#more art soon (tm)

[ghost-rainn]

Why can't I quit yew?

[werewhiskey]

chibi DE doodles, part 1

(part 2 here)

[koilarist]

I don't really need your help to put me through hell, I'll do it myself.

[themissingnumbers]

I know your stories don't seem to revolve around Gold/Ethan and / or Blake, but I'm wondering what they would look like in one of those ref sheets you make. Would we have a sorta timeline for them? Or how you believe they end up dying? Your art is incredible, and remember to take breaks!

-Choccy Anon

((Don't assume so fast dear friend. Considering that I managed to pump out a timeline and a ref up to the lineart for one of the other relevant guys i got, I'm sure I'll be cooking up stuff for that rotting corpse real soon!

The way Gold had died has actually been implied in a handful of canon asks before, Hmm. I wonder what that easter egg was called. smthn smthn mount whatza

But, despite not having much to show for it right now, there is a significant amount of different (cough and similar if not same) characters important to missing numbers, justttt not a lot of them have been found out properly just yet. but im sure once canon story asks start up again all will be revealed in due time.

but trust me, youll prolly be getting that poor boys reference(s)(((who knows maybe ill go crazy w/ it))) soon, probably with a few handful of others

oh yeah i also wanna say i like your little anon nickname choccy))

[verflares]

i think the huge uptick of visibility from the Drawing That Broke Containment has finally died down so i think i can enable anon again 👍

[nikawiy]

i've had words i was told on repeat on my mind abt how someone likes i write side characters just giving me giddy feelings. i've been seriously struggling mentally bc my health has been getting worse as well as i mask that it's not that bad and just . . . happy

[chaoticspacefam]

@vihola tagged me to make some OCs in >this< picrew so ofc I jumped on the opportunity!

Tagging (if you want to, up to you & no pressure if not!) @rainofaugustsith @mercurypilgrim @tearlessrain @darth-bagel @outcastcommander @messes-of-men and anyone else who wants to do this one! <3

Have one Saarai because, of course, she is my favourite hahah Also a Maiite!! because this one has vitiligo!! (honestly it has so many options, props to the OP of the picrew! <3) Maite’s a little more red than she should be (she’s more orange-y red really) and ideally her hair would have a more reddish undertone too buuuut everything else was lovely to be able to find options for her in a picrew for once! :D I gave Rai a cocktail and a nice jungle bg because honestly ya girl needs a vacation to a planet that has a nice jungle to remind her of home, she’s EARNED it lmao I had to think a bit for what to put Maite in bc I didn’t really want to cover up all her vitiligo but also I didn’t want them to be dressed exactly the same lmao then I remembered that IRP she likes to steal her husband’s work button-ups and wear them as sleep shirts when he’s done with them so I went for that and some cute shorts & sandals :3

[omensoutpost]

Fukkit, new bog ʕ⌐■ᴥ■ʔ

[bougiebutchbinch]

hiiii your art gives me life it sustains me permanently. Thinking about a Logan that goes into ruts, and Wade has learned to keep a shit ton of Gatorade and towels by the bed when that time of the month (tm) is coming up cuz Logan just rails him into the bed for a week :3

AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo :howls at the moon:

It's brutal. It's animalistic. It would've killed literally anyone else.

We're talking a full no-refraction-period, healing-factor-fuelled, feral fuckfest. A 168-hour marathon. Face down ass up. Wolvie's teeth are BURIED in Wade's neck. His jaws barely ever relinquish their grip, because the bite mark heals as soon as Logan's teeth withdraw from Wade's bloody, tattered flesh - and Logan can't have that. He CAN'T. He needs his mark on Wade. Needs his smell all over him. Needs Wade's slick, hot hole clenching tight on his knot...

So, uh, Wade gets pinned to a progressively-more-tattered-and-bloodstained-mattress for a week while Logan fucks all those crazy rut-hormones out of his system.

Occasionally, when Logan nods off, Wade gets to sneak away and shower or whatnot. But sometimes Logan's not QUITE as out of it as Wade thought. In those moments, his teeth dig in and his grip tightens, and he growls around Wade's nape like Wade's a piece of meat and Logan is scaring off another predator...

the first time that happened Wade found it hilarious (and very, very horny-inducing)

.....but graaaadually

..........as the days bleed past and Logan's rut peaks in intensity

.............Wade's gets lost in this strange, dreamy, delicious, pleasure-pain haze. So, when Logan snarls and digs in his teeth, he just goes limp and spreads his legs on instinct... tamed and trained for him.......... a warm bloom of contentment filling his stomach as Logan slips back inside with a grunt, where he belongs. Fucking his seed back into Wade like he wants him bred.

He even makes this pleased animalistic sound. Like he's proud of Wade for presenting for him, for being a good little Omega, for doing a good job....

Anyway Wade gets to drift off happily into subspace for a couple days at the end. He loooooves falling out of his head and just existing, as a trio of fun holes for Wolvie to fuck (and sometimes. more than three holes. if Logan's feeling ESPECIALLY kinky and the claws come out)

And Logan is FULLY in feral headspace ofc. He's never been able to Let Go with anyone, quite as far as he has with Wade!

But gradually, over the passing days, as Wade sinks deeper into that trance-like submissive prey-state... Logan moves away from the violent animalistic fervor that initially drove him. He nuzzles Wade instead of biting him. Licking him, caring for him in a way that just makes Wade's brain even fuzzier.

In the aftermath, they're sitting 5 feet apart on either side of the UTTERLY ruined mattress, dehydrated beyond all belief (Wade severely underestimated the amount of gatorade they'd need). Staring into the middle distance like soldiers fresh off the battlefield.

"So," Wade ventures into the silence, scratching at a dry bit of wolvispunk that's leaked out down his inner thigh. "Uh. Same time next month?"

messy writing because I'm half asleep, please forgive me kdsflhglkfds

[wistfulenchantress]

"they've been building up wills feelings for mike since season one"

meanwhile mikes been here fighting to search for will, abandoning all his friends when he thinks they've lost will and instead just sitting and looking through will's art, clinging to any idea of will being alive, refusing to sleep in the hospital waiting room, putting his head on wills chest, checking in with will, prioritizing will, comforting will, holding wills hand, noticing changes in wills behavior that nobody else does, stressing about it, sleeping over at wills house because will might be sick, going to the hospital with will, never leaving his side or trying to go anywhere despite the adults not comforting him, suffering through wills pain even though he knows it is what needs to be done, reaching for will even though he can't carry him, clinging to an unconscious will in terror, telling will that becoming his friend is the best thing he ever did and meaning it, telling will stories, jealous of the girl will is dancing with, apologizing to will as soon as he sees he's upset him including biking in a rainstorm and then running out to the voice, staring at wills lips constantly, grinning ear to ear when will says he won't join another party, hugging will goodbye in the saddest way fucking possible, staring back at wills house, crying about losing will, trying to call will but getting a busy signal, hearing through el's letters that will has moved on, thinking he's lost will, embarrassed about touching will in front of his girlfriend, aggressively pretending he doesn't care who that fucking painting is for, monitoring exactly how will is behaving on their day out without pushing to hard, being jealous of angela because he thinks will likes her, pouting when will doesn't laugh at his bad joke, shutting the door when he talks to will so they aren't interrupted, easily apologizing to will, checking out wills butt that one time, opening up with will, feeling like his relationship is different with will than with his other friends, making a point of correcting things that will has pointed out in arguments, blushing, being honest with will but also uncomfortable about the discussion of romance, taking what will says seriously, the triple take TM, more lip glancing, opening up to will again, being in love with the painting, looking subtly disappointed when will says it was commissioned, staring at will like he is seeing him for the first time, only truly smiling at will when will isn't looking, only confessing he loves el when will pushes him to because he thinks that is what will wants, comforting will again, gripping will like he could be faked at any moment, standing next to will constantly, and a bunch more stuff

i have receipts if need be, and also a ton more examples

[ihopesocomic]

After rolling my eyes at Nothing falling for Hover after five seconds, I appreciate that Hope and Storm are taking their relationship slow and getting to know each other first. It was a long time that they were separated, after all. It also makes me feel they both care for each other in the platonic sense that they did when they were children too and makes their relationship feel more organic and also allows Adamant to be less of a third wheel. Just great work on these character dynamics!

Thank you so much, anon, and yep, that always bothered me too. They only knew each other a solid two minutes and Nothing is suddenly deciding Hover is "the one(tm)"? Nothing, c'mon now. You don't know about anything about this chick and what you do know about her is ableist and obnoxious.

Which soon escalates to her being abusive and selfish in a few episodes oof

And that's just the thing. If you take away the fact that the show was obviously rushing them together in a bid to score the ship art and the 'squeee gay rep!' comments, it's blatantly obvious Nothing forms an attachment to Hover because she's only marginally less terrible than her family. If one were to look at things in a therapeutic sense, Nothing just comes across as emotionally vulnerable and needy. Combine this with how Hover also develops: it's not a good look, chief.

If this has been a cishet couple, people would've been way less smitten with the idea of a full blown relationship being developed in less than a single episode. I saw somebody say somewhere that Hover was able to get away with being the character she was simply because she wasn't a guy and I agree with that observation.

I'm pleased with the way we've handled Hope and Storm in comparison because not only was Hope exposed to a brief but vital moment of friendship and respect as a child (when she certainly needed it) but it allowed us to develop things more organically outside of just having them being this gay couple circus attraction to try and sell the comic on.

We just wanted them to be like any other couple that appreciates and listens to each other, so that means having them work out each other's likes/dislikes and limitations and needs without just sticking them together for plot convenience or clout. c: - RJ

[canmom]

inadequate definitions of a computer game

I'm a game dev! So I make these things called computer games. But what is it that I'm making exactly?

One simple answer is that a computer game is a string of data. That is, after all, what Steam sends you when you buy a game. The data consists of instructions, art assets, text strings, metadata etc which can be 'executed' by a suitable computer to play that game. And if you copy that data without paying the right person you're a criminal doing a crime etc etc.

But is that data the game? It can't be, because you can have completely different data that is still 'the game'. A Windows build and a Linux build of a game are probably no more similar than any two random binary strings. If you know what you're looking for you could correlate them piece by piece - that string of data represents that texture, which is present in both - but only if you know, and you decompress the data the right way etc etc. But they're the same game, because they do the same thing when you run them.

So it seems a computer game is defined by what it does rather than how it's represented on the computer. This isn't a unique property of computer games - consider how many ways you can encode a movie for example.

But which of the things it does define a given game? Computer games have a remarkable number of pieces to them, and as you soon find out when you're making one, they can all be swapped out pretty freely.

For example, a game's music is often a pretty integral part of 'the experience'. But you can easily mod a game to have different music. We don't usually consider such a modded game to be a different game entirely. Well, it's a matter of degree, it's not absolute... swap out a game's music and it's still the same game. Replace all the models, levels, etc etc as in a 'total conversion' mod and it is a 'new game'. Where we draw the line is ultimately arbitrary...

But this is pretty remarkable, I think. Most artworks in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction(TM) have a pretty fixed form. A movie is a sequence of images and sounds arranged in time, a novel is a specific string of characters. Computer games, though, are flexible things.

A computer game is assembled from lots of little elements. Each of them on their own might be more or less specific, but it's how they're put in relation to each other that gives a game its identity. You glue together these elements in the mind of the audience: play the song City Ruins (Rays of Light) and if you've played the game, it will likely conjure the image of 2B's dress, the feeling dodging the machine lifeforms, the story about the androids and their existential tragedy, all unified in this thing we call "NieR Automata". In another universe, we could imagine that some other elements were tied together in this way - another game that happened to compose the 'same song' with a different aesthetic or mechanics. But the game is beloved because all these things are considered consonant.

Computer games share this in common with film, comics, etc etc. - they're all combinations of other art forms. But computer games have this extra thing that's more or less unique to the medium, the element of direct interaction with some kind of mutable 'state' inside the computer.

At a lower level of abstraction, when you interact with a computer game, data is sent from a controller (keyboard etc) to be read by the game, which modifies some stored state in computer memory; another part of the program 'reads' that state and displays pixels on the screen. Which means there is this separation between the presentational aspect and the 'mechanics'. You look the screen and see a human running but I, the game developer, can 'know' that what's 'really' going on is that a capsule collider is moving across a plane, and we change the position and rotation value based on your input. Then, to 'draw it', another variable holds animation state, and we're sampling the animation data, and doing some IK, and deforming vertices on the GPU, and pumping it through a fragment shader and so on... but all of that graphics stuff could be swapped out and the game would still 'play the same' in the sense that the same inputs would change the game state in the same way with the 'same outcome'. There are even some games, like NetHack and Dwarf Fortress, which support many different 'frontends' which look quite different.

But which is more 'real'? We can't see the game state. We might say that given this game state we update this enum to the value we consider to mean a player has won (let's say... 0b00000010), but the only way that the player knows they've won it is if we display a corresponding message on the screen. That's the only reason we care, as well. The presentation is absolutely integral. All that internal state is just there to make sure that 'you won' and whatever other information is displayed on the screen at the right time to maintain the illusion that 'there is a game' which we're working so hard to convey.

And the state of the program is not exactly what we're trying to convey. The player is not imagining floating point values changing, let alone cpu instructions changing a binary field, or voltages in silicon; they're imagining an object in a location. 'A character jumping.' We are trying to make sure that fantasy is believable. Every layer has to work together to make this happen. Ultimately what we're creating is a rectangle of flickering lights but if we do our job well enough, and it's approached with a willingness to suspend disbelief, it will come across as something like a place inhabited by something like people...

So a game isn't any particular element of its aesthetic presentation, and it isn't the way its data changes in response to interaction. It's some kind of gestalt created from the two, only when a human interacts with the whole system, which allows them to conjure a fantasy in large part designed by another human - and have this external thing reinforce it and make it feel concrete. That's what it's my job to create. What a marvellously abstract entity...

[animenostalgia]

News - TMS & CLAMP have announced a new Magic Knight Rayearth anime project is in the works to celebrate it's 30th anniersary! Above is an announcement trailer with some teaser art. No other info yet, but I'll update it as soon as more is available!

[technically-human]

Hi, I love your art and all of that, I've been stalking your page almost daily for over a month. You had some of the best content about our favourite ghost detectives with great characterisation (I would know I have read though everything on AO3 😭😭)

Quick question, what is your favourite headcannon about each character and why?

I love your style and adore your comics, could you do any crystal and Edwin being siblings in the future??? (With exasperated Charles?)

Wow, thank you!! I'm happy you're enjoying it so much :') exams are upon me but I'll be back to posting more regularly (and working on requests) soon!

Mmmh, there are some headcanons I hold so dear that I forget they're not actually in the source material.

For example, I like to think both Niko and Charles resent their own mothers, and feel guilty about it. I do plan on forcing them to bond over it. I also think these two are the only ones comfortable and accepting about their respective sexualities!

(Yes, I do think Charles knows and accepts he is bisexual. My reasons are:

The souls from Lust didn't try to grab him;

He didn't definitively reject Edwin, so that tells me he probably knows he would be capable of having a relationship with a boy;

I'm bi and I never had any conflict about it, and I'm here to project lol)

One important aspect of characters for me is that they have Bad Thoughts(tm). Not "I will murder everyone" kinda thoughts but just, moments in which they're selfish, they think unkind things, they consider doing morally dubious things. Characters who are 100% good and only think good thoughts are very plain to me.

I apply this to Crystal in particular. Just the idea that she thinks very bad things constantly, because a part of her is used to this. Edwin is probably the same, as being in Hell is not conductive to a very nice mind, I'd imagine.

Also, I like to think Crystal never kept her powers secret, but she did lie a lot. So she would tell her friends she could see the future and then just make up some stuff that would benefit her to influence their actions. Like, if she liked someone's boyfriend? oh, he's gonna cheat. Not a lot of people believed her, but it was enough.

For Edwin, I think he is the type who doesn't know when to stop talking, so a lot of the bullying he suffered was due to him arguing with the people who insulted him. His answers were very clever, but that never stopped anyone from hitting him, go figure.

Also, the organization of the books doesn't have a consistent system. Edwin changes it all the time and that's why Charles can't find anything. There's a specific shelf for Charles' stuff, he keeps some photoes he stole from his own house there, among other things. It's the only part Edwin will never reorganize.

And for the last question, I do have some plans for that! :)

[star-vanguard]

Some early Valentine's art!

I know it's a bit different from the usual but I've been meaning to start drawing general furry stuff more often

If you're here just for the Whispangle worry not there will be more soon(tm)

Alt outfit colors I did for fun below :)

[sapphicseasapphire]

Hiii, I ADORE your chain as Cryptids AU, all of your art is gorgeous and every character is wonderfully unique, I wanted to ask for a lil more lore if possible? While Four is my favorite character we have not had nearly enough asks for Hyrule! And fairies in general, in your au are they more fae-like with some trickster tendencies or very kind and giving like the Minish? Thoughts on bottles, etc? TYSM!

Oh boy oh boy do I have some Hyrule Thoughts. And some general fairy thoughts as well!

(Under the cut because this is gonna get long)

For this au, I’m thinking of just Zelda fairies. Little glowing balls of light that flutter on fragile wings, iridescent and magical and gentle. Fairies have an affinity for magic: all kinds of magic, though they’re best known for their healing abilities. There isn’t a single archetype of what a fairy’s behavior will be. Some can be tricksters, some can be kind, some can be shy, some can have the most ill of intentions. Fairies are like people, really, in that they’re not just all one thing. (This is what separates them from spirits, really. They’re just on the cusp of ascension, but unlike Koroks or Blupees or Dragons or anything like that, they cling to their mortality and allow themselves to grow and evolve. Because of this, Hyrule is not a part of the telepathy circle).

There are many communities of Fairies, and they tend to group up around a Great Fairy as their leader. There are some colonies that are independent of Great Fairies, though, but they are rare to find, as they are at a much higher risk.

You see, while Fairies are magical, they’re very fragile. Usually, a typical Fairy wouldn’t posses enough magic to defend themself against a Hylian captor. Docile and tiny, they’re quite easy to bottle up and carry off, and easily discarded once they’re used. Great Fairies are much more powerful than the average Fairy, and even more powerful than a Hylian, so sticking around them is preferred. They protect the others.

Hyrule is a very unique case. You see, he was born with the Spirit of the Hero. For this au, the Spirit of the Hero acts as an enhancer for any kind of spiritual or magical power a Link already possesses. For example, Twilight is only able to shift because he’s descended from a God and possess the Hero’s Spirit. (Otherwise, one of his parents would have had God Powers TM too, and they probably wouldn’t have died so soon).

In Hyrule’s case, having the Hero’s Spirit grants him much more magic than a typical Fairy- almost as much magic as a Great Fairy herself. All of this power in such a small frame… no one is the wiser. Hyrule has enough magic to properly defend himself (if he had any sort of training… which, as a child, he didn’t) and most importantly, he has enough magic to hold a Hylian disguise for a LONG TIME. His glamour can change the way that he’s perceived but cannot change his actual shape. Others can see and even touch his changed form, but it is not real.

ANYWAY. Yeah. Bottles. Fairies are afraid of them, are afraid of Hylians. And Rito and Gerudo and Gorons and Zora and monsters and literally everything under the sun. When you’re two inches tall, everything is a threat.

Fairies are hunted mercilessly by Hylians, mostly. They’re never killed, not outright, but they’re taken from their colonies and shoved into a tiny bottle, sometimes for weeks and months on end (Fairies don’t starve as quickly as other species would, able to expend magic to keep their little bodies functioning). That being said, they often do not survive captivity. A tiny little bottle, often shoved in a bag and jostled around, no light, no food or water, all alone, just glass on all sides. It’s no place for a Fairy. Even if they do make it out (after expending magic to heal whatever wound they were abducted to treat), they will rarely make it back to their Great Fairy before succumbing to magical exhaustion or being captured again.

On the topic of magical exhaustion: Fairies have a limited amount of magic they can expend before they have to recover. Even one as powerful as Hyrule has their limits. Recovery almost always means rest, and it can mean their body does a forced shut down and simply stops working for days at a time. Often, Fairies are more hungry when they’re recovering, as magic can no longer be used to sustain the body.

Hyrule is less vulnerable to this than other Fairies would be, but when he’s standing next to the Chain? And every single one of them is hurt? After a fight where he’d used his magic to take down dozens of monsters? All while keeping up his glamour? Yeah, he’s gonna be feeling that one.

Telltale signs of magical exhaustion before it gets to the point of actually passing out: Physical exhaustion, drowsiness. Headaches, sudden hunger. Feeling cold. Often, the other heroes might notice Hyrule picking up an extra serving at mealtimes or ask to huddle up with someone at night (oftentimes Sky, as his wings are very warm and he doesn’t bat an eye when asked to cuddle). Hyrule sleeps longer, but never seems to gain any more energy.

Magical exhaustion, if pushed too far, can be fatal.

ANYWAY. When Hyrule first joins the Chain, he forces all of them to free any Fairies they might have. He enforces that rule as others join, and is hesitant to lower his glamour. I’m think that for a long time, they don’t even know he’s a Fairy. He’s terrified that if they find out, they’ll bottle him up and use him for healing and never let him go. For. Long time, he’s terrified of them. Fairy Bottlers surround him. It’s not until he physically cannot keep his “Hylian” form up that the others find out what he is, and he never expected them to be so understanding. So… apologetic. Actually legitimately regretful of their Fairy Bottling pasts.

ONE MORE THING. Four can turn Minish sized. When Hyrule works himself to magical exhaustion and passes out, he goes back to his True Form, the two inch tall lil Fairy. And of course, when that happens, it’s really really difficult for the Chain to move him or help him without accidentally hurting his tiny body. So Four will shrink down and help him to bed, check to make sure that he wasn’t hurt when he fell unconscious, and stay with him at their size so he’s not alone when he wakes.

I have many more thoughts but this is getting actually so long. I apologize!