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oh my GOD I DONT KNOW WHT I FUCKING DID BUT FINALLY AFTER LEGITIMATE MONTHS MY NOTIFICATIONS ON DESKTOP ARE FIXED AND NORMAL? HOLY SHIT

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ART MY FIGHTS, FUCKERS!!!! <- THATS A LINK CLICK IT !!

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i love being able to make anything

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GUY GOT

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want to look at The Characters but tags scary. istruggle alone .

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Peridot as a slugcat!! For @f3r4l--p3r1d0t

Her limbs were mechanically altered by an iterator to have sharp claws and great strength. Peridot can climb walls and block spears with her armored limbs. The a extrq hooks on her arms and legs can detatch and hover near her arms. Helping with climbing and attacking.

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learned how to make stamps today. I don't have anything to put them on though

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ancient urban design analysis !!

we as a fandom got over ancient urban MUCH too fast. from a storytelling standpoint alone it's both devastating and breathtaking but as a visual artist it's by far one of the best regions in the game for me.

the first thing that came to mind when i was exploring it was the karma murals and the weird mechanical doorway/gate thing which are both reminiscent of five pebbles... we don't get to see him at all in the watcher but these rooms do an excellent job of bringing everything full circle (heh) and tying the dlc back into vanilla and downpour. it's a separate world and a separate experience but it's still the same game we know and love.

but MORE IMPORTANTLY. the backgrounds. a rain world region having a moving, animated background is pretty much... unheard of. i'm kind of a nerd so i have read a large part of the devlog and a small section of it was dedicated to talking about the way the perspectives would work in rain world, and the game being a sidescroller was ruled out pretty much from the beginning. it was also made very clear that the backgrounds would be static pieces. they do shift slightly when approaching the edges of the screen and there are plenty of smallish animations in lots of places (for example, the perpetual rain/snowfall in rivulet and saint respectively, or the sandstorm and the falling stars in outer rim) but as a general rule the backgrounds themselves don't have moving elements.

the room with these moving fans is already waayy out there for a rain world background. i don't know if it's animated frame-by-frame or just by spinning the fan elements in the programming (i know very little about coding so bear with me) but either way it's just so... bizarre?? which is really fitting for the themes of rain world and the way it's experienced: everything we've seen until ancient urban is a world in stasis, a world whose mechanical components have stopped moving. the ancients are gone and their technology is too, but here we see what it would be like before all that happened. the machinery is still functioning and it gives the impression of somewhere that is living and breathing instead of what is effectively a dead world which we are used to. the contrast is striking too because there's so little moving in the foreground; normally there's flowing water or creatures wandering around and nothing going on behind them but here we have a world before collapse, something that's still running and functioning, but you're all alone. it brings a different kind of melancholy than vanilla or downpour and even most of the regions in the watcher.

but was that it? no it was not. no they went even crazier.

holy fuck. i cried like ten times in ancient urban alone but i think this was the first room where i couldn't keep it together. the graphic design and color/lighting choice is jaw dropping enough on its own, but the fact that they're not only moving but walking by. it might not be something that everybody notices when they're playing but it's so incredible in rain world for something entirely in the background to be moving and animated like this. the strangest part about it is that they're not even creatures. the body part of guardians is considered a background element while still moving around but it's part of the creature. this is a fully animated background with proper lighting and everything and it's absolutely, positively gorgeous.

the symbolism too is something that caught my eye. similar to the fans, you're in front, alone, and all the movement and life is behind you. with the fans it doesn't mean quite as much because it's more a limitation of the 2 dimensional style than anything but here it shows just how far away you are from all of this. you can't reach the warmth behind the glass, and all you can do is move forward and keep going. it reflects watcher's story and rain world as a whole, symbolizing just how unforgiving and cold it is to be lost in a world like that. spinning top gives watcher some of that warmth and it's very present in the ending cutscene and menu selection artwork, but it can't escape that sense of sadness and loneliness. you can never go home again, indeed.

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saints summer bod is ready

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Tue 24 (June 2025) ⛅ 57° F | 14° C Partly to mostly cloudy.

Selfie!!

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yeah unfortunately i do really like him

[image description: a drawing of tenna from deltarune done in a retro halftone style and made to look like it was printed on slightly crumpled paper. end id]

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The diner scene made me physically ill and rip my hair out and punch holes in my wall and

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Tenner

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observation: among a certain subset of tumblr users, the term “blorbo” has become unchic, but the concept it describes is still important; and so it has been replaced with “The Character”

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my thangs

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you gang get a wip (ALMOST DONE BUT IM PASSING OUT AND FEEL WEIRD!!!!)