#and feel free to follow me on twitter since I'm quite active in sharing my process with the portraits too!

[megidoreyn]

Hey there, samurai! Have you been holding off on playing SMT IV? Do you want to experience SMT IV in higher resolution to better appreciate the wonderful art and intricate + detailed worldbuilding within this game? Well, look no further! The SMT IV HD Textures Mod is in the works!🎉 ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️ 【⭐What is the SMT IV HD Textures Mod?⭐】

This is a mod made for the sole purpose of completely "remastering" SMT IV's in-game textures by hand, which includes: the UI + text, backgrounds, character portraits and other visual assets by manually recreating them in higher resolution.

By applying this mod, anybody can experience the stunning HQ detail originally present within the game that was forever lost within the game's original stunted 244p quality. 【⭐How do you manually recreate smaller detailed assets like the Character Portraits?⭐】

In contrast to other HD Mods or Remakes out there using impractical methods to "upscale" character images, our team is dedicated to redrawing the original crunchy ~300px Character Portrait sprites within the game into higher resolution by hand ourselves (using the ~7000px Key Art as a base). And sometimes, we have to redraw certain sprites entirely from scratch!

➡️As one of the artists part of the team, I'm very passionate about getting those iconic "Doi style" elements that are present throughout his SMTIV art. Personally speaking, it's an honor and a learning experience to be a part of this project in being able to faithfully recreate his work with as much respect and care as possible. That being said: We're all basically doing the work that an entire dedicated team within a company would usually do, out of love for this game! And because we want to provide something meaningful for the megaten fandom, too. If you're interested, stay tuned for more information! And don't hesitate to spread the word, too! ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️ 【Feel free to follow the staff linked below for any updates on twitter!】 Please give lots of love to the staff! Your interest and commentary means a lot to our humble team + helps motivate us to keep going!💪 ⭐HD UI Redesign, HD Demon Scans and more⭐: 👾Vesk ⭐HD Character Portrait + HD Sprite Redraw Artists⭐: 👾Lamprey 👾Reyn - PS: I'll be posting some of my progress here on tumblr too! ➡️Twitter log of sprites I've finished so far + Works in Progress ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️ 【Project promotional banner above and character portrait art credit within this entire post + the banner goes to myself (@megidoreyn on twitter and here on tumblr!)】

[popopretty]

Hello there. I hope this message won't be so out there to you, but if anything, please feel free to just ignore it!

I'm a new fan of piko, as new as...2023, since I discovered him through his recent participation in a fantasy band called Sound Horizon (he didn't advertise it much on his twitter, but I'm sure you could notice he shared fanart of his character from the album).

I was absolutely smitten by his strong, versatile and magnetic voice. And after watching some of his old lives, as well as the recent stream on twistcast, I admire him even more for...how to put it...he seems like someone who genuinely enjoy singing. I mean, of course he's a singer, but the energy that shines through from someone who's living their passion is something unique and hard to come by. Then I discovered your blog, which I truly feel grateful for along with all other piko fanblogs on tumblr. I learned about his health condition and the recent hiatus in 2019. The story is heart-wrenching, but at the same time I feel truly inspired to embrace hope, and want to watch after his future activities.

I write you this just to share a piece of love, and to express my thanks for all the translation and other content you shared on this blog :) Have a great day!

Hiiiii!

Omg u don’t know how happy I am to find a new Piko fan haha. I’m glad to know u found him through the Sound Horizon project. I do not post that much about him these days but I’m still following everything he does and goes to his concerts quite often, u can actually find me in most of his concert photos 😂

Tbh I have followed him for too long so while I still adore his voice so much (that’s what I fell for from the beginning and I guess I will fall for it over and over again), he has become very dear to me, like a family member and I just wish he could be happy in whatever he does :3 As u said, he is very passionate about what he is doing and is also a very honest and hard-working person. If u see him in concerts he is super energetic and his cheerfulness brings a smile on everyone’s face. His fandom in Japan is small but they are the kindest people I know!! So, welcome to the fandom 🥹 Your message lightens up my day. If u have any question just let me know at any time 🥹

Have a lovely day!

[071793-imjunhyeok]

Hiiii! Do you know of any other fans of junhyeok? I wanna interact with more people in the fandom 💖

hiii! yes i do :) i follow most of them on my twitter and insta account so, you can find some people on there! a lot of the ones i know are inactive..but there are still quite a few who are active!

if you want to know specific usernames or whatnot please feel free to dm me! (since i'm not sure if people are comfortable with me sharing out their usernames in public)

[allenvooreef]

Catching up

So... hi! It's been a while, huh? I've been spending most of my time on twitter and instagram for these past couple years, but I'd like to be more active on here again, too. I've missed the kinds of interactions that can really only happen here. So I'm making an effort!

Lots has changed since my Dragon Age tumblr hey-day, so let me catch you up on my life a little bit.

The most obvious thing here being that the Dragon Age obsession void has been filled with Dungeons and Dragons and it's making me very happy. I thought Critical Role was gonna be the thing that fueled my artwork for the next couple years, but whoops it turns out it's my own campaigns and characters instead. This also makes me a bit more hesitant to post all of the art I make for it, though, because if it's not a fandom will anyone even be interested? However, I've decided it shouldn't matter, and I just enjoy sharing my art with you all either way. So brace yourselves for all the art about Raiden and Sigmar!

Raiden is an arcane trickster rogue who is quite an asshole and too clever for his own good, currently trying to solve a series of disappearances along with a small group of chaotic characters. We don't record or air our campaign, but the session summaries, typed up by yours truly, are freely available. The campaign now also has its own tumblr page with these summaries, art, and character information, so follow @anywaymurder to keep up with all the shenanigans!

Sigmar is a warrior in the Dragon Age universe, in a campaign set in Tevinter around the time of the first Blight. He's been looking for his missing friend, and after months of escalating complications has now finally been reunited with him.

If you'd like to learn more about them, you can browse their tags -[raiden] [sigmar]- and you're always more than welcome to ask me questions about them, of course! These lads and their stories have grown to be incredibly important to me and I'm excited to share more of that with you.

In other news, after much deliberation, I now have a new roommate in the shape of the most adorable pupper, named Soup. Yes, you read that right. She is a labradoodle (although she doesn't look it), and is about to turn one year old. It's been quite the challenge raising her all by myself (with a healthy dose of regular support from family and friends) but it's also been very rewarding, and I can't wait to see what more she grows up to be <3 I'll try to remember to post some Soup content here every once in a while, tagged of course, but if you want daily pupdates, be sure to follow my instagram stories.

Let's see if I can make an effort to post a little more often and get back some of that good ol' community feel this place used to hold for me. :) Hope you've all been doing alright in the meantime! Feel free to drop a comment to tell me how you've been!

[cassandraclare]

I'm sorry to hear that your hard work was leaked but I was curious about what happened. I hope the person faced consequences because that was a very selfish thing to do leaking your work like that :(

I haven’t taken action against the person who leaked the book. I know who they are, since they uploaded the page I signed for them, and I was able to match that against my records. 

I haven’t refrained from taking action because I feel sympathy for them. I don’t. It’s beyond shitty behavior to receive an early, signed book as a gift, and to then leak the entire book online. It’s a shit thing to do to the authors and an equally shit thing to do to other fans. However, I don’t want to put myself (and Wes) through the exhausting, grim and expensive process of legal repercussions. It doesn’t mean what this person did isn’t horrible, and it doesn’t mean they haven’t cost the entire fandom any chance of there ever being an early contest giveaway like that again. They did. There never will be. There will be no ARCs of Chain of Iron, either, and you can thank them for that, too. 

Part of what makes piracy such an issue for authors goes far beyond the individual assholes who upload and distribute and translate stolen books. It’s that the whole system is set up to make it incredibly difficult for us to do anything about it. Publishers do little to nothing to prevent piracy, and authors shoulder the entire burden of searching out and reporting illegal copies of their books. And even then, we’re dependent on whether or not the reported website feels like complying with copyright laws or not. Twitter is incredibly slow to respond, Tumblr is about fifty-fifty on bothering at all. They’re legally required to take action, but they also know that the effort of doing something about it if they do not falls on exhausted, overburdened artists who often can’t afford to follow up with a lawyer’s letter.

And like, I get being broke and wanting to read books; there were a lot of books I had to pass up reading when I was broke (I will be forever grateful to the library system of New York and Brooklyn, which is how I read books at all from about 2001-2004.) I was broke enough that I slept on a bare mattress because I couldn’t afford sheets, but I’m pretty sure if I broke into Bed, Bath and Beyond and stole a bunch of fitted percale bedding I wouldn’t have encountered much sympathy if I got caught. 

I talked about this on Twitter before, and I’ll say it again here though I know it will make very little difference: pirating books doesn’t just hurt the author of those books. It hurts everyone at the publishing company, where the margin of profit is razor-thin (and yes, publishers should do more to protect themselves against piracy; I agree there); it hurts bookstores, especially indie bookstores (I remember doing an event at a store that told me, sadly, that they were likely going to have to close because people “came into the store, looked at the books, took notes, then went home and pirated them.”) It hurts libraries, who rely on circulation for funding, and the shutting down of libraries hurts people who actually can’t afford books.

Now, I know is no way to talk people out of piracy; the internet has normalized it, and besides, people will generally do the cheaper, easier thing — you can’t talk people into not doing something they want to do by telling them it’s wrong, in my experience. They’ll find ways to justify it, whether it be that they can’t afford the book or it isn’t yet available in their language or that they find the author “problematic” and this is the way they’ve chosen to punish them. 

The reason I put “problematic” in quotes is because yes, of course you can read and enjoy work that has problematic elements. Pretty much everything has some element that’s going to be found problematic by someone — which is exactly why deciding that it’s morally excusable to steal from people you think are creating flawed work is more than problematic. Holding creators accountable for their work means critiquing that work, not stealing it.

I listen to a lot of political podcasts, and some of them review work by extreme right-wing politicians etc. who have written books that the podcasters find morally despicable but wish to, or need to, review and discuss. Since they don’t wish to give money to the authors, they buy second-hand copies or take the book out of the library. They certainly don’t steal, translate and distribute copies of the books because they genuinely do not like them and do not want more people reading them. That’s what it looks like when you have an actual moral problem with a book or author. 

However, running multiple fan accounts for a book series, naming your internet identity after characters from that book series, and talking endlessly about “your favorite parts” and how this is “your favorite book” entirely invalidates any argument that you’re doing this because you think the books are bad, evil, etc. If you claim a book is actively homophobic or racist but are so desperate to read it that you’ll steal it, so excited about it that you’ll share that stolen copy, so obsessed that you’ll illegally translate a whole book and provide that stolen translation to as many people as possible, and so dedicated to the fandom that you’ll name yourself after the characters in the books and write poetry about them, I have to tell you: the last thing that looks like is that you actually find the books problematic, regardless of what you say to the contrary. It looks like you like them but don’t want to pay for them, because in fact, that’s the case. (Either that or it looks like you’re really into racist, homophobic books, and making sure as many people read them as possible, which is your problem.)

One of the issues I have with piracy is that it teaches you to hate creators. You have to hate them, because you’re doing a fucking awful thing to them and you have to justify it. This results in lying about creators — about their process, their translations, their research — as if somehow, even if they were bad researchers, that would justify widespread theft. (It doesn’t.) Those who steal books wind up in a headspace where they are obsessed with the content of the books, and entirely unwilling to accept the reality that those books were created by a real person that they’re really harming. It encourages the mentality that I didn’t create Jem or Magnus or Will or Cordelia: they came from some kind of sparkly outerspace planet and I was just lucky enough to get to write down their adventures. It invalidates the hard work creators put into what they create, and in fact, erases their very existence. The internet attitude toward creators is already incredibly toxic (especially if they’re women, LGBT+ and/or BIPOC) and the feeling of entitlement to free content, and vicious hatred toward those who aren’t providing it (even though a lot of creators, me included, provide a great deal of free content) contributes to that. Genuinely, if you’re stealing someone’s work, the least you could do is not also be an asshole about them. (Or pretend you’re Robin Hood. He stole from the rich who had taken property and goods from the poor, and returned that stolen wealth. He didn’t steal from artists and independent bookstores and use that stealing to benefit himself and his friends. The idea is actually kind of funny.) 

 I understand there is a pressure to be up to date on the books that are being released so as to participate in fandom, and I do get that. Unfortunately, piracy has real consequences that stretch beyond just hurting me and Wes. Because LGBT+ books are pirated at such an incredible rate, and we’ve definitely seen that with TEC, I am left wondering if there will ever be an actual Spanish translation of TEC, or whether the publisher will decide not to bother because it’s already been so thoroughly pirated in Spanish. I have to wonder if there will even be a third book of TEC at all, or whether publishers will feel it isn’t worth doing. And I have to wonder why the people who create this situation so often have usernames that include Jem or Magnus or Alec or Cordelia or Julian or Tessa. What an incredible misunderstanding of those characters, to imagine a world in which Will Herondale or Magnus Bane or James Carstairs would approve of stealing books and harming writers. And why name yourself after a character who absolutely couldn’t stand you? I don’t know. I don’t get it, any more than I get hating someone who provided you with something you claim is your favorite book. 

That was a much longer answer than you were probably expecting or hoping for, and I know I’ll get yelled at quite thoroughly for writing it. Writers always do, when we engage with the issue of piracy. I know most of you reading this acquire your books honestly; most of you are not like this at all. But like most things on the internet, a small amount of people really do have the power to make things pretty rotten for everyone else.

[daddy-eggman]

Welcome to Eggmanland! You've been granted with an extra special pass to the late hours of park, where things get even more exciting and interesting after the kids leave.

It's my favorite time because I finally get to ride Eggman after a long day of visiting the park and anticipating his arrival. He's the best ride of them all! ;D

Quick intro post + meet the versions of Eggman featured:

As you know from just one glimpse at my blog and everything I do, I'm deeply in love with Eggman and a devoted eggfucker. Here I'll post any fully explicit nsfw Eggman related content and stuff on here. I'll be sure to share plenty of ideas, thoughts, and maybe some oneshot fics, snippets, and more!

Just to make things clear in case I get asks about things I'm not interested in or have no experience in writing- I'm gay and only interested in nsfw of Eggman solo, with other men, or it being ambiguous when it comes to discussions and hcs. I have no experience in writing female anatomy (if there's a better neutral term lemme know) and it'd be awkward if I tried because I'm gay and clueless af lmfao.

It's unfortunately very rare to find Eggman nsfw along those lines since it's very often m/f stuff. I'm desperate for gay or solo stuff and hope to contribute as much as I can! I'd love if you can help out with asks too. 👀

People often seem to assume that I'm a bottom/sub before they get to know me, probably because of the way I talk about Eggman on my main but I'm actually a vers/switch and write Eggman the same way! He should absolutely be getting fucked in the ass and sucking dick too. >:) 💜💕

I have quite a few fetishes/kinks (outside of ones my second nsfw blog is based on) I'm very open minded and accepting towards a lot. I was going to list of some of my biggest but I've decided to surprise y'all with them as we go along. But yeah feel free to discuss any, if I'm into it I'll entertain it in my answer!

I can't guarantee this blog will be active daily in the same way my main blog is because busy busy but I'm open to asks all the time! You can also send as many as you want at any time, don't be shy! This blog is hidden from search results but everything will be tagged accordingly, so you can blacklist anything you don't want to see. Feel free to ask if you need anything tagged!

My nsfw Twitter is @daddy_eggman. I'll be much less active there and it'll probably mostly only be rts. At the moment you'll mostly see a bunch of art from the one artist I've found that actually draws godly gay Eggman nsfw. The world really needs more :')

I hope to make my own contributions with art someday too but my nsfw art still needs work and improvement before I start to share it with you all. When I do, Twitter is where they'll go since it isn't allowed here.

REMEMBER: All my posts are about modern Eggman unless stated otherwise

Meet the Eggmen:

Modern:

The star of the show! 💜⭐ Use the #modern tag for posts involving him! Classic Eggman is the same version but younger and posts about him specifically will be in #classic

Casino AU Eggman:

Art drawn by @/creativelychaotic, design and AU created by me. See more great ref images here too. 💜 #Casino AU for posts involving him!

King Shahryar:

#king shahryar for posts involving him!

Zobotnik:

#zobotnik for posts involving him!

Vampire AU Eggman:

#vampire au for posts involving him!

Boom Eggman:

#boom for posts involving him!

That's all I can think of to say for now! Check back every now and then as I update and add more to this in the future. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy your stay!

So I can be sure that you read it to the end, I'd appreciate if you like this post before following. ^^

[manggaetteokkie]

Hiiii~ just wanted to say I love your Twitter and all the translations and snippets you post of shl!! (I don't use Twitter and I'll never use it, but since your tumblr post I love scrolling through your Twitter because I'm still unfortunately not over shl 🙈😅 and also since I use Android I can't pay for the bts clips, so seeing them from you absolutely makes my day ;))

hdkfshkjhdskfh omg hello anon!!

That’s perfect, I’m really glad you’re having fun going through my Twitter (my username’s manggaetteok96 if any of you are interested)! I’m still very surprised when I get people commenting that they like what I post, it’s very heartwarming 💖 I even had someone said they found me through my CQL days here lol 

Btw, I mainly do translations of VIP or paid SHL content there (yes I do pay for them and yes I do share them), and I also share random SHL related videos/edits. Basically, it’s a dumpster for all of my SHL-related chaotic screaming. Absolutely feel free to just check it out (my account’s public so there’s no need to follow or anything), I update quite frequently and I try to go through all the reblogs and comment/reply where I can. Oh and absolutely feel free to message or shoot me an ask on Tumblr to talk about a post I made on Twitter, idrc

I totally get you not using Twitter to be perfectly honest... I mean, my twitter account was created in 2016 and I only hit ~100 followers because of groupchats lol I never used to post there, just used it to get updates on things. But then SHL happened, I started putting my Chinese to the test, found out people were quite interested in them and I guess the rest is history? My account grew way too fast in just a month’s time, I’m still pretty amazed.

I’ve actually been A LOT more active there, mainly because Twitter’s video upload system is much faster and easier, which makes video sharing much more accessible. The main limitation on Twitter is the duration (I’ve yet to be limited by file size), whereas Tumblr videos can’t exceed 100MB and the upload time also takes much longer. This makes the process of sharing short snippets not so quick... Also, I find Tumblr to be much better suited for long text posts so it’s not like I’m disappearing from here completely since I’ve been on an on/off relationship with Tumblr for years now hhhhhhhhh

But yeah, not being over SHL is relatable af, I thought we’d all be chilling since the finale aired (paid VIP here), but nope. We’re getting 2 sets of behind the scenes daily (one VIP and one paid) and even the international release has hidden Easter Eggs...

[pftones3482]

Hi! I've been following your site & see you're fairly politically active. I kno this is kind of a wierd question, but I really don't know anyone else who is politically active. I want to help this movement in anyway I can, & I'm not in a position where I can go to a rally & I don't have money (I have written/emailed letters though), and I wanted to ask you if making a website centralizing info on protests would be useful? Thanks for your time and I hope you stay safe!

Hi!

First of all, thank you for reaching out! Its really awesome that you want to help out, even if you can't do so financially (which I understand - the most I've been able to donate is $50 to the Bail Fund project, and even that was probably more than I could afford rn since I just quit one of my jobs). Protesting, petition signing (and sharing!!!) and supporting black owned businesses both online and in your local area are all ways you can help out without spending a ton of money (buy your pizza you were gonna have for dinner from a black owned pizzeria instead of Dominos or Papa Johns, for example, esp cause both companies support Trump)

Secondly, I am white, so while I can give you generalized advice on protesting or working to be a good ally or staying up to date on current events, I think you should seek out some black bloggers to follow. I unfortunately don't know of any off the top of my head (I'm actually more active with this on Twitter and Tik Tok), so if any of my followers have suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments!!

In the meantime, here is a post I reblogged with links to ways you can help.

In regards to creating a website, a bunch of people have already gotten together and put one up! I'm linking it here, please let me know if it doesn't work.

Again, if anyone has recommendations for (or you are!!) a black run tumblr account, please let us know in the comments! And if you want any Twitter account recs (most of the ones I follow are specific to my city, so it might not be too helpful) or TikTok creators to follow, hmu.

Please stay safe if you go out to protest, remember to take time to mentally unwind (people were not made for this type of constant stress), and stay hydrated. And pls for the love of god, if you go to a protest, wear a mask and bring sanitizer. We're still in the middle of a pandemic, after all.

Edit: I realize I kinda rambled a bit lol, but hopefully this can be helpful to some of my other followers too!