Hi my name is DarkOverord, I felt like I was struggling drawing something else and did a warm-up doodle and the warm-up doodle turned in to this
Nicking this line from Unconnected Marketeers – “What is a screen edge, anyway?” is a great topic for getting people’s interest.
You can tell it turned in to more than just “warm-up” ‘cus I’m posting it to galleries :B
SOME LORE as I’ve not got to an TRotO;SotR article for Feoh, I’ll stick the old one from 2014 here for lore reasons.2023-10-20 Editors note: No I will now ‘cus I redid it! Check out the revised Feoh Sigel article here!
This was actually a sketch originally I doodled for fun of me just wanting to try and draw my frog without its tongue out. But I kind of really liked how it looked so I wanted to do more with it.
Yearly post time! Will have some thoughts in here again whoops. Click through the read more to get a closer look at each piece as well as my thoughts for the year, otherwise here’s the summary image:
I want to thank you so much for all your support this year and I hope we all collectively kick 2023’s butt to endure it isn’t 2022 again.
Also this is the first pic with the 23 mark! I only started putting a year on my art midway this year so that’s nice of me 18 years later to keep track of years :B
I’m a tad late for Halloween but that’s okay ‘cus I only got this idea on the 28th of October
I’d have liked to get this out sooner but as it was a personal project I was prioritising commissions/having to scream at new sites ‘cus Twitter might suddenly fuck itself completely at any moment
So here’s Ferris, hanging off an unusually sturdy tree-branch in the night, and you’ve managed to spot them with a torch, lucky you!
But the thing about that is well. Thoughts change but also a lot of self doubt, especially as I started feeling that I was faking it etc.
I’m pretty masculine, I won’t lie. Quite “man” like and I never really thought to, do anything about it, but I never felt attached to it as “my identity”. I never “felt” transgender and neither did “woman” or “non-binary” ring out to me. Eventually I got talking to someone who basically phrased it as “male by default” and I was like “holy shit yes?”
So with some reinforcement behind me I kind of stumbled randomly on to agender, it felt right, it makes my brain happy.
“But… what if I was faking it for brain chemicals???” I kept thinking, especially as when I came out in June I effectively went “∅ he/they” is good :)”, the easiest “out” for all of this, even though I really never felt like that was correct but it’s easy for a masculine person and go like that. Constantly doubting that the genuine euphoria I felt back in February when I stumbled my way in to understanding.
So in safe places I did add in “it” to “∅ he/they”, eventually “∅ he/they/it” I swapped it round “∅ it/they/he”, and privately or in new places I put what made me happy…
Seeing my friends explore their identity over the past few months, and especially today made me realise “no wait I can do this”. I’ve been pushing off “he” for a while, so much so that I dropped it entirely in places I was “safe”. So I finally did it, I told everyone “it/they” on twitter and holy hell that felt good. I’d change it entirely but on Twitter I figure for the best I might have to leave “they” but almost everywhere else? No.
I’m DarkOverord, I’m an agender furry and my pronouns are it/its. They is acceptable, he is okay, but I’m an it, and that makes me happy.
Also know that I’m still getting used to that and if you call me “it” I will just melt in to a puddle for you.
I rambled here but I needed to make it in to words lol
This has been a project on the back-burner since 2021 and I figured between Nik’s commission and the next I’d take the short palette cleanser to make the new reference
Deliberate use of “v2.0” here, he’s artificial so I wanted to give the implication that he’s just made himself a new body 😛
To be fair with Rigel he’s probably somehow still operating his old body too.
Main changes since the original adoptable ref:
Rigel had decided he needed to be almost three feet taller, though being an inflatable that size isn’t exactly fixed in the first place
🔞 NSFW image under the cut 🔞
