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The Two Doctors made me uncomfortable but I thought the bit where the music kicked in as Jamie stabbed Shockeye was immensely satisfying

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Chaos! (they/them)

so Chaos, like Arrokoth is a contact binary, so there are two guys rattling around in there. however Chaos is a bit lesser-known than Arrokoth so it's lobes don't have their own names. also, one two-headed character is a fun novelty, but more than that and it gets a bit boring, so Chaos exhibits the contact binary condition in a different way, implying a collision that left the two lobes very tightly combined.

And I realise that a character that is actually two characters sharing one body being called Chaos sounds, right off the bat, like a terrible representation of DID... which was not intentional. I didnlt really set out to be like "this one has DID" but with Chaos having two individuals inside them, the similarities are there and I don't want people being made uncomfortable by them... and I certainly didn't help by giving them the goofiest little villainous grin... but I am going to backtrack a bit and say that neither of the Chaoses are particularly chaotic.

"Pink Chaos" is a sweet and happy-go-lucky little fellow, whereas "Yellow Chaos" is fast-thinking and assertive. "Pink Chaos" has control of all the body except for the yellow eye, which "Yellow Chaos" has control over. Both share the mouth, and often decide between each other what they want to say.

haha this may be a thing where nobody actually would have been made uncomfortable by Chaos and I've just twisted myself in a knot trying to justify myself and now I just look weird on the internet, I'm sorry DID havers

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saw a beautiful angel outside the window this morning (ichneumonid wasp)

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Would you be willing to make LGBTQ+ birds, too? No pressure!

LGBT (loon, gannet, booby, toucan)

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please tell me other people will get this

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LMAO I FORGOT THE ARO FLAG HAS FIVE STRIPES INSTEAD OF FOUR THAT'S WHY IT LOOKED WEIRD

Tell a straight guy that he may be aromantic TODAY! The results will ASTOUND YOU!

my contribution to pride month this year

I'm on a mission to put all my childhood OCs on the a-spec, it's like carcinisation for them

so Arsenic is next up (it's not like I just thought of this though, Aro Arsenic has been simmering in my head for a few months)

Copper has always been conceptualised as "oh she's just not into relationships" so she was aroace as soon as I learned what that meant and subsequently came to identify with it

every time I draw Copper I am reminded of how much I love and cherish her

whereas with Arsenic, it's whether I'm drawing him pre-arc or post-arc that dictates how much I want to mash his face into the pavement

the middle text is placeholder for "the arc" that happens

oh and to clarify: Arsenic is specifically aroallo. Aromantic heterosexual. just to justify the #aroallo tag because I know of things having been in that tag that aren't really on-topic, and that being a bit of a point of contention for aroallo people. Copper is aroace but the comic is about Arsenic.

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i can't believe that that was the first time I've shown anthro element cats designs on Tumblr

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Tell a straight guy that he may be aromantic TODAY! The results will ASTOUND YOU!

my contribution to pride month this year

I'm on a mission to put all my childhood OCs on the a-spec, it's like carcinisation for them

so Arsenic is next up (it's not like I just thought of this though, Aro Arsenic has been simmering in my head for a few months)

Copper has always been conceptualised as "oh she's just not into relationships" so she was aroace as soon as I learned what that meant and subsequently came to identify with it

every time I draw Copper I am reminded of how much I love and cherish her

whereas with Arsenic, it's whether I'm drawing him pre-arc or post-arc that dictates how much I want to mash his face into the pavement

the middle text is placeholder for "the arc" that happens

oh and to clarify: Arsenic is specifically aroallo. Aromantic heterosexual. just to justify the #aroallo tag because I know of things having been in that tag that aren't really on-topic, and that being a bit of a point of contention for aroallo people. Copper is aroace but the comic is about Arsenic.

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i love getting a comment on a space cat but it turns out that it's from a bot

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Dziewanna hang out sometime?

(she/her)

deep in the random TNO sauce with this one

Dziewanna is likely the most calm, collected and down-to-earth member of the Scattered Disk, to the point of sometimes being a bit monotonous.

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that's a sea lion

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ehehehe what if I redrew all the element cats again wouldn't that be funny lmao

(i don't like the element cats artstyle anymore)

maybe i'll alternate space cats + element cats

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ok well I got a bit sad on a tuesday morning I'm going to watch YT videos and draw my silly little ocs now

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and you know I realise, I'll never get people interested in my characters if I don't engage with the art community at large but sometimes I'm like, is there anything really here that people can latch onto? I try to think of little scenarios to put ocs in but then I'm like 'how did they get here' 'what is the context' 'i need to explain all these other things that are going on in the background' and then I just don't draw the hypothetical scenario which may endear an audience to my character and then i have no audience

cynically and bitterly I'm thinking "well I don't draw a lot of shipping or conventionally attractive people, most of my main characters are short, crusty aroace girlthings" but there are a lot of people who are into that genre of character

but because that genre of character is kind of extrapolated from how I am, I'm like "what is the appeal of me specifically, in real life?" I'm kind of isolated as it is, I worry if, when I get to university, people won't want to be friends with me. I'm a square, I'm quiet and I'm scared of inserting myself in conversations unless someone specifically talks to me because what if they don't want to talk to me? And hopefully the geology/paleontology course could fast-track me into camaraderie at the very least, but I worry that I'll just go there, keep my head down, not make any friends, go to my flat after the lectures and draw my silly little ocs to post at nobody.

sorry my followers who do look at my stuff, you are appreciated and I am always very happy to see a heart or reblog in my notifications 👍

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hhhh I don't know if I should finally participate in ArtFight this year...

on the one hand, I have had no preparation, the designs of my favourite characters are in shambles and am I really just going to draw other people's designs for an entire month???

one the other hand, fossils and crystals??? it's the geology artfight!!!

(i also think i may be a little bummed out if I don't get any art back, and sometimes I do struggle to conceptualize my characters having any appeal to the wider populace...is anyone going to be willing to draw Yka now that she's a weird bug?)

perhaps the fomo will kill me, or perhaps there will be a drama that makes me glad I didn't do the artfight

decisions, decisions

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finally got Amber Isle to reward myself for finishing exam season

and I have named my shop NeoRenovators (despite my chosen appearance not being a Neovenator - I believe I am a sort-of Caudipteryx-type guy. I would have loved to approximate a Sivatherium but there are no options to make ungulates in the character creator 😔)