#NICE Convention

[downthetubes]

NICE Auction offers art by Alan Davis, Liam Sharp, Sean Phillips and more

With the well-received NICE 2023 convention now firmly in the rear view mirror, convention organiser and Northampton's Panel Gallery owner Jeff Chahal is focusing on the NICE art auction, a fundraiser for next year's event

[monstermonger]

Kinda on a whim, I decided I'd turn my "Cats in Windows" illustrations into a mini-zine........ just a tiny lil booklet I printed+folded at home last night......

(I love that feelin when u think "It'd be cool if i made that into a thing..." and then suddenly you've made it into A Thing, and now you're holding it in your hands 🥹)

if you'd like one too btw, i put it up in my ko-fi :")

[frejs-froggy-artblog]

Friends! 🌈⚔️💕

[renguro]

TAKE UP THY WEAPON SLAY MINE ENEMIES

[thatonesubwaypenguin]

🎉I graduated this weekend!!! 🎉

I had a lot of fun celebrating with my family, friends, and fellow classmates these past couple days!! It's funny that the ceremony was held on the same day as Train Day, so I decided to create a commemorative doodle!! 🥹

🚃 Of course, I brought Submas with me for both occasions 💖 🚃

[c-0f-chaos]

Memories of the Con

THE JOY THAT WAS FINDING A BATTER COSPLAYER WAS INCREDIBLE

One of the artists said that there was a Batter cosplayer, I had a mision, and it was accomplished

Everyone was so nice and I'm so happy I got to meet them!! Talking was so fun!!!

Also, this is my first time editing cosplay photos, I'm pretty happy on how they turned out ＼(^^)／

I can't tag anyone over here but I'll tag them all on Instagram, their name are also in the pictures for credit!! Edit: I misspelled Luky.coss

[leliest]

It's so funny how Watson literally starts The Musgrave Ritual off with complaining about how messy Holmes is. "I mean, I'm already far from neat, but this guy? I love this idiot to death, but if he puts his tobacco in the persian slipper one more time I swear I'll shove it up his arse!"

[chocodile]

Initially came because I saw the hot shark man ridge. Stayed for the masterful story you’re making. I love

Thank you! Here's a bonus doodle of Ridge, as a treat.

[holoska]

the london undertale concert was one of the best days of my life and I need to yell about how good it was in excessive detail ❤️

BEFORE THE SHOW:

just getting to see people of all ages in utdr shirts and cosplays everywhere made me so so happy ;_; seeing how many people brought plushies made me wish I'd brought one of mine too aaaa

while queuing and waiting for the doors to open a couple people started playing instruments! sadly I wasn't close enough to hear them too well but I'm pretty sure I heard spider dance and bonetrousle

at one point someone further in the queue held up a plush of the annoying dog sprite and everyone cheered

after we got in I saw a spamton a. spamton cosplayer on the lower audience level. from the upper level their long white nose really stood out in the dark jghdskjf

while the orchestra didn't play any deltarune music, I did hear acid tunnel of love playing before the show! (plus music from minecraft and I think stardew valley?)

they had merch!! not a lot, literally just a bag and a small poster (which unfortunately seems kind of easy to damage 💔) but I was so happy they had anything for the occasion:

ACT 1:

they showed gameplay on the screen above the orchestra, while the lights behind them would change colour to match! purple for the ruins, blue for snowdin etc

I immediately started crying at once upon a time

heartache was so beautiful

the crowd cheered when sans started playing/appeared onscreen

the gameplay skipped around snowdin a lot and at greater dog I think they just straight up played dogsong through the speakers?? dog music too complex to be replicated by human orchestra...

while playing the shop theme the gameplay initially showed QC's snowdin shop, but halfway through changed to show gerson's shop and the crowd cheered specifically for him

we went from snowdin to undyne (the ominous theme) with no papyrus songs. suspicious...

after waterfall they played bird that carries you across a disproportionately small gap and the crowd went wild cheering for the bird not once but Twice, as the gameplay showed it carry frisk back and forth. deserved

the bird was immediately followed by an insane rendition of dummy!! the conductor was practically dancing around, my favourite from act 1 for sure it was SO good

spear of justice was also incredible

another medium!! the 5th anniversary concert (which I also still love forever) didn't include it so I was so glad to hear it here :']

spider dance was amazing

not only was it's raining somewhere else so pretty but some of the crowd were laughing at sans and toriel's jokes onscreen. cute...

I have no idea how I managed to not fully cry at undertale (the song) but I was definitely teary-eyed by the end

act 1 ended with asgore and holy moly the electric guitar went so hard

ACT 2:

beginning with start menu and gradually building up to the full version was so fun!!

they made us wait for papyrus but my god did they deliver. after the much-awaited bonetrousle they played sans' trombone bit, immediately followed by all the date themes and everyone cheered when papyrus' date outfit was onscreen

alphys got some applause too!! (admittedly less but I'm just glad she got some!!!)

mettaton though... biggest applause yet, rainbow lights on the stage to match the gameplay before the quiz, everyone clapping to the beat of it's showtime. incredible

metal crusher and core were amazing but I don't think anything in my life will ever match the experience of hearing the "OHHHH YES" line at a volume so loud you feel it through your feet and the crowd immediately going wild again for mettaton ex's appearance and death by glamour

I don't know how your best nightmare Didn't give me a headache with how fittingly loud it was but the lights going red and the horns as the warning alarms between phases was so cool

fallen down reprise was lovely and the crowd laughing at the dialogue from that scene made my heart feel full

hopes and dreams!! admittedly my one disappointment is that they didn't play the second half and skipped to his theme, which was wonderful too but save the world would've made me sob

also they named the human 'You' and hyperdeath asriel's dialogue onscreen being "I'm so afraid, You..." was probably funny only to me

loved good night playing along with the final scene of toriel bringing frisk a slice of pie

the end...?

no. Sans Time

they played song that might play when you fight sans!! never heard an orchestra version of it which was so cool, especially loved the bonetrousle section

obviously they had to end on megalovania and OBVIOUSLY they went as hard as possible with it. incredible rendition that only kept getting better, the conductor literally jumped in the air for the big final beat

the end 👏👏👏👏👏

I so so desperately hope an official recording of the concert is released on youtube someday. the memory will stick with me forever but I wanna listen to it again and again and for everyone else to be able to hear it too :'] this was literally one of my dreams come true 🌟

[zenshigarakilover]

there's this poster advertising a convention in japan and they have afo in the top right corner holding yoichi's hand

here he is zoomed in along with the full poster below

[ganondoodle]

the company i work for decided that its switching from the german formal "You"(Sie) to the informal "you" (Du) in all of our websites so now we have to scour the entire database to change it and i quite frankly hate that, not just bc the unecessary extra work but especially bc its such a weird and unecessary change

i bet its bc everything here is getting englishfied (both literally and culturally it feels like, when my new boss talks its half in english bc every second german word is just replaced by an english one despite there being perfectly fine words for it in german too, its so annoying) and bc they want to sound more personal in hopes of getting more clients bc 'company is your fwiend uwu!!', i know this here is the amercian tm site so you wouldnt understand really but i do not want to be greeted with 'du' by companies, no, thats too personal, you dont know me and im not giving you my data, stay away!!

i guess thats how i would describe it .. the formal you is like a polite distance, like someone you dont know staying outside your personal space, but when its the informal 'you' it feels invasive unless i told you you can call me that, and that goes double for companies

maybe its a small thing that doesnt seem important but i cant stand it, im just a little part time worker doing data work so i got no say in it but the companies founder also announced hes giving his post to his kids some time ago so ...... since then theres been alot of changes and new projects that solely aim to imitate whats popular and whats done by other companies, despite ours being one that is, or used to be, intentionally different, like, that was the POINT, but i guess chasing trends is just too appealing for CEOs

[thegoldenageofnza]

i want more more bat-like batman designs

and in a way it may go against some if the ideas of his character, him (while wanting to inspire fear to a point) being a sort of symbol of hope

but like, bats just get a bad rap, theyre cute as hell

i want a batman with big ol ears and a cape thats looks like and works like wings proper, a batman with claws for climbing and some form of echolocation. I want a batman that is only a man in the sense that he stands mostly on two legs and is man-sized

also get rid of the damn ab pattern cause i feel like its often implied that his suit is somewhat armored which then implies rhat the ab pattern is on the armor

and thats dumb as hell sorry

and just looks silly. Im not trying to play tic tac toe here keep that to yourself

[youmustfixyourheartt]

*i know that conventional weapons was released as a series of EPs but many people refer to them as a collective work so i counted it due to the total length

[t0bey]

every day im considering making merch for my interests more and more... tho i still really doubt myself a lot and am not really sure which is a good starting point

[teamhawkeye]

Fan Expo up in Philly this weekend was a total blast! Met some amazing actors - all absolute gentlemen, so sweet and nice! Still feel like i'm on cloud nine! ❤️

John Boyega, Danny Glover, Dolph Lundgren, John Rhys-Davies, Andy Serkis, and Nick Apostolides photos and autographs on display, as well as a Fallout print I fell in love with at first sight and had to take home with me!

[notedchampagne]

i read princess floralinda and the 40 flight tower : first off FUCK THE TUMBLR POST that made me mistakenly believe this book had cannibalism in it. i am mournful to say that it did not.

despite this i enjoyed it a stupid amount and i think its a very entertaining read, especially if you share tazs sense of humor or like the variation in narrative styles throughout tlt. actually i think reading this book made me realize more why she wrote gtn and htn all [gestures] like that... tlt definitely has a larger number of memes but the way princess floralinda is written reminds me a lot of the original character-based humor you can see in gideons speech and just the general situational hilarity of things. i also think her take on a princess story is really delightful and sweet! and i didnt expect that amorphous, ambiguous kind of romance in it. its also very much like tlt in the manner that love is slowly present between the cracks in the story, but with tlt love IS the point of everything while in floralinda the love is a sickly ironic kind of development. it was like if stockholm syndrome was entertaining. A+.

i would recommend this mainly if you 1) liked mercymorn in htn 2) appreciate a good character development coming from a dumb princess, and 3) again, share that similar sense of horrific fucking humor taz has: