#This is supposed to be sorta like a lazy art

[chewysgummies]

Fuck it, Humanized my mer frog-

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

AFTERMARE WEEK: day 1- blackout/illumination

Your presence alone lit up my entire world, but then your absence nearly blinded me. how am i to survive without that light now that you're gone?

aftermare week is hosted by @bluepallilworld

[personizloading]

HUMANFORMER AU SMOKEY FANART!!!(+ lazy blob doodles)

Au by @smokescreenstuff !!!

With/without gloves

DETAILS/IDEAS UNDER CUT

Ok so!

- The colored patches on his jacket are supposed to reference both the colored parts on his arms and his door wings!

-I made the belt gray to sorta represent his waist area?

This part

Ok anyways

- Since he was cybertronian turned human, and I imagine it wasn’t perfect, under his gloves I made lil line/designs and some on his neck, also, glowy freckles and eyes, the whites of his eyes have a blue-ish tint, and if you look closely you can see the glow of the dark star saber scar!!!!

-EYEBAGS!!! This is a personal HC, but I imagine smokescreen both has insomnia AND is afraid of sleep, cybertronian or not. I mean, the last time he slept it was for MILLIONS OF YEARS and when he woke up he found out he failed his one job and his planet is dead along with basically everyone he knew.

-I added red coloring to his hair instead of like. Strands of hair that swoop back. Idk by brain just liked it like that.

-Autobot symbol on the belt! He also has it as tattoos(Elite guard and normal one), but there’s also one on the belt.

-Sharp tooth! Idk I felt like it.

OK ONTO SILLY IDEAS

-So one doesn’t turn a GIANT ROBOT ALIEN into a human without effects. I propose this*

*Sometimes smokescreen gets AGONIZING migraines.

*He still has his cybertronian strength and sight/hearing, albeit a bit weaker than before, and he can’t alter how much input he gets, but his smell is worse than a normal humans’.

*His joints ache a lot. He doesn’t bring this up to June OR Ratchet.

-June and ratchet give him a checkup and find the scars/tattoos. They are not happy at all.

-Silly idea relating to the last one, Smokescreen didn’t go to ratchet after being hit with the dark star saber(Even going as far as to AVOID him), and eventually ratchet didn’t have time to give him a checkup.

*This means it never healed right.

*This also means, that’s right, ITS GONNA HURT. Phantom pains baby!!!

*Ratchet is not happy when he finds out. At all.

-June asks Smokescreen to teach the kids some basic self defense incase the Decepticons get human allies OR just in case they encounter some human trying to hurt them. Smokey agrees.

-Jack and Smokey were hanging out in the town cus, well, they felt like it, Vance showed up, and Smokescreen punched him and broke his nose. Can’t press charges if he doesn’t legally exist.

*He got reprimanded for this later.

*Miko thought it was the COOLEST

*June was upset, but thankful for smokescreen defending jack.

OK ENJOYY I HOPE YOU LIKES MY BRAINDUMP + ART

[lotusbread]

I've had these Radioapple story concepts swirling in my head, and I really wanted to write them. However, I often struggle with major writer's block and a good dose of laziness 🥹. Because of this, I was hoping that if these little story ideas haven't been explored yet, some talented fellow Radioapple writers might be interested in bringing them to life 👉🏻👈🏻.

Here's the list of the Radioapple story ideas that have been plaguing my mind:

- Radioapple x Avatar (not the last airbender kind of avatar): I imagined Luci as Neytiri and then Alastor as Jake. While Luci is Neytiri, I was thinking Charlie is the one who stumbles upon Alastor's avatar body. Then she brings him to their clan or her people. Luci is the chief of their tribe and is very distrustful of Alastor. He doesn't want to have his daughter hang around Alastor so he himself trains Alastor to be one like them. And then slowly fall in love with each other 🤭 Orrr maybe Charlie should just appear in the Way of the Water plotline? So Luci gets to meet Alastor first 🫣🤭

- Radioapple x ColorRush: To those that don't know Color Rush, it's sorta like a soulmates kind of thing. It's world where there are Monos and Probes. "Mono" refers to individuals who see the world in shades of gray, while a "Probe" is their destined soulmate who allows them to experience color. It's a really interesting concept and I have yet to see a Radioapple fanfic that incorporates this. If there is or are any that actually exist that I am unaware of, I would very much like to know if it's on Ao3 and kindly ask for the link so I can read it 🫣 anyway, I thought it would be a riveting story if like Luci became a mono after his fall, his probe was Lilith but then with her long disappearance he spent years not experiencing colors. And a mono can only have one probe in their lifetime, so when Luci sees Alastor for the first time in the hotel he is in absolute shock to experience a color rush from the Radio Demon himself.

- Radioapple x Ben 10: This was just a very quick fleeting idea in my head but I was like yooo what if...Charlie and Luci were like siblings or cousins, since they look a lot like each other, Charlie could be the one who has the omnitrix and then Luci is the one with the Anodite dna. Or vice versa if some of you prefer it that way. Then Alastor would be Kevin. It would a compelling story to write an enemies to friends to lovers type of slowburn. 🤭 also imagine the adventures they could go on fightinng aliens and going herotime

- Radioapple x StarVsTheForcesOfEvil (SVTFOE): This concept was an idea I almosttt acted on writing because I was really into it. I honestly already drew concept art of it. Luci as Star and then Alastor as Marco. Then Lilith can be Tom. And then instead of like the Butterfly family heritage it can be the Seraphim family or maybe Angel family? Michael would be Queen Moon which would be Luci's dad. And instead of them turning into butterflies they turn into their seraph forms. Luci's circle cheeks would glow with his magic just like Star in SVTFOE. And his magic wand would be his apple cane. I already had this concept almost thought out through. I mean I rewatched SVTFOE and definitely got inspired by thinking it would be a cool story or fanfic. I was kinda really hesitant to share this and want to write it myself but like what I already mentioned earlier, I have terrible writers block and can get very lazy when the inspiration to write just doesn't strike. So, to whoever does plan on writing a fanfic about this, i entrust this concept to you 🥺 also, I would happily share the drawings about it if you all would like

- Radioapple x Brave: Merida has been one of my fav Disney Princesses and movie alongside with Rapunzel and Mulan. I thought maybe Luci can be Merida and then Alastor can be one of those suitors he's supposed to chose one to marry. I would love to read about the archery scene and imagine it as Luci hitting bullseye after bulleyes. 🏹 Then Michael is the king and father of Luci who he turns into a bear(?) or maybe a different kind of animal? To make it a bit different from the movie since there was no love story at all, I thought that Alastor and Luci would hate each other at first but actually have some kind of chemistry they can't see yet. Luci doesn't venture out with his father into the woods alone but has Alastor alongside with him through the journey of changing his fate and mending the bond that was torn by pride.

- Radioapple x Barbie SwanLake: Luci as Odette and then Alastor as the Prince. I thought it would be an interesting story with Luci getting turned into the most beautiful swan 🤭 or should he turn into a duck? 🤔

- Radioapple x Superhero AU: This is like a somewhat original idea but it was inspired by superhero series or movies in which heroes and villians hide their true identities then try to live normal lives. I was giggling over the idea of Luci being a secret superhero and Alastor is a secret villian, or vice versa, in which the two are archnemesis. And while the two are enemies with their masks on, without their masks, however, they are actually very close friends, it could be like a superhero highschool au or maybe where they're working adults in the same workplace 🤭

That concludes my list for the moment. I do have additional concepts stashed here in my head, but I wanted to keep this concise. While I'm unsure if these ideas will spark anyone's interest, I would be truly honored if they did. I hope you find the writing enjoyable. As for credit, it's perfectly acceptable whether or not you choose to mention me. It's all up to you. Nevertheless, I would greatly appreciate it if you could provide a link to the finished story. I'd love to read it and express my gratitude for taking the time to develop an idea I couldn't pursue myself. 🫶

[zoloxolo]

Project Thoughts: Student Film "Heard Somebody Cry" [April 12th 2025]

New semester, new student film to work on!

As I said in my last update, I decided to drop my uncompleted film "Lost and Found" last semester due to the amount of baggage it carried during production. I knew that I wanted to do something a bit more light-hearted and fun for the next one, even if it meant working on something as cringe as an animated music video of my two precious ocs.... a but indulgent, yes, last year was very difficult for me so dont judge.... Unfortunately, because i am using a song from a popular band, i won't be able to enter it into any film festivals. The most i can do is hope my film gets selected for my college's screening and maybe win a single award if the judges like it enough.

Anyways enough blabbering, here is what i have so far!

Lemmie first introduce you to my characters I'm going to be animating! The man in the green sweater is Omar, the other ghostly figure with the beret is Benjamin. Back in 2021 when i was attending CSSSA, I attempted to animate a short film of these two which was gnna be named Acquainting Painting. Looking back after years have passed.... it was very silly of me to think I could finish a 1 minute film in just a week, but I managed to have the storyboard done at the very least. I haven't uploaded the film on youtube yet so maybe sometime in the future I'll be able to link it here, but I aint gnna lie, I am a lil too lazy to find the video. I think the file itself is gone forever from my hard drive failing, but I definitely have the file exported as a mp3.

Here is what Benjamin looks like in human form with his proper colors. This was concept art for his redesign, thus the outdated outfit.

Here is what he's supposed to look like in the final product after adding in the effects, but tbh, I'm still not fully on board with these colors. It's got a nice pallet, but i want him to pop out more in a lighter blue since the setting is going to take place in an art gallery at night. By the time i roll out another update, I'll update his FINAL final look.

And now, for the animation segment!

In total, i wanna say i put in about over 40 hours of work into this since 3 weeks ago. I definitely should've put more work into this segment during that time, I was sorta dilly dallying for a bit. There's a few more boards beyond this, but i wanna wait to show it off after the majority of this segment is animated. It was super hard to animate Benjamin glitching since the only things i have ever animated up until this point has been character acting. I had to watch a lot of aimkid beforehand to study the way she makes her character move. I definitely need to watch more 2d animated movies that aren't disney related and get caught up with the times... but i can't help it, i love animating the Richard Williams way 😵‍💫

That's it for now. Its 8am and I stayed up all night trying to type all of this out. I'll see yall preferably next week.

[kibblemaniac]

april thoughts

just a general "how ive been doing" mostly with my art sense my art is my life

.. i say art is my life, but i havent drawn at all in the past few days lolol. i havent been doing too great this year.

well, im a bit unhappy with the lack of responses the follower survey got, but i guess it makes sense. i promised it would be out in december and i didnt finish it until this month. people probably forgot about it like i did. idk how to lock the survey so if you read this and go look for the link you can still do it, but i probably wont be checking it often. i did get some good info like where most of my followers come from, how i should price my comms, etc etc. if i remember to ill make another one next year with more questions. a lot of people who took the survey said they wanted a discord server. id like to connect with you all but to be honest im a bit hesitant to make something like that because im not very active on discord and am very lazy.

i guess the reason why i havent drawn a lot this year, specifically illustrations, is cuz im lacking a lot of inspo. i just havent been too happy with my art and not really sure why. i figured if i had more inspo id be drawing more, but ive always had trouble paying attention to stuff like movies or shows or stuff like that. and i specify taking inspo from media like that bc i dont want to take too much inspo from other online artists. i think if you take too much inspo from your peers you end up just creating the same stuff over n over, you need a wide range of inspo to create something new. though, that lack of inspiration definitely isnt helped by my pinterest account getting deactivated for no reason! social media addiction is real, ive been having serious pinterest withdrawals lolol. but yeah i have a long list of things i want to read and stuff i want to watch that i havent even scrapped the surface of. will be a long long time b4 i finish that list, and by the time im done ill probably have another list of stuff ready to go.

on the topic of media, the last films i watched were colin armistead's "angelic kitty miracle-chan" and "enternet". armistead's filmwork reminds me of the phrase "art disturbs the comforted and comforts the disturbed". ive seen a lot of backlash for both his kitty film, as well as his previous film "bonehead". i do not agree with people who think mircale-chan is supposed to be "transphobic" or "mean spirited". i found myself in the main character of alex, as someone who enjoys anime and self isolates and is trans, and by the comments on the youtube upload a lot of other people did too. my only critique is that it just didnt live up to my expectations, that just not a lot happened in it. but its a 7 minute student film, so its a bit limited in what it can do anyways. i think if it had a longer run time and went more into depth about alex's life, it would have been much more compelling.

back to art, ive been thinking about it and i think i know why i wasnt able to finish raw!fruit or butterfly in flower garden. i have this tendency to overestimate what i can do, come up with a lot of cool ideas, but am not really great at executing those ideas. i take a while to draw, even doodles can take me like, at least a day or two, so when it comes to larger projects a lot of the time it takes so long i end up noticing flaws in my own work and those flaws make me feel too depressed to finish the damn thing. i think for my first venture into comic work, i should downsize into a oneshot. maybe even practice drawing single page comics before i work on something that requires multiple pages. and it should also be something pretty simple in concept. bifg was supposed to be simple, but i kept thinking of ideas and writing and stuff like that, that it became its own beast. hopefully one day.

on a more personal note, im a bit worried about my future. i made it a new years resolution to get a job this year, and i still havent gotten one 4 months in. i sorta lost interest.. ill try to get one for the summer cuz thats coming up soon, though to be honest idk if ill be able to survive it. i struggle a lot with loud/painful noises, bright lights, social interaction, etc etc... but ill try my best. i might try to do comms if i just cant do it. im graduating high school and turning 18 this year, 2 events im not really looking forward to. part of my brain stills think im a middle schooler, so being reminded that im not is like, idk shocking??? just dont really have much of a plan, not much hope, but ill live anyways.

uhh other stuff thats too small to have their own paragraphs uhhh. i started a new flightrising account, its toasterhair if you want to send a friend request. uhh ive been trying to exercise more, nothing too big just a little bit of cardio to keep my heart beating. i was somewhat more sociable at my last cooking class than i usually am, so yay me thats one of my goals to be more social. and uhh my grandma is gonna teach me how to sew soon hopefully and were gonna fix up this one sweater of mine that has a bunch of holes. thats really all i can think of, hope youre all doing well !

[the-whispers-of-death]

oh, i never showed it to you in the tags. just posted it to my art blog, but here she is. uh. idk whats up with the sword, but. yeag. sorta kinda maybe just ripped off the tarot card because i was lazy, but whatevsies. and she was supposed to have a veil too, but again, i got lazy

note how fucking long her braids are. cuz i imagine shes like at least 100 now, and that hair has had time to grow

Maecetis, popping into my head: YEAH THAT IS MY HIGH PRIESTESS!!!

Me: You are a jumpscare, ma'am.

Anyways, SHE LOOKS SO MAJESTIC!!!! I love this.

[writing-whump]

Character basics

[Picrew link]

Seline Silverstein

Feisty, opinionated, free-spirited

A young witch that recently moved to town. Studies Cultural sciences with focus on storytelling, popular culture and writing. Her magical affinities are water and air and her specialised method is singing. Sky witches are supposed to calm and soothe the shadow wolves, but Seline is too stubborn and angry for that. She wants to argue. She wants to fight. She wants a mission that would be worth it. How can she help other wolves with their tempers, when she struggles with her own? Daydreams, writes, sings. Lost in her own world half the time, makes her a bit oblivious. Prouder of being a scientist than a witch, but she is very good at both.

Isaiah Wolfson

Cautious, well-mannered, kind

Very powerful shadow wolf with unrivaled control to the point he doesn't seem like a wolf at all. Laid-back and friendly most of the time, when he isn't on the brink of violence. Passionate psychology student. Refuses to belong to any pack, which creates tensions in the pack hierarchies. Values freedom, good manners and often suffers for his pride. Always perfect, smooth, nothing ruffles me vibes. Has masks for every situation. Hardly let's himself relax. Has too much work, wants to save everything he comes across. Too nosy. Very very caring, everyone deserves love and kindness except me worldview.

Matthew Blackwell

Sarcastic, temperamental, protective

Matthew has a wolf's temper to go with even worse tempered angry personality. Bad combination. His shadow is too strong to control, some days he struggles to even think clearly. He doesn't belong, doesn't submit, doesn't care. Only maybe sorta not quite enemies with Isaiah. Interested in economics and bussiness making of humans, if only he could tolerate the classes better. When calm, he is the emotional barometer of the room and gets things quickly in his pack before Isaiah or Seline have a clue.

-> Matthew's sisters

Hector Wolfson

Competetive, hard-working, ambitious

Isaiah's younger brother. Extremely ambitious and competetive, wants to lead the biggest pack and control the city. Very angry with his older brother for not supporting him nor accepting his challeneges. Insanely competitive. Obsessed with being the best. Wants to he the leader, and means well, but he can't people for the life of him. His trademark attitude is love me or hate me, Idgaf. Does not understand his emotions or anyone else's. Prickly and fuming for the smallest thing.

Olive

Shy, artistic, determined

Olive is a human girl studying arts in Vienna, who often goes to the economy campus to draw. She also has a student job there as manager of the school's social media account. She is timid and compassionate, having hard time making her way through with people and gets emotional easily, but can be assertive in her own way and stand up for her passions, especially drawing, manga and anime. Rather withdrawn and introverted, she does believe in the best in people and carries a fascination and curiosity that make her inspired all the time.

Arnold "Arnie" Wolfson

Empathetic, manipulative, playful

The youngest Wolfson brother and a human. He is the one most in touch with his emotions and quickly understands circumstances and people. Often uses this to hit people where it hurts. A master of words, since they are his only weapon. Shameless enjoyer of life and pretty things, cares about style and appearance. Very loyal to those he loves, would go to hell and back for them. Also gets extremely jealous.

Dylan Silverstein

Friendly, carefree, lazy

Seline's younger brother. Shadow wolf. High school dropout lacking shadow discipline and ambitions. Outgoing and charming, makes friends easily. Very naive, mouthy, does not plan for the future at all. With a human family finds it hard to find a pack. Has little sense for wolf culture or proper manners. Irresponsible, no care in the world, gets defensive quickly. Often breaks taboos and things that are supposed to be impossible cause he didn't know they were.

Rip

Abrasive, snarky, fair

Street stray shadow wolf. 19 years old. Cynical as heck, been living on the streets since he was 13. His whole family is dead and he blames himself for it. Excellent fighter respected by most street wolves, especially in the fighting rings. No formal education whatsoever, learned everything on the go on his own. Perceptive and great judge of character. Very strong sense of justice he thinks is a weakness but can't shake.

[lovediives]

i always wanna hear oomfie, lay them on me

HELP MEEE.. THANK YOU OOMFIEEEE!! UHM. WHEN I SAY INSANE. I /GEN MEAN ACTUALLY INSANE. MURDERS AND SHIT LMFAO

before anyone has the chance. NO THEY ARE NOT YANDERES. they will never BE YANDERES. please do NOT call them yanderes. thank you <3 this is just the work on a mentally ill kid who dealt with a lot of violence and coped like this. okay disclaimer out of the way...

okay. so to give the tldr. this is edgy shit i had since like TEN YEARS OLD. will i ever change it!!!!!!! HELL FUCKING NO! i call them my erm, well, number ocs! cause they dont have names. theyre just numbered LOL

this is 1-5 in order. theyre my ltitle silly billy insane girls (SORRY FOR THE OLD ART </3 ILL REDRAW THEM PROPERLY AT ONE POITN IN MY LIFE.........)

theres also men but im ngl. im lazy and dont feel like it.

01, the one with the yellow eyes, is probably the most unhinged. kinda goes on insane killing sprees and then when shes done with them shes like "waahh why did u hit me :( i didnt do anything" (04 plucked her for killing people again or something)

02 acts like shes better so shes always like "g-g-guys! we shouldnt kill people" and then when some man (best boy lawrence) cheats on 01. she like. unironically tortures him for three days straight. funny.

old 02 and lawrence meeting for the first time <3

old relationship chart. basically theyre all kind of obsessed with each other. and they all hate each lawrence for being an outsider of their weird little polycule. lawrence kinda dont gaf because 01 is obsessed with him and theyre in love (sorta) here is some art of these little freaks. 01 x lawrence YOU WILL ALWAYS BE REAL AND CANON (because i said so)

imagine i have more art and stuff of them (i deleted everything one day. dont worry about that) this is just becoming about 01 - 02 - lawrence but honestly. i need to go back to compile everything properly into a google slides or something because the amount of lore and timelines all of them have would be too insane to explain in one ask. check this out too i suppose!

i forgot the most important part <3 01-05 were all experimented on when they were kids and now they cant ever properly die. so their understanding of death is so convoluted and confusing. they all have a hatred for those who were never stuck in the lab and that's why they kill people......!

[jsratuiii9]

Asking about the third member of Tape's crew I need the crumbs

OO YAYAYA his name is Slack

Warning old art

He was originally supposed to be a jsrf oc (I wasn't thinking about designs and he looks more like he'd be from brc which ARENT my intentions!!!!!)

Yes it originally says Skates but it doesn't really maaatttcchhh cuz yknow,,, Tape, Tack, Skates??? So I went with Tape, Tack, Slack,,, I am currently redesigning him!!! So yahoo!!!

As you can see his main colour is purple, cuz um funny haha,,, Slack didn't actually choose his street name, Tack and Tape were always calling him Slack as a joke since yknow he's always slacking off, and he just sorta went with it. Slack is probably the best member in their crew during races and other stuff, he's good at that!!!!!!! He's just lazy, he's somewhat like clutch? He knows how to make good excuses, he steals sometimes, and he's LAZY, but besides that he is a really good person!!! If you were getting bullied he'd be like "Hey!!!!!!! Stop that!!!!!!!!!"

Slack has random bromance situations with Yoyo, but he just says no homo after, Slack is 17,,, !!!! (This NAWT saying Slack x yoyo are meant to be)

(Or maybe it is, I don't know, I haven't decided)

Slack and Tack are actually siblings!!!!!!!!

Trust I will make Slack look like he's actually from the 2000s, again I had NO idea how to make his designs but I got some things in mind now 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Slack is also afraid of clowns so harhar,

Btw the trio crew thing they all go to a private school so I'm gonna draw them in their silly school uniforms later 🤤

[twilightmalachite]

Machina - Test World 1

Author: Kino Seitaro (with Akira)

Characters: Mika, Sora

Translator: Mika Enstars

"What Sora’s been into lately… Hmm, there’s so many it’s hard to narrow it down to just one, though. I suppose he's been having fun building towns in SSVRS lately?"

[Read on my blog for the best viewing experience with Oi~ssu ♪]

Season: Winter

Location: Starmony Dorms Courtyard

Mika: There’s still snow out, huh…

Uu, so cold… Maybe I should’ve warmed up a bit before comin’ outside.

No, that sorta laziness would concern Oshi-san. I gotta keep on creatin’ without any detours…!

…I say that, but it’s not like I’ve thought of anythin’.

Nnah~, maybe there’s somethin’ interesting out here…?

Sora: HaHa~! Make room! Make room please! Sora’s coming through!

Mika: Nnah, Sora-kun? What’re ya doin?! You jus’ ran on past…

Sora: Sora’s flying a kite! HiHi~, you see what’s in Sora’s hand?

Mika: Ah, kite flyin’, huh?

That’s a tasteful way to have fun. Have ya been out here flying a kite all by yourself?

Sora: HuHu~, Sora was gonna invest himself in games he hadn’t played yet during winter break, but he wanted to move his body~!

There was a kite to fly in Starmony Dorms, so he borrowed it. ♪

Mika: I see. Sounds like a good change of pace from stayin’ home all winter, huh?

A kite, huh? Hmmm, kite… Maybe it’ll give me a good idea…?

…Nnah~, nothing comes to mind.

Sora: ? Searching for ideas?

Mika-chan-san has a gloomy color, huh~. Sora can tell he is deeply troubled!

Mika: Well, it means a lot to see ya worried, but the issue here’s…

(Ah, I know, maybe I could ask if Sora-kun knows about the current trends?)

(Sora-kun knows lots about new technology and such, right? Talkin’ to Sora-kun may give me some ideas.)

Hey, Sora-kun, could I ask ya a few questions?

Sora: Yes! May may be asked!

Mika: Thank ya~. I’m havin’ some trouble…

I’m actually at a loss on what to do fer my next work. I gotta be able to make somethin’ worth showin’ to even Oshi-san.

I was thinkin’ you could tell me what you’ve been into lately, maybe it could help me with my work?

Sora: What Sora’s been into lately… Hmm, there’s so many it’s hard to narrow it down to just one, though.

I suppose he's been having fun building towns in SSVRS lately?

Mika: Building towns!?

What a large-scale hobby… You mean buildin’ towns in the game world, right?

Sora: Yes! Sora builds while playing in virtual reality. He’s working with someone from a game company that used to work on SSVRS!

And, in the newly made “Test World”, in-game money can be used to open shops and buy furniture for a house!

Mika-chan-san’s good with creative stuff, so it may help him out! ♪

Mika: I see, makin’ stuff in a game world, huh… It’s amazin’ how much technology has advanced nowadays.

Nnah~, but thinkin’ of it, I got motion sick easy with the SVRSS goggles…

Sora: HaHa~☆ No need to worry about that!

The VR goggles have been improved a lot using the data from back then, so I’m confident Mika-chan-san will be able to use it comfortably~!

Mika: You were able t’do that…!? What fast work… I can’t keep up with this tech!

Sora: Don’t worry, Mika-chan-san will get used to it eventually!

Yuuki Sense~ is playing in the Test World now, does Mika-chan-san want to join in?

If Mika-chan could get inspired by the digital world, Sora thinks it’ll be worth it~♪

Mika: I ‘unno. It’s a world I dunno much about, so I’m nervous, but if I don’t try takin’ the first step, I might not be able to create my new work…

I’ll do it, Sora-kun! I’ll also get some inspiration from the digital world!

Sora: HoHo~, Mika-chan-san’s greedy for art~♪

Sora: Sora will bring Mika-chan to Yuuki Sense~ who's playing in the Test World, then!

Let’s all have fun playing in the SSVRS world! ♪

Better than one is two, and better than two is three!

I think by making the Test World more lively, it’ll become an even better town~! ♪ HaHiHuHeHo~☆

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Introduce your ocs here NOW

OK this is for one of my stories I’m calling “Office Romance” (the quotations are there for a reason it’s not a romance)

Yes I know this has been sitting in my inbox for forever but sh

So so so

I can’t talk about the characters without talking about the plot and theme. It is about Amatonormativity and there are 3 characters that represent society to various degrees. The MC Amari is works at this office with their 2 bffs Kai and Ollie (who sorta represent some aspects of queer culture that I’ve interacted with but that much tbh). They like to go clubbing and Amari hooks up with Mallory who’s the new hire before they meet at the office (it’s only a little bit awkward).

Mallory develops a crush and Kai and Ollie try to play matchmaker. It doesn’t work because Amari was never interested in Mallory that way and stuff happens. There is one last character who is sorta minor but do affect the plot and that is Sally.

She is one of their coworkers and also tries to push Amari and Mallory together and when it doesn’t work out blames Amari. She does sorta represent society at large I think? Like she tells Amari that she won’t be happy without a partner and that she should give it a shot even if she has a bad feeling about pursuing a relationship with Mallory. Then when it doesn’t work out doesn’t deign to listen to her because I think what’s seen as apathy in a relationship is villanized more than forcing one.

I am lazy rn so I’m just gonna do 2 characters :) totally not because I didn’t think of the rest of the characters outside of their use within the story

Amari! She is gender-fluid currently femme but could change ya never know. She’s got a couple hobbies like working out, a little bit of make up and fashion and clubbing. She just loves changing her appearance and tailoring her body to herself if that makes sense.

Favorite things include: the color purple, mesh fabrics/clothes, an extra day off work, music festivals

Least favorite things include: pastels, dramas, the color orange, the fruit bananas

Mallory! She is a romantic person. She likes a lot of soft things like fluffy cardigans and taking care of some plants. But she’s also the person who learned to go rollerblading to go as fast as possible since you aren’t supposed to do that as a beginner and watch horror movies. She’s like the Barbie girlboss who’ll run a company in hot pink if that girlboss was more mundane and soft.

Favorite things: pastels, Bright Eyes Phlox (a flower), spicy food, arts and crafts workshops

Least favorite things: most mushy/soft foods, grey, salons, crowded places and events

[kedamo-nogetoffthetable]

Had to come back and say it

I'm actually so unbelievably mad about some of the elder cutscenes they changed.

The old animation was so fluid and had little to no clipping, or if it did it wasn't noticeable because of how the Elders were moving.

Tsadi's, I am INCREDIBLY pissed off that they changed. I've seen concept art of that cutscene, and loved the idea of it. Why would they take away them lifting the door. I LOVED that.

I suppose it makes sense, as the elder shrine was changed to be inside the temple.

however, TGC was lazy and made it so the memory was still outside...???

If Teths hadn't changed, it would have made it a lot easier for me to understand what he was doing. Because, believe it or not, watching the Light Awaits cutscene is the only reason i realized the darkstone opened the door. Before that I thought he was making this light sucking block for the hell of it.

The valley twins was such a cool animation, and I?? Sorta understand changing it?? Like maybe the whimsy, floaty thing doesn't show the personality they wanted the twins to have.

But all that movement... In exchange for clipping, a floating or sinking sky kid, and choppy, awkward animation at the start-??

Not worth it.

I think the only elder cutscene change I like is the Vault cutscene, as they added Resh in the mural line up.

fuck you. beta teth cutscene

[dashawfrostart]

This Week In "Time & Again" #13: Lucky Thirteenth Post! And... whatever, i'm lazy 😅

62 layers

is the number of layers that the most complex page currently has in Chapter 5. And mind you, that actually might not be the final number, for some "layer work" might require slight reorganization. All for the sake of ease of turning all this into a webcomic, which is, as you already know it from this incredibly old post, an objective for the near future. Hitting an important and a peculiar stage of work right now, my mind keeps going back to questions of automation I mentioned earlier and... less earlier in regard of a somewhat different problem. Now I dream of a mass layer import algorithm for Inkscape - and PLEASE don't take me for a fool after doing your minute-long google research session on the matter! Yes, I know that mass layer import plugins for Inkscape do exist. But alas, during my last year's exploration of the problem, after spending a whole day trying to find a good plugin like that, I came to a disappointing conclusion that absolutely none of them currently work. But that would probably be a story for another day. In fact, I already have a post draft prepared, for this particular occasion 😁

Anyways,

at this point of time, Chapter 5 is at the stage of "post-production and finalization".

This is truly amazing, and I must admit, overall, I am very happy with the end result. Even though the road was not paved with nice and smooth stones, but it appeared to be sorta bumpy and crooked (or maybe it's just my perception). Even though it took me significantly more time to make it this far with it than I originally estimated - but often that never goes smooth either. Now, my main objective is to complete the cover arts and all the bonus materials that must be included. That would be my goal for the next few weeks ahead. Thus, very little is left to do - but this little stuff is pretty important for a conceptual, through-and-through synergistic endeavour such as "Time & Again". I also intend to make a few teasers for Chapter 5. At least 3, I think. I intend to... but we'll see if it actually happens, because the release is nigh(ish), but I still didn't invest my time into those small teasers. They are supposed to be pretty entertaining though. So, alongside with everything else that needs to be done, I'll try to manage.

As already has been indicated in the previous post, working on Chapter 5 sure improved my drawing skill in Krita - or rather, I found ways to do everything faster, more efficient time-wise. Which is very precious. Aside from the incredibly useful Filter Layer function that I discovered recently, one of my favourite "tricks with layers" in Krita is Erase blending mode that I was finally able to make a good use of 😅. I like to correct certain parts of the backgrounds with it, at times isolated from the other layers in a group, to avoid permanent destruction of the background in case if I want to revert back to its original version without regret or having to redo everything from scratch again. In other words, instead of using Eraser tool to destroy something forever and ever, I use a "fake erase" layer that can be turned off any time, need be. Sweet! Another one nifty layer trick I found long ago - but never used it previously in my graphic novel - is the usage of Destination In blending mode (that, for some reason, isn't even mentioned in the documentation, so I cannot provide a link 🧐). Technically, it's absolutely not necessary to use that trick, and some might even say it's counterproductive. But! - I personally like to use it in special cases when creating a background that consists of a smooth gradient that might be a challenge to fix once done. Because how many times have you tried to correct a shape that has been filled with a nice gradient to make it look like a certain spot on it was not just artificially attached?.. I remember myself from back in the day, in my photoshoppin' years, going through the pains of using Clone Stamp to try and recreate the smooth change of colour on the spots that have been added later, just to make it look like it all was made in one sitting, right off the bat. Oh boy, that brings... painful memories. So, Destination In blending mode resolves the aforementioned issue for me completely.

But alas, if it turns out I did screw up something that requires a smooth colour change - in certain other cases, primarily when correcting shapes of the foreground objects/people - I resort to the magic effects of blurring/smudging tools. Like recently I had to remove the door on the picture of a corridor and turn it into a wall corner. And can you tell it originally existed there, but has been removed afterwards? - not to sound like a stuck-up snob, but I really doubt it.

And that might sound weird, for Krita actually has a wonderful Smart Patch tool that functions pretty much identical to Photoshop's Clone Stamp I'm so used to. And you would think that that would be an ideal resolution to the problem I described just above. But no: for some reason I simply like to repaint the section that requires a correction and then to blend the colours for a smooth transition instead. Why do I do that? That I cannot tell you. Those are the mysterious ways of Frosty's artistic cognition.

Also, I finally returned to using character colour palettes. When I worked on my other, much older random pieces featuring Jade, Alan and Stu under the codename "Trio", sometime between 2010 and 2016, I used to have a special file called "Trio colour palette" that looked like a colour swatch for each character. Kind of like an eyeshadow palette, but for a significantly more important purpose. 🎨😁 I had a file like that for "Time & Again", too, but at some point of time I simply stopped using it, for the reason completely unbeknownst to me (and The Past Me probably cannot explain that either). So I found it, opened it, and decided to use from now on it while working on the current chapter and the future ones. Here's what it looks like right now (obviously, with potential spoiler notes artistically blackened with a marker brush 😁):

Yup, it's terribly messy, but I don't complain. I can navigate it with ease - and that's all that matters. ... And of course, lil old me cannot avoid a nice (and horrible) use of another videogame reference that is circled with red on the screenshot... Well, you know the drill. That's typical for me. And of course, I most certainly did not have to link back to the original, for it's very famous 😁 (dear goodness, that game definitely affected my sanity long ago... good times!).

You know what? That would probably be enough for today. I'm lazy and don't want to invest too much time and effort into writing about something that most people don't even understand anyway 🤣😅 Well at least not right now. So I wrap it up right this once and will ruminate more on some certain other topics in my next post. Cheerios!.. I mean, sorry. Cheers! (wait, what? no! instead of Cheerios, shouldn't it be Chex then, for a Doom nerd such as myself?..)

[penguin--person]

🖊tell me abt a blorbo I haven't heard much abt at all :3

you get photosynthesis

synth my buddy synth is an iwatex oc of mine!! i dont focus on them enough.. dont give them enough attention.. smh.. shame on me.. this will contain some iwatex spoilers. here's their relationship charts that i made a few months back! there's an error in anemone's (red/orange girl) teenage thing. it means to say "vace's dislike of synth rubs off on nem"

some of this has changed, but most of it has remained the same. synth is cool. she's trans! which way? yeah! he realizes that during the game, so, sol can help him out and such.. he're younger than sol, also.. her birthname, which they like still, is nudibranch! dib for short:) then, when she realizes she's trans, she keeps their legal name (bc he's lazy lol, and as i said, he likes it) and then have a more public name, which is photosynthesis.

they choose that name because he's rlly a big flower guy. his job is agriculturist! and, florist in the side:) it doesn't pay too many kudos, but he likes it!!! knows all about the vertumnian.. vertumnilian? flora, and loves learning more about it!! however, you can't feed the colony on flowers. so!! their main job is agriculturist, they help maintain the land and all the jazz that agriculture involves. therefore, they're close with cal, and therefore, tammy!! i also imagine sol:) since their mom is head of geoponics

she's just cool... she's nice, love to tease her friends (cough cough go check out @/aru-art 's oc inca theyre buddypals), love to pick them up and carry them around, help them, make jokes.. she's also a bit. skittish..? no.. hm.. whats the right word, i wonder...

he's easy to persuade, i suppose? he's not naive. he dislikes the helios. cough cough vic my good friend vic. he won't help you if you're him them to kill someone. but , if you're good friends, he won't report you, if your reason is good enough, or if he trusts you enough. if you're friends, he'll also help you hide the body. he's v loyal 👍

he's just a chill gal... doesn't like that everyone is like, ohhh what are we gonna do the vertumna wants us dead. bc she thinks that they can coexist with vertumna. just have to show it they dont mean harm. but, whos gonna listen to a little kid who eats dirt lol

has a "what's the point of anything if there's no time to stop and smell the flowers" mindset, sorta.. theres no point to just surviving. you have to live.

HE GETS WITH NOMI ‼️‼️SHE DATES THEM ‼️‼️QPR MOMENT... i also think sol could pair her up with someone. or, try to, lol.. that'd be funny i thin.. but nomi is a safe bet 💪💪💪marz also, i think.. anemone maybe? tangent, if you squint.. worlds most swag yuri polycule on vertumna right now

anyway shes cool 👍

[scentedcandlecryptid]

Hop!! character by the amazing @bi-panic-at-the-disco

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