#rt non

[ezralva]

Ooffh Manji fckin finally drew Kusahigu y'all!

Reposted with permission from here

[tvckerwash]

we got the york/north/wash trio, but we deserved the wash/ct/maine trio. no I will not elaborate

[dinodogs]

the fact that people blame rwby and only rwby for rts downfall is so fucking insane. "ermm rt failed because I personally thought rwby was bad"

Do you not hear yourself. RT failed to adapt to the modern internet age and also Gray Haddock happened and blew millions that the company just never recovered from. Rwby was the ONLY thing making them a notable amount of money.

[watchinginred]

Oh harbinger tell me a tale

[jellogumdrops]

the r in rtgame stands for red (+ g is for glasses)

wanted to draw his robot wars outfit ^_^ and added glasses bc he mentioned them in a stream lol

[demonnstein]

They/them

Frankie Stein 💚⚡️❤️‍🩹

[manns-cape]

i literally forgot about my weird arc where i started reporting for al jazeera's fledgling foray into a russian al jazeera branch.

i 100% only did it because i still am bitter that my accent was too strong to be accepted in any russian university for journalism-- my ~childhood dream~ was being a news anchor. but then they were trying to get me to report like.... wild propaganda stories to terrify muslims in moscow and they couldn't even verify any of the stories they were telling me to report... so i was being phased out because i kept being like "you can find someone else to say that on camera" to almost every story. then ukraine happened and russia yeeted al jazeera out of the nation so that was that. i actually am pretty sure that they never paid me for the last month of work lmfao.

anyway just remembered it bc ~big shock~, news that six of al jazeera's reporters are known for involvement in terrorism, to the point that literally one of them was fucking involved in holding noa argamani hostage.

[chevvy-yates]

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⚠️ READ: Please do not repost/reupload any of my art here or to any other platform, or I will be forced to do anything to get it annihilated.

jumpsuit jacket by @pinkyjulien

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'Thunder and lightning Heading your way Ride the rainbow Crack the sky

Stormbringer coming Time to die' — Stormbringer by Deep Purple

In other words:

'You've been thunderstruck' —Thunderstruck by AC/DC

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Thyjs' theme playlist.

FIRST:

Yup! That's right – Thyjs is going to electrify y'all.

My original thought was that I've wanted to create a little playlist with thunder/storm/electro lyrics but then I stumbled over these songs in the list up there (first one shook me the most) and so I threw my original idea into the storm. Spending like two months on it now how to write down what I feel or see when I listen to this selection tied to Thyjs. So, here's his entire Playlist now: basically Introduction and fight theme songs as well as a calm one — like I did with V before but different.

Storm If I had to choose just one song for him, this one would be it. This awesome instrumental song is the ultimate standalone theme song for Thyjs. Like his goddamn introduction in a movie appearance. When I listened to it for the first time it just struck me like one of his lightning strikes. It is the only song that can be tied to the cyberpunk music genre since every song in the list is more classical soundtrack-ish (he needs that epicness. He's a godverdomme soldier). Back to the song: It sounds tempting right from the start with that beat giving you an overall Cyberpunk feeling at first, making you somehow feel alarmed because of the electronic sound. The air around you may feel electrified and you know something is coming. Then suddenly there is that melodic part setting in with those classical elements that literally screams 'Thyjs' to me. When I look at him I see; He's beauty, he is grace — but coming as an all through soldier package. No one would probably expect it but Thyjs does love to listen to classical music (piano, violin/cello and entire orchestra) of various known artists as well that is why it brought me on the way to look for songs like these in the list. It calms him down, especially after a long and hard mission. To me he feels unapproachable, like he's not from this world at all, yet he is. Wherever he goes in uniform or military gear, people will look at him with a certain respect. You're immediately drawn into admiring him because you probably ain't seen such a pale soldier like him ever before. He can make you feel like time stopped only to let you know with a loud thundering bang that everything you see is real and time is still running. That is when that part that sounds electrifying somewhere near the middle of that song, starts right out of nowhere. Sir! I'm so sold to it right now. I have to admit, the song is fairly long at 7 min, yet I recommend listening to it completely but the important parts really are the start and the middle.

Into the Storm is literally Thyjs getting ready for the battle that lies before him. Ride right into the storm, full force. It is like he can feel a storm is coming, with the storm being the enemies. You gotta know, Thyjs is a soldier to the bone. He devoted his entire life to it, trained as soon as he was old enough for it, to serve his country and Benelux Union. He's heroic in his own way. And that song does him justice.

I'm Electro A short song that strikes you after just a few seconds — the hard way. It represents that you gotta show some respect towards him if you do not behave correctly. He'll immediately put you back into your place where you belong, using his voice and electro shock (if you dare to enter his comfort zone) — like AC/CD would say: in the 'You've been thunderstruck' way (it's in fact exactly what happened to Ryder meeting Thyjs for the first time). Thyjs is capable of making use of electricity that is fed into his left arm, therefore also the glowing (Hanako) cyberware. The brighter it glows the more electricity Thyjs has to make use of. He already knew very early he was kind of immune to electricity after he grabbed an electrified fence feeling literally nothing. Once he lost his left forearm during a heavy battle with drones he decided to get himself some limb replacement that could make use of electricity since he literally survived a lightning strike as well on the battlefield during a thunderstorm, but more of that I'll keep for another time. That battle also gave him his nickname 'Storm', which he also uses as a code name. He can power up from any source that is running with electricity — Night City is full of it. He will give Arki and Ryder a boost if they need some as well. Ry gets himself Shock-n-Awe installed after having met his future lover for the first time. Thyjs even suggested the team to wear mods in their clothing gear if they do not want additional cyberware to their body because lightning can't be really controlled. It will always spread over to the next best source.

Storm Another Storm song (I wanted to decide for one of them but they are both so awesome I have to include them both). This one here seems to be a re-interpretation of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" and this song hits differently: Thyjs has Sandevistan — the Militech 'Apogee' Sandevistan Mk. V of course. So he's fast. Like lightning. The fast stringed instruments represent his fast acting and when that thunder sets in right at the start he vanishes into air. The only time you'll see him is before he starts and when he ends it, with the ladder it is already too late for you. The highlights in the song can stand for that if you are able to watch him in action you will be seeing him in between, avoiding incoming their enemies that are fast as well, sometimes he may even look gracefully, appearing for a moment, time pausing for max 3 seconds until he vanishes again just to reappear in a different place again, slaying his enemies one after another. You can hear exactly 3x a loud bang in that song around 2 min in — this is him starting with Sandevistan going for the enemy, then disappears, leaving only electricity behind, and lastly he shows up again, right in front of you with his Constitutional Arms M2038 Tactician 'The Headsman' Power Shotgun –BANG– three enemies on the ground, limbs missing, or even their heads exploded. He's able to load his shotgun within his used Sandevistan time but he often makes use of his toxic knife as well dealing severe damage to the enemy who will die because of poison going into their bloodstream.

Tempest It's like that epic battle song everyone likes and may even get goosebumps from. It is fast paced, tearing forward, to set one strike after another. See it as the last boss battle. The final big one. Before everything is finally done. Battle won, for Thyjs and his squad (when he was still serving) or the team he joins shortly after the incident out in the badlands that led to his whole squad being blown up and him being the only survivor. If you can't imagine Thyjs' fight style in some epic battle try imagine a combination of playing battlefield V and e.g. watching Final Fantasy Kings Glaive. Thyjs moves similar like Nyx Ulric, the warps with the weapons I mean, only he does not warp, he's just super fast with his Sandevistan but also leaving lightning behind.

Van Gogh's White Roses Calm moments incoming. Thyjs loves to play piano. The pretty tunes calm him down as he plays them, or even just listens to them. It is his way to chill and he could do it all day long appreciating the calm moments of his live thrice as much because as a soldier he is mostly on high alert (even if it doesn't look like it) and always prepared that every day could be his last. So better especially appreciate the little things in live and things that he loves: music, art, flowers and his new gained friends and most of all; time with his love: Ryder. The moment I decided Thyjs is Dutch was when I added the ears cyberware to him. Idk I just got reminded of Van Gogh in that moment. So Thyjs went to be Dutch, he loves Impressionism and is ofc an admirer of Van Gogh's art (I might do an extra post for that as well some time why I made Thyjs like Van Gogh).

[your--isgayrights]

Oh this is also an interesting thing about the Hanja in ORV Characters' names. 劉 gets simplified to 刘 on the mainland to approximate the meaning art "文" of the knife"刂"。 This shows it's meaning of slaughtering/killing. But to break down the traditional form Korean uses as hanja, you have the 4th earthly branch of daybreak/dawn 卯 (like on old Chinese clock it is rabbit hour, ~5-7am), metal/gold 金, and knife again.

This is pretty interesting bc like 卯's pictographic origin is an animal/sacrifice being split in two/ cut down the middle so 劉 kind of looks like metal falling through and cutting an animal in half and then knife, so yeah literally slaughter. But also 金 is the Hanja for family name 김... So in that context Yoo Joonghyuk's name has Kim Dokja's surname inside of it being used to slaughter an animal... So the idea that on the whole Yoo Joonghyuk is this weapon, this fierce killer, but that he is in some ways also an animal of slaughter, a sacrifice to sustain KDJ... Kinda cool if intentional.

+ I've talked about previously that the role of YSA is also one where she is grappling with an archetype of Supporting character that lacks agency over plot despite knowledge of it, which she is only able to break free from in the epilogues... It's interesting then to see Yoo as implying a supporting role/ as a sacrifice to the main character's story...

[sovamurka]

Foreign bookwizard team from "Exlibrium. Paper planes" short story, my beloved <3

[bubblegum-gf]

I'm being cringe but free again with more rtumblr songs. this one's don't tell your wife about this game by bdg but it's don't tell rt about tumblr

lyrics under cut

Don’t tell rt about tumblr We can do anything on tumblr No “Rt, look what tumblr did, you should join now!” He’s blissfully unaware

There are times, when you need to connect with a fandom And it’s best the Youtuber doesn’t know There are memes, that RT, well he won’t understand them So I guess it’s better blogging your post

And the fics are so good to write And the artwork all looks so nice You don’t even abhor the bewildering lore Filling up your dashboard tonight

And it’ll remind you of all the streams From Rtgame that you’ve seen But that stream’s not live He’s taking some time for two weeks And you’re still online

Don’t tell rt about tumblr We can do anything on tumblr No “Rt, look what tumblr did, you should join now!” He’s blissfully unaware

Your knowledge grows with every blog that you scroll Who are not RT though, I swear And the Board intimidates, its presence so long And then when Daniel’s back to streaming you’re hesitant to be leaving From a fandom so beyond compare You would never guess that everything would go wrong

Because when we onceler’d dan, we didn’t think of an emergency plan “Who is the onceler, really,” that Earth-shaking tweet Really kicked up the dust And it’d be a damning transformation if Dan was here among us (That’s sus) Cuz when he’s immersed in the cursed beast of rtumblr will he be mad? (That’s sus) If he knew he’s made into a fictional divorced and deadbeat bad dad Though he’s refused to look our way it always sounds like a taunt Says our name even more with each day, I can’t even watch! And our skeletons were very nearly unearthed in a random Smash Bros Brawl!

(Don’t tell rt about tumblr…) (Don’t tell rt about tumblr…) (Don’t tell rt about tumblr…) Cuz it’ll just make us worse

[arkify]

something compelled me to draw this

[dreemurr-skelememer]

the only thing that makes me stay on twitter is when a non-english speaking artist sees me rave about their art (like a diseased rat) and they go "Thank you!! I have always loved your art too 🥰" and i go

[piosplayhouse]

FILIPINO DISAPORA:

I'm curious and also filling out applications 🐎

[fridgedeeznuts]

relativity fa/lls x over the gar/den wall has me in a death grip, just tweak it a lil bit to match the charas a lil more n u'll see *shakes fist*

[sailorspica]

learning and growing is awesome but do not judge ur past self for not knowing