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saw this thing pop up during an arcadion blind prog stream

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My kid loved your art so much (and loves Hornet so much) that they made it a little meme. Thank you for sharing your art!

aww thank you to your kid! and thank you for being a cool enough parent for them to share their meme with you

please let them know that they made me smile

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RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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normal feline addition to the freelines project on a normal, un-gravelly day

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hey so how are we feeling about the latest pvpciv ep

yapping about my thoughts under cut

um, spoilers for everything up to minecraft but i battle the tridents of pvp civilization

also before i continue, she's a catgirl! anyway this isn't going to be about her design, so that's all i'm gonna say about it for now

i'm going fucking crazy over tabi only ever acknowledging whatever her feelings are towards evbo through killing him. like, at the end of s1 she had a clear shot of getting rid of him forever, but she didn't

when zam was about to get him with the eternal trident, tabi dealt the final blow to spare him. sure circumstances were really different then, but she was presented with two chances to actually kill him and both times? nothing! she chose to spare him again, but this time her own fucking life is in danger because there's nothing stopping zam from killing her if that's what he decides to do

we know her weapons (assuming that she did keep her swords because why wouldn't she) are running low on durability from what she says to pierce about the cost of invisibility potions (granted, we don't know how much those cost, but they can't be cheap). she doesn't say anything about her diamond sword specifically, but we do know that a lot of its durability was spent on opening the swords' final red gate (almost 400 attacks). the eternal sword is broken, so it's in kind of a weird spot

the thing is, we don't know what happens to players if their born weapons breaks while they still have another weapon in their possession (assuming their acquired weapon is also being held in one of their hands when it happens). we do know that armour stands will still activate regardless of what kind of weapon is used on them. otherwise, nobody from the axe civilization would've been able to go through the tridents' labyrinth and neither would've evbo

tabi didn't mention her axe specifically when talking about how many attacks she had left and this was before she entered the labyrinth (so my guess about invisibility potions being pretty damn expensive checks out), i wouldn't be too surprised if she did try using the eternal sword to stock up, then discovered that she's shit outta luck for some reason, probably because it's broken

but this could also mean that eternal weapons are locked from buying things from armour stands. think about it, if you gave someone an eternal weapon that never breaks, what's stopping them from just buying things for their friends/the people around them forever so they don't have to watch their durability slowly drain over time and kill them?

so now my question is, where the fuck did pierce get all of the invisibility potions he used to coerce ferre into giving up his respawn powers? we don't know how long these things last in pvpciv and we don't have a frame of reference for exactly how long he was spawn camping outside 'long enough for ferre to give up basically eternal life'

did he break his original axe to get them? did he get the other axes (like tabi) to help him out with buying them? was pierce's invisibility during that entire sequence even coming from potions or something else entirely?

well, whatever's going on with pierce is still pretty up in the air, so i'm bringing this back around to tabi. because if we're going with the assumption that other people have been spending their attacks on pierce's behalf, it's probably safe to assume that between battling and her own purchases (y'know, to keep herself alive and on top of others in pvp), she's likely the one who's spent the most to aid him in his cause

which makes it extra fascinating to me that she was willing to attack evbo with anything that wouldn't permanently kill him when she's already nearing the end of her durability. yeah of course you're gonna spend attacks during any old fight, but neither of the times evbo died to her so far were battles at all. she actively chose to save him

she's terrifyingly devoted to the axes' cause of ransacking other weapons' eternal weapons, willing to throw herself into battles constantly eating away at the number of attacks she has left. she can't fall back on respawning if something happens to go really, really bad and um. she's currently facing down someone who's actively trying to become god through whatever means possible, we don't know what's going to fucking happen there. i'd... honestly be more surprised if this is where her story ends, i want to know how her arm's going to be twisted by zam because he got front row seats to her stealing his kill from him. as an act of mercy towards evbo

i'm pretty sure he's aware that evbo's convinced himself that tabi's his friend, but not so much on tabi's side of things until well, right now

okay i think that's everything important i wanted to say, it kinda goes places but that's just how i am with things

anyway here's some rapid fire, not as important things that i don't want to leave in the tags since people can just see them

you don't understand just how fucking thrilled i was when we went into the trident civilization and a lot of the skins cc evbo chose for its residents were sea/diving-themed, CHAT WE WERE RIGHT TO ASSIGN TRIDENTS FISHY TRAITS

i mentioned altering my design idea for zam because he wasn't a godly figure, well um. i guess my initial instinct was somewhat right because that's exactly what he wants to become lmao

fine i'll talk about tabi's design for a little bit here. she's a cat because i love cats and the way her name is pronounced is literally "tabby". tabi the tabby, except the pvp version of her isn't exactly a tabby. she's a serval

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gays your lati lovebirds

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daily doodles 10th march - 16th march

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daily doodles 3rd march - 9th march

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teeny tiny emf! love this guy

also, a variation with more subtle sparkles

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daily doodles 24th february - 2nd march

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another swing at the garpede nano!

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parrot!

design thoughts under cut

man, imagine being called parrot and also being a parrot. you try to introduce yourself and the other person's like yeah, you are a parrot then you have to explain that your name is also parrot

i was going to make the bird on the back of his skin like, a little buddy that follows him around, but i thought it would be more interesting if he basically had like, part of an actual bird sprouting out of his back

functionally, the 'bird' is as much a part of his body as say his beak or feathers, but it does definitely give off a strange vibe if you think about it too much. don't worry about it, parrot's fine

so depending on how you look at it, he might still have a little bird buddy, kinda sorta. the red bird can't be removed from him

it functions as both a cloak and wings! they're not built for sustained flight, but they do allow him a much greater range of mobility than players that don't have wings

when he's not using his wings, they naturally wrap around his shoulders

parrot technically has two tails, the long colourful one that you can see here and a tiny blue one underneath that. the more visible one is attached to the red bird

i like to think that the arrows of a bow user can be identified by looking at the feathers on them, naturally parrot's are pretty colourful

his back talons aren't as developed as his front ones since he's gotta walk. yeah sure real parrots can and do walk, but they're meant to fly, their claws aren't made for walking long distances. he can still perch if he wants to

he's a little bit inspired by botw/totk's rito, specifically the hand wings because it felt a little bit strange to design an anthro bird with more human hands. these don't aid him in flight, they're just shaped like that

as opposed to zam who's entirely covered in smooth scales, parrot is fluffy! have you seen how soft real parrots look? give me literally any inkling that a character can be fluffy and i will take it

his vibes kinda remind me of kamex's remix of the rse surf theme. yeah it's water-related, but it's calming and parrot's kinda just like that

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daily doodles 17th february - 23rd february

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daily doodles 10th february - 16th february

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quickstrike gryphon

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marbled chimera

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inspiring paintbrush