my full piece for FodlanCuizine on twitter 🎣🍖
i had to honor to draw for my favorite house with felix, sylvain and ashe with marianne as an honorary member bc i love her so much and also cats cuz i cannot NOT draw cats
🛒 if you missed the preorders, the shop is open again for leftovers! 🛒
additional sketches under the read more:
※ please do not repost my art ※
➜ commission and ko-fi links in bio
sketches of everyone’s outfits bc i love to imagine characters in more casual outfits (and i love whump)
i think sylvain and marianne should have had an A-support where they visit the town together and marianne gets to show off her beautiful smile 😤
process gif!!!
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Hello hello everyone!
Sorry for the radio silence recently, I’ve been working hard on a zine!
That’s right, I’m a part of @danceofdespairzine , as one of the mods! I’ve been working hard as a Discord Mod, Instagram Mod (Check it out!!), as well as a Page Artist and Merch Artist and generally helping around when I can! What a busy plate!
With a page piece featuring Saihara, Hoshi and a few other kids, as well as Acrylic Standees for all 3 games (standing at nearly 4 inches tall- we’re only 20 orders away from getting ALL 3 added to preorder bundles 3 & 4!), everyone is here and gets to have fun at prom!
Not only is our Digital Zine free (and totally something you should absolutely pick up- it’s free after all!!), but I’m also throwing in a free figure as giveaway material!! That’s right, one lucky winner gets to have a Union Creative Komaeda figure added to their purchase (any purchase no less!), free of charge for just buying any zine bundle! How awesome is that?
🌟 Download the FREE Digital Zine here: https://enderslime.itch.io/dance-of-despair
👑 Preorder a physical copy of the zine and not only be eligible for the standees when purchasing bundles 3 or 4, but also be added to our figure giveaway regardless of bundle here: https://dodpromzine.bigcartel.com/
(You should totally buy this zine. It’s beautiful!)
✨ Curious about the figure giveaway? Check out the rules here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdTkUayLe29/
It’s been such a delight getting to work on this zine, as well as with the many amazing contributors featured here! Please do check out all of the hard work put into this zine, there’s so many wonderful pieces!
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It's 2024. I have been participating in fandom for 40 years. This is a ramble commemorating some history I've experienced along the way.
In 1984, I attended my first convention, and made a beeline for the one long row of covered tables in the Dealer's Room that was, according to the whispered lore of my friends, 'the one'. "um", I said, very suavely and coherently, except for how it was totally the opposite of those things, "I'm here for the... for the, uh. For-"
"Come around here," the man behind the table said with exhausted ennui, so I went around, and he lifted up the table skirt next to him and pointed to rows and rows of boxes underneath the line of tables. "It's all under here."
It was all under there. Along with about five older ladies with glasses, graying hair, cardigans. Flipping through slash zines and chatting in whispered voices like old friends (which of course they were). I noticed one of them had the good sense to be wearing kneepads. I was still too young and ablebodied to need kneepads when crawling on a carpeted floor, but I immediately found her preparedness skills to be both impressive and hot. "You're new," one of the ladies whispered to me--a bit warily, which made sense. "Are you sure you're in the right place?"
In the faint light (the kneepads lady had also come prepared with a flashlight, additional practicality hotness points for her) I grabbed a comb-bound book with a heavy line art piece on the cover, featuring a musclebound Captain Kirk getting righteously and enthusiastically plowed by a stern-yet-ebullient Spock. "This," I said, pointing helpfully at the cover, like I was trying to make myself understood in a language I had only the vaguest knowledge of. "I'm here for this."
Outside at the convention, most of the attendees were wearing large homemade circular pins that shrieked 'K/S is BS!!!'1. But underneath the table, we reveled in the forbidden.
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In 1985, I fell very hard for Starsky & Hutch fandom. Which was simply referred to at the time as 'the other fandom', because there were only two. We were upstarts. Many fannish elders predicted that it was just a phase.
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The 'circulating library' was a massive stack of barely-legible pages that smelled strongly of mimeograph ink. When you were on the list, you would write stories while you waited for your turn, and when the big box was mailed to you, you would read everything (new finds, old favorites), add your own sloppily-typed or hastily-mimeographed stories, and then mail the whole thing to the next person. For me, at the time, it was an extremely expensive indulgence--but my favorite one.
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By 1990, slash fandom had grown enough that I no longer knew everyone in it, which was both thrilling and a bit daunting. A young woman at a convention waited for me after a panel I was part of (I think it was 'writing impactful smut' or something like that), and said she had a question she didn't want to ask in a group setting. I'd heard that before. I said that's fine, go ahead and ask; and she came out with: "Why do you have to be gay?"
I blinked. "Is... that a problem?"
She looked annoyed. "Yes, because your stories are on all the recommendation lists and in all the top zines, but if you're gay and I read something you wrote and I get hot from it that makes me gay, and I'm not gay."
"Wow." I grinned, I couldn't help it. It probably made me look very predatory-dyke-about-to-score-a-toaster. Whatever, it was enough to make her back away from me fast.
When I thought about it later that night, I wondered what it would be like not to be the only queer person in slash fandom.
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By 1997, slash started appearing on the internet. Many fannish elders claimed it was the death knell of slash fandom, or dismissed it as 'just a phase'.
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Anyway, I wrote all this for myself as a commemoration of sorts, but if you took the time to read it--thank you. Love you, fandom. I always will.
1 In those days, m/m fandom was known as 'slash', which grew from the fannish shorthand where 'K&S' meant a story of Kirk and Spock having adventures or tribulations or what have you, and 'K/S' meant a story of Kirk and Spock getting it on (Kirk divided by Spock or Spock into Kirk--it was mathy fannish humor and I was into it then and I still am now). Slash was decidedly unpopular in the fannish world in 1984, and there was a concerted effort to force slash authors, artists, and fans out of 'mainstream' fannish public life. Hence, under the table.
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