That’s right! We’re getting ready for another full week celebrating the sublime Sonic/Sally Ship! But this time, it’s going to be an especially special event! Get ready to really part as we prepare…
BOUND FOR FREEDOM: SONIC x SALLY WEEK, YEAR FIVE!
As in the past, this week-long event will run from FRIDAY, AUGUST 11th TO FRIDAY, AUGUST 18th! You can participate either by submitting directly to this blog, or else by tagging your post with any of these tags: #boundforfreedom, #sonally week, and/or #sonsal week (make sure to include at least one of these tags within the first five tags of the post so that they will show up in Tumblr’s Search). If your submission is not reblogged here within 24 hours, please message either this blog directly, or the blog runner, @gojira007
As has become tradition, our usual daily prompts will be unified this time around by a THEME! You’re free to make of that theme what you like; maybe you use it to supplement your piece or link your contributions together, or maybe you use the Theme itself as your inspiration if the daily prompt isn’t really doing it for you, or maybe you just ignore it all together! But whatever you want to do with it, the theme is there to help really bring this year’s event to life.
And this time around, the Theme is extra special, because this year marks the 30th anniversary of the 1993 SatAM “Sonic the Hedgehog” animated series, which in turn makes it Sally’s thirtieth anniversary too! And to commemorate that fact?
THIS YEAR’S THEME IS…“BIRTHDAY”!
As always, All mediums are welcome! Fan art, fanfiction, headcanons, whatever you can think of…as long as it’s about showing some love for Sonic x Sally, it’s welcome here, so long as it follows our rules, which you can read here:https://boundforfreedomsonsal.tumblr.com/aboutrules
In addition to this year’s new prompts listed below, you are also free to use the prompts from the last two years as well, which you can find in our Prompts archive here:https://boundforfreedomsonsal.tumblr.com/prompts
If you aren’t able to submit in time for a day’s prompt, don’t worry about it! We’ll continue to accept submissions for all prompts starting from the day the new prompt is introduced onward (and yes, that DOES mean .
If you want to begin preparing in advance, our new prompts are listed below the cut.
I look forward to seeing what everybody has to offer, and I’m very eager to share my own SonSal Love too. ^_^
What the fascistic hatred for abstract art and idolisation of only the Rational, Realistic Art, the only one that comes close to a science, the only one that can be excused as existing (because the more realistic it is the less you see the artist in it and the more it can conform to a standard) have done is unforgivable. btw
Fascism notoriously hates abstract art, and positivism’s legacy was a degradation of humanities that led to a distate for art that couldn’t be objectively graded on a clear scale or measures in scientific truths. The result is the need to be able to give a correct and rational value to art, and the scale chosen for it was realism.
Which inevitably brings the thought that was isn’t realistic is bad, on principle! It is idiotic because art is inherently subjective! You cannot grade it in such a way because it is not meant to be a surefire and technically onthologically correct or incorrect pursuit, it is meant to be art, but fascism hates what it cannot grade as either superior or inferior, degenerate or inspiring, and therefore makes up ways to do that that actually have no meaning and make no sense.
+ It is also why hyperrealistic art is often soulless - not always - but think of (as the example that Jaja gave me, hi) those Instagram drawings of perfectly photorealistic lips or eyes. They all look the same. They all look maybe even incredible, but by virtue of all looking the same, they lose the artist. Could you tell if two drawings of the same set of lime-biting lips were made by different people, when they are so so similar, and so so realistic? What of the prevalent AI art artstyle, a mesh of perfect rendering, all looking the same? Where is the individuality in making all art look identical! Where is the artist in a drawing that does not show any stylistic choice!
The point is. Your art style isn’t holding you back because it isn’t “realistic enough.” You can do what you want forever
combine your first real fandom with your current one to create a terrible, terrible au
Definitely “Sonic the Hedgehog” as My First Real Fandom, but as to my current/most recent one…depending on how you want to slice this, it’s either “Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury” or “Fire Emblem: Three Houses”, and in both cases…
like. legit, i would actually love to see that. XD
A friend half way through the season said she didn’t understand the point of the 1800s flashback, and I couldn’t really answer yet because spoilers, so I’ll answer here.
I was being cancelled because apparently it was classist to put feathers on dinosaurs.
Both dream me and irl me were very confused.
it might have been a dream, but feathered dinosaurs being linked to an ideology isn’t that uncommon. Them being viewed as “leftist”, “woke” or “gay” has occured several times.
I collect these examples.
reblog if you like dinosaurs, are gay, or just really like feathers
I am at least two of these three things.
And also just felt like reminding folks that Weaponized Nostalgia, even for things that would not seem to necessarily have a salient political dimension, is a massively important weapon in the arsenal of Reactionaries/Fascists.
Bought myself the new Story Of Seasons for the end of Art Fight, so that’s our new theme!
My favorite livestock (excluding rabbits as they’re only in a couple of games) is… chickens! Easy to care for. Very shaped.
ALSO in two weeks I’m doing a ‘your ocs interact with mine’ week so send me one of mine and one of yours! Check here for mine!
Gosh but you do handle the simple but clear shapes of the chickens here very nicely; the way the curve of their bodies flows into the turn of their poses just works so SO nicely on each one, and the fun ways you play up the little curls of the tail feathers ‘n’ crests is utterly adorable.
In which I reblog stuff I like on tumblr and post my fan-works. Writer of the "Sonic the Hedgehog" Fan Comic "Sea3on": www.sonicsatam.com/sea3on My Art Blog: erictmason.tumblr.com COMMISSIONS OPEN: gojira007.tumblr.com/post/168682813032/yup-finally-diving-into-this-wide-wacky-world
