#some days are hell

[sga-owns-my-soul]

being at work alone for over 6 hours sucks but when it's dead and there's no orders or customers it means i can just read fanfiction all day and i get paid for it

sometimes i think i have the best job ever

[euesworld]

"I like you the most when you are sweet to me, though I love you all the time.."

Some days are hell, but I stick by your side - eUë

[kendyroy]

Seeing Logan in the TVA makes me laugh so hard for some reason? Like I know he’s lived to see technology evolve and stuff, but there’s something so funny about a guy from the 1800s standing in some kind of retro-futuristic timey wimey agency to me. Man is confused as hell.

like what da hell is a polar bear doin in arlington texas

[liatorii]

PvP enabled? On my website?

[spielzeugkaiser]

Being on the nostalgia train this week really helped stretching my artistic legs again. So here, have some old things and some new! For now I'm done with this.

[asteraws]

my clown college grad project from december last year 🎪

[oddthesungod]

got over my initial knee jerk reaction so canon braius sketch just to feel out his design in my style, and ngl i see the vision mr riegel

[an-established-butt-dent]

One more piece titled 'going wild in procreate fueled by Solavellan angst'

I need Dreadwolf teasers like I need air

[biorust-art]

"Leave Him-- He's Dead."

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[Image Description: A comic featuring Ashton Greymoore's fall from Critical Role. The comic has three panels. The first is a low perspective looking up at a leering tower, the two moons are shining, Catha is in a crescent and the city of Jrusar sleeps at the edges. The windows to Hexum's manor are red, and from the top window of the tower, Ashton falls along with shards of sparkling glass. The second panel is of Ashton, laying on their back with their head turned to the side. Half of their face has been crushed and crumbled into pebbles. Blood seeps all around them and shards of amethyst crystal sit in the foreground. Ashton's remaining eye glows red. The final panel is an areal view. Ashton lays with red all around him and two members of the Nobodies shirk away from their body. The shattered glass all around Ashton looks like a crescent moon. End ID]

[corpsentry]

a glass sun 1/2

[kroosluvr]

royal trio

[gemsalive]

re: that HEFTY siffrin sweep on id5’s isat favourite blorbos poll — this might sound silly but i do actually think it’s kinda fascinating that isat, as a game so inseparably steeped in (for lack of a better way to describe it) queer fandom culture, managed to so completely sidestep the common Fandom Phenomenon that i suspect was behind the poll in the first place by creating a main character that is also overwhelmingly the fan favourite character for once.

obviously there are any number of factors we could point at to explain the extent to which siffrin nomiddlenames nolastnames manages to grab people and absolutely not let go, but personally i think one of the most interesting ones to consider is the one specific to the medium — that is, how siffrin subverts the “silent blank slate video game protagonist” archetype in such a way that happens to be primo brainrot breeding grounds.

like, when a video game dev makes a silent protagonist it’s usually a bid to maximize immersion by closing the aesthetic distance between player and character as much as possible, right? which is especially true of rpg video games — players find connection in the generic, as that is what gives you the freedom of motion to insert yourself into the story in whatever unique shape suits you best. you are your character and your character is you.

(as ever, post ran long. yall know the drill. tossin in a quick header pic before thoughts on blank slates & blorboification continue under the cut)

and then you’ve got siffrin, who is expressly pointed out to be the taciturn type; who when initially giving the player exposition about their journey so far doesn’t seem to hint at a life or history or even really any motivations outside the journey; whose every thought and action is narrated in second person so as to keep tracing and re-tracing the connection between him and you.

even their design — all darkless and shapeless, bundled up in that big cloak, as if an invitation for you to fill it in with whatever lets you relate to them most! at this point they are their own character for sure, but they also have enough very clear parallels going on with the silent protagonist archetype to feel more than accidental.

of course, as you keep playing you start to recognize that his blankness is much, much more than just a grab at immersion; his apparent lack of backstory, itself a fundamental piece of backstory. this is where he flips dramatically in the player’s perception from “generic vessel for story delivery” to “thoroughly multidimensional character trapped within endless torment nexus custom-built to target and exacerbate all his very specific worst traits rooted in very specific traumas”.

yknow, the good stuff !

but by then you have also been playing enough to be feeling the effects of the thing isat’s design does best of all. i’m talkin bout that ludonarrative lockstep baby. every piece of isat’s gameplay is designed to make you feel what siffrin is feeling — you understand by now that he is not a stand-in for you, but all the same you share in his frustration, his grief, his rare moments of joy and the subsequent heart-in-your-shoes devastation when that joy is inevitably poisoned — and through it all, the desperate grasping for anything new — all as if they were every bit your own.

so in this way the connection is maintained, even if you were someone for whom siffrin’s particular traits & struggles might not otherwise cause you relate to them at all if you had encountered them elsewhere, in a setting where you weren’t actively controlling them as a player. siffrin still gets to carry all the “just like me fr” impact of the blank slate protagonist in the tropes he embodies and in the game mechanics’ design, while totally free to evolve completely into his own character and keep you relating to closely them all the same. now toss back in the fact that said traits & struggles very much ARE of a flavour that a great many people Would Tend To Relate To and just like that you’ve got a perfect storm cookin.

too individual and compellingly written to be an empty vessel for plot delivery. too closely connected with the player’s emotional state to be a story observed impassively from the outside. he has 92 mental illnesses and for the low low price of free u can give him yours to carry too. nobody is doin it like him. congratulations on your well-deserved nose sniffrin nomiddlenames nolastnames <3

[euesworld]

"Some days I wake up and I wonder why I exist, but I always remember why when I start thinking about you.. you are the best reason to wake up in the morning. I don't know what I would do without you.."

Oh, oh, oh and that first cup of coffee.. I'd miss that too - eUë

[clownsuu]

Ngl, I got a headcanon that Howdy has a cooking hobby that he keeps a secret cause he knows if anyone knew he can cook he’d be bombarded with requests- making his life hell and more hectic than it already is MDHDHDDHUD-

(however on rare occasions he will make a meal with/for someone he truly likes/cares about smh, it’s a love language for him)

[lilybug-02]

Wow. That could not have turned out worse.

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This comic will be on Holiday Hiatus this December and January! While on a cliffhanger? What a scam! >:/

[kagooleo]

even the biggest beasts need a little love and care when they've evolved (watch your head!)