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A little something that I was working on while dying of boredom at work...
This is 2/6 pages rn, I'm trying to color the other ones. :')
#jinx/lux#luxanna crownguard#jinx#xi-colors#xi-comix#lightcannon#idk what this is#im just doodling really#my mind is whack
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Rip of the week: 19/08/2024
Apotheosis to Heaven
Season 8 No Album Release (Read More)
Ripped by Neofall
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Requested by eg_9371! (Request Form)
A big part of why I opened up the Request Form, and why I continue to use it for ideas for the blog, is to give me inspiration in areas of SiIvaGunner to which I'm less well versed. There are some games and some rips by extension where I feel completely unable to write anything of substance, because I just lack the needed context for the rip to hit for me - but other times, the form opens my eyes to rabbitholes which I'm all too happy to delve into, through rips like Plantasia 2, mlp racism anthem (comix zone arrange), guess what��???????? and more. I've learned to trust eg_9371's judgement on quality as a requestee, and many parts of his massive catalogue of contributions have shown me quality in areas I'd never thought to look, through rips like kris gaming and Plasmaseeker. And so, I said, you know what? Let's give his endorsement one more shake, and approach a rip I'd initially looked past as not being for me. With that, I hit play on Apotheosis to Heaven - and was met with one of the biggest surprise hits I'd yet heard in the season.
Journey is a game that hits home for a lot of people, yet it was just outside of my periphery when it originally released back in 2012 - I was an 11-year old without a PS3. But even without attachment to Journey, Apotheosis as an ending theme to the game hits home to a degree I wasn't expecting, a swelling orchestral piece going through feelings of anticipation, sorrow, bittersweetness, acceptance, all throughout the span of a 7-minute long composition. The overall word to describe it, of course, would be grand. Yet much the same can be said, on the complete opposite end method, for the song with which Apotheosis to Heaven is being mashed up with, Ascension to Heaven by independant artist Xi. Like with the aforementioned Plasmaseeker, this is a song I know damn near nothing about, most prominently being featured in various Japanese rhythm games but seemingly also having a presence within the Geometry Dash community. Yet despite holding even less of an emotional connection to me than Journey did, it cannot be denied just how impressive of a piece Ascension to Heaven truly is, pairing a pounding electronic percussion with mellow strings and absolutely off-the-rails piano rolls - what feels like three entirely different forms of music and speed, mesh together for a piece with a sound I can only describe with the imagery of a lone bird flying toward the sun.
Loneliness, bittersweetness, strife, failure, perseverance - the emotions distilled into me through these two tracks are ones that were no doubt eons stronger for someone with attachment to either of the works from beforehand, and most definitely strong within ripper Neofall upon creating Apotheosis to Heaven. These are two songs that are both pulsing with emotion, yet accomplish it through very sonically different methods, one through swelling orchestral resonance, and the other through a pounding piano-driven rhythm. Yet that emotional core remains, and through some miracle and no doubt tons of love for the pieces featured, Neofall found a way to blend the two pieces into one grand feature - leveraging Apotheosis' atmosphere and grandure in order to use it as background scoring to Ascension to Heaven's insane melody. Even with one piece falling to the background and another to the foreground, however, it never feels as if one is overpowering the other - the two leverage one another's strengths seamlessly for a listen that manages to hit harder than just the sum of both's parts.
Without a thorough understanding of music creation or of either track's true sonic makeup, part of me does still feel uneducated, in a sense, to be writing about a rip of this quality in sound and scale - it's a mashup like many others, yes, yet every part of it feels ironed out and sandpapered to sheer seamless perfection between two tracks that would otherwise feel borderline incompatible. Yet...seeing such quality persist within areas of the channel that I remain uneducated on, feels like part of the magic of the SiIvaGunner channel. We are currently on SiIvaGunner's 8th year in the running, with its rippers having grown all the more able to express their passions and interests than ever before - and Season 7 and Season 8 have, in turn, given us some of the most ambitious, personal rips we've yet seen on the channel. Be it Luna, mi Amor, A Balcony atop the Labyrinth of Lights, The Paragoomba and the Wiggler, or so many more, we've had an onslaught of rips still only made by one to three people that feel creatively driven and magical enough to be justifiably mistaken for months-in-the-making passion projects. And even without a direct tie to its source material, Apotheosis to Heaven gives me that very same vibe: Of one ripper seeing what can be done through utilization of two tracks close to their heart, and going absolutely hog-wild in ensuring the execution be up to the standards raised by so many other parts of the SiIvaGunner team.
It is a blessing that we can be eight years into this channel's life, and still have rips of this caliber slip entirely through the cracks as if they're nothing but everyday, average rips. Today, the hearts of the SiIvaGunner team is on full display at just about every day of its operation - and I am eternally grateful that such seemingly niche pursuits like Apotheosis to Heaven remain part of that.
#todays siivagunner#season 8#siivagunner#siiva#Neofall#tentative rip name#Journey#Journey game#thatgamecompany#ascension to heaven#rhythm games#geometry dash
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Marcel Duchamp was in the habit of anticipating future art movements. His 1936 Cahiers d’Art cover is a precursor to Op Art, and employs the vibration effect to create the impression of a fluttering movement at the boundary between the red and blue heart shapes.
The Marcia Hafif painting seen here was made when she was a young artist living in Rome, a few years before she started creating her distinctive body of monochromatic works using handmade paint. The (presumably commercial) orange and violet she used in 157 appear to be very close in value, and the “interlocking fingers” image increases the length of the boundary at which the vibration occurs.
The Op Art movement happened to coincide with the emergence of psychedelia in popular culture, and there was naturally quite a bit of crossover between these related visual tendencies. Victor Moscoso brought his own graphic sophistication and eye-searing colors to the to the Bay Area psychedelic poster scene and underground comix; perhaps unsurprisingly, he was a former Albers student.
Marcel Duchamp (France and U.S.A., 1887-1968). Cahiers d’Art Vol. XI — Coeurs Volants (Floating Hearts) 1936. 9 5/8 x 12 3/8 inches. Source.
Marcia Hafif (American 1929-2018). 157 October 1967. Acrylic on canvas, 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 inches. Source.
Victor Moscoso (American, born in Spain, 1936). June 29-30/July 1-2, 1967, at the Avalon Ballroom featuring Quicksilver Messenger Service, Mount Rushmore, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Blue Cheer. Offset lithograph on paper, 20 1/4 x 14 inches. Source.
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4/6 pages
#jinx/lux#luxanna crownguard#jinx#xi-doodles#xi-colors#xi-comix#lightcannon#lightcannon doodles#idk what this is
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Lightcannon Week // Day 07 - Camping
Taking a break from the serious stuff. Every once in a while, I need my gals to be idiots in love without even knowing they're in love your honor. Or, rather, just Jinx trying to figure out how to tell Lux her feelings but the girl is blonde, innocent, ball of sunshine, literally, and could only wonder why her belongings are going missing and ending up in the strangest of places. She will digress and just go with whatever flow has captured Jinx.
IDIOTS IN LOVE YOUR HONOR
#jinx/lux#luxanna crownguard#jinx#xi-doodles#xi-comix#lightcannonweek#lightcannon week#day 7 camping#camping#idiots in love#lightcannon
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bonus +
She Knows
#azutara#kazula#atla azula#atla katara#avatar the last airbender#i grew up with#the azutara tag#srry kazula tag people#:((#<333#luv u lots still#xi-doodles#xi-colors#xi-comix
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Heavily inspired by that one scene in Flashbangs/Frag Grenades (by Calchexxis on Ao3) <3
#jinx/lux#luxanna crownguard#jinx#xi-doodles#lightcannon doodles#lightcannon#inspo from Calchexxis#FBFG#iykyk#<33333#I've been sick lately#bleghhhh#xi-comix
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Lightcannon//Wolf's Rain AU
Lux the Wolf / Jinx the Flower Maiden
#luxanna crownguard#jinx/lux#jinx#xi-doodles#xi-colors#xi-comix#xi-wolf's rain au#lightcannon doodles#lightcannon#lux the wolf#jinx the maiden
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Lightcannon Week // Day 05 - Isekai
I am balling my eyes out. This took so long to finish, and just because of that, I started to really dive into and understand just the amount of tragedy is really happening in this.
But anyways, this is inspired from the film Pan's Labyrinth! Lux has been living a terrible life, that eventually all terrible things happened and so she makes a run for the Labyrinth in hopes to at least right a wrong in her life, and that was when she left Jinx behind when she was little.
Jinx had never been mad for her decision back then, she'd only hoped that when Lux's spirit was satisfied with this wanderment, that eventually she'd be able to bring her beloved back home to their own world that is full of magic and many other great wonders.
#jinx/lux#luxanna crownguard#jinx#xi-doodles#xi-comix#lightcannon week#lightcannonweek#lightcannon#lightcannon doodles#day 5 Labyrinth#Labyrinth
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Lightcannon Week // Day 02 - Murder
Anti-Hero (Killer) Jinx and Crazy Writer Lux. Friends since childhood, but it's been a secret to literally everyone they know. Until recently, Lux has found a new obsession in her writing that has her crossing paths with Jinx's....work, and she gets front row seats for it all. How exciting.
#jinx/lux#luxanna crownguard#jinx#xi-doodles#xi-comix#lightcannon week#lightcannonweek#lightcannon#murder#day 2 murder
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It's been a while since I've done an actual character design. But these are my rough designs for the WR Au I got sitting in my brain. And here's what I have in mind so far.
What I'm thinking is that Lux as the wolf, is chased out from home for being a beast and discovering the scent of Lunar Flowers in Zaun. The world isn't ending, but there are those who still seek out the power of Paradise. Lux could care less about that. She just wants a place to rest and have someone to love and be loved back in return.
Jinx discovers Lux in her wolf form locked up in one of Silco's cages, out of pure curiosity and a strive for some chaos. She releases Lux and lends her some clothes to replace her Demacian ones. The zip up and tank top are from Jinx. The belt, shoes and pants are from the scrap piles.
I think everyone should know that Lux refuses underwear. She's an animal.
Jinx is still crazy, just not bat shit losing her complete sanity crazy. Having lost her family to Enforcers, she's taken in by Silco's gang as a kid. She's not entirely faithful to the gang's vision but will still join raids for supply in order to help keep the people of Zaun alive.
A battle leaves her near death, Silco allows the doctor to experiment on her, but she ends up being revived with new abilities. Her case is a secret from others, even herself. All she knows is that she got blown up and then woke up in her bed. However, she begins to feel an invisible pull that leaves her feeling empty and miserable, urging her to search for something, someone.
And so Jinx would often throw herself into missions with a new vigor in hopes to stop the painful tug on her heart.
Things take a turn when she finds out that Silco caught a giant dog and refuses anyone to kill it or see it, keeping it in the labs. It's an easy break-in for her.
The pain that tugs at her heart finally eases when she finds the giant dog. Eventually, she'll discover that it is not a dog at all.
#xi wolfs rain au#jinx/lux#luxanna crownguard#jinx#xi-doodles#xi-comix#lux the wolf#jinx the maiden#lightcannon doodles#lightcannon#i wish i could write
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Lightcannon Week // Day 06 - Hiking
Highschool AU, Cheerleader Lux, and New Student Troublemaker Jinx. Decided to stick with something common this time. But there's a lot more to it.
Lux is a military brat that's basically had some slight abuse sprinkled in her life from her strict family. Jinx is just a normal gal going through the motions of her life, but things start looking up when Vi starts working with the sheriff, and their finances start to finally see some light.
The scenario goes like this: Lux has to cross a skatepark on the way home, Jinx hurts her leg by herself there, Lux offers to help her home, unaware that Jinx hikes 4 miles to and from school everyday. Or, at least until Vi could finally afford a vehicle of her own, other times Cait would drive her back home if work wasn't too busy.
#lightcannon week#lightcannonweek#lightcannon doodles#xi-comix#jinx/lux#luxanna crownguard#jinx#xi-doodles#lightcannon#day 6 hiking#hiking
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Lightcannon Week // Day 01 - Fake Dating
So basically, Jinx fails at reading and mistakes Lux as the sender of a contract. Lux can't help but feel sorry for Jinx's absolute fail and just goes along with it for the next month.
But also, she's never been kissed by a girl before and would very much like the opportunity to receive some more.
#lightcannonweek#lightcannon week#jinx/lux#luxanna crownguard#jinx#xi-doodles#lightcannon doodles#day 1 fake dating#xi-comix#sometimes#the gals need to be silly#lightcannon
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Lightcannon Week // Day 04 - Royalty AU
Imperial Guard, war veteran Lux, and Princess Jinx. Joined by convenience until the betrothal contract has been fulfilled between two families as a galactic war comes to an end and now sits within a tense peace armistice agreement.
Lux fights demons, and Jinx wants to know why. Their position isn't exactly stellar either when any chances of romance are avoided anyway. After all, no Imperial Guard had really survived long enough to serve proper term, Jinx plans to really change that by bending the rules, so far that they curve up and around and around and around....yeah, she really hates rules.
((I know I post these so late, early morning is the only time I've got. (T~T) ))
#jinx/lux#luxanna crownguard#jinx#xi-doodles#lightcannon#lightcannon week#lightcannonweek#day 4 royalty#royalty#imperial guard lux#princess jinx#xi-comix
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Lightcannon Week // Day 03 - Dystopian
Bringing back Halo! I had so much fun drawing an old design I made for them. Spartan Lux and Soldier Jinx, although she eventually joins the ODST unit.
But ever since the Spartans were released to the front, Jinx can't help but notice as Lux seems to be assigned to her platoon everytime they deploy. Eventually Jinx realizes a terrible truth about how Spartans were made, especially about the rumor of clones being involved. Jinx would not only find herself fighting war but thrown into an investigation about missing children.
On the other hand, Lux has been at death's doorstep several times over but Jinx refuses to let her die, even after she told Jinx that her purpose is to fight for humanity, she's just a weapon afterall, nothing else.
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Some notes : (disclaim//this isn't at all from expertise, I'm still in training)
CO - Company Commander <- this is usually a captain's position, (or Lieutenant [Officer]) that controls two platoons, in turn, platoons have four squads, squads with fire teams, breaking it down more, each squad is two Attack by fire or assaulting elements (ABF), one support by fire (SBF) and a weapons squad (WPN) (this is the most mass casualty producing team, they are very essential to the operations.)
AO - Area of Operations <- this is not completely accurate for this scenario, however may be still categorized as Area of Op since this mission is classified as a Raid turned Defense in order to eliminate the enemy forces and cut off some of their supply chain within the objective.
Radio Dia - "Monkey Tree niner-- (3-9) Platoon Lead will first address the Squad Lead by their assigned nics and then repeat their own after brief of OPORD. Usually, we give radios only to the main chain of command within our platoon, which is our leadership. Does not contain team leads either. However, I can't remember if all the soldiers in Halo were hooked up on the same frequency of comms. Oh, well. But the pain I felt while rewatching Halo legends...NEVER say "over and out." Blegh! It's just "Out!"
++ OPORD - Operations Order <- basically the plan about the shit that's about to go down. It's pages upon pages of planning people, not fun, but very important. We have two more Orders as well, yay, more paperwork...
#jinx/lux#luxanna crownguard#jinx#xi-doodles#xi-comix#lightcannon#lightcannon week#lightcannonweek#day 3 dystopian#dystopian#xi-halo au#spartan lux#soldier jinx#odst jinx#im so tired#my brain needed to ramble#so i rambled#sorry
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From a writing prompt I saw on Pinterest:
“This is the last *insert item of clothing* that we both want and if you don’t think I will fight you on the spot for this boy are you wrong”
It looks weird cause I tried to put traditional art to digital, mainly to get rid of the erase marks and stuff...
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