#Professional Quest

[fenharel]

for the past month I've been musing about how much datv feels like as if someone at bioware was like "guys we are in the shit and we need a hit STAT. what's our most beloved game? mass effect 2!! let's make that again but in dragon age" and yet it's the most criticized da game I've seen

[deltoravivisection]

OH MY GOD I NEVER ACTUALLY POSTED MY QUEEN BEE DESIGN. This one is definitely not book-accurate but like... sorry. The book design is boring to me 😅 The thing on her head here is one of those medieval-style beekeeper masks. (She uses it like a sunhat when her hood is down.) Her cloak is lined with slabs of honeycomb and functions as a giant artificial hive. I really wish she was more expanded on in canon, so I rewrote her slightly and gave her a more comprehensive backstory. The long and short of it is that she was (what would in modern terms be called) an animal psychologist with a specialty in entomology before she founded her orchard. I imagine she was the bug-lover equivalent of Doran -- but not as widely published. She gave up adventuring when she had her kids and shifted focus to the selective breeding of bees and plants to bring out their arcane properties. I imagine the trees in her grove are a special type in the same order as the lilies of life, hence their invigorating and healing properties. This will probably not be all that touched-on tbh but I think "ex-adventurer turned mad scientist" is a cool backdrop for her whole deal.

[zuzu-romeave]

i love how jo matches brads frantic energy when he’s first panicking about zack being at MQ

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

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[saccharinerose]

Honestly really hope 4.1 gives ANY kind of interesting aspect to Neuvillette and Wriothesley's dynamic bc rn "token yaoi bait of 2 tall men who live in the same country, work together professionally but are not close personally" is just not hitting for me...

Like give me SOMETHING to work with so I don't have to be annoyed with the Wriolette art when I'm just trying to look for Neuvillette fanart

[kirkwallguy]

honestly as much as im disliking taash's narrative and still am really not into weekes' style of dialogue i might actually rank them above harding and lucanis right now... at least they're not boring

[chibishortdeath]

I got a new sketchbook since I filled one recently :3c. Shout out to suddenly getting a ton of energy and drawing bizarre fanart at 1 am 💀💀💀.

I’m putting the more violent ones under a cut even if the post is already tw tagged because of the subject matter being a bit dark d(^^ ).

Along with explanations for all of them of course!

⚠️tw for self harm and burning past this point⚠️

First one (before the cut) is just some pose practice. Simon’s just sitting, all sad and mopey. There’s also a little chibi doodle of him in the bottom corner and a little pose armature in the top corner for a pose I didn’t even end up drawing whoops lol. I feel like I drew his face a little differently than I usually do in this one :O. Idk how that happened lol.

This one is to show the differences in anatomy between each game! The curse takes a lot out of him, poor guy, so he’s a bit less jacked than usual 😔. Well, more specifically he doesn’t have as much of a layer of protective fat anymore. And he’s also very tired :(. But yeah, this is just a reference I’ll look back at to keep this detail consistent! I was going to put scar reference on it too, but I completely forgot and eh it mighta made it kinda hard to make out anyway d(- - ).

I drew this side profile of Simon while watching a video talking about lost media stuff. I think the image I based it on was something Saki Sanobashi related, idk I just liked the vibes of the hair being blown back by wind and got inspired :). And yes I know that Saki is probably a hoax 💀💀💀💀💀, I didn’t have much interest in it tho tbh, besides just hoping something lost gets found in general. Lost media videos are honestly great for putting on as background noise when drawing :)

Simon is totally me when I have a crisis and cover my face with my hands, but make sure one eye is visible and miraculously out of shadow for dramatic effect!!!

Ok spookier stuff time, first of the below the cut drawings. This one is based on how sometimes vampires are depicted as being able to drain someone from long distances or beyond the grave. Dracula is mean, and Simon is suffering from the curse, the usual. Augh I actually need to do things cause I keep thinking of a cool scene of Simon having a weird Dracula nightmare and then waking up to see it wasn’t a dream, and that’s tropey as hell, but it’s spooky!!! Do you see my vision?

This is a depiction of like what happens with a game over or something :O. Like an absolute worst possible outcome: Simon dies and Dracula is unsealed and fully regenerated. I basically just took is Simon’s Quest design and then rehydrated it and tada, Dracula is no longer a skeleton— He ends up looking way more like Vlad the Impaler in this outfit hmmm. Also, unrelated, but a friend of mine mistook Dracula for Jesus in this drawing 💀💀💀.

Oh boy, edgy depictions of uh a lot of not being very kind to yourself themes. Idk how else to describe this one other than ya know when you get really mad at your past self for making a mistake or the wrong decision that you could’ve only known about in hindsight? Also in part the fear of actually becoming a vampire at the end of all of this? And I guess a bit of feeling like it’s your own fault, you’re the one that keeps shooting yourself in the foot, but I feel like he’d also attribute getting hit by Dracula in the first place as his fault too… hmm just a lot of very sad things going on, this one was definitely a later 1 am time drawing, maybe 1:40 or something. I think what I draw at night is further proof to not trust you when you’re tired; I get weirdly existential at night and then it’s totally fine in the morning. Simon! Just sleep! Stop overthinking!!! You’ll be ok!!!

This one I debated putting up at all cause it’s graphic and not finished (TwT ;). But it was a rare drawing of Simon smiling that didn’t look uncanny, which is kinda ironic because Simon this is not the time to be smiling—! That is also wayyy too far for just the Dracula ritual, you really only need a tiny amount to open the seal, but I’ll cut him some slack cause he is a bit at wits end by this point. I’d say maybe he’s smiling because he thinks he finally won, but tbh I thought of it more like when things are just so bad you start laughing. Like Dracula just rose from the altar and the morbid irony of it all is just so absurd, the irony that you did everything right and fought tooth and nail (Dracula’s to be exact lol) to stop it and here it is happening anyway. I wanna give this guy a weighted blanket and a bowl of warm soup—

These last two are based on what could’ve happened to him. The Grey ending is pretty much usually considered the “worst”, but they’re all nearly interchangeable, especially in the Japanese version. For example: the western release really makes the Blue ending seem like he died and didn’t kill Dracula, but it’s a lot more that he just died doing it in the original, which is to say that it’s kinda like the Grey ending just with a different eulogy— Anyway, the Grey ending is the only one that doesn’t show Simon at Dracula’s grave, so I’ve always taken it as he didn’t make it out of the castle basement. And well, setting Dracula on fire is a pretty common way to kill him so uh um, R.I.P. I’ve got a couple ideas for alternate comic endings to say the least. I might honestly just depict all of them and leave it entirely up to the reader which one happened because it doesn’t change much— Though this also has me thinking of how him surviving would work now. The curse would definitely have left some lasting effects, you don’t just magically stop having been rotted, sleep deprived, and whatever else it did. Idk I picture him being like Renfield levels of lost it afterwards if that makes sense… that could also be a pretty solid explanation for why his story isn’t told correctly and the cycle repeats with Maxim later; it’d be a pretty traumatic thing to talk about tbh. Ok but yappersvile over, next doodle 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Aside from the burnt doodle that’s uh same explanation as the above (R.I.P.), the other two are just a little head angle and expression practice and one tiny one towards the top that’s Dracula being all spooky ghost vampire, but I didn’t like how it was looking and gave up on it 💀💀💀. It’s very hard to draw a vampire attacking someone and not have it look kinda awkward or unreadable. Tbh I struggle putting two characters in one image anyway because I have to draw the anatomy lines for both of them and they end up getting really hard to tell apart when one is behind another, one character suddenly isn’t proportional compared to the other, or you find out one of them isn’t tall enough for the pose you had in mind (>~< ). So anyway Dracula was accidentally way too short all of a sudden and I couldn’t figure out how to draw his torso without making a completely incomprehensible blob behind Simon oof.

Okie, it’s lunch time, bye :3!

[thegreateyeofsauron]

This is a long shot but does anyone here have a copy of Citra nightly 1524? It's apparently the only version that can run Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 3 Professional and the DQM2 remake without loads of stuttering and Google's turning up nothing but dead download links.

UPDATE: The Citra 2018 core in RetroArch seems to work so far

[thanflowers]

(almost) 2/5 pages written.......i am Struggling................

[unrealistic-ideas-for-writers]

Pardon the random Genshin posting-

But I just started the latest Natlan Archon Quest???

And wow. I really wasn’t expecting Hoyo to cover such in depth aspects of war like this. The first patient we talk to seems to be experiencing psychosis, and exactly like what we would do irl, we treat his symptoms of being cold and dark and damp like they’re real by lighting a fire.

I just really think it’s well done and a good choice on Hoyo’s part.

[icewindandboringhorror]

The evil slow creep of it being like "haha these will just be quick little side quests, not much effort at all!" and then noticing each one is getting progressively longer than the last, thus no longer being minimal effort.. auGh....

[wander-wren]

New Writing Discord Is Open For Business!

QWQ is a 15+ discord server made for community. We have an emphasis, of course, on connecting queer writers of every stripe, but allies are welcome as well. All kinds of writers are encouraged to join us, from novelists to poets to screenwriters to fanfic authors.

These days, there's a taboo in a lot of writing communities around sharing work, for fear of theft or spoilers. We believe art is meant to be shared and celebrated, and we're aiming to find new friends to do that with. No one is required to share their work in QWQ if they don't want to, but if you do, we hope to foster a thriving community to support you.

Link here! Since we aren't a community server, that invite will expire in 30 days (sept 13th), at which point it will be in my pinned where I'll hopefully be able to keep it up to date.

If you have any questions you can shoot them to me (@wander-wren) or @rangerlexi, our other mod who is on tumblr.

[lionblaze03-2]

Kind of obsessed with Pam stardew valley. Btw. If anyone even CARES

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would The Great Sylvando (or just Sylvando)…

Propaganda for the mic skills:

There is never a dull moment when Sylvando's around, and especially so considering he's a circus jester. He always loves to entertain people and won't stop until he sees someone smile, so he would definitely be great at building a brand for himself. Of course, he also takes knighthood seriously and has the chivalry that comes with the job, so he isn't afraid to talk smack to anyone who goes out of their way to spread misery. Additionally, great LGBTQ+ rep if you see him as a gay man or a transfem.

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Propaganda for the wrestling skills:

Sylvando is a jack of all trades, but a master of none. Despite how badass he may appear in cutscenes, he is actually among the worse party members in Dragon Quest XI since he can neither deal damage or heal in great amounts. He's really the most useful in metal slime hunting, but even then this mid fighting style would translate to wrestling as him getting his ass kicked. I still think it's funny to imagine Sylv as a wrestler, though. :P

[ashitakaxsan]

Lady C!:)

[kitkatnerds3]

I think she should be more insane, actually.