POV: You Forgot Your Hat And Gonna Get Lit🔥🔥

Little b-day present for Markus plier everybody wave to the sad blood soaked man 👋

Summer~

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.

oh my oh my, what a lovely gift~

they then:

i decided to post it a little earlier 💝

#he is beauty he is grace

Okay so i went through my notes and found this little snippet i wrote in like 2021 and its just. what. don't know what i was gonna use it for, but uh, i guess have a treat lmaoo

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Spring 2010

Suddenly Perry's watch went off. He sighed, letting go of Heinz's lips.

"You gotta answer?" Heinz asked, his hands still clenched to Perry's sides.

"What if it's important?" Perry signed. Heinz pouted, but then sighed as well.

"Yeah, alright," he reluctantly went along.

So Perry answered, an image of Major Monogram appearing on the tiny display.

"Agent P! What have you been doing, you're all sweaty! We can't send you on a mission like this! Have you been working out?"

Perry simply turned his wrist to show Heinz panting as well.

"Huh, Doof is already with you! Do you have the rest if your team hidden somewhere too?"

He simply turned his watch again, so the both of them were visible to the Major. He just let him take the scene in for a moment.

"Hi Francis." Heinz grinned.

Silence. Then Major Monogram almost choked on his own spit.

"Oh, great googly moogly! Didn't want to interrupt... that... Uhm, get ready when you’re done and… get here. Uhm. Monogram out."

The display turned its usual baby blue again. Heinz and Perry looked at each other for a moment, then broke out in laughter before going back to making out, still with a grin on their faces.

WHO WILL YOU SAVE? WHO CAN YOU SAVE? | IN SPACE WITH MARKIPLIER.

same🥺

I wanna,,,dance with him

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