Behold. My Latest Obsession.

Little Bendy-Beans isn’t as intentionally mischievous as you’d think. At least not yet. He’s extremely curious, “If I do this, and this happens, then what happens if I do this? Will I get yelled at? Will someone come and see? Will I get food? I might get food..”. He’s constantly concidering every single option and way something can go, and this means he would shove that ink-can-thing off the shelf, multiple times a day, and night, when people are in the room, or across the house, just to see what will happen.

He will cling to Boris’s tail and ride along to see how far he can get before Boris gets tired of him, or if he’ll ever even notice.

He is very interested in the screaming head on Henry’s desk, asking it questions it can’t answer and poking it in places it didn’t know it could feel in and please stop it that’s very annoying and that kind of tickles but also hurts stop, which directly translates to, “aaaAAAAAHHHHH.”

AND SAMMY. Sammy gets yelled at almost more than Bendy-Beans does, which is dissapointing Sammy, that’s not how you earn brownie points. He can’t seem to grasp that his Yandere-ness is actually quite rapey like and please stop borderline molesting the smol Ink Baby. Can you not feel the claws digging into your scalp? Do you not know the signals cats give when the say “Put me the hell down please?” especially when they’re saying it out loud and everything?

A tyrannosaurus but the arm and leg proportions are switched

SO. I managed to get all the pictures without ripping my book apart.

The first 2 being of the first time I drew Bendy-Beans and Boris, I changed their eyes to match the digital ones, kinda fucked them up even more. Changed Boris’ face so it wasn’t as long and shortend his ears to match.

I forgot I had two more pictures of Monster AFTER the first page. I subscribe to the “Papa Henry” idea. Imagining this big ol’ Boi wandering around desperately looking for daddo so he can give hugs and get head scrintchies is gotdamn irresistible.

Also Sammy’s a biznitch to draw, but that’s my own lacking in skill.

I finally lost a battle of wills and interest. Time to add yet another thing/fandom to my long list of shameless shame.

Are you a Gold Star lesbian? (Just in case you don't know what it means, a Gold Star lesbian is a lesbian that has never had sex with a guy and would never have any intentions of ever doing so)  

I wouldn't consider myself one given I'm Bisexual and currently have a boyfriend. Although I am curious what sparked this question or even if it was intended for me.

Bendy-Beans can’t quite grasp the concept of ‘Too much belief’.

Boris is a good sewer, and gives Bendy-Beans some accessories, and proper hands I guess?

I've never reblogged something on this site ever before, but this is worth it. Despite the fact that I'm on a bit of a Batim obsession, and that this will only reach a few more people who may not really be into MLP, the point still counts. In fact this especially counts when dabbling in AUs which it seems I've accidentaly might have made. And nothing makes me scared and fearful I've putting art I've made on the internet other then being, not hated on for it, but rejected by said fandom for what I drew. This is an EXTREMELY excellent point, and it makes me rethink quite a few things I judge characters on, mine and others. Your character is whomst-ever the fuck you want them to be. And if it's an official canon character you can defunk their backstories and write their future in crayon as long as you give proper credit to the VERY original creator. MAKE EM FUHKIN GEY. Your not stealing it? Cool. Crossover the shit outta like 9 fandoms. Not makin money DIRECTLY of their face? Perfect. Some creators, as in like Fnaf and stuff, don't even care if you do. Fuckin AU, Mary Sue, Gary Stew, and whatever the fuck is genderfluid equivalent away, who gives a shit, if your well within the rules, you can do whatever you gotdamn dream of.

I dunno if you guessed it, but I like drawing cute little ponies….fanart of a children’s cartoon. And every so often, someone feels the need to tell me that my personal interest is stupid, childish, cancerous…..“cringe-y”. Boy howdy, do I hear that word tossed around a lot. Cringe, cringe, cringe. We’re all afraid of making something cringe-worthy. Something that could end up in those lovely “Bad OC” cringe compilations. I see other artists, especially young creators, getting policed and attacked for creating something that could-gasp!- be interpreted as the dreaded Mary Sue. So artists stifle themselves. Can’t make your OC too colorful. Don’t you dare make them related to a canon character! Better watch that backstory, lest somebody decry your character as an edgelord. You can have a nerdy interest, but you better not be too fucking passionate about it. Watch yourself. Don’t be too different. Don’t be cringe-y.

So here’s my question to ye gatekeepers of content, ye knowers of all things cringe-worthy, ye adamant enforcers of creative conformity………..Who cares? Really. Why. Why is “cringe” an issue? So what if someone makes an edgy black-and-red OC, or a sparkly mary sue alicorn princess? So what if somebody makes up an over-powered self-insert and ships them with a canon character? So what if somebody dares to be unironically passionate about a fandom or interest considered less-than-cool? Who cares if people have imperfect, cliche-riddled characters they love? Cringe culture is mean-spirited. It demands creators conform. It’s perpetuated by people who, quite oddly, get really bent out of shape at the sight of people unironically enjoying harmless things. I say forget it. Trample it. Let people have fun. Especially don’t be cruel to young creators- nobody learns to be a skilled artist or writer overnight. And this is by no means a statement against criticism…..but there’s a big, big difference between giving constructive criticism, vs choosing to crap on somebody for having a “cringe-y” interest. Idk. I’m a teacher with an Art Education degree, and I believe one of the most important things is to encourage people’s interest in the arts, not push them away (out of a mean-spirited attempt to seem cooler by proxy). My favorite Mister Rogers quote (applies to artists of all ages):

“Do you like to draw with crayons? I’m not very good at it. But it doesn’t matter. It’s the fun of doing it that’s important. Now, I wouldn’t have made that if I just thought about it. No matter how anybody says it is….It feels good to have made something.”

Andradite Garnet the precious bell pepper.

Infested Nyx