this one's a real mishmash

[doodlemancy]

i've kind of been in brain freefall since The Big Important Wrist Surgery so here's a general housekeeping post of what i've been doing the last month and a half. it's a lot of things, none of which are the thing i've really meant to be doing, which is finishing Potion Stand Story DX-- that requires an amount of Think and Daily Committment i just haven't had available since my brain got blasted with KO drugs and painkillers and then my hand became able to play video games without severe pain for the first time in years. i'm trying to get this ship back on course though!! keeping myself on task right now is just still a little bit... herding cats.

recent art & doodles

clockwise:
•  my first kinda-finished drawing post-surgery! i drew this like... 9 days afterward?
•  you guys ever think about how the Oracle of Ages/Seasons Princess Zelda sprite has... odango...
•  Petra/Ryfka doodle i really liked (i wanted to draw Petra wearing something more feminine than usual for funsies)
•  Chiyo Sakura from Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun is my daughter and i love her

posting images here is kind of a big pain in the ass at scale so here are some links to more things:
• MakoAmi sketch
• ReiNako sketch
(i basically re-learned how to draw by drawing sailor moon yuri lol)
• Sailor Senshi from Dungeon Meshi dlsfkjghfdlsjgfds i really need to clean this up and make it a sticker or something
• Elly (Fields of Mistria version)
obligatory Easter bunny costume art of Petra and Sykes (and costume switch)
• Cardcaptor Petra
• a comic i made while playing Echoes of Wisdom
• Kell/Sykes brainrot doodles
• a thread of Sykes Backstory Doodles that are very cute imo

newwwwwwww shop stuff
 

new stickers: birdhouse sticker and milk sticker!

and there's a new shop section... ZINES! my friend HikaTamika gave me zine cooties! i got a long-arm stapler and so far i've made 2.5 zines. free shipping in the US on these babies. not every zine i make will be available digitally but the ones that are will be in my ko-fi shop or, if you prefer, itch.io.

and just for fun, here's some brief rambling on anime and manga and tokusatsu i've touched recently

Yowamushi Pedal - i'm only like 7 episodes into this but i love when an anime is extremely passionately excited and factual about a topic (in this case bikes). cant wait to dig further into this thing and find out why that one kid's face is Like That

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun - it is a crime that this thing got 1 twelve-episode season. gonna start collecting the manga. just a really solid comedy, i relate to Nozaki so much as an artist who cannot EVER turn off "that's good reference" brain and also as a neurodivergent dingdong who is frustratingly impossible to flirt with

Monster - we're getting close to the end and i love this fucking series so much. i love Kenzo Tenma and all of his funny friends. i love extremely average looking middle aged dude character designs. i love anime characters with distinct noses. i love to be scared and afraid and tense and very very worried. i think my fav lil arc so far was the one with Grimmer, i have big feelings about a guy whose feelings literally don't work right who chooses to be good and kind and gentle and empathetic even though he's not sure he's doing it right

Skip and Loafer - i've been working on collecting the manga and im so excited for this to get a second season soon. "i'm an adult i'm kinda done with school life teen drama stuff" bitch no you aren't you just want the good stuff. this is the good stuff. extremely My Daughter Whomst I Love series

Claymore - it wants to be Lady Berserk so bad. extremely self-serious, relentlessly edgy, it's got that B-movie charm. honestly A+ character choice to make your main character the absolute bottom of the barrel lowest-grade at the Badass Lady Organization, we love an underdog.

Gintama - we finally started this one. long running/comedy anime like this tend to be really hit-or-miss for me, and it definitely has a lot of dated humor and impenetrable-without-a-translator's-note kinda stuff, but when the jokes hit, they hit, and it's slowly growing on me. i find it comforting. it's "weird thing i would have watched on a friend's laptop in 2007" kinda stuff. i'm interested to see how this one evolves as it goes on.

Kamen Rider Kiva - it's a Kamen Rider with Castlevania vibes and 80s fashion. a funny bat tells you fun facts at the beginning of every episode. what the absolute fuck else could you possibly want in your life. theres a flying dragon castle and i still don't know why. i don't even care. i've accepted dragon castle into my life.

Gurren Lagann - i'm finally watching this one as i continue winding my way through the Gainax/Trigger back catalog. it has every Expected Problem (please Trigger. i love a boob but sexual harassment is not good comedy) and yet just like everything else they make, it's compelling and goofy and relentlessly appealing. i already know What Happens and im watching them stick death flags into You Know Who like a pincushion and screaming and crying and kicking my feet