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BRIGHTSIDE! He's definitely not a pun on a certain band.

He's besties with my bowie-inspired character, Ziggy

DOODLES

Why

I've said it once before. I can't afford to keep doing this, getting invested in people who don't love me anymore. (/p) Call it trust issues,

But we both know they weren't coming back. One of us had to leave eventually.

I did take something I shouldn't have. I'll give it back. They can do whatever they want with it.

holy shit that's an amazing take.

also I love the textures in your art.

Hm, technically not TAU related but I'm just kinda curious. Where did the uh eye thing (my mind is blanking on the word rn) is indicative of gender thing come from? I just think the idea is neat is all.

partly from my ass, partly from fandom tropes, partly from canon!

unfortunately i can't really provide examples of fanon because it's been a while since i've seen this floating around, but i know there at least USED to be a pretty big trope towards genderbending all the skeleton AU characters (or even just making original skeleton OCs that were female). the biggest way people chose to portray these characters was usually presentation - their bodies would be exactly the same as the OG sanses, just with maybe ecto and/or eye makeup.

all i did was take that further, because in my mind, it made sense!

the majority of canonically female monsters in the game are flat as washing boards, not a single titty in sight - maybe except the slightest of pec-bumps if you really squint - with only 2 notable exceptions that i could find, that being catty and the snowdin shopkeeper:

in fact, if you want to be pedantic...

king fluffybuns has more titty than his fucking wife xD

to me, the presence of boobage on catty, the snowdin shopkeeper and asgore proves that toby and temmie WERE VERY CAPABLE of drawing tits if they wanted to - which means that the lack of tits on the other characters was not an error, it was simply a design choice.

additionally, i believe that it's mostly just anthropomorphic monsters that are revealed to be women in the first place - "lesser" monsters all have completely identical sprites and, if memory serves, most of them are only ever really referred to as "it" or "they". (admittedly, i don't have the patience to go through every profile in the wiki to make sure, so take that with a little salt.) and while that could be just unreliable narration, i'm not here to beat the meta horse to death; i'm taking the information that i see at face value and running with it. and the information that i see is that there isn't a huge amount of sexual dimorphism in the vast majority of monsters, especially when you count non-anthropomorphic ones, which - again, focusing on what we actually see in-game - far outnumber their humanoid counterparts.

instead, you mainly tell what gender the characters are by the way they dress and their eyes - which usually have longer lashes, even if they're not wearing makeup like the shopkeep is. if nothing else, you might be forced to tell by their name or just by the game's narration. so in that case, we - or i, at least - know that most monsters in the underground go by "they" or "it", and not only is strongly gendered presentation already pretty fucking rare, when you get it, it's mostly in people just... dressing the way they want to be called. that's it.

to me, that fits in perfectly with the trope of female skeletons just having makeup or some ecto. they're telling people that they're female because that's how they want to be called; if they didn't put that effort in, other monsters would probably default to "it". like so:

and then when you introduce AU tomfoolery, of course, you can also get situations like this, where more nuance needs to be considered:

Beautiful and endorsed. Greaser being a flirty loser and Fresh being a loser loser for the win

ngl i kinda have a feeling i might get hate for this...uh.. sorry you guys :(

i just wanted to draw a flirty greaser and a confused fresh consulting some new feelings he doesn't entirely understand (but he likes it ooOOoOo)

dont ask why greaser is so tall either. uh idk he's prolly standing on his ego or somethin

ALSO I WANTED TO FULLY SHADE SOMETHING FOR ONCE BUT I SERIOUSLY HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO COLOR ANYTHING RAWWW PAIN

greaser - @/radsee

fresh - @/loverofpiggies

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here's your food! (Error is grumpy, but he's secretly enjoying the scarf swap a lot more than Ink does)

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Horror's Wrecktale design, as well as more Bill doodles. I love these boys.