Bottle of glue

Artist, weirdo, fantasy and sci-fi enthusiast they/it One day the glue will dry

[thebestbottleofglue]

Oh right people actually care about artists here, I forgot

Guess I can share this then

I also accept bluesky DMs for communication since well Twitter is hell now

Portfolio of examples and my complete terms of service can be found on my carrd:

https://bubblec6h4cl2.carrd.co/

It also has links to all my socials :)

[thebestbottleofglue]

Another year another drawing of those two!! Since last year they were so small and far away, I wanted to try an extreme close up. Pretty alright for a first time trying that perspective

(yes I'm a few days late to posting on here because I always forget tumblr exists)

you can find more drawings of those two over the years on my bluesky

[the-messy-artist]

Has this been done yet

[thebestbottleofglue]

it's still May somewhere in the world so.... #MerMay ain't over until I post my boy (gender-neutral) Cod!!! This year I wanted to redesign their tail to be more realistic ^^

[thebestbottleofglue]

do you have any more lore/backstory for Cod the 4-armed merman?

omg omg omg I get to talk about my OCs!! Yippee!!!!!!

Ok so Cod is from this universe I came up with that has its own history, geography and everything (I have WIPs of maps and everything). In that world, and more specifically on that planet, it's pretty much your average fantasy world but much, much, much toned down and so you have like 80% of the population that's just regular human and sure there's elves and sometimes you come across the odd tiefling, orc and all that but for the most part it's very similar to our world except but a lot, lot less tech in a bit of a steampunk way I guess. Kinda like Howl's Moving Castle in that we have cars and cities and planes even but no internet or lasers, ya'know?

So in all of that there's no big secret with magic and human aren't kept from learning about the other folks but it is very rare to come across people who know magic or aren't human unless you go to villages with a higher density of magic users.

In all of that you have Cod (yes I remember this is who I was supposed to talk about but once I get going about my blorbos and their world it's hard to stop) who's a merfolk and those are much more rare than land-dwelling non-humans because they've learned that fishing takes their food resources so they stay away from land and every boat they see. The mers have their own society that's separate from how things are organized on land and they coexist with ocean animals although they are prey to some of the bigger creatures and so lands folks do know mersfolks exist and they've found their remains but very little is known (similar to colossal squids irl) and they're hard to come across since mers are nomadic and flee at any form of contact.

That is until one day where a young girl called Myzz comes across an injured mer in a shallow pool on the shore near her parent's estate. She's heard of merfolks from her tutor but like many kids, thinks they're possibly fables like the tooth fairy but whom she has in front of her definitely isn't from the land and although they seem injured and scared, they do seem to be gesturing for help.

And that's how much about Cod and their world you get to learn this time around ;3 Myzz, her tutor, a water nymph OC and Cod are all connected by some events that I still haven't completely figured out but every once in a while I shake them up in my brain and come up with more about them ^^

[thebestbottleofglue]

It's been a while since I've screamed into the void

*proceeds to yodel*

[magebunkshelf]

Oi, gots a question for ya ya beautiful menace. What are your pronouns, I can’t find them anywhere and I don’t wanna use the wrong ones. Please and thank you and do have a great morning/day/night.

Hey! Really lovely of you to ask, but yeah I often just put 'genderfluid' instead of explicit pronouns because the actual answer is ✨complicated✨

If anyone's interested I'll try to explain below, but in short any is fine! Bit detailed, prob a bit personal so, eh, heads up > <

I have a weird relation to my own gender I guess? Best way i can think to describe it is the difference between gendering as like an attribute, and gendering in a way that sums up an entire person in a gendered way. I've no idea if this makes any sense to anyone else - this is why I normally just put 'fluid' for short XD

I guess it's like... 'Handsome' is more a masc term but it can be applied to any gender. 'Pretty' is more a fem term but it can be applied to anyone. They're more like adjectives, you apply them to people as attributes. But 'man' and 'woman' are nouns, they sum up a person in an explicitly gendered way. It's like the difference between saying to someone "hey dude", and calling them "a dude".

I think the way I perceive gender, there is a way to intend a gendered term like pronouns in a sort of de-gendered way. Like how you call ships 'she'. In a way of implying gendered attributes, but without imposing gendered nouns. And to be clear that's just how I perceive it, not meaning at all to impose this thinking on anyone else! XD

So basically when you use 'he' 'she' or 'they' on me, it says to me that that's how you're perceiving me at the time. And I am genderfluid, the way I err does change pretty drastically over time. But like if someone calls me 'she', it feels to me like an attribute, like as a trait, an adjective. It doesn't say "you are a woman", it says "I perceive you as more feminine". And I do like that for any normative pronouns honestly! I feel like I very much orbit around androgyny, sometimes I feel more masc, sometimes more fem, but often somewhere very neutral. So it's like; how do you perceive me right now? It's why I'm fine with any pronouns but I don't mind masc terms cos I know how I sound.

It only becomes uncomfortable to me when it's gendered nouns, like 'man', 'woman'. Because i'm definitely not. It feels like summing up me as an entire person, and that's when it feels wrong to me. I'd say I have a masc-sounding voice, but I'd never say I have a "manly" voice. There's a difference, and that difference I think is in intent.

Buuuut also since I can't fit all this into a pronouns box, I normally just put 'fluid' XD I understand when people say something gendered about me that's 'wrong' because, yeah, it's complicated! But also i know nothing is meant by it if someone gets it "wrong", intent is pretty easy to read, I know I don't fit into a box very well at all, none of this is easy to explain, and also I know how I sound - I make audios labelled as M4A and primarily play male characters. I know how I put myself across, I entirely understand if people perceive me more masc. I barely actually play characters that match my own gender. I should probably mix that up.

Anyway yeah, anything normative is fine! Whatever you perceive me as at the time, it works either which way! I think it's the intent more than anything. If someone calls me she or they, it makes me think wow, what about the way I'm presenting myself right now made them say that? Like in a good way, it makes me ask why you perceive those attributes right now? But yeah totally fine to mix it up, so really you can't get it wrong XD

If we all had access to a character select screen to customise everything about yourself physically, like you get one go at selecting how you look and lock that in; I know I should definitely have a fem-structured body rather than the way I'm built. I know that's wrong. But I'm not a 'woman.' I'm not a 'man'. I'm just a person. If I were born right I'd probably dress similarly to how I do now, fairly neutrally, some masc clothing. Cos I'm just a person. I'm somewhere neutral / non-binary a lot of the time, and I kinda orbit around that. So i don't want to stipulate 'these pronouns' on people cos it's just complicated, and if I did it'd give people additional baggage that doesn't actually apply to me.

TL;DR pronoun disclosures are super helpful and a very kind and thoughtful way to understand who you're talking with and how best to talk with them in a way that they'll appreciate. But also they're not a one-size-fits box and I've weirdly never felt great stipulating them cos that isn't the important part to me. But also, who really wants to know all this?? XD

No idea if any of that made much sense, but yeah, complicated relation with my own gender, I don't usually fill out pronoun boxes cos I don't feel they fit me exactly. Feel free to use whatever pronouns, whatever gendered terms as adjectives, as attributes, that's generally fine! I just don't like gendered nouns. But that's complicated so don't worry much about it. Intent is more important than anything, don't worry about getting it "wrong" with me, if you're unsure masc terms are still fine. Anyway that's the reason Mitch is canonically gender-blind.

[thebestbottleofglue]

if I physically could nod my head to the extend that I relate to this, the force from my chin bobbing up and down would probably create a black hole or a rift in the fabrick of space and time

[kipperzz]

Raccoon boy 1 notes

with commentary with some friends in the discord including @thebestbottleofglue, Jack, and Wolf.

lovely rain sounds

sneaky :3

good way for Mitch to get spotted

skedaddle!

rasberry!

grabs tail "not the tail!"

wall pin~

I would not kick out the raccoon boi

human ears

yes, I know what rain is

"not the rain!"

"yes, this is a door"

noting down the lowered volume of Mitch

"mind the ears!"

does the listener not notice the fur?

"is the listener blind" - Bubble

bubble is now imagining mitch in a thigh highs and skirt

I don't think human society would allow Mitch in only a shirt" - me

Bubble wonders if he shops in the toddler section

of course he's staying for pizza

"I don't think pizza is crunchy" "thin crust is"

"poor boy is starving"

"why are you doing this? "because I love you!" - Bubble

"of course you can stay, you're cute!" - me "you have pretty privilage" - Bubble

"why not, I live alone"

hugs!

"why is he so fluffy?"

Bubble would pet mitch if he wanted them, Jack would do it no matter what

"I would take them all [strays] in if I could" - me

"we're going to care about you, no matter what, that is a threat" -me

yess! he stays!

"how does he not have a name. how was he born?" "via the moon!"

"what do you want to watch?" "FUCK YOU we're watching evangelion!"

of course I'm awake

lovely sleep with mitch :3

"Mitch, your tail is rubbing against me!" - bubble

the character development from this sad and lonely boy.

everyone wants to hug him

Bubble imagines that the listener would big spoon Mitch

[backstagezine]

Another day, another group of featured artists!

Today we have sealistic @sealistic , Yen @yendeena , Percy @persemmon , BubbleC6H4CI2 , Soul @thiefofblood & @/BubbleC6H4CI2 (twt & insta)

Don't forget to check them out!

[backstagezine]

It’s been a while! With production coming to a close, we can now start announcing all of our artists!

First we have Tree Bark @treebarkagain , Hachi @/himitsumarii (on twt and YT), Spica @w1f1n1ghtm4r3 , Meekie @/drawmikie (on twt) & jen @/koochoos (on twt)

Make sure to check them out!

[escapedaudios]

Getting a tattoo of Star Wars or Harry Potter or some other oversaturated nostalgic pop culture franchise is played out, cliché, not cool anymore. You know what is cool? Getting a tattoo of a niche audio roleplay series that only you and like two other people understand.

[thebestbottleofglue]

They found a plastic duck🦆

I had a tradition on Twt that I would draw these two every year on this day and I made it just in time :) For me these two are really special because they represent a breakthrough in my art journey or allowing myself to just make stuff up and not worry about reaching an andiance or trying so hard I end up burning myself out over a piece. These two gave me creative freedom and I thank them every year by allowing them to go further on their runaway adventure 💕 It's my 6th time drawing them this year (feel free to give me an excuse to show the older drawings)

[thebestbottleofglue]

Pls look at the rhubarb my mom grew in her garden 💕

[thebestbottleofglue]

Btw whoever asked me questions about Cod/their funky little 4 arms (even if it was multiple people or just one), thank you 🥹💕

It's rare that I get to talk about my OCs and I love them very much even though I don't have that many and I hope I can share more of them and give them proper reference sheets one day 🥺

I have most of them written down in a very silly fluffy unicorn notebook and I even tried to make a map of where they exist since some (but not all) share the same universe

[thebestbottleofglue]

I'm revisiting this old fanart from 2022 as a warm-up for other stuff and man does a few year do stuff to your art In particular I'm absolutely terrorified of where the ear in the old drawing is..... Like who let me get away with that??!?!??!?

[kataratakaran]

have a silly, mildly late submission for mermay that came to me in something akin to a fever dream.

[thebestbottleofglue]

I wonder if having four arms makes it easier for Cod to move on land. 😂

I would imagine it makes it easier for them to drag themself out on rocks or sand but as useful as they can seem, the weight isn't really distributed in a way where they can just pretend to be a 4 legged animal and walk around like a quadruped.

Their tail, as useful as it is when swimming underwater, isn't designed for land and it would be really painful to drag themself for long distances.

The arms do have an advantage though and that they let Cod climb rocks and cliffs a lot better than any 2 arm people and that's actually how they got to meet their human friends. So yay for fish climbing!