#the timing. so on and so forth
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baru cormorant seems to me to be a series that suffers miserably for me having read machineries of empire first. unfortunately everything BC is doing strikes me as something MoE did better and more believably and with much a greater and more grounded eye for how systems, complex system interaction, and oppression like. work
#red rambles#also i don't like the writing very much so I'm not having as much fun with it as i did with MoE#but YHL straight up writes with the exact approach and methodology *i* write - the narrative frame is extremely close. the lines are punchy#the description is sparse the info we are delivered is typically in short wacky one-off chunks that tell us not only something about the#world but something about the narrator who is also the main character whose head we're in#the timing. so on and so forth#someone told me that seth dickinson is transfem but i cant find her (?) pronouns anywhere so if anyone knows where to see them i'd#appreciate a link if only to complain that i don't like her (?) writing that much in comparison because it is a lot less.... rewardingly#entertaining i suppose. when compared to the way yoon ha lee structures his. there are much fewer twists#and of course the major huge twist of Baru Cormorant was hidden from the reader which i just think is *bad form* when it comes to intrigue!#when yhl will lay all the moving pieces of the plot before you openly and say 'hey. isn't that a funny side tangent. anyway look to your#left; something is exploding' and then as it keeps unfolding he goes 'and here in small scale is how it is being used! isn't that#interesting to see how these pieces move? now look to your right; something is exploding' and then at the very end it all comes perfectly#together#the way i felt around the middle/end of Raven Strategem when i understood the spy network the first time is something that BC cannot do#you aren't trusted with the pieces and you don't get to play the game of understanding that you weren't *told* literally everything#i'm reading monster baru cormorant today as i go about my errands and I kinda don't think it's what i want because i want it to be the kind#of working awful poisoned bloodstained empire as the hexarchate and i want it to be a complex contradictory overlapping system like the#hexarchate's army and i want the banal cruelty of perfectly decent people condemning strangers to awful awful bloody deaths because they're#'not like us' instead of the petrified horror *everyone* has of the Social Contagion Agents because i just do not BUY the construction of#dickinson's Social Hygiene Offices and their place in the world#but i cant just read the MoE books any more. i'll get bored. i'm already kind of bored of reading them over and over
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Cyberworld Optimus is such a loser, I love him sm <3333
#transformers#maccadam#transformers cyberworld#optimus prime#cyberworld#bro spends the entire episode geting beat up#they made him so sassy and pissy the entire time and i love it#bro does NOT care abt the nature he keeps getting knock back and forth by the trees lmao
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Guess who's still thinking about them
#cassandra cain#duke thomas#damian wayne#I'M A BIT BITTER. CAN YOU TELL#robin war and gates of gotham you will always be famous#this is sick... damian and cass having ongoings and STILL not interacting ever#duke should be a supporting character in damian AND cass' ongoings. bouncing back and forth between his two fav siblings#remember that really interesting dynamic where cass made damian insecure. remember when duke and damian went to the movies#if you've forgotten don't worry so has dc#sick and twisted that this has happened to damian so many times 😭 like they didn't even keep his relationship to steph#who do i need to bribe to get duke into damian and cass' ongoings...
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brennan when zac played a sweet sad barbarian: i can be his emo girlfriend
brennan when zac played himbo superman: perfect opportunity for me to become a punk rock wizard and grab his ass
brennan when zac played a slug in the body of a pilot: what if i made every npc exchange so sexually charged ally has to roll insight to check on skip's sexuality multiple times
brennan when zac rolled lapin during the quangle: FINALLY i can do old man yaoi with my close friend
brennan when zac decided to become an 80 year old hot cowboy divorcee: every npc i make is gonna want to fuck this guy so bad. and that can't possibly mean anything about me ...
#thinking of the fireside chat when brennan talked about how he always rps romance because 'life is about going on adventures and smoochin'#always with zac specifically. and on purpose#siobhan will never have a developing pc romance she will only ever have burt or a sick asexual vibe#but ZAC. zac is gonna be hot and flirty every time#i'm convinced the only reason pib didn't end up with anyone is the ethics of him being canonically a cat... so#d20#cloudward ho#zac oyama#brennan lee mulligan#dimension 20#mine#anyways this is what we all would do in his shoes so. go forth brennan and thank you#Milo’s Big Posts
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since Eng is getting 7.5 soon(?), I felt motivated to go back to my Meleanor rig and make her a couple of lesson animations! ...except for alchemy, because the cauldron bubbles proved too hard to photoshop around, whoops.
maybe she just got lost on her way to the classroom...?
(credit: backgrounds are from the game, I just put her on top of 'em)
(aside from the backgrounds, this is not an edit, I drew her from scratch! please do not tag or treat as an edit!)
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 part 5 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 part 5 spoilers#gif warning#gifs that will inexplicably never get a perfect no matter how many cupcakes you use warning#let's just say she hasn't been added to the alchemy schedule yet#AS PER USUAL#(sam sneaks in at night and messes with the schedule so we have to buy candy from him instead)#(i promise i will stop spamposting eventually) (they gotta stop giving me characters to obsess over first)#anyway in my continuing efforts to manifest a meleanor card into existence#it's time to remember i made this a million years ago#just blow off some of the dust and cobwebs that have accumulated here...#'i'm only gonna add a couple of things i won't do too much'#(spends ten minutes trying to decide what color goggles she should have)#(flipping back and forth between green and purple) it's no use she looks good in everything#spineposting#(not me stealth editing because i didn't realize the wrong arm attachment had somehow popped in whoops)
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"it's really me. is it really really really you?"
some yj19 konbart for @superfamilyweek day 2: across space or time/friends & teammates (kind of ended up fulfilling both??)
#❝i ran back and forth and back and forth in time to find *you*❞ okay well what if i screamed#bisexual sunset reunion beloved <3#sometimes i think about kon never being able to return to his home reality and then i need to lie down#this look was so banger for him btw. he needs some spikes and patches on his newer superfam jacket tbh#god i love him god i miss him#i haven't drawn them in soooo long. i'm ready to return guys...#kon el#conner kent#superboy#kon kent#kon el kent#young justice#bart allen#impulse#impulse dc#young justice 2019#konbart#superpulse#bartkon#dc comics#superfam#superfamilyweek#fanart#young justice fanart#young just us#art#my art
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Made Pomni eepy sleepy
#the amazing digital circus#tadc#tadc pomni#tadc kinger#(kind of you know)#asil and art#animation#new ep had me standing the entire time pacing back and forth#I have no coherent way of talking about it so just take the silly
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i really don’t think it’s “typical dragon age fandom nonsense” for people to be genuinely upset about the world state choices. combat, level design, art direction, gameplay gimmicks, those have all varied across each dragon age game. the one thing that’s remained constant are nods to our previous choices.
i wasn’t expecting my HoF to come riding in on a griffon, but i can’t find a monument dedicated to warden tabris somewhere around the anderfels? lucanis couldn’t have some lines about the time that one arainai boy was stirring up trouble in antiva city? you’re gonna tell me that making a mage the new divine wouldn’t have some impact on nevarra and antiva? on the anderfels, the supposed most devout militant andrastian nation in thedas? you’re saying nobody in the north is paying attention to who rules orlais or ferelden? come on.
#dragon age#yes i’ve seen john epler’s explanation on only wanting to carry forward choices that they could ‘really do something with.’#and i understand what he’s saying and i’m curious to see how those 3 choices they brought forward will impact the story!!#but i’m still disappointed. and i think telling people why they shouldn’t be disappointed is just gonna make them More disappointed.#also don’t really appreciate dev comments like ‘careful what you wish for with cameos. it just gives us an excuse to find new and horrific#ways to kill your faves teehee 🤭🤭’ like okay???????? what???#alistair came back twice & could be fine both times. loghain’s inquisition cameo was so meaningful because who the hell expected to see him#again? leliana can straight up die in origins and yall brought her back anyways. like what are we doing out here.#also when i think of ‘typical’ nonsense for this fandom it’s people doxxing each other over fictional character opinions. or what#fictional side your fictional inquistor took in the fictional mage-templar war. or just plain old racism.#NOT ‘damn it’s fucking upsetting that this excited replay i’ve been doing of the previous games and all the recommending i’ve been doing#for new fans to play the other games before veilguard has turned out to be pretty fucking pointless.’#might as well tell someone to watch a let’s play of trespasser and that’s it.#11/26 in a hater mood so i’m turning rbs back on lol. go forth & be petty
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HEY CONGRATS??? ON BEATING ONE-TIME-I-DREAMT??? YOU DID IT???
i was asleep when this went down so you cannot imagine my surprise when i looked and found that we won by a margin of less than 1%
#asks#strixcattus#gimmick blog bracket#gimmick blogs#hellsitegenetics#one-time-i-dreamt#thank you again to everyone who voted and campaigned#it was genuinely so intense watching the poll swing back and forth over the whole week it was up#31k votes..... insane#making-you-in-spore !!! i look forward to seeing who wins between us!!!
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throwing this wip away ,.everyone say byee
#byeee ^_^!(holding a paper shredder behind my back)#idk.SIGHHH. my problem with like. Intentional art is that i spend so much time w it that i end up hating it#for whatever reason. like prev knives was whatever bc it took like an hour.ok so what#but this was the first one i started and never rly progressed much bc i was getting stuck over useless details ykwim#his hands & suit shouldve been my first warning bc i Wasnt Diligent in like.making a final sketch#& instead jumped ahead to the rendering stage n then came back like ..rightt......sooo...wht was i supposed to do here again</3#.i also deliberated back and forth bc i dont care about the overall comp / it feels HOLLOWWW and if i want to#draw knives w his sisters i gen do think it shld be in a more lore acc context. lawl. like she wouldnt even be in da bulb if she werent alr#dead or dyinggg.literally who cares i just wanted to draw him dozing off .or deep in thought.SEE i dont even know#anyways.i didnt want 2 throw it all away just yet. u can hear its dying cough first#trigun#trigun maximum#lg doodles#millions knives#sorry for cropping these by 90% & sharing.LOL#v/ash env didnt survive it either. i still have the window open but i give it a less than 1% chance of surviving.like urara on a turf track
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"So what decade-overdue crowdfunded metroidvania are you talking about this time" frankly, that's uncharitable. The oldest crowdfunded metroidvania I've backed that still hasn't delivered is only from 2018.
#life#crowdfunding#gaming#video games#metroidvanias#heart forth alicia doesn't count because i lost track of time on that one and ended up doing a post-campaign preorder#so *technically* i didn't back it
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something about loving you like an alcohol addict
pspsps come get your billford

this was supposed to be longer but dear god that's a lot of work... so here's the storyboard for it:

maybe i'll finish it later,, for the tragic fiddauthor enjoyer in me
ok bye
#jingles a frame from the animatic in front of you to get you to watch it oooooo#also i apologize for my lack of animation skills this is like the first time i've made something like this#and i did it by going back and forth between procreate and knockoff capcut so bear with me#someone please buy me procreate dreams 🙏#i might make this longer if the people want to see it#perchance#but yeah they've been eating away at me and this song is literally Them so i Had to#and i wanted to show off my bill design fight me#also i accidentally made thre last frame with a completely different brush so uh get spongebob high res frame-d#gravity falls#billford#gravity falls fanart#gravity falls animatic#animatic#ford pines#stanford pines#bill cipher#human bill cipher#fanart#s0up1tart
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Recently started playing Ocarina of Time and I love the official artwork for it, so I did a little art style replica for the YT thumbnail!! The lad is so fun to draw like this it's bonkers honestly
(btw you can catch the playthrough here!)
#the legend of zelda#zelda#link#ocarina of time#oot#you're my heart you're my soul#so on and so forth#elgatoiberico#gaming gato#i'm kinda considering putting this up as a print in my shop....... but idk#I'm Indecisive™
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Xaden growing colder throughout the book when the one thing Sgaeyl hates is the cold
#*holding out my hand* let's jump off this cliff together#what gets me is that sgaeyl STILL cares for him. the second he turned sgaeyl warns violet to be careful of her words to him.#she hates his mother! she's debating burning her! she's pacing back and forth worrying! she's in distress because xaden is stressed!#she's disappointed and distant but is still protective of him. she'd even torch xaden alive if he blocks their bond even temporarily#to save sgaeyl he had to give in to the cold. his last act of love is to be the thing they both hate. will you forsake me now?#how many times did he ask her that?#mr. abandonment issues expects everyone to leave him SHOCKER#i feel so unwell about them im not even kidding asdbasj#onyx storm#onyx storm spoilers#xaden riorson#sgaeyl#xaden and sgaeyl#the empyrean#fourth wing#iron flame#rebecca yarros#sgaeylposting <3 this diva <3#txt#onyx storm spoiler
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dick took the news that a strange thirteen year old broke into his apartment while he was away at the circus pretty well, I gotta say
#this is not how the interaction played out in the issue btw lol I'm just having a bit of fun#tim drake#dick grayson#batfam#dc#the new titans issue 65#inspi art#I remember being baffled when i read ALPOD and tim broke into dick’s apartment like it was nothing to find out where he’d gone#like where did he learn that? reddit?#I chalked it up to comicbook goofiness and wolfman stretching suspension of disbelief a little to keep the plot moving#which is why it surprised me when they acknowledged it again#and by doing so cemented tim knowing how to pick locks and being used to breaking into apartments as a canon fact(TM)#and so hence forth he would continued to be a little contradictory weirdo who’s both normal and incredibly not normal at the same time
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There's no point in trying if the end result will be the same anyway.
#ULTRAKILL#mirage#mirage ultrakill#happy 3 year anniversary of 2-S :) dect anniversary is coming up soon too on the 29th damn#visually inspired by the MV for halved halved halved by hundotte vs frums (from NOISZ STARLIVHT which happens to be a great rhythm game)#had to export this so many times while moving it back and forth from krita to gimp OTL
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