#-neat concept.

[nite-puff]

anyways now is the time to say that kodaka talking about taka’s “childhood friend” out of nowhere does not take away from taka and mondo’s friendship. i’m willing to make the argument that, if anything, it adds to it.

someone just made a post translating kodaka’s bluesky post (i’ll link it right here. i find it to be really interesting), and a buddy who can also translate japanese to english came to a similar conclusion. tl;dr: this “friend” was a little shit who pushed taka around and was generally inconsiderate of him until he moved away. it’s also important to say that this guy was also very different than taka. some would say that they were polar opposites.

so just think about it. kiyotaka was part of a toxic friendship with someone who constantly undermined him and took advantage of him. and the feelings of friendship were one-sided. he was bound to realize that hey, this isn’t how friendships are supposed to feel like. most likely that realization came after they split because i feel like taka would’ve been the type to call out this friend on his behavior if he noticed it beforehand.

who knows? it might’ve played into why taka didn’t build those types of relationships much after that?? it could’ve been a serious possibility that taka was scared to make another friend because something like what he had with that boy would happen again. he just thinks that he is incapable of having a normal friendship because no one sees him as a good contender to have a normal friendship with. maybe he even tells himself that it’s fine and that friends distract him from studying, so it’s actually GOOD that he won’t make anymore friends.

then he meets mondo. this other boy who is so different from him and seems like the type to be weak enough to get a laugh out of taking advantage of others. and he hated him for that.

but then he gets to know him, and he finds out that mondo is so much more than that. he’s caring and passionate and a fighter for the things he believes in and the people he loves. while he may come off as a bad egg on first glance, taka knows that he is so much better and so much stronger than that boy he once knew. and for once, he’s able to open himself up and let someone else be his friend again. and it’s the best decision he’s ever made because mondo is the best friend he could’ve ever hoped for.

i’m sorry. mondo is not only the friend that present taka deserved, but also the friend that past taka deserved. so yeah, honestly it’s a neat detail. i know that kodaka only mentioning it now may make it seem retcon-like, but eh. it doesn’t take away anything from taka’s story and personality. i feel like it adds a lot more. thanks for coming to my ted talk.

(also shoutout to edge for pointing out that this “friend” could be the reason why taka’s knee-jerk reaction to doing something he thinks is wrong is to beg for someone to hit him. yikes. but it’s a possibility.)

[cj-the-random-artist]

I kept debating how to end this short little mini comic. In the original script, they were gonna hold hands (scandalous, I know lmfao), but I didn't think it hit quite right in comic format when I tried to make it longer. Hence why it ends... like that.

Anyways I wrote like a ton of comic scripts for COTL comics that just didn't hit right / I couldn't commit to making and then when driving home from work last week in the pitch darkness I thought about how nice it is to see like actual stars. And I feel like with the cult grounds being kind of among a lot of trees and all that it might take a short hike to get a really, really, really good view of the night sky and stuff. Thus. This.

It's arguably not my best work (I'm out of practice drawing good night skies and all that) but I'm happy with it. Enjoy this thing I made

[chiscribbs]

My brain literally would not let me rest until I got this out of my system, so here we are.

Okay, so - Future Donnie's canon design sure is a thing. I actually love the concept, mechanic aesthetic is great for Don, but I'm not crazy about the all-black waders/overalls they're just...they're a choice. Definitely a choice. So I figured it was time to update those old Future Donnie designs I made awhile back (which, surprisingly, weren't too far-off? I got the pants pockets right at least, lol)

Here are some of my own takes on the new look. I challenged myself to try and stay as close to the canon design's over-all (haha) vibe as I could, so they don't differ too drastically. Just a few alternative ways to do basically the same concept. For funsies.

***Zero disrespect intended towards Andy, for the record. He's giving us the content we've all been craving and he's the realest one for that! (Also, the overalls aren't that bad, tbh? I think it's just the all-black inking that makes them look kinda off in the preview image.) Still super excited for the full comic to finally be released AAAAAAAA!!

[stars-n-kites]

youre really gonna have to bear with me on this one. but if the adventure zone balance was like a serialized tv show that ran for like 11 seasons and so had plenty of time to fuck around and do weird side plots and one off character study episodes i think there would be b plot to some episode or another where kravitz gets assigned to reap a ghost orchestra thats causing phantom of the opera style chaos at an old theater but realizes theyre only haunting the place because they want to play music again but dont have a conductor so he conducts a final performance for them and they are at peace having resolved their unfinished business and he gets to finally be a conductor . i just think that would be cool .

[ninjasmudge]

cult of the lamb has some really cool visuals and the accent color is my fave so i really wanted to do some post-game designs and doodles to get out of an art slump

[alkalische]

heavyrain

[queermentaldisaster]

Ghost whose dad was a werewolf, and loved tormenting him in his wolf form. Roba was also a werewolf, and nothing let Ghost rest, not even full moons.

Soap, who's a werewolf. One who burns with such a bright flame that Ghost feels like a moth. Soap, who has never hurt those he knows in his wolf form, not even at his most feral.

Soap, who starts helping Ghost heal, by letting him set boundaries when Soap is shifted.

Soap, who wants to undo the damage that the other werewolves did to his wonderful mate.

[theroundbartable]

Beware of Emrys...

for he walks in Arthur's shadow

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[probablybadrpgideas]

Evil artifact that retroactively removes hero's tragic backstories so that they become normal people and never try to stop the Dark Lord.

[letswonderspirit]

Doodle dump

[year2000electronics]

i’ve been playing through inscryption again as well as watching some friends play it so here are some hypothetical assorted sketches toying around with some sort of spm x inscryption au

[phanchester]

happy birthday @amazingphil! 🎀🌸💗

[slow-reader-reads-books]

Jiuyuan (and maybe jiubingyuan) au where it's been a couple years since PIDW finished and it's getting adapted into a drama (highly altered, prob highly condensed and restructured lol) and Shen Yuan has been forced out of his NEET life and became a professional voice actor. It's often remote and he's talented at projecting all sorts of emotions so it's basically a breeze.

Eventually he becomes the go to VA for rising star Shen Jiu, no relation, and they have a cute meet cute rivalry, but slowly SJ gets attached and SY becomes the unknowing third of the qijiu relationship.

Then Shen Jiu gets cast in the upcoming PIDW adaptation as the scum villain.

Shen Yuan is desperate to get on that set, hearing Airplane will be there to offer consultation for the series. He needs to see his face as he critiques him. Insert more shenanigans here.

[decarabias]

underrated part of mementos mission is ren being so effortlessly pretty that the casting director at ann’s photoshoot thinks he’s one of the models

i know he demurs in response but i do still like it as an unconventional postcanon career for him because first of all his face card never declines

but also it is deeply fun to think of akechi with a password protected folder on his phone with all of ren’s horniest photoshoots

[z0mbiew00d]

Okay okay okay hear me out

You know how in episode one of Wild Life everyone was growing and shrinking? What if when shrinking they shifted into their full versions of their hybrid?

So like the sun one club base just has a little parrot, a bat and a biblically accurate angel inside it.

Rens a little puppy running around, Martyn’s walking around as a phantom, using his claws to pull himself about. Gems a baby deer and Joel’s a little ogre.

BigBs a little mouse hiding in the trees of the pale forest, Jimmys a canary hopping about, Scars a little vex floating slightly above ground, Lizzie’s a mini fairy walking around.

Cleo’s a baby zombie, Scotts a unicorn foal, Impulse is a little imp, Pearls a wolf cub, Ethos a fox cub, Tangos a tiny blaze, Bdubs is a glare.

It’d be so cute ☹️🫶

[phoenix-before-the-flame]

Honestly man it just makes sense why Lucy and Gray are so comfortable with each other.

Within just barely knowing this guy for a few episodes into the series she sees him at his absolute worst, on Galuna. And then directly from that, Gray sees Lucy at her worst during Phantom Lord.

Like the earliest stages of their interactions had them seeing each other at one of their most emotionally vulnerable and lowest points. Of course moving forward from that they're gonna be completely chill with each other and comfy in each other's presence, cause they've already unintentionally laid themselves bare to the other.