#killjoycore

[cherrythesandpup]

went out with nothing but the sesh kit, a phone and a fuckton of spray paint. i was here for 2 hours, maybe?

[saintmichale]

Flare

[chompingcherry]

Teenagehood is waiting. Waiting for a place of your own, waiting for money, waiting for a car and waiting for surgeries to make your body feel like yours the way it did when you were a fish or a horse or a lizard all those years ago. Waiting for a mustache. But also waiting for your turn. Teenagerhood is this nagging feeling that you're missing out on something, wind rushing through your scalp as you shift your body weight off the edge of the dangerously quick merry-go-round. You wonder, is it safe to get off yet? Is it safe to jump? Teenagerhood is waiting for your turn to be happy. Waiting for your turn to have friends. Waiting in line at the gas station. Waiting for your homework to be graded. Your body is slowly changing, but in ways that make it feel uncomfortably fast, and never when you want it to or how you want it to. So you're stuck waiting. And looking at the sunset. And laying in piles of dirty clothes. And fighting the urge to pick up smoking. Waiting for the apocalypse so you can live in the desert in a van with the classmate you like the best. Waiting, then hitting the ground running when the sirens start to blare.

[rubysapphrald]

[k9kibble]

night swimming is something that will always have a special place in my heart. diving into gross pools fully clothed, your freshly dyed hair leaking dye all over your face, your makeup rubbing off and around your eyes, making you look crazy in the darkness. sneaking up behind your mates to scare them, clinging to eachother in the frigid water for warmth. freezing your ass off and scrambling to get back to the diner to change clothes and all curl up in a pile together in the middle of the floor because you can't stop shaking, but you're all just a giggly mess.

[phoenix-is-still-here]

Hey Tumblr

so... have I ever showed you guys my Cool Jacket™️ ?

I made it last summer, mostly in the week when I had covid and I've been adding stuff ever since. The idea was to make like a battle jacket in the style of MCR's DangerDays but still suitable to wear casually.

I'll add even more music and fandom references in the future so stay tuned.

[alfhildr-the-word-weaver]

You know, I'm the kind of person with like 80+ ongoing projects at any given time, and I rarely ever post things on here about them because I'm always waiting until they're finished and trying to get things perfect first and then I wind up never posting them. But I have to remind myself there's no law against showing off WIPs, and in fact, that's actually like a normal thing to do on tumblr. So, I thought I'd show off my progress so far on my Danger Days phone case insert I've been working on!

[Image ID: a tall narrow painting roughly the shape of a smartphone. The background is a rainbow watercolor fading radially from one color into another, starting with red in the top left, orange in the top right, yellow down the right side, green in the bottom right, blue in the bottom left, then purple shading from blue violet to red violet heading back up the left side. The watercolor has been textured with a salt resist technique creating small floral shapes of lighter paint. On top of this background, “Look Alive Sunshine” is written in tall wavy block letters in an assortment of colors meant to contrast the background, such that the “L” is light green, the “A” is yellow, and the “S” is orange and so on. Some letters are fainter, written in sharpie that has faded into the paper, but others are brighter, having been gone over in acrylic paint. There is a ring of poked holes in the top left roughly where the phone’s camera sits and a bit of uncovered background space to the top and bottom of the text design, which covers the majority of the piece. End ID] (*If there’s anything you’d like clarified about this description feel free to ask, I found it tricky to describe clearly. )

I tried to copy the comics font here--wait, actually, I'm just going back through my reference images, and I think the text I copied from for this is actually from something by @tapefish that was itself based on the comics font. Yeah, this is based on a design that's on their redbubble actually, though I didn't trace it specifically, but that's what this is drawn from. In that design, both words in "look alive" are on the line above "sunshine", so because of the way I've done it here, "sunshine" wound up being twice as narrow, hence why letters are all really squished, but hopefully it'll still be more or less legible!

I went over the letters in sharpie initially, but they were really hard to see, so I'm gradually painting over them. I'm also probably going to put more pictures and/or text on here, like a Danger Days spider and/or an eye like the one on the mailbox, and possibly "keep running" and/or "art is the weapon" in the space at the top or bottom.

As for the color scheme, I just went "how can I make this as colorful as physically possible" and ran with that, lol :) Well, to be more precise, I did a rainbow ombre in the background and then tried to make each letter roughly the complementary color to the part of the background it was on, but I tried to still have a variety of colors in the foreground as well.

Mostly, I'm just happy I've finally gotten around to making some progress since I first did the watercolor for the background literally like 2 years ago in our first pandemic summer, and that's just the rate at which I work on things sometimes, lol.

Anyways, I could ramble about my design and my plans for this for a while yet, and I could definitely proofread and edit this post some more, but I'm trying to stop myself from spending all afternoon on this post now instead of actually continuing to work on my phone case insert. Feel free to ask me stuff about this, though I can't guarantee anything remotely resembling a quick response haha. But hopefully someday before another two years have passed, I'll be posting a finished version of this! For now, enjoy this rare glimpse into my artistic process, hahaha.

[methane-skies-uwu]

Killjoy self insert (a killsona if you will) reveal wooooooo! I don't have these piercings sadly, but someday in the future I will >:) When my hair changes, I'll change his too, so we're always looking fresh and up to date