#the art has been the main thing kicking my ass for trying to get this fucking chapter out

[transgenderemu]

school is calming down a little for me now i think next chapter will be out april fools. you can soon peep the mikudemy sillies while reading the mikudemy horrors

[moonsofmachinery]

So this isnt a pride req but you still don't have to answer!! But how do you draw so quickly?? I swear you draw like 2-4 times a day? I wanna get on a really good schedule about that so I can keep up with a art blog but idk how to draw fast! How'd you do it?

I hope it helps If I go over my entire process here because I've been wanting to showcase my process for awhile anyways :}

Haha! Yeah, i usually try and draw ~4 things min a day. Now, let me clarify, to run an art blog you don't have to draw fast! I do try and take breaks if I need them!!! But a lot of my speed has to do with the fact I've just been in a very art-inclined mood as of late :} It's a lot easier to draw if you WANT to draw! and knowing people like my stuff is a huge motivator.

Long post below where I explain my process and some of the shortcuts I take!! :]

For more skill-based tips though, my method definitely helps. Drawing lineless and paying attention to my stabilizer helps a lot. I'm definitely not a perfectionist when it comes to my art and I do tend to reuse poses I KNOW im comfortable with if I'm not in the mood to go all out.

I sketch freely with loose stabilizer using a pencil-like pen that allows me to get a good idea of the details I want down... Ex:

I have a very good grasp on the way i draw slugcats and how their bodies are shaped! Depending on the characters you're drawing, you should try drawing them a TON to get to a point where you can sketch them without even looking at a ref of any kind. My designs tend to stay consistent as I have a solid idea of each slugcat in my mind! It helps me pace myself as I generally don't need refs! :}

Next, I blot out my main body shape. I then, using a clip layer, add in lines and line in limbs! Generally I do this all in the same colour, get the main shapes down before you add detail and all that...

I blot out different regions of my character in different colours and section off areas to ensure I can later select these and go over them! Doing lineless helps me a ton as I don't use a lot of layers! it's just the style im more used to :}

Lastly, I add in my colours and adjust places where I can adding in all markings and details and recolouring where I need to! I use the selection wand to help me and I also use clip layers.

The details are relatively easy for me, most of the time its just getting to doodle whatever I want to make the colour combo look the best I can!!! :} The final result of this one will be posted on its own, but I just use CSP tools to add an outline-- I'm not sure if you use Clip Studio Paint, but if you do, you can use the effect feature!

Its just a little thing I add to make my drawing pop against the background!!!! :D

Anddd thats how I pump out art at an inhuman rate! Drawing is one of the few things I can do without my chronic pain kicking my ass so a lot of my day is spent at my computer cozy n' arting! Drawing for too long does cause fatigue in anyone though! I reccomend listening to something engaging in the background (if your attention can take it) and taking regular breaks every ~15-30 minutes.

This piece took me 30 minutes?? maybe a little more! I hope this gave you what you were lookin for :D!!!!! I wish u well in ur art blog n' make sure not to stress urself!!!!!

[vodika-vibes]

Happy 650, love!

May I have a Crosshair modern AU? Maybe he's a self defense teacher, and awful smug about how quickly you're progressing and wants 'private lessons' for 'advanced maneuvers'? Def smutty 👀

Love all of your work! Even for clones I don't know very well ^-^

Defend Yourself

Summary: You’ve been in self-defense classes since you were a child, starting with karate when you were small, and moving your way up to more complicated self-defense classes as you aged. Recently you’ve picked up Escrima, and your teacher, Crosshair, thinks you’re his best student.

Pairing: TBB Crosshair x F!Reader

Word Count: 870

Warnings: Smut

Prompt: Modern AU

Tagging: @trixie2023 @n0vqni

A/N: Sorry that this is so short, Crosshair didn't want to agree with me, and I have a migraine forming, so it's all around not a super day to write.

“You know,” Crosshair notes as he walks up behind you, “If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you’ve done this before.”

You pause mid-movement and toss a grin at him over your shoulder, “Well, if you’ve done one marital art you’ve done them all, right?” You joke, lowering the Escrima sticks and wiping some of the sweat off of your forehead.

“I’m fairly certain that’s not how it works, spitfire.” He replies lazily.

You shrug, not feeling up to arguing it with him, “Do you need the space for your next class?” 

“I’m done for the day,” Crosshair replies, “I’m about to lock up.”

You blink at him, “Ah, well then, I guess I’d better get going.”

He considers you for a moment, and then a small smirk crosses his face, “How do you feel about some one-on-one lessons? Right now?”

You tilt your head to consider him. Well, less him and more the way that his gaze is dragging down your body, and the way his dark eyes linger on the way your tanktop clings to your chest.

“I think that sounds like a fun idea.” You reply lightly, “Right now?”

“Yes, I think so.” Crosshair motions for you to follow him out of the main practice room, and into the much smaller solo training rooms. He kicks his shoes to the side and motions for you to take your position across from him.

“So, what are my odds of beating you?” You joke as you slide into your opening stance.

“Minimal.” He replies with a smug smirk.

You know he’s right, but, in full honesty, sparring is the last thing on your mind right now.

So you’re not surprised when he has your back pinned against his chest less than fifteen minutes later. One of his arms is pressed firmly across your chest, while his other arm is pressed firmly against your lower pelvis, keeping you still with ease.

“Looks like I win,” Crosshair murmurs in your ear.

“Seems like it,” You reply, a small grin lifting your lips as you shift and grind your ass back against his cock.

A quiet curse falls from his lips, but he doesn’t try to stop you, or even to adjust you. “You’re playing with fire, ad’ika.” He growls in your ear.

“Isn’t that what you wanted?” You counter.

Crosshair doesn’t say anything for a moment, and you feel his breath against your ear, and then his hold on you loosens. For a moment, you think that he’s going to tell you to leave, but before that thought is fully formed, he grinds the heel of his palm against your pussy, pulling a gasping moan from you.

“Oh, you like that, don’t you?”

“Y-yes,” You gasp out.

“Good.” He grinds the heel of his palm against you for long enough that you start to rock against his hand, and then he rips his hand away and steps away from you.

“C-Cross-” His name is little more than a breathless whine, and he chuckles.

“Strip.” 

You lick your lips and swiftly follow his directions, pulling your clothes off and tossing them to the side. He watches you hungrily, stepping closer to you and sliding his hand down your side, pausing only long enough to roughly pinch your nipple. 

“What an eager little slut,” He coos, his hand slides back up your body, and he presses two of his fingers between your lips. You eagerly suck on his fingers, trying to show him what, exactly, your mouth is capable of.

Crosshair releases a low groan, “Is that what you want, my pretty girl? You want to taste my cock?” You nod eagerly, and he chuckles, “If I had known that you would be so eager for a taste of my cock, pretty girl, I would have pushed you to your knees ages ago.”

You moan at the thought, and Crosshair chuckles again as he pulls his fingers from your mouth, and then he crashes his lips against yours, his tongue dipping into you and mapping out your mouth.

When he pulls away from you, you try to follow him, but he presses a firm hand lightly against your throat, making you stop. 

Effortlessly, Crosshair walks you over to the couch and guides you so you’re sitting on it. A tap of your knees, has you spreading your lips and baring your pussy for him.

“There we go.” He murmurs, his gaze dragging against your soaked core, “You’re going to give me a show, ad’ika. And if you do a good job, then I’ll let you taste my cock.”

You regain control of your senses long enough to squint at him, “What’s your definition of a good job?”

“Make yourself cum,” He says bluntly, “If you make yourself squirt, pretty thing, I’ll even fuck you before I bring you to my apartment.” A single finger dips between your folds, gathering your arousal on a strong finger, “You’ll walk home with me with  my cum dripping down your thighs.”

The idea makes you clench around his finger, and he smirks at you as he pulls his finger out of you, and licks it clean, “Well?”

“I can do that.”

“Good. Then let’s see it.”

[crazylittlejester]

Been thinking about my Royal Depths au lately. the one with the kid Ganon. I will draw the au again probably within the next two months lamo.

Anyways, since I’ve been thinking about that au, I also remembered that one ask I sent you, where I asked what art style you would like to see a loz game have. Combining these two idea, I’ve got another question for you:

What would you like a new LoZ game/story to be about? Like, in RD I made the main character Ravio and had a itty bitty Ganon as one of his party members. What would your LoZ game be about? Would it be a sequel of sorts to another game, or just have some calls backs to another game(like maybe hw who knows 😏)? Would Link be the main character, or would it be a different character like Zelda(like with eow), or maybe a new character that would have an interesting perspective on the LoZ world(like idk a zora or fairy)?

Anyways uh. You’re creative and I like seeing your ideas. You could picture the game to look like the game art style you said earlier(I think it was an Alice in Wonderland type game? Idk it also kinda reminded me of Don’t Starve, art style wise if that rings any bells), if that makes things easier. Idk, with EoW around the corner I’ve been pondering about new LoZ stories like a mad man.

Hope all of this made sense, and have a great rest of your day!

I took a sec to answer this because I have SERIOUS thoughts about it and wanted to make sure i’d have the time to write it all out alskdkddk

i mentioned this about a month ago, and i would absolutely love to write this in fic form one day, and i plan to, it will just take me a LONG time but this is the storyline I would give a Zelda game if I had the power to make one:

I think of “Zelda” as a middle name of sorts, I think each princess has her own first name, but the first daughter of the royal family has that as a middle time and will end up going by that. The protagonist of this game? The eldest daughter of the royal family, and she cannot for the life of her figure out how to get those powers Hylia should’ve gifted her. Ganondorf is becoming more and more of a threat every day, and there’s nothing she can do about it except make sure he can’t get his hands on the triforce, which she’s just barely accomplishing. She thinks it her duty to be out there on the front lines getting shit done because if she can’t do the one thing she’s supposed to (unlock her powers) you best believe she’s out there with a sword kicking ass. She’s also trying to find Link because if the world is ending then there HAS to be a hero, but she literally find him and is getting really frustrated

I would give Ganon a much more compelling story. He’s not born evil, he’s born with as much capacity for good as anyone else, but due to the events of his childhood he becomes something terrible. No matter what he did everyone looked at him like he was going to be awful. They treated him poorly, nothing he could do was right in the eyes of ANYONE. He WANTED to break the cycle, but he couldn’t so to get everyone to just stop and leave him alone he’s seeking total control over everything because in his mind he’ll feel like he can breathe if he does

Now where the fuck is Link you may be asking? Well I firmly believe Hylia is a bit of a gatekeeper (/j) and will only give her magic to the eldest DAUGHTER in her bloodline. No man gets her powers, no thank you. So when the protagonist’s little sister, out of pure panic and desperation, makes an attempt to stop Ganon from destroying Hyrule Castle and her powers roar to life, the three main characters all stop and stare at each other for a minute because what the hell how did the younger sibling do that??

It is at this point the oldest ‘daughter’ realizes officially even Hylia knew he was trans before he did (he’d had his suspicions but this whole thing just confirmed it for him), and he hauls ass to get the Master Sword because with his little sister’s goddess given powers revealed he realizes HIS place in this whole hot mess, he’s Hylia’s HERO not her DAUGHTER, and he and the new Zelda use the power of supportive gay siblings to bonk Ganon over the head hard enough he just factory resets

And then they have group therapy /hj

So yeah, the REAL quest to find Link was the gender journey we had along the way

[crowskulls-art-and-fandoms]

Oi, lads, I'm not dead!

So sorry for the complete lack of posting, adult life and all getting in the way and work has been kicking my ass and barely leaving me any energy or motivation to draw.

Unfortunately also my interests have been shifting a bit, mainly to Cars, as well as a couple other interests that are resurfacing. I still love Ttte and Tugs, but.. My horizons are broadening, I could say. With everything going on in my life and how busy I've been it might take a while for me to get back into posting here, and I thank all of you for being patient with me.

I've been considering for a long time making a non specific art blog, given I tend to have multiple hyperfixations at once. Again, it might take a while to actually get it made and put up but it's still a big possibility. I'll probably just change up this one since a lot of my stuff is already on it, just gotta change the name and basis and poof! New blog!

So I thank everyone for your patience and support, and I'll try my best to get back in the swing of things. I can't promise daily posts or anything, Tumblr is only a small part of my life and for me personally it can take a lot of energy to take care of, but it'll at least be more often than once every two months, lol. Maybe every other day or something. Anyway, that's all from me, sorry for the absence, and expect some big changes coming. If you're interested in what my other stuff may be then great! If you're not, you're of course free to leave. :3

I won't stop doing the boats and trains, it just won't be my main focus anymore. So, yeah. Hope you have a great day, stay safe, and uh, peace out nerds. 👉👉✨

[amywhereyouwant]

Some TOH HCs I wanted to share

There are a LOT of them, so They're under the read more for your scrolling convenience

Luz

-Uses She/They pronouns

-Would watch the entirety of Sword Art Online just to be able to shit on it properly

-Eats way too much Shredded Cheese even though she’s Lactose Intolerant

-Has made a Your mom joke to Willow only to remember she doesn’t have one

-Mains King in Tekken and made a custom attire trying to make it look like the other King

-Screenpeeks religiously in Split Screen Multiplayer

-Predicted Hecazura 2 books into the series, still won’t shut up about it

-Relatively known Digital Artist, her blog probably took off when she started making art of the Demon Realm 

-Hates baking

-Helps Amity bake out of the kindness of her heart(Also seeing Amity enjoying herself is really nice)

-Had a cold once, hasn’t had a Human Realm illness since

-Has SH scars from her depressed period back in the human realm(S3E1), still ashamed over them

-Quotes Memes constantly, only Hunter understands what she’s talking about

-Cracked a rib tripping on a rug on her way to bed

Amity

-Absolutely hates Bugs, like, genuinely despises them

-Does not know how computers work, but still tries to use Luz’s laptop to look up date ideas

-Can and will dress as the most stereotypical Witch ever

-Adopted(All 3 Blight Kids are in my HC)

-Likes to bake

-Does not know how to bake

-Gets sick constantly

-Works out a lot so she can help out with rebuilding the Isles(and also a little bit for Luz)

-Used to apologise a lot for minor things(Pre-timeskip)

-REALLY Bummed she didn’t get to see Titan Luz

-Watched the barbie movie the same day Gus watched Oppenheimer

Gus

-Goes nonverbal when stressed out, uses Illusions and his palisman to communicate

-Cried for hours when he finished the last Cosmic Frontier book, even though it was a happy ending

-Likes the idea of Professional Wrestling, but wishes the fights were to the death

-Quotes Cosmic Frontier as a Vocal Stim

-Dramatically perishes in Matt’s arms on the regular

-Headcanons O'Bayley to look exactly like Hunter just for the memes

-Thinks Human 2D Animation is the most beautiful thing to have ever been created

-Watched Across the Spider-Verse and Begged for Luz to draw a Spider-Suit for him, she did one for everyone

-Got really jealous when everyone else got flapjack tattoos, then he realised he could just make one of his own with an Illusion

-Got insanely mad when he learned about Human Discrimination(“How can you hate someone for something they can’t change? That’s ridiculous!”)

-Watched Oppenheimer the same day Amity and Hunter watched the Barbie Movie

Hunter

-LOVES Dino Nuggies

-Didn’t know Dinosaurs were real for a while until Luz showed them to him, Velociraptors are his favourite because “They’re like Wolves but Lizards!” (They’re not)

-Has a tumblr account where he posts about Wolves, Luz is his only follower

-Definitely has a Fursona

-Kicks Luz’s ass at most video games, except for Halo 2 specifically(I wonder why)

-”Will you go out with me?” “Hunter we’ve been dating for a year” “Oh.”

-Thinks Huggbees’ How it’s actually made videos are 100% Legit and honest

-Made Willow a Flower Shirt to match his Wolf Shirt

-Wears Willow’s Flower Shirt he made

-Imagine Dragons is his favourite band

-Has Epilepsy

-Steals Willow’s dresses sometimes

-Found Nicole Coenen on YouTube, showed her to luz “She looks kinda like Amity!”(Nobody else sees the resemblance)

-Probably plays a LOT of Roblox

-Watched the Barbie Movie with Amity(Luz forced him to)

-Has seen every single vine there is(Thank the Titan for Vine Compilations on YouTube)

-Any kind of facial hair he grows is really patchy so he just goes clean shaven for convenience

-Snuck food during TtT even though he was 100% allowed to eat normally

-Bananas do exist in the Demon Realm, Hunter has just never learned that they do

-Gets visits from the Spirits of the other Golden Guards in his dreams

Willow

-Tackled someone to the ground when they only slightly bumped into Hunter(We stan a protective queen)

-Feeds her palisman doggie treats, nobody knows why

-Filled Camila’s entire back garden with way too many plants during TtT, they’re still there despite not being watered for a while

-Made a Garland made of both Demon and Human Realm plants for Hunter on their anniversary

-Has no real idol/role model

-Happily Listens to everyone else ramble about their interests

-Wears Hunter’s Wolf Shirt

-Calls Hunter “Hun” as a short for his name, started doing it even more after she figured out what it actually meant

-Pranks people she doesn’t like by putting giant Grape Vines around their house

-Held a presentation about plant care for the Gravesfield Gardener Society

-Thinks most Human Sports are boring(Except for Hockey and Roller Derby)

Vee

-Pulls off some crazy ass cosplays

-Knows how to drive Camila’s car perfectly, still has no idea how it actually works though

-Laughed so hard she couldn’t breathe first time she heard Metal Pipe Fall Sound Effect

-Considers Luz to be her Sister, Camila burst into tears and hugged her when she called Luz “Big Sis” in front of her for the first time

-Plays Minecraft on Camila’s home PC, has spent tons of time on Hypixel and built a little shrine for the other basilisks on a private world

-Takes after Luz in a lot of ways

-Is way better at Spanish than Luz, flexes about it constantly(Nobody really cares)

-Had no idea how to tell Masha she was a Basilisk when they confessed to her(Masha knew long before she told them)

-Is really cuddly in Basilisk form, not so much when shapeshifted(“I don’t really feel like it’s myself”)

-Her first kiss with Masha was really awkward, she apologised like 45 times and cried because it wasn’t good

-Steven Universe is a canon IP in the universe, so she got really confused when Amethyst sounded EXACTLY like her

I have no idea why I made this

[faithinlouisfuture]

Louies' 2023 Wrapped Tag Game

(Rules: Answer the questions below and tag at least 3 people!)

Thank you bestie @berlinini for tagging me 🤍 sorry i’m so late on this, work’s been kicking my ass, here we go though!

favorite walls song: this year; don’t let it break your heart

favorite fitf song: impossible to pick just one but right now; holding on to heartache (which is funny considering my fav off of Walls this year)

most played song on Spotify by Louis: Written All Over Your Face (ok whore)

favorite louis lyrics: that’s actually an impossible task because there’s WAY too many! but “there’s endless versions of the thing that keeps me drifting back to darkness” hits home in a way that i can’t explain in words

louis life lesson: it always remains the same; picking yourself back up after facing hardships, seeing the possibilities and positives in a difficult situation; basically strength & resilience

favorite louis outfit: oh that’s unfair, my little fashionista kills it 99% of the time so i have a list of favorite 50 outfits from 2023 but for the purpose of this game we’ll narrow it down to three (and it’s not even top three just three that i loved)

favorite tour show: there were so many good ones this year (Phoenix, Austin, Houston, LA, Philly, New York, Bologna, Paris, Antwerp, Vienna, Łódź, Sheffield, Cardiff, London) but the way that I felt physically ill after fitfwt: Columbus might need to be studied for science; the whiplash from the stark difference of him during the show and him post show was entirely TOO MUCH

favorite public appearance: has to be the RS Awards; the slutty custom-made fit, the main character energy throughout, the confidence, the glow, the ever present eloquence with which he spoke about his work and his successful af year, just him him him <3

favorite AOTV scene: once again there’s so many; that scene where louis’ recording Saturdays and we get some insight into his thinking and his process, the montage of louis with band and crew having an absolute blast while All This Time plays in the background, that one scene where JD is helping him put his hoodie on after he broke his elbow 👀 the last few minutes of the movie where we hear him say the words “i do feel like i deserve this” 🫶🏽🥹 and so so many more actually

favorite band or crew member: favorite three :p are Krystle, Steve & Joshua! special shout out to Joshua for going above and beyond this year honestly! that man carried lthq on his back!

favorite picture: another unfair question but i won’t cheat and post one of my absolute most favorites from this year because it’s like the energy of his shows captured in one moment (i found out on twitter that the hand in his hair belongs to a desi louie which was like the cherry on top)

something that you are looking forward to in 2024: the fitfwt latam shows!!! there is nothing else like the energy the latam crowds bring, which in turn brings out the absolute best (and most unhinged) in louis and his band too, so definitely looking forward to that! and the festivals!!! can’t wait to see him shine in front of the world <3 hope against hope to be a part of it if things work out 🤞🏽🕯️

one wish for Louis (or Louies) for 2024: 🍑🐧🎧 sighting! kidding (not really)! honestly though, growth

growth in this fandom’s level of maturity (with the addition of lots more people who are here for louis’ art and not his personal life), growth in the markets he’s able to capture, growth in the places he’s able and willing to tour *cough*ASIA*cough*, growth in the ability of his teams especially his social media and PR teams, growth from Louis himself in regards to him being open to trying new things

i don’t know who all has done this! but i’ll tag some people just in case (no pressure) @noraincsl @timidlouie @poekitty2020 @stormyhale @louveyous

[haysprite]

you said you had headcanons of Julie which involve frank, please share 👀.

OH GLADLY <3 These are the main ones that live in my mind rent free teehee (besides the ones I've already drawn out/talked about before ofc ofc)!

• They absolutely LOVE listening to each other talk. They’ll take turns talking about whatever is on their mind, whether it's just something they find interesting, a rant, whatever. Even if the other has been talking for 10+ minutes nonstop, they’ll just sit there and listen, completely enamored by the other.

• Frank will go looking for one of his shirts or jackets, only to find Julie laying around wearing the exact thing he was looking for. Although a bit annoyed, he can’t help but smile as he goes and finds something else to wear.

• Frank is a HORRIBLE dancer, he can’t dance to save his life. Julie, although not the best dancer herself, still tries to teach him as much as she possibly can. Even though he doesn’t particularly understand WHY she wants to teach him, he still enjoys it, since he gets to be close with her and it makes her happy.

• When Frank was still attending Fairview and on the basketball team, Julie would drag the other two to all his games and be his biggest cheerleader. He got distracted on the court by her every so often, but he didn’t mind (though the rest of his team sure did lmfao).

• Whenever they get in a fight, they can’t really stay mad at each other for too long. It would take a LOT to get them to not speak for a few days, but they always make up in the end. Frank blows up a lot, but he’s slowly learning how to control his anger and direct it elsewhere with Julie’s help.

• Frank has like, a sixth sense when it comes to Julie being upset. He’s able to tell almost right away if she’s feelin down or angry, and though he doesn’t always know how to help out, he still tries his best. He’ll typically just scoop her up and cuddle with her until she’s either ready to talk or has calmed down.

• Though it took a little bit of convincing Julie on Frank’s part (since Julie is a bit indecisive with certain shit), they eventually got matching tattoos. No idea what they’d be, but they’d either be on their wrists or their shoulders.

• Frank runs super warm, so whenever she’s feelin too cold, Julie will run up to him and just snuggle against him. This catches him off guard every damn time, cause how tf is it physically possible to be this cold? He’s her personal heater

• Frank is very protective of Julie! He tries not to be overbearing, since he knows she’s a bad bitch that can handle herself, but he’ll gladly beat the shit out of anybody that tries messing with her when he’s around.

• Frank is one of the main subjects of Julie’s silly art/doodles. She never shows em to him, but he catches her eventually and drowns her in compliments. She’s a bit embarrassed about it at first, but he’s her hype man, and his appreciation of her art means the world to him.

   -They love watching horror/slasher films together a LOT! Both of em are pretty desensitized to like, everything, so they honestly just end up talking about and making fun of the movie the whole time. They’d point out stupid shit or crack jokes. Half of the time they’d barely make it halfway through the movie before they’re laughing their asses off over the stupidest shit or making out.

• While Julie is a morning person, Frank is very much not. Julie will try to get out of bed, only to be dragged back by Frank despite her protests. He’ll always say “5 more minutes”, which tends to turn into another hour before Julie has to kick him off the bed and book it so she can finally grab a bowl of cereal or somethin and get her day started.

• Julie is the one typically driving them around, since Frank honestly probably got his license taken away and doesn’t really have a car (he’d steal one, but it’d be a lot harder to get away with that than anything else, doesn’t mean he hasn’t tried tho). She’s always the one in control of the music, despite all of Frank’s protests.

• Julie tends to plan out most of their dates, and will always make sure everything goes according to plan. Frank, on the other hand, will sometimes surprise Julie with spur of the moment dates that honestly typically end in disaster a good chunk of the time.

• Frank loves to get lil treats for Julie since he knows she’s a major sweet tooth. He’ll snatch her some cupcakes from the store whenever he gets the chance, and Julie is always super grateful for this.

• Whenever it's a really bad snow day and neither of them feel like going out, they’ll just hang around in the lodge all day by the campfire, huddled up in some blankets and drinking hot cocoa while they snuggle.

• The amount of shit Frank would steal for Julie and just leave around for her to find is immeasurable. He’s like a lil crow sometimes, he’ll find something that reminds him of her, snatch it, and give it to her.

• Whenever alcohol is involved, I feel like Julie gets super sappy over the smallest stuff, and will drunkenly blabber on to Frank about how much she loves him. It takes a LOT to get Frank drunk, on the other hand, so he’ll kinda just be dealing with a silly Julie for a while until he’s absolutely wasted himself. Then they’d just be stupid together before passing out and waking up with the worst hangovers.

• They love pulling harmless pranks on each other a lot, mainly just to see how the other would react. They also lightly bully each other, mainly just calling each other names or making fun of each other. Neither of them takes it too far, of course, and will quickly stop if they know they’re about to hurt each other by accident.

• For their 1 year anniversary, Frank purposely took her to the coffee shop where they originally met. They sit in the same spot and just laugh and talk for hours, before they proceed to spend the rest of the day doing their silly shenanigans hand in hand.

[sunny6677]

Unsure of what to call this AU, but you can call it the Hellenism AU or the Greek Gods.AU if you want for now lol.

@mayisgoingnuts

Short summary is i made a whole spooky month au as a devotional act to my deities!! And this is part 1 since I'll be doing Athena, Hera, (possibly) Medusa or Hades, and Persephone tomorrow!

So basically this is just Spooky Month, except the Greek God's exist, and are a bit of the main focus?? No character in the town is actually aware of them except for a few (possibly Streber??). But they're kind of like a powerful force in this AU who can kick Eyes's ass probably, are strictly against Eyes (specifically Hades since hes in charge of souls and doesnt like the idea of someone else trying to do his job for him), and also very much against the Cult.

Aphrodite is very sweet, soft spoken, gentle and motherly—but she can also be very protective and has a temper (usually for justified reasons). She is incredibly reassuring. And after Roy's whole incident with his uncle, Aphrodite reached out to help him since she's aware something like what he went through can be very damaging, and he isn't aware that she's an actual goddess at first and just thinks she's some 'random pretty ghost lady who showed up one day'. He even thought he might have been going crazy at first, but it was made clear by her obvious signs that he wasn't losing his sanity and that she was actually present. I'm unsure if Roy would do any worshipping type acts toward her since he seems like he'd be unaware of the Hellenism religion itself—but I can see him doing it later on once he's done more research and is more comfy with Aphrodite. She also reached out to help Lila in her dreams after the loss of her husband (and also because her husband was a monster anyway)—and helped Lila to move on from him. She also sometimes helps out Mr Wonder since he lost his spouse and probably misses her. Though it's mainly Haades who I could see giving him some sort of message that she's fine since Hades is the god of the underworld and death anyway. Carmen and Lila are also canonically blessed by her (along with Ethan and possibly Radford??)/pos. I can also see Aphrodite angrily confronting Skiddad when he eventually returns, or her always helping out Lila anytime her sons in danger (since Aphrodite is for familial love too).

Apollo, on the other hand, is very easily excited and friendly and just generally supportive about things. But he can also be very sassy and is funny. He's also carefree and is really loving and nice. Because of Susie's love for art, he's always kind of been around her and taking care of her without her knowledge. Sort of like a god for a brother figure lmao. He sometimes messes with her like a brother would too by taking her stuff. Or he comforts her when she's feeling upset by visiting her through dreams or giving her signs. Susie used to think he was an imaginary friend when she was little, and even now she isn't even sure of what he is, but she trusts him and hasn't really ever told anyone about him. He also helps out Patty, John during Deadly Smiles cuz he's sick, Aaron, and also Streber and Skid. I'd say Susie and Patty are probably blessed by him the most, along with Skid./lh

Zeus doesnt seem like he'd appear that much, but he'd definitely there and would be a badass respected presence jdbdnd. He's usually there to teach a lesson though, and always gets involved if some sort of law or order is broken. He's probably the reason the thieves get caught so much since he sends a gut feeling to Lila to get the fuck up because there's people in her house—Skid also canonically just asked no one if they could make it rain or storm because he didn't wanna go to school, and Zeus for some reason decided he'd actually listen and made it storm, but decided to teach Skid a lesson in the process by giving him consequences and ripping what he wanted to do out of his reach (while also possibly testing what Skid will do about it or even talking to him in the process to see if he's learnt his lesson). And since he's the literal king of the gods, I can see him fighting the Cult or bringing karma to them, and also fighting Eyes at some point (struggling since Eyes is an eldritch entity but winning because.. well.. he's a god—). He'd also probably teach Roy a lesson if he ever saw him bullying the kids, or if he saw Susie being too harsh on them or Ignacio threatening them or Gregor being a hypocrite, etc etc. He and Hera are a power couple hrhdhd.

Ares is incredibly aggressive on the other hand and comes off as a brute, but he's very sweet deep down and just doesn't know how to express himself. He's very serious and almost fatherly, and also hates it when women are disrespected. He can also be very bloodthirsty, and likes dying for honor rather than strategizing and is more focused on violence than the tragedy of the fight itself. He's Aphrodites lover btw and has a very sweet relationship with her/pos. He's actually been around since Lila was a child, and has blessed her in his own way or just 'chosen' her if that's the right word. Which is why she's so angry when it comes to protecting Skid and fights for what's right. If anything, I can see him interfering during TT just so Lila can kick Bob ass and succeed in doing so. He also dislikes when people are cowards about things—since.. hes.. well the god of courage. And typically assists the cops because they're brave enough to go against things. He probably blessed John or Jack, or both. And I can see him having blessed Ignacio in the past, but being very dissapointed since he doesn't fight for what's right and is just an asshole. Can also see Aphrodite sending him to fucking kill Roy's uncle and him proudly doing so by influencing him to be exactly where Eyes is running in and have Eyes crush him. Or just straight up killing Roy's uncle himself.

Poseidon would probably rarely be here since there isn't much water shown in the series. But he's present in all water I'm pretty sure, so he probably literally is the Holy Water Gregor gives Kevin & Radford. Unsure if he'd blessed anyone. I get the strange vibe he'd bless Jaune though cuz of her cowgirl costume/lh. He'd probably drown Roy's uncle somewhere if he ever came across him and knew what Roy's uncle actually did. Can see him informing Zeus and Ares of the kids whereabouts sometimes through the sewer water and seeing where they pass by. Skid also probably went to the beach one time and yelled at the waves to get bigger, so Poseidon listened and hit Skid with a massive ass wave. He'd also probably try to fight the cult in his own way by either causing an earthquake, a storm or a full on flood toward their house on the hill. Or flooding the town so that they can't escape the house on the hill and are forced to confront him (literally the water). Jaune seems like she'd be unaware of him, or she would be aware and would be canonically hellenist jdnsnsn.

[autobot-ratchet]

MTMTE 56, 57, and Revolution

MTMTE 56

and now for something completely different

“I know I'm paranoid. Contrary to popular belief, that doesn't mean I think everyone's out to get me. It just means I don't know who is and who isn't.” HEY. BIG SAME LMFAO not to gripe on fandom culture once again but y'all literally ruined my brain chemistry and I think it's fair for me to talk about it lmAO I know that not literally everyone who participates in fandom is an insane person who wants to start a harassment campaign against a complete nobody like me because it would be easy clout and no one would help me, in fact most of you are pretty cool, but I know someone will. Because someone always does. I've seen enough of my peers get hurt and/or die to know that someone always does, even if you think you're not popular enough. Like, I hope y'all realize what a fucking act of bravery posting all this has been for me lmfAO you have no idea how many times I've had to stop myself from editing out a hot take out of fear that even one chronically online individual might feel the need to punish me to protect the purity of the funny alien robot comic, including this paragraph

gfdsjkk I forgot Fort Max just fuckin kicks Prowl while he's in his alt mode so it just looks like he's kicking a police car. ACAB

oh god Outrigger's a fuckin youtuber lmAO

aww I do like that both Fort Max and Red Alert tried to get in contact with anyone they could when they saw everyone's farewell message, they still have everyone's numbers. Ooh except Chromedome changed his, or at least I assume Prowl's talking about Chromedome

ooohh right, this was another theory if I remember correctly, that Fort Max used to be Pious Maximus, like he got shadowplayed from being one to the other. I vaguely remember a panel I think way back in the Shadowplay arc of a dude in the background who looked kind of like Fort Max when Prowl and Chromedome found one of the institutes

casually thousand yard stares off into space at Sentinel's monologue about how Cybertron is now full of “mongrel Cybertronians” and he wants to “wipe the slate clean.” I wish life would imitate art would imitate life a little less lmfAO

*points at Prowl* lol but also Sentinel leave Red alone, he doesn't deserve this

MTMTE 57

ohh man here we go, last issue of MTMTE. It's not the end of the comic, it just changes names, but this still always feels like a milestone. The name changes, the main artist changes, this is absolutely a turning point and it always feels strangely bittersweet to reach it during a readthrough

“You're not one of THOSE, are you?” is still such a funny line of dialogue, truly on some care bears villain shit

still incredibly funny that Prowl has to use his table-flipping skills to reactivate the titan. The release mechanism was just. Conveniently table-shaped

man no wonder Red Alert got overwhelmed and tried to end it, poor dude's been out here playing 4D chess with his own brain for millions of years

fgshdjks Sentinel gets knocked into a pit by a bird and unceremoniously falls to his death. I've never seen anyone get more owned in my life

“You hate change. I sympathize.” “I hate endings.” “Same thing.” yEAH. YEAH THAT'S WHY THIS ALWAYS FEELS SO BITTERSWEET like yeah it's not an actual ending, but it is the end of certain constants that had been established (like the name, the main artist, etc) and like. That's enough! That's enough of a change for it to be felt! Not to get too deep or anything but it's normal to mourn for the loss of a life you're still living because it's no longer the same life

MTMTE Revolution

but before we move on, one more issue of MTMTE lmAO

god I completely forgot about Crankcase's online boyfriend

gfsjdkl Krok and Fulcrum trying to help Crankcase prepare for his date........ they're real ones

gOD THEIR STUPID HOLOMATTER AVATARS...

THEY FUCKIN BURIED HIS ASS god they are so bad at humans lmfAO

aww, Grimlock... shame he had to level a handful of cities to get his keepsake back but that's very sweet lmAO

fdhjks poor MP3

[sunshinemoonrx]

Cai, Bedwyr and company

So pretty much ever since this post about the original folkloric magical-warrior Arthur, I've been doodling designs for other characters surrounding him (and that real good art I rb'd yesterday kicked my ass into wanting to upload them finally).

Of the companions of the Welsh version of Arthur, Cai (or Cei/Kei) has to top the list. Most magical guy in the world. Per Culhwch & Olwen dude has heat and cold powers, he can grow giant, he can survive underwater for nine days. He fought a giant cat once. (It's actually kind of interesting that he later was adapted into the boorish, incompetent Sir Kay because of how amazing he originally was; it's the classic anime rival bit where you can show how cool your new OC, Lancelot or whoever, is by having him be better than the existing best guy)

I was already leaning into the "slutty magical anime boys" aesthetic and, with characters like this who only appear once the legendary Welsh versions of the 9th century on get into full swing, I felt more license to go further with that (whereas my Arthur and Trwyth look slightly more down-to-earth because they appears even earlier as small-scale local figures).

So my concept for Cai is that since he can generate heat from his skin so intense no rain can touch him without evaporating, by anime girl character design logic obviously he has to leave his back and shoulders and thighs uncovered since that's where I'm having his wings of magical flame project from.

The hair gave me a little trouble--I briefly thought I could give him two-coloured hair to reflect his heat/cold thing, but then I remembered one of the popular HeroAca guys is a two-colour-hair fire-ice-powers guy so I hard-swerved away from treading on those toes. In the end I settled on the MILFy ponytail at the bottom since it'd keep his hair clear of his back, since again, it's very logical and strategically important for the skin there to be bare.

The gloves and metal bands, meanwhile, are meant to be like a shadow the hedgehog power-limiter kinda deal, where he can take them off to unleash his full elemental power. That works with gloves but not really the boots, but I didn't want to lose the symmetry, but then! A piece of medieval Welsh poetry gave me inspiration for another function, and a way to make the design hornier I guess.

One of the Triads of Britain refers to the Three Fettered Men of the Isle of Britain: "Because horses could not be obtained that were suited to them, owing to their size; so they put fetters of gold around the small of their legs, on the cruppers of their horses, behind their backs".

Cai isn't one of the three, but in addition to his main epithet "Cai Wyn" ("worthy Cai", or "Cai the Fair", so it's important he's hot you see), he's also known as "Cai Hir" ("Cai the Tall"), which may be a reference to his ability to grow giant, and fits the 'reasoning' in the Triad. So the bands on his legs became fetters of gold, and my idea is he releases his power by breaking the chain to do his Ultraman rise.

A "crupper", meanwhile, seems to be like, an ass-harness? Sure, that fits the vibe we've ended up at. I figured that can be what he slings his sword from, and then spent...a while trying to figure out the logistics of that. So y'know I had to draw his hips and ass a bunch. For science.

As you can see, there's a couple of attempts to render the leotard as chainmail; one story, Rhonabwy's Dream, describes Cai as wearing mail of pure white rings with pure red rivets, which sounds gorgeous but I dunno how to draw white chainmail so I mostly gave up. He can wear one over the other, I guess?

In Culhwch, Cai (who is the best sword-maker in the world, naturally) forges a sword for the giant Wrnach Gawr, then kills him with it and takes it, so I figured that'd be a cool weapon to give him. Cai asks if he'd like it to be white-bladed or dark-blue-bladed, and Wrnach answers "whichever way you prefer"; we never find out what that is, so I thought an asymmetrical design incorporating both would be fun.

Anyway, here's another friend: Bedwyr! Precursor to Sir Bedivere, Bedwyr is Cai's constant companion, who "never feared a quest that Cai went on". Do Not separate them. He's the Fast Guy; though he has one hand, he can draw blood three times faster than anyone can with two; by the time you notice he's stabbed you once, he's stabbed you another seven times, etc. He's also noted as the most beautiful man in all the land (except Arthur, and one other guy whose name never comes up anywhere else).

I had kinda wanted to give Cai lots of hair volume but was thwarted by the bare-back thing so I made that Bedwyr's thing, and he's gotta be a spear guy given the above (another fun thing is his spearhead can fly off and stab guys on its own then come back to him). Another Triad calls Cai one of the "Three Diademed Battle-Leaders of the Isle of Britain", but adds after giving the three that "And one was diademed above the three of them: that was Bedwyr son of Bedrawc." So that's why they both have little tiaras, and while I flip back and forth on the look I settled on making Bedwyr's a little fancier and Cai's simpler to conform with the poem.

So that's how we arrive at what I consider my final designs for these two lovebirds (one poet tells us Bedwyr's death left Cai "heartbroken"); in the end I prefer the sword-harness just looking like a simple belt from the front, and I added some boots? Thigh-socks? Something?? to Bedwyr to break up the design a bit. The asymmetry of them to conform with his tunic's skirt is inspired by Marin from Saint Seiya, who really rocks the asymmetrical leggings.

And on the right is an initial go at Gwenhwyfar, precursor to Guinivere (and I try to respect the Welsh spellings and pronounciations generally, but I may sometimes refer to her as just "Gwen" in this case). I was inspired by a fragmentary dialogue between her and an antagonistic warrior Melwas (who spends half the dialogue trying to fight Cai actually), where he calls her "Gwenhwyfar of the deer's glance", which brought a vision of a spooky lanky cryptid lady with all-black too-long eyes to mind.

The battle of Camlann was said to be brought about by conflict between Gwenhwyfar and her sister Gwenhwyfach, and a blow struck by the latter to the former, but they might also be like...reflections of the same person's good and bad sides or something?? It's all very murky. In any case, I couldn't stop thinking of Gwen as someone who punches dudes, and the main other instance of that in Welsh legends are their versions of "witches", who wear armour and kill with iron claws. Gwen's mother is a member of the Roman nobility, so I thought fuck it, let's get real wacky and ahistorical and dress her like a cestus-wielding gladiator. Roman influence, iron claws, punching dudes, it all comes together.

Oh, and her father is a giant, so I drew a little Arthur to scale at the bottom to show she's inherited some of that too. I wanna draw her more and refine this, make her spookier (one Triad presents her as being three people? Or Arthur just had three wives with the same name? It might just be a pun? Unclear???) But for now, here's one final page of assorted stuff, presented a couple ways up for clarity:

So there's another Bedwyr; below him, the Cath Palug, the giant cat Cai fights in the poem Pa Gur, which I do intend to do a big funky monster design for, but much like Trwyth in the first post, I had fun doing a human one too. What, am I not gonna draw a catgirl when I can draw a catgirl?

From the other angle, there's Melwas, foe of Cai and Gwen mentioned above. He describes himself as young, and Gwen calls him a "lad of black and yellow", so I made him a twink with dyed hair, but I'll do a more full design later. Probably not before doing Cai's fight with the Cath Palug though.

Caledfwlch, the pre-Excalibur, I drew before, but I did a more ostentatious version here based on its description in Rhonabwy's Dream, where drawing it is like flames leaping forth from the jaws of the serpents whose designs were on it, so blinding no-one could look at it. I like to imagine it having the more humble look until the critical moment when it reveals its true form.

Aaaaand then there's Arthur on a motorbike. (You may have noticed there's one of these way further up in this post in one of the Cai pages) This is just me continuing to think about that idea from the last post about him popping back up in the modern day. Mostly what I orbit around is that he'd defeat whatever evil wizard he was summoned to deal with and then people would be like "so your job is done?" and he'd be like "what? no, the world is clearly in grave peril" and start running around destroying fossil fuel infrastructure. In fact I have a real hankering to make that a comic, but I'd need to be like, an actual artist for that.

So anyway the idea is he gets the spirit of his horse (Llamrei) to inhabit the bike, enabling it to do sick physics-defying stunts. Here's another for the road in fact:

(Wow, Cat, do you like Kamen Rider or something?)

[c4tto626]

you like murderbot? do you have,, thoughts about it? fav character/relationship/scene? are you caught up on all of them?

oh i love it! definitely one of my favourite series! the way it talks about personhood versus humanity versus being human, all of which are different things, is so important to me. also as someone who uses it pronouns i love a main character that also uses it pronouns (and everyone just. accepts it no problem lol) obviously i just love the whole presaux crew, murderbot's and art's friendship is sooo important to me!

and god don't ask me for a favourite scene there's so many good ones!! but i think the whole. "you have no idea what i am." - "i know exactly what you are. you're afraid, you're hurt, and you need to calm the fuck down so we can get through this situation alive." scene on the gunship on tranrollinhyfa is so. GOOD. and then murderbot almost deleting itself trying to save its humans!! yeah. so what if i maybe like a self-sacrificial character 👀

but also the whole ganaka pit section was so fucking heart-breaking like holy shit the way the units in the recorded data keep trying to push through the massacre and just. stop responding one by one... bruh

there's so many good scenes if i listed them all i would probably re-tell the entire series lmao

then there's also the overall setting, the absolutely dystopian capitalistic hell of the corporation rim versus the much more pleasant (but not perfect utopian) non-corporate territories, the existence of alien artifacts (and in fact the whole. alien remnants can literally drive people insane, etc. just by. being around them), it's a very cool setting~

i haven't had the time to read the most recent book (system collapse) because work has been kicking my ass (and also i occasionally got too busy writing instead of reading lol) but i should have time to start the audio book at work next week 🙏

i would die for murderbot but it would kill itself for me first and then complain about always having to save random humans i think lmao

[bvannn]

Weekly update March 22, 2024

I’m still exhausted beyond words. I’m also on a bit of a spiral where I’m worried about the quality of my art and about my output, but it’s okay because I’m chipping away at old big projects still and as soon as classwork is subsided I’m going to try to learn a new skill, because any time I feel insufficient I learn a new skill so I can be better. Classes have been kicking my ass mostly but hopefully big things will be coming sooner rather than later.

I’ve been doing a number of drawings to time myself and update my comms. Turns out I’m a lot less consistent than I thought so it’ll be a bit longer till I get prices sorted out but it’s coming along. Also good chance I’ll add more on to it later once I sort out more things I can offer. My usual drawing style will be the main one, but I’m hoping I can also add the epithet erased style, the chibi dnd mini style I do sometimes, options for backgrounds, and eventually also music.

Problem with music though has been my exhaustion. The only music stuff I’ve really been drilling at has been bigger projects, but I’d like to just sit down and do a small beat as well at some point. Once I catch up with classwork I might try. I have been chipping away at a couple instrumental pieces, as well as the larger vocal cover and I did some lyric writing today for the two ‘finished mostly’ ones I’ve been sitting on. I did have to scrap and redo a character theme for the second time this week but once I have some time with a clear mind I can reroute that one and use the melody I wrote for the last draft. In development right now are an ambient character theme, a 16bit-ish instrumental theme, a Zelda medley, a song cover with Kyo, a small gabber song with no affiliation to anything, the two original vocal songs, one symphonic rock and one EDM, and a handful of others that I haven’t been actively working on. As soon as I have significant time I’m going to try to finish off some of them.

Once the music is finished I’ll have to throw visuals together for them too. I really want to put in effort to make animation rigs again but I don’t have the time or energy. I might do one for the vocal cover song since I could be reusing the character but I’m not sure it’ll be necessary. Once the cover is done I’ll storyboard something and decide then.

Comic is also still going, I haven’t had a ton of time to do thumbnailing/writing, but I should be down to the last scene. No guarantee I won’t have to add more after editing, but it’s getting there. Once that’s done I’ll try to post roughs of specific panels so it’s a bit easier to keep track of where it’s at. The thumbnailing is a big bottleneck right now because it takes a lot of brain power but it’s almost done. If I get myself together this next week it should be done by the next update. No promises though, I have a lot of classwork.

Last couple things, a good amount of my exhaustion is the result of insomnia, but I’ve been using that time to plan out TTRPG campaign stuff. I think I have some really fun creative encounters. I think I probably will try to write it out and find a way to release it, just in the interest of getting more people to play the anime campaign system (or whatever they end up renaming it to when the epithet erased version of the rules drops… eventually). I might throw together art for that too, but that’ll be a ways off, after the writing and encounters are done. Plus ideally I’d want the module to be available for free, so I don’t need to add too much anyway.

Last thing, as I mentioned I’m a bit unsatisfied with where I am with art stuff. I want to thank everyone who has been sticking around, I am trying to make it worthwhile for you too. But whenever I am unsatisfied with myself I need to learn a new skill, so I may be dipping my toes into pixel art soon. I do have that 16bit ish instrumental song I mentioned, that’s been on the back burner since January but I’ve finally been hit with the inspiration to finish it, and a little pixel animation would be nice to go with it, but that would require me to learn pixel art itself first, so I’ll try to do that in the coming weeks. Idk how soon though.

This next week will be primarily dedicated to clearing up schoolwork and fixing my sleep problem. After that I’ll try finishing up that cover song, finishing up comic thumbnailing, and finishing up that instrumental song, in that order. Anything else is a bonus. Will class work and insomnia get in the way? Probably, but I’m still doing my best.

[hummingbird-games]

Dev Diaries

March 5th, 2024

So. We're 3 months into the new year. Huh.

Updates from me? I started a new job! I've been reading/catching up on a toooooon of manga lately (I'm also sloooooowly making my way through a nonfiction read and can't help thinking how Corey would heavily sympathize with me. Sigh.)

I also got another free month of Spotify (lol, I think I'm the only person I know who only uses the free plan because I'd rather spend that money elsewhere??) so I've been on a listening spree and flagging songs for a writing playlist I will use for the majority of the HSDJY 2 drafting process moving forward.

I still have yet to play BG3. My family gifted me the physical edition, so I've been impatiently waiting for it to ship out. It's been 84 years JFJEHFJHJF!!

Hmmm...nothing else interesting has happened to me (that I can publicly share ☠️) so on with the game development updates!!!!!

What Has Gemini Been Up To? -> TKD (again)

March 16th!!! Y'all, this is the deadline the team and I are working towards for a finished and published game 😭 unfortunately my plans for full voice work won’t be realized by then (but they will be realized. Just in a few months. Honestly, it wouldn’t surprise me if y'all get the updated HSD 2 demo before the fully voiced TKD….)

What Has Gemini Been Up To? -> HSD:JY and Ko-fi

Ko-fi first!!

It’s only been a few months (since November??) but I’m super proud of my posting consistency! Granted, I’m a little anxious about how posts will look moving forward once I start moving major updates and general silliness to Tumblr. But. We shall cross the bridge when it appears.

March snuck up on me and I only have the free and any-paid-support ready, but the subbies are just There™️. That being said...when I'm quiet or posting non-Hummingbird content here, there's 99.9% chance I've made a free post on ko-fi.

Tumblr is looking like the other social media platforms right now with its flagrant support of AI, and it gives me a headache trying to decide how to keep everyone informed as well as share posts from my peers and new kids on the block. Anyhoo!!!

High School Daze goodies??

At the time of this post, a couple things have been happening that I haven't had the time (or the energy) to talk about. The obvious? HIGH SCHOOl DAZE: JUNIOR 2 HAS AN ITCH.IO PAGE!! I...have no idea when the full game will be out. I have an idea...but I don't want to say it and feel obligated to make that deadline just so I don't disappoint players. (I'm well aware that some people took one look at Crushed, went "Aww, that's nice, Gemini. Now where's HSD??" 🤣)

The first round of sprites have been commissioned!! If you peeped the key art (also done by my sprite artist, heehee she's lovely) you might notice some new outfits, some new hairdos. Fingers crossed I'll be able to update the page--to mirror the debut game's page--at the same time the new demo goes live (which will showcase all of or at least 75% of the common route of the full game. Stay tuned to find out if we'll focus on the friendship route or if I can defeat the Coding Monster to include all the variations for the romances too aha).

Writing wise? Five of the six total routes are outlined. (Florence's I've…barely started 🥲…this pre-production thing is kicking my ass). I’ve started drafting out the friendship route too, as seen by the random posts I’ve made about HSDJY 2. Well, a combination of friendship route + the common route with its lovely variations that aren’t a nuisance at all. Nope. *eye twitch*

I alsooooooo discovered that all the raw and edited music I created for HSD and for personal projects over the years using GarageBand were deleted. And I never backed them up. So. The tracks I made, the jingle for the splash screen, the main theme and it's 2 variations, and alllllll the little cute things I made that are as old as my own high school days are....gone.

Poof!

If I sound very calm about this, what an astute observation! But my anxiety is being used elsewhere, and I decided that I while I can't go back to the original files to tweak them, I've backed up the other files. And I don't mind starting from scratch with this.

But also y'all, please back up your shit. Please. Don't be caught slipping.

That poll I made a while back that now has results and I totally didn't forget about?? The boys won!! And I'm not surprised 🤣 I haven't decided yet if I'll do a live developer stream or a prerecorded one, but either way it'll happen closer to October, the 2nd anniversary date.

What Will Gemini be Up To?? -> Rest?!?!?

I assumed a lot of things about what would be done or not done by March, and that led me to loosely block out March as a 'rest' month. I wouldn't work on any projects, and instead would read, play console and computer games, and basically take the break I didn't take in December.

Well. The Knight Dance is still in production. And I commissioned sprites earlier than expected. And I didn't plan enough ko-fi content to be scheduled in my absence. LOL and I started a new job!? 🥹

But!!! But but but, I do need to take some type of break so I'll do my best to be scarce in this space (and lower the temptation to work because I see y'all are working LOL). Cool? Cool!

- Gemini 💛

[nizzysam]

The Bear And The Fire

Rating: Explicit

Pairing: Micah Bell/Arthur Morgan

Tags: Angst and Porn, Angst, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Masturbation, Mutual Masturbation, Hate Sex, Low Honor Arthur Morgan, No Aftercare, First Time

Summary: Micah is taking up woodcarving and has no intention of arguing today. Arthur, on the other hand, has an overwhelming urge to tease him until Micah can't take it anymore. Or, Micah finds out why Arthur is so het up that evening.

Snippet: Since Micah did not take it on his initiative, Arthur walked over and slammed it against his chest. Then Micah took it and their hands brushed against each other. Arthur was warm, the figurine a little damp.

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Micah was sitting around the campfire. In front of him, Reverend Swanson swallowed beer after beer and stared into the flames. Being anywhere near the Reverend sickened him. Micah hated the idle and the weak. And Swanson was both of those things. This time he decided he was not going to broach an argument. Judging by Swanson's bewildered look, he wasn't likely to get a response. There would have been little to no fun in that game, as he leaned when he kicked his unconscious, religious ass awake. And he surely didn’t want Miss Grimshaw yelling at him.

Besides, Micah had other things to do. He had been busy carving wood for a few hours, an art requiring patience and precision. Now twisting the piece of wood in his hands, Micah was carefully scanning each screwing craved with his knife. Under the firelight, he gave a couple more touches and added some detail to the sculpture.

"After you, that's the ugliest pig I've ever seen in my entire life."

"Very funny, Morgan. It's a bear."

“That ain’t a bear.”

“I made it. It’s a bear.”

“Bet you saw a giant pig and thought that was it.”

“Oh, you’re a comedian now.”

Arthur sat next to him, close enough to brush against his knee. Then he reached further and grabbed the figurine. It was so unexpected that Micah did not have time to react. Arthur Morgan had snatched the bear figurine from his hands and was now looking at it with an unimpressed look.

“You forgot the teeth, idiot.”

Micah shifted his gaze from Arthur's profile to the statuette. There was something wrong with it, and he finally realized what it was. The only problem was that Arthur had pointed it out. He clicked his tongue and took the bear back.

“It ain’t finished.”

Lips tightly pursed, Micah tried to carve out the bear's fangs. He could feel Arthur's gaze on him and it was unnerving. He tried giving him a couple of dirty looks in the hopes Arthur would receive the message. On the third glance, he lost his patience. Micah straightened himself up and looked at Arthur in a quiet but aggressive plea to stop staring.

"I'm just teasing you," Arthur said, hitting Micah's knee with his own.

At that moment Micah realized how close the other man was to him. Many questions swirled in his head, but he ignored them all. Arthur was obviously in the mood to rile him up.

"I don't like people this close to me."

"You like ‘em closer?"

“What are you trying to do here?”

“I want to see how you finish the… bear.”

The way Arthur pronounced the last word had him rolling his eyes. He inhaled noisily and turned his head to look at Arthur once more. That night Micah decided he wanted to be by himself. He didn't want to argue with anyone, hell, he barely wanted to talk at all. But Morgan decided that night was the night to tease him. His bad for sitting around the main campfire.

Micah stood up in silence and walked to the fire on the other side of the camp. He gained twenty minutes of peace, which he devoted to carving the fangs and adding details of the fur, nose, and claws. It looked like a bear through and through. Morgan was just trying to rattle him. That was a full-fledged bear!

"Look here."

"Why do you have to sneak up on people like that?"

"Look."

Arthur was standing behind him, holding his journal open on a yellowed page with a drawing of a bear. Micah stared at it, sitting still, clutching his figurine in his hands. It was the most beautiful drawing he had ever seen. Sure, he hadn't seen many, but Morgan's was definitely one of the best.

"Well. That's...  good."

Arthur closed the journal but kept standing behind him. What did he want? Micah told him what he wanted to hear, so why didn't he leave?

Arthur had walked all the way up there to show him that drawing to prove himself superior even in that respect. Micah realized he was clutching the figurine so tightly that his knuckles whitened.

"What is it, Morgan?" his tone was a grunt. Micah was losing his patience.

"Nothing. Just wanted to show you what a bear looks like."

Micah tried to get up from the chair but Arthur's heavy hand held him down. He felt the grip on his shoulder tighten and push him back into his seat. Then Arthur hunched over, his face close to Micah's ear.

"Just tryin’ to help."

“The hell with you, Morgan!”

“Alright, calm down. I’m done now. C’mon, show me the bear.”

“Go bother someone else. Not in the mood today.”

“I said I’m done.”

“Yeah, me too.”

By now Micah's breathing had quickened and Arthur's hand was still resting on his shoulder. He had had enough. If Arthur wanted to see the figurine so badly, he could watch it burn.

In one movement he freed himself from Arthur's grasp and threw the figurine into the fire.

"All yours," he said as he looked into the flames. He walked away, laughing to himself—an empty imitation of a laugh.

He couldn't have anything. Not a minute's respite, not a win, nothing. He went to sit under the broken chuck wagon at the end of the camp. There, nobody would bother him. The trees moved their leaves against the cool evening wind. A trickle of moonlight illuminated them enough to make out their branches.

Arthur was probably annoyed now that he could no longer mock him. Good. Micah found himself mulling over the figurine. He had worked on it for hours and now it was ashes. Foolish.

He sighed, both arms on his knees, and began fiddling with the carving knife, his gaze fixed on something in the distance. Several minutes passed in silence.

“Plenty of room somewhere else.”

He heard footsteps coming up behind him, and without turning around or looking away from that something in the distance, he invited whoever was approaching to go back the way they came.

“Bears are tough animals, y’know.”

To hell with his promise not to start fights. To hell with keeping to himself. Screw all of it. Morgan wanted a fight? Fine. He was going to give him what he was asking for.

Micah stood up, knife in hand. He was face to face with the other man, a few steps separating them. Built-up anger was boiling inside Micah, about to explode. It was clear from his tense shoulders and piercing gaze.

Arthur stood in front of him, holding something at stomach height. He stood there watching the blond man. Micah had left his white hat on the ground and now his hair fell tousled on his shoulders. Messier than usual, Arthur noticed. He took a step.

"You think you're really something, don't you? How about I show you how well I can carve?"

"Put the knife away, you ain't impressing no one. Here."

Arthur extended his arm. In his hand the charred figurine. Micah's shoulders relaxed and his brow furrowed. He was never going to understand what was going on in Morgan's head.

Micah did not take the figurine; he merely observed it. Then he looked at Arthur. "What are you playing at?"

"I may have taken it too far."

Micah looked away and snorted. He did not like the situation. Arthur was up to something, and he knew that whatever it was, it would not end well.

"What. Do you. Want," Micah was not yelling, but almost. It wouldn't be long before rage would set in.

Seeing the figurine he had spent hours on in that state drove him to his breaking point.

"Just trying to make amends. It looks more like a black bear now, huh?"

“Oh, so now it looks like a bear.”

“Take it.”

Since Micah did not take it on his initiative, Arthur walked over and slammed it against his chest. Then Micah took it and their hands brushed against each other. Arthur was warm, the figurine a little damp.

“Put a hand in the fire for me, Morgan?”

“I right my wrongs.”

“Here he is, high and mighty Morgan. You ain’t getting a reward. Get lost.”

But Arthur did not move. He kept looking at him. There was now only an arm's length between them. A small twitch flashed on Arthur's face. Micah knew it wasn't over.

"I've wrapped it in a wet towel so you don't burn your little fingers," he said as he slowly drew closer to the blond.

Micah held his position and reacted to the provocation by maintaining eye contact with the most menacing expression he had. He still had the figurine pressed on his chest and Morgan's hand holding it steady.

"I've burned mine. Can you feel it?"

Micah could feel it. Arthur's fingers rubbed lightly against his and went to rest on his chest. The contact was light and softened by the shirt, but Micah was very aware of the heat coming off them. He felt tingling where Arthur was touching him. And that look, that slight lip twitch Arthur had inadvertently made… Micah knew that dance very well.

So that was it. Arthur Morgan was horny. Micah was familiar with the expressions of a horny man, and couldn't help but smirk.

"Just can't resist, can you?"

At that phrase, Arthur abandoned all traces of self-control and smiled back. He looked around, making sure there was no one nearby. Then he pushed the blond behind the chuck wagon so that they were conveniently hidden from the camp.

“I knew you was down for it.”

“I ain’t said nothing yet.”

“No need.”

Arthur placed the figurine in the chuck wagon. Now his hand was free to explore Micah's chest. He was apparently in no mood for foreplay and wasted no time in bringing his other hand to Micah's side to draw him closer for a kiss.

“Whoa, easy. I ain’t kissing you, cowpoke.”

“Just want me to fuck you, Mister Bell?”

“Now that ain’t nice, Morgan.”

“I’m gonna make it real nice.”

Now both of his hands gripped Micah's hips. In Arthur's voice, he could hear lust and urgency. Micah would not have allowed it so easily. Besides, his anger was still slowly turning into arousal. All that had happened because Arthur wanted to fuck him, and now there he was, touching him like a desperate man. It turned Micah on beyond belief.

“You was looking at me all this time, uh? Finally found the courage to admit it?”

“I’ve been wanting to teach you some manners for a while now. You’re gonna be real polite when I finish with you.”

Micah grabbed Arthur's collar and pulled him closer. Arthur let him, taking advantage of that move to sink his nails into the blond man's clothed hips and press himself against him.

Micah lost track of what he was going to say. He could feel Arthur's cock against his own.

"You ain't man enough for that."

Instead of kissing him, Arthur ran his thumb over Micah's lips. Without breaking eye contact, Micah welcomed the finger into his mouth and licked it slowly. Then Arthur offered him his index and middle fingers, and Micah licked them both greedily, taking them as deep as Arthur wanted. 

Arthur was hard, harder than Micah. His eyes struggled to stay fully open. The man was under his control, literally hanging on his lips. Micah wanted to know how Arthur would react if he moaned as he sucked on his fingers. 

Then Arthur pushed both fingers further in and Micah moaned. As a response, Arthur groaned and began rubbing himself against Micah. He pulled his fingers out of his mouth and grabbed his jaw, still grinding against him.

“You gonna come in your pants, cowpoke?”

“Maybe if I come in your mouth you’ll shut up.”

“Not a chance.”

“In that case…”

Micah found himself bent over the wagon, Arthur behind him clutching his ass. He rested on his elbows and turned to look at Arthur. The man behind him had his lips curled forward, one hand on his crotch and one on Micah's ass.

When Arthur's thumb pressed down on his opening, Micah flinched away at the sudden sensation and then pushed back against the finger. A wave of arousal swept over him. He did not believe he was bent over in front of Arthur Morgan.

“If only I knew you were such a slut I would have fucked you earlier.”

“Careful. I ain’t forget about the bear.”

“Get out of these damn pants.”

“I ain’t even that horny yet. Do something about it.”

Arthur slapped his ass loudly and then slid his hand between his legs, slowly moving from his opening to his shaft, dwelling on that sensitive area just below his hole. Micah closed his eyes and moaned quietly, muffling that moan so Arthur wouldn't hear. But his reaction was well evident by how hard he had become after just a few seconds.

Arthur laughed mischievously and began stroking him over his clothes. Micah was still bent over in front of him, his legs slightly open to allow his hand to slip between his thighs. In the meantime, Arthur pulled his cock out of his pants and jerked with the same rhythm at which he was touching Micah.

Micah stood up, turned around, and took to unbuttoning his pants. Unlike Arthur, he lowered his pants completely. They jerked off looking at each other. Micah gave long quick strokes while Arthur went slower and focused on the tip.

Micah's head was empty. The anger was fully transformed into blind, greedy lust. When Arthur reached down and took both of their cocks in his hand, Micah closed his eyes and let his head fall back. The friction was painful but did not last long.

He felt Arthur's saliva dripping down on their tips. The sensation was so strong he had to hold onto the wagon. Micah began thrusting against Arthur, and their moans grew louder.

“How do you like it?” Arthur asked resting his head against Micah's forehead as he continued to stroke both of them, now slower.

“Fast and rough,” Micah replied in a throaty voice, his mouth open from pleasure.

“I knew it.”

Arthur didn't hesitate to kiss him and Micah didn't object, responding with the same urgency. They kissed until they had to break away to catch their breath. At which point Micah turned, bent over, and spread his legs.

Arthur's finger was still wet with saliva and he took to teasing Micah's opening. The index finger slipped in effortlessly. Micah was already open and ready for a second finger, but Arthur decided to make him suffer some more.

"Oh shit, Arthur-"

Micah moved against the finger but needed more, needed to feel the full pressure of Arthur's cock inside him. One finger was never going to be enough.

Arthur spat and saliva dripped down on Micah's ass, making it easier to insert the second finger. He finger-fucked him deeper and deeper, then picked up speed.

"You're taking it so well. Such a slut."

“Right your wrongs, Morgan.”

Arthur spat on his palm and lubed his cock with it, lined up against Micah’s opening, and started pushing himself in. The moans that came out of Micah's mouth would have been obscene if only he had not muffled them with his hand. They could not be heard and it was so hard to be silent.

Micah dropped his head on his folded arms and bit his hand to keep any moans from escaping. Behind him, Arthur was still pushing his full length into him. He held him firmly by the hips. Arthur was so hard inside him, so deep. And Micah was so tight and warm.

When Arthur was completely inside him, Micah began to move slowly. And Arthur lost his mind. He wanted to fuck Micah for a long time, to put him in his place, under him. He did not think it was possible to get any harder than this, but his cock proved him wrong. Micah noticed it too and chuckled but he soon stopped when Arthur began to fuck him hard and slow, nearly pulling out completely and then pushing in all the way to the base of the shaft.

He hit that sweet spot over and over, forcing Micah to grab his cock and stroke it to relieve all that build-up arousal. Arthur never thought it would be this thrilling. He could barely think.

Excitement took over as Arthur leaned over Micah and grabbed him by the throat, lifting him against his chest. His lips were pressed against the blond's ear.

Arthur's breath crept into Micah's ear sending waves of uncontainable pleasure down his back. He would not last long, he was so close. Micah began jerking faster.

"Fast and rough, huh?" Arthur whispered in his ear.

Arthur took to fucking him just as Micah likes, one hand holding him by the throat and the other on his hip. The sound of Micah's ass on his cock was loud. He was sure someone would hear them, but he didn't care.

“Look at me.”

Micah turned his head as far as he could and looked at him. Arthur was sweating, pushing himself into him with his mouth open, licking his lips from time to time. He looked like an animal. He was so horny. Soon Micah came profusely in his fist, grunting and watching Arthur fuck him. It wasn't long before Arthur came inside him in a painful thrust. He kept moving inside Micah until the wave of the orgasm had worn off.

Arthur leaned closer to Micah, his chest on the blond man's back. “Still mad at me?”, he chuckled against his ear.

“Who’s there?”

A voice came from ahead, chilling both of their spines. Fortunately, the chuck wagon covered them.

“Don’t move,” he whispered in Micah’s ear before lifting his head. “Just me. Everything’s fine, John.”

“You sure? I heard-”

“Move along,” this time Arthur shouted. Admittedly, he was worried John wouldn't listen. Hell, he was still buried inside Micah. And there was something thrilling about the possibility of being discovered.

"Alright, I'm going."

When they were both sure John had left, Arthur pulled out of Micah and adjusted himself. Micah pulled up his pants. Soon, they were both good to go. They looked at each other and found absolutely nothing to say. It was awkward. More for Arthur as Micah wasn't used to speaking at all after sex.

"So," Arthur started.

"Not a word. I know."

"No, it's... You know what? Yeah. Not a word."

"Bye now, Morgan."

As is often the case, the excitement of it all faded as quickly as it came. Micah found himself alone with his now-burnt figurine, as he had intended for the evening. He smiled at the new advantage he gained over Morgan. He was planning to use it, from time to time.

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Hi! Uh, I want to get into Sonic. Any shows/games you would reccomend starting with? An order? Also!! What's your favorite iteration of sonic (if you have one)

i think this might be THE question every sonic fan is dying to be asked. that is to say, hell yeah it would be my pleasure to make some recommendations >:] 

best things to try as a very first introduction to the hedgehog and friends (that are still relatively bitesized or accessible): 

the official animations for sonic mania, team sonic racing, chao in space, sonic colors, and most recently sonic frontiers. personal favorites are chao in space bc its adorable and frontiers for… obvious (knuckles) reasons (it’s about knuckles). these are short and sweet and absolutely adorable so they’re always some of the first things i recommend :] check ‘em out if you can - you won’t regret it. 

on that topic, Sonic Frontiers is a solid place to start with the games! it’s the most recent release so there’s currently a demo available on switch and it’s also on sale on steam right now (until Feb 13th!). few of the games directly lead into each other so picking specific games to start with is more down to personal taste, i’ll go into more detail if you’d like but for an introduction to the series? frontiers has been very well received and many consider it a return to form after the last few games, so it’s a good place to pick up the series! EDIT: I FORGOT ABOUT GENERATIONS. sonic generations is basically a Best-Of compilation of sonic’s most well known stages and it’s also perfect for a first time player. it was MY first game. how on earth did i forget about it. anyway it’s also on steam and it kicks ass!!!

alternately, much of the franchise was codified in the adventure games, so if you prefer starting at the beginning, they’re big recommendations as well! both Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 are on steam and MANY playthroughs are online. SA2 was also the first of the sonic fandubs, so if you’ve seen any of those memes that’s where they’re from. 

also, if you’re into zelda games you’ll probably love frontiers. but if you prefer 2D/pixel art games, Sonic Origins just came out last summer and contains rereleases of the first four sonic games and Mania is always a fun option! alternately, try here for a taste of sonic 2 :] 

comics!! comics!!!!! the IDW Sonic The Hedgehog comics are killing it lately and double as canon and ridiculously fun. the first arc is issues 1-12 and if that won’t sell you on this funky little guy, well, there’s a lot more options too! you can find the IDW run here - but support your local comic shop if you can! 

for a little more bite-sized try the recent miniseries scrapnik island! it’s standalone from the main storyline and considering you’re a ninjago fan i think you’ll enjoy a fun story about morally complex robots :D 

the Archie series is amazing at times and so bad it’s funny at others - but what isn’t? while i am a HUGE fan it does require quite a bit of time and investment. other recommendations from the 300 issue+ legacy of sonic comics are available on request (i do not know how to shut up <3) 

tv shows!! Sonic Prime just released on Netflix and it slaps. not the most traditional sonic but it’s fun as hell and ongoing - we’re only ⅓ into the first season and there’s at least two guaranteed. the animation is astounding and it’s coincidentally produced by wildbrain just like current ninjago. i edited one of it’s kickass fight scenes here 

this is almost certainly far more than you need but i love talking about this series so thanks for humoring me :] i hope you enjoy them!! hmmm… they’ve all got their own appeal to me but lately i’ve been watching a lot of playthroughs while drawing (and i eagerly await the frontiers dlc so i have an excuse to replay it) and i think atm game sonic’s my favorite! the comics are delightful and the shows always have their own twists but i love good ‘ol game sonic… the others are more than just facets of his character and have their own great stories, but there’s something special about the original. this message brought to you by how absolutely astounding his characterization is in Sonic Unleashed. we missed you big guy. hope you have fun!!