no thoughts only puppets

I have joined Artfight!! Never done this before, and I wasn't planning to, but seeing my friends have fun over there made me curious... Here are all the refs I made for this event tee hee! I hope to see y'all there :3

This is Pemmy Pebbleson (it/she/one) and Wammy Willum (ham/hammers). They are the two halves of Silly Sneevleton, and the work together to make sure that Silly is a functioning creature. Do not think of them as the angel and devil on Silly's shoulder, they do not have a moral compass. They are driven purely by hedonism and being silly, and if you don't like that, they will explode you with hammers.

Obviously, this has already been pointed out by Black people in the fandom, but I wanted to bring it up because I’ve had a few asks about that song specifically that I’m not comfortable with answering. I am extremely happy that Jax is canonically transfem because even though I’ve never watched the show, I’ve witnessed people’s excitement about it, and I’m not trying to rain on anyone’s parade, but I’m also not going to pretend like the racism doesn’t exist because that’s not the kind of blog I’m running here. Any other song could’ve been used, and perhaps there wasn’t much thought put into its choice; I’m sure it wasn’t a deliberate act of malice, because from an outsider perspective that song seems to fit perfectly, but that ultimately doesn’t make it any less harmful, especially given the context surrounding the production.

I feel similarly about how United In Grief by Kendrick Lamar became a popular TikTok sound for people to make funny jokes about something going wrong when the original lyrics are specifically about Black grief. Or about the new trend of “the saxaphones are getting louder” taken from Boyz N The Hood, which is a movie about Black-American experiences that a lot of (white) people using this sound likely haven’t even seen.