xxlotusethoxx

[xxlotusethoxx]

hey followers. have you ever wanted to know how it feels to be inside a bag of cornflakes

[xxlotusethoxx]

Begging you plzplzplzplzplzplzplzplplz- i would keep going but it seems pathetic wet cat now so I desperately need Grian and Impulse as cookies or Scott and Martyn

HEHE HELLO!!

So here is Grian as Milky Way Cookie (strictly for the eyes and the sweater)

Impulse as Pitaya dragon! This is definitely me inserting my Impulse is a dragon headcannon, however I think it turned out well.

Martyn as Clotted Cream Cookie! He have me so much grief because I originally wanted to use Royal Margarine Cookie but I couldn't find a good sprite, so I posted for Clotted Cream and remade his giant ass coat

Scott as Cream Unicorn cookie! This one also has a heavy am out of Bias because this costume already looks like Scott to me lol

[xxlotusethoxx]

boy just wants to live…. 🥀

[xxlotusethoxx]

hugs and kisses xo

[xxlotusethoxx]

I'm a Flower Ranchers fan solely because I think it's really funny that Jimmy and Tango are Ranchers and Scott is literally just a fancy horse (unicorn) like idk I feel like we can do something with this.

[xxlotusethoxx]

You underestimate my joy of hearing my friends yap about their aus, or yap in general…I’m very much a listener

i have so many AUs with Helsknight in them,,, sigh cannot wait to be good enough at drawing to draw all of them, all of my Helses

I need to rant about my Helses to someone who hasnt heard them before 😭. My 5 friends have had enough of my shenanigans, I'm sure..

[xxlotusethoxx]

I had tooooo! I love DDVAU and Etho is just a guy like agdkajdhabdjs.

They’re amazing, and awesome and the character design! And they BAKE! I bake they’re literally me.

Plus I mean I’m super proud of him and I love @kitsuneisi and @xmaruu11 ‘s work on this amazing gem of a comic

also my sketch :3

[xxlotusethoxx]

Y’all ever met my baby? My son? My absolute favorite OC to draw? No?

You want to? …also a no?

To bad here’s Azalea

He’s a llama and yes yes I digress he started as a Hazbin OC

ALSO HELLO?! @edel-twice you amazing person for doing the art trade with me for my babyyy

[xxlotusethoxx]

absolutely cannot get over this cold open from etho’s let’s play 13 years ago

[xxlotusethoxx]

very much so am aware of that :3

LET ME IN LOSER /aff

Mleh, you do know this is a public post right?

[xxlotusethoxx]

it...really just takes one to tango folks

MY INTERNET CUT OUT THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE POSTED RIGHT AFTER THE ANIMATIONS I PROMISE ;U;

first, a finished art piece in a hot minute that's like...not a sketch? even my old avian refs were sketches send help

heres a sketch thats actually clean WHATISTHIS

if yall could reblog or give a comment or like it'd make my day<3 still trying to gain popularity since I had a no-posting period for a few months ^^

[xxlotusethoxx]

YEAAHHHH

Sorry I'm really late! I have a bunch of animations for A-Hermit-A-Day-In-May and some great art pieces, but I'm going to be posting them really late because of school finals and other work! but for now please enjoy an impulse and a grian (days one and two) I'm trying my best to get these all out before art fight, but if i miss a few i am so sorry! ^^

hope you like them! hopefully the rest will come soon ^^'

[xxlotusethoxx]

colour practice 1

[xxlotusethoxx]

Your sixth most recent emoji is how your guardian angel feels about you

[xxlotusethoxx]

Hi twin

this one is a joke lol

Week 27: Designs for chapter 19!

[xxlotusethoxx]

I'd actually say the use of the soulmate trope in Double Life makes a great case for all the worst parts of the soulmate trope, being used to enforce a social structure around shame, heavy restriction, punishment, and isolation.

Look Scar, Grian, BigB, and Ren. At the start of the season Scar was treated like an idiot for not looking for his soulmate, like it was a personal failing that he would take more interest in animals and call them his soulmates rather than look for the person he was bound to. Meanwhile a lot of the tension between BigB and Ren came from this idea that Ren's connection with Martyn- which had existed for seasons prior- was bad because Ren was supposed to, by dictate of the universe, be with BigB.

And then Grian and BigB form a connection outside their soulmates (which, for the record, they wanted to be together in episode one from before they even found out who their soulmates were, but felt like they weren't 'allowed' to be because they weren't soulmate) and are regarded as 'cheaters' with their soulmates being pitied for it.

Scott and Cleo were also scrutinized heavily within the server, regarded with pity, confusion, or even judgment by a number of people Multiple people acted awkward around them, or tried to 'console' them with the assumption that they were miserable, or in a very extreme case you had Jimmy calling their relationship "fake" multiple times and, during an argument, taunting them with "You ain't even real soulmates- when you go to bed at night, and you fall asleep, just remember, the last thought in your heads is 'oh, we're not really soulmates'."

And honestly I heavily suspect a large part of the reason Pearl was so isolated during Double Life is because of the isolation of soulmate pairs. Because soulmates were seen as this special connection superseding and outweighing any other, forming real connections outside of the soulmate pair was heavily discouraged. This meant that while plenty of people pitied Pearl (which also reinforced the idea that she should be miserable), she was always treated as part of an out-group by soulmate pairs, making it impossible for her to find real friends after being rejected by her soulmate.

There were many times as well where, generally, soulmate pairs who weren't happy together or who were having massive issues were pressured into trying to force things to work because they felt like they had to be with their soulmate and knew there was nowhere else for them to really go outside of that one connection, even if they weren't happy with it.

Not to mention the way the soulbound itself was, in multiple cases, abused and made into a tool of punishment in of itself. This is seen most apparently in the divorce quartet in which they all hurt themselves to "punish" the other. Scott came up with the idea of axe crits to "scare" their soulmates which Cleo was happy to join in with, and Pearl used methods such as powdered snow to "torture" Scott as well as specifically growing fond of holding the idea that she could kill them both over Scott's head. But even beyond it's use in the divorce quartet, Scar also very notably participated in this. In fact, he was the one who came up with the idea to use powdered snow to "torture" your soulmate because Scar wanted a way to punish Grian for asking him to help with chores.

Like I genuinely just cannot stress enough how much Double Life was a proof of concept for the soulmate trope being a complete nightmare. Literal horror trope.

[xxlotusethoxx]

i could eat a horse!! haha. get it???