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Meant to do this after Miss won the character poll!

She's got a ton of tattoos. They're in places where she can hide them under a tshirt and shorts and most of them are floral. All of the characters have space motifs (stars, moons, voids, black holes) and for Miss I went with Earth with her green and blue palette. Thought it'd be fitting if all her tattoos were nature based

(can you tell i want more tattoos really badly)

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DeVoid is pretty stoic for the most part but her ears betray her

What'd she hear?

When your son comes back home

Longing for her memories

idt I mentioned it before but Aika, Zira and Hoshi have no idea who DeVoid is or what she looks like (she makes Eclipse do her dirty work). She's just biding her time until her memories and powers come back. But until then, she's still got bills to pay

DeVoid watches My Little Pony: FiM

wiggles

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You know how folks put pool noodles on goat horns to prevent them from getting stuck or hurting others? Does DeVoid require pool noodles to avoid damaging door frames

i could see it

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then and now (miss version)

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Some extra Arcwell stuff from the backlog. What even is Arcwell? We may never know.

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DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) – dir. Peter Weir

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DeVoid outfits

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Hi Mikala, I was wondering about a line in the Haven video. You pointed out how a male yu and a female kay would lean too hard into stereotypes, and I was just wondering which stereotype are you referring to? I’m just a little confused.

According to the devs, they thought a version of the game where a Male Yu who does mechanic stuff and a Female Kay who does all the cooking leans too hard into nuclear family gender norms.

Unfortunately, the inclusion of same sex options for Haven does lean into ANOTHER stereotype in depicting dark skinned characters as innately more masculine than light skinned characters. Regardless of Gender, Kay is shown to be more masc and Yu is more femme. This is a more insidious stereotype that most writers don't even realize they adhere to cuz they never thought about it like gender stereotypes.

I get that it was unavoidable given what they chose to do for the couple update but it is nonetheless present.

To that end, I don't feel bad in asserting I still think this would have been just as big cute.

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Got back to my old Borderlands AU Pticenoga/Hedwig and Vaughn stuff, which can be found here and here , and decided to upload more arts to this site. My husband and I are having a lot of fun with it!

More information about them can be found here Cursed arts are here xD Pticenoga hashtag will reveal even more art for you.

There’s no Pticenoga in the original game (sadly), but I enjoy this AU a lot and even made an an in-game edit for fun >:) And I appreciate that you guys really love this AU, too. It means a lot to me.

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So this is an abomination post filled with crass humor and raw sensual tension. Sorry about it, it will happen again.

Another abomination post is here Also, you can try to draw the frog this way, it should be fun... I guess

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I wanted to give you some of Pticenoga's Borderlands AU backstory, how she was raised by Shade and before starting her shenanigans with Vaughn.

Plus a bonus comic about how she decided to set up a meeting for Vaughn and Shade, but didn't tell Vaughn who is supposed to be there x) Mostly because Vaughn has met Shade before in his macabre World of Curiosities museum and thought that Shade is too weird for him. Well, that's the kind of person that would raise a feral harpy siren, gotta deal with it!

When she was very young, nothing bothered her much as she was just a wild baby exploring the world x) And Shade was a good father figure to her. However, as she grew older, she realized that she doesn't really "fit in": yeah, Pandora is a crazy planet, but not every person there is crazy. There are plenty of "regular folk" like Shade or other people from their town - and many others. And she was frequently called a monster, a mutant and many other things by the regular kids and even adults. She was wild though, could bite them or fight with them in a pretty feral manner, and, even though she protected herself, it didn't help the situation much. She wasn't crazy enough (and too small) to fit in with the psychos or bandits, was "too human" for actual monsters living on Pandora, and for a long time she had no idea she was a Siren, as even for Sirens she looked too different. Only when she hit her teens, she was able to confirm that she is one, started using her powers, and in her human form she could see the full extension of the glowing pattern she had on her skin. She still, however, didn't know why she wasn't born "normal", and there were no older Sirens around.

At some point, she decided to become independent and live on her own. Her "wild" upbringing was helping that a lot, and she felt fine being away from people. She'd still visit Shade frequently, of course, and at some point she'd even met Zer0 and could hang out with him for some time. As Zer0 is a mystery himself, they had some common ground between them (though constantly listening to his haiku were exhausting xD). Sadly, Vault Hunters attract attention, not always positive, and that was the reason why she got spotted by a big bandit gang (could be the beginning of Vallory's gang, but before she took over). And local scientists like Tannis already declared that there may be some connection between Sirens and the Vaults. And they noticed that she's a Siren, but also pretty young (and dumb). After the first Vault on Pandora was opened, there was plenty of weird and valuable stuff around, but it wasn't so easy to get it when you're just regular bandits. And when Eridians, the aliens that are guarding the Vault, are everywhere. The Sirens like Lilith were too strong for them, and hiring a Vault Hunter is expensive, so they decided to wriggle into her favor and use her to gain access to the area. She didn't know she was dealing with bandits first, she naively thought it's a rare case of nice fellows just wanting to be friends and such, plus the Vault could have answers about her origin, and the new "friends" confirmed it.

At some point, she realized she was being used, and got into a fight with the bandits - and lost, as there were too many of them, and she had too little experience, and they knew about Shade. She got kidnapped and told that she'd do everything they told her to do, or they'd kill Shade, so she had to obey. She helped them to fight the way to the Vault and get some of the riches, and during the process she felt that she really does have a connection with Eridians - they boosted her powers and helped her to get free, and kill every presenting member of the gang. She was worried about Shade though, so she left immediately to find him before the remaining members found out what happened and could harm him. But she was too late - the water source in their town of Oasis was poisoned, and every single person there died. Except Shade though - he lasted longer, but dehydration made him insane, and he turned corpses into the stuffed dummies he could talk to (though she didn't have much of a problem with this part). As she was gone for at least several months, he didn't believe she's real, and she had to adapt to the new reality.

She never got back to the Vault after that as she felt it was a source of more trouble than anything good (in her view, the price was too much for a bunch of physical stuff).

That lasted for years, and became a bit easier as her powers, enhanced by the Eridians, wasn't only serving the destruction,  but could eventually "heal" some part of Shade's mind, so the moments of clarity became more frequent (she didn't know it's the reason, though). And you still need money, whether you like it or not, so, when Shade decided to use his World of Curiosities as a spot of illegal deals and smuggling, she didn't resist, but would watch over him in the shadows in case something goes wrong.

Eventually, she calmed down and just embraced herself. And, after some time, she met Vaughn, whose personal struggles she could sense right away, as she had to experience "being different" herself.

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We know how things are between them xD But here I wanted to illustrate a piece from Hedwig and Vaughn's original story; this is the time period after Vaughn more or less adapted to the Pandoran life - and before they started dating. Pticenoga is one of those characters who is used to defending herself (read her upbringing story here) and overcoming challenges. But tenderness has been a rare treat in her life, especially this kind of tenderness – which is why she was genuinely touched. But, of course, nothing prevented them both from enjoying some wild things and fooling around later x)

Don't forget to find the frog 🐸, it's an easy one P.S. - Pticenoga is a bit like Pulp Fiction's John Travolta here

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My favorite ship dynamic, aka crème de la crème, aka horrible and inappropriate comics and memes with Hedwig and Vaughn to celebrate the Valentine's day. Yes, the previous comic was all cute and stuff, they had to start somewhere... but this post shows what happens when their true dynamic comes out.

Also, a honorable mention of Rhys. He gotta stop trying to 🐓block his friend and do his own thing. I bet @shroomthealien could help with that >:)

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Fan art by Ami Thompson

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based on that one meme