#XCOM fanart

[thecountofs]

Snakeman! (hand-drawn sketch)

[loopyn3]

I can explain

My friends and I got into XCOM and XCOM chimera squad was just a hop skip and a jump away sooooo

God torque is so pretty I’d let her bite me

[ellikiins]

I TOLD YOU THE ALIENS ATTACKED. From March 2022, saved as "yeah." You can tell how done I was. Determined to draw and finish something, but alas... I do like this a lot more than the previous piece, I might finish it. But it has been over 2 years, so take it. (She has no shoes because her stilettos are too hard to run in. Maybe she should keep them? That's be badass.)

Because I love the drama, the premise of their relations were with no strings attached... but then someone gets attached, the other gets mad for breaking their promise... and then someone gets hurt... and the other comes to accept that they have also fallen in love, too. How romantic! I hope no one gets kidnapped and put in stasis for 20 years by the enemy and the world falls into chaos!

[tokay-blog]

[ask-manda-of-the-6]

Using my powers of artistry *only* for evil. >:3

[dizzymudskipper]

“Maybe if I draw them excited for Christmas, I won’t be so nervous about Thanksgiving” my mindset rn

[rhysofcourse]

[rabbit-harpist]

digital painting of mike based on @factorialsotherfandoms’ qsmp xcom au.

feat. robot rat and mysterious stains (paint? chemicals? i like how the colors look)

[yamikuruku]

(1/?) revenge for @jaxifye !

[yourrandommarcher]

Dumb little thing for a RP

[icarioart]

More stuff. First one was a gift from a friend to their significant other Second one, while i'm not familiar with Command and Conquer i wholeheartedly support any franchise with women in power armor. Third is a D&Destiny party with characters i was previously commissioned to draw. Fourth one is a group shot from another party this time in a XCOM/RWBY game i think i have mentioned before in previous art dumps.

[tastytofusoup]

I love her

[dicipher]

About this blog..

Dicipher is a blog dedicated to the indie steam game 'Homicipher'. Homicipher is a japanese horror visual novel, where unraveling a strange language is the key to surviving. This blog is recommended for people 18 and up due to the gorey and mature themes of the source material.

This blog is also a way to archive progress regarding a possible fully voice acted mod. I will also post some art, guides and theories and such. I will also reblog other's content related to the game.

Happy Diciphering. (Steam page)

Support the dev over on twt (@ Yatu3zi)

Share this to support us! We are looking for voice actors! https://www.tumblr.com/dicipher/767787620081287168/xcom

(Phonetics dictionary) https://www.tumblr.com/dicipher/766343244283052032/here-is-the-phonetics-well-be-using-for-the-voice

(Dictionary walkthrough) https://www.tumblr.com/dicipher/766172904914288640/after-replaying-a-thousand-times-to-confirm-every

(Ending walkthrough) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3358294765

( my lore dump/wiki) https://www.tumblr.com/dicipher/767492699419967488/f-it-we-ball-here-have-my-character-studies-of-the

Inbox rules

While this blog's primary function is not to distribute fanart or fanfiction, this community is pretty small, so if you would like to share any fan created media, that is entirely fine. Any inquiries about the mod or game are also welcome.

[ellikiins]

Started this on June 11 2022, five minutes before midnight, inspired by Little Mix's "Salute" and its message of girl power of all creeds ("Get your killer heels, sneakers, pumps, or lace up your boots") Worked, and worked, abandoned, and now... March 5th, 2024 I have finished it. I feel accomplished, finally free and excited to share.

My biggest ambition was to have two versions: one of my Diane, my personal ideation of the Commander. Representing the strategic brains and power behind the entire resistance, my idea of the "killer heels" of the dynamic since I hc her to have many pairs. The other version was to be the female Avatar to present a placeholder for any one person's female Commander during the final battle (and to me, it's still Diane and calling back her roots as a Marine in her youth, a nod to "she's still got it.")

Everyone should be able to recognize Lily and her engineering genius, and of any front line soldier (my favorites here shown are Thérèse and Jane Kelly.)

[authortobenamedlater]

@jaxifye are you and @mrtobenamedlater in a conspiracy to get me to play XCOM? 😂

Because it won’t work. 🤣🤣🤣

SHES LOOKING RESPECTFULLY.......... Part 1 of 2 of idiots in love

Enjoy x

[aristotels]

Thinking about art and fiction and concepts of ownership and honestly it's kinda fucked that collaborative and transformative storytelling is literally as old as time and one of the most basic human instincts that exists, but the only good word it we have right now is "fanfiction"

and when you tell people you write fanfiction they think you're some kind of cringe weirdo and possibly pervert and then the whole thing gets derailed by this bizarre side discussion into how "No it's not all porn, it's absolutely everything and anything imaginable, duh, but like, even if it were all porn, that would also be okay". Like I'm all for pointing out the double standards about how published authors who put sex into their stories don't lose any respectability (especially if they're men, and especially if the sex is cishet), but the second I, a fanfiction person, add a romantic arc into my plotty casefic suddenly I'm a fujoshi with shipper brainrot etc etc-

But it's tiring that this is even a focal point

My favourite funny and sad thing is watching people (usually dudes) who clearly either view themselves as above fanfiction or have simply never ever thought of themselves as "the type" to do creative writing discover The Fanfiction Urge, because the way they express it is like. An increasingly passionate and detailed video essay about how Movie should have gone instead, or, my favourite, a story about something cool that happened to them in XCOM or Darkest Dungeon or some other Difficult Game For Serious Gamers and by the end of the post they're legitimately just writing prose. Like look at this! LOOK! Damn if this person didn't speedrun the gamerbro-to-AO3 pipeline just for a sec. And not that there's anything wrong with those formats but it makes you wonder if that's something they'd be interested in exploring more if their wings got unclipped

Or DnD. Small wonder that TTRPGs are becoming so popular when they're one of the few increasingly non-cringe ways to do the extremely basic human urge of Tell Story Collaboratively

A friend of mine had this to say recently about his own struggles with this kind of internal bias:

i'd like to try out Thousand-Year-Old Vampire (a solo role-playing game with minimal rules to make you write your own narrative) and my toxic masculinity is getting in the way. discouraging thoughts include: i'm not creative enough; creative writing is for Floofy Humanities types and i am a Cold STEM type; it's not a real game unless it has Systems that you can Study and Master. would anyone like to say something encouraging?

and honestly that's incredibly illuminating innit isn't it. The splitting off of creative activity (not just fanfiction, either) into something only for Floofy Humanities Types but not Serious People and the way it's linked to whether or not you can make money off it... oof.

This became a long post thank you for your patience

ngl i just dont rly care that much for fandoms... i like fanfic, i read it and write it, but i dont rly see fandom as my identity or smth i particularly care about, to me all of it is just the same as me playing with barbie dolls.

i dont think its something special that can be compared to actual literature and i think there are certain problems w booktok people relying on tropes that come from fanfic mentality. its just not the same, and i do wish people who like fanfic would sometimes also read.......some actual books sometimes

i just generally dont see what youre describing as some huge thing or problem, i think anti-kink ppl doxxing artists is the major worrisome thing when it comes to fandoms, but i think the doxxers also take the whole fandom experience too seriously

and i say this as someone who also writes fanfic, so like, it rly isnt me going "fanfic authors/readers are stupid", i find fanfic super cool to explore yourself, fanart taught me sooo much as an artist, i even enjoy roleplaying; all of this serves a very real purpose of exploring things as a human in realms of fiction, and pre-existing characters make that easier. i think that can be very useful, we learn about ourselves through books and stories. i just think fandom should be treated the way it is - playtime with toys ✌️