Happy Halloween! (/Cringetober finale)

It’s truly the best holiday of the year (unless you’re looking for a day off or holiday pay)

I currently have a skeleton shirt and skeleton leggings on, the house is nice and chilly, I’ve got apple cider locked and loaded. I dare say it’s a decent day!

I can’t believe I stuck to an art challenge all the way through. Years of undiagnosed and largely untreated AuDHD means I spent a lot of my childhood starting things and not following through for long. I still struggle to make and execute plans (I say, looking into the corner that my business ideas are sitting in), so little victories like Cringetober are important to me.

Anyway, enough yapping, let’s get the last 11 days on the page.

Day 21: Low Effort

There’s something about my sona that’s very low pressure which to me feels like low effort. It’s not always bad to give it 60% instead of 100!

Day 22: Mirrorshipping

(Mirrorshipping means a character in a relationship of some sort with an alternate version of themself, whether that be from timeline shenanigans, cloning, alternate universes, etc.)

Listen, I’ve been around fandom long enough that Timekeeper Cookie and Croissant Cookie as a ship feels very tame. I do not understand the discourse and vitriol I’ve seen. Wouldn’t you also like to love yourself?

Characters and screenshot reference from Cookie Run Kingdom

Day 23: GIF

I’m so bad at animating on CSP. 

Day 24: Student AU

I was starting to run out of steam by this point in the month. I don’t even remember why exactly I chose Lero-Ro as the “professor” in this scenario beyond his canon position as a test administrator for the Tower. 

On the left is a lazy self insert for the sake of the art, on the right is Lero-Ro from Tower of God. It’s a good series, I recommend.

Day 25: Superpowers/Magic

I am a fan of many superpower and magic based series. I could have drawn any of them. Instead, I was divinely inspired by the idea of Fujiko Mine projecting her period cramps onto Lupin III. #girlpower 

Both characters are from the Lupin III series.

Day 26: 2010s Throwback

The 2010s was a LONG decade. I almost couldn’t narrow anything down– I literaly went from high school to college to graduation to living life poorly and then back to college just in time for COVID to hit.

But hey, a big chunk of that time was very heavy on Homestuck for me (I say, as if I’m not still deep in those trenches). A whole year was us as a fanbase just waiting and creating content and waiting, so I just doodled the waiting part. I chose Sollux due to my time modding a Homestuck blog.

Day 27: Kids' Series

I was very much a Warriors kid, and I think some of that obsession was due to me also having read Catwings as an even younger kid. I hardly remember anything from it, it was so long ago, but I remember fondness. 

Day 28: Mobile Game

I knoooow I already did a CRK drawing for this batch, I was very well aware I had already drawn CRK content merely days prior. However ☝️ it was either going to be Cookie Run Kingdom, Pokemon Masters, or Honkai: Star Rail. I decided to challenge myself because my ass can’t draw the cookie characters for some reason. I humanize them, man. Anyway this is Shadow Milk Cookie and he’s pookie.

Day 29: ARG

For anyone who may visit this blog (lmao) who doesn’t know– An ARG is an “alternate reality game”. It’s really freaking complicated what that entails and I’m very out of the loop because I was into Marble Hornets for a while and realized from that that ARGs make my brain get really paranoid really fast. This is because ARGs use the real world as the basis of their interactive fiction. I dunno what about it strikes my brain differently than, say, a movie.

Anyway I did like Welcome Home back when it first came out! I just need to use a guide and spoilers so nothing takes me by surprise.

Day 30: Creepypasta

I went through a Creepypasta phase as a teenager.

(“Creepypasta” is a term for a horror story shared around the internet, basically. They’re intended to frighten the readers, obviously.)

One of the best known ones is the Slenderman, who scared the living shit out of me for years. I know very well that Creepypasta stories are fictitious… But what if

Day 31: Halloween!

Last but not least, TODAY IS HALLOWEEEEEEN! I decided to draw myself and two of my oldest original characters to wish everyone a happy and safe Halloween <3

Be excellent with each other, don’t be a dick, and remember you’re never too old for some whimsy.

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