So I've Been Sick For The Past Five Or So Days And Haven't Had The Energy To Draw, Sketch, Or Even Doodle.

As a kid that came from a 'She loves me, she loves me so much it hurts. I just wish she was a better Mother so loving her back didn't feel so hard' relationship with my own mom I latched on to Kurt and Rouge so, so hard as a kid. I felt their pain, their conflict, but every time I saw Raven... I couldn't help but love her, couldn't help seeing my mom in her. It doesn't help that Mystique is actually her favorite right behind Storm. It's my own inside 'joke', my mom will always love me just like Raven will always love Kurt and Anna but she was never the mother they needed her to be, especially when they needed her the most. Maybe I won't always feel like her little Nightcrawler, but for now, I don't mind it so much, I have my own Rouge after all (even comes with their own Gambit) and he's the best big brother in the world.

I think the ideas that

“Raven is a bad parent”

And

“Raven loves their children”

Can and should co exist. I will never sit here and say Mystique is a good parent, but I think acting like they don’t love their children is just being willfully ignorant of their characterization since the 80s.

I see a lot of people try to claim Raven doesn’t care about their kids. I actually think they care a LOT, it just, doesn’t deter their actions. And they’re not a good parent, don’t get me wrong, but that doesn’t mean they don’t love Kurt and Rogue and I think trying to claim they don’t actually does away with a lot of Raven’s character nuance.

A lot of the tragedy and depth of their relationships come from the fact that Raven DOES love their children, but it’s not enough. And Kurt and Anna Marie know that, and that’s part of the tragedy of it too.

I’m not a Mystique defender, but I am a Raven Darkhölme characterization realist. A lot of people flatten their character to add more sympathy to Kurt’s story especially, which feels kinda iffy to me. But that’s for another post.

From a storytelling perspective, it adds so much more depth and tragedy to all characters involved to not make the relationship so shallow and one sided as “Oh Mystique doesn’t love them”, and even to juxtapose Raven’s relationship to them with Irene’s is a whole other thing I may talk about one day. But like, you do the story injustice to flatten it down to just “Oh Mystique sucks”

Tl;dr - Raven Darkhölme is a shitty parent but they do love their kids. And that’s the whole tragedy of the thing

IT WILL ALWAYS FALLOW!!!

So I was on YouTube and a web comic ad comes up. It was amv type one which I personally had never seen so I sat through it, not to mention it was on yaoi. Things like Love Stage, and Junjou Romantica was on it I was like "okay sweet, I love both of those" and then the scene from Free! Iwatobi Swim Club were Rin pushes Haru against a gate pops up and I just sit there and think 'Wha- b-but... Free isn't... Well it's not classified under... WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO MY SHIPPER SELF! YOUR FEEDING IT DAMNIT!'

I'm so excited!!! My partner said we could go see Sonic 3 on the 21st!!! I've been sketching Sonic gijinka all night I can't wait!!! So far I've done busts of Tails (cause he's my favorite) and Knucks but I plan on doing the whole gang! Yippee!!! 🎉

This supports my "Sakamoto family just end up adopting Yusuke (because mama sakamoto took one look and said "He's mine now") and Ryuji gets to play big brother to his stupid friend that keeps drinking paint water on accident and they do dumb shit like tag the train tunnels together then go eat beef bowls while Ryuji gushes about his first male crush that just so happens to be both their friend" (he crushes real hard that one) train of thoughts I've been having for some time now so I enjoy it very much, thank you.

Source: The Amazing World of Gumball

Akira: You need to take things a little easier. Okay? And no more big gestures.

Ryuji: Of course, Of course. *Pulls out a Walkie Talkie and whispers* Yusuke, abort, abort!

Yusuke: Uhh..too late.

Ryuji: What do you mean too-

*fireworks go off behind Akira*

Ryuji: *attempting to distract him* Don’t look behind you! I mean, let’s focus on the future. There’s no point in turning back!

Akira: Ryuji! *He looks up at the sky*

*A big firework goes off that says “I love you, Akira” *

Ryuji: Pfft. Nothing to do with me. Must be a different Akira.

*Another firework goes off that says “From Ryuji Sakamoto” *

Ryuji: *laughs nervously* What are the chances?!

*a final firework goes off in the shape of Ryuji's face*

Ryuji: *smiles nervously*

Akira: *rolls his eyes at him and smiles at him*

Alright so my brother and I make jokes like this constantly to the point where one of my characters is just this joke. Pretty much the thought process is that every time they try to tell someone their gender more and more ridiculous shit happens to prevent it from being heard and then they just say "but I prefer if you just call me Z" almost like the universe is keeping it a secret. The thought process is that you don't need to know Z's gender to accept them and respect that they just want to be called Z. As you should with everyone if they want you to use pronouns, use them. If they prefer to just be called by their name, just use their name.

what is my gender? my gender is [large truck passes by] but everybody calls me “dad”

Honestly me talking to my mom! This is the type of shit I say to her. I. Am. The. Robot.

The only thing that's running through my head is if Ryuji moves that package Akiren is gonna bap the fuck out of poor Yusuke on accident 😭

more fursona5...

Oh I have some of those apps! Its what I do my art on but I'm still learning how to navigate it since I don't really know how to color (and I'm still getting used to layers, but they're sooooo helpful!) but it is really fun! I recommend ibis x. Its free so you don't have to pay for the basics but you can watch a single ad and get all these cool brushes for like 18 hours or something. Its cool is what I'm saying.

And they were roommate

What happens when you grow old but never grow up and your childhood bad ideas are now adults ones? This, this is what happens, absolute comedy gold!

“XIAO QIAO!! WHERE DID YOU GO”