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IM ALWAYS RARING TO TALK ABOUT ANKHANUM! hes a character that relies a lot on his context so some background is necessary. this bitch has been living rent free in my head since i was 11 or 12 years old. hes had a number of iterations over the last two decades, but currently.

he hails from a species of immortal beings that got to be that way thru biological tampering, the eldest of which had a hand in that tampering, and is the very same one who would eventually sacrifice themself to bring ankhanum into existence, to undo their people by spreading a virus specifically tailored to kill the undying.

ankhanum - in his original form anyway - carried the memories of his maker and carved quite a bloody trench through the immortals. a 'cure' was made, carrying side effects of its own, and the remaining immortals tore ankhanum apart and abandoned him on the rock that would become earth.

there, ankhanum would rot away over millennia, the world passing him by...until life formed, and he discovered a remarkable compatibility with living things. in particular, humankind.

so thats his backstory; theres a lot of iterations of him existing on earth these days, often with different backgrounds and personalities and identities. we meet clive and A ankhanum in my work dead meat, but with their viral properties, iterations of them exist in several main cast members and differ based on their host, etc. some are more distinct than others; sanderson & mina dont really acknowledge theirs as separate from them, but norman does consider his a part of him, but with a distinct identity. (reus his emotional support ankhanum that keeps him chill.)

some bonus sketches of norman and his ankhanum, for fun.

summer fun!

based on this shirt (points under the cut)

its time ... for big dick himself. ankhanum.

so, this IS the version of him exclusive to dead meat and therefore the united form of clive & vermeil, but there's so many traits shared with other variations that this design can be considered a baseline, no matter which version of him is being drawn.

transcription of written notes under the cut + additional notes on his design that AREN'T written above:

OKAY FINALLY. full body refs of every major character in dead meat.

Stop demonizing butches. Stop demonizing studs. Stop demonizing he/him lesbians, lesboys, lesbians on t, and butch boyfriends. Stop demonizing things just because you don’t understand them.

Stop with this obvious hatred of gender non-conforming people. We don’t owe you anything.

Stop attacking us for living as our true selves, and maybe, this new year, start asking us questions. Be curious, and be open.

2026 April 28

CG 30: Cometary Globules Image Credit & Copyright: Marcelo Salemme

Explanation: They’re like mountain peaks, but they are forming stars. Bright-rimmed, flowing shapes gather near the center of this rich starfield toward the borders of the nautical southern constellations Puppis and Vela. Composed of interstellar gas and dust, the grouping of light-year sized cometary globules is about 1300 light-years distant. Energetic ultraviolet light from nearby hot stars has molded the globules and ionized their bright rims. The globules also stream away from the Vela supernova remnant which may have influenced their swept-back shapes. Within them, cores of cold gas and dust are likely collapsing to form low mass stars whose formation will ultimately cause the globules to disperse. In fact, cometary globule CG 30 (upper right in the group) sports a small reddish glow inside its head, a telltale sign of energetic jets from a star in the early stages of formation.