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A redo of this comic from 2019!

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Image description under the cut

ID: Comic drawn in a scratchy, sketchy style.

The first panel is a shot of a person's torso centered on his chest, where a faucet is protruding from the center. The faucet has a flat circular knob on the top like ones found in gardens, and the person's head is a sketchy messy circle. He is shirtless and has stretch marks. Text on either side reads "There is a faucet in my chest."

The second panel has a shot of the person as a child, still with the faucet in his chest and a scratchy circle for a head, wearing a t-shirt and shorts with sneakers, sitting on a nondescript stoop. The text next to him says, "It's always been there." To the side of him is another image of himself but as a teen, wearing a t-shirt and hoodie and with his hands in his pockets. Text next to that image reads, "Ever present." In the middle of the panel, text reads, "Creativity leaked from me, thoughtlessly, childishly." Next to that is an image of the faucet, a drop of rainbow-colored water falling from it, with a hesitant hand over the knob. Next to that is the text, "The occasional drop of creation, a doodle, a story." The next image is the hand on the knob, the faucet about to pour, and the text, "Putting in effort, thought, turned the knob."

The third panel shows a burst of colors from the faucet, the person's head a much less messy circle. The text reads "And it couldn't turn back after that."

The fourth panel shows three glasses, a metal bucket, and a clawfoot bathtub full of various shades of water, collectively a rainbow. The text reads, "I filled so many sketchbooks. Creation became who I was."

The fifth panel shows the faucet rushing with water, with the text, "Sometimes it's a LOT."

The sixth panel shows the faucet flowing a much thinner stream, with the text, "Sometimes LESS."

The seventh panel shows the faucet flowing I bit stronger, with the text, "Fluctuating by the day, by the moment, but sometimes."

The next panel shows the faucet stopped, with only a few drops that haven't fallen yet, with the words, "It stops," small and spaced apart from each other.

The next panel is a thin shot similar to the very first panel, but smaller, and the person's body language seems more distressed. Spaced on either side, there's text that reads, "Usually it comes back, but..."

The last panel has the text, "Not for a while, this time," above a detailed image of two metal buckets and four glasses, all empty.

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I just had some...thoughts... about sticking animal heads on human shoulders. Bear with me.

I think the reason some anthros look really strange (I’m looking at you, Skyrim) is because animal skulls don’t attach to their spines the same way ours do. Our spines and skulls are very vertical, but many animals’ are closer to horizontal.

Some people solve this by giving the animal skulls a human skull shape on the back. But, to me it makes them look somehow bald(??) and just kinda weird in general. If, instead, you change their necks to curve so that the spine still connects where their four legged counterparts’ do, they no longer look yucky! (And also don’t need a hair-do!)

This seems especially applicable for animals like big cats, cows, and lizards — animals whose spines attach very horizontally to their heads.

Anyway, enjoy some more art I did while having these very specific thoughts.

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You ever meet a friend at an airport and tell yourself beforehand "I'm not going to dramatically run up and jump-hug them, I'm an adult and I have self control" and then you get so emotional when you see them that you do it anyway?

Yeah

(As always Kelley belongs to @askthepandoranhero)

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"Neat."

Based off this exchange-

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Originally, I was gonna give BL1 Ven more of a cowboy-themed look, but that idea got scrapped in favor of the final design

Cow skull mask still kicks ass though

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Somewhere deep in the forest of Forever Fall, a snake hides licking his wounds

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RWBY au? In MY Borderlands oc???

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Every time I open my weather app and see "severe thunderstorm warning" it feels more like I got a dm from god and it just says "sup thotty :) fuk u specifikly 2day :)"

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This felt inevitable

Characters in order (left to right)-

Kelley of @askthepandoranhero, Tartus, Giada, The Alchemist, Radhika, Tiberius, Claptrap of Borderlands, The Dingo, Venin, Clementine, and Clay of @calculativesuggestions

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Gfhfg forgot to post these

Middle and right are Kelley @askthepandoranhero & King @askthehyperionintern

Prompted by @mildmanneredking

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Digi-Ven au thing! Because I have nothing else to do in quarantine except Think my Thoughts

(Gonna be postin a bunch of au stuff, cause all the Venin art & sketches I've been doing lately are,,,,,,,, almost exclusively noncanonical)

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Drawing in Pokémon's art style is,,,,, tricky

Alt outfits under the cut!

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Pre-sequel to 2! :D

You can find the big beef blond Kelley at @askthepandoranhero!

*Blood warning under the cut!*

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Having RWBY on the brain helped me think of this: a hilt guard that roulette spins for different effects

Full animated, un-watermarked version with explanation on my patreon!

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Un-watermarked version up on my pareon!