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It's been a while since I posted (as I got sick 🫩) but I'm back!! Enjoy silly Amir being silly hehehe

Feel free to use them :}!!

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I do love that Warframe late game and Warframe 1999 put into perspective how eldritch the Operator and Drifter are.

The Operator is basically a cosmic demigod who has met with the Space Devil multiple times. They wear infected suits of armor like everyday clothing, switching them out as they please. They cannot die, or at least are extremely difficult to put down. They're an eternal immortal teenager whose collective anger toppled two nightmarish empires, and left a third empire half-leaderless. They and the Drifter destroy horrific "angels" born of the same tragedy that made them what they are, and in the back of their heads, they worry they could become angels as well.

The Drifter is equally eldritch, the same cosmic demigod trapped in the pages of a children's story for centuries or even millennia. They have grown without the influence of the Space Devil, but they faced thousands of deaths and more at the hands of a dimensional fisher king made to be their playtime friend. They escaped this mad storybook world through a little bit of help and their own fathomless willpower. They traveled throughout time at the behest of a deeply unethical mad scientist to save a city trapped in an eternal loop, befriending a growing number of people infected by the same disease that cultivates the very biomechanical armor they use at will. They can even romance one of these people, or more if they but reset the year, over and over and over again. Time is their plaything. They converse an infected guitar who is a shred of the infinite consciousnesses whom they both fight against and wear.

Not bad for a space ninja game from 2013, huh?

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I was at a VIP press thingy with DE before tennocon and during a dinner part of the event, all of the Hex voiceactors were there as well (except for Arthur's and Lettie's VAs) and the funniest "life imitates art" moment was when Quincy's voice actor was walking around getting food completely in silence, as Amir's voice actor was right next to him talking AT him the whole time 😂

Also during the desktop game announcement, where it was specified to only be Arthur, Aoi, Amir and Lettie, all the VAs patted Quincy's voice actor on the back as he defeatingly dropped his head down

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Screenshotted. Documented. Catalogued. Clipped out of context for good measure.

i think all the techrot finally got to her this loop

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Warframe

warframe

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I don't really play Frost, but I need this.

hey

pssssst

hey

I worked with Tennogen artist and fellow creator BlazingCobalt to make an Entrati inspired Frost skin!! He's live in the worshop if you wanna see and vote!

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The scream that left me and my very soul when that Flare cosplayer stepped on stage omfg🥹❤️‍🔥

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In the D&D campaign I'm running with my wife's siblings, one of them learned about how trolls regenerate within minutes of any damage not caused by fire or acid, and then asked why people don't just like. Cage them and eat them, forever. Why there aren't troll meat dungeons in the king's castle as a safeguard against sieges or famines.

And you know, I thought it was a fair question, so I said that if you eat enough troll meat, you start getting troll-y. And then I went further and just treated it like troll flesh is a general contaminant - if you eat enough troll, you'll turn into a troll, but if you bury enough dead troll flesh in a forest, the trees will start growing in strange ways, and will scream and heal and bleed when you hit them with axes.

I liked this idea. So as we played further, I just played around with the idea of Troll Origins, and I came up with something sort of like the Odyssey, but instead stealing Helios's cattle, it was Hathor's, and the horrible, awful, unending immortality was her curse of the army that pillaged her lands. A god of healing does not condemn you to die, she condemns you to live.

And then I got this fun idea for maybe the king that led the army is still kind of alive in the troll taint. Like a sort of literal fisher king. The kingdom is sick because he is, literally, the kingdom. The trees that bleed, bleed his blood and their screams are his screams. He is both the faintly green bear running down the mountain and the faintly green deer and there is no way past this without suffering. He is the entire ecosystem, and he eats nothing but himself and he dreams nothing but death and yet still, on and on and on and on, he lives.

Anyway they're traveling next session so I'm throwing this shit at them. I already have some gross ideas for like. Describing everything like it's a body (flowers red as blood, white as bone, pink as meat, grass fine as hair) then finally throwing horrible living things at them. Trees that grow eyeballs that turn and stare at them, or flowers with teeth instead of petals and trolls that speak in long dead tongues about how they wish they'd never tried to rob a god.

Anyway I'm passing this on because this is my new troll lore and I want it to become canonized in the way that all D&D lore becomes canonized: By having eople read it and go "oh, neat" then start doing that too.

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25.04.19

Sketch commission for @aryashepard of her Drifter comforting Arthur because we all know that the man needs a hug.

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You have been visited by the Badger of Executive Function!

May this tenacious beastie grant you the strength to break through whatever is holding you back from completing that important task you've been meaning to get to, and the energy and motivation to

Do The Fucking Thing.

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My king, my liege, my lover.

A little warm up for today.

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I need this.

You need this

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Saving this for quick use.

"lullaby of the manifold" shawzin code:

5MAAhAKhAQSAgRAqMAwMBARBKSBQUBaSBgRBqRBwMCAhCKhCQhCaiCgUCqhCwMDARDGSDLSDQRDWKDbMDgSEAREKSEQUEahEgUEqhEwiFAUFKSFQUFaSFgRFqRFwSGARGKSGQUGahGgUGqhGwMHARHGSHLSHQRHWKHbMHg

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This… actually explains so much.

When you daydream about your story and it doesn’t magically write itself onto the page:

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best thing tumblr ever did for me is the term "rotating it in my mind". it's really true that sometimes you think about something real hard but you can't tell what the thoughts are exactly. it's revolutionary stuff, i might even say

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