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soyouareandrewdobson · 6 months

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Level 1: Let's-a-go easy with some illuminated Mario!

What I want to explore at least partly over the course of Nintendo-vember is the fact, that Dobson was biased with a capital b when it came to videogames and Nintendo. To be more specific, Dobson not only hated people who played anything but Nintendo, acting like PS3 users are the scum of the earth (which we can see examples of a lot near the end of the month), but he was also very opinionated what counts as “the true and honest” depictions of his favorite Nintendo characters.

Again, something more explored down the line soon, but to give at least one example for how even the slightest “deviation” from Dobson’s own interpretation can result in him getting pissed, only for things to backfire on him in some sense (partly a cosmic one) let me turn back time a bit to the November of 2017.

Almost 6 years ago, it was announced that Illumination, the studio behind the Despicable Me movies and some really shitty Dr. Seuss based works, would head the animation work on Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros movie. And people were pissed.

Many of them believing that the studio would ruin their favorite videogame character and produce something that was of great disservice to him. And that was something people claimed, before even the voice cast was announced and everyone had a mental breakdown over Chris Pratt voicing Mario.

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For your sanity though, don't click on the vidoe of that fat slob from Boston who is more of a disservice to animation than Live Action Disney is currently

Now to be fair, I am myself aware of the quality of Illumination up until the Mario movie came out. The Despicable Me and Minions movies, plus Secret Life of Pets, having been the most successful endeavors of the company, while also creating some rather annoying, though in my opinion funny cartoon slapstick characters. But honestly, I never thought that Illumination doing the Mario movie, could possibly be the worst thing to ever happen. At the very least, even if the company had fucked up royally with Dr. Seuss related content, they actually have some understanding of cartoon slapstick in their work and can in my opinion create some very colorful movies. And let us be real here, Super Mario has never been the most “adult” or deep franchise on the planet. So as long as Nintendo would keep them on the leash (which they did in the end) I doubted the movie would be utter shit. I at least did not expect it to be the Teen Titans Go of Nintendo, dumb like Boss Baby or unfocused and insulting like Wonder Park.

And lo and behold, the movie came out and minor things aside (like using Take on me as a pop song in the background at one moment) it captured the essence of Mario, was very colorful and a smash hit. To the point it was up until Barbie came along still the most successful movie of 2023 and is the third highest crossing animated movie of all time. With the place actually being the second, if the Lion King remake from 2019 wouldn’t be technically considered animated. Heck, you could actually call it the most succesful animated movie of all time currently, if you also decide to look at the list in such a way, that "sequels"/continuations ofalready established IPs don't count.

What I am trying to say is, in hindsight, many people should have just simply tried to be calm and see where things were heading.Give Illumination the benefit of the doubt. Particularly if they decided to first think about what was likely going to happen and analyze the pro and cons of Illumination doing the movie.

But fuck using your brain when your name is Andrew Dobson.

Dobson took genuine offense to the idea of Illumination doing the movie and as such made a “mock art” of what Mario would likely look in their art style.

There was just a tinsy winsy problem with it. The artwork in itself….

Turned out to be better looking, than most things Dobson did at the time.

No, seriously. Considering the lack of a decent art output at the time aside of shitting on nerds via SYAC strips, this, for what is obviously meant to take the piss out on Illumination’s art style reserved for the Minions, actually looks rather decent. Sure, Mario looks like a tic tac, but for a “quick” sketch, it looks nice. Mario looks -unlike Dobbear in 95% of the strips- actually happy by the way he smiles as well as very cartoonish. And considering that the blood and soul of Mario is kinda in the cartoonish nature of the game series -as evident by how ridiculously Mario Wonder is currently- Dobson in my opinion captured here the soul of Mario better than he did in other pics he did way back in the earlier 2000s.

Though to be fair, these pics look decent enough and at least Dobson was experimenting with different styles back then. Perhaps his cartoonish style would have worked best with Nintendo, if he refined it just right.

Which you know, kinda defeats the “purpose” of the picture if you ask me. I mean, it is obvious Dobson just did it to vent and piss on the fact that a company he considered “inferior” to other animation studios, would bring his favorite videogame character on the big screen for the first time since that Bob Hoskins movie. But if he wanted to mock the idea, he failed. Simply because in his sketch he doesn’t really “highlight” why Illumination being behind Mario would be bad. Not helped by the fact Dobson lacked giving more context why in his opinion that was a bad idea. And the few posts he did, painted him just as hating Charles Martinet and believing Charles would be the main voice of the characters in the movie

An as stated earlier, in hindsight, any “criticism” or fear Dobson might have had, proved in my opinion invalid in the end. The movie was not only a success, but it also paid tribute to his “precious” Mario is from Brooklyn background.

Frankly, the only thing I can see in the pic I would criticize is that Dobson a) gave Mario four fingers despite the fact he should know by now he has five (though that may be a cartoony jab at the Minions. Though even that jab is half assed, cause if he wanted to emulate their design, he should have given Mario three instead of four digits) and b) Mario being likely completely bald under that cap. The later just doesn’t fit entirely. Which, considering the Minions are mostly bald, may have been the intention by Dobson, to create an uncanny effect. Unfortunately, the rest of the artwork balances it out mostly, so on average the sketch ends up being visually more pleasing than anything.

Honestly though, the picture’s existence does highlight one thing more than anything: That Dobson would rather create something out of spite and hatred, rather than a genuine sense of enjoyment. That and if Ilumination being announced as a company to animate the movie, I wonder how he reacted in light of the casting or other Mario related news. Like can you imagine how livid he must have been when Mario+Rabbids by Ubisoft was announced and became popular?

#adobsonartwork #super mario #minions #illumination #fanboy retardation #so...you are a cartoonist #soyouareandrewdobson #adobsonsartwork #adobsoncomic #andrew dobson #Youtube

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bucketfullofstrawberries · 4 months

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OKAY!! 👏👏

I can FINALLY introduce him PROPERLY!!!

Edgar Vincent Marlowe~!!

My PRIDE & My JOY!!! Finally up and ready for the world to see in FULL!!

#the stanley parable #tsp #tspud #tspud narrator #stanley parable #tspud art #tsp narrator #tsp art #the narrator #cartoonist #my art #tsp narrator design #my pride and JOY #silly guy #I AM SO GLAD TO FINALLY SHARE HIM PROPERLY INSTEAD OF SMALL TID BITS AND SUCH!!#AND I REALLY HOPE YOU LIKE HIM!!#HAVE A LOVELY DAY #TOODLE PIP~!!

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b4kuch1n · 3 months

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digital ink comm round 2 done! for @trucbiduleschouettes, Alis, Sygdom, A. MG, @bakugames , F. Thorell, and Grumo.

With this round I've gotten to a decent place buffer-wise and with lunar new year prep, thank you very much to everyone who's commissioned me so far! I want to figure out something for the global strike however, so I won't be reopening digital ink comms until after this week. please stay tuned for that!

#bakuspecial #commission art #honestly my idea is straight up just aping the cartoonist coop's model. since I'm not with them yet #but yeah that will basically be how it works. but I'll limit the available type of art so I can actually finish all of it. and I'll stream #I just need to make the assets and write the post. and organize stuff #thank you once again to everyone who commissioned! cannot overstate how honored I am to be trusted with ur little guys #even if just for this one time. I hope ur having a good day wherever u are #have a good night! I wont be going to bed yet. but I will be enjoying myself. I take a hammer to it

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hystericfae · 3 months

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I'm starting to think the way we recommend each other books is immensely funny like I just finished no one rides for free and it was the most shit filled book i've ever read, and i'm out here telling you to read warrir cat s 😭 anyways time for Woom 😍

SCREAMING, did you like it? But yeah I know, I frequently talk about how I can't enjoy books unless they're so dark or eccentric it's alarming ....and warrior cats is certainly eccentric but alas I believe it is still a kids series—

#but I'm glad you enjoy dark content too #if you didn't I'd probably keep my weird book recs to myself 😍#I am also sorry about my severe lack of interest in more american cartoonist / stuff aimed at kids #my max is always like. spongebob and mlp #I will admit. su was AMAZING i am so glad i watched it

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torchbearing · 2 months

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i sometimes think about the context of white lantern kyle and how it's sort of canon the white lantern is seen as a benevolent figure that heals and protects the disadvantaged, a saint of sorts if there is any analogy in alien cultures to that (and boy, do they lay it heavy in imagery), a beacon of life and such, and then on earth he's just Some Guy.

it's uncertain how often exactly he returned to earth during his white lantern stint, but it's incredibly funny to imagine that since as far as i recall he's one of the few lanterns who kept a secret id he remains being Some Guy.

#someone hiring him as a cartoonist and something about him seems off and unsettling.#but he's good at he does and has a strange way of being soothing so most ppl let it slide #like......... the endless supply of uncanny valley the demigod-like status of some lanterns give is just delightful #white lantern #kyle rayner #green lantern #imagine bumping with a fragment of god in the new york subway and you swear you can see him glow and starlight shine in his hair.#(it's canon he kind of ends up w the starlit theme even without the suit too!)

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adhdandcomics · 20 days

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are you not wearing a mask anymore?

great question, i do wear masks indoors in public! however as a cartoonist who’s main form of humor is through expression work i just hate drawing them sooooooo so much

#so i don’t draw them #unless it’s specifically for a bit related to that #i think they also specifically date a lot of my art in a way i’m not fond of. i like to draw mouths and faces #text #i hope that makes sense #if you’re referring specifically to my last post though yeah i obvs took it off to sip on my drink #/eat my tapas #lol #edit again sorry: i don’t think ive ever actually referred to myself as a cartoonist before and meant it.#it feels cool and nice. like yeah that’s what i do. i draw and write comics. i make cartoons!!#that’s unrelated to the ask but. i like that word. it feels good to not feel impostery to say that #even if my stuff recently has been. shall we say. scribbly and or unpolished #been going through interesting relationships with art recently #ANYWAY HOW ARE YOU!

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infernothechaosgod · 19 days

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*sports reporter voice*

FAAAAAAAANNY COTTONTAILLLLLLL!

I thought Id draw her in her red dress :D, I always thought dark red suited her but also did green, so I decided she'll change it up a little between green and crimson from time to time

#oswald the lucky rabbit #fanny cottontail #bunny lou #epic mickey #<< tagging it cuz I also imagine her looking like that there #toons #old toons #art #artwork #toon art #cartoonist #i've been wondering on should I tag my things with autistic artist #because from one side I feel like I need to remind of it to ppl a little also i want it to be known #but also I dont want to missuse that tag #I've seen what happens to a tag when you use it too much or incorrectly so probably I'll tag it indirectly or use a diffrent tag #mmm who knows #not me

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mokutone · 2 years

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In the blue flashback, Tenzō stands with his back to a glass tank. He is narrating: "While I didn't like the lab, I wasn't scared inside it. My emotion's felt quiet." "Distant." "It was like they weren't there at all." A small red panel shows Kakashi looking down at Tenzō quietly. "...I see," he says. Beneath that, a small red panel of Tenzō where his body is now, he keeps his head turned down and away, as if ashamed. "It was only after returning to Konoha...that my body began to quake and shudder," he explains. The fourth panel shows Rabbit-Taichō telling Tenzō "You look like you're gonna be sick, Cat. Go to the hospital. Make sure that wound isn't infected." And Tenzō responds "Yessir." A Narration-box from Tenzō rests above the fifth and sixth panels. "But I couldn't stomach the thought of the hospital..." it says. The fifth panel shows Tenzō with his feet braced on the apex of a roof, as though he's inching forward, but his legs are wracked by tremors. In the sixth panel, his feet are closer together, no longer inching forward on the roof, still shaking. "I intended to stay in the barracks..." Tenzō says. In the seventh panel, Tenzō has dropped down to a crouch, reaching out as if going to brace himself with his injured arm. "Fuck," he says. He thinks to himself, body swarmed with thin white lines to indicate shuddering, "I'll just kill myself if I try to shunshin while shaking this bad."

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#my art #naruto #comics #yamato #tenzō #yamato tenzo #kakashi #fun fact i am breaking some comic rules SEVERELY in this page.#if you manage to read this without confusion or frustration its a miracle and its mostly thanks to kate #who helped me figure out a way to bandage the rules soooo well that you cant tell ive broken them #theyre really incredibly clever at comics #and i appreciate their help so much #this comic page was originally janky as fuck like. it was unreadable #if i moved the speech bubbles just slightly it would become unreadable again #comics is honest to god a really delicate art which is insane bc its just pictures and words together but also like #if you're not careful it gets super messy #if youre ever reading a comic page and you get turned around and you read the same three panels again over and over and over because you're #not sure what order theyre supposed to be in? that's probably not your fault. its probably the cartoonists fault

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ruffgem · 6 months

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Someone in the rbs of that “have you heard this album” islands poll said they were intrigued to listen bc of the album cover ngl thats the only reason I agreed to listen to the unicorns with my dad when I was a kid bc the album cover slapped 😔🤚 the power of nick thorburn putting a funny drawing on the cover

#I was such a dick I would not listen to any music #with my dad #out of stubbornness #but I was in my cartoonist era so #when my dad was like look at this album cover #it worked on me 😔💔🤚#that was the biggest W of my dads life he will not let me forget my ‘I hate music’ era #I’ll be like ‘I’m gonna go play my bass’ and he’ll be like ‘ur welcome…… for making you see the beauty of music ten years ago’#LIKE OMG let me live ……….#(jk it’s funny)#he does the same thing with my brother and nirvana #lmfao

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s-aint-elmo · 3 days

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hi!!! i just wanted to ask about the brushes you use & if you could provide them? if not that's completely fine ^^ i love ur art sm

hiiii tysm!! <333

i use a copy of sai 1 secondhand from my friend so i've got their custom brushes on there but the one i'm currently using is a reproduction of xamag's crayon brush. the settings look like this:

i also used to use a version of the pencil tool that i fiddled with to get a chisel-tip pen:

i switched over at the start of last year after a holiday exchange gift for a friend reminded me how much i love grit and texture and it has subsequently led to me getting looser and less finnicky abt my lines. i do miss the square edges tho so maybe more experimentation is in order

if you plan to use the crayon brush i absolutely recommend selecting large areas and going over them with as continuous of a stroke as you can get with the brush at a larger size for you to really get the texture/specks of negative space that makes it so visually delicious. unfortunately the smaller you go the more that same texture will work against you so be forewarned

otherwise thatse it and thank you once again for the compliment! it makes me so happy to get messages like this abt my art 💖💞💗mwah mwah

#asks #mine #im a one-brush kinda gal bc i so rarely get around to doing actual coloured/finished pieces. got that editorial cartoonist in me #but the crayon brush is so versatile it really does look good whether you use it for lineart or colours or other aspects #sometimes i fill the whole area (e.g. character) in with a biiig sweep of the brush then clip the actual colours on top so the texture's #all big and gritty and continuous. like a peeling poster or chalk on a sidewalk. try it out!

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ashton-slashton · 1 year

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Okay, so, since I moved away, my parents send me birthday cards in the mail. They each do their own, and my dad always doodles on them.

Well, this year he sent me a... particularly interesting one.

That is.... exactly who you all think it is.

#my dad is so delightful I fucking love him dearly #you can see where I got the cartoonist gene from #david lynch

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soyouareandrewdobson · 7 months

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A hat full of shit

Just a very short post compared to others this time. Lets start by playing a game, shall we? Can you identify the difference between these two pics of Dobson?

And no, just because they show the same douchebag, they are not the same. Cause in one pic, something important is missing!

Yeah, that's right, the hat. To be more precise, the fedora Dobson would like to draw himself with, based on the fact that at least ever since college Dobson had been a fedora wearer in real life. Likely to hide his eggshaped, bald calvaria.

Now frankly, I don't think the fedora as a hat in itself is something terrible. In fact, it is actually something of a feministic icon, originating from a headpiece a female character named "Princess Fedora Romanova" wore in a theater play called "Fedora" by the french writer Sadoun from 1882. The character even played by a highly respected actress at the time called Sarah Bernhardt. And after it got popularity via the play, it was worn mostly by women in the late half of the 19th century -particularly members of the first feministic movements- it became popular with men in the 1920s all over the world, especially in America where it was famous during the prohibition, the 40s-60s, in Hollywood movies (particularly the detetive noir ones of the time) and so on.

Nowadays however... well, we all know the memes, how the fedora is something of the first indicative piece of clothing a fake feminist or unhinged social justice warrior likes to wear.

And even Dobson, though a bit late to the party, eventually became aware of the negative association the fedora developed online, which is actually the reason why he stopped wearing the hat altogether.

As he made known in a "humourous" fashion through this dumb SYAC strip...

And would also confirm quite a few years later on twitter, when he ranted randomly about how internet creeps ruined the hat for him.

And as to be expected of Dobson, utter lack of self awareness. At all.

Cause honestly, if he thinks only male douchebags wear a fedora now... well, then he should have kept it on. After all, it fit him.

There is really not much here I can say than the following: If Dobson wanted NOT to be associated with (male) douchebaggery at all, then getting rid of his hat was not the right course of action. Cause being Dobson, it did not matter if he wore a fedora, 80s leggings, nothing, a plain white shirt or started vapping: A douchebag, is a douchebag independent of his choice of clothing.

Dobson wasn't seen as a douche because of his hat or rather a lack thereof.

He was a douche because he was condescending, creepy, acted like he was a semi authority at what "decent" and "progressive" entertainment is like/should be, despite a severe lack of actually creating stories of his own and many other reasons.

Heck, Dobson couldn't even be halfway "consistent" with the fact he abandoned his hat. After all, even in the years following that comic, he would occassionally still draw himself with the hat.

No, seriously. The comic condamning fedoras, according to the base timeline I can construct on the release date of the comics, indicate it to have come out sometime before 2014.

And then when he made his patreon campaign video in 2015... well, I unfortunately only have a modified version of that video found online, but guess what sort of headwear shows up in the "unedit" parts.

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I hope that whatever happened with his hat, it found a better use than resting on his skull. Who knows, perhaps it was donated to the homeless and is now catching more money on average, than Dobson earned via patreon

#andrew dobson #fedora #my lady #adobsoncomic #adobsonartwork #adobsonsartwork #so...you are a cartoonist #syac #soyouareandrewdobson #comic #webcomic #tom preston #Youtube

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greetingsfromuranus · 9 months

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OFFICIAL ed edd n eddy sona he's so swag

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piningprecussionist · 2 months

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Kim you a Kamen Rider fan

Uh, no? Don't think so.

Name sounds vaguely familiar... one of the other clowns around here might be acquainted with it.

I didn't really watch too much TV as a young kid? I liked to mess around with my kit or go fuck around in the forests, for the most part. I started watching stuff more in highschool and college.

Some stuff I enjoy, or enjoyed, off the top of my head- Batman: The Animated Series, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Buffy the Vampire Slayer... There are definitely more things that I watched, but I'm not sure what all I really stand by enjoying... sometimes, you just watch something because it's so weird it fascinates you, ya know?

#ooc: name sounded familiar so i went to look it up. kinda get the impression that it's probably not something she watched- partially due to+#+ runtime/reception i think. unless i misread something #ooc: LOOKING UP SHOWS THOUGH I MIGHT BE GOING A LITTLE UNHINGED... SOOO MANY THINGS I WANT TO GIVE HER...#ooc: I DONT CARE IF ANY OF THESE MAKE SENSE ACTUALLY IM GIVING HER MY MEDIA TASTES THEY KINDA ALIGN. FUCKING. BITE ME.#((ooc: the last comment is about Dinosaurs. if you are unfamiliar. look it up and then stare at the costumes for a minute syckdhdkhfjfh))#(ooc: fun pine facts! my family has that series as a DVD set and has for Many Years now- so that IS a show i watched as a kid actually)#(ooc: i did also watch buffy- though i only watched B:TAS more recently)#(ooc: someone has a hc in the discord that scott went to college to be a cartoonist- so her watching it is partly just i see no reason she #+cant be into animation and partly maybe Scott could've watched it? ik he's more of a marvel guy but the animation is good- he could have +#+ watched it just for that! and kim would have indulged him and actually come to quite like the characters maybe)#(ooc: also i love are you afraid of the dark... i havent seen very much of it but i own one of the dvd sets and i was OBSESSED as a kid. +#+ loved it more than goosebumps but i could never find any more CDs :( so if anyone knows where i can watch it online--)#(ooc: also! i havent watched it so idk if Kim would- but Sabrina the Teenage Witch. thoughts?)#ooc: also she watches Futurama because I fucking said so. i take no criticism.#ooc: it we want more things i could see her watching maybe ask abt specific ones! i could give her thoughts on them maybe #ooc: use them as an excuse to rewatch some stuff maybe xycifkchfbf #pine.txt #asks #rp #kim pine #sp comic #spvtwtg #spto #spvtw #janstaratthedisco #not in standard continuity #?

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maggotwithanf · 7 months

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I WILL CLAW MYSELF OUT OF THIS HOLE

#one of those posts that's extra funny with my archer av??#PAM I WILL CRAWL OUT OF THIS QUICKSAND.#i think if I pay the first 1k at the dentist and see if i can do the rest on my next visit i might be able to pay my rent next month #so a fun thing about being a cartoonist is you dont have insurance (unless it's thru the state) and also nobody pays you on time!!#do you know any cartoonists? Ask them when the latest payment they've ever gotten was #mine was Scholastic Graphix at a whopping 6 months #fuk u

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girafferoyalty · 9 months

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Wanted to draw this work week’s ”ootds” because I am currently going through some kind of self-help / self-observation phase and I notice that drawing self-portraits is kind of part of the process.

#a picture of the cartoonist as a young goat #I enjoy picking clothes and my style is quite often a subject of compliments #I have the advantage of having been about same size since I was around 17 so I can my older clothes too #also some of my stuff is my mother’s old clothes #also I’m ’grabbing the bull from the horns’ as we say in Finnish and trying to study thi #this attachment model thing independently from books and such #it’s interesting but I also found a test that says that I have the most challenging model to cope with so Idk maybe you just cannot sin #win*#I actually finished some fanart too but lately I’ve spent too much time Ruminating™️

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