A.S. Williams/Tora

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A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· 6d

"rap is too violent, for me, sorry." Meanwhile, every Femtanyl song cover has Token injured all cutesy like.

Token, a white cat-like creature and de facto mascot of the music duo FEMTANYL on a red background, adorned with sparkles with glass piercing through their skin and bleeding.

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· 9d

I love how perfectly my timeline queued this up

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· 12d

So I've been going through some stuff

Stick figure, pointing, mild exasperation: You're the top surveillance state in the West.
Stick figure, now more visibly angry, no longer pointing: what do you mean I need to prove all this shit for help from the State?
Stick figure in suit, marked US GOVT in face: Okay so what we mean is like
US GOVT: If we think you're an anti-US terrorist.
SPECIFICALLY anti-US
and the Epstein files aren't real

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Jul 14

New rosebush growth

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Jul 10

CW: Centipedes, body mutilation, nosebleed. I sketched this out in Krita and I think Krita is perfectly fine, but I miss CSP.

illustration of person cut up into segments. in the holes of their body are various items and creatures including centipedes, octopus tentacles, kitties, puppies, an axolotl, a shadow with eyes, candy and tiny people. the person's nose is bleeding. Their left ring finger was cut off and bandaged up.

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Jun 25

it's Happy Make A Terrible Comic Day, which i didnt know existed and i am late probably

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Jun 24

She's not lovely at all, she's an utter bastard

Jax looking over Gangle's shoulder as she draws
Gangle's doodles show rough doodles labeled The Amazing Genderbent Circus, with a genderswapped version of Ragatha (Ragandy) and one of Jax, with multiple scribbles for names before settling on Jax with the venus sign.
A closeup of female Jax, in a puffed sleeve shirt, skirt jumper and bow on her ear, winking and holding a peace sign, says "Aren't I lovely? <3"
Caption to left of her head - rly hard to draw omg
Jax looks uncomfortable
Jax steals the sketchbook, surprising Gangle. Jax: Tf is this weeb [bleep]?
Ragatha, witnessing the interaction: JAX!!

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Jun 24

I read Ayako by Osamu Tezuka a while back. This is from when they used to flip manga for English translations. If there is a newer translation that isn't this I would very much appreciate knowing where to find it.

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Jun 23

I made this with CMYK watercolors

Person with flattened but large breasts, a wide, wicked, twitchy eyed smile and frazzled curly hair in a non-binary pride colored shirt: "This person does not EXUST.x

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Jun 22

Oh man, this fundamentally changes everything. Camden still works at the shop, however, he's probably not leaving it after he opens his exhibits. Everyone else in the story would probably be living in the town near the shop rather than scattered across the tri-state area they live in. The entire lore behind Vytas and Hadenzia would shift from being active participants in the chatacters' actions to passive observers with subler interference.
I understand that the point of coffee shop AUs are generally to make a place of calm and comfort, but I don't think my project is suited for such a thing. Almost everyone has deep seated problems and Vytas and Hadenzia are necessary components to this as they control the lives of our protagonists (and antagonists) by way of their roles as the arbiters of the good and evil forces that run the world.

They're functionally a pair of gods that control everything diametric to the other. A constant war with soldiers that are largely unaware of the existence of the deific beings that control things from whether or not a person dies of cancer to the active conscious decisions to commit heinous or benevolent acts. I don't think that something like that can be reconciled with the tender, unthreatening nature that I believe a coffee shop AU is supposed to embody.
[At the end of the screenshot is a visible text cursor]

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Jun 20

This is either intentional or wild coincidence but I'm having a TB Skyen moment about Zooble, the only openly trans person in the cast, having a pink triangle for a head as a nod to the Silence = Death motif in AIDS recognition campaigns of the 80s.

Render of Zooble from The Amazing Digital Circus. They are a creative assembly toy with a pink triangle for a head, a bean shaped body and interchangeable parts, with one yellow spiral eye and a smaller, normal eye.

SILENCE = DEATH poster, a black poster with a pink triangle in the middle, with SILENCE = DEATH underneath

Nearly illegible text at the bottom reads: copyright THE SILENCE = DEATH project , used by permission by ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, followed by an address

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Jun 17

Back on my traditional art bullshit.

Two sheets of doodles side by side made with different pen nibs.

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Jun 14

Kinda missed drawing with pigment liner pens

Dark skinned man with bored/neutral look
"Do you like Linux, honey?"

Person in disbelief holding a parody of a dakimakura with a penguin on it:
Whaaaaaat? What makes you think that?

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Jun 11

Lost job, owe $1k for labs that I need to fight, mental distress, cutting off family

Illustration of stressed out person holding "HELP!" sign.
Caption: I'm doing so very poorly, I'm not even gonna lie.

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· May 15

My predictions for the #TADC movie

Predictions for TADC [the Amazing Digital Circus]

Pomni with a unicorn horn: "Pomni grows a unicorn horn."

Gangle leaning in to kiss Zooble, who is wearing a sticky note with a kiss mark on it: "Somehow, Zoo me and Gangle make out."

Kinger waving his hands: "Kinger does a little dance."

Chubby man wearing zip up hoodie: "Jax turns out to be not that attractive."

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· May 10

Nisden did not have much time with their mother, but they were close. Marceline had to cut her mom off for transphobia, but they were never that close anyway. Cam is a mama's boy, but in the Catholic, deep respect for mothers way. Matteo and Ashlee have no real drama, pretty healthy. Ále's mom was very supportive of them; Ále actually got to experience their gender how they always wanted to, from childhood, which is a rarity.

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· May 5

Hey artists, share something!

"My favorite way to draw quiet people"
Panda shyly looking off to the side with no mouth

Pale skinned man with dark hair staring listlessly with no mouth

Tora going "yap yap yap" holding a drawing with dicks as their dark skinned partner stands there, expressionless

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· May 5

Tora in a Leia cosplay, excitedly: May the fourth be with you.

Tora holding a blaster, angrily: unless you're a fucking Nazi.

Stormtrooper being chased: YOWCH!!
Tora, chasing Stormtrooper while shooting blaster: Read a book, dumbass.

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· May 1

Sometimes I think the extent of my geeky tendencies is that i like nerdy stuff but I'm having a bit of an angry moment because the audiobook i borrowed from the library is about John von Neumann, not Turning, and the book is called TURING'S CATHEDRAL

Cover of Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Apr 24

Biggest artist fear

tonight's episode: THE ARTIST'S BARELY-DISGUISED FETISH

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Apr 3

Every BDSM artist looking at this reference pose:

Mei Lee from Turning Red smiling devilishly at her paper while writing something

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Mar 31

All of the cast of the Eat Your Heart Out universe are queer, except for one person, but these are the trans characters. #transdayofvisibility

Nisden, they/she - multi instrumentalist college dropout. They play guitar primarily, but know multiple stringed instruments, woodwinds, and brass instruments, but isn't great at keyboard or percussion.

Marceline, she/her - philosophy major turned cosmetologist/barber. She cuts and styles hair for the unhoused.

Ále, any/all - computer science major with minor in engineering. Outside of the Heart Crossers, they make EDM and DJ in warehouse raves.

Hadenzia and Vytas aren't human, so they're completely agender. I guess facts about them would be that metatextually, the etymologies of their names have been lost to time.

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Mar 28

This is going to be long. Hold onto your butts.

Nisden: Crashed out because her dad did something annoying but not worthy of a crash out. Invalid, but the actual reason was the weird queerphobia, not the actual ineffective action. It's the Adventure Time fries song, but angry.

Ash: once, during a band recital in high school. Entire section had to run laps for something stupid that was nobody's fault, and because she was section leader, she was pissed.

Camden: never. He doesn't like conflict or hurting people. He thinks expressing his distaste or upset might hurt other people, so he tends to be very gentle when he's mad, or apologize profusely if his temper flares.

Marceline: Yes. She's crashed out about a trashed room because she spent the day cleaning for her roommate to host a party and fuck everything up.

Ále, Matteo: never.

Vytas and Hadenzia: well, that's complicated. I don't think Hadenzia would crash out but Vytas is more likely to have explosive rage, so probably.

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Mar 25

• Marceline would fight if she needed to. Same with Ashlee, but Ash tends to be more levelheaded.
• Camden settles his disputes with careful negotiation while panicking internally. He masks his anxiety well enough that nobody notices.
• Nisden avoids conflict, but has angry outbursts when people are misconstruing their argument.
• Matteo kinda just doesn't do anything special, just calm, lawyer-like negotiation. Similarly, Ále also calmly settles disputes, but is much more persuasive in their favor.
• Vytas is the conflict. Hadenzia is unable to resolve a dispute. They're not human and are beholden to their roles as the embodiments of good and evil, so they can't directly interfere with human conflict.

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Mar 24

[Fourth Wall breaking] I'm not drawing the extended cast, partly because I don't have finalized visuals for them but here goes.
Nisden would be deeply flattered. The rest of the Heart Crossers would be happy. Marceline & Vytas would get a bit of ego. Camden would panic a little because he wouldn't know how to handle it. Connor would be shocked. Hadenzia would smile, but not feel very much.

Like, I'm just saying for myself at this point lol, nobody knows who the fuck anyone of these people are lolol. Hadenzia and Vytas aren't even human, they're like semi-powerful magical beings that have multiple forms.

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Mar 24

[In-Universe] The Heart Crossers would be very happy to see fanfic/fan art. But, Nisden would find RPF of their bandmates and probably be very disgusted. Ale and Ash would find it hilarious. Matteo would be mostly indifferent.

Nisden looking at their phone, smiling: we just hit 500k, and there's fanart–
Nisden looking at their phone, horrified, hair askew: [found the RPF]

[Ash, left, Ale (pronounced AH-leh), right, laughing as indicated by "ha ha has" in background, both smiling]
Ash looking down, crying with laughter: Bro, WHAT are these proportions?!
Ale: Why is there so much cum?!

[Matteo, looking down at his phone, no expression, but mildly shocked]
[Image above a smaller Matteo of Matteo looking back, back turned to camera and flexing his left arm]

Smaller Matteo, looking frustrated: I work too hard on my body to be drawn as a Twink. I know i have a gut but damn…

[In corner: small illustration of simple figure with gut, checked green next to similarly shaped figure with a 6 pack, with a red not sign 🚫 over it]

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Mar 23

How ive been feeling lately:

Black and white drawing of a person with breasts and mild facial hair labeled "ambulatory wasted potential" looking very tired.
Dialogue (stylized): "i need to do my taxes..."

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Mar 19

Why is Zooble the only one in Caine's hand? Why is Zooble the only one in his hand?? Why just Zooble???

Patrick Star wearing a purple sweater reading "mom come pick me up I'm scared"

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Mar 17

You should probably be angry at the Academy Voters, who have historically rejected the notion that animation as a medium has any merit, even as recently as this year.

Newsweek article excerpt dated March 12, 2025, written by Claire Dodds: "Academy Voter Shocks With Reason They Won’t Watch Oscar-Nominated Movies

"A revelation from an Academy Awards voter about why they chose not to participate in this year’s Oscar voting has ignited debate online.

"The anonymous filmmaker said they refused to watch many of the nominated films because their, 'time is far too valuable.'

"The comment surfaced in industry reporting about the 2026 Oscars, where a new rule requires voters to confirm they have watched all nominees in a category before casting a ballot."

A.S. Williams/Tora@torakosama· Mar 10

Sure