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Decided to bust out a pen and the color pencils to ink and color a sketch for the first time in awhile! And I gotta say? I'm really proud of how it turned out!

To explain the sketch: I was just practicing some more exaggerated expressions with Karmatic, and when I decided to do a sketch for an "evil" expression, I ended up doodling this and liked it so much I wanted to color it, whiiich I did, aaaaand yeah!

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Yeaaaaaah...Good luck to you and, really, everybody. All we can do is our best.

I have tried to be a source of comfort from the problems we are seeing today,

But guys,

I am so tired.

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Still work in progress but I've made a lot of progress on sketching out this punk skunk's design!

Her name is Komi.

Man, the day I learn how to draw furry-like characters as casually as I draw humans is the day I fucking ascend as an artist. This crap is kinda hard to get right but drawing something that feels good is so rewarding.

...Oh, yeah, this is another player character for that TTRPG campaign I wanna run with my friends eventually.

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Been thinking about what could possibly happen in a Hi-Fi Rush sequel, and I've got a short list of some things that I think would be cool to see that I want to share:

If there is a classic "reset to zero" moment in the game, I think it'd be cool if it was caused by Chai's arm basically self-destructing and failing due to planned obsolescence and Zanzo's supercharger. The part connected to his heart or whatever with the MP3 player is fine but the arm itself is so screwed up that the gang just can't salvage it, and the reset comes from Chai having to get a new arm without all of Peppermint's upgrades.

I think it'd be cool if the game opened up on or at least had hints to Chai, in between games, taking small but legitimate steps to his dream of being a rockstar. Maybe he's released like a small handful of work-in-progress tracks online or maybe even has one pretty decent single under his belt that did well for an indie musician. There's no way he's gonna become a full-on rockstar in between games that quickly but I think it'd be sweet if he was legitimately trying, on top of working with Vandelay as an ambassador.

The coffee machines at Vandelay STILL only put out decaf. That one robot's legacy will go on forevermore.

Peppermint and Korsica. c:

BATTLE-READY CNMN!

Zanzo making an epic return as he's the only guy who legitimately could've survived his defeat. Sure he got hit once and launched into a bunch of servers that exploded but like everyone else very clearly died while Zanzo could've maybe lived that, despite being a wuss. Maybe we get Punished Zanzo or something and he gets an actual fight on top of his Jojo posing.

Kale's obvious return. I mean, the Kale AI is right there in that basement and they left the plug there. Someone could just go in there and plug him back in and get SPECTRA 2 started. I think it'd be extremely funny though if an AI Kale fight was like a post-game only thing though, the entire main story happens and somehow the SPECTRA backup is just left there to rot the whole time until the gang are like, "Hey, y'know what would be funny?"

Photo Mode, but again, BUT MORE!

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A Random Rambly Thought About Hi-Fi Rush.

Sooooo while I haven't been able to play the game at all lately due to having a dead laptop that I need to get a job to pay to fix, I've been looking at LPs and whatnot of Hi-Fi Rush as the next best thing, daydreaming about what I'll do for my own Youtube videos on the game and my quest for 100% completion. Due to watching other people play the game I've ran into this fun little thought about it from a few playthroughs:

(Warning for possible spoilers for Hi-Fi Rush, go play it if you haven't)

Chai's trash guitar/"junker", as I like to call it, isn't actually becoming a guitar in the moments we see it transforming during a cutscene. That is purely in his head due to Chai being kind of delusional about his dreams of becoming a rockstar.

Now, I think this interpretation is wrong, BUT I wanna ramble about it anyway just because.

First and most boring reason why I think it's wrong is because, well, it's just the tone of Hi-Fi Rush's world and story. Chai's whacking stick becoming an actual guitar whenever he's, *IN THE ZONE*, is not the most absurd thing we see in the game and is fully believable in comparison to people like Roquefort or Kale's whole plan with Spectra. This is a slightly fantastical, bright and colorful world with super advanced technology and a main character whose sick-nasty powers are coming from an MP3 player mistakenly embedded in his chest, and if you've gotten to the point of asking if that guitar-shaped whacking stick is actually becoming a guitar or not, then you likely won't care anymore within the next ten seconds when he takes that guitar and smashes a giant robot's face in with it.

Secondly and from a more interesting angle, I think there's enough evidence within Hi-Fi Rush's story and gameplay that points to the idea that Chai's junker is actually transforming in the moments we see it doing so.

Like I mentioned earlier, Chai's guitar only seems to transform whenever he's really feeling it; whenever he's at the top of his game; whenever we're going so hard that we're getting S ranks like it's as easy as breathing. In gameplay, we see this as being a feature of regular combat, where Chai's junker will transform into a proper guitar when we're doing well. In cutscenes, we always see Chai's junker transform with this very specific effect, where it seemingly starts charging with this blue energy aura before it then shifts into a guitar and the aura quickly fades. We only see this during moments when Chai is likely feeling extremely confident, A.K.A. when he's literally delivering the final blows to every single boss. It's during the final boss fight with Kale himself we see something that clearly shows the guitar is actually a guitar directly after Kale is defeated. It's a brief moment where Chai drops the guitar on the ground and it doesn't break apart or revert back to the junker, it actually hits the ground like it should with a very distinctly not-pile-of-scrap-metal-hitting-the-floor sound.

Outside of all of that, in general, we're lead to believe that Chai's "musical robot powers" and the power boost they provide are very clear and very apparent to everybody, even if Chai's the only one moving to the beat and seeing the world as doing the same. He's noted as having a ton of firepower in comparison to everyone else by Macaron, with that one line about how, "If even Chai can't get through that wall, then we're out of luck," or however it goes. And while we're pointing out quotes, you can't forget Kale's, "All you're good at is hitting things with a guitar," line, which is another big point to the idea that Chai's whacking stick is actually becoming a guitar, since I doubt someone like Kale would be willing to call said bonking stick a guitar unless it was actually becoming one every now and then.

Okay, this is kinda random to say here at the bottom of all of that but I don't have much in the way of creative flow going on right now so coming up with an actual ending to all of that is kind of hard, buuuuuuuut: I think the thought of Chai's junker only transforming whenever he's feeling 700% confident is a fun, if unnecessary, headcanon as to why he's not using the Flying V Chai Custom in the ending cutscenes and instead has the Vandelay Custom Crimson Red. Because Chai isn't always at 700% confidence, and...Really no one is or can be, or at least should be. He's a cool dude but he definitely doesn't have his chest always puffed out, especially at the end of the game's story.

If the junker can only transform whenever he's at the peak of his game mentally, with all hype cylinders firing, then of course he can't use it as an actual guitar the rest of the time when he's just chilling out with the gang and practicing.

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Man, the day I learn how to draw furry-like characters as casually as I draw humans is the day I fucking ascend as an artist. This crap is kinda hard to get right but drawing something that feels good is so rewarding.

...Oh, yeah, this is another player character for that TTRPG campaign I wanna run with my friends eventually.

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Meet Copper C. Conductor and "Enna"! Two player characters for that TTRPG campaign I want to run eventually using the fan-made Persona TTRPG system.

Despite my laptop being broken, my love for drawing hasn't, meaning I've gone back to sketching in my old sketchbook. It's a bit water damaged and warbled but it's still plenty good and usable. And honestly, it's been weirdly nice going back to my sketchbook. It feels freeing in a strange way, despite it definitely being more limited than drawing digitally.

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To The Moon And Back, Have A Merry Christmas!

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Just some nice pictures of my cats, Ori and Pumpkin.

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tumblr discourse after 13 years on this fucking website

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A word to anyone and everyone who follows me on here:

My laptop died yesterday soooo I'm not gonna be posting much of any art for awhile, at least unless I feel like busting out the mechanical pencils and some paper or my old sketchbook (assuming it's still in good condition).

Iiiiiit sucks but I'll be alright because I'm planning to try and get a job as soon as possible so I can afford to either get it fixed or have someone take out the SSD and get a new one.

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A Pinned Post? No Way!

Sooooo, uh...Hi. I've wanted to make a post like this to...More explicitly link this blog to my other stuff. I'll probably add commission stuff to this as well at some point whenever I make a new sheet for it (and also update my Ko-Fi to match). Here's my art-only blog here on Tumblr, where I reblog any art I make the same day I post it here: Nobody's Art! Here's my personal Youtube channel, which I upload to occasionally: EJTheNobody Here's my Bluesky account, which I have not used but have at the ready whenever I feel like posting stuff there: EJTheNobody, on Bluesky. Here's The Vibe Zone's Youtube channel, of which I am a part of and eventually plan to upload videos to, most likely made with my friends: The Vibe Zone!

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A Y.T. & Nicole Christmas.

Just a fun little thing I have decided to do this December. My friend who I drew that thing of Lappland from Arknights for decided to say a funny thing, and it made me picture his sona and Nicole O'Neal doing something funny. Here's all the sketches so far.

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Random thought:

You ever have one of those days where you're like, "Man, I know everything I wanna do and how to get there, I just gotta stay focused and put in the work," but then your brain goes back over that sentence and thinks about "everything I wanna do" and realizes how that sentence sounds, and then suddenly you start humming and quietly singing "What's New Scooby-Doo, we're coming after you, we're gonna solve that mystery~ I see you Scooby-Doo, the trail leads back to you, what's new Scooby-Doo~"

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Awwwwh, that's so sweet!

today my bf and i were talking about visiting my home for the holidays and i was (sadly) wondering aloud if i should cut my hair and our kid was like "why would you cut your hair??? your hair is cool" and not knowing how to explain it to him i said "my family doesnt think boys should have long hair" to which he went silent, wordlessly pulled out his phone and then swiftly held it out with a picture of keeanu reeves on his phone

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Based.

be free!!