Sonic's Blog
I'm Sonic, and this is my blog! I talk about my life as a transmasc nonbinary Otherkin guy, and all the weird ways the different parts of my life interact. I make art and work as a horseback riding instructor.
IDM Zone 1 Finally Finished!
Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 6:38 PM
OH HOLY FUCKIN GODS, THE FIRST ZONE/EPISODE OF IT DOESN'T MATTER IS FINALLY DONE! I'm so fuckin' proud! ^_^;; And exhausted, which doesn't bode particularly well since tomorrow starts out my work week. And is a particularly long day. ^_^ Also my birthday, so that's exciting! (I was thinking about bringing cupcakes or something to work tomorrow, but probably won't end up doing so.)
I'm so relieved. I started writing It Doesn't Matter when I had my Awakening as Sonic in 2009. I'd always, always planned for it to be an animated project...but I had no idea how to teach myself to animate then. ^_^;; It's a comedic exaggeration that's also not totally inaccurate to say that when I went back to college to get a degree in animation, it was so that I could make It Doesn't Matter...? Like. Yeah, that's kinda exactly what happened. Especially as working in the animation industry didn't work out (for a whooooole lot of reasons).
I started the current round of storyboards for zone one in 2018 after a few (fewer attempts than I'd expect, honestly) false starts. We recorded...fuck, way before that, even.
Fuck. I think we recorded Zone 1 in 2016. Because we did it in my old bedroom in my parents' house. And I finally moved out in November of 2016...right around our first round of the horrible fascistic shitbag getting elected. Chaos, all this has never not loomed large.
But that does make sense. Sonic the Hedgehog (as a me, as a person, as a franchise, as a form of media, as an identity) is all about fighting fascism. It just...also really fuckin' sucks. And I'm not saying that me making It Doesn't Matter is a revolutionary action--like, save for in the "Existing while trans," and "Making art with your whole heart" are revolutionary actions kind of way. Just...this art has always, from the very beginning, been about letting me connect with my real self as Sonic.
Cuz it's literally just a fictionkin story. Discovering yourself, who you've always actually been. Giving yourself permission to embrace yourself. Picking up those parts of yourself you'd expected to need to shave off...I guess those themes are less part of the story than my experience of them.
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