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🌀MICHAEL DISTORTION🌀

Silly goober alert 🚨‼️‼️

The ✨boys✨

Look at these weird little freaks, I love them.

it’s the little things

MICHAEL WHAT R U DOING IN DETROIT

Artworks of michael distortion and michael shelley in the same image often draw the former intimidating/enfolding the latter. But that’s not it at all, is it? They’re one and the same, yet mutually unrecognizable to each other. The distortion did not prey on michael shelley, he was fed to it and it was bound to him. And once it became clear it would not escape unscathed, it did not want him. Michael shelley was never even meant for the spiral at all, and it shows in how it acts as a distortion. If anything, the intimidating factor above the hapless human should be gertrude robinson, not any facet of something that could be called michael in some capacity

Imagine if the distortion’s hallways respond to the person trapped in them, but in different ways

Door (pre-michael): automatic and pretty fast. Just root out the things the victim finds most unnerving and change form to echo that

Michael: it’s still automatic, but the part of michael that is something sort of like a “who” keeps being surprised by the hallway shapes it’s currently in. Not surprised enough to react, especially not after years of being michael, but still “huh, that’s a new one”

Helen: no longer automatic, but a lot more precise. Human-helen’s experience with real estate means she’s seen a lot of buildings and talked a lot of strangers into buying those buildings at a higher price than maybe they should have sold for. She makes sure that the design of the corridors is optimized in a way the distortion never quite bothered with

As much as i love ruminating on michael, i also love helen, because i see her as being the best of both human and spiral, able to use everything she has from both experiences in a way “existence tied to its pointlessness” michael never really could

So is michael like aware of its body like if it gets a few extra bones in its hands mid-handshake or if its eyes shift just a few hues warmer is it aware of that. Or is its perception of the flesh suit so fucked up and spirally that its awareness doesnt really go beyond “it exists, sometimes”

Michael’s hair is actually fiberglass. It looks soft and interesting to touch but then you touch it and oops glass in your fingers

I love big coat and scarf michael as much as the next guy but you have to remember that sannikov land is canonically warm! It’s a jungle! He went through that door with the warm winter clothes in a backpack! Sure, it should have been cold, but that’s the funny bit about the Spiral: it defies “should” at every turn. That said, funny spirally scarves are fun as hell to draw, just probably not canonically accurate (at least as much as any visual representation of mag 101 can be canonically accurate)

Daily TMA 110 - Two Paths

The fact that if Michael hadn’t become The Distortion he could have very well become The Archivist

Michael Distortion

Oh man, I had so much fun with this - but once I started I couldn’t stop. I have been enjoying these TMA requests so much and this is actually my first time drawing Michael! I love trying out all these funky colours to make him look sickly and creepy. I hope you guys enjoy!

For my Patrons - don’t forget to check out the timelapse for this one, and this will be available as a colouring page on next month’s VIP benefits! Also - this will be available as a print on my Redbubble.

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it's my baby and i love it so much ｡⁠:ﾟ⁠(⁠;⁠´⁠∩⁠`⁠;⁠)ﾟ⁠:⁠｡

Heheheheheheh

Michael.

pretty thing that appeared in my sketchbook during history class. came out kinda weird and very unconsistent, love it for that

"a flower..." (mispronounced)

i had to illustrate a short story for uni so i took the opportunity to make some fanart

Whoops, had too much fun drawing and experimenting on him again! Don't ask, i draw him in my old notebooks i would never use again so why not use it as a book to draw?

M I C H A E L D I S T O R T I O N .

More art of TMA, haven't been able to do much due to being busy for the past week or so

Tma S3 in a nutshell

Please give the archivist a break

Michael Shelley gives you a letter

Valentines day was yesterday here but I was busy I didn't have time so here

Michael

More tma doodles

Guess the who or the what i love

Silly doodles

Tma has some good plot, and funny scenes

Michael, the distortion