(Just to be 100% clear, pro-shippers should block me, especially if those ships involve kiddos.)

Also, an alt version below with my AU version of Vanessa (Ava) -

(Flipped because all her scars from the wreck and subsequent surgeries are on that side.)

I didn't add the scars she gets during the last few chapters of Breached since they aren't out yet and that's Spoilers.

My main lament is that I drew this on my phone and the app I use doesn't have a good tool I can use for freckles, so the freckle-to-lady ratio is way lower than my headcanon...

"Azarath metrion.. I have a gun..." Raven from the new Teen Titans. #cardoodle #teentitans #raven #commissionsopen #paper #jokes https://www.instagram.com/p/CoInpDkSeMVfSKDrxZRIhTapW0co-EBir_I6eM0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Pure and opulent | concept sketch by @andrey_gusev_design . - Do share your thoughts. - #niwwrd #andreygusevdesign #carsketch #cardesign #cardoodle #cardrawing #luxury #noble #pure #art #limo #grace #elegance #photoshop #2d https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfv_p7YpPtT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Is there any hope for Endtown? Aaron seems to be somewhat worried about the floundering state of his Patreon, and the rumors of two major arcana being Endtown focused makes me think he, at least in some level, realizes he has to right the ship somehow. I feel like this arc might be his final indulgence into Marx wankery, killing Eye, and resetting the universe. Maybe that's just me being too hopeful though.

Personally I'm REALLY skeptical.

I've gone over or added to thoughts about how much of a cancer Marx is a few times already so I can keep explaining that facet to a minimum for another difficult angle in the story itself: he's completely annihilated the scope and worse trivialized any reason for investment in the actual characters. Think about it for a second: there's an established multiverse where copies of the main characters exist at any point of their lifespan, from start to finish, and can be accessed by Marx at any point to do anything to them. Someone dies? Replace them! It's that easy! Why does anyone have to be invested anymore if Aaron already established that Cardoodle hybrids are quite literally stupid and shallow people, Topsiders cannot 'cure' the mutation phenomenon or make it stop and thus will spitefully persist as humanity's rage as it dies or become inhuman mockeries that will kill and eat each other at a drop of a hat, and Marx caused this unnatural existence for unknown but frankly no good reason at this point. He just subjected inhabitants of a doomed world to live in a suffering hell and keeps doing it. And why should the audience care about anything when Aaron seemingly doesn't? The whole Benny situation unfolding right now was long overdue and feels more like he finally remembered that was the driving force behind the conflict for half of the Eden storyline he never resolved, and the resolution is Marx constantly mocking and chiding Duffy for having real human emotions and wants in a storyline that doesn't give a fuck. And that's the rub: the undercurrent of how the drama and stakes for the characters we're supposed to be invested in is a joke to Marx for him to fart on and dismiss despite the bones of Endtown being BUILT on the characters as well as their struggles and the drama of their lives in this world. If he were in any way planning on changing course it would have happened already, but the latest update alone is proof that isn't the case. He's still shitting on the characters for their feelings while simultaneously drawing them in emotional agony. With that kind of poisonous mindset how can any return to Endtown be positive when we last left Endtown at its most dramatic and lowest? With his track record I almost anticipate a soft retcon of what likely would develop after Pig Arc, same as what happened after Milk Trial, and that's being generous. Hope is if he finally establishes under no uncertain terms that Marx is a villain and the characters have to escape or conquer him somehow, until we see acknowledgements for that then just enjoy watching the fire burn, I know I am.

The recent Endtown update...

Almost has broken the trend of rendering everyone not named Marx into a living prop. They say stuff. Shame it's nothing the reader could not infer on their own. The transformation of Wally into an inert object tangling on Marx' chain is really symbolic of what Marx does to people. The constant slapstick aimed aleaves the distinct impression as if the Grex have been lessened by their transformation into something either too small or the swolen, unable to grasp what is going on until the wizard patiently shows them.

It appears every universe/reality is ending. Marx complained about the lack of souls coming back and the Sun in the cardoodle universe is going supernova. Saving the Multiverse seems like the most justifiable "Greater Good"(tm) we get. A bit late to get much sympathy and we still don't know why intense misery was so necessary.

The cardoodles seem to eiher be going through comic routines or Marx simply exactly knows what happens in that universe, too.

Speaking off, with Marx being omniscient and quasi omnipotent, there still isn't an ounce of tension. Sure everything is fallen apart, but Marx doesn't seem stressed out about it. Marx knows exactly what he has to do. Nothing can really stop him and his knowledge robs the strange worlds of wonder and excitement, since he always can explain the latest weird thing to happen and counteract it. Even if the world where to explode, he could just open a portal and dash. Which results in a dreary slog where nothing happens and nothing can happen until Marx pulled the body theft off.

We don't get to know much about these characters except the flat stereotypes (the elephant is clumsy, neurotic and awkward, the small bird is a cranky napoleon), so we can't even care that much that they have a windfall. The constant slapstick aimed the distinct impression as if the Grex have been lessened by their mutation. They are no longer man and animal. They are something crotesque, either too small or too swollen. Unable to grasp what is going on, their scrambled and dimmed mind making them bray in animalistic confusion. Marx knows it too. He rubs it in. They aren't people. They don't need names. They are cartoon caricature reflected onto a dying world. Their past no longer matters. They are where they belong. In an outdated cartoon for children of all ages, miserable jerks and raving madpeople to laugh at.

My apologies if this is too melodramatic. The comic left me feeling so bland and bored i needed to wring something out of it.

I hope Kirby and Chic are alright and don't go mad or get strawified like the last half a dozen characters i cared about.

Car doodles 😁🚗

Made these while in my car : )

Car doodle from my sketchbook. When I was in high school I filled my notebooks with drawings of cars. Exotic cars, hot rods, muscle cars, all kinds of cars. Issue 4 of Heaven’s Rejects was all about a cross country car race and I drew dozens of cars for it. You’d think I’d be tired of drawing cars, but apparently not. #sketchbook #cardoodles #cartoons #cardrawings #doodles #okcartists #carsketching #strathmorepaper (at Northwest Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGx_q1Qh61Z/?igshid=4b1bame92ugo

Some doodle fun😋 #doodlesketch #cardoodles #conceptdoodles #pensketch #sketch (at Bangalore) https://www.instagram.com/p/Btv58E5nETE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10p1dw0nnj7s7

#sketch #carsketch #cardoodles #instacar #sportscar #automotivesketch #automotivedesign #idsketching #transportation #ipadsketch #procreateartist #dailydoodle

I wanted to do art for Easter and TDoV, but this is what came out instead. Anyway, never pull on a rabbit's ears; it's very rude and bad for their hearing.

More pen doodles of the LeMoonRacer

The Queens ♥️♦️♣️♠️ - - - #characterdesign #happymemorialday #cardoodles #sharpie #pen #sketch #headshots #blackandwhite #ink #drawing #darjavinedoodles #illustration #art #artistsoninstagram

More Marx? (Annoyed Groan)

It’s another one of these! Spoilers for the January Endtown Update just as a forewarning.

In my other Marx rant I went over a good amount of Marx but I feel the newest updates to Endtown really drive it home how horrific Marx is and how damaging his presence is on this story and how cruel a god entity he is just via context alone. I think I need to appropriately break it down so people can really grasp this with both hands rather than be dazzled by fancy art and faded memory.

More under the cut!

Marx is basically the creator, the author if you will, of the Endtown world. He chooses worlds which are slotted for destruction and manipulates the circumstances within them to seed a new sandbox for him to play around in. Multiple sandboxes even!

During the Ship Arc it’s revealed that the parallel worlds to Endtown’s world are dead. Nobody survives the apocalypse, which typically is caused by resource squabbling. Marx, horrible god that he is, sets up Endtowns in these worlds that shelter and preserve humanity which we see during the post-mortem Flask epilogue and again in Holly’s flashback where she and Doc Chase are sent to Endtown. He also gives Apex (Topsiders) means to survive the resultant Armageddon as well as evidenced by Amesworth’s Exposition segment of the Eden Arc:

Marx left his ‘clue’ about what was happening to the world and tampered with the biosuit’s plastics which allowed the Topsiders to persist when they would have all transformed or perished. This makes him responsible for the Topsider’s existence and their genocidal rampage on the mutated (grexed) humans. Now the cause of the mutations were revealed to be due to some thinning of reality’s walls which allow a completely unrelated universe, not parallel but cosmologically distant to this one, collide and infect it in a way where people turn into cartoon animals. This may, perhaps, be seen as a kind of accident if you are so inclined to believe so. Like a boulder crushing a sparrow’s nest it’s an act of nature the occupants never would have foresaw or anticipated until doom was upon them. But what if I told you that there was a man who pushed the boulder in the first place? Enter a brief but incredibly damning comment made by Dr. Amesworth in a quiet aside during the Exposition segment:

Isn’t this a really curious thing for her to say? Almost as if Marx chose the nature of what the universe collision was. Which, if you think about it, might be actually true. Marx has been shown to accomplish anything and has not faced something that actually stands as a challenge to his skills or will and expresses nothing but fawning adoration for Cardoodles. We have from his own admission that he’s been manipulating Wally’s ‘story’ to serve the purpose of feeding him to Eye and ultimately combining his soul with Cracked Cat and that he’s done this countless times. He’s admitted in this most recent update that he’s watched or been aware of Duffy committing suicide ‘8 million times’ but only now supposedly thought to stop him. And why?

Marx seems to have this happen where his outreach for characters not named Wally are curious larks rather than anything in his rigid five billion step plan to whatever endgoal he’s looking for with his sandbox. This happened much earlier for Flask too.

And in fact ONLY seems to happen when he’s ‘curious’ if that really is earnest and not another lie to get the circumstances of what he wants to happen, happen. He’s a master manipulator after all, privy to countless permutations of how a situation will go and pulling the strings accordingly. He doesn’t save Holly because the Ship reveals what her ‘deal’ was and deems her too fundamentally broken to fix (even though there could be opportunities to fix her, I feel like Marx cared more about Holly fixing Wally and getting him out of Endtown rather than Holly’s own wellbeing and orchestrated Milk Trial to break her fundamentally). He doesn’t save Walt because he knows exactly what happened with Walt, there’s no mystery to his actions because it’s a perfectly understood progression. How tragic but not anything he has to deal with, people die every day! And he doesn’t save Heather because, uhmmm...

He just doesn’t okay????????????? Endtown’s served its purpose! Who cares about the innocent people left behind in there, it’s fine and dandy to pull some parlor tricks like making your eyes bleed to scare the fascist you put in office or make a sad pose as Walt disappears from existence, maybe the audience will forget you’re actually the reason this all happened and give you a pass for not intervening when you did it for Wally and now Duffy. If the characters are not serving Cracked Cat’s ascension then they’re disposable. It might be neat to see what new thing can twist the story around for Marx’s point of view but each ‘tweak’ is fundamentally not important to his main goal. If something affects the main goal, like Holly, he’d gladly throw them in the garbage. And he has every right to do this in his eyes. Why? Because he made the world. Everyone’s lives were forfeit to his whims the second he ‘saved’ them from an apocalypse. Nobody in Endtown is supposed to be alive, absolutely nobody. So if this world was supposed to die he can do anything to it, can’t he? He can cross a cartoon universe over the one he’s chosen, make the inhabitants change into cartoons. Why? How else can he make the Cracked Cat he wants to see?

Car doodles of Alfie . . #whiteleyfoster #illustration #cartoon #comics #myart #vampires #alfie #sketches #doodles #cardoodles #moleskine

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