Satas moment

like simon the convict from hit movie iron lung is the obvious and most popular one but i have also seen a couple others that just boggle my mind lmao (i'm pretty sure there was a real person in there)

and it's really fuckin funny because,, like in the movie it's a lot more ambiguous but if you read the book it's. it's pretty extremely clear that he's aroace. the easier one to point to is the ace part bc he is! shown to be sex-repulsed! on multiple occasions! that's literally just text, there's no fucking interpretation here that's just the words on the fucking page

the aro part is more difficult because blah blah blah proving a negative but like this guy is incredibly disinterested in romance (he dOESN'T THINK ABOUT IT LIKE EVER) and tends to form pretty close relationships with people without ever having a romantic thought about them. if this man were alloromantic he would have had SOME thoughts about stratt but AGAIN this guy doesn't think about romance unless he has to and i think that's pretty telling

anyways with all that in mind it gets a little annoying that he gets funneled into the position of tumblr/ao3's new gay golden child despite the very clear aroace coding. ADMITTEDLY THIS IS MORE OF A MINORITY THAN I'VE BEEN MAKING IT SOUND. IT'S VERY MUCH NOT EVERYONE. IT'S JUST THAT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE SHIPPING HIM ANNOY ME. THE MAJORITY OF FANS ARE NOT LIKE THIS (afaik.) it's not as bad as fucking verso/gustave from clair obscur good god i will never fucking get over that as long as i live

Now I have to uh. Explain my design choices. The scariest part

Generally simplified his design a bit. This is honestly just for my own convenience.

Simplified their color palette and mostly included warm colors. Similar to how I wrote Ragatha when I redesigned her way back when, the warmer color palette represents how Bizco is kind of conflicted about leaving the circus.

Their clock is stuck on 2:10, the time that he first joined the circus.

Has some slight crown imagery. I imagine them and Kinger were pretty decent friends when the two were coworkers.

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

Warning, there are light screen flashes so this may be potential eyestrain