#cs player

[playerappreciationweek]

Hello CS 2019 fandom. We’re back.

Player Appreciation Week 2025 will be held on March 24-30. The theme for this years’ prompts is Alternate Universes! Here they are below:

Text version and guidelines under the cut:

Day 1, March 24: Magic

Day 2, March 25: Soulmates

Day 3, March 26: Parallel Universe

Day 4, March 27: Sci-Fi

Day 5, March 28: Apocalyptic

Day 6, March 29: Royalty

Day 7, March 30: Time Travel

Alternate 1: Domestic

Alternate 2: Canon Divergence

Alternate 3: Role Swap

The alternative prompts can be used in place of any day. Fill as many or as few prompts as you’d like or have time for. The prompts themselves can be used as loosely or literally as you’d like. Prompts can be filled in any number of ways, including but not limited to: Fic, Art, Edits, Memes, Poetry, Analysis/Essay, Video, etc. If it's fannish and you created it, it counts!

If you cannot post your work on the day that it is meant for, you are welcome to post it any time between March 24-30 and we will have a grace period for one week after the event ends if anyone needs a little extra time to submit. As far as actual posting goes, create a post on your own tumblr blog and@playerappreciationweek , as well as tag #playerappreciationweek2025. If you have a fic, we encourage you to post it to Ao3 if possible, we’ll be making a collection for works there. You can then make a tumblr post with the link to your work. We will reblog the posts for everyone to find.

Leading up to the event, if you would like to send a short teaser for your work, please submit it as an ask to this blog with the prompt and day it is for. Once it gets closer to posting week, we’lll post it as an advertisement to help us all get hyped!

Rules:

1. This event is Player-centric, so anything created should feature Player as a prominent character in some way.

2. The event is Gen only, that is, no romantic relationships. Background relationships of Player’s or Carmen’s parents are fine, but the focus of your work should be on Player and his platonic/familial relationships. Please note that this means soulmate relationships for day 2’s prompt should be platonic or ambiguous, not romantic.

3. Have your work properly tagged both here on Tumblr and on Ao3. If there are more mature themes, hide your work under the cut on tumblr if applicable, and tag for any known trigger warnings/darker themes, such as Major Character Death, suicide ideation, or panic attacks.

4. No AI please.

We won’t reblog works that don’t fit these criteria.

We also have a discord server available for brainstorming and beta help! It’s open all year if you enjoy brainstorming CS 2019 ideas in general. Please hop over into @rueitae DMs to ask for an invitation. The server follows the same guidelines as the event.

If you have any clarifying questions, please don’t hesitate to send us an ask.

Looking forward to creating with you all!

[captainpluto13]

Happy Halloween!!🎃

You know I had to draw the CS cast in Halloween costumes again this year! Have fun and stay safe!

Thank you everyone for the amazing support! I appreciate it a ton! 🎃🍬🦇

Last year’s post!

[chilling-in-the-void-alone]

It's pride month you know what that means (this meme)

alt version and og meme this is based on under the cut

and the original

[cstveamaryllis]

PLAYER / FINNEY BOUCHARD S5 REDESIGN

[citrineleaf]

Player: Skibidi- Shadowsan, drawing his blades: Finish that sentence, child. I dare you.

[cs-blank-au-official]

CS-BLANK-AU PLAYER

(Beyond s4)

[pacificwaternymph]

Things the ending of Carmen Sandiego robbed us of:

Player and Gray arguing over who's Carmen's best friend

"I've known her for longer!"

"Well, I've actually met her. You know, in person."

"Guys please, can we just accept that I have multiple best friends?"

"NO." "Absolutely not."

"What about us? We're Carmen's friends too!"

“No offense, Zack and Ivy, but you guys have been around the least amount of time. That automatically disqualifies you from best friend status.”

“It does not!”

[yuuyuuuyuuuu]

okay, so, transmasculine player? how do we feel about this?

[gray-crackleway]

day six: favorite character

gray might obviously be my favorite character, but since we already have a piece for him, lưu gets to meet everybody’s favorite unpaid, sleepless, all-seeing child :)

[kitty-meowskers]

stop player and gray wouldve had such fun interactions wat ze hell

[jackie-shitposts]

I thought it was unjust that Carmen, Zack and Ivy got a title card, but Player didn't. So, i took matters into my own hands.

This was my first animation attempt in photoshop- For a first attempt, i think its not too bad!

[sakarrie-creates]

Here’s my 2024 Art Summary, terribly late as usual! We’re back to including some black and white in this year and my months were very clustered, but all things considered I was actually surprised I ended up with as many decent samples for the collage as I did. I was kinda expecting them all to be messy sketches this year lol.

Just like with my writing summary, this year the questions are a bit abridged since I didn’t do a ton of art. That said, I’m still a rambler haha, so the reflection questions are answered up the cut. The template I used is available here in case anyone else wants to use it!

What events did you participate in (with art)?Player Appreciation Week (old art), Fandom Trumps Hate (offered), CS Case Files Zine (comic!). Not really the type of art this summary is for, but I also created my first cosplay for RCCC!

What was your biggest challenge this year? Definitely motivation. Last year was a creative slump with a lot going on mentally making stuff hard. Mostly in start up energy, since once I got going, things seemed to go alright.

Did you try anything new this year? I got into a comic zine, which was new and exciting! My original plan was far too long for the creation period, though, so I spent a ton of time trying to widdle it down to 3 pages. I also did super messy spot art sketches for a friend’s fic, which ended up being a lot of fun! I also took some screenshots and then drew other characters into the show, somewhat trying to match the show’s style, which was definitely interesting.

Where do you think you most improved? I’m going to go with rendering again! I really love playing with color and lighting, and several of my collage pieces this year were just adding rendering to old pieces. I have a lot more confidence with it now, though I still sometimes feel like my pieces don’t end up as dynamic as I’d like. I also did a lot better at following inspiration and not being as perfectionistic this year.

What are you most proud of? I’m really proud of getting into a comic zine, even though it likely wasn’t that competitive. The fact that I got in for comics despite never having done art for a zine before is crazy to me! I was a pinch hitter, so I wasn’t originally selected, but I’m still honored I got picked eventually. I also am really proud of the August fully rendered piece of Player screaming. I did that one in almost one sitting, probably around 4ish hours, and it was one of my first times doing full color/rendering without cleaning the sketch much at all. Overall, I was very excited at how well it turned out and I feel like the messy emotions really come across!

How’d this year compare to your 2023 goals?Shoutout to past Sakarrie for giving me a straight bullet point list. MUCH easier to work with lol.

2024 Goals Met:  -Number One Priority: Create for me and don’t put myself in a place to get crazy burnt out and still have requirements. If I meet this goal, then it’s okay if I don’t meet any of the others. (It would be sad.... But I would still count it as meeting overall goals.) -Participate in Summergen and PAW Week (Art or Fic) -Have a fully usable Zine Portfolio (Currently need more merch samples and rendered pieces with backgrounds) -Apply to new TOH Zines or other loved fandom zines. If I end up getting into any, I can pull back, but since that doesn’t seem likely, I want to get into the habit of always being ready to apply with what I have. -Play with different brushes and rendering styles -Not exactly art, but I want to have a finalized long-term merch display plan for all my items -Do ONE of the following:     1. 30 minutes digitized so it can be shared with music       2. Open Up Your Eyes fully thumbnail       3. Fanworks for other people’s fics      4. Participate in an extra bang or exchange with art      5. Design and manufacture a pin

The ones that don’t have strikethrough are a bit of a stretch, but I’m gonna give them to myself. While I haven’t added more pieces with backgrounds and need to reorganize my zine portfolio, it is in a decent place where I feel like I can use it and it will accurately represent my best work. I also didn’t really purposefully experiment with rendering or brushes, but it did happen naturally a little, so giving that to myself too. As for the ONE of the following list, I actually did digitize my 30 minutes thumbnails! It’s just not to music, so doesn’t count. Also holy dang, last year Sakarrie was ambitious with the proposal of manufacturing a pin haha.

2024 Goals NOT Met:-Design Handplates charm as anniversary gift (November) -Design CS Charm-Make an ongoing project list to pin to my tumblr. This applies mostly for fics, but that way people coming to my page can see what fandoms I’m actively creating for and what they can look forward to (as well as have an opening to ask questions if they’re interested). -Post more (at least 10 times throughout the year) and add my best pieces to instagram (8+ pieces by end of year). -Draw something from scratch every month, no matter how small

Yeah, these all I absolutely failed with. Oops. Probably gonna be using a fair few of these as my new goals haha.

Alrighty then, now it’s time for 2024 goals!! I think I want my main focus to be to try to draw more frequently. I’ve found that so much of what prevents me from drawing is startup energy, and once I actually get going, it all comes much easier. 

Specific goals: -Organize a go-to zine portfolio for comics, merch, page art, and spot art applications -Try to draw every month (even the tiniest phone doodle counts) -Design Handplates charm as anniversary gift (November?) -Design CS Charm-Make an ongoing project list to pin to my tumblr. This applies mostly for fics, but that way people coming to my page can see what fandoms I’m actively creating for and what they can look forward to (as well as have an opening to ask questions if they’re interested). -Post more (at least 5 times throughout the year) and maybe look into Cara or whatever the non-instagram art app is. -Experiment more with drawing in sketchy art style with full color/rendering -Experiment more with screenshot redraw/character replacements -Do ONE of the following:     1. 30 minutes put to music      2. Open Up Your Eyes fully thumbnail      3. Fanworks for other people’s fics       4. Participate in an event with art       5. Draw and post for a new/niche fandom (Infinity Train, Sym-Biotic Titan, Irondad, The Flash, etc)

Overall, how’d the year go? Better than I expected when I first started pulling up my art haha. I didn’t push myself on anything but the CS comic, and that was pretty early on in the year. I also did a fair few doodle/sketch projects and followed the muse when it wanted to do rendering without drawing.

[captainpluto13]

Happy Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

hey fellas! Here are my Carmen Sandiego trans HCs as a gender-fluid person myself I’m grateful to have an accepting community here and hopefully one day we will all accept each other 🏳️‍⚧️

Have a great day and a great Easter! 🐣

[random-lil-illing]

i can’t believe i forgot to upload this… have some more player :]

i know we’ve established they wear scene gear but at home they take a more casual approach to it in order to be more comfy - as in, they just wear their pjs but put on some pins/gloves/legwarmers/a but of makeup and otherwise just leave it be. they go all out when they go outside tho

[cstveamaryllis]

stalemate

[citrineleaf]

Carmen, in mom voice TM: PLAYER SANDIEGO! GET RIGHT BACK HERE THIS INSTANT! Player: Player: WHAT did you just call me!?