#and they just keep multiplying it's uhhh

[queerofthedagger]

i'm about to finish rotk on friday (am working 24 hours tomorrow 😔) which means i'll have read the entire trilogy in like. 10 days. i can't remember when i breathed through something this quickly and joyfully, and I don't want it to end, and the real question now is if i can read the entire silm in one week before I'll be on vacation or if i should take a lil break because man. man

[fuzzyunicorn]

Have the lil Satanists reached their breaking point yet? If not read my tags below

[beaversatemygrandma]

I told myself i wouldn’t spoil myself to new pokemon but i failed at that miserably. All i know is when I’m going through Scarlet I’m going to be using too many grass types to be safe. First of all: Sprigatito essentially evolves into a grass-type weavile stat/move wise and I’m So Down for that. Even if it has the same typing issue to where if you’re going against the wrong typing you will get destroyed in one strike. It’s like a fast glass cannon in the same exact way though. Also the middle evo looks like a young khajit thief and I’m loving it. It’s adorable. <3 Almost to the point of where i might prevent evolution for a while bc the middle is So Much Better than the final for the first time ever. Then Smoliv’s final evo? Also Lovely. That Tentacruel? Yep. It’s weird. But i like it. There’s also a grass/fire type but it’s kinda ugly (who knows, i could grow to like it). And That Snail Legendary??? OMG. (also dark/grass tho so ugh)

Having a balanced team of pokemon i like is going to be a struggle. Also an image of the wooper evo under the cut. Because that’s the pokemon who’s not grass that I’m absolutely in love with. Just look. He’s squishy and friend-shaped.

Also there’s a bunch of dogs <3

A creature of maximum beauty. Even if he’s assigned to be an absolute clod.

[bl4z33467]

(Cracks knuckles) Alright folks I remember how to draw

Fat fuck Vulpes by yours truly, Blaze Lander. Inspired by the lovely drawing by @yourmateyoya ,egged on by @legions-top-dog , and because i force you to deal with all my shitty drawings, @noomycatz

Yes, once again, i have put too much effort into a shitpost. Roughly 2 hours as I reused a canvas on ibis paint for a 5th drawing lmao

Yall can burn me at the stake later lol

Process below hehe i like to ramble

And just because i like to talk about my drawing process for characters with complex outfits, this is how my lobotomy brain does it:

First i do silly fun colored sketch. I use different colors to differentiate the "skeleton" from the, euh, fleshy bits, and the clothing. You can see lots of lines that would not be shown in the final product so it makes it confusing to look at.

Next i do a clean sketch.

This is where i clean up everything before doing the final lines. I use one color and a thin brush to make it easier to line over. Here i add any extra bits (like the top football armour) and "render the physics" as i call it, so properly drape cloth and the uhhh squish of stupid fat fuck vulpes' boobs and stomach. I also will balance the drawing here by flipping it and redrawing or using the drag tool.

Next is lining.

For this drawing, i used a 9.0 digital pen with a taper. Its my standard :þ. I kept my pen at the same size for this piece. Sometimes i line the outside darker to make the drawing stand out more. I decided not to as i wanted to give the drawing a more "serious" tone. (How serious can this be though lol-)You may notice on the arms little bits of the lines are missing, thats because i gave him some arm hair. I like make little details like that show over the lines. But since the one shading technique i used works with clipping masks, i had to but the arm hairs on a layer lower than the line art. Next is colour:

I colour in the drawing with midtones. Simple as. I tried to stick with warm colours besides his eyes, which are grey blue. Idc if they arent, im too lazy to google it. I mostly use flat colors but i did make his shirt a gradient. Next is do simple cell shading:

Depending on how i feel i shade with or without the colours in the back. I went with a sorta "non decrepit" light source here. Didnt want too much intensity. I used a deep marronish orange on a multiply layer on 45% opacity. Soft shading/lighting next:

I get intense with the soft shading. I use the airbrush with a deep maroon to add dark gradient and airbrush with a light pink to add a bit more depth. I usually use less light and more dark because im evil i like the intensity. I keep the layer the same amount of opacity and multiply it with the darks and soft light for the lights. Next are the shine highlights:

I use the dip pen hard with a taper to add light highlights of white on shiny bits like metal and eyes. I uses pure white, set the layer to 25% opacity, and use normal blending.

I also shade the lines because it makes the lines softer. I use a clipping layer on the line art, set the whole thing to a dark grey, and airbrush in darker and lighter parts. (I felt like a picture wasnt needed cuz its hard to notice.

For the background, i used a dark red i stole from the cell shaded layer, drew a vine pattern with the kaleidoscope ruler, and added a vignette. Vignettes are my cheat code for background hehe~ it makes the subject stand out while keeping suave, seriousness and formality. To make a subject pop out more, put the vignette behind the character but in front of the background. For more intensity but it on top of both.

Also- I usually draw with a level 10 stabilizer (i got shaky hands) but i drew with a 2 stabilizer so im surprised it came out so smoothly-

Also i gave him goggle tan lines because if i have to have them from playing tennis with sunnies, so does he.

[shovson]

do you have any tips for rendering for digital art?

Hello! Sorry for the late reply on this ask I was thinking about how to answer it. I guess I can give general tips about just painting/rendering but feel free to ask for specifics if you want!

For me, I think the most important things for rendering are making sure the values and edges/shapes of the shadows in any drawing look correct. Just roughly laying out colours/where the light/shadows are with a (usually) big brush size to start off. I can usually just eyeball my light and dark colours under my sketch but sometimes I don't feel like it so I'll use a 'multiply' layer on top and mess around with that (I'll just think of the approximate vibe of the colour/mood i want then work from there.

Anyways, for actually painting over top….it kinda feels like second nature to me now. I think about what shapes/interesting areas I want to keep in a work (to keep me excited about what I'm drawing) and also the ones that need to stay (for like…"realism", loosely). Then I layer on colour until most of the sketch is mostly hidden. I just try to slowly build up colour and blend until I'm happy, add texture along the way. If I feel like the values or colours are lacking I'll use an adjustment layer or multiply layer to fix problematic areas. I will try and layer with a big brush then move to a smaller one for details but most of the time I paint with whatever and fix as I go hahahah

Really just slowly building up until everything looks right or I get sleepy hahahah.

It's kinda hard to explain but here's a real time video to kinda see everything in action

other tips:

zoom out once in a while or have another window with the canvas open (navigator or just window > canvas > new window for other programs) just to check everything looks good

test new brushes and techniques just to keep things fresh

look at what other artists do and maybe try to integrate some of their techniques too

uhhh yeah thats about it

Again if you have anything in specific you wanna know feel free to ask ^_^

[greatnessordeath]

villain Deku x !femreader

PART 2

3.3 k words Part 1 if you missed it or read on ao3 Happy Halloween everyone!

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You can’t put into words how pissed you are. It sucks. SO FUCKING HARD. 

Urgh, why’s he always five steps ahead of you? 

Is he so outragingly smart or are you just predictably dumb? It’s maddening. You can’t stop thinking about what happened. Burning hot anger eats at your gut, gnaws at your insides and makes you grind your teeth too harshly. There's no way you could've foreseen that he’d be immune to the suppressor. Or that he would actually … dare to kiss you.

Your lips tingle at the thought. Wait - they what? TINGLE? Sorry, but no. They at the very most feel alien after Deku had the audacity to claim them. Additional disgust creeps up your throat at the thought of his spit inside of you. You try to shake it off and stay focused. The special unit must arrive soon. Despite your effort, the following minutes passed in a haze: rejoining with the special unit, exchanging infos, reporting and post-processing what happened. The helicopter unit kept searching but all they transmitted via radio was 'negative'. They didn’t find anything. Not a single hint. He was gone like the last bit of hope.

You’ve been dead on your feet for almost 24 hours by now and the adrenaline that kept you going starts to fade. At this point, you feel only bitter disappointment.

Already brooding how to nab him the next time you stare out of the tinted window of a special rescue van. The others on the scene practically shoved you in there to treat your injuries. Chewing your bottom lip, you don’t want to talk at all. You just can’t stand the presence of other humans right now. Their pitying looks make you sick. 

It was only topped by a compassionate shoulder squeeze from a young paramedic. “Don’t,” you growl and do your best to stare them down. Taken aback, they carry on to regenerate your wrists mumbling an apology. You condone it silently. Urgh, you don't want to be rude, but it's already stressful not to scream at them to mind their own business.

Prickling warmth spreads in your arms due to the accelerated metabolism. Your cells reunite and multiply in a blazingly fast tempo. The bones come together with a snap and the swelling sets back in seconds. You say your biddings to the distressed-looking paramedic to get out of there asap. They keep on telling you what movements to avoid et cetera, but as soon as they’re finished with the bandage, you storm out into the chilly night, without another word.

Breathing in the crisp air helps you ground. You take out your notepad to scribble down anything that might get lost in oblivion. Your wrists still hurt, but it could be worse.

The blank page stares back at you mockingly. Where should you start? Your brain feels like it was smoothly mixed in a high-speed blender. Your hands shake and fail to write out any words. Breathe.  Concentrate. Go back in time. Remember him. How he moved. What he said. How he looked and smelled and tasted.

Sweet.

Snap! You break the pencil you're holding in half. White knuckles under your bandaged fists let hot pain mount in your throat. “Hey, you okay?”, someone asks with a voice, heavy with concern. You give the person quick side eyes, to see if you could fob them off. Well, no - it was Naomasa Tsukauchi, Chief of Operations. The tall man with short dark hair had the friendly eyes of an elementary school teacher. They contrasted with the - you assume - unintended five o’clock shadow around his jaw. “Yes,” you breathe through gritted teeth. “I'm glad to hea—”

“Oh, please spare me. He got away.” You admitted salty.

“I know…” Your hands clench to fists again as you try to swallow your agitation, not aware that Tsukauchi tried to make eye contact.

“Uhhh listen, I think you should take a few days off after tonight.” He smiled benevolently.

The meaning of the sentence hits you like a truck. “What? No! WHAT? You — you can’t be serious.” You stutter unbelieving.

“Listen, —” “No! What about Deku? l—” "Listen, I already have a substitute.” You must be caught in a very bad nightmare. Desperately trying to take a grasp on reality, you blurt out “Who?” An awfully sinister feeling spreads across your body and your eyes narrow to slits. “It’s not Monoma, isn’t it?” … He tried to keep his expression treacherously neutral while yours screwed up. “God, nooooo. No, no, no. Not him!”

You can see him getting tired of your respectless behavior, because his brows knit like a range of mountains. “Silence now! He will do it, no matter how much you brag. It’s a done deal.” “You can’t do that to me! He’s such a di—” “Decisive and capable colleague. I’m sure that’s what you wanted to say, right?” His dark eyes were dangerously hard as he tried to stare you down. “Nevermind, I’m just gonna kill him myself. Just let me—” “L/N! You're going too far! This isn't fun anymore!” “It wasn't meant to be funny. I’m dead serious. I am the only one who can keep up with this green haired maniac and you know it!” “Exactly! That's why I don't want you to get carried away!” He huffed and crossed his massive arms. “You need a break.” “But we’ll lose him! We can take a break when he’s finally arrested!” “No arguing anymore. You’re already way too invested in this!” “But—” “No more buts,” he barked, slowly losing his temper, which never ever happened before. He massaged his temples and took an audible breath. “You’re human. You’re supposed to have a life. I don’t know! Sleep in, visit your family or go watch a movie with friends! You get three days off! That’s an order!” “NO, you cannot—” “Since I am your Boss, YES I CAN!” You opened your mouth to insist, but he cuts in before you can say anything. “Four days!" “Please, just let me—” “FIVE DAYS! And I’m begging you to shut up! You're making it worse.” You want to explode and blow the whole world up like Dynamight. But there was no space for negotiation without earning yourself more consequences. “You finally finished?” He snapped furiously and ran fingers through his hair. “Thank God.” It took you all what was left to bite your tongue. Your crimson face burns due to this despotism. “Fine. After that, you can come back and continue sleeping in the office. I don’t care! You hear me? But for 120 hours I don’t want to witness a single peep coming from you. No calls, no e-mails, no snooping around in the office, no contact at all to coworkers. I will know. Look at me!” You stoically lift your gaze to his agitated face. You never witnessed him act so out of frame. “Are we clear?” “Yes, Sir,” you pressed between pursed lips. “Good. I will see you again on Monday.” 

And he was gone. You want to scream until your lungs give out.

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Getting forced days off was the worst. The absolute WORST.  It was even worse than nearly arresting Deku. You don’t want to stop. It felt like watching him run further away from you, just in time when you were close enough to stretch out a hand and finally touch him. It was like the desperate attempt to catch smoke with bare hands. In a way, you’re now absolutely empty. Useless. Deprived by the only thing that gave your life meaning, the one thing you were really good at. Your stomach twists and you want to throw up. Except there’s nothing to emit but fire and brimstone.

You are absolutely exhausted, by all means. Yet you’re burning with determination. 

Nothing could change that. Ye, a setback sucked. But it was not in the slightest a reasonable excuse for giving up. You simply gotta work harder, sink your teeth deeper and never ever let go. You must become like his shadow. Inseparable. No matter how intricate it might be to dig deeper and chase down the tiniest evidence, somehow, you will manage to find him. You always did and you always will. But for today, he slipped you. Not only that, but in a way that was... personal.

He made it personal by crossing a line. 

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If you’re about to be at home for five days, you need to buy some food. So you speed run the groceries and finally find yourself in front of the fruits. You want to grab some apples, but some rando bumps into you so you drop the packaging and they spill on the floor. 

“Fuck!” you swear. In the corner of your eye you see a hooded figure hurrying away. “Yeah, better get away before I forget myself.” You vent in a low tone to yourself and huff because everybody was an asshole these days. The apples for sure will have pressure marks, but you don’t care anymore. You throw them into your shopper basket and breathe in the smell of juicy granny smiths. Wait. What is that feeling? No, not a feeling but a …scent? Your eyes cling to the apples. You bend down to sniff them again out of sheer instinct. You can’t quite put a finger on it, but something definitely feels off.

Familiarity. That's what you sense.  But regarding your lifestyle in the office where you practically live from take out and instant noodles, you haven’t eaten fresh apples for an eternity. Where’s the sense in that? Maybe you did hit your head too hard and Tsukauchi was right. Nahhh, you’re fine. At least that’s what you tell yourself, because the uneasy feeling scratches the back of your brain all the way home. 

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Steaming hot water runs down your hematoma strewn curves. You can’t remember what the paramedic said about showering with the bandages, but you couldn’t care less. You need to wash away the feeling of Deku’s hands on your skin. The memory of the kiss haunts you whenever you close your eyes. The feeling on your split lip is too present, still too fresh in your mind. No matter how much you try to scrub it off, the feel of him sucking and biting your lip won’t go away. Neither won’t the unholy sensation of how he pulled you close against his body and how you rubbed against him.   It wasn’t like you felt dirty or used. No, you felt betrayed. You’re angry that he’d mustered the audacity to claim you without permission. …

Your pussy clenched at the thought of consensually being claimed by Izuku Midoriya. Fuck, fuck, fuck. You brace yourself against the tiles with both hands and let water run down your neck. This must be it. You finally arrived at rock bottom.

… Nonsense. Hasn't there always been a hint of tension? If you look back real honest, yes. The door existed, deep down, where the light never shines, but you didn’t even dare to look at it, let alone open it. You sure as hell tried to push it to the back of your mind, but it's obviously kinda hard when he moans in your mouth like it was all he ever wanted.

So, should you feel ashamed for admitting you’re horny? Well, purely being horny or being horny because of the most wanted criminal throughout Honshu was clearly not the same. Fuck. You rub your skin dry too forcefully and brush your teeth unnecessarily violently. 

As you lay down in bed, you’re shredded. You’re incredibly tired, but toss and turn restlessly as if you just downed a gallon of coffee. Deku was all you could think of. Day and night. This can’t be healthy. And you definitely won’t let yourself thirst over him. It will give him some kind of power over you. You’ve no idea how, but you’re sure he would know. Somehow he always knows things he can’t… After another fruitless thirty minutes have passed, you pull open a drawer of your nightstand and down a valerian pill. Hopefully this helps, you think and roll around again. Eventually, you fall into an uneasy doze.

You’re running breathless through the dark streets of Naruhata, a blurred silhouette upon your heels. You take sharp turns but there’s nowhere to hide in the deserted streets. Everything looks gray and abandoned. The buildings appear bigger than usual and make you feel extra small. Hastily, you dash around the next corner just to find a dead end ahead of you. “Y/N… “ The thing cries out. It has Dekus voice. You’re winded and look back just to see the wrath in the bloody creature's eyes. If you were to describe it, you’d say it looks similar to Venom from the Marvel comics. But instead of black, its body is clad in forest green. The long curly tongue is covered in saliva and lashes out to grab you. You can’t dodge and in another second you’re dragged towards the scary emerald creature. No, no, no!You kick around and rip your nails to the ground, but there’s no get away. Instinctively, you squint your eyes shut as you bear down to its foaming mouth, but when you abruptly fall oh so soft, you tear them open in surprise. You’re suddenly in a king size bed surrounded by a transparent curtain. You can vaguely make out red rose petals that lay scattered on the floor. The small room is dimly lit by a bunch of white candles in every corner. You look down your own body to find yourself in a scandalous revealing, silky negligee. The lacy hem shrouds only just your crotch and exposes your legs. You cover yourself with bare arms, but his terrifying smooth voice echoes again.“Will you be a good girl for me now?”You turn around to see a familiar silhouette behind the curtain.You want to scream, but no tone leaves your lips. You grab your sore throat, but you’re muted, doomed to implied engagement. The way he chuckles so charming confirms your darkest fear. It’s definitely Deku. He starts to unbutton his white shirt while watching you squirm with a confident smirk. “Oh, we’re gonna have so much fun together.” You’re feeling nauseous as you watch the daring relief of his trained chest when he pulls out of the shirt. “I will make you cum so hard, babe.” You’re shaking your head exceedingly, voice still cracked and soundless. He undoes his belt, as you desperately begin to crouch backwards. Just away from him! “Where are you going, sweetheart? You can’t escape me.”His shoulders dance up and down while he laughs at your pathetic endeavor.

"It’s sweet how you’re playing hard to get. I can work with that."

No matter how hard you try, the distance you so desperately tried to extend, won’t grow by a bloody inch. Dammit, how big is this fucking mattress, you think to yourself whilst picking up more and more tempo sliding backwards.

“I can be anything you need me to be.” His voice is so endearing like a siren's call that resonates with your deepest physical longing.  Noooo, wrong, mistake, incorrect, awry, false - every cell in your body rebels against his intoxicating affinity.

You hold your breath as he unzips his pants and your heart thrums deafeningly loud. 

You want to avert your gaze, but it's like your eyes are magically glued to his crotch. The v line and the trail of dark hair leads your eyes downwards to his open fly. You bite your lip as traitorous heat pools in your core. Goosebumps erupt on your skin as you watch him slowly strip off his pants.

He's got the juiciest thighs, but it's the contents of Pandora's boxers that peak your interest. He pushes the veil aside and his appeal blooms in full sharpness. “I bet you can’t wait to choke on my cock, bunny.”Your cheeks burn like fire. The mattress dips from his weight, as he crawls towards you, catching your shifty eyes. The leafy green of his iris has a frightening undertone of reptile yellow. 

In the spur of the moment, you shut your eyes defensively - the only way to escape him. At least you thought so, but the scene continues in your mind's eye. He’s right in front of you at an arm’s length, growling like a predator eye to eye with his prey. “Come here!!!”You scream and shield yourself with your hands!

BANG!

You drop out of bed. Panting like crazy, you lie on the floor of your own apartment. You look around frightened and realize that it was just a nightmare. You’re in your usual big size T-Shirt which is soaked in sweat. Rubbing your eyes, you pick yourself up from the floor and storm towards the window. You rip it open to breathe fresh air and calm your heated mood. That shit was intense. The image of Deku charging at you with a gaping mouth and wide eyes is a view that will haunt you for ages. And…  so much for not letting yourself thirst over Deku. Tch… thanks subconscious! You must calm down. You needed to support your aching head and plucked up a hand. It took you several minutes to get a grip on yourself. The green haired lunatic spooked through your thoughts for far too long. Maybe you should make an appointment with your therapist. You fetch yourself a cigarette with trembling hands and greedily inhale the hellish stuff. You need another one to perceive a soothing effect at all. You watch the indigo night sky draped with heavy gray clouds. They swallow the orange light of the street lamps below and a few pigeons cut through the night. You need to wash the sweat from your face and shuffle towards the bathroom. You don’t even turn on the light, because you know the apartment by heart. Finished with your needs and changed into a new shirt, you close the window and snuggle up under the blanket once more. Your lids are heavy and the warmth of the bed is beyond cozy. You’re about to drift off, as you hear the floor creak. In the blink of an eye, you grab the 45 and switch on the nightlight. There’s nothing extraordinary, except a faint noise coming from the kitchen. You’re living alone, what the… ? You swallow and get out of bed without a creak, holding the gun with both hands. You tiptoe along the hallway towards the kitchen. You stand around the corner of the room, pressed against the wall for cover and perk up your ears. It sounds like … chewing? You take a last deep breath and step up to the intruder. When your eyes catch sight of the unmistakable green thatch, the blood freezes in your veins. Deku stands in the middle of your kitchen and bites into a granny smith with relish, so that the juice runs down his chin. “How do you know these are my favorites?” He asks with a wink and an innocent smile like butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth.

[liliallowed]

MORE PLAYERS??

yes. it feels like the days where the sans aus would keep multiplying 😔 I'm so proud of my moots and followers.

my babies are mitosising.

I mean it is technically just an oc but CANNON to the game's lore and mechanic so uhhh the player's have potential to LITERALLY be anything.

like they can even have a monster like vessel like my monster hunter au!

i think I'm witnessing the birth of a player multiverse.

[fox-flux]

physics problems 3: potpourri

(crossposting from cohost)

here's just some stuff, though it ended up more related than i thought it would

collision responses

to zoom in on how motion is resolved a bit, the steps are basically like this

① compute the actor's instantaneous velocity. multiply by dt to get this frame's movement

② attempt to move. if you hit something, inform it of the collision (call its on-collide), project the remaining movement along the surface of the thing you hit, and repeat. (essentially, if you hit something at a slant, you slide along it.)

③ after movement is done, repeat the projection, but on the actor's velocity. (if you hit something at a slant, you don't keep trying to move in the same direction; you're now moving along the slant. also, if you hit something dead-on, you simply stop moving.) this technically cheats a bit because it only slides against the last thing you hit, but that's very unlikely to matter unless you're trying to go through a sonic loop-de-loop at 2 fps.

the questionable part is in step 2, where the collidee is informed of the collision. because this is in the middle of motion. there are several consequences of this. this post is going to consist of a lot of lists

• because of the sliding behavior, you might collide with something twice in a single motion. this means that a lot of objects that do stuff on passive collision, like candy, need to be a teeny bit careful that they're not double-collected. (candy sets itself "pending destruction" on collide which isn't actually removed from the map until the end of the frame, and arguably collision should be ignoring pending-destruction actors anyway, but candy is just a simple example of a more general problem)

• a handful of objects want to respond to collision by doing something to the collider's velocity, e.g. the bounce shroom, which launches things into the air. this is troublesome because the collider's velocity is essentially undefined during step 2, because it's still waiting to be slid in step 3. if you collide with something that alters your velocity, that change should probably not... also be subject to the collision? like at that point the collision has already happened, right. currently i slap a zero-second delay on a closure to do the velocity change but that seems uhhh questionable

• i think loading zones try to initiate a map transition in response to collision. it's not like this happens immediately since there's an animation but still, this is clearly insane to be doing in the middle of physics behavior, and i think also potentially subject to double trigger if you hit it just right. (but arguably scene changes shouldn't happen mid-frame anyway so that's a whole other thing—)

• starcow lexy can break stone blocks, but in the process she gets knocked backwards and the collision stops. i would like her to be able to break at least some things without being stopped. that's rather difficult to do without conditional collision. currently it is possible to change whether a collision happens from within a collision handler, but i virtually never do it, and i'd been thinking about removing the ability altogether. i guess this isn't a real problem but it's something that will factor in below

these are varying levels of Actual Problems so i have mixed feelings about how hard i want to try solving them. but i have the growing sense of something being just a bit messier that it needs to be, causing just a few too many minor headaches, and forcing me to keep just a few too many things in mind. it's just hard to pinpoint exactly what it is.

it would be nice if velocity changes were just plain safe to do from a collision handler. this suggests that collision handlers should happen after collision is completely done, when physics are back in a consistent state. that seems reasonable. like i also have a "collided-with" handler that i used to use a lot, but it's been almost entirely replaced by "after-collisions" which happens... after collisions. so i could just do that, but the other way around.

and here is where i feel like i'm in the middle of several decisions i was only ever 90% confident about.

see, "after-collisions" only receives the list of collisions from the last iteration of step 2. so it's possible, though relatively unlikely, to hit something that "after-collisions" doesn't know about. but it mostly cares about having either hit anything or ended up touching a particular thing, so glancing blows aren't very interesting.

i guess you could say the api mostly cares about where you end up? even though it might also be told about a collision with something that you aren't still touching by the time you stop moving. alas.

anyway the obvious thing is to similarly defer on-collide until later. that means remembering the actors i collided with and only telling them about it later. i don't love the added gc churn in this already fairly hot and heavy code, but whatever i guess. the bigger question is uhh which collision do i report? first? last? all, thus reinventing an annoyance i already have?

i'll also still need the immediate version for conditional collision, so that means i'll have four collision callbacks: immediate collider, immediate collidee, deferred collider, and deferred collidee. i guess the symmetry is satisfying, at least.

one more annoying wrinkle: after-collisions is actually called before velocity is updated, so it doesn't even solve this problem! the reason is that velocity is updated as part of the generic movement update, but an individual motion might happen outside of that (e.g. being pushed), and after-collisions is still called for those. but velocity can't be updated until the motion has finished, and after-collisions is called as the last step of the motions. wow! doing everything in the right order is a pain in the ass

an object i do not wish to disclose

there's a thing i have in mind that's activated when something lands on it from above. as in, specifically lands on it, not just walks onto it from the side.

i thought this was a pretty simple concept. alas

i found out by complete accident that it will trigger by accident if you create the following setup: position a crate so it's hanging over a ledge, near a mushroom. now just bounce the thing on the mushroom so that it hits the underside of the crate.

the problem is that the thing hits the crate, and stops. now it's the crate's turn to move. it's subject to gravity, so it tries to move downwards. in trying to move downwards, it hits two objects simultaneously — the thing, and the ground it's sitting on. the crate does not yet know that it's blocked, because on-collide is part of determining that, so it simply calls on-collide on both objects. the thing sees it's been hit, sees it was from above, and sees the velocity was downwards — remember, velocity hasn't been slid yet, and can't have been, because at this point we don't even know whether the crate is allowed to continue moving — so it triggers.

it's easy enough to look at this and go "well slap a threshold on that bad boy", and i maybe should anyway, but in this case it feels like papering over a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. the thing just plain isn't being hit by an object moving downwards, and it's a clear api bug that it can even think that that's happening.

so changing on-collide as described above should fix it. more incentive i guess

only do it once

a recurring wrinkle is how to make a zone apply effects to any actor that touches it, without doubling the effect when crossing between two zones. anywhere this actually works is a goddamn miracle, though i don't know offhand if it comes up in the demo levels. but like i tried to make conveyor belt tiles once and that... that was... something.

or for example, the springs from the jam demo still exist, but they don't really handle being placed next to each other very well. springs depress based on what they're "carrying", and an actor can only be carried by one thing at a time. so if you straddle two springs, you're only carried by one of them arbitrarily, and it starts to depress, but you're still held up by the other spring, so you're no longer touching the first one, so it's no longer carrying you, so the second one is now carrying you, so the second one depresses, but in the meantime the first one returns to its original position, ad infinitum.

this one isn't a concrete problem it's just a category of problem that crops up every so often

expressing the situation correctly

ability spoiler i guess!! look away now if you don't want that

if you enter the farm level as starcow lexy and simply charge directly right or left, you will stick under the ceiling and... stay there. you won't move.

the reason is that the charge determines when to stop by looking for a specifically horizontal collision. otherwise, charging up a hill doesn't work correctly. but the geometry here prevents a horizontal collision — the ceiling is sloped and touches the corner of your hitbox, so the collision is diagonally downwards.

but if you hit the ceiling and the floor weren't there, you'd slide down along it, and that would be fine too.

i think the issue here is that what i really wanted was to say "if you end up in a position where you can no longer move, end the charge". that's kinda hard to express directly with the information you get back from collision. i thought a head-on collision would cover it, but i was wrong. luckily, there's a very easy way to make this work: simply wait one frame, and it becomes "if you don't move, end the charge".

anyway

i was aware of a lot of this stuff when i put the demo out, but i opted not to try to fix it then. i hope you can see why: a bunch of this touches some deep plumbing, and fixing it is the sort of thing that might unexpectedly break some obscure behavior somewhere else. but i'll keep sticking fingers in the dam holes until i'm pretty sure i've got them all

[starburstdragon]

Guys Who Are Multiple Guys Tournament, Round 1

Croissant Cookie

“croissant cookie was released along with a character called timekeeper cookie and it was revealed in the story that came out with them that timekeeper cookie was a future version of croissant who was also fucked up and morally ambiguous now. even better, like a year or so later, a new event happened centered around them and there were TWO MORE of them introduced to the plot (as costumes but in-story they are separate) and yeah this freak keeps multiplying yeah. uhhh yeah. lmao i just saw you tagged the post with cookie run you know about them already dont you” - User submission

Dipper

“theres an episode of the show in which dipper duplicates himself several times over using a copying machine and then they all die at the end except for the two that dont but remain irrelevant.” - User submission

If they ever force Alex Hirsch to go back on ending the show right where he wanted to I hope he brings back the copy machine duplicates

[phantomswolf]

here, i answered the art questions

1. Art programs you have but don't use

aseprite, krita (nightmare to draw in), i used to have a totally 100% absolutely-not-pirated copy of photoshop but not anymore

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)

depends on the day, but usually the left. i hate doing side profiles tho

3. What ideas come from when you were little

A LOT. but my story Nightfall has been a work in progress since I was 11

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

GORO AKECHI PERSONA 5

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

i hardly post most of my art on Tumblr atm, but that’s because almost all of it regards the Kirby Gemini AU and my partner and i are making a blog for that. so, as a percentage for the last few years, i’ve probably only posted maybe. less than 1% of my work?

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn't supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)

honestly a lot of old emo art fksbfjfbd jhonen vasquez was a huge inspo to me for a while

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate

PLUSH MAKING AND FURSUIT MAKING god i wanna learn but i don’t think sewing is my thing

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in

i’ve had a lot, but i wanna keep them to myself in case I wanna salvage bits and pieces

9. What are your file name conventions

Depends on the day and the art piece but usually shit like “sorry if this looks gay”, variations of AWOO, “normal”, “k i l l”, “straight people”, etc

10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw

Uhhhh armor (i say like a fucking freak)

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

this nightmare of a playlist

12. Easiest part of body to draw

Uhhhhhhh depends on the day, usually the face

13. A creator who you admire but whose work isn't your thing

iunno, i don’t think abt that

14. Any favorite motifs

A LOT. i cant think of any specific ones rn but i guess. religious imagery is pretty baller. that and super dark palettes with bright neon highlights and accents

15. *Where* do you draw (don't drop your ip address this just means do you doodle at a park or smth)

my room for digital stuff, but i usually bring a sketchbook with me if i’m going out

16. Something you are good at but don't really have fun doing

oughhh coloring and shading

17. Do you eat/drink when drawing? if so, what

usually water. hydration is important 👍

18. An estimate of how much art supplies you've broken

traditional, i have no clue. too many. digital supplies uhhh i didn’t break per se, but two art tablets have given out (my first one lasted years, but the second only lasted a few months coz it sucked booty hole)

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.)

TREES.

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy

expression work!

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways

my partner’s style!! i love it so fucking much

22. What physical exercises do you do before drawing, if any

i do a lot of hand stretches. carpal tunnel was too much of a bitch not to

23. Do you use different layer modes

all the time! always for shading and for glowing bits. multiply and add glow layers my beloved

24. Do your references include stock images

sometimes yea lol. i don’t use refs as much as i should tho

25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by

Too much for me to be happy about it.

26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended

i drew a vent piece and people took it as me just being edgy. wild times

27. Do you warm up before getting to the good stuff? If so, what is it you draw to warm up with

somedays i do. usually just shitposts or my sona

28. Any art events you have participated in the past (like zines)

i have participated in 1 (one) collab

29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically

uhh ace attorney and persona

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated

is it weird to say a lot of my works? like the finished ones. iunno, i feel like i get overlooked a lot and it’s a cowabummer

[thygoddessouijathicc]

THE GANG GETS FUCKING ISEKAIED:

(Disclaimer: This is the best and worst thing I’ve ever done. This is just a really bad unfunny joke please don’t be offended :( this is inspired less by actual anime and more by parodies I’ve seen, I actually really like anime.)

Jack was just chilling with the Flipside squad and all 3 phone guys when suddenly a truck bursted through the fucking wall and killed all of tjem.

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Jack woke up in a magical forest. Immediately, he feels an abundance of magical anime powers and titties.

His friends have all been TRANSFORMED!

Only Dee and Dave are present because I guess the phones spawnpoint is somewhere else idk.

Dee is a dragon and looks really cool ngl, but his attention is taken up by Dave. Dave has seemingly multiplied into a gaggle of 12 long necked purple anime girls… it’s horrifying.

Dee wakes up, sees the abundance of Daves and decides today is not her day and flies the fuck off to go do cool dragon things.

The true horrOwOr begins when the ✨DAVE COLLECTIVE✨awakens from its 80085 year slumber, and Jack is immediately serenaded by the voice of 12 men with a heavy New York accent in the body of anime girls saying weird things.

“What the fuck happened, this feels like 50 hangovers and I JUST got drunk.” The most normal looking Dave says. “Wait why the fuck do I have boobs!?”

TsunDave walks up to Jack and says “Baka! It’s not like I like you or anything!”and then slaps Jack.

“Ara ara!” says the horrifying Dave Milfer.

“Notice me Sportpai!” Says an extra crazy looking YanDave brandishing a knife.

“I awm wiving in agOwOnizing paiwn UwU.” A Dave with cat ears says.

“I-I-I uhhh… wh-why h-hello t-there O-Old Sport Kun.” A very shy Dave says.

“I’m gonna cut off your face because it’s hot sportsy.” SaDave says.

“Hello there Old Sport wanna go make friends with the nearby monsters?” An innocent Dave says.

“I have a dark backstory and am basically a catgirl but better because DOGGO.” An edgy wolfgirl Dave says.

“Sup Sportsy.” KuuDave says.

“Wouldst thou take my hand in marriage and become the king?” A Dave in a frilly dress asks.

Finally the last Dave days nothing but just falls over in an uncomfortable position with his boobs bouncing way too much.

All of the Dave’s (except the first one who just seems to be the original Dave who is very confused about what is going on and is more interested in figuring out why he has boobs honestly.) fight over Jack’s attention until the area is disrupted with something not quite as bad as the Dave Collective, but still weird.

An army of demons (some recognizably the phone guy’s are carrying a platform with a curtain around it. In front of Jack they stop, place the platform down.

“After all these years we have finally tracked down the legendary hero capable of both whipping and nae naeing at the same time! Now face your end at the hands of our great STEVEN LORD!”

The curtain opens to reveal a very confused and terrified Steven standing on the platform.

Everything goes silent. No one even knows what to do right now.

Suddenly the entire forest just fucking sets on fire.

“What the FUCK?!” Jack cries.

“Yeah things keep on spontaneously combusting. I think it’s because of that.” Peter says, pointing to the Dave Collective.

“You know what, fuck all this shit I’m getting out of here.” Jack says, grabbing the original Dave, the fanservice Dave and running off into the sunset. 

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“SO HOW DID YOU LIKE THE FIRST EPISODE OF YOUR ETERNAL TORTURE HENRY MILLER?” The shadow Doggo asks the pink man wearing a maid dress.

“Please just kill me.”

“LETS WATCH EPISODE TWO NOW.” Blackjack says.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

The end.

(Note: penis)

[we-are-madd]

had a dream that was the beginning of a video game that sadly doesn't exist so i'm going to share it here so i don't forget about it and perhaps even write more later

so this is a little bit in the future but not too far so not too much has changed right. the character you play as is this kind of doomsday kind of guy who's paranoid about The Government and WW3 and stuff. so he builds a super secure secret bunker in his basement Just In Case(TM)

uh oh! dinosaurs! jurassic park type situation happens near the town and. well. Problems! also these dinos are multiplying Fast. like faster than an animal should be able to multiply.

so The Government(TM) is like hm we have to do something about these dinos. i know. spray gas over the town that dissolves organic matter down to the bone. no need to warn the residents.

so your guy sees helicopters start spraying shit over the town and runs over and starts knocking on doors (risking his life to do this btw. there's still Dinosaurs Everywhere) and is like hey uhhh the government is spraying something on us i have a bunker if you wanna not die. and everyones like dude you're overreacting it probably won't even affect humans just reptiles. so youre like ok have fun dying to Mystery Mist. go back to the bunker and hide for a few days until you're tired of eating nothing but canned soup (you did not plan that far ahead for The Apocalypse in terms of food). go outside with a gas mask and gloves and shit and. everything is dead. all the plants and stuff. cautiously make your way toward the town. see a dino skeleton. yay the dinos are dead. keep going. see a human skeleton. Oh Fuck(TM). knock on doors and break some down. Everyone Is Dead.

have the saddest possible I Told You So moment then open your phone. no signal. anywhere. well that's an issue. go home and contemplate life. but a little bit later your phone starts ringing and it won't even say the number it's calling from. immediately pick up (yay signs of life!) and a seemingly recorded message says "come to the center of the city". try to ask why but it just hangs up. well you have no better option. get in the car and Start Driving. note that your house is on the edge of the town so it's A Big Drive to the center of the city. as you're driving you see more and more wreckage. crashed cars with nothing but bones inside. massive dino skeletons still in the positions they died in (i remember vividly one moment where there's a t-rex skeleton fighting a giant spidery thing where the trex is on the ground and the spidery thing is on a bridge on the highway and it looked really cool okay. i know spiders don't have bones but shh). you have to kind of dodge crashed cars as you're trying to make your way through

and that's where the dream ended :(

[stargirlfics]

uhhh so i cant stop thinking abt daddy frank and like of course i want him to fuck me sideways into next week

but also as a person that desperately needed structure and discipline as a child but received none i want him to put all his military training and his natural daddiness into making me a list of rules and a routine and chores for me to follow and then he gives me kisses (and orgasms) for completing things and stickers to track my progress 🎀

i wanna be his good little girl so bad and i can already here his low voice praising me for getting everything done or even still praising me for trying my best even if i dont get everything done 🥺💖 uhggg jon is so daddy and as frank it just seems multiplied !!!

I felt this!!! He’d be so good with giving you the structure you need and he’s firm in his routines and would be same with you and what you need so it keeps you consistent 🥺

The praise and genuine pride you would see in him for being good is just everything it only makes you want to be on your best behavior, even if you don’t get everything done or you slip in taking care of your needs, Frank knows you try your best and he’s always proud of you for that

[overflowing-with-words]

double edged blade

[Cole accidentally hurts a teammate in training, and Zane is there to reassure the earth ninja afterward.]

A/N: tryna catch up life’s a bitch. i like how zane’s either being traumatized or being therapist in my fics. anyways i think cole would accidentally forget he’s strong and break stuff and break people i mean uhhh read the fic 

@summer-of-whump *coughs in I just realized I had to tag you for a reblog I'm dum*

• • •

The thing is that Cole knows he has super strength. He’s always had a heavier body build, and reaching unlocking the full potential of his elemental powers only multiplied it even more.

And he tried to keep it under control, he really does. He stops fidgeting with cups, having broken too many handles already. Jay offers to design a special durable one for him, but he declines, not wanting even more work for the lighting ninja. 

He limits physical affection as much as he can, afraid to accidentally hurt someone in a touch or a casual hug. 

It’s all a bad coincidence, in the end. 

They’re split up into pairs for training, and Cole’s confident enough in Lloyd’s skills to let loose with his powers a little. 

He swings at the wrong height, Lloyd ducks at the wrong time, and is sent flying across the room, back hitting the opposite wall with a terrible crash. He lands on the floor with a cry, nose already streaming blood to the floor.

“Lloyd?” 

The others are at his side in the matter of seconds, and the fire ninja peers down at his worriedly, kneeling down to help him up. 

“Shit.” Lloyd mumbles, propping himself up weakly, and reaches up gingerly to dab at his nose. The crimson only flows faster, and Kai bats his fingers away with a frown. 

“Careful, you might’ve broken your nose. Don’t wanna let your super healing set it the wrong way.” He says, and Lloyd lets out a groan. 

“Serios’ly? Ab’ain? I swear, Jay just did that la’d mission when he sla’bed his nunchucks’ a’ross my no’de.” He complains, wincing as he talks, and Kai gives a short laugh, slinging the blonde’s arm across his shoulder.

“I told you it was an accident!” The lighting ninja lets out a cry of disdain, and his argument goes down with a chilling glare from Lloyd. 

“You broke it by smashing your weapon across my face.”

“Accident! I said I was sorry, and you were fine like five minutes later!” Jay protests, and Kai waves him down. 

“You have special Oni healing, it’ll heal in like an hour. Let’s get you to the medbay. Cole, some help?” The fire ninja glances over to Cole’s earlier spot, only to see a quietly swinging door in response. 

“I will go.” Zane tells him, and Kai nods gratefully back. 

“Tell him it wasn’t his fault!” Lloyd calls back as he’s being half dragged away by the fire ninja, waving his remaining free arm at the nindroid. “Jay broke it way worse two weeks ago!”

“ACCIDENT, LLOYD, I SWEAR TO GOD— “

• • •

Zane finds the earth ninja sitting on his bed, expression sullen and dull. He doesn’t look at the nindroid as he walks in, eyes flitting to the floor. 

“Is Lloyd okay?” Cole asks, and he nods steadily.

“Kai and Jay brought him to the med room, and his Oni blood should take care of the rest easily. It wasn’t your fault, Cole, everyone loses control once in a while.” 

“I can’t. I’ll kill someone if I do.” 

Zane gives him a small smile, and holds out his hand wordlessly. Cole looks at it, eyes filled with fear, like it’ll crumble if he touches it. 

“It’s okay. You could never hurt me.” He taps on his wrist, a dull metal thunk sounding. “Metal, remember? Even you can’t break this, enhanced strength and all.”

Cole glances up at his face, dark brown eyes to icy blue. He hesitates, but puts his hand into Zane’s. 

“Sometimes I wish I could go back to normal,” he says to Zane quietly, after a few moments of silence, and the nindroid furrows his brows in confusion.

“Normal?”

“When I didn’t have to remember not to accidentally hurt people.”

Zane thinks back to his days in the forests and the small village, where days were peaceful and short and sunny. He didn’t have to worry about being attacked, or hacked into, or where his family’s next meal would come from, or anything, besides the next day and the next.

He gets it.

“I know what you mean.” He says softly, and Cole hunches further into himself, anger coming off in waves.

“It’s so stupid. They’re part of me, and I still can’t contain them.” He breathes, and the ice ninja nods, giving his hand a small squeeze. 

“Then we’ll learn.” Zane tells him.

Cole looks up at him, and this time his gaze is a little brighter. 

[jockbots]

Heya Mori,

I've been wanting to ask you this for some time: how. Do. YOU. MAKE. COLOR PENCILS. WORK... please? 🥺 Every time I try, it sucks ass. Do you have any tips?

Also congrats on the commissions, if they last 'til June, I may pay for some of your stunningly stunning craft! Take care, dear! 😘🙌

Thank you!!! 😊 it would be my pleasure to make you some art im going to keep them open for a few weeks to see the kind of traffic i get so dw

ALSO IM WILLING TO BET IT DONT SUCK!!!

dude its all fake i just got bored of sketching with regular graphite and was like can we skip to the part where i colour everything in??? so i bought a while ago now this bicolor red and blue pencil by caran d'ache and well here we have this years victims bc im in love with them:

AND im a huge fan of works by leigh ellexson and @silmaspens both are such fantastically talented artists and just really know how to have fun with art in a way that's not restricted? if that makes sense. I didn't use pencil for a long time bc imh i was kind of intimidated by them? like if u look up coloured pencil art u get these hyperrealistic portraits and that not my jam these however 'S BEAUTIFUL IS DELICIOUS SUCH GOOD ART I HAVE LEIGH'S PRINTS IN MY WALLS AND A FILE OF MY FAVE STYLES WITH SILMAPENS WORK FOR INSP

so uhhh tips??? draw in ur favourite colours, sketch in them, go fucking nutts bc there r no rules. failing that: try red pencil, line art or detail with a darker colour, my go to is a burgundy and build from there. they will naturally blend and unfortunately for my bank account u can buy individual coloured pencils and my favourites are the faber-Castell Polychromes, v good for sketching and solid colour. And i use Carandache Luminace just bc they're waxy? and blend nice so i use them more for skin and cloths. Contrast is key!

its still a working progress so heres some of my early ugo mae and some practice attempts

And then miricle and practice have a lil bby and u go yoo am i good???

so have fun, there r no rules only guidlines, here is my dog and watch out those pencil? they multiply e-e

[askcharaandfriends]

Since when have vampires existed across history? How do their bodies work? What makes them different from humans or monsters? How do they metabolise magic??? Do vampires still exist today? Were they around during the Human vs. Monster war?? If so, how did they fair??

Undyne: Vampires' origins lie with other monster origins. That is, we don't know exactly, but the most predominant theory is that the first monsters came into being when the souls of dead humans possessed certain objects, and then bonded to those objects. It's called "the metamorphosis theory."

It certainly makes sense for undead type monsters such as skeletons, zombies and vampires to be originally from humans who wanted their life back and possessed their own corpse. I guess what type of monster one becomes depends on the state of decay the body is in. But I am sure there are other factors in play, so we don't know for sure.

How do their bodies work and how are they different from monsters? They aren't. They are monsters. They're bodies are dust and magic. They are a long-lived, fast, strong and sturdy race, true. But they aren't boss monsters. I think their strength comes from the blood they drink. Kinda like any time they drink blood, they become a temporary boss monster. But unlike boss monsters who are just like that, vampires have to keep drinking blood to stay strong. And they can't lock their souls like boss monsters can.

How do they metabolize magic? Uhhh... all monster food is mostly magic. Anyone, even non-wizard humans can metabolize monster food. It basically desolves into pure energy soon after you bite it. But I see where it can get confusing with magic in blood. Obviously that is not normal monster food. Not just anybody can drink it. We don't actually know what makes vampires able to process blood when others can't. It's just a quirk in their biology.

Do vampires exist today? Were they around during the monster human war? And how did they fair?

Yes. Vampires are around today. And they were absolutely around during the war. Due to their speed and strength and ability to blend with humans, they were great assets to us and their heroics allowed weaker monsters to escape. Unfortunately for them these factors also lead to huge vampire casualties. Many were singled out and hunted down. They were already pretty feared by the humans, but the war multiplied that fear by a lot. Some vampires escaped and lived in hiding after the war. A few were in the mountain with us, and while they can survive for some time without blood, they didn’t do very well without it underground and the population was greatly reduced. Those in hinding on the surface have made a bit of a comeback, but I don't think they will ever have the type of numbers they had before the war.