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I Have no Explanation for This (old work)

Jäger on the bin! No context!

Relic of when I had literally 0 references to his uniform beyond the Kinky Boots™, and barely any knowledge of shading. Or faces.

Simpler times...

(I love drawing his scars so muchhh)

Anyway, I'll throw this to the web in case it makes someone happy :)

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i dont know who needs this or why i draw it,

but here is Pyramid Head, but cheese

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Grievances

Piece I made someone on an art trade!

Oh, the bounties of a brief respite between 'wanting to die' and 'wanting to commit war crimes'... cough...

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we need ao3 back up for this person’s grandma specifically

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Starscream no. 1

I'm bad at naming pieces

It seems like our dear Commander has found himself among *checks palm* metal-eating zombies! That's exactly what they wrote on the medical reports, anyway.

Knockout knows nothing.

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To me the funniest implications of KO being that specific car is 1) you know he didn’t get an earth alt for months/years and 2) in the TFP universe there is a feral 78th Aston Martin with no owner and no papers out in bumfuck Nevada racing people and occasionally running them off the road.

omigod ... wait hold on, this opened my third eye

Knock Out, a legit CRYPTID!

and there's only blurry photos and its an entertaining creepypasta, but nobody actually believes in it.

BUT Then there's this gang of asshole bikers who make it their mission to tame this wild beast of a beautiful car, that only reddit posts speak of? and make a bunch of money selling it? i'm talking dudebros like zak bagans, who also ghosthunt every second weekend and make vlogs about it

and they set a trap that messes with his sparkplugs (ive researched this for 2 seconds idk) - possibly involving something that makes him crash, and have mud all over him, and be dented and scratched, WHICH TERRIFIES and INFURIATES him XD

and at first KO is out for blood and spooks them by playing unfitting music at an earshattering volume, or trying to whack their heads with his doors etc.

but then they start complimenting him, treating him to a carwash, installing some new car things that car enthusiasts love (i have no idea about cars im sorry) ANYWAYS you know what i mean

remember this?

i want this for him

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Black Lutz

My latest D&D 5e boy

A bit off topic (and maybe won't get too much attention), but I'm very proud of him! Yes, I know he looks like Erwin Smith lol he was inspired by an AoT Medieval!AU, but his personality is completely different

He's a Paladin of the Silver Flame, and here's the little bio I made:

A military man by nature, he enlisted into the city guard as soo as he was able, leading a fair and dutiful career and earning his spurs after he proved his valor to their liege and outshined his shield-brothers in the field of battle. After a traumatic experience —one that bad tongues speak of in hushed tones, about how the disgraced knight's greed was what led to his demise— Lutz was left disheartened and set off from his homeland in shame, dedicating his life to the protection of the simple folks in order to appease his demons and attone for his sins. He wears a black gambeson with the crest of his Lord, which has earned him his alias, and is a tall, strongly built man on his mid 30s, with the marks of fighting and hard labour about him. He carries himself with pride, back stiff and shoulders straight, and keeps his pale-blond hair neatly arranged on a side part, just as strictly as his closed-off expression. He has sharp hazel eyes, thin lips and a gap between his front teeth (that he hates, but I love), and speaks politely as befitting of a royal knight. In his satchel, he always carries a prayer book, holy amulet, and a vial of laudanum tincture to ease his nerves.

His hair is a personal conquest lol it's a cut that I love a lot. Playing with him is being an absolute plast as well.

There's a super fun text rp server on discord btw

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friends

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apologizing in advance for the person i'll become when that audio drama comes out. you've seen me at my 'leisurely picking through eight year old game' but you're going to have to handle me at my 'new shit just dropped'. she's so normal, i assume you are all thinking. i've seen nothing but the height of normalcy. i am here to disillusion you

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WHAT HI? HUH? HELLO?

every year the fallout 4 vas do a big charity livestream thing (x) and

HI?

HELLO????

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Wild Card

Secret ending where Yes Man takes over the world with his Yes Men army lol

Fun little project that took 6+ hours (because there's only so much juggling you can do on a mobile app) and consumed my soul, hope y'all like it!

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nick valentine in the medium of vib-ribbon for the ps1

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AT-AT Walker

A few artefacts, but I’m OK with it. Not really meant for close-ups. Not rigged, but parented objects instead. Gave me better control. Had to take a few liberties and guess-working a tad. References weren’t all that good. Have to say this is the strangest thing to recreate. A ton of weird shapes. If I had to do this over? I’d rather dive headfirst into a Sarlacc pit. In my shorts!.

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The “angel” Erik dressing up for a human party. 

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Study in Synth Anatomy

Based on gen. 2 models

Finally done with this! It was very difficult to find good references for their insides, but I'm pretty happy with how this turned out. Wanted to give it a vintage medical book vibe ^^

(the French words are names I gave to the parts lol)

Edit: changed my signature and fixed this mistake that was driving me mad lol

Translation for the text, clockwise from the title:

'Anatomy of the Synthetic Man

Coolant Filter

Fuse Box

Reactor Casing

Coolant Pump Motor

Torso Mobility Joint

Auxiliar Coolant Tank

Negative Pressure Pump

Coolant Tank

Upper Limb Motor

Upper Limb Pulley Array'

There are a lot of HC parts that I ended up not including, because it would be wayyy too busy

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Glowing Ones: Why and How

They look beautiful, don't they?

Lonely beacons of light in the darkness of the wasteland, those radiant guys were difficult to break down.

In definition, glowing ones —or "luminous necrotic post-humans" as the wiki states, despite them not being necrotic whatsoever— are said to be "ghouls who have absorbed so much radiation that they emit a strong, green glow," and I could've taken the easy approach and agreed, but then I continued reading the wiki, and they presented me with this:

"The distinctive luminescence that is the trademark of the glowing one can be best attributed to an unusually high amount of radioactive material that builds up in the bloodstream and muscle tissue of a typical ghoul. Sometimes, upon the transformation into a feral ghoul, the neurological systems of the body cease filtering these particles from the blood and tissue, instead of causing them to build a distinctive bio-luminescence that is a characteristic of the glowing ones. In daylight, they simply appear to be incredibly pale feral ghouls, but in the darkness, they glow with a vivid yellow-green hue, their opaque skeletons clearly visible as in an x-ray."

...And I felt like I had to intervene.

Disclaimer: I get the green glow allegory for radioactive stuff, and I know making those ghouls glow was a design choice more than anything, but I like speculating and applying medical knowledge to daily life. I could also be wrong in my assumptions, and am always happy to be corrected when needed.

First of all, it's really not the "neurological system" (nervous system, I assume, because there's no such thing as neurological system) that "filters the blood and tissue" :") it's the organs from our immune system, like the spleen, lymph nodes and other glands. And as for the "radioactive material build-up," if there were solid radioactive particles in your blood stream I think you'd have to have injected them with a needle lol, because simple exposure to radiation wouldn't cause solid particles to infiltrate the human body.

Radiation damage to tissue is caused by, wait for it, the radiation in itself, the invisible waves that are emitted by a solid like radium or uranium (or graphite...). Fabrics, rough cement and some types of wood catch a lot of particles because of their structure, and they 'become radioactive' because of that, but our skin is not as favourable to this and taking a good shower would be enough to decontaminate us in some cases.

(chunk of radioactive material^)

If a person has breathed in a significant amount of radioactive dust (the literal meaning of fallout), however, then there would be deposits of said dust inside the lungs, and the radiation emitted from it would destroy the nearby tissue. Also, if a bomb fell somewhat close to you and you survived, chances are you're completely peppered by radioactive shrapnel, so...

Now that that's dealt with, let's move on!

The first thing that comes to mind when considering their glow, besides cartoony radioactivity, is bioluminescence. This is a living being's ability to emit light, and it is present in many species of algae, bacteria, sea creatures and even insects like fireflies and other beetles. It's the result of the activity of a very specific enzyme, and knowledge surrounding it is complicated, so for convenience's sake I'll say it's a product of a cell's metabolism, that can be triggered by specific circumstances.

(Look up Aequorea victoria, aka crystal jellyfish, they're very pretty)

Nowadays, some species of bacteria have been found to thrive in radioactive environments, processing substances and essentially using radiation as fuel. This has huge potential in leak-prevention and management of disaster sites like Chernobyl and Fukushima.

Imagine now, if you will, that there exists a type of bacteria in the Fallout universe that feeds off of radiation and responds with bioluminescence, shining constantly as long as there's a stable source of fuel for them. This would pretty much explain the glowing as a biofilm (visible bacterial colonies that stick to stuff, plaque on teeth for example) of that specific bacteria feeding off of radiation, with the shinier patches being a thicker film that grew above radioactive material deposits, or just areas in the body with higher radiation. This material could be a piece of shrapnel from the bombs, a chunk of uranium, or any other solid and long-lasting irradiated thing that got lodged into the ghoul's body.

The relationship between the ghoul and the bacteria in this case would be symbiotic (cooperation of organisms from different species that can't survive when separated) to a point or even just mutualistic (cooperation of organisms from different species that can survive when separated), because they continue glowing even after the ghoul's death. For those ghouls to be as long-living while glowing all the way, though, this bacteria's feeding process would have to be extremely slow, so that could be tied to this.

Tldr: glowing ones have radiation-eating, bioluminescent bacteria infestations as an added bonus to their ghoulishness.

And that settles it : ) hope ya liked it!

(P.S.: I have some other posts in this same vibe, in case you're interested ^^)

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Ich auch, Bruder. Ich auch.