#bk1

[drawnwithrage]

Good morning everyone! Today I bring you a very chibi Xelha 🌸. May her presence bless you with a beautiful day filled with an ocean breeze. I actually like how she came out. The only thing she's missing is a tiny Meemai 🤔. Oh well for now I like this design.

Anyway, still feeling under the weather. Only slept for like 2 hours. I genuinely can't wait for this summer cold to be over 😩.

Be safe everyone!

[pitagain]

#365DaysOfVGM Day 202:

The Last Soul/S.O.R. Super Mix (Bare Knuckle/Streets of Rage & Bare Knuckle II/Streets of Rage 2 [1991/1992])

More Sega Mega Drive/Genesis highlights usually means an inevitably cool electronic Bass, and when Yuzo Koshiro’s involved, you know the genre variety will kick in and impress you at some point!

Which is to say, the slower pace of today’s pick combined with the instrumentation, helps “The Last Soul” stand out from all the competition. Because of this versatility, it also feels like a good sort of “hub world” track, funnily enough.

S.O.R Super Mix is the bigger highlight here though: With a mix of the predecessor’s “The Last Soul” and “You Became the Bad Guy!” themes as the basis for this remix, comes a worthy successor used for both the opening cutscene and final stage of this sequel. Again, the Bass is a common highlight in Sega Genesis soundtracks, with new sounds on top of it to provide an extra-detailed somber atmosphere, fit for the finale; you’re at the source of Mr. X’s cycle of miserable criminal activity, it’s up to you to put it all to an end!

(Length before loop [The Last Soul]: 1.5+ minutes, [S.O.R. Super Mix]: Nearly 3 minutes)

[icariancowboy]

i hope book 3 gives us a few more details about mc and kade’s earlier childhoods (specifically the bandit raid and the deaths of their families) because i feel like there’s so much potential there!!!! and pb has barely done anything with it so far!!!!!

[benevolenterrancy]

As the first significant public event hosted by the Jin after Jin Guangyao's death draws near, Jin Ling is increasingly stressed about how people would perceive him and his sect. Specifically, he knows people will be watching the new Chief Cultivator and taking cues from him about how to feel about the Jin Clan in light of its hidden crimes. And Jin Ling knows that if there's one place Lan Wangji cannot tolerate visiting for any length of time, it's Koi Tower. He is not above exploiting familial connections if it means Wei Wuxian figuring out what his husband has against Koi Tower, and finding a way to coax him into staying for the three days the banquet is meant to last.

[archersgoon]

looking between this sketch and a map of lumatere like it doesn't matter it doesn't matter there is no discrepancy because the map was fucked to begin with the mountains are not too close it is fine!!!!!!

[ploncc]

EVERYONE THINK FAST, WHAT'S ONE THING THAT WOULD MAKE YOUR WIP 30% MORE ENJOYABLE TO WRITE

[weabunsstudios]

Come watch Belbet be a Sacred Spirit in Baten Kaitos 2: Origins!

[cassie-thorne]

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[macbcth]

help i have a sudden compulsion to reread the atlas six

[ketavinsky]

here we’ll dance, in this dark place...

oop, here’s my first venture into painting my gods in all their weird glory. it’ll be a long time before i can accurately depict any of the eldritch maximalist nonsense that day and night have got going on, but anyways: here’s sublime, the eldest of the new divinities, your local sleazy club promoter, that one fucking guy, etc. a bit of writing + some rambling under the cut!

sublime is the eldest son of night, and was modelled in night’s image. as night Himself is afflicted by the same inability to create anything of any originality, same as all the other old gods, sublime is almost a carbon copy of night in His youth. (think around the ming dynasty, during the perihelion phase of Their rule.)

after night’s marriage to dawn, and prompt divorce, night experiences a great deal of something that we’ll call shame and totally renounces all His creations prior to His marriage. 

His second son, scherzo, is modelled in dawn’s perfect image -- or, you know, as a caricature of dawn -- and sublime is shunned and eventually exiled. the sons of night do not get along: sublime is the prodigal eldest who is suddenly being denied his father’s empire, and scherzo is the over-spoilt youngest. 

sublime claims that scherzo is a glorified puppet sculpted by a lovestruck idiot; scherzo claims that sublime is a puddle of dark that their holy father accidentally spat onto.

missing word here, if you’ve ever... 

sublime now has no contact with his father or the nocturne, but he’s fond of his sisters, and will check up on them frequently. scherzo is very ‘i don’t give a fuck about humans, why should i, i am the flawless fucking machine, the eidolon, the hiemal almighty’ sigma bro hashtag grindset but sublime loves humans and is constantly making pacts with them even though he does very literally drive them nuts and distort them and uhh completely fuck up their lives. i’ve been really enjoying filling up his pinterest board hehe bc i really dig that oversaturated neon vibe where everything is a little too bright and vibrant to be entirely real + psychedelic nightmare surrealist clusterfuck etc etc. 

think coloured lights so bright they wash out the expression and the humanity out of the people you see, a warehouse packed full of bodies, your throat dry and pulsing with panic, sensory overload, a shape in the fog machines moving towards you, eyes like flashlights. sublime is very much a horror-oriented character mostly inspired by the struggle of clinging onto reality when you’re not entirely sure what you’ve taken.

he also loves cults and setting up cults, it’s like a hobby for him. he’s very much the black sheep of all the young gods, even considering the Exquisite Distillation, who is very much a mass murderer, but it’s, you know, well deserved. sublime is a slimy dude.

^^ above and below are from an oooold draft. im still trying to get the hang of how sublime interacts with scherzo. the sons of night are not strictly brothers due to the nature of how He creates things, but they certainly do not like each other. sublime cannot stand his successor even though he is forced to admit that scherzo is a flawless new god in both design and ability

it’s worth mentioning here that scherzo loves to lord his status over sublime. scherzo protects night’s great labyrinthine library and thus has unfiltered access to most of the well of human knowledge, as well as surveillance over most human individuals. sublime trades secrets, and puts a little piece of himself into every person he makes a pact with. they are both constantly going apeshit nuts that the other has something they don’t. 

anyways i hope to draw them more as i get a little bit more comfortable with more abstract stuff and then maybe i can even shift to painting the old gods someday. for now i struggle to plan out their character arcs

also they have fucking typing quirks for their weird i am everywhere and everything voices. i will never everrr escape homestuck unfortunately . ah well

im also playing with this idea where each of the new gods represent the inevitability of a great catastrophe (and the continuation of the cosmic cycle) in some way. still playing with this but minuet is the catalyst, sublime is the premonition of it, scherzo is the consequence and the rubble in the aftermath, ofluxe/the exquisite distillation is of course the huge fuckoff problem.

some minuet pov below because she is as of this current draft hellbent on dragging him into a family that embraces him. minuet is a total garbage fire shipwreck car crash of a functional goddess, but she has an iron conviction in the sanctity of family. this will of course obliterate her later.

sublime’s love for his sisters and his wife is probably his only redeeming characteristic, at least until minuet’s POV starts narrating the majority of the shitshow. dare i say misandrist icon. 

[nfcomics]

Superman • Space Age Bk 1 • art by Mike Allred • Laura Allred

[drawnwithrage]

Oh shoot! I completely forgot to post this earlier. Haha I’m sorry The Great Mizuti 😅. You’re here now so that’s all that matters. Shh ignore the mistakes! I’m trying my best here 😭. This is spoilers so if you haven’t gotten to this point in the story, it’s not my fault. This game has literally been out for years. So this is on y’all 🤷🏽‍♀️. Anyway, check out my Etsy! The Great Mizuti is now a sticker. I’m so proud because the newest stickers I have on my store are made by me and hand cut by myself and my baby bro. It feels awesome to make. There might be a few mistakes and for that I’m sorry. I’m getting better at it though 👍🏽. I want to be able to make stickers and color them with my color pencils. It’ll be a lot of work but omg is it fun! Little Daisy would be so proud 🌸🌸🌸!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1726330892/chibi-mizuti-video-game-baten-kaitos

[carriagelamp]

i really like the apothecary diaries, the main charm of the series is absolutely maomao. i think a lot more shoujo should have more mad scientists who see political power struggle happening and immediately turns around to avoid it. queen of keeping in her lane (but people won't let her)

That's totally her vibe 😂 She wants to go crazy with apothecary ingredients and wishes everyone else would leave her alone and stop trying to get her Involved. She really did charm me -- I like the man whose name I forgot who definitely seems like he wants to use her as some sort of pawn. The dynamic in book one is just hilarious because it really does seem like he's busy Scheming... which she is very aware of and just wants to nope right out of that nonsense thanks

[chadsuke]

I can’t wait for my copy of Akai Ito/aoi hana to get here AHHH hopefully… ships soon… I need my batshit yuri asap.

[cavydude]

So here's how the pc version hax are going.

I wrote a quick lil python script that edits enemy data in BK1, since that's stored in the Unity bundles it's super easy to edit. You'll notice here that:

Shawras now have a weakness to light

Splendid hair is now a guaranteed drop from each one

They drop a photo of Sibling God: Bo when photographed (I actually fucked up the id there I wanted it to be Mega-Rare Mizuti)

Random drops are other OP late-game swords :D

Another dev also wrote a similar script for the magnus data, so we can edit magnus aging, atk/def, and even fix that annoying bug where it won't let you sell the debt magnus.

All of this, at least for me, is with the end goal of making a randomizer. Unfortunately, there's still a long way to go for things that are directly coded into the binary such as:

Quest Magnus

Chests

Starting decks

Character stats (probably)

[catilinas]

pharsalia 2.596-7 trans. wilson joyce.

pompey’s (cringe) speech met with silence and fear vs caesar’s evil civil war speech in bk1 met with his soldiers immediately volunteering patricide is. something. but i’m thinking about this in comparison w a) pompey being introduced in bk1 as loving the applause in his own theatre and b) pompey’s dream about his theatre the night before pharsalus in bk7. like he can’t remember how to go back to the theatre of war