did randomized doodles from an expression meme and wound up making them sticker heads, wanted to share in here. :3 have the other 6 trolls sketched up just haven't gotten to ink and color them just yet. under spoilers bc i saved them big.
On the one hand, I'm bummed out that the folks tossing a few hundred bucks into the ads aren't adding a hundred more by commissioning artists to make really awesome-looking ads. On the other hand, Homestuck. And SBaHJ. And simple jokey art styles in general.
They actually didn't toss that much in. There's a post floating around somewhere explaining that the way the ad host works means that you have to pay a lot less than the bid says, depending how long the ad stays up before being outbid.
That Is hillarious Also the banner at the bottom of one of them said $8 and some change so that + what Corvus said = absolutely affardable. At least initially.
So hey let me tell y'all about in short ways ,, of my experience in the intermission fandom? Right now I'm partly nostalgic partly sick with anxiety because today I find that someone made Intermission fandom discord (for intermission, for probably the carapaces from the Beta kids universe, for problem sleuth, and for various big time rp AUS - Mobsterswitch (the Problem Sleuth guys do crimes, The felt are police, the midnight crew are detectives or something) and Borgatabent (1920s AU) Spoiler: Disorganized Rambling, full of shitty emotion So my intermission pal who is still into it shows me the link, I click it because I fucking enjoy the intermission. I join and I browse through the peeps and see - - a whole buncha folks I don't even know. Theres some that I know but, let me go on Now my friend says, it seems that a lot of them are young underage teens. It's a p weird gap of intermission fans being these young teens or middling 20 somethings Now, I always forget but the reality always reminds me - I actually hate bigchats where i know almost nobody. I don't know how to talk in those environments, I don't know how to jump in. Thinking about all those strangers makes it heavy in the chest And Me n my pal, we talk, and remember Thing is, the young ones like to group around and chat and be young, but the older fans are quite Clique-y. Like, I remember the time when Homestuck was more active and I interacted with other Intermissioners. There were distinguishable groups of friends. Nothing bad but if everyone's got a clique already and you don't, It's kind of lonely. ( at least, that's just me) And since I'm kinda a weenie I don't really know how to talk with them because it always feels like an intrusion to sonething private, even of the posts are public, yanno? The subfandom is really small, so if you visited the tag you'll usually know most people by at least their username. Or be mutuals. Stuff like that. And since the fandom is small when shit happens like most of the fandom will see it? Like it's hard to escape when ppl you follow reblogs the discourse and you see it several times. It's like this big unrest that touches the whole subfandom even if you want to stay out of it. I know that y'all would say hey that happens in every fandom and yeah but intermission was kinda my first and currently only fandom that i actually really participated in. I can't compare it to anything currently. It's weird to latch on to some shitty mobsters in suits and dumb hats and just run with it despite lack of much Canon at all. It's a huge bowl of fanon fried rice with stuff you agree with or don't. How can one even argue against each other for character with very little evidence? It happened tho. My experience participating in the intermission is imprtant to me like That's where most of my internet friends come from. That's where my sweet heart comes from. That's where I produced so much art content. That's where I started RPing But like now that homestuck is over and spades slick fucking died in a way that felt so, sad and awful, and simply 'replaced' by bec noir and other shit- and I kinda drifted away and forgot about homestuck and thus the intermission for a while? Like it was out of my radar. I thought i moved on But then Villainous happened? (New cartoon shorts) and like I love it but the thing is, the main character reminds everybody about spades slick? The intermission people I still follow love him, draw him. Draw him together with spades slick. Like again I am reminded of something I started to glance over with a faint tingle of enjoyment when i saw it in my dash. The intermission. And like Looking at content now makes me feel like Sick, anxious, wistful, and brings me unseated feelings of loss It's so weird how looking and nice cool art or headcanons now of intermission. It's still a subject I like but it's hard to, enjoy it now. That's hard because I am reminded of how much I still Love it, a lot. But it hurts ?????? Edited for word mistakes
@GlassesBlu It sounds like you're grieving. Which is more likely to happen with.... just about everything than you might think. You don't have to lose a real-life flesh-and-blood person to grieve.
@GlassesBlu haaaa this is incredibly relatable. I sort of drifted out of the fandom a while back bc Drama, but I desperately still love my terrible children and most of their permutations. Fwiw your art super duper brightens up my day and reminds me of the best parts of the fandom
@autopsyblue That's like, interesting actually, I'm taking note of it (i mean this sincerely) It's weird I guess. At least I can say these feelings of loss are related to something. Sometimes (more recently) I feel deep loss and I don't know where it's coming from @gemini28 aw shucks that's sweet and I appreciate this highly. Like! Haha it's validating to hear
I will never be over mashups of Gonna Die Young with Homestuck songs, especially not ones with like Sburban Jungle.
:slides this quietly across the table: guess what i just finished 8D and what project is gonna haunt my dreams with lace and pearls.
I'm just imagining a cosplayer trying to hand embroider all the circuit details and I think my hand just shriveled up and died.
apparently my friend is considering cosplaying this in the future once I make a crocker boy for their boyfriend to be a matched set. i assume she's going to use glitter fabric paint to get the lil 3d effect , bc I know for a fact she doesn't have the patience for that. xD
:crawls back to this thread: forgot to share here whoops. finally finished these all so i can share but. :slides some doodly sticker headshots i did from an expression meme over here from my art thread: alphas, betas, and the alternian's. they're all a lil wonky bc different style and they were all just done for fun so nothing's Super Formal but i had fun at least. :3 yay complete sets <3 Spoiler: all the posts w/ the individual shots.
