Hi! I'm Sonic! Sonic the Hedgehog! I'm a transmasc enby Otherkin guy whose kintypes are Sonic the Hedgehog and a non-MLP alicorn, and I make lots of comics and TF stuff, and have a ridiculous Sonic TF animation project called It Doesn't Matter I've been working on forever!

Yeah, I've really had a track record of not getting along with my body at all, "Oh, hey, I'm not human. And there is fuck-all I can do to make my body match up with what I really am, and who I am. Well this sucks! I'm not even a girl, either? Fuuuuck!" At least the whole, "Not a girl, but a guy," thing is something I can actually do something about!

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Updates

Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 5:47 PM

No It Doesn't Matter Update This Week, but Hey, We Have an Apartment!

Unfortunately, I won't be able to post a progress update for It Doesn't Matter this week.

So. Let's get into it. I just moved from California to Germany with my mates. We had planned to end up in Gießen for a job one of my mates had been expecting to get...that we didn't find out had fallen through until a week before we were scheduled to fly out. Soooo, yeah. Because we'd been waiting on the specific location of the job assignment (since there were several locations vi could've ended up working) we'd delayed getting an actual apartment, and Vi had set up a two-week short term rental for us.

We'd decided, back when we were only worried because we were still waiting for the assignment a month before our flight, that we would still come out here regardless. We'd decided we needed to do this move as of the 2024 election results, and after a full year of trying to make this happen, we wanted to just pull the trigger and go.

So, we flew in to Frankfurt and started to get running!

The first week was mostly a frenzy of job applications, exploration, and working to make sure we got our kitties back after the whole mess with their paperwork. The second week...well.

We needed to leave after two weeks. We knew that. Violet had applied for a bunch of rentals, posted for lodging, and we'd viewed two places, one sublease and one group home with a bunch of awesome queer people.

But then Friday rolled along. Move out day. And the rental we'd signed up for wasn't getting back to us...and it was May Day. Labor Day. And a national holiday. There was a very real danger we wouldn't hear back from them until Monday, and in the meantime, we had no income, no place to stay, and couldn't make ANY progress on our visas to stay here until after we had a place we could establish with the Rothaus as our current, permanent address--a place we could receive mail and have a rental agreement.

We did our move-out, and Vi scrambled to book us a cheap hotel to help preserve our resources as much as possible. And OOF, was that the saddest hotel room I've ever stayed in. It was small, crowded, and HOT, and packed to the gills with the three of us, all our luggage, and the kitties.

In this depressed place, we truly started churning on finding a new apartment.

Chaos, I sent so many messages, submitted so many fuckin' applications.

And fortunately, one panned out.

We were able to move in to the new place on Sunday. Relief.

Then the work started. We picked up emergency housewares on Sunday from the hardware store, cuz hey, EVERYTHING is closed in Germany on Sundays. Monday we walked to Ikea, got mattresses and a few indispensable kitchen items, like silverware, pots and pans, and a trash can. Tuesday we had our appointment at the Rothaus for our Anmeldung, the address change paperwork.

Just like everything else, that was harder than it had to be. We had to get a DIFFERENT form from our new landlord because the office didn't like that our rental agreement was more than one page, because we could have slipped ANYTHING IN THERE. He got back to us soon enough that we could just go back, and don't have to set another appointment...but Germany doesn't want to recognize Violet and Robin's marriage, because of name changes, so now they're having to go back and forth with getting MORE documents.

At least I was able to get my blocked account, German health insurance, and establish a German bank account.

So yeah. It's been a crazy week. We've been going full speed until now, and only now are things starting to get back under us.

Speaking of "under us," since the only furniture we have right now are the mattresses and one surviving air mattress, I don't have a non-painful place to draw right now. We explored our options, cuz again, no income right now, and ordered a cheap table and chairs yesterday that'll arrive Saturday, and then I can get rolling again.

But Vi rocked vir job interview yesterday, has several other interviews lined up, and, to borrow from Dimension 20 Starstruck Odyssey: The Ball is Rolling Up!

Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 4:24 PM

I had fun on that "Oh, my dear GIRL" from Eggy. ^_^ It's one of the few actual animation moments of this thing, which is more like a polished animatic than anything else. But I had to make the decision of whether I wanted this to be a portfolio piece or whether I wanted to TELL THE DAMN STORY, and my priority is def to tell the story. I still want it to be audio/visual, I just also want to get the story told. It's gonna take approximately 1,000 years to get anywhere, but it's still a better pace than when I was trying to actually animate.

Cuz again, chaos, I started writing this back in 2009. We recorded the voice acting for Zone 1 in 2016. I would like for it not to take 10 years to make each zone.

Sunday, April 26, 2026 - 7:31 PM

HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!! You thought I'd abandoned this BINGO challenge, hadn't you! ^_^;; Tbf, I kinda had, too. When making the BINGO sheet, I'd had ideas I might want to try for all the prompts, it was just a when and where. But upon actually rolling Fracture (and the next prompt, Fairytale AU), I was drawing a blank. Like. Images were there in my mind, but vague, or not something I was in the mood to make (I am occasionally in the mood to draw gore, but it's a very hit and miss mood, and quite rare.)

So when I decided to try again, my hopes weren't high. I went over to AdorkaStock and hopped into their multi-character tab. And there it was. This amazing, pitiful, glorious shot.

So yeah, that sparked me off, and I made this.

I, eh...ended up forgetting to add the "battle damage" to Sonic, but that's the story I have in my head. Shads hauling Sonic away to doctor him while Tails and Knux halfheartedly protest. ^_^ Because it's cute. Honestly, there BEING no obvious battle damage on Sonic probably sells the idea better than if I had put some blood and scuffs up ins.

My placeholder backdrop was purple, so I decided to look at refs of Hydrocity Zone to base the background around. I gotta remember that that works better if I background first, and then character art. But oh well.

Attempted a semi-lineless/limited linework approach for this, since I've been wanting to do a bunch more experiments lately. Didn't super love how my rendering turned out with this, but Procreate was suuuuper struggling with all the layers I'd been using even after I'd collapsed it down as well as I could, and the amount of hours I'd poured into this...I just wanted to be done. So, moving on to the next project!

Thursday, April 23, 2026 - 5:38 PM

Was it necessary for me to put together an entire new shot for that most recent frame? Probably not! But I had to! Eggy starts to see the blind spot I have on my own transformation.

...Yeah, he's gonna enjoy gloating on that one.

For the record, so is everyone else.

Whee! We broke a minute of footage!

^_^;; Funny story. When I was originally working on Zone 1 in Toon Boom, I, um, had some issues with parsing what I was reading on the time stamp for the completed stuff. I worked for hours. Hours. Months. And months. And the time stamp still appeared to be below a minute.

After all this time, I was complaining about this to my buddy, Maci. I lamented that after all this effort, I still hadn't cracked even a minute of footage. He couldn't believe me, he'd seen me working over all that time. We were together for a convention at the time, so I pulled out my laptop for us to check.

I was misreading the time stamp. I had about three minutes of footage. I was just being a dumbass.

Monday, April 20, 2026 - 10:21 PM

The fuck is wrong with my brain that I think I'm gonna hafta write a fuckin' comic in order to be able to just...do some drawing regularly?

Like. I'm super able to work on It Doesn't Matter. I did some It Doesn't Matter today, even. But I feel like, for the growing some art biz I'm trying to do, I need to make more, regular posts. And I KEEP FUCKIN' FREEZING UP.

Like, BRO. WHY do I feel the need to entirely reinvent a new style? Like. Style experiments are cool. EXPERIMENTS are cool. TRYING NEW THINGS are cool. But I have been TORTURING myself about this. And dude. It's just not that deep.

And part of it is just...I don't know what I want to make. I don't have a clear image in my head. I see all this lovely art, and I want to play too, but I haven't let myself just drift and BE in so long. I WANT to make stuff. I currently have TIME to make stuff. I WANT to have the energy to make stuff. But I'm just grinding on myself instead. It's frustrating, AND stupid.

I dunno. I fuckin' LOVE xenofiction, but the only one I've ever actually put the time in to read is Meredith Ann Pierce's Birth of the Firebringer trilogy (not to be mistaken with the Firebringer books that are apparently about deer, or something? idk). I love fantasy. I love magic. I love SO MANY THINGS. But it's been so, so damn hard to drum up the will/spirit/energy/juice to write/draw/anything.

It really sucks.

So yeah. I be frustrated.

Saturday, April 18, 2026

I posted this week's progress vid for It Doesn't Matter yesterday, but between getting sick and all the jet lag, I didn't get into what's been going on around it as much as I intended.

This week has been fuckin' crazy. We flew out from California to Germany on Wednesday, after a mad scramble to do the last bits of packing and cleaning, and setting up for our kitties to come out here too. Chaos, I'm looking forward to seeing them. They should get here Monday, barring Anything Else going wrong! But, yanno. Fuck it, we ball. As long as they're healthy and safe, I can deal with delays. I just miss them.

With the move, I've signed up for Intensive German Language classes, but those don't start until next month. As I'm currently Not Good At German, I'm not currently terribly hire-able. Also, visa shenanigans. As much work as it was to get here, we've got a lot ahead to make sure we can stay here! It's gonna be a ride. We've hired an immigration lawyer, and are looking for jobs as we settle in and try to hit the ground running!

Friday, April 17, 2026 - 7:29 PM

We're in Germany! It was an adventure getting here, now we just gotta set ourselves up to stay here! I start Intensive German Language courses next month, and we're exploring the area!

Not quite as much new things this week cuz of the move. I miss my kitties. They should be here in a few days.

Thursday, April 16, 2026 - 8:27 PM

So good news! We made our (rescheduled) flight (it's a whole thing), and after 10 and a half hours we landed in Frankfurt! Now it's just doing allllll the immigration things and finding jobs!

Other good news: I have a progress render of It Doesn't Matter ready and waiting to upload, despite all the chaos of packing, cleaning, moving, and problems with our cats' paperwork! Bad news: I can't get onto the hotel's Wi-Fi with my laptop, and we're trying to conserve data, so I'll be uploading it tomorrow from our short-term rental.

But yeah! The move has been crazy, I caught a cold, and we're chugging along with stuff!

Thursday, April 9, 2026

We're in the middle of moving, I fucked up our kitties' travel docs, but I'm still posting this today.

Oh no, injections from Eggy.

Thursday, April 2, 2026

AHHHH! We're moving in two weeks! My partners and I are moving from California to Germany, and shit's getting real. Why am I It Doesn't Matter-ing instead of helping pack? Shut up, that's why. (Robin has been kicking ass doing SO much of the packing, it's unreal.)

Progress shot! I didn't intend to post these two Thursdays in a row, but apparently that's what's happening. Makes sense, Thursday's one of my days off, and I been doing a bit more It Doesn't Matter work to help decompress after doing hard moving related things.

We saw it in last week's progress vid, but yay actual TF happening on-screen, not just between scenes! ^_^;; It's just a quick 3-drawing sequence, since I am trying to tell the story over actual animating, but I still really like how it turned out.

Thursday, March 26, 2026

AHHHH I'VE BEEN TAKING SO LONG ON THIS! I got so damn daunted by audio editing and the need to change my production workflow since I'm not paying for/using Toon Boom anymore (it WAS overboard for whtat I was using it for, just compositing assets I've been drawing in Procreate on my iPad, but I'm still sad to not have it. Even if all I was using it for at this point was its multiplane camera).

The real bear in the woodwork was the audio editing. It's the part of the process I feel least comfortable with. Initially, I'd intended to overcome SOME of that tension by getting everyone in the same room to record, but then I moved 3,000 miles away. Whoops. And NOW we're gonna be moving even FURTHER away in about three weeks! Crazy shit, yo. (Yeah, my mates and I are moving from California to Germany in April. It's kinda a wild ride!)

My storyboards were also nooooot as helpful as they could be in places, but whatever, now I'm finally to the bits I feel more confident about! Hopefully I'll be able to make stuff a little more consistently again.

^_^;; Not gonna lie, I was also super fuckin' burnt out after the push to finish Zone 1, and the trauma of the election Did Not Help.

^_^;; Hence the frantic push to leave the US. It's...been a lot.

Thursday, February 5, 2026 - 7:25 PM

February challenge? February challenge!

The prompt for this one was "camera". I decided to try and do my alicorn self looking at a trail camera, which meant I had to look up what a trail camera even looked like. Turns out, mostly a camo-patterned box strapped to a tree.

Thursday, February 5, 2026 - 7:25 PM

February challenge? February challenge!

The prompt here was "books". C'mon, you gotta love books! So, wanted to do alicorn me kinda orbiting the book in a bit of a more symbolic way.

I never finish art challenges, and Who the Fuck Knows how far I'll go on this one (I mean, I've only done two, and it's already the fifth, so if I were hell bent on The Challenge I'd be in deep shit). But I wanted some prompts that would work for unicorn art, and nabbed the challenge from the above link as "Yeah, I can work with this!" I been wanting to do more cervine unicorns. I tend to draw more equine, though I really, really feel the cervine form stuff. So, yeah! That led me to looking for said prompts!

Thursday, February 5, 2026 - 6:36 PM

February challenge? February challenge!

This prompt was Popcorn. I drew a piece of my Sonic self eating popcorn and staring at the viewer in 2024, so it was kinda funny to re-visit the idea. Originally was gonna lean into awkwardly wrapping a foreleg around the popcorn bucket and using the other forehoof to eat "handfuls" of the popcorn, but thaaaat was working pretty awkwardly on an already awkward pose so I scrapped that idea and moved on.

Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 5:19 PM

Okay, technically chariot races were done in the circuses, and not so much in the arena, but come on. I like ponyplay too much to not utilize it at the mention of the word "arena". ^_^ I spend all day teaching horseback riding in arenas. So while I interpreted the prompt as some sort of gladiatorial thing, I also just had to bring in pony stuff at the word arena.

My interpretation of depicting polycule stuff is apparently just "playing with your mates." Which, yeah, that checks out.

^_^;; I'd originally wanted this to be a lot more dynamic, or play with the lighting some more, buuuut after the amount of time I'd already spent, I just wanted to get it up.

Saturday, January 10, 2026 - 6:25 PM

AHH! It's a Mobian TF comic! ^_^ I'm so stoked I got to do this.

This is my first commission in literal years! I'm really glad Ace tracked me down for this! I super love how it all turned out!

Saturday, January 3, 2026 - 7:29 PM

So...! Let's try and do this! I've been wanting to do more stuff of Me, Tails, Knuckles, and Shadow as a polycule for awhile now! I put together a fun little BINGO card inspired by this one (a Merlin/Arthur bingo challenge) I found on Tumblr. So, let's see how far I get with this! Currently my scheme is to try and complete the whole BINGO blackout in 2026, so we'll see!

2026 has a lot of BINGO shaped challenges for me.

Saturday, January 3, 2026 - 7:29 PM

I really liked Ro Salarian's yearly BINGO idea, and decided to get in on doing one myself this year!

Lots of these are based around us trying to move to Germany, and the processes for getting my visa. It's...gonna be an interesting ride.

Violet submitted vir application to become a student teacher in Germany, and we're currently waiting on the results of this first round of application. We should find out this month whether we're in or not. If we're in, we get to move in April. If not, we submit again and wait for round 2.

Moving to Germany, you have 90 days free, that's just chill before you need some sort of visa. My current plan is to enroll in an intensive German language course over there to seek the German language visa, which can last for a year. Theory there being that I could probably find a job that would then sponsor a longer visa or get into a University program, again, for more visa goodness. So a lot of my energy's gonna be going towards all of that.

Elsewise, I want to do more horseback riding. I teach riding, I go to the barn five times a week...and I rode maybe six times last year. So...let's do more than that. Part of it is that most of my workdays seriously sack me out, but a lot of it is social. And that I want to push back on. Yes, I'm not working solely so I can ride. I'm working there because I love horses. But I like riding. Practicing and feeling it in my own body can also help me be sharper as a teacher. And also, it's okay to just do things I like doing. I'd love to be a horse trainer. I'd love to have a plot of land, buy and rehab horses, and set them off on their own new lives and families. And I'd like to work to do that, via the vet school path, or through the horseback riding instructor to horse trainer path I'm kinda on. And I'm curious if Germany has more of a clear path with certifications to becoming a horse trainer.

I also want to do more art work business. I know, I say this every 3-6 months. But yeah, let's try again, again. I need to change my website's hosting (I've started the process of moving from iPage to DreamHost, but a little stuck on transferring all my site files. Got an appointment scheduled to find out more for Wednesday). I need to be more available online. I need to talk to people. I want to make friends. So I need to work on this shit.

And then there's It Doesn't Matter. I don't intend to stop. But I did stall out. Imaginary, Zacs, and I recorded most of Zone 2 last year, and I stalled out on editing it. I haven't been able to set up the recording for Eggman, and maybe have to re-cast him, which sucks, cuz I love Gazzy for Eggman. But...I'd always assumed I'd fly back to Illinois to record Zone 2 in person, and I did not do that. And with the even further move on the horizon...? Not sure what I'll end up doing, ultimately. Cuz lemme tell you, if we leave, none of us is coming back to the US. This place is horrifying.