I'm doing good!!! I have a week between exams finishing and classes starting again so I took that time to get my laptop into service so it can get fixed up, and that also means I'm spending more time on my phone and on tumblr and bluesky lmao
Sometime ago you mentioned maybe changing your content around to something more mature (I think that's what I read, sorry if it's not entirely correct)
👀 so what are your plans, Kooki? Some more Spadegore I bet, but I'm curious if there're other ships/characters in your mind
I did say that, more than once now on other platforms, but it wasn't referring to fandom content, mostly. I kind of already post basically whatever I want to tumblr, because everything feels so impersonal and unfocused here, while the whole "changing things around to be more mature" thing was mostly aimed at my bluesky and youtube channel.
To put it succinctly sometime soon I might start softblocking minors that follow me on bluesky because I want to start posting some original content that isn't aimed at a child audience. It's not just for fandom stuff, I legit want to get my head down and focus on things that I've wanted to make for a long time, and part of what's been stopping me is this looming feeling of "you can't publish that, literal kids follow you, this is a bad idea." General plan is to start actually publishing that work probably around the middle of the year, but I'm not totally sure. There's a lot of behind the scenes stuff going into it right now.
This affects my bluesky in specific because it feels more personal, while I won't be doing that same kind of purge on my tumblr. For this blog, I'll just change the url and keep everything else intact, and use the kooki914 title for a new blog that'll follow the more mature posting tenancies and actually be properly 18+ to follow. This means I wont be softblocking followers or removing/moving old posts or anything, this place will essentially stay as "kooki pre-2026" and everyone who wants to move to follow the new blog will be free to do so (unless they're a minor, in which case they Will be blocked).
As for fandom content in specific, it's gonna (and already has) slow down to a crawl, since while I make fanart sketches even now, I want to publish finished pieces that are, again, my original characters more. I still post fanart to my bluesky every once in a while, but it's not a guarantee, I just don't care about engaging with fandoms as much anymore. Proper analyses will kind of be relegated to my youtube from now on I think, if I ever get around to finishing a couple of those videos on the back burner... People are still more than welcome to send asks here and on my eventual renewal blog about my opinions of games and stuff, but I don't want that to be the Focus of my blogs as much anymore, y'know?
This is a really funny ask, because the answer is undoubtedly No, but looking at my blog you would NOT assume that.
I feel nothing for Rudy. In Steven Universe I always thought Greg was kinda lame. In Homestuck I was never particularly invested in the dad subplot/the pda subplot from acts 1-4. I'm legit blanking on any other media I watch that has a prominent dad character because I pay so little attention to it. Asgore and Spade are just really, really compelling characters to me that just so happened to be dads, so like. I guess I like Two (2) dads and that's it.
This is actually a kind of funny story, when I was in kindergarden some older kids nicknamed me after a candy I was very fond of (Kiki) and that name stuck until I got into cookie clicker and decided to switch to "Kooki" instead, to somehow reference the game in a roundabout way. I did not know that the word "kooky" existed, nor did I really think the nickname would've stuck as hard as it did, nor could I have predicted that it would eventually be associated with a Kpop star. I didn't even play cookie clicker for that long nor did I get that far in the game when I originally played but it's altered the course of my life and identity irreperably anyway and I just find that funny.
The numbers specifically come from 11 year old me not realising that the way Homestuck dictates important numbers based on characters' birthdays with the day and month number swapped isn't just a Quirky Homestuck Thing™ and is, in fact, just how americans write dates. 914 = 9.14. = 14th of September, aka my birthday. I wouldn't have written it like that if I knew that's just a bullshit american thing but. It's stuck over time and i don't think 149 hits as hard.
Bonus Kooki nickname trivia: my irl name starts with a "K" so every nickname of mine has to start with a K or I deem it invalid. This means "King" is a valid nickname for me and I am not at all self-aggrandising when bringing that up what are you talking about. This has also resulted in closer friends of mine shortening "Kooki" to "Kooks", which also happens to be Serbian slang for cocaine. I also don't even like classic/iconic cookies that much, I preffer just straight up chocolate without the flaky dough, but 🍪 has become inseperable from my image and I've just come to accept that fact and eat those cookies with the knowledge that I am one of them.
Okay so your semi face reveal with an animatic drawn face on the classaspect videos was pretty cool, ngl!!
Also, your sister rocks, and I just wanted you two to know that
Thank you!! The sort-of-not-really face reveal was the result of the fact that I made the corkboard first and the script second, I really wanted to include my physical handiwork in the video and simple pictures wouldn't do the job in my eyes, so I borrowed a school camera and recorded myself in front of the damn thing (more than once btw the first few attempts sucked ass) and then censored my face and motion-tracked a talksprite onto it to "preserve" expressiveness. It's kind of a hack job and the camera focus was all over the place, but I'm still happy with how it turned out all things considered!
If there were a definitive way to know your classpect with a chance you don't have what you currently think you have (Which I think you've mentioned is Seer of Breath if I'm not mistaken), would you choose to know what FOR SURE you are or would you rather stay as is?
I guess it depends on the circamstances? I don't think classpects are SO important that you need to be able to identify yourself in them, after all they're tools for story analysis and real world application is secondary. HOWEVER. The only scenario in which one could, without a shadow of a doubt, know their own classpect, would be if WE are also in a narrative and the author themselves made that information available to us in some way.
If that were the case and there was a definitive way to talk to the author of this shithole reality we live in I'd be interested in asking some other questions. Mostly about what themes they're trying to portray and how some narrative beats are meant to end. Is catharsis the goal? Is an avant-garde withholding of catharsis the point? And if so, what does one even count as an "ending" in a perpetual existance machine which is most likely what we live in if it WERE to be made (up) by somebody?
I think by virtue of this being my actual thought process when asked the question "hey what if you could know your classpect" I... may have already solidified said classpect.
Funnily enough he has no concrete origin, the design was randomly made by me dicking around in mspaint as a kid editing shittily screenshotted assets from cookie clicker. Essentially trying to wrap my head around how circles work in pixel art, and doodling something akin to a face using red and blue because those two were always my favourite colours to use together.
Long post with the history of the design under the cut
I think this is the oldest doodle I have of my "void sona" as he's now become christened as, plus the remade and animated version of it, and a Halloween alt I made that more overtly leans into the Gaster inspo I'll get to in a sec.
(yeah the earliest pixel art is real bad its really fucking old)
Using black as a base was random, I think? In the sense that I wanted something that could contrast both bright blue and bright red without popping out to the foreground too much. This design was made around the time I was originally getting into Deltarune (the only hint of that that I have is that I first made a spade symbol in the same black circle as the face), so it's possible it was somewhat inspired by popular Gaster fanon, just making it more edgy and using colours I personally thought were cool (which I've mentioned before, my personal attachment to red/blue goes WAY back, like way before I got into Homestuck kind of way back.)
From there he essentially stayed as just a vaguely blobish creature, taking more overt design inspirations from things like Hollow Knight's shades and Yume Nikki's neon effect (and popular Gaster fanon) to essentially make something in the shape of a person out of an otherwise head-only profile picture.
Then after a while this design got very boring to me. It was just a humanoid shape with hipster hair and a strict red/blue split that didn't leave much room for improvisation or conveying mood with the heavily limited colour palette. So while I still usually draw my sona simplified/rounded for smaller doodles, the design has purposefully evolved in complexity to have more detail, reflecting something less person-shaped and more paranormal.
Because of this he also got considerably edgier looking and honestly I fully embrace it. My cringefail deviantart-esque depiction of my online persona whomst I love. He's a lot more interesting to draw when you have appendages on the head to work with to convey mood with, and a more homestuck-y lack of arms that lets me focus on more vaguely skeletal features which I love love LOVE to draw. (Again harkening back to popular Gaster fanon on that front). (Bonus: on both this sketch sheet and the above failed reference sheet, you can see me experimenting with spade-shaped eyes because I really loved the look of them on Spade King and Lancer.)
(These also look like shit but I'm showing them anyway for the sake of historical documentation.)
As he has always been he's mostly just a blank edgy vessel used to represent me online. Came from nothing contributes to no plot, hence the heavy void theming. Even if I've finally settled on a "consistent" (less bad) design for him I don't think he's my best work, just my most convenient. Maybe I'll one day make a fantasy species based on this dude (there's certainly room to experiment with duochromatic shapeshifters made of half-organic matter) but I think I'll have to leave that for some other day.
Here's some of my stream "sprites" that convey the versatility of the new design best, imo:
As an obligatory bonus, the person who sent this ask also made his own little pixel art of my sona in his earlier design stages, and I draw a shitty little comic about how much I liked his interpretation of the design:
