#sdk art

[54prowl]

天才。

[roboraindrop]

I was having a bad body image day today... But Fenn is always here to remind me that I'm attractive to him no matter what 🥰🥰

[solluxdyke]

recent junk <3

[iknowicanbutwhy]

Say hello to my specialest little boy. My very own fucked up little meow meow Sig. I purchased him from the Littlest Pet Shop on Hell avenue just off of AO3 street and the manager @teaspoonofdragons sent him off with love and a damnable wink. I did not know what he would evolve into. Much like my numemon, borne of accident, I will cherish him until his inevitable and complete psychological annihilation.

[intertexts-moving]

that one fucking. victorious set photo.

[stardustedknuckles]

Sorry but it is so funny to see people completely not know how muscles work on a person who has been chilling for six months (with a workout room and more opportunities for reliable square meals than she's ever seen). They don't just fucking vanish unless you've gotten malnourished, my god. You can point out how the canon art really hasn't changed that much and that's true. Fandom has been out here beefing our barbarian pretty much the whole time. But don't tell me she got smaller and then say it's because she's healing or whatever. It would take years of not doing anything at all and not eating right for her to get smaller. Are you kidding me. You guys really gotta quit with the "waifish housewife = healing" thing. You sound tradwife as fuck and two seconds from r*dfem rhetoric. If she's not very big she's always been not very big, a point that many folks reasonably refute for many reasons and have since the start. "well the art isn't any different than it has been so I don't get why -" pick one. You don't get both sides. Either she got smaller because she's healing (wrong) or the art has stayed consistent (mostly true). Get out of here with how she's smaller because it's been six months and she's healing. Why are you so pressed about a woman headcanoned the entire time as big as a barn finding fulfillment in peace with all of her scars and her muscles. It's the people who have been enthusiastic about her being big this whole time who baffle me. Falling over themselves to explain her not being big in the art as though the canon art has ever mattered. She's pretty much never been big, or at least not broad. That's been us the whole time. There is no reason to scramble to make up stuff about how a body works. This push and pull between canon and fandom has been here the entire time. She is still big in my heart, AND she's the same woman we saw in the reunion.

[maestrafenix]

It is again that time, where we look at the things done on this year.

2022 was very busy for me in real life, but I was able to do things in the end.

As usual, first goes my work on Obsidian Conflict. Most of the work has gone to programming, but also did a fair share of work on maps, textures, models, animation and even some slight sound edition. While this year we couldn't begin the closed beta, sure the next year we will!

Then in February, I entered "The Layout" map compo from Map Labs, with my Nal Sidian entry, an homage to A Place In The West.

While ultimately it didn't make it to the top, and ended being only 60% completed, people liked controlling a Vortigaunt and using beam attacks.

In June, I published on the Black Mesa Workshop, a "Pre-release Bullsquid" model recreation: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2828455720

Made with the SDK 2007 mesh, the 2006 leak eye meshes, and the uncompressed textures from the portfolio of the original artist, with also several fixes and tweaks, and even a retexture for the gibs.

I always liked this one over the retail version.

While it wasn't made on this year, my map done for Jabroni Brawl 3, Datacube, was released together with the mod.

To the surprise of everybody, it ended being a very popular map, due to the verticality and ease of movement (and being played in full servers, when it was originally intended for no more than 10 players).

Later down this year, I did for OC a new Mortarsynth NPC, but I released it for everybody as well: https://github.com/MaestroFenix/new_mortarsynth

It has so many improvements, and was done fully from scratch without leaked code, that it would have been egoistic to keep it all for ourselves only:

Well, and that's pretty much the most "relevant" stuff. I also helped other mods and projects around, but there's not much to talk about, or straight up can't talk about them yet, but well, this is how life goes.

2022 ended being thankfully different from 2021 and 2020, and I hope that in 2023, things turn well for all of my friends and loved ones.

[notimeliketoday]

New Kamijyo SDK art in honor of the Lunar eclipse last night.

[draafty]

yk what fuck you

*matt walshes your donut witch*

[orteil42]

i don't trust software that makes it a point to mention it was made with itself. "all the graphics in our art program were produced with the art program" "98% of our SDK's interface was programmed in the SDK itself" something unholy about that. you don't see me birthing myself

[54prowl]

wonder

twt | ig | ko-fi | mermay

[sweet-s0rr0w]

Light some candles, run a bath, and get yourself in the mood for some top quality smut, as I present... a follow up to last year's collaborative Drarry sex scene reclist! This is an all new selection of some absolutely scorching favourite smutty scenes and fics picked by an (almost) all new cast of Drarry writers, artists, reccers and fans!!!! A huge thank you to my fabulous contributors @babooshkart, @caroll-in, @citrusses, @crazybutgood, @danpuff-ao3, @emmalovesdilemmas, @epitomereally, @geesenoises, @getawayfox, @ghaniblue, @kbrick, @lettersbyelise, @makeitp1nk, maesterchill, @moonflower-rose, @mxlfoydraco, oknowkiss, @rockingrobin69, @sitp-recs, @softlystarstruck, sorrybutblog, tackytigerfic, wolfpants and @xanthippe74 (and me!)

Please mind the tags and practice DLDR as unsurprisingly these fics feature a wide variety of kinks and some are dub/non-con. Don’t forget to leave kudos!

All Drarry unless a poly ship specified!

Under 10k

🪢505 (my hands between your thighs) by @veelawings (E, 429)

🧠A Ghost of Blissful Feelings by @alpha-exodus (E, 6.2k)

💪Arms and Elbows by @sorrybutblog (E, 2.9k)

➰️Blush by @cheekytorah (E, 2.6k)

🍸Born Slippy by @dracoladon (E, 8.1k)

👠Cinderella's Return by @toxik-angel (E, 7.1k, sequel to Draco's Cinderella Moment)

❄Chrysalis by @piarelei (E, 3.6k)

🧃The Den of So-Called Iniquity by snegurochka (E, 4k)

🌳Discipline Is the Key to Success by @drarryruinedme7 (E, 7.4k, D/H/Neville)

🧼Don't Think Twice by firethesound (E, 8.5k)

🎂Draco at Nineteen by birdsofshore (E, 5.1k)

🍷Good Enough to Eat by @p1013 (M, 2.8k)

⌛The Great British Wank-Off by p1013 (E, 6.3k)

👊Knuckles by@shealwaysreads (E, 3.5k)

💒The Last Star Falling by @tackytigerfic (M, 1.4k)

🍎Love has left a printed trace by @maesterchill (M, 1.1k, sequel to The Odd Couple)

📏Matched Set by astolat (E, 5.8k)

🧹of course i cum fast, i've got a snitch to catch by@swoontodeath (E, 7.6k)

🥃One of Those Nights by @l0vegl0wsinthedark (E, 7.7k)

🍒The Recondite Art of Dating Draco Malfoy by @cibeewastaken (E, 3.7k)

🌲Room To Spare by @bixgirl1 (E, 5.2k)

🏅sending my love all over you by @cavendishbutterfly (E, 4.9k)

🎁Too Busy Being Yours To Fall by @6balls (E, 7k)

🐈‍⬛️Unbuttoned by eidheann (E, 6.1k)

10-20k

🐺A Perfect Fit by nothing_left_sacred (E, 18k)

🔥Come Up for Air by @shiftylinguini (E, 13k)

🍆Endowment by @dictacontrion (E, 11k)

🧥Haute Allure by @lol-zeitgeistic (E, 12k)

✨Merlin's Kitchen by @writcraft (E, 12k)

🍻Party of Two by fireflavored (E, 14k)

🤫Unpin That Spangled Breastplate by tackytigerfic (E, 18k)

✉️Yours Truly by @skeptiquex (M, 15k)

20-50k

💦Come For Me by Frayach (E, 25k)

🥭Eager for the Sky by oknowkiss (M, 35k) chapter 5

🚦For a Given Value of Normal by chickenlivesinpumpkin (E, 23k)

⛷️Historians by @oknowkiss (E, 30k)

🐍In The Company Of Serpents by @corvuscrowned (E, 25k)

🧪Keep your hands on me by @tenthousandyearsx (E, 21k)

🕺let me see you stripped (down to the bone) by lqtraintracks (E, 24k)

🖋Let's Go Outside by cryptonym (E, 24k)

🐢Lusimeles by spqr (E, 23k)

🎩Romp and Circumstance by @wolfpants (E, 35k) chapter 3, chapter 7

🍫Save My Wonders by sdk (E, 21k)

🍑The Shape of Desire is Your Name by dracoismytrashson (E, 45k) chapter 5

🪙Touch Me Fall by @lqtraintracks (E, 23k) the first sex scene, against the window

🕵‍♂️The Unspeakable by @the-sinking-ship (E, 24k)

50k+

🐉Chasing Dragons by the-sinking-ship (E, 99k) chapter 7

🧚‍♂️Every Me and Every You by bixgirl1 (E, 69k) chapter 4

🩺Foundations by saras_girl (E, 236k, sequel to Reparations) chapter 3, chapter 7

✨️Freedom to be by @quicksilvermaid (E, 170k) chapter 18

🐦Kept in Cages by sweet_s0rr0w (E, 77k) chapter 11

📜tissue of silver by fearlessdiva (E, 76k) the alley scene in chapter 38

[lqtraintracks]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Thank you @maesterchill @danpuff-ao3 and @nv-md for the tag! <333

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

314

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

1,295,054

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Harry Potter is the big one. I've also written some Captive Prince, Locked Tomb, and one Call Me By Your Name fic

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Right Hand Red; Hung Like a Horntail; Slip Into My Lover's Hands; Weeds or Wildflowers (written with the very talented @unmistakablyoatmeal); and check this hand 'cause I'm marvelous

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try. I'm seriously behind. The truth is, I'll never get around to replying to them all. I will someday die with a thousand unanswered comments. But I do try. And I read each and every one and they touch my heart. I'm so very grateful for all the wonderful comments I've received and continue to receive!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Oof. I hardly ever end things badly. But there was one wee ficlet; lemme go hunt it down. (*plays elevator music*) Ah, here it is: Not-Forever Is Still Forever. It's not MCD or anything. Draco just leaves for Argentina for two years. *shrug emoji* But I like to think I've gotten pretty good at baking some realistic angst into the middle of things, if not writing angty endings. I prefer it that way.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

All of them except for Burning the Ground, which is an open ending. I'll be honest, I don't like the word fluff. I'm never trying to write fluff, which, to me, denotes a level of uncomplicated sweetness. Maybe others define it differently. But I don't think happy endings are necessarily fluffy. I want my happy endings to put tears in your eyes, to move you. I want to evoke different things with different sorts of happiness for different phases of life. RHR's ending is about a feeling of freedom mostly, of getting to face the next part of their lives without dread. Take You Home has a similar vibe but with them a bit older; they've experienced the painful and mundane disappointments you have to weather in this life that have nothing to do with fighting a dark wizard and everything to do with existential questions about who we are, how we go on, what do you do when it doesn't work out, when you've changed and you don't know who you are anymore. I loved ending it with all their friends, at a march for trans rights. Heart Like Neon has an ending that makes *me* the most happy. I modeled it after an episode of Grey's Anatomy where you find out at the end of the ep that two important characters got married. The whole ep, none of their friends know, then at the end they play 'Bones' by Josh Record, and you go back in time by a few weeks and you see it. When I wrote the end of HLN, I had that song playing in my head from the end of the party at the Weasley's, to jumping three months earlier, to Harry and Draco in Paris. That's a pretty goddamned happy ending. It makes me cry. <3 (Also the art that @bluebutter-art made for it makes me bawl happy tears!!!)

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I was going to say hardly ever but then I *just* got some last week! LOL. Still, I'm very lucky that it's not even once in a blue moon. That stuff is so arbitrary too. I'm going to quote my good friend @elrhiarhodan: People... they're fuckin nuts. :D

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

LOL yes. A lot of different kinds? I want to try a little of everything as a writer.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

No. I mean, I probably have a couple times over the course of my literal decades in some fandom or other, but they're not worth noting.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yes.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes, several, and into multiple languages. I think that's so cool!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Definitely! In HP I've written with sdk, @the-starryknight and @nv-md, plus I once did a wild round robin with a big group of people. I'm not good at round robins, I've realized. Too much of a control freak.

14. What’s your all time favourite ship?

Drarry, totally. But right up there is Harry/Teddy and Harry/Teddy/Draco. Then Ginny/Pansy, Charlie/Teddy, James Sirius/Albus Severus (with Teddy too sometimes). In CaPri, I love Damen/Laurent, but @linecrosser had totally made me ship when Damen lends Laurent out to Nikandros for a threesome and also Auguste/Laurent. I also hardcore ship my own original characters from my novel. <3

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I don't do WiPs really.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Oof, this is tough. Pacing? Interpersonal relationships? Smut, for sure. LOL. I think I do well writing things that are transgressive or maybe even filthy with a lot of tenderness and compassion and deep, deep love mixed in. And I think I'm getting really good at making people cry when I want them to. Readers, that is. :D

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Convoluted plots. Can't do them. I wish I could. I can't write a mystery to save my life. I'm also pretty bad at heavy angst. I also wish I could write something nonlinear, but my brain just doesn't work that way.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

It's interesting that this is a question because it's meaningful to me not because of fic but because of my novel. I have a Spanish-speaking character, fluent in English, but sometimes he says things in Spanish. I'm very VERY lucky that @capiturecs read my novel both as a sensitivity reader for Latinx/Latine/Latino aspects but also to correct my Spanish and make it realistic and conversational! I'll be forever grateful! I also now really REALLY want to learn Spanish! <3

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Sorry, I don't share this publicly.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

Oh this is mean. This is cruel. I can't possibly answer this! RHR has got to be in there. Heart Like Neon. Blood and Fire. Phoenix in the Fire. Take You Home. Wonderful Electric (cover me in you). A Pain of Our Choosing. My Name in Your Mouth. Bloom. collarbones like a bow, skin an arrow to the heart. I'll stop there!

Okay, this was fun! I'll tag @corvuscrowned @ruinsplume @floydig @sweet-s0rr0w @lettersbyelise @magpiefngrl @skeptiquewrites and Elr! <3

[piquuroblox]

i llvove. love your art. so much. it actually Kills Me you make the BEST depictions of the toonz i am. goes absolutely batshit insane SDK d kmjJSH g HNF

HELP? THANK YOU SO MUCH????????? ​i never really thought i was good at like.. Understanding or reading characters very welll.. .. So most of what i draw is usually headcanon heaven but i Do try my best to keep them as in character as i can so HOORAY!!!!!

[aus-from-undertale]

Deltasavior

This is a deltarune story going after the end of chapter 2 !!!!

It's really fun to see everyone's takes on chapter 3 while we wait to come out haha

Also, the art style is pretty nice💛💛💛

Comic:

If you like this au, you can find more about it on @deltasaviorthemaker account!

If you want to read more stuff, check out my Deltarune aus list!

[monsterblogging]

Having gathered up as much information on the original PR2 as possible (quotes, concept art, etc), I'm going through the PRU novel and trying to see if I can find anything that may have survived from a pre-SDK draft and seeing what I can piece together.

First I gotta say, knowing that the role Mako Mori played was originally going to be filled by Herc Hansen explains a lot. You'd fully expect an old ranger like Herc to have doubts about a new form of Jaeger tech. Also, it explains why that part of the story took place in Sydney, in particular.

It's also becoming very evident that Liwen Shao was developed from the original techbro-getting-his-inventions-from-the-Precursors antagonist, but for some reason they decided on PLOT TWIST it's not the corporate tech person in contact with the Precursors, it's Newt!

Also, everything I'm seeing about Liwen Shao's personality and background so far would make a lot of sense for a character initially imagined as a kind of foil or evil counterpart to Newt - a child genius with a PhD at seventeen, skyrocketing to success in the corporate world, breaking into the Jaeger scene - yeah.

It's also becoming clear that a lot of the story was originally intended to take place in San Francisco, but at some point it was replaced with other locations, including Santa Monica. (The Jaeger junkyard Jake breaks into at the beginning was very obviously meant to be Oblivion Bay, since he's specifically stealing parts from Romeo Blue.)

I also believe that Amara was originally intended to have lost her parents on K-Day (August 10, 2013). The original PR2 was only meant to be set a few years later, rather than a whole decade. If Amara was five years old on K-Day, she'd have been about twenty years old in PR2's story, which would have been a reasonable age for joining the PPDC. It would also be a fitting age for a character played by Maisie Williams, whom del Toro wanted to cast as a young Jaeger pilot.