Heyyyy! So, the last convention I was supposed to be going to is delayed because of Hurricane Helene, and both my jobs are currently out as they repair the damage done, so I'm opening comissions! I currently have three slots, and more may open depending on how things go down. But of course, if you have any bigger projects that what I've listed in mind, please don't be afraid to DM me!

Throw me your Tavs, your Ocs, your Fursonas-- I'm cool to draw anything! I love a little variety :)

My thoughts (don't read if you have strong opinions. I'm both sides-ing the fuck outta this)

I just watched Iron Man 2.

I mean the Devil May Cry netflix show. About a week ago. I've been ambivalent about it, I've liked it, I've hated it, and now I think I've come back to center again. I'm taking the annoying centrist take on this, so if you lean more on either side you're probably gonna shake your head at this and ask why it was posted. "For posterity!" I say, clutching my pearls about media consumption/the rot that is adaptions or sequelitis while the world is imploding.

I'm a pretty big fan of the franchise, but it's not my Kingdom Hearts. If something's wrong with Kingdom Hearts, I'll have an opinion and you'll fucking hear it. With Devil May Cry, I'm pretty loosey-goosey about what I can like about its concepts. First and foremost, I love the balance between goof and action. Then, I enjoy the struggle with self-hatred, interpersonal/familial relationships, and finally the religious theming (both the vague christianity and buddhism/hinduism). I love the original games, I wrote an embaressingly long fanfic about it (embrace the cringe, for it taught me my vocab and grasp of prose was actually shit in retrospect).

The first thing you should know is I hate most adaptions. Really all adapations, the fact that they exist between games and tv shows or movies. I hate them on a philosophical level because you are inherently removing a level of engagement in order to make something thats the exact same shit. I hate remasters and remakes for almost the same reason--you will always be removing a vibe somehow. Just say you have no more original ideas and get off the stage.

I DO like reinterpretations--take something that's well liked, slap it against something else and staple it together. Its probably shit, most of the time they kind of are, but I like seeing what someone *else* saw from a thing I liked. We may have gotten two completely different things out of the original, and I like when they get things 'wrong.' My favorite thing is media that gets things 'wrong.' For fuck's sake, IT is my favorite fucking thing ever and I hate the movies AND the book!

That being said, this isn't a real re-interpretations nor a proper adaption. It's somewhere in the middle, and thats...kind of where my opinion is.

I've watched this twice, wrote down my feelings because I'm a little dweeb who journals when I have a hard time pinning my feelings down, and I think I know what to properly say now.

I liked it. As someone late to the DMC game, as someone who very much still enjoys the vibe of the original games, they took a gamble and did something different. Something very 'western,' with all the hangups that term has. What I really mean by that at the core is 'western' media, especially action, is usually all about showing the car explosions. To paraphrase a few people I spoke to that I trust on this, it didn't really speak to the true heart of the show. But more on that in a second.

This show is far from 'peak,' as my baby sister would say. It's watching a Marvel movie after 3 billion years of Marvel movies. I'm saying it heavily derivative. I with the plane scene I was thinking, "man, this is kinda like Iron Man..." and then Enzo was like "Why don't you have a suit of metal?!" and I was like 'aaaaalrighty then...' and then Ivan Venko bunny revealed his backstory and I was like "uh-huh. Yeah, okay."

Does it all hit? Fuck no, it doesn't. This show pulled a DmC, but instead of attempting some kind of manufacturing consent thing, it pulled a post-9/11 ignoramous, "the U.S.A is a theistic war machine brainwashing children into SS soldiers." And its kind of awful, but its also a very specific kind of plastic 2000s shit that is a guilty pleasure for me. Is that awful? Yeah, absolutely. Do we need a show that has *demons* being it's main villains to compare their environment to the middle-east in order to garner sympathy? FUCK no. We are living that reality right now. We ARE Tony Stark, we're providing the fucking bombs to genocide right now. The Lebanonese, Syrians', Iraqis', fucking Palestineans' blood is on our hands. We fight proxy wars through drone strikes, our military presses enter on an excel spreadsheet, shouts 'clear' and adds another layer of graveyards like its nothing. Fucking unfollow me, block my ass if you just read something that you didn't like. I wish you the life you deserve.

This isn't about my political opinions though, because I'm fucking tired a tumblr post for an account with 300 followers doesnt do shit. Everyone's life right now has this background radiation of terror and dread and a little tmi, I've been going on a bit of a depression spiral while I prepare myself for possible exodus.

The point is, the show is a bit shlocky and it certainly doesn't feel like the original games. And I think the reason why I'm not very strongly opinionated about this show (believe it or not) is because I told myself in the months leading up that this is NOT a dmc show. Its an attempt at a 2000s nostalgia-trap with action movie elements and a familiar character--its playmobil, not Lego. I enjoy it because I can laugh at the fact that it isn't the thing I grew to love, and because I never had my heart in this show in the first place. I saw the games and this show as entirely sperate, like an AU fanfic. And as some moots know, I don't...really read AU fanfic? Because the world is half the fun of a franchise and why would you want to do that to something you claim to love...?

GIVEN THAT, I went in with that attitude of when I jump into an AU fanfic. It's not "I have no expectations," its, "I expect this not exist the way I like and I'm just gonna sip on a juicebox and be a little flippant." And in that way, it was enjoyable. I'll probably watch season 2? I see season 1 as a hook for the concept, and the actual character moments that we know DMC come later. If they don't, well whatever, cause I already have the original series and there's so much more to talk about with the original. I doubt I'll ever watch the netflix show and think, "wow, this is a really telling character moment, I wonder what that means..." cause I never really expected them to be like that.

If you hate it, I completely get that. This is probably a beloved franchise for you and it probably feels like shit to have something that so much about identity to slap you in the fucking face with something that feels so wrong. If you just kinda dislike it, yeah I completely get your disappointment. If you like it or love it, sure thats fine, you're probably new! So, welcome! Don't play the second game!

I'm gonna be the most annoying centrist about this show (I'll probably never speak about it again), you'll have to make me a mediator of some kind of DMC debate where I 'devil's advocate' both sides just to piss them off. Kidding, like what you like. I'm tryna get the fuck outta my hellhole.

Okay I feel bad because I've been a little absent working on some larger scale projects recently so I wanted to at least throw up a few things I've worked on in the last few months that haven't been uploaded. Mostly comissions or doodles for myself.

For those of you who don't know me from conventions, I'm actually working on an original comic called "The Guilt, It's Eating Me!" that's been in the works as background noise for a number of years. I consistently pitch it as a a horror/comedy that feel like if you took Lollipop Chainsaw, smashed in with Mean Girls and threw it into a tlou-style zombie apocalypse. I did some doodling (top pages) of some of the characters during a long meeting a week or so ago.

The boy with the goggles name is Mateo, and his older sister (left) is Olivia. She left him and his closest friend (right) alone in the middle of the end of the world, and he's struggling with the implication of her absence. I'M EXCITED TO SHOW YOU MY BABIES!!!

I need to draw Mollymauk but I’m scared. How can a man hold so much pizzazz, let alone a page.

WHERE DID YOU COME FROM??? IM NOT COMPLAINING BUT WHEFE DID MY BEAUYASH FANS STUMBLE IN FROM I LOVE YOU LESBIANS

SPRING SALE!!

YOOOOO WHATS GOOD?? Remember ME? I’ve got a sale going on on my Etsy right now for the Spring: Buy three get 25% off! Even better, use discount code ROLLIN25 to sweeten the deal to 50% your ENTIRE order!! Yeah, you heard me. GO GRAB SUM’N GIRL!!

The stickers will NOT be reordered! So grab them while they’re available!! More to come.

I made more stickers!! These will be going up on my Etsy shop at the end of the month (plus one or two special extras) AFTER a spring sale I've got set and ready to go.

Between March 17th -22nd, everything on my etsy will be Buy Two Get One, PLUS an extra discount code that I'll be releasing on my socials so, KEEP AN EYE OUT!

Listen, Yall don’t know I did something of actual societal value with art recently and I can’t/won’t even show it because I feel so good about it. Maybe after a few years. I just hope it works.

also completely unrelated, I figured out my printer so I’m going to be doing some angry fucking posters and stickers soon cause I guess we’re running it back to 2016. But like, New Game+ mode.

WHO THE FUCK REPOSTED MY JAYVIK WHERE ARE ALL YOU FUCKERS FROM?? /hj

HOT MAMAS, PIMP DADDIES? ARE YOU ALL FUCKING READY?? (says this while cringing to self)

This is like an elevated doodle cause I could not sit still at ALL today cause I just kept listening to my old alt shit and started randomly doing pushups. I'm like a little excited child im sorry. I consider this a remix of that one thing i did a handful of months ago.