Welcome to 2026!

It’s finally time for my yearly Draw This in Your Style! I’ll be running this event for the next eleven weeks (January 10-March 28). The winner will be randomly selected and will receive a free doodle commission from me, of up to two characters of their choice!

Here are some guidelines!

• You definitely don't need to use my color palette in particular, but colors are a plus!

• Your entry can be either traditional or digital. Neither is favored! But do try to get the best picture possible to properly show off your work.

• Please, no tracing, and NO generative Al. Not only will you be disqualified if you use Al, you will be blocked!

• If you'd like to change it up a bit, please keep the original concept intact. The original concept is this: Data is trying to teach baby Lal to say his name, and it comes out “dada” instead! 🥹💛✨

• If you have multiple drawing styles, you can have multiple entries!

• Create your own post for your entry(s)!

• Be sure to mention me in your post and add the tag #mostlynatmdtiys2026! The tagging system may not be entirely reliable, but I'll keep my eye out for all entries. That being said, I'll be reblogging every entry as I see it, so if it's been a while and I haven't reblogged yours, that would be the point that you should let me know!

Have any questions? Reply to this post, and I'll be as quick to answer as possible! If you'd like to help me get this seen by as many people as possible, please reblog! Thank you!

Personal headcannons that Vulcans can see some lengths of UV light, which leads to Spock fully believing humans are aware that they have stripes.

(UV-light reveals patterns on human skin:)

(like, I imagine them encountering some alien species who have stripes and Uhura or Kirk would be like "wow they're so pretty I'm almost jealous!" And Spock would just be like "??? You do have stripes tho???")

We all need floor time sometimes

Boy ain’t that the truth

Cats getting caught doing crimes

it takes quite a bit of social intelligence for a creature to understand:

these cats are displaying remarkable theory of mind skills by not only registering that the humans can perceive them but actively trying to manipulate that perception! that requires one to be aware that other individuals have complicated interior thoughts of their own, to know that those thoughts are not always based on truth, and to quickly decide on the best possible “lie” for the situation. this is why I despise animal intelligence tasks based on obedience— some of the most clever moments stem from intelligent disobedience.

Learning that so many of the women instrumental to the riot grrrl movement went to Evergreen State College makes an extreme amount of sense because if this thing was my mascot I would feel a rage incandescent enough to spearhead a new subgenre of punk as well

Supernatural • S5 E18 Point Of No Return

data and spot!!!!! 🐈✨

he did nothing wrong

It's been clear to me since I was a child that everything straight people were saying about gay people was projection. I actually don't find hetero relationships natural or normal. Majority of them are actually deeply dysfunctional and honestly kinda gross.

What blows my mind.... is the shit ton of advice columns, therapy methods, youtube vids, lectures, sermons, podcasts, religious indoctrination, books etc. dedicated to helping straight people tolerate or understand their partners. An entire industrial complex. why isn't this a huge red flag to fucking everyone?!

Why are there 300 page books on "does he actually like me". Why does something sooo inherently pure and natural need that much scaffolding. Like are we all seeing this????

it’s pretty sad in a way that the final episode of st wasn’t even that bad in the scheme of things. like not hugely demonstrably worse than the rest of the season. the final episode of sherlock was so radioactively bad that it looped all the way around to hilarious and is an amazing and awe inspiring thing to watch for how bizarrely misguided it is. the final episode of supernatural is so bad that it’s difficult to keep your eyes on the screen and it feel like a series of clips from other versions of the show made in worse universes smashed together into a fever dream of awful. personally what i think stranger things was missing was a secret forgotten best friend hallucinated as a dog or perhaps a rusty nail and a shit wig.

And actually they’re gonna drop a secret episode any day now with an alternate ending where Spock and Kirk fuck nasty no I don’t think it’s too late

cas but match his wings to his trench coat and suit

important things

He has 30 missed calls from his bf

So my family has a Gay Pirate Plate.

Stay with me.

We do not know how the hell the Gay Pirate Plate was first acquired. This being a point of contention is actually pretty plot-relevant; the saga of the Gay Pirate Plate began with my grandmother and her sister, who, for some ungodly reason, both BADLY wanted the Gay Pirate Plate and believed it to be rightfully theirs.

I should back up, firstly, to establish: The Gay Pirate Plate is the cheapest, tackiest, ugliest plate in existence.

It is in no way a collector’s item. It is physically impossible for it to complement anyone’s decor, because the colors in it are garish. It’s just a ceramic plate with a gay pirate painted on it, and the painting is, this cannot be emphasized enough, extremely bad.

(How do we know the pirate is gay if he’s just posing on a plate? Listen. Fully 100% to stereotype, but he is. He is gay. There’s an energy. That pirate is a flaming homosexual. That pirate has sex with men and does it frequently. That pirate is fucking gay, all right, he just is.)

Anyway. The point is that this is an extremely cheap and ugly plate with a poorly-executed painting of pirate on it who is like a nine on the Kinsey scale.

My grandmother and her sister fought a blood feud over this plate for their entire lives. It would be on the wall in my grandma’s house, and then her sister would visit, and then it would be gone. She’d visit her sister and the plate would be on the wall and her sister would pretend it had always been there. She would steal it back, hang it up, and, when her sister visited, pretend it had always been there. This continued for DECADES.

When the sister died, the Gay Pirate Plate lived triumphantly in my grandmother’s house. And then my grandmother died. And my aunt, who had lived with her and been her carer throughout her life, rightfully inherited their house.

We visit my aunt after the funeral and stay with her for a week or two.

Me, my sister, and our dad. Her brother.

The three of us look at each other. We don’t say anything. We studiously avoid making eye contact with the Gay Pirate Plate mounted proud and ugly on the wall. We notice one another studiously avoiding looking at it. We notice one another noticing. We say nothing. We come to a silent consensus. We pack up to leave. We get in the van. Our aunt comes out to say goodbye. I loudly announce I need to use the restroom before we leave. She obviously stays outside to continue talking to my dad.

I take down the Gay Pirate Plate, stuff it under my oversized sweatshirt, go outside, and get in the van. She happily waves goodbye as we drive off.

Two days later my dad gets a phone call that opens with hysterical laughter and “You FUCKING ASSHOLE did you seriously STEAL THE PLATE–”

Anyway. The gay pirate plate lives in my dad’s house currently.

But he’s trying to get me and my sister out to visit him. And plate mounts are cheap.

The rules of Gay Pirate Plate are simple by the way.

WOE

PLATE BE UPON YE

STATUS UPDATE

I texted this image to my family at around 2am their time last night and woke up to appropriately indignant messages about theft, betrayal, etc.

nothing could have prepared me for how gay the gay pirate plate was

I found the gay pirate plate post!!!

if i ever become a showrunner i will actually do the fake series finalle followed by the true ending where the popular gay ship is confirmed just so i can forever poison fandom with the idea that it can happen for real and then they will truly never let that hope go for all other subsequent shows they watch henceforth. just for the sake of making the world a worse place