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Self care is watching this with sound

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Some more work in progress.

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Texture painting in blender with some grease pencil for the plant.

Some WIP images:

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it's annoying that video games disable achievements when you install mods. i DID kill alduin who cares if thomas the tank engine was there

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Who’s your favorite Signalis character?

They're all pretty great but I do have a fondness for Beo/MYNAH's particular combo of bigness and sweetness.

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Engaged in some drawpile therapy with @maddlong after we both finished SIGNALIS - I was particularly happy with the sleepy MYNAH. The game is a beautiful and finely crafted survival horror, I can’t recommend it enough.

Minor spoilers maybe? It’s mostly just gags and memery based around in-game lore.

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Been doodlin’ the SIGNALIS replika crew as warm-ups of sorts. 

10 percent off on Steam right now if you feel like getting spooky this holiday season - highly recommended.

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yak scared of pumpkin not clickbait

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My maren folk for the Redrock Cove coliseum venue. Let us assume they are siblings.

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My centaur familiar and associated icons for the Boneyard coliseum venue update for flightrising.com! (Any similarities to bone themed cavaliers is purely coincidental, I mean he's not even wearing sunglasses)

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Wow, the saran-wrap one is getting notes, so I’d better upload this one quick 8’D

It’s air-drying before I put on some Aquaphor, so picture time! Just shitty evening webcam quality I’m afraid.

So yeah, this was done by Neil at Ascension Tattoo just a few hours ago! Of course it still has to heal before I see what it’ll look like forever, but~ I hope you’ll agree he did a great job :’D and way under budget even if it was a week late

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what does your bakura tattoo look like?

oh it’s not ACTUALLY bakura. let me dig up a pic

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certified yearner and dreamer

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Kill Him! - Ryou Bakura, probably

This was making the rounds in the fandom awhile back, and as hilarious as it is to say Bakura is terrible at imitating Ryou (and he is, in the translated manga and dub), this trainwreck is on Viz more than Yami Bakura.

遊戯くん！モクバくんのためにも勝ってね !

“Yuugi! Defeat/Beat Pegasus for Mokuba’s sake too!”

Now, Honda still catches onto YB, so that’s not for dispute, but YB is not as blatant as the english translation would imply. Instead, Bakura’s speech pattern is more or less in-line with Ryou’s, and his sentiment is appropriate. Arguably, he looks a little intense art-wise.

Most likely, KT used Honda to show that “Ryou” is more intense, or aggressive in expression than he should be. However, it is a nuanced distinction, which is why only Honda gets it, and also why he dismisses it. This way, KT can communicate “It’s motherfucking yami bakura” to the audience, without Bakura being shit at lying.

@scarsofra - thank you for the caps, translation work, and listening to me talk about this <3

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Guys I gotta talk about Yugioh characters' pronouns

and by pronouns I mean the second-person pronouns that they use for other people

and by yugioh characters I mean exclusively bakura

Okay so in Japanese, pronouns have synonyms. You have OPTIONS for which "you" to use for someone, and it depends on your relationship and how polite you're being:

Safest option for you, the learner, is actually to refer to them in third person, by their name (or title, or nickname). This is both nice and respectful.

貴方（あなた） is the formal polite one that's most often taught to beginners.

君（きみ） is informal and friendly-sounding, for friends! Don't use it for like your boss.

お前（おまえ） is informal and rough-sounding, like walking up to someone and going "hey man"

てめぇ is actively insulting. You are possibly picking a fight. Either this is a close friend who likes tossing around friendly insults, or you want them to meet you behind the denny's for an asskicking. Maybe both.

貴様（きさま）is also insulting. Was once a polite term that got used SO SARCASTICALLY that now it's almost like saying A POX ON YOUR HOUSE. You are probably an anime character with anime enemies.

And fiction makes full use of all this to help you understand how characters feel about each other.

For example, in Yugioh we have Ryou Bakura, a decently polite and mild-mannered teenager. He says the friendly-sounding 君 to most people, at least when he's not just using their names/titles.

He is possessed by the evil spirit Yami Bakura, who is allergic to respect and has a standing invitation to literally anyone to meet him behind the denny's for an asskicking. Yami Bakura only says 君 when he is pretending to be the nice Bakura. When he's being himself he actually defaults to a mix of てめぇ and 貴様, the insulting ones.

But the part I like is their use of お前.

See, Yami Bakura is a guy who says お前 to be nice. Or at least as nice as he's capable of being. In his hands it can end up sounding creepily familiar, like "hey buddy we're cool right? you don't mind the murder do you pal?"

He'll say お前 occasionally to a lot of people, but I can only think of one that he uses it consistently for, and that's his host. Even when he's mad at him.

お...お前は...！　獏良了！！ (Y-You're... Bakura Ryou!!)

Ryou Bakura, meanwhile, also uses お前 for exactly one person as far as I can tell. And that person is Yami Bakura. The demon living in his brain doesn't get the friendly "you."

ボクは獏良了。お前に友達は殺させない。ボクも闘う。 (This is Bakura Ryou. I won't let you kill my friends. I'll fight too.)

It's just so hilarious to me that they use the same "you" for each other, but one says it to be "nice" and the other says it to be mean. Like that's great. Isn't that great??

11/10 they should have interacted for more than like three scenes

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Thief King Bakura GOOD

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I've been thinking about Ryou and funeral aesthetics lately