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Who and what is Sgrunge?

A digital artist and general enjoyer of cartoony things. "Sgrunge" is the persona I use for this blog and on Reddit and Pinterest.

My current focus is:

Total Drama

My interests have historically included (in no particular order):

LittleBigPlanet

Minecraft

ModNation Racers

SpongeBob SquarePants

Nicktoons Unite!

Sonic the Hedgehog

My Little Pony

Dan Vs.

Team Fortress 2

Doki Doki Literature Club

Friday Night Funkin'

PaRappa the Rapper

And other things I may be forgetting about.

What can you expect to find on this blog?

The gist of this blog is to be a home for all my fanworks, usually drawings, but doesn't exclude the possibility of edits, memes, or other things.

Anyone is also free to use the art that I post to this blog.

Reference/inspiration or for edits, headcanons, moodboards, fanfics, profile pics, etc. Basically however you like. Crediting is appreciated but I'm not particularly fussed. I'm just happy to create something that resonates with other people enough that they share it or are inspired to create something for it.

I have a blog for personal art, but I prefer to keep that strictly separate from this one.

I'm not super communicative or outgoing, but happy to share what I make.

Other thing to note: If I ever make weird typos, or put out of place words in my posts, my iPads stupid autocorrect is mostly to blame for that.

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Questions? Ask away! Love to hear em!

About art requests (Closed until further notice)

There's no guarantee that I'll draw something that you request. At the end of the day, I post about what I want and sometimes I'm not inspired by every request I see. Often times, I don't prioritise requests and would much rather do what I feel like doing at any given time, or sometimes it just takes a while to get done since I can't move a million miles a minute.

I need to stop being sad about stupid shit. Sulking about a crackship I can’t justify the existence of. Grow tf up.

I wanna get all my CoDawn sketches organised and posted so I can put this sinking ship behind me.

This inspired me to try to make his rotation more accurate, though his leaked model sheet only has front, 3/4 front and profile angles, so this is the best I can do for now.

Original on left, edit on right. I only adjusted the face so far, but it already makes a noticeable difference.

Explanation for changes.

Also, the height of the head had been adjusted to be consistent at all angles.

Animated rotation (focus on face only). Original on left, edit on right.

Even ignoring the mouth flapping, you will notice the head on the left bobbing up and down in a way it shouldn’t be. Same with the bottom of the chin, to a lesser extent.

It’s a hoax, in case you didn’t know.

Still, the concept of Trent having a twin brother named Brent is really funny.

But how could you guys forget about Trent’s totally real, totally canon brother-

1. Love triangle / Trent’s villainy.

As long as Duncan returns to the game, I still see the love triangle happening. Which, yes, would be an effective turning point in Trent’s character. Seeing his paranoia/jealousy of Duncan in TDA finally validated despite previously being dismissed about it by his now-ex would reopen wounds of indignation and betrayal, which dissolves into making him much more disillusioned with love, and would periodically make him less empathetic of others feelings as a result.

This is the point in the story where he would actually use his good social standing as a strategy, and start playing with people’s feelings. (I think earlier on, he had a couple of moments of using his history with people to nudge them in certain directions, but playing with feelings was a threshold he initially wouldn’t cross due to how Heather did the same to him in TDI)

He was also a hit with the girls earlier on in the season too, being all cool and mysterious (everyone knows Trent, but does anyone really know Trent?), and being the frontman of an internationally sensational band really skyrockets his popularity in-universe. Though he was more annoyed and resigned to the attention he was getting from practically half the girls on the cast (familiar?) This overwhelm of attention also wears on his patience and makes him more inclined towards aloofness.

After Gwuncan gets exposed, the teams are thrown into emotional shambles like in canon. But unlike Alejandro, who was emotionally distant from the chaos and calculatingly used it to his advantage, Trent’s feelings would also be part of the fray. He seems coolheaded and aloof on the surface, but he makes a lot more moves out of spite than long-term strategy, his playstyle messier and more emotionally driven than Alejandro’s.

There’s a closer parallel to Heather’s TDI playstyle in that way, though the thought of being compared to Heather in any way would be one that Trent passionately objects to.

2. TDA Characterisation.

The AU was working on the premise that TDI and TDA were exactly the same as canon, with the exception of episode 27 of TDA / The Celebrity Manhunt special, wherein only classic contestants would compete in TDWT instead of introducing the newcomers.

So yes, Trent would still act exactly as he did in the canon version of TDA. The AU would have TDWT serve to recontextualise his behaviours in retrospect, rather that alter the first two seasons in any way.

3. Regret and Forgiveness.

He probably has a bit of a moment of reflection during the late stretch of the season, he definitely has some guilt for the way he used others, though he wouldn’t give into that guilt until the finale, because otherwise… we wouldn’t have a finale.

Even so, I’m on the fence on whether or not he actually embraces his new, badder persona. For all I know, he could find that he loves being a villain.

But if Trent does regret his actions, he regrets them hardcore.

Total Drama character(s) that deserved better? (Aside from Cody)

I’ll do this in a format I may have done for your last ask if I actually wanted to answer it properly.

Justin deserves a longer rein of antagonism in Action (not villainy necessarily, I don’t think every TD antagonist needs to be villainous), or at least for his power to wane gradually and not have his run end in such an abrupt, OOC way (though I admit, they handled it in a funny way, better than what most of these characters get).

I think Katie and Sadie should’ve been in Action, even if they just turn out to be elimination fodder. Maybe they could’ve had an arc where they can become less dependant on each other and find their own individual strengths, or subverting that, start the arc only to show that they really are that codependent and can’t function without each other. Either way, I think giving them another chance to compete helps balance things out among the first gen cast.

Bridgette deserves some time to shine, if not in Action then definitely in World Tour. Other characters in Team Victory (besides Ezekiel, who also deserves better) at least had decent roles to play in both Island and Action, while Bridgette’s primary relevance in Action was being a satellite character to Geoff, reacting to his “Captain Hollywood” arc. She has a lot of potential for a longer run to explore her character a little more, maybe bring back the “laidback, free-spirited, but still staunch with her values, and clumsy tomboy” traits she initially had.

Ezekiel deserves so much better, obviously, but I wouldn’t know a way to write that for him that doesn’t feel derivative of other characters arcs. I don’t want his arc to just be Harold 2.0, but I don’t want him to be a mindbroken feral thing that the show turns him into either. I would even just take him being a first boot again if they left it at that. My ideas are dry for him, but someone else probably has a great idea for him.

Leshawna I could take as an early boot in World Tour, I just don’t really like the way it was handled in the show. Let her be seen as a threat and eliminated for that reason

DJ. He could’ve had a longer run in Action with a bit more narrative weight. But not for World Tour. In fact, I’d remove him from that season entirely, and get rid of the awful bit that his family is now living in poverty because of a business idea gone wrong. That sucks, and of all the characters, seeing DJ suffer is not entertaining or cathartic at all, just really pitiful and sad. I think he deserves to be the first character to be able to move on from Total Drama completely after Action, and find incredible success for just being a good guy with strong values who now has a platform. Let one of these characters be happy, dammit!

Tyler could have gone further as one of Alejandro’s allies in World Tour (in the circumstance that Alejandro is still in this season, if not then idk). I could also see him in Action.

Justin, Eva, Trent and Beth should’ve been in World Tour:

For Justin and Trent, why create the concept of the Drama Brothers only to not fully utilise it in the musical-themed season? Silliness.

For Eva, she deserves another shot for reasons similar to Katie and Sadie, but unlike them, I see potential for a longer run for her. Doesn’t have to be, though.

For Beth, maybe a bit more defining of her character after Action, explore her slight falling-out with Lindsay after getting arrested in Paris. Maybe show that she’s quick to fall for Alejandro, but also quick to sniff out that there’s something fishy about him thanks to her experiences with being manipulated (in the circumstance that Alejandro is still in the season).

For All Stars, I got nothing. I think we should’ve gotten a second season of RotI instead, pretty much all of those characters deserved another chance at the game. Maybe also a mixed-cast season with a different premise instead.

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Trent corruption arc.

Oh no, this one probably deserves its own dedicated post to really get into it (which I have a draft of, but I wanna fine-tune it more before I’m really ready to share).

If you don’t want antagonist Trent, skip to the next red text.

Basically, I wanted to come up with an AU of World Tour that only uses pre-existing characters, to see if it was really necessary to create new ones for the season to work. Everyone points to Justin as the pre-Alejandro, but I actually think that Trent could play that role better post Action (iterating off an unmodified version of Action here).

(Also, looked in my drafts to find my original concept post for this, and holy shit, it’s exactly a year old!)

I guess I have to talk about it now…

Since Trent’s character is kind of wishy-washy in Island, and a lot of people reject his characterisation in Action, I thought it would be an interesting way to recontextualise his “derailment”.

He has a good reputation among his cast, to the point where most people ended up siding with him in a situation that was mostly his fault (Gwen breaking up with him), he has good social skills and an approachable attitude, but is also a neurotic mess underneath that with a lot of hidden hurt. WT has an opportunity to explore that hurt in the form of a disillusionment with love and a desire to start putting himself first going forward.

He doesn’t start the season villainously or anything, but his actions become morally grey, and he starts becoming colder and more strategic. I think it would be an interesting case to have a character devolve into selfish, antagonistic actions as the season goes on, rather than starting the season with a devious plan to win like basically every other antagonist.

He doesn’t realise that he’s becoming a villain until the latter half of the season, where Heather basically calls him out for becoming worse than even she is, though he’s in denial at first, as he doesn’t really see things that way, and nobody else really agrees with Heather’s point of view either. But around the final four or so is when he finally accepts the fact that he’s basically become the bad guy, but he isn’t gonna throw in the towel when he’s this close to the end…

That’s the gist of the idea at least. It makes the “wolf in sheep’s clothing” characterisation of Alejandro feel like that much more of a knife twist when it’s a character that the others once had a genuine rapport with.

Who would take Sierra’s role?

That would be two characters;

Eva would work as the temperamental muscle on Team Amazon who constantly puts Cody in his place (and I think an odd, gradual friendship between them would be funny and kind of sweet, given their sparse interactions in Island).

Also, we need more Eva and Gwen friendship.

The other would be Beth as the weird girl (affectionate) who has leaned further into her knowledge of her fellow cast members (building off of what Action implied but barely actually showed), becoming a huge fan of The Drama Brothers, and making Chris uncomfortable with the embarrassing trivia she knows about him. She could also be one of the first to notice that something’s off with Trent (iterating off a previous point) and maybe even eventually form a very begrudging alliance with Heather.

Neither of them veer into Sierra’s most controversial actions, thankfully.

Alright, safe to read now.

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SpongeBob - Favourite season

Oh gosh, my pinned post is so old and I haven’t really updated it in a while. Most of the series there are things I haven’t even made art for, or even engaged with in a while. They’re more so there as background information about my likes than things I’m presently into.

SpongeBob was a comfort show for me. I’m a normie who likes the first three seasons, my favourite being the first season for its comfortable tone and appealing art direction and animation. Granted, I haven’t watched the show at all in the past couple years, and have no interest in anything post-sequel (everything I learn about the new episodes just makes me sadder), so yeah. Not much to talk about there.

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