#Client Presentations

[sunlit-mess]

[mhin-t]

can't shake the feeling that leander's more of a handler than a hound

[peppermint-moss]

might i be too conceptual art pilled for illustration class (transcript under the cut in case you can't read my writing lol)

commission info || ko-fi (tip jar)

panel 1: Weird Books. "Prof[fessor]", with an arrow pointing towards them. on the sketchbook it says "sketchbook thumbnails". Moss is saying "and my other idea is a vertical composition"

panel 2: Moss: "so in theory in the completed book... you would flip it at the dramatic part!" On the left of her it says: "kinda fun, right?"

panel 3: Prof: "Flipping it around is a little weird, the horizontal one probably works better

panel 4: with an arrow pointing to Moss: "VA [Visual Arts] student in an illus[tration] class who has taken multiple VA book arts classes where turning a book on its side is like the tamest thing you could do with a book form"

[pdpenpals]

happy to have found your blog, love the concept!

could we maybe get a confession letter from pdh!travis? 👉👈

hi!! thank you so much, anon. hope you like the liberties i've taken with this request (you didn't specify what kind of confession it was going to be!! /silly), hehe. you'd wanna hear what this lil guy has to say, but he thinks it may be a little too much.

as expected, there’s another letter waiting for you at the usual spot. sure, it’s exciting, but you can’t help but wonder how fast it takes for your “secret admirer” (as your friends like to put it, even though you insist you're just friends) to send you a reply and leave it without you being able to catch a glimpse of him. maybe you should be scared instead. is it even possible to do that? who would have so much free time on their hands to go through the trouble of this anonymous (sorta) exchange? you two apparently.

the envelope as always is the plain white ones you can easily buy in bulk for cheap. there’s no seal, but you can easily tell it’s been shut tight by glue. you look around and find no one else within the vicinity, so you decide it should be fine to open it and start reading then and there. as usual, it's left unsigned.

My dearest cruel friend,

Re: your last letter, ouch. After how I’ve bared myself to you these past few weeks, that’s how you reply? As someone who’s been in Phoenix Drop longer than I have, I don’t think that’s very “bleeding heart” (I don't think that's the actual word they use but does anyone actually memorize the school's core values??) of you. Just kidding. Sorry.

I still wonder what life would be like if I never transferred to PD. So far acads and socializing have gotten better than expected but never easier. To be honest, what I have now isn’t exactly how I thought my high school experience here would be like. This year, I imagined going out with friends more, maybe even a nightly rendezvous with someone who’s caught my eye, but my words and I are falser than vows made in wine. 

My bad, practice has been way too fun to not quote this year's play. Seriously though…

I say all that, yet here I am, spending more time at school than I should, sticking around for a while longer on campus, checking every other hour for your next letter. Before I knew it, I’d spent the majority of this semester getting to know you. Now I do, and I am sure that there’s no one else like you in this world. I guess you could say I’m absolutely smitten by you.

My friend says I should just go up to you and reveal myself already, and as much as I want to say I don’t think it’s the right time yet, or that I prefer the intimacy of being your faceless penpal (free to quarrel with you all I like in pen without being judged), I’m honestly very very afraid of what you’d think of me when we finally meet face to face. No matter how hard I try, I'll never be like said friend, forward and confident and cool.

It is as clear as day that my fate is sealed.

You’d hate to hear this, but I’ve been meaning to distract myself from our exchange by choosing to hang out more with other people, hence my slower replies. But hear me out when I say that there’ll be this little something about them that makes me think all about you, and then I’ll get upset since they will never be anything like you. So there’s no way for you to tell me that don’t think of you every day.

PS. You’ve probably figured out who I am by now, haven’t you?

[uncanny-tranny]

Two things that are simultaneously true:

1. Gender and sexuality are complex and can be fluid. An identity isn't always fixed and can change with time for many reasons

2. It is not acceptable to force others to change their gender or sexuality and the mantra that they (queer people) can change if they only "try hard" is both cruel and homophobia and/or transphobia

[hollypies]

Hey! Whats the plot/general idea behind the flowercrown au? :0

SO GLAD YOU ASKED!!!!

So, the basics is that each time Gordon dies everything resets back to right after the rescas explosion. However his body sprouts flowers from the wound that ended up killing him, each different flower represents a different person.

Purple = Dr. Coomer

Blue = Bubby

White = benrey (it's sort of a blue purple ?)

Yellow = Tommy

Each time everything resets, more flowers sprout, becoming apart of Gordon's body. And I do mean apart ! Gordon can get energy from whatever natural light his flowers pick up, and if a petal is pulled it bleeds. It's kind of body horror ? I think. He can still see out of his flower eye, much to everyone's confusion

The reason is that Gordon, much like everyone else in the science team, isn't exactly human. The main difference is that he really, genuinely believes he's human. And when the Rescas punched a hole through time and space it triggered something in his subconscious that allows him to return when he dies.

Sort of like how Benrey does it, but Gordon isn't really in control, he's just desperate and stubborn to make it out of Black Mesa. At first everyone thinks it's the rescas specifically that's causing the flowers, but after each time Gordon dies they remember the previous timeline a little more.

The tricky thing is that Gordon is also blocking out his own memories of dying, and the timeline resetting also makes it difficult to remember, even if he's technically the one resetting (not on purpose, he's not exactly in control). When he comes across an area he died in though, little.. leaks start to flow through. So while the Betrayal only happens once, each time he passes through that area he remembers it happen, like some really messed up deja vu.

He never really gets his arm back, and after he gets the mini gun the flowers also sprout over it. Yeowch

Also the flowers that represent the science team are personal to Gordon, like how you associate your friend with like. A certain color or item!

The flowers also sprout around Black Mesa! Not just on Gordon, although he doesn't knkw that he's the reason it's happening. He feels better in the flower rooms, and if the flowers are present there usually isn't any threat (the flowers absorbed any hostiles but shhhhh don't tell the science team that)

Tommy, Gman and Benrey are the only ones that know that time is being messed up at first, but Tommy doesn't know why until the last "run". Since Gman is outside of reality he's not as affected, and Tommy can tell due to being related to Gman (Tommy isn't really human lol), and Benrey... Benrey has their own rules. In the end everyone would figure it out, including Gordon.

He doesn't take it well, but this au does have a happy ending :)

[diverbots]

Oh fuck bro I completely forgot I drew this page.

[cipher26]

So funny that before this episode imodna fans were like “i hope they at least talk 😕” lmfao. Now we here!

[tricitymonsters]

Pulling on Amirs expensive thigh high boots just to fold them like some pirate boots while Amir is screaming in the back.

The sobbing dramatics after you put a crease in his favorite calfskin thigh highs (his eyeliner is not running don't belive him)(this is how you end up getting fitted for your own)(and amir squeezes extra money out of his clients this month to cover it)

[kyeterna]

Hellish clientele

[thenighttrain]

i’m having such a busy day at work omg OF ALL DAYS why does it have to be today 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[evildeerboy]

the worst part abt the ux lead being laid off is now i have to present to clients. i don’t want to </3 i suck at it </3

[vulpixelates]

my wife's staycation is officially over 😔😔 she just went into her little office 😔 i am in mourning

[clare-with-no-i]

finally at the point in my law degree where foreigner's god is embarrassing to read back

[transmechanicus]

You’re going thru a bit of a ffem era. Is everything alright? You need some validation?

When does a girl not?!?!😫