#TheRailz

[comickles]

thinkin bout funny meme

[therailz-art]

dark magic

[buzzinbeedoodle]

SHADOW WIZARD MONEY GANG COSPLAY

(We LOVE casting spells)

Most of the stuff for the cosplay came in! Here's a breakdown of what I've got:

Mask and black bodysuit (for Shadow). I'm planning on customizing the mask by putting black material on the front (except the eyes) and then putting a more see-through material on the back. That way, I can put the white pupils about anywhere for cartoonish effect.

Cloak and spellbook (for Wizard). I'm not sure if I want to write spells in the spellbook or keep it as a blank prop. I guess if you have suggestions for spells send an ask or something? (I'm thinking stuff along the lines of this awesome art by Hieb-Hedger [@therailz-art]: https://www.tumblr.com/therailz-art/719054521300647936/dark-magic?source=share https://www.tumblr.com/therailz-art/718963926499491840/we-love-casting-spells?source=share

Chains and Ring (for Money). I found this absurdly big ring on amazon and this 4-pack of chains on Amazon, and I think they're going to look hilarious. I also plan on getting a big pack of smaller plastic rings to put on with it (hopefully they fit over the bodysuit).

I've also gotten a friend to join me in on this, so there will be a 2-member Shadow Wizard Money Gang at my local convention and we're going to be handing out ribbons for people to put on their badges:

(my younger sister has also agreed to be the Shadow Government and wear a giant black trench coat and stuff this is going to be so cool).

[roaminromans]

https://twitter.com/TheRailz

[big-papa-huge-time]

Follow my friend @therailz he posts really funny stuff like this

[agdab]

💖 💖 💖 pinned post infos 💖 💖 💖

icon art by skymachine on tumblr/patreon !

banner art by @therailz-art !

hi my name is jazz i’m 26 and i love silent hill and robots. bi and two-spirit

my url means “assigned girldad at birth” that’s my gender. i use they/he/she. all of em. at fucking once.

most all my reblogs are queued so while i post i’m probably not actually active

if you want to know about silent hill lore literally ask i will talk about it for eight hours straight. maybe more. imagine.

idk i draw sometimes. you’ll find that under the #my art. tag, with the period at the end too. a lot of my posts got that

just be nice. like that’s it. just be nice and not weird or rude and i won’t put a hex on you

[deaths-bounty]

Some DeBy Spotify Playlists

My co-writer (@therailz) and I belatedly realized that Spotify would be a great platform for making and sharing collaborative playlists, lol

PM me if any of these links are broken!!!

There’s a ton, but here are the main ones:

Main (overall themes) The Fringe The Open Black (Space) Queen of the Cosmos Chaos and Brutality Purgatory Raegyn Nation Writing (I can’t write while listening to lyrics so I tailored this one more specifically for that)

There’s also a playlist for every single character but I can’t share playlist folders for some reason (reeeee) it’s mostly spoilers anyway so here’s just a couple

Akari Dallas Kade The Annabelle II

PM me if any of these links are broken!!!

[thevertigomastercontent]

expression practice

@therailz thanks for the brushes, bro! I’m loving these things

[kaedeichinose]

@therailz I guess? Like I said it introduces this weird b plot half way through which I thought was interesting and the ending left a lot of things to think about so it's not the woooorst I guesssss

[comickles]

me after drawing an anime girl for the first time

[therailz-art]

we love casting spells

[giftrash]

therailz: when you fuck up and realize there’s nothing you can do so you just accept it

when you fuck up and realize there’s nothing you can do so you just accept it

[nyadeon]

1-10 of the really risky

1. if you had to hug anyone who would you hug

cole !!!!!!!!!!!!! @therailz

2. whats your favorite flavor of ice cream?

COFFEE !!

3. whats your favorite color?

pink !!!! i lov the colour pink !!!

4. if you have pets, what are their names?

I HAVE A DOGGO NAMED COCO I LOVE HER

5. do you like a warm bed or a cold bed?

WARM WARM WARM WARM

6. whats a really good memory you have?

starved rock will always be the warmest memory i have

7. favorite song you cant stop listening to?

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO O O O O frozen one by dance gavin dance !!!!!

8. do you drink water with or without ice in it?

with !!!

9. do you like to use correct grammar when you type or just type all lowercase?

i just type all lower case !!!!

10. whats something thats made you laugh recently?

@birddadd BRIGNIGN ME CHOCCY MILK

TY !!!!!!!!!

[big-papa-huge-time]

why u gotta ruin immortal lobsters for me like that

The world deserves to know. 

Besides, there’s much cooler things about lobsters. For instance the article I linked details that when the animal molts almost nothing of its original body is left for us to determine the age. This includes the eyes, stomach lining, and gill coverings. 

Imagine if when you got older you not only ripped your skin off but decided it was time for a new set of eyes too. Fucking metal   

[thevertigomaster]

17.90 - 17.94 @therailz #sketchdump and #doodles from 9/28/17 #chaosproject #silly #conceptart #environmentart #mushrooms #slashershroom #shroom #ross #soldier #characterdesign (at The University of Texas at Dallas)

[deaths-bounty]

Defining Akari (and mastering 3rd Person)

Some time ago, we made the decision to scrap Akari’s multiple personas. I prob made a blog post about it here. Don’t remember. 

Anyway, I’ve been revisiting her characterization after realizing I never really confronted what she turned into after that big decision; it was the aspect that was used to drive her, the way I would write her motivations and thoughts and drive her to act, and now, in its place, was nothing more than a vague idea.

As always, these development note posts will inevitably contain some spoilers, so read at your own risk!

Upon taking the time to break down what she had become, I was surprised to discover that she had almost become something of a self-insert, which I found particularly funny because way way back near the start of this project, over half a decade ago, her love interest was originally a self insert before eventually getting rebuilt from the ground up as an actual character with some interesting characteristics.

So, after some thought and analysis of other chapters I had already written, I came up with the following character description:

Akari is a polite young woman whose greatest strengths are her empathy, ingenuity, and stubbornness. She’s also headstrong, and can be reckless, especially when she’s decided that combat or brute force is the way to go for a situation. 

She’s naturally curious, which is serendipitous, given her amnesia. She wonders at everything, but can tend to stick to her initial judgments of things. 

She’s a force of nature. Be it in trying to encourage a loved one, to make her point, to stand up for herself, or to get out of someplace, she’s relentless and powerful and not afraid to make a mess, though she’ll likely feel contrite about it afterwards. She has a temper that isn’t always in check, but she can also be the sweetest thing if in a good mood. 

Much of this came to the forefront of my attention when my cowriter, @therailz​, and I were discussing strategies for making the prose less stiff. We came to the conclusion that it was because I was still approaching it like a script, a neutral 3rd person omniscient narration (albeit with information hiding) which attempted to show everyone's perspective, and as such never really connected with any one character or felt grounded in any way. It was a third-party observer, existing outside of the scene and relaying the experience as opposed to being the experience.

This wasn’t so difficult in the earlier chapters, particularly the first arc, but I think that's also because those chapters never really had more than two or three active characters per scene, and it was one or two on average. It wasn’t hard to handle, and, on top of that, it was mostly from Akari’s perspective anyway for various reasons; Lucas was still this mystery-shrouded figure who we didn’t know well, and the best way to make a character seem mysterious is to not disclose their thoughts or motives, just what little we can see from the outside, and thus, we have a 3rd person narrative told from and colored by a single perspective.

Once we hit Arc 2, however, the dynamic shifted drastically, into one that might be the case for much of the rest of the narrative. There’s now a varied and colorful cast of characters, most of whom all know and interact with each other together. There were so many names and people to introduce, nicknames and inside jokes and all manner of things necessary to understanding the way they naturally interacted with one another, and I didn’t want to miss anything; unlike the earlier case with Lucas’s mystery, I wanted to convey everything, all at once.

When you put it that way, it’s no wonder it became such a mess. So far, chapter 15, the most recent one and one which I've been most concerned about, features seven characters for most of the chapter’s duration, seven characters with those complex social dynamics and all their nuances. Some of them were still being introduced for the first time as well. 

Honestly, I may need to rewrite the whole chapter and re-plan this whole part of the narrative (I’m bullshitting my way through military strategy and radar stealth technology, and I don’t think I’ve been doing so too well). I went in without really even fully planning the mission they’re on. The characters realized it before me, honestly, and we’ve been trying to improvise our way through it together. We’ve also had a mild casualty and another character had to stay behind to look after them, but they were also the two characters that Akari could really talk with. It runs like some sort of military strategy video game mission gone wrong to the point that the player’s about ready to reload a save.

So I might do that (might also back up a bit further) and I’m going to try to stick to one character’s perspective at a time, hopping around as needed, but making an effort to stick to them. It just might help me get into the mindset.