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!
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 π
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
I’d not done anything for pride in a few years, partly ‘cus I generally felt I was too behind on stuff and then June snuck up on me but this year I decided “Oh hey I best do it this year”.
Technically this was hinted in Subtle, it was indeed deliberately subtle. But before I get on to that, I still really love the idea of sticking stickers that wash off over time without damaging the magically animate and unpoppable inflatable toy etc. etc.
Hence the pride stickers. ANYWAY what was Subtle about?
Late Jan/early Feb I’d been ruminated on the hit topic we all know and love. Gender. Or, ironically, a lack of one. It’s something I’ve been thinking on for a while ‘cus boy howdy it sure is a strange coincidence that I keep making self-characters that are masc but also not really attached to being specifically male. Even the Obstagoon is SUPER masc but I don’t really consider them male.
Technically the correct term here probably would be “demiboy/guy/man” (as in, someone who feels male sometimes and other times not). But you know what gave me gender euphoria and what didn’t? Agender and demiboy respectively. So I followed the good chemicals and wow internal validation????????
“What does this mean for peeps though? New pronouns?” NOPE π
A lot of this is internal validation, they/he still works for me and I have no specific preference on which one. Boy howdy that’s convenient!
But you know, it’s good to finally bite and be open about it in a less subtle way :B