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Rorschach Watchmen my beloved :) I’ve been super swamped with work but I managed to bust this out quickly.

its a shame the first real ai probably wont be a sex bot, was really hoping to get fucked to death in the uprising

Feral.

Dan wears a shirt that says college cause that's the kinda loser he is. He wears one bunny slipper and one slider with socks. It's horrendous. Of course Rorschach only tolerates it because his hot cocoa has an additional 5 cubes of sugar. For energy of course. No other reason...

I have a lot of feelings about the ending (as we all do.)

midnighter

TW: Mild Injury. !! FLASH WARNING FOR THE TIMELAPSE !!

More Dan and Walter art! !! FLASH WARNING FOR THE TIMELAPSE !!

Finally finished this!! Thought it'd be nice to draw them in their civvies too! Dan is talking about birds and Walter is listening so good (the domestication of pigeons is so interesting but fucked up and he agrees). They're on a lil date at a local place <3 (I love them so much I care for them so deeply)

Flash warning for the bottom clip!! It’s just a Timelapse of this.

Decided to actually draw the number one blorbo.

Yes, it’s not good to have Rorschach as my blorbo. No I do not care. He’s interesting. I want to put him in a petri dish and see what he grows (probably something carcinogenic).

good news. I managed to get the new episode up here. Since i did use a different method of recording/downloading it, this video file does have the commercials that aired with it (but you can just skip past those)

I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY MADE SIDON STRAIGHT I AM SO DEVASTATED WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS TO ME

they got married again btw

The Fallen Izzy. A bday gift for @pirategrime , commissioned by @greenlikethesea Thank you for a beautiful prompt!

Hand study gao hang 5x6 feet Acrylic on raw canvas 2023

jilted spouses

Don't cry captain, not in front of me.

Who will catch your tears if you can't catch me, darlin'?

Crew of the year needed to be celebrated.

We would be in a significantly better place as a people if “old” and “fat” could be neutral descriptions of fact and not seen as insults by default.

mad scientist crossover

hello my hand is gonna fall off

tap for better quality!

Bear lady very cool

the createurification of the owl lady (jk she’s always been like this)

An ask blog entry for a question why a loner such as Rorschach was once a team-player

1 page: Minutemen worked as a team. Associated masks with comradery

2 page: Seemed a friend would be… usefull in fighting darkness

3 page: Grew up from childish misconceptions

There’s this one line in the first issue of Watchmen. This line in Rorschach’s monologue- “On Friday Night, A comedian died in New York. Nobody Cares. Nobody cares but me.” And it is such a perfect encapsulation of everything good and bad about Rorschach, and about superheroes conceptually. 

Yeah, Rorschach. Nobody does care. Nobody but you cares because everyone who even lightly knew this guy in a professional or personal capacity hates him. By almost every metric you can apply the world is better off without him in it- including by the metrics you apply, Rorschach, because if you were anywhere near as objective in your dispensation of justice as you think of yourself as, you’d have broken into his penthouse and done this yourself years ago. You are very pointedly the only person in the second issue who has no direct flashback involving a formative experience with The Comedian; your investment in him in pure projection. Dare I say, Rorschach-like.

And yet. Blake’s absolute scumminess isn’t why he was killed, was it? It isn’t why the cops are soft-pedalling the case (they claim that they’re afraid of getting Rorschach involved, but I’m personally more inclined to believe that the case just seemed Weird and Hard.) Blake’s death actually is the tip of a monstrous iceberg; Rorschach is completely correct in taking the killing as seriously as he does. But he can’t claim any special insight-it’s a broken clock situation, because he takes everything that seriously. And there’s an impulse to say that’s a good thing- except the fact that he only takes everything that seriously because he’s wrapped up in an insane, self-pitying, self-righteous self-image. It is important to him, that he is the only one who cares about this, because it gives him ground to disdain everyone else who doesn’t.

But at the end of the day, no matter how you arrive at it, the concept of solving every murder- of no death going unresolved, of no murder, of anyone, going uninvestigated- is, full stop, aspirational. It is a good thing to want and a good thing to work towards. And Rorschach, for all his insanity, is actually making some degree of headway. He very pointedly immediately figures out the hidden compartment holding Blake’s costume after being in the apartment for seconds; the cops talked in circles for several minutes and didn’t pick up on the discrepancy. He blunders down false trails, he engages in completely unhelpful violence that stood absolutely no chance of advancing the case, simply because he’s inclined to violence; and he pursues the mask-killer theory above all others because it flatters his self-image, his self-importance, his self-appointed role as the last cowboy. But I suspect that Ozymandias wouldn’t have bothered feeding the fire on the Mask-killer theory if there wasn’t a risk of Rorschach eventually figuring it out what was really going on. He got closer than anyone else just by virtue of trying at all.

Rorschach is the fantasy of someone, somewhere, Being On The Case, whatever the case may be; however tempting it may be to ignore The Case. Someone who cares, someone who’ll fight tooth and nail to get answers that absolutely should be gotten at. But he’s also the dark side of that- an examination of the kind of neurotic who would care, always, about all of it, the ways in which the caring would need to flatter and feed his ego to be sustainable, and the sheer amount of collateral damage all that caring would do to anyone the neurotic considered the cause of the problems he cares about. Here’s the price of a crusader who’ll stop at nothing- you’re stuck with a crusader who’ll stop at nothing. That is not a quality that exists in a vacuum. That is simply not the kind of nice idea you get to have, without an eye for how a person gets that way, how they stay that way, and how much damage they do.

Listen I'm an avid believer in letting people do what they want as long as it's not literally evil but that post that says "the x reader community needs to be quarantined" or something like that is so fucking funny and real. Motherfuckers are literally everywhere in every single tag you can't escape it

4 different dwarven looks, but the same face. With a lot of focus on hair on the last three because I ended up loving the idea of dwarves using hair extensions/partial wigs that does not match their natural hair : ' D

Roadrat fluff..........

big alien OC dump! bunch of doodles i've accumulated of my babies