#badgerthethirteenth

[badgerthethirteenth]

Did some fanart for @tredlocity's comic series Val and Isaac. Also used the opportunity to experiment with lighting effects.

Full res here if you're interested.

[commodoresigma]

[original drawing date: 15th Dec 2023]

silly warhammer comic

The Elemental Guardians are @badgerthethirteenth's homebrew Imperial Fist successor, and the Angels of Retribution are our shared Dark Angels successor.

[asktheraggededges]

How vitriolic, violent, petty, or just plain bad has the rivalry between the Mordians and the Praetorians gotten on board? What's the worst thing one has done to another?

In terms of events that involved all of them, the worst of it was a bloody scuffle between the four of them in in the cafetarium during one of Tornic’s archive recordings. Even Wesk had been pushed to the boiling point from all the insults and little exchanges. Had to get the commissar to break it up.

Stopping Branz was the hard part. Dudes so low to the ground and dense it was like trying to tackle a hockey puck.

It didn’t actually solve the problems between the Prats and us, but it did stop us fighting in public. Good throne, I never want to see the commissar running towards me with that look on her face again as long as I live.

Me and Wesk were forced to bunk together, which didn’t work for either of us, obviously.

Not at first, anyways. We eventually figured things out.

Not proud to admit, though we ceased fighting in public, things stayed tense between me and PFC Branz for several months.

Things came to a head during a routine surveillance mission wherein we exchanged insults and eventually came to blows.

Fact is, you can learn a lot about a dude by getting into a dust up. We’re not that different! The Praetorians may looks and talk stuffy, and have a genuine sense of one upmanship, but they’re not all talk!

Daneel’s not a close combat guy, but he knows some great holds! Dude can wrassle.

I learned that PFC Branz can literally pick up an adult male and throw them seven feet.

We sorted things out and exchanged smokes. Good times!

I mean, we’re still gonna compete, but we’re done beating on eachother.

It took a little longer for me and Sergeant Minhelm to clear things up..but we got there.

Ah, but that..

That’s another story.

[40kartweek]

@badgerthethirteenth

Feel free to start early! I already have started a few of my entries! :)

It doesn’t have to be all the same character, but you can if you want! I’ll probably do more than one of my techpriest and my Custodes(I have my favorites woops) but otherwise I personally will be doing different characters throughout the week, as I did during ship week.

So many options! It’s hard to choose! I’m excited to meet the OCs you show us. :)

[badgerthethirteenth]

Lancer - Moira Dante-Lehrmann (2022)

A character and her mech I made for Massif Press' Lancer RPG (available here massif-press.itch.io/), specifically a campaign my brother is running. She's been loads of fun so far, only one session in but hoping for more soon.

This drawing took me far too long to do, and is a little scuffed in some places, but hell, I reckon it came out alright. At least the bits that matter.

[badgerthethirteenth]

The amusing thing about the big fancy release box for the T'au update being full of kroot models, and the kroot actually getting something akin to full support in the codex, is that I was already planning on making a full Kroot army back when it would have been a dumb but fun idea. This is, of course, not going to stop me. I've already committed to the bit and I'll be damned if 'actually being kind of viable' is going to stop me.

[badgerthethirteenth]

all maths is adding or removing things, if you break it down far enough

multiplication? that's just taking a number and adding more of the same number to it

division? you're breaking a number into smaller numbers and then taking some of them away

[badgerthethirteenth]

A little bit of a vent piece, less for a specific burst of emotion but more of a kind of passive state that's ramping up a little more as of late. Having a lot of thoughts about my identity and my place in the world, trying to figure out who/what I am.

While the peak of this feeling has passed since I take forever to make art, I don't doubt this will pick up again. After a while though this became more of an artistic experiment and a way to test out my art setup on my laptop. I think it looks alright?

[badgerthethirteenth]

"Sneaking into the Gold Class Experience by paying for it"

Alternatively: Experiencing the briefest bout of the rich lifestyle made me realise just how poor I actually am.

Long read under the cut.

My husband (Toky), my sibling (Sigma) and I went to see the Five Nights at Freddy's movie at the cinemas. For The Bit, we decided to try out our local cinema's 'Gold Class', because Toky thought it would be really funny to go really high class and fancy to go see the FNAF movie (and it would avoid having kids in the theatre). My sibling, who has a membership with the cinema, facilitated us buying tickets so we got them for a whole like 5 dollars cheaper each. Not too shabby.

But as we left the tiny, luxurious cinema, it suddenly dawned on us - in Sigma's words, "the vibes were off".

And they were well and truly off.

We arrived at the cinema through the generosity of our father, in his little white box of a car with chipping paint, and were dropped off outside the cinema. Neither of us had eaten for a while, but that was okay - I am on a pseudo-diet, Sigma had a soylent shake not long before we left, and Toky doesn't eat nearly as much as we do. Since Sigma had our tickets ready on his phone, we just meandered near the place where we were supposed to hand in our tickets.

One of the staff approached us, and in that friendly tone all customer service staff who have to deal with asshole clients used, greeted us. We were obviously polite and friendly back, inasmuch as our collective autism-generated social awkwardness would allow it. She asked if it was our first time, and I, eagerly, said it was. So she ran us through how it worked.

We were invited to sit down in a lounge with some tacky but not unpleasant couches and some armchairs that I'm sure weren't comfortable, but they could have been, and we were given menus to peruse. She informed us that she would take our orders, and during the movie, she would bring them out to us. I had already resolved not to purchase from the menu if I could help it, such is my allergic reaction to spending money, but I was curious.

The last time I had ordered cinema food from one of the more 'luxury' types of deals was when my brother insisted that I see the movie 'Belle'. I forget how much the mediocre three chicken strips we had ordered costed, but it was far more than I would consider reasonable - the movie was excellent though.

The menu I saw gave me little hope of it being different. Certainly spending $5 (AUD) on a quality hot chocolate at a restaurant is one thing, but I was certainly not going to do so here, tempted as I was. $9 for a milkshake. It was $21 for a halloween-themed Baileys cocktail, which, sure, booze is expensive, but when you're already paying double the standard ticket price, seems outrageous. I think I even saw a menu option that was about $25, which I have no doubt would have been smaller than ordering something from a nearby restaurant.

I briefly, oh so briefly, considered getting a milkshake or a white hot chocolate (the chocolate being white, not the temperature). But my resolution was firm, and thankfully neither Toky nor Sigma wanted anything else - Sigma, maybe, but due to financial circumstances I have to cover Toky's expenses (which is fine because Toky only asks for the occasional snack or dinner and doesn't play Warhammer).

The woman came back with a menu, and asked if we were going to order anything. We, awkwardly, told her that we weren't, with Toky commenting 'we're too poor to be rich'. She nodded in a way which told us that she knew the feeling too well. I felt sorry for her, having to deal with the types of people who could spend so much on a movie ticket and all this overpriced mid food.

When we were escorted - escorted! - to the cinema and to where we wanted to sit, she informed us that there were buttons on our seats that we could use to summon someone to take care of our whims. I had seen a dashboard outside the cinema where there appeared to be little lights between seats - now I knew their purpose.

We sat ourselves down, Sigma, myself and Toky, in that order. The seats had little switches that we could use to make them recline, so I did the first thing I'm sure everyone does and find out how far back it would go. As it turns out, it went so far back that had I decided the movie was so bad it wasn't worth watching, I could easily sleep through it.

Sigma had earlier checked to see if we had the cinema to ourselves - we did not, a group of four had gathered in the back corner. No problem, we thought, likely someone else had decided to commit to A Bit when seeing the FNAF movie.

Nope. It was a family of four. A mother, a father, and two kids. I never got much of a look of them - looking at people fills me with a paralysing fear of being looked back at - but they certainly didn't seem of a lower economic status than us. Toky was disappointed that the one thing we wanted to avoid - children - had managed its way in. I had wondered who in their right mind would spend $40 a head for anything other than The Bit.

The advertisements we saw showed more than ever what kinds of people would do that. People that I would consider 'rich' by my standards.

The first advertisement was extoling the grand benefits of Gold Class and all the benefits it would bestow. We got an advertisement for some kind of expensive alcohol, or perhaps another Gold Class thing talking about the signature cocktails. There was another advertisement for a... car owner membership club? I forget which manufacturer it was, I want to say Lexus, but one of the cars they showed, proudly, was one of the ugliest luxury cars on God's Green Flat Earth. I think there was another alcohol advertisement - we also got to see ads for the new Wonka movie which I have zero interest in seeing, and a brief snippet for a movie I was 100% certain I had seen as a fake trailer in a Quentin Tarantino grindhouse special (Thanksgiving, if you're curious).

Eventually, the movie began, and the vibes returned to normal, as Toky and I would nudge each other and point out the references, and I would occasionally repeat comments Toky told me to Sigma. This is not a review of the movie, but if I did have to briefly summarise it: 7/10, I had fun, set designs and costuming was amazing though.

During the movie, I noticed that the family had occasionally summoned the workers to cater to their whims, which was fine? That's part of the service I guess, and I was too busy enjoying the movie and needing to pee to worry so much about that.

The movie ended and I felt satisfied with what I had seen - I was expecting absolute dogshit bad but I was happy with what I got. We gathered our things and limped our way out and to the toilets. Something, however, caught my eye first - the leftovers from the other family.

They must have taken, like, a bite or two out of everything, because there was so much stuff left behind. Most of a basket of wedges, some uneaten pieces of chicken, popcorn littering one of the seats, and I'm pretty sure I saw a half-melted, half-broken choc-coated ice cream.

The sheer waste of it all shook me. If I had spent what looked like roughly $100 on food alone, I would have made sure not a single crumb of it left. But no, it was just... there. Part of me wished to scoop it into a bag and take it with me, but I didn't want to risk infection, especially in this post-covid world. So, begrudgingly, and with great sympathies for the crew who would have to clean it up, I left it be. At least we had no waste of our own.

We left the cinema with little fanfare and made our way to a nearby burger joint that Toky and I had sampled during our Barbenheimer excursion. We knew the food was good, but we hadn't tried the frozen yoghurt part of it, so we had resolved to do that to.

As we munched down on our burgers - Sigma and I with our plain as hell meals and Toky with his spicy one - we discussed our experience. The movie, we had agreed much before, was fine, nothing special but better than we were anticipating, and the art direction was incredible in it. But more importantly, we discussed the Gold Class affair.

Toky summarised it in the most beautifully succinct way - he felt like he had snuck in, jumped the fence so to speak. We all agreed that we had felt out of place, and we mused on the parts that hit us the worst. This is/was also during a time of great financial awkwardness, between me not getting my Centrelink payments due to not having enough hours at work because my boss literally can't give me the hours because ???, and discussions of maybe, potentially, being able to buy a cheap flat somewhere nearby if our father does some shenanigans with his money.

We were feeling really poor as of late, and this Gold Class experience had shown us the kinds of things people with a great deal of disposable income can do. Like, for instance, pay double a standard ticket price to get basically the same experience, with a slightly comfier seat, and the capacity to spend more money on buying food and also to bother minimum-wage staff to bring you more food in the middle of a movie.

It was eye-opening for us all, I think, seeing how people we could only aspire to have the income of lived. And we decided, collectively, to never do it again, because there was no way we could live like rich people do.

It was poetic, really. We started the experience off sampling the life of the well-to-do - blasted with advertisements of things only the wealthy would even consider - only to take a bus home because as we currently are, none of us can afford a car, and only one of us has had the time to get a learner's permit.

Maybe one day, I'll be able to afford being able to go to Gold Class for every single cinema experience, but I know for a fact that if I had that money to burn, I'd just go see twice as many movies. Because even if I have the money to be rich, I don't think I could stand to see myself waste $100 worth of perfectly edible food yes I'm still mad about that holy shit!

Anyway, that's my long ramble done. Hope you enjoyed the read!

[badgerthethirteenth]

Off To Do Crimes (2021)

A lineup of Saints Row OCs preparing to do crimes, in optimal gremlin poses. From left to right: Veronica (mine), Monty (husband's), Erica (mine), Catalina/The Boss (brother's).

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CLANG! (2021)

Alternatively: fuck around and find out.

Practice with dynamic posing. Lizza doing what she does best - kicking people taller than her (which given she's only 3 feet tall isn't too hard).

(If I've missed any tags, I sincerely apologise, and please let me know so I can correct it.)

[badgerthethirteenth]

Tempest, Air Genasi Ranger (2021)

A simple sketch of a character I played for a one-shot D&D5e game - an air genasi ranger. I was playing a fair bit of Horizon Zero Dawn at the time, which influenced… really just me playing ranger in that game.

She may end up returning later on in the same setting, but we'll see.

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Shy Khixi (2022)

A fair few people (well, really like three people, but they're cool so I'm biased) have expressed that they really like my goblin Khixi. So of course I had to draw her reacting to it.

Bit of a practice-slash-rust-removal drawing, since it had been a hot minute since I scribbled anything. Really like how it came out though.

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Jit Jan'graf (2022)

Meet Jit. Hailing from a desert-based commune, she is a skilled cave-delver who wanders far from home for new and interesting finds. Based on, of all things, my Minecraft skin. Her main outfit's changed since I drew this, as you'll see in other pictures in my gallery, but the core of her design is the same.

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Lizza mid-fight (2022)

Lizza doesn't let herself be hit in combat, so when it does happen, it can be a bit of a shock.

This one was a lot of fun to do; trying out some illustration techniques and refining some stylistic choices for how I draw goblins (which will probably end up having an overhaul in the near future). I think it worked out well.

Mild warning for very slight blood in/near the mouth, it's tagged but I don't think it's major enough to put a content warning on? Correct me if I'm wrong.

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SCP - Dr Eliška Vašková (2021)

A random SCP Foundation researcher that I made as part of an RP with my husband. The scene here depicts her in a room that's flooded with light to keep the SCP she's interviewing contained.

This was originally drawn as a companion piece for something my husband drew. Dunno if he's uploaded his piece anywhere.

And a full-res and coloured version of her ID, since I'm kinda proud of how it came out (even if the face is just an edited version of the one used in the main picture). I stole the layout/colour from something official, probably Containment Breach.