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Eggman, but his mustache consists of snakes just like Medusa

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Ice ice, baby

I'm not the only one who likes to call the conflict between the IceWings and NightWings the "Cold Night", am I?

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He's looking at you

Well, isn't this a fabulous way to kick off the weekend? I started this garbage way back in March after watching that one Peter Knetter video where he recreated OG Movie Sonic

Don't know about you, but I think he did way better than me

Of course, if you thought that was bad, here's how my model rendered in the Eevee engine

Behold your sleep paralysis demon tonight (you're welcome)

I honestly think this is worse than OG Movie Sonic. Like, why in the nine circles of Hell did it come out like this?? What am I looking at?? Another creepy Sonic monstrosity??

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For those who love Nintendo and Nine Inch Nails

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A NightWing :D

Edit: fixed up the face and coloration.

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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My first attempt at drawing my second favorite dragon tribe from Wings of Fire (this isn't supposed to be Jambu, btw)

Edit: fixed those things on the bottom jaw (apparently, they were supposed to be teeth (I was using a crappy reference XP)) and I fixed the head a little

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How do you write a fight scene without becoming repetitive? I feel like it just sounds like "she did this then this then this." Thanks so much!

I watch her as she fights. Her left leg flies through the air – a roundhouse – rolling into a spin. She misses, but I guess she’s supposed to. Her foot lands and launches her into a jump. Up she goes again, just as fast. The other leg pumps, high knee gaining altitude. The jumping leg tucks. Her body rolls midair, momentum carrying her sideways. She kicks. A tornado kick, they call it. The top of her foot slams into Rodrigo’s head, burying in his temple. Didn’t move back far enough, I guess.

His head, it snaps sideways like a ball knocked off a tee. Skull off the spine. His eyes roll back, and he slumps. Whole body limp. Legs just give out beneath him. He clatters to the sidewalk; wrist rolling off the curb.

She lands, making the full turn and spins back around. Her eyes are on his body. One foot on his chest. I don’t know if he’s alive. I don’t know if she cares. Nah, she’s looking over her shoulder. Looking at me.

The truth twists my gut. I should’ve started running a long time ago.

The first key to writing a good fight scene is to tell a story. The second key is having a grasp of combat rules and technique. The third is to describe what happens when someone gets hit. The fourth is to remember physics. Then, roll it all together. And remember: be entertaining.

If you find yourself in the “and then” trap, it’s because you don’t have a firm grasp of what exactly it is your writing. “He punched” then “She blocked” then “a kick” only gets you so far.

You’ve got to get a sense for shape and feeling, and a sense of motion. Take a page from the comic artist’s playbook and make a static image feel like it’s moving. Try to remember that violence is active. Unless your character is working with a very specific sort of soft style, they’re attacks are going to come with force. So, you’ve got to make your sentences feel like your hitting something or someone.

“Ahhh!” Mary yelled, and slammed her fist into the pine’s trunk. A sickening crack followed, then a whimper not long after.

Angie winced. “Feel better?”

Shaking out her hand, Mary bit her lip. Blood dripped from her knuckles, uninjured fingers gripping her wrist. She sniffed, loudly. “I…” she paused, “…no.”

“You break your hand?”

“I think so. Yeah.”

“Good,” Angie said. “Think twice next time before challenging a tree.”

Let your characters own their mistakes. If they hit something stupid in anger, like a wall or a tree then let them have consequences.Injury is part of combat. In the same way, “I should be running now” is. When the small consequences of physical activity invade the page, they bring reality with them.

People don’t just slug back and forth unless they don’t know how to fight, or their only exposure to combat is mostly movies or bloodsport like boxing. Either way, when one character hits another there are consequences. It doesn’t matter if they blocked it or even deflected it, some part of the force is going to be transitioned into them and some rebounds back at the person who attacked.

Your character is going to get hurt, and it’ll be painful. Whether that’s just a couple of bruises, a broken bone, or their life depends on how the fight goes.

However, this is fantasy. It is all happening inside our heads. Our characters are never in danger unless we say they are. They’ll never be hurt unless we allow it. A thousand ghost punches can be thrown and mean absolutely, utterly nothing at all to the state of the character. This is why it is all important to internalize the risks involved.

The writer is in charge of bringing a dose of reality into their fictional world. It is much easier to sell an idea which on some level mimics human behavior and human reactions. The ghost feels physical because we’ve seen it happen on television or relate to it happening to us when we get injured.

You’ve got five senses, use them. You know what it feels like to get injured. To be bruised. To fall down. To be out of breath. Use that.

Here’s something to take with you: when we fight, every technique brings us closer together. Unless it specifically knocks someone back. You need specific distances to be able to use certain techniques. There’s the kicking zone, the punching zone, and the grappling zone. It’s the order of operation, the inevitable fight progression. Eventually, two combatants will transition through all three zones and end up on the ground.

So, keep the zones in mind. If you go, “she punched, and then threw a roundhouse kick” that’s wrong unless you explain more. Why? Because if the character is close enough to throw a punch, then they’re too close to throw most kicks. The roundhouse will just slap a knee or a thigh against the other character’s ribs, and probably get caught. If you go, “she punched, rammed an uppercut into his stomach, and seized him by the back of the head”, then that’s right. You feel the fighters getting progressively closer together, which is how its supposed to work.

Use action verbs, and change them up. Rolled, rotated, spun, punched, kicked, slammed, rammed, jammed, whipped, cracked, etc.

You’ve got to sell it. You need to remember a human’s bodily limits, and place artificial ones. You need to keep track of injuries, every injury comes with a cost. Make sure they aren’t just trading blows forever.

I’ve seen advice that says fights all by themselves aren’t interesting. I challenge that assertion. If you’re good at writing action, then the sequence itself is compelling. You know when you are because it feels real. Your reader will tune out if it isn’t connecting, and the fight scene is a make or break for selling your fantasy. It is difficult to write or create engaging, well choreographed violence that a reader can easily follow and imagine happening.

-Michi

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Baby!!

I got a kitten

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Sona doodle

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Ok, so, SillyEwe and I attended the Pirate Festival here and we browsed through a booth with hilarious adult T-shirts. Of course, they found this one and dared me to draw Eggman wearing it. As you can see, I couldn't turn it down XD

I'm not sure if dares count as requests, so if they do, I'm making an exception with this one.

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Holy crap, I never thought I'd get a response from this ask! I initially felt like a total jackass for posting it, knowing your situation, but I'm glad you got a kick out of it regardless.

Anywho, with Mammoth Mogul, if I remember correctly, he started out as the leader of some jerks, but then it was revealed he's the leader of a cult or something, and then later on he owned a casino (man, I sure do love stories that change like a revolving door XP). I liked the idea of Casino Egg having a rival as powerful as him but with magical powers. That's literally the only reason I brought that up, lol.

And I figured your life's situation was one reason you came up with the pink egg (nothing wrong with that, I just figured it out).

About Elliot, there's a lot that I didn't mention because I typed that up in a bit of a hurry and I have a story planned for him (I don't want to say what exactly it is as of now), but yeah, I remember reading your posts about Casino Egg having that sugar daddy thing going for him and thought 'boy, imagine Elliot being with him?' I even wrote a one-shot story of the two that I might have to polish up, but I don't want to submit that until I get Elliot's story done first (it's not super-duper long).

As for the Krampusino thing, I thought about sending it to you last Christmas when I first wrote it, but I wasn't sure how to do it. I didn't bother posting it online because I wasn't comfortable submitting something NSFW (I think it's because I was brought up with the belief that anything regarding sex was a no-no). I'm working on not giving a major shit what others think regardless of what I post. I know consciously there's always going to be people who think you're the spawn of Satan no matter what you do, so there's that XP.

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I don't know if it would be appropriate to share this given your situation, so if it is, ignore it.

Anyway, I came up with some concepts about Casino Egg a while back and I thought I'd share them while I still have the chance. One involves the pink egg having a potential rivalry with Mammoth Mogul (don't know if you remember him XP) who's also the head of a criminal empire. Another concept is a scenario where a Sonic OC of mine, a young man named Elliot, had grown up in poverty and moved into Empire City working his ass only to wind up working for Casino Egg. This last one is definitely too early but fuck it: I wrote a NSFW one-shot KrampusEgg x Casino Egg (I call the ship Krampasino lol).

In any case, I'm so sorry this is happening to you.

I remember Mammoth Mogul by design but hardly anything else, however it has crossed my mind how it's very fitting for the AU and there could be some way to put him in. While I always create based on the games first, I do like to steal characters from the comics and put them in my AUs if I feel they work as I've had plans for Starline and potentially Kit too lol

I like the idea of a rivalry between Casino Eggman and Mammoth Mogul, I should refresh myself on him to imagine how that entails, though I might put my own spin on his personality too regardless. I'd enjoy putting more names and faces to Casino Egg's rivals since he's a very wanted man with a lot of gangs against him and of course they need their leaders

That reminds me that one of the rivalries I'm workshopping is the Don Big design from Sonic Channel that I looove as he'd also fit right in, I know their rivalry is gonna be very gay for sure. I mean most of the time Casino Egg is making it gay to some extent because he'll flirt even if he hates the other guy's guts depending on the setting and circumstances

Whether it's to get to charm them to get their guard down, do dealings with them to later betray them, or just to fuck with them he'll be his flirty self. I'll have to read up on Mammoth Mogul to form some ideas for their dynamic and interactions. If you have any ideas too let me know, I'd like to hear them! And thank you for the suggestion as a way to branch this out more

It's very fitting that he would take Elliot in so don't worry it's very appropriate, that's pretty much his entire thing. He's always looking for anyone to recruit whether it's to work in his surface casino and other businesses or in the shady underground dealings and mob, or both and will sweep them off the streets. In their vulnerability, he sees potential

He also really enjoys taking anyone in who is struggling and poor and turning their life around with all the things he can offer them whether that's more money and a roof over their head and a job and if he really likes them he'll spoil them rotten. They're like a project to him where he enjoys the financial power over them and how they become dependent on him so they can't leave because he wants to trap them and just because his sugar daddy kink XD

In many ways they can have a much better life in how they can thrive and survive under him but of course it comes with a catch with Casino Egg as he always wants something from them whether business or pleasure or both, for how dangerous of a life it can be when he has so many enemies and is involved in so much shady shit, or he may only be using them temporarily and plans to betray them/dump them when he's done

Well depending on who you are you might not mind. I know I certainly wouldn't mind the fucked up elements and danger that comes with it, it'd be worth it to me to escape from my old life where he can show me what it's like to truly live and not just survive and get to work under a guy as handsome, charming and irresistible like him Idc hehe

He was partly created as one of my big fantasies to get a big escape from that life lol so I always enjoy ideas involving it. I'd love to see any ideas you have specifically about Elliot and his experience if you'd like to share too

And oh my god YESSSS 🤩 please share it with me if you wanna I'd love to see, you immediately got me hooked on Krampasino when you drew them together, they're a lot of fun 😍💜

Thank you so much, while it's good that I've got another temporary place to buy me some time albeit a very shitty one and I'm still worried about the status of my stuff, I hope I can figure this all out and leave this mess far behind me sooner than later

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Aww!!

His yucky face is my favourite thing ever

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Facts

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It's a floofershnitzel

An Art Fight attack for ChololateChipKraken.

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Spreading the word

some of you have kindly asked if you can donate to help with my living situation so I've been looking at my options and trying to set something up, I'm very limited in my options with what's available in the UK and what I can get verified

k0-fi is working after I had friends test and I can successfully withdraw it. I waited a few days to be extra sure as I had to use a workaround to set it up and now I'm confident in sharing this as my first option

please only donate if you can afford it, please don't feel any pressure or obligation. any amount is super appreciated but even if you can't donate, the well wishes and support in every way has meant a lot and has helped keep me going

I recommend you donate through the credit/debit option button instead of through the PayPal one there. my friend's donation using the latter was put on hold and said it could take a month to be released- yet another friend used the credit/debit button option and I had immediate access. if I find a way to fix it for the PayPal option, I'll let you know

the debit/credit option is better anyway because I don't think you need a k0-fi account yourself to donate that way ???

thank you all for the support 💜

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I'm the second one at the top lol

A baker’s dozen eggs 🥚

Tag yourself what Eggman are you