teal-deer asked: there are japanese people with both brown AND even red hair; it's a rare mutation but it exists. a friend of mine's cousin got expelled from her school because her teacher thought it was dyed; she had to dye it black. just as there are rare redheads in african populations. red and light brown hair are mutations and can show up in any population; it's just rarer in nonwhites because it comes with sun sensitivity + thus higher skin cancer death rate. SCIENCE!

(source: one of the essays in my master’s thesis was about red hair, including red hair in nonwhite populations. not as rare as everyone seems to think.) —c/ped from a second ask

That’s cool, I didn’t know about redheads cropping up among POCs. Thanks for sharing!

Anonymous asked: JAPAN AND KOREA AREN'T IN SOUTH EAST ASIA. And any light brown colored hair you see is dyed, just sayin'.

1) My mistake, it’s just that as someone of Chinese descent myself, I somehow got it into my head at some point that anything between Russia and Australia counts.

2) Wikipedia mentions there’s a small percentage of the Japanese population that has naturally brown hair, although I don’t know how light it goes. Googling around, there’s also mention of some Korean people with brown hair as well. Most articles regarding the topic are actually about discrimination because their hair gets mistaken for being bleached/dyed.

Can’t remember if anyone’s tried to draw the Derse kids as SE-Asian … They’d be among the few with naturally light brown hair, so maybe Japanese or even Korean.

So out of practice …

Happy Chinese New Year! It’s the year of the Water Snake, but more specifically, this is my year. Hope it’s a great one.

The long-awaited (unofficial) SBURB OST is out now! I provided artwork for three tracks:

Emerald Icarus [Green Sun]

Check the Chequered Castle [Battlefield Castle]

Higher Hopes [Game Complete]

I also make something of a cameo in Consort Air, which if you’re familiar with Kirby, you might know where I got the inspiration for my consort design. (Chirr!)

ETA: And now including the slightly modified Seer design I was asked to come up with to use for the Green Sun theme. Sandals based on this guy.

To you and all the people who have sent me similar messages these last few months, and to everyone who has stuck around, thank you. I mean it. I haven’t been in a good headspace, hence the lack of drawing, but getting a new message always brightens my day.

Anonymous asked: I'm a little curious, Who would be your headcanon voice for Sis?

Are you still there, anon? I’m sorry it took so long to get back to you: I’ve literally been sitting on this question since I got it because, well, I’ve never really thought about it before! I think Sis’ voice would be in the lower range, with a hint of husky … Diane Neal comes to mind.

I have a lot of dreams that play out like video games. This is based on what I could remember of an “NPC” from last night, who communicated via singing.

(Other stuff my dream had included Eddie Izzard tricking people into accidentally setting their heads on fire. I blame Cars 2.)

dealing with a cold by jumping on late bandwagons yeaaaaaaaah

“You said this was important. I’m going home.”

“Aww come on~, how often do I get to see my sisbro? I’ll show you all the shit I’ve ganked from Jake’s place. Admit it, you’re hella curious.”

“The next time you call me all the way out here, you better be fucking dying.”