#anonymous code

[fictional-birthdays]

Happy Birthday! (May 6th)

Goro (Badtz-Maru)

Kashiwankomochi (Sanrio)

Sora (USAHA*NA)

Bambi Kurashina (Anonymous;Code)

Ryo Aikawa (Love Live! School Idol Festival)

Duuke Kameyama (Gintama)

Ishikawa (Naruto)

Marina Sawada (THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls)

Keishi Fuwa (Boyfriend Kari Kirameki Note)

Tank (Animal Crossing)

Raimu (Pop’n Music)

Mitomiton (Show By Rock!!)

Tatsumi (Gintama)

Todoroki Goro (Prince of Tennis)

[burn-fire]

Anonymous code Nonoka! 3/30

Another child that I have adopted other than Asuma (I am also jealous of Oz being a parental figure to her)

[surelynotshirley]

I played and reviewed Anonymous;Code for work!

[dasketcherz]

Vat7k beach episode art? ✍️✍️✍️✍️

I'd like to take this opportunity to draw a storyboard of a particular cute beach scene from one of my current new fave vat7k fic <3

Tis the Damn Season by @gilmorenights <3

[canisalbus]

Vascos modern outfit in that recent sketch is so cool. On what real clothing is it based?

I was mostly winging it, to be honest. Last year there was some talk of Vasco having a motorcycle and how spiffy he could potentially look in biker gear, so I leaned somewhat into that direction.

But then I got kinda sidetracked and I think his coat started resembling Kaneda's jacket from Akira.

[nuria-keller-arts]

The way through his heart is compliments and you're hitting it ♥ ♥ ♥

[tmos-time]

All I got is a couple of dollars and uh a piece of gum would that be good for a small erisol doodle

crawls out of the hectic week woodwork to accept the toonie and gum. here have them both being stupid <3

[incognitopolls]

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[humbuns]

For pride requests, like, Shu has something going on. Something dysphoria, maybe ace too but maybe he moves past repulsion once he figures out the gender thing, I don't know, what's your read?

oh i 100% agree, i have always seen shu being a little uncomfortable with their existence because it reminds them that they are a little too human (in his heart and in his mind) so it will probably take them a while to realize anything in some form without layers and layers of deflections but they're getting there (this is the sole reason why i like to see shu as a gem slowly being polished, they were always brilliant but it takes time to see it and accept it yourself)

[aroaceleovaldez]

What is the PR disaster in question that made Rick announce TSATS? I wasn’t active in the online fandom at that point

Of course! This was awhile ago so it figures people don't remember it/aren't familiar:

Basically a couple years back (2020) the fandom had some posts circulate discussing the ways different characters in the Riordanverse were written poorly or offensively. There was a masterpost that went around tumblr but the two major points people were particularly focusing on were Piper and Samirah (particularly because Piper had featured prominently again in Trials of Apollo recently and the third MCGA book had further emphasized and discussed Samirah being Muslim, since it was supposed to take place during Ramadan). Basically each had multiple posts breaking down the ways they were depicted incorrectly or offensively. The entire fandom for a little bit was VERY intensely discussing this (and it's around this time the "RR crit" tag got very popularized on tumblr - it did exist before, but suddenly was being used VERY frequently - cause it was that wide-spread - though the discussion took over basically every side of Riordaverse social media on different platforms). People really wanted Rick to respond to these criticisms, so he did!

He made two blog posts, one about Piper and one about Samirah. He has since deleted both so the links are to archived versions. The short version: he essentially tried to justify his poor research and double-down that he hadn't written them offensively, actually, people were just being mean to him. The fandom, of course, reacted poorly to this.

[Further elaborated events under the cut since this got a bit lengthy]

(Fun fact, this all happened within a month or so of the time i posted an open letter on aphobic tropes in the Riordanverse that Rick replied to, and then he immediately followed with announcing that Reyna was intended to be ace-coded [which cause a LOT of fandom debate] before Rick dipped for a couple of weeks, and then came back to post the blog posts in response to Piper and Sam stuff. So I like to jokingly refer to this as "The time I imploded the fandom/drove Rick off of twitter." Twas I that set the house ablaze.)

Rick fully left social media after this and the LT Musical social media manager became Rick's social media manager for the time being.

So this all happened June/July of 2020. Tower of Nero would end up being published in October of 2020 and a few months after that Rick would state that he was done with the series and wouldn't be writing any more series installments involving Percy, and also that he wouldn't be writing a Nico quest following Tower of Nero as it "wasn't his place to" and encouraged the community to write their own versions of Nico's story.

The community continued to circulate the tumblr posts and discuss the topics of Rick's offensive character depictions, and this is also where we see the dramatic shift in how the fandom depicts Piper in fanwork (though in most cases it is admittedly not an improvement 😬) because of all this discussion. This is also around the time when the fandom brought Viria under scrutiny claiming that she was whitewashing Piper as part of the same discussions, through the justification that she was drawing Annabeth as having tan skin (which she does canonically), and if Annabeth has tanner skin then Piper then that's whitewashing Piper? Except they were using completely separate images of not fully rendered Piper art versus Annabeth in dramatic lighting, so it's all very awkward and poor logic, and did actually get kind of racist. A lot of people were calling it "Tannabeth Blackchase" (yeah, i know) or similar and a common sentiment you'd see repeated is "Don't draw Annabeth as having darker skin than Piper, because that's offensive/racist/whitewashing." (Note: it was not phrased "don't draw Piper as having lighter skin than Annabeth" - we also won't get into certain offensive depictions of Native Americans, but I digress). But yeah, the Annabeth stuff in all that did not age well at all.

Anyways, in October of 2021 however Rick would announce that he was co-writing The Sun And The Star - with a lot of heavy emphasis on how Mark Oshiro works as a sensitivity reader, and some false advertising from the official social media that Mark Oshiro was the first time a non-Riordan author would be collaborating on the series (disregarding the ghostwriters completely). One of the big criticisms in the breaking down of issues in Rick's writing was his lack of ever seeking a sensitivity reader, and fans claiming that a sensitivity reader could solve a lot of the problems. This was basically Rick's "look! I totally listened!!!!" (though it did little to actually improve things, based on the book) and in TSATS as well Piper gets a large cameo at the end where the text very directly addresses a lot of points made in criticism of Rick's writing of her.

We also then of course got the CoTG trilogy later, explicitly stated to be for advertising purposes for the show.

So basically, short version: Rick came under scrutiny for a lot of offensive writing within the span of two months, made some bad blog posts doubling down about it, left social media. TOA ends. Rick says he wasn't going to continue the series/write what would become TSATS. Community celebrates the end of of the franchise but also continues to discuss Rick's poor writing and the blog posts at length. Rick suddenly announces TSATS and Mark Oshiro's involvement. Everybody gets distracted from being mad. Show announcement stuff also happens and the discussions peter out.

[technovillain]

YOUR ART GOES SO HARD TYSM I LOVE TRANS FEM DEAN AND EGG DEAN LIKE SOOOOO GOOD CHEFS KISS MWAH I HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT WEEK AND FIND $50 ON THE SIDEWALK!!!!!!!!!!!♥️♥️♥️

i did not find 50 dollars this week but i did find this new drawing for you :]

[anonymouspuzzler]

by the way i'm gonna be at pax east 2k25

just kind of walking around and chilling for short bursts all four days but i WILL be there. and if you run into me i WILL have limited supplies of TREATS AND GOODIES I CAN HAND YOU

treats i will have:

3 villain coded sticker designs

bizness card

a selection of heartbreak gulch stickers on behalf of @strangegutz, plus an eddie sticker i made also

VERY limited supplies of two different strangegutz prints, plus

ALSO very limited Dolby zines from @male--wife

i don't know exactly what hours i'll be at the con nor where i'll be when i'm there, but i'll probably post about it day-of. until then simply plan on asking every single white woman you meet at pax if they're Puzz in hopes of Sticker Of A Middle Aged Man

[http-tempted]

raise and shine, babe. You’re not the one, and neither are they.

[andorerso]

Rebelcaptain is probably the first ever m/f ship in history to get the gay ship treatment by canon (this is mostly a joke but also kinda true)

you're right actually though!! sibling allegations, "they're just platonic coworkers", "why can't people just be friends?", shoving one of the characters into a different lackluster romance instead.... lmao it all lines up

[staffs-secret-blog]

why does trending stop at 8 and not 10

I believe in a base 8 numeric system

[allastoredeer]

I never thought about it, but you're right! Alastor has strong John Mulaney Energy.

To the point where I can absolutely see this: Angel: *Holding an odd looking antique bottle with amber liquid that was tucked in the back of the hotel bar counter.*

"Hey, do you think this is alcohol or perfume?"

Alastor: *Already more than a little tipsy. Snatches the bottle, pops the stopper, and chugs the whole thing in less than 30 seconds.*

"....Perfume."

*Crashes to the floor.*

God, I need to draw or make an animatic of Alastor with John Mulaney skits. You know the one about the kid who stole family photos? I can imagine that between Alastor and Lucifer, and all the family photos are of the Morningstar family. He’s even got that huge portrait in there.

And Lucifer just: why