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Different variations of Melody *^0^*

Some lazy sketches ;)

Sooooooo....here is a lil idea I have that I will probably make stuff about

Smg4 swap au but instead of smg4 and smg3 getting swapped with eachother, they get swapped with Melody and Axol

Some people already suspects smg4 and smg3 will have the same tragic end as Melody and Axol because Wotfi 2021 ended with Melody drawing her with Axol while Wotfi 2023 ended with smg3 drawing him with smg4. Also there are some paralels between them from what I understand. I personaly dont believe it yet but this gived me the idea to make a swap au

Like, smg4 and smg3 are silly lil boyfriends who had a "enemies to lovers" trope, so the life is good and shit, then the whole Wotfi 2021 arc happens but ends with smg3 being the one that gets possesed and smg4 having to kill him in order to save everyone else (which smg3 understands and tolds smg4 to do it). So he kills his own boyfriend to save everyone else while smg3 sacrifices himself. After the "demon" is defeated saiki tells smg4 he did a good job as well and then asks where the hell is smg3 which ends up with smg4 broking down crying. And sadly smg3 couldnt even learn about the whole "super meme guardians" thing since he was dead af :(

On a side note this arc will be the reason Why smg4 acts a bit more differently from his canon version, you cant expect someone Who had to go through a hell and kill his own boyfriend to be same.

I can already taste all the fluff and angst from here 😋

Side Dish - Squash - Corn and Zucchini Melody Zucchini, corn, and onions are cooked in a skillet and topped with crispy crumbled bacon and shredded Monterey Jack cheese.

Made some lil guys for my college project to keep myself sane

Another small batch of sketches, featuring a crossover with @s0ckh3adstudios Flo and this AUs Blue Soul (They'll be important later.)

Bonus new Kanako ref because I can't draw her consistently:

Some HXH characters I don’t draw nearly enough!

Fun fact: back in 2012, on this very blog, I made a post about American Girl dolls I’d like to see. One included a Black girl growing up during the civil rights movement and listening to Motown music. So yes, I’d love to take credit for Melody. But her actual creation goes back to a tweet someone made that I can’t find a link to right now. AG and the civil rights/motown era is SUCH a natural match, it’s kind of baffling it took until 2016 for Melody to finally come out. Being that she was a part of the “BeForever” line, it’s beyond infuriating that she only got two books.

THE GOOD NEWS IS BeForever was kind of a disaster for AG and they’ve done away with the brand. Claudie was released with Meet Claudie and her next book is Travels with Claudie so she definitely looks like she’s returning to the six book format. I doubt that the other girls released under the BeForever line (Nanea, Maryellen and Courtney) will get their full six books, which makes me so angry. I mean, given that Nanea is kind of specific to JUST pearl harbor, I can sooort of understand her having just two (even though I DEFINITELY think she should have gotten six. Hawaiian history and culture deserve a full six books). Given that Courtney is in the 80s, and a lot of what was controversial in the 80s is still controversial today, I can see how AG would be very very very hesitant to seriously dig into 80s history and politics, although six books in which Ronald Reagan and The Moral Majority are the bad guys would fucking rule. But for Maryellen and Melody it is bullshit of the highest order that they only got 2 books, especially when you consider that Maryellen’s big story is super bland bullshit about her struggling to stand out in her big family and not so much about confronting the sexist and racist cultural bullshit of the 50s. BUT she gets massive bonus points for covering the Salk vaccine (a major turning-point in history that doesn’t get NEARLY the amount of love and attention it deserves) and for having an amazing collection.

Melody being only two books is unforgivable. COMPLETELY UNFORGIVABLE. You cannot fit the enormity of civil rights and Motown and the 60s in general into just two books. All that being said, however, the two books they gave her seem to do a massive job with the tiny bit of space they were given. First of all, the advisory board for Melody is STACKED. Secondly, the trailer for Melody: Love Has to Win is the shit of Ron DeSantis’s nightmares:

A LITTLE BLACK GIRL REFUSING THE SAY THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND SAYING THAT AMERICA IS UNJUST?! That’s the sound of millions of pearls being clutched all across the nation. I’m honestly shocked Moms for Liberty weren’t burning Melody’s books in the streets. I am hereby a Melody stan now and forever. I still SINCERELY hope she gets a re-release with her full six books and a much bigger collection. Because for real Melody may be my new favorite doll (although that could change depending on what kind of collection Claudie gets).

Melody, god of music and can travel on sound waves from place to place, and takes almost nothing ( depending on the sechuaton) seriously