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Оne of my old arts. It feels like home. Christmas and New year was always fulled of that cozy and warm feeling. Need to share that art with you again. Happy X-mas and NY to all of you. Wish you spending time with your family and friends.

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Prompt:

Hi! I have a two gifts for my mystery prompt gifter! <3

Here is a first one:

I wrote you a fanfic, hope you like it :3

And here is a extra surprise! I also drew you an art. It's a pony version! (With a little change of my pony Aiden design, i changed him to more fit his human character.)

🥰🎅🌲

Enjoy! :3

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This is for the secret Santa event and the prompt I was given was- 

This one was interesting but I did it and finished it! Wrote it within one day lol I hope whoever had given me this prompt enjoys this as I tried to do my best 🥲 Thank you for giving me this prompt and thank you @dicktat​ for creating this event and giving us the opportunity as well! Happy holidays and Merry Christmas to all! 

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My prompt is : Hakon and Aiden in a cute bakeryAU with cakes and sweets :3

Btw MARRY CHRISMAS EVERYONE I LOVE YOU ALL <33

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Dying Light Secret Santa-event art. Aiden/Juan

Prompt: Juan flirting with Aiden but gets a lesson on mannerisms with his chin being caught in the pilgrim’s grasp

Enjoy! 🎄🎄🎄

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prompt:

paladin Aiden seduced by succubus queen Hakon who he need to kill

🌚🌚🌚good prompt

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The way I'm IN LOVE WITH THISSSS YOU HAVE NO IDEA I needed this in my life tysm

Sorry I posted this so late into the 25th! Drawing Hakon and Aiden for the first time scared me lol!! They passed the fuck out on that couch though. Anyway, here was my prompt:

Hakon and Aiden passed out on the couch at the Fisheye after a party (a Christmas party would be fitting but any party really, I just wanna see them wasted and resting for ONCE)

I hope I did okay! Merry Christmas everyone!! :D

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HUM HI SORRY I’M LATE!!

My prompt was: « Two characters compete to see who will place the Christmas star first, while the rest of the characters are cheering them. » I used a screen I took from the game as a base!

Thanks again to Dicktat for the event and I hope y’all had a great Christmas or great holidays!!

Again sorry I’m late but take into consideration I literally haven’t drawn in probably a year. I’m struggling with very bad stuff but this challenge gave me the opportunity to draw outside of my comfort zone and I really enjoyed the whole process, I’ll try to get more involved in the fandom and interact with you guys more <3

Also this is my first time drawing any of the characters so sorry if I messed up any of them—

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There’s no mercy from the Pilgrim

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LET GAZA LIVE, FREE THEM ALL, VIVA VIVA INTIFADA

we've been watching a horrific genocide for 4 months now, and your silence in complicity. ceasefire is the bare minimum, and just the beginning.

free to use, print, repost. link to images and variants

commissions for palestine

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and the sun loved the moon.

and the moon loved the sun.

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What the past couple days have felt like

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Hi! My friend and I recently played D:BH and when we dipped a toe into the fandom, we found a LOT of Reed900. That confused us, because we hadn't even seen RK900 after our first playthrough and Reed seemed the opposite of nice. I finally watched your film and I really admire all the work you put into it, but I still don't understand. I love hearing people talk about the things they love, though, so could you explain what it is about RK900 that motivated you to make a whole-ass movie?

I've been in this fandom since literally day one, so I witnessed the origins of Reed900 and its growth personally (at least English speaking fandom. Russian fandom could be quite different). When DBH first came out, HankCon was definitely the dominant ship and primary reason we were all here, with some love going to Connor/Markus and Simon/Markus as well. A lot of people were non shipper fans. And you also had a handful of Connor/Gavin folks but no one gave Reed much development for the first 7 or 8 weeks. And at this time we all saw RK900 as evil. No one had any real "soft" headcanons for him. I remember seeing the Harrison Ford meme go around at that time where Connor was "Baby boy, baby" and RK900 was "Evil."

However, two things happened that changed this. One, a couple people started pointing out some of Gavin's dumb charm, like not being able to say "fuck" properly and winking with both eyes, which softened us to him. On top of that, as Hankcon casefics were written more and more, it started to become common to have Gavin as a background character at the DPD. And in many of these Hankcon fics, there was a subplot about how RK900 showed up and became Gavin's partner (often those stories were from Connor's POV and dealt with his feelings of meeting an upgrade of himself). Coupled with this, a lot of artists like Don Lemefo were making extraordinary beautiful art of Reed900 together, entertaining the concept of them being partners.

The fandom started to agree rather quickly that RK900 and Reed being partnered just made sense - and to me, I think this stems from the HankCon arc in the base game. Take a detective droid like Connor and have the asshole cop learn to love him - but Reed900 inverts many of the Hankcon tropes quite intentionally.

As more fics were written, people gave Gavin the habit of smoking to be "the opposite" of Hank's drinking. They gave Gavin a cat to be the opposite of Hank's dog. Many times Gavin is shown as anxious to contrast with Hank having depression. And then, we kind of can't ignore the big sexy elephant in the room lol. In Reed900, the human detective is generally seen as the bottom, while in HankCon, the human is generally seen as the top (don't @ me, I am speaking in majorities, not absolutes). As for 900, he is often a harder version than Connor - more sarcastic, more "take no shit," more aggressive in his dynamic with his human. I once saw someone say Reed900 was invented to give Gavin a dom, and I can't really disagree with that - although D/s and BDSM fics for HankCon absolutely did exist (there's one called Scratch that comes to mind) Reed900 seemed a more organic outlet for that sort of expression, imo. The fics I saw for Reed900 at that time were much more extreme, much more masochistic, just generally kinkier than it's sister ship.

So Reed900 provides a similar attractive dynamic, but offers a different version of HankCon, and allows writers to start from day ONE of their meeting rather than having the baggage of canon to deal with. Very quickly they started to become of equal importance to the fandom as Hankcon was, often paired up together as sister ships in solidarity. Kind of a Goofus and Galiant double date, where HankCon were loving and doting and Reed900 were the old married couple who called each other "assholes." Of course over time, fandom can't resist fluff, so Reed900 evolved from its BDSM/hatesex roots and a few slow burns like Fuck Pride and Like A Light I'm Luring You, along with some more comedic fics like DPD, cemented the idea that Gavin and 900 could actually LOVE each other. Even in the case of slow burns that were still sexy, like No Strings Attached, the softer side of the ship rose to become what I feel is now the most widespread version of the boys in English speaking fandom. Fanon Gavin was also softer and usually given a lot more redemption and development compared to his canon origin.

It always confuses me when people tell me that DE is the only Reed900 they enjoy because "regular Reed900 is too abusive." I have not seen such a thing in YEARS at this point. The overwhelming majority of Reed900 content created in the past year and a half has been incredibly soft, and very similar to how they are portrayed in Evolution. I did not invent that - it was pulled from all of my experience in fandom. The only thing I can say is that Russian fandom seems to have still held on to the idea of RK900 as a dominant tank, because I get a lot of comments from them about how my Nines is too soft compared to their version of him.

Also regarding the name Nines - I first saw this used in a fic by TerminallyDepraved back in July 2018 or so. Richard was the most popular name at first (a joke of his nickname being "dick", because....Gavin), especially because Brandon McCauley used it in what was, at the time, the most visible Reed900 casefic/slow burn series. It was also the summer of a thousand names of 900 lol, as every damn fic had a different one back then. Kay, Ace, Alex, Conner, Oleg (wtf Russia), Conrad, Conan, Collin, and some just left it RK or R. Over time the Richard name kinda faded for English speakers (although Russia holds it high still) and Nines/RK are pretty much the main ones I've seen for some time. Nines took awhile to catch on, as it's the name of a character in Nier Automata as well and that was hard for some of us to reconcile, but eventually it stuck.

TLDR, why I personally love Reed900 is a whole other story that basically comes down to "I'm Gavin and I need a Nines" (which Austin essentially is for me lol). I love enemies to lovers, I love work partners, and I love the possibilities. HankCon started to wear on me after awhile when I felt like I was reading the same thing over and over, and I eventually fell out of it. I didn't ever get that fatigue with Gavin and Nines for whatever reason. I just love them, more than I hate any of the struggle of making films, so that's the short of it.

Bear in mind this is one person's POV of how the fandom evolved so it's not an absolute truth, especially outside of English fandom. I was primarily on Tumblr and AO3 at the time but things on Twitter Jericho and Discord were not on my radar and may have been different back then (Hankcon was probably a lot hornier on Twitter Jericho than it was on Tumblr, for example).

What you gotta understand about Reed900 fandom though is 1) it wasn't random, 2) it wasn't a fucking "har har crackship" like people dismiss it as and it barely even spent time as a "rarepair", and 3) even though it isn't canon, it is so rooted in fanon at this point that there's a lot for new folks to catch up on, lol. Sorry I'm on mobile and can't put this under a cut rn - hopefully it isn't too annoyingly long. 👀

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"I am hope"

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