February 17 2024
1 year ago, to this day, my friend bought me Sonic Frontiers. It has now been 1 year of me being completely hyperfixed on the blue blur, his twin tailed brother, and all the others. I can't thank my friend enough for what he did.
I will be taking a week or two off from posting, just as a small break.
In a year, there have been
646 drawing pages (at least, saved on my phone)
2 au's (Re:Donely and Road Trip)
So many friends and acquaintances (if you know who you are, pat yourself on the back)
Hundreds of laughs
Dozens of au's I've become obsessed with
Too many times where I redesigned a character
and 1 year where I have certainly smiled at least once each day.
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Sonic wanting to help Knuckles so badly but not at all understanding why he can't just chill out and entertain himself has me going feral.
As if I'm not insane enough about them forming a bond while being two child victims of a war that wiped out each others' families??? but I digress.
The way their last interactions with their parental figures played out speaks such volumes about who they eventually became.
Sonic's final instruction from Long Claw was to stay hidden and to never stop running. Eventually, Long Claw changed her tune in the message she left on the map to the master emerald, but until then she had made it abundantly clear that she wanted nothing more than for Sonic to just live his own life far from danger.
Sonic took this to heart. He never stopped running, physically and emotionally. He's all about fun and self-distraction, and while he eventually overcame that pressure to stay hidden in order to take on a more heroic role, he does what he can to live up to Long Claw's expectations: live his own life and be himself.
On the opposite end of things is Knuckles.
He said he was "trained since birth in all forms of lethal combat." Knuckles was set up to go to war from the moment he hatched, and the last thing that his father said to him was an assurance that he would one day bring honor to their tribe.
So that became his main goal from then on. He fought his way to the ends of the world until he was renowned as the most dangerous warrior in the galaxy. He spent every waking moment trying to track Sonic down so he could fulfill his destiny and reclaim the master emerald.
He, like Sonic, lived a life of isolation, dedicated to honoring the memory of a dead parental figure, but while Sonic never stopped being his own person, Knuckles never quite started being his own person.
He remains with the Wachowskis to honor a vow he made to Sonic and Tails. He tears the living room apart so that the household pet can face his "greatest enemy." He goes on a road trip with Wade to help him train after he gets kicked off his bowling team.
How can he just step back and entertain himself when all "himself" has ever been is what he can be for his tribe? Old and new?
How is he supposed to relax when he has probably, no exaggeration, never relaxed a single day of his life?
How can he take a break from being a warrior when being a warrior is all he has ever known?
He literally didn't know the definition of the word fun until Sonic taught him how to play "base of ball."
What has been Sonic's coping mechanisms his entire life are, to Knuckles, completely counterintuitive and alien.
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Operation Love - Chapter 1, Cover
❤️ Prologue | Next Page ❤️
We're back!!! Happy pride month, the comic will update Wednesday AND Saturday all throughout June 🌈☁️
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SONIC BOOM: Revisited | Issue 1 | Title Page
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So... been having ideas--LOTS of ideas--for a comic that sorta... does a lot of the stuff I would have loved to see Sonic Boom do? Like... mainline stuff but a bit more comical? Basically I got... 3 Arcs planned out, each lasting about 3 issues with 20 pages each. So that's about 9 issues with more to come after that. Issue 1 is in the coloring phase. Wanted to post this as a teaser for that. My goal with this is just gonna be to have some fun with art things and playing around in Sonic's World :)
I won't spoil the plot, but if you've seen my other post where I talked about some concepts I've had in the works, you'll have a general idea!
Open to questions about the project as well!
Logo-less version under cut:
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OPEN YOUR HEART ITS GONNA BE ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLRIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT YEAA
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i totally missed out on doing a drawing for eid al-adha last month, but i thought it would still be cool to share some of the other eid outfits i made for all these pals earlier this year!
they were very fun to draw!
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