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oh my god. i made like three posts to this account and then dipped i apologize. i've been using the internet less and less anyway so it's not surprising but also haven't really drawn a lot so meh. anyway here's some random two more eggs/homestar runner doodles (and some yapping about them under the cut)

i've been wanting to start a youtube channel for a while and i think if i do i'm gonna use hot dip as my avatar (while making it abundantly clear he's not my character ofc) because. blob man. he's literally me. hence why he's wearing a sloshy jacket too it represents both of the things i can't shut up about

and hector and kovitch are supposed to be a young adult version/outfit type deal, where hector is in a sloshy jacket (i drew him first before the hot dip one lol i am not good at outfit design) as a reference to homestar. originally in the sketch kovitch was gonna wear a taranchula shirt but then i realized oh wait panda bractice is right there. i think they would both go to concerts with each other even if they hate the band just because the other likes them

completely irrelevant fun fact that somewhat influenced my older kovitch design: the youtube upload descriptions use he/him for kovitch in buy this game but she/her in the sleepover series and i know that was definitely just a mistake on disney's part but i like interpreting it as kovitch being transfem. i might be the only person in the world with this headcanon and it is based on a mistake but oh well. not enough people know about this series enough to get mad about any headcanons i have for it so i have free reign (/j)

also a small page of homestar runner doodles i made while incredibly incredibly tired. like i woke up from a nap and my sketchbook was in front of me. in my state i correctly clocked that coach z would go to hell but not strong bad which is interesting. not sure the choice behind him and homsar being angels but oh well. i like homestar sitting in the grass drinking iced coffee though that's the most tranquil thing i've ever drawn

alright see y'all again in six months when i remember i have tumblr installed. and thank you for reading if you did

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sorry for posting again so soon, but i finished the first page of the reference post for strong cat!! i wasn't expecting to actually finish it today hence me posting it earlier too, whoops!! and woo boy, is she ugly layout-wise!! i haven't done a character sheet in so long, i'll probably end up redoing it later when i've gotten more of a template down - but this'll do for now.

i didn't clarify this in the original post but the design in the middle is supposed to be how strong bad would draw himself if he had a fursona, not necessarily how he'd look in-show (like in action figure), so i added a smaller version that looks closer to what he would look like in canon :3 thank you so much to @garfield-69 for doing a sketch of strong cat earlier after i posted the first part, i was inspired to add the closer-to-canon drawing because of him!!

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what if strong bad was a kitty named strong cat and instead of "deleted" he said "purr-leted" and instead of trogdor the burninator it was vacuum the cleaninator. that would be funny, i think

in tradition with turning characters i like into furries (i have done this exactly one other time), here's strong bad if he was a cat fursona!! i'm working on a full reference sheet i just haven't finished it yet, but i wanted to share something from it because i'm not sure when/if i'll ever finish it overall

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what did strong sad ever do? if anyone you would need a strongbadapologist

(note: I headcanon strong sad as transfem and will be using she/her throughout this post out of habit, sorry if that's confusing)

SHE DIDN'T!!! that's the thing, she's done NOTHING TO JUSTIFY HOW SHE'S TREATED!!! at least not to the level that she's mistreated!! i'm going to have a TL;DR up front because dear god can i rant about how mistreated she is in the show!! and i will under the cut!! sorry if this takes a while to actually post it is after midnight and i have work in about five hours so i might stop writing in the middle of it!! but anyway back to the ask at hand!!

short version: i use "apologist" in the "i will defend this character with my heart and soul" way instead of the "they're bad in canon but i will ignore that because i like them" sort of way. i've seen a lot of people actually treat her character with the respect she deserves outside of canon but in canon she's constantly put down for things that are either out of her control or made worse by those around her, and because of this i will fight for her honor until i die. it is simply the role i have been destined to play /j

(edit: i'm also just terrible at coming up with names for things. i wanted to rebrand because my old blog name was based on an old fixation and i wanted it to represent how normal i am about homestar runner instead, strong sad is my favorite character so i wanted it to have something to do with her. and the best i could come up with was "strong sad apologist" because at the time of choosing it i'd only seen a few sbemails with her in them, but multiple were mean to her and i didn't understand why. so it's a mix of being bad at naming things and "strong sad apologist" sounding better than something like "strong sad simp" /hj)

long version: WHY DO SO MANY CHARACTERS AND PEOPLE IN THE SERIES TREAT HER BAD dude. like i'm sorry but literally the sixth strong bad email, the first one that she plays a major role in, is called "depressio" and the email reads "tell strong sad he is dumb and a crappy guy." what did she do to you?!? SIX EMAILS IN?!? h*r had been going before the strong bad emails became a series sure but BRO!!! i should clarify that i'm relatively new to h*r and have only seen the first 100 or so strong bad emails, and even fewer of the toons, but that's enough for me to be confident that she is horrifically mistreated. i've seen exactly one interaction where she wasn't being demeaned or put down in some fashion, and it's the scene from "where's the cheat?" where her and homsar are playing connect four. technically, in the ween toon where coach z asks about her beautiful house and beautiful wife, that's also a non-demeaning interaction, but it exists so they can make a reference to the talking heads, so i don't count it. and there could be more, but i either don't remember them or haven't seen them yet.

strong bad especially man, i don't understand what the hell his problem is. the argument could be made that he's mean to everyone, especially homestar and the cheat, but it's borderline uncomfortable to watch him onscreen when he decides that strong sad is apparently satan reincarnated, and he needs to haze her as much as possible to make sure she stays degraded enough to not rise up or whatever. i'm tired, i hope that makes sense. essentially, i hate whenever they're both onscreen, because it usually involves him being unnaturally cruel to her. whether it be putting her underwear up for auction to get her off the couch so he can watch tv, or putting coffee powder in her orange juice (i mean, it was decaf coffee powder, so that might just be her incredibly low caffeine tolerance, but the sentiment is still mean as hell), or using the fact that he put coffee powder in her orange juice to do a science fair project and having his end conclusion be that she's adopted, or throwing a cake in her face because she (rightfully based on the original email) assumes he's going to do something nice for her, he just can't fathom not being a dick to her. and the fact that it's implied that he gave her her belly button with a power drill...what the hell, man? i feel like a cartoon review youtuber talking about modern spongebob, this isn't even funny cruel. it's just cruel cruel.

i'm not going to pretend i dislike strong bad as a character. i think his character is at its best when he's done something douchey, but he gets rightfully called out for/put down for it. that's why i don't hate an email like stand-up like i do depressio. one feels like a rightful callout or a way to show the audience that a character who always portrays himself as an untouchable is embarrassingly human as well. the other feels like finding someone passed out in an alleyway and kicking them in the nuts instead of trying to help.

in her blog she mentions multiple times in which both strong bad and strong mad make her life worse, whether it be by having storm water drain into her room and right above her head, or by having strong mad kick/punch (i don't remember which one off the top of my head) her in the side of her knee, or by strong bad leaving sticky notes on her face while she's sleeping proclaiming how awesome he is before coming in and hijacking her blog. and that's just from one page of her blog! what's the meanest thing strong sad's done back, covering the series as a whole and not one offshoot of it? remove strong bad's couch eggs in morning routine? say that strong bad's computer that exploded and sent him flying through two walls into her room was cheap in gimmick? show the audience little strong bad's stand-up routine in stand-up? not go to the store because she went last time? that last one is from the first episode of strong bad's cool game for attractive people, homestar ruiner, and if you trigger this dialogue by opening the fridge, you can walk approximately 10 feet and find a house plant that belongs/belonged to strong sad, and strong bad tells the audience that the plant killed itself after strong sad started talking to it. and when she points out that that's not true, he says, to quote him verbatim, "that's not what the note said!" obviously, him doing things that are worse won't cancel out anything bad she's done. but that's irrelevant, because the most she's "done wrong" is say some slightly mean/insensitive comments towards strong bad and embarrasses him exactly one time that i'm aware of. is it wrong of her to show something that strong bad is clearly embarrassed by? sure, and that's a fair point. however, considering strong bad consistently participates in the strong sad lookalike contest, which she says she's insulted by (and excited by, but that's less important), i consider it completely fair game.

in my eyes, her only crimes are A. having depression (which is obviously not her fault, and it's implied that she's being medicated to help with her depression [i assume that's what her pills are for, anyway], so she's potentially making an effort to lessen her depressive symptoms), B. being depressing as a result of her mental illness (which is only exacerbated by living in a home where her housemates/siblings seemingly hate her and treat her like dirt, only having one person not actively be mean or indifferent to her), C. being overweight (which i shouldn't even have to explain why that, in no way, means she should be treated as subhuman), and D. being artsy/having interests (which she does more in newer h*r content as a way to flesh out her character besides just being depressed/depressing, so it's very unclear what strong bad actually wants besides a punching bag). i'd like to imagine that if she ever realizes her worth and moves away from the house of strong, potentially even free country usa as a whole, she'd find people who'd actually appreciate her for her creativity, either agree with or try to lighten her gothic outlook on life, and wouldn't try to sell her legs to poachers.

(...but i'm also wearing a shirt with her on it as i write this, so take all of this with a grain of salt. for reference, she also says the line "food should be consumed in the most depressing way possible" in her blog, and i just ate a bowl of pizza rolls while sitting on my floor at 1 in the morning, so maybe i'm quick to defend her because some stuff just rings too close to home for me to not defend it, lest they talk down on me by condemning things i do. especially since i actually like sloshy, which i'm pretty sure exists just to point out that strong sad's music taste is bad [and so's mine, to be fair]. i could be completely misinterpreting that, and sorry if i am. but i'm mostly partial to her for the same reason i'm partial to characters like meatwad - they're picked on for illegitimate reasons by a douchebag brother figure, and they don't deserve that at all. i could treat them right, in a platonic way. if you actually read all of this, i not only thank you, i also hope this makes some amount of sense. i am very tired. it is currently 1:54 am at the time of writing this out. i need to be at work in four hours. i've spent almost two full hours writing this one post out. i am SO fucking normal)

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get yondered idiot ha ha

NOOOO I DON'T WANNA BE YONDER WEBSITE NOOOOO!!!

(bro what?!? thank you?!? actually about to scream and cry and slam my head into the wall over this /pos. like that's my almost-sorta-me...and it's character 13...thank you again mr. homstar runner dot com)

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hello again!!! i am not dead just very unmotivated for art!!! so instead of any actual pieces (of which i have none) have a bunch of random doodles, some recent some older!!!

these first two are me trying to redo my human ignignokt and err designs from my athf phase earlier this year (still not really rocking with my err design, but i really like what i did with iggy's hair lol. i don't know what type of cut it is but i like it. like an undershaved mullet almost? not sure)

and the rest are all self-indulgent doodles of my character/persona-ish with h*r characters!!! mostly strong sad for absolutely no reason in particular (/j)!!! its name is yoinky (it/she/swag/meow) and it's a little bastard!!! the second doodle in particular is my first try at drawing strong sad which is why her arms are entirely too long!!! i'll have to actually finish these someday because i think they're cute but really messy and really off proportionally lol

(...and here's an only partially inaccurate representation of what yoinky would look like if it was a character from yonder website!!! as a treat!!!)

thank you for reading this far down if you did!! i want to share more drawings, i just haven't really had any motivation since, what, january maybe? my last pieces i did were all secret santa gifts, and the last one i did for fun was a page of garten of banban doodles i did over a year ago. but i'm trying, i actually have a big-ish project planned but i haven't started it yet. will keep y'all updated on when/if i start it though!!

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StrongSadApologist Intro Post (New And Improved!)

(WIP updating somewhat frequently, for as long as I remember to update it. Fancy drawings to be added eventually!)

Basic Information:

Name: Dignan/Kenny Bismol

Pronouns: It/its or it/he, usually depending on mood

Labels: Rabid Fictoromantic

Birthday: January 3rd (19)

Current fixation (the biggest thing I won't shut up about): Homestar Runner

Lesser interests (some other things i really like, but am willing to shut up about): Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Baldi's Basics, Smiling Friends

Dormant interests (things I've fixated on before and am likely to return to if someone gets me back into it): Two More Eggs, UNDERTALE, The Stanley Parable, Garten Of Banban, Apple & Onion

Additional Notes:

I understand not every trans person is okay with people using it/its, so if you're trans and uncomfortable using it/its for me, feel free to use he/him exclusively!

I am a very big self-shipper! My F/Os are subject (and likely) to change depending on whatever I'm fixating on, but currently my biggest one is my OC/supervillain persona Yoinky and Strong Sad from Homestar Runner (if my username didn't already give that away, haha)! So, uh, I guess don't follow if you're uncomfy with any of that! I fully understand!

My blog will be SFW in terms of actual content, but I do swear sometimes (and sometimes often)! It's become a normal part of my vocabulary, so I usually don't even think about it; if this is an issue for you, please let me know and I'll make sure to watch my mouth (keyboard?) if talking to you directly!

I'm open to art requests being asked for alongside questions, but I'm still trying to get back into drawing regularly after a long period of not doing it, so it'll probably be a while before I do them consistently. But if you see something in my interests that we share and you want art of, feel free to ask! I'm more likely to do art of my interests but am open to just about anything!

I also write sometimes, and I mostly do either fanfiction or a mix of characters I like existing in a universe with my own OCs! I probably won't talk about my writing as often, as I'm not as open with sharing it, but I may occasionally share art pieces that correlate with my stories!

I might be potentially open to writing requests? But that feels slightly more complicated/easier to mess up, so I guess it's more case-by-case.

Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoy and have a great rest of your day/night/now!

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WOW i was not expecting the love for my last sketch of bubs and coach z so uhhh more h*r stuff!!! these do not look good!!! i literally colored it with the first pack of colored pencils i had lying around because i liked the idea so much that i didn't want to reorganize my art tote just to make it!!!

but anyways this is homestar with a rabies pride flag (if you don't know "rabies pride" is a niche sort of microlabel for neurodivergent transgender individuals, just another situation of a character i like getting a label i also use because i like them lol) and strong sad with a genderfluid/lesbian flag (bc i headcanon them as genderfluid and using she/he/they pronouns)!!! and they're smiling because they deserve to!!! i don't know how much that goes against canon but gosh darn it she deserves so much more than the universe gives her!!! there's no bias here do not look at my username!!! /j

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UHHH hi. i know i've literally only made one post but i'm going to try and post WIPs and stuffthings more here. anyway here's a rough sketch of coach z and bubs dancing based on that one interaction from SBCG4AP. the sketch is definitely rough and static and off proportion-wise but alas. i'm still new to tumblr i hope i tagged this right lmao. i don't know if there's a specific coach z/bubs ship tag so feel free to interpret it as ship art or not if you're not interested in that it can be seen either way. anyway have a good day/night/now :D