Monkey Wrench - Blog Posts
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Hey y’all! I’m Krynn, but you can either call me Spooky or Kaspen. Here’s some general info about me (and this Blog) that you need to know:
• I’m 23 years old
• I’m Autistic
• I’m AroAce and Non-Binary, and my Pronouns are They/Them.
• This blog is gonna be a Regular/Normal Blog, and the only thing that I’ll be posting on this blog is OC’s, ROTTMNT related stuff, and other things but I haven’t decided if I want to post other stuff besides OC’s and ROTTMNT related stuff yet.
• I’ll try my best to post often but no promises though.
Now that that’s out of the way, I just want to make one thing clear; ABSOLUTELY NO CREEPS, WEIRDOS, HARASSMENT, ETC. OF ANY KIND. You WILL be blocked and reported if you are one of those and I won’t be very nice about it either. Anyways, I hope you’ll enjoy this blog, and if you want to, give me some recommendations for OC content ideas and other things to post in my Ask Box. Thanks for reading! ✨✨✨
My ROTTMNT Series on AO3:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/46709224/chapters/117639712
The Problematic Artists Callout Document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-KjLXMhcHKLF5tFxiN_o8VYL52TwBtGdgzIB482vrYc/edit
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for the art request could you do queen tyneen from monkey wrench?
it's an awesome show with 4 episodes out already : 3
Warning for slightly bright colors .
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Never really watched monkeys wrench but she looks like a cool aroace gal!
AHH ALL OF MY FAVORITE INDIE ANINATIONS ARE COMING OUT WITH NEW EPISODES AND THINGS EEJEJEJEHEH (ALSO Lackadaisy is making a pilot soon! If you don't wanna wait, you should definitely read the web comic, I think the link is just like Lackadaisy.com or something. it's SO GOOD!)
Now THIS is the type of stuff I wanna learn how to do
MW Ep 4 - Animation update 06/08/2024
We're 100 shots in out of 512! Consider supporting the patreon so we can hire more folks to help out!
Featuring animated roughs by @Liamfunk
Whatever this type of character design is, I love it
When I started watching Monkey Wrench, I always thought these two looked familiar
if I had a nickel in which I watched a show and one of my favorite characters was a character named Scratch, I would have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
Will Beebs and Shrike get a musical number and sing? Cause as my username suggests, I like musical theatre, and I like to hear my favorite characters sing (Mainly Shrike).
The world would end if that happened. So yes!
Ep 3 hits Youtube tomorrow, oh GOODIE.
Random Doodles (Again!)
I drew Blitzø from Helluva Boss, cause why not
Same thing with Fizzarolli
Attempted to draw Shrike from one of my current favorite shows, Monkey Wrench for the first time
(It looks like shit!)
I drew Husk from Hazbin Hotel. If you can’t tell, I used a different outline marker than the one I usually use. I also used the outline marker on the Shrike drawing above.
(And compared to the last drawing I drew of him, which was during the pandemic, it looks way better)
I also drew Sir Pentious , this time, with my OG outline marker. I prefer this outline marker over the previous one, since it looks better and the tip isn’t too big.
(AYO! What you mean by that, me?!)
Started watching this show, and I don’t regret it not one bit.
Bip boop some sketchs I did recently
Magma session hosted by @mynameischeeser on Twitter
The first one is inspired by @bee_my_girl’s fanfiction Monkey Wrench on Ao3
And cute old Fiddlestan
For both suggestion and recommendation You could draw shrike sanchez from monkey wrench which is an awesome show on youtube with three episodes out already : 3
thanks for the recommendation! I watched it and it was great! what a fun series.
well, I sure gave it a shot! not my finest work, my style wasn't built for this lol. I'd probably have to draw him a few times to get it right.
What if Slu added a special something (period cramps) into her Hex as a petty little prank.
- from the fic by bee_my_girl
!!!Commission Time!!!!
Two commission for two of my lovely friends that I’ve finished up recently; Figured I’d put the lovely works together. Yall should check both of em out, they’re pretty cooooool 😌😌
Image One: A full colour, two full body commission for @thepaladincosplays of their Hazbin OC Jimmothy with Molly. Something cute and sweet, holding hands and talking about everything together. Just being sweethearts n whatnot. Love the love here and they make it 10fold.
Image two: A full colour, two headshot commission for @aprilbrowines of their Monkey Wrench OC Icoi. A look back on past and present, and remembering that even the worst things, can still make us amazing people. Such a sweet girl who deserves everything.
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Yall know the drill, no need for repeats but let’s gooooo lol. Only the mentioned people have permission to use my artwork for pfps, rp, or whatever.
Molly belongs to Vivienne Medrano/ Hazbin Hotel
Jimmothy belongs to @thepaladincosplays
Icoi belongs to @aprilbrowines
this was really quick but i did my (technically) first tweening!!!! this was just a really quick test on a couple of things and is not the best but just wanted to share it!!
again its really rough but thought id share!!!
also this is a later post so some late night yaps:
- PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE WATCH MONKEY WRENCH ON YOUTUBE IT IS SUCH AN AMAZING SERIES I JUST BINGE WATCHED IT AND AM OBSESSED‼️‼️‼️
- i also put a poll on who i should tween next (if u have any character suggestions from whatever let me know)
- back on the topic of monkey wrench i think so far bulldog “beebs” browns (i love him hes so silly) - again definitely recommend watching it
- im currently building 2 transformers model kits and will definitely post them when their done lol (its starscream g1 and optimus prime g1)
- i also got more resin rabbits (i had 100 i now have 300) so i will try to post with them more as well!!
- i should also be posting some art soon (hopefully :p)
- WATCH MONKEY WRENCH‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
(some convincing screenshots on why to watch monkey wrench :3)
Made some fanart for two really cool Monkey Wrench Ocs! I really like these Ocs and they inspired me to make my own Monkey Wrench Oc (which I might post later).
(I do NOT own these Ocs! All ownership belongs to @havockingboo. Go follow them, their art is awesome)
I'm a little late to the Monkey Wrench fandom but oh well. This show is a ton of fun and deserves so much more attention! I can't wait to see more of what this show has to offer.
I do NOT own these characters! All credit goes to @monkey-wrench-zeurel and the Monkey Wrench crew.
THE FIRE BURNS!!!! YESSS!!!!!
Hiii!!! i literally ordered a kara plush a few days ago and i cant wait for her to get here!!
anyway question!! with the skeletons, does their fire like...burn?? or is it just warm??? or no temperature??? its just something ive been DYING to know
Oh it'll burn you if you're not careful
I have the same issue whenever monkey wrench comes on my feed 😭
Confession that a few months back I made the mistake of letting my brother read your Five Sun Theory (he is a HUGE Aztec mythology fan) before watching the actual show and at some point he came to me saying that whenever he saw JB he just thought "Mictlantecuhtli" rather than his actual name, so CONGRATULATIONS ON THAT
He's not on Tumblr but I am feeding him your theory posts and he loves them a lot
TELL YOUR BROTHER THAT ME TOO. It only happens with Jawbone for some reason but I think it's just that I can't remember his name in general
I'm glad he likes what I've written so far!! I will say I have most text for all ep4 characters, just gotta revise them and add the pics
Has he seen the full list? I will be updating it soon ;)
Thank you for telling me, it made me giggle
Us as Chalchiuhtlicue
Chalchiuhtlicue, "Jade Skirt", is the goddess of lakes, rivers, and the sea. She's known for being the second wife of the rain god Tlaloc, and she's most commonly the Fourth Sun in the five sun legend.
Chalchiutlicue will often be depicted sitting on a throne with a stream of water flowing from her skirt.
Now, water looks like this in some Aztec codices. These are taken from Codex Mendoza, I was able to find these and the glyphs further down this post in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs online!
So water is parted like this, and it has these circle and tear-drop shaped shells on each end.
Here are some representations of Chalchiuhtlicue with water illustrated in the same way. Note that she also tends to have people swimming in there, and other objects.
I thought the strands of water looked similar to Us' tentacles from their bioship. They also use these tentacles to hold the others' ships in ep3, much like Chalchiuhtlicue has people inside her streams of water.
The way their limbs look in their physical form resembles the way the goddess' water flows, too
Another reference to water could be the design of Beebs' guitar. It has an ocean wave on it.
Beebs' god is Xipe Totec, and as far as I know he has no relation to the sea or water, but Us' does! The guitar belongs to Beebs, yes, but it's the fact that he uses it to communicate with Us, and the instrument becomes associated with Us, that it makes me think it's a reference to Chalchiuhtlicue, since she is the goddess of bodies of water.
Speaking of, in Beebs' post I said his guitar could be a reference to Xipe's rattlestaff, the chicahuaztli. This is an object that both Xipe and Chalchiuhtlicue can be seen carrying, along with a couple other gods.
Us makes a certain sound in Scratch's flashback, like that of a rattle (21:00) But it might be me going crazy.
I also considered Them to be designed to resemble a chicahuaztli, but that is a stretch, too.
Another important element of Chalchiuhtlicue's iconography is that she has a pair of tassels on the sides of her head, and her dress is also adorned with small tassels. This can be seen in codices as well as in statues of her.
Us has these drops of a black liquid beneath their cap, hanging by on the sides of their head. This is because they're based on an actual mushroom, the inky cap mushroom!
These drops could be a reference to the tassels perhaps?
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Next I wanna talk about this symbol on the cap of Us' bioship
This is an example of a quincunx, it's a geometric pattern consisting of five elements: four of them form a square, and the fifth one is placed in the middle.
Symbols like this one appear in monkey wrench, from subtle places like the dice in the casino
To the decorations in the bar and the restaurant, as well as the inside of Beebs' arm!
Why am I bringing this up? The Mexica used the quincunx a lot, in a variety of ways, but also with circles like we see in the show, so we're gonna focus on those here
They also used very similar circles for a couple of glyphs, such as these
I wanna bring attention to that fourth one. Chalchiuhtlicue's name consists of two words: chalchihuitl, "jade", and cueitl, "skirt". The symbol for jade looks the most similar to Us' eyes, with the texture of a jade in the middle.
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Lastly there is one more thing that Us and Chalchiuhtlicue have in common, thematically.
In the Legend Of The Suns, Chalchiuhtlicue is the Fourth Sun (although other versions exist). The way that her era ended was that Tezcatlipoca accused her of faking her love for humans to get praise. She cried for hundreds of years, flooding the whole world, and the humans that lived there turned into fish.
Us is the first and so far the only character to cry in the series, in a non-comical way. It's in this scene that the show takes a more serious tone.
Us is, arguably, a somber and sad character, especially after the loss of Them. Both Us and the goddess also seem to have strong reactions to their circumstances, seeing how Us was willing to join Them when they accepted that there was no help for their friend.
It is also worth mentioning that their bioship and their phantom form move like a jellyfish, like a sea creature.
List
I looked it up because I couldn’t remember if I knew off the top of my head
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Why is safe search on
- Us being based on an "inky cap" mushroom
- Shrike being a squid, an animal known for producing ink
- "Ink Stations"
- Agent K being pure black, possibly named after the K in CMYK
So many references to ink! But surely this is a worldbuilding element not related to the five sun theory whatsoever! It's not like there's an Aztec god of ink or something
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