face my light—
nourishing my soul with your beauty
never knowing I need it just as much as you
and if you are the cold, I am your warmth,
and if you are the dark, I am your light
swathing you in golden sun—
so that in time you can bloom
never knowing that my solace is you
because even if cold is only the absence of warmth,
and even if dark is only the absence of light
to everything there is a time,
and to everything exists its place:
every summer needs its winter,
and every dawn needs its dusk—
and don’t you know, oh love,
that every piece of me needs
every piece of you—?
and your gentle cold salves my burning heart,
and your gentle dark salves my burning eyes
don’t you know, my love,
that you have always—will always—
be enough just as you
and never had—will never have—
anything to prove?
and don’t you realize, oh heart,
I never need you to be anything
except for you—
because anything that I need
already exists within you
and please know, oh love,
that to simply be
is more than enough—
I can finally share this! my comic I did for @sonicshadowzine
This comic is close to my heart. this boss fight means a lot to me, and it's the big anchor that keeps me thinking about these two. this moment is so pivotal. this is the first time shadow truly understands sonic and himself. this is where he falls for sonic, and this is where he dies. and he's accepting of it, because he knows maria's world is in better hands with him, the true ultimate life form.
Sonic will forever carry this moment in his heart. he'll forever know he's responsible for shadow's death, because he wasnt FAST enough, couldnt reach far enough. he couldn't save the guy right under his nose. it haunts him forever i think.
and then the guy comes back. he didn't actually die. but he forgot EVERYTHING..... that's when it gets very interesting. despite it all, fate has it that they keep butting heads. that shadow keeps developing the same strong feelings regardless of the change in circumstance, regardless of the fact everyone tries to manipulate him. because sonic is the ultimate life form and shadow can't do anything but look up to him.
i love them and this aspect of them so much i made a whole ass MUSIC VIDEO for the big bang just abt this topic (the fanfic that it's based on is so good too please read it.)
this comic is directly connected with the comic made by @jiiyawns ! please check them out as well!
comic i did for the @sonicshadowzine ..... this file dates back to 2022 and i would do So many things so differently (even these images are slightly different from how the printed copy looks from a mix of cmyk/printing funsies and the passage of time letting me look at it and want to change it) but in the end it doesn't change the fact that i find the transition of heroes to shth shadow hilarious
a semi-part 2 to this comic by @superemeralds! look at it and go insane
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