As has become tradition, here is a compilation of some moments from this year’s Studio Christmas party. Hiro Hamada won the lottery to get chosen as the official Studio Santa this year, but as you can see he’s not the only one sporting the look. I had a lot of fun putting together this year’s party, and I tried to fit in an eclectic selection of characters. I hope there’s a little something for most everyone here, and I’d like to wish you all Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas.
I don’t usually do anything for Thanksgiving. I’ve considered it in the past, but this year I decided to go ahead and do a quick little pic I thought might be fun. It’s a pretty common holiday porn trope to tie someone up on the dinner table, usually with the implication of “dinner” being the guests groping, licking, etc. to the prone person. Here we have Fern serving up Frieren for such a feast.
It’s been a little while since Tatsumaki debuted, so I think she’s had plenty of time to adjust to the Studio. I thought I’d use that for the answer, while also getting to pair her with Frieren, a character I’ve seen partnered with Tatsumaki pretty frequently in other artists’ work.
So, in the show, Frieren talks once or twice about how elves don’t really feel a drive to reproduce which, combined with a genocide that occurred centuries before, have lead to there being very few elves. Now, my interpretation of this was that their longer lives have just lead to them not feeling the same pressure to reproduce most animals in the real world experience naturally. I didn’t read Frieren as being asexual or anything, though, it seemed more like something that just didn’t come up often for her. Sex is not really about reproducing in the Studio, of course, and everyone’s a bit hornier there due to its nature. I thought Frieren’s answer here might be a fun way to frame her sex drive here, and might inform future content with her.
I watched the first season of Frieren back when it aired, and re-watched it with some folks a bit later. Going in I wasn’t super attracted to either of the female leads. I liked them, but their designs reminded me too much of other characters. As often happens, though, watching the show warmed me up to them, and I wanted to do a little something with them. It’s hard to say right now just how much of Frieren or Fern I’ll draw in the future, but I do think it’s safe to assume they’ll show up in my work again.
