how did you create a character who kidnaps a child, who is blatantly rude and callous and ambiguous and in a lot of ways untrustworthy so... likeable? I don't find RGB creepy or sleezy at all and I love him even though he's a cad and I feel like he must be a good person or at least I really want him to be one and I don't understand how? I've seen people invent characters who are cool or mysterious that just come off as 'ew' and boring...
Well, first of all thank you so much for being so kind and loving the character so much :’D but I’m really glad you feel that way, because I really wanted RGB to be a grounding character in the story. You don’t know anything about him, but there is something about him that you immediately empathize with; because he is vulnerable. As weird and enigmatic as he is, I’ve wanted from the start to portray someone who is terribly insecure, someone flawed and lost but who is trying to cover that fact up. He’s someone who can be hurt, has been hurt, and is afraid of being hurt. In a lot of ways RGB is one of the most human characters I’ve ever made.
The funniest shit about asexuals is that all of us grew up consuming media that talks on and on about sexual attract and desire, with a pretty hypersexualized culture and people talk about it a fucking lot too. And what is that we all collectively think? "Yeah, that's clearly an exaggeration, nobody actually feels like that! The whole world it's pretending, that's the only possible explanation..." Like sure buddy, that's a very logical way of thinking, the entire world is acting, don't think too hard about it
Read TPoH from the start here.
Have you still not got your nice warm Assok socks? Well why not mosy on down to Topatoco town and introduce yourself to my store!
and completely unrelated to today's update, did you know Topatoco also supports the 'this is fine' artist? with lots of funny things? oh yes.
And if you're a long termer you can always support me on patreon; even one dollar a month helps!
Forever Muse™
1920s ladies: louise brooks as lulu in pandora's box (1929)
My music and aesthetic will make 10000 references to this beautiful yet tragic man and I will make sure of that
the thing about jay gatsby is that despite everything you still wanna be him soooooooo bad
1928 c. Illustration by Jeanne Mammen. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.
THIS IS SO GOOD
Gosh RGB, who let YOU have a face?
...I did? well, that's strange
really wanted to draw a solid expression or two and strangely wanted to do the guy who doesn't. have a face. so i did a panel redraw!!! (there's just so many moments in this comic where the feelings leaking out from him and what we see is just so POTENT and i AUGH!!! please please please go read The Property of Hate it is such a wonderful comic it will make you explode on the inside. i promise you will come out of it completely normal <- lying)
also STOP DOING THAT RGB you're gonna have people endeared to you
original panel and alternate less eye-strain-y version under the cut!!
it's so weird seeing him with a face, but it did give me an excuse to go overboard with the hair
INSANE. INSANELY GOOD.
He’s here to rock the dance floor.
A fun lil experiment. I think it suits RGB well. Enjoy.
The original video and performance by amazing Light Balance guys.
WHY AM I ONLY SEEING THIS NOW
My half of the trade with 0chromat who is amazing and I am unworthy grovel grovel etc. (also this is not canon unless you agree with it but yeah RGB sucks at relationships go figure)
also I know all of you are going to be going WHA about some of this but you know better than to ask for an explanation from me :|b
I’M SO SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG AND IT’S SO CRAPPY COMPARED TO YOUR MASTERPIECE LIKE HOLY CRAP WHAT EVEN
Take it from a flapper, he is actually serving
Chicago Tribune, Illinois, April 26, 1922
Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, showstopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference, put it in a blender, shit on it, vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it.
“STYLE!”
Click for better quality (hopefully)
Welp, I got the courage to post this here instead of just one Discord group.
A wonderful and chaotic good friend of mine, @spadoodler, has introduced to me a webcomic and it’s safe to say after 4 whole days, brain rot has set in and I had to get SOMETHING out.
That something being the best, and most stylish, telly-headed monster. That I am defiNITELY NOT INFATUATED WITH!
Medium: sidewalk chalk (and brothers’ houses’ retaining wall)
Time taken: 1.5 hours (roughly)
Character: RGB
Series: The Property of Hate
Character/series by: @modmad
Bonus: here is is from a distance! I thought it’d give a better sense of scale?