Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈 Marlinspike Pride 2024

Animated a stolen kiss 💜

yeah but he bought it on the internet😭

tintin is incredible at timing

(possibly) the final snippet I'll post from my story The Gypsum Maw, the previous part which follows directly before is here - I've been seeing comments asking about where to read the full thing, I'm afraid what I post is basically it - I have more pages in my sketchbook but I suspect they are only legible to me!

this post is already long so more notes and credits under the cut!

I asked for some help for coming up with friends for Chang! The gentle giant Masek was created by InkyTrink on Twitter and the super excitable Libby was created by dreamyopal, a discord mutual:

They came up with some great character notes and were super helpful providing feedback on my designs!

Writing this felt pretty odd in ways. I graduated in 2020 during the Plague Year so my class didnt get a public art showcase. I attended one last year and it was a bittersweet experience.

Reunions feel a bit like time travel, you see people after a few years and things change quite a lot. I wanted to explore this in my post canon series, Chang has grown up, found himself and has been able to live a fairly normal life with family and friends. Tintin in a way reflects that young adult insecurity about being stagnant, like you haven't been able to fully reach adulthood properly. His fame and status as a Young Boy Reporter is holding him captive, he longs for connection but is held back by expectations from both himself and the outside world.

I've also been inspired by the concept of 'queer time,' the concept that the lives of queer people progress differently to the lives of non queer people. It takes time to come to terms with yourself and to come out. Queer people are often excluded from milestones like marriage or having children. Tintin being confronted with his peers at a university highlights his insecurity about being left behind, but he's slowly making the journey to self acceptance by talking to others, and recognising common ground he has with others.

Chang's university isn't a one to one reference to a specific institution but in Belgium there was a secular movement in reaction to the dominance of the Catholic church, in which universities played a key role. There's references to art movements that were deemed "degenerate" by the Nazis here, such as Fauvism and Surrealism.

i've been wanting to redraw this / been waiting for someone to redraw this screenshot for ages AND FINALLY SOMEONE DID IT, HE LOOKS SO SUAVE I CAN'T😭💖

Suave agent indeed

[reupload cuz i'm stupid]

a first time had

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at this point i just enjoy drawing perry in his underwear

Star collapsing Engineer Mark sequel of this drawing

Request from instagram

Wil tripping over a toy car

SAME BRO, SAME

human perry idea

would gladly read this fic

🌌Darkiplier Fanart~🥀

It’s finally done aaaaa, it took me around 15 hours, reblogs are much appreciated 💖💖💖 i am including a timelapse of the coloring process only, because I sketched it on my computer and didn’t record it like a dumdum- anyways, here’s the spooky man in hd :)

while we’re on the topic of dakota (we are not) here’s a bunch of screenshots I took purely bc he looked cute in them. King