A Snuggle In Their Tent 🩷❤️

idk if you’ve drawn this yet, but shadow coming out to Sonic as Trans Fem, I’m curious on how shadow would think Sonic would act

i've highkey been rolling a fic idea around in my head for this for mooooonths

since sonic is trans himself, i think he'd be delighted to see his partner coming into her own and finding an identity that she connects with better than her previous one. at the end of the day, she's still shadow.

in fact, i think sonic might have even seen this coming. there have always been little signs that she's been an egg. which, again, i may detail more in that fic im plotting.

but yeah! in a nutshell; sonic saw it coming, was delighted. pretty sure sonic overuses the word 'wife' a lot these days now because he's so proud

"i love my wife" "my wife can do that!" "have you met my wife?" "wife wife wifeee"

heights :]

shadow is she/her!

i drew this in late 2023 in honor of the really cool fanwork "project shadow" by joao santiago. him and his team did an incredible job bringing this story to life in a meaningful, impactful way and i hope his career goes places.

i really liked the scene with shadow looking up at the rain while his expression softens. i thought it was beautiful. i interpreted it as the planet crying for/with him about his loss as well as shadow bittersweetly appreciating the rain and how it feels on his fur - knowing full well that maria would have loved to feel it too.

she likes HEALTH 🖤❤️

old comic about shadow finding comfort in his blue husband's sweetness...

thinking about how identity is explored within blue eye samurai more as an affliction rather than something that is assigned by the self...

how mizu never once called herself a samurai (referring to herself as a 'swordsman') but others will assign virtues to her as though she is - only to get upset at her when she does not fight with honor

how mizu must perform masculinity, but how this is inauthentic to herself. as is every other performance of gender for her.

this also extends to characters like akemi who also have their identities 'inflicted' upon them from all directions...

a small bunch of sonadow doodles from last year 🖤🩵

as im reposting some of this old art of mine im laughing to myself about how fat i've made knuckles over time. he once had a flatter yet still husky stomach and now......he's huge

what can i say. the heart wants what it wants.

A nice day out on the beach!

(Thanks to @kigut for getting me into the Knuxamy rabbit hole!)

honestly i feel like even if you did ask mizu, i don't i think even SHE/HE/THEY would know how to answer. there has never been a singular point in her life where she's been able to decide for herself what she is. masculinity is a performance, femininity is her secret. she can't perform femininity well so when she IS a girl she's quite tomboy. masculinity seems to come to her by default as it's all she's ever been.

i feel like mizu would be the type to be rather unconcerned with her own gender or pronouns. kind of like apathetic nonbinary-ness, if this makes sense. but then again, this is me projecting as well since i too identify with this as an exhausted nonbinary person constantly getting gendered by other people when i really don't have one at all.

for me, i'm just me. and i'd imagine for mizu, mizu is just mizu. mizu's gender is mizu.

i think that kind of representation in the form of identity being an affliction is in itself very good and it is definitely something i think all of us, queer or otherwise, can relate to to at least some extent.

Alright here's another take on Mizu's gender:

The thing about Mizu is that characters in the show and people in real life project either "man" or "woman," "boy" or "girl" onto them, and Mizu more or less goes along with what they say, but I didn't notice a single moment where they outright communicated "I'm a woman" or "I'm a man." And I'm guilty too, I'm projecting "nonbinary" onto them!

But the thing is nobody has bothered to ask thus far, which is no doubt period accurate. But we're supposed to be more aware and open about gender than these fictional characters. I'm not saying there is a correct interpretation—because nothing has been confirmed, and regardless of what is or isn't confirmed it is to a degree* still up to the individual really—but it does irk me a bit to see so many people assuming and projecting, is all.

*By "to a degree" I mean there's what is or isn't confirmed, which will probably be that they're a woman; and then there's the undeniable validity of what individuals might see in them. Do you see them as a woman being forced to choose between a life of gendered mistreatment and a life of relative freedom, and choosing freedom? Very cool! But don't use what you see, however valid that is, to dictate what others see in Mizu. Same goes for all the other interpretations.

Bottom line is, if Mizu is confirmed to be a woman, which again would be most likely, that doesn't mean what trans people see in them isn't valid. If anything it becomes even more valid, because we will have been denied representation once again because of the politics of our time.