#its embarrassing how many screenshots ive taken of this game

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what's yr fav hidden gem horror game thats been wiped off the net

the fishermen and the worm :( i first heard it got gone when i randomly got a dm on reddit of all places bc once upon a time i commented on a post recommending it as a creepy game that doesnt look like horror at first, n the person basically went 'yeah hey do u still have the files for this bc turns out its gone from the net' n im like AGH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bc i lost those in between moving computers many times

iirc the only surviving proof of it existing is an incomplete lets play series on youtube n also some screenshots i took revisiting the ending location to show my bf a long time ago.

it was a very neat little game n it makes me sad the creator wanted it gone but i guess i sort of can understand it bc sometimes as an artist ur gonna get embarrassed of ur old art n want to move on from it n see it gone off the net, i know ive done that with like, p much all my old devart profiles (i have none atm)

you might be wondering what it was about... to give a summary, its about these two little guys who are dubiously in love or maybe just besties who live in like this cartoony paradise in a hole n call themselves fishermen but then theyre like. hey why do we call ourselves that if weve never fished. so they go to their elder and are like HEY WHERE THE FUCK IS ALL THE WATER n hes like FUCK YOU THERES NO WATER HERE ITS ON THE SURFACE YOU STUPID FUCK. so they go to the surface n they meet this worm bug lady whos rly nice n sort of a mother figure to them, shes like rly old, shes been told by her moms (<3) to wait for these two guys for thousands of years in that very same spot. theyre like can u show us water n shes like yeah n points to a speck on the horizon n theyre like wtf we meant to fish in n shes like ohhh okay. yeah we gotta go to a different place for that.

AND THEN. THE REAL GAME BEGINS. you see bc every place in this world is called an 'age', n the more you traverse it, the weirder n often times creepier it gets n the more u get the feeling this is kind of telling the story of someones life? but you cant figure out who. not yet at least. without spoiling too much though, i rly like all the diff visual n style changes for every age, the next age you encoutner right after you move away from the worms spot is genuinely really fucking creepy n with this genuinely NASTY looking grit to it n it only gets more fucked up the more u play through it. thats around the point where i realized OH. oh ive been tricked. this ISNT a silly goofy haha rpgmaker game thats short n sweet! THIS IS A SCARY GAME!

but as ive said every age has a diff look to it, one other is psychedelic, another almost looks like a dr seuss book... so on. eventually, everything starts coming together, n what i rly like about this game is that it doesnt just give u dead ends, it expects you to be smart to figure it out, yes, but it also gives you PLENTY of evidence to figure it out n flat out tells you some stuff n by the end youre probably gonna just naturally know what happened.

i will also say looking back on it i rly appreciate the underlying theme of being gay n growing up gay n how the world aorund you affects you, theres like, SOME REALLY DARK fucking themes when you really get down to it and actually study the full on implications of what its trying to tell you. it rly gets dark with like, how bad homophobia can get n how heartbreaking n desolate sometimes the experience of being a gay kid can be when u have no one who you think you can trust n then growing up into a gay adult whos just getting more confused n worried about the future n sometimes even getting taken advantage of.

but despite all the horror n darkness... its a game that knows when to give you plenty of breathers, the three main characters are so charming they just shine naturally, they combat all the darkness by just being themselves. theyre not the ones who lived through all this horrible crap, theyre just bright little cartoon guys who want to go fish! n by god(s, in this games case) theyre gonna do it!!! n in the end... they may just decide to make things better for everyone else. the game has a good ending. its good guys. the game is good.

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below i decided to leave you with a tasty (for some) treat of my thoughts and process for these illustrations. if you like long text posts with wip test drawings and a very small piece of sky lore for the game (not its world) then please feel free to keep reading!

yay! thank you for choosing to read this! <3

a small preface, tumblr basically erased all of my work on this post so im writing this right after (still in shock and verry angry) and i might forget to include some of the details now :(( so i apologize if that happens

to start, i want to give a BIG big thank you to @yelltochek, without them i would have never found out about this project!!

im actually quite embarrassed about this, but.. i only found out about "zines".... half a year ago (winter/spring 2023).... dont ask me how, just know that if you follow me in the future - this is quite a common occurrence, because most of the time im in my own tiny bubble.. [if you dont know what zines are ill try and do my best to explain]. after that, i felt really lost because i had no idea how people find zines OR how artists find them early enough to sign up!! luckily @yelltochek was kind enough to give me a heads up for the then upcoming Memory Sky Zine!!!! so thats how it started!

i already had a pretty good idea of what i wanted. see, back in the ooool days (im a veteran, but i was a very silly moth for a veeery long time) the first area in praire after social hub looked a bit different from how it does today.... we actually had a big hill that you had to use to be able to reach the entrance of the bird nest area! [below is a screenshot i took from early august of 2019]

i wanted to bring it back for all those who also played back in the day to remember this hill..

at first, i basically wanted to just redraw the screenshot

but then i realized that i dont like the angle + plus this photo was taken on the mountain so noone would obviously look at this place from there on casual days, especially moths. and so, i took a screenshot in game now and moved the camera down to where everyone would walk at least once as a moth:

aaand I was pretty happy with the angle.. i wanted to make sure that the important landmarks of this area were visible (forgive my poor attempts at trying to name them):

the round hill

the little cave

the arch to the village

the praire temple

eden :o

the big hill

the entrance to bird nest + the arch + the winged light and

the paths, flowers and butterflies

i wanted them all to be in the drawing and it was quite a bit tricky with the size of the canvas we were given for the zine pieces actually. but i think i made it work at this stage. mostly..

and so after that i started thinking about what i wanted to do for the second drawing. i thought about maybe the first time i had a conversation with a stranger / one with an ultimate gift; first time falling in home when we play sky.. and then i thought about my first friends that ive made.

we met in wasteland, in the area with the first krill and (to spare the details, plus its a story for another time) they helped me face my fear of it. but then i realized that i dont have a screenshot (couldnt find one at least :c ) of how they looked back then and i would get sad if i did it wrong... aaaaand also realized that this might just be a bit too overwhelming for poor ol me.

so, i decided to simplify the idea to just a moth facing a krill for the first time, since its definitely happened to everyone at least once:

as you might guess, i realized that the two drawings at that point would have looked basically the same, with the moth facing away from the camera. and maybe it would have actually looked good, like how this game makes us feel so many emotions, from peace to terror.. but i just wasnt happy with that. so, i started thinking which one of them i should change.

i thought about making the moth in praire play with butterflies, or maybe even add multiple skykids there.... but then i was afraid that the main focus of that drawing would shift.. annd then it hit me: how can i make it obvious to people who havent played sky that early that this was a thing and not me making a weird mistake Aand keep it as the main focus? POLAROID PHOTO!!

as you can see in the test drawing i was trying to make the cave entrance visible in the polaroid, but it just kinda messed up the terrain, so i had to make the changes that you see in the final illustration. and im still in love with the result even if its not the best.

could i have done a better job with this? put it more in focus somehow? make the krill in the other one darker, scarier and spikier?? probably.

but this was the first time ive ever drawn anything with the background playing the main focus or just such a huge role for the ambiance and with so much detail put into it. this was HUGE for me, with both of these. its also worth mentioning that i couldnt use my tablet to draw the final illustrations so this was also me using my computer for the first time for smth as serious as this. its actually CRAZY. and these two are probably one of the only drawings ill stay proud of as i go forward..

and i hope ill be able to participate in more projects like this one.... so psplsplpslsplspls if you know about any zines/other projects or anything plsplspls let me know about them because im still terrible at finding things and staying on top of whats going on in the art world!!!!!!

so, thank you for reading this far!! if youre interested in more posts like this where i share my thoughts / art progress or at least make long text posts like this one - let me know! without your feedback im only stuck here with my own bad thoughts :')

i hope you had fun seeing into my brain and have a nice day!!

Also, if you want a commission from me similar to these two - feel free to contact me!

my pieces for the memory sky zine!

i worked really hard on these, so i would really appreciate to hear if you like them!

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OOOO @newyearknwwme tagged me in this cute little tag game 🥺🥺🥺❤️ it was so much fun ❤️❤️❤️ THANK YOU

(ALSO guys im so sorry for the lack of emojis i drafted this in word kjsadfljashdf)

why did you choose your url?

hahahhaha ive been in the habit of saving funny urls ever since tfatw came out jsdhflkjshdf and the “she lived she served cunt then she died” meme was making the rounds and i wanted a url based of that and surprisingly it wasn’t taken !!!! also i’m addicted to changing my url i need help-

any side-blogs? if you have them, name them and why you have them

yeah ahahahahahah i have a cdrama/fandom blog @imaprettyboy and then i have a joji blog where i make gifs shkflahsdkjfhskdj lol i am not gonna promo it JKHDLKJH but omg im fighting with the blog at the moment bc my gifs are not showing up in the joji tag :((( it’s a calculated move against me i know it

how long have you been on tumblr?

since the start of 2015 maybe ???? i had another account but deleted it and started fresh on here at the end of 2016. LMAO it started as a twd and yuri on ice blog khjhfdlsh my blog archive is so funny sometimes i look at it and laugh

do you have a queue tag?

hhahaha noooo. LMAOOOOOO vee’s answer is pretty much the same as me sldfhlakjhd i only recently figured out how the even do it and i think i prefer to reblog a million things at once ,,,, however i have been known to schedule things every now and then kasdfhlkjhd

why did you start your blog in the first place?

i started this once bc i think i took a break from tumblr for like a week after i deleted my old one but i missed it AJHDKJAHSjfhkdjhlk

why did you choose your icon/pfp?

omg zuko limp wrist angry gay icon !!! i’ve had this icon for uhhhhh maybe like 2 weeks now ?? originally i think i found the screenshot in someone’s twitter replies but the other day i giffed and coloured the little scene and took a screenshot from that and now this one is a bit more RED !! but yeah leo @thisisagaysonlyevent sums it up when he described zuko as my main girl and yeah <3

why did you choose your header?

omg zuko limp wrist angry gay icon !!! but yeah !! it used to just be that screenshot but i giffed it the other day <3333 i love it so much sometimes i just stare at my blog and watch him move hahaha

what’s your post with the most notes?

oh hahahahah i think its an umbrella academy one about klaus being gay and not being able to drive LMFAO. i kind of hate the post KJHDLJHFJHDskjdh it was a notes grab i will admit

how many people do you follow?

as of 11/6/2021 i follow 389 people kjshdflkjshdfkjhd i used to follow like 1000+ ,,,,,, but i was always missing my beloved mutuals’ posts so i cut it down sjdhflh the only downside is that the dash gets really really dead certain times of the day 

have you ever made a shitpost?

lmao i think it is my brand

how often do you use tumblr?

stop OMG skjhflkjhadskjfh this is so embarrassing ,,,, like a lot. its my main social media hahahah. i used to use instagram and tumblr equally but not so much anymore ,,,,

did you have a fight/argument with a blog once? who won?

LMAO vee’s answer to this made me laugh so hard bc SAME. i have never fought with people online for real but ive had dreams about it to HAAHHAHAHAH i’m crazy

how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this post’?

hmmmm it depends – i don’t like the condescending or guilt tripping ones

do you like tag games?

yes i do and i appreciate every single tag ive had but im a terrible person and procrastinate them. ive got a lot in my drafts from like months ago which i will get around to one day im sorry <3

which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous? 

lmao this year ive learnt that SO MANY of my mutuals are famous kjshdflhsdf its actually so crazy i didn’t know people could have that many followers on tumblr KJKDLJSHFKJHF. also ahhaha vee said that she think im famous which sajkfhdljhdf i will say this year i’ve like doubled the amount of followers i had this time last year but servingcunt is still pretty niche underground if you know you know grungecore pickle rick kafkaesque et cetera et cetera

do you have a crush on a mutual? 

im for real in love with all my mutuals <3 ily

last song i listened to

okay technically it’s the song vee put bc i clicked the link and it opened on my spotify web browser and started playing jkhsfljdhfk but the one before that is the new doja cat song – need to know !!! 

my phone bg and lockscreen

LMAO ill put some screenshots LKJHFKJHD the lock screen and home screen really don’t go together ,,,, gemini moment

tagging

lmao only do this if you guys want to <333

@sluthonorific @highwarlockkareena @beefleef​ (even tho vee tagged you alreadyyy sjkfhjhs) @nicholasbraungf​ @thisisagaysonlyevent​ @roombagreyjoy​ @sharkentine​ @doctorfeathers​ @softpluto​ @bucxkybarnes​ @katsstratford​