#sprited this a month ago and forgot about it

[carlyraejepsans]

everyone shut the FUCK up and look at Him!!! ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓

see. him face.

(ps check the full post there's.more)

[optimus-rhyme]

YES 👍

[triglycercule]

who made the mtt. and no i dont mean like who made the CONCEPT of the murder time trio (because i know who that is. touken kamui i thank you for the fangame every day :3) but like,,,, who decided to just randomly pair these 3 together?? like whaaaat.......

part of me wants to believe it was rahafwabas with the whole bad sanses group thingy being made with those 3 in there and then like. the fangame just gave them specifically a seperate group name. but STILL,,,,, where did this trio come from

[eraserbitz]

(palettes: here & here + transparency)

Here's DE pixels I finished months ago and basically forgot to post… until now!!!

The first set was made for a weekly challenge on Pixel Joint, the prompt being to depict sprites of a character aging through time. Based on the events of the book set after the game (and the choice to roleplay a doomcrier in DE), this is sort of where my mind went. Looking back it just doesn't feel very kind to him though

And of course after finishing a set based on Harry I thought about making one for Kim (and the interpretation that he develops a visual impairment that requires a cane as he grows older), which resulted in the second set.

The stats underneath the portraits didn't have much thought put into them at the time (note: sleep deprivation), which is why you get the hysterical implication that as Harry ages, he becomes Unstoppable (I also just don't feel like fixing any of it at this point). For Kim as far as I know the developers wrote him with a single point in Motorics as a base stat (probably supplemented with clothing and thoughts) in mind but here it's 2 just because. And for the babies they have the lowest possible number for base stats, which is 1 (self-explanatory I hope)

[quibbs126]

I’ve just been drawing this today because I’m bored

I don’t think I can have free days anymore, because I end up feeling brain dead during them and can’t work on the schoolwork I know I need to do, and by the end of the day I feel guilty about wasting the day despite literally not being able to do anything actually productive

But anyways, this. I mentioned Fantasy Life earlier today, and I have a save file where put Ceres from Evoland 2 in Fantasy Life. I actually originally made this save file some months ago, but I never really played it, leaving it once I found the first save point I could

I only realize now this is like that time I put Descole into Stardew Valley. Hm

I still haven’t gotten much of anywhere in the game, I only just started the Carpenter story. And to be honest, I’m not sure I want to continue because I kind of just want my own character in Fantasy Life, but also I don’t know how to make that. So maybe I’ll just continue with Ceres and see where it goes, or I’ll just delete it

But out of boredom, I wanted to draw her from the game regardless

So the design here is what she looks like in the game, or as close as I made it. For various reasons, including the fact that I can’t add horns or non-human skin tones to my character, or have bicolor hair, I made some changes. Her hair probably also isn’t the most accurate hair I could have given her to her original, but I think it looks good on her

Also as you may notice, I don’t entirely know how I should draw her, whether I should be closer to the game or my style

I’m debating whether in my drawings I should stick to the Fantasy Life skin tone or give her the blue she canonically has. I flip flop on which I prefer

I only realized when I was looking at my other Evoland 2 art how wildly different this color palette is, and it’s probably significantly brighter. I mean for this I was eyeballing the colors from my 3DS’s screen, while I color pick from the Evoland 2 sprites, so maybe that’s a factor

Edit: I am now seeing it on a computer screen, and it looks even more different. Like that hair straight up just looks blue, I can't see any purple

But yeah, I really didn’t know what Life to give her when I made her, I just picked Carpenter because I haven’t done that one in a while. Maybe Alchemist would have been best, but I really don’t know. It doesn’t help that Ceres doesn’t have much of a personality I can make a decision based on. Though in all fairness, I’m not entirely sure what I’d make the other characters either

I’d say Fina either Woodcutter or Hunter, Menos probably a Paladin? (Just not for Castele specifically) Kuro I’d say Mercenary or potentially Alchemist works (though in terms of weapons Menos and Kuro should probably switch), and for Velvet I don’t really know, maybe Miner, Alchemist or even Magician? I don’t know, as far as I can remember, nothing fits cleanly with “archaeologist”

But anyways, maybe if I continue with this, I can basically make up my own personality for Ceres, so I should continue, but I don’t know if I’m motivated enough to do so. We’ll see. Take this in the meantime I suppose. It isn’t much of anything, but it is a thing

Oh also one more thing I forgot but can’t fit elsewhere: I think the storyline idea for Ceres here is that she ended up here post-Evoland 2, but she doesn’t really remember getting here at all, thinking she’s just been in Castele her whole life, until she starts slowly realizing things don’t add up. She isn’t from this game though, especially since I don’t think demons exist to explain why she’s blue

[just-horrible-things]

‘Verse: Resistance AU: Healer and Handler, co-author @whump-sprite

Who [ First | Prev ]

The overnight footage from Alex’s cell – and the whole block – has been deleted.

“System update fucked up the datetime on the cameras,��� Peterson claims. “The rolling store got cleared early. Nothing I can do.”

It's absolute bullshit of course. Nowhere else in the facility was affected. But Peterson isn’t budging, and if the footage is somehow hidden rather than deleted outright, Ari doesn’t have the tech know how to find it.

She files an incident report for misuse of electronic resources. But unless Peterson's pulled this shit before she knows he won't get more than a slap on the wrist. Even if they don't swallow his “system update” story, he’ll say it was just a fuck-up and they’ll believe that.

She only has three suspects. She can't imagine any of those creeps putting a stooge up to it – there’s no way they’d miss out on the personal satisfaction.

So Ari spends about an hour – in between monitoring the live feeds and answering calls – trawling the recording from the closest untouched cameras, taking note of who enters and leaves the dead zone and when. Going by the blood on the floor this morning, the incident probably happened earlier in the night rather than later, but that’s not a lot to narrow it down by.

Unfortunately it turns out Frazier and Henson were both working last night. It shouldn’t be surprising, they probably talked each other into this petty little show of spite. Ari’s reminded of the time Riven spent a month stealing the ink out of one of the printers just to get under that one analyst’s skin.

She files another report, this one against Frazier. He's not supposed to have access to the healers anymore. But this isn't the first time she’s reported the same damn thing. They'll revoke his clearance, again, and in a few weeks he'll find another excuse to get someone to reinstate it. Probably Peterson again, the little rat bastard.

Probably not Peterson, she doesn't actually think he has that authority. It's just easy to be angry at his stupid smarmy face right now.

Frazier or Henson. 50-50 odds, but if she confronts the wrong one, she’ll look like an idiot. Better to be sure.

She might be able to get the answer out of Riven, he does like to run his mouth. But not today, because Frazier and Henson will still be asleep at home and they probably won’t have filled Riven in on their little ”prank” yet.

Back to Plan A, then.

She takes the time to pick up a plate of cafeteria food for Alex's afternoon meal. It'll be lukewarm by the time she gets it down to the cells, but it’s still better than his usual fare.

She hears the healer jump at the sound of the door. Sounds like he knocked a knee or elbow against the wall or floor. Hopefully not his head. He’s scrambling to get on his knees as she lets herself in.

He’d gotten less scared about that. Ariadne’s never punished him for being slow to get up, or even for skipping the formalities. But it’s no surprise he’s more hasty again with fresh stripes as a painful reminder of proper discipline.

Even though it wasn’t discipline.

“Easy,” she greets him, “it’s just your dinner.” She’s pleased to see his eyes widen with anticipation as he sees what she has for him. He’s not so miserable that he can’t be happy about a decent meal.

He reaches for his hot water first, like always. If she can convince them to change one thing about standard protocol it should be that – or turning the thermostat for the cells up. More heat getting into the healers, one way or another.

She forgot to pick up his sweater from the corner of his cell this morning. She was going to get rid of it, but Alex has struggled back into it despite the dried blood and the rents in the back and despite how much it must have pulled his back getting it on. Ariadne ought to take it off him – it’s going to start stinking soon – but she can’t quite bring herself to. Not while he’s eating.

It was only a couple of months ago she had to hold every bite to his mouth. He’d twitch at everything she said, and he could barely get a flicker of magic out without flinching and choking on fear. He’s doing so well for her. All it took was a bit of a gentler touch.

“I need to know which of them came in here and whipped you.” Terror is immediately stark in his eyes. “I won’t tell them you told me. I’ll tell them I got it out of security, okay? But I need to know. So that I can keep it from happening again.”

He doesn’t trust her. She sees it in his eyes. He doesn’t believe she has any interest in stopping them. Frustration itches, but she pushes it down. It’s a lot more to ask of him than trusting her to let him shower without raping him. He’s still doing well.

“This isn’t negotiable,” she prompts. It only takes the faintest hint of steel to make him flinch. “I’m s-s-sorry –” “I know. I’m not mad – not at you. But I need to know.”

He shrinks in on himself. Patience, Ari cautions herself. Her steady attention and expectation is enough. He’s just scared.

“N-Neil,” he whispers eventually. “I-I mean, F-Frazier, sir.” “Okay,” Ariadne agrees levelly, “Good. Well done.”

She makes herself take a deep breath and turn away from Alex so that he knows it’s not directed at him before she lets herself exhale anger.

“Jealous fucking creep. What a petty, insecure dipshit of a guy.” Alex looks shocked. But there’s something else too, something that could be appreciation or even humour just about edging out the fear. “I’d kick his teeth in if I had the chance,” Ariadne confides with a hint of a hard, conspiratorial smirk. Alex almost, almost smiles back. “I’d…” he starts, but he doesn’t finish the thought.

Ari grins at him anyway, just for a second before she turns serious again. “I will not be telling him that you told me,” she promises, “so don’t you go fessing up, okay? They don’t record audio from these cells, so it’s between you and me.”

The healer looks nervous, but he nods his head. “Okay, sir.”

She’s about to leave him when she remembers about the sweater. It's probably unsalvageable, but…

She crouches beside him and takes the hem to get a better look. As she thought, the blood’s the least of the damage. The fabric is practically shredded, not worth mending even if she was inclined to, which she isn't. Darning a healer's clothes would be ridiculous.

“I’m – sorry sir.” Alex’s voice is suddenly choked, giving away the tears in his eyes. “I – I didn’t have time t-to take it off…” “Hey. It’s okay.” “I would’ve – I d-didn’t want to ruin it but he didn’t –” “It’s not your fault. Hey, listen to me. I’ll get you a new one. It’s no big deal.” His throat bobs as he tries to swallow his tears. “Thank you, sir,” he manages. “I’ll get you a new one,” Ari repeats. “It’s okay.”

She can’t even pat his shoulder. Fucking dipshit Neil. She pats the healer's head instead. His curls are starting to grow in again. He sniffs, and wipes his nose on the back of his hand.

When she leaves, Ari’s careful to close the door softly. She changes the code on the lock again. Frazier’s clearly getting his buddies in security to sort it for him, but it’ll slow him down. It’s an obstacle in his way. And if he’s going to be fucking petty, two can play at that game.

Finding Frazier's shift pattern is a little more work than finding Henson’s. He's on nights all week, so Ariadne could catch him tonight by staying late. She doesn't much feel like rising to the bait though, not when she has nothing to use against him and it'd only be giving him the opportunity to gloat.

Before she goes home, she spends another while crawling the security feeds, trying to figure out the options that she doesn't usually have any reason to use.

If she knew how to have the cell footage make a second copy of itself or something, somewhere those assholes couldn't wipe it… but it would probably be an infosec breach if she did.

She'll find something. Frazier clearly doesn't realize what thin ice he's on after the last round of allegations. He doesn't get to mess with Ari's healer.

[avas-wonderland]

This is a bit old but uhm i made a sprite of Sasha a few months ago and completely forgot about it 😭

WHAT RHE HECK THABK YOU!!!

This is so pretty!!

You even made the hair all poofy and AUGH it’s so cute

[gaykarstaagforever]

Last-minute Summer Game Fest predictions:

Todd Howard will talk about how great the Fallout TV show is, to distract us from the fact that he hasn't made a good game without DOOM in the title in a decade.

Sony will remind us that the PS5 still exists, and has lots of games for it! ...Technically. If you squint.

Square will announce further unnecessary remakes of old Final Fantasy stuff, because they realize that anyone who knows those games is 40 now and doesn't game anymore, so why write new stories when you can just remake old ones for 19 year olds who don't recognize them? Plus then you don't have to pay any writers!

Ubisoft will announce a new That One Ubisoft Game, with a giant empty open-world that you have to pay them an additional $3 an hour to play, and everyone will immediately hate it and hate them. But they don't care what YOU think, because they make most of their money from shovelware now. You're lucky they even still make any games where a 30 year old white guy with brown hair is brooding near buildings!

FromSoftware will show a teaser for a new thing that will be beautiful and lore-heavy, that I will never play because those games are hard and I'm old and bad at video games.

Tons of new paid DLC for games that came out 6 months ago, you got bored with and didn't finish, and promptly forgot even came out. But now you can pay more to not play them!

Capcom will show off new entries into fighting game series that use cutting-edge advanced hardware and programming to make in HD and 3D what looks for all the world like a smoother Sega Genesis sprite game. And only 6 people will be able to explain how the hell the gameplay is different from the last 12 of these. And why anyone might care.

New JRPGs with incomprehensible titles that are that same story about sexy teens destroying the Devil with the power of friendship. If we're lucky, some may also include robots and/or giant monsters. If we're not, virtual card games. And it doesn't matter if we care about any of these, because they already came out in Japan and Korea and made $6 billion.

A racing game. For, you know. Those people.

Someone will tease a modern update of some long-dead 90s IP they bought when THQ exploded. It will look vaguely like an FPS, but won't be real gameplay, so who knows? Also this will never actually come out. Or if it does, it will be as a pay-to-win, IP-themed smartphone gambling thing.

An old out-of-touch Japanese executive will say something like "We know today's gamers believe in the power of AI as much as we do, so..." and he'll get roasted for it for a year. It will be the only thing from this anyone will remember.

Fornite will add characters from movies and YouTube that I don't recognize because I'm not 14.

Long-awaited PC ports of console exclusives. That everyone will be excited about, even though we all know that when they do come out, they won't work right for 3 months until fans patch them.

I know these are vague and not funny. But any AAA studio that used to do fun things has been bought by Activision or Microsoft, and either forced to make joke hats DLC, or they were shut down because no one bought the joke hats.

[asexual-juliet]

top 5 moments from s2 of the bear 🐻 🫶🏼

hiii i answered this in my notes app a month ago and then forgot about it lmfao:

5. Richie and Carmy fighting on either side of the fridge doors in 2x10.

4. Carmy getting stuck in the fridge in 2x10

3. Love Story montage in 2x07!!! 

2. Carmy-Syd under the table scene in 2x09!!!

1. Carmy’s panic attack outside the restaurant in 2x09

honorable mentions to: 

the scene with Pete and Donna outside The Bear in 2x10

Richie’s apology to Sugar

like. the entirety of 2x06

Syd asking Tina to be her sous

Fak and Carmy’s little interaction at the backdoor of The Bear

Fire suppression test scene

also. moments that live in my head rent-free but were not big enough to include in the list:

Carmy making Tiff homemade Sprite <333

Pete bringing the eighth fish

[dramarising-replacement]

Apologies or something

Okay so like years passed at this point and i never apologized. Im N from earth, the flipper annoying forums kid.

I just wanted to say late sorries for everyone included. CS from arcane, R from ice, P from arcane, BB from lightning, much more people who needed to put up with my bullshit, people who read what ive put up on suggestions forums (lmfao)

First of all, the flipping stuff was ugly as hell. Im impatient by nature and didnt even think about dming CS about it so thought getting rid of the baby would be the best idea (shocking news it wasnt). Ive got angry DMs, then left the server ive met them in cause our conversation lead to nowhere. I felt bad, so i dmed the server owner and got shunned at for misgendering CS (I didnt realize they use he/him and assumed theyre a girl, due to long hair on character from their pfp (which tbh is also really dumb since i used to have long hair, and alot of people that i look up to also do). Then I shown my frustration in another server which got interpreted as bragging (could put it in better words so sorry about it too, moderators of the other server). If i bought back that veilspun from person that bought it i think maybe that wouldnt escalate so hard. Sorry CS for causing you distress and ruining days of people from discord. I wish i wasnt harrassed offsite cause of it.

Also sorry for the regulars of R of ice server and the person ive got banned for fun. I wish i wasnt a burden and just left you guys alone lmao

Next, my suggestion replies were absolute dogcrap. First months ive was thinking them throughough, but then ive got bored and unsupported alot of them for the fun of it. I was a bored kid. Those reasons were absolutely ridiculous too (no halo recolors cause NoT eVeRy ApPaReL hAs ReCoLoRs or no spoons cause dragons could kill eachother with them (while we already have cleavers, shadow apparel, those notn sprite things ive forgot name of). Sorry for people who had to read through the mess ive put up every single time, ive looked up to the other people there but never got a grasp how to be reasonable. Then ive got bored. 

The "suicide bait" was absolutely distasteful, though ive seriously shook while checking FR cause ive just got reminded of all the CS veilspun stuff. This game stressed me for no reason at all for months.

And.. i dont know what else. Ive started thinking about it again months  ago. I guess sorry for the entire site and this place too. I wish i was a more mature kid back then, now im bit older and i think maybe not deranged, bored kid on a site everyone visits to chill at.

TLDR: just an apology for stupid drama that happened 2 years ago. Cause ive got reminded of it.

Not trying to look like a victim or something, just sincere apologies to people reading shitshow a bored 13/14yo me put out.

[berrybelbakerycrackfic]

Alright, might as well get this out of the way for archival purposes, and also because I don't really feel like spacing these out into separate posts? Eh, maybe I just need to actually produce some more content for this, but getting all old content uploaded is productive in it's own right I suppose. Here's all the art of Maribel I would consider old and outdated. Some even before I came to the realization that "this is just essentially an AU isn't it". My first drawings were done on June 6th, 2023. There's some oddball oldies between then and like, 2/3 months ago where I now have a more consistent style to go toward(though still figuring stuff out), but considering how I held off on this post I might leave those till later.

First drawing, colored and uncolored. A clearly shocked look on her face, yet still cute(at least to me ;) ). Her long black T shirt and blue skirt are reminiscent of Madeline's jacket shape and color respectively, but the pumpkin hair shape thing I didn't decide upon until later. It's just orange here because of a common misconception that Madeline's hair is more orange than it is red. That wasn't intentional, but it did help differentiate the two.

I believe this half marker half pen doodle is the 2nd ever one. Honestly might redraw this one cus the idea of her shrugging like this definitely fits her character. Also with it's color removed like this the skirt and apron combo kind of looks like a maid dress, especially with how many frills I gave the skirt here

This was like a joke about her being self conscious of her weight but I think Maribel is actually the type to be fine with that. Speaking of that I have slimmed her down just a little bit between then and now.

when you want to make more drawings of your cool new idea for reddit but it's like 11 PM

I actually think this is one of the best portrayals of her character despite not having the pumpkin hairdo yet!

Though it does highlight a point where my artstyle(or more accurately, how I think of my artstyle) and Pizza Tower's art differs/clashes a bit, and that's with mouths. Typically I like to imagine giving characters smaller mouths and big eyes so they look more cute, but in Pizza Tower, Peppino and most of the other guys(even Gustavo partially) have big gaping jaws extending down their chins. It's been a bit of a hard thing to get around... While I'm at it, this art isn't this era of old, I made it more recently, but it does show Maribel with a more extended jaw. She's also really, really pissed off at something;

(don't ask why there's a cheese grater there I couldn't answer you if I tried)

Oh right, I almost forgot, the first time I tried to make a proper pizza tower style sprite for Maribel!

It sucks. This sucks so much. The refined sprite I would make later is so much better than this, just please stop looking; (the madeline sprite on the left was made by Ellisbros)

[the-script-demands-it]

Welcome to...

Rad's enormous pile of abandoned MetaWare WIPs/things that ARE finished but I didn't like them/WIPs that I might come back to/other stuff!

Below the "keep reading" button will be a detailing of all of these images! Please be aware that this WILL be an extremely long post, so... Just a warning. There'll be a second post after this that will also contain the rest of the art that I wasn't able to squeeze in here. (Even 30 pics per Tumblr post isn't enough for this...)

Let's start off with the most recently abandoned WIP!

I started drawing this about two weeks after Chris' birthday (her bday is January 4th) and I was really happy with it, but then I had NO idea how to pose Izzy. It's a bummer since I liked how Chris' hair came out, but alas! (Happy belated birthday, Chris!)

Possibility of finishing?: Yeah, maybe. Prob will have to change Izzy's pose if I really want to finish it though.

Oh hey, I posted this a few months ago on my other blog!

Really wish I finished it, but now that I'm looking back on it, there's definitely some improvement to be had here. I don't like whatever's going on with her face. You can tell that I gave up while trying to make the background as well. Poor Hope!

Possibility of finishing?: I'll have to completely redraw this if I plan on finishing it, but I've definitely got a feeling that I'll come back to this someday.

Hmph!

This one's actually pretty finished, I've just never posted it anywhere before because it's such a small little doodle. I like it though! Nari in a Gir tassel hat is always welcome.

Possibility of finishing?: It's already done. Don't plan on editing it!

(This happens on the rude route!)

It's basically just a proof of concept, and a VERY minimal one at that, but I think it's got some merit! Not enough people talk about that Chris Vs Aspen scene, honestly.

Possibility of finishing?: Sometime this year maybe...??? I don't plan on abandoning this forever, I just don't really know when I'll get around to it.

AUTISM BLAST PT. 1

Hey, remember that art I had pinned on my other blog for a while? I was planning on redrawing it, but I only ever managed to complete one part of it until I forgot about it... It's definitely an upgrade from the original version, though I can do better than this nowadays.

Possibility of finishing?: I'm DEFINITELY going to redraw this someday. I need a new pinned post, damn it!

Thx ^]

Okay, here's some context for these two. I got an anonymous ask on my other account saying that they liked my MetaWare PFP and I thought that it would be a great idea if I responded to it with some art and also turn that same post into an announcement for my MetaWare sideblog (this one!), but that of course did not actually happen.

Possibility of finishing?: NO.

Nari looks so... "off" in this picture.

I like how I drew Hope, but ergh... that is NOT Nari. I don't know how I managed to make her look like a completely different character in this one, but I do NOT like it.

Possibility of finishing?: Nah, I think I'm done with this pic.

Woah, scary!

I actually touched this one up a bit before sending it here. It used to look MUCH more incomplete, but it's basically done now besides from the hair being missing 'n all.

Possibility of finishing?: I might draw more MetaWare stuff with drastic lighting in the future, but I don't plan on revisiting this specifically.

Le miaow miaows.

I worked on Hope before sending this because she looked kinda off, but I think she looks OK now. You can see that this isn't really what my usual art style looks like. I was trying to mix together the original MetaWare sprite art style and the style SparkBag used in the polaroid anniversary art he made, and I think I did just fine.

Possibility of finishing?: It's basically already done! Coloring it would probably make it cooler, but I don't think I'll ever do that.

This won't be the last time I try to use eyes symbolically.

I still REALLY want to revisit this again. It's great! It's magnificent! I just did NOT have the ability to execute it properly back when I made it a ton of months ago, so I just didn't do it. Still don't know if I do now, but it's worth a shot. (This was basically just another proof of concept, by the way.)

Possibility of finishing?: Absolutely! I'll try to get to this sometime soon this year.

GRILLING START ! ! !

Yep, this was based off of Papyrus' "Dating Start!" minigame! Just another proof of concept or... Okay I don't know what else to call these. Like, they're definitely NOT finished nor are they actual fleshed out sketches, what else am I supposed to call them???? I think it's cool though.

Possibility of finishing?: Don't think I'll be ditching this idea anytime soon. Seems kinda simple to draw too, I'll get to it sometime.

Lookin' pretty cute!!

Context for this one: It was gonna be a 3 part comic or something with Hope drawing Nari's bear fursona. Never actually made the comic though, but I DID make her fursona!!! It's the one right below this one, actually.

Possibility of finishing?: Nope.

BEAR NARI BARI LET'S GO

Personally, I think this is adorable. When drawing people's fursonas I always kinda make them more animal than anthropomorphic, but I think it leads to pretty cute art!

Possibility of finishing?: It's already done!

I was just testing out a brush with this one, I think.

It's a cute little doodle, don't have much to say about it though! I WILL say that the bear plushie was a bit inspired by my own plush I have at home, though this one is much smaller than mine.

Possibility of finishing?: Nah, it's just a little doodle.

Ingo Nari... Ingri... Angry!?!

iiii really think I made the hat too big. Like... WAY too big. Don't really like how her face came out, but the body itself is pretty OK. I based it too much on Ingo's original pose though, kinda looks like I just put Nari's head on his head LMAO

Possibility of finishing?: This is basically already finished, though I might draw Nari cosplaying as Ingo again. Why not?

(Bonus Ingri!)

Nari in a hoodie!

Don't exactly remember what this was for. Either it was for an AU of mine or someone else's AU. Her front hair's kinda too far down though, I had a bit of a habit making her face REALLY small compared to her hair in my old art.

Possibility of finishing?: Nay!

Wow, Nari with an eye AND eyebrows! Who woulda thunk it.

Her hair is much puffier than previous versions in this one. Why? Dunno. She looks pretty cool AND cute in this though!

Possibility of finishing?: It's already complete.

My polar bear plush makes a cameo in this one! Say hi!

I had to edit this one a SHIT ton before sending this final picture. I wish I had a pin that said "I HATE DRAWING METAWARE STYLE NOSES" because I loathe them. There were other reasons why I didn't like the original version, but I was annoyed with the nose the most. Really happy how this came out though!

Possibility of finishing?: I just finished it right now. (I'll probably be posting this on its own sometime soon)

Some original characters...!? Unthinkable!

This features Lumi (Metolefrul-indus' fan character) and an old version of Rowan (my fan character)! I changed Rowan's design and personality soon after this, so I don't think this interaction with Lumi and Rowan will actually ever happen... Sorry Lumi! 'Twas just a little doodle.

Possibility of finishing?: NEVER.

Last but not least (for this post, anyway), is this Chris and Izzy sketch!

Some pals requested this during a stream and this was all I managed to make of it... I'm so sorry!!!!!!! They were good prompts!!! I'll finish it one day I swear!!!!

Possibility of finishing?: Soon!

PHEW WE'RE DONE FOR THIS POST. We have 20 more to go in the next one! Might post it next week because this is tiring holy hell. Glad to show these WIPs off to the world though!

P.S. I'm going to skip a few images seen in the huge pic at the beginning! Some were already completed and I'll just post those on their own orrrr I just don't want to review 'em.

[saltedsolenoid]

A silly little timeline of Rosine Strom's designs, starting from when I first began working on Together in Hell (November 2020) to now!

So, as a generalization- she's stayed about the same age throughout all this, originally being ~13 and aging up to be 15 as of the latest version of the story. Rosie was, surprisingly, an antagonist in the first draft, though she's actually changed her position around a lot and is now the protagonist of the story! Good for her.

Images (and much more explanation) below the cut- additional warning for my poor art skills as of 2 years ago.

So, let's start at the beginning. The very first sketch I did of Rosine Strom, before her name was even Rosine Strom. She had a name change somewhere in the first 6 months of development. I don't remember what her name was originally.

The first two pictures were drawn/colored in either December 2020 or January 2021. She was always going to have a sort of green/purple color pallet, and I see now that she's always had a necklace of sorts. I don't remember what exactly I was going for in this design- something unassuming? At the very least? She was originally way more nature-based than computer-based, so that's one of the major things driving this design.

The third picture, in the full on dress is her more polished design, drawn in late January 2021. Back in the early stages of development, her main Thing as a character was that she had two sort of alter-egos, one acting as a normal teenager (first two drawings) and one being more?? evil??? I guess? She was a character of complete dualities, being described as "childish but also really mature, loving but also slightly cruel, nice but has a lot of pent-up anger." Okay. Cool.

From here on out in her design, I mostly just started making changes to her everyday "normal" clothing. Character-wise, I started making her more normal and not, like, evil. Because that sucked as a character point, considering she was like 14. These two drawings come from different points in the development of the story, but from when her character was roughly the same. Her friendship with the other kids was still a key part of the story, but there really aren't many other similarities. She was overly bubbly and worked in??? tech stuff???? for the plot?????? It's not very overtly laid out.

Don't worry, though, she still had an evil-esque alter ego!! This time, she wasn't necessarily evil on purpose, but more because she was forced into a role overseeing a death game. It's about time that I bring up the fact that Together in Hell was originally a YTTD AU. Sorry. In this, she took on the role of a floormaster, somewhat. These are the best references I could find for her """floormaster outfit"", but I can't find a date for either of them. I'm still surprisingly proud of the piece on the right.

From here on out, we reach a sort of "interlude" in her designs. These pieces were made from when Together in Hell was actually coming into existence, and the YTTD AU it started with was fading out of existence. Around this point in time-- Summer of 2022-- I started to change some aspects to her character. She still heavily values her friends, but finds herself more occupied with a deal she made with a skeptical-seeming company which deals heavily in death. The leftmost picture has more similarities to the first draft of the story, while I like to refer to the rightmost picture as "a remnant from the forgotten second draft." It's called that because I forgot the plot but i like the sprite. These are where some pretty big physical changes also happened for her character; I stepped away from making her skinny and she got afro-textured hair. A few months before making these versions of her character, I had finally sorted out her family tree, and realized that curly hair- which her mother has- is a dominant gene. It took me six months to realize this and the fact that I'd have to redraw so many assets at this point actually made me quit development for a solid few months.

After that break, I restarted and started developing Together in Hell and her character as they sort of stand today.

For her current design, I gave her twists, which developed from braids in her first drawing in this state (leftmost). Later on, she gained green highlights, as green was her Character Color and I wanted to allude to that in her design. She still has a necklace- although now the necklace is a hard drive she carries around with an AI she made in it (that'll be plot relevant), and her outfit changed drastically, with a full-body reference in the center. She does like to change up her hair (see rightmost image) into a style which somewhat resembles her late first and second draft hairstyle, but these styles are more commonly found in flashbacks due to the short span of time the game takes place in. She greatly values her friends, but at the current, finds herself in the middle of a horror that she's going to have to face.

and that's about all :)

[thearchivistsjournal]

Day 282,

Morning thought: With the equinox costumes looking more like nature sprites than shades save for the color, might that be an indication that the nature sprite could be bought off or appeased with similar offerings?

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Finally got around to talking to Pat today.

I figured if I was going to do it, best to head out first thing in the morning and try to catch him on his usual beach walk.  The clouds were starting to gather and darken so I grabbed the umbrella that I’d been itching for an opportunity to finally use.  As it turned out, that opportunity came quickly, for the rain began shortly before I reached the beach.

It was a light rain, with little wind to speak of so that the droplets came almost straight down.  Perfect conditions for an initial test.  A test that was well passed.  Melaina did good work.

When I first deployed the umbrella, I wound up just standing there for a long moment, listening to the soothing music of the drops against the canopy.  The passing thought that Pat might be stuck out in this rain (not that it was a particularly bad rain to be stuck in) shook me from my reverie.  That was, of course, assuming that the elder didn’t simply look at the clouds as I did, come the same conclusion, and decide to skip his walk.

As it turned out, I wound up catching him on his way back to his house.  Of course, I offered to cover him with the umbrella.  He accepted and thanked me, although based on the way he chuckled at it, I think it was more out of amusement at the novelty than any desire to stay dry.  We kept the conversation light while we walked, mostly about the umbrella and the equinox festival.  

He told me that he managed to see more of my telling this time around and that I seemed more confident than I had with the first one.  I got halfway through saying something self-effacing about my performance before I realized I was doing it again, stopped myself, and accepted the compliment.  He had also figured out that it was another tale I’d spun myself, which was much harder not to be self-conscious about, despite the fact that he was nothing but encouraging.  I’m still not convinced the story was actually all that good, but it felt nice all the same to hear him talk about it like it was.

By the time we reached the house it had already stopped raining, but Pat invited me in anyway.  I helped him put on some tea, and after several minutes of sitting down and making further small talk, Pat said that, as nice as this morning’s been, I had the look of someone who wants to talk about something bothering them but is having trouble bringing it up.

As usual, he was right.  I hadn’t consciously realized I was doing that again with the avoidance until he pointed it out and was grateful for the push.  I confided that it was multiple things actually, but I’d start with the one I actually came intending to talk about.

And so I told him about the recent developments with the nightmares of the Catacomb Depths.  Of more and more being funneled ever deeper.  Of the weirdly organic nature the stone walls had taken on, the proper Catacombs left behind far above.  Of my choice months ago to actively try to go deeper, speeding up my descent.  Of how I now regretted that decision and feared I had somehow doomed myself to - at best - a lifetime of even worse nightmares than I might otherwise have had to deal with.  Of how a vague hope of finding answers at the bottom (if there is one) had turned into a fear of calamity and ruin once I get there.

Looking back, I somehow forgot to mention the idea I’d had of making use of that rhythm once more.

Unfortunately, while the old man looked on me with sympathy in his eyes and tried to comfort me the best he could, he had no answers for me this time, not even cryptic ones.  He confessed that despite his age - or perhaps for the same reasons he’d reached that age - he had never actually had a Catacomb nightmare himself.  Between that and the unspoken taboo around the subject he knew little about that dream place, probably even less than I did.  Even the outsiders he’d seen come and go over the years usually didn’t talk much about those nightmares, so if any of them had gone deep enough to see what I was seeing now they never told him about it.

The one bit of advice he could give me on it was to try to leave my fears of those dreams in dream.  Easier said than done, he admitted, but, as far as he knew no one had ever - to quote my own fears that I’d mentioned - “died or lost their minds” from dreaming too deeply.

That knowledge helped a little.  So long as I don’t let myself think too hard about all the ways regular horrifying nightmares could ruin a person that wasn’t obviously traced to said nightmare.

Perhaps Pat saw that I was starting to dwell such and needed a change in topic, or perhaps he just figured that he’d helped all he could on that particular issue, for he then asked about the other troubles I’d mentioned.

I said that this one was more of a question and curiosity that I’d been meaning to ask about than a “trouble,” although I supposed certain implications of it could be troubling.  And thus I went on to tell him about the ruins we’d found on Iole’s island that looked to be the remains of a second village (Village?).

When I finished my explanation of what we found and asked him if he knew about it, he said that he did.  He’d actually seen them himself in his younger days, tagging along with his outsider friend who would one day find the edge of the world, and in the many years since then a handful of other outsiders had found it and asked the same question with the same implication I was asking now.  And to them he told the same thing he went on to tell me: Like the cathedral, those ruins were old even when he was young.  The only one who might know the truth behind them is Theo, and, as I well know, the old guardian’s not inclined to give answers.  That said, when Pat and his childhood friend returned to the Village from that particular excursion and started talking about those ruins, it was the first time Pat ever recalled seeing Theo angry and he started laying into Pat’s friend (who had always been more about exploration for exploration’s sake rather than finding answers) about the danger of too much digging and asking “why”.  Since then, Pat had always suspected that other Village of being the reason for Theo’s attitude toward questions, but had no proof.  On the other hand, perhaps Theo simply sought to spare the residents of this Village from the existential dread that can arise from the implication that their home might not be eternal.

At that last point, I mentioned that Lin and Cass had certainly been disturbed by the finding.  Similarly with when we found that metal pillar out at sea, but I suspect that was for a different reason.  That then got Pat asking about the pillar since it was the first I’d mentioned it.  After I’d described that encounter Pat mused that it was probably related to Cloud Tower in some form, inspiring the same aversion that most villagers seem to have to it but none - himself included - ever seem able to properly describe or put into words.  Indescribable, yet distinct enough that they actually had a word for it /\/\/\/ 

Okay, ow… and it seems that it’s another one of those rare words like the actual name for fairy juice that I just can’t seem to properly “translate” and concentrating too hard on trying to figure out how to write it down brings back the old headaches.  For now, I suppose I’ll just refer to it as “tower fear.”

But back to my talk with Pat.  What’s left there is to tell of it at any rate.  Eventually, after some more gentle prodding from Pat, we got around to the last of the things that had really been bothering me.  And in typical fashion, with it being the one bothering me the most, it was the hardest for me to make myself talk about.

And thus, with no little amount of stumbling, false starts, overlong-pauses, and talking in circles, I started to confide in Pat about my recent worries regarding Lin ever since she got back.  Ever since she ran off, really.

For better or for worse though, “started to” is the operative phrase there.  I was still trying to get my feelings in a coherent order when someone started knocking at the door.  Relieved at the excuse to stop talking for a moment, I hopped up and told Pat I’d get the door for him.

It was Lin.

She was as surprised to see me as I was to see her.  The most expression I’d seen her show since she got back.

An uncomfortable silence as we tried to find what to say.

She apologized for interrupting and said she could come back later.

I lied and said that I was just getting ready to head back to the library anyway, so it was no problem.

Silence again as we both stood in the doorway.

In a flash, I imagined throwing my arms around her.  Hugging her tight and tearfully saying that I’m glad she’s back.  Assuring her that I know she’s hurting and that I and others care for her and are here to help.  Confessing that I think of her as my best friend and am there for her the way she’s been there for me.  Telling her that I know Maiko will be back eventually and that I believe they’ll be able to work things out and be happy together.  Reminding her that however bad things might seem she’s not alone.

I stepped aside so she could enter, grabbed my umbrella from where it was leaning against the door, told her that it was nice to see her again and that she knew where to find me if she needed anything, and departed.

As I left, Pat called out that regarding the last thing we talked about I just need to trust myself and do what feels right.

Easier said than done Pat, but I appreciate your faith in me.

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[blazehedgehog]

How often do you draw these days? Like do you do any scribbles you just sorta keep to yourself?

Not all that often. I drew a lot when I was in school because those were the days where drawing was my primary creative outlet. We didn't have phones like we do now, and you couldn't whip out a Gameboy in the middle of class or whatever, but drawing was something I could do and most teachers did not care.

You'd give me a pencil and a notebook and I'd fill it up. I'd draw multiple pictures a day; fully inked, fully shaded pieces. I'd bring my colored pencils to school and sit in the library coloring them.

Then we got the computer, and I started getting in to game development, messing with music production, video editing... with more creative outlets, the time I spent drawing shrank until it was almost nothing.

Then came the moment where I started entering art contests. I entered two or three and I lost all of them. The last one I entered I killed myself on, almost quite literally. I did everything the hard way, thinking that somehow meant it made my work better. I developed RSI that eventually graduated in to carpal tunnel syndrome.

I became deeply dejected with my artwork and on top of that it has become somewhat painful if I draw for too long these days. I have to take frequent breaks and use an elevated, angled drawing surface otherwise my hand really starts to hurt (my palm, right where it connects to my wrist) and eventually my fingertips start to go numb.

That's not to say I never draw for fun anymore. The mood still strikes me from time to time. And being in a discord full of creative people definitely helps shift my creative urges. Most of those are drawn with a mouse and end up on twitter, like this:

Which I drew while watching Scorpy stream Sims 2 on the GBA with Wayneradiotv. Or this take on Wario:

Which I drew after Niko finished streaming the first Wario Land game and the videochess discord was discussing Wario's various early sprites.

Or this image of Knuckles after Cybershell had his question answered during a Sonic twitter takeover and we learned Knuckles types on a keyboard by punching it.

Or, um, this, which I forget the context behind it now:

And then there was this, which was because I got linked to a video of a cat climbing the side of a building:

If nothing else, little doodles like this have been making me feel a lot better about my artistic ability, after decades of feeling like crap because I was upholding myself to unrealistic expectations. Even if they're crappy doodles made with a mouse, I think they're pretty alright.

I do not really keep doodles for myself. If they're good enough to post, I post them. If they aren't good enough to post, they usually get deleted. The rare exception is this, I guess:

I drew this two months ago and saved it on my desktop as "THE STANCE.bmp" and then promptly forgot what that meant.

[aaaaiuio]

Improvement

I wanted to make another post about my art. I want to show you my improvement in 2 years.

I was just looking trough my laptop and deleting stuff that I dont need. And stumbled upon a simple game that I made. I almost forgot about its existience. Whats funny is that a few month ago my friend was making a game and asked me to help with the characters in the same format that my old game. So I wanted to show the improvement.

Old game

A closer look at some of the characters. I drew them in paint. The cyan and pink ones are supposed to be good. And the red and grey ones are supposed to be evil. At the time I drew them i was thinking that my desingns were amazing and unique now I see that they are not.

The new designs

The sad sprites

While the new designs have their own issues. But they look just so much better now. They look all different. They don`t look somewhere in the sky. The colors are nicer. They have now two sprites instead of one. The quality is just so much better.