#*children

And for the first time since 2018 (or actually consistently since 2017) I log into Tumblr and decide to sketch and shittily color one of my strange children as Jess and I watch SM again

I've embraced my cantankerous soul and just gonna enjoy doing things at my own pace instead of feeling guilty about not participating in things. I drew half an OC, that's more than I'd been able to for years.

In a show that's all about change and grief. Where the collectors' main enemies were the Titans, beings that notably made new life, instead of just preserving what was already there. Where the main villains motive is his selfish inability to let go of his big brother and their childhood dream, resulting in a brutal cycle of destruction for the grimwalkers and the near genocide of the boilings isles. Where the main character's conflict stems from being pulled between an old, familiar but unkind world where she has only one person whos fighting for her, and a new, strange, horrifying but ultimately accepting world where she's grown a family that's now in danger of being turned into mindless puppets.

This is the thematic backdrop against which the collector and his kind have been set.