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All of my old art back in 2023. (I was really getting into happy tree friends...)

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I am too embarrassed to go outside bro.. everyone saw me chasing a damn chicken out 😔 I look pathetic

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I forgot how distance works 😭 sorry

Lmao I'm cracking on how terrible this turns out

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Doodles because I can't sleep tonight [ insomnia moments (⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠෴⁠ ⁠༎ຶ⁠) ) so I made this shi doodles.

Don't mind how Lawrence look sad (⁠っ⁠˘̩⁠╭⁠╮⁠˘̩⁠)⁠っ

Crap I wake up everyone up 😭 lmao

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I was hoping to discuss a little bit about Strade, Ren, and authenticity. I'd love to hear all of your thoughts.

During one of Ren's endings, he shows the MC some of Strade's snuff films where he watches with a big smile plastered across his face as he eats chicken hearts and wears Strade's clothes. He speaks fondly of Strade as he does this. It's understandably uncomfortable to watch, as throughout this route, we haven't seen Ren revel in sadism quite as much as he does with the films (I'm aware he makes the MC kill Lawrence, but we don't really see his reaction until afterwards, and even then, he seems a little shaken up by it). I'm sorry, Ren, but no matter how much you insist you're the same as Strade (right down to collaring the MC and wearing his clothes!) I refuse to believe this is actually you.

Yes, Ren has a sadistic streak. We see it when he enthusiastically uses the shock collar on us for the first time. However, the tapes are the only other indicator of this trait. Some might protest and say all the routes where he tortures MC in the basement are examples of this, but he doesn't do this out of a desire to hurt us. He does it as a punitive measure. He does it because he's angry. He does it to assert himself as the proverbial 'man of the house'.

In the first game, there were only two times when Strade genuinely got angry at the MC. Once if the player refuses to say anything. The other time if the player hurts Ren. Every other time he tortures us, it's to scratch an itch. It's to satisfy his terrible curiosity of how we react to various forms of pain. He didn't imitate anyone else or try to assert his dominance, because he didn't need to. Strade was exactly who he was, not who he was trying to be.

Compare this to Ren who doesn't even know how to work the nailgun Strade would use to torture people. He has to delude himself that he's Strade so much, that he even goes so far as wearing the dead man's clothes. When the MC points out that Strade is a psychopath, Ren gets angry and repeats a line that Strade probably told him many times, "the strong survive and the weak die! That's the way the world works!" It's complete bullshit. Strade didn't kill people to fulfill some sort of Darwinian bioessentialist imperative. He did it because he didn't know how to do anything else. It was a lie he told himself as much as Ren.

With him being a confident smooth talker, he probably could have convinced any number of people to be in a relationship with him, but he couldn't control his darker impulses and as a result, the only way he could convince Ren to stay with him was by literally forcing him into slavery.

As an aside that probably doesn't need to be said, the whole 'survival of the fittest' nonsense is just that: nonsense. Human society was and is able to exist precisely because of mutual cooperation. It didn't come about by a bunch of early homo sapiens stabbing each other. Even the most morally bankrupt criminal enterprises ensure a basic level of cooperation, or else the whole thing would fall apart.

As far as Ren praising Strade and his snuff films, does that seem genuine given the above context? Because it feels more like a performance (how appropriate that in TPOF, he becomes the one thing more horrible and depraved than a torturing murderer: a streamer/j). He wants so badly to be Strade, but the truth is, they're hardly alike. When Ren captures the MC, he cooks them a canonically delicious, homemade meal. When Strade captured the MC in BTD1, he gives them a fucking candy bar.

In BTD2, if the MC complains that they're scared, Ren flips out and fires back that they have no right to be scared with how nice he's been. In his defense, he's not 100% wrong. He has treated us much nicer than Strade treated him. This is something he clearly takes pride in, and it's yet another way that the two are nothing alike. Ren will then proceed to force the MC into the basement where he tortures them. Again, done out of anger, punitively. Strade never had to convince anyone that he was a murderer, he just was.

All that to say, no matter your craft, be it writing, drawing, painting, etc., pursue it solely for the passion of doing it. Strade never did what he did to imitate anyone, get fame, respect, or power. Neither should Ren and neither should you. Strade never apologized or felt self-conscious about his work, and I feel that's a lesson we can all use. When doing something you love, make it authentically yours and approach it the same way Strade approaches his crimes: as freakily as possible.

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Ohhhh! Akira akira my beloved akire 🙌 gotta replay cuz I love him

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HE ANGYY!!!

My favourite thing about Lawrence, is that he makes the cutest angry faces :3

NO TALK HIM! HE ANGY 😠

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Finish and unfinished art all over again. >:(

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HAPPY EASTER hunting WIP!! (Don't like how mason turned out so I'll adjust that in the final.

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gonna replay BTD2 Tonight I’m soo excited ! ໒꒰ྀི˶˃ᆺ˂˶ ꒱ྀིა 🎀

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*CHASES* 👹

*Ren is running towards you.(>v<)

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Grrrrrr I lost my motivation wahhhhh 😞💔

Anyways I'm crashing out today 😭🛐🥀

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Yes I'm studying artstyle don't mind the cat censored lol and the 4th picture is my old artstyle and the mushroom Oasis one too. Maybe I'll draw mychael in my recent artsyle lol

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:3 yeayy

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I ran out of ideas :( so I made renlaw for funsies

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I think this game is so adorable :] bo is so cute

Don't mind how ugly the shading is-

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Yoooo sickk!!!!!!! I love it!

Strade and Ren 🐺🐺🐺🐺