Idw Sonic - Blog Posts

hello hello! This was from a few months ago (November 3rd) when I first got in tumblr I never posted it, and the I was going to and forgot soooo. . . . Anyway here’s more of our sweet boy!

It’s based off of a page from the IDW comics, I can’t remember which tho

I really like the way he came out! Also Except some Mha soon!

Edit: according to carriec7 it’s issue 13!

So ya know how Opossums carry there children on their backs. . . yeah. I know it’s only the females that do it but Charmy has a stinger!!! Let me have this

I saw him with that coat and thought it made him look weirdly big, so ‘The Children’ where born, The Grand Baby’s!

. . . .I’m so much better at traditional art

another thing I was supposed to post but didn’t (you can even see the date in the photo)

this is Mimic he’s almost so cute you’d forget the horrible things he’s done :>

(he has clams in his mouth By the way) the story for this: Basically Whisper can't swim, and she needs to learn. So they ask Mimic

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Mimic poped his head out of the water a Clam shell in his beak, "oh hey Mimic! You scard me!" Whisper stepped back her and smithy where standing on the deck, "Sorry not sorry Whisper" he said quickly, he pulled one of his hands up to the deck placing a handful of clams down in a pile, he then pulled himself up and sat down on the deck back facing his team mates

He used his beack to prie open the clams and eat them, "got yourself a snack Eh?" Smithy laughed some, he found it wierd when Mimic did that.

"Did you two want somthing?" "Yeah, due to the. . . Insadint the other day I was wondering if ya could teach Whisper how ta swim, ya up for it?" He asked, Whisper blushed some embarrassed by the mention of her little accident.

Mimic looked over at Whisper, who was being uncharacteristically shy, 'hehehe' he laughed in his head.

"Do I get anything out of it?" He asked picking up another clam, "No" "hmmm" "oh come on, are you really that Shellfish to not help a team mate?" Whisper said a grin spreading across her face, Mimic roll his eyes "so why can't someone else do it?" "Because the rest of us already tried to in the past, and your-“

“. . .Ya know" Smithy ackwardly trialed off scratching the back of his head "an Octopus. . . ." ". . .yeeeah" "yeah. . ."

. . . . . . .

"Well this is ackward" Whisper stated bracking the silence

"Sooo?"

"fine, only if you let me put shells up around the base" Smithy sighed "Fine you can put shells up, Now you'll help Whisper out right?" "Yeah, yeah I'll do it" he waved him off picking up more clams.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (this “story” was written in the comments on an Ao3 users post Astra_Terrapin they have nice Sonic one-shots list!!!!! Check them out!!!)

“Best friends!”

this was an art commission requested to me by one of my BFFs irl for her little brother and since my Sonic phase is hot on my ass I’ve never been quicker to create a piece for her 🏃‍♀️💨

also I’ve been meaning to watch Sonic Prime because my inner 9 year old Simp loved Sonic so 👁️👁️

It is extremely important for people to understand how their chosen media works. There are tons and tons and TONS of people who slave away for what are seemingly simple projects. Dozens of animators for just one pilot, tons of people with headaches all in the writers' room trying to figure out how to tackle continuity issues, a plethora of geniuses debugging for hours, several sleep deprived musicians determined to find the exact wrong pitch that would make the scene come together.

If you want to try and wrap your head around this, go listen to the Gravity Falls behind the scenes podcast. Even if you're not a huge fan of the show, watch one episode, and then Alex Hirsch's explanations for the scenes in it. I listened to it because I was curious about the writing, and I fell down a rabbit hole much deeper than I thought. I could make a bingo card of all the times he talked about someone else bringing it home and making his dreams come true.

"I was worried about this scene, but producer ____ figured it out."

"If it weren't for the music ____ composed this sequence would've dragged"

"if it weren't for my friend ___ telling me to rewrite that scene, this episode wouldn't exist"

"if it weren't for these brilliant storyboards by ___"

"if it weren't for ____'s costume designs"

"if it weren't for my friend being masochistically willing to stay up all night with me, this show would suck"

I have a huge amount of respect for every piece of inspired media that was worked on by actual humans, because there's more work put in than you could possibly imagine. It's unfair to blame any success or failure in a franchise on one person. Everyone deserves credit for the good and bad they did for something, and with something with as much heart and soul as Sonic, there's clearly much more good being done.

Help me out here: Why is there so much Ian Flynn hate going around lately? I thought everyone loved that he was contributing to the games. Now suddenly they aren't. I guess that's par for the course for this series but I don't get it. He isn't perfect but I like what he's done. Am I a weirdo?

Ian Flynn has always had a lot of fans, but any creator putting their work out there is going to have detractors as well. That's just the nature of being an artist. To some extent, it's no big deal. He's not a perfect writer. Nobody is! I consider myself a fan of his work, but I've criticized plenty of individual writing decisions from him on here.

But Ian doesn't just have critics. He has his own obsessive hatedom. And the specific nature of Ian's hatedom is... interesting.

A decade ago, Ian was only the guy writing for Archie Sonic, meaning any debates over his work were quarantined within that tiny niche of the larger Sonic fandom. Only people who kept up with the comics month to month had any real reason to have an opinion on the guy, which means we're talking about merely thousands of fans as opposed to millions.

Within that group, he had some haters. You had the people who were mad about story changes made during his run, particularly things like ancillary characters getting killed off (although over the years we've learned that most of those were editorial mandates from Mike Pellerito). You had the people mad that Ian didn't push their favorite ship, with feuding SonAmy and Sonally fans claiming that he was CLEARLY biased towards one or the other. You had the people who just really, really liked one of the previous writers way more - usually Penders, as hard as that may be to believe today. That sort of thing. Pretty normal comic fandom type stuff. Again, it comes with the territory.

Unfortunately, many of those haters only got worse over time, morphing into reactionaries who constantly try to incite Comicsgate type culture war bullshit.

There are people still mad at Ian for making Sally bi and pairing her with Nicole instead of Sonic in the later Archie comics. There have been elaborate MS Paint red string conspiracy boards explaining how people like Ian and Jon Gray have apparently been destroying the franchise from the inside for years by Making Sonic Woke. (Jon gets dragged into this because people are still mad about him drawing The Slap 20 years later. Yes, really!!) There was an unhinged change.org petition trying to get Ian fired, specifically from people who were mad that the Freedom Fighters aren't in the IDW comics. There was even a very sad little fan campaign from these people trying to get Sega to move the Sonic comic license away from IDW and over to Udon, because they thought Udon would bring Sally and Bunnie back and also make them sexy again. There's a lot of this.

(Unfortunately, Penders has also exacerbated this by gossiping about Ian on Twitter and giving these fans ammo, but that's a whole 'nother discussion.)

The thing is, for years, people who only played the games or watched the cartoons had no reason to pay attention to any of this. Now, though, Ian isn't just writing for some weird spinoff comics that only the super nerds read. Now he's writing comics that are canon to the games, and ALSO some of the games themselves, and ALSO consulting on other tie-in media like Sonic Prime, and ALSO writing the official Sonic encyclopedia, and ALSO serving as part of the new Sonic Lore Team at Sega. And on top of all this, he's got an increasingly popular podcast where he fields questions about his work on all of these things, which serves as one of the fandom's main windows into creative decisions being made behind the scenes.

As a fan of Ian's work, it's been really cool to see him rise in prominence. But the dark side of this is that his obsessive haters from the Archie days now have WAY more of a potential audience of their own. Now, every Sonic fan has to have an opinion on Ian. What this frequently means is that you'll have the Comicsgate types taking things Ian writes or says out of context, attempting to get more of the general fandom to yell at the guy.

Unfortunately, there are a wide variety of Sonic fans who take the bait:

You've got hardcore fans who disliked basically any recent piece of Sonic media and are looking for someone to blame.

You've got the people who are concerned about the sanctity of Sonic's canon, who shoot the messenger any time Ian mentions a new retcon from Sonic Team on the podcast - or any time he even mentions the THOUGHT of changing anything about the canon, as we saw recently with the Sol Dimension nonsense.

You've got people who romanticize some sort of mythical artistic vision that Sega of Japan supposedly has (or had) for the franchise. To many of these fans, American contributors like Ian just don't "get" the heart of the series and are trying to turn Sonic into something different. (This "heart of the series" tends to be some mix of Japanese instruction manual lore, the cinematics from Sonic CD, the OVA, and/or the games written by Shiro Maekawa, depending on what Sonic media the fan in question grew up with.)

You've got fans of specific characters or ships who pin the blame for how their faves are depicted entirely on Ian - most vocally fans of Shadow, even though the root problem is that Sonic Team hasn't known what to do with Shadow since 2006. At best this stops at regular old criticism, but at its worst this devolves into claims that Ian has an agenda against certain characters.

You've got fans annoyed by a perceived over-emphasis on comic-original characters in the IDW comics, ignoring the obvious facts that these characters exist because the game cast is so tightly controlled by Sega, and also, you know, that people just like the IDW characters and want more stories about them.

You've got a LOT of discourse over IDW's Sonic being a hero who tries to give his enemies second chances, as if half of Sonic's closest friends aren't already former villains and rivals. Honestly this is very transparently just reheated Steven Universe discourse lmao

You'll also see people who just think they could do Ian's job better. They can't believe that THIS GUY is the American fan working on all these Sonic projects, when clearly THEY understand the characters and lore and themes SO much better than this charlatan.

All it takes is for someone in one of these categories to be unhappy about some recent piece of Sonic media, and for them to come across an out of context quote or comic panel that rubs them the wrong way, and suddenly the leftist Zoomer Sonic fans will join the latest dogpile on Ian alongside the reactionary Comicsgate types who are mad at him for Making Sonic Woke.

In general, when fandoms get upset, they tend to want a scapegoat. A person or two to point a finger at and go "THAT's who ruined the thing I love!" This tends to be based less on reality and more on which contributors are the most visible online. You'll sometimes see teenage and adult fans of children's cartoons single out a storyboarder who's particularly vocal on Twitter, blame them for every story decision they don't like, and harass them off the platform out of a sense of retribution for their favorite ship or whatever. Failing that, fans might choose to blame every nitpick, down to individual lines of dialogue and frames of animation, on a showrunner, just because that's the name they associate with the show. And unfortunately, when it comes to Sonic, Ian is now arguably the most prolific and outspoken contributor on the English speaking internet, and therefore a common scapegoat.

Some of the things I've seen Ian blamed for are truly wild. A lot of people have claimed for YEARS that he's just lying about the existence of creative guidelines and restrictions from Sega - or, as fans call them, The Mandates - even though they're just an inherent aspect of working on a licensed property. Others claim that The Mandates are real, but somehow Ian's fault. A vocal minority of fans have convinced themselves that Ian is the sole reason the Freedom Fighters don't exist in the IDW comics, even though Ian says he's been pushing to bring them back since day one.

Sometimes you'll see people say he ruined shit he didn't even work on. A few weeks ago on Twitter I saw someone claim that Ian had written a rejected script for Sonic Forces in which Tails died. I could not find a source for this for the life of me. As far as I can tell, the rumor seems to have been born from an alleged leaked script for Forces with margin notes from Aaron Webber that criticized the way Tails was written, and also an old tweet where Aaron joked that Tails would die in an upcoming episode of Sonic Mania Adventures. These merged into "Aaron Webber criticized a draft of the Forces script in which Tails died." How'd Ian get dragged into this? Who fucking knows!

It's all just a big game of telephone. All it takes is some asshole to make something up about Ian on Twitter or YouTube or a DeviantArt journal or some forum, and at least a couple people will believe it, and then it gets repeated as fact. Again, this used to be contained by the niche nature of the Archie Sonic fandom, but now there are WAY more people who are receptive to this shit.

It's just sad to me that Ian tries to be so open and honest about his work, to try to explain the rationale for certain things, to keep fans looped in on the direction the franchise is headed, and this just gives the Flynnspiracy types more quotes to take out of context and try to paint him as the devil. If it sounds like I'm being overly defensive and dismissing his critics, man... some of the things I've seen people say directly to him are just unbelievable. People will send paragraphs-long angry screeds in to his podcast that completely tear him apart, and he has to sit there and be like "Well, that's your opinion, and you're entitled to it." People literally pay for special guest interview episodes where they just rapid fire complaints about his writing at him directly to his face. I don't know how he does it. I would snap.

All of this over Sonic the fucking Hedgehog of all things.

I don't know how to wrap this up. Engaging with fandoms online is very tiring, which is why I tend not to do it. Things like this are too common. I guess, just... remember that making art collaboratively is a complicated thing. The people involved are generally trying their best given the circumstances, but they're only human. They make mistakes. But please treat them like humans. Criticism and dogpiling are not the same thing.

Frills and Metal

I've updated my Sonic IDW oc fanfic. Please tell me what you think.

Chapter 13: Sunrise

Chapter 14: All You Can Choose

Chapter 15: Catastrophe

summary of the three chapters.

13: Our main character is no longer a threat to the planet, but that doesn't mean everyone else believes so.

14: Sonic is forced to make a decision to either hurt an innocent or let someone die.

15: Big is a nice person. Also angst.

Updated my Sonic IDW oc fic twice again...probably might do this again again. Anyway, our main character is now the biggest threat to the planet. Enjoy! (And leave a comment perhaps)

Frills and Metal chapter 11: Her Wrath

Frills and Metal chapter 12: Frills Unleashed

Updated my Sonic IDW oc fic twice. Tell me what y'all think cause everyone is having an identity crisis and Metal Sonic is a terrible artist.

Frills and Metal chapter 9: Primordial Waves

Frills and Metal chapter 10: Ourselves on Canvas

Updated my Sonic IDW fanfic and I can proudly say that the trauma is in.

Title:

Frills and Metal

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63171454/chapters/164055448#workskin

Updated this my sonic IDW oc fanfic "Frills and Metal".

Please enjoy.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63171454/chapters/163039573

Updated my goober sonic OC's fic. Tell me what y'all think. (First chapter cause I updated it twice sorry.)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63171454/chapters/161786536

Made a sonic OC fanfic with a focus on Metal Sonic.

Please tell me how I did.

Link:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63171454/chapters/161786536

Toodles.

Updated my sonic IDW comic fic. Tell me what you think. (This is an order)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62841429/chapters/161266504#workskin

(the ao3 link causes weird stuff when I try to use the post link thingy I'm sorry)

Made a sonic (IDW comics) oc fanfic. Tell me what y'all think. 😺

Sonic and a drawing process

man i love the idw characters

Phantom Rider Power, Maaaake up!

An accurate depiction of Sonic's transformation in issue #70

I want everyone to know that I predicted this back in 2023.

I made new lock screens and I wish to share them with all the lovely internet people.

I made new lock screens and I wish to share them with all the lovely internet people.

Here's surge the tenrec!

Jolly good show

Why’s I thought about Batman and Shadow can be adoptive brothers?

Shadow was born in 1951 (game) or 1970 (movie)

Bruce Wayne’s parents died in (idk what year is this, there’s many answers)

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What if… Shadow escaped from G.U.N. Lab before Maria died, runs into the forest to lose them.

Young Bruce was on break and to walk to his garden before his parents died, that he heard something noise behind the bushes.

Bruce found Shadow was injured who lying down. Bruce was scared a bit that he doesn’t know what to do, he has no choice but take him in.

Shadow woke up and scared away from Alfred Pennyworth, he think he’s on of them. Young Bruce told him everything ok, he’s not going to hurt him. Shadow calming down as looking Bruce’s eyes were blue, he’s think he’s Maria but he’s not her.

Bruce asked him that he want to stayed or leaving until he recover, that’s Shadow’s choice. Shadow knows he can’t trust anyone but the young boy.. he can trust. Shadow accept to staying.

(It’s kind of stupid, idk what I wrote about, is it bad?)

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Did I say that I was only doing two parts? Yes! But my love knows no bounds and I am determined to draw my wonderful mutuals’ ocs 🥰😩💖💞💗💗💞💞💓💖💖💓💓💗💗💞💞💓💓

Characters included belong to @tsubomiiiii , @emthimofnight and me :D!

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This redraw challenge i gave myself is so much fun!! Evan Stanley and Adam Bryce Thomas are my art icons I love their styles soo much 💖💕💗

Characters included belong to @emthimofnight and @einelitas! They are such incredible and talented people, I am happy to call them my friends 😊💓

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This lovely girl is my oc Button the Dog (St.Bernard)! Newly graduated from med school, she tries her best to help anyone in need (even if it means being behind on rent)

I’m going to finish her ref sometime soon (lie) but for now I’ll post lil snippets of her here and there :D

Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone! To celebrate, here's a special song from the December 13th Bumblekast! 🌟🎄

art by Evan Stanley