Sasha

Everyone should know about the existence of Grapecat, and the fact that he possibly inspired Spearmaster.

Mentioned by Andrew

I wonder, is Grapecat the Spearmaster we play as in the original MSC mod? or perhaps he was spear's secret twin brother all along? This is the hidden Spearmaster lore they didn't want to tell you. But I know for sure he is just a passionate, talented little guy

i love fantasy hybrids but i wish more people leaned into the body horror potential of it. dragon hybrids with upsettingly human eyes peering out from their otherwise draconic forms. winged hybrids with back muscles incapable of supporting the weight of their limp, atrophied wings. dhampirs with a crooked, painful clash of human and predatory animal teeth competing for space inside their bloodied mouth, inhibiting their bite and making feeding a grotesquely messy affair. ill-proportioned chimeras that haunt the heroes sent to slay them with how much they resemble those they seek to protect from them. monsters who are shunned by their monstrous and human relations alike, their greatest sin being that they didn't win the genetic lottery and now must bear the consequences of their forebears' union for all to see.

getting fixated on an object show character is so hard because it's like Okay. this character is a twist antagonist from the previous season of the show. on a surface level she is manipulative and selfish, but harbours a deep regret for her previous harmful actions that resulted in a close friendship of hers being sabotaged. she introduces herself to a new contestant, initially only helping her for her own gain, but quickly develops an emotional attachment to her as their friendship becomes less transactional and more real, but once again her own toxic behaviour sabotages the only connection she has. she's now drowning completely in her guilt and self-hatred, believing herself to be irredeemably evil.

and then someone says "oh this character is really interesting where's she from!" and you have to say Well actually. She's a

sorry im thinking about how vi spends her teenage years being discouraged by her peers & talked down to by her sister, having no support for what she wants to do because no one thinks she can do it, so when she leaves she's believed herself to be perfectly self-reliant and not needing anyone else, where the only reason she teams up with kabbu is so she can get her permit

how praise really does get her anywhere because nobody gave it to her before, and the only reason she doesn't ditch kabbu is because he called her a reliable teammate, how that was enough for her to feel guilty and come back in spite of her fear

and how fast-forward to the termite kingdom she says her dreams are coming true, how she welcomes the support of others when she used to think she didn't need it, how she reconciles with her sister & the hive because her friends teach her that it's not worth it to hold petty grudges, how her abandoning kabbu becomes a point of teasing bc they all know she would never do something like that again & i just

shout out to disabilities which only exist in fantasy.

Robots who carry around heavy battery packs because there inbuilt ones can no longer hold enough charge.

Shark girls who have pumps over one of there gills because they can't continuously swim fast enough to receive enough water through there gills.

bird girls with prosthetic wings.

creature wearing climbing gear because they were born without the ability to telepathically fly around.

Peridot

non-telepaths (in a world of only telepaths) constantly having to explain to angry people berating them because they assumed that the person is a telepath.

They both add a depth of realism to a universe and another perspective for abled bodied audiences to understand what its like to be disabled and are also fun.

PLEASE tell me your takes on the Photographer I adore them and desire the content. Thankyou.

Ah, alright! So, here:

My take on the Photographer.

I like to think that the animal bots in the area, kind of like with fishbot and lonely wizbot, are cyborg beings that were once flesh. In the wasted world (haha) of Botopia, there's no place for flesh and blood creatures. Very little safety or care is given to ensure they even have land. Much of the once wooded island is even just.. a muddy, rocky expanse.

So wouldn't the person documenting and actively collecting proof life existed want to preserve it?

I designed him based on that purpose! Those fins allow it to work almost like a sonar, sensing around the area. The horns are like the antennae on a radio, allowing the Photographer deposit photos into a drive within Botopia. Not to mention pincers along his body that work like spider mandibles, that can trap and contain prey, but seem almost incomplete.

This is because it ran out of parts eventually. That's a large reason why there's so, so little of anything left near the cabin. It used up its resources. So he could only use bits of his body to complete that work. Of course, the fellow sees no issue with that. It can still complete its work by having strung itself up inside of its darkroom alongside the vines and moss, sending out a small drone to do the work they had once done.

The Photographer could certainly make synthetic skin and allow itself to become a beast-like being.. but it values the purity of life. It trusts and loves so dearly in the flesh and blood beings it once only preserved in photos.

Idk some of my drawings

My fave part of Hoaxe’s design is how he still has the rags he had from before under his royal cape

Just. The symbolism of it all. Like when you first see him he very much looks like royalty but if you pay attention you might notice this air of royalty and power is a disguise he put on to conceal his true self

Really hate that the queer community's response to the creation of a gender trinary (girl, boy, and nonbinary, which is still not all-encompassing) was to... reinvent the binary. We just started grouping all genders into "masc/male-aligned" and "fem/female-aligned" and it's so fucking stupid. Even with the occasional allowance of "neutral/unaligned" it still maintains the binary as the standard. And then they don't let you use certain labels if you don't have the "right" gender alignment. The fuck.

They deserve to be separated, at least once-