#I do hope you sleep well I so do I

[miku-dollfie]

Goodnight everyone, sleep well and dream miku!

[kasha-malasha]

asleep

[plasticsandwich]

survived...!!

[starflungwaddledee]

did you remember to leave space for all your phantom limbs?

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[icantalk710]

Looong day of catching up on emails and work to set myself up to be (mostly) on vacation as of xmas 😩☕😵‍💫

[chibishortdeath]

Ya know, Castlevania tackled the concept that life after defeating Dracula could be difficult for a Belmont with Richter feeling like he’d lost all purpose and reason to go on living if not for saving others and fighting against something—

But, do you think any of them before him felt that way too?

I mean it sounds kind of miserable, being raised your whole life to be solely relied on for one moment… and then what? How do you handle the sudden shift to ‘not being needed anymore’? Evidently, most of them didn’t have very much happen to them after the events of their games since we don’t get to know—

But, do you think any of them ever got better? Do you think anyone before Richter ever learned how to live for themselves? Did Richter?

Anyway it’s 8 PM and I’m sitting around wondering if any of the Belmonts were still happy after their happy endings (debatable if certain ones got happy endings tbh but anyway), Konami can u check on them, I’m worried—

[usagifuyusummer]

More silly and fun practice sketches on the Victorian Era FOP AU lol. Just gonna post them here first while we're still developing this and busy with our real-life duties as students.

There's actually a ton of my thoughts in the alt text of these images lol. I hope it's still there. I will also include the links of the existing posts relating to this AU to keep track of what has been created.

Origin Discussion Posts

Updated Character Designs 1

Updated Character Designs and Concepts 2

Concept Art 1: Boy with a Parasol

Tumblr Asks 1

Credit: @keyintheeye-blog original creator and the default character designer of this Victorian Era FOP AU.

I will post my other thoughts (something like a what's happening update) on the repost of this later. Gotta get back to my unavoidable university duties... Have a nice day tho 💐

[clovenoko]

※ ♣️♦️ fictional children 🏵️🍈

I came up with the idea of "children of love", I guess, my favorite Trey&Cater !! a girl who doesn't want to be "cute" but "cool" and a boy who doesn't want to stand out and isn't used to showing true emotions !!

adult Trey and Cater with their babies 💚🧡💚🧡

[secondbeatsongs]

fun fact: if you went to the north american discworld convention in 2013, you've been in the same room as me at some point

[poetryoutloud]

sleep for the unfinished - v.w.

[anghraine]

Speaking of "The City on the Edge of Forever," I've been thinking about how my femslash Spirk AU winds out through the canon TOS episodes, interacts with gender expectations of the show, etc, and am mentally organizing episodes by how drastically affected they'd be.

I'm also thinking of S'paak hiding her ears beneath a beanie in 1930 :P

[wardingshout]

Hi!! I just wanted to say that the way you draw characters/use colors in your art is an absolute dream, I've never seen anything prettier. Do you have a specific way you pick/use colors, or any advice for coloring? You inspire my art so much, and I'd love to learn how to color like you someday :)

@braventheninth gonna reply to both of you here hope that's cool!

aaaah thank you so much I'm really honoured to hear you both like it and that it inspires you anon !! ;v; I don't actually know much about art theory-wise, aside from very basic colour theory that I always forget so most of my choices are pretty instinctual and based on my own preferences!

i can do my best to explain my thought process though! uuh it is. lots of text though just as a warning.

one thing I tend to do with almost everything is pick what kind of colour mood I'm going for! usually, since I love orange and also warm feelings, I'll aim for some kind of warm tone and when doing that I try to slide every colour I pick towards the warm end of the colour wheel. Blacks and whites are especially good for this! As a general thing I almost fully avoid picking any colours along those edges of the colour picker

instead I'll move all my colour choices a nudge into the square for the colours towards the tone I want (in this case warm) (the white is there be warm too I just forgor to type it).

and since I wanted warm colours for this drawing I desaturated the blue of Brain's pants so it would fit in better. I once heard someone say you should always pick one main colour and saturate fully and the further away from it on the colour wheel you got, the more desaturated your colours should be. I don't really do that bc I like my colours to stay bright but I do keep it in mind to mess around with sometimes.

I'm not always great at keeping this consistent, but I think it usually makes for pretty decent results... Other things I keep in mind are that when I pick the colour for my shadows I always make a little slide on the colour wheel towards the opposite tone of what I based my main colours on. oh and picking the right base colours ?? no clue tbh I always put every colour on it's own layer and then I spend a couple minutes adjusting them all seperately until I feel like they go well enough together. I usually avoid the bottom to right section of the square fully, bc I find they often get oversaturated and muddy, but that's just a personal preference I guess.

also since I enjoy the way coloured lineart works for my stuff I tend to mess around with layer settings for my lineart! usually the end results will look something like this:

where the clipped layer is clipped on to my colours folder. lineart is the only place where I just use plain black since I'm gonna change it with these layer settings later. it often still shows up as black for darker colours (and especially blues?) but it keeps a slightly coloured edge that I enjoy. if the blacks of the end result don't look good, messing around with the layer opacity usually changes stuff up. sometimes I'll also erase part of the lineart from one of the layers as a way to adjust.

I think what might be more relevant though, is the way I've been picking my colours for most of my recent posts though, which is. very differently. and also quite dependant on the fact I've been drawing on Tegaki! Tegaki has a limited colour palette that looks like this

only the 6 colour slots next to the bottom greyscale can be replaced by your own colours. As shown here I only bothered to add something to half of them; mainly the beige-ish colour I like to use for whites, a brown that I never use bc it's ugly with everything else here and a purple? that I only Think I added. both the brown and purple suffer from being too desaturated for the rest of the palette, which makes them stand out in a pretty bad way when used tbh.

I have. absolutely no idea what I'm doing with colours on this site though ngl. I think it just automatically pushes you to be a little more chaotic with the choices? a simple example is the green I picked for Link's tunic here doesn't really have any good, easy choice for shading imo. most of the "darker" green tones just feel more saturated, and it sticks out pretty bad as a shading colour for the more muted green I picked for the tunic. Removing those, the choice was either a mossy green or a blue.

and while the mossy green is still green, it feels far too dark a shading colour compared to what I picked as shading for the rest of the drawing. The blue has the added bonus of being closer to the purple I used for the black-ish parts.

I think my point is that it's really easy to push yourself to make some fun new choices when the tools you're using limit you a bit in a way? Looking at it now, I'm also seeing that the hands were lined with very different colours. I remember just thinking that I couldn't be bothered to find the exact same purple I used for the first hand so I just went with the first thing I landed on, that being a pink. But now I think it works pretty well since the one hand is lifted a bit more into the light and that goes well for a bright colour like pink. happy accidents and all that right ?

I am fully just yapping at this point 🧍 but the point still goes for most things drawn on this site.

like there was no reason to add the blues or reds or pinks to the heather here but I only had so many purple shades to work with. it might be less realistic but I don't think it would've come out as well if I had stuck to only the purple shades from my reference photo.

This ended up way way too long and I have no idea if any of it made sense or was helpful at all, but it was surprisingly fun to reflect on my own choices a bit more! especially since I often just do whatever I feel like I think it's helpful to sit back and consider what instinct actually tells me it's the right thing to do.

in an attempt to do something actually helpful uuh I recommend messing around with 2 specific things and switching around with them a bit; namely limited colour palettes (like 1 or 2 main tones imo) and then just going absolutely ham and just using whatever colour for everything (make them orange! put some blue and purple on the bark! leaves can be blue if they want to! (go more ham than I did tbh))

I think just messing around does so much for making some kind of sense of colours even without Knowing how they work. it's easy to say we should all study, but personally I'm pretty bad at it and it's more fun to just trial and error it... errors do happen a lot though omg do they happen, but that's helpful for figuring stuff out too!

[cent-scratchnsniff]

here together

[sluckythewizard]

[PUT INTO PLACE, TIED DOWN AND ARRANGED, AND IS NEVER THE SAME, AGAIN.]<-listen to my favorite songs. VAMPIRES ARE WONDERFUL ARENT THEY. THE FLESH IS SO MUCH MORE DURABLE. SO MUCH STRETCHIER THAN HUMANS. THE STRESS DOESNT KILL A VAMPIRE THE SAME WAY IT DOES A HUMAN. YOU CAN TAKE THEM APART THREAD BY THREAD AND LEAVE THEM WIDE AWAKE WITHOUT WORRY OF THE BRAINMATTER SPOILING UNDER VINEGARY AGONY.

[gotchibam]

WAH thank you sm for the help & support so far!!! ;_; I wasn't really expecting much help right away so I was surprised but thank you!! It helped a lot esp. w/ the loans I've had to pay ;;

I still have a lot of stuff to catch up on so I hope you guys can be patient w/ me 🙏I've opened patreon as a way to earn & also as motivation to finish my backlog. Tbh it's still overwhelming when I think about the backlog of work I have to do (it's a lot...) but hopefully I'll get things done eventually. For now I'm working on the preview for my patreon promo post so have this very messy & illegible wip for now:

My page is now live here if anyone would like to check it out :)

[traumatizedartist]

I'm in the mood to write, so I am introducing

MORE FUCKED UP KHAN AU!! (PS.in this one he has a DD prosthetic cuz him and J got stuck where v "died" at(idk I think it was camp 98.7? ) and now they have this older brother little sister type of relationship, they always fuck with each other, but enough about the heacannons

This was originally @electronix-arts idea for Uber fucked up Khan so I'm just expanding on the idea, hope you enjoy, and be warned I am not that good at writing so bear with me, thank you. With that out of the way, enjoy my little drones

Uzi walked toward the place she dreaded the most, the labs/church, or whatever it was supposed to be, she hated the damn place, but it was the only place they hadn't looked yet. Looked for who, you ask, Khan doorman, her father. She had her mother perched on her head, her still being a core made it hard to keep up.

"Do you think we'll find him here? " Uzi asked. "It's the only place we haven't looked. " "I hope we find him. "Your fathers a very strong man, I'm certain he'll be in there. You'll see."

As they walked closer, they heard a noise, almost like a voice, two voices. With the hope one of those voices was her father, she ran as fast as she could.

When she got to the doors of the church(?) she kicked it open with all her might. Said door collapsing on impact. 'Oops' Uzi thought, 'Meh, oh well' "Nice kick babe." "Thanks mom."

As she walked in, it was completely silent, there were some differences from the last time she was here, it was messier, but that didn't tell her much of anything, it could be a stray Sentinel that made the mess for all she knew.

She stopped at her moms old table when she heard it, giggles, coming from the ceiling, she looked up and saw "J?!" "HEHEHEHEHAHAHAHA"

J tried to tackled Uzi, but someone tackled J instead, it took her a bit to figure out who it was, but their voice was the confirmation she had been looking for for months.

"WHAT THE HELL DID I TELL YOU ABOUT TACKLING DRONES J? ROBO-GOD YOU'RE LUCKY I HAVE SOME EXTRA OIL OR I WOULD HAVE JUST Let.. you.... " Khan was yelling at J while turning, so he didn't see his family instantly. He was in shock when he did.

"...J, are you seeing what I'm seeing?" "Foood~ hehehehehahahaaha-" Khan cut her off with a shot to the head. "Uzi?" "... Dad"

Uzi ran to him, giving him the tightest hug he had ever been given by her. "Dad! Have you been stuck down here this whole time? Could you not have just left? Did you not find an exit? Why couldn't you-" she was interrupted by sniffing, she looked up to see her father on the verge of tears. "Oh Uzi thank robo-god you're ok! I was so worried about you! I thought I'd never see you again! I thought you died i-" he was interrupted by his own sobs. So happy to see his family ok. So goddamn happy.

Uzi had never seen her father like this, it had brought her to tears to. They collapsed together, a mess of happy tears, holding on to each other for God knows how long, until their crys subsided.

"Dad I'm so happy you're ooKKK WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR ARM?! AND YOUR FACE?!" "Huh? Oh! Uh n-nothing!" He hid his prosthetic behind his back, a pointless hope that she didn't see it.

"Khan. Doorman. Show me your arm right now." "Wha- who even are you?" "Dad that's mom!" "WHAT?" "OK! LESS ABOUT ME MORE ABOUT YOUR FATHER!" Nori cut in between them, using her solver to force Khans arm from behind his back "W-wait!" It was to late, they both had a full take of his arm. It was a disassembly drones arm, whose, they didn't know, but judging by the only, currently unconscious, disassembly drone in here, they assumed it was hers.

"What. Happened." Nori asked no, demanded. "I-i, I woke up with a lot of boulders on top of it, I tried for a few hours to push the rocks off but I couldn't, so I had to amputate. J just so happened to be nearby, also missing one of her arms, coincidental ami right? Anyway, I used it to amputate, she woke up and we were stuck in the very bottom of the church for 5 months, we just got up here, and have been slowly moving the rocks away from the door Uzi kicked down ever since." "And your face? Speaking of, let me take it off-" "No no don't please don't! Trust me you don't want to see what's underneath!"

As her parents kept on arguing about his bandages, Uzi had crept closer and closer to her father, until she was able to rip the bandages off.

"UZI!" "KHAN WHAT HAPPENED?!" "I TOLD YOU I DIDN'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT! I KNOW IT LOOKS AWFUL BUT NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I'VE TRIED TO GET RID OF IT IT DOESN'T GO AWAY, THAT'S WHY I KEEP IT COVERED, I CAN'T FUCKING SEE OUT OF IT! C-CAN.. can we please just go home now? I wanna go home, I wanna lay in a bed that's actually comfortable to lay in, I just wanna leave this place. Please?"

Nori and Uzi looked at him stunned, he had never talked to them like that before, it was clear this had affected him really badly. "Ok, we'll leave, I'm sorry I forced you to show us, I was just so worried, I'm still worried, we both are." "I know it's ok, I'm sorry for yelling, I've been through a lot these past few months." "Yeah no offence dad, we can tell."

They all started to laugh, until they heard another voice

"Not to ruin you happy family reunion, but can we leave now? I don't know about you but I am literally dying for some food." J had woken up, sadly, but taking a look at her father, she saw him smirk slightly. "Yes J, we can leave now, sheesh." "Ok smart ass, hop on then." Khan jumped onto J's back, he turned back to us and said, "Well? Hop on?" Uzi smiled at her fathers anticks, she missed this. She grabbed her mom, hopped up, and they all flew up towards the bunker. Finally, a complete family.

Well, that was it, I hope y'all like it, I'm not the best at stuff like this, so I hope it's up to everyone's standards.

Remember, if I don't see you again, good evening good morning and good night 😊