I completely spaced that I could do him literally anytime I wanted aa
I was listening to Hollow Tune by Brick + Mortar for the majority of this. I really like that song ha
Hope to be doing more stuff with ReSWAN cosplay, and patiently waiting for ReISH updates <3
I’d imagine Tenna would yoink some star stickers and start putting them on everyone at random and I live for that lol
@ladyyatexel : I don’t know if you saw this yet, Tumblr likes to not show people things they were tagged in oof
Yeah, notifications for me have been just abominable the last few weeks! Thanks for screaming because I definitely did not see this. I track the ‘reswan’ and ‘swanish’ tags for my garbage, though, and that seems to show up more reliably.
I love the black into orange eyeshadow for him! That looks So Good. I need to do that to him more often! It seems like such an obvious choice and yet I don’t know if I’ve ever done it what the hell Also lip ring 👍👍👍
And the stickers. Listen
I own a whole set of Homicides-colored holographic star stickers for the Express Purpose of putting them on my face, this is Absolutely Peak and Correct Tenna Behavior.
reISH continues! A little slower right now because I’m doing October nonsense and because I had … A Time last week. But it goes! It’s gonna exist! I’m excited for you and anyone else waiting for it to see it!
i love that you like dressing up as my garbage glitter gang <3
It’s nice to take a break and go back to the classics.
Johnny telling a fucked up and wild story, while Edgar’s not buying any of his bullshit.
I miss them.
loooook loooooooooook at my glitter and garbage childreeennnnn
This is like exactly the kind of surroundings they live in, ah~~ Shitty sidewalks and shitty fences and one streetlight and we just went to the convenience store
I’m so happy to seeeee them :)))) Johnny’s everything is making my whole fucking day. His clothes, his gesture, his eyemakeup, his expression, the whole fucking disaster of a person.
also edgarpurpleshoesyesss
I am so pleased you wanted to do this, it fills my heart with relief and such.
I am not quite as much in a position of missing them as you, because now I’m dealing with their bullshit every day in reISH form. But this may mean that soon you will not have to miss them!
they’re so cute i’m angry about iiiit
It’s my birthday, it’s SWAN-verse Johnny’s birthday, so I made some bright Homicides Nny nonsense 💙🖤
So I’m working on bits and picking of reISH (I really am, I know it’s taking 800 years, I am sorry, my brains are A Challenging Thing To Possess and I am not often in control of whether that is for the good or the bad) and in going through what content I had generated for reSWAN, I ran across these. I had kind of forgotten this happened, but if you’ve got about two hours to listen to me ramble about the point for a while, I made this chunk of videos back when I finished reSWAN talking about how the first one happened, how things developed and changed, intentions, inspirations, all that kind of DVD commentary kind of garbage. The audio is not excellent because I’m just a human with a laptop microphone chilling on a couch, but I thought if you had gotten on the reSWAN train more recently, you wouldn’t have known these existed and might be entertained by me talking about a thing I could talk endlessly about.
There’s spoilers for the story, in case you’re here with me but haven’t finished it.
woo hoo it’s my usual bullshit, it’s so usual it’s like my ancestral bullshit
SWAN-verse Johnny and Edgar fix everything, it’s magical
I had a dream last night that was partly animated, with a brief shot of Johnny and Edgar and a hammock, and I remember being lucid enough to think, ‘oh, Edgar isn’t in green, that’s wild’ Weird lavender Edgar looked very kind but very tired. It was a bit abstracted and based on feeling rather than concrete images. I only remember the hammock because there was a big swinging motion involved
I … did not really manage to replicate the style here, but there was a lot of a kind of organic sketch style where the lines were fizzling all around and the boundaries of the character broke as they moved. Not in a deconstructive way like they’re falling apart at the seams, but like every image was drawn independently, rather than intended to be a consistent animation. Just areas of outline that weren’t needed would come in and out as clarity required.
It was a little erratic, there was a lot of white scribbling, and definitely white outlines with a lot of the shapes that made up faces outlined too. I only ever got to see one eye at a time on either character, though it was a very brief segment before my brain thought I should be worried about the usual subjects again.
Johnny was mostly blue, but it was not nearly so vibrant as his usual.
I hope you know I didn't mean anything negative by saying it "isn't canon", I just knew it wasn't supposed to be part of the story anymore. Saying an old version would have better suited, probably.
It’s a term you’re used to hearing for massive franchises, not obscenely niche fanfiction. So it was fun hearing it applied to the hours of madness I’ve devoted to this thing, like damn, I have done A Lot of this and in a lot of weird ways, haven’t I?
It was all good! Sorry if I gave off a vibe that it was upsetting! I am, in all fairness to you, some kind of game of pinball hybridized with darts tonight as far as where my posts are landing in the emotional realm, so it was kind of you to check!
And yknow, if Vampire Edgar ever finds its way to a continuation… Or Edgar using Nny on and off his meds as a case study, though that was art and neither of these are SWAN–
Glad you’re good : )
Vampire Edgar is a noble institution. He’s a national treasure a dozen people know about.
and oh god the on and off meds drawing was the always elusive ‘other’ verse, which was either SWAN with parents or SWAN got the bad ending and we are now on attempt number 4 to just not die horrifically, depending on how i felt day to day
It was high octane teenage melodrama because that’s just what I wanted to do hahaha. But that version of Johnny was very funny and lived such a shitty life and he informed the reSWAN one arguably more than the person he was in original SWAN/ISH, so it was all for the good.
Can I name more than like, 5 U.S. presidents? No.
Do I remember that Johnny threw a psychology book at his mother and Edgar thought it was dramatic irony? Yes.
This is probably why college took me so long…
POINT IS- I love your stuff and I probably remember more of it that you want anyone to sometimes lol
aaaaaaaahahaha you are one of very few who I imagine remember any of that, that is incredible! Were you one of the people I actually let read any of that, or did you just vividly internalize the doodles? I had the written stuff on a heavy lockdown and people had to come ask for it after gaining my trust and proving their worth like I was some kind of Terrible AU Fanfic Sphinx.
SWAN is definitely why college took me longer than it was supposed to for a variety of reasons, if that’s any consolation.
I just vividly internalized the doodles lmao
You were someone, to me, you were someone who wasn’t vilifying the weird or the mental shit, but you weren’t sterilizing it either like doctors/media who consulted certain types of people
You were standing in the middle of the mess and saying, yeah, this is fucked! And you offered your writings and art up and there was connection and understanding. I’ve also always been an artist and loved your style, the balance of realism… I call it animated/cartoon for lack of a better description.
So yeah. I looked over your stuff a lot, and my brain is disordered so I remember certain things with freakish ability.
You were gonna leave one of the nicest sentiments ever directed at me in the tags!!! I want to pin that to my refrigerator, or glue it in the back of a SketchBook.
I’m glad you got the Vibes you did and that I’ve been doing what I thought I was doing, haha
I’ve always had a hard time connecting with super positive greeting card views of things. I made all this junk hoping it would connect and make sense to other people because it was a reality I had that I had ugly feelings and thoughts and things and wondered if everyone else was really over things so quickly or if they were just pretending. So much of it was wondering if other people were just pretending, damn. I haven’t said it quite that way before, but it’s a lot of that. I always seem to have feelings much larger and for longer than people want or are comfortable with and I think that’s sort of a disservice on the part of society that we hurry to cover uncomfortable, immediately eradicate anger or grief, and just kind of keep things away because it’s ~polite~
I don’t want to glorify being sad or angry or whatever but I also don’t think they should be stigmatized and rushed to be cured like some sort of disease. It would be nice if they were allowed to be and not seen as a problem that needed to be immediately erased. It would be nice if people were allowed to take as long as they wanted with them and were allowed to think and express things more openly rather than keeping everything resentfully restrained so that it fits inside a Hallmark card. I just wanted to make this thing honest emotionally, even if that meant it would sometimes be ugly.
So yeah, it was saying, “wow this is fucked!” and, also, “but here we are!”
