All the covers I painted for “Deal With a Demon” series by Katee Robert so far. More to come!
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You can buy them as a print now 🔥
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Been thinking a lot lately about how Mario and Peach might have gotten to know each other better and what subjects could have brought them closer together, so here are several little headcanons I had which I’ve combined together for this one scene. 😁
– Whenever Mario mumbles to himself or thinks out loud while working alone on a project, he usually does so in Italian.
– Peach has been fascinated by the language ever since hearing it from the bros and truly finds it beautiful.
– She adores Mario’s accent and could listen to him speak for hours.
– She learned an Italian word on purpose in the hope of catching Mario’s attention (and was secretly thrilled when it obviously did).
– She asked for possible lessons because she longs to spend more time with him and figured this was a good way to do exactly that.
– Mario was genuinely impressed that Peach could memorize something she heard only once and was touched by her will to learn.
– When around her, Mario gestures with his hands a lot and unconsciously makes all sorts of small flourishes.^^
– Peach is usually the one who initiates proximity and is just slightly less shy about standing close to him than he is to her.
– Mario’s patience and natural enthusiasm makes him a great teacher.
– They will soon develop a pattern from this and take to showing new things to one another as a recurring activity.
I love these calm, peaceful moments so much! They’re among my favorite things to draw. 🥰
Before you stan a female character, ask yourself: “is she a VRISKA?”:
Victim of manipulation
Romantically interested in girls
Influential over the major plot
Separates the fandom into haters and stanners
Kills or otherwise harms protagonists
Antihero
“Comics readers always gatekeep their favorite characters” is actually untrue. The average comic reader actually has a reading list for their favorite character as their pinned post and is DESPERATE for you to read them. Comicsgate youtubers, who haven’t read comics since 2012 and complain when characters who’ve flirted with men on panel are made gay, are an outlier and shouldn’t have been counted.
Enjoying Queer Content Is Not Fetishizing Queer People
So, lately on Twitter there’s been a lot of drama surrounding a VA who has made a lot of inflammatory comments in an effort to promote his own book.
“How A Cookie Tried to Sell a Book” sums it up pretty well. The article mentions that his best-known voice acting role is as Cream Unicorn Cookie in Cookie Run, and the only other known role (as per behindthevoiceactors.com) is in Given, a BL game. I’ve seen people here claim he also had a role in Genshin Impact, but that’s not listed; however, JD Riley’s article mentions that a Genshin Impact VA did come to King’s defense.
(Also, yes, we’re all reeling from the irony that one of his roles was in a BL game, and he’s trying to tear down BL to promote himself. Gross.)
I’m sure this is all well known, but I wanted to provide context for this next statement: People who enjoy queer content, including fujoshi and women who do not identify as fujoshi, are not fetishizing queer people. They literally cannot be, because the people they’re reading about aren’t real.