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[kuromi-hoemie]

Here's the article

also a precaution

[annierosaart]

Fuck facebook, here's a reupload I made of the scans of Arknights artbook vol 3's operator pages (no skins)

[nights-at-crystarium]

Jan 9 is Vivi's bday, and, after 3 years, I finally made a proper ref for him \o/

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

Did you ever post a Jasper reference sheet? Guess you posted on Patreon but not public though? Sorry if I missed anything

You know, I coulda sworn I did post it at some point publicly, but now I'm not sure because I can't find it.

Screw it, here's some character sheets!

Seaglass also has one, but I cannot reveal it just yet. :) Soon though!

[alliyah-ll]

‘GET FUCK3D!’

Meow.

[WIP finished.]

[capricoopla]

Selective Memories and Elusive Whir

[macgyvermedical]

I am DYING to know about your vendetta against space blankets

SO glad you asked.

So everyone who has never used one thinks space blankets are the best thing since SAM Splints, right?

They are all WRONG.

See. Picture this: It is 2016. It is April. It is Ohio. It is 39F and Snowing. There is still, tenaciously, snow on the ground from where it had fallen the night before. It is not even damp, but verifiably WET and MUDDY.

I am student-teaching Wilderness First Aid for the last time before I become a real instructor.

I am testing students out by having them rescue me. Which means I am laying on the COLD WET SNOWY MUDDY ground with a fake broken leg and concussion. Which means I am also COLD WET SNOWY AND MUDDY. Just like the ground I am, again, Laying On.

I am wearing a (cold wet snowy muddy) long sleeved t-shirt and jeans.

"You'll be fine" my Instructor Trainer told me. He said: "By now they should know how to rescue you and get you warm super quick."

Spoiler Alert: They didn't.

Every single one of them. LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM came out one at a time and threw a fucking space blanket over me (not under me, or around me) and did exactly zero (0) further temperature management.

If you have never met a space blanket they are the THINNEST piece of plastic and you have to use them in a VERY SPECIFIC way to get ANY benefit from them. THis was not that way.

Half of the space blankets, apparently knowing their uselessness, had the ABSOLUTE GALL to blow away anyway (at which point at least 3 of the students went chasing after them like my life depended on it).

Because, oh yeah. Was also WImDY.

I don't even know who told them about the space blankets because you know what hadn't?

The CLASS.

Because I was there when the other student instructor taught them about hypothermia wraps.

He had even Done a Great Job.

So I thought.

For 4 hours, however, I was trapped in COLD WET SNOWY MUDDY WINDY but wasn't being rescued 14 times in a row into a snuggly hypothermia wrap like I was promised.

And yes, you could probably blame this at least partially on me for not tapping out, but you see I was Committed To The Bit(TM).

I don't think my core temperature has ever been so low in my life (except for the time in 12th grade where I went out in the cold wet snowy windy to do some hypothermia research for a fic- that was also pretty chilly in space blankets' defense).

BUt, that is why I have a personal problemo with space blankets: They suck if you don't use them exactly perfectly and no one knows how to use them exactly perfectly. And we don't teach that because honestly even when you use them perfectly they pretty much suck.

Except if you're using them to be waterproof. I guess they're pretty good at that.

[anonymouscomrade]

here's the powder physics game i used to play, there are other sandbox-y games on that site too

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

[germanich]

Main OCs ref

[fuegonuggett]

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[jookpubstock]

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[andromeddog]

Do u have tips on drawing someones likeness. Like so their face to actually look like them.

oooooh anon this is a really good question, and one i am always struggling with haha. likeness is such a hard thing to get right!! first things first and this is what i always say: reference is ur best friend. gather what u can from wherever u can. get more than u think u need. look at the person from different angles, take note of spacing between facial features and the very rough shapes of those features. when i start trying to draw someone i try to focus on proportions and shapes first!

so like rn im trying to draw all these guys. u know these guys and how they look. i dont usually do this but for sake of explanation here’s a visual of what im thinking of…. i have my ref and then i try to break it down to a simpler version in my head so i dont immediately get caught up in details. doing a quick sketch over ur ref can also be helpful, u can feel/see the proportions and shapes clearer!

is this anything….. i dont feel like im super great at capturing likeness lol its always something i struggle with. the more u look at and draw ur guys the more familiar u will become with their weird faces and the easier it will be

[primsheep]

Makeover for him yes

[angel-atelier]

This took an obscene amount of time, going to do more of them down the line but here’s a little ref for Nina! She has too many outfits to make alts, I rarely draw her in the same exact fit

[aqua-tophana]

@needs-more-hugs

I could kiss you right now.

My agoraphobia is just on the knife edge of out of control right now and I have multiple appointments out there that I have to go to this and next week.

I am absolutely adopting the how to calm a parrot modality of stress management for this.

Genuinely, you’ve given me a way to break my anxiety down into little bite sized pieces in a humorous rather than burdensome way.

Thank you.

hate when people are like "trust your gut! listen to your intuition!" like okay well my gut is telling me every person i lay eyes on is hunting me for sport and my intuition is saying i should find a secluded cave and live there forever so what do you suggest i do with that information