here's the link to the post if anyone wants to read it to get some more tips on how to draw maxwell as less of an antisemetic stereotype. highly recommend, it's a post i've seen circulating before.

Hey I was scrolling through the dst tag and saw an old post of yours saying Maxwell is a massive antisemitic stereotype, is that true. Like is he coded as Jewish in any way, is it his nose or something about his backstory. I thought he was an englishman. I'd genuinely like to understand how and why his character's antisemitic, it concerns me bc I don't want to perpetuate bigotry but I also wanted to draw a cool monster!max design so idk if I should do that now. (question mark key on my laptop is broken hence the weird punctuation)

i'm not jewish, but i have many friends who are and i have seen several (albeit older) posts on this subject, so i'll try to summarize what i've seen about antisemetic stereotypes wrt maxwell.

the whole association of crooked/hooked noses with greed and evil, plus making his skin grey/blue is particularly what's antisemetic, because even if he's not coded as jewish necessarily, these are traits by and large used to stereotype and villainize jewish people.

giving him a crooked/hooked nose in general is not bad, but there are a lot of ways that you can draw him with a crooked nose that ends up just looking like a huge antisemetic stereotype. overemphasis on his nose/making his nose really disproportionately big. i also don't recommend making his skin grey/blue, as that's associated with making jewish people inhuman.

i'm not exactly an expert on this subject, being not jewish and all that, so i don't know how much more i should get into this subject. if any jewish fans of don't starve want to get into this subject and talk about antisemitism that would be awesome.

oh p.s., your post is like from May 2022, it's easy enough to find by searching through your Maxwell tag

fair enough, i haven't used this blog super frequently as of late because i either haven't been drawing very much or what i draw isn't going to play well with tumblr (NSFW) so i've been using twitter to post that sort of thing lately. i wish i could draw more but my wrist is a bit fucked up haha.

anyways, have fun drawing maxwell safely :-)

Thank you for your swift response, I think that makes a lot of sense. I read through the guide someone left in the comments of that post and I've been looking up more material on the matter. Just found his original concept art as well and. Dear god. Like dear GOD. Idek if I want to make a monster form for Max anymore, maybe I'll fuck up Wilson instead.

well good luck whatever you do!! yeah i'm glad they didn't go with the concept art and we ended up with a much more toned down version of max even if it's not perfect. it's all about educating yourself in what's okay and what isn't.

Hey I was scrolling through the dst tag and saw an old post of yours saying Maxwell is a massive antisemitic stereotype, is that true. Like is he coded as Jewish in any way, is it his nose or something about his backstory. I thought he was an englishman. I'd genuinely like to understand how and why his character's antisemitic, it concerns me bc I don't want to perpetuate bigotry but I also wanted to draw a cool monster!max design so idk if I should do that now. (question mark key on my laptop is broken hence the weird punctuation)

i'm not jewish, but i have many friends who are and i have seen several (albeit older) posts on this subject, so i'll try to summarize what i've seen about antisemetic stereotypes wrt maxwell.

the whole association of crooked/hooked noses with greed and evil, plus making his skin grey/blue is particularly what's antisemetic, because even if he's not coded as jewish necessarily, these are traits by and large used to stereotype and villainize jewish people.

giving him a crooked/hooked nose in general is not bad, but there are a lot of ways that you can draw him with a crooked nose that ends up just looking like a huge antisemetic stereotype. overemphasis on his nose/making his nose really disproportionately big. i also don't recommend making his skin grey/blue, as that's associated with making jewish people inhuman.

i'm not exactly an expert on this subject, being not jewish and all that, so i don't know how much more i should get into this subject. if any jewish fans of don't starve want to get into this subject and talk about antisemitism that would be awesome.

some sketches i did today

i can't remember if i've posted this or not but this is also some mspaint doodles i did since i got a new art tablet and can use mspaint again

sorry for not drawing a lot, drawing is hard and i've been so annoyingly busy and tired.

btw i have posted chapter 2 to psych and it's 5k longer than the first chapter, with more reigen angst and getting to know some of the new cast in serizawa's life as he continues to learn to build connections.

please give me engagement to justify the ~8 (non-continuous) hours i put into writing this chapter.

posted this to my twitter already but i'm selling this adopt if anyone wants it. price is $30. i take paypal or cashapp. character has no age or name or gender or anything. you can do whatever you want with them when you purchase.

prev tags made me remember i forgot to also post the original, so here's the original:

i drew this for twitter

i drew this for twitter

daily reminder that my commissions are open. i finally made a commissions sheet

i'm having so much fun writing chapter 2 of psych. i just got to 6.5k words and wrote a great interaction between mob and serizawa about how they both feel about reigen, to help serizawa sort his shit out and aughaughgh it's so good i'm very pleased with it

i am now 4k words into chapter 2, and 22k words into the entire fic. teehee

this new reblog chart feature is FASCINATING and it is also highlighting how much people on this website fail gifmakers and other content creators. you NEED to start reblogging gifsets and art if you want this site to continue functioning and being a place content creators WANT to be on. look at this

there are almost NO reblog chains!! the majority of reblogs are directly from me, and then it just. ends. the like to reblog ratio is almost 1:4.

this is why posts die. this is why artists have left, this is why gifmakers are giving up. this is killing tumblr.

reblogging is the ENTIRE POINT of this website, and you can't just like something and move on and expect gif/editmakers and artists to continue putting in the effort to make content FOR YOU.

REBLOG. POSTS.

here is chapter 1 of the insanity that is my slow burn serirei fic, lovingly entitled psych

she mob on my psycho till i 100