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just a little something that i whipped up at like 12am last night for virgil's day, even if a little bit late!!! i got busy with commissions and i havent drawn any bday art for anyone in a while but i couldnt miss his!!! (well i technically did but shut up im cool and awesome)

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Patton: "I mean, of course I love to say you're all my kiddos, but I doubt any of the sides actually see me as their father figure, you know?"

Logan: "Mhm. Say, Patton, what is the name of the star in our solar system? It's the-...."

Patton: "...sun?"

Virgil, walking into the room: "Yeah, dad?"

Patton: (⊙ᗜ⊙)

Patton: (っ´▽｀)っ

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So...

You guys may have noticed I’m not as active here as I used to be, and I haven’t posted any fic or really done anything but reblog in ages. I’m slipping out of the Sanders Sides fandom, due to a combination of the content droughts, the changing dynamics in the series, and just the fact that I’ve been here since 2017 and have moved on to other things.

I’m not deleting this blog, or anything, but I probably won’t be doing much here except reblogging the occasional art or fic from friends, and I don’t see myself ever writing any Sanders Sides again, except maybe as a gift for a friend. Don’t feel obligated to keep following if you don’t want to!

If you do want to follow me on my main or any of my other blogs, I’ll list them below.

@thuriweaver: My main @walking-in-lucis: My Final Fantasy XV blog, which is my current hyperfixation, and what I’m writing for @writing-thuri: My writing blog @thuri-ly-made-madej: My Buzzfeed Unsolved blog, which is also pretty quiet @thuri-ly-artistic: My art blog, which has almost nothing in it!

Thanks for all the memories, I’ve made some absolutely amazing friends here! Take it easy guys, gals and non-binary pals! Peace out!

#honestly same though

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I was thinking about that PI short from last year, good god my Logince heart just flutters from it 😭❤️💙

Like look at themmmm

Looking at his true love 😍 Looking at his true love 😂

It’s funny to me because it’s not canon or anything but it makes me wonder, like what? Roman just happened to be hanging around with Logan?

Or Roman is summoned when Logan goes on math soliloquies of a flowery nature just to listen and then add his own 2 cents..??

Either way, you know what I’m gonna say…

*cough*ᴮᴼᵞᶠᴿᴵᴱᴺᴰˢ*cough*

Here’s the short in case you didn’t see it…

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C-could I have a tiny virgil wanting uppies? Little man,,, need some fuel to get through the day

now you GOTTA give him uppies

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Remus and Virge bring back Mr. Frog.  💚

EEEP! Took me long enough. Final part of 1, 2, 3.

Also! Thank you so much to all my followers! I recently hit a milestone on this blog and decided to make this comic a DTIYS challenge! Not the entire 10 pages lol, just pick and draw your favorite panel if you feel like it! And tag me, please! 

If anyone does it, I’d love to see it!

Also Happy Early Sidesversary! :D

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i heard the chemistry band came back and dropped a new single

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whenever the sides get mad at each other but not actually MAD mad, they say dumb shit like "Friendship ended with you. (X side) is my new best friend", "You know what? Youre NOT invited to my birthday party anymore", or "Thats it. Youre GOING in the SOUP"

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The State of the Sanders Sides Fandom and What to do to Remedy It

I’ve been seeing a lot of people on the dash today talking about Sanders Sides and the, frankly disappointing, lack of content in the past while, and I have to say that I agree.

This might get long, so sorry if it does.

Starting off, Thomas and his team have no obligation to create content for us. It is their job, and they have the right to create what they want, when they want to do so. However, as content creators, they have taken on a type of responsibility to do that job and create content. The last official Sanders Sides episode was two years ago. The last Asides video was seven months ago. The last Cartoon Therapy was three years ago.

There was a Youtube Membership and is currently a Patreon, the money from which was intended to be used to fund these videos and create this content faster. This means that this lack of content is being crowdfunded by the people who, now, are paying to see this content. Why should fans be donating this money if they are not seeing the content from it? Of course, there are other rewards gained from the Patreon, like livestreams, script access, and more, but at the end of the day people would rather the content be out sooner then have all of the extra things. 

Furthermore, remember the Animated Mad Libs Storytime? And how Thomas’s team either did not pay the artists a fair wage, the agreed upon wage, or the wage at all? The team, as far as I know, did not apologize and the creators did not end up getting their money or justice.

We were told that they would get a larger team to be able to release content faster. They got the larger team, but the content did not speed up. We were told that they would start making Asides to be able to release lighthearted content not tied to the main plot. They have started releasing Asides, but all of it ties to the main plot and one (Working Through Intrusive Thoughts) is heavy enough to be a main episode at the end of the day. We were told that the Patreon would help pay for the team to work faster. They have the Patreon, but we have not seen the content coming out any faster.

The fandom is dying. I think most people reading this understand that.

We cannot demand more content, but we can hold this team accountable for their false promises and downright lies about what they will do.

We have a right to be upset, all these years into these lies.

So, what can we do?

We do NOT target or harass anybody on the team. That is the worst thing you can do, and it does not help anything.

We do NOT blindly accept their excuses anymore. Waiting seven months for a twenty-minute video is not normal. Waiting two years for a forty-minute video is not normal. We need to stop acting like it is.

We CAN, but SHOULD NOT, wait. Which is what we have been doing, and it obviously sends no messages to the team but complacency. 

We CAN stop giving them money through the Patreon. It’s clear that the money people have been giving is not helping or doing anything. They do not need it, and if they did they would be fulfilling their promises.

We CAN get upset. We are allowed to be upset right now, and the past many contentless years of this.

As a fandom, as a community, we all MUST hold this team accountable. We MUST understand that they are not working for us anymore, so we have to talk about this and address this together. Let the team know that we are dissatisfied with this right now.

They do not owe us content, but they do need to remember that we are the ones that have kept this community alive. We are the ones who pay them. We are the ones who have kept them relevant.

And so they should not be giving us these lies about where out money is going.

@softestvirgil, because I know that you have been talking about some of this recently, and you have a far larger reach in the fandom then I do.

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i have one (1) more complaint.

which is that people who say we should be patient and not be frustrated about the long time between videos say that it’s bad that we judge the channel for the amount of sanders sides content since thomas does other stuff.

but like. the other stuff is almost always related to sanders sides somehow and i guess it’s because thomas likes the characters and exploring them through other mediums even if it’s songs or whatever.

i have no doubts that thomas has that genuine intention, but still it feels like it’s actually a way to go “oh you miss sanders sides content? here’s this thing! now you can’t say there’s nothing!” but it’s not an actual sanders sides episode? it’s not what i asked for… it doesn’t make me feel like the waits are shorter, at all. at least not me personally.

this is 100% me i’m not expecting the team to change this. but it’s the thing that bothers me about that argument about thomas doing other stuff on his channel when it’s actually neither other, separate stuff nor actual sanders sides stuff. so. meh.

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The State of the Sanders Sides Fandom and What to do to Remedy It

I’ve been seeing a lot of people on the dash today talking about Sanders Sides and the, frankly disappointing, lack of content in the past while, and I have to say that I agree.

This might get long, so sorry if it does.

Starting off, Thomas and his team have no obligation to create content for us. It is their job, and they have the right to create what they want, when they want to do so. However, as content creators, they have taken on a type of responsibility to do that job and create content. The last official Sanders Sides episode was two years ago. The last Asides video was seven months ago. The last Cartoon Therapy was three years ago.

There was a Youtube Membership and is currently a Patreon, the money from which was intended to be used to fund these videos and create this content faster. This means that this lack of content is being crowdfunded by the people who, now, are paying to see this content. Why should fans be donating this money if they are not seeing the content from it? Of course, there are other rewards gained from the Patreon, like livestreams, script access, and more, but at the end of the day people would rather the content be out sooner then have all of the extra things. 

Furthermore, remember the Animated Mad Libs Storytime? And how Thomas’s team either did not pay the artists a fair wage, the agreed upon wage, or the wage at all? The team, as far as I know, did not apologize and the creators did not end up getting their money or justice.

We were told that they would get a larger team to be able to release content faster. They got the larger team, but the content did not speed up. We were told that they would start making Asides to be able to release lighthearted content not tied to the main plot. They have started releasing Asides, but all of it ties to the main plot and one (Working Through Intrusive Thoughts) is heavy enough to be a main episode at the end of the day. We were told that the Patreon would help pay for the team to work faster. They have the Patreon, but we have not seen the content coming out any faster.

The fandom is dying. I think most people reading this understand that.

We cannot demand more content, but we can hold this team accountable for their false promises and downright lies about what they will do.

We have a right to be upset, all these years into these lies.

So, what can we do?

We do NOT target or harass anybody on the team. That is the worst thing you can do, and it does not help anything.

We do NOT blindly accept their excuses anymore. Waiting seven months for a twenty-minute video is not normal. Waiting two years for a forty-minute video is not normal. We need to stop acting like it is.

We CAN, but SHOULD NOT, wait. Which is what we have been doing, and it obviously sends no messages to the team but complacency. 

We CAN stop giving them money through the Patreon. It’s clear that the money people have been giving is not helping or doing anything. They do not need it, and if they did they would be fulfilling their promises.

We CAN get upset. We are allowed to be upset right now, and the past many contentless years of this.

As a fandom, as a community, we all MUST hold this team accountable. We MUST understand that they are not working for us anymore, so we have to talk about this and address this together. Let the team know that we are dissatisfied with this right now.

They do not owe us content, but they do need to remember that we are the ones that have kept this community alive. We are the ones who pay them. We are the ones who have kept them relevant.

And so they should not be giving us these lies about where out money is going.

@softestvirgil, because I know that you have been talking about some of this recently, and you have a far larger reach in the fandom then I do.

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Boo

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Not his problem he is simply Informing

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Babey Logan looks like he comes inside covered in mud because he was on a serious expedition to find fossils

not fossils but he still discovered some Extraordinary Information

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Commission for @warcats-cat, they wanted to have a cute litle fairy tea party with my Virgil! This is such a fun one to do since i get to make all the little details and flowers, and i get to draw their beautiful fairy outfit and make one for rev!Vee too

If you're interested in commissioning me, check out this post!

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merry Janusmas

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Child Roman looks like the kind of little kid who holds everyones hands and im LIVING for it

you are absolutely right yes