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Birthday gift for NaijMizuho (@NaijMizuho on Twitter and Bluesky) of his OC, Valerie

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(Reblogging because I can’t fit all this in a reply)

I think IDW has gone a long way to solving the problems you’ve mentioned regarding Silver and Blaze, honestly. In one annual, Silver resolves to stay in the present because he was struggling to find a place in a peaceful future where he doesn’t need to fight, so is going to continue protecting the world in the present. Meanwhile, Blaze seems to have all but eradicated pirates from her kingdom/world, and is in Sonic’s world to try and learn how to *relax*.

I don’t think the execution is perfect, especially in Blaze’s case where her fight against piracy has happened almost entirely off-panel, and she logically will need to return home at some point, but the two of them have been given a rationale to hang around Sonic and friends which stems from a character arc. Particularly in Silver’s case, I think it’s done very logically and in a way where he never needs to hop back and forth again if there’s no reason for him to, which I’d say brings some consistency to him in that regard.

What do you think of Silver the Hedgehog?

He's one of those characters like Shadow where I appreciate him more for how others interpret his character, because I don't want the official version of the character hanging around anymore.

I know people like him, and how they think of him is fun, but he (and Blaze the Cat) are like the epitome of characters that shouldn't still be appearing in stories and only get dragged back out because they're fan favorites.

Except, you know, most of the cast are fan favorites. This was the same problem that lead to games like Sonic Heroes and the prevailing term of "Sonic's Shitty Friends."

Like, okay, sure, we brought Shadow back from the dead. That genie's already out of the bottle, we can't put him back in again. Knuckles is still kicking around because we eventually claimed to have solve his need to guard Angel Island or whatever. Also one very non-canonical anime OVA gave him the line "I'm Sonic's best friend" so I guess that's just true now?

But Silver the Hedgehog has been double erased from the timeline. Figuring out how to defeat Iblis in the present should have nullified the existence of his future, and when Sonic and Elise blew out the flame in the distant past, that would have also nullified the existence of his future.

Similarly, Blaze the Cat hopped from Silver's doomed future into a new alternate future where she became a Princess somehow, and it was supposed to be this very tragic psuedo-death for their relationship. Letting Silver and Blaze freely hop back and forth around the timeline, both to chill with Sonic and chill with each other, actually really sucks in terms of that being an important moment of character growth for them.

What people are doing with him now makes me really enjoy him being this kind of dumb, naive, hopeful guy, but he really does not need to be around outside of "but the fans want him here." And that's not good enough for me, because Sonic fans seem to want just about any bone you throw them, at all times, regardless of the context.

You could bring Heavy and Bomb back and probably still get a standing ovation, which is to say nothing about how perception of Big the Cat completely 180'd over the last 25 years.

We don't actually need Silver. I'm sorry.

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Do you do sketch request

When I feel like it, but not at the moment

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Not a single monkey survived the Neuralink experiment. I’ll bet Elmo can’t wait to start torturing and murdering human beings with this.

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Robin

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God I wish that were me

tiki BEEAM

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Wishing everyone Happy Holidays!

Art By: @deegeemin

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I’m very happy that SEGA and Sonic Team are treating Sonic’s continuity with care and importance now but my god if it hasn’t poisoned the well and enabled a terrible vice within the community as I see people trying to figure out lore explanations for the most banal and inconsequential details (like the fucking hull number on Wing Fortress being 29), all while trying to deny the existence of the IDW book as canon, despite several of the top people working on this series saying it is, pulling off some furious mental gymnastics to do so.

remembering the other week when a bunch of sonic fans somehow convinced themselves that sonic prime is going to end with the creation of the canonical game/idw universe, like how the flashpoint event created the new 52 universe for dc. even though the universe at the start of sonic prime is already supposed to be the regular sonic universe. which is why sonic literally has flashbacks to the events of the genesis games in the show, animated using the sprites from the games like a dorkly video

minor discrepancies like "sonic and friends live in green hill" and "sonic is written as being slightly more immature than in the comics or frontiers" just break peoples' minds now, apparently. i see so many comments from people trying to wrap their brains around how prime could possibly be canon, as if the game's haven't contradicted each other in worse ways a million times before. it can't just be that this show was made before sega formed the Sonic Lore Team™ and decided everything should line up perfectly from now on. no, there has to be a HUGE LORE REVEAL that will explain why sonic acts slightly more annoying in the new cartoon

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An artist : Aw man! I saw my arts were reposted on Instagram. I’ve asked them to take my arts down but they ignored me.

Me : Say no more! Click this link, then click ‘fill out this form’. Fill the form and wait for about 1-2 days, the staffs will remove the image you were reporting from the reposter’s account :^)

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Quick resp. Tiki

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LOOK AT MY GIRL

New discoveries await. Half-body order for AlexArtsHere of their Fire Emblem OC, Freya.