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Seeing as my post about Otto's Glorious Chest resonated so hard with you all, here's the full piece for the cover of Vengeance #3 which I accidentally stumbled upon earlier.

@optimisticrunawaygalaxy, this one's for you.

I’ve been on this site since the middle-end of 2012 and I am absolutely telling you everyone was wanting to fuck this man. People drew him as if he was wearing a turtle neck sweater and making him out to be this hilarious little shit and charming as fucking hell.

He was literally THE original Sans of Tumblr when OFF was a big thing.

We still had the drive to create. We still sold prints and charms and made zines…but it was never like this.

The introduction of streaming, binge shows that drop all at once, tiktok and vine RIP i still love u vine but you were the beginning of a particularly ugly era) creating this bite sized, quick paced ‘content’ era of creation and it bled out into fucking everything else.

Fandoms didn’t die down when the show ended or the season was over. You didn’t mass unfollow artist, writers or moots just because they changed fandoms. There wasn’t this need to please the algorithm in order for your posts to get seen by people and enjoyed.

Fandoms used to last YEARS. Star Trek is literally the oldest running fandom out there and you got people in there that could care less about the new stuff and still have been happily prancing through their fucking fifty year old fandom today. Hell, even SPN after all it’s fuckups and shitshows has a dedicated fanbase STILL creating tons of art and fic.

There is no patience anymore. No calm feeling of taking in fandom and friends at a pace that which doesn’t make you stressed and is still fun.

Do I blame fandom for this? Of course not, but people are complacent with it and start changing their vocab to accommodate and end up making the situation so deep it cant be fixed.

"Icarus is flying too close to the sun And Icarus's life, it has only just begun"

First art of 2023 and I tried painting digitally for the first time, I'm quite proud of the result! This will be available as a print soon so be sure to let me know if you're interested!