Badgering Cereal

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Waaah thank you so much!! I've struggled to grapple between my professional presence & my autistic fan presence a lot and it's always comforting to come across other industry artists in fan spaces. We all truly come from nerd beginnings haha. Danny Phantom is like a really beat up plushie from my toddler years that I still reach for sometimes as an adult

Yes I do! I've uploaded all my old art in previous posts, just gotta scroll down my blog <3 honored you're enjoying my work

I've been super well! I've got my hands full working full-time in animation, & I just moved, AND I got a new pet pigeon. I'm also currently working alongside Shiyoon Kim & Andrew Chesworth on a project and am super excited!! Once things settle down I need to draw Danny Phantom.. my soul years for it fuck my chungus busy life

Why does my desire for love always leave me feeling corrupted?

Sometimes its about finding revenge in the little things

Yeah whatever kill ka kill Vlad be upon ye who cares anymore

What's a little love between selves

That’s what I love about Badger Cereal, it’s so dysfunctional. Vlad desperately wants a son but when he finally gets one he accidentally kills him. I really think there's something to be said about how it all panned out. It's not the kind of fatherhood he wanted. He has this depressed, traumatized husk of a child who comes to him as a desperate last resort. He wants to fix Danny but he doesn't know how. I think Vlad agreeing to remove Danny's ghost half was born out of his own desperation; he doesn't know what else to do. But he'll do whatever he can to get one step closer to what he actually wants. We forget Vlad isn't in this because he genuinely cares about what's best for Danny. He's thinking about what he wants and how he can soothe his own wounds, even if it's to Danny's detriment. Many parents become parents without the emotional maturity to understand the gravity of raising an individual. The love and care may seem selfless at times, but at the end of the day they're not doing it for the child's sake. It's for their own. They project onto the child and the child exists to fulfill the parent's fantasy. Vlad is no different.

Too lazy to take this one past a rough first pass I ran out of steam