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[former-proffessor-and-policeman]

Anyways sense i missed most of pride i'll make up for it with this small post of reminding of existing identity info

Kisa unlabelled identity wise, does not care how you to refer to him though he mostly goes by he he'll literally go by anything else too, kisa is also aromantic but can be in a queerplatonic or romantic relationship. Ag is hard to describe identity wise but he goes by he, and he is gay, though there was probably no doubts about this.

Tsurugi and rei are bi (rugi has a masc lean but only by a bit. i proclaim despite my entire blog saying otherwise) both are also demiromantic. I have been thinking about teruya honestly and ive kinda rethought about his sexuality honestly, i kind of see him on some sort of aro spectrum now to everyones surprise, no i cannot explain.

Bi trio is bi what else is new (imo yoruko has a fem lean but yk still bi). The only person to discuss i think is nikei...nikei's just fully unlabelled i'm not elaborating, goodnight everybody.

[vellichorom]

uh oh. I can't imagine mixing a virus with a wayward executable can lead to anything good..... what do you mean it just gave him the flu,

FINALLY, at LONG LONG LAST; Thierry's OFFICIAL Lovebug AU rendition! in which the man quite literally gets bugged. with love! & with sick nasty

truly a lesson to all to watch what you download from your emails!

( the lovebug AU concept belongs to @things1do ~ )

[disposal-blueeee]

VARGASTOBER - day 1 : edgar vargas

[mail-posting]

rapidly spinning potential perspectives of the train au of norton and fredereicj rn god save me

WOOOOOOOOOOOO

[crystalkleure]

"At least my trauma made me funny" No, it did not. I am saying this gently, not to be cruel.

You crack jokes about the terrible things that happened you to convince both other people and yourself that it wasn't so bad, and that it didn't actually hurt you that much. Laughter is a social signal that communicates a lack of danger, saying that it's safe to relax now. Feeling the urge to laugh when you are scared or otherwise stressed is an involuntary self-soothing measure as well -- laughter releases endorphins and relieves stress, it decreases your cortisol levels. That's why laughing in relief after narrowly avoiding something terrifying is so common. The entire purpose of laughter is to say, to yourself and those around you, "it will be okay."

On top of that, you are caught between the basic, pack animal desire to seek support by telling other people what happened to you, and the distrustful, self-protective desire to insist that you are fine. You say "I got hurt, but it's no big deal," in the hopes that someone kind will realize the latter part is a lie and somehow help you, and that someone cruel will believe you are very difficult to seriously harm and thus not sense weakness in you to prey upon.

Recounting your trauma is not funny, it is stressful to you.

[laugtherhyena]

Every time I see your sprite work, it just makes me want to make a sprite edit of Akane with the design I made for her in my "She Was Saved" AU (An AU based on the idea of Akane surviving the events of DRA), but I've never done any sprite work so, do you have any tips?

Ok ok so, first things first, i wanna make it clear that none of my sprites are made from scratch, they're sprite edits, hence why i always tag them as such. Every single one of them used some canon character as a base for the base sprite (that one fitst sprite where the character is just standing there with a simple expression) and a handful even have canon sprites uses as bases for poses. Just figured i should make that clear so there's no confusion here.

While I'm not sure if I'm the best at giving tips n stuff, here's what i could think off;

I think the most important tip i can give anyone who wants to get into sprite editing is MAKE A BUNCH OF LAYERS‼️Save things separately just to be sure rather than merging them because that almost always leads to more time spent later down the line. While the amount of separate things certainly varies from artists to artists here's the one i use for my edits.

The app i use (Ibis paintX) allows me to make folders with a bunch of layers to them so i use them to keep stuff more organized.

On the first pic well have a folder with the base sprite, one for the different poses and in Beni's case two for the different eyes she has (one for the normal eyes and one for the ones that are part of the glasses, normally i only have one layer with all the eye variants)

On the second image I've opened the folder that holds the base sprite, or should i say just sprite since it's in this folder that i organize everything that belongs to one specific sprite when I'm making them as to not get myself confused. Anyways, you can't see in the screenshots but the first layer has her glasses, second has her eyebrows and mouth and the third has the eyes.

Fourth has the main body lineart and fifth has the main body colors, please keep those separated as by doing so you make it easier to add those lil effects onto the character's faces on certain expressions + having the lineart of the main body always helps when sketching and connecting the different arms to the main body.

Lastly you got the arms, but ideally you should make the arms/poses in a way they can be placed over the body layers since that just makes things easier to put together, i just have this habit of placing the no pose arms under everything else.

When editing i make the different arms and eyes in advance so that when i start making the different sprites i can just duplicate the canva with the first one a thousand times and everything will carry along with those. Saves time in the long-run + you don't need to separate all layers on them (lineart, colors, shading) since they're just parts there's no problem in just merging them together.

A very important thing to note tho i that if the character has glasses or any accessories that you plan on removing or moving around in some pose/sprite this accessory should be made in a different layer from the main body, this makes editing easier than if you had to just erase and refill the part where the accessory was in the sprite you don't want it to be in.

A similar rule should be applied to the character's hair, if they have short or mid length hair you can just add the whole thing to the main body sprite, but if the character's hair is long you should make this bluk/back part of the hair in a separate layer placed under the main body layers. This also apllies to any back accessories.

Here's Akira as an example; she has one layer for her glasses, one for the back/bulk of her hair and one for the guitar case she carries.

These are essentially the basics of if, so let's go over to some actual tips.

Make the sprites on a small canvas.

Since the Danganronpa another games are made on game maker the size of the character sprites is surprisingly small, while I don't think you should just do it on the same canvas size as the actual sprite, it's good to have a smaller canvas so that the lower amount of pixels gives it a look similar to the in-game sprites + as you can see by mine, they don't actually look low quality at all.

(if curious, the go-to canvas size i use for most of my edits is 773x1020)

Use other sprites as references/bases

Especially if you're just starting on making sprites, use the canon ones for bases, references or even just straight up trace them. This will make the sprite look closer to canon and will start making you undertand the elements that make up the style of the sprite, do it enough times and soon enough you'll be able to make poses on your own without needing a sprite from the game as a base.

Remember! What's wrong about tracing is not the act of tracing itself, as the act of doing so is a great exercise to help you learn, the problem is when you do it and claim you made it 100% on your own. Since these are sprite edits, there's not a problem in doing so.

Observe and learn what makes up the style you're trying to replicate

This is hard to talk about since it really is something that comes with practice, I've been making sprite edits for like 5 years now so this stuff is like written on the walls of my brain by now. Just try to look and analyse the sprites and slowly you'll start seeing patterns and small onto them that you didn't noitce before, like how Linuj's sprites have a bit if line weight to them but are still on the thinner side, how he tends to make the hands a bit on the smaller side, how when he color the character's skins he makes the area near the top of the head a lighter shade than the rest of the skintone, the way he usually makes the character's mouths, and even some more complex things like how the male characters will have very little to no eyelashes while the female characters tend to have a whole lot of them, etc.

At the same time, there's no shame in deliberately ignoring some of these things. Personality the small hands REALLY bother me in a few cases and i tend to just make mouth shapes on a whim instead of trying to stay 100% close to the style. It's just a question of messing around and figuring stuff out, it won't look perfect on the first go, but overtime you'll start to get the hang of it.

[valiant-portabella-pirkko]

alright. know what? with Secrets of the Obscure right around the corner and plenty of new Mists-related sky island settings coming with it, I'll just bite the bullet and interest-check a little something I've been turning in my head for a long, long while.

would YOU be interested in a Mists-based GW2 roleplay guild that uses a lore compliant multiverse system to allow canon, canon-adjacent, lore-breaking, and otherwise 'contradictory' muses to coexist in the same setting?

simply put: every writer's cast would be set in their own self-contained universe. as such, everyone could bring whatever muses they want with their own personal headcanons, and no one could dictate what is or isn't canon for anyone else. so long as your muses are GW2-based, you're good to go! bring your Commanders, bring your canon-divergent OCs, bring your canon muses-- and yes, even the ones that are 'supposed' to be dead. who can say what might have happened in a strange world far across the Mists, after all?

neutral hubs and in-character safety guardrails would be in place to keep all muses on a relatively even playing field regardless of their power, history, and prestige, too. play hardball if you like, but it might not end quite the way you'd hope. the main rule would be to maintain good OOC etiquette at all times: no godmodding, no metagaming, no theft, don't blend IC and OOC, and so-on.

if that sounds like something you might have interest in, please interact with this post! and if you've got questions or concerns, I'd love to hear them; feel free to send an ask or a DM, or just reply to this post!

[cerebralabyss]

having 2 talk abt my headmate’s special interests/fixations while masking being a system is so awkward halp

like i know “i” am supposed to be emotionally invested in this topic!! ppl expect me to be!! BUT IT ISNT A COLLECTIVE INTEREST!!!! ITS HARD TO PRETEND IT IS!!!! DX

- 🖤

[jessamine-rose]

*squeezes aine this time*

Read my Yandere! Dottore fics first (⁎⁍̴̆Ɛ⁍̴̆⁎)

Chemistry ๑ Magnum Opus

So @ainescribe decided to surprise me with more Darling fan art, this time of Dottore’s Assistant!! *sobs* I love it so much ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´ω`ﾟ)ﾟ｡

Once again, feedback will be in the tags. Thank you so much for enjoying my writing, Aine <3

[pepperpixel]

Some art of Tori from @misfitmccoward ‘s Naruto fic Plasticity! Because!! It’s such a good fucking fic…! I had to do fanart for it!! honestly after I first read it I was so fucking hype about it that I was almost like “omg.. I have to do an animatic or something for this. it’s SO GOOD” but. My ability to do animatics has kinda flushed down the drain recently ghghg- But! Still!! I had to at least draw some fanart for it…!

[former-proffessor-and-policeman]

Tsurugi hc's to make up for his birthday, though I do plan to do like a belated birthday thing later ^^

Tsurugi's favorite flavor of ice cream is vanilla, he likes the classics plus the coolness of vanilla, As for cake he likes rasberry blueberry ice cream cake, though he's only ever had it once.

While he'll never really admit it tsurugi has gotten a bit rusty with fighting since starting the foundation, he doesn't have so much pressure on himself anymore so he doesn't train as often as he used to which others would consider a good thing but tsurugi feels like he's becoming lazy :<

On the rare chance tsurugi is not working and not in the foundation he's most likely wandering around the town or exploring a bit outside the towns walls, he's cautious when he goes out but otherwise its just a nice way for him to clear his head, no stress or worries mostly just...walking and thinking.

Tsurugi is not good with trolley problem situations, he can't pick someones life over anothers no matter how much logic or reason it'd give, he'd much rather sacrifice his own life than anothers.

Aside from teruya and rei out of all the foundation members he is closest to keisuke, and he's the least close to ryutaro, in fact they tend to but heads a bit.

On this blog tsurugi's injury on his eye is due to a confrontation with juu, as for the void eye its actually not permanent or anything it only activates when tsurugi is extremely angry or in very deep chief mode.

Tsurugi's thoughts on some of the other sdra2 cast aside from yuri and yuki are a bit odd. Tsurugi hold great respect for shinji though doesn't want him doing anything reckless (though I don't think shinji would), and is grateful to him for helping yuki through the game. He doesn't pay much attention to music so he doesn't have much thoughts on hibiki though he feels bad for her because of what kanade did and feels mild guilt for letting her get away with it for so long along with his father pardoning kanade, he's a bit weary of yoruko due to her profession due to the legal questioning of it but that aside he respects her for speaking her mind and her underrated intellect. And he tolerates the voids but he still mildly holds a grudge on them for assisting with the game but he tries to not let it show and be professional. As for sora...He is professional and knows she's not akane, but he'd personally rather not have any sort of tie to her so he tries to only talk to her when necessary.

[swannholloway]

three patho fans in one minecraft server 😳 what will they do 🫣

[natasha-in-space]

A late happy birthday gift to @brighteststar707!!!╰(*´︶`*)╯♡

I hope I'm not too late with this but alas!! I managed to finish in time (at least in my timezone hehe) Happy birthday Faye, I hope you spent your day enjoying some delicious food and wonderful company that made you smile! And, it seems that there is a certain someone from the outer space sending you a very important message... filled with stardust and love! Let's check it out, shall we? ⋆｡°✩

I hope you like my little treat! I am very grateful to have met you, and I wish for this next year of your life to be filled with many new and exciting experiences for you to look back on. And a ton of delicious bread, of course! ⋆⭒˚｡⋆ :)

Ref. by @DAHAN_illust on Twitter!

[makshu]

I couldn't finish this completely, but I wanted to post it before this day is over

A little comic about Mother's Day with the Backrooms gang :)

Lavínia and Andreas want to give Amber a gift as they see her as a mother (and she also sees them as her children)

This is part 1 and I don't know if I'll do the others- but I'd like to try

If you want the other parts let me know too ^^

[peapod20001]

Birthday you say?! Hm..... by any chance do you have any particularly favorite oc? That you would want to see fanart of? Jk jk..... unless👀👀👀

Lol Shirley is usually my go to when ppl ask what character they should draw. I’ve had them longer than most and they are easier to get for some people than my other characters. Also you can just dress him in literally anything and it works so that’s a bonus lol

Some others I’m more biased towards are Felix and Rory, I think really hard about em lol. Honestly I’d enjoy anything someone makes with any of my ocs especially if it’s a character THEY like cus I enjoy seeing which of my ocs ppl fancy hahahagahaga

[rizardofether]

I really wanted to do a comic of how the boss fight with Cazador went for me. Boy, I really have no idea how to draw these photorealistic human-looking characters. I sure tried.

Bonus initial sketch detail:

I think these faces actually looked better before I added all the details