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the further i get into season 4 of tma (know i am not finished with it yet) the more baffling the fandom portrayal of melanie as a feral punk angy knife lesbian who hates john for no reason is to me. her arc is literally about getting mental help. What are you people on

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arthare lester and john doe be like what if two animals had the worst time of their lives

+ them being normal critters

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jackalope arthur lester you mean so much to me

malev animal au stuff under the cut//

ive sorted out a whole - animal/furry/hybrid thing/whatever you want to call it - malev AU and it is very truly my favorite thing ever

arthur is a jackalope because its just the right amount of whimsy and also hes just a cute little bunny in my head always

uncle bit his ear off 😭😭😭😭💔💔💔

look at the guy below and tell me this isnt arthur lester??? TELL ME

american fearsome critter Lester…

my John design is already based off of an owl because the ‘Malevolent’ Logo reminds me of an owl face around the ‘evo’ part. so that had to stay - John is a Burrowing owl & Yellow is a Barn owl

i cant sit here and list what every character is in my little AU but i’ll say:

Noel is a red fox and Parker is a grey fox - noel and parkers voices are so similar in canon and I like to think Arthur notices this himself. this is just a fun way to reflect that.

Oscar is a lamb. for reasons.

Faroe is a duckling & Addison was a sheep

Yorick is a generic canine skull (preferably a wolf skull) because I like that for him <3

benevolent ref ^

close up on john and yeller + artie

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✷ 𝔴𝔢 𝔪𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔰𝔲𝔭𝔭𝔩𝔶 𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔩𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 ✷

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blood and whiskey / the mechanisms

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quick painting from last month :) it’s a redraw of the last pretty Arthur I painted in March

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life cycle of the arthur

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"And remember when you fell down that hole!" "Which one?" "...Remember falling down holes?" Congrats to @gayghostrights for winning the animation raffle I hosted during Invictuscon 2025! They requested Arthur falling, which is of course a very Arthur thing to do c':

Thank you so much for being patient with me! This was so much fun to animate!

No motion lines under the cut!

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The only light in the Dark

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I feel like it’s a hot take, or maybe I’m bad at reading tone but I don’t think Bella “deserves” to be able to hit Arthur.

Yell at, yeah. Remove from her life (assuming she was living), of course. Physically harm, no.

Maybe it’s just a joke that’s going over my head but it makes me nervous to see so many people say that not loving someone and missing childbirth is a bad enough crime to make Bella deserve to actually beat Arthur.

Arthur has done a lot of bad things but those two are no where near the top of the list.

Or are the jokes assuming that Bella knows about Faroe and that makes it okay?

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Arthur with curls

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sketching some jarchivist

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best thing a character can do is collapse in despair and guilt clutching their head saying "god I hate what I'm doing I hate myself I need to stop it's so terrible I NEED to stop" and then not stop ✨

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FINALLY settled on how I want to visualize incorporeal Yellow, and sketched up John as well while I was at it:)

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started listening to Malevolent the other day

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A little bit of sweetness