#bigenderzadkiel

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Spotlight #12  - BigenderZadkiel/Umbrakinetix (Shank)

Tell us a bit about yourself: I’m Caspian, or Shank in streams! I’m 18 years old, left-handed, and a Sagittarius. I’m hopefully starting university in the fall, and I’m torn between becoming a teacher or a doctor. When I was a kid, I went to a science & engineering camp, and every summer, without fail, someone would end up duct taped to the wall and/or barricaded behind several feet of paper cups and scrap metal. This is the reason I am who I am today. When did you get into the fandom and how did you stumble upon it?  Hmm… it was the spring of my sophomore year when I really started following SaM seriously, I think. I’d seen the original post on my dashboard before, of course- who hasn’t?- but I didn’t know there was more until someone I used to follow started posting about it! Even after that, I didn’t join the fandom For Realsies until early summer. I can still remember how I ended up in the stream for the first time. My beloved goldfish had been ill for some time, and I finally had to euthanize him that afternoon. I was heartbroken and looking for something to distract me on Tumblr, and Orange was streaming, and I just jumped in. The rest is history.When did you get into the fandom and how did you stumble upon it?

Who are your favorite characters/pairings? As for ships… Natan is almost a given, but I also like Graph, Raphriel, Ganthea, and I LOVE ZADKIEL AND MICHAEL SO MUCH END ME. Yup and Raguel are my precious sons, also, and Lucifer is… Lucifer. And I love him for it.

Favorite moment in the comic? WHEN LUCIFER CRIED OVER NAT’S BODY UWU but I also love every single interaction Lucifer and Michael have. All of them.

What is your biggest inspiration as far as your art goes? Usually, when I draw SaM art, it’s inspired by a potential shitpost that would be more elegantly expressed in an iconic form. On rare occasions, I’m inspired by music or a poem. When it comes to original art, though, I’m inspired by music and Serious Stuff just as much as I’m inspired by my own shitposting.

What would you say is your favorite piece that you’ve done so far? After the update where Michael threatens Gabe with the Tank came out, I drew the “I won’t hesitate” vine, but with everyone’s favorite dysfunctional archangel duo. It was garbage and my laptop gave up the ghost three times while I was working on it, but I thought it was funny. It’s still over on my old blog, @bigenderzadkiel.

What would you say is one of your favorite things to draw? Blood’n’tears :-) I love drawing battered, beat up, and discouraged characters so much. Also battered, beat up, and determined. I’m sure the human body can’t actually survive losing the amount of blood I like to splash around my drawings.

What do you think influences your art style? ...I hate to admit it, but anime. I try my best to branch out, but the stylized, overdramatic kind of art you see in anime and manga is just so fun to draw.

What are some of your hobbies you enjoy? Drawing and writing and reading, mostly. I also cosplay, and I’m an amateur vlogger.

Before joining SaM, what was a fandom you were part of and are there any fandoms you’re into outside of SaM? I’m not really big part of any fandoms beyond SaM. I was fairly active in the Homestuck fandom during the Golden Age, but beyond that I’ve mostly kept to myself. I’ve really gotten into Star Wars and Transformers this past year, though, so who knows? Maybe I’ll get more involved in those fandoms, too.

Is there anything else you’d like the fandom to know about you or anything you’d like to say to the fandom as a whole? *insert bee movie script here* But in all seriousness, sometimes all you can contribute to a fandom is bad jokes and conspiracy theories, and that’s ok. Not everybody can be a powerhouse writer, or an artist, or an cosplayer who defies all laws of physics. It’s the little things- the projects, the memes, the banter- that hold a fandom together. So keep posting jokes in the tag and the streams! I promise, you’re contributing something beautiful and unique and team-building- laughter*insert bee movie script here*

Please check out Shank’s blogs and show them some love!

http://bigenderzadkiel.tumblr.com/tagged/shank%20draws (old blog) http://umbrakinetix.tumblr.com/ (remade)