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She float

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My favorite background audio for when I’m working or I need to wind down is no commentary Doom Eternal gameplay; something about it is very satisfying. My second option would be Outer Wilds speedruns. They both have fun sounds and people are moving real fast. What more do you need?

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Happy Silksong-release-date news. I enjoyed the really smooth animations in Spiritfarer for the roof sliding and flips, so you can imagine my excitement when I saw this clip

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The assignment was to draw a UFO

It’s unidentified, it’s possibly flying, and I think there’s a solid argument to be made that it could be an object. So I met the brief

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Album cover I made for an illustration assignment. This is a render of a 3D model I made in Rhino 8 and it’s for the album Caedis by Fipohayo.

Alt cover:

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[Video ID: Video of the teapot being rotated counterclockwise from both a front-on and overhead view. It shows how the painted scene transitions from the field, to the spout and the tree’s foliage, to the field, the handle, and then back again. End of ID]

Teapot I painted for an analogue media class

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Once and awhile I find myself fascinated by all the stuff I’ve forgotten to upload, here’s all the work I did for my illustration class in the fall term

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Copy pasting this text from my DA upload which was in turn copy-pasted from discord:

I needed to work on drawing fat bodies so this is partially a practice exercise. These characters are from a species of humanoid space dwellers who live near the earth. The sun orbiting the earth in their story used to be a red giant until its guardian deity took the last piece of its power away and it shifted into a white dwarf. So these characters are supposed to be representative of different time periods

I imagine that the fashion choices & appearances of their people are typically reflective of the celestial bodies nearby them

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Playing Baldur’s Gate 3 for the first time, when do I get to kiss someone?

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One day I’ll get around to posting my new art but— oh what’s this? A newly acquired copy of Baldur’s Gate 3 on my pc? Well, I suppose one playthrough couldn’t hurt…

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hollow Knight (Video Games) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Menderbug (Hollow Knight) Additional Tags: Hallowhome Vol. 2, Fungal Wastes (Hollow Knight), Epistolary Summary:

Menderbug writes in his journal about the strange new damage he fixed when venturing into the Fungal Wastes.

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HI EVERYONE READ MY MENDERBUG FIC FOR @hkhallowzine

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Here’s the spot illustration I drew for @peachdoxie’s story!

Zine download link

My piece for the HallowHome Vol. 2 Zine! @hkhallowzine

I really like speculative food design so I was excited to have it feature in my spread illustration

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This was a holiday piece that I never posted bc I wanted to keep it as a backup in case I wasn’t able to finish my zine piece

You can see various dishes in this that I ended up re-using for my zine illustration, mainly: the honey glazed gulka, the weaver silk cheese and vinegar-based stew, the maggot steak, the fruit stuffed uoma, and more!

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My piece for the HallowHome Vol. 2 Zine! @hkhallowzine

I really like speculative food design so I was excited to have it feature in my spread illustration

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🤍 Delve Into HallowHome Vol. 2 🤍

Go ahead, traveler! Explore our zine to see the daily lives of Hallownest's familiar residents shown through absolutely gorgeous art and writing. We hope you enjoy the journey 💜

💙 Download the zine here: omontz.itch.io/hallowhomevol2

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I needed a new blog to use as a testing dummy for making a tumblr themes, but it needs to have a lot of posts that have a variety of (clearly indicated) elements for me to fully test everything

So I made a new sideblog and I'm praying to god that no one will notice the reblogs/comments that I'm making with it (reblog chains and posts with high note counts are on the list of things I need test) because my blog is literally a default pfp and the name "testblog[random-string-of-numbers]" and my comments are things like "This is a reblog of a chain of posts" and "This is a reblog of a post with a video in it"

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Finally finished these. This some sketches I have for a TMAxDC crossover idea based on the fic All You Have (Is Your Fire) by ambrosed. My idea slightly veers off from their’s and god if you thought my artist commentary on the DPxDC post was long you’re in for a fucking treat with this one bc I have so many ideas. Like 13 more paragraphs of text available under the cut

I’m going to be slightly referencing the plot of the fic. It’s only 6k words, go read it if you want context.

My idea is that when Tim picks up the knife he gets ‘marked’ by The Web for consumption. So he slowly starts to get more and more paranoid over the course of trying to figure out where the blade came from and whose blood is on it. Jonathan Sims season 2 sort of paranoia. It ends up boiling over and he suffers a mental breakdown and goes completely off-the-grid from the batfam. He runs into Jon by complete accident and Jon (feeling slightly guilty) offers him a deal, binding him to The Beholding, and Tim becomes a sort of apprentice to him, which keeps him out of the clutches of the spider (it’s ambiguous as to whether or not this was The Web’s actual plan). 

So Tim starts helping Jon behind the scenes, he has complete access to all of Jon���s memories and they have a sort of mental link so that Tim can act as an extension of him. Together they start focusing on Gotham and analyzing the effect that the introduction of the fears has had (and will end up having) on the rogues gallery. Jason and Jon end up having a major (one-sided) rivalry throughout this with Jason really not happy about this guy who knows all his secrets, running around with this other guy who also knows his secrets. Eventually Jon and co. have to pay attention to him when he starts unknowingly courting the horrible combination of both The Desolation & The Slaughter. There’s a lot of emphasis on the parallels between Jason and the Joker in this since, at least in the comics, they were pretty similar at times. I’m sorry to the Jason Todd fans, I love him too but man he is just a truly awful person during a majority of his run as The Red Hood. Here’s some relevant posts if you want to understand my thought process here: 1 2 3

I’m not going with the most brutal version of him, but I think it’s worth it to have that context because I’m not going to sugarcoat his character either. Anyway, while this is happening Annabelle weaves strings into the bat computer and clocktower and learns about the Court of Owls from their files (she’s not part of the beholding, so she actually has to go look for her info so she can weave her webs). She ends up taking over the Court of Owls (it’s a council of individuals pulling secretly strings in Gotham, that’s literally her thing).

There’s more to this plot but I’m saving it for later. But here’s my rogue gallery breakdown:

Victor Zsasz, Firefly, & Killer Moth

I’m starting out with the easy ones. These are extremely straightforward: Slaughter, Desolation, Corruption. I’m using the Earth-46 Vincent Strasbourg III (Moth-er) character [Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham #2] for the Killer Moth design. I don’t believe he’s actually Killer Moth (just sort of an in-universe equivalent) but Rafael Grampá fucking knocked it out of the park with this one and I want to bring him into my story. Maybe he starts as the regular killer moth and slowly morphs into the Moth-er version. The refs I’m for Victor Zsasz and Firefly (Ted Carson) come from the [Batman: Streets of Gotham #4] and [Nightwing Annual Vol 3 #1]’s respective comic interiors. 

Harley Quinn

Harley gets nabbed by a pseudo-version of the distortion. My theory is that while “Helen” was killed in the original world, the distortion as a whole is still an entity created by The Spiral; Helen, Michael, etc. those are just the “skins” that it wears. So the distortion is sort of re-formed in this new world and Harley ends up becoming its first victim. Bc of how well suited I think Harley is personality-wise for the distortion (way more than Helen & Michael), I think they have a sort of symbiosis where she’s still herself but slightly more.. uh… well: More. Anyway her doors just look like standard metal, emergency access doors and her hallways are just winding factory/maintenance hallways, since it’s Gotham. 

Edward Nygma (The Riddler)

Eddie gets nabbed pretty early on by Annabelle. He’s described a lot in the Prime Earth comics as a super genius (actually thinking back on this, this is the case for most continuities that he’s in, but I digress) and he’s ridiculously manipulative and competent. So yeah, he’s getting nabbed by The Web. I’m using the Gotham TV (unmasked) look for him, I don’t have any strong preferences on his outfit (I have a feeling that once he joins the web he stops doing public appearances as The Riddler). It’s sort of meant to be ambiguous whether he’s truly on board with this or if he’s just resigned to his new role in The Spider’s Web. 

Victor Fries (Mister Freeze)

Victor, unfortunately, serves as Martin’s first meal on his journey to fully embracing The Lonely. Victor’s actions are heavily motivated by a desire to cure his wife. Depending on the continuity, this is either a task that is tentatively possible or completely impossible. I like the idea of it being a hopeless task that he undertakes out of pure desperation and an inability to cope with the death of his wife. He’s unable to process it properly and instead turns to villainy on his doomed quest to get the things he thinks he needs to save her. So yeah, he’s the perfect victim for The Lonely. Martin collects him in the end. 

Jonathan Crane (Scarecrow)

The 2020 releases for dc comics fucking ate man, so many good designs. I’m using his look in the 2021 Infinite Frontier #0 (Batman) comic for this. I love it so much, it’s way more scary than his usual getup and the fear-toxin-needle finger attachments are a super grisly accessory. Tomeu Morey and Jorge Jiménez were the respective colorist and inker for the panel I’m referencing (wiki link) and they did a really good job on it. Anyway, Crane’s whole thing is fear, not any specific subset of fear. I don’t think he’d ever be a fear avatar bc I don’t think he would ever limit himself to a single aspect. And I don’t think he’d fall victim to being a meal for any fear either bc let’s face it, fear gods would love this fucking guy. 

You’re gonna learn real quick that I have Strong Opinions™️ about fear avatars & feeding and my primary belief is that fear gods, being created by and fueled by the existence and prevalence of certain fears, create avatars to stir up the pot. If someone is experiencing fear, the fear gods have already collected that fear, it’s already feeding them. It’s the role of an Avatar of the Fears to artificially create more fear, to feed the fire. That is literally what Scarecrow does with his fear toxins. Those people he’s targeting are already afraid of certain things, but he forces those fears directly to the surface and makes them experience them much more vividly and viscerally. (I’m also of the firm opinion that there is no way to “passively” feed the fears, you either feed them by expanding their reach or they feed on you). Fear gods would fucking love this guy bc he’s literally feeding the concept of fear. Keep in mind that in the show, Leitner & Jon both state that the separation of the fears into separate distinct entities is a shortsighted way of thinking. They’re all just aspects of the same entity. The aspect of the web has slightly more prominence, but they’re all in-effect bound to each other. Despite the petty battle lines drawn by their avatars, the fears are all inextricably linked together and they cannot be separated. Scarecrow is, at any point in his campaign, feeding a multitude of fear aspects. They’re gonna keep this guy around, and so is Jon since he now understands how this ecosystem works. 

Jack Napier (The Joker)

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The Slaughter & The Spiral 

Pamela Isley (Poison Ivy), Oswald Cobblepot (The Penguin), Selina Kyle (Catwoman), & Waylon Jones (Killer Croc)

These are the official unaffiliated ones, they don’t get nabbed by any fears. Being a fear avatar puts an inherent priority on humans over other things (bc you need to feed from them) and that doesn’t work well with Pamela’s whole ethos of prioritizing the planet and its wellbeing. I don’t think she’d become a fear avatar and I don’t think she’d get killed by one either. Oswald’s immunity is more due to the fact that I found him to be very endearing in Gotham (TV), he just looks like such a wet cat of a man so he gets a pass. Selina is a thief, not a master manipulator or a violent criminal. She doesn’t strike me as the kind of person that would necessarily vibe with fear so she also gets a pass. Waylon gets a pass bc I like depictions of him where he’s more humanized and actually nuanced. I do just picture this guy in my head as a giant anthro crocodile with a dad bod wearing a plain button-up and slacks on his off-days so that might be influencing my opinion here. He deserves a break, let the man rest.

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I couldn’t figure out or didn’t want to commit to what fear category they’d fall into

Harvey Dent (Two-Face): this man is an enigma to me

Bane: this man is also an enigma to me 

Kirk Langstrom (Man-Bat): Fuck if I know dude

Roman Sionis (Black Mask): this guy doesn’t have enough of a gimmick and I don’t want another Slaughter avatar  

Jervis Tetch (Mad Hatter): probably The Spiral, but I don’t really care about him

There’s been like 6 of these (Clayface): The Stranger, maybe. I don’t know enough about the clayface lineage/storyline to confidently state anything

Slade Wilson (Deathstroke the Terminator): I like this man too much to sideline him and I don’t have room for him in the mainline story. Also, he’d be neutral, he’s just a mercenary 

Talia & Ra’s al Ghul: they’re not in Gotham so they don’t exist. Look, the moment we leave the Gotham boundaries we open up a whole new can of worms

All minor/one-off villains: these do not exist to me unless they’re immediately useful