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join the party, we need to start the trend of kpdh ocs

WHERE IS THE CROWD IN THE KPDH FANDOM WITH OCS???? AM I SERIOUSLY THE FIRST????

So uh, K-Pop Demon Hunters. I am waiting, listened to the main song. I like the girls, the demon boys, I have the release of the movie on my calendar.

I am VERY interested in the Rumi x Jinu thing, and I am thumbs up with Rumi being half demon but hiding it.

BUT THIS POST IS ABOUT MY OC FOR THIS MOVIE-

So Aeji is kind of another rival for Huntrix and Saja Boys, but being a more solo act. She's aware of Huntrix's identity (demon hunters) and she is like "eh, idrgaf but don't go after me and anyone else I know"

Aeji is Jinu's oldest crush but never confessed to her and the other demon boys tease him about it.

Her getting with Rumi and Jinu is very fanfic and yapping worthy but I need the movie to come out to see the Rumi/Jinu romance RAAAAAAHHH

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I'll say it, a big KPDH hot take (KPDH SPOILERS):

This growing fandom is really missing the fact that Jinu publicly hurt Rumi (exposing her half-demon heritage) just so he's not the one suffering more than he is with his issues with Gwi-ma.

Like I love their relationship and I also wish the movie gave more for everyone but a lot of others are forgetting those scenes just for the sake of a possible happy ending.

There's nothing wrong with wanting Rumi and Jinu being a couple, I adore them too. But maybe open your eyes to the lowest betrayal Jinu did to Rumi at the Idol Awards. Like, don't skip that part or turn a blind eye to it.

Make it make sense in your post-movie fics. Make Rumi, despite relieved Jinu is free, still feel bitter and resentful to him for hurting her. Make her get panic attacks about the incident at the awards, despite being at peace with her demon half. If you write where she's able to get Jinu back, make her confront him again about what he did and make him work to heal their relationship.

TLDR: don't be ignorant on Jinu's betrayal. Just because he's hot and highly shipped with Rumi doesn't excuse him doing the worst to her to save himself only.

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Watched the movie and I'm not over it AAAAAAAAAAA

time for hyperfixation

WHERE IS THE CROWD IN THE KPDH FANDOM WITH OCS???? AM I SERIOUSLY THE FIRST????

So uh, K-Pop Demon Hunters. I am waiting, listened to the main song. I like the girls, the demon boys, I have the release of the movie on my calendar.

I am VERY interested in the Rumi x Jinu thing, and I am thumbs up with Rumi being half demon but hiding it.

BUT THIS POST IS ABOUT MY OC FOR THIS MOVIE-

So Aeji is kind of another rival for Huntrix and Saja Boys, but being a more solo act. She's aware of Huntrix's identity (demon hunters) and she is like "eh, idrgaf but don't go after me and anyone else I know"

Aeji is Jinu's oldest crush but never confessed to her and the other demon boys tease him about it.

Her getting with Rumi and Jinu is very fanfic and yapping worthy but I need the movie to come out to see the Rumi/Jinu romance RAAAAAAHHH

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breaks down door

ITS BAAAAACCCKKKK

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These cookies are driving me insane

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the more i work on my Ninjago rewrite, the more the demons in my head say to take stuff from the Monkie Kid show and throw them into Ninjago

granted, i stopped watching the show and following up with the fandom but i love the characters a lot (macaque and lbd to be specific) so if i drag these characters into my rewrite, no monkie kid tags because im pretty much done with anything involved with the show

the urges to draw concepts is killing me

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from Sony Pictures Animation twitter

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Official FAQ because why not! Time to explain a lot of things!

BIO

Hallo, I'm LobaJustDoodles / Mr Voidess! I'm an African American Genderfluid in the US; pronouns She/He/Vois/Luns, He/Him preferred along with masc. terms. I am a hobbyist artist and storyteller, working on AUs and OCs for fandoms and for my original projects. I recently graduated high school and aim to work in Forensic Science & Criminology in the later future in college.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Bluesky | Instagram | ToyHouse | UnVale | Telegram | Ko-Fi | Patreon

Q&A

Gen Questions:

Q: "What's your intended audience for your socials?"

I am more comfortable with people following if they are at least 17+. I really don't feel comfortable with anyone 14-15 or ageless accounts following my socials. My space is curated to my likings, and I will block to keep my space safe and enjoyable.

Q: "Why did you leave certain mutual / fandom spaces? And will you return to them?"

Short answer - My reasons. And no, I won't return. Long answer - Leaving mutual spaces and fandom spaces are different but are similar in a way. Most of the time, I leave these spaces because of how my motivation and things that happen offline that affect me, and with what I experience or see around that gives off a bad vibe. For past mutual spaces, 9 times out of 10 it's because of things that gave off a weird vibe and burnout and not feeling like I really belong in the area. For past fandom spaces, it's mostly because of how the fandom acts within the community and interacts with the main media. As for returning, I never try to go back to a space I, by then, feel uncomfortable with. At most, I unfollow/block and mute the things/people of the past and move on to new things. I highly suggest if you are someone I knew from these experiences and spaces, stop block evading and let me live my life.

Q: "Where are you most active?"

I am usually resting and offline, but when I am fairly online, I am in the comfort of my mutuals-only discord. I do not mind making a technical public discord, but I am not that well-known in fandom spaces to reach that far (not that I mind). I'm fine where I am!

Q: 'Where do you post your art other than Tumblr?"

I mainly post on Bluesky and on Telegram. With the notice of people putting artist art in AI on Twitter, I do not feel comfortable posting any artwork there. I will post over on Instagram every month or so, every blue moon.

Q: "How can I support you?"

I have a Ko-Fi and Patreon! (both in heavy refurbishing!) For Ko-Fi, I plan to set up commissions there and sell adopts. You can also subscribe to my Ko-Fi membership tiers or simply send in a donation! For Patreon, this will be where I post most BTS things and other types of works! This space will become 18+ in the future so please, do not become a member if you are younger than 18!

Q: "Can we be friends/mutuals?"

Please don't expect us to be friends for simply following each other. You have to drag me into your space and interact with me to be considered a friend/mutual of mine. If not, I will only see you as a fellow follower who either engages in the posts or lurks around (which is alright). Don't push trying to be friends, it makes you look parasocial and that's an easy block.

Art & Fandom Questions:

Q: "What tools do you use to do artwork?"

I use CSP (Clip Studio Paint) PRO; Vers. 4 and Procreate as art programs. I mainly use a Artist 13.3 Pro XP-Pen and iPad Air 3 or GalaxyTab Android tablet.

Q: "What brushes do you use?"

Fair warning: I am a brush hoarder. My brushes tend to flip flop around because of my sensitivity and stabilization. But my sets will be on Ko-Fi sometime later this month or in July!

Q: "Aren't you a yumeshipper?"

I am (mostly doing OC x Canon), but as someone who falls for characters physically and aesthetically very easily, I have my favorites: Lady Death - Roblox Pressure Lloyd Garmadon - Ninjago Ballora - FNAF Pierce - Aphmau: My Inner Demons Narinder / Heket / Shamura (separate) - COTL Longan Dragon / Lotus Dragon / Latte / Red Velvet (separate) - Cookie Run Alva Lorenz (Hermit) / Ithaqua (Night Watch) / Grace (Naiad) (separate) - Identity V

Q: "How many OCs do you have for fandoms?"

Too many to count. Most of the time if I forget about them, I make new OCs in their place until I randomly remember them.

Q: "Do you still do PPT/SC (Poppy Playtime/Smiling Critters) content?"

Short answer - 50/50 that is looking to a no. Long answer - I have been unmotivated to work on anything for these fandoms out of burnout or leaving mutuals spaces. Of course, I love the characters, and the OCs I have made for it, but the amount of AUs I've concepted and have not done anything further leaves me in doubt of getting to work on other fandoms I enjoy. So, content for PPT/SC is in a hiatus with a low chance of returning. I enjoyed it but it looks like I'll be moving on from it nowadays.

Q: "Where's your stance on blocking people?"

I block freely and also if there is a callout post about someone. I try to block on all social media I have, but if I somehow missed one, let me know!

Misc:

Q: "Why the change from lavenders_artistry to lobajustdoodles/mrvoidess?"

My old account handle never sat with me and most of ex-mutuals knew me by "Lavender". I wanted to embrace my nickname "Loba" more, honestly. The "mrvoidess" is part of my personal online brand, "misspara_melontea"!

Q: "Is the picrew your sona? Do you even have a sona?"

I have many designs of my persona, as it is a shapeshifter! The picrew is just one of many designs for my persona. The main design is still in the works as of now, but hopefully I will be able to draw a full piece with him!

Q: "What is Hellfire Spiral and Nandi's Clock?"

Hellfire Spiral is a storyline of my personal interpretation of some biblical storylines and worldbuilding for both Hell and Heaven and the Earth. Yes, from a high distance, this looks like I'm rewriting Vivziepop's Hazbin Hotel. But I'm not and I wish to not have Hellfire Spiral be compared to a storyline that cannot stay in the concept that was originally thought of. Hellfire Spiral is essentially me being theistic satanist and pagan and diving into the biblical text on Wikipedia and other sources because why the hell not. Nandi's Clock is an OC storyline, branching away from an ex-mutual's witches/supernatural storyline because me and this person aren't in touch anymore. At most, this storyline takes all OCs I have made in the past and giving them a better purpose, if they're not being smothered into new fandoms I leech onto. My OCs are my children and as their parent, I put them in chaotic situations. Both original projects do have a tag, but I will rarely post anything on them. And Nandi's Clock is in my Unvale!

Q: "What's with you drawing characters, mainly women, hot?"

You're in the space of an aroace omni-sapphic that gets attraction physically and aesthetically. Also, I just do, lol-

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Local protagonist would like to stop being the universe’s special boy

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💙🩷💛The Ivory Dragon's nicknames for their beloved💕

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WHERE IS THE CROWD IN THE KPDH FANDOM WITH OCS???? AM I SERIOUSLY THE FIRST????

So uh, K-Pop Demon Hunters. I am waiting, listened to the main song. I like the girls, the demon boys, I have the release of the movie on my calendar.

I am VERY interested in the Rumi x Jinu thing, and I am thumbs up with Rumi being half demon but hiding it.

BUT THIS POST IS ABOUT MY OC FOR THIS MOVIE-

So Aeji is kind of another rival for Huntrix and Saja Boys, but being a more solo act. She's aware of Huntrix's identity (demon hunters) and she is like "eh, idrgaf but don't go after me and anyone else I know"

Aeji is Jinu's oldest crush but never confessed to her and the other demon boys tease him about it.

Her getting with Rumi and Jinu is very fanfic and yapping worthy but I need the movie to come out to see the Rumi/Jinu romance RAAAAAAHHH

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It's been plaguing my mind for a few minutes but I can confirm I do like Beast x Ancients

BUT IM VERY DECISIVE ON THEM

welcome to my TED Talk about the ships and how I see them working (UTC):

(please keep in mind I never had interest in the Beasts until Eternal Sugar came around and my social media got raided ShadowVanilla)

MysticCacao

This ship has a lot of potential of Mystic Flour being taught by Dark Cacao to regain her empathy for cookies. I see that Dark Cacao understands what happened with her (overwhelmed by the requests of her followers and saddened/disheartened by what happened in her absence as she isolated herself to calm herself) and understands she wanted to help cookies like before, but does it in the wrong way.

By this, I see interactions between these two as Dark Cacao becoming the "teacher" to Mystic Flour, showing that things in the past would not happen now in the current timeline and that her past empathy and desires to help have not disappeared, but need a direction to be moved. (also apparently Mystic Flour cannot beat the resting bitch face era if she's being caring to Cloud Haetae sooooo a start)

I mainly ship these two, they can work so well together and can learn from each other a lot❤️

EternalHolly

Being honest, this whole episode made me get back to Cookie Run for many reasons. Eternal Sugar is one interesting Beast, her motivations are like Mystic Flour in a way (wanting to do good but goes about it wrongly) but she's also very cruel about it, mostly mentioned and through context clues from other cookies. (looking at you Pavlova and Sugarfly)

And with the recent episode of Hollyberry awakening and promising to return to Eternal Sugar's paradise to teach her the lost passion Eternal Sugar had for cookies, I see it working between them. Granted, I think Eternal Sugar (once given the chance of redemption) should immensely work on rewriting her wrongs of what she did to cookies of her paradise first and foremost and lessen her immense obsession and objectivity of Hollyberry.

I do ship them, but I glide a little towards SugarCheese (Eternal Sugar x Golden Cheese) and i could make it poly👌🏾

ShadowVanilla

ShadowVanilla. The biggest Beast x Ancient that plagues all social media. Not very much of a fan of how they woobify Shadow Milk and act like he doesn't cause the problems around Beast Yeast.

The dynamic is.... something. Shadow Milk mainly projects onto Pure Vanilla to the point where he turns Pure Vanilla to a different coin like he did. He's lonely in the sense of fearing to be the only Beast as he is, willing to tear others (even the other Beasts) down for company. And Pure Vanilla, once awakened, tries to show that there's opportunity to see the in between of lies and truth, which Shadow Milk is like "no" and is in denial about everything. (I haven't gotten to this episode so if I'm wrong on this analysis, correct me)

I do not ship them, I really can't. Shadow Milk needs a lot, A LOT, of help (therapy for the blue jester twink cookie) before getting with someone. I will throw him at a OC when it happens-

BurningCheese

I will say it here: I personally cannot ship these two together.

A lot of people say it's weird to ship them because of brutality on black women and harmful stereotypes, but I don't think that is much of the case for them. For this ship, I think the main focus of why people don't like it should be more on how Burning Spice is adamant to kill Golden Cheese himself, rather than watching someone else do the job. And also how he wants her to end him to end his depression of watching civilizations rise and fall countless times without changing the flow as the being of change itself. I think sizing this ship down as "brutalization of black women and harmful stereotypes" should be the LEAST of worries, coming from a black person.

These two are more-so comrades like from Genshin Impact with the interactions between Tartaglia/Childe and Player; can become great friends and make each other better people for not only themselves but to others around them. It may help with Burning Spice's identity as the being of change.

I also cannot bring myself to ship them, sorry. Would ship Burning Spice with a OC, tho-

Also since Silent Salt and White Lily's episode isn't out yet, I have nothing to say about their ship because I want to see the episode air and play through it enough to get a understanding of them.

With this in mind, I agree with most that say the Beasts can be redeemed with their Ancient counterparts giving them a push into the direction of being good and normal people.

It's just for some cookies (staring at Shadow Milk and Burning Spice) I can't really see getting romantic with their Ancient. Any other cookie (OCs included), yeah, but with the Ancient counterpart is just a no for me.

But yeah, there's my TED Talk on the Beasts x Ancients and pretty much my stance on shipping the Beasts in general.

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⚠ THERE IS SO MUCH MISINFO ⚠

⚠ Please reblog what you actually need to know about DomoAI in Discord ⚠

DomoAi is one of the multiple AI companies that has partnered with Discord. They now have their application in the list of downloadable apps integrated into discord. DomoAI IS an AI image generator, DomoAI IS NOT a "silently added bot" infesting your server. However, that doesn't mean it's all good.

1.) Banning the bot's ID (1153984868804468756) DOES NOT stop the application from being run. It is a user-side downloadable extension. Banning the ID from a server only means that the DomoAI bot cannot be added to the server; however, users can still run the application even in a server with the bot banned.

2.) Disabling the "Use External Apps" in a server's "Roles > Persmissions > App Permissions" DOES NOT stop someone from running the application. The only thing "Use External Apps" controls is the visibility of the messages that the app sends in a server; "enabled" is visible to all, "disabled" is visible to only the app-user. The DomoAI app is still run whether "Use External Apps" is enabled or not.

3.) The only way to stop the use of the DomoAI app in a server is by banning the person that used it. This is a link to a GitHub bot that will automatically detect and delete DomoAI image output as well as ban the user that ran the DomoAI application.

4.) DomoAI claims that they do not save your image after generation, or train their models on your images. It is up to you to believe them.

TLDR: DomoAI is an application that is downloadable by any Discord-user, not a bot that is sneaking into every server. It cannot be completely walled off from use in a server except by directly banning someone that uses it (or using the Discord bot linked here to detect DomoAI images and ban the user that ran it). If you do not trust the application to not steal your art/images as they claim, you should most likely not trust Discord with image/art-sharing from here on out.

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To everyone in the art community, please:

Tracing is effective. But only as a learning tool. Telling people "never trace" can be robbing them of methods that could have been effective to their learning process if they'd known about them.

The "art of using tracing" is a bit looked over, so I have five points:

(it's a long one)

1: AS A RULE OF THUMB, DO NOT POST/SHARE TRACED AND STOLEN ARTWORK. This is not only lying to anyone you show it to, if you're trying to come off as, "I'm so good, look at what I did," but most importantly, it's lying to yourself. You'll trick yourself into not needing to get any better, and you will stagnate if you start to rely on tracing as a form of stealing. If you come to realize that you are, you should stop using any tracing methods altogether to keep yourself from abusing it. It's a slippery slope for beginners, and a big reason why you’ll hear almost everyone echo that you just shouldn’t trace at all. The issue is that this ignores the ways that tracing can actually be good.

2: Tracing sets the stage for motor skills/hand-eye coordination. I've seen so many early-stage beginner artists get upset that the art that they make of their favorite character/oc is messy, or maybe they just don't even know what they want to draw and can’t "make themselves mindlessly doodle.” These early arists then become completely disheartened and upset, especially if they start to look at other people for comparison. Tracing over work or even over photos is a way to train your hand to hold and wield a pencil/stylus properly without you being worried about the finished product. Think of it like a way to dip your toe into learning the process of what making art feels like, without having to get overwhelmed with searching up pointers and people telling you, "10 quick tips to become a master artist!!!!!!!" (<- please ignore those) If you’re just beginning, your hand-eye coordination needs to be trained, and you shouldn't bog yourself down so much thinking about end products just yet, so if tracing is the way to get you started, go for it. If you're a bit more experienced, tracing and drawing over reference can also help you warm up without being committal or stressing your art brain too much.

3: Practice "mindful tracing." While I said the previous point was targeted more at beginners, this point is actually about something that experts in their field use. Doing "mindful tracing" over art means that you aren't worried about getting the lines "correct," you're studying why those lines are there. You're taking note of where the shadows meet the highlights based on the light source, how it shows off the forms, and how sharp or soft the lighting is; you're going over the lines of action in the piece to see how your eye is guided by the artist's intention and planning; you're seeing how characters may be stylized into shapes and the feeling that those shapes can give; you're noting how the artist uses line weight or weird blocks of color or stark breaks to split up the art or separate ideas within it; you're experiencing the flow of the poses within the artwork to grasp how that kind of thing feels; you're breaking down the overall composition like in a thumbnail sketch; and the list goes on.

"Mindful tracing" ends up looking like you've marked up an English essay: it should be messy, because the intent with it is not to copy or replicate, it's to notate. It's like how literally writing notes on things helps you remember better than if you only read it. You're acknowledging instead of just looking. And you can always learn, even from styles that you don't intend on actually using. As you get to be more experienced, you may come to realize that you can do "mindful tracing" analyses on artwork without having to literally write over top of the piece, which is great: that means you're improving your creative brain, and prepping it to be able to break down your own works in this way as you make them.

4: Trace for specific character or style studying. For this point, I want to especially stress that this is what makes everyone say, "don't trace," because this is what tracing is most commonly associated with: art theft. There's really no excusable reason to repost someone's art in this way.

I feel like you have to be a bit more experienced to properly use tracing specifically for style studies. The benefits that come with tracing a certain style is that it can quite literally teach your hand/brain to recognize the patterns that are present. You get a feel for how far apart a specific characters eyes are, how big their hands are, how the shapes of the body make up their form, how the exaggeration in the expressions feel, and when traced you know you have all of these proportions correct. This makes it so much easier to start drawing the specific character on your own if you know that you have a correct baseline (and of course you should still use reference from then on). When you study many different characters of the same style, you can start to grasp what actually makes up this style that you're studying, where -similar to point #3- you train your art brain to recognize the original artists' intentions and ideas. I would even argue that doing this is MORE IMPORTANT than using reference at the very beginning of a style study, because it makes you worry less about if you're pulling from the reference correctly and instead lets you focus on the original art by thinking through it during the process; this kind of thing is done by professionals. Although tracing can net you these benefits for studies, it is not a way to get around the rest of the learning process, which is the pitfall that normally ends up making tracing ineffective.

5: Lastly, I actually kind of lied about tracing "only being good as a learning tool." The other case where tracing gets used is within the process of making hand drawn animation, and I do mean the professional stuff. Model guides are constantly used in classic animation as reference to keep by the animator's side so that characters stay on model, but sometimes there are unnoticeable parts of a character that just get straight-up traced from either the model sheet or a different scene that's already animated. When used smartly and sparingly, this keeps the character on model, is unidentifiable to the audience, and takes up less time for the animators to work (and by "used smartly" I don't mean moments where characters blatantly have 5 seconds of reused animation). I can basically guarantee that this practice was done throughout the making of any 2D project you can think of.

In digital hand drawn art, key frames between points in an animation may get the "shift and trace" treatment, where the tween frame is just a smudged-around-version of the key frames until it looks about right, and then it get traced over. Backgrounds get traced all the time by artists in the professional field through modelling a 3D render of the space, going over it so they have the layout, and then painting on top of it. When drawing characters, people will take photos of themselves and trace the pose, then keep it to the side as reference. And this is all without even mentioning rotoscoping.

When people say, "don't trace," what they actually mean is, "don't trace as a substitute for experience."

The issue is that people blanketly state, "x thing is bad," because then people that aren't learned in the field go, "oh, okay, x thing is bad, it will always be bad, I shouldn't look into it or consider it any more, and I should correct/disgrace anyone that thinks otherwise or does x thing."

So please. Trace. Tell other people to trace. But remember: trace mindfully. :)

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I think the other reason I don't really get into ships as portrayed by fandom culture is that it seems like the mindset is more like. "I want these characters to be in a Romantic Relationship(TM)" instead of "I want these characters' relationship to be romantic"

What I mean here is that, so often I see pairings enacting romance tropes to the point of heavily altering or downright replacing their original dynamic - as if the people behind it only understand romance as a series of checklists to tick off. Couples like to kiss and sleep in the same bed and flirt with each other, so it doesn't matter who the characters are, if they're a couple then naturally they'll do those things, right??

And that's where the whole thing starts to lose me, because I would assume that the appeal of shipping characters is, y'know... the characters? Rather than just, the idea of a couple? If I'm thinking about how it'd be cool for them to be in love, my first thought is always "so how would they show it," because just like everything else about a person, the answer is going to be different on a case-by-case basis.

Maybe the characters involved aren't really into kissing, but they like arranging date activities. Maybe they aren't committed to the structure of dating at all, and just want to be around each other whenever they can. And even if they are the types to like doing traditionally romantic things, that doesn't suddenly erase whatever else they had going on before they started adding that on top of it.

I'm not saying that the more typical romance tropes and activities are bad, just that they're applied kind of excessively, regardless of whether or not they actually work for the characters involved. I want to see my favorite characters having relationships that are true to who they are, not what the stock depiction of a couple says they should be.

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