Marvel Women, Written By Men: 🧍‍♀️I Can’t Have Babies 👶🏻😫😢 I’m A Monster 😢😢

Some references for one of the next comics!

Oh to live in a weird little town with gloomy weather and strange weird sounds in the woods and hushed whispers about strange sightings and an alarming amount of hauntings and a concerning amount of eye motifs and a library with conveniently placed section for everything that's relevant to the mystery and cloaked figures sneaking around and the occasional uncanny person and weird notes and maps and books and stuff being found around the town and oh to live in a weird little town with a mystery

Since its that time of year again, I’ve been thinking about Over the Garden Wall, and I think one of my favorite things about it is that, other than the fact that they’re lost in some strange woods, their problems are so normal. Like, in so many shows the problems are things like “both of my parents are dead and their last wish was for me to do this really emotionally taxing life long quest” or whatever, but Wirts biggest problem is that he cant tell a girl that he likes her, and that his mom somewhat recently remarried, and his half brother is kind of annoying in that little kid way. They’re just such normal problems, and it feels like its one of the few heroes journey sort of tales where the main character is just some kid. Hes not some chosen one, hes not the most popular kid at school, but hes obviously not outcast because pretty much everyone who sees him in the Halloween episode greets him in a friendly way and try to include him. He’s just a normal kid, but he still has these unique little traits that make him interesting, like that he plays clarinet, and writes poetry, and is kind of a pushover but is also really passive aggressive when he wants to be. Its just such a good show, and every time I rewatch it I find another little thing that I love about it.

old sketchbook cats!

hey doggo, dunno if someone already asked, but why is phonegingi called phonegingi? like where did the name come from it's just so... phonegingi yk what im saying

The story of how gingi got his name was so stupid. When I was working on DT, I had a random playlist of youtube videos playing in the BG, y'know, to break up the monotony. Anyway, an OneyPlays animated came up, I thiiink it was the President Ding Dong sketch? A character appears for a moment and one of the guys makes up the name "Bagingi" for it on the spot. I had no clue at that point what Gingi's name was gonna be, I had everything but the name. I also had "bagingi" on loop in my head since i heard it for some reason, so i said "fuck it! phonegingi will do as a temporary name", and vowed i'd think of a better default name later. While a few friends of mine were helping me test an alpha build of DT with the first draft of randy's route inside, I pitched some new names that I'd come up with to replace the placeholder name I had for this creature which was, ofc, Phonegingi. I don't remember any of the pitches off the top of my head other than 'frankenphone' and none of the testers wanted me to change the character's name. None of them knew the name was meant to be a stupid dumb placeholder and got really attached to it. So I looked at the stupid nonsense name that i'd given to my protagonist that meant nothing and said "yeah ok this suits the kind of person gingi is." The end.

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playful afternoons 🍂🎮

(i don't really know how to crop these ones so they're gonna look a little weird sorry LMAO)

summer fan art dump :)

i fucking love that c!tommy is aggressively a Teenager because. gafghafsga. in general if you were a teenage character in a piece of media but you were hard to love? if you weren’t the cowed, polite, and quiet type but you acted in all the “negative” or “ugly” ways teenagers do sometimes? you get like. vitually no depth or sympathy or any redeeming qualities. c!tommy, for example, has a lot of these less palatable trauma responses — lashing out, rebelling, cursing, not listening to authority, talking back, fighting, generally things that are rough and abrasive — so he basically gets crucified as “throwaway destructive lost cause who likes being an asshole.” with no depth and zero humanity like a lot of characters do. it really unfairly vilifies a lot of things that he does because he’s hurt that are really just poor coping mechanisms and boil it down to “teenager does bad things because they are a teenager and they are immature and dumb.” and look. i am not saying you should be forgiven automatically for hurting people just because it’s a coping mechanism. this goes for teenagers too. i’m just saying, a little understanding goes a long way. tommy is usually mean/destructive to himself or in relatively harmless ways or as a defense against people he perceives as trying to hurt him or those who have more power. he consistently regrets it and tries to make amends. it’s not for no reason. a lot of it is just from being confused and hurt with no guidance. teens are usually not assholes for the hell of it.

i really like that c!tommy is allowed to be a little shit and a bit of an asshole who scams and fights and questions authority and lashes out and makes mistakes but also it’s well understood that he has a heart of gold? that he tries his best? that he loves his friends? that he feels lost and alone and hurt and he’s not just destructive because he’s “immature” or for the fucking fun of it, but because he had to learn how to survive? that he feels like he has the weight of the world on his shoulders and everyone who was supposed to look out for him left him behind? that he genuinely wants to be good? he has a very quintessential growing up story and i love it so much. it’s important to me that c!tommy is allowed to be imperfectly a kid — clumsy, mean, loud, scared, angry — and also shown to be incredibly big-hearted and brave and human. his character sends the message of “just because you’re a kid who fucks up sometimes, doesn’t mean you aren’t deserving of love.” and “teenagers can be dicks sometimes but that doesn’t mean they don’t care about things or try to be good.” like he can be an Annoying Teenager and also full of love. that coexists. and i think that’s epic.