@ladyyatexel - here’s your trash heap of a dude lol
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I really liked doing this one ngl- got some real off the wall glitter to do my eyes with this time ha
I had that chain link on my lip for 3 hours and it h u r t but it was worth it lol
I’m hoping to get a friend of mine to cosplay Tenna because I have a surprise for you Lady and I hope you’ll like it when I make it <3
I appreciate your sacrifice regarding the lip ring haha. I wore a fake one for a little while before I got my real one just to see if I liked the look of it and it’s more painful to wear the fake one then to have it actually pierced!
Fishnet goth kid gloves are essential for Jimmy, well done
I absolutely love the eyeliner and the glitter~~~~~☆
These are so fucking cool I love that you’re doing these
I just thought of ReSWAN in the 80s and i think itd kind of work, not the real 80s but the fictional 80s in the movies. What with the glam rock and the spawning of supernatural creatures
Dude, yeah, absolutely.
One of the things that gets easily made into something supernatural or makes people feel uneasy is new technology, so the eighties and early nineties is ripe with scary floppy disks and people stuck in cameras and shit because everyone was like whoa dude what even ARE home computers
I think it’s kind of cycling back now that people are finding these mediums like a little spooky, so I think now it has a little more to do with these being archaic things and less with them being new scary unknowns. It would be very easy just to ratchet back the appropriate technology, though. When I made the thing I wanted some of what they were dealing with to be intentionally outdated, like Johnny carrying a CD player around when I first posted the thing in 2005 was kind of sad and old but now 15 years later it’s got extra old, haha. But he could just as easily be toting Walkman around everywhere and the outrageous band Persona thing is like a one-to-one translation.
I didn’t want them to have the latest technology both because they were invisible homeless teenagers and because I kind of like the idea of it existing in a really nebulous time frame. I’ve gotten to solidify that somewhat by the song choices, where it’s like yeah this story happened in 2004 but the song they’re all singing is from 2016 and they all have televisions from 1983 so what the fuck is going on
I like to think of it being a bit like The Invader Zim Universe where the technology seems like a normal kind of modern and current but then also has like freakishly futuristic updates. Dib is the freakish future in the reSWAN scenario too, which is the only reason I allowed them to carry a tablet around, because it came from him haha
And I ended up using it to lead them into very nearly the pits of hell and nearly killed them all so yeah technology is scary is a good aesthetic in all eras
The Homicides were inspired by a Jem and the Holograms poster my first semester in college though so the 80s is 100% an appropriate reading. They are called the Homicides because I was looking for a word that began with H to make a direct parody and say Johnny and the Homicides. I made this garbage up in my astronomy class in a tiny notebook that I was sharing with my friend. For some reason we talked about combining Jem and Johnny and she thought of Johnny just murdering Jem but I decided in my college freshman delirium that Johnny needed to be a sparkly rock star (“it’s Showtime, Nailbunny!”) and this is my life now I guess
Here’s some overly wholesome and colorful SWAN-verse painting for It Has Been Fifteen Years How Is This Still My Bullshit? time!
I got excited and used stickers. I probably shouldn’t have, but the joy is part of the process, right?
I painted the clothes the doll versions are currently wearing, because that’s not a creepy sentence at all, wow, hi, I’m normal.
