#im really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really curious

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[marciaillust]

an Angel

[catmask]

i think im going to give up on naming my mascot and just call it 'the creature' or critter forever now. like, giving it a different name than my own feels completely wrong, but calling it by my own name feels wrong too, its like the bite sized version of me and my personality so its not ALL of me, but its also not NOT me. the critter

[dreamatduskk]

dogy again

[jelliannn]

DCA x PRESSURE AU Z-18 “THE NIGHTTERROR” half machine and half amalgamation 😍😍😍 FULLY MOON

[blamemma]

when you have the HEAD OF BRAND PARTNERSHIPS for cash app, one of the main guys to ORCHESTATE the deal of the VISA CASH APP RB racing team IN TEARS ON HIS INSTAGRAM STORY BECAUSE EVEN HE DOESNT KNOW you have to seriously start asking questions about how horridly red bull have treated this whoooooleeeeee fucking thing? hearing him say lets bring the honey badger back ignited something in my current desolate soul

[nattawins]

So you're taking another step back? Love Next Door (2024), dir. Yoo Je-won

[noodles-and-tea]

i had an idea but idk its a little out there. dipper is smart, but i was like him once and i think he’d get burnt out fast. mabel has been shown to be smarter than she lets on, as well as curious and interested in the strange and unusual.

relativity falls where mabel fell into the portal and dipper had to clean up and run the shack. mabel would adventure around space & time, surprisingly making lots of friends. theres a little short comic about how mabel went to the mabel dimension and allied with them to defeat evil mabel, so i think she’d be really good at making allies wherever she goes. also i’d really like to see mabel jumping over some frog dude as she runs from the time police.

dipper would be stuck at home, trying so hard to bring her back, while running the mystery shack, trying to balance all of these things and it overwhelms him to the point where he becomes a shut in, and nearly like a cryptid or urban legend he’d read about.

also your art is so gorgeous and cozy!!! i love it so much :D

IM SORRY I DIDNT DRAW MABEL JUMOUNG OVER A FROG DUDE

[falconearring]

Do you have any designs for Decked Out/Empires S2 Tango?? I'd love to see if you do, I adore your art of him 🙏 (keep up the good work, also taking this time to say how much I love the zombie au 😭💕)

I have only drawn him like 2 times total ! But here the two instances are together (plus regular flavor). I wanted to draw so much DO fanart at the time when Pearl and Etho were super consistently posting runs but I guess I was busy at the time cause I pretty much drew nothing lolll

[shadows-coffeebeans]

Dog Man yaoi real‼️‼️(bonus Petey doodles under cut)

[mohntilyet]

continued rook-lucanis sketches from the last week or so <3

[bunnieswithknives]

How much can you fit under your skin?

For @warning-heckboop's AU :3

[orphetoon]

(looks at myself) the strugglerrrrr

[yaoisquidbob]

awkward hugging

[buttercupbuck]

sue me im rewatching 7.04 but i can't express how much i love the truly insane bit of dialogue between buck and maddie where maddie, normal, asks buck if it was really that chris wouldn't stop talking about tommy, or if it was just that buck kept pressing chris for intel, and buck, unwell, objects that he actually didn't have to press chris for info at all because eddie's out here blasting his infatuation with tommy on display via (1) entry on a fridge calendar (that may or may not have been hidden under a takeout menu) that he's even had the indecency to circle, like a whore

[crybabydaydream]

do u wanna make me cry??