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Bleeding Trophy redraw

I felt like redrawing something, I felt like drawing gore, I drew this. I based the facial metal plates design off how 3D modellers model anime characters in time-lapses. I also tried to make her look more rusty but I don't think the effect fully worked as she looks like she's made out of copper not iron/steel. I tried to make her look as neutral as possible and I made her camera eye look more camera-y. Her hair and sleeves are more angular to better match the steampunk aesthetic and make her look more villainous. In terms of style, I added this highlight on her hair to look more anime-y and I was looking through a Reddit post on Jhonen Vasquez's comics because I really like his style and I got the idea of the cross hatching from those. I was originally gonna keep that as black to match the lineart but it looked better with the soft light masking layer when paired with the shading so it's a little less intense. Cross hatching works very well in black and white but looks a bit muddy with colour.

I was planning on making 2 alternate versions (hence the sketches) but I didn't. The first is a redesign I sketched in my notebook about a month ago that better matches her current lore and the second one doesn't make any sense without some kind of explanation but essentially she's the ghost that pilots the robot. She wasn't piloting her in the original game hence the neutral expression.

I like redrawing to see how I've improved and like a sense of time and I drew the original on the same computer, same program, same drawing tablet I'm pretty sure and the style doesn't look like a different artstyle: it looks more like a really un-refined version drawn by a 15 year old, because it was.

Newgrounds version

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Is she trying to do the watermelon thing?

susie's idea

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whats their problem

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Lady Roselyn sitting on a chair

Blood warning:

Took a bit over 5 hours. I wanted to draw my hot victorian cosplayer spy OC so I did. I originally placed the satchel under the chair to make it easier to draw the perspective of it (as opposed to being worn over the shoulder) but it looked kinda boring so I added all the blood and spy stuff because I bought volume 2 of Spy X Family recently and it's fresh in the mind. I used a stock image of a woman sitting in a chair as reference but because my artstyle has big hands and short necks it kinda looks like she's choking herself but by the time I noticed I had already done the lineart and wasn't sure how to fix it. Actually, looking back at the reference image, she's got her hand on the side of her cheek that kinda looks like her neck in the perspective. oops. Eh she has a tie on, I'll just say she's adjusting that with one hand.

I had a reference drawing of her from about a year ago which I based a lot of her design on:

However I like designs to be practical and if she's fighting people and stabbing and stuff, then doing that in a big, poofy victorian dress isn't gonna work out so I based her new dress off 1890s victorian bicycle suits which were modified versions of the dresses at the time to be shorter and had bloomers underneath. I specifically based her design off this image I found on Quora:

That's where I got the boots and gloves idea. The good thing about not actually setting this in victorian times is that I don't have to stick to their boring hairstyles, ugly fabric and time period appropriate fashion and can just do whatever like make all the buckles pentagons because it's the future and who says buckles need to be square? I kept the 1890s victorian poofy sleeves, not as poofy as some of them got at the time but still poofy nonetheless because I like how they make her shoulders look even more broad. I based her body type off an olympic boxer who had a lot of muscle at the shoulders and general top half and not only does it balance out her curves and the poofy dress but it makes her look stronger and even more badass. The sleeves on her previous dress confused me so I made them look more 1890s by making it a singular piece.

Adding a white middle line thing to black hair makes it look so much better I've concluded. I love her afro it's so cool. I wasn't planning on adding a proper background but I went "no I make simple polka dot and checkerboard backgrounds too much. I should draw an actual background" so here it is. I made sure not to make the background red so she doesn't blend in.

Newgrounds version

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more college chara and frisk because i had so much fun with the first one lol

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this scene

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That YT Studio AI thing

I'm so inconsistent with what I post that not even the AI can properly predict me.

"My experience with virtual reality dating"

That's a lot of ways to say "I am a virgin". Also really Google? "The complexities and awkwardness of dating in the digital age"? What's so complex about a text on Tinder saying "nice ass, wanna fuck?". Maybe I'm missing something because I'm just on the regular virginity plan, not the premium plan.

"Emeraldeye Social Media Trailer (7) - New Rival"

I think this sums up AI's intelligence pretty well. It's referring to an animation series I made 5 years ago that already has a 7th episode but decided that I had quite a few trailers of it so you know what the world needs? Another one! Reading this is quite comforting actually as no matter how bad my writing skills were when I was 12, they weren't as bad as this. It didn't even get the formatting of the title right...

For starters, the AI one has proper capitalisation. I like how somehow the series with arguably the easiest thumbnail style to recycle and mangle, generative AI style, is the one that doesn't have a thumbnail. Like there's a good 10 videos with that thumbnail style, is it really that hard to squish it together with some generic social media clip art?Also the title of the series is "Emeraldeye Social Media" and somehow the AI thought that "Emeraldeye" (which is the name I gave to my artstyle then) was a new social media and the description reads like the synopsis to one of those video essays about the newest thing from silicon valley, and not comedy skits about social media being personified as humans that all seem to hate each other. Guess it was too exotic for the slop machine.

"Top 5 video game trends of 2025"

It's taken me this long to realise the capitalisation is like that because for a lot of my old videos, I would only capitalise the first letter. Anyway, this AI saw that I make games and was like "Alright! Must be like one of those gaming commentators who talk to a camera for 15 minutes on the latest EA controversy!". In reality, I don't care about the top trends of the past 7 months. I don't follow modern AAA games much. Also seriously? "The current gaming landscape is constantly evolving"? I sure hope it is! That's how art works! Why does this imply there was a point in time where video games were at a standstill? No cutting edge graphics. No new genres being created. No new ways to cram micro-transactions down your throat. This is dumb.

"How I made my AI art generator"

My art is 100% organic, thank you very much.

I first saw this feature in a YouTube video months ago but I always seem to get the new Google features months after everyone else. It took me like a year to get that Google AI thing to appear. Took me a couple months until I had to update my adblocker during that whole YouTube VS adblock thing. And now this. I don't know why I was kinda looking forward to this. Morbid curiosity I suppose? And just like the Google AI thing: it's lame, and I'm gonna ignore it after the initial "woah more slop!".

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Okay so I was gonna go click on one of them to see what'll happen but when I reopened YT Studio, the thingys changed:

Gotta say, YouTube was definitely spying on the Tumblr tab I had opened cause this is much closer to the kind of stuff I actually make. Still slop, but it's learned. Might make a series out of this just to fuel my morbid curiosity. I think the only one which is a stretch is the Python one. What is it with these results and thinking I code AI algorithms in my free time? Also the 3rd one just straight up ripped the title off one of my shorts.

Even the lack of capitalisation is right!

Here's a video on what happens if you click on one. It's surprisingly in depth but I'm capable of making my own ideas just with the power of my brain matter:

I find it funny how only 1 of the videos it references is actually DDLC related.

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I just wanna talk about DDLC for a bit

It's one of those games that once you first enter the fandom, you sorta dip in and out a bit but every 6-8 months it comes back into your mind and you do all the drawings and mod searching and other fandom stuff. Although because I'm curently making a fangame for it, it's occupying a certain part of my brain constantly like that one Chrome tab you've left open for 2 months and is taking up all your memory.

Doki Doki Literature Club is a great game. I like Doki Doki Literature Club. I like anything with 4th wall meta stuff, especially if it's done well. Doki Doki Literature Club is a great game because it does the "I'm real they're not" glitchy thing the best out of any game I've seen so far, and will probably ever see unless Deltarune's final dark fountain involves dragging your file explorer into the mix which isn't gonna happen considering it's also on console but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the last chapter does have some sort of reality breaking thing like that, but I digress.

I think what makes DDLC so effective is because yeah the characters are archetypes, but they're well written kinda 2D but not really archetypes with bits of hidden traits slipping through the cracks in chapter 1. Sayori is obviously the easiest one to talk about here considering her time to shine was towards the second half but I love it when characters are introduced as like "oh they're this and only really this!" but then slowly you learn more traits about them and details of their background and other stuff that makes you realise just how deep they are. Except Monika.

While the others are doing their character depth thing, Monika is as flat as mass produced industrial steel and it's only when the others are busy dying that another side is shown of her, but even then because of her self awareness, she still feels artificial in a sense. Monika is the kind of person to want to show the best side to her; it's why she tries to convince you that the girls were just "video game characters" as a face saving act to make herself not look like a terrible murderer (even though she is) so ironically in her attempt to seem more lifelike and "real", she makes herself seem more artificial within the context of her game as real people have flaws and show weaker sides. Sayori has a weaker side. Natsuki has a weaker side. Yuri has a weaker side. Hell, Mr whatshisname has some form of a weaker side if you look at the script close enough, but not Monika. She's constantly trying to impress you, constantly trying to divert your attention to her instead of the other girls because while the others have crushes on you out of programming, Monika is crushing on you out of her own free will (I think don't quote me on that) which makes that artificialness all the more tragic as she could easily show a weaker, more authentic side where her pride slips up in places (it's clear this whole reality breaking thing isn't something she's taking well) and be seen as the most "real" out of the four girls because she has flaws like them, but with the bonus of knowing she's in a video game.

I mean, sure in act 3 she does act with a bit of depth but she's comfortable with the control she's gotten. So comfortable that she casually slips how she messed with the files which would be her demise so there's still that pride that doesn't seem to crack until her file gets deleted and even then, she gets rid of the literature club once she finds out Sayori is now self aware, and still tries on her death bed to present some sort of positive image by writing a letter to explain her decision.

This bitch will do everything in her power to date you! She's practically throwing herself at the protagonist, which is really you. That's gotta be the most dating sim thing any anime girl has ever done.

I like how it takes a while for the status quo to get established, only to do a sharp U-turn and commit time travel to fuck up said status quo I love that so much. Also it builds this looming feeling of dread in the second act cause it's like one is already dead in a horrible way, is the same fate gonna happen to the others? And it's this worrying about shiny looking PNGs that makes you start to realise something's up with Monika. Also this might sound weird but I like how they actually show Sayori's full corpse. With similar games like Yandere Simulator and Class of 09, when a character kills themselves by hanging, they both do it in the shadows so you can only see part of them, usually their back. Meanwhile DDLC has the confidence to go "you see this sweet anime girl you like? well fuck you she's dead now!" and shows her entire body, the camera mostly being on her face which works so well. They could've made her in the shadows and do a slow burn effect to really set it in but instead they went the shock route and considering how infrequent shock is used in DDLC, it works very well at letting you know: no more status quo.

The art's alright. I don't mean that in a mean way, it's more like cause I'm an artist, I can feel when there's a lack of polish. The DDLC+ assets are much better. It's hard to explain as it's mostly vibes but here's a comparison:

After some looking closely, I think the difference is the shading is more softer and more realistic with the light source, the hair doesn't look like it was drenched in hair gel, the thigh highs don't look somewhat painted on and act like actual socks, the anatomy looks a bit more realistic with the way her curves are drawn, her posing isn't a bit stiff anymore, the blazer doesn't look weird with the way it sits and folds, the fringe looks fuller and the expression has more emotion to it. It's weird cause like I couldn't pick out details like that back when I started doing art as a hobby but now I can clearly see what technique the artist used to draw this, especially the shading I couldn't figure out for the life of me how anime artists shaded until I started naturally shading in that sorta smooth style and I just understood it.

Yuri is hot and I wish she was real.

She's my second monitor's wallpaper.

Peak female performance here I love her.

The casual outfits are all lame. Like it's obvious the uniform went though many iterations but the casual outfits look like they were made on the spot. It doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things so eh.

The "Okay Everyone" song having like 5 versions for every character is genius and I'm nicking that concept for a future game. Sayori being the ukelele makes so much sense and I can't explain why.

Anyway enough rambling. I can go on but it's almost 11 pm now so...

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The Personal YouTube Retrospective Reblog Chain [3/??]

The cool thing was at the time was how every gaming YouTuber seemed to be collaborating with everyone so you could look onto their channel and see what they do, like some form of network. I also remember being sceptical about the java edition whenever it showed up on thumbnails because it had more saturated shading (it was more like the 360 just had really washed out shading due to the hardware) and for some reason that made me paranoid. Until I actually watched the videos. This video about “Draw my Thing” was the first I saw of Minecraft Java I think and I assumed it was some different version, like a gamemode or something, due to the use of command blocks. Either that or the roller coaster video. Java was the standard version for pretty much all gen 1 YouTubers but I used to see it as this elaborate, complex, almost magical deviation that I didn’t really watch at the time. Now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure Stampy was the only Minecraft YouTuber at the time who primarily played on console. I think only like 3 videos of his are on the Java version and they’re all with other YouTubers. Like the car one which I stumbled across when the upstairs spare TV’s remote died and there wasn’t any batteries in the house so I was sharing the downstairs remote with my parents while they were watching some boring TV and it autoplayed and it’s still quite funny actually. It’s part of some competition thing where you had to build a replica of a car and Stampy was just trolling the entire time putting squids on everyone’s car. Then I think his got blown up or something and then he built a little one with cakes on every conceivable surface but the texture pack makes it look more like some weird paint job.

I remember watching pretty much all of Sky Den. Uhhhhh...I think only the first 20 episodes were out when I first found it and damn it I now have the dancing blaze rod song stuck in my head again after 10 years. Nooooooo. I also watched Cave Den but not as much. That one was more exploring rather than building but the one where they get to the roof of the cave and try to have a picnic at the top but reach the height limit is a highlight. I watched parts of it and I’m pretty sure that one had a grass race too. I stopped watching around the time Ocean Den was starting but I’ll get to that later on. There was the Quest series that I never really watched. I think it was because of it’s more silly nature. I used to watch the parkour/puzzle maps quite a lot and sometimes the adventure maps but mostly the former. That’s how I first found out about Portal because there was a map based on it. Gonna say some random highlights that have popped into my head and I place my hope in editor me to find the corresponding video. The room with all the chests to find the parts for a diamond pickaxe to break the obsidian blocking the door and there was a single stick in the entire floor, the clip where Stampy is ranting about spiders, the map with the trivia section that was created when the most popular YouTubers were the Smosh guys at 10 million which just made me realise how things have changed, uhhhhh some parkour one where they started terraforming the walls of it’s wool to get past a section, the one where iBalisticSquid got glitched and was stuck floating in mid air because of some glitch with the boat, the dropper map that’s just called “The Dropper”, uhhhhh I can’t think of any more. Hunger games maps too. Almost forgot about them. And those 2 cruise ships which I have no idea how some people have the patience to build all that but I remember like 3 years ago re-watching the one with just glowstone and I was looking through the comments section and most of the newer comments were people realising that one of the rooms had a stripper pole that was passed off as a “support beam” and that knowledge makes me laugh. Especially because I had to rewatch the clip like 3 times to figure out what the commenter was going on about. I remember when Building Time started and the voting system was quite clever as instead of relying on comments, which most people couldn’t use as the audience was children, they utilised the little I in the corner feature that YouTube removed now but it would show you related videos, what was it called? Can’t find it’s name but I was definitely not biased and voted very fairly. There was one special one where Stampy and Squid teamed up to go against 2 people from 4J Studios: the studio responsible for porting Minecraft to the legacy consoles, and I think the theme was a ship or something but it was hilarious when the hour or so ended and the wall was burnt and I’m pretty sure 4J got their own little podium specifically from that build. I’ve just realised that the console editions don’t have all those fancy built in worlds and skin packs like the legacy editions did. Oh well, suppose that’s how it is now.

There was this video on the Magical Animal Club YouTube channel (I think it was on there) where it was some food challenge to make the worst dish known to mankind out of some random ingredients from the local Tesco or something and it just popped into my mind. Truly British cuisine at it’s finest.

The Personal YouTube Retrospective Reblog Chain [1/??]

I was planning on making this a 5 year anniversary on my YouTube channel as a video but the script became very, very long and I figured it would be easier to instead make it a Tumblr reblog chain. I haven't actually finished the script yet but I've got a big chunk so I'm not gonna let those 18,073 words it be in vain.

Hi I’m Rosie Ultraviolett and 5 years. Wow that’s...that’s quite a lot of time for a YouTuber. Surprised I haven’t been cancelled yet. I wonder if within the next 5 years I’ll do something stupid like say the N word on Bluesky or try groom a minor because that seems to be the course of action for most YouTubers nowadays. Hmmmm…maybe I should just become an unlikeable dick and become an AI bro...Nah, have too much dignity for that. Give it 3 SunnyV2 videos later and maybe I’ll think about it.

I made my first channel back in January of 2020. Where is it now? Dead. Because in January 2020 I was 12 years old ie too young to legally have a YouTube channel, I lied about my age to create an account (something which I thought was a big deal at the time before all these 5 year olds started using TikTok) and I stupidly messed with the settings and got my entire Google account deleted. I cried about it and made a sob little TikTok but made my current personal email the next day which is what this channel is on. So technically it’s like 5 and a half years but that channel only had like 15 subscribers. Nobody cared. Does make trying to make a retrospective video a bit difficult though as I don’t have many records other than my memory, and all my older videos on there are lost media because I didn’t think to save them on my phone after I uploaded them so if you ever wondered where “Pearl Says 1-7 is, it’s all gone. Poof. Reduced to atoms.

I thought I’ll do a bit of a different approach with this video. I’ve been wanting to make a video like this for a while now in a similar vein to those “draw my life” videos that were popular to do if you hit 500,000 or 1,000,000 subscribers back in the mid-late 2010s. My main source of inspiration for this was “From Then to Now” by StampyLongHead which focuses on the YouTube side so think of this video as the bootleg version of that. The thing is though, it wouldn’t feel right if I started at 2020 because I’ve been using YouTube for way longer than that and I feel like it’s integral to my general identity (certainly my online identity), so we’re going back to 2009 ish when I was a dumb little toddler...Bet I just made a bunch of millennials feel old. Sorry mates! I’m going to split this video up into multiple sections based on I guess “eras”. It’ll make sense in the context trust me.

*Part 1: The Piracy Era*

*Yaw haw fiddle de di*

I’m a late gen Z which I know the early gen Zs like to make fun of us like alright we get it, you had the Wii and we didn’t, but hey, could be worse, could be like these guys. (At least we can read..)

So naturally being younger than the first iPhone but being older than the first Galaxy phone meant that I don’t know a time before the internet. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been using the internet, specifically YouTube.

God that sounds depressing.

Let me explain. My dad runs his own business creating and selling chemicals and my mum works there doing boring admin stuff so a lot of my time out of school was at their work place. The old site was a building in one of those separate roads where there’s like 10 buildings that you rent and ours was at the end of the road and had 3 rooms: the warehouse where it looked like a very grey IKEA with all the levels and the tall ceiling, the ground floor which was quite empty apart from the toilets and a kitchen and had a wooden floor where big plastic toys would sit, y’know the kinds, like the ones that made sounds and ran on AAs and go funny when you crank up the voltage on them; and the office on the first floor which had a load of desks. It wasn’t unusual to spend the day there on the weekend so I used to use the various office supplies, such as printer paper, pens, pencils, sticky notes, folders etc to draw when I didn’t feel like playing with my toys. There was always too many desks in that room so I had a lot of space to draw and get those big sheets of plain stickers stuck everywhere. I do want to add though that I did go outside often. I had a bike that I would cycle up and down the road and on the nearby cycle path and my parents would take me to the nearby parks very often like once a day if it wasn’t raining. Like, I wasn’t the pre-cursor to the iPad kid. I did actually have a life. Sometimes my parents would go onto YouTube on the spare Windows 7 computer that was only really used to print off labels for containers and backups of important files so I could watch something which in the modern day sounds like a terrible idea but there’s 2 important factors here:

1. This computer was about 3 metres away from both of my parent’s main computers and my mum was almost always at her desk so they could easily see what I was watching

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2. YouTube back then was much different.

If you typed in the name of any kids show now, you’ll find content farm slop that is brainrot at best and dangerous at worst. Back then, all you would find is pirated episodes of said show (and maybe some YouTube Poops but I don’t remember watching any) so to me and my parents, it was essentially a glorified TV. In fact I’m pretty sure around this time was when official kids TV channels started posting clips of their shows but you can’t really clip Peppa Pig so they would just straight up upload the episodes in whole and I would sit there, watching. Sometimes I wish I was born a bit earlier though so I could properly explore the tail end of the early internet as all my memories of videos like The Annoying Orange and The Gummy Bear Song are blurry due to me being a young child. In fact, the only reason why I remember The Annoying Orange is because I watched it at it’s prime when I was like 3 and got nightmares that I still remember quite clearly although looking back it has the plot of a crappy fanfic but hey, it was enough for my parents to make sure I didn’t watch it anymore.

I've never been a fan of oranges...

The kinds of shows I watched back then was basically whatever was on CeBebbies, Nick Jr, Tiny Pop, Disney Junior and Cartoonito. (most of which came a bit later when we got cable). I do vividly remember a lot of Peppa Pig and Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom though. That was all the internet really was to me: just the thing on the computer that plays TV shows and flash games. I also used to go onto the websites of the TV channels and play the flash games on there too. There was this card maker on the Nick Jr website that I loved playing and would download the cards and print them off. Purple Mash was another website I used quite a lot because I had a school account on it. That and some educational site that I can’t remember the name of but it was connected to Purple Mash and had this cake building game. So yeah, YouTube, friv, kids TV websites and educational sites were what I was using the internet for when I was an infant in primary school. It’s a shame there aren’t really any kids websites around anymore so all the kids just go to TikTok and rot their brains. At least Purple Mash is still around. I wonder if it still has all those art tools...those were really neat back in the day…

Pretty sure this was the one with the cake building game.

It’s weird being old enough now to remember a time before. A time before TikTok. A time before stupid brainrot. A time before the corporatism of the modern internet (okay well, it was certainly getting there in the early-mid 2010s but you get what I mean). Kids of today in my old school won’t remember a time where computer labs never had enough PCs so some people had to share because they replaced them all with windows 10 laptops and replaced the little box TV that would roll out whenever it was raining at break time in the morning and you could barely see the episode of Horrid Henry if you were a Year 2 because you were sitting at the back, because now they have a fancy flat screen where the computer lab used to be in the infant hall no I am not projecting, things were better I swear.

What was I talking about again? Oh yeah, Minecraft.

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This is the most foreshadowing foreshadow I think I've ever seen.

I have maybe reached a new level of insanity by noticing this but I cannot get over the garbage piles (or, ya know.... trash heaps) in undertale... And I'm surprised no one has directly pointed this out yet, but like.

There is a broken crt, and a mailbox right next to one another. (EDIT: I should also point out, there IS a game console right above them too. I really don't think this is just coincidence.)

(Edit 2 electric boogaloo: if you look carefully enough it looks as if there’s a massive crack down the center of the tv screen. Almost as if it were cleaved.)

Update THREE… turns out one of the many things these garbage piles ARE IN FACT CALLED, In game, is a trash heap.

I definitely feel this is intentional.

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ok who wants the story about how i sprained my ankle

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