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What if Drawn To Life was adapted into life action film?

Well hopefully imo they'd choose this cast!

(yes they would have to time travel to do this shhh this is like an AU)

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Sighh...

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'you wouldn't pirate a-' i would steal anything from any company. anything in the world. i dont even want it i just hate you

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Mari from the Drawn to Life series is intersex, and her variation is Swyer Syndrome!

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ENA x DTL oc !!

🎉 Heatherna voice claims 🎉

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my ENA x DTL oc Heatherna yippeee

Edit: holyyyy quality drop wtaf Tumblr

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I've returned from the dead to post this. Some of my favorite Drawn to Life characters and my OC creature at the top

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First time doing digital art lolol

Idk if the quality is any good I did this on my phone 💀 idk which is my fav so have all of them lol

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WHAT A GREAT WEEK TO HAVE AUTISM

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grandpa pussy attack

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Some of my favourite bugs:

• If you tab out on the switch version of two realms whilst a character is speaking, when you tab back in the textbox will be compressed and illegible.

• Sometimes your hero will glitch and instead take the form of various game textures!

• However you can still put stickers on top of your hero

• "Get all _ in the zone!" Wh.. what? Get what? What am I getting?? Huh???

• If you jump too fast around a box before it lands your hero may go under the floor to get past it. Or it might just straight up fall off the level.

• Sometimes the puzzles don't work :) and you just have to restart the level.

• Sometimes the game forgets to get rid of the loading screen after loading the next part. You are there, you're just not visible. Instead you're stuck on the mari-running screen.

• Sometimes buttons don't register when pushed!

• The Ul for the drawing part of the game (i.e. literally the Most Important part and features IN THE TITLE OF THE GAME) is impossibly hard to use because of the lack of a proper zoom button- but it's okay, you can zoom using your fingers. Just very, very slowly.

• The complexity of levels is dependant on how far you can push what normal people would consider speedrunning glitches.

• If you spent ages getting past those dodgy levels already before the final one don't worry- sometimes your hero is gone! It just goes. And doesn't come back. Yes you have to do the levels again.

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The older I get the more I realise the point of art is to literally mostly ignore people and continue just making stuff very very confidently. It really doesn't matter what the content is. If you're just continuing on that drive then eventually someone will fw it. Being unapologetically Who You Are is the best thing for your art practice.

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i could write a whole retrospective on the original drawn to life duology, and especially how it personally impacted me a young artist and gamer, but mostly rn at 5am i'm just reminiscing on how it is one of very very very very few media i've seen successfully pull off the specific type of ending that it did, and also that, like thousands of people have also said before me, how in the fuck did they get away with the emotional gutpunch shit that they did with an E rating

i was 9 when next chapter came out + when i first played it and i was dealing with the crisis that is "death of a close family member for the first time, ever, as a child" at the time, and this lil game somehow helped me process everything and reach catharsis in ways i would Not have been able to otherwise. like. goddamn

it was like, such unexpected levels of fucks-you-up-emotionally in a kids game of all places that it wrapped all the way around from 'mentally scarring' to 'mentally healing'. like it hit one extreme and then broke its way back to the opposite end. idk how else to describe it, it like, left a permanent mark from a negative emotional place, but the resulting mark itself is a positive, if weary and numb-feeling sort of one

as i get older i'm still processing that this game delivered a pile of existential (and religious!) quandaries to elementary schoolers all over the world, in such an unsuspecting and engaging package--but at the time, as a kid, all i knew was that seeing this one painted cg with agonizing, beautiful music playing over it would be something that'd be etched into my mind forever afterwords

sure enough, seeing it 15 years later still makes my breath hitch and my chest heavy, and my head crammed full of thoughts. how the fuck did they pull this off. how did they make a game so real and matter-of-fact yet oddly warm and comforting in its display of the cruelties of life that the final punch had to even be censored out eventually

this is a series where you can ms paint bucket tool your way to victory and it does All This. what the fuck man

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Of course we do ! Me and 20 people globally !!! Fuck yeah !

DO DRAWN TO LIFE FANS STILL EXIST???? PLSPLSPSSLPSLS IM. GOING FERAL OVER THE GAMEHEUEBSKSE

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WAIT actually have i ever told y'all my "wilfre is the headlights of the car" take. bc yeah