#I need to draw more fallout stuff

[confettay]

do you think we’ll see them in season two

[4dr3n4lin3]

vulpes

[elliebell77]

sorry i havent been posting i think im burnt out rn

[drooluwu]

umm been into fnv a lot recently..... very fond of Arcade. makes me sick that i cant physically beat his ass or kill him

[duskgryphon]

if i play fnv again it'll just be me drawing sift 300 times again i think. been thinking about fallout a lot lately...

[ruby-static]

Follower Riley time fellas!

Bonus shots because look at this nerd in his lab coat damnit- :

(My fucking god! These bitches gay! Good for them! Good for them.)

[hainge]

Makeup and fun!

bllk!dads feat:Michael Kaiser, Itoshi Sae, Shidou Ryusei, Yukimiya Kenyu and Chigiri Hyoma a/n: I am in fact so proud of chigiri's one adhabdahbfhj wrote it while kicking my feet it’s also almost 2am </3 productive life

Michael Kaiser

It started off normal.

Michael was on the couch, reading a book with one leg up, while Matilda sat beside him, munching on an apple and staring at him like he might suddenly turn into a movie.

They’d built Legos earlier, some weird-looking castle that had two doors and no windows. Matilda was proud. Michael was too tired to point out the structural flaws.

Then, she disappeared for five minutes.

When she came back, she held a makeup bag.

“Let’s do your makeup,” she said cheerfully.

Michael looked over his book. “Don’t you wanna draw or something?”

“Nope. You sit still. I’ll make you beautiful.”

“…I’m already beautiful.”

“You’ll be more.”

He sighed, marking his page. “I don’t think your mom will be happy if she finds out.”

“I’ll be careful.”

That was a lie. But she said it with such confidence, he let it slide.

Ten minutes in, Matilda had broken the mascara wand clean in half. She gasped, whispered “oh no,” and then used her fingers instead. It was clumpy. His lashes stuck together like tree branches after a storm.

She moved on.

Her tiny hands dug into a fancy compact, blush, probably, and then she scooped concealer with the same finger. She didn’t blend. She smooshed. Right onto his cheek.

“There,” she said. “Nice and red. Like a tomato.”

“Cool,” Michael muttered, trying not to blink.

Next came lipstick. It snapped halfway through the first layer. She shrugged and pushed the broken part into his lips like she was applying glue to a poster.

“I’m so good at this.”

“You are,” he agreed, because lying to your kid was allowed when they were already emotionally attached to the outcome.

Then came the eyebrow gel.

Except it wasn’t gel anymore. She mixed it with something else. Foundation? Water? Guilt?

Whatever it was, it ended up smeared across his eyebrows like brown glue. He scratched his head and instantly regretted it.

And then… the powder.

It slipped from her hand with a soft “uh-oh” and hit the floor like a mini explosion. €45, gone in a puff of shimmer.

They both stared at it.

“Don’t move,” she whispered. “We clean.”

They wiped, dusted, swept. Matilda even used one of his old soccer jerseys to soak up some of the fallout. When they were done, the room was cleaner than before.

They sat in silence. Michael looked like a defeated clown.

Matilda smiled. “You look amazing.”

“Thanks. I can’t feel my face.”

You came home already done with the day.

Work had been hell. Your boss was passive-aggressive, your back ached, and all you wanted was to put on your comfiest sweatshirt and exist in silence for twenty minutes without being needed.

Instead, you opened the bathroom door.

And paused.

The first thing you noticed was the powder. It was subtle, but your trained eyes caught it, the faint shimmer near the baseboards, the slightly off-color grout line.

Your heart sank.

Then came the rest.

The cracked blush compact. Your favorite lipstick, snapped in two like a breadstick. Foundation cap missing. Concealer and blush mixed. Mascara, twisted open and dried out. Your setting powder? Gone. Vaporized. You didn’t even want to touch it.

You stood there, gripping the doorframe, jaw tight.

They touched your stuff.

You stormed down the hallway, shoes still on, bag still hanging from one shoulder. No greeting. No preamble. You walked into the living room and-

There he was.

Michael. Your grown-ass husband. Lying on the couch like he hadn’t committed a war crime. Face full of smeared glitter, eyebrows suspiciously sticky, and faint remnants of fuchsia lipstick in the corner of his mouth.

He looked up, blinking innocently. “Hey.”

Your hands clenched into fists. “Michael.”

“Yeah?”

“Why do you look like a rejected Bratz doll?”

He straightened slightly. “Okay, first of all, that’s rude.”

You dropped your bag onto the floor with a thud. “What. Did. You. Do.”

From behind the couch, a small head popped up. “Hi Mommy!”

Matilda.

You exhaled through your nose. “What. Did she do to you?”

“I was her model,” Michael said, a bit too proudly.

“And my makeup?” you snapped.

Michael hesitated. “She… borrowed it.”

“You LET her?”

“She said she’d be careful!”

“She's FIVE, Michael!”

Matilda slowly slid out of view.

You marched into the middle of the room, pointing toward the hallway. “Did you not see the broken blush? The mascara? My €45 setting powder? It’s a war zone in there.”

Michael had the nerve to look slightly offended. “We cleaned.”

“I don’t care if you vacuumed it with a Dyson on holy mode. My entire routine is in pieces.”

Matilda peeked back up, holding a Lego brick like a peace offering. “We made a castle?”

You turned back to Michael. “You know what else you made? A €124 shopping list.”

He winced.

“Oh, and you’re not just replacing the makeup,” you added. “You’re explaining to the Sephora cashier why you need glitter-resistant setting spray and a blush called 'Super orgasm'”

He sighed. “Do I have to say the shade name out loud?”

“Oh, you’ll say it. Loud and proud.”

Matilda tugged at your sleeve. “Mommy… am I grounded?”

You crouched down, voice soft but firm. “Matilda, sweetie, I love you. But if you touch my serum again, I’ll file a restraining order.”

Michael cleared his throat. “Does that go for me too?”

You glared at him. “Michael, if you so much as look at my mascara again, I swear to God—”

He stood up quickly. “Matilda. Shoes. Let’s go.”

“Where?” she asked.

“To sell a kidney,” he muttered. “Apparently I owe your mom half of Sephora.”

Itoshi Sae

Sae should’ve known better the moment Kimiko came into the room with her hands on her hips like a CEO.

“Daddy,” she announced, “I’m going to be a makeup artist when I grow up.”

Sae didn’t look up from the TV. “That so?”

“I already made a lookbook. I call this one ‘Sun Princess.’” She shoved a paper into his face. It was a crayon drawing of a girl with gold eyeshadow and orange cheeks, wearing what looked like a tiara made of eyeliner pens.

Sae blinked. “Looks... bright.”

She nodded. “Yup. And now you’re going to wear it.”

He slowly turned his head. “Come again?”

“We’re trying it. On your face. With Mommy’s makeup.”

Sae closed his book. “That’s not going to happen.”

She squinted at him. “Do you want to hurt my dreams, Daddy?”

“…no"

“Sit down. I already laid out the palette.”

He sighed, like a man heading into war. “Just the eyeshadow. Nothing else.”

Kimiko was already tying a towel around his neck like a cape. “Sure, sure.”

An hour later, he’d lost all control of the situation.

The “just eyeshadow” plan had escalated fast.

“Stop frowning. You’re creasing it,” she scolded, dabbing more gold onto his lids with a tiny sponge she kept calling her “power blender.”

He didn’t dare move.

“I said close your eyes. But not too tight. Ugh, Daddy, this is hard work. I’m building a brand here.”

Sae said nothing. His cheeks were burning, not emotionally, physically. Kimiko had layered on so much blush, he could feel it tingling. Not to mention the bronzer, which she’d called “spicy powder” and generously applied all over his jawline and cheekbones.

“Looking good,” she muttered to herself, smudging one wing of eyeliner with the grace of a chaotic Picasso. One side is snatched. The other is... interpretive.

“I can’t feel my skin,” he said.

“You don’t need to. You’re art.”

He looked in the mirror. Orange undertone. Flamingo blush. Uneven eyeliner. But no products broken. No brushes destroyed. She even cleaned the sponge after each shade change. Honestly? She had technique.

Still. He felt like a baked sweet potato.

You came home to this masterpiece.

Kicked off your shoes, dropped your bag, walked into the living room and just stopped. Your tired brain tried to process the sight:

Your husband. Sitting rigid on the couch. Bronzed to oblivion. Eyeliner tragic. Sparkle highlight catching the light like a prism. And your daughter, hands on hips, nodding at her own handiwork.

“...Sae,” you said slowly. “What the hell is on your face?”

“She’s living her dream,” he deadpanned.

Kimiko spun around. “Mommy, look! He’s the Sun Princess! I even did contour but like… experimental.”

You covered your mouth, trying not to laugh. “Oh wow. Oh my God. Your nose contour looks like… like a lightning bolt.”

“On purpose,” Kimiko said. “It’s called editorial chaos.”

You pulled out your phone. “Hold still. This is going on the family group chat.”

“Don’t,” Sae muttered.

“Say cheese, Sun Princess.”

He didn’t even blink. Just stared, cheeks blazing with artificial color as you snapped five photos in a row.

“I hope you realize this is revenge,” you grinned. “For letting her eat frosting with a spoon last week.”

Kimiko raised her hand. “I approve this revenge.”

Shidou Ryusei

You should’ve known something was wrong the moment the house was quiet.

Too quiet.

No screaming. No running. No Shidou yelling about “epic snack time” or your daughter humming off-key to anime openings. Just… silence.

Until you stepped inside the room you shared with him, and saw it.

The ring light was on. Your makeup bag was open. And right in front of the camera, posed with one hip popped and fake lashes batting like palm leaves in a storm, was your husband.

Ryusei. In full glam.

And beside him, perched on a pink stool like a gremlin beauty influencer, was Shoko, holding a lip gloss wand like a weapon of mass destruction.

They both turned around, eyes wide.

“Hope you gu—” you started, then just froze. “What is going on?”

A beat of silence.

Then: “Welcome back to our channel,” Shidou grinned, glitter highlighter blinding under the ring light. Shoko struck a pose.

An Hour Earlier

They were sitting on the couch, halfway through watching cursed 5-Minute Crafts videos, when a tutorial for “Easy Lip Gloss in 60 Seconds” played.

Shidou squinted at it. Something in his brain clicked. Telepathically, Shoko gasped beside him.

They locked eyes.

“Let’s do a GRWM,” Shidou said.

“Yesssss,” Shoko whispered. “Get. Ready. With. Me.”

“Camera?”

“Charging.”

“Lighting?”

“Ring light from the closet.”

“Angle?”

“Front-facing and flawless.”

“Makeup?”

“…Mommy’s drawer.”

They fist-bumped.

The transformation was chaos, but organized chaos. Shoko, a menace with a mission, directed him like a six-year-old Spielberg.

“Okay Daddy, sit still. I’m doing the liner.”

“Sharp enough to kill a man?”

“Sharp enough to stab my opps.”

“Hell yeah.”

She narrated everything in a dramatic little Voiceover. “Okay guysss… so like, first we’re priming…what's primer again?…wait nevermind.”

Ryusei couldn’t stop grinning. He even helped her blend the concealer like a pro. Who knew he had technique?

And then—

“Time for the… the bonze,” Shoko announced proudly.

“Bronzer, pumpkin,” he corrected.

“Yes, that.”

She smeared it directly on his nose, no mercy. “DAMN, sweetie,” he said, wheezing.

They tried lashes. Took three tries. The glue got on his eyebrow. He may have lost some dignity but they made it work.

“Okay now do the final pose,” Shoko directed. “Look over the shoulder, then wink.”

Ryusei turned slowly to the camera, lashes flapping like moth wings. He winked. Then fake gasped.

That’s when you walked in.

Back to Present

You just stood there, blinking at the sight: Your grown-ass husband, with fuchsia blush, eyeliner wings that could lift a small bird, and lips shimmering in your limited edition gloss. Your daughter looking like she just conquered the runway.

They looked back at you with identical wide, guilty eyes.

“…Is that my Charlotte Tilbury lipstick?” you asked.

“Allegedly,” Shidou said.

“Those are my fake lashes,” you added, stepping closer.

Shoko giggled. “They’re Dad’s now.”

You blinked at them, speechless.

Then you started laughing, really laughing, because what else could you do when your husband looked like a drag queen who'd been coached by a sugar-fueled child?

“Pose again,” you said, pulling out your phone. “I’m not letting this go undocumented.”

Shoko threw up peace signs. Shidou did the duck lips. You died a little inside, and lived.

Yukimiya Kenyu

The house was calm. The kind of calm that only happened when the laundry was folded, the sun was setting, and the soft sound of your snoring floated from the couch nearby, finally getting the nap you'd been threatening to take all week.

Yukimiya sat on the bed beside a basket of warm clothes, folding neatly, rhythmically, while Emi matched socks and chatted like a little bird.

“daddy,” she said suddenly, “can I do your makeup after this?”

He paused mid-fold. “Hmm… I don’t know, sweetie. Mommy doesn’t want anyone near her vanity.”

She tilted her head, already pouting. “But I got all A’s on my tests.”

He exhaled, long and slow, but smiled. He was a weak man for his daughter, especially when her bangs fell over her eyes and her lip wobbled.

“Fine,” he said, setting the shirt down. “But we have to be quick. And we cannot—cannot—destroy anything.”

“Deal!” she beamed.

They tiptoed toward your vanity like two burglars in a heist movie. Emi took it very seriously. She had laid out each product like surgical tools. Yukimiya helped her sort everything, identifying brushes and palettes like a trained professional.

“Okay, this is foundation. Use the sponge gently. Don’t drag it.”

“Yes, Papa.”

“This is for your cheeks. A little goes a long way.”

“Yes, Papa.”

“This is highlighter, but—oh. You already opened it. Okay.”

By the time she was done, he looked like a K-pop idol. Skin glowing. Blush soft and natural. Lashes curled and coated delicately. His lips were still untouched, waiting.

“Now lipstick, Daddy,” Emi said with deadly calm.

“Wait—be gentle with that, the twisty part is—”

PRESS.

Too late.

She had shoved the lipstick halfway into his teeth with full first-grade determination. The tube cracked sideways under the pressure, smearing bright coral across his chin.

“…Sweetie,” he whispered, frozen. “Oh no. Oh no no no-”

“What’s wrong?”

“You broke Mommy’s favorite lipstick.”

Emi gasped. “Oh no. We were doing so well.”

“Ken…”

Both of them stiffened.

Your sleepy voice cut through the silence like a horror soundtrack.

You stepped into the room, blinking through your post-nap fog. You rubbed your eyes and froze.

There he was.

Yukimiya Kenyu, crouched beside your vanity. Eyes sparkly. Cheeks glowing. Coral lipstick half on, half under his mouth. Your daughter standing next to him, looking like she’d just murdered Barbie.

“Are you with…” you squinted harder, “what the…”

Yukimiya smiled with all the grace he could muster. “She got all A’s.”

You stared at him.

Then at your lipstick.

Then back at him.

“…You better pray that wasn’t my favorite-”

You blinked. Took a second look.

“…Actually, you know what? I always hated that shade. Looked weird on me. Makes sense it ends up working on you, of course.”

Yukimiya raised an eyebrow. Emi beamed.

“We slayed Mommy,” she said proudly.

You sighed, rubbing your face. “Yeah, yeah, you slayed, whatever. But next time? Ask me first.”

Yukimiya held up a tissue in surrender. “Noted.”

“I need coffee before I decide how mad I am.”

Yukimiya mouthed “thank god” and immediately started wiping his lips with a tissue. Emi was already trying to hide the broken lipstick under the table like a criminal.

Chigiri Hyoma

The night started peacefully.

You were out with your friends, finally letting yourself breathe. A girls' night, long overdue. You left the twins with Chigiri, who had promised you nothing catastrophic would happen while you were gone.

Promises are just... words, really.

8:43 PM – Chigiri's Living Room

“UNO,” Chigiri said flatly, dropping a +4 on Mayu with zero remorse.

Mayu’s face crumpled. “…Not fair.”

Himari let out the most dramatic sigh in the history of sighs. “I’m bored. Can we do something else?”

Chigiri leaned back against the couch. “Like what?”

She looked around. Scanned. Calculated. And then, there it was.

Your mascara.

Sitting innocently on the coffee table. Taunting fate.

“Makeup,” Himari declared. “On you, Dad.”

Chigiri didn’t even flinch. “Not a good idea.”

“Daaaaaad.”

“Not a goooood ideaaaaa.”

“If you don’t let us, I’ll tell Mommy about the vase you broke when you kicked the ball inside the house.”

He paused.

“…Fine. Fineeeee. But both of you get one side. We’re splitting my face. Equal rights.”

9:12 PM – The War Zone

Chigiri sat cross-legged on the floor, every cell in his body screaming, “This is how legends die.”

Mayu, gentle and focused, handled the left side of his face with unexpected grace. She actually blended.

“Good job, Mayu,” he mumbled.

Himari was on a different planet.

“Noooo, don’t move, you’re gonna ruin my art!”

“Why does it feel like you're stabbing me?”

“Beauty is pain, Daddy.”

And then, suddenly-

“...What are you drawing?”

“Nothing.”

Pause.

“Is that-HIMARI--”

“SHHHH.”

She had drawn a dick on his cheek. In eyeliner.

Where a blush contour should be.

“Where did you even learn what that is?!”

“I have bros in my class.”

1:34 AM – The Aftermath

When you walked through the door, the house was oddly quiet. The lights were low. Peaceful.

You tiptoed to your room and found all three of them curled up in your bed, the twins tucked under each arm of your very unconscious husband.

But something glinted under the dim lamp light.

You leaned in.

"...Is that..."

You squinted.

"...Is that a dick on your face?!"

You slapped his shoulder in a harsh whisper. “Bae… babe. Babe! Wake up!”

“Huh—wha—” he blinked up at you like a stunned deer. “What time is it?”

You pointed furiously. “What. The hell. Is this?!”

He wiped his cheek lazily and only smeared the eyeliner more. “Himari’s creative?”

You stared at him, then sighed and walked to the bathroom. Looked down at the toilet and...surprise! there there was your mascara, floating.

The Next Morning – Breakfast Table of Regret

You sipped your coffee, staring across the table at your husband.

He sat on the opposite end like a man on trial, face wiped clean but soul permanently stained.

“So,” you said flatly. “Want to explain why my mascara was floating in the toilet like a drowned rat?”

Chigiri cleared his throat. “In my defense… she was threatening me with blackmail.”

“And the eyeshadow mixed with concealer?”

“Himari was blending ‘like the YouTubers.’”

“And the eyeliner art?”

“…She said it was anatomically accurate. I don’t even know what that means anymore.”

You rubbed your temples.

In the corner, Mayu and Himari giggled over their cereal.

“Next time,” you muttered, “I’m hiring a babysitter. One with armor.”

[sabrondabrainrot]

Bring back LAES!

I'm steadily making progress on catching up on sun and moon show along with foxy and monty etc etc but it's pretty difficult when one of the main key plot lines is gone. I know a few spoilers thanks to fanfiction but I want to see the drama in person.

Here's some outfit ideas for tsams cause I'm a sucker for fashion and redesigns!

Order is, SolarFlare - Lunar - NewMoon - Old Moon - Sunny (Solar's dimension) - Sun

closeups and more brainrot under the cut!

Explaining my redesigns! Lunar - he's not really a redesign and more so an overdesign. I love adding tons of little details to him to really hammer home his star-ness. He's such an interesting little guy, like yes he acts childish but I can see he's really growing (SAD I CANT WATCH MORE CAUSE THE SHOW IS GONE). I saw the ep he killed Eclipse and homeboy revived. The entire time I was like "Waaahh Lunar??? Waaahhh???" but I love the drama ngl.

SolarFlare - Same as Lunar, not really a redesign I just drew him with no dirt. I really love his base design it's so neat it makes me think of like sci-fi concepts from the 80's. Something from fallout really. I think it's kind of funny Eclipse's aesthetics for SolarFlare when you compare him next to say Jack who Solar designed.

OldMoon - I just wanted to give him a sleek mad scientist cool guy suave vibe. I saw the more recent thumbnails of him with a turtle neck and idk that's just peak character design for me. I'm a simple woman put the dumb-dumb in a dark turtleneck. I want him to kind of look like the BadGuy TM (he's not actually) so he gets all edgy and hard edges and stuff.

NewMoon - I wanted to do a similar color scheme but instead he has lighter colors like more white incorporated into his fit. To give him the whole 'reborn' aesthetic. He's all like "old moon wore black well I wear white now I'm nothing like him so hah!" kinda thinking. I gave his cap a fur texture cause of that one ep he turned into a furry. I drew rounder stuff on him cause he's a big ol' softy sweety pie.

Sunny - Sunny is my headcanon of Sun from Solar's dimension. I think it's really interesting his default with no personality was theater performance and not say...doing daycare stuff? I feel like honoring the FNAF books with this design by leaning heavily into the theater performer look. I like to think in Solar's dimension Sun and Moon were originally made for theater. (so far in the show I've noticed Creator says 'they needed a daycare attendant' something like that so it comes off more like they were intended for the daycare from the start VS. Solar's dimension where Sunny's core seems to be more so for the performing arts.) I also wanted to make Sunny look different from Sun for the extra angst potential of "They're similar but not the same" so I leaned more into a blue palette for him.

Sun - I just wanted to give him big puffy everything. I took away the tutu. nothing against the tutu I just hate drawing the damn thing. I like to think Sun in main has white eyes because he's so burnt out from within. *badum tish* (eyes are the window to the soul-) I also covered him in stickers because he totally would just be covered in stickers from the kids. I also decided to give some of his rays cracks because I think he's extremely sentimental and even in a newly upgraded body (after using star power to defeat Eclipse the first time) he'd keep rays from his original body? I also put the cracks ones on the side of his face where Old Moon hit him. Why? Because it just seems like something Sun would do. I love him so.

Ok just some brainrot stuff, look away to avoid spoilers .

RUIN DESTROYED HOW MANY DIMENSIONS?? SOLARS DEAD. LUNAR KILLED ECLIPSE. DARK SUN IS PLOTTING??? MOON BE CRYING??? Also Francine just had a birthday! ONE OF THE BLOODMOON BOYS ARE DEAD AND SAME WITH ONE OF THE STITCHY BOYS??? HELLO?!?

I love the drama.

Also, I love how every single kid vibe checks Sun and he passes every time. Francine? She loves Sun and learns from him. FC? He ONLY feels safe with Sun for a bit. Barry? He hugged Sun after gonad checking him (a right of passage for the bunny kid). Jack? I'm pretty sure he literally is just one room away from Sun at all times (he also calls Sun's cats his master???). I have yet to see Dazzle, but Dazzle 10000% loves Sun (I've seen the edits).

ALSO? When Lunar was first brought into the family the first person he hugged was Sun and then later on when Earth was in danger he ran into SUN's arms for safety/comfort. They're family your honor.

Sobbing and Crying laying on the floor over Solar's death but I think he'll be back.

Also the molten thing with Ruin? I'm excited to see more.

I don't have a youtube account to post about saving LAES but if anyone wants me to draw more LAES just to help the community please let me know. I'm planning to draw my idea of Earth next.

[nazalieee]

— resources for new nickstorians! ★

Hello! I took it upon myself to draw a list of links, streams, other info that I think newer Nickstorians would find useful. These are really just things to help people get started on Nick info or Nick's dynamics with others that are often talked about in the fandom.

This post will be edited overtime as I find more stuff to put on here.

++ You'll need Telegram to get access to some of the Nick streams. Last edited on: 2025-05-26

TUMBLR POSTS:

!! ★ Kuiperoid's Nick Fuentes 3-Piece Essay: https://www.tumblr.com/kuiperoid/767327397235261440/unoptical?source=share

!! ★ The Nick Fuentes Side of Tumblr information post by Llamhigyn-y-dwr: https://www.tumblr.com/llamhigyn-y-dwr/781302047107645440/warnings?source=share (Great for groypers, or people coming from outside fandom spaces who have no idea the culture of Nickstorians)

Guys Nick Fuentes Has Been Accused of Hooking Up With: an Analysis by Llamhigyn-y-dwr - https://www.tumblr.com/llamhigyn-y-dwr/778785787632287744/fuentesharem?source=share

Nick Being Violent compilation by Llamhigyn-y-dwr - https://tmblr.co/ZmhgCOhL6g-CCy00

Nick Fuentes KiwiFarms Health Thread Summary by Seralul - https://seralu.tumblr.com/post/784620685967458304/%E1%AF%93-the-official-nick-fuentes-kiwifarms-health

NICK TV/MOVIE APPEARANCES:

MTV: White Supremacy Destroyed My Life (2019) - https://odysee.com/White-nationalist-Nick-Fuentes-on-MTV:4

WBS: Tour Across America (2021) Full Movie - https://odysee.com/@BNN:6/White-Boy-Summer%2C-Tour-Across-America:f

Louis Theroux Forbidden America Episode (2022) - https://rumble.com/v3a7ykg-nick-fuentes-louis-theroux-forbidden-america-full-hd.html

The Most Cancelled Man in America (2022) Full Movie - https://vimeo.com/758156517

KIWIFARM THREADS:

Nick's Family thread - https://kiwifarms.st/threads/la-familia-fuentes-fuentes-family.123810/

Nick's Health thread - https://kiwifarms.st/threads/nicks-anatomy-health-developmental-problems-diseases.120356/

Nick vs. Jaden thread - https://kiwifarms.st/threads/nicholas-j-fuentes-vs-jaden-mcneil.119993/

Unsolicited Nick pictures thread - https://kiwifarms.st/threads/unsolicited-nick-pics.121346/

May 10th stream thread - https://kiwifarms.st/threads/may-10th-cope-stream.118680/

Nick's Alleged Ex-Boyfriend (Zachary Zagorski/macaquefan56) - https://kiwifarms.net/threads/nick-fuentes-nicholas-joseph-fuentes-der-america-first-puerrer-nick-the-knife.64977/post-20471438

NICK X JADEN MCNEIL (NADEN):

Nick talking about smacking Jaden's ass aka Dumper Wars -

Nick addresses recent fallout with Jaden McNeil (May 6th, 2022) - https://odysee.com/@GloyperClips:4/IMG_2457:a?r=2V8rquQrfs8CvbLiBWTdWhsLd5ndW1xL

Jaden McNeil on Kino Casino (May 7th, 2022) - https://www.youtube.com/live/Cc8VNuFwkfo?si=-VR0EL8VoOMfb4ik&t=1807

Nick and Tyler Russell Discuss Jaden Pre-Show (May 10th, 2022) - https://t.me/NJFArchive/1071

Nick addresses Jaden & Simon | May 10th, 2022 full stream - https://t.me/NJFArchive/1072

"alone again on a friday night? how pathetic" | Nick talks more about Jaden, plus reacts to some people covering the drama - https://t.me/NJFArchive/1083

Nick can't stop talking about Jaden McNeil (June 20th, 2022) - https://odysee.com/@CringeClips:5/NickTalksAboutJadenAGAIN:6

Leafyishere Stream Ft. Nick, Jaden, Ethan Ralph FULL 6 hour stream - (July 20th, 2023) - https://rumble.com/v3178c6-andrew-tate-has-become-gay-calling-sneako-and-keem-vs-nick.html

NICK X DESTINY (NESTINY): *some nestiny content is already in other sections*

Comprehensive Spreadsheet Chronicling and Sourcing Every Public Destiny/Nick Interaction by TheOmniGroyper - http://tinyurl.com/NickstinyArchive

Nick Fuentes & Destiny Hangout IRL Streams (2022) -

The Woman Question /w Destiny & Nick Fuentes (2022) -

Lauren Southern Manifesto Leads To Fuentes Shouting Match (2022) -

NICK X KEITH WOODS (NEITH):

Nick talking about Keith (2021) - https://odysee.com/@RabidForestman:0/Nick-Fuentes--Thoughts-on-Keith-Woods-Richard-Spencer:7

Nick mentions Keith again (2021) - https://odysee.com/@RabidForestman:0/Nick-Fuentes-Keith-Woods-Richard-Spencer--2021-07-26:1

First time Neith ever talked to each other (2021) - https://rumble.com/v6r7bdg-nick-fuentes-and-keith-woods-talk-for-the-first-time-2021.html

Nick & Beardson critique Keith Woods (2022) -

Keith Woods responds to Nick's critique w/ Joel Davis - https://archive.org/details/youtube-SNEc8h3YOaU

When Neith first met in-person (2023) | Timeline post - https://nazalieee.tumblr.com/post/777597895613546496/ooh-alright-i-think-i-talked-about-this-maybe

Neith interview (2023) - https://odysee.com/keithwoods:e/njfuncensored:8

Nick & Keith talk on his Christmas Marathon Stream (2023) - https://rumble.com/v441mjr-nick-fuentes-interviews-keith-woods-dec-27-2023.html

SNEAKO X NICK X KEITH stream (2024) - https://rumble.com/v4sohfu-nick-fuentes-x-keith-woods-x-sneako.html

WoodsTown Weekly Windup: Episode 4 ft. Nick (2024) - https://rumble.com/v5bessz-woodstown-weekly-windup-ep.-4-w.-nick-fuentes.html

Neith play Phasmophobia together on Halloween (2024) - https://rumble.com/v6qv2a4-nick-fuentes-and-keith-woods-play-phasmophobia-together.html

'Keith' Mentions on Nick's KF thread - https://kiwifarms.st/search/30889748/?q=Keith&t=post&c[thread]=64977&o=relevance

The Ultimate Neith Compilation (Made by me!) - Coming Soon...

JUSTPEARLYTHINGS X NICK STREAMS:

Nick interview - https://rumble.com/v2iku8g-it-is-back-the-sit-down-with-nick-fuentes-justpearlythings-give-it-2-000-vi.html

Nick on the Pregame show - https://rumble.com/v2iwzc2-nick-fuentes-podcast.html

Nick on Pregame #2 - https://rumble.com/v2f0v8i-panel-with-nick-fuentes-full-show-justpearlythings.html

"Nick Fuentes REACTS to Candace Owen's Critique of Modern Dating" - https://t.me/NJFArchive/1631

FRESH&FIT X NICK STREAMS:

Nick Interview - https://rumble.com/v2yps1w-the-most-banned-man-on-the-internet-meets-miami.html

Nick Panel w/ 7 Black Women - https://rumble.com/v2yrpaw-after-hours-w-nick-fuentes-and-girls.html

Nick vs. Destiny debate ft. Zherka & Sneako - https://rumble.com/v2zay60-nick-fuentes-destiny-sneako-and-jonzherka-debate-.html

Nick Panel #2 ft. Destiny, Zherka, & Sneako - https://rumble.com/v2zpsgg-fresh-and-fit-ah-w-destiny-jon-zherka-nick-fuentes-and-sneako.html

OTHER NICK VIDEOS & STREAMS:

Nick reacts to his Iceberg video by Michael Alberto - https://odysee.com/@MichaelAlberto:7/iceberg-reaction:8

Nick reacts to Hunter Avallone reacting to his Iceberg video - https://odysee.com/@MichaelAlberto:7/nick-reacts-hunter:3

Nick Fuentes & Baked Alaska vs. Rose Wrist & Destiny debate Jan 6th and Buffalo Shooting - https://odysee.com/@PoliticallyProvoked:6/123:47?r=2V8rquQrfs8CvbLiBWTdWhsLd5ndW1xL

Nick talking about raping Rose Wrist supercut - https://odysee.com/@RacistGayGuy:8/Nick-Fuentes-catboy-rape-rose-wrist:7

Nick's take over of Dlive - https://odysee.com/@MichaelAlberto:7/dlive-the-rise-and-fall-%28pewdiepie-boom:2

America First Ep. 216 (Embrace The State) Feat. Lucian Wintrich - https://archive.org/details/america-first-with-nicholas-j-fuentes-youtube/%5B2018-08-07%5D+Embrace+the+State+feat.+Lucian+Wintrich+++America+First+Ep.+216.mkv

Nick & CatboyKami's Full 10-hour IRL stream - https://archive.org/download/america_first/other/America%20first%20X%20lolisocks-DPqS9yUqjFMH.mp4

Nick Fuentes Catboy Superchats (Supercut) -

Nick Fuentes vs. Dean Withers Debate (2024) -

Nick recaps the debate on his show - https://rumble.com/v5hhv79-dean-withers-debate-recap.html

Nick's Thoughts On Tomboys - https://odysee.com/KyrieEleison:5/tomboys:c

Nick reacting to his Fanfiction (made by Nickstorians!) - https://rumble.com/v6qpmrg-nick-fuentes-finds-out-theres-fanfiction-about-himself.html

Nick videos on YouTube Playlist - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6fHeyDDMiW8Dzi_-Ufg0gqRP6Z4UYb_M&si=NblE-2QNXtnbaOak

The Nicholas J. Fuentes Show (Nick's old High School show) Full Playlist - https://rumble.com/playlists/exGBiK65jes

OLD SHOWS & MEDIA:

America First Directionary Listing (Nick Media from 2017 - 2021) - https://archive.org/download/america_first/

Nick Media from 2021 - 2022 - https://archive.org/download/america_first_2

2022 Media - https://archive.org/download/america_first_3

Nick's Dlive Streams - https://archive.org/download/nickfuentes_dlive

For more videos or clips you can always follow the Nickstorian clippers (Me & Llamhigyn-y-dwr) on their channels! ♡

Mines - Rumble | Odysee Llamhigyn-y-dwr - Rumble | Odysee

Hope you found this helpful, if you think there's something I should add in here that's missing, suggest it in my ask box! Have a good day, afternoon or night!

Love, Nazaline ♡

[turbofanatic]

Hyrule's resting bitch face champion for three decades and counting.

@scopophobia-polaris asked for some more details on this silly guy and I needed to post the redesign of his scars so I'm gonna ramble!

General "rules" I am using for the Bad Moon AU:

-You cannot change the future. If you saw the future, it happens. Maybe not to you, but it happens. Time travel either involves splitting timelines, temporal loops (see the song of storms), or two extremely similar timelines that collapse together (a dumb child goes to the past to plant beans). What does this mean for Termina? OH GOD OH GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TINY WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!

-If you turn into something, you will never entirely turn back.

-Two opposing wishes on the Tri Force will really fuck things up. Also, it happened. Bad Moon is about dealing with the fallout.

Tiny has a series of magic scars from his various transformations. Most of them are benign or beneficial due to Farore's blessing and the Fierce Deity's Mask's intervention, but not all. Believe it or not, this is me nerfing him, because I'm getting rid of all the Terminian masks except for the FD's mask, which gets broken.

-From the Deku mask he has ivy vines. Most are centered along his spine. He uses them to hold stuff. If he sleeps in fertile soil they will grow into the ground and he leaves weird plants that are sort of beholden to him all over the place. Gross. Anyways, remember how the Hero's Shade is covered in ivy? The "missing" eye is also more or less a Deku scrub's pitlike eye now, granting him low-light but otherwise mediocre vision in that eye.

-From the Goron mask he is disturbingly strong now. Most of Farore's blessed are pretty strong to begin with and now he's got Darmani's strength on top of that. His teeth are continuously growing and need to be worn down by grinding them on each other (because he's missing a tooth from that facial scar those teeth are maloccluded and grow all weird). It's definitely inspired by wrathful deity artwork though. He's also extremely resistant to heat. He got the white hair and scales on his shoulders/knees/elbows from Darmani too. Guess what part of his magic scarring the Hero of Twilight inherits!

-From the Zora mask he has some extremely strong scales on his forearms that can be used to defend himself. He can also make nasty electrical shocks, is very resistant to electrocution, is an extremely good swimmer (nowhere near as good as Mikau though), and can hold his breath for twenty minutes easily. His toes are webbed too.

-From the Giant's mask his height just kinda varies. His "true" height is over seven feet tall but it can vary between about 6"/15cm in either direction. He has some control over this but it's more related to his sense of security. He's at his smallest when he's the most insecure but like, that's still 6'10"/208 cm so he's still way too big. Lucky for him the magic also affects his clothes/armor but it takes some time so he just makes/buys things on the larger end and waits for them to shrink to his current size. The effect goes away when removed from his body. Is this so I don't have to be consistent? Yes.

-He turns into a puppy in the War of Eras when he's ten and Zant uses the twilight as a weapon. Specifically an epicyon puppy! A 100lb/45kg puppy! Medli will ride him! I just want to draw the biggest puppy in the world. He can still turn into the big ancient wolf, and thankfully it doesn't do too much to him (unlike Twilink) but his jaw attaches waaay further back than it ought to and he can open his mouth to a scary degree. It's probably influencing those big fangs too. Combined with the Goron bite strength and... yeah.

I'll probably change things because I'm just playing around with him, so don't be surprised when I do!

[thankskenpenders]

So I wrote a whole long thing about Amy's tarot cards, but what about, you know... the rest of the Sonic Frontiers DLC? The new alternate story route, the hours of new gameplay, all that?

Having now played it, I'm not sure Sonic has ever had this specific combination of good ideas that make the future of the series look bright, and execution that I fucking hate.

(Full spoilers ahead.)

The good

There's a lot to like here, conceptually.

First and foremost, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy are finally playable in a new mainline 3D Sonic game for the first time since 2006! Seventeen years! We've been begging for this for so very, very long. Nature is finally truly healing from the fallout of Sonic '06. Early on I hedged my bets and expected them to be locked to Cyber Space or something like that, assuming that there was no way they'd be fully playable in the Open Zone. But sure enough, while they're a bit limited compared to Sonic, they're still all full-blown characters with skill trees to unlock and lots of exploration to do.

We also got a more bombastic alternate final boss fight, after the first take on The End kind of underwhelmed. And it's obvious that Sonic Team has listened to our pleas to focus on the 3D platforming over the forced 2D sections, and to reduce the amount of automation in the level design. This update is chock full of Actual Platforming. Wow! I can only pray this means we never get an area as agonizing to explore as Chaos Island again.

Sure, there's still some jank - especially with Knuckles' movement, which is kinda rough. But if this is the stuff they're trying out so that they can refine it further for the next game, then I'm really excited.

On the other hand, good fucking lord is The Final Horizon tedious. And that tedium sapped most of the fun out of it for me.

The frustrating

The new scenario massively increases the difficulty over the base game, seemingly out of a desire to give the hardcore players who were posting speedrun videos and whatnot more of a challenge. It's the Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels of Sonic. This difficulty comes in many forms throughout your playtime, some worse than others, and continues to ramp up over time.

Rather than giving you a tutorial level, the new scenario dumps you directly into a remixed version of the final island and makes you do some fairly precise platforming with Amy, Knuckles, and Tails - new characters with new movesets that you won't have any experience with. You'll also need to find character-specific Koco that give you free levels, because Sonic's friends all start at level one and certain locked moves in their skill trees will be mandatory to progress. They don't even have Cyloop unlocked at the start. And because they're all low level, that means you'd better steer clear of the beefed-up bosses scattered around the map, which will absolutely annihilate Sonic's friends. (I honestly just avoided them and never bothered beating any of them, not even with my high-level Sonic. I have no idea if they're beatable with the others.)

None of this is explained to you particularly well. I spent my first few minutes with Amy wondering why the attack button did nothing, only to eventually think to check her skill tree and realize that I had to unlock her basic attack. If you don't bother to take the time to read through the skill trees, you'll very quickly find obstacles you have no way of getting past with no clues as to what exactly you're supposed to do.

Adding to this confusion is the fact that objective markers often tell you to go half a kilometer into the sky, and you'll have no idea how to get up there because all of the relevant platforms are out of your draw distance. Many objects seem to only pop in for me when I'm within about 60 meters of them, which isn't a long distance for a high-speed open world platformer like this. I was having this problem running the game with high graphics on PC, so I can only imagine how obnoxious it is on Switch. I'd frequently find myself poking around nearby clusters of platforming objects and praying that they'd lead me to a spring, rail, or cannon that would eventually point me in the direction of the floating objective marker.

There were always complaints about the art direction in Frontiers and the way it relies on floating rails and prefab platforms that are visually disconnected from the natural scenery of the islands, but it's even more dire here. The new platforming sections are dense and complex, but they seemingly didn't have the budget to change the topography of Ouranos Island at all, so it all takes the form of these prefabs. It very strongly gives the vibe of a Forge creation in Halo 3, back when there were no blank canvas maps and people just had to make "new maps" by jamming a bunch of shipping containers and barricades together in the sky above one of the default arenas.

I was still more or less having fun, though, despite the jank. It's a big creative swing, I told myself! They're trying stuff out! They're experimenting!

And then I hit the towers.

The towers are agonizing because they're SO close to being great. The logical part of my brain understands why some people love them, but god, I just fucking hate them. The platforming there IS cool! These layouts are cool! The individual challenges along the way are a bit tough, but totally doable. You know what's not cool? Making one mistake and slowly falling 800 meters all the way back down to the ground, forcing you to start over. Because none of these towers have checkpoints. For me, this one decision transforms what should have been a fun set of platforming challenges into a massive, unfun difficulty spike.

I enjoy some masocore platformers, but those are typically games with quick deaths and restarts like Celeste, Super Meat Boy, or VVVVVV. Hell, the Mario games tend to get way more difficult than the average Sonic game, and those are obviously all great. Quite frankly, unlike those games, Sonic Frontiers is nowhere near tight or polished enough to make this difficulty feel fair. Bits of jank that I could ignore in the base game due to its lower difficulty are now matters of life or death. Missing a jump because I boosted off an incline in a way the game didn't like for reasons I don't understand is not fun. Falling off a tower because the camera was pointing in the wrong direction while I was in midair and I couldn't see the next thing I was expected to homing attack is not fun.

And it's such a jarring spike when moving from the base game to the DLC that it feels like the game is suddenly quizzing me on skills it never bothered to instill in me. Maybe if you've spent the last year labbing out the movement tech in this game this is all a no brainer, but for the average returning player it's a kick in the dick.

I'm sure I could've beaten these towers normally if I gave them enough tries. They aren't the hardest thing in the world. But I very quickly decided I had better things to do with my life and turned on easy mode, which adds tons of extra springs and homing attack balloons to make all of the platforming piss easy. I wish there was a middle option between Only Up: Sonic Edition and this extreme hand holding, but when given the choice between the two I gladly picked baby mode. I just wanted to see the story.

(The new Cyber Space levels are also long, challenging, and devoid of checkpoints, not unlike the towers. But I only ever found the entrances to two of them. So I only did two. They're theoretically required, because they give you "Lookout Koco" that you need for... some reason? But in a rare act of mercy, Sonic Team put Cyloop treasure spots that give you free Lookout Koco all over the map.)

As I continued, so many little things started adding up to piss me off. Why do you only reveal like five tiny squares of the map at a time? I would've loved to find all the new 1-on-1 dialogue scenes, but not if I had to do dozens of hard mode versions of the stupid little puzzles and challenges to reveal the whole map. Why does every character need their own unique collectibles? What is this, Donkey Kong 64? Why can't I just grab this EXP for Amy when I find it as Tails? Why can I only manually swap characters by talking to an out-of-the-way NPC unlocked right before the final boss? Why is fast travel disabled? Why are the new vocal themes you hear when playing as Amy, Knuckles, and Tails so monotonous, with a single verse repeating over lo-fi beats ad nauseum? Why is the jukebox feature completely disabled throughout the DLC, even after rolling the credits? Why can't Tails homing attack? Why do I have to wrestle with the camera so much while also holding the jump button to fly as Knuckles and Tails? How many right thumbs do they think I have? Why is this animation for picking up animals in the Cyber Space levels so incredibly slow, and why can I still take damage while it's playing? Why does the stupid starfall event have to make it so hard to see what I'm doing when climbing these towers? Why does this shitty combat trial have a popup that makes it seem like I should be using the Cyloop when the actual strategy revolves around repeated parries? And on and on and on...

The story

What about the new story? Well, there sadly isn't much to chew on here. Most of the DLC has the cast running around and finding different macguffins for arbitrary reasons, as part of some sort of plan to divide up the work on the last island so that Sonic can go train with the spirits of the Ancients and harness the power of his cyber corruption. What the fuck is an Impact Form? I don't know, but Knuckles needs something to do, so go find one.

It's a thin excuse plot meant to make you do platforming challenges around Ouranos Island, with little room for Ian to add any real flavor of his own, even though he certainly tries. Having Sonic meet the spirits of the Ancients who controlled the Titans, who are revealed to directly parallel the personalities of him and his friends, is kinda neat, I guess? It's something. The optional conversations seem to have some fun bits, including both conversations between the supporting cast and additional lore. But again, I only found a few of those because of how tedious filling out the map was.

The writing is also let down by the voice acting - or I guess the voice direction, because I know this cast can do better. Roger's voice continues to be weirdly, distractingly deep as Sonic, which was clearly something that was requested of him just for this game. (For a recent example of him going back to his regular Sonic voice, see this LEGO trailer.) The performances of Sonic's friends are also WILDLY mismatched. This is most clear when they start feeling the effects of the cyber corruption. Knuckles seems to be barely affected at all, Tails sounds like he's moderately hurt and low on energy, and Amy starts completely overselling her pain out of nowhere. The extremely strained performance makes it sound like Cindy's literally being tortured in the fucking booth. I have no idea what's going on over there.

The final challenges

People have debated whether or not things like the towers and the new Cyber Space levels are fair challenges. What's not up for debate is the fact that Master King Koco's Trial is complete and utter bullshit, and I can't believe they shipped this.

Before you can fight the new final boss, the game forces you to do a boss rush of the first three Titans - INCLUDING the pre-Super Sonic climbing sections - with a hard limit of 400 rings. For all three lengthy, heavily scripted fights. Back to back. You can't even cheese it with the leveling system, because you're forced to do this at level 1. This all but forces you to look up speedrun strats for the Super Sonic fights so that you don't run out of rings and fail the trial.

And the real kicker? They changed the parry just for this trial! Originally, you could just hold down the bumpers endlessly and Sonic would ready himself to parry the next attack, whenever that may hit. Now it requires you to do a "Perfect Parry" with specific timing. And you HAVE to hit those parries if you wanna clear this trial and get to the new ending. Miss a few and you're probably fucked. You just have to reset. Time to go through all those fights, all those climbing sequences, all those QTEs, and all those unskippable mid-fight cutscenes all over again. This is by far the most egregious example of the DLC deciding to quiz you on new skills that the base game never required of you, and it's one of the most absurdly unfair things I have ever seen in a Sonic game.

Easy mode does make this trial easier by making the timing window for Perfect Parries much more generous, but that's all the help you get. It's still easy to lose time failing to parry Wyvern's hard-to-read animations, or to lose rings by getting hit on the climb sections, or for things to just fuck up because these fights were always kinda jank. I gave it a few shots. I looked up guide videos. I tried the Quick Cyloop and stomp combo strat that seems all but mandatory. But I quickly decided that, again, this wasn't a worthwhile use of my time. It just sucks. And I really, REALLY didn't want to overwrite all my fond memories of these Titan fights, some of my favorite setpiece moments in any Sonic game, with memories of this shit ass boss rush.

So I cheated! And if you're on PC, you should too.

With the worst hurdle out of the way, I turned cheats back off and moved on to the new final boss. It was pretty cool. It's much flashier than the original fight against The End, that's for sure. It's still kinda annoying, and it requires you to do very specific shit without properly telegraphing it, but it's nowhere near as bad as the preceding challenges. I was hoping for one last new metalcore song to go with the new fight, which we sadly didn't get, but at least the new version of I'm Here is good.

The ending is... mostly the same, with a couple altered scenes that don't really change anything in the long run. But overall the new finale was pretty good. I just wish it hadn't been such a slog to get there.

Closing thoughts

Sonic Frontiers: The Final Horizon wants to be three things:

A patch that adds a new alternate ending that was probably supposed to be in the base game in the first place.

An experimental take on making Tails, Knuckles, and Amy playable again, presumably testing things for the next game. And...

An official Kaizo Sonic Frontiers mod for the sickos.

The thing is, the people showing up for #1 and #2, the main things that Sega hyped up about the update, are not necessarily going to be down for #3. If they had announced some uber-hard new Cyber Space levels for the arcade mode or whatever, I'd be like, neat! And then not play them. I would never touch Master King Koco's Trial if it was an optional challenge. I would leave that for the sickos. But instead, they made the hardest content mandatory for anyone who wants to see the new Good Ending where the final boss gets an actual budget.

I'm mostly left in a state of shock that it shipped like this. I cannot believe they playtested this and decided this was the state The Final Horizon should be released in. That this should be the note Frontiers ends on. That this should be how we remember those Titan fights. That this should be the lingering taste in our mouths as we wait however many years for the next 3D game.

Armchair devs always love to say that things would be "easy to fix," but like... there really would be easy fixes for the insane difficulty and general tedium here! Add a few more tutorial popups explaining what the game expects of you with Sonic's friends. Give the Cyber Space stages and the towers a couple checkpoints. Give the combat trials more generous time limits, especially on the lower difficulties. Remove half of the map puzzles, and make the ones that remain uncover twice as many squares. Skip the startup animation for Knuckles' glide. Let me turn on the goddamn jukebox. Since so much of this update was designed around fan feedback, I can only pray that Sonic Team is still listening, and that they tweak at least a few of these things with a balance patch.

But still, after those many, many paragraphs of complaining... this still somehow makes the future of 3D Sonic seem pretty promising?

Sonic's friends are FINALLY playable again, and the focus is back to proper 3D platforming, rather than railroading players into awkward forced 2D sections in what's otherwise an open world. These are the things that they hopefully want to carry over to the next game. The difficulty? Well, that's just because it's the postgame DLC that's supposed to be the toughest challenge in the game. It's just an unreasonably cruel one of those - an example of how designing and balancing for a vocal minority of your fanbase can really hurt your game. But Sonic Team is onto something here, and I hope that they can learn the right lessons from this expansion and not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

[deztryx]

Drawings I don't think I ever posted on here ^_^ (ALL. of these are old blehh)

I love bikes, I love mcsm, put em together, boom 🫶🏽 I don't rlly have much lore for my mcsm biker au bc it's rlly just the order being silly on bikes, I might think about it tho idk

The jesse w robot arm doodle is one of my concept drawings for my cyber/mech au which is still a wip 🙏🏽

The last doodle is the sign guy (i call him Hazard) mercenary from AvA 😻😻 I love hazard sm gang

More MCSM Fallout AU/Tragedy Au stuff, still need to work on the design, my last drawing I didnt like how they look tbh so I'll probs change that or sumthin idk, maybe it's the clothes, anyways did yall see the new fallout show😻 *bats eyelashes* I pirated it cause Amazon sucks ass and omg, I LOVE THE FIRST EP SM (except "that" scene) but YEAH I LOVED IT

Fallout and mcsm brainrot jegdgedjehd

[spinchip]

May I ask ALL of the ask meme questions about Never the Dark 👉👈 I WANT TO KNOW

[ask meme]

i'll do all the ones i havent already answered! Thank you! and putting it under the readmore cuz it'll get long

1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?

cuteness agression towards zane. love him so much i have to put him through the horrors. No to be serious I just really enjoy writing things that cover darker topics, so drug use, alcoholism, manipulation, etc. is all interesting to write for me, so i favor that type of plot. the main idea came from thinking about what might have happened if Wu never told the other about Zane getting sent to the never realm, and just quietly went there alone to save him. Wu doesn't fight the emperor, he doesn't even try. he tries to bring zane back but he mostly dodges his blows until he's certain that nothing he says will remind him who he is. and then i thought- what would Wu do, and what would be the fallout? and the fic was bornnn

2: What scene did you first put down?

the very first scene. that feels surprising to me- i usually get hung up on scenes happening way later down the line, but i had such a clear and specific idea for how i wanted the prologe to go that it was almost easy.

3: What’s your favorite line of narration?

i already did this but i'll do it again.

“Oof-” She stumbles back, “Sorry- what happened? Why are we stopping?” “I apologize.” Birdy says, emotionally flat where he’s standing in front of a large purple tree, “I was simply making sure we were on the right track.” When he starts moving again, he takes a wide step over something. As the others begin to move, Nya sees that the thing Birdy had stopped at and stepped over was a oblong dark spot on the grass. She’d seen a few of them before, scattered around the forest. She steps over it too but doesn’t ask about it. Birdy's voice had taken on that tone that comes when he’s not feeling like himself. She blinks, surprised at herself for knowing that.

this is part of the scene where Birdy is leading the others through the acid forest. I think you all should know that spot? blood on the weird grass here leave lingering stains. this clearing? the same as the one birdy shared with farley. it's why zane doesn't want to stop here and why he acts so jumpy

4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue?

crying screaming throwing up

“It was wrong of me to bring up your friend.” Birdy says before stepping any closer, “I reacted so strongly because I was afraid for you, Kai. Those pills are designed for control. Samira supplies the people of this realm and then twists their addiction against them.” “I don’t need your worry.” Kai says, but it’s lost some of the bite it had before. Hesitantly, Birdy approaches Kai. Slowly, with enough time for Kai to draw away, and with more than a bit of caution to stay out of easy access of another swing, Birdy cups Kai’s injured palm. He takes the bandages next, moving to wrap his hand, “There is not a switch I can flip to turn it off.” Birdy says wryly, carefully winding the gauze around Kai’s hand, “I am sorry for what I said.” Kai just stares at him. “...You may not trust me, but I trust you.” He continues, finishing up dressing his knuckles, “I believe you would have made the correct choice.”

5: What part was hardest to write?

the zane POV chapters actually. isnt that funny? theres just so SO much information that recontextualizes a lot of previous events, and trying to keep track of everything was really hard. ewspecially when past me would add stuff without thinking of the ramifications. like FUCKK i wrote a throwaway line about x in chapter 5 now i have to integrate that into this chapter. damnit.

6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?

I don't know

8: Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?

nope! well there may be a little projection in some aspects, but what is writing if not sorta-therapy through the blorbos?

12: What do you like least about this fic?

that i didn't write it all down and edit before posting. Looking back through chapters i'm catching inconsistencies a lot that coul dhave been avoided if i drafted, then edited and fixed, then posted!

13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?

i'll make a separate post for this one heehoo

14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?

don't take candy from strangers.

15: What did you learn from writing this fic

that I can write a book. I used to be so convinced that my attention span wouldn't allow for long form writing like this but i've proved myself wrong. and i'm grateful for that.

[anamelessfool]

How do you do that? LOL I have no idea what I’m doing (maybe) An Art Tutorial

Folks have commented on my more rendered art recently and I’m flattered. I literally have no idea what I’m doing. Well, I sorta do. I am mostly using masks in Procreate. I’m technically using the Debaser Pack by True Grit Texture Supply, but you don’t really need it. All you need is some texture layers. You could even do this just by making halftones of solid color layers. I used to do a lot of digital photo collage back in the day and at one point had a huge library of scans of paper and fabrics and also random textures I saw on the street. Wood, stone, sidewalk, metal, foliage, water. Took out my digital camera (yes, it was that long ago) and snapped a photo to use. There’s also a lot of free halftone textures online.

I have a few “overlay texture” layers. I “Create Mask” and then invert the mask so I can “paint” the color on. For my more simple stuff I do just that. I add a “Deep Shadow” layer in Overlay mode of a dark brown (or teal if it’s white) to make sure the darkest shadows are truly dark. The white areas are just the mask erased. It helps that fallout ghouls are skrungly and textured to be begin with. Sometimes I select areas and add little bits of black spray paint in lots of very transparent layers.

Everything is rendered under a multiply layer of a hi-res scan of vintage newsprint.

So how about the more detailed things that came about from an embarrassing amount of shirtless photo references??? In a lust-fueled haze I realized I can have a dark layer (in my case, a “black ink texture scan” with an inverted mask underneath a color layer. The color texture layer is around 70% opacity, give or take. On that black ink layer mask I add the white highlights to the tops of forms and use the smudge tool to distribute it across the specific form. Once in a while I shut off the color layer so I can see the bare rendering layer on its own and fix things.

So I just sort of pet him. For hours.

Focusing on the LIGHT areas instead of the shadow really is a game-changer! Before, my digital art looked super muddy because I was invested in adding dark. If areas are very very dark I add that dark brown overlay layer. For tattoos it’s a dark blue overlay mode layer, but with a mask on it so I can softly erase areas to make it look more set in to the skin (without destroying the original art). Very bright areas and the tops of forms I add a “highlight layer” of pure white gestural lines.

Moral of the story is just play around and do whatever. The old times of having a beautifully perfect anime-style drawing with very formal layers of shadow, highlight, color has been dead for ages. It’s what kept me away from pursuing digital art for literal years.

[umbralundertaker]

hai…… looks at you with my eyes beautifully and shyly……… do you have any ulysses headcanons or thoughts in general or anything :3

I'm glad other people still recognize how great and awesome and badass he is. My Ulysses thoughts are HE IS THE BEST CHARACTER IN FNV AND PEOPLE LIKING GRAHM OVER HIM IS STRAIGHT UP RACISM ☹️☹️ Grahm has some interesting stuff going on but the plot of Honest Hearts just ruins it. Meanwhile Ulysses feels like a slam dunk character-wise. He was so shockingly well written compared to the rest of the DLCs and even the main game. He's a cut above the rest.

Of course my main draw is that Ulysses is the absolute perfect foil to the Courier. It's an impressive feat considering that you can choose the personality of your character and what path you want them to take; there is no canon Courier. But the writers did Ulysses exactly right imo. The Courier having no memory of their past and a big wide future laid out for them- sometimes even control over a whole city- a future they have the power to create. While Ulysses is stuck in the past and doesn't have the autonomy to make a life for himself in the future. The Legion and the Courier have controlled his past and his choices, and now he feels like all he can do is lash out angrily at the world. His obsession with icons and flags and bears and bulls makes him all allegiances compared to your free and untethered soul. He's aware of the pain he and the Courier goes through, but that awareness only makes his life more painful. It makes fact that you can reach out to and help him SO satisfying. His and the Courier's characters complete each other and are their missing pieces.

I honestly think that he should have been in the main game (if there was space). He feels so integral to the game and the person you play as. His influence and actions being felt throughout the whole main game and all the DLCs makes him SO IMPORTANT to the overarching plot. Lonesome Road as a whole is so good for the message of Fallout. Yeah Dead Money is really apt too, but I feel like Lonesome Road gives a lot of the themes and messaging of Fallout a more personal dimension. Hanging onto the past doesn't just ruin society, it ruins the lives of every individual person in it. It turns the most kind and passionate people into what you see Ulysses as in game.

And I'm such a big fan of how Lonesome Road is JUST Ulysses. It feels so intimate. You can't just shoot tribals and pick the most absurd dialouge option anymore. You can't look away from him and focus on more bright and fun characters. It's just you, a mute robot, and a man who has fashioned himself into a manifestation of grief. Even if you can't understand what he's talking about, the game constantly points you in the direction of you having to try. It's not your story, it's his. He has something very important to say and he will take an entire DLC and a ruined city to say it. Grab it with both hands and look in the eyes of your actions.

Aside from all that, his voice and manner of speaking is so iconic and memorable. Gravelly and intimidating and resigned and sad. I agree that he is hard to comprehend, I got an actual headache during the final showdown, but getting to know his deal is entirely worth the struggle. He's so alienated from everyone that he talks and thinks in a markedly different way from you, but he's still human. He misses his family and culture. He mourns for people needlessly killed. He even makes jokes sometimes. And in the end you can still make an effort to understand him, to give him some much needed human connection and support. And he accepts it because he is lonely and in pain but kind.

Anyways. Thanks for asking. Here's a Ulysses playlist me and my buddy made. If you have any suggestions I'm all ears...!

[bobdylans116thdream]

2024 was.... something. Here goes... VERY long post b/c this year was A LOT. But in about 9 hours it'll be in the past! so!

I had the worst work year I've had; it was my first as a lead, a brand new curriculum, and assistants who were hard to open up to. And my boss was telling me it was on me to open up to them. Not quite right. They needed to open up to me too. They ended up leaving, and now I've got one of my good friends working with me, she's a huge help. I had a lot of struggles with constructive criticism - my brain takes it as SEE YOU AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH... definitely still working on that too. People at work want to help me, not put me down. I'm still building my confidence there, but I will get there!

Personally - I still dealt with a lot of the anxiety. I had a massive falling out with my former best friend, Cherry. And yes, it was my fault. I know I'll never get to apologize, but my biggest task here is forgiving myself. What I did was a product of being unhealed; now I know better. I still miss her sometimes, but I know I'll be okay. Something that happened caused me to fall out with Mel, but luckily we've been able to rekindle and now things are stronger than ever. Forgive and forget. I'm so happy to have her back in my life - she's one of my biggest cheerleaders!!! I love you! I also strengthened friendships with Bridge (I dunno your real name), Renee, and made new friends! I'm working on coming out of my shell... I'm not nearly as bad as my anxiety makes me out to be.

And with Matt, things are amazing <3 we're both taking steps towards getting ready for the next chapter... so one day in 2025 you might see me post a ring!!! ;) he's my biggest offline supporter, and I wonder every day how I got lucky enough to find him. I love him dearly and I can't wait to see where life takes us in 2025.

Healing... whoa boy has this been a downhill rollercoaster lately! In the good way! I'm becoming more accepting of myself and all my weirdness, enjoying my hobbies more and more, and changing how I see myself. I'm trying to treat myself more compassionately when I mess up or get into my head - this is hard work, I didn't get these mindsets in a day, I won't reverse them in a day!! I truly think this new obsession with Bob Dylan helped - it refreshed me, gave me some new energy that I hadn't gotten in a long time.

sooo here are some thanks

@lil-melody-moon where do i begin!!! I'm super grateful that I chose to reunite w/you, we're quite the team! lol thank you for encouraging all my weirdness and thirst and obsessions. I can't wait to see what the next bout of teasing will be... mwah! thank you for all of your love and support.

@good-to-drive you are amazing and i'm so grateful for your friendship and understanding. i don't know how i would have gotten through some of the hard times during the fallout with my other friend without your support. thank you for all your saraniverse help, for the personal help, and for encouraging this new obsession ha! i can't wait to hear more about your research :D

@johangeorghohman you found me during a very dark time, and i'm happy that you stuck around now that i'm doing better! thank you fr all of your kindness and for listening to my insane ramblings lol!

@djbead123 and @androidxmutt yall are awesome! i know we haven't been friends that long, but i'm looking forward to continuing into 2025! (and i can't wait to see that drawing!)

@knoxoverstreet16 i'm glad i messaged you! you're fun to talk to, and i love seeing little pics from your tours and stuff! :D

@rufusrant thank you for being my starrison friend ^_^ and for not giving up on me when i wasn't as healed as i am now (so i wasn't making the best choices, friend and conversation wise). i do wanna write that story!

@i-am-the-oyster and @s-l-martin thank you for being so encouraging when it comes to how shy i am on discord... i'm getting out of that slowly but surely!

finally but not least @bridgeoverstrawberryfields i know things are tough for you right now, but i just wanted to extend some love and care. you've been a wonderful friend all this year, and i thank you from the bottom of my heart. and i'm here whenever you're ready <3