(Sorry, for some reason the post isn't formatting how I'm setting it up so all the images are getting jumbled up)
Last time-
And not gonna lie, I've been addicted to slime rancher 2 this past week so not a lot happened- really I should call this the Justin special, not like anyone else did anything...
Regardless, I wanted to do at least one more update just for funsies. If the Justin special is the last I ever make then so be it!
Thats it- that's how special he is -smile-
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In other news...
The ever so mysterious, local celeb: Chef Hatchet is making rounds again-
I, as Chris McLean used the design tool for once to give Duncan a little friend (I've seen what some people have done with that tool... I don't mesh well with it lol.)
And lastly, Queen Heather!
And more -attempts- at the ROTI cast joined the show-
And I dunno if anyone cares but as is tradition, heres the crushes as of week three and current state of lovers:
Lindsey and Beth are soulmates
Zeke and Sierra want to get married
Same with Owen and Alejandro
Bridgette is DJs soulmate while she just loves him-
Izzy and Noah have crushes on Courtney
Duncan and Gwen are crushing on each other
Leshawna is crushing on Gwen
Cody is still crushing on Trent (Although its seeming like it might change soon)
Justins crushing on Cody...
Katie wants Sadie which is fricken cute- Although Sadie thinks ahe can try again with Sierra (I doubt Sierra does)
Both Dakota and Anna-Maria have crushes on Brick (And I wish they could be a fashion polly lol)
Ans lastly, Dawn has a crush on Harold interestingly.
So staring with rizzler Zekes rejection of both Heather and Tyler....
Both decided to cope by shouting some choice words into the ocean, although I'd expect worse from Heather personally. I had Lindsay cheer both up which was cute, she's like the islands therapy dog.
Other than that, here are some screenshots I just liked a lot:
I had a few others but aren't making a third post- Just know Noah was blond for a day! I also have done a drama brother photoshoot! I may share that in a few days if/when their little plot develops more (Its currently like Justin loves Cody but Cody loves Trent! And even if he never stated it, Trent (And Duncan) loved Owen! And Harolds off being Harold somewhere-
Okay no I'm not doing that lol, but howdy! Came back for week two due to pure love of the island!
Our population grew by three! And geez the gen 2 cast aren't easy to mii- anyway heres the past weeks events!
First baby!
(Also sister post here)
The girlies had a baby! His name is Lee, he was sent away and holy hell he looked horrendous-
It made me really miss playing with the babies on the ds one... We also had another wedding! Yippy!!!
DJ and Bridgette got married and I think they're just damn adorable. On the opposite side of the spectrum...
Sierradie...? (I don't know the non-cannon ship names (oriftheyevenhaveone)) Broke up and holy hell it made me so angry lol. Sierra broke up with her and while Sadie was depressed and trying to understand why, Sierra was talking like it was fucking mutual- fucking predetermined inputs and AI making me actually angry is insane...
New relationships include:
(Sorry I'm so bad at getting straight photos)
Yep! Sierra quickly got over Sadie by not only getting a crush on him but asking out the rizzler himself that very same day! (I.E. the other reason she pissed me off so much)
...So I was not aware that Tumblr had a ten photo limit on mobile? I know I've been gone a few years but damn....
For the last photo then, heres Zeke matching her freak- Ill post the others in a separate post I guess. Crushes this week include...
Courtney with Alejandro (Even if he already rejected her)
Noah with Courtney
Gwen with Izzy (I'm quite interested in this one myself)
Cody with Trent
Justin with Cody
And Anna Maria with Brick
I also just wanna mention some friendships I like and will be including photos of in the sister post- Firstly Owen and Noah are like always together and it brings me a level of joy I didn't know I could muster- same with Geoff and Duncan, and Gwen and Leshawna, the tiny ai pixels seem to emulate season one lovely.
And also Lindsay is so damn cute, I adore her! She's got a friendship with Heather that in a different universe could be cannon and beautiful and also she and Tyler are like besties. I was sad at first when they didn't become a couple but they are both so cute in the game as friends.
I started this a few days after my personal island and have been roleplaying as Chris as a result... But anyway!
I did this on the DS one too a few years back and wanted to do it with the new one! I tried to make the miis as accurate as I could save for some eye and hair colours and in some time I'll also add the gen 2 cast.
More importantly- I made everyone bi and the number of crushes is insane!
Current relationships include:
Lindsey and Beth, Sierra and Sadie & Bridgette and D.J.!
Shhhhh, the girlies are married :)
Crushes are much more chaotic- A lot of 'Love at First Sight' malarkey (Sadie actually instantly fell for Sierra and was the only one with the balls to ask our same day)
Notable crushes include:
Heather with Ezekiel
Harold with Ezekiel
Tyler... With Ezekiel
The rizzler himself, Ezekiel! Wiiiith Sierra lol
Like look at this man, wtf? Anyway!
Courtney with Alejandro, Alejandro with Owen and my personal favourite of Cody with Trent!
Ummm... I dunno what else to say, I was just kinda proud of what I've got so far and wanted to show it on my old stomping ground lol! Now only time will tell if I continue to update on here or if I will return to obscurity.
Something I never see people bring up enough is that DJ is a professional ribbon dancer and I’m assuming acrobat too since you can’t have one without the other (plus I think the second trophy is something for gymnastics) and has won awards, this is the same vibe as a closeted gay kid going to tap dance classes
So I've gotten really into td what ifs and more so randomised casts on YT. (I can recommend AMusicalIndividual and Lightro_Storm as my personal favourites (And good for background listening!))
And I really wanna do one but don't have the time nor energy to write a full fanfic =3=.
But still really wanna lol! So I was thinking of maybe doing a kinda 'points of interest' per epsiode type thing. Say like important interactions bla bla with a random cast.
So ll have a go of that and then either post it or delete this depending on how it goes lol
I finished this the other day but have been kinda anxious to post it. Its been a while and I know my writings aren't always coherent (Not just my writings, it my speech patterns too- My partner has learned to translate!)
Also like... Total Drama isn't bright and colourful so my baby can't keep her attention on it for more than a few minutes. My current rewatch has been going pretty sloooooow (still on season one =3=)
To be exact we're currently watching mlp fim at the moment. She doesn't know whats going on but its bright and colourful (alsoisitmeorisRainbowdashkindaajerkintheseearlyepisodes? BitchistheloyaloneyetspentawholeepisodedissingFluttershy...)
ANYWAY!
I won't tag this or anything, Ive reread it like 5 times so Ima just post it and get it over with! So under the cut is me babbling about my favourite challenge!
PHOBIA FACTOR!
Cos fuck Katie and Tyler- (Actually Katie will be covered when I talk Sadie and I honestly have little to say about Tyler. He does and is exactly what he needs to be and anything they originally missed from him was covered in WT.)
I find it ironic that this is my favourite challenge when its so terribly flawed lol. So lets talk positives first!
Anything can be a genuine fear for any reason. Obviously the show uses some for shits and giggles but the characters themselves still all react to their respected fears which is pog!
From green jelly to more common things such as flight and spiders, nothing is off the table.
Secondly, not every character shows the same level of fear to their phobia. Beth for example seems to just get on with it while Geoff and Trent run for the sun. Another pog! Not everybody reacts the same/handles a fear differently.
Thirdly, and my favourite! The fact that some of the fears are featured later on like Owens and Gwens while others seem to have actually gotten over them! (Harold fears ninjas yet by WT, wants to be one and Beth is completely chill with Duncans pet Scruffy later on in Action... I think-
Also I'm aware bugs and arachnids are different things but as someone who also has a bug phobia, when it comes to spiders and butterflys, I'm freaking out regardless.)
But my beef with this challenge comes with how its scored.
Obviously the idea of 'did they beat it? Yes? Point" works on paper but eh.... well for one, a good portion of the points weren't earned like that.
Heather didn't face her fear... She cowered and the sumo tripped over her.
I'd say that's rather thr opposite of facing a fear.
Gwen? Brave of her to go down there but how would she have chickened out once down there? Trent was dealing with shit and Chef and Chris had other challenges going. Same goes for Owen and Izzy-
Speaking of Gwen, shouldn't she get more points for technically surpassing her challenge?
How the fuck was Geoff meant to face his fear if it was just Chris chasing him around with a cloud? Like whats he meant to do there?
And the biggest one for me at least, people like Cody and Harold actually tried to face their fears but failed due to not being able to beat ninjas and defuse a fucking bomb. They failed the challenge but they actually tried unlike Heather (howwassheexpectedtowinagainstasumo?) who still got a point? Excuse me Fresh, I know this is a cartoon but this is dumb af.
Coulda easily been like:
Zero points for failing.
Half a point for at least trying.
One point for success!
And then obviously Courtneys bonus points-
Like I'm actively watching the episode now, Ill even count it up...
Gophers:
Owen - 1
Trent - 1
Cody - .5
Izzy - 1
Leshawna - 0
Heather - 0
Gwen - 1
Beth - 1
Lindsey - 1
Bass:
Sadie - 1
Bridgette - .5
Courtney 0
DJ - 1
Geoff - 0
Harold - .5
Tyler - .5 (Although he did it twice so technically 1?)
Duncan - 1
So Gophers: 7.5 and Bass: 4.5/5.5 depending on Tyler-
See, can still have the Gophers win and Courtney Tyler can still be rightfully eliminated. God I feel bad for Tyler- not to go far off on a tangent but dude got abused on the show and only got a girlfriend out of it who forgot him and literally the epsiode after his elimination, flirted with another guy. Plus all the freaking chickens!
Back to the challenge, I kinda wish there was also some clarity with how some campers were expected to face their phobias. Geoff obviously- But also Trent and Duncan just had to talk/hug their fear while the H-bombs; Heather and Harold had to supposedly fight ninjas and a sumo? Could Heather have not hugged him?
And my last point but this is so ridiculous that I love it- The fuck did they set this up so quick? They had what, 10 hours? Give or take... Not a lot of time to procure a pool full of worms, hire Ninjas, Mimms and Sumos, make a pool of jelly and a remote control, gravity defying cloud with a seemingly endless supply of hail.
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I need to remind myself sometimes this is a cartoon from 2008.
Im done now.
No, I'm not! I remembered a fun little fact about season 2 of the reboot- now I'm not gonna spoil anything just cos I dunno if the shows released everywhere or whatever (I'd imagine it is but better safe than sorry.) Phobias come up again briefly and the show had the contestants tell them beforehand! Like it was part of the application or something. And yeh, reboot was a lil more realistic in some ways anyway but they included such a nice little detail like that so why couldn't Island do it too? Then it seem like they had preparation time.
Season one does more than enough character interaction, coulda spent the first part of the episode consoling Sadie AND GIVING HER SOME CHARACTER- Instead of all the cast talking. Why? So the episode could focus more on the fear challenges. It's not like they do anything else with Sadie anyway so coulda focused on her for five fucking minutes.
Sorry. I got a little heated then irl lol, what Fresh does with Sadie drives me insane sometimes. If the reboot taught me anything, its that Island had too big of a cast. Not that every reboot character was perfect but they all stood out in some ways while some of the original cast, especially the early boots and Sadie (she was like two episodes before the merge or something,) really didn't bring anything to season one especially. Noah, Cody and Justin at least got a second chance later on I guess and two of those are favourites of mine. I don't fully know what I'm talking about anymore so shall actually go bye bye now-
I kinda don't draw anymore, I now have this small creature known as a CHILD- ...That takes up most of my time and energy (It's wild how quick yet slow nine months can be and then boom! New routine!)
Buuuuuut, I'm getting total drama obsessed again and wanna just talk and rant and stuff about it. Like I'm itching too! Unless I sketch, I kinda doubt I'll ever post art again so I may change the account name? I dunno!
I may start with just finishing my character rants, I think Justin was the last so Katies next but tbh, I've always had more to say about Sadie- pluuuuuus Phobia Factor is one of my favourite challenges and I remember I was itching to talk about it!
I'm very itchy it seems...
Regardless, I might start posting again in a few days. Once I've wrapped my head around a few things... so see ya!
Hello there! Hi! It's been a hot fucking minute hasn't it?
Welcome back to my sketchbook! I drew my two favourite later cast girls, Dawn and Dakota as a practice for getting back into drawing (hopefully lol)
I've had a lot happen in my time away, nothing bad, maybe a little stressful but I kinda completely lost interest in drawing and sketching and tumblr in general lol
But but!
I kinda wanna get back into it, at least sketching. I kinda can't use any tech for too long at the moment without getting a migraine that kills me for the rest of the day.
One thing I do wanna do is try to develop my art style a bit, preferably either the faces or the heads in general. I did try with Dawn but then just reverted back with Dakota. I feel its something I may be able to achieve with enough sketches so I hope you join me on this little adventure.
I lastly just wanna say thanks to everyone who enjoyed all my total drama shit while I've been gone. It's been very baffling to just pop on tumblr to ghost posts and such every so ofthen and just see my drawings still getting likes. Definitely cheered me up and confused the fuck out of me lol
OH ONE LAST THING!
The new seasons got released in the uk finally! I saw them all like a month ago lol and I won't spoil anything so don't worry, I just wanted to say my favourite designs definitely didn't become my favourite characters, Wayne, Raj and Bowie ended up being the best! Thats all Ill say lol, okay see ya!
I did some quick emo/edgy Cody sketches while I await my tablet pen (Hopefully will get it next week.)
They be shit
Was inspired by... someone who I can't seem to find all of a sudden on tumblr? (Its possible they deactivated.) Ill update this when I do lol. And I guess td swap aus-
I dunno, my favourite asthetic with my favourite character- Also feels perfect for Cody.
I basically feel like he'd be me in the way that I adore the asthetic but I'm a massive fucking dork nerd lol. In Codys case, I'd see him going all out with chains and boots, learns how to do a smokey eye and such cos he thinks he looks cool and edgy yet will be the first to put his hand up in class to help fix the teachers computer.
I'm also seeing him trying to be really into dark academia and horro animes yet is terrified when watching them so never finishes them and googles them to make it look like he did-
He also totally has a black cat named something like HellStar but he calls it Nugget when hes alone with it.
Extremely rough test animation because I’m trying to figure out a good program for animation. (This one is done with Pencil2D)
I have FireAlpaca but I want something that lets me sync with audio. (I don’t wanna try again with OpenToonz, it creates SO many image files and takes up so much space dshfkjsf)
I didn't mean to only draw the girls but Heathrr be cute so why complain.
Justin 'rant' under the cut.
(Also sorry for formatting, I honestly dunno whats going on.)
So my motivation for this project returned woop woop!
My bf suggested I do less drawings per episode as well to help the art block so I'm thinking three tops from now on; two I feel inspired by and at least one featuring the eliminated character if I find a nice cap of them.
This episode doesn't have that.
See the episode itself is just... kinda generic lol; it's not a bad episode at all, I like it but it's just a shock value Heather moment, Trent & Gwen bonding and big Harold moment. Justin contributes literally nothing to it besides being a throw away elimination.
Also...
I kinda like... said most my Justin stuff in the Noah rant, quick recap cos its been so long: He should have been eliminated in the previous epsiode for refusing to compete to protect his vanity. Sadly, its a half hour show that choses the focus on the wrong characters sometimes---
Island Justin only having four lines is kinda shit, makes him seem very filler (Which he was,) but I don't actually mind it honestly?
Like it could be because hes a little shy maybe, not that he is but lets pretend. He gets wrongfully eliminated by Heather in the talent show and gets a little pissed off, a bit more vengeful and when Action is announced, he decides to take up the villain role in hopes of lasting longer.
It's a case of Fresh actually having a somewhat good idea for once lol. They wanted a new antag, saw they had Justin as a blank canvas already and took advantage.
Sadly, they didn't use him to his full potential, he didn't end up really... doing anything besides trying to manipulate some girls and mess Gwen around royally and then they made Alejandro our beloved so Justin became completely forgotten antag.
I'm all up for improved Justin, but frankly, main antag role wasn't the one for him.
Courtney made a nice antag in Action, it didn't change her personality, just showed her drive to win and her self-serving attitude made for a lovely pin in the kinda too friendly Action cast; if she had joined the show a little earlier, she and Justin coulda maybe teamed up to fuck the others over. Courtney knows she can beat him so why not string him along so she doesn't have the one to do the dirty work and focus on challenges (and get a convient extra vote for free.)
Basically, I think what I'm trying to say is I like Justin, I love the drama brothers (And want a big time rush-esk show with them,) but him being antag was kinda silly im the end. Vain jerk but okay guy who just needed a couple of friends is all he needs to be.
This wasn't so much a rant this time, just my brain train really. With Justin there really isn't anything to rant on I guess? Especially cos he suffers the same fate as DJ (All eliminations being either not his fault in challenge logic or just unjustified.) He is just a character that filled the role Fresh needed at the time and didn't get a chance to be a character the first time around.
I've already started on a few other drawings but feel like somethings missing from these that I just can't work out...
So basically, I play sims rotationally with my ocs, a bunch of mods, rules and a satisfactory spreadsheet if I say so myself.
I also may have started a new one last year with even more mods and rules but the same characters because Im a proud mum who loves her ocs.
These characters are from my old one, but I have an unhealthy attachment to them and have already started drawing another family.
So this is the McNovan kids, their the spawn of Cherin and Cardenia! The game did all the genetics itself (Thats why only one of them has pink hair,) the only tweek I made was on some eye shapes amd that was just either mixing them or making it a smidge more child like.
So the girls are twins, Lillian (pink hair,) and Cecelia but said the other way around. Cecelia takes after Cherin a lot (not that that means much seeing as I haven't really explained my ocs,) but with a flare of being a teenage girl and suffering the unholy consequences and drama that comes with it. Lillian is definitely one of my favourites, shes just a cool bro free-spirit.
Hunter is another of my faves. So in the game (I think its due to him having the mean trait,) he just hates like everyone besides his bf which is the most Shadow the Hedgehog thing ever and I love him. Hes also very obviously trying to come across as kinda tough and has my favourite asthetic (I like to imagine hes trying to take after uncle Night but like, isnt very good at it.)
And most importantly, he was my only teen to max a skill and he did it in gaming so hes secretly a massive fucking gamer geek.
Lastly is Percy and he was a kid when I finished playing so he didn't get to show as much personality in the game. But he was basically a perfect mix of his parents and its just cute.
The last thing I wanna mention is these kids have made me love the idea of papa Cherin. I've played a few scenarios in my head and he's trying his best but is tired and left confused by teenage girl logic.
I don't wanna give any spoilers for the show, especially as its an ongoing series but in short...
It's the second series of Odd Nation Cartoons series (Have seen season by the by,) on youtube! It takes inspiration from reality shows. You can find both seasons here, season one is only voiced in Spanish for the moment but does have subtitles and season two has both a Spanish and English audio. (There are subs for other languages too but I'm not sure if they be auto generated or not.)
Odd Nation Cartoons | A place for loud minds.
Dibujos animados originales | Original Cartoons and Animations
So Aidens just straight up my favourite character. Not to sound weird or anything but his design is what made me finally take the plunge and split dye my hair (but mines black and pink >:3) I can't really explain it other than the fact that hes just a little cutie and like hes just a guy but gets pissed off (rightfully might I add,) is just blunt as hell with the host and a little shit baby man and I love it. He's also short. Not the shortest character nor the shortest boy, but the fact that like a majority of the cast are taller than him just makes me so happy.
He basically hits all the marks for my soft spots.
As for lady Lake, one shes a grade A cutie, but she also just has a lot going on and Rosea Maria needs to take her home, wrap her in a warm blanket and give her hot chocolate. I also made a slight adjustment to my Lake sketch...
POV: You're Lakes parents when she gets home from camp-
