i have a cold. in other news i think this is my favorite bender i’ve ever drawn… his face actually looks like him…. drew this when i was just feeling congested but i have since gotten sickier so i do not have much helpful commentary rn. i am just watching futurama in bed.
i’ve noticed that my instincts for sitelen pona are to write the pronoun glyphs mirrored, and i suspect it’s because i’m a leftie and therefore more readily imagine my left hand pointing. i think it’s kind of cute to roll with it and make my sitelen pona visibly left handed, but i have no problem writing mi/sina/ona the standard way if anyone thinks this would be unclear.
ni li pona ala pona tawa sina mute?
not pictured: crayon and sidewalk chalk drawings circa 2011, since lost to time
i like him :)
hello! i only recently found this sub, and am happy, for lack of a better word, to meet people who experience the same sort of suffering i do, so forgive me if this is a weird post in this ecosystem. i suppose i’m just curious if anyone else relates to this
i truly think one of the worst parts of migraine is that i involuntarily announce to my whole house whenever i get sick. deciding whether or not to run to the bathroom becomes a social gauntlet. my family will always know, and it always gets awkward. i don’t want them to worry, i don’t want to gross them out. nobody likes hearing someone else get sick and i hate being the source of that.
i swear, i just need a dark soundproof room with a bucket. if i could ask for something wildly implausible for christmas or something, that would probably be it. i would like to keep my misery private!!!
this is a pretty loose sketch because i am, as you can probably imagine, in the postdrome of a migraine rn. but :) bender
just a few days ago i had been stressing that i was neglecting bill by pouring so much attention into bender. and then today i was struck by SUCH a bill mood and i simply had to get home and draw him. i love both my guys very much <3
last year, i posted some art of myself and one of my husbands to this sub, and it got removed by the mods per rule 5. but now i see people posting ship art or gushing about their f/os often and it’s just fine. i have no issue if a rule changed, i would just like to understand if it did so i can know if my art would be welcome here or not going forward
ETA: upon checking the old removed posts, it’s rule 7 that was cited, though the text still said “this is not primarily a place to talk about f/os / relationships”. either the order of the rules changed or my ship with bill was somehow mistaken for proship…? D: or some other confusing thing happened. i’m very lost now
i was gonna do one of those super cool aesthetic Queer Experience comics and then realized i truly did not have much to say. this is like eight years of questioning compressed into four doodles
I GOT BORN!!!!!
*i am nonbinary and do not really consider myself a “girl” but i can relationally be a “girlfriend” bc that is a different thing to me. you can do whatever you want with gender forever
redrawing screenshots of bender continues to be productive. i don’t usually try to replicate styles so closely but so much of bender’s good looks are in his facial proportions and more often than not i hate how he looks in my own art. but this looks SO much like him i’m honestly kind of giddy… then i went kind of bonkers with the metal shading. Also this flannel continues to be one of my fave outfits he has ever worn he’s sooo fine
my stubborn insistence on stylizing his antenna in my own art style’s direction is very funny when everything else is trying to be show-compliant i cannot lie.
i am generally not a fan of “humanizations”, both my f/os are nonhuman and i love and want them exactly as they are. BUT. futurama has shown us what “human bender” would allegedly look like and i am sorry they just got it wrong. why did they make bender bending rodríguez a blond boy. so i tried to draw how i think he’d actually look
yes this screenshot was part of the Bender Outfit Collection i posted earlier today. but consider: i love him. redrawing screenshots also really helps me get a grasp on how his face moves in 3d space, his eyes have always kind of eluded me idk how the animators do it
hi. i don’t vent here often but i’m making myself sad.
i know bender isn’t going anywhere. bill is clear enough precedent for that. it’s been months since i’ve actively fixated on gravity falls and i remain confident that bill is so very very special to me. he has been for years. bender is on the same tier, i know that.
but i’m scared of the day i inevitably switch gears from futurama to something else. for the past ten weeks i’ve been thinking about bender. every waking hour, every thought goes back to bender. i know how my autistic brain works and i know this will not be the case forever. even if i’ll still love him just as much, even if futurama is a work i know i circle back to every so often, it still guts me. i don’t want this to end. i don’t want things to change. i used to get upset about changing hyperfixations like this as a teenager, and i’d thought i’d grown out of it, but here we are.
futurama is getting a crossover with disenchantment, and i’m excited about that. thought that maybe i should rewatch some disenchantment and reacquaint myself with that world before the crossover releases. but the “threat” of picking it up as a new hyperfixation is almost making me cry. want to hold bender so close and kiss him and kiss him and kiss him and tell him i’m not going anywhere but. alas. cartoon character.
not really seeking reassurance that he still loves me or anything here, i know he does. just processing a weird feeling.
next time i do a full watchthrough i honest to god might just document every outfit he wears. he is soooo handsome and it is exacerbated whenever he wears basically anything. i didn’t realize/remember i could grab screenshots from morbotron until pretty recently so most of these are comedy central era, but next time i’m watching the fox seasons i’ll keep an eye out… UGH i love him
the way i have been soooo giddy about this robot for the past nine weeks straight. he’s so lovely ;_; ive been rewatching futurama and i’m already on broadcast season 8, i can’t believe i’ve torn through it so fast. still on the fence about the hulu seasons, but i do intend to catch the new season as it comes out. but i digress. futurama tv show so good. my boyfriend is in there.
was going to crosspost this from the toki pona sub and discovered reposts are disabled here, but all is well. plus i can offer a line by line translation. my toki pona is pretty beginner but. yeah 👍 and ofc i’m not trying to claim this as universal experience it is just my own
“nasin olin pi jan lon ala”
“the way of loving those that are not here”
sina lon ala
You are not real.
mi olin e sina
I love you.
sina jan ala
You are not a person.
sina ilo pi toki musi
You are a tool of storytelling.
jan mute li pali e sina
Many people made you.
mi la sina jan
To me, you are a person.
jan ante li lukin e sina li toki e ni: sina sitelen tawa
Others look at you and say, “you are a cartoon.”
mi lukin e sina li toki e ni: sina olin mi
I look at you and say, “you are my love.”
hi, i’m very much a beginner (i’ve been trying to get the hang of toki pona for a good while, i just take to languages very slowly) but i tried to write a little poem about fictosexuality. open to corrections. first time sharing any of my tp publicly this is soscary….. Ok thank you
sina lon ala
mi olin e sina
sina jan ala
sina ilo pi toki musi
jan mute li pali e sina
mi la sina jan
jan ante li lukin e sina li toki e ni: sina sitelen tawa
mi lukin e sina li toki e ni: sina olin mi
i love the whole world of futurama so dearly, and yet i’ve been stumped on lore for my self insert. the more things i leave undefined, the more options i leave open for character dynamics etc… but oh well. i do not need any of this ironed out to have fun drawing them
bender rodríguez and bill cipher :) understand these are not casual crushes, they occupy a loooot of real estate in my brain. i am aroace for real people and also autistic about cartoons generally. thank you and goodnight