#ask mutt

My favourite character is definitely Slishy Slasher. She's the character I really needed at the moment and she's helped me to express myself and what's been going on for me to my psychologist when I was struggling to find the words. I love The Stars and Blue, it's a beautiful book which I relate to so heavily and it fills me with a lot of hope for the future. Thanks so much for sharing your art, it truly is making an impact!!

I’m SO glad to hear this that’s the most I could ever ask for 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

yeah!!!! I’m glad because a lot of media that’s vague about these issues it’s easy for the fandom to brush them off as people reading too into the story and themes.

For Pendog, because I’m not a coward, I wanted to be very direct with these themes of racism and fascist death cults while not hamming it up to the point they became nonsensical but also not being so serious that it became miserable to read through if that makes sense?

The people that want us dead are scary and dangerous but also the dumbest most idiotic people alive and sometimes they really are motivated by shit like “ohhh diners don’t serve soda the old fashioned way anymore…society has DETERIORATED” or “You colored queers are reading too deep into my favorite old/current show that was about imperialism it actually had NO themes and that’s why the past was better” <—-actual experience I have had as a queer person of color in fandom. It’s just ridiculous how stupid and childish they are you know? I really wanted to show the absurdity through a kinda believable right wing cult using their favorite old tv show as a rallying point.

“hell. yes.” Mutt snags a brownie immediately and leans against the doorway you’re still standing in. You might have thought he would dress as a werewolf, but it even takes you a moment to recognize him in the debonair suit and tie, paired with a silken purple shirt. nothing else seemed off about him, and he smiled when you stared. “hm? can’t figure out what i am? come on, guess.”

Stretch chuckles and politely refuses the brownie offered. “sorry, honey, try not to touch th’stuff so early in the day. got a whole party ahead of us.”

I might ask more questions when I get my detective hat on in order to think for more questions about pendog but for now these are it. Thank you :D

I actually have yet to read/watch(???) candle cove! Dorothy was inspired by the cowboy puppet show Howdy Doody which was once very well known and a staple of television (it helped RCA to sell their color television sets because it was so beloved!!!) but a lot of people do not know what it is in the modern day. most of what remains is old merchandise and…interesting…sometimes racially insensitive comics. But we will talk about that some other day.

I learnt to do rubberhose by studying others art and the classics! Look up model sheets sometime! They really help!

"nah, like i said, our dad fell only about 5 years ago. we were already in our 20s. we were pretty lucky that way."

"I SURE MISS HIM. ESPECIALLY LATELY, HE...HE WOULD HAVE LOVED BRIAR."

"our pops died when we were teenagers. he was a drunk, abusive asshole, i killed him an' i don't regret it."

"WE ARE VERY LUCKY HE WAS NOT AROUND TO MEET BRIAR. HE WAS NOT A GOOD MAN, HE DID NOT TREAT MUTT WELL AND--"

"th'squirt definitely sees MK as mom. lately she's taken to saying an approximation of 'mama', mostly just repeating the sound so it sounds like 'ma-ma-ma-ma'. she calls MK that, but also surprisingly says it to me, and pink. probably because we also wear purple like mom does."

"I DID SAY THAT. AND WHEN SHE IS OLDER I INTEND TO KEEP TO IT." He pulls a stuffed bunny out of the dryer. "BUT RIGHT NOW IT...DOESN'T FEEL RIGHT. I TRIED TO CALL MYSELF BY MY NAME AROUND HER AND I FELT WEIRD DOING IT. SO, WHILE SHE'S SMALL, I'LL LET HER CALL ME DADDY."

"we don't watch our mouth any more'n usual," Mutt admits. "except, we don't say any derogatory terms. red finally stopped using 'gay' as an insult, we stopped throwing around the words 'hoe' and 'cunt'. dumb shit like piss, shit, fuck, ass...those don't matter none."