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[death-rebirth-senshi]

"You let the Rachni Queen go!?!?" Yes I support women's rights. But I guess y'all aren't feminists.

[transienturl]

Fun things about running a time tracker: I know that that post took me 90 minutes to write.

I don't think this information is... useful, but, eh.

[toxicanonymity]

hello, my dearest Toxy🩶

with this ask I challenge you to write a ficlet (or anything bigger if you want) inspired by this screenshot:

may the writing muses be with you,

kissing you on your forehead (if you allow it not then just waving from the distance!)

the gusset

2k, "daddy" Joel x f!reader x uncle tommy

Tyvm for the inspo, Aly! And for all your beautiful gifs🖤 love you *forehead kiss*. 18+ MDNI cumplay, smut, incidental incest via double vag penetration & cum cleanup. ain't your thing? scroll on by. don't overthink it, mild weather, reader can wear Joel's shirt. masterlists: joel & uncle tommy, joel.

“What's wrong, baby?” Joel asks in the rearview mirror as you squirm in your seat.

“Nothing, daddy. I'm just kinda--I'm fine.”

“You’re doin’ great, baby,” he says.

Uncle Tommy sympathizes, “panties take some gettin’ used to if ya’ain’t used to wearin’em, huh cupcake?”

Well, dry panties would be a different story. These are filled. They made sure of it before y’all left the house. One load from Tommy and two from Joel.

Each moment that passes, more of their spend oozes out of you and onto the soaked gusset. It's pouring out of you faster than the cotton gusset could absorb it, even if it weren't already soaked through. The abundance of cum has built up and formed a little pillow along your crotch. A growing pillow, threatening to spill under the elastic edges of the panties.

It's farmer’s market day. That's when Joel hauls some produce from Lincoln to the Boston QZ perimeter to trade. Last night, Tommy volunteered to do the job, and when you dared to ask if you could join, Joel said, let's all go. Joel hated to let you out of his sight and he couldn't bear to do it in public. You almost wonder if he filled you up on purpose so you wouldn't want to get out of the truck.

Now the bed of the truck is loaded with apples and peaches. You’re slouching in the back seat of the extended cab, trying to minimize the pressure on your panties. If the growing bulge of semen were to breach the underwear, it would be an even bigger mess than it already felt like.

It’s been turning you on, feeling their thick, warm seed ooze from your hole and fill up your whole slit, bit by bit. Gush by gush, it's occupied every crevice of your parts, coating the puffy outer lips of your tired pussy, then accumulating between the cotton and you.

While arousal stirs in your belly, your skin is hot with embarrassment knowing you’re going out in public. It feels indecent. Which somehow makes it hotter, at the same time. It’s an awful cycle, and the throbbing of your cunt churning out slick isn’t helping the near-overflow situation.

Joel glances in the rearview twice more, then suggests, “Why don't ya come sit in uncle Tommy's lap?”

“It's okay,” you reply.

Not used to your rejection, Tommy turns around with big, gentle eyes and a furrowed brow. “What's goin’ on, babygirl?”

Joel pulls over and your heart speeds up as the wheels slow on the pavement.

-

With the car in park, Joel unbuckles his seatbelt and reaches to the back seat. His tan forearm flexes with his green flannel rolled up over his elbow as he unbuckles your seatbelt. “Spread your legs, darlin’. an’ hike up that dress for me.”

You pull your dress up and spread your knees slightly.

“Spread’em, sugar. C’mon now, nothin’ to be shy about.”

You spread your legs wide, earning a soft, “Good girl,” from your daddy as his gaze settles between your legs and the bittersweet scent wafts to his nostrils and yours. Wetness trickles from your cunt into the crack of your butt. Joel reaches further and softly pats the soft, inflated crotch of your panties with his thumb. A drop escapes the side and he gives a low whistle.

Tommy looks back, cocking an eyebrow as he takes in the view, then his cheeks fill with air as he exhales.

“I’ll fix ya, baby. Hold on,” Joel exits the truck.

As Joel stands outside the truck and straightens his shirt, Tommy smiles at you and says, “Didn’t ‘spect ya to leak that much. We fucked ya wide open, didn’t we?”

Your upper body heats up and your lower body throbs as you remember how they did it.

~~~~///~~~~~

Tommy was laid back on the bed, reclining against the headboard, with you between his legs, speared on his cock. He had been fucking you excruciatingly slow in small strokes from the bottom, and you were gushing, desperate for more. He cradled your naked breasts and gushed, “She’s such a good girl,” with his cock stiff and throbbing in your cunt. He paused his movements.

“She sure is,” Joel agreed.

Tommy tilted his hips down and asked, “You good, cupcake?”

“Mmm,” you answered, lacking words. “Daddy” you looked at Joel with pleading eyes. You savored the brief burn as Joel squeezed his own tip into your occupied entrance right along with Uncle Tommy's cock. Joel leaned down and gave you a kiss as he let your body catch up. Then he asked, “Ready, baby?”, and you nodded dreamily. Dripping wet and ready.

Joel pushed his hips forward, stretching you with his rock hard manhood, more than doubling the girth inside you. At the same time, Tommy tilted his hips up to spear you deeper.

Your mouth hung open and you grunted with the stretch, then moaned at the push of their stiff cocks against your walls. You were packed full and could swear your sensitive walls felt the heartbeats of both dicks that were crammed inside you. Joel admired your face and when half his mouth broke into a smile, you realized you were drooling. From both mouths.

~~~~///~~~~~

Joel opens your door and gives your thigh a squeeze. “Lay back for me, darlin’.”

You lie flat on your back, and Joel arranges your legs so one foot is on the floor and one is on the seat, with your knee up. He lifts your dress higher and you feel air on your lower abdomen.

He gently thumbs your swollen panties, feeling the pocket of cum move under his touch. “Oh, baby,” he murmurs. He slides his thumb gently up and down, watching the bulge move under the cotton, and you flinch in pleasure.

“Fuck,” Tommy whispers and palms himself in the front seat. The tips of Joel’s fingers rest warmly on the skin of your lower abdomen as he gently rubs your crotch with his massive thumb. He rubs with an upward stroke over your entrance, working some of the cum upward. The wetness creeps up your mound as he works to spread it. Each time his thumb passes over your clit, more tension builds in your core.

“Well shit,” Tommy marvels, watching. It must show on your face. “Can’t get enough, can she?”

Your hips begin to lift into Joel’s hand, and he watches your chest rise and fall. He settles into a trance, thumb moving on its own at a slow rhythm as he watches your nipples harden and feels you getting closer. “Daddy,” you whimper, and he pauses his efforts to rub you for pleasure. His thumb speeds up. “Daddy,” you whimper again, and unravel into a moan as you reach your peak.

Your walls spasm and push more cum out of you, creating a warm new bubble beneath the damp cotton Joel had just flattened. A growl escapes Joel’s chest at the sight. He pauses, then grabs you by both thighs to pull you closer to the door. The echo of your orgasm continues to ooze more of their seed out of you.

Tommy shudders, and you hear the squish of his fist around his cock. “Fill’er back up?” He offers.

Joel nods at him in agreement. You sigh in resignation to the utter mess between your legs. “It’s okay baby, I'll clean ya up,” Joel reassures you as Tommy exits the truck.

-

Joel steps out of the way and you look up to see Tommy’s kind eyes glued between your legs as he slowly strokes himself. “Ffuuck,” he mutters, and pulls you almost off the edge of the seat. “Sit up, honey,” he breathes, and you do.

With his thumb, he yanks your panties to the side, and the elastic crackles past its limit. Then you wrap your hands around his neck as he pulls you off the seat. You bury your face in his hair and whimper as he impales you on his cock. You sink onto him with ease, plugging what's left of the earlier cum, pushing it back up into you. He firmly holds your bottom, then begins to erupt, pulling you onto him as his seed throbs into you. His body jerks with a broken moan. He sighs as he finishes.

“Good girl,” he whispers with a squeeze of your butt, then bends his knees and helps you back onto the seat. He slides out of you and helps fix the crotch of your panties to cover you up again. Cum drips onto the leather beneath you. A product of the extra load as well as the loosened elastic on one side.

Tommy stuffs himself back in his jeans and gives Joel a nod.

“fraid it’s just gonna come right out,” Tommy chuckles.

“Savin' mine for the ride home,” Joel says, cupping his balls then squeezing the thick sausage sitting on his thigh before adding, “You're drivin’ home, buddy.”

“You got it,” Tommy agrees as he goes back around the truck.

-

You start to put your dress back down and Joel stops you with a gentle “not yet, darlin’, lemme see.”

He collects the spilled cum from the leather with a swipe of his thumb, then brings it to your lips. He presses his thumb gently into your mouth, against your soft tongue. You suck the digit clean. “good girl,” he says, “Lay down again for me.”

Joel kisses his sticky thumb as you assume the position again.

He uses the same thumb to trace the slightly loosened edge of the panties' crotch, then the other edge. “daddy, wait—If I come again, it’s gonna make a big mess,” you warn him.

“I know, babygirl. Ain’t gotta cum. Just relax.”

You trust him enough to un-tense your muscles and let him clean up.

“Attagirl.”

He dips his head between your legs and starts low, on your inner thigh where it meets your butt. He licks along the edge of the panties, dipping his tongue slightly under the crotch then forcing himself to withdraw it without going further. He goes back to tracing the edge.

When he’s licked up the seed that spilled from the gusset, he blows along the pantyline, then presses a soft kiss against your mound. He inspects the other side and repeats the remedy, although there isn’t as much to clean up. He taps his thumb against the cotton that covers your entrance, feeling only a small amount of cum give way. Far less than the earlier pillow.

He presses a soft kiss on your lower belly, just above your panties, then looks up and studies your face as he puts your dress back down. “Lay like that if ya want, baby. we’re almost there." He gives your thigh a squeeze and winks at you before closing the door.

Before putting the truck in drive, Joel looks back and gently offers, “Don’t gotta get outta the car if ya don’t wanna, okay?” Tommy gives him a look.

“She’s somethin' else,” Tommy mutters as Joel gets back in the truck.

-

You *knew* it! You try not to let it show on your face. He’s so controlling.

Well, Daddy’s not gonna get the satisfaction of you choosing to stay in the truck. Any type of outing is so rare that you have to take advantage to the fullest. You daydream about seeing a stray dog, sniffing around, following the scent of meat.

One time, Joel took you to an abandoned barn to gather some tools, and you met a barn cat. Anything was possible.

“Can we go by the old barn on the way home?” You ask from the back.

“We’ll see, baby,” Joel answers and you roll your eyes, out of his view since you’re lying down. You stew in frustration and by the time y’all park at the QZ perimeter trading tent, you’re trying to force away tears.

Joel gets out and looks in the backseat. “Stayin’ put?” He asks, then registers the look on your face. “What’s wrong, baby?”

He gets out and opens your door. “C’mere, talk to me.” he helps you sit up. You take a deep breath and look away, heat rising to your eyes.

“I do wanna get out,” you tell him.

He takes your jaw gently in his hand and makes you look at him. His brows knit in concern when your eyes meet. “Okay, you’ll get out,” he quietly agrees. “Hey, you’re okay, baby. You're okay.” He cradles the back of your head.

You try to fix your dress and Joel’s face changes from concern to pity. He untucks his flannel and starts unbuttoning it, strong forearms flexing. Your face softens and your eyes brighten, making Joel’s sparkle.

He helps you down from the truck, and his broad body blocks the view as he holds up his shirt for you. You admire the way his biceps and chest stretch his plain white under-tee before you turn around and slip your arms into the flannel. You turn around and while Joel is still facing you, he adjusts himself, then untucks his t-shirt. He takes your hand and says, “Uncle Tommy’s gonna unload. You stick with me.”

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Make sure you check out bonezone44's amazing artwork to see how Joel looks at the end.

thanks for reading!

Your comments delight me and help my confidence which helps me write. Love y'all.

[moonstruckdatingsim]

in celebration of me being able to post sprites to this blog without scaling them up, and have them show up nice (ON THE BLOG VIEW. theyll be tiny in your dashboard sorry), here r some new sprites i've been really enjoying :))

[mythserene]

I deleted that. It was stupid and I don't mean it that way and I have never wished anything bad for him. I think he's a decent guy who has mentored a lot of people and is a good friend to many more.

On the other hand my intellect abhors the academic part. It really offends me on a deep level. But the personal part, the human part, thinks about him a lot. I wrote him an email, not yet sent, but in it suddenly I was just talking to him like I'd known him all my life. But I do feel like I know him from studying him so closely. After one podcast where he talked about his son I couldn't write for like a week. It weighed on both of us. I didn't hate him. Neither of us ever did.

I didn't mean him, personally, but I do mean we kicked out the whole foundation of Beatles' historiography and we've got serious cleanup to do. We can't leave everything just lying there in ruins. Do you know how many books cite Lewisohn as a source? Like, ALL OF THEM. (That's only slight hyperbole.)

And that's what has brought me back to deal with this. That was always the draw for me. Taking that seriously.

My dream is every Beatles Con with a booth or two uploading Beatles' treasures to the web. My dream is books and magazines and ticket stubs popping up online and Beatles scholarship changing and growing in ways we can't even imagine, all accomplished while the conference goes on. And as far as where it will be uploaded to, my dream—(since we're on the subject)—is a Beatles' archive accessible to anyone with an internet connection—and I'm sure Paul McCartney would fund the hell out of it. But until then archive.org exists, is awesome, and made our work possible. (And makes all my work possible.)

This has been a hit to the whole community and a serious hit to Beatles' historiography, but it can be an opportunity as well. Peter Jackson got a lot of Beatles' scholars and fans licking their chops about what could be, created a lot of new fans and showed how much life there still was left. Showed us, really, that we were just getting started. It built new connections, got people talking and thinking and exchanging records. It also made me a fan of Robert Rodriguez (SATB) who cannot stop talking about Beatles' scholarship either. He is intensely focused on it.

I wrote “History cannot be hoarded,” but I want to be clear, I don't think that's what's happening. Not in the Beatles community as a whole. But it is siloed, and that's an obvious problem. Thankfully it's one with the easiest solution on earth. It's one we know how to solve with scanners.

It has been my experience that Beatles' fans will share anything you ask for, no questions asked. Early on listening to the Nagras I suddenly needed to know—just absolutely had to know—what Doug Sulpy had written about this particular day and I put out an SOS tweet saying

I desperately need to see what Sulpy wrote about January 14th 🙏🙏

but unfortunately like only two of my followers happened to be Beatles' fans back then. Within an hour and a half Joe Wisely of Beatles Books had DM'd me the pages.

*I would have screenshotted the tweet but unfortunately Musk has destroyed one of the best things about Twitter: the accessible record it provided.

Anyway, from now on I will always separate the man from the work. I stand humbled on that front and don't know what in the hell I was thinking.

[tavina-writes]

LXC would've gotten disbarred

After I kind of drifted away from the cnovel translation forum I used to be a part of, like, a decade ago, I thought to myself: my translator days are over! I will not translate stuff again! The post about if NMJ has hobbies (found here if you want to see it) was merely a blip on the radar of “not translating anything.” 

Alas, I appear to have descended into a new pit, and that is seeing things in the other translations of mdzs and going back to the Chinese to look at things, discussing with @autumnslantern and just, translating snippets of this book and then deciding to share the results. 

In this case, it’s a passage from Chapter 73, which is doing the rounds again, but I’ve most commonly seen as evidence for “LXC really wanted to say something about the treatment of the Wens but got steamrolled by NMJ’s objections” and I kind of just want to wave at the title of this post because if Chinese Novel!Xichen had been my defense lawyer, I would fire him. I would want him disbarred lol. I love him but this was not a shiny moment of Xichen getting steamrolled. 

Again, this appears like it will get long, so meta under the cut: 

The passage in question in this one, which is early on in Chapter 73: 

The fantranslation I have access to says this: 

Lan XiChen responded a moment later, “I have heard of Wen Qing’s name a few times. I do not remember her having participated in any of the Sunshot Campaign’s crimes.”

Nie MingJue, “But she’s never stopped them either.”

Lan XiChen, “Wen Qing was one of Wen RuoHan’s most trusted people. How could she have stopped them?”

Nie MingJue spoke coldly, “If she responded with only silence and not opposition when the Wen Sect was causing mayhem, it’s the same as indifference. She shouldn’t have been so disillusioned as to hope that she could be treated with respect when the Wen Sect was doing evil and be unwilling to suffer the consequences and pay the price when the Wen Sect was wiped out.”

Lan XiChen knew that because of what happened to his father, Nie MingJue abhorred Wen-dogs more than anything, especially with how intolerable he was toward evil. Lan XiChen didn’t say anything else.

One of the sect leaders spoke up, “What Sect Leader Nie said is quite right. Besides, Wen Qing is one of Wen RuoHan’s most trusted people. You’re telling me she never participated? Well I don’t buy it. Is there any Wen-dog without a single drop of blood on their hands? Maybe it’s just that we haven’t found out about it yet!”

The Chinese text that these passages correspond to is this: 

蓝曦臣沉吟道：“这位温情的大名我知晓几分，似乎没听说她参与过射日之征中任何一场凶案的。”

聂明玦道：“可她也没有阻拦过。”

蓝曦臣道：“温情是温若寒的亲信之一，如何能阻拦？”

聂明玦冷冷地道：“既然在温氏作恶时只是沉默而不反对，那就等同于袖手旁观。总不能妄想只在温氏兴风作浪时享受优待，温氏覆灭了就不肯承担苦果付出代价。”

蓝曦臣知道，因家仇之故，对温狗聂明玦是最为痛恨，他又是完全容不得沙子的性情，便不再言语。一名家主道：“聂宗主此言正是。况且温情既然是温若寒的亲信，说她没参与过？我是不信的。温狗哪个手上不沾几条人命？也许只是没被我们发现而已！”

Which I got from this source on the internet. At some point I should invest in buying an actual physical copy of this text, but I spent my discretionary Chinese book money on a great copy of Yanxi Palace so I’ll have to wait on my physical MDZS copy. 

Anyway, what follows are a bunch of screenshots of the translation process of this section and then some cleanup and a basic summary. 

Idk about you all, but I do not call someone a pejorative equivalent of WRH’s toady/crony/trusted ally, while saying “why would she stop his horrible crimes!” and then think that my good friend would have to “turn a blind eye” if we were to let her off when I’m trying very hard to defend her against the masses but am getting steamrolled into agreeing that she probably deserved it. 

Indeed, the two things that LXC says in this scene are: “I have heard briefly of Wen Qing’s reputation, it does not appear that she personally murdered anyone…” and “she’s a crony of WRH, how would she have stopped his atrocities?” 

Now, I actually like him more after realizing this fact, because he was being mildly bitchy about this! And honestly, given that the Wen burned down his house and killed his dad and killed a bunch of Lan cultivators and broke Wangji’s leg and kidnapped Wangji and nearly killed Xichen himself and he had to flee with a bunch of their sacred texts…I’d say he’s earned the right to be bitchy about them. 

But also if I were Wen Qing depending on Zewu-jun for his excellent defense lawyering skills at my criminal trial I would want him disbarred. And also fired. 

[spamtoon]

PKNA Week... um. Five? Five

Hi! I'm Spam, I'm WAY behind, you know this by now. I'm letting myself read PKNA as a little break between reading allergy information because lord my head is spinning. It's two time

TWO ! we got some DOS action going on here! im stealing someone else's post where they went haha. dos! because uno--sorry

sick vr helmet donald has going on--i'd love for uno to put me in the neuron pod. sorry thats what im calling this thing because the wires kinda look like neuron. shoutout to the plane in the back

dhasam-bul. alright. can get behind yellow and pink those are colors i like despite spam being incredibly purple... oughgh the colors in duckburg are nice too sorry i just like how its pastel rainbow in this comic

uno so silly... we need more uno laughing at donald's suffering i think

donald's stupid smug face i'm so mad. men to say Who's laughing now?

shoutout to this random camera guy in the background. ooh... if there's a hacker type situation. and there's vr. is donald gonna go in the computer PLEASE that was always my favorite like. trope as a kid. when they'd go inside a video game or the internet or something and you'd see all these dated 90s depictions of technology it was the best looking thing to me no matter the quality of the episode itself. yes lets go digital was my favorite episode of phin.eas and ferb

i love how uno's always so cheeky. and you know what. he deserves to look down on other computers. ough the uno donald expressions are always silly in these opening sections i'm so glad uno's around so often

yesssss.... i should have guessed this by the fact there were all sorts of ones and zeroes on the cover but oho. ohohoho...

i would screenshot these donald uno panels too but there's so many of them and they're all so cute on this page ough. the little cleanup robots uno sent out are cute. not like in a megavolt way but in a "that's cute looking" way sorry i have to specify now

JFIOEAJFOIAEJ UNO JUST DROPPING DONALD DOWN THE ELEVATOR im so

sorry uno smiling is always a must screenshot

oughoughogugohgoghough now this is the SHIT i came here for! polygons. even like fake polygons. ohoho. oohhoohoo the clouds and the abstraction are a welcome addition but i like how he's swimming in it. yessssss

i don't know i'm just a sucker for this kind of like. abstraction view of the internet you know. its literally not how it works but damn it its so charming anyway. cyberspace...

this shot of angus fangus is so goofy like with the dialogue and everything. whiny man

the bubbly little like. glitch effects. ooh. ooh. i like how he punishes donald for being just a little selfish

okay so That's where that's going. angus fangus is seeing a miku-like projection right now i see i see sorry. okay now the king kong is kinda sick i'll give them that. rigging projection lights...

sorry im just laughing at all the goofy frames. like donald turning his back to uno suffering

i love the transition from serious donald to silly goofy donald. like all donald is silly goofy donald but paperinik just being like woof! i'm beat! after Deductioning is a treat to see okay

the cops harassing a guy just because he "looks foreign"? now that's the police!

donald likes going into cyberspace doesn't he...

i love how lying is bolded here. makes me think he's saying it like Lying! (jazz hands). the jazz hands are essential but he doesn't have hands so jazz... thoughts. programming. his processors are overloading!! his ram is getting too much information!! he's getting overstimulated!!

uno vocaloi.d when

i like how uno's first thought is uhhhhhh you see donald we could ummmmm toon.town online it! we could smash him, if i must proclaim, with hammers!

3d projector technology (at least for vo.caloid performances) literally us just like. using mutliple projectors with different things at different angles to produce one single image, so! i like how donald calls angus zuchini brain. reminded of bush brain and melon head...

this is my favorite person at the computer fair they slap

this panel slaps... sorry i just. pkna's hatching when used effectively sure is used effectively

:((((( god this plan is actually good like the dramatic irony here is spot on. donald can't tell why uno is stressed his expressions... the shattered uno orb.....................

ah i guess they are uno now. honestly bummer considering i thought they were going the other direction with it but considering this was bad enugh to make ducklair himeslf come back i should have probably seen this coming. and that he's two, uno with a triangle head. alright and he's already world dominating i miss uno

UNO!!! little stick ball uno... little guy's on backup now...

uno's face... HUFOEAHFE the way that he just SPROINGed away the electronic master key

this was a great issue! pkna does take a lot more to like. read than it does to engage with anything else but damn it. im a sucker for virtual crap and its always nice seeing a plethora of uno

[dreamcrow]

it's saturday! my blog my rules! have some procreate cleanup screenshots. i worry i might have posted at least versions of some of these before, but oh well.

horrible roommates hotsprings episode, pt. 2/infinity. it's pt. 2 bc i don't think this was specifically from skrael sous vide... but i had a lot of fun with the landscape on this (there's a lot more trees/rocks i cropped out, maybe i will come back to this)

silly little outfitswap i can NOT get out of my head, but make it colored and more detailed (foiled by high resolution and not actually wanting to figure out how bellroc's pants work)

world's smuggest and most fashionable ancient baby. actual boss of prehistoric eskisehir. she shows up for roughly 10 minutes and i love her

(+ one of the best/stupidest skraels i've ever drawn, after the cut)

oh, completely embarassing marital tenderness dot comic... you can tell where i ran out of energy/patience drawing his fancystuck outfit, huh lol

if i could actually figure out how sequential art works i would be unstoppable!!

[bagea]

your art is sooooo awesome. whats your process

OMGGG!!!! tyyyyy that really means a lot :3 <3

typically my process involves working with a certain programs bitmap, sometimes krita and mspaint but only if im in the mood, and i start by doing outlines/rough sketches in the default color, with variations on the same color slider if something needs to be different than the previous colors ones, i typically work all on one layer so (old examples shown here ⬇️ i dont rlly have much wip art stuff so i dont really save things that are unfinished)

then i redraw over that with actual linework, typically either black or an extremely dark color so things match up, (ex, dark green if im drawing something green) and then i usually convert the whole thing to vector so i gain layers again, then i use the colors i selected for the base linework and fill in the entire background layer with that, then i convert it back to bitmap again, then i use the clear bucket tool to get rid of all that color but it keeps the clean linework, then i do cleanup so everything looks right. then i add color with the bucket tool again, (a good example shown here in an old draft of another previous art thing,and so i dont feel like remaking the entire process for this ask so im using old examples)

then afterwords i add detail like shading and little tics and notches and highlights and a lot of times ill fill in shadows with the color of the linework and sometimes ill thicken the linework in places, i usually do this on 4-1 sixed pixel brushes

and then ill add a real background and final touches and yapyap whatever im pretty much finished, for a while i used to just screenshot my art but i realized that you can export files so i do that now for a crisper finish.

and i cant really explain what my process is for sketchbook and physical stuff, i just draw whats on my mind, for more important stuff ill use pencil for an outline then erase it after inking. for animations its just the same process i always do but i ignore the details besides sometimes shading, it makes the process go faster and cheaper, and then i just import all the drawings individually into davinci resolve8 to string together and animate. and if this ask was looking for like. my process for drawing things. i usually just simplify details and make note of shapes and body language and stuff you knoww, its how i simplify complex mecha into niche character designs.,,

[kobblefort]

Rushsly: Second Cavern Arc 2

Our stockkeeper (remember her? fuck dude, I don't) apparently threw herself into the fray, and for her troubles gets her clothes rips to shreds and a steel spear jammed in her gut. I have no idea why the fuck she was there, she's not in the military, I would really fucking prefer it if she was not there but I guess she just sort of decided to join in. Awesome.

Our main doctor throws himself into the fray, too - ideally he's just there to rescue anyone who gets hurt in the conflict, but then he ends up charging ahead of the soldiers like he's the fucking vanguard. And because that wasn't fucking chaotic enough...

Shislik gives birth to twins. Yes, right there, in the middle of the fucking battle.

It does not slow her down.

It's over.

The only one to take any serious scrapes was Aslas Spoilsutters, who lost her tail, fractured her spleen (I don't understand how you fracture an organ but ok...) and lost the ability to stand. I'm not sure if she'll pull through. I hope so. I need to figure out what the hell she was actually doing getting involved in the first place. For now, there's cleanup to be done.

Ace chalked up another four. And with her literally-just-born babies in tow, all she wants to do is keep sparring. Shycla Cystnoble, her sparring partner du jour, got her own first kill in the melee, as did Rias Squarelauds, a fellow swordmaster.

Most promising of the new recruits is Saraz Fishedpraise, who scored just as many kills as the Beast Slayer herself, and is already a competent spearbold and skilled striker in barely any time at all. Maybe some day he'll be a proper Beast Slayer himself - I'm noting down that he likes talc, electrum, moonstones, and... green glass? Well I don't know where to get talc or how to make electrum but he really ended up in the right fucking place for green glass. And as you can see in that screenshot, Aslas is up and moving again. She's a bit faint, and she'll need a billon crutch to get around, but she can get right back to keeping stock of the kobble economy, with losing her entire tail barely registering as a hiccup.

I can't be sure how many of these were actually killed in the ambush, rather than earlier by the forgotten beasts as they rampaged through the first cavern layer, but on top of those, we have an additional 4 caged prisoners who, after the failure of the arena idea, we are simply just going to throw down a big hole so that they die, as is apparently our custom now. And just like that, besides - or, well, maybe including - the giant eyeless lobster lurking in the depths, things just go right back to normal. And so, with just a bit of greed in my heart, I decide it might be a good time to dig down to elevation -100 - out of a total of 129. The chances get higher and higher of running into "Hidden Fun Stuff" with each level, so if you're concerned about endgame spoilers, I won't be offended if you tap out. It seems a bit early to be saying "endgame," considering our fort isn't even populated with 100 kobbles yet, much less the Winged One and their entourage, but most forts simply do not survive cracking into their first big adamantite vein. I have a good feeling about Rushsly, but my intuition is often wrong. And while nothing happens when we hit the depths...

On the first cavern layer again, a big-ass bird with "deadly blood" arrives. Hyahyata the Deep. I'm not busting out the MS Paint effortmode for this one, its name isn't cool enough, sorry. We've near-completely closed off the first layer after the olm men ambush, besides two barred-shut doors - glass doors, again, unfortunately, but they should hold well enough against a creature with literally hollow bones. This will be another fight for the marksbold squadron, and we're straight to work fortifying another position to fire upon it from. It flutters around the cavern wildly, but doesn't seem to have caught the kobbles' scent or anything.

We quickly carve out a turret, station the marksbolds and have them wait just a moment for it to fly by, and when it does -

A single shot from Dralas Containedbanded tears through the great bird's wing, sending it careening around 20 Z-levels down, where it splatters into pieces upon hitting the ground.

Well, congratulations to our newest Beast Slayer. He'll need a room built right away - though both aluminum and orpiment only occur near magma, which besides the filthy bit of cheating I did way back at the start, still hasn't been discovered anywhere in the 112 Z-levels we've explored (from the highest bird tower, 7 to the lowest mine shaft, 105 - yeah I went a little deeper than I said I would.) In fact, in the greatest simulation game of all time Dwarf Fortress aluminum is tied with platinum for the second most valuable metal. I really prefer hooking up my Beast Slayers with their preferred elements, but it seems like even if we find some all the way at the very bottom of the earth, it'll be a chore to get it back up and smelted. But fuck it, this whole game is about chores anyway. You do chores so that your funny little computer screen characters can do more chores. Let's keep digging. Alllll the way down to 115, why the hell not?

And then we breach the third and final cavern layer. Beyond this can surely only be Hidden Fun Stuff. Starting to feel a bit stupid for calling this the 'Second Cavern Arc,' LOL!!!!!! But it's fine. We'll seal up the hole quickly and set about safely surveying the area. And, obviously, getting some aluminum for our troubles would be really nice.

All the way up on the surface, another one of these dumbfucks gets caught by the Bird Tower.

A lot more than one, actually, but they get scared and fucking scatter when they see the armadillo that just sort of lives outside our gates... roll up into a ball and unroll a couple times.

Fuck, it's actually a whole-ass ambush though!! The clever bastards managed to trick us into sending out our main force instead of hunkering down. Well, any kobble worth their weight in rocks can appreciate a good trap. The question is, will they regret it, or will we?

I wish I could rewind the game to capture GIFs sometimes, because one of the ratfolk literally exploded into a shower of its constituent parts like a firework.

Yeah I think they're the ones who regret it. Though in the fray, we noticed some gnoll thieves among their ranks - the ratfolk making any kind of alliances is obviously troublesome, and we don't know whether the gnolls will prove any tougher than the ratfolk. And oh shit

Zil Dentedleaks took a nasty injury in the fray, and awaits rescue by its fellow it/its bitch Kody Inkblighted, who doesnt even finish its drink before heading over to carry Zil to the hospital.

Zhag Gillpoker, one of the newer recruits, took a nasty scrape himself, and so they'll be keeping each other company in the hospital.

Closer analysis reveals Zil might have gotten hurt a lot worse than we initially thought - having your spine and its nervous tissue "torn apart" seems like the kind of injury that could end a career entirely. Though it and Zhag are both up within just a few days - Zil with a crutch - and they attempt to get straight back to training.

But winter is a time of rest for the kobbles, and so they're finally taken off duty for the season. Around just the same time, a farmers' guild is established, and they petition for a guildhall to organize in.

It's really no bother at all. You want a guild hall? Here, have a grand one. Zinc, iron and crystal glass floors with a platinum accent in the middle. Detailed billon walls and a gold pillar at the entrance. Worth a whopping 12706 whatever-the-symbol-is whatever-the-currency-means-eroo's. Go nuts guys I don't give a shit. We're rich

Shycla decides what she'll do with her free time is stand around the site of the carnage and just think about stories she's been told.

And just like that, we're suddenly very busy.

We've got more than a few gold and platinum crafts to start passing around to all these lovely guests. But the trading will have to wait for next time, because this has been quite an exciting, information-dense session and I can feel my brain overheating a little bit. Next time we'll be buying some crap (if anything is worth buying,) surveying the final cavern layer and building Dralas a nice Beast Slayer bedroom. And much like an episode of Mobile Suit Gundam that lulls you into a false sense of confidence, I'm going to end this episode by randomly blurting out WHO WILL SURVIVE???

[xmsimmerx]

well 🧍🏻‍♀️I try to clear my screenshots folder every few months (especially during frequent playing sessions)

so I create a folder on my other drive (d drive), rename the folder with the dates of the earliest screenshot till the most recent one that’ll I’ll be moving over

Zip this folder (to try and reduce its size especially if it’s a lot of screenies) and I upload it to my Google drive + back it up on an external hard disk.

Every few months I delete the older/already backed up screenshot folders to empty space on my d drive. I like to keep my pc organised so I do cleanups of this sort more frequently and thus I don’t worry about deleting something since it immediately gets backed up once it’s zipped and out of the documents folder 🤓

📩 Simblr question of the day: What do you do with your screenshots after you post them? Delete them or hoard them on your PC forever?

answer in whatever way is most comfortable for you and feel free to share this SQOTD around, make sure to use the hashtag SQOTD and tag me in separate posts ~ 💛

This question was contributed by an anon! ~thank you for the SQOTD contribution~

[claire-starsword]

The Guardiana Magic School Run - Part 14

Before anything, did you know that if a game is lagging a bit it's recommended you stop using your decades old emulator and actually update to something better? Wild. This thing is running so smooth now.

It's time for Earnest's revenge quest except he's not valid in this run, so this is just the regular beating of another guy instead.

Also, now you know where you're supposed to get the Mermanbuster. The Deals section is absurd. Would be nice to get this bonus but after last battle I don't have much hope.

The convenient thing is that this map is so small I can screenshot basically every enemy in a single image, you're just missing an extra bat to the right. The inconvenient thing is that they'll easily block our path just like in the last battle. Usually when I play this casually Max is overleveled enough to tank everything, and they hardly go for other characters, but this time I did Max's promotion differently and I feel he got less defense as a result so I'm scared. The bats can also easily reach the frail characters from the sides as well.

Tao and Anri just so happened to start at the worst possible position so I'll try to cover them before anything.

Max is indeed not taking the 1 damage I know and love, but on other hand the AI gets ridiculous, several of these bats were in range to attack someone but they decided to line up like this instead.

Things are quickly getting dicey for Max now, this is surreal to me.

Narsha did manage to wipe out a bat and Domingo softened another one up, I wanted Tao to continue the AoEs there but it might be too risky, two bats ganging up on her would kill her, so I'm wiping out knights with her instead. I don't think there's a need to hold her back when bosses are often resistant to magic, and Balbazak tends to be a pushover due to not moving.

Arthur also continues to be absurdly good as long as he can hide behind someone else. Khris has healed Max so he can continue being this someone else for now. He could be an absolute monster if I cast Attack on him, but he's overleveled so again I'm unsure if I shouldn't do something else with Narsha.

Look at this mess. The bats are wonderful because by swarming Max like this they block the possibility the Hellhound can go for him, not to mention half of them skipped a chance to attack again. The Hellhound does go for Lowe doing almost half of his HP, but that's manageable. The Artilleries also have a lot of reach and are my main worry since they tend to go for weaker characters more often. It is very tempting to do more AoE with Anri but because of the Artillery I don't do that. She just Freeze 1's the nearest bat for some exp.

Domingo on the other hand has 5 more defense than Max and could do wonders, but doesn't have AoE spells yet, I bet he'll learn Freeze 2 as soon as he's out of MP for it.

Nevermind let's goooo, I don't think he gets more than a single use though. Also this bat survived at 1 HP which is sad, Anri's Freeze did more damage.

Narsha also has more defense than Max so I'm hoping she can help here in the middle. She defeats a bat and gets even more defense in a level up so that's promising.

Tao sadly cannot help against my worst enemy, the Hellhound, so she's stuck on bat cleanup as well, at least she doesn't have to waste MP since the thing survived at 1 HP.

Arthur lets me down.

I consider sending Max against the Hellhound because I'm worried about Lowe, Gong and Arthur, but I'm also worried about these Artilleries so he's gonna have to be bait a little longer, they are many while the hound is a single one.

i then misclick and attack a bat instead of them, way to go claire

Gong is gonna try to keep this thing occupied instead.

The thing is occupied to more than half of its HP, nice.

I'm still worried about Arthur so Lowe will stay where he is and hopefully not get any crits or second attacks.

Another scary turn but an Artillery decides to go for Narsha instead for half the damage so, lol. The Hellhound does get more damage on Lowe than last turn for some reason, which is scary.

I decide it's time to finally get spicy with Anri as we should be able to wipe out these Artilleries with all magic users, and then hopefully block the last one from advancing. The fact Max attacked this bat also means it's dying and thus more exp for Anri. So, you know, this was totally intentional and epic strategy on my part.

Turn 4. Domingo could do a very spicy AoE here but I feel like saving his MP for Balbazak and his friends. He can just stay here to block the path, and wipe out one Artillery that Anri softened up. The other has been healed by the priest.

Narsha however can destroy tanks in one hit, no softening up needed.

I decide to get spicy and let Khris attack too, which is objectively bad as I forgot Max needed healing. Arthur also doesn't quite redeem himself by not finishing this dog, I really should have cast Attack on him. I need Max to hit this hound or things might get bad.

Max does comes through and now Gong is free to heal him. Again my strategy is flawless, as Anri can finish the Artillery Khris started and get more exp. I'm so good at this game.

Only a bat and a priest are left there, so I'm gonna start advancing towards the bosses, those things should be weak enough that characters wipe them out as they pass. And if the priest decides to heal themself instead and become an exp farm that's fine too.

One exception to this advance though.

We're heading to bosses so it's time I do something with Narsha. A thing I haven't explained yet is that Attack 2 is an AoE buff. I could with this position buff four characters at once by centering at Max. However, it gives only a +5 as opposed to the +8 of Attack 1. On one hand, I'm unsure how much difference 3 points are gonna make. On the other hand, I'm also unsure how much Max and Gong should be approaching Balbazak head on, my hopes here are that Arthur gets him from a distance with him not moving. Max should also be able to get a Supernova in. And Tao still has plenty of MP and her damage can be boosted by Narsha. So I think I'll do Attack 1 on Arthur. This is the magic school run after all, attacking from range only is fitting.

It is now turn 6. Only these three enemies are left. Domingo can get very spicy and use his final MP on a double whammy between Balbazak and the dog. The Blue Dragon however is immune to ice. And yeah, this thing isn't in the Mega Drive version, they decided to add some flavor to Balbazak being a Dragon Master. Obviously, it is at a much lower level compared to the dragons at the end of the game. Hopefully Domingo can survive a hit.

As expected Balbazak does not move to attack Domingo. I don't think he ever moves, but unlike most bosses he kinda has a reason, he wants to board the ship and flee. Either way it does make him a pushover at times. He also doesn't seem to resist magic too much, taking 8 damage from Freeze.

With that, I finally commit to a plan and cast Boost 1 on Tao. Unfortunately she can't reach anything this turn. Arthur could reach the hound and the dragon, but ahaha, I'm not sending him there.

Domingo proves himself my favorite magical blob and a fantastic tank by surviving even as the hound pulls a second attack out of its ass.

He's out of MP, but I can keep him around with a herb to tank more. I'm hoping Tao can obliterate the dragon, but I need to make space for people to attack the hound now.

UH OH

SHOULDN'T HAVE MOVED TOWARDS THE SHIP I GUESS

These are the last things you'll see as I hit image limit and don't wanna make another post.

Tao deals 23 damage to the Blue Dragon, which would have not been enough to kill the dragon on her own, but luckily Narsha moved first and did some small damage. We also get a Healing Ring from the dragon. I don't remember what that is, and I'm again in awe of how many drops there have been in this run.

The Hellhound continues to be the bane of my existence, dodging attacks from Max and Arthur. Gong can't even reach it so he heals Domingo.

We're now at Turn 8, and while I don't mind missing the bonus, I worry that trying to beat this hound instead of finishing the fight already may cause disaster. I'll start the Supernovas and other spells on him already, and hopefully the few melee fighters I don't want on him yet can do something about this dog.

Narsha does go for the hound dealing 13 damage, and then Tao and Arthur go for Balbazak dealing 21 and 18. He has 65 HP in total so coupled with Domingo's previous attack that's a lot. I didn't screenshot but he should be at less than 20.

Okay yeah Supernova should finish him off in style, I don't think the hound's exp is worth risking something to go awfully wrong here.

Sadly you don't get to see the style, not because of tumblr I just failed to screenshot the animation anyway. Supernova 2 deals a whooping 31 damage, meaning I never had much to worry about this guy. Maybe I could have tried to defeat the hound with Arthur instead. I don't really care though. By ending it here, we claim the Mermanbuster as well.

And that's it for Chapter 4, more exciting than I expected. We get into Max's beloved ship and head on to a peaceful voyage. Not sarcasm, I did mention Chapter 5 is easy.

Losses: 0 Deaths: 2

[jayextee]

Quake II - Ground Zero (2023)

I want to like this way, way more than I do. I mean, look at this shit; the best cover art ever (from the original big-box PC release);

I had to post something, I didn't think to take screenshots during my playthrough and, to be honest, I don't want to go back in to rectify that.

That's not to say Ground Zero is the worst thing ever, it starts with a lot of promise as a side-mission to the base Quake II and The Reckoning campaigns -- it's a big war, there are plenty of skirmishes going on and we're all doing our bit, soldier.

Like The Reckoning, this is shorter than the main campaign and sorta more of the same. However, this is even samer than that; any new enemies present are mere variants of the stock Q2 enemies, save from the final boss and a neat robospider that can crawl on ceilings and play dead. Particularly annoying is the new medic, that; on top of resurrecting ungibbed corpses; can summon enemies from nowhere.

And about those corpses, I found myself spending 1/3 my ammo liquifying those fuckers because of the sheer amount of said medics in the latter half of the game. And that wasn't the most annoying thing there, let me talk about the goddamned motherfucking turrets.

Ah, the turrets. I remembered these from way back, as their placement is basically 'nooks and crannies that you'd never otherwise be pointing the player camera in a million years'. This might sound clever, but it's more of an annoyance than anything. In the original mission pack release, vanquishing them came down to triangulating their position based on missed shots (if they missed!) at your person before letting loose a rocket or rail slug into aforementioned dank corner. In the 2023 remaster, they've a lazer sight to expediate their location.

In both cases, the latter half of the campaign devolves into carefully sneaking into any new room or corridor and keeping an eye out for these annoyances before taking them out. And then the regular combat. And then the corpse cleanup. It's absolutely wretched, only 1/3 is the Quake 2 I came here for.

Review stops here. I'm done playing it. I'm done talking about it. 2/5

[cyberbenb]

NEWSFLASH: Western Ukraine’s Lviv hit with worst strike yet

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"I've formed a very healthy respect for air raid sirens -- and Kalibr cruise missiles." 

Overnight Lviv suffered the largest attack on civilian infrastructure since Russia invaded last year. An apartment complex near Stryiskyi Park was struck by a Kalibr missile, killing at least five in their homes and injuring around 50 others. 

Emergency crews continue to work to see if there are additional dead and wounded beneath the wreckage.

The attack damaged or destroyed some 30 residential buildings, an orphanage, two universities and a regional military administration building, said Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Anna, 76, an injured resident of a four-story building hit by a missile on July 6, 2023 in Lviv, Ukraine. The missile destroyed part of the upper floors. (Photo by Stanislav Ivanov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

And it could have been far worse — seven out of the ten missiles launched at Lviv were successfully intercepted, according to Ukraine's Air Force. 

A screenshot from my phone last night depicts almost the entire country under an air-raid warning.

Last night was also when Ross and I decided to drive back from Kyiv to Lviv to put some distance between us and any possible danger arising from the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (more to come on that later this weekend). 

With fear about a nuclear disaster reaching heights not seen since the beginning of the war, our team thought it would be safer to be in western Ukraine for a few days, in case something happened.  

We arrived late, so I was still up when the first missile struck at 2:30 am, hitting roughly two kilometers away. 

Updates from the Lviv emergency channel about the raid.

The windows shook violently and I felt the vibrations in my chest. 

I Facetimed my fiancé (shout out to Sophie for being amazing) as soon as the first strike hit. While I sat in the relative safety of my bathroom, we talked about things other than Ukraine while explosions reverberated outside.

She was able to listen to the strikes on her end with a displeased and worried look. 

After three weeks here it was the first time an attack rattled me. 

I spent the next few hours with several walls between myself and outside, scrolling through Telegram channels looking for updates, and waiting for the all-clear.

Somehow, it was easy to fall asleep after the all-clear was given at around 3:30 a.m.

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When I woke up, I started off in the direction of the attacks.

I did not know exactly where the missiles hit, but the stream of ambulances flowing from one section of the city was, unfortunately, easy enough to follow. 

The growing sound of broken glass being swept up by hundreds of residents soon became louder as I approached the area around Stryiskyi Park.

Shattered windows were the first visual clue that something had happened nearby. Then the trees, forcibly stripped of their leaves and branches, appeared. There is something incredibly unnerving about a carpet of green leaves on the ground at the height of summer. 

Leaves, wrenched from their perch, litter the ground in Stryisky Park. 

Cleanup crews had already been at work for hours removing the debris from the roads, and emergency services were sifting through the rubble of the apartment complex when I walked up. 

The jumbled sign in the bottom left used to read, 'Love & Lviv.'

I was only able to approach from one side due to the scene being cordoned off by a growing number of emergency crews. From the street, I could see that the attack collapsed the roof, and blew out every window in the adjacent building. 

A crane assists emergency response workers.

The strikes in Lviv are shocking because they killed people in a city generally considered safe. Hundreds of miles from the frontlines, western Ukraine is seen as a haven for the internally displaced, as well as humanitarian workers entering and exiting the country.

The blasts are a reminder of how the war has touched almost every corner of this country — and how many Ukrainians live in constant fear that they’ll be affected by the next attacks.

Broken glass on the sidewalk several blocks from where a missile struck.

[kaliawai512-v2]

How to Make Your First AMV/MMV/Comic Music Video

Have an idea in your head for nearly six years without doing anything with it.

Be several months away from your 30th birthday.

Decide, "Screw it, I'm turning 30, might as well make this thing."

Download a ton of comic dubs of the source material because it's easier to work with videos than unedited stills.

Import all the comic dubs into iMovie because that's all you have for editing.

Cut, leaving only the clips that will maybe fit the song.

Start throwing the clips together to music.

Do it all out of order because you only have a few sequences planned in your head.

Stay up too late over and over because you lost track of time.

Somehow come up with a complete, if very messy, sequence.

Spend way too long timing each clip to the music.

Show your brother the WIP to make sure it doesn't look completely awful.

He likes it!

Realize that you can't complete this in iMovie.

Or with the comic dub clips (you already knew that part).

Ask your brother to show you how to use Premiere Pro.

Export your video from iMovie and take a screenshot of all the individual frames.

There are over 360 frames. Ask yourself why you decided to do those flash montage sequences.

Import all those screenshots into Premiere Pro, in order.

Slowly match all the clip timing between iMovie and Premiere Pro.

The timing is somehow way off. Manually adjust.

Realize that the screenshots definitely aren't high-quality enough to work with.

Search through the original comic and download all 360+ panels.

Recreate every screenshot in Photoshop with the higher-quality art.

Figure out how to do effects and animations.

Add effects and animations. Then change them. Then realize it was better the first time and change them back.

Obsess over the details and rewatch the video until your eyes bleed.

Realize you can now hear all the instrumental layers of the song because you've listened to it so many times.

Show the video to your brother again. He doesn't know much about the source material but he likes the finished product.

Export the video and upload it unlisted to test it on YouTube.

Be pleasantly surprised that the song's artist allows its free use.

Watch your video on a different monitor and realize that the shots need more cleanup.

Go through each shot in Photoshop and clean it up more, then re-render and re-upload the video.

Repeat twice. You keep missing things.

Decide it's as good as it's going to be.

Post!

It's been almost two months since you started this project. Feels great to have it finished!

... you've got another video idea.

[came0dust]

dipped my toe into drawing cyberverse designs bc i felt inspired after rewatching a few episodes and got absolutely absorbed to the point that i had to cut myself off from adding more so i could like. do other things with my day shduehdusjdks

(some progress shots under the cut!)

for context, i did the sketch in samsung notes, which has no layers (which i usually use to save or split up iterations of whatever im working on if im worried i wont like what i'm about to do) so i end up inadvertently preserving some steps. this is how far i got in the first pass before being unsure if the helmet would go well

this is with the helmet and generally adding details to him

sharpening up the sketch more

final bit of cleanup on the sketch before...

colors! at this point i was taking notes on what i was doing manually bc i did a lot of back and forth figuring out how i wanted things to look. theres actually a fair amount more things that i did between a lot of these steps but with to be honest if i went in full exact chronological order it would kinda get really messy really fast

added glows to his eyes and the one visible wheel as well as a gradient and shading. this is actually just about the end, all things considered. i didnt do much else other than mess with some colors

bonuses: screenshots i took when i noticed accidental nb and bi flag colors bc hell yeah we out here