Judge Verity Gavèlle 'mam can I buy you a drink
It's Grand Festival Season in Splatoon 3! I figured I would add to the celebration by offering a discount on my Splatoon Zines!
From September 9th-15th, you can get 50% off on all of my Splatoon-themed zines over on itchio! This applies to both individual sales and as a bundle, so grab whatever you'd like!
I haven't drawn Hazel Skies lately, but I did think about what teams each one would pick out for this festival. I'll share their thoughts and reasoning over the next few days!
Shout out to the girls for putting the kink back in pride the Grand Festival
I thought about trying to draw a bunch of gay ships I liked for Pride month, but all I had the energy to draw was Harvest Goddess/Witch Princess (Harvest Moon, specifically their DS Cute iterations), and Pearl/Marina (Splatoon).
Happy Paper Mario TTYD remake day!! The first and last time I played this game I had to speedrun it in a week before I graduated college, so I'm looking forward to taking my time with the remake.
Watching my friend play through Klonoa for the first time made me wistful about Klonoa and Huepow's friendship.
Vira from Neopets 🦇
This was the year that I finally re-read One Piece for the first time since high school. I'm still working on finishing the Manga, but I can actually draw a bunch of One Piece characters with fondness in my heart now
When I was 10 and setting up my Neopets account, I decided for my username I would grab the word 'Puffy' from my favorite cartoon show at the time, Puffy Ami Yumi. I've been Puffy online ever since, so I always like to express my gratitude to these cartoon gals when I can.
Oh, Utena-sama. Didn’t you know…how much I’ve always despised you?
As it gets darker and darker in the northern hemisphere, I turn to Doshin the Giant's excellent OST that I listen to on it's own all the time to remind me of sunnier days.
Fabricant No 100 is a shonen manga series about a race of frankenstein-esque monsters called Fabricants, all made by a single scientist attempting to create the Ideal Human Being. Upon his death, the fabricants are left to seek their own paths to becoming the ideal human, which translates to them murdering humans to steal their body parts to graft onto themselves. Upon murdering the entire family of a young boy, he strikes a deal with the strongest of fabricants, No 100: if she helps him kill every single other fabricant, he'll sacrifice his body to No 100 when he turns 18.
It ends up becoming a series that explores sociopaths trying to find meaning in their existence, questioning what it means to be human and questioning if self sacrifice is as noble an act as it sounds like.
The series ended earlier this year; I'm bummed, but not too surprised. The series could be obtuse at times and hard to grasp at first read, and I had a hard time really caring for anyone in the fabricant hunter guild they end up joining, and that's supposed to be a major emotional core for the protag. It felt like a series that was forced to end much earlier then it would like, but the creators seemed to have known the end was coming early enough to make a proper ending, which I'm thankful for.
Regardless of it's flaws, I'm still really enamored with the ideas it had and with No 100 herself, if this page of doodles and this unintentional essay is any indication. It's a series I highly recommend, flaws and all, and the fact it's a complete story now will hopefully make for a smoother read. I'll probably be thinking about No 100 for a long time.
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I wanted to use December as a chance to clean up my collection of WIPs and unleash then into the world so I can have a fresh start for 2024.
Starting off with my favorite lesbians Becky and Dina from the webcomic Dumbing of Age. I spend a lot of brain space thinking about everyone in this comic, I'm surprised I haven't drawn more of the cast.
I really enjoyed @insertdisc5's Start Again, and I'm very excited for the full game, In Stars and Time, coming out next month (November 20th!!)
In honor of the Live Action One Piece not sucking, here's an old shirt attempt from last year that got rejected and I didn't have the heart to fix up (drawing it at the time was already a big struggle bc of irl stuff impacting my mood).
A friend wanted to do a informal One-Piece collab for the Yetee where each of us drew a Straw Hat member, and I went with Sanji as he was the one I remembered the best from my initial reading. Figuring out how to depict each straw hat member through their favorite foods is still a touch I'm happy with.
It's Hot Spy Summer time!!!