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DUDE I JUST PLAYED THROUGH THE GAME, WHY IS IT SO SADDDD😭😭😭
and why is he hot
Starling went through quite a few redesigns through the entire development process so let me talk about it a bit :3
It all started with this notes app drawing I made with my finger
Right from the start we knew his tail would be made out of tongues but figuring out how many and placed how was quite hard, I really had to girlmath my way thru
This was the first actual drawing I made of him. The story wasn't complete yet but I went ahead and designed something anyway. Here he was definitely "scarier" and his scar was also placed differently. He had gills on his neck but as you will see I changed their location to under his arms later on. We were actually considering not giving him a tongue of his own so I wanted to make his mouth terrifyingly big and empty.
Here I tried giving him bigger eyes like a fish. This was when his playful and childlike personality had started shaping as you can see from the expressions. I definitely liked this direction better but it also wasn't perfect just yet so I went ahead and did a few more changes
I slowed down on trying to figure out his design a bit after that and instead focused on how his sprite would look. He is a merman after all, he can't just stand straight like a lot of the other visual novel characters. This stage was PAINFUL.
These were the first ones I sketched, we ended up deciding we liked the 3rd one the best.
I carried that 3rd one over to another canvas and started playing around with how we could place his tail, we started entertaining the idea of having him sit on a big rock
This is when his pose really shaped up. The animated Little Mermaid movie was actually a big inspiration, I sat and rewatched the entire movie and studied how they animated her tail
And after that I finally finalized his design. We decided to change the end of his tail to be more eel like for aesthetic purposes (normal tail shape looked weird with tongues)
And for anyone wondering this is what Maelyn looked like at first. Since the story wasn't complete yet I thought it'd take place in a more modern setting and designed her with that in mind but we decided to have the story take place in 1800s so I changed the design based on that. I did a lot of research on glasses and corsets to make the design as accurate as I could.
Yes glasses! We didn't use the sprites in the main story but Maelyn does wear glasses and looks very pretty in them if you ask me. You will be seeing more of it in the bonus episodes!
#asks#hold your tongues#Starling#Maelyn#yandere merman#merman#gamedev#game developers#game log#development log#indie game dev#indie game#indie vn#indie visual novel#yandere visual novel#yandere vn#indie yandere vn#vn#visual novel#indie yandere#artists on tumblr#digital art#male yandere#yandere#yandere monster#sketch#illustration#sprite#visual novel sprite#visual novel characters
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Wildflowers For A Hangman Ch. 20
Summary:
Daisy, a career novelist, moves in with her college best friend Phoenix who has been permanently assigned to Top Gun with Dagger Squad. She finds herself instantly connected with a cocky pilot who's soft only for her and Jake can't help but want to know everything about her. When the past comes knocking at both of their doors, will they stand together or fall apart?
Or: The Dagger Squad can't cook and Jake falls in love with a woman who makes a mean lasagna while they work their personal trauma.
Jake "Hangman" Seresin x writer!femOC | 18+ (eventually) minors dni. Fluff, smut (eventual), idiots in love, past trauma.
A/N: Jake comes clean and Daisy has to talk to Penny
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I managed to make it until we were back at my apartment before I broke. Tasha was spending the night at Javy’s place, which meant it was just the two of us and after a few hours of thinking up the worst possible scenarios for what Jake had to tell me, I was ready to cry, scream, or throw up. Or do all three at once, it was a toss up really.
“I’m going to sit down on the couch and you’re going to tell me what’s going on,” I said, putting my hands on Jake’s shoulder to stop him from kissing me when we walked in the door. “Because I know there’s something you’re not telling me.” Jake sighed, running a hand over his face.
“We’re not breaking up, let’s start with that,” Jake’s voice was tired but serious, his words striking out one of my fears. I nodded, running my hands up and down my pajama pants, trying to ease my anxiety with the familiar feeling of the fuzzy fabric. “Rooster and I might be deployed soon.” The news hit me like a blow to the gut, deployed? What happened over Thanksgiving had been a mission, just a few days apart and that had been hell.
“How long?” I heard myself ask, knees folding into my chest. Jake sat beside me, wrapping me in his arms, chin resting on top of my head.
“I don’t know, Wildflower.”
“Where?”
“I don’t know and I couldn’t tell you if I did, it would be classified,” Jake kissed my hair. “I don’t have any details, I don’t even know if it’s happening. It’s all just whispers behind closed doors and rumors at this point, which is why I didn’t want to say anything.”
“I love you,” It’s all I could think to say. Jake’s thumb brushed over my cheeks and that’s when I realized I was crying, “I love you so much.”
“I know, baby, I love you too,” Jake held me tight. “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you, I didn’t want to say anything until I knew for sure.”
“Tell me next time, okay?”
“I promise, Wildflower. I’m sorry I worried you,” Jake kissed the top of my head, rubbing circles into my back. “I love you so much.”
My first thought was to run, to get away but the second that crossed my mind, the idea of being without Jake hit me like a truck. I didn’t want to be without him, I couldn’t imagine not having Jake in my life. He had managed to intertwined every part of my life with his, from my writing to his family, we were bound together. Running away now would be running away forever. Right?
“Why don’t we call Penny in the morning?” Jake kissed my hair again, drawing me out of my thoughts. “Maybe we can call mama and pops too.”
“I’d like that,” I nuzzled into his neck, “How long are deployments usually?” Jake sighed, bringing me onto his lap.
“It depends, there’s short deployments of just a few months and then there’s deployments that can last over a year.” A year? My grip on Jake’s waist tightened, “It’s probably not going to be that long, baby but if it is, we’ll figure it out.” After a few minutes of silence that felt like hours, Jake whispered, “You’ll be waiting here when I get back?”
“Always,” I answered without hesitation. I took Jake’s face in my hands, staring him down even though I still wanted to puke a little bit. Jake’s eyes were intense, his brow creased in worry. “I’m not going anywhere and no matter where you go, you’re coming back home to me. Deal?”
“Deal.” Jake closed the distance between our lips, kissing me soft and sweet. There was no rushing, it was as if we had all the time in the world, and if we did have all that time, what was a few months apart? He pulled my legs fully around him and stood, never breaking the kiss as he carried me to the bedroom.
When he laid me back on the bed and stripped me bare, Jake took his time. He covered my body in kisses, worshiping every inch like he was committing it to memory, and when we finished, he pulled me into his chest and held me tight all through the night.
The next morning I called Penny, who evidently had been waiting to hear from me. I tried to ignore the fact that everyone around me probably already knew about the deployment, especially the fact that Tasha hadn’t said anything. Penny invited me over and Jake dropped me off,
“Call me when you’re ready,” He whispered, kissing my forehead. “I love you.”
“I love you too, cowboy.”
Penny greeted me with a hug and a mug of peppermint tea, she looked cozy in her navy pajama set and robe, pulling me into her living room.
“How are you holding up, kiddo?” Penny passed me a cream blanket that was soft.
“First thing I wanted to do was run,” Penny hummed, rubbing my knee. “Now I just feel a little numb.”
“I thought having grown up with my father’s deployments would have made things easier the first time my ex-husband deployed but it didn’t.” She sipped her tea, staring ahead where a picture of her and Amelia hung on the wall. “I spent the first month crying in bed, almost got fired from my job. Then one of the other wives in his unit, an older woman named Vera, sat me down for a talk.”
Penny looked the picture of calm as she spoke and I envied her for it. What I didn’t envy was how many years, deployments, and undoubted heartache that it took to cultivate that calm.
“She first told me that I looked like crap,” I chuckled along with Penny. “Then she told me I was going to join her walking group. Most of the wives in the unit met up every morning and walked a mile around base. If we had news, we shared it, some women talked about how their kids were handling things, we organized what we were sending in care packages, and we traded recipes. Anything to keep ourselves sane.”
“Are you asking me to join your walking group?” Penny pursed her lips at me, rolling her eyes. “What, you, me, and Ames could totally go for walks on the beach before school.”
“Good luck dragging that girl out of bed early,” She pushed my knee, laughing. “But seriously, Daisy, one of the best things you can do while he’s gone is stay busy and stay connected with me and with him.”
“How am I supposed to talk to him if I don’t know where he is?”
“You’ll most likely be able to call him but if you want to send him letters, you’ll give them to command and they’ll send the letters to him when they can.” When they can. That wasn’t very reassuring.
“What else do I need to know?”
X
I spent the day getting my affairs in order, scheduling a stop on my mail, making sure all my bills were on auto pay, and updating my will and life insurance policies. By the time it was lunch, my head was pounding from all of the tedious details.
When lunch time came and went without a word from Daisy or Penny, I stopped by the store and picked up a few things for Daisy’s apartment. Bath bombs, new pajamas, a few nice notebooks that she’d probably never write in for fear of “ruining” them. I chuckled to myself, I really did love her and all of her little quirks. If it wasn’t for Daisy’s one-year rule I’d pick her up from Penny’s and take her straight to the court house if she’d let me.
Deployments had never bothered me before, in fact, I loved them. They meant that I could fly on missions, feeling the adrenaline pumping through my veins as I kept an eye out for enemy bogeys. Now the thought of being away from home for even a few days made my heart hurt. I wanted to go to work in the morning, fly formations with the team, and come home to Daisy at the end of the day. I wanted to fall into bed beside her and tease her when she spent twenty minutes rearranging the blankets so she wouldn’t be hot.
The deployment hadn’t even started yet and I already wanted it to be over. I said a quick prayer, praying that this deployment would be a short one.
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Beautiful, Aren't They?
I couldn't resist the brainrot that Fish Silco Enforcer is actually Silco's natural son, so here, have an awkward conversation with Sevika while I figure out how to write fish people smut.
The round window brightened, jittering chemlight from the Last Drop’s new signage pouring in thick and diffuse as late afternoon gave way to early evening in the Lanes. Sevika sighed and levered herself off the couch, catching herself off balance, still getting used to the new arm.
“‘Bout time I went on my rounds. Anyone new this week, boss?”
“Just the cobbler’s shop across from Babette’s, she’ll be expecting you.” Silco leaned over behind his desk, and she heard the rattle of a drawer and the muffled hiss of coins. “And this,” he said, tossing her a fist-sized bag with unmistakeable contents, “for Jericho. Maybe you’ll have better luck getting him to take what he’s owed.”
She narrowed her eyes and weighed the bag in her left hand. “Pretty heavy for an informant. Vander just had him zero out his kids’ tab at the end of the week. Don’t tell me you’re going to pay full price?”
Silco pursed his lips and stared across the desk at her. She tapped her copper-plated fingers against the palm of her hand impatiently.
“Look, if he’s got something on you, this is the wrong way to go about it. No offense.”
Sevika had a brief and dizzying moment of regret - had she picked the wrong side after all? Was she going to have to break in the new guy all over again? Didn’t Silco know how business worked?
His eyes rested on the ashtray on his desk, its plain gray granite recently vandalized with little explosions of pink and blue and purple.
“If it was blackmail, I’d send a knife. Not a year’s back payment of child support.” His voice trailed off into reflective silence.
She drew in a breath. Her lungs couldn’t hold enough for the questions she had, questions she definitely did not want answered, but she drew it anyway.
“Time’s wasting,” he snapped, nodding at the bag of coins in her hand. “Like as not he’ll turn it down and send you back with a flea in your ear and a gritty bowl of cioppino with my name on it. Still, a man in my position should try to account for his youthful indiscretions, don’t you think?”
Sevika slipped the bag of coins into her pocket. “You’re that sure the kid’s yours? I mean — I’m not asking for details,” she added with a grimace.
Silco gave a bitter little laugh, drawing one long finger across his lower lip. “If the boy’s there working behind the counter tonight, you’ll know when you see him. Apparently my bone structure… leaves its mark.” He leaned back in his chair and cast her a cold, considering glance. “And if I hear one word out of you about my having a type, Sevika, I’ll take the other arm, and I will not provide you with a replacement.”
“Understood, sir.”
#silco fanfic#steb arcane#please forgive me#but have you seen jericho#he definitely has a type#arcane season 2
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Drawn Nov 4 - 11 2024 My part of an idol trio with ARaccoonNamedPeacock and N8-0. The red-haired character is Kira and the blue haired one is Yukio.
I uh. really read peacock's description that read "pop group" and "girls preferred" and went "counterpoint! goth enby," huh? okok I'm joking-- they weren't requirements, and I did consider both people's designs and the rest of the description when doing my own and doing research.
So this character doesn't have a name, I haven't actually picked a gender either, but they're a panda dwarf cichlid - since I decided to go for a yellow character to fit with the others and that fish is yellow but also sometimes has red and blue which fit with the other colours.
It's not super obvious with the outfit but I did try to give this character scoliosis and the darker brown on their cheeks is melasma.
There's obviously alt influences in this character, but I was also looking at Ouji Kei specifically. I used this person's wardrobe for a lot of the reference
The colours of the top left one were my second pass I think? the first I don't have anymore but it doesn't matter they were very obviously not meant to be a final
The ones on the middle and top right are my third which I just edited today. brought some more focus on the yellow and attempted to bring the colours from the other characters into it but eh. The red is from Kira but all of Yukio's blues were too bright
The top right I simplified the design a tiny bit, since I wanted to do "maybe a little overdesigned" with mine: but also for ease of drawing and the fact that they're with two other characters they need a simpler version
I also was attempting peacock's style with that one because when designing this one I wanted it to still be different from my other characters and be interesting for myself, but also make sure that it kinda fit her style without changing too much? N8-0 will have to figure it out himself if he wants to draw them though, sorry lol
The bottom one I drew the three together for one last seeing if they fit together and making adjustments to my colours, as well as simplifying the design further/differently
I do like the extra colours but I felt like mine stood out a lot and in the middle of figuring out how simplified I wanted it I realized that the fact that this one's "the yellow one" wasn't as clear so I ended up just making them mostly yellow. It's fine anyway, Kira was the first character here so she can look more of a main character. I kept that little bit of red from kira though and ended up being able to take one of Yukio's blues for the eye there
I might change the skintone back to being a little redder and differentiate the yellows more again though, I think that's a little weird but I don't wanna look at this anymore. They've got multiple options now
#splatoon fish#splatoon idol#splatoon#splatoon art#splatoon fanart#nintendo#art#artwork#my art#artists on tumblr#sketch#digital sketch#sketchpage#concept art#Drawing#my drawing#digital drawing#fanart#digital fanart#original character#original characters#oc#ocs#my oc#tbn ocs#kira#yukio
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mothra is real and my friend
#just trying to figure out how to draw her#not satisfied with her back legs though…#my art#digitalart#kaiju#mothra#mosura#mothra queen of the monsters#toho kaiju
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ylfa snotball
#ylfa snorgelsson#ylfa neverafter#neverafter#dimension 20#d20#just trying to figure out how to draw her
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why me?
#this is quick but been itching to draw her. i miss her#isat#mirabelle#isat spoilers#?#art#sorry everyone for dropping off the face of the earth im still alive. im just trying to make 40 comic pages in a month#im still around just poke me w a stick#also for my entire life i have not figured out how to draw noses from this angle. forgive me
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could you draw ribbon please?
sure!
Ribbon is a character I actually don't draw a lot, I think I quickly drew her like three times before so I never took the time to properly make art centered around her. She's adorable that's for sure and I wanted to draw her dynamic with Adeleine (a character i also draw rarely lol), together they make a great duo (thanks star allies for that hehe)
Thank you for your request ^^
#i added gooey just for fun with how ado is apparently afraid of him but here gooey just wanted to taste paint or smth lmao#like i said i also dont draw ado much and i always struggle to figure out how to draw her so i always base myself on her renders#that kinda have weird proportions maybe due to the kirby style so i think one day ill try to properly draw adeleine in myway (maybe gijinka#kirby#ribbon#ribbon kirby#adeleine#gooey#fafa art#fafa's answers
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Hi! If you're still accepting requests for the poly poses!! How about IH for Obi-Wan, Cody and Satine? Because yk he has two hands 🫡🥹
He does indeed have two hands, and both of them should be occupied at all times :3 Thank you for asking @lightasthesun 🥰
Polyamorous/platonic poses for sketching
and the other drawings I’ve made for them (I am halfway through all your lovely requests for reals this time!!)
#I've finally made a Very Important phone call so I decided to try a pastel palette as a treat#I'm not doing this to myself with the other ones I am NOT#cobitine#??? what is the ship name for this one???#commander cody#obi wan kenobi#satine kryze#codywan#obitine#and then there is Cody and then there is Satine respectively#poly sketches#my art#digital art#tcw fanart#artists on tumblr#the two of them together would make obi wan go grey and he would enjoy it and that's a flavour I'm here for#I quite love satine as a character#and her wardrobe#she is so pretty and has such a shaped face I cannot wait to draw her into the hades au!#did I flip the pose around just so I don't have to figure out how obi wan's hair flops over his forehead? yes yes I did#also obi wan is taller than cody and that was completely intentional#I only regret a little that I didn't also make satine taller than Cody too#it would have been funny
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BG3 has taken over my personal life haha so here's a sketch dump of my Tav! She's a half-elf Rogue with a Sage background. I wanted to go for an archeologist/explorer background - like a mix of Evelyn and Rick from The Mummy :)! I stole lots of paintings and it always made me laugh the animation of Tav stuffing a huge painting into her inventory so I had to do a comic of her actually trying to sneak one out haha
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#gale dekarios#gale x tav#astarion ancunin#bg3 astarion#bg3 gale#bg3 raphael#her name is Layla :) it was fun to come up with a background for her but basically she's studying Netheril and netherese artifacts!#I don't know a lot about Baldur's Gate or DnD but I had a lot of fun! And want to know more!#And it's been fun trying to figure out how to draw the characters!#and i love a wizard especially a dorky one XD#I already started another game with a different character haha but I have a soft place in my heart for Layla and the story I made for her :#my art#my fanart#digital art#i haven't posted in ages but I have been drawing! I just need to get back into posting more regularly!
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#let's pretend i wanted to draw him at different ages and it wasn't completely accidental#that i didn't actually started drawing to try and figure out how i want to draw him#which turned out to be a futile exercise since i. just. can't. draw the same character the same way#consistency? don't know her#at least the colours are pretty#the last one could also be read as casual zuko aka not on firelord duty hanging out with the gaang laid back zuko#failed attempts at a character sheet#←making a tag for it 'cause there's gonna be more in the future#atla mai#avatar the last airbender#atla#zuko#prince zuko#artists on tumblr#atla fanart
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hello lord of the potatoes
deep respect for your current brainrot- you’re eating it up (also screw the anons telling you to learn to draw women… your women drawings make my ass go feral dw)
but, i have a wtnv ship that i haven’t seen much of and if you’re willing i’d love to know you’re take on Michelle (dark owl records) and Maureen (the intern) 👀
ps no pressure ofc!! i love your art so so so so so much ty for being the guy who draws, you give me sustenance
no no no thank you for breaking me free from the brainrot for a second, I love these two and I’m glad I finally get an excuse to draw them <3333
#sorry these aren’t as ship centric I was trying to figure out how to draw them lmao#been wanting to do a drawing involving Maureen for a hot minute and I’m glad I got her design down beforehand lol#ask#wtnv#welcome to night vale#maureen johnson#michelle nguyen#I need to make a colored Maureen drawing she’s just all color to me I need it for my own health
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I was going to add a few more panels and clean this up a little more, buuuut time is kind of getting away from me again, so I’m going to leave it like this for now.
(Small request, but could y’all not tag this as a ship, please? It sort of really squicks me out.)
#the bad batch#my art#hunter bad batch#crosshair bad batch#crosshair! go home!#I’m still trying to figure out how ro draw them#and honestly how to draw#what is a hug#how do hands work#rendering? I don’t know her.#the idea here was that Crosshair was in the middle of saying something snarky#and Hunter just said screw it I’ve missed my brother it’s hug time
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lays on the ground
#pigeon screens#odette hollows#HAVE YOU SEEN HER AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH#I LOVE HER#i'm on my hands and knees weeping#i love#i love!!!!!#anyway#i finally just caved because i was getting antsy about her makeup mod of all things (':#I had no idea what one I actually used for it because the one I THOUGHT it was was updated and is so different#so I went digging through my old files for stuff and got the png and updated it#and it looks!!!#ok#but maybe i'll bite the bullet and try and grab a commission for a custom makeup#maybe...... see if she can get her dimple added#I know it would be visible *all* the time instead of when she grins a certain way so maybe it would be easier to figure out how to#draw it on manually?#many thoughts to think#many things to rotate#but i am confident in updating olds things now at least#there are some weird spots right under her lower lip (hidden by tea cup) that I'll have to poke at#but!!!
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more sketchbook doodles feat. prime empire nindroid jays
#i dont have a catchy AU name for PENJ lmao its just under the nindroid jay umbrella#ninjago#my art#jay walker#nindroid jay#nya smith#jaya#im also trying to figure out how to draw nya so ill like....maybe like her more or smth idk#she just doesnt click with me even tho theres aspects that i like a lot so idk what the issue is ???#plz help me like this character i wanna have fun too lmao#SSRNJ
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shork woman
#im sorry i didnt draw her hat i was just trying to figure out how to draw her#library of ruina#seeyouguyslater art
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