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If you've followed me long enough, you've probably heard about my project to totally rewrite the DreamSMP. In fact some of you may have followed me for it! Today on this November 16th, I give you an exclusive first look at the first part of this rewrite!

If you enjoyed it and are excited to see more, please comment or send me more asks about this project! I would also really appreciate if you could watch til the end of the video, as I pose a question that I would really like some feedback on! I'll make a poll about it in a few days as well, but let me know your thoughts!!

Thank you so much to everyone who as sent me asks about this and has shown interest in this project, especially @rozugold ( i hope you don't mind the tag) as you really really helped to keep my motivation going on this project!!

As always, if you are hungry for more DSMPR content, you can find all the posts I've made talking about it or referencing it under "#dsmp rewrite" on my blog!

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GUYS HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT CLINGYDUO???? DID YOU HEAR THEY GOT THEIR SOFT ENDING???

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Something unrelated to any of the projects that I'm doing, here's Philza Minecraft that i'm playing for an upcoming DnD oneshot!

Character sheet stats for those curious below the cut!

I've had an Idea to play Phil as Horizon Walker Ranger for AGES, but because of who Phil is, and sorta the nature of the subclass and the story I had associated with it, it just wouldn't make sense to play him as a Level 1 character working his way from the bottom. In fact I couldn't see playing him below level 10! But luckily this oneshot has us making level 12 characters!

Like I said hes a level 12 Horizon Walker Ranger (2014 dnd 5e btw), he's also an Aasimar, but flavored to have black iridescent wings instead of white (so Protector varient).

We were allowed to have 1 level 1 feat to start off with so I chose Sharpshooter for him. This guy is utterly kitted out for range and movement!

We were also allowed to have a few magic items to start out with, I chose these to be: Bracers of Archery, a Peript of Wound Closure (for that Hardcore survival nature, also sorta inspired by one sircantus fic where Phil has something similar!), and a Cloak of Protection. I also gave him 2 Spellwrought Tattoos to give him 2 addtional cantrips, these being Guidance and Frostbite. He also has the Light cantrip on account of him being an Aasimar.

He also has his animal companion as a crow named chat because I thought it was funny.

Thats all the notable stuff that you cant just find if you look up the classes, here's the full character sheet for those interested!

Thanks for reading and looking over him! He's being used for a "Battle Royale" campaign, so he's VERY combat geared, but I think its in character! I'll be sure to let you all know what happens to him on my main blog if you all are interested!

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This. this right here is the big reason why I've been procrastinating working on the Dream SMP rewrite, but now with the hard part out of the way (9 characters, all in dynamic fighting poses, with a background) my ideal upload date for part one is well on track!

Here we have a panel from my revised Egg Arc finale, hmmm seems like a big battle is taking place! Wonder whats gonna happen...

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Welcome to the first installment of Through the Static, to the Stars! Me and @eternalduos take on a Relativity Falls AU!! There are many secrets to explore and fun times to be had, so everyone please give this first installment in this series a read for us!

Onto the art, this is one of the scenes from the fic and I had a very fun time making it and making their reflections look semi natural! I had never drawn one of these little compact TV's with VCR's before and i sorta kept switching what style I wanted for this, but I think it ended up turning out alright!

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Felt bad about having you guys go so long without more au content, so here i am posting these sketches of modern (2012) Dipper and Mabel for ttstts!

Dippers "coming through the portal" fit went through a few iterations, i was initally against a long coat bc it would be too similar to Ford's fit, but we (me and my co-conspirator for this au, artie @eternalduos ) ultimately decided it would look cooler with that dramatic shadow

We also had a bit of a debate in regards to Dipper hair, artie is saying it should be pushed back, i think it should be side swept. Both of us think it should show off Dip's birthmark, but we are split, what do you guys think?

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Here's the next set of sketches for Through the Static to the Stars, me and @eternalduos Relativity Falls AU!! Here we have the Stan twins (featuring fidds and a new character hehe!)

The bottom with the color splotches is sketches based around several "episode" ideas that we have! Fortunately for you, many of those episode ideas are gonna get turned into actual fics by artie eternalduos, so unfortunately I'm not going to explain the plots of those. I will however, give you all the next big lore-drop of this AU.

Since Dipper is an aspiring director, not a scientist, instead of the Journals we have the Tapes!! The top center drawing is the twins finding Tape number 3! But what could these tapes be of?

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Here's my peace for the @mcyt-jukebox-bonanza!! I got the lovely privilege of being able to do The Moon Will Sing by The Crane Wives!!

This song fits so well for Pearl and Scott in Last Life and Double life, I just had to do it!! Alt versions and a breakdown of the chosen lyric are under the cut!

This whole song fits for their relationship so well, but I chose the lyrics I think best represents that here! Scott was only able to win Last Life because of the two lives Pearl gave to him to keep him from going red for so long (hence the two green upside-down hearts in the artwork, upside-down because scott is receiving them.) Pearl was only able to win Double Life because Scott had rejected her and given her the fire and bloodlust she needed.

They couldn't've won without the other, but at the same time, It didn't matter who the other person was. "I could've been anyone, anyone else" fits them as well because I didn't matter that Pearl was the one to give him those two hearts in Last life. And it didn't matter that Pearl was Scotts soulmate in Double Life, he would've rejected whoever he was paired with.

I could go on and on about the whole song but I'm sure anyone who's read this far can get the picture or knows a lot of what I'm going to say already haha! If you are curious, feel free to DM me tho! Thanks for reading!

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Don't let go!!

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This is some more art for me and @eternalduos Relativity Falls AU: Through the Static to the Stars! Here you can see where part of that name comes from!

If you wanna learn more about how the portal works in this AU and the portal incident as it happens here, its below the cut!

Some theory long ago said that the reason Gravity Falls TV shows are so weird is that they are actually broadcasts from other dimensions, leaking into this one. My co-conspirator Artie Eternalduos came up with this beautiful analogy to explain the whole idea.

If a prison has no escape routes, but it has plumbing, then it doesn't actually have no escape routes. Imagine the Nightmare Realm as the prison in this instance, and the TV broadcasts are the pipes. Dipper is not some crazy physicist like Ford was, hes just a film major. Bill has made many different portal designs over the years to compensate for the technology level around them. Ford and McGucket's portal was probably the most stable, but that doesn't mean some of those other ideas wouldn't've worked. So Bill comes up with, and Dipper makes, a portal that utilizes the POWER OF TELEVISION!

Because this portal is the equivalent of squeezing through the pipes as opposed to building a door, its very unstable. If it stays open too long its prone to causing blackouts that kill its own power and shuts itself off.

When Dipper is at his lowest and is alone, Mabel is also feeling at her lowest and is alone. The difference being, Mabel can't get a job anywhere and is about to become homeless, so she takes a chance and drives all the way from Hollywood to Gravity Falls in the hopes that Dipper will take her in. When she arrives, however, she finds that Dipper is clearly in a worse state than she is. She tries to get him to talk to her, but he's suspicious of her presence since he didn't ask for her help. Dipper finally says, "If I tell you whats going on, will you just leave?" Mabel agrees, not intending to leave, just to figure out whats going on.

Dipper than takes her to the basement, and shows her the portal, telling her everything, but Mabel thinks hes gone crazy. She responds with the classic "I believe that you believe that" and Dipper gets so frustrated with her, trying to get her to leave like the last person he told, that he turns on the portal on purpose to prove himself right. This is of course quite a stupid idea and results in Mabel getting scared and more shouting at each other and spewing hurtful words, before Dipper is backed up close to the portal, and something reaches out from the Dimensional Static, finds purchase on Dipper and attempts to pull him back through, which results in the art above!

Eventually Dipper's grip slips and he is sucked into the portal and the act of sending someone through the portal is enough to overload it and cause another blackout. Leaving the portal powerless and leaving Mabel alone. She'll then spend the next 30 years trying to get it going again, causing frequent town-wide blackouts in the process!

If you read all of this, thank you!! There's so much more to Dipper that I didn't even mention and so much to this au, me and artie are so so so excited to share it with you!!

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EVERYONE GIVE IT UP FOR TOXIC YAOI 👏👏👏

Anyway, the full version of my Nobody animatic is finally finished! Go give it a watch if you can! :D

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So me and @eternalduos have been working extensively on our own Relativity Falls AU, and I finally did some art for it!! Its called, "Through the Static to the Stars"

The whole AU has a lot of theming around film, TV, and theater! The whole idea came from Dipper talking about wanting to have his own ghost hunting show. Here is Mabel and Dipper 30 years ago, around the time of the portal indecent! Don't worry, more sketches and info for this AU will come in time hehehe, artie eternalduos is working on some fic for it too, so keep an eye out!

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Sketch i did of 1 (one) ford pines!! in his epic coming through the portal outfit bc we dont draw that enough (plus a little stan lol)

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erm. my animatic isnt showing up on the dash for some reason??? posting some goatssek to keep in theme with the blog so its still art but mostly this is to test wtf is going on

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I gotta credit @eternalduos for coming up with the idea for this one. Both the song and pretty much the whole PMV too. Here, take some Billford for the toxic gay love song bc I cannot stop thinking about them.

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a midnight billford sketch bc i finally found my sketchbook

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Saw people apparently liking and rebloging my old essek fanart and thought he deserved a more recent addition! This time from C3!!

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What do you remember, hero?

This my final artwork for @mcytblraufest's summer au fest, a Breath of the Wild AU where Tommy is Link and Tubbo is Zelda! Please click/tap on the image for the best quality!

This was a new stretch to my art abilities that was super fun to work on! You can find the AMAZING fic that accompanies this artwork here and it is written by the AMAZING @jrancherart!!! Thank you so much for dealing with my perfectionism 😭I couldn't've asked for a better writer! It was such a joy!

Accompanying sketches and additional artwork and rambalings on my process and my thoughts on the AU under the cut!

I tried my best to emulate the Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom promotional art style, having big visible brush strokes and thin lineart with a lot of harsh lighting. I hope i was able to capture that well! I wanted to give Tommy his white streak since well, he died and came back to life just like in canon! I thought it would be fun detail to carry over from DSMP into this AU!

Here are some scattered sketches of the boys! Me and JRancher (my writer) talked a lot about various character assignments for this au, and there's even a possibility of them continuing to write more oneshots for this au, so please give their story lots of love!!!

Since I made the whole background for this artwork, and the vast majority is covered up but the characters, here is the background by itsself. I think it's one of the best I've ever done!! :D As well, I also have created a gif of the progress it took me to make this! Sorry for the terrible quality on that... Each snapshot is about a day or 2's worth of work!

You can briefly see in the sketch there (the 1st image in the progress GIF), I originally wanted the silhouette of Dueling peaks perfectly centered in the background, with the gap in the mountains shining light down the center of the image. I thought it would perfectly complement the vertical nature of the piece! Unfortunately as I discovered, the spot where the memory is in BotW is no where near the center of the mountains. I wanted to remain accurate to the game so decided not to go with that and still tried to captire the light between the peaks coming down and splitting the image in half anyway!

Here are the images I took of the game that I used as reference for the background

Additionally, this composition is something i've been wanting to do for AGES! Initially just in reference to Link and Zelda, but I thought this AU would be the perfect excuse to use it! For each of the memories featured i wanted it to from Links perspective. Or what his perspective would've been, vs how the in-game camera moved to make the shots cinematic. I actually sketched out every memory that had a basically "highlighting Zelda" shot and sketched that shot from Link's POV, and after much consideration, ended up on the ones I have!

Anyway, this artwork had tons of research and time put into it, i ended up redoing plenty of sections and working it 'til I got it just right! I'm really happy with the result and I hope you like it too! Thanks for reading my thoughts and explanations on the process of this work, I hope it was interesting!