#but it does now bc i like the pose

[honetii]

vocaloid huevember day 4, song is Magic Number !

[tsarjozinzbazin]

Snow blindness

[arundolyn]

"Oh, this? Don't be ridiculous! It's not a marriage certificate! Look closely, okay? Throw away all your hangups, and simply do what you feel. Aren't you just dying to sign it? Won't it feel good? 3... 2... 1... sign!"

[sergle]

When ppl will create a "curvy" girl character and get pretty much the whole body's proportions right, obviously they're putting emphasis on bust/hips but it seems like it's being executed well--- except that they completely, fully, and deliberately, skip the stomach entirely. Just nothin there. Not even a whisper. I'm like. Just sack up, make it make sense and be honest with yourself by making it official and say it's canon that they got a tummy tuck. You cowardly ass, yellow bellied, wet brained, upside-down dog mouthed dirty bitch.

[kit-screams-into-the-future]

help i can't stop drawing this guy

[restinpeacesensei]

i have drawn a birthday picture for akoya every year for the past 11 years! ;;w;; i imagine that every time i do, he gets a year older!

and now, it's canon!! the boueibu characters really are 10 years older! and akoya officially has a gorgeous dress!!! \>////</ congratulations!!! \TWT/

we would prefer not to pick favorites or receive comments about how the art has changed, but to think of every picture as a precious memory! ;;w;; do you remember them all? ;;o;;

akoya-chan!!! thank you so much for being with us for all of these years!! \;;/////;;/ ive loved you, ive found how to be myself through you, i know now that everything always ends up being okay. im so happy ive been able to share these years with you!! ;;~~~~;;

akoya, and all of you, thank you so much for all the beautiful memories!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY ANGEL!!! \>//////</ WE LOVE YOU FOREVER!!!! \;;W;;/���💖💖

[crystallizsch]

Hi, request here. Ignore it if you want. I'm not sure if you did this already and I'm too lazy to check, but could you put Jamil in Playful stage (whatever it's called) dress and Kalim in the masquerade dress

playful dress jamil & masquerade kalim!!! :DDD

so uhhh here’s my really rough and simplified take on it??? i hope the colors look at least decent bc i was so indecisive on that part 🧍

and thank you so much for this idea!! i’ve especially been meaning to try to imagine kalim’s masquerade outfit so you gave me an excuse to do so!!

anyways i was REALLY going back and forth between sticking to the theme and just putting them on what i think looks good and i think i just. managed to do a small compromise.

also forgive me the only thing i know about about playful stage is the fox man. i haven’t seen the story 💀 (i kinda only know that it’s based on pinocchio)

so i just went off every character's playful dress outfit and took inspiration here and there (and mostly from kalim's)

also i noticed the ribbons vs tassels in the outfits, dont know what that’s about so i just. settled with tassels.

same thing with kalim i just took from jamil's masquerade outfit but flipped it and made the headwear pointier.

and i just took a few artistic liberties here and there ;;;

also i highkey avoided the elaborate patterns because im not too confident with coming up with them 😖

that’s about some of my thought process??? i’m fine with any questions if any!!

[maraschinotopped]

brothership stamp collection... 2!!!! featuring mainly character stamps! ignore the top right one.

part 1

[prostocupoftea]

He is so happy with his new 3d body

I tried to make him 2d-like and i think i got that!!! There are a couple of visual glitches around shadows tho, gotta fix that...

Look at the happy boi

Look and tell me you can see how much stress he got me with his posing (i am an artist i thought i knew how to pose T_T)

So bg, eye and lighting on his claws is in procreate after render, everything else is in blender!

[yayforocs]

I Have Once Again Been Consumed By A Fic (Redstone and Skulk by @silverskye13

[fxnker]

my boy ! 💚 my friend ! ❤️

[the-accident-dante]

I will crash out (this is my TD OC)

WHY AM I GETTING BACK INTO TOTAL DRAMA 😭

[skitskatdacat63]

And here is the bull himself >:)

+ lore notes

I was like, ah I should make the shadow something interesting, and then I'm like GIVE HIM BULL HORNS???? OKAY SURE !!!!! I'm glad such thoughts can strike at 7 in the morning....thanks brain. But hehehe I'm glad bcs now this matches up super well with the Nando one!

New ship dynamic: who's the bull and who's the matador :)

I think, in this AU, Fernando is generally pretty fond of Seb when he first meets him. Like "ah yes my very own protégé, very nice, I shall mold him in my image." But then Seb starts veering off that course. Bullfighting is all about being dramatic, but Seb maybe has a bit too much(🤏) flair for the dramatic. This escalation starts while he's still Fernando's assistant but he keeps it generally at bay. But god when he becomes a matador himself, he's just off the rails insane.

Bullfighting, to me, is a sport about reckless endangerment of one's self in the pursuit of drama and performance(its literally described as a tragedy in three acts.) But Fernando thinks Seb endangers himself *too* much, not because he cares or anything, but he's making a mockery of the sport!! Especially when Seb starts doing that bull hand symbol(seen above), Fernando just keeps become more enraged with him, not anything to do with the fact that Seb is threatening his records and threatening his own wellbeing, nah of course not.

Seb's gesture is making a mockery of the sport, he's disrespecting the culture, the very nature of it, blah blah blah. Jenson once asks Fernando, after noticing him seething while watching Seb do his gesture, "Which bull are you really trying to defeat?" One could also describe Fernando and Seb's relationship as a "tragedy with three acts."

Anyways Fernando gets very tied up with this rivalry. Even after suffering a severe injury(I have yet to decide, but y'know mchonda electrocution core), he quickly returns to the sport, loath to let Seb get any more headway. And then Seb gets injured, poor little sweet Seb, and neither of them can handle it. Though I already covered this in my prev lore post 🤭 and I think I put it pretty viscerally there so!! I digress.

They're both matadors, but the bull itself is not the only bull Fernando wants to conquer. Conquer as in death? Hm.

[uniquezombiedestiny]

Why was I made this way?

full text (its bella monologue sunday!):

"I'm always here to help." That's what I always say! But sometimes, I have to wonder, well… why else am I here? Whenever I fall down or… or have one of those bad days, I just think, "Well, there's work tomorrow." Hm? Oh, it's not that bad. You get used to it. But anyways, sometimes it just makes me think - what am I? Outside of being your Captain-… I know my name. But what's my purpose? What's the meaning of all my time here? Because so many horrible things keep happening. So many- so many spikes, penetrating straight through my mind; so many things made to laugh and jeer at me; "You couldn't do it! You never could. Never." What else was I possibly made for other than to help you? I wasn't born the way a person was. I was built like a machine, all my life… So why.. Why do I feel anything? Why does everything just drag me down? Why can't I let go of everything I feel while everyone else diligently works? It's tiring. Really tiring. So why couldn't I have just been built out of metal and wires instead? Why couldn't they have just made me a machine? A perfect, unfeeling metal body. Noone could ever hurt me again. I'd never have to cry; to deliberate; to feel guilty about anything… Why? Why was I made this way? Why am I a human being at all in this place… if not to fail..?

[itskaist]

Hello! Thank you for signing up for my little fandom project. Like I mentioned in my post, these will be once a month character building/exploration questions. I don't expect immediate answers. Feel free to take the whole month, if you need! If you have more than one Step, pick your favorite or whichever you think needs more love.

We're going to start with the basics this month: Where did your Sidestep get your name? Do they know what it means? Do they feel any particular way about their name?

- Cigs

"Feel free to take the whole month," how about two months. Can we negotiate. Haha arriving incredibly late, but arriving! Thank you so much for doing this! 💜

Four 'Steps, a lot of thoughts.

Josiah Cohen

Josiah after his escape used many different, disposable names. Simple ones; Tom, Bill, Lee, Joe. He's actually stuck with Joe for a while, and that's what he was using right before switching from petty crime to vigilantism. I have a small story in my head that I'm still not sure if I consider canon for him; but in essence, he would have saved a smalltime store owner from getting robbed, and that person would take him in for a time. Fed him, gave him a job. They'd had a late son also called Joe, short for Josiah, and so, that is the name that he took on. Liked it enough that he discarded 'Joe' altogether. Didn't want it to be used as a nickname during his time as Sidestep, it reminded him of those scrappy early days too much. So Anathema proposed 'Josie', instead, and after some pretend-grumbling, Josie it stayed. He enjoys the minor gender-fuckery aspect of it.

Cohen came about quickly enough. He was looking for something simple to complement the more uncommon name, to make the whole set seem more natural. At the Farm, he was sometimes assigned a Jewish cover identity for missions, and he came to like it; so he chose the most common Jewish surname that he could find.

His Regene name at the Farm had just been Grey. In my mind, the Regene language would have to be very simple, one symbol encompassing many meanings, to convey a lot with as little as possible. So 'Grey' is a gentle translation, as it could also mean featureless, blank, empty, having no personality. He would have been very isolated there, removed, intentionally so by the handlers but also himself not quite knowing how to socialize in that kind of an environment. So that is what he was called, an unknown, but also possible threat due to being afforded special care and attention; uncanny valley of a Regene, not quite one of them, not quite one of the People. In that grey zone, if you will.

Mina Beik

Mina's Regene name is (or was, for the longest time) Midnight Heart, and it was difficult to leave it behind. She identifies strongly with being a Regene, a weapon, a monster of their making. So she wanted to choose something that at least sounded similar. In her first days after the escape, she'd just inhale television, watching anything and everything at shitty motels that she stayed at. She'd especially come to love telenovelas and soap operas of any kind, anything with a lot of content that helped her observe People and learn of them. There was a character in one of those that she had watched called Mina, and she identified strongly with her. Hadn't used that name for a while still as she struggled to figure out her gender, but as she did come to terms with her identity as a trans woman, she remembered that name and chose it as hers. 'Beik' was just something random to, again, complement the sound of her Regene name as she added more segments to it.

And to that end, post-Heartbreak, she became Midnight-Heart Broken-Reign. 'Midnight' for her hair and eyes, but also mysterious yet serene manner; 'Heart' for kindness and intuition. 'Broken' added in around her time of escape, a cut through her own heart, not enough of neither in so many ways. Then taken back, reclaimed, as Broken Reign, a strike against powers that be.

From the people whom she loves, she likes to be called 'sweetheart'; but really anything cutesie will do. Sweetpea, sweetums, sugarplum, candycane. The more tooth-rotting the better.

Gabriel Vidal

Gabriel wanted something meaningful, something monumental. A name that he could give out proudly. He circled some first names of famous people, but didn't quite wanted them to overshadow who he is, or at least, who he wanted to become. So in the end he settled for something half way, something more mythological, religious--an angel. Gave him a kick once he came back as a villain, to have fallen.

Vidal was a nice counterpart to that, from vitalis, vital, life. Something enticing about combining the heavenly and the earthly, the eternal and the temporary; just as he is stuck somewhere between Regene and human, produced and born. Shortened to 'Vi' as a nickname because 'Gabe' is an aberration.

His Regene name would have been Second Sun Eclipsed. His inner sun burning so bright and usually so joyfully, but also capable of devouring fervour. He always strived to be the best, to excel and to be praised; and yet he always came up just short. Eventually, he came to suspect the handlers of skewing his results in order to motivate him, or something, because how else to explain it? All he ever wanted was to satisfy them, to be their first, their favourite. Could never achieve it. Someone else almost always outdone him, eclipsed him. Well, no more. He'll take what he can't get.

Sasha Ausecha

Choosing a gender expression was one of the first things on Sasha's mind post her escape, and a source of so much exhaustion. As a fresh escapee and then Sidestep, he did initially stick with the Farm-assigned female gender, but only out of… fear? Confusion? Something was itching right under her skin, and not fitting, not matching. He was always bold and proud, and hated this feeling, feeling lesser, feeling smaller, somehow. Scared. Didn't want to be neutral, neuter, undefined. So, a name that was female-yet-male was the one. An inside joke. A poke at her own insecurities. Slap a bandaid on and figure it out later. Just be both for now, and then choose. Never did get to the 'choosing' part, but maybe that was the whole point.

As for the last name, it meandered and changed form for a good while. However, originally it comes from her interest in religion and ritualism, something scarcely allowed or talked about at the Farm. He was looking for some unusual saint or else a holy person, to take their name on for companionship and protection. Fell down a rabbit hole of early Byzantine saints and chose Auxentius of Bithynia. Died on February 14th and celebrated that very same day, an auspicious omen, wouldn't it be? A blessing for a life loved and lived fully.

Her nickname is Chichi, which in its multitude of possible translations, I'm choosing to say was a hilarious mashup of 'chico' and 'chica', back in her Sidestep era when nobody quite knew how to address her, and neither was he eager to enlighten them.

Regene name Chirping Bird Caged. The cuckoo singing oh so pleasantly behind the bars of gold...

[croix-meridies]

Little over a year of progress of yuri bullshit yippee