Next To Me by @jessratte (Jessica Ratté)

(Please excuse the random spaces and other things that might not make sense in the description... I just copied and pasted the description from deviantART :D (Because it's clearly not Valentines Day XD)

So it's Valentines Day.

And I thought to myself, GAWSH JESS! What one of your pictures can you pass off as a Valentines Day picture?

So, there I was, sitting around looking through all my pictures, when I was all like "BUT OF COUUURSSE! HOW ABOUT... A MAC-A-MEL!"

And so, off I went, deciding to post said picture, while Melanie prepared her plans to destroy my life slowly and painfully because she's mad that I can see behind her po-po-po-pokerface. (She's got it like no body. P-p-p-p-pokkkkkerrrface....) She's so in denial, and it's just so precious.

Melanie chops off my parts Black Knight style. I just giggle profusely at her and pinch her cheeks with my disembodied hands

Anyway. So there I was one day, and I was flipping through a magazine trying to get some ideas on what I wanted to draw. I wanted to piss Melanie off and draw a Mac-A-Mel, and ironically this picture was inspired by a birth control ad. Mac-A-Mel will be needing lots of that, or else they will have lots of cute little red-headed cat-ferret thing children. D'AWWWWW!!!

a large, blunt object hits me from behind and knocks me unconscious

an hour later....

Anyway. So yes. I was looking at this ad, and it was actually just of two girls laying down on the grass all happy that they are protected from a flying mass of sperm cells trying to knock them up, and I just thought Mac-A-Mel would be so cute lying down looking at each other and all like "OH HAI!"

Melanie comments with something like I thought wrong and I should shut up and go die somewhere painfully. I just pat her on the head

AND...D'AWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!! :iconomgsocuteplz: :iconomgsocuteplz: :iconomgsocuteplz: AREN'T THEY JUST THE MOST PRECIOUS YOU'VE EVER SEEN??? Don't you just want them to like, make out or something? Or, or, like, jump through a field of flowers and sing cheesy 70's love songs?

So here they are just all like, OH HAI MEL OH HAI MAC! I didn't really want it to be OH MY GOD WE'RE IN LOVE :iconkissingplz:, but more of a subtle hint of affection. BECAUSE I ACTUALLY FIND THAT MORE ADORABLE. But Melanie's poker faces suck. We can all read her poker faces. Even tho she's got it like nobody. P-p-p-p-p-pokerface. Anyway.

Ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you, for the first time ever....MAC NOT LOOKING LIKE AN ARROGANT DOUCHE! Normally, he has a little cock-eyed look (okay, I don't know if I chose the right words there. But just so you know, I don't mean he's poking you in the eye with his penis. Just incase someone misinterpreted thar. ) and then a grin and he's all like IMMA READY FOR SOME SECKS!, but now he's kinda looking all ""Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!/ For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night!" and, he might possibly serenade Melanie with Rod Stewart songs. Or...something. I don't know. XD And I dunno, I just wanted to give Melanie a little cute expression like she's pretending she doesn't like him but she does so she's actually trying to lean away from him but not really. :iconiloveyouplz: I feel like... like... just wrapping them up in cute tissue paper and, and, distributing their cuteness all over the world. (LOLWUT??? XD)

Anyway. Originally they were supposed to be holding hands. However, I fail to be able to draw characters holding hands. See, that is why I always put their hands in their pockets. Or somewhere else. Sometimes in the air, waving them like they just don't care. In this case, I shoved Melanies other hand across her boobs (perhaps so that Mac can't look at them), and Mac's arm is behind his head...and then...I...like...just...put it...down. And then I was all like, when I was inking the picture, if I fuck up and make Melanie's eyes look like she's looking down, I'll be really pissed. Luckily, Melanie ended up inking fine and not looking down at where Mac's hand was going.

(She probably will anyway tho, just to make sure he doesn't get any idea. Because this will be the only time he'll ever get to see Melanie on her back, and well, Mac thinks things when he gets to lay around women on their backs.)

Just so you know, Mac's hand not in his genital area. It's on his stomach. Or possibly in his pockets. Maybe he's poking his belly button. Maybe he has a kitteh on his lap.

Perhaps that is why they are all AWWWW. Because of kittehs.

Okay, I realize that they are floating in a mass of colour, and actually not laying down on anything. But I sorta wanted to add a little bit more colour to this picture, since Mac and Melanie's colours sorta blend together (and thats precious. :iconiloveyoutooplz: roundhouse kick to the face), and I just didn't think having grass in the background was going to make this picture more colourful. /excuse for being lazy. That, and in all honesty I was pretty sure - no, POSITIVELY SURE, that my grass background probably would have looked like crap. So be happy for my crappy watercolour pencil backgrounds with little marker swigglies. OH BUT LOOK AT SOME OF THE SWIGGLES THAR! DON'T SOME OF THEM LOOK LIKE HEARTS?? HUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRR I'M SMART! :iconblushingplz: Actually, I really don't think I intended for some of the swigglies to look like hearts, they just ended up that way. Because my characters pictures are really creepy like that. But we all think thats cute tho. D'aww.

Anyway. I really like how this came out. Theres a few things that annoy me, but mostly just things that my scanner fucked up, because well, my scanner does that.Actually, this is one of the few pictures of mine where I'm like, pretty much just completely satisfied with how it came out and both characters ended up turning perfectly without one of them being cross eyed or tiny armed or something. Melanie thinks she looks wide and fat, but I told her to shut up. She's just finding things to make me hate this picture. And all of my Mac-A-Mels.

Yaknow, I think I put up a Mac-A-Mel last year for Valentines Day too. OH YAY ITS A NEW TRADITION! MAC-A-MEL FOR ALL ON VALENTINES DAY! :dance:

Melanie doesn't think thats a good tradition at all.

:icondurrhurrplz: OH YAY! We're all happy and in love now!

Anyway. Back to the picture, of course my scanner had to ruin everything in sight and decided that Mac should be pink once again and not his light orange like he's supposed to be. It also thought it would be awesome to make the picture look all 'bubbly' and blurry. Because it's a jackass. Atleast it mostly salvaged Melanie, because my scanner I think is in love with her. (Just so you know, tho, Mac probably has a better chance then my scanner does at getting Melanie, because characters the world over hate my scanner. Altho, my scanner seems to attack Mac and make him look really bad so that it filters Melanies vision.....lightbulb appears above her head OMG I FIGURED OUT WHY MAC SCANS SO SHITTY NAO!! )

wears a "Team Mac" shirt, while Scanner wears a "Team Scanner" shirt. But my sparkling obliterates the scanner and it blows up and goes away never to hurt my pictures again

Anyway. Just a cute Mac-A-Mel. Yeee hee hee I just loves it :D They're too much fun. Melanie hates these pictures tho, becuase they make people think they are boyfriend and girlfriend. That's alright tho. That's what we all want anyway. :icondawwplz:

yet another bludgeon to the head and is knocked unconcious

Anyway. Mac-a-Mel here is © to Jess Ratte :D