#but I'm still tweaking the end

[pixels-art-stuff]

It is FINISHED :D

You can find the process here. :D

[turbo-tsundere]

“Smile like Gonta! Smile like gentleman!”

It’s 23rd of January both where I am, and also in Japan, so here we go, my small and long overdue tribute for my fav character ever! Or in other words, f that post and happy birthday to the King! :D

[beesinspades]

happy pride month from vash the stampede!!!! 💜 seeing all the ace vash art makes me so happy I wanted to contribute!

[always-amity]

Some snapshots of the progression for my Toothless and Wodensfang designs.

These two were easily the most difficult designs for me to nail down, so they make for fun comparisons. Not to mention I accidentally ended up doing all of these almost exactly a year apart.

[staraxiaa]

chromatic (kirishima fic) update

how it started, chromatic v1:

how it’s (maybe) going, subject to change:

ive just started part III btw

[sealrock]

I need a new icon

[meadow-roses]

Hello! I’ve been thinking about your stories lately, and got my mind wondering about how you come up with your ideas. What inspired you to make Felix and the Dauntless story? It looks amazing and I can’t wait to see more of it!

Sorry it took so long to respond! I kept coming back to reread this ask I'm just,,, so happy to hear you're interested/excited about Dauntless!!!!! :DDDD

For most of my/our stories (most of the wips are collabs with my sister lol) it usually starts as drawing inspiration from Other stories. We'll watch/read them and go "that was really good, I can see why they made the choices they did narratively, but wouldn't it be fun/cooler if..." then we kinda end up building an entirely new story around that concept. Sometimes they're completely unhinged from the canon cause we love making aus xD

Dauntless is weird in that sense, as it doesn't actually have any origin concept. We wanted each of the main characters in the Keepers saga to come from different backgrounds, and we thought having a cyberpunk ex-spy would be cool. 😂

Thematically it draws a lot from my personal life experience just... dramatized and exported onto a young man living in a futuristic dystopia lol From there the plot kinda ended up being a hodgepodge of all my favorite tropes respun into the sci-fi setting, as this is the first story I've worked on that's not been a fantasy!

The way I make up stories is very character driven, the plot forms as I think about the characters- who they are, who they need to become, and what fears/misconceptions/circumstances they need to overcome to get there. Building a plot always feels like a logic puzzle to me of juggling each member of the cast's arcs and story beats 😂 So most of the plot started from looking at the kind of character I wanted Felix to be at the end of his arc and going "okay what kind of backstory would produce a guy like that?" Then throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what stuck. (This bad boy has gone through so many revisions lol)

I've finally got it worked down to the point where I'm outlining episode/season structure and BOY have I got to tell you that feels good 😭 I am SO excited to share Felix and his pals with the world and it literally means so much to me they've already got a collection of people waiting to watch the show 😭😭

Thank you so so much for your support!!!

[melodybottles]

i really like this comic

[tatck]

i could totally just start the sketch of the 1st part now. surely the whole climax and ending just being comepletely unfinished won't bite me in the ass later

[varibean]

the chances of me ever finishing more than a quick concept sketch of twyle are low...but NEVER zero so watch out

[occasionaltouhou]

regular touhou #8: mystia encounters the rare “Food Critic”, is baffled

[winterwrites23]

I /am/ anticipating when future England and co. finally figure out that North is in the past! My guess would be traveling back in time to get him. And, I imagine that some confusion/mistaken identity would happen? Also, if the future co. somehow met their past selves? Confusion and chaos would abound! And I would love to see how it would be resolved! :)

OMG I'm as excited as you are for the moment of Present bros realizing where and when North is. I know when it happens, but I haven't written that scene yet and ksjhfjashdfh I can't WAIT to get there. Like, the dawning realization, the angst, the worry, the hope, it's *chef kiss*.

A thing I still struggle with when it comes to time travel is the meeting your past/future self trope. On one hand, it would be amazing and chaotic to see the bros meeting each other. But on the other hand, I really want to keep the logic that there can't be two you's at the same time. I feel it breaks the immersion or something.

Like in Outlander, when Claire meets Captain Randall for the first time, she thinks it's her husband Frank from the present, but it's actually Frank's descendant (the husband and captain are played by the same actor btw). And even though the captain is a total monster, like the worst of the worst, she still makes sure to let him live long enough until his son is born, so the bloodline continues up to Frank's birth.

I like the logic of that kind of time travel. It's similar to the one seen in the third movie of Harry Potter. You can't interact with your past/future self, but you can change things indirectly because it already happened. That's why I chose North to be the guinea pig of my story instead of an older nation, there's no risk of meeting his past self. He's just a wee baby lol

So would the bros ever meet in person? Not directly, that's for sure. At least, that's not the plan at the moment, but who knows, maybe I'll find a way to let them see a glimpse if it works in the story ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[rockethorse]

Day fifteen: A CC-free Community Lot, Xanooboo Roller Rink!

I made this a while ago with the intention that it could also function as an owned business if you added a ticket machine, so it has a little staff-only break room behind the bar:

But as a regular community lot, I recommend putting something else in here, like a second bathroom, so that townies don’t get distracted. It’s also why the top floor has a buffet table rather than a full restaurant, because those are a pain to run. I recommend the Commercial Buffets mod.

Download Xanooboo Roller Rink @ SFS

Don’t mind me - I just wanted to point out the floor tiles on the top floor because I thought I was so clever. ;)

[wickedhawtwexler]

the most frustrating situation you can be in as a writer is knowing something about your story Does Not Work but having no idea what it is or why

[keeps-ache]

LET ME OUT‎

[vargaslovinghours]

Y’all are being subjected to my Sims 2 tests, so there

The other set of Vargases came over for a visit and Scriabin picked up Shmee and started talking to Scriabin through him. Very normal, very usual

I downloaded some circle-glasses recolours and hghghh they look so good! Closer every day to his final details! Getting ever closer!

Edgar too! I made him a custom hair with a lighter undercut - I’m mostly happy with it, probably could’ve shifted it a shade closer to his skintone but the texturing was weird no matter what :P And his stripey shirt! I wish Body Shop didn’t have that hands-on-hips pose lol, it looks so much better in-game, but that’s all the better :)

I got some new clothes for Todd as well! As soon as I saw this ‘fit I was like “Oh that’s 100% Todd there he is.” Scriadad hug ♥ So cute

Foot-dancing together stopp it’s so cute!!

The way he looks at them stoppp <3 <3 They kept doing this right up til they left for home haha, Todd’s giggles are the cutest

Used SimPE to save him to the Body Shop, I now have infinite copies of The Boyyyy ♪

Moved him in with his “parents” as just shadow people basically, they’re not gonna matter in a bit as long as I remember how to get the Social Worker/Adoption process to work properly. Get her Todd!!

Wanna play? :D

Menacing :(

Look, Todd, your new dads are here! Initially I wasn’t sure who I wanted to adopt him, got lots of options; the first passes, the married couple with their own Todd, Johnny?? He definitely doesn’t have the facilities for a child lol But these are the ones that showed up on their own, so the married Vargases are the winners!

Scriabin cares more about him than his actual parents ;; A stranger off the street shows him more care! Not that it’s a high watermark

Look at him being a good dad!

Weh, he just wants friends ;; Poor baby

Best timeline, thank you

While we wait for CPS, let’s get some other interactions in! Nny is mean so he tended to prank the other two with a nose flick - mostly Edgar lol ♪ Now kiss

“Oh please don’t break all my bones~ :3” I love Todd looking up at them haha <3

Pffft, I think he was talking about the other Scriabin and just how attractive he is. Classic Scriabin. Alternatively, also funny to imagine him bragging himself up about how he’s just so handsome that Edgar can’t help but love him hahaha ♪

Allow me to tickle you with my KNIFE! >:D

Get a load of this guy lol

He ended up passing out at one point - I forgot which motives make CPS show up >.> - and completely 0%’d his comfort, but for some reason stargazing increased it?? It’s the same ground wh

Is two not enough to satisfy your butterfly bloodlust child?? He ended up with three, I had him release them before he was picked up by the Social Worker - success!

He rolled a new Want as soon as Todd was taken away - “Wants to see Ghost of Todd” Woah, dark! :0

And here he is on the married Vargases’ lot!! Success!! I did it right!! Heck yeah! :D Unfortunately they were uh, indisposed at the time. Good job guys pft

Goes right for Shmee, he really is Todd <3