Auxiliary Art Dumping: reSWAN iscribble time
Holy prehistoric icon, Batman. But it's appropriate, you'll see.
It's my last day before I start the awful job that's going to eat my soul, so it's nice that I got to spend last night playing around in iscribble.
There are a few drawings here not from there, but it's primarily a pixel party.
This first bit here is spoilery for SWAN and ISH, so miss this bit if you haven't finished!
First is a montage of Edgar Is The Mom Friend, with some context even, because I am nice.
An edited for clarity conversation that spawned Edgar=Mom. We were talking about the Johnny/Edgar/Jimmy stuff that happened off to the side of ISH canon after ISH 10 because my beta and I had had a moment of weakness back in 2008 or whenever that was, and I was explaining to my new SWAN friend why I wrote a bunch of it and then it ran off the rails, as these things do.
Lady Yate-xel
I was just like 'oh god i've abandoned this dude i now feel really sorry for! no one else in the world will ever understand what his childhood/teenage years were like!'
So Edgar took care of him
and then I felt better and could function again, haha
Gu
Because that's what he does
Lady Yate-xel
it is
he's like the mom friend
Gu
I want Edgar to just walk around with a utility belt and a hard hat going "I can fix it!"
Lady Yate-xel
"Is this safe to eat?" "Are you warm enough?" "Let me help you with that."
When they interact with Dib, it's just like that.
Gu
Everyone: "Stfu, mom"
Lady Yate-xel
Johnny lets Dib fall over and crash into shit
Edgar helps him up and asks him if he's okay
Gu
Oh god
The Mom Friend
Lady Yate-xel
Hahahaha
Gu
Everyone just needs a shirt with their role
Lady Yate-xel
I WAS JUST THINKING THAT
Gu
YES!
Lady Yate-xel
someone can get him a '#1 Mom' mug
Gu
Devi would be, like, "The Bullshit Detector"
Lady Yate-xel
good lord, yes
Gu
#1 Mom mug. Like Johnny makes Banshee give it to him just to see the look on his face.
Lady Yate-xel
Jesus
Gu
Oh god, I'm horrible.
Lady Yate-xel
That would seriously endear Banshee to Johnny, though, haha
Gu
But I'm just picture his face of disgust, but he has to be nice for the same demon girl.
Lady Yate-xel
Right? Over Banshee's head, he's glaring daggers into Johnny, but is straining to be pleasant to her face
Gu
"Er... Thanks, Stephanie. It's very lovely." (You asshole...)
Lady Yate-xel
And Johnny just :D in the background
Gu
Two thumbs up, or waving
Lady Yate-xel
Yesss
he does a lot of waving, he likes that
waving, wiggly fingers, that sort of thing
Gu
Exactly!
Lady Yate-xel
If I can find places for them all to call Edgar 'mom' I am going to do it
Gu
Now Edgar HAS to drink out of that cup.
Lady Yate-xel
Like at first it's just "Shut up, you're not my mom" kind of stuff
and then "Seriously, MOM, stop, we've got it"
and then he spends a whole week getting called Mom and it's like his nickname for any time he offers advice or an opinion
Gu
"Mom, I'm 22. Turn off protective mother mode for 5 fucking minutes."
Lady Yate-xel
Jimmy calls him at three in the morning for advice
'IF ME AND THIS GUY SLEPT TOGETHER DOES IT MEAN WE'RE IN LOVE, MOM?'
'Holy shit, Jimmy, go to bed.'
Gu
Johnny hears him from the bed, all 'wtf'
Lady Yate-xel
Johnny nearby like 'Is he calling you mom again? Tell him it would be gross if that made me his dad.'
Gu
Oh god!
I was going for the more, Johnny leans in close, 'So... Does it, Mom? Should I pack my shit and move out now?'
Lady Yate-xel
and Edgar is just like jesus fuck what happened to my life
Gu
You know what happened, Edgar.
You became the Mom.
Lady Yate-xel
Yeah, he should expect this stuff
I can't even with Johnny making the Mom joke while half asleep beside him, though
Gu
Hahaha!
Lady Yate-xel
like "Can you not with that when you are literally in bed with me??"
and Jimmy on the phone like 'holy fuck you guys, that's nasty'
'YOU ARE THE ONE WHO CALLED, JIMMY'
Gu
Johnny takes the phone, makes gross noises and moans and hangs up.
Lady Yate-xel
AHAhahahaha
Gu
"Fucking calls us at 3 AM...'
Lady Yate-xel
Jimmy can't look at them for like three days
Gu
OMG
I'm dying
And people will never know of these things, sadly.
Johnny just smiles for those three days
Raising his eyebrows towards Jimmy when they do make eye contact.
Lady Yate-xel
Tenna is suspicious, but can't get anything out of Jimmy
Gu
Jimmy just doesn't fucking talk
Lady Yate-xel
Edgar having to turn around and get all "No, don't you start too" with Johnny while Jimmy is on the phone is cracking me up
Tenna mentions later that she wants to try calling Edgar in the middle of the night to make a mom joke and Jimmy suddenly and emphatically yells "NO!"
everyone is quiet
possibly save Johnny who is trying not to suffocate holding in laughter
Gu
The facial expression I am picturing are priceless!
Devi turns to them and crosses her arms, "Mom, what the fuck did you do?"
Lady Yate-xel
Jimmy looks a little ill
Gu
Johnny is almost red and has to cover his face so he doesn't explode from trying not to laugh.
Edgar just sighs and adjusts his glasses.
Lady Yate-xel
"Slept with Johnny, evidently."
Jimmy and Johnny collapse for entirely different reasons
Gu
Devi just raises an eyebrow.
Tenna shoots up, "I KNEW IT!"
And now that you have context, as though you really needed it, dorky doodles!
These first two were on Tumblr.
A vague illustration of part of the conversation from above:
After that, it became 'let's torture Edgar on iscribble!'
I liked imagining that he just pulled this shirt on without looking and then once it was on saw that it had been attacked with a sharpie.
Iscribble is a bitch to write on, so I feel like I'll need to translate some of these. This, for instance:
Edgar: [idly singing 'I Love Belarus']
Tenna: "Are you their mom, too?"
Tenna: "I'm sure they love you too!"
Edgar's face there is the only reason I even bothered posting this second half, haha.
Then I thought, "Let's get everyone in on this, since I've already done Devi, it's time for Jimmy and Nny!"
Jimmy: "Carry *me* home too, Mom! <3"
Edgar: "You'll need to be passed on the floor first. Do you need help with that?"
This is referencing both my extreme fondness for drawing Edgar carrying Johnny (and thus I guess a certain in-universe frequency for it happening), AND that Johnny does collapse and need to be carried home once or twice. Johnny perhaps should have been angry here, but I liked his 'wtf' expression and it was iscribble, so I left it.
And then Nny, with the previously mentioned carrying, even.
Nny: "Would you drop me if I called you Mom?"
Edgar: "And then I'd become violently ill in your direction."
I expected to be able to torture him about this longer, but he is remarkably sassy about it.
More often than carrying is just passed out from strain on top of Edgar somewhere. Edgar usually finds it best to leave him until he wakes up, thus this.
"No, no, it's fine! This happens all the time. I mean- it's not FINE, but... I've got it."
Nny and Edgar conceal that something is wrong with Nny for a long time before the others see him have an attack that shuts him down, and by the time they do, Edgar is already quite skilled at dealing with it. The others are particularly unsettled by how calm Edgar is about this, and how much he has down to a routine. 'Jimmy, go get some water. Tenna, see if you can find a blanket or something. Devi, we're going to need a few bandaids.' etc etc They're used to calling Edgar mom and poking fun at him, not Edgar suddenly in charge and taking care of the person they thought was the pin holding them all together.
this is abysmal, but whatever
"Does he only sleep when you guys are attached, or what?"
"I guess?"
Not meant to be a passing out thing, but more like Johnny using Edgar as furniture, and that Edgar has ceased finding it weird or new.
LIKE THIS
ART. Mostly I just like Nny casually attaching himself to Edgar without a second thought as to how it looks (or feels for Edgar, let's be real).
Devi: "You are literally in his lap having a casual conversation I am going to puke blood"
Edgar: [unrelated conversation] "Really?"
Nny: "Yeah, pretty much."
Devi really does not get them. She's known Johnny the longest out of anyone in the SWAN group and doesn't understand how someone who hisses when people accidentally touch his arm can also be found having casual conversations draped over Edgar like a blanket and tangled in his legs. It makes perfect sense to Johnny, but that really doesn't mean much.
Also they do shit like this:
MEANWHILE IN THE LAND WHICH DEVI DOES NOT UNDERSTAND
I'd meant for Nny to look a bit like his usual Homicides predatory, but he ended up looking just as besotted as Edgar, so I just rolled with it.
Nny: "You're awful and I hate you."
Edgar: "Do you kiss all the people you hate?"
Nny: "No, just you. It's special hate."
Edgar: "Okay."
The best thing you can do to win Nny's approval is make him laugh. Edgar is lucky in that he understands how Johnny operates fairly often and can run with his ideas, which means they sort of start operating on their own channel. This is some of that, I guess. I ended up inking this half on the wrong layer, so I just starting making shit up and it did okay, all things considered!
AND then I thought, "God, I really like drawing all those lifting up pictures. But I also seem to be addicted to drawing them kissing. THERE IS A SOLUTION TO THIS."
First, test and see if it will fit in the tiny iscribble window:
Answer yes, but we can do better. And I wanted Johnny up a little higher. THUS:
SHAZAM. Honestly, I kind of love it, I want to make a big one not in a tiny pixel application.
And then Devi walks in and yells that she can't even tap Johnny's shoulder to get his attention, but he'll climb Edgar like a tree.
Aaaaaaand I think that's it. Whew.
My modes in iscribble are 'garbage' and 'awesome', there seems to be no inbetween.
It's my last day before I start the awful job that's going to eat my soul, so it's nice that I got to spend last night playing around in iscribble.
There are a few drawings here not from there, but it's primarily a pixel party.
This first bit here is spoilery for SWAN and ISH, so miss this bit if you haven't finished!
First is a montage of Edgar Is The Mom Friend, with some context even, because I am nice.
An edited for clarity conversation that spawned Edgar=Mom. We were talking about the Johnny/Edgar/Jimmy stuff that happened off to the side of ISH canon after ISH 10 because my beta and I had had a moment of weakness back in 2008 or whenever that was, and I was explaining to my new SWAN friend why I wrote a bunch of it and then it ran off the rails, as these things do.
Lady Yate-xel
I was just like 'oh god i've abandoned this dude i now feel really sorry for! no one else in the world will ever understand what his childhood/teenage years were like!'
So Edgar took care of him
and then I felt better and could function again, haha
Gu
Because that's what he does
Lady Yate-xel
it is
he's like the mom friend
Gu
I want Edgar to just walk around with a utility belt and a hard hat going "I can fix it!"
Lady Yate-xel
"Is this safe to eat?" "Are you warm enough?" "Let me help you with that."
When they interact with Dib, it's just like that.
Gu
Everyone: "Stfu, mom"
Lady Yate-xel
Johnny lets Dib fall over and crash into shit
Edgar helps him up and asks him if he's okay
Gu
Oh god
The Mom Friend
Lady Yate-xel
Hahahaha
Gu
Everyone just needs a shirt with their role
Lady Yate-xel
I WAS JUST THINKING THAT
Gu
YES!
Lady Yate-xel
someone can get him a '#1 Mom' mug
Gu
Devi would be, like, "The Bullshit Detector"
Lady Yate-xel
good lord, yes
Gu
#1 Mom mug. Like Johnny makes Banshee give it to him just to see the look on his face.
Lady Yate-xel
Jesus
Gu
Oh god, I'm horrible.
Lady Yate-xel
That would seriously endear Banshee to Johnny, though, haha
Gu
But I'm just picture his face of disgust, but he has to be nice for the same demon girl.
Lady Yate-xel
Right? Over Banshee's head, he's glaring daggers into Johnny, but is straining to be pleasant to her face
Gu
"Er... Thanks, Stephanie. It's very lovely." (You asshole...)
Lady Yate-xel
And Johnny just :D in the background
Gu
Two thumbs up, or waving
Lady Yate-xel
Yesss
he does a lot of waving, he likes that
waving, wiggly fingers, that sort of thing
Gu
Exactly!
Lady Yate-xel
If I can find places for them all to call Edgar 'mom' I am going to do it
Gu
Now Edgar HAS to drink out of that cup.
Lady Yate-xel
Like at first it's just "Shut up, you're not my mom" kind of stuff
and then "Seriously, MOM, stop, we've got it"
and then he spends a whole week getting called Mom and it's like his nickname for any time he offers advice or an opinion
Gu
"Mom, I'm 22. Turn off protective mother mode for 5 fucking minutes."
Lady Yate-xel
Jimmy calls him at three in the morning for advice
'IF ME AND THIS GUY SLEPT TOGETHER DOES IT MEAN WE'RE IN LOVE, MOM?'
'Holy shit, Jimmy, go to bed.'
Gu
Johnny hears him from the bed, all 'wtf'
Lady Yate-xel
Johnny nearby like 'Is he calling you mom again? Tell him it would be gross if that made me his dad.'
Gu
Oh god!
I was going for the more, Johnny leans in close, 'So... Does it, Mom? Should I pack my shit and move out now?'
Lady Yate-xel
and Edgar is just like jesus fuck what happened to my life
Gu
You know what happened, Edgar.
You became the Mom.
Lady Yate-xel
Yeah, he should expect this stuff
I can't even with Johnny making the Mom joke while half asleep beside him, though
Gu
Hahaha!
Lady Yate-xel
like "Can you not with that when you are literally in bed with me??"
and Jimmy on the phone like 'holy fuck you guys, that's nasty'
'YOU ARE THE ONE WHO CALLED, JIMMY'
Gu
Johnny takes the phone, makes gross noises and moans and hangs up.
Lady Yate-xel
AHAhahahaha
Gu
"Fucking calls us at 3 AM...'
Lady Yate-xel
Jimmy can't look at them for like three days
Gu
OMG
I'm dying
And people will never know of these things, sadly.
Johnny just smiles for those three days
Raising his eyebrows towards Jimmy when they do make eye contact.
Lady Yate-xel
Tenna is suspicious, but can't get anything out of Jimmy
Gu
Jimmy just doesn't fucking talk
Lady Yate-xel
Edgar having to turn around and get all "No, don't you start too" with Johnny while Jimmy is on the phone is cracking me up
Tenna mentions later that she wants to try calling Edgar in the middle of the night to make a mom joke and Jimmy suddenly and emphatically yells "NO!"
everyone is quiet
possibly save Johnny who is trying not to suffocate holding in laughter
Gu
The facial expression I am picturing are priceless!
Devi turns to them and crosses her arms, "Mom, what the fuck did you do?"
Lady Yate-xel
Jimmy looks a little ill
Gu
Johnny is almost red and has to cover his face so he doesn't explode from trying not to laugh.
Edgar just sighs and adjusts his glasses.
Lady Yate-xel
"Slept with Johnny, evidently."
Jimmy and Johnny collapse for entirely different reasons
Gu
Devi just raises an eyebrow.
Tenna shoots up, "I KNEW IT!"
And now that you have context, as though you really needed it, dorky doodles!
These first two were on Tumblr.
A vague illustration of part of the conversation from above:
After that, it became 'let's torture Edgar on iscribble!'
I liked imagining that he just pulled this shirt on without looking and then once it was on saw that it had been attacked with a sharpie.
Iscribble is a bitch to write on, so I feel like I'll need to translate some of these. This, for instance:
Edgar: [idly singing 'I Love Belarus']
Tenna: "Are you their mom, too?"
Tenna: "I'm sure they love you too!"
Edgar's face there is the only reason I even bothered posting this second half, haha.
Then I thought, "Let's get everyone in on this, since I've already done Devi, it's time for Jimmy and Nny!"
Jimmy: "Carry *me* home too, Mom! <3"
Edgar: "You'll need to be passed on the floor first. Do you need help with that?"
This is referencing both my extreme fondness for drawing Edgar carrying Johnny (and thus I guess a certain in-universe frequency for it happening), AND that Johnny does collapse and need to be carried home once or twice. Johnny perhaps should have been angry here, but I liked his 'wtf' expression and it was iscribble, so I left it.
And then Nny, with the previously mentioned carrying, even.
Nny: "Would you drop me if I called you Mom?"
Edgar: "And then I'd become violently ill in your direction."
I expected to be able to torture him about this longer, but he is remarkably sassy about it.
More often than carrying is just passed out from strain on top of Edgar somewhere. Edgar usually finds it best to leave him until he wakes up, thus this.
"No, no, it's fine! This happens all the time. I mean- it's not FINE, but... I've got it."
Nny and Edgar conceal that something is wrong with Nny for a long time before the others see him have an attack that shuts him down, and by the time they do, Edgar is already quite skilled at dealing with it. The others are particularly unsettled by how calm Edgar is about this, and how much he has down to a routine. 'Jimmy, go get some water. Tenna, see if you can find a blanket or something. Devi, we're going to need a few bandaids.' etc etc They're used to calling Edgar mom and poking fun at him, not Edgar suddenly in charge and taking care of the person they thought was the pin holding them all together.
this is abysmal, but whatever
"Does he only sleep when you guys are attached, or what?"
"I guess?"
Not meant to be a passing out thing, but more like Johnny using Edgar as furniture, and that Edgar has ceased finding it weird or new.
LIKE THIS
ART. Mostly I just like Nny casually attaching himself to Edgar without a second thought as to how it looks (or feels for Edgar, let's be real).
Devi: "You are literally in his lap having a casual conversation I am going to puke blood"
Edgar: [unrelated conversation] "Really?"
Nny: "Yeah, pretty much."
Devi really does not get them. She's known Johnny the longest out of anyone in the SWAN group and doesn't understand how someone who hisses when people accidentally touch his arm can also be found having casual conversations draped over Edgar like a blanket and tangled in his legs. It makes perfect sense to Johnny, but that really doesn't mean much.
Also they do shit like this:
MEANWHILE IN THE LAND WHICH DEVI DOES NOT UNDERSTAND
I'd meant for Nny to look a bit like his usual Homicides predatory, but he ended up looking just as besotted as Edgar, so I just rolled with it.
Nny: "You're awful and I hate you."
Edgar: "Do you kiss all the people you hate?"
Nny: "No, just you. It's special hate."
Edgar: "Okay."
The best thing you can do to win Nny's approval is make him laugh. Edgar is lucky in that he understands how Johnny operates fairly often and can run with his ideas, which means they sort of start operating on their own channel. This is some of that, I guess. I ended up inking this half on the wrong layer, so I just starting making shit up and it did okay, all things considered!
AND then I thought, "God, I really like drawing all those lifting up pictures. But I also seem to be addicted to drawing them kissing. THERE IS A SOLUTION TO THIS."
First, test and see if it will fit in the tiny iscribble window:
Answer yes, but we can do better. And I wanted Johnny up a little higher. THUS:
SHAZAM. Honestly, I kind of love it, I want to make a big one not in a tiny pixel application.
And then Devi walks in and yells that she can't even tap Johnny's shoulder to get his attention, but he'll climb Edgar like a tree.
Aaaaaaand I think that's it. Whew.
My modes in iscribble are 'garbage' and 'awesome', there seems to be no inbetween.