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~ Dim lights ~ *slams the pots and pans together* I'm back everyone! Come get your dosage of anxious old men kissing one another! I bring you more DavidxDale! A warm shoutout to both @crrr-lake for allowing me to base this fic upon one of their prompts as well as to @nattravn-art for helping putting together this vignette that is just *chef's kiss*. Sidenote: sorry for the bad formating of this post, tumblr is being a ripe little bitch and refuses to let me upload the way I usually do! OTL ~~ Dim lights (2438 words) by TheCrimsonValley Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rusty Lake | Cube Escape (Video Games) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: David Eilander/Dale Vandermeer Characters: David Eilander, Dale Vandermeer Additional Tags: Porn With Plot, Porn with Feelings, Frotting, Angst, Fluff and Angst, Anxiety, Longing, Comfort, Comfort Sex, in which two anxiety ridden men get to find comfort with one another Series: Part 19 of Of Vanderbooms, Eilanders and Vandermeer Summary: Weighed down by a hectic schedule, once Dale finally gets to reunite with David, old feelings of anxiety starts to mix up with the deep longing for the other man's comfort.

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~ A man of god ~ Felt the deep need to draw Vadim in his priest uniform. He rarely uses it in the RP but on occasion he'll still put himself back into the role of priesthood. After all someone needs to take the confession of the warehouse workers.

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~ Haruka and Mayuka ~ Wanted to update the refs for the twins. Well that and taking any excuse really to get to draw them again! :D

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~ Into the woods ~ A drawing I made, fuelled by my excitement that the team just announced that they are still working on a full release for an old flash game called "Gretel and Hansel". I played it way back when it came out and always held out hope they might emerge and finish it! So played around with trying to mimic the style of the game/watercolour theme :D Here's a link to the developers youtube channel if you wanna check things out: https://www.youtube.com/@gretelandhansel

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~ Fandom Trumps Hate Auction ~ Participating for the first time in @fandomtrumpshate! What is Fandom Trumps Hate?

FTH is an online auction of fanworks that generates donations to progressive nonprofits that are working to protect marginalized people. We began FTH in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 Presidential Election, and over the course of the last 8 years have raised over $300,000 for a range of amazing organizations. What am I offering? For this year I've chosen to offer up my writing skills. I've chosen to focus on three fandoms near and dear to my heart: * Pathologic/Pathologic 2 * Rusty Lake/Cube Escape * Rule of Rose Open to most suggestions for a text. Offer writing as high as a Mature rating. And as always open to messages to discuss what you would like to see written! :D Find more info about what I offer here: https://fth2025offerings.dreamwidth.org/tag/username:+thecrimsonvalley Thanks for your time <3

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~ Flawed as we are: I ~ I return with more art of my favourite lad. The deep rooted need to draw the tormented man is too overpowering to ignore. Plan to draw further illustrations of the other main leads from the game :D

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*Slams pots and pans together* The stone of Madness fic is up lads! Come get your daily dosage of angst! Inspiration bit me in the throat like a snake and refused to let go and here we have the result :D

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~ Happy valentines day ~ Saw that the Rusty Lake dev team were asking for valentines greetings so I had to do my part by drawing my favourite lad! Always time to fill your heart with new memories together <3

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~ Every time! ~ I've been playing a TON of The stone of madness and EVERY TIME without fail I'll forget what characters I need for the next part of the mission. So many days I've had to restart or spend getting resources because of my ADHD brain which refuse to keep this information for any amount of time. Despite this light vent at my own incompetence I recommend the game wholeheartedly! It's spooky. It got historical settings. The art style is beautiful and the soundtrack is just *chef's kiss*.

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~Petya ~ Local trash opossum found eating entire rotisserie chicken in the kitchen at 2 am. Read all about it :D My man Petya over here been through some real eldritch horror bullshit and was thanked by one of the eldritch gods going "i like this one, boop, now you have a higher paranormal sense" :D. Works for Gretel by gathering occult artefacts. She usually says she has no idea how he even makes it back alive, if his accounts of how he gets them are truthful that is. Another one where the original custom design was made by Hyène!

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~ Gretel ~ Meet the busiest business woman in town! Running the family business of hotels and restaurants with a fair but iron grip. Me and @nattravn-art are slowly working away at a new RP universe and populating it accordingly :D Gretel was originally designed by the super talented Hyène (Please go check their stuff out!)

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~ Pepper ~ Sent into the woods. Didn't follow the path. Came back with a brand new perspective on the paranormal. Pepper has left the safety of his community on the outskirts of town, no longer feeling welcome after his encounter in the woodlands. Now he's trying his best to find a new purpose in town. Pepper's original design was once again a custom adoptable done by Hyène!

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~ Your local builder ~ Finally got around to draw Mar in her Sandrock appearance. Still keeping that she's a mermaid who said "fuck this" and decided to walk around with the humans. This also means that she is rather socially awkward and doesn't really pick up on all these human etiquette rules. She's brash, bold and have zero fucks to give. If I could play her accurately there would be a riot within a week at the builders office as she would swear to dethrone Yan at every turn. She ends up in a sweet but a bit socially awkward romance with Zeke (please, please, I need this man so badly! He is the best and I adore him!).

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~ Once upon a time... ~ Crawling into the new year and giving Frank some much needed love in the form of fanart. I've so many projects that I wish to do based around quotes from other video games I adore that just align so well with Rusty Lake characters. This one from Rule of Rose really just embodies poor Frank and his ordeal throughout life. Feel totally justified in giving this man some much needed peace of mind and stability in our Rusty Lake AU T3T

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~ Ho ho Holy shit what a year ! ~ Grief and Vitu trying to get some rest in between the festivities at the hotel. They're both exhausted. They deserve a raise so badly! Rounding out this year with another little piece of holiday art of mine and @nattravn-art's Rusty Lake oc's <3

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~ Decorating the tree ~ Holiday scenes for mine and @nattravn-art's Rusty Lake characters. Tree decoration is very important: specially for someone like Murray who never had the luxury to celebrate the holidays when he was a child. And believe me, in our headcanon this is not the only tree in the Vanderboom house. There probably is a tree twice its size somewhere. Please do not ask exactly where or how Frank found it ;)

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~ The tiny alchemist ~ A strong mind. Will beyond her years. Mysteries waiting to be solved. Rosalind picks up the family heritage of alchemy, dwelling deep into its secrets with full conviction. Fun fact: The Sefirot in the background was also a light callback to my love for the Haunting ground series in which this motif appears in the Variatio Machina. The flower Rosalind is holding is also inspired by the fresh flower found in the same game. My love for Haunting Ground absolutely melts into this depiction of my girl and her journey down the path of an alchemist.