#ABOUT THIS GAMR

[a-mage-ing]

i am so normal about in stars and time by @insertdisc5 i am so normal i promise

[kideternity]

[Image ID: An inked digital drawing of Digimon character Amphimon. Amphimon is a cyborg humanoid wearing an altered diving suit, they have large chunky gauntlets and boots, lightning bolt embellishments across their design but most notably on a buckle at their waist, on the bottom of their chest armour and on their diving helmet window. They have diving helmet style shoulder pads, a large jellyfish like skirt connected to the buckle made up of two layers- a puffier top layer with jellyfish markings on it and a longer flow-ier bottom layer- and large circular pads at their hands, feet and knees. The ones on their knees and hands have a cross symbol on them and the ones on their feet have a minus symbol. They have large jellyfish antenna coming from their diving helmet and the exposed parts of their body- such as their forearms, waist and at the inner upper thighs- appears made of straps. They’re in a front facing action pose, with their right leg and arm pointed down whilst their left leg is raised the calf slightly tucked in, and their left arm is raised over their head. /End Image ID]

I haven’t seen all of ghost game yet but Amphimon is by far my favourite new digimon from it

[sangfielle]

when they add alternating pronouns and neopronouns and bigenderism to da5. this is how i win even bigger than da4 is already letting me win on the transgender front

[hermajestytak]

Some IRL stuff, a coworker of mine dropped that they managed to draw like 120 pieces of ship art within the past year in a slightly embarrassed manner to the point where they singlehandedly boosted the popularity of said ship

But like, I envy that so hard

If I could singlehandedly turn around the ratio of some less popular ships in this fandom I'd be so proud

[urara04]

[here] - Intermezzo - part 2

My friend has started playing ACIII after I constantly ranted over the game, so now he's playing it over Discord stream so I could see his reactions (all his knowledge over AC as a whole is from me over the years, or internet posts)

He has not played any AC game, ever

A few highlights

"So the apple is a magical key that does magic stuff?" "Yeah, it's a big deal" "OK so can it open more of this door- We're squeezing through!"

How did this random block on the floor do more than the big apple???"

"Oh cool I'm great at parkour" falls off immediately

After a quick explanation of the difference between Assassin's and Templars: "-anyway, now you're out of the parkour tutorial" "Cool. Why am I playing a Templar?" "...what do you mean you're playing a Templar." "He has a cross on his cape, right at the top there"

Gaslighting him that Haytham is an Assassin because he uses Hidden Blades

Trying to flirt and kiss every random man he encounters

Him reacting to every booth in the opera

On the boat playing Fanorona, despite not knowing the rules

And winning

Endlessly countering the tutorial enemy because he doesn't have a grip on the controls

"THAT WAS JUST THE INTRO???" "Yeah" "DANG THAT'S LONG"

"Wait can I pet the animals?" "Yep!" "OKAY"

"I CAN PET THE PIG??- Oh. Only feed them. Alright."

"oh lol these random men keep pushing me away" "Yeah they're red coats, they're kinda the police around he-"

He immediately kills one

Haytham and Charles going on a little murder spree

Charles: "You will see, sir, that Boston is quite a lively city"

Haytham standing next to a pile of Redcoats:

"Ello, my name is Thomas Hickey" "OK, can I give him a hickey?"

"You can read the in game database if you have any questions about the game and setting and whatnot" "Why would I ever read that if I have a smaller, talking, hairy little dictionary talking in my ear whenever I have a question"

Reading the entry on Shaun "He's gotta go" "Why??" "there can only be one arrogant prick around here, and that is me"

[thedrotter]

not-yet-dead-person

silly comic of a conversation in-game i thought was too funny not to make something proper for instead of a doodle ww

(timelapse + wip images (thus silly process commentary in read more if you like artist commentary :3)

i think the sketch looks silly and goofy and funny so i find it important to share with you the mere presence of the faces i drew on it. i drew it on top of the boxes without staying inside its borders because i find my proportions can get wonky if i draw them cropped in a restricted space. and I feel trapped otherwise and i will draw BAD!!! give me spaceeeee to go wild!!!!

the head circles are there for emotional support

very low res speedpaint because truth is the canvas was much bigger than the space where my comic was placed. i didnt account when exporting my timelapse in 720px that that tiny space would look so pixelated ... but it's able to be percieved, so its okay.

(i will now comment on my process and it is not brief sorry)

usually i would try to clean up my sketches and figure out what goes on top before jumping into linework, but since there are multiple panels and drawings i chose to jump into inking right away for the sake of brevity. i just went in with a brush that uses pen pressure and drew what was needed. i added extra line thickness and contrast in areas around the face because it helps direct your eyes there more easily that way.

according to her equipment rei has a chain belt but i only remembered it existed once I was going to color, and i did not like that discovery... I chose to ignore it to maintain my peace. i already have the color palettes for these characters figured out, and i didnt really want to think about a new element at the moment www I tend to overthink those things a lot so i skipped it

the rest is rather straightforward! not that anything else wasn't, but in here i could turn my brain off and sing. linework and sketching require mumbling so i cannot turn my brain off. just block in the characters with a solid color so i can have a mask (something along those lines,) where the color can stay inside. then just color in !!!

Base colors just had slight cell shading on the skin, and for the hair i airbrush a bit of the skincolor in low opacity near the forehead... I'm not sure what it means, but i can look at the faces easier with it somehow. i like the gentle subtlety it adds even if you cant really tell. it makes things look nice.

background was just me blocking in the color of the wall and floor, shade the wall a bit, then slap a noise and free use wood texture on top. work smarter not harder ! yet it took a bit to make it look stylistically fitting with the characters, and even now i think bottom middle panel looks odd. whatever!!!

for the middle panel i thought itd be funny if the background was a solid silly and colorful one to contrast the next panel's sketchy black one. a contrast to how the word widow is seen. on that note my handwritting is not pointy. i gaslighted my hand into thinking that it was indeed pointy in that moment so i could write "not-yet dead person" in letters that didn't seem cute. my hand did not fall for it but it complied anyway

that's basically it! I'm not sure what else i could say that doesn't feel barebones because it really is that straightforward. if you're curious I used clip studio paint for this. only special brush used was for linework (a brush named Lemon Brush), the rest used were just the default. my computer gets the least credit. it was trying to convince me a 20mb file was going to nuke it all the time and hardly let me save multiple times so i do not appreciate it

[themanwhomadeamonster]

tumblr seems to be all good with the news of dd2 so far but i think a lot of the more hardcore ppl on reddit, discord, etc expected too much from this game, especially with ppl comparing it to the likes of elden ring (soulsbornes and their impact on the arpg genre is another can of worms for another time tbh) and bg3. from the get go, the devs made it clear that it's a personal passion project that doesn't NEED to try to reinvent the wheel but wants to stick to its personal philosophy as being a primarily fun love letter to old school rpgs including the wacky mechanics of long rests, limited fast travel, etc. than trying to break new industry standards or whatever? idk. obvs i haven't played the game and shit and my opinion is probs gonna change as is normal when playing vs speculating but some ppl set their expectations too high when nobody ever promised mind-bendingly novel mechanics lmao. the game isn't perfect but it never wanted to be anyway

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

Hot take but I think Grey (Hypno's Lullaby) deserves some Beta Pokémon

Maybe not this team specifically but he'd def have the twin ghosts and the left bottom 'mon

[confused-stars]

i kind of want to try writing a dnd inspired au

mostly because Great Old One Warlock Childe won't leave my brain

also Oath of Vengeance Paladins Diluc and Wriothesley (and probably Cyno, too)

Ranger Amber with an actual bunny as her animal companion

Artificer Yoimiya, Warlock Xiangling with Guoba acting as her patron, Artificer Kaveh, Cobalt Soul Monk Alhaitham (i know Wizard would be obvious but I love the punchy librarian subclass for him), Duelist Fighter Clorinde, Tempest Cleric Sigewinne (her deity is just Neuvillette), Wild Magic Sorcerer Klee, Oathbreaker Paladin Dainsleif

[illdothehotvoice]

It think it's so funny how much I hype up Superstar Saga like objectively she isn't even the best game in the series I just think she's really neat

[moonrung]

what it feels like to be apart of an incredibly old and dead fandom

[anxiously-sidequesting]

GODS I KEEP THINKING ABT LIKE. YOU MENTIONED HOLLY ASKING WHEN THEY GET TO GO HOME AND SHE JUST CANT AND

it's so painful to think abt because yes, the spiral is going to be saved because of the prophecy, and all these lives are saved - but ambrose really went "needs of the many" and basically deprived a whole child of their personhood and maybe even their identity outside of "savior of the spiral" with the depersonalization of the wizard and how it starts with literally entering the wizard world. you pick a new name for your wizard and you very much can Tell that most names like that dont exist where the YW came from so their initial identity gets erased and then the NEW identity they try to build gets erased too to the point where i have to be impressed but also severely worried that the the YW is STILL internalizing how they feel and being essentially constantly sent on more quests and

this is complete rambling that probably hardly makes sense but god its just how screwed up w101's plot is deep down

YOU'RE SO RIGHT ABOUT THE ERASURE AND DEPERSONALIZATION, YOUR BRAIN IS ON

Like that's something so interesting to think about like how and why did the YW choose their new name? Did Ambrose choose it for them; did he merely encourage them to take on a more "appropriate" identity to match their new culture?? Did the Wizard ever want to change their name in the first place? How does their name change affect their journey and their personality going forwards?

And you're so right because like in a sense, you're literally CREATING a new character to fit into this new world. Irl you're choosing their appearance, their name and their gender, everything. Build-A-Bear starting from scratch. And even though the character creation bit has no underlying meaning to it, I think it unintentionally has such a heavy metaphor that you are no longer a human from Earth, but a Wizard in the Spiral. You're not "Holly LastName" with regular Earth clothes, you're now "Holly Steelcry" with a bitchin' purple and yellow outfit that is now SUITED for the Spiral. Yippee!!!

Like I don't even think the Pirate goes through this shit; weren't they born in the Spiral? Like didn't they have parents that were originally FROM the Spiral in the first place???? It's just the Wizard that's been yoinked from their original homeland and into a new one 💀

And that's one of the things that Holly learns throughout their life in the Spiral - is that her Earth self, her original personality and heritage... is not enough. What they were before was not what the Spiral needed. The world doesn't want Holly, it wants Holly STEELCRY. Their family, friends, pets, past hobbies and their ultimate sacrifice in leaving them behind is not what matters to Ambrose, to the Council of Light, to the entire universe. What everyone needed was a HERO and Holly was NOT a hero, which is why they made her INTO one. Unfortunately, it was that erasure and depersonalization you mentioned that Ambrose, and later Holly themself, thought was necessary in order to save everyone. Now you have a Wizard who may or may not be an entirely different person than what you started out with and for NO GOOD REASON. It's that "sacrifice yourself for others" trope that I love and hate so much 😭😭😭😭😭

[kewpidity]

anyway im starting a collection

[juette]

commission for @bookwermthings 👍

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[oflgtfol]

hes just a little fucking kitty

[dopaminegyro]

oh hey since it's saturday. anyone want a 4dopt referral