tell me about drawtectives. what is this little show.

oooooh my god oh my god. they are my guys. so.

drawtectives itself is a youtube series created by julia lepetit on Drawfee. it's an rpg mystery show– s1 is a murder mystery, s2 is just a mystery– that doubles as an art challenges show. she draws all of the backgrounds and npcs and most of the assets (the 'cutscenes', you could call them) and then the team gets together, knowing absolutely nothing besides what julia's asked them to prepare, and does some funky improv to create a very funky storyline.

there are 3 players and one dm; the pcs are rosé, york, and grendan/grenda/grandma/gma, and the Big NPCs are Jancy True (s1/s2) and Eugene Finch (s2) and they're, in their own words, a found family, so. beloved. their backup plan if all their jobs fail is to move out east and open a bookstore. jancy and eugene have fully accepted their titles as mom/ancestral ghost and son despite meeting each other likely once before the drawtectives dragged them together. overall though if i had to summarize, it's a bunch of friends getting together, making a bunch of puns, appreciating julia's art, and laughing together. the vibes are 10/10 so loving. in writing the transcripts i've written (Karina laughs) (Nathan laughs) (All laugh) So Many Times it's just fun.

so there's three pcs. first one we meet is gyorik 'york' rogdul, who's a half-orc come to the city to learn about his mother's culture. he is the character we have by far the most lore for– if I compiled all the lore I had about the Northern Tribes and Wild Trains, I think the document would be multiple pages. he's also illiterate, which was an interesting decision for the english major of the group to make (in other words, York Will Not Be Illiterate For Season Three bc Y'all Cannot Read) and morally gray if you think about it too hard (he killed his own brother) but yknow he's hot so it's okay. they're all hot any crimes committed are okay. he's also aroace (confirmed by the player, which is!! vibes!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TELLING ME @axolotllee!)

rosé is the Human Rogue and the youngest of the party; her main trait in s1 was Millennial and she Dealt with that. she, in contrast with York, has so little lore we are scraping the barrel. she was a thief, then left everything about that life behind and changed her name to rosé when she went to work for jancy. she lied on her resumé. she knows how to sew; she's sewn Pockets of Holding on most of her clothing. she bonded with a stray cat that lived outside her last apartment. she's three credits short of graduating college. she's, in addition to being a drawtective, jancy's intern, and cried when jancy got her a cupcake. she won't tell her best friends when her birthday is or where she goes to school or what her last name is. that's all we know about her and i love her and she could probably kill someone as she has multiple knives on her person and does not use them. she's bright and funny and can be pretty dark but really does find the humor in it which is. wonderful.

so grendan highforge starts out as The Snobby Rich Boy which. already love the trope something Always Happens To Them if they're a pc. then through s1 they make an offhand comment about a character (faucon, whose name is pronounced 'falco') and how if her name was pronounced that way it'd be grenda. faucon asks how they feel about it. they are caught very off-guard by that and then ask to be called it for the next hour or so. then the next witness calls him gma, and then grandma, and then. yeah she realizes she's genderfluid. and he uses any pronouns and has a full beard and also wears a romper and loves dogs and the player is the Most Experienced TTRPG-er so through maybe using resources a bittt grandma is the most observant character of all of them. he's also a dog walker and a lightweight and does canonically have druidic magic though that was Not Touched On Much and showed up to their first day on the job slightly stoned (they did stop doing that though.) she carries around a box to make the height difference (york is 7'. grendan is 4'. rosé is 6'. you can see the formatting issue) slightly less difficult. she doesn't know how rhinos reproduce but has had a fascination with them since a police chief said one might've committed a crime. i think they could kill someone by talking too much but they don't actually have the strength or dex to do Jack Shit.

and jancy true is the head pi (a great many of the characters are puns and i love it so much) and is there to make sure things get done and clues don't get missed. she has a cochlear implant and uses a cane and solved s1 just by Reading The Paper and hearsay. she solved about half of s2 before Someone Stopped Her. she says hello children to the drawtectives and it is such a fond thing. eugene is. a guy who i love. julia started the show thinking he would be some mysterious character to join them and then made the wonderful improv decision– avoiding having to do npc-npc conversation– of saying 'yeah eugene is spinning a camera on its stand' and rosé just says so gleefully. 'guys. i think he's stupid.' and he became their son. his character is a lot of The Plot of s2 so i don't want to get into it too much but. jancy and eugene my beloved.

they're just. such a family. to quote nathan (grenda's Player) from the s2 talkback: "That's one of my favorite things about this show, is we came in with these vague ideas for characters, and just playing them with each other, they became friends and became better people as a result of knowing each other and solving mysteries. ... Like, we all kind of independently made our characters people that either were distant from their families or, you know, just had tenuous connections to other stuff, and so these are, like, the realest connections they have in their lives."

and then karina (rosé) about 10 seconds later: "Yeah, we love a found family where they bond over just being the worst."

god. them. they're chaotic and loud and feel very real to me. they have excitement and are pretty bad at social cues but they love each other and want to die together because they would hate too much to be separated. i could articulate this better but it's one in the morning and they mean a great deal to me.

actually pls tell me everything about heshi i’m so Heart Eyes at them rn

Hi !!

Basically Heshi is what happens when two mad scientist ladies love each other very much: a homunculus. Their appearance is similar to that of their moms', their physical parts have been artificially grown in the Heart Garden, a place which is.... peculiar at best.... and they're animated with shards of old gods' souls put together. They don't have a sex and they've elected not to participate in gender. They are technically a crime against the gods and it does come to be a problem for them but they're also just a little guy, just a silly little guy.

Heshi is one of the characters I have in rotation in my head at all times: they're an extremely loving person, they grew up isolated (castle in a spooky forest full of monsters situation), they're eager to explore the world and full of life. They have Disney Princess vibes except for instead of talking to birds they are soul bonded to the chimeras in their spooky forest residence. They also don't believe they are a person and consequentially don't care about their own wellbeing.

Their moms disappeared when they were pretty young in an experiment gone wrong that yeeted the two across space, so Heshi has just been on their own with the god of death imprisoned in their moms' basement. And eventually that god ends up getting so attached to them he gives up his immortality and godhood to save them and considers them family but for a good while Heshi is just alone with themself and their moms' other experiments and the hostile god who thinks of them as a blemish upon this earth, with no certainty of whether their caretakers are coming back, which is probably not an ideal state for a thirteen year old to find oneself in. Prooobably messes with their head a little bit .

Without making this into the retelling of everything that happens to Heshi, I have to say their arc is about coming to care about themself and realizing their personhood and managing to keep their kindness despite all the shit the world throws at them, which I am very normal about (lies) and thinking about them has never made me cry before (deception).

To tie this whole thing off somehow: a Heshi fun fact is that they're mistaken for a deity of beauty on numerous occasions because they are somewhat divine through their frankensein-ed together soul and they're also very pretty. Having the god of death (yes the one that used to live in their basement - a bunch of things happen between then and when this misunderstanding occurs) as their self-proclaimed uncle doesn't help beating the godhood allegations. The actual deity of beauty finds the whole thing hilarious.

carmy. and his massive fucking cock and his fucking hands and his hair that i would give anything to run my hands through and his stupid little smirk that makes me weak in the knees

he just. did this. i suppose to kill us

slut i need him so bad and i’m sorry that this is so horny but no one else is willing to hear me out about him and it’s so criminal!!!

Him and his fucking tiddies and big ass spreader bar shoulders, spit that beer straight into my mouth papi

Is tumblr down or is it just not letting me do shit??

i dont think its down?? its letting me do stuff i think

i laughed

I have had a long standing headcanon that our Steeby uses Irish Spring. It's a kinda crappy soap, but it smells good, and I'm pretty sure it's on the cheaper side, and it's functional, and sometimes when he's a lil lazy he'll use it as shampoo even though you've told him noooooo don't do that, but you also like to bury your nose in his neck and take a big sniff after he gets out the shower and ahhhhhhhhh 😣💕💕💕💕

it's simply the most perfect headcanon. its cheap, functional, and not some weird fragrance like "dark wolf man musk" 🤨 anyways, how very boyfriend of him 😌 i can't even be mad about him using it for everything, lemme buy him the irish spring 5-in-1 for valentines day. shampoo, conditioner, body, face, and deodorizer 😣😩

I hope you're having a better week, kk :) I was looking at the playlist I made during secret santa and realized it doesn't have any Billy Joel on it. What are your favorite billy joel songs?

i was going to go to bed but this ask too important!!!

thank you! i am! one more day with this dog then i get a break!!! i hope you’re doing well♥️ sending love

ok Vienna is one of my favorite songs ever it’s so important to me idk how it wasn’t on that list! highly recommend it if you don’t know it already. but really the whole The Stranger album is wonderful especially Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song), Just the Way You Are, Scenes From an Italian Restaurant and the title track! also recommend All for Leyna, James, New York State of Mind and Say Goodbye to Hollywood!

i hope you like them!

don’t mind me, just backreading ur posts rn bc i havent been on dasb

u missed nothing bc i have been half dead to the world bc i’ve been sad tee pot

16 ,19 and 36 for the ask questions

(its okay if u dont wanna answer )

16 - not feeling anything in particular. i have a lot of energy and it’s giving me a headache bc i don’t know how to get rid of it

19 - i wouldn’t go back in time. i’d fix a few mistakes but fixing mistakes just means you won’t learn lessons from them

36 - it’s really easy to sweet talk me so yeah 💔 i do give out second chances quite easily but it also depends on what you’ve done.

ask game

itto >:)

i am thinking about your dance au. it has lived in my brain rent free always. love it. so good.

i am also always thinking about them. i'm so glad you're also enjoying them and i'm taking this as a prompt to make more of it (i want to so bad)

if the teacher has to leave the classroom, they'll most often put kristen or adaine in charge. with adaine everything goes fine. with kristen it's chaos incarnate that somehow (*riz) turns into them being productive by the time the teacher comes back

the kristen-and-fig combo has gotten at least 4 teachers fired.

they're not always trying to, but they pretty often are

fig specifically gets A Lot of spotlights in dances because she can be very Loud and Personable, but she has also had these spotlights taken away many times (she simply begins improving shit)

she got a solo this year because aguefort was a little bitch, knew gorgug wanted a solo, and so offered it to his best friend instead of him

ayda did not know this was her father's reasoning.

she just thought if was because fig's a good dancer (she is)

fabian and fig are The Flexible Ones™ and aren't. vocal about it, but they certainly aren't subtle, either. teachers have had to tell them to not make their splits too good.

riz is also pretty flexible, but his stature makes it less obvious. when your friends are all at least 2 feet taller than you your grande battement doesn't look as good.

fabian drags fig in early one day and asks her to do some improv with him bc he wants to try out for a swing dancing tournament, they have the time of their life.

gorgug and ayda often practice two different dances in the same room at the same time.

adaine and riz are the best technically, but they do struggle a lot with the acting part of it. walking into a class you'd expect the most awkward to be gorgug, but they were both trained on ballet-smile-fixed-on-your-face-at-all-times and so any acting at all is. extra practice for them

speaking of gorgug he's so quietly good. he can act and he knows the steps and he has good balance and good flexibility so. he's just good. but he's not loud about it, and the teachers don't often point it out

he writes the steps down before practicing throughout the week

riz makes tutorial videos for kristen (or for anyone if they miss a class) to help her learn and remember the steps. he says he likes doing it. nobody's 100% sure on that's true. (including him)

aelwyn and baron dance at the same studio (across town)

penelope originally danced at both and then she had a little scandal where she was blackmailing a teacher and she couldn't dance at either bc her father couldn't pay aguefort to cover it up

aelwyn starts working at aguefort's but refuses to teach anyone besides the ages 9-13 because "they're little shits and i need someone to tell me just what they're thinking, adaine."

zayn is inexplicably sometimes where ayda is. they're never in the same place at once but zayn just. appears. when ayda needs/wants to go do something and rawlins for some reason isn't there.

garthy runs an swing dancing studio that is also a pole dancing studio! bob does swing dancing trixie does pole dancing

oleg!!!! one of the ogs!!! thank you for sticking around also heshi is 🥰🥰

THEM !!! Oh I adore the way you drew them- and of course I'm gonna stick around you're a fucking joy upon this planet <3

Doing this to your drawing as we speak

ik u said “nobody mention this” but ENOCH PLEASEEEEEE DADDY CYLONE????? HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO IGNORE THATTTT

just imagine he’d be sooooo condescending and i don’t even care i’m so into it coz he’d say shit like “you need daddy to help you, don’t you?” or “poor bunny… can’t even get off on (their) own”

i want him to corrupt me<3

as if i’m not already corrupted

He'd chuckle, low and deep in this throat as you clawed at his arms, desperately trying to get him off your clit, rubbing it raw so much that it hurt when you cum.

"Now now Bunny Rabbit, Daddy tells you when to stop"

IM SO SICK FOR THIS MY GOD.

did you see the news about Lockwood and co...

yeah ive been offline for a good bit and jUST saw it …

brb abt to go cry in the shower 😃

speak on it sleepysink ! ! !

SUPPORT YOUR WRITERS

a bitch is very much angry about it 🫡

The goonies and back to the future 💕💕

the goonies - what was the last thing that made you laugh?

either the three new kittens that mysteriously appeared in my house last night or this message from nika

back to the future - which decade in the last century would you most like to have lived in?

if we’re going purely based on aesthetics, i would say the 70s. also lots of drugs. and you better believe i’d be out there at protests for roe v wade

80s movie asks