I know yall are probably tired of seeing this image everywhere by now but my friend asked me if I wanted to join in the meme as a collab and I couldn’t say no and now you get to suffer with me
This is the first real art collab I’ve ever done I’m so proud of us I wouldn’t have it any other way. She sketched Mordecai and I sketched Twilight and then we lined and colored each other’s sketches and this is our joined masterpiece
If you allow me to go off for a little bit, I honestly really like what the original Mordetwi picture represents and the positive cultural shift we’ve had towards “cringe culture” in the past few years, and I say this without a hint of irony
I think most of us had a time in our lives when we were kids and got attached to kids shows and found comfort in certain characters and had our fun pairing them up or just drawing them in MS Paint bc we looked up to artists online and wanted to be like them but didn’t know how to draw any other way. The fics were poorly written and the art was bad but we had fun doing it in earnest and it brought us joy and that’s what matters in the end
A few years ago it was so common to make fun of it and even make comments such as “This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen / this makes me want to die / I wanna kms” towards pieces like the original Mordetwi and I cannot grasp why we ever thought it was ok to react in such way towards a kid’s work? Kids who were just having fun? It’s just such a toxic mentality honestly, and I’m glad that seems to be mostly dead now and we just shamelessly embrace the things we like even as adults
Besides no artist is born with the talent they have and we wouldn’t have the amazing artists/writers we have today if they hadn’t done their “cringy” MS Paint drawings and Deviantart fanfics back in the day and I’m proud of all the progress they’ve done
I look back fondly at the things I did as a kid even if they were bad bc not only I wouldn’t be where I’m at without them, but also I had fun making them and there’s nothing cringy in just wanting to be happy and I hope people (kids or adults) can just indulge in their harmless interests without toxicity. Whether that’s being a furry or watching cartoons or writing weird fics or roleplaying or cosplaying or listening to “bad” music or shipping characters, or whatever it might be
As Jenny Nicholson puts it, “Yeah, it’s pretty cringy. But then again, most fun things are.”