Heck yeah!

i am cringe but i am free

If I can get on my soap box here for a second: I have always hated "cringe" being used as a shorthand for "secondhand embarrassment." I hate it in the same way that I hate hipster irony, it all just feels like different ways of making people feel embarrassed about being themselves. Even "reclaiming" or "embracing" the word feels backhanded, an apology for earnestness. "Be yourself, but give us a disclaimer first." "Be yourself, but be yourself this way."

I'll admit that this is absolutely a me thing, I am absolutely easily embarrassed and too self-conscious for my own good, so someone else telling me I SHOULD be embarrassed either feels like a painful reminder of what I already know and don't want to admit or, worse, that I should feel bad for being myself. I've also just never like the idea of doing anything to show up your haters. Forgive me for oversimplifying here, but why would I want to do anything, anything at all, for someone who hates me?

I'm a firm believer that everyone deserves to feel comfortable in their own skin, as long as they're not hurting themselves or others, and referring to anything as "cringe," even in a tongue-in-cheek way, feels like the opposite of that. You can't tell me to let my freak flag fly without telling me I'm a freak.

All that being said, this is a great drawing! :)

I’ve been too scared to rock the boat for -so- long, since before covid, that I’m being unapologetically me now. Drawing what I want when I want. My commissioners are thankfully on board, I tell them what I wanna draw or they remind me of their idea n I draw what the inspiration strikes!
n I’m having such a freeing time exploring the parts of myself that I buried deep down in shame.

I get where you are coming from, and perhaps this is a disclaimer of sorts. I don’t like surprising people, I want them to be aware that the freak flags flyin a lil higher than before. I still keep certain levels of kink ‘spice’ away from this account since FA doesn’t have blacklisting but I’m just enjoying myself again.

N honestly, I recently learned that a exfriends been stalking my gallery for 8 years n other people are giving me shit about my impsona (who I know is heavily inspired off another character in a couple aspects but she’s not a duplicate or ripoff for sharing similarities) n this is just my way of coping with the stress of it all.

Fun fact: it’s actually REALLY fucking hard for me to draw someone giving a middle finger, even irl the gesture is ‘too much’ for me (I type on my phone with my middle finger but keep my index finger pressed up against it so people don’t give me sass about it lmao)

FREEDOM

The only time "cringe" should ever be used seriously is when something was unintentional right from the beginning. Like if you mispronounce a word or make a Freudian slip, or if something sounded innocent in your head but you recognize it sounds lewd or offensive the second you hear it out loud.

Pretty hard to do that with writing or drawing.

meep ur ushering me back into my cringe phase and im so here for it
i wanna draw what i love without shame...I WANT TO BREEEAK FREEEE~

Break free with me!!! Let’s be unapologetically ourselves!!

I heckin' love this character so much. Love to see 'em every time.

T-thank you so much he means so much to me u///u its nice to hear other people like him too

This rings so so true!