Denny :]

sorry for the long post btw

I added this one just because lol

I really thought i could finish these in 2 week when i barely have free time lmao

spanish ver. of the last drawing and references⬇⬇⬇

I've been cooking these lately and turned them into keychains. if you are interested, feel free to send me an email and lemme know! [email protected]

Being an aromantic asexual is weird. We defy not one, not two, but three societal norms; heteronormativity, compulsory sexuality, and amatonormativity. It gets even weirder when you’re indifferent (even favourable!) when it comes to sex and romance because you think your experience is universal, that everyone feels the way you do. It’s not feeling wrong and broken and out of place. It’s feeling normal, and then realizing that you aren’t.

Thinking (read: assuming) that you’re straight for most of your life and then finding out you’re not is weird. Mostly because once you realize you’re not straight, it dawns on you that you feel the same way about boys that you do about girls and non-binary people. And then you wonder if you’re pansexual because they’re attracted to all genders, and you have to be attracted to someone, right? And then that thought is immediately dismissed because you don’t feel attraction, at all. But it doesn’t stop you from contemplating every other sexuality and romantic orientation, because you’ve been taught that everyone wants sex and romance.

And then you remember: you like sex and romance in fiction. You like seeing your friends in happy, healthy, consenting relationships, and you’d always assumed that one day, you’d be in one too. But you’ve never pursued one. You never had more than a fleeting interest in boys, and lingering but still platonic affection for your female and non-binary friends. Those “crushes” that you had in elementary school? Maybe not crushes after all, because God knows you haven’t had one in nearly eight years. The most powerful feelings you’ve had for another person have been squishes so intense that you had to look back and question if it was actually romantic attraction (spoiler: it wasn’t).

And then there’s that epiphanic moment when things start to fall into place. Why you were always so vehement that soulmates could be platonic too. Why the idea of loving someone more than your best friend is incomprehensible (because romantic love is always shown as being more. Hello amatonormativity). Why when you ship fictional pairings, there are people you want to get together romantically, people you want to be friends so bad, and the ships that you like the most are the ones that could go either way. Why you desire emotional closeness and intimacy with the people in your life, but that had always been conflated with sex and romance so you wondered if what you wanted was more than friendship. Why you want to take the expression “more than friends”and burn it to the ground because there is no vocabulary for friendship that exceeds “best friend” without crossing over into romantic and/or sexual territory.

You realize that your ideal relationship isn’t necessarily romantic. It’s best friends who cohabitate and snuggle and hold hands and go on adventures to the library together. Kissing and sex? Well, that’s more of an afterthought. A “yeah, that’ll probably happen somewhere in there.” An assumption, because you’ve been taught that primary, monogamous relationships are always romantic and sexual. You reflect and see that there are very few things that you see and inherently romantic, and that there is a lot of cross-over between things you consider platonic, sensual, and romantic. A grey area that you can’t define.

Being an aromantic asexual is weird, because while I’ve always said that you don’t need romance and sex to be happy, I now realize that it applies to me too.

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GAME IDEA - MANY MORE IDEAS!

Did you like the ideas we shared? Thing is for every idea we polish into images like the ones we shared, there’s many more that end up in notes or sketches. Still saved for the future!

Let’s explore these.

THE COSMIC THRONE - You get entangled in a game of power and intrigue as four members of a cosmic court fight for political influence. Who you’ll side with?

RAISING GOD - You work on a secret government facility. They’ve found and captured an entity that is suspected to be God, in an infant state. Player must make choices about conducting tests and experiments to determine the mechanics and capabilities of God.

THE SITCOM - players are trapped in an archetypical sitcom that keeps repeating episodes in a loop (following all classic sitcom tropes). The further they go, the more the sitcom devolves into weird territory, like glitching into cosmic horror.

BANQUET + SESAME STREET - you cook in a charming village of little creatures where a few “elders” impart wisdom w/ educational songs, each one around a theme (think “Sesame Street”). The further you go, the elders start devolving & their songs become more complicated and weirder.

UNRAVELING COMIC MECHANIC - We have a couple universes that we fail to execute because they need more linear narratives (they’re “crime families” and “school of magic”). One game idea is a game where you read comics to find “keywords” that serve as visual entries. You can later mix keywords to create new comics, unraveling a big narrative.

MAJOR ARCANA GODS - a group of powerful mercenaries who hunt down actual gods (represented by Major Arcana). The mercenaries (NPCs/ROs) are 4 and represented by the 4 symbols of the minor arcana. Unlike the sketch, we think of an anime-like fantasy plus urban fashion approach.

BIBLICALLY ACCURATE VIRTUAL PETS - this is from when we brainstormed on “corner of screen” idle games. Some of these are about having pets. We thought it could be cool if this but the pets are biblically accurate angels.

What you think?

Remember you can check some of our game ideas and vote for them here:

my @d20exchange gift for @aroaceofthesea! backgrounds are way out of my comfort zone but the power of adaine abernant pulled me through, happy holidays! <3

details under cut:

Some changes have been made to the commission sheet! Thank you for your time 🌱

the Bad Kids get their beach episode ! ! !

long hugs, melting into each other

comparing hand sizes

burying face in their stomach when laying down

several kisses in quick succession

hugs from behind

huddling up on a cold day

rolling in bed until they are slotted together

tickling

nose / cheek / forehead kisses

stealing their hat and putting it on

forehead to forehead

smothering them with their own body

carrying them around their apartment

head resting on their shoulder

climbing in their lap

checking them out when they change even after years together

holding hands in a stressful moment

slapping their ass in passing

tucking their hair back

casual brushes while passing them

massages

kissing the palm on their hand and then nuzzling into it

playing with the other's fingers

lifting them and setting them on the counter to have better kiss reachability

burying face in the crook of their neck

playing with their hair

spooning

removing their make up and hair products for them after a hard day

jumping in their arms upon reunion