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I love this so much

dorfs

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DND times:

Friend 1: I cast an anvil on the rat.

Dm: …

Friend 1: It’s an instant spell, no roll.

Dm: …ok? I’m going to at least give the rat a dex save???

Dm: It escapes the anvil and runs 10 ft away.

Friend 2: *draws in an anvil on the map*

Friend 1: DANG IT

Friend 3: GET THAT RAT

Dm: why do you all have it out for this rat?!?!

(What do you mean we needed the rats bones?!?!)

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One of the tattoos I wanna get [when I eventually get around to it] is “no one fights alone” with maybe ghosts mask or something

LT. Simon 'Ghost' Riley MR. NO ONE FIGHTS ALONE

SOAP | GAZ | PRICE

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You should read Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky.

Wow this sounds really interesting and like a great way to get further into community organizing, I will have to check it out

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Like… vampires that turn you lesbian when they bite you? Or lesbian vampires in love???

Thinking about vampiric lesbianism

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I mean… Nik has a point

*while at the store*

Nik: Oh would you look at that, someone got a five finger discount

Teen!Gaz: How much is that?

Nik: 100% if you do it right

Price: Nikolai!

Teen!Gaz: ... STEALING??

Nik: It's not stealing if it's from a multi-billion dollar corporation

Teen!Gaz: Ooh-

Price: THAT IS NOT AT ALL CORRECT! STOP GIVING THE BOYS IDEAS

Teen!Gaz: Simon already has been getting discounts when he hangs out with Ale- Oh-

Price:

Nik: What a bad influence

Price: Shut. Up.

Teen!Gaz, whispering: Simon's gonna kill me

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its my b-day!! the best present for an artist is a repost ;)

obligatory doodle

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example of using comms 2 inches apart

quick comic for @forsaire because their tags on this made me cackle

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Oh slay

I could be such a good retiree, just riding trains, attending neighborhood meetings, painting, reading and watching construction sites

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🐛🪩

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happy valentines bouquet from the 141

also

featuring the babygirl to ever grace the earth

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CW FLASHING IN THE VIDEO (3rd from the bottom)

This is it. 3 months in the works, the comic (and video) are finally done.

A little over a year ago, I uploaded the first work in Revenant AU, Ghost's origin comic. I never thought I'd write a whole series for this, but I'm so glad I did. I got a whole new hobby out of it, haha.

I already began working on part 2, but this for me marks the start of it. I'm really excited to get back into this world!

Under the cut there are some comments on the comic I thought some people might be interested in (don't wanna make this post longer than it already is lol). I will upload the frames from the video separately, with comments on it there.

Bottom line is, thank you for letting me just go wild with this :)

Okay, I'm mostly gonna talk about the part where Fate shows Makarov the 141+Farah. Makarov doesn't see the Fate of people as literal images, he often has to interpret odd symbolism in the flashes he gets from the Weave of Fate.

I decided to go for a style I saw in a collection of calling cards in MW3, mainly from this one:

You can really see it in the faces and pitch-black cel shading.

I'll be going in order of appearance, starting with Farah.

Obviously, each of the "flashes" shows the Reaping of each person, Farah being crushed under rubble. Behind her is a helo of green gas, which symbolizes the Russian experimental gas. The motifs around her are more interesting imo - they're taken from the Urzik flag (and yeah apparently it's "Urzik" and not "Urzikstani"... according to the wiki at least). Wings, plants (feels to me like a pomegranate and some sort of crop, but I couldn't find what it is specifically), and a moon, upside down.

I'm skipping ahead a bit, but I've had the idea to make a drawing of Gaz in the Hanged Man pose since I started the AU basically. I tried sketching it once, and it went bad so I gave up lol. But I decided to come back to that here, and add some sort of tarot connection to all of them. I know practically nothing about tarot, googled the meanings of each, they fit well enough, I called it a day lol.

So Farah is the Moon, upside down.

Price is next, showing him taking control of the brain of someone. I didn't use the flag of the UK for the 141 (it'd be kinda boring...), instead I took the Taskforce 141 logo, and broke it down to different elements.

I took the laurels for Price, both framing his illustration and sitting above his head like a crown. I decided he will be the Emperor.

Next up is Gaz, the Hanged Man of course. Gaz gets both the wings and the stars (I changed mine to 4-pointed because... I like them better). Pretty clear why, both symbols relate to the sky. The illustrations kinda follow a rough day cycle, if that makes sense. Farah being night, with the moon. Price with his golden and purple color palette, twilight. Gaz being sunrise, and Ghost and Soap, day. This is why Gaz has a sun behind him.

Ghost was fun because he's the only inhuman one out of the group. I'll let you think what that implies, that even in Fate's Weave, Ghost is an outlier... Ghost gets the skull, and the card "Death". That one was easy, but what I did add is blood flowing down the skulls, like tear tracks...

Soap, the problem child, gave me the most issues as always. For once, it wasn't his fucking face, it was the flames behind him, and overall contrast and readability issues. Soap's illustration is probably packed with the most "hidden" details, though they're obvious if you've read the fic and Konchar's side story. The headless man behind Soap is Konchar himself, holding 4 chains with dog tags on them. The 4 soldiers from Soap's squad, who he killed before Soap was Reaped. Soap's pose is from the moment he came to his senses, after getting shot in the head and destroying a large part of Verdansk. He has 4 swords, pointing at him and downwards, so his card is 4 of Swords, upside down.

Between Soap and Ghost is a circle and a triangle. I'll explain that in the post concerning the video, since that's where I got that from.

If you read all of this, thank you so much! There will be another post for you to read in a moment lol

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I too, doodle COD on my chem homework lol

A complication of all the shitty dad jokes between Ghost and Soap in my notebooks

(plus an extra Jim ASMR reference)

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💕

Necromancer x Healer AU

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Elias Walker father of the year

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It’s the inner goblin

i love things that come in glass jars because once its over the glass jar is mine

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Should have handed out stolen Taco Bell sauce packets for Trick or Treat…