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PENIS TYPO IN THE METAL GEAR 2 MSX MANUAL !!!!!!

Edit: I should note that this is from an unofficial fan translation

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I wonder who this could possibly be... lol

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replayed mgs2 (again) for my friends and here we are, after 945938045 years

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fandom joke post rating: NOT FUNNY. while mischaracterization for the sake of humor can occasionally be funny, this particular post betrays a misunderstanding of the character so fundamental that the joke itself does not land.

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I’m about 30% sure someone has made this joke already

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June 2025 sketch reward + timelapse video

Split head from Silent Hill for Milky!! I did some data moshing in Audacity for the glitchy texture overlay. Timelapse video over on Youtube: https://youtu.be/gbBPo3zrFaY

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The 32 guides/tutorials I've written for Patreon are free now. You can see the names of the posts through the link but I've written guides for how to make 3D printed standees, 3 different types of glitch/datamosh effects for illustrations, how to fill in lineart super quickly, painting a leather jacket, and like a bajillion lengthy things on doing an illustration from start to finish. My not-Guilty Gear, not-fanart work is largely analog and digital mixed media, so most of the guides/walkthroughs are in that vein.

In short: if you've ever wondered how I do shit, you can read 32 long posts about it now. For free

Tutorials & guides now available to all free Patreon members //

Sometime during my long Patreon hiatus, they added a "free member" tier, which is when someone follows a Patreon account but not on a paid tier. I like writing guides and tutorials for art stuff, but they've been, historically, some of my least viewed types of posts. I don't feel like limiting them to paid members is putting any extra eyes on those types of posts, so I've made them available to every free member.

This includes everything in the Tutorials/Guides collection tab on my Patreon page.

Thank you everyone for your support!!

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a darling gretta, positively adrip with personality, one in a million tooth placement

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They should invent a method of asking for reassurance that nobody secretly hates you that doesn't make people secretly hate you.

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This is perhaps an odd question, but I’ve noticed a pattern in characters you like and I was wondering if you like mentally anguished characters or just guys with headbands?

I know it’s probably both, I just think the thought of the actual commonality between all these characters (Sol Badguy, Vincent, Snake, possibly Richter Belmont?) being a headband and not, y’know, any of the other stuff to be really funny. The rest is just a wacky coincidence. Just a big enthusiast for bandanas

IT'S A COINCIDENCE I SWEAR LMAOOOO

I really like gruff, sad, old men haha A lot of them are from the late 1980s and 1990s and some kind of headgear was super in vogue during that period in Japanese media for some reason (I'm sure there's probably some cultural context to them that I'm unaware of). I do really like bandanas too though lmao My first fursona (orange cat) wore a red bandana but it was more pirate-style than ninja-style like Sol, Vincent, etc

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Who are your favorite characters in MGS? Most favorite, most compelling, etc.

I only had access to MGS2 and 3 up until like a month ago and I last played 3 like 20 years ago now so I only really know characters from Metal Gear, MG2, Metal Gear Solid 1, and MGS2, so these opinions are probably gonna change as I progress through the series. Working on playing ALL of the (major) games lol

Anyway, I'm a basic bitch, I really like Solid Snake and Otacon rofl They're the bae's haha

I will admit that this is probably because MGS2 was like one of — if not THEE — first "adult" game I ever played that had a serious/heavy story, characters that died (+stayed dead), and a cast that wasn't composed of teens/kids, so that's probably affected my feelings towards those two a lot. Snake was SOOOOOOOO different from characters I was used to at the time; I was like hot off the heels of reading Eragon for the first time (before Eldest was even out), and I think FF10 and Jak 2, too. Snake was like... Sad and tired compared to every character I knew at that point.

I didn't really know how to interpret or understand characters like him yet, but I remember thinking like.... "This is the most believable/human fictional character I have ever seen" hahaha He smoked cigarettes!! That's so bad!!! We just did DARE in high school and my state (Ohio) was building up to the indoor smoking ban (2006), so my tiny child brain processed that like "smoking = he wants to die." I thought that was some really deep shit!! They put me into AP English a little after I first played MGS2. It's really hilarious in hindsight. It made me want to know more about him and it drove me nuts that you only got to play as him for a little bit before playing as Raiden. I didn't hate Raiden though, he was cool but in a different way. Even back then I thought the Raiden hate was stupid and kind of entitled.

Otacon I always liked because he balanced out Snake's gruffness and he was kind of silly, but he's not really in MGS2 a lot so I didn't get to really know him until I played MGS1 recently. I'm still kind of chewing on my thoughts about him post-MGS1... I like that he wears his heart on his sleeve and does what he thinks is cool/best, but he cares a lot too (maybe even to a fault). In a romantic/shipping context, I also like him with Snake, but I'm not entirely sure that all the dialog in MGS1 is really directed towards Snake ("Do you think love can bloom on the battlefield?"); I think it's mostly about his feelings towards Sniper Wolf. That said, I do think that (after Wolf dies) Otacon perhaps fills that void with his feelings towards Snake. One of my buddies told me you find out a lot about his dad in Peace Walker and I'm looking forward to that and how it will change my perception of his character.

Sniper Wolf's post-second boss fight cutscene made me like her a lot too. Kojima's women always throw me for a loop haha They've almost always got their tits out and flirt with the protag, but then they hit you with some of the heaviest and compelling lore you've ever seen. I liked Wolf's parallels with Meryl and how they both realize perhaps too late that their goals and ideals were misguided.

I liked Psycho Mantis more than I was expecting to, too (esp. his boss fight), and Meryl, but I kept thinking about how they kept saying she was "in her teens" and Snake is 33 in MGS1 😭 Don't like that !

In MGS2 I remember really liking Fortune but it's been a bit since I played 2 so I can't elaborate on that much. Olga having armpit hair in MGS2 also had an INSANE impact on me as a kid (not in a weird way, in a baby ftm trans way) but I don't remember basically anything about her character.

That's it for now. Thank you for coming to my 20+ years of Metal Gear Solid character thoughts TED Talk

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Long hair guys

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ANTAGONIST

Hunt School 56 nib, Pentel pocket brush, 5.5x8.5" (14x21.6cm) mixed media paper, digital colors. I tried something different with this one where I did two rough sketches, then lightboxed the better one onto some board with pencils before inking it. It worked out pretty well.

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Fucking April 30th eh

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Daily Nagoriyuki 08062025

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This ain't over yet

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"cuttlefish feeding" (source)