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I’m writing this out because I need to.
I have been a member of a group that could roughly be considered a fandom for something like 4.5 decades at this point. It’s a huge part of my life. I am someone who is known in this hobby as I have been here forever and I have also been one of the people who makes things happen. We just had our big convention a week ago. I cohost one of the events that starts that con, and I participate in another event meant to introduce young people into the hobby.
This past week, my performance was observed by the owner/CEO of the company involved in this hobby as well as their new marketing team and a group of investors. Part of what I do is an impromptu clinic sort of thing and I was doing my stuff to an excited group of kids and parents when I noticed the audience I had. They didn’t care exactly what I was saying, it was more about how engaged I had everyone.
I do this particular event dressed as Link at the request of the person who manages it. She feels this makes me more approachable to kids (it does, sort of?) and the parents get a huge kick out of it. Some parent wants a photo with Link every single year. This year, the investors were VERY excited with my cosplay and they took the pictures and I found out who they were much later.
ANYWAY. There’s a group of people in this hobby who are absolute trash. Like. Every phobic you can think of. Truly awful mean girls. I have had most of them blocked since 2016. For the time line sake, Breath of the Wild was released in 2017, and I discovered it in 2018. I started cosplaying in 2019.
This group of mean girls occasionally gets a hold of a photo of me in cosplay and is terrible about it. I forget these people exist until someone well meaning sends me a screen shot. Like the first time this happened, my friends and I were stumped by the comment about how I should “hang myself in my elf suit” before realizing they meant Link. Like they had been blocked for YEARS before Link existed in my life. Who spends this kind of time about a person WHO BLOCKED YOU.
I guess there are photos from last week floating about because bestie texted me a heads up about it this morning. I have seen nothing. I have no desire to see anything. Like call me cringe all you want but today I’m packing up my Links to go fly to San Diego Comic Con tomorrow because my cringe got me a free badge to go. Like my cringe game is so incredible I am going to one of the bigger nerd gatherings on earth by invitation.
I get I live rent free in these heads but like my cringe is I like video games and horses a lot. Their cringe is human rights violations. Maybe if they got therapy to figure out why they are so obsessed with me that they are still sniffing around almost a decade after I removed access, but I’m sure they’d rather snort ivermectin about it. Like yeah, I’m having the time of my life. It’s completely awesome. I recommend this to anyone who can manage it. Sorry you’re that jealous you have to engage in high school behavior in your mid fifties. I have a wig to style.
#like idk how to tag this#these are truly awful people#life is better without them#I wish they’d understand theirs would be better without me#maybe they’d be happier
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Bruce would give up the mission if Dick ever died. And not in the angry-grief way of "this is the last straw on the camel's back" aka the way he sorta kicked Dick out, but in the "hasn't set foot in the Cave in over a month because the last time he did he kept hearing Dick's laugh echoing across the stalactites" way. He literally cannot bear to put on the cowl, to be Batman, because Batman has existed longer with Robin than without. Bruce doesn't remember being Batman without Robin (without Dick) anymore. He can recall his first meetings with a few of the Rogues, but beyond that? It's been so long that those first 2-4 years are all just a haze of self destructive grief. Dick flipped his entire life in a 180 to the total opposite direction. He showed him how to hope, to love, to live. If Dick dies as an adult, Bruce would've spent half his life with his first son. No matter what age Dick dies at, Bruce will have always spent more time being Batman with Dick Grayson as a son rather than without him. Dick changed Batman, changed Bruce so irrevocably that Bruce wouldn't ever be able to wear the cowl without remembering him.
#fully believe that if bruce were to kill himself over the death of one of his sons. It'd be for dick#and I mean in a very direct “gun to head” way#Dick changed his life so radically for the better than bruce cannot imagine life without him#your first child really does fuck you up in very special ways#dick has never stopped being the largest portion of Bruce's will to live#dick and alfred are the two ever present cornerstones of bruce's world and losing either of them would break his reality beyond saving#batman#batman comics#batman family#batfam headcanons#batfamily#batfam#dc comics#bruce wayne#dick grayson#nightwing#bruce wayne is a good dad#bruce wayne is a good father#bruce wayne is a good parent#bruce wayne needs a hug#batdad#batkids#batman and robin
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one more warm summer one last
#Orion's Art#Kingdom Hearts#Kingdom Hearts 2#Sora#“one more day / inside this life”#I don't think I've drawn him in this outfit without the jacket#when the idea came to mind while half-asleep#I was thinking of the dark blue of the undershirt#with the white lining#so there was no particular reason for it to be KH2#that said#as I was filling out his room#rather than deviating from the in-game space#I thought it'd be more meaningful if I kept it the way it was#I had to replace my tablet on short notice#went with an XP Deco because it was cheap#the pen is... not good#I contacted them about it & they sent a new one#it's better in some ways but still not good#sigh...#I'll have to deal with it for now but urgh my hand
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You'd think after getting your dear daycare attendant out of the Pizzaplex you would live happily ever after, hm?
look who changed their mind to post the whole thing together oops
#my art#moondrop#fnaf moondrop#fnaf moon#moondrop fnaf#moon fnaf#moon x reader#moondrop x reader#as much as they hate being treated this way#you matter more#they are already happier than before#because you're here. close#they wish you could be happier‚ too#while you can't understand how someone is so willing to give up their personhood#you refuse to understand. refuse to let it go. they deserve so much better#and after you're gone#spending your life fighting for your loved ones#they get passed into different hands#from home to home#like properly you didn't want them to be#but they couldn't leave the work of your whole life to go to waste#and now? that it's finally done?#what can they even do?#They wouldn't even know what to do with themselves after the law is in place#because they didn't do it for themselves to begin with#you wanted then to live like people after you pass. how unfortunate#but what is properly without an owner if not a person without a sense of purpose?#long post
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On one hand, Young Justice is kind of neglected by the actual superheroes that should be looking out for them in a lot of crucial ways and very much failed by the adults around them
But on the other hand Red Tornado straight up hosts a parent-teacher conference where their respective legal guardians all show up, barring Batman who’s in traffic so Nightwing fills in instead because Robin’s dad does not know he’s a vigilante which is objectively hilarious
#Superboy does not have a name and his ass is constantly getting groomed like Clark please take a more active role in his life#And all of these guys need a healthy interaction with their respective legacies that does not involve heroing#Take them out for lunch! Play a video game with them! Let them be a kid around you without getting criticized!#Red Tornado had barely reconnected with his own humanity and he’s taken a more active role in being like they are safe happy and learning#compared to the people who literally are the reason they exist in the first place#and is the only one who seems to recognize their potential and ability as a team! and he wants others to know that!#and it’s kind of heartbreaking because the JLA should be paying attention to them and noticing how they succeed and instead just show up#at the worst possible time and take things out of context and criticize them and bestie I bet you they are a lot better of a hero#than *you* were at 14-16 because they actually are going out and making a difference and saving people#but the ones who should support them the most are barely there for them at all#someone give these kids healthy and appropriate emotional support I am begging you#yj#young just us#young justice#yj98#bart allen#tim drake#kon el#conner kent#superboy#robin#dc impulse#cassie sandsmark#wonder girl#cissie king jones#arrowette#greta hayes#slobo dc#empress#anita fite
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They're like a weird unlikely depression duo to me


See I can draw them like actual men and not chew toys... I'm allowed....
But I did do a silly one cus I much prefer to draw them like the bobble heads they are 🤲🤲🤲

#deltarune#ramb#spamton#ramb deltarune#deltarune ramb#spamton deltarune#deltarune spamton#my art#didn't expect to draw today. much less a whole ass traditional piece- it's been a while since I put this much effort into one page#but I had to#this was inspired by a “whoa this is real life...” moment I had today#I was sitting outside a gazebo close to where I'm staying atm on a rocking bench like the one I drew#I was drinking a monster (and not smoking lol) and the sunset was so beautiful.#I took a picture and sent it to my mom while listening to fretless guitar music (which I didn't even know was a thing until a few days ago#please give it a listen it's so expressive. I was genuinely inspired). It was the golden hour and I just kinda stopped. for a sec.#and like. breathed and closed my eyes for a few minutes. is this what inner peace is? gosh.#so of course I had to draw the two men plaguing my mind currently doing the same lol#it's funny. I drew their emotions kinda ironic here by accident? I believe that rambs happiness peace (in general) is very fake.#he wants to be at peace with everything around him and inside his own head so he fakes it. it hasn't worked yet.#meanwhile Spamton is dealing with similar problems but he's the happier of the two. he can look at his situation head on and accept it.#and work his ass off to change it. he won't accept a bad situation because he knows he deserves better#while ramb accepts it all cus he thinks that's the best he can get (and he doesn't care enough about himself to try to do anything about it#:3#anyways I don't think this post is going to do well gsjdjfk.#I prefer drawings of these freaks in their canon proportions so I assume others do too#but ramb has. textured hair. but it's the kind that's straight at the roots! not projecting btw. at all#I love their weird little nub legs I'm not changing that when I'm drawing them in 4k hehe#despite being a practical engineer I'm still not very good at drawing straight lines without a ruler. chalk it up to how gay I am I guess#not ship but u can tag it idc lol#also Spamtons like a cis guy who cant grow facial hair to save his life and Ramb's that trans dude who took T once and turned into chubbacca
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despite Laios low self esteem making him think that if he’d been eaten, Chilchuck and Marcille wouldn’t have helped Falin,
theres a small part of me that thinks the reason Chilchuck stayed with the party and went back in the dungeon in the first place was because he didn’t want to leave Laios alone. That Laios was moreso the reason he stayed.
#dungeon meshi#chilaios#OK SORRY. THE DEMONS. I REALLY DID NOT WANT TO LIKE THIS PAIRING. I DIDNT. BUT. HHH. FHFHJFJV. I FEEL CRAZY. LET ME EXPLAIN.#Pre canon it seems Laios is the person Chilchuck is really the closest to#He gets along with Namari and they are probably way better as buddies than he and Laios but#He and Laios seem *closer*#If that makes sense#Laios calls him his first name enough and without any issue or hesitation from Chilchuck#That I sort of inagine its not like. A misunderstanding. Laios is on a first name basis with him for a reason.#He also worries probably more than anyone about Laios#And his biggest criticism of him is that hes “reckless”#he’s comfortable around Laios in a very specific way and so is Laios around him#and in the series he shows many times that he’ll risk his life to protect Laios#Like staying with him to confront the elves because he was worried Laios would say something stupid#Hes the first one to run up to him when Falin punches him#I mean I think he was also going back for Falin like its not like I think he doesn’t care about her or anything#He clearly does#But I don’t know if he’d have gone back if Laios hadn’t#And if Laios had been eaten I think he wouldn’t have even had to be convinced by Falin#I also think Marcille would’ve gone back for him but probably more bc Falin was going back#Like sort of a reversed thing#AGAIN not that I don’t think she cared about Laios at the beginning either#But she before the story she was mostly Falin’s friend who knew Laios through Falin#She only really got to know him when Falin got eaten and they had to do a team building exercise#Though now I sort of want to see an actually reversed scenario#Bc we also know that Chilchuck is sort of uncomfortable around Falin (said in relationship chart)#So I would love to see them be forced into a team building exercise to find a person they both love the way Laios and Marcille were
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seivarden "weird coping mechanisms" vendaai is like "i'm having trouble processing my emotions right now so i'm going to engage in service roleplay for the person (ship?) i'm in love with, while the ship (person?) that i'm a lieutenant on board steers me around and speaks through me like a puppet. i find this soothing and reassuring for normal reasons don't worry about it."
#i love you. girl who is Coping.#like. i totally get why she does this#she's still completely fucking unmoored and doesn't trust her own understanding of how the world is supposed to work#w.r.t. class systems and justice and even like. other people's feelings and interiority.#and also doesn't trust her ability to make the right decision.#nor has she yet developed a particularly coherent framework of ethical decisionmaking to replace what she's lost#(or even how to interact with other people without unintentionally pissing them off by acting thoughtless or entitled)#beyond 'i guess i'll just follow breq and do what breq thinks is right because breq is better than me.'#so it's obviously very comforting for her to have that responsibility and autonomy temporarily taken away from her#can't fuck up your whole life or lose your place in the world and the people who are important to you (again)#can't make the wrong call in a high stakes situation and get the crew under your command killed#can't accidentally offend your girlfriend or incur judgement and criticism from your most important person.#you don't have to be perfectly steady or unfailingly proper and just or even particularly nice if you're just doing what ship tells you.#imperial radch
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Art prompt of Shen Qingqiu holding the aro flag (fits his color scheme)
the real reason this man doesn't realise he's tripping every romance flag in the story
#svsss#scum villain#shen qingqiu#sqq#aro#aromantic flag#i'm now just stuck on the idea of sqq trying to explain the nuance of pride flags to the Qing Jing Peak disciples#he Does Not Want to have this conversation#it started when he realised he was going to have to have The Talk with his disciples at SOME point and couldn't figure out a way#to finesse them into going to talk to mqf about it instead. it rapidly derailed as sqq got more muddled up in modern day terminology and#the Scholarly Peak Disciples would NOT fucking let it go#he would really rather die than continue this conversation; this man went through enough of his (2 lives) life without examining his own#sexuality he does NOT intend to start now!! please stop asking clarifying question!! you know what just don't have sex ever!!!#just!!!! don't date!!!!!! don't do that!!!! isn't it better for everyone to just not do that?????? conversation over!#my art#thanks for the suggestion!
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li tianchen & the death of a sister
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy / Steven Berkoff, The Fall of the House of Usher / Michael Dickman, Killing Flies / Dustin Pearson, The World at its Beginning / Anne Carson, Antigonick
#link click#link click spoilers#li tianchen#li tianxi#web weaving#akeedia.ww#on siblings#a little throwback since yingdu season is here but we cannot forget them#guys yall dont know how INSANEE THEY MAKE ME#also most quotes that say brother its sister bc ltx but meh#decided to focus more on the childhood aspect bc like who understands you better than the one that knew you since you were born#especially if the age is close between siblings u rlly dont know a life without them#you cannot remember a time without them you really cant#intertwined from birth basically#anyways yeah <3#im rlly normal ab them i promise
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Whilst overall I prefer the manga to the anime, there's one aspect that I think the anime does better - the very ending.
Compared to the manga's very compactly shown thoughts of the cast, the anime gives each of them a short scene.
But although that change already is great, what matters to me the most, is this added scene of Saiko.
Despite it being so short, it feels so fitting and important to Saiko's character, making its absence in the original seem wrong. (They also added Rifuta, though comparatively, her scene isn't so significant.)
#saiki kusuo#saiko meteori#rifuta imu#saiki k#tdlosk#the disastrous life of saiki k#i'm sure people must've said this before but i always think about this when reading through 281#although i prefer the anime's version i also think the original has its merits#i feel like putting (almost) all of the words/thoughts in one panel puts more focus on kusuo's feelings#and it also nicely shows how recognizable the characters are just by how they talk#but i think showing the characters one last time before the end works better as a send-off#(plus it works better visually for the anime)#and i'm glad the anime remembered about imu and saiko#this scene works well as a 'conclusion/ending' of sorts for saiko (though naturally it'd be better if there was more)#it'd feel more incomplete without it#the anime also added small bits of dialogue here such as toritsuka thinking “ i know you can't hear me” which is also a nice touch#i really like the epilogue and i find the anime's adaptation of it the best part of the anime#the anime rarely adds things; it mostly removes stuff#there are few added scenes in earlier seasons but it's really not as noticeable as the things they cut/shortened#but because the epilogue has a whole episode to itself - the pacing is much better allowing them to add additional stuff#on top of already adapting the manga well#ended up going on a small ramble by accident
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Something I really like about timebomb is that Ekko actually knows what he's getting into.
I'm not really seeing it get talked about but in season 1 they mention that Ekko and the firelights help people addicted to shimmer get off it and lead more fulfilling lives within the community. I should probably rewatch the scene for the exact wording (might be misremembering tbh) but that comment implies A LOT.
First: Ekko's mission is helping people where he can, he would probably try and help Jinx even if he wasn't in love with her
Second: He has experience dealing with severe mental illness as that often goes hand in hand with drug abuse, namely depression/suicidal ideation like what Jinx was exhibiting
Third: He's probably mapped out best course of action FOR dealing with this and has already figured out his own limits/boundaries. Meaning he knew what he was getting into trying to talk Jinx out of suicide, and was thus more equipped to deal with the aftermath
Fourth: He's probably helped ex members of Silco's gang. The firelights seem to have a theme of healing and repairing and recovering, so they've probably also learned to forgive. If they're mission is to rebuild the lanes into a safe space, they can't exclude people they don't like, they have to make room for them. I think they fought Silco out of necessity, and I doubt Jinx would be the first person they help who's killed one of them.
These all might be a bit of a stretch but I think it really fits. Beyond that, it shows that Ekko can ACTUALLY help Jinx. As much as unconditional love can do, Ekko has the tools for Jinx's recovery and a path ready for her. He also probably knows that her "healthy" will look different from AU Powder's "healthy." On top of that, I expect he knows how to respect her even in the middle of psychotic breaks and won't agitate her already frail mental state
#if you would like to (respectfully) disagree with me I'll GLADLY talk with you. I can think of nothing but Arcane atm#timebomb#ekko arcane#putting it in the tags bc I want to let people agree with my timebomb takes without having to listen to my other ship opinions#uh on that note I have some Caitlyn and Vi opinions that go a bit hand in hand with this#but I think that in contrast Caitlyn and Vi are mutually self destructive#see neither of them seem to make the others mental health... better.#Vi is desperate and needs love wherever she can get it#and Caitlyn... I'm not sure. I have a hard time reading her but a lot of the vibes I get off her feel like she just likes having the power#over vi#I KNOW THAT'S A STRONG CLAIM#hear me out#Vi in her search for unconditional love does a lot of enabling#a good example is when Caitlyn arrests that henchman in episode 3(?)#Vi is VISIBLY uncomfortable with that and for good reason!#Caitlyn just locked someone up for life for... nothing?#kinda like Marcus did to her (yes Marcus was trying to protect her but I doubt that's how Vi sees it)#but Vi doesn't voice this or push Caitlyn on it#instead she asks Caitlyn not to change#not great communication on Vi's part#but also indicative of how little their values align#and how little Caitlyn actually considers Vi and her problems and history#Caitlyn doesn't help Vi heal and she turns on Vi the second Vi stops enabling her and letting Caitlyn do as she thinks is best#neither of them are ready to deal with the others problems or communicate well#again. willing to discuss this. my opinions are swayable.#I just personally found Caitlyn made the most sense and was most compelling when she was going down facist dictator path#sure she could be more but I don't think the show ever really transitioned her away from that#you can see it in the way she treats Maddy#hhhhhh I should go to bed rather than spill every last thought I've ever had
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It's Sports AU Summer, of course I started a hockey au
#tango tek#jimmy solidarity#3rd life smp#trafficblr#rancher duo#solidaritek#team ranchers#they are not on the same team#and that works great for them actually because “enemies” to lovers#“enemies” because they never really hated eachother its just agressive flirting that LOOKS like they hate eachother from the stands#they starts on the same team and only get a season together before jimmy gets trades (for the better highkey he didnt get to play much on#Tangos team)#mumbo jumbo#mumbo is the ref btw#its the southland canaries#and the northern city redstoners#yes this is the stanley cup playoffs#no neither team wins#it doesnt matter the boys are in love#this au is everything to me rn and its eating all my non moe time#its got me actually watching the playoffs without my dad#insane fr#too bad my team sucked this year and they didnt make it#thats okay i have fictional team that will make it instead#just wait till i write the scene with the mouth gaurds#ooohhh the mouthgaurds are soo good#au: hockey ranchers#WIP
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#silvergifting#tyelpe#celebrimbor#mairon#annatar#i'm so sad about them#like guys if somehow mairon managed to deal with his pride and stayed in eregion#then it would change the whole middle-earth history for the better#and both of this idiots would have a happy life with engineering stuff and avoiding questions#imagine steampunk eregion with railways and airships#technical progress goes weeee#elves and mairon together make ar-pharazon reconsider his middle-earth expancion#hobbits live happily ever after without any suspicious rings#and also sunglasses#they need sunglasses#mairon why are you a stupid idiot why you ruined all of that?#also i am not sorry
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(SPOILERS FOR LIFE IS STRANGE COMICS which are old at this point what are you doing AND SOME DOUBLE EXPOSURE SPOILERS)
Got that warning out of the way. Yeah. So. If you know The Spoiler then you know.
With FULL disclaimer that I know the comics are officially "only one possible version of reality", and are in no way binding canon. Nevertheless, they are official still.
Here's Chloe freelancing as a designer for a rock band. She also travels with them later.
Here's Chloe taking an internship at an auto repairs shop, 'cause she's good with cars.
Here's Chloe some years later taking an active part in rebuilding Arcadia Bay and her mother's diner. Taking a responsible leader role and shit.
Here's Chloe opening her own auto repairs shop she's now the boss of. And evidently designing it herself. Y'know. 'Cause she's good at stuff
Here's Chloe also buying an apartment for Max and her. Together. On her initiative.
Here's Chloe being willing to wait for her superpowered ass girlfriend for the aforementioned years because plot happened to Max, as it does, and she's her "partner in time".
Here they both are after another timeskip, fully consistent with LiS 2 photo
Y'know. This one.
In a recovering town. Where Chloe rebuilt a diner and established her own auto shop with her own hard work and skill. And bought them an apartment. TO SETTLE DOWN TOGETHER.
Note: Full disclosure, they had an apartment in Seattle together before "plot happened" and also traveled around with a rock band for years so it's not like Chloe ultimately ends up confined to Arcadia Bay again. Don't worry.
BONUS: Them being normal with Victoria:
So yeah. "Chloe is a free spirit who didn't wanna be tied down or take life seriously and fucked off to flirt with Victoria Chase" MY ASS.
Granted, both this and DE are about equal in being "canon" but. In terms of Chloe's characterization and what we know from previous games. I can see her do all this. Even if you take the relationship out of the equation, fine, the rest of it. I do NOT see her doing ALL THAT.
Bite me, for all their faults the comics understood Chloe's character much better than whatever DE has got so far.
Anyway this is not a "GOTCHA" post, this is a "If you're pissed like me take this and run"
#if you're gonna break them up AT LEAST don't character assassinate my girl!!!#can you tell I'm mad 'cause I whipped out the receipts???#life is strange#chloe price#pricefield#life is strange double exposure spoilers#jesus what's the tag#lis de spoilers#at this point I'm more pissed about the audacity than the break up itself.#I could've written a better reasoning for it without going OOC.#long post#sorry dash
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Halflife ponies. Btw.
A warning to any MLP enjoyers: if this ends up on derpibooru or any similar site I'll gnaw you into splinters like a cheap plastic dog toy. I'm on the DNP lists under animatorfun and I'll request a new link for this blog specifically if I havw to. Please stop reuploading my shit 💀
Edit: i forgot to reenable the layer with Gordon's glasses it's so over. I was wondering why she looked weird oughhgggh
Edit2: fixed gordon <3
#no reposting#Barneys lack of a cutie mark is NOT because I forgot. it is a joke about his undecided major i promise#barney was gonna be a pegasus but i forgot to draw his wings and he looks better without them anyways so. earthpony barney#they feel more balanced this way anyways#an attempt was made to comply with the mlp gen5 design style...#i dont have much to say about Gordon and Alyxs designs#Gordon... i just drew Gordon But Pony tbh.. tweaked her colors a bit using colors picked from the apple family#i dont really like flesh colored ponies....#alyx.. im not completely satisfied with#shes Missing Something and i cant figure out what#giving her socks felt like too much#she feels half finished#especially with her mane so detailed xc#whoo knows maybe ill update her later (i won't)#aaanyways#half life 2#half life fanart#gordon freeman#alyx vance#barney calhoun#my little pony#half life pony au
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