#because it's normal and something unique

[idkimnotreal]

stimming a lot tonight. like usual, no idea why. probably from forcing emotions in because of the dm situation. and also it’s one of the first hot days of the year (season) and my fan is on and i just spent an hour without earplugs.

but it’s getting annoying.

[codgod]

y’know generally i try to limit colour palettes to as few colours as possible to make things more cohesive but despite my best efforts only jay ended up being able to stick to that </3

ANYWAYS here’s the as-of-right-now fully updated designs for these dickheads. these will no doubt undergo even more tweaking as i draw them more but this is a start i guess. also pls open the pictures to look at them properly i worked so hard LOL

some random notes under the cut yaaaay

chip —

he jingles when he walks. somehow he’s still stealthy. i do not know how

kept the platinum ring that bonded him to gillion in the block! because hey he doesn’t really have a reason to take it off (and it’s a nice reminder of how much gill cares about him, and how far their friendship has come since that ice arena)

his tattoos shift and flicker like actual flames, and sometimes (harmless, purely aesthetic) sparks fly off them when he’s excited

i just think smoke coming out of his mouth when he’s angry would be cool :]

chipped teeth from biting rocks and coins all the time :/

he has scars from the red lightning, they’re just mostly contained to his back and shoulders. they’re a similar red to his coat even once they’ve healed

gillion —

the tail sleeve thing is so he can rest it on the ground without damaging his scales, he doesn’t usually wear it when he’s just on the ship because the wood is soft enough that it’s usually fine + it can hinder swimming a bit. it’s mostly meant for places where there’s cobblestone or gravel streets and such. i think his armour would probably have a version that looks similar but covers the whole tail minus the fins, maybe with some armour plating of its own. i didn’t draw it because there wasn’t any room lol

his scars from the lightning are pink mostly because red stood out too much tbh. they softly glow in the dark the same as his coral and the pink parts of his fins

also kept his ring! his hands aren’t really made for jewellery, though, because the webbing means it won’t sit very secure on his finger. so he keeps it on the same chain as the necklace he got from aslana to keep it safe

tried to make him look a bit bulkier and more his age than in my original design? i feel like i was leaning too much into the naivety and. shortness. originally lol. he also has thicker eyebrows now and i’m still trying to decide how i feel about them but i think? i like it? i don’t tend to give many character thin eyebrows so it could’ve been a unique thing for him but alas

i think i made the sword too small but like ignore that

also forgor to include pretzel </3 that’s okay though she can get her own design sheet later. she’s special like that

jay —

i believe in tall jay supremacy

blue magic! i was considering gold but that’d look a bit more like a canary than i wanted for her wings so. blue jay :]

her hair is supposed to look kinda like fire to mimic her dad ! kinda showing that even if she runs from her family and the navy they’ll always be a part of her. and also i just like drawing messy hair

i gave her sturdier gloves just because i feel like it fits her better. also changed up the shirt to more of a button up solely because i don’t like tank tops very much LOL

i did WANT to make her outfit a bit flashier to match the boys better but i couldn’t quite figure out where to Put the flash. maybe that’ll come later, the way the story’s going i might get to design some cool prosthetics for her or something

overall —

because there’s just so many fucking colours i triiied to add at least one or two colours from each of them into the others designs. jay has her necklace with each of their main colours on it, her wings are the same blue as gillions eyes, her jacket and right eye are the same dark blue as destiny’s blade, her hair is the same orange as the lighter part of chips tattoos. chip has a dark green sash under all the belts, the same as the hilt of destiny’s blade. they all use the same shades of black, gold, and brown

the only real exception is gillion doesn’t have anything from the other two because he has Such a specific colour palette and he already had so much going on as-is orz jay was obviously the easiest to do this with because she has both warm and cool colours in her palette by default lol (and i did her design last, so that helps)

[feline-evil]

Hiding my shirt that says 'i am not normal about narratives that imply an inanimate inhabited structure is a living breathing organism' as i walk into a board room and pitch my idea that we should make more horror revolving around living architecture

[shopcat]

help someone just liked my pinned then unliked it because people for some reason think you can't see that and literally one look and i knew what it was that made them not follow lol 😭. weirdo... seriously though do people forget notifications exist or something

[serufu]

Meowdy pardners, It's been a while since I've posted any gposes of Aery, but I made this new glam and the inspiration just hasn't stopped flowing yet for shots, here are some of my favorites so far!

[ink-asunder]

The post that goes "maybe it seems pretentious to you because you only watch bluey," but this time including the inverse "maybe you only think bluey is 'deep and meaningful for a kids show' because it's the only kids show you watch."

[mothheart]

Zelda struggled so hard to get her sealing/light powers to awaken in botw and only could do it when she saw Link about to die for her and made sure he was taken to the shrine of resurrection before she made the journey to the lost woods alone to entrust the master sword to the deku tree so it was ready for link when the time came. Making the journey back to hyrule castle and facing Ganon alone knowing she would be stuck there for so long while Link came back from the brink

And in totk she struggled to master her time power to go back to her time and resorted to desperate measures to ensure Link would get the master sword in the future and save everyone despite knowing she would lose herself in the process

I don't have anything special to say I just can't stop thinking about this

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

You know I’m scraping the bottom of the barrel for extra credit in my assignments when I’m trying to pass-off my fursona as some kind of clever marketing strategy

[coldgoldlazarus]

Self-inserts as in "This character is very clearly a combination of the author as they percieve themselves to be and the author as they wish they were" will always be superior to self-inserts as in "this character is not even a character but a grey faceless personality-less void of genericness for lonely dudes with regressive attitudes on women to project themselves on like the worst possible version of those theme park face-cutout standees"

[menelaiad]

helen being smart does not make menelaus stupid.

[voidoffline]

Wasn't able to find what your ocs names were but please!! Do tell me about them and what a sleepy confession from one of them would look like!

I’m actually not sure if I’ve posted there names before- wow. Honestly it’s ironic considering their names are technically their given titles by society. ‘Abyss’(whose name I had technically stole forever ago so I had to change their name shh) ‘The Librarian’ and ‘The Butcher’. And as slight background context first, these ocs come from a world/town that’s shockingly similar to the town in welcome to nightvale (a fictional podcast I hadn’t even known about when I made my main ocs world lmao)

Abyss doesn’t sleep nor do they really need sleep but they can get ‘sleepy’. If they use to much of their power or spend a lot of time struggling to keep form -their body’s made of shadow- then they get tired basically. And when that happens they basically turn into a sleep deprived person. And I feel like some confession from him when like that would just be like ‘Oh yeah I accidentally killed a dog earlier.’ But said casually. Abyss is - well a child, so they don’t have a full concept of death, especially with the way their world works and death isn’t always permanent. He would’ve learned to keep dark stuff to themselves, but they totally would just sleepily be like ‘I killed a dog on accident’ and ruin everyone’s dinner lmao

[widevibratobitch]

took a bunch of clothes to my mom's to wash them since my washing machine is still down and she said 'ill do it dw about it' and threw my favourite white top in with the colours. i no longer have a favourite white top :)

[barnabybrainrot]

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[seknots-izumimir]

i love that elizabeth signs her messages with "Sincerely yours, forevermore, Elizabeth" its just. so cute

[unnerving-presence]

not even a vent but something i’m mildly frustrated about is that for my entire life i’ve never felt normal or that i fit in and i keep seeing these fuckin tik toks and youtube videos about autism and adhd but i don’t want to self diagnose and i also don’t want to be hurtful and think i might have it so there’s this built up frustration inside of me every time i watch a video about it because THATS FUCKING ME but it’s also probably not lol i’m just a weird person who happens to do some of this shit haha

[floralovebot]

Sometimes I don't understand this Winx fan's mania of wanting to redesign everything Winx, the characters... even the planets. I understand that each one can have their own headcanon, but there are already incredible designs in the animated series!!! You just have to expand them!!! Don't redesign them to suit your personal taste!!

Sometimes I wonder if these people really like Winx Club, or they just like it because of what it made them feel in their childhood, and nowadays they don't like it very much but the nostalgia is so strong, that that's why they make these redesigns, they change everything about the characters, so that it is more to personal taste.

I understand that art is an expression... but sometimes so many things change, I don't know what to think.

I've even seen them for rewrites... do they know that I'm going to imagine the story with Winx's designs and not theirs?

Sorry for the rant.

I mean,, I don't think it's fair to say that all redesigners hate winx and just have strong nostalgia. As much as I bitch about the fandom's racism, I'll always be incredibly supportive of the amount of creativity and freedom of expression that fans have here. I've seen some fandoms where every little headcanon and redesign gets scrutinized for literally no reason. Not to bring up hp in the year 2023 but I once saw someone bitch at an artist for drawing hermione with dark brown hair. Like. The winx fandom is honestly one of the only fandoms I've been in where people are encouraged to share how they would change things. (not the only fandom of course, but it's definitely not a thing that every fandom does).

That being said,, I do see your point with some redesigns feeling like it's just hating on the og winx. I think most, if not all, of the people who are really active in the fandom, have a winx sideblog, or just post a lot of winx are very much doing their redesigns out of love. But every now and then, you'll see a redesign where the poster just,, shits on winx for no reason. Like,, I've especially seen a lot of outright misogyny and internalized misogyny about the winx wearing skirts and dresses and being princesses. Like sorry you can't imagine strong female characters with personalities who also wear skirts sometimes. deal.

And again, I have no problem with people just redesigning things for fun and wanting to see how things could be expanded or even improved on, but I've definitely started to notice more of an,, ego complex where some people act like their redesign is the absolute pinnacle of society and the og winx (and occasionally other redesigns) suck shit. Like no dude you're in the same camp smoking the same weed as the rest of us calm the fuck down.

I mean,, I'll always be more in favor of redesigns and headcanons. I think it's a really special part of the fandom! But I also understand why it can be jarring and even upsetting to see people take these characters and places and just,, get rid of every canon aspect to make it what they Want instead of just expanding on what's already there. At that point, it definitely feels like someone just wanted to play in the winx universe but didn't care for any of the actual aesthetics or lore. It also feels like a slap in the face when people completely change a character's entire personality and call it a headcanon like no babe that's not stella winx club, that's generic blonde girl #3. Literally just make your own oc at that point.

I mean again, I'm never going to just shit on someone's headcanon or redesign just because I Personally don't vibe with it. But I am going to call out racism. Always. And someone spending hours creating something doesn't absolve them of being racist.