#i had no idea what to do for shading and bg stuff ..

[gaydexvocaloid]

just a bite

[steamberrystudio]

19/11/2023

Hey everyone! Time for the bi-weekly tumblr update for Steamberry stuffs!

Summary

Finished writing all routes up through the end of chapter 9

Started working on editing for now

Added in-game achievements

Received some new BG art

Ramble

Okay, so writing-wise, I wrote Yren's content up through the end of chapter 9. Also revamped my end-route summaries for Yren and Raif.

The current word count is 426,000 words.

But I decided to hold off on finishing the endings for the four remaining routes. The main reason for this is that I have planned a lot of early-story changes that are going to shift the trajectory of the route endings. And I was really struggling with how to construct the route endings with those planned changes in a more nebulous state.

I usually try to avoid working out of order because I find it is not conducive to forward progress. But there are some points when you have to break the rules and go back to make important edits because you need them there in order to be able to move forward.

I'm kind of at that point.

So I decided I would fully edit Asher's route, which will allow me to inject all those planned changes into the story which will make it much easier to construct endings that call back to that earlier foreshadowing.

So writing-wise, that's what I've been doing this week. I am currently up to Chapter 6 in the edit (which means I'm a little less than half through the route).

Other Stuff:

I have received new BGs of course. Those are coming in at a fairly steady rate of 1.5 - 2 weeks each.

I also have decided to add in-game achievements to WSC. I've been thinking about it for a while but putting it off since I know that one more screen (like an achievements gallery) means more tweaks to the UI. But I finally sucked it up and did it anyway.

I've also been playing with a colour slider for Wil's sprite. I'm not going to go into detail about it here because I've talked about it more in depth on Patreon and will continue to post most of the details there.

But the idea is that instead of choosing from 3 skin tones and 2 hair colours, there would be colour sliders allowing for a much greater range of selection. One of the big concerns with colour sliders is whether or not the recolours can be made to look as good as recolouring manually - which has always been why I've stayed away from them. 

The more complex shading styles have always struggled with colour sliders. But a developer friend - Feniks - has made a really cool and dynamic shader that actually can recreate even painterly or non-outlined art styles with incredible accuracy.

Using a slider is really useful because it increases the variations the player gets while *reducing* my work load. Instead of having to recolour manually, I would actually only need to colour everything once in grey scale.

Of course, it's not as easy as just dumping in the code and art. It requires some experimentation and learning but right now it is looking like I will be able to make it work. So I may be able to show off some examples in the future.

Screenshots:

None this time...

Upcoming Weeks:

I am currently editing Chapter 6 of asher/common routes and there are some pretty substantial edits I have to make.

It's always tricky to estimate what I will get done editing wise because editing does not flow at a more or less even pace like writing. Chapter 5, 6, and 7 had (and will have) major updates and changes so it may take a while to get through them. Though I'm already through with Ch 5. So...that's one of three.

Anyway.

And I'm also working on the GS lore book, still (LoL. 🙃). Someone today reminded me that I still need to go through all the deleted content to see if anything is salvageable for the lore book too.

😭

Thank you so much to that person (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. And you need to answer for your crimes, my friend.) 👀

[nanistar]

do you think we could get a sneak peak of saltburn's clan production? like the scripts or the sketches? (of pages already posted of course) i really like seeing how different people approach the comic making process

sure thing!

so i usually post the next 2 sketches on my patreon for the $1+ tiers on tuesday or wednesday, so they get an advanced little view of it before hand. so the ones here are all gonna be older pages.

my entire script and notes i keep in one long google doc. and i send myself feverish notes on discord to be copy/pasta'd into the doc later. i also have a rough estimation of my progress in the story and how much longer i have per chapters, since im trying to keep it to about 30-36 per chapter. i don;t want to spend longer than 2 years on this comic (though im not gonna speedrun it or anything if it ends up going long, im just hoping it stays shorter lol).

i don't script things line-by-line or like a stageplay. i tried doing it early on but i found i made too many deviations depending on how i placed panels and looking back at the script was really annoying.

earliest script i have^

i tend to do dialogue on the fly when actually sketching out the pages, because i know what i'm looking for, so unless i have the specific dialogue that i want to remember to add, i don't write any of that down. although sometimes i get on a roll writing and dialogue flows, so i write it down and change it as needed. i have scenes in my head rather than pages, and i translate those notes later when i need to work on that scene. i very rarely get actual page ideas in my head, but i will say today's update with saltburn flying thru the air and recalling some memories i;ve had in my head for months, along with the one where salt sees the angel i had planned for a while. (i'd LOVE to be able to get a ton of pages sketched at once so i can not worry about it, but the nature of the way that i work is that i just can't think in that much detail far ahead of me. so i can only really do 2 at a time)

^so it tends to look more like this, fast back and forth dialogue to get my point across that i will make fit their voices later on. also i don't use linebreaks or anything just because im lazy so my notes are a fuckin disaster

my god.

as for the actual drawing of the pages, i literally just do it i dont know how to explain it. i sketch things as fast and loose as possible , i try not to have the same size boxes next to each other unless i'm showing the passage of time or a very minor detail change between panels. large panels for establishing shots. ect. sometimes if needed i will do a secondary sketch to figure stuff out, like i needed to do a bunch when working out the first few coyote drawings since ive never drawn dogs in action before. but usually i just whip it out

nightmarish.

this one is still my favorite, and despite looking much better than my normal sketches i did whip it out like normal (i just looked at refs for the other critters so it looks nicer lol)

additionally, i do every single page in the chapter on the same canvas because i love it when procreate crashes. i do all my panel boxes, and any "weird" shaped speech bubbles by hand. i only have one layer for flats, one for BGs, merge them together and do one overlay layer. if i need some extra definition i will add an additional shading layer but i dont like to. once im done with all the art i merge every layer together, send the page to myself on discord, and open it up on my 'puter and do the remaining text and normal speech bubbles in clip studio.

oh yeah people sometimes ask why i do 2 pages instead of one per update, or just do a bunch and upload it less often and the answer is because i don't want to be working on this comic for a very long time, and 2 pages gets me thru faster. if i spend too long working on a scene it starts getting boring for me and im more likely to cheese it which i dont like doing, but if i do two at once i can get stuff done faster. additionally, i cant just do a bunch and upload them all at once because i like the feedback, and it's better for readers to have consistent updates. i have the deadly autism/adhd combo, and my life is literally scheduled week by week and i have to stay consistent or i will die.

but yeah. my process is nightmarish and fast (despite spending like 4-8 hours per page) and loose and crazy but it works for me and keeps me engaged.

[zoekrystall]

Anyways positive stuff. Kinda obsessed w the coffin of andy and leyley and oh I will not go into that tag again. I couldn't care less if you ship em I find it more funny how so many really think people purely ship toxic ships bc they think it's healthy. These people love to forget nuance is a thing that exists just to feel moral superior. Andy and leyley's relationship is toxic as fuck I don't think anyone interested in the game doesn't know that. Also while yes most ship em romantic does ship not equal romantic. Had to learn that one myself from more older fandom veterans.

Anyhow I am obsessed w ashley in a potential kin kinda way since part 1 (maybe she also just reminds me of how possessive I got. minus the uh murder. also other toxic manners I hopefully left mostly in the past. never said I was pure.) and had to make a new twt icon a bit ago and this one took way more hours than I would like to admit. Got the sprites from a discord. (Also in other news finally changed my twt @ so it's the same as everywhere else. didn't do it prior bc I feared random suspension but tested on another which showed it was fine to do). Also kinda reminds me of my oc zoe w her murder lust and smugness which also just adds to me liking her. Obsessed w the artstyle too I love it sm.

Primarily took so long bc no idea for bg and then I wanted it to match that header (same on my horror sideblog bc I love it sm) and searched pexels too long and then I wanted the shade to match the header one (kinda gave up it was almost 6am when I finished). Also since how I changed the sprite made some lines purple did I change that. I just slapped the blood on a black background to test what pic I could use as header (testing layout fits on ibispaint before I actually update them) and almost wanted to just use that. Ig if anyone wants it.

I want to make her my icon on here so badly too but I worked hard on the current halloween one,,,

At least got her on whatsapp too but w a different sprite and bg. Maybe discord once halloween is over I just need to come up w a layout and a fitting "_ rose" display name.

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

MONKIE KID SEASON 3 EPISODE 9 REACTION 

ALRIGHT

ALRIGHT

ALRIGHT, GOTTA

CHILL

CHILL OUT

BE CALM—I AM SO NOT READY FOR WHATEVER IS IN STORE FOR ME IN THE NEXT TWO EPISODES I CAN FEEL IT I KNOW IT, I ALREADY HAVE SOME THEORIES 

oh gosh

reading the title just active my fight or flight response WBGBSLDK;FMG;OAIFMAOEFW 

I AM SO NOT READY OH NO OH NO BGS;LDKFM;A;BAOEFWIM OH NO

A D R E N I L I N E  

WOW I AM FULL OF FEAR BGS;DLKMF;GN;OAIWEFAWE HERE WE GOOOOOOO SCREAMS 

I’M STALLING

I CAN’T EVEN PRESS PLAYGSDFKLMGOHAEF 

OKAY OKAY

HERE WE GO 

DIVING IN HEAD FIRST 

FOR HOODIE WUKOOOOOOONG 

MONKIKIIEEE KIDDD

FAMAILAR TALES

NEW ADVENTNRKJEDFLKALFMOEW

I’M GONNA PERISH 

THIS IT FOR SURE

OH I JUST REMEMBERED HOW THE LAST EPISODE ENDED I’M GONNA DIE 

HOLY CRAP THAT’S SOME SERIOUS POWER 

JUST IMAGINE IT’S THE DAY OF THE FESTIVAL CELEBRATING YOUR TOWN AND THEN THIS WBLK;GFMA;OFHAWOE

WUKONG LEANING AGAINST THE WALL I LOVE HIM BUT THE LIGHTING AROUND HIM IS ACTUALLY MAKING ME SO CONCERNED 

“I’M OKAY WITH RUSHING HIM” DARN RIGHT MK UR DOING AMAZING MY DUDE BGKLDSMFAWE 

IT’S SO WEIRD SEEING ALL THREE RINGS IN MK’S HANDS 

HECK OKAY I CAN BE CHILL I CAN BE CALM I AM SO FREAKING NOT CALM RN I’M SCREAMIGNSAF;LAWE 

THE WAY THEY KEEP SHADOWING HIS FACE

LIKE MONKEY KING’S FACE SHADED IN SHADOW THIS IS MAKING ME SO CONCERNED 

W

WHAT WSA THAT LOOK

WHAT WAS THAT LOOK 

WE’RE FINE WE’RE FINE WE’RE FINE 

IF MEI’S THE FORTH RING I’M GONNA BREAK SOMETHINGGBS;DLAKFMA;OWEHF;IOMAEW

FACE STILL SHADOWED 

OH BOY

OH BOY

AND THERE’S THE CONFRONTATION I WAS 

HH

OH  BOY 

THE WAY THAT THEY’RE DRAWING MONKEY KING RN OH NO OH NO OH NO 

HE’S SO GONNA SPLIT HE’S SO GONNA SPLIT HE’S SO GONNA SPLIT THIS IS GBS;DLFMG;OAIEWMF I AM SO FEAR I’M SO FEAR 

OHHHH 

OHH BOY 

OH BOY 

AHAHAHGBSADLFKMA;WOE

NEZHA PULLING UP LIKE: whats up losers—

REALLY WANTS TO SHOW OFF HIS RIDE, AND HONESTLY FAIR IT’S A BOP 

they’re gonna get separated aren’t they oh nooooo

OH WOWO FIGHT 

WOW 

WHEN NEZHA THROWS

THE FIRE RINGS

I’M NEVER GONNA GET OVER WUKONG’S EXPRESSION WHEN IT’S COMING AT THEM 

WOW OWOWOWOWOWGSA;LKAGH;OIFMA;WOEFIJ

NEZHA REALLY SAID TO HECK WITH THEMS MORTALS ON BOARD HUH BG;LKSDM;G;OIMF 

WHOAH

SPEED 

SHUT UP DUDE WHAT THE HECK 

MONKEY KING IS STUPID FAST ACTUALLY 

THE ANIMATION IN THIS EPISODE IS ON FIRE, AND I AM SO FEAR BECAUSE EVERY TIME THE ANIMATION IMPROVES STUFF IS ABOUT TO GO DOWN FR FR I’M GONNA GO FERAL LOSE MY MIJND SCREAMIGNB;AMWEF 

Nezha: sun wukong

Wukong: *PANIC* 

sidebar but i love wukong in a hoodie fr, and Pigsy’s jacket is still everything to me 

I LOVE WUKONG HE’S SO STUPIDGLSDFMOAWE 

NEZHA CAME HERE TO FIGHT BUD I’LL BET UR IN TRHOUGBELGNLAMFWE

THAT EPXRESSION

OH THE STAND OFF IS GOR—

TANG

TANG OH MY GOSHGBDLFAMWEO

WHERE’D OU GET THE BROOM

BUFF TANG REALGBLSDAKMFA;OHWE

I’M CRYINGBSL;KFM;AWE 

WHY WOULD U THROW THE POOR MAAANNN BGLKSDMFAWOE 

I MEAN I WOULD TOO IF STRANGER GOT INTO MY PERSONAL BUBBLE BGLKSDAMF;OAWHIEMF 

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS MONEKYGSLDFKAMWEF

SNEAKY PEAKY

WUKONG PLEASE 

THE NERVOUSNESS AND THEN JUST DID YOU TAKE A SNEAKY PEAKY WUKONG PELASEB;LGAMFWE

THE ACCUSING TONE AND EXPRESSION 

I’M NOT OVER THE WAY HIS FACE IS STILL SHADOWED I’M SO FREAKING FEARFUL 

ALSO THE WAY HE KEEPS PUTTING HIS HANDS BACK INTO HIS HOODIE POCKETS MEANS EVERYTHING TO ME 

 NEZHA B;ALDFM;AOWEF

Nezha: I knew the ring was safe in Chang’e’s care 

Sir

Sir

Sir you

you threw it at the moon 

and she just picked it up and had no idea what it was 

you

you really threw your ring at a place 

literally exactly like Monkey King did 

buddy

buddy please

she didn’t even know what it was

she literally gave it away to them please BG;LKAWMEFAWH;OEF 

(i mean after they stole it but like BG;LKMWA;EOF) 

ACCUSATIONS FLYING ALL OVER THE TRAIN FEELING PRETTY CRAMPED 

HE’S BASHING DBK FOR—DUDE WHAT DO YOU MEAN, HE HID IT IN PLAIN SIGHT AND INSURED IT WOULD ALWAYS BE GUARDED

HE’S THE MOST RESPONCIBLE OUT OF ANY OF YOU OH MY GODS GB;SLDAFMSGNOAWIEFM 

WUONG YOU TOO?? 

BGL;SKADFMO;AWEF

YEAH CALLING WUKONG OUT YET AGAIN FOR HIS ABSOLUTLYE TERRIBLE HIDING SPOT BG;LKSAMF;OAEW 

THAT’S FAIR THAT’S FAIR 

OH MAN THIS IS SO FUNNY AND I’M BG;LSDKFMOWAE 

MAN KID U SOUNDING A LITTLE SALTY OVER NOT GETTING ALL THE RESPONCIBLITY 

THIS IS SO FUNNY TO ME RN 

HE’S SO MAD ABOUT THIS BUT LIKE, MY GUY IF YOU HAD THE RINGS ON YOU, WUKONG WOULD HAVE TAKEN THEM EP 1, AND IF YOU HID THEM AS WELL AS YOU DID YOUR LAST ONE, UH… YEAH NO FIGHTS NECCISARY THEY COULD’VE JUST TAKEN THEM— GNSLDKFMA;WOEF 

AH 

AH 

NO NO

BACK AWAY FROM MK SIR RIGHT NOW 

YEEEEAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

GET EM

AWAY FROM THE LAD

THE TWO RANDOM PEOPLE STILL JUST SITTING THERE WATCHING THIS BGL;ASKDMFA;OWEF

WHAT A PUNCH 

GREAT SAGE STRUCK FIRST

WUKOGN FIGHT 

THE

“LET ME HELP YOU” 

AND 

H

THE WAY WUKONG LOOKS BACK, JUST

HGHSDLFASFAWOMEF 

I’M GONNA START CRYING STRAIGHT UP 

AAARRGHHHHGHDBF;LAKM;OHGA;OIWEF AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 

AAA THE WAY THEY KEEP

HIS FACE HASNT’ BEEN CLEAR OF SHADOW LIKE THIS WHOLE TIME 

THIS MONKEY IS JUST

FR VISUAL OF HIS LACK OF COMMUNICATION AND STUFF HE’S HIDING AND PROBABLY WHAT HE’S ABOUT TO DO I AM SO FEAR.PNG 

MK’S FACE WHEN HE YELLS “GO!” AND THEN JUST STEELS HIMSELF AND A NOD 

NEZHA’S FIGHT ANIMATIONS ARE SO GOOD I’M FREAKIGN 

I CAN’T WAIT TO USE THIS IN AN EDIT I’M GONNA GO FERAL Y’ALL I’M GONNA GO COMPLETELY BONKERS INSANE 

THERE THEY GOOOOO

N THEN 

IS THAT A

DECOY 

IS THAT A DECOY RINGBDSLK;FAWE

THE

THE HOODIEEEE

NOOO

I MISS THE HOODIE ;A; 

MONKEY KING IS SO FREAKING COOOL THO 

WOW THEY ARE SPEED

CAN GOT 

OH MAN RIGHT I FORGOT MAC’S STILL AROUND 

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 

NEZHA AIN’T PLAYING 

HOO BOY 

SPEAR REALLY ALMOST STRAIGHT UP KILLED THE MONKEY GADL;SKFMAW;EO 

OH BOYYY

WE HAVENT’ HAD A FIGHT SCENE LIKE THIS SINCE THE MAC EPISODE I’M SCREAMINGBFL;AWE 

I MEAN WE’VE HAD LOTS OF GOOD FIGHTS BUT THIS

THIS IS IMMORTAL AGAINST IMMORTAL HOO BOY 

OH

OHHH

OH HE GOT HIM

HE CUT HIS FACE

IT LEFT A MARK 

HELLO??? 

YEAH NEZHA KINDA HAS MORE WEAPONS THAN WUKONG HAS SO HE’S PROBABLY GONNA WIN NGL

OR LIKE, MAC’S GONNA SHOW UP AND SNIPE THEM BOTH GBSL;KMAWEF 

GBSA;DLFKMAW;OEIG WUKONG JUST CAN’T STOP GETTING THROWN THROUGH MOUNTAINS HUH BGSD;LKFM;OAWE 

HEY

HEY THAT’S THE

“Alright, that hurt” THAT’S THE SAME SPOT 

THAT

HEY

WAIT

HOLD UP

SEASON 3 EP 1 HE WAS CLUTCHING THAT SIDE THE WHOLE TIME 

MANS BEEN INJURED THIS WHOLE TIME 

STRAIGHT UP 

HELLO

AND THE SCRATCH IS GONE NOW

I SWEAR STRAIGHT UP THIS MAN GLAMOURS HIS INJURIES HIDES THEM  

HECK 

SO EITHER HE’S STILL HORRIBLY INJURED OR THAT JUST RE-INJURED THE INJURY AS HE WAS HEALING 

THE WAY

WBG;LKMFAWE

THE WAY NEZHA STOPS TO SHOW HIM THE RINGS AND LOOKS SO PROUD OF HIMSELF 

HE COULD HAVE JUST KNOCKED MONKEY KING THE HECK OUT (Wukong looked like he was expecting that) OR LIKE, FLOWN AWAY, BUT NO, WANTED TO SHOW HIM HE’S THE WINNER FIRST FR “SEE HOW COOL I AM SUCKER” EMO TEEN FR GBSLKFMAWOE 

“and dumber” :3 FR HE REALLY LAUGHED LIKE THAT I LOVE HIM SO MUCH BGJKLASDFMAWOE 

NEZHA PLS GLASKFMWEO HE JUST WANTS TO BE THE WINNER BRUH HOLDING HIM GENTLY I HOPE YOU’RE A LITTLE WINNER ONE DAY DUDE 

OH NO

OH NO NO NO 

HAHA CALLED IT

TOLD U MACAQUE WOULD

SHOW UP 

UH 

WOW

YEAH HE’S

THERE IS NO ENJOY,MENT THERE THIS MAN IS FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE NOW, AND STILL SCARED EVEN WHEN HE’S NOW PROBBALY MORE POWERFUL THAN BOTH OF THOSE TWO FR 

MONKEY’S IN PAIN AND FIGHTING TO SURVIVE RN THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I THINK HE’S ENTERED A FIGHT WITHOUT A SMIRK ON HIS FACE AND I AM AH 

AH

MY GUY 

MY GUY

GBSD;FLKAMW;E YEAH

YEAH JUST ONE-SHOTTED THEM BG;LSDKMF;AOWE

THE DIFFERENC IN EXPRESSION 

Nezha: IS THAT :0 

Wukong: -_- 

he is so done b;GLKMAWEFO 

OH MAN

DANG

NO LAUGH

NO GLOATING

NO NOTHING 

BLUE

H

HEY

HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA

OH MAN

OH MAN

OH NO STAIRS 

GB;SLADKFMAOWEF 

OH WAIT

HEY

THIS IS THE PLACE

THIS IS THE SPLIT PLACE

YEAH TANG

YEAH

UM

WE’RE FOR REALS

WE’RE FOR REALS HERE

FR FR F R

REINCARNATION OF CREW FOR REALL

YEAH

YEAH

LETS FREAKING GO

LETS FREAKGNSDFNS;GNRE;IOHG;AOWIEFMAG;OHAWE

I’VE BEEN SITTING HERE JUST SAYING OH FOR THE LAST THREE MINUTES I’M LOSING MY FREAKING MIND 

I’M SCREAMING IT’S FOR REALL GBAS;DLFM;AOWEF 

Also this is so funny cause it’ll be all of them 

like having this crisis

cause it’s just them that are the crew

and then u got Mk who’s just there like regular dude: what are y’all talking about—  BG;LAWKEMF 

familiar indeed

YEAHHHHHHH

THEY DID IT BGSD;LAKFJA;G;OIAWE

FR HE IS THE ONLY NORMAL DUDE HERE GB;LSKFMA;G;OWE PLEEEEEEAAAASSEEEEEB 

MK FR THE REGULAR DUDE IN THE SHOW I’M SOBBING BFGS;LDKMFA;WOEF 

HEY PIGSYYY

I LOVE THEM 

BRUH

BRUH

The fact when pigsy says the thing about the map, and I literally in real time did the same thing mk did with the hand on chin and didn’t realize til I looked up at the paused frame of Mk’s face i’m BG;LKWEMF;OAWEF 

ITHERE IT IS

THAT’S CAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT THERE WE GOO 

SCREAMING 

IF THEY DO

KAY IF THEY DO THAT THING

WHERE WUKONG TRIES TO FALL BACK INTO THJAT BANTER AND MACAQUE JUST DOESN’T RESPOND OR JUST STAYS SERIOUS I’M GONA LOSE IT CAUSE IT’S USUALLY THE OTHER WAY AROUND 

NEZHA LOOKS SO SUPRRISED TAHT WUKONG IS TALKING 

Ngl tho Nezha and Wukong just seem like they’d have a really chill sorta dynamic when they’re not fighting, like buds, fambly fr 

NEZHA BEING SO LIKE “WUKONG!!” 

“WHAT HE DOES!” 

HE DOES THO I’M CRYI8NGBL;DKSMF;AOWEF 

OH MAN

OH MAN THEY’RE DOING THE THING

OH MAN OH MAN 

NO FR 

YEAH WUKONG 

WUKONG’S TRYNIG TO 

YEAH

HOOO BOY

OH MAN 

MACAQUE JSUT LOOKS

HOLY CRAP MY GUY IS JUST

AH

“—scurry off to your master—“ 

AND THE WAY HE FINALLY SEEMS TO RESPOND TO WHAT HE SAYS

YOU CAN’T CONVINCE ME MACAQUE DIDN’T SAY SOMETHIGN ALONG THOSE LINES TO WUKONG AT SOME POINT THE VIBES IS THERE 

“I couldn’t care less about what the Lady Bone Demon wants” THAT SOUNDED 

LIKE

HE SOUNDED HONEST

LIKE RAW HONESTY 

THE MOST HONEST AND TRUTHFUL HE’S SOUNDED THIS WHOLE SHOW FR 

HE JUST LOOKS SO EXHUSTED

HOW  SUPRRISED WUKONG LOOKS

NEZHAAA BG;LDAKSFMA;OWEMF 

WUKONG STRAIGHT UP DECOY HAIR CLONED THEM 

Nezha really just keeps getting trolled bLGK;AMWOEF 

WUKONGBGL;DSKFMAOWE

“yeeeaahhh…” JUST BGL;KSFMAOW;FWIEF WHEEZING 

Oh no

Oh no if 

if they’re  here

trapped

oh no

HAHAHA

AND THE RINGS ARE

AH 

HAHA

OH NO

OH NO

AH

AHAHA WE’RE IN TROUBLE

MK SPICIFICALLY IS IN HUGE TROUBLE AND WUKONG AND NEZHA ARE PINNED AGAINST A MOUNTAIN 

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME MAC’S SMILED

I AM

UH

OH NO 

TANG AND PIGSY STRAIGHT UP MARRIED COUPLE STILL GBSL;DFMA;OWE 

THE ANIMATION IN THIS EP IS SO FREAKING FIRE 

OH NO MEI IS JUST

OH FREAKING NO 

SHE’S JUST

HH

SHE’S GONNA

OH NO I’M SO FEAR 

“THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED AND YOU KNOW IT” 

I LOVE TANG SO MUCH 

STAY AWAY FRMO MEI STAY AWAY FROM

OH NO

OH NO

SHE’S

SHE’S FR

HAS THE

SHE IS??? 

BUT IF

IS IT IN HER

IS IT HER?? 

IS

BUT

I’M

HOW WOULD

THE 

WITH THE

HOL

THE

I

I WA

HECK

FRICK

HECK

SHOOT

GOSH FREAKINGGN;LFA;GO;AIFMAWE

SHE’S FR

HOW DOES THAT WORK THO

I’M SCREAMIGN

TANG BEING WORRIED

I’M GONNA START SCREAMING 

SHE HAS NO IDEA WHAT’S HAPPENING

I’M 

H

Kay if she’s the ring

then technically 

she’s like, part of red son, correct? 

THINKING V HARD ABOUT THAT

BUT LIKE IF IT’S IN HER

WHO HIDES A WEAPON OF IMPOSSIBLE DESTRUCTION INSIDE A PERSON I’M GONNA FISTFIGHT EVERYTHIGN 

“I TOLD THEM TO WAIT” 

OH NO

THIS IS 

NOT GOING TO GO WELL 

OH SHOOT MAC 

“STOP”

SIR

EXCUSE ME 

“If you hurt that kid i’ll—“

“You’ll what? make things worse for mk?” 

THE WAY WUKONG STOPS 

HIS FACE

THE REFLECTION OF MACAQUE

SEE THIS IS HILARIOUS MAC BECAU\SE YOU’RE TLAKING LIKE YOU DIDN’T STRAIGHT UP ABUSE THE KID SHUT YOUR FREAKING FACE 

BUT ALSO THE WAY HE’S CURLING FORWARD AND STANIDNG

AND IN THE REFLECTION IT LOOKS LIKE THE STONE BONE ICE SIDE HE HAS SIX EARS 

“STOP! I HAVE A PLAN-“ 

THE WAY THE VOICE ECHOS

HE’S DESPERATE FOR REAL 

HE GENUINELY HAS A PLAN 

PROBABLY A BAD ONE BUT HE REALLY DOES FOR REAL I’M LOSING MY MIND OVER THIS RIGHT NOW 

HHH MEIIIIIIII

THAT’S A PRETTY RING THO IG

I AM SO FEAR.PNG

“DON’T TOUCH ANYTHING UNTIL OUR GLOWY MYSTIC MONEY GETS HERE” I LOVE THAT WAY OF REFFERING TO MONKEY KING SO MUCH BG;LKDSMAF;WE 

“I SURE HOPE THAT’S THE RIGHT MYSTIC MONKEY” NO MK IT IS NOT PLEASE BG;LKSF;AOWEF I THINK IT’S SO FUNNY THAT THEY DID THAT PLS THAT’S SUCH GOOD PART BG;LASKFMAE 

FEAR.PNG

TANG PROTECTING MEI

NO

NONONONO

HEY

STOP THAT RIGHT NOW NO THIGNS COMIGN AT PIGSY IF PIGSY GETS STABBED I’M BREAKING MY ENTIRE HOUSE 

DON’T TOUCH THE PIG DAD DON’T TOUCH MY BELOVED PIGSY PLEASE 

SANDY JUST

LUNGES IN FRONT OF 

H

;A; 

THEY’RE RELALY JUST ALL PROTECTING EACH OTHER I’M

I’M GONNA START SOBBING

THEY’RE ALL TRAPPED MK

MK’S 

ALONE AGAIN

GOSH FREAKING

EVERY TIEM HE HAS TO FACE SOMETHING SCARY HE’S BY HIMSELF WHY DOE THIS KEEP HAPPENIGN TO HIIMIMMMMM

OH WOW MAC MECH NOT EVEN LOOKING GOOD 

I’m not over all of this stuff macaque saying, he’s just the most honest he’s been throughout this entire show rn and just the 

“I just need the fire and theN i’m done with you all” MANS REALLY JUST WANTS TO NOT DIE RN BUT ALSO I DO NOT TRUST THIS YOU’D PROBABLY COME BACK AND ANNOY THEM IF THEY BEAT LBD ANYWAYS NGL UM

STILL THO HOLY CRAP 

MK NOT HAVING IT

MK I LOVE YOU BUT I AM SUCH FEAR RN 

WGBDLS;KFMAWEO 

HE BUSTED THE GORILLA OUT AND I WAS LIKE 

GOOD FOR U MK, NOT SURE HOW MUCH THAT’S GONNA DO 

AND THEN HE FREAKING PUNCHED HALF HIS MECH OFF ARE YOU KIDDING MEBGLKDSFMAOH;IFWME 

NO FR THO MAC’S STONE THIGN ON HIS FACE LOOKIGN LIKE SIX EARS FR 

MK LOOKS SO CONCERNED 

FOR THIS

STUPID MONKEY 

WHO DOES NOT DESERVE HIS CONCERN

AH NO HE’S LAUGHIGN AGAIN WE’RE IN TROUBLE HE’S GONNA DO A JERK MOVE RN AREN’T WE 

H

holy crap

yeah y’all i’m uh 

so Macaque is literally slamming

a kid into the ground

yelling about how monkey king cant’ save them that he doesn’t know what he’s doing UH

AND THEY’RE JUST WATCHING THIS

UM 

LOOKS AT MEI

I KNOW UR 

UH

HEY BUT

CAN U 

UM

SOMEONE UH

WOW

MACAQUE IS UH

WOW YOU UH

YOU AREN’T COMING BACK FROM THIS ONE BUD, WHAT HE’S DOING IS UNECCISARY AND CRUEL AND JUST AWFUL AWFUL THIS IS UH 

YIKES 

“Stay down or i will put you down” I HATE THAT HE STILL SOUNDS SO FREAKING HONEST AS HE SAYS THIS, I HATE HIM FOR REAL RIGHT NOW, LIKE YOU GUYS, HE’S AWFUL 

NOTHIGN LIKE WATCHING YOUIR BEST FRIEND GET BELITTLED IN FRONT OF YOU, SLAMMED INTO THE GROUND REPEATEDLY, AND THREATENED TO GET YOU ANGRY 

UM 

YEAH THANK YOU MEI 

I FEEL A LOT BETTER RIGHT NOW THAT UM

MK’S NOT ALONE ACTUALLY 

Just thinking about all the times Macaque’s done this stuff to him (not this extreme but still holy crap) and he’s just been alone alone alone n h

I’M SO CONCERNED FOR MEI RIGHT NOW BUT I’M SO GLAD SHE’S THERE 

yeah she’s uh

she’s there but out for the count i’m just glad she’s there fr fr 

AGH MK JUST ON THE GROUND

THE WAY MAC JUST DITCHES THE MECH 

HE’S A HORRIBLE AWFUL PERSON WITH ANOTHER HORRIBLE AWFUL PERSON THREATENIGN HIS LIFE AND I AM AH YIKES 

TANG STILL STEPPING IN FRONT OF MEI TO PROTECT HER FROM SOMETHING THAT BEAT UP MK RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM I’M 

H 

HE IS JUST

HOLY CRAP

HOLY CRAP 

THIS IS ACTUALLY SCREAMING  “I DON’T WANT TO DO THIS” TO ME RN, BUT HE IS SUCH A JERK 

THE FIRST NAME BASIS IS REALLY GETTING TO ME 

I’M 

wait

did he just

did he for real just

put mei

in the middle

of the circle 

of the

between the rings

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA OH YOU’RE SCREWED MONKEY 

Mans just wants out of a situation he was partially responsible for putting himself in because of past decisions but also it’s rough when you hit rock bottom and someone worse comes to take advantage of you but my gods macaque you’re the worst 

wow

WOW

Tang doesn’t even know what he’s doing 

DOES MACAQUE EVEN REALIZE WHAT HE JUST PUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CIRCLE

PROBABLY NOT 

HOLY CRAP 

I’m not over the fact that like uh

the one time we seem him closer to himself, uh is when he’s fighting Mk, when mk thinks he has the upper hand and Macaque laughs. It’s the most comfortable, the most when he sounds like himself is when he’s beating the crap out of Mk. And that’s awful, that’s horrible that’s terrifying. That that is what’s comfortable and familiar to him 

I am horrified

oh my gosh 

I’M

YIKES

THAT WAS

I’M HAVING A MAJOIR CRISIS’S ALL OVER THE PLACE RN 

MACAQUE REALLY JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE AND THERE’S NO CHANCE OF HIM GETTING BETTER BECAUSE OF HIS CURRENT SITUATION AND 

HH

WOW

UH

ALRIGHT

SO

I GUESS LETS GO SEE MEI GET POSSESSED OR MERGE WITH THE FIRE OF SAMADHI AND HOPEFULLY KICK THE CRAP OUTTA MACAQUE OR AT LEAST SCARE HIM OFF 

UM 

I AM SO CONCRERNED SHE’S NOT GONNA BE FULLY MEI AFTER THO UH 

HAHAH OH BOY HERE WE GO

SEE YOU GUYS IN A BIT WITH PART 2 

[pleaseshutupaboutsatou]

your art is sooo incredibly inspiring i absolutely love your lineart, composition, coloring, etc. you are so amazingly good at what you do!!! i only watched ajin s1 but your work motivates me to read the whole series. if i may ask, would you ever share insight on your artistic process? like how you prepare your idea for an illustration or comic and see it through to the end? anyway im convinced you deserve so much more attention, your art is so lovely to look at! thank you for sharing it.

Thank you, I really appreciate your kind words. I highly recommend reading the manga if you've seen the anime. They both sort of start on the same footing but over time the manga goes in this totally different direction that's very rich and colors the characters more deeply. It's been a while since I've seen the anime but I want to say it's defined more by events while the manga is more character-centric and really dives into the motivations and feelings of the characters.

On my main art blog (@cloverdraws), which you might not be aware, I have provided some insight into my comics process here ☺: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/cloverdraws/684198040768217088?source=share

I post my non-Ajin stuff there and also reblog my Ajin stuff over there after some time has passed and I remember to.

However, I wouldn't breaking down how I tried to come up with stuff for Ajin week since it's a little more different and simpler:

So I start off by having this document with a bunch of panels I made to plan and feel around for ideas.

I have different panels like this with different dimensions. Usually the piece will fit. It's a pretty big document but not so big that my tablet or computer can handle it okay. These are the dimensions of the document I use atm.

Anyway, I sketch out ideas. For Day 5 I had blue, social media and ajin in diff countries. I decided to draw a blue Izumi drawing or a group pic of the Maryland Ajin.

As I draw, my sketch begins to loosen up and more ideas come

In the end, I decide to go with the top center because I like the attitude of it. Usually if I'm really going to make a nice illustration, I would blow up the thumbnail and then sketch but I was pressed for time so I decided to work at the same dimensions as my thumb which is pretty decent size anyway.

I do line art. For this one I chose 'The Robin Sketcher' a nice grainy pencil-like brush I got via Clip Studio Assets. Lately I've gotten pretty comfortable with it.

It's really fun to add pools of black with this brush so that's what I do.

I block in colors that seem to fit with each other. The blue bg is added later and is a bit bright but it's because I like the contrast and I plan to darken it with a gradient and some texture. Also, this picture is me toggling the visibility of layers so you don't see the whole process, but here I also added a little color to the face, knees and other places. You don't see it well but her hair behind the lines in her hair is kind of green, working with the black imho.

I add more details like some darkness behind the crates, some shapes to the poster and the texture/gradient for the bg I was mentioning. I also added her name tag because she had that in canon and I thought it would be a fun detail to add her surname at the time, 'Tanaika'

Finally I do some pretty simple shading with a round brush and later soften it in strategic places but also try to keep the harder edges too. It's your standard 50% multiply layer.

The color feels a little flat, so I find adding a gradient adds some dimension. I also made this gradient normal at ~50% starting from the bottom to homogenize the bottom with some blue and draw our eyes to her face

Then I play around with layers and filters to strengthen the blue and the feeling I want to convey with this picture

I don't like to go crazy with the filters but this is what I used:

I then Save As a copy and make this drawing it's own file so I don't overload my thumbnail file. In the end this drawing came out to a decent-size dimension and I really loved how it turned out.

[randomstarmuffin]

My @runefactorysecretsanta​ gift for ya_boi_nye is finally done!! Hope I did your favorite characters justice!! :)

Happy holidays!!!! I don’t want to take up too much room so I’m going to throw some rambling and extras under the cut lol

So I don’t think nye has a tumblr, but on their twitter i saw that they were into VTube and youtaite and i wanted to incorporate that in their gift somehow. Unfortunately.... the characters are kind of all already anime??? So drawing-wise, i figured it would be more fun to go with a more general YouTuber AU so I could put in some variety rather than just stills of singing or badly rendered 3D models (by which i am throwing shade on myself alone, VTube rigs are sick but i regrettably have no 3D skills lol)

I’ve actually,,, never played Frontier at all, so I apologize if anyone is wildly out of character!! The wiki is extremely sparse and I didn’t have time to watch too too much of the let’s play i found, so if they’re not right just chalk it up to the YouTuber ~performance~ aspect of this AU lmao.

Even though I’ve never played before and don’t know the characters Super well though, I still had a lot of fun thinking about this AU! If you want to know the specifics of everyone’s content:

Anette does parkour (fun facts, this particular move i drew is called a speed vault!) and a little bit of vlogging, and she’s friends with Erik (as in canon, if I did my research correctly lmao). She sometimes appears on his channel and vice versa, and he helps her film and edit and stuff sometimes. She lives and works with Mist and Rosetta and helps out with their online boutique. Mist is the idea woman who comes up with crazy stuff, Rosetta is the realist and bookkeeper who pulls those ideas together into something feasible and profitable, and Anette handles all the packaging and shipments and stuff! There’s always something weird going on in their apartment and everyone ends up there a lot, so some of Anette’s vlogs get really popular just because of how out there they are lmao. Oh, almost forgot, but her channel is “DeliveryIsFreestyle” bc... get it... free delivery... freestyle parkour / freerunning... Lol actually it was almost going to be “RunTheMail” because i couldn’t think of anything at first so i think this was the right move in the end :P

Erik has a gaming channel where he mostly plays farming and dating sims / otome, and we don’t read too far into whether or not RF exists in this universe for him to play even though I put the posters for frontier on his wall xD. The reason I picked Stardew for this thumbnail specifically is because A) I have it and could easily take screenshots and B) i read that he has a crush on Lara? And she’s like, kind of a nurse? And Maru is kind of a nurse? It’s a silly joke but I thought it would be funny to cockblock him from dating a nurse he has his eyes on even in video gaming with his friends lol. His channel is pretty self-explanatory (I was really hoping his farm would have a fun name when i was looking it up but it’s really just “Erik’s Farm” huh? ...but I probably shouldn’t judge, my dnd character’s wolf is named Wolf xD)

Lute paints!! I think he does a lot of speedpaints and mostly does traditional art, but I think he would have some digital skills hidden up his sleeve as well. And also I don’t know why at all bc I know the least about him out of all 4 of them, but I feel like he has done / does some of those like “how to draw anime” videos because I just think that’s funny. He has a bunch of really popular ones about overly complicated fantasy outfits. No this is not a callout for any series in particular why do you ask? Anyway, I’m not sure exactly how the line goes because I couldn’t find it, but the wiki mentions that he’ll say he’s not doing anything suspicious when he’s painting at the lake, so i thought it would be funny if there’s some kind of running gag with his subscribers where they point out suspicious things he does and he responds in the next video or whatever. The thumbnail I made definitely does just have a screenshot of rff that’s color-corrected and blurred, because I ran out of time but also wanted to differentiate the bg from the canvas ^^;  His channel was originally just “lute” in all lowercase but then i got to the part of the let’s play where he was introduced and he calls himself a “fledgling painter” so i thought this was more fun.

And Eunice has a cooking channel!! She specializes in baking, but she also has a whole playlist along the lines of “Nutritious Food Can Still Taste Good!” where she talks about healthy eating habits but doesn’t buy into diet culture bc I personally HATE diet culture lmao. I think when that gets popular, she also maybe does a side thing about easily accessible workouts for all sorts of people who want to get into shape? But with a focus on getting stronger / being active and Not a focus on Losing Weight necessarily. Promoter of healthy and happy living! I know how her events / dialogue can go in the game, i just happen to have Opinions About Things, so, that’s how she is in my version. Also, unrelated, but she’s very cute. Even though her braids were a bitch to draw hahaha. And i did end up drawing her just in her actual outfit even though i gave everyone else different clothes bc idk it just felt like it fit the aesthetic of a cooking vlog well?? And it’s not a super complicated one unlike others i could mention. Her channel is “Charming Sweets” and her cooking series is “My Cooking” because those are the titles of the books she has on her bookshelf at the start of the game :)

But that’s just all of *my* headcanons for the AU! If anyone else who knows them all better has their own ideas, please be my guest and imagine it however you like!!

Oh, also, fun facts, this is partially a screenshot of my actual web browser, lol, so if y’all want to know what all I have saved on my bookmarks bar and what my google profile pic is, now you know. However, i would like to not downplay how long i spent editing this in what was possibly the least efficient way to put it together how i wanted, rip, which is entirely the reason i am posting this so late LOL. Apologies for the delay, but technically it’s still the 27th here, so! Victory!

(speaking of the layout, did anyone catch the url? I’m disproportionately proud of the url. though i won’t lie part of me really wanted to put the rick roll url there just for my own amusement hahaha)

And, yeah! That’s the end of my spiel. Happy end-of-2020 to all, and an extra helping of that sentiment to nye!!!

[di-kut]

Please give us more backstory! I will eat it up! Even if we don't fully delve into reader's background I would like to know what lead to her meeting Mando! She obviously worked before but what exactly made her turn to crime?? Had she been in trouble before? Like petty theft and stuff? She obviously saw the consequences of her actions but continued on. Why did she side with the Empire first? Was it because that's all she knew? Was it easier than accepting the alternative? Please gimme, gimme!!

Ask and you shall receive! This was originally written to be the beginning (or near the beginning) of this story however it was abandoned long ago. It doesn’t fit the storyline or the mood of the rest of the story very well but... well! Here it is. Thank you @namay for always showing this story so much love and support! 💕

Rated: T 

Summary: A series of paths crossing when our Reader meets the Mandalorian for the first time while working in a mech shop on Batuu. This is not their full backstory but it is a little piece of it. 

Batuu is a warm planet, but that day is a particularly hot one. The suns are beating thick and heavy through the market outside and through the canvas covering over the back room of Staf’s shop. You can hear the sluggish sounds of the day from the street. The crowded street moves like through oil, slick and slow. Three years was enough for you to acclimatise to warmth, but sweat stings your eyes and collects in a salty line alone your top lip. You can hear voices from the front of the shop where you sit, separated by crumbling walls and a curtain. You stare at a light patch against the plaster where Staf had drilled off the old Imperial insignia, listen to the whirring of BG-719 in the shop with the customer. Fight the temptation to close your eyes and lean back against your work bench.

The curtain pushes back. You glance over at the droid as he comes through it, track his progress out of the corner of your eye. He stops in front of your workbench and waits as you place the part you are rewiring down on it.

“There is a Mandalorian here looking for you.”

You stare at BG-719 blankly.

“There’s a – ”

“A what?” You say.

“A Mandalorian.” BG puts his hands up like goal posts. “They are a warrior race native to – ”

“I know what a Mandalorian is.” You lean around him to try and peer into the front room but the curtain has fallen back into place. “What do you mean, there’s a Mandalorian looking for me?”

“It means on the other side of this curtain there is a heavily armoured man with a very large gun who is asking for you.” The droid whirred slightly, a gimmick which has developed into something of a sarcastic sigh in the time you’d known him. “He’s asking for you by name. Not your normal name, it’s a different name. He says you’re the same person.”

You stomach drops. “Are you sure?”

“Well let me just go and check, shall I? I’m sure he’s the kind of man used to repeating himself. Won’t be a minute.” BG-719 drops his hands and turns like he will make good on his threat. You catch him by the arm and haul him backwards. He whirs again as he stumbles. His armature is hot, you think vaguely, you need to talk to Staf about installing a better cooling system in the front for the droids.

“How does he know my name?”

“Your real name? I didn’t even know your real name. I didn’t ask him.”

“What does he want?”

“I didn’t ask him that, either.”

You sigh and drop your hands to your sides. “Great.”

“Do you think he’s here to kill you?” The droid asks.

“I hope not,” you mutter. Can’t really be sure, because you know your bounty doesn’t require you to be alive for the credits. Hope he isn’t here for the bounty but know there is only one way he got your real name. “Kriff.”

“If you would like me to go and question him, I will put in a request now that the repair works on my head after he’s shot me be done by you, and not the WAC units, please.” BG doesn’t move again though. “I don’t think he likes droids.”

“What gave you that idea?”

“He threatened to shoot the WAC units. And me, not that it seems to matter.”

This time you rub your grease covered hands down your face as you sigh. “I won’t let him shoot you.”

“I doubt you’ll have much say in the matter, but I appreciate the sentiment.”

The Mandalorian is waiting for you in the front room when you finally emerge. The WAC units are nowhere to be seen, but there is a hovering durasteel orb which certainly hadn’t been there that morning. The Mandalorian steps in front of it as you approach the back of the counter. His armour glints in the shaded shop, brushed smooth and meticulously maintained. Beautiful, or it would have been if it wasn’t so terrifying. He seems to take up the whole room. Your eyes slip between him and the dome. He just stares at you, or you assume he does, unnerving in his silence. You note the handle of a rifle which peaks over one shoulder, another holster on his thigh. You feel the weight of the small blaster you had tucked into the back of your trousers against you spine. It takes you several long moments to build up the nerve to speak.

“Can I help you?”

He doesn’t move. Doesn’t speak. Just stands there, silent and imposing. You run your gaze the length of his armour, taking stock. You can see catches in the metal, almost invisible indentations. They aren’t poor workmanship, any mechanic worth half a credit would be able to see it, they are buttons. You know enough about Mandalorians to know you don’t want to be in the firing line if he decides to push any of them. You work your jaw, tap against the countertop for something to distract yourself from the buzzing in your fingertips.

“You threatened to shoot the droids,” you say.

His helmet tilts slightly. A nod, maybe – you aren’t sure.

“Well.” Your tapping grows faster.

He just – keeps standing there. Staring. You can’t see his eyes through the visor of his helmet, can’t guess at the shape of him beneath the armour. But you can feel him looking at you, feel the assessment happening beneath the surface. Some sort of conclusion being reached. Your hands twitches towards your blaster.

“Are you here for a repair?” You try. You point at his floating dome. “That, maybe – ”

“That’s fine. That’s not why I’m here.”

You jump. His voice crackles slightly through the vodocor in the helmet, but it is deep and calm. You feel the hairs along your arms stand in response. “Oh. Oh okay. I just – ”

“I’m looking for information.”

Immediately you are wary. You step back from the counter and fold your arms in front of you. “Information about parts?”

“Information about Empire records. You are ex-Empire, aren’t you?” He doesn’t expect an answer. Already knows the answer. You think of the fob somewhere with your name on it. Your face projected in blue above it. Some miniscule number which defines your life’s worth. Traitor. Your punishment for aiding the rebellion. The Mandalorian just stands there, waiting. “I’m trying to find a planet.”

“Maybe you should try a map,” you say. Sharp. Testy.

“The planet I’m looking for isn’t on a map.”

“Sounds like you’re in trouble then.” You lean back against the workbench behind the front counter and uncross your arms. Try not to make it obvious you were thinking about reaching for your blaster. Your heart is beating so fast it almost hurts. “If there’s no mechanic work I can help you with, then I’ll be getting back – ”

He does know your name, as it turns out. Not the name you had told people on Batuu. Not the name BG-719 called you when a customer needed help. Not the name Staf had stared dubiously at on your holochip when you’d given it to him, looking for work, three years ago. Not the name you had boarded ships under, heading for some forgotten planet in the outer rims where you thought the remnants of a dying Empire wouldn’t look for you. You hadn’t heard the name the Mandalorian calls you in years, but it feels like dropping out of hyperspace too fast when you hear it through the modulator in the empty shop on Batuu.

You know, suddenly, even if you manage to get to your blaster first there was no way you’d beat him. “What do you really want?”

“I’m not here to turn you in for the reward, if that’s what you’re asking.” The Mandalorian says. “I don’t do Guild work. Anymore.”

“So.” You grip your hands together so hard your knuckles turn white. “What do you want?”

“I’m trying to find a planet.”

.

You don’t know the planet he needs. Have never heard of anything like it. But you worked for the Empire, and on Batuu, and you hear things. You tell him about a small planet on the edge of the outer rim, close to the unchartered territory. Tell him there is an alien there who may be able to help him, untouchable by even the Empire and the Republic before that. A keeper of reliquaries and ancient knowledge. You tell him you only handled weapons orders for the Empire and you don’t know anything about finding lost, ancient planets. But that maybe this alien will. You send him with a warning to be careful and feel silly for it the second it leaves your mouth. He tilts his helmet, and you think he is amused beneath it. He offers you a small bag of credits. You refuse it.

“Why?” He asks.

“Didn’t really do anything, did I?” You shrug, keep wiping down a greasy piece of engine.

He stares at you, this time you see the helmet move as he scans you up and down. And then he is gone. You think you will never see him again. And your life goes on in much the same way as it had. You rise before the suns can begin to bake the ground hard and make your way to Staf’s shop. BG-719 doesn’t mention again that the name the Mandalorian had given for you was not the name you went by, and the whole thing is better forgotten. You wonder, one day weeks after meeting him, if he had ever found his planet. And when you dream that night you dream of gleaming armour somewhere deep in space, of death and blood and the smell of smoke. The next morning you try your best to forget it.

It is almost two months later when he reappears. Is inexplicably leaning against the wall outside the shop before it opens. The street is pale in the early morning light, and in the grey he looks almost like a ghost. You stop before him, close enough that you could touch the Beskar if you wanted. He just watches you, the same as before. There’s the scoring of recent blaster fire on his chest plate. He seems otherwise exactly as you remember him. Calm. You stay there, toe to toe outside the shop. You don’t say anything and neither does he. You just punch in the code to the shop and stand back, hold out your arm to gesture for him to go in first. He stares at you a moment longer, like he is trying to place some thought, and then steps out of the street. You pause at the door behind him. And then you follow him inside.

“He’s back.” BG is powered up and looks at you accusingly around the bulk of the Mandalorian.

“I know,” you say.

“Why is he back?”

“None of your business,” the Mandalorian snaps.

BG whires in distinct irritation, picks up his tray of parts and sets them down firmly on the front counter. The Mandalorian’s hand twitches over his gun and you roll your eyes. “I’m not leaving,” BG-719 says. Incensed.

“You don’t have to. If any work comes for me just leave it out the front, I’ll come and get it in a while.”

“Trust me,” the droid has begun to aggressively unscrew a broken piping cover from what looked like a shot hyperdrive. “I won’t be coming near him.”

“Good,” The Mandalorian says as he follows you through the curtain.

You pull out a measly breakfast from the shelving unit in the back room. Your tiny quarters in the block of rented rooms further back from the main streets of the market come only with a bed and a toilet, and barely enough room for that. And Staf didn’t seem to mind you keeping some personal items out the back, so. You stare down at the wrapped fruit and dense bread and then offer them unsurely up to your companion. You aren’t sure if he can eat in front of you, but it feels too rude not to ask. He shakes his head and leans back against one of the walls, crosses his arms in front of him.

“So,” you sit at your workbench. Start into your breakfast.

The Mandalorian tilts his helmet ever so slightly. “I have a job for you, Gotabor.”

“I don’t want work. I have a job.” You tear a piece of bread off the loaf and chew it slowly. Narrow your eyes at what you can sense is a name. A title maybe, from the way he says it. The word is unfamiliar. “I’m not supposed to take under the counter jobs. Staf doesn’t like it.”

“It’s just once.” The Mandalorian pushes off from the wall and walks towards you. Pulls out a holodisk from the pack strapped to his side and holds it out for you. You can’t see his eyes, that hasn’t changed, but you can still feel the lifting sensation along your shoulders of his eyes on you. When you don’t take it from him and places it down on the only clear part of the bench, right next to your breakfast. “Can you get into this?”

You eye the disk. “That’s Pre-Empire records.”

“I know.”

“Super illegal.”

He tilts the helmet again. You think he might be laughing at you, is he hadn’t been so still. He sounds like he’s smiling. “No Empire anymore.”

You know you shouldn’t ask. You should just give the thing back to him. You should ask him to leave. But. “What is it?”

“I don’t know.” He backs up until he is against the wall again. Leans back, crossed his arms and sits into one of his hips, crosses his legs at the ankles. “That’s why I’m here.”

“And here I thought it was for BG’s company.”

You aren’t surprised when he doesn’t laugh. You pick up the disk, inspect it briefly, and put if back down. You shake your head at him. “I don’t want another job,” you say, but you haven’t looked away from the disk. The Mandalorian doesn’t say anything. He just lets you sit there and wrestle with your better judgement. You look at the disk, then back to him, and then down to the disk again. “This is a bad idea. You know some of these had trackers in them.”

He still just infuriatingly stands there.

“I might not even be able to get into it. I never dealt with the Pre-Empire stuff. That was a different level of classified.”

Silence.

“And there’s all sorts of ancient coding and programming in this. I mean look at it. It’s a relic.”

The Mandalorian shrugs his shoulder slightly, rolls them back. A silent yawn.

You groan and swing out of your chair. “I’m not doing this,” you mutter. You dig around in the mess of found parts and tools. You will have to make something to hook the old Republic system up to a holopad, so you could read in the information. You toy with the idea of trying to just convert the file system onto a new holodisk, but you aren’t even sure how the data output would work. “I’m not doing this.”

“How long will it take?” The Mandalorian asks.

You throw your hands into the air. Wave the tools you were collecting at him. “I’m not helping you.”

“I have to get supplies. My ship is running low.” He moves towards the curtain, places a small bag of credits on the table. “This is for last time as well.”

“You might want to move your ship to long term docking,” you ignore the credits. “I’m assuming you have a ship.”

“It’s already in long term docking,” he calls as the curtain swings back into place.

You click your tongue against the roof of your mouth. It should be in irritation, but you can’t stop the small smile. Shake your head. “Confident.”

He returns late that night, after the droids had powered down. You had planned to be home already. But he finds you there anyway, hunched over your work table in the back room. He lips under the curtain into the dimly lit room and lowers himself into the chair opposite you. You don’t look up from the work you are doing, two pliers in your hands, holding back wiring from the inside of the old holodisk. It isn’t as complicated as you had suspected, but it would be slow and tedious work to extract the information without corrupting the whole disk. The Mandalorian watches you for some time, so still that you think maybe he had fallen asleep.

“I hope you didn’t break that lock on the way in, Mandalorian.”

“I didn’t, Gotabor.”

You hum sceptically, continue to work. Ignore the new name. “I think I can do this. But I’m not sure. I’ve never done this before, not with a disk this old.” You cast a glance over towards the silent warrior. “It’s still gonna take time.”

He nods and leans back into the chair. Shuffles to get comfortable and seems content to just sit. You watch him, take him in, hulking in the tiny room, seemingly completely at ease. You are surprised how easy you feel with him. How comfortable. You feel him watching you back and wonder if he is thinking the same. You break and look away, shake your head. Return to trying to piece apart the holodisk in front of you. You see his helmet tip back out of the corner of your eye. He strikes his legs out straight in front of him and crosses them. You scoff slightly and settle into your work. You stay there together late into the night.

.

It takes you three weeks to finish the task the Mandalorian has given you. The days are reserved for your work at the shop. Staf visits you to check up, he takes his time going through inventory with you. Checking through the WAC unit work. He doesn’t bring up the Mandalorian until the end of his visit, when you are standing alone in the front room. Staf is a small man, wiry with something of a gut, and no hair. He is missing an ear from what looked like blaster fire, but you had never asked. It wasn’t the kind of thing your asked about on Batuu.

“I heard there’s been a Mandalorian coming in,” he says. You feel your arm jolt at the comment, but do your best to keep your hand steady screwing a bolt out of a fuel covering. You shrug, can’t tell from his tone whether he is suspicious or not. Know he is paranoid about you skimming the tills. “Mandalorian’s get talked about, you know.”

“His ship is busted,” you decide to play dumb. Not mention the holodisk.

“And he doesn’t want it worked on at the yard?”

You shrug again. “He doesn’t like droids.” You hope that lie will cover it. You have not asked the Mandalorian where his ship is, what kriffing model it is. You wish you had thought to now. “It’s mostly the hyperdrive anyway. Unwired it, brought it in. I thought he was gonna shoot BG.”

“He pay good money?”

So it was the money. You feel the relief instantly. You aren’t sure exactly why you are so worried about Staf finding out about the disk. Not sure what you’re protecting yourself from, the Mandalorian from. Staf doesn’t care about Empire laws, defunct after the collapse and never really enforced in the out rim besides. But whatever instinct which had told you to trust the Mandalorian told you not to spread knowledge of the disk. You don’t even really debate the lies before they start.

“It’s alright. I figure a guy like that can afford to pay a bit above average though. With all the Beskar. Looks real new.” You finally get the rusted screw loose, drop it into the tray on the counter. “He gave me credit chips. Here.”

You step out the back. Have to close your eyes and breathe for a moment before you retrieve the bag of credits. You dig around for the bag of credits he’d left there, glad now you had never moved them or given them back to the Mandalorian. You push back through the curtain and toss the bag to Staf and let out a shaking breath. Your hands are miraculously steady as you retrieve your fuel covering and begin on removing the next screw. Staf makes some sort of pleased noise and you hear him pull the drawstring of the bag closed again.

“Well you just tell that Mandalorian he can bring in any part of the ship he likes. You know what, if he wants, if he doesn’t like the droids are the yard that bad,” Staf rubs a hand over his jaw, “you just tell him we can send you out there to work on it for him.”

You look at your employer. He’s pocketing the bag of credits and rubs his bony hands together. “You know I don’t like working out of the shop.”

“You will for money like this. I’ll give you a cut.”

You shake your head, make a show of being unimpressed. Staf walks around the shop a few more times, patting the jingling purse of credits in his pocket all the while, whistling a tuneless song and not listening to anything else you say. You even bring up a cooler for the droids and he makes some noncommittal answer. He doesn’t stay long afterwards.

Later, when it is dark again, the Mandalorian returns. He sits in his usual place across from you, has his hovering durasteel dome with him. You want to ask about it but resist the urge. The Mandalorian is more relaxed, lets you get close enough to it to touch. You have barely finished your work from the shop, but he has brought you food from the stalls in the market. A spiced meat and a tough, flat bread. They are warm still, and delicious. He assures you he ate before coming.

“Eat, Gotabor.” He insists.

“What does that mean?”

“Eat? It means put the food in your mouth, chew and swallow.”

You shoot him a look. “Not that.”

“It means Engineer.” He says. He has his feet stretched out again, propped now on a box of spare parts. Seems tired. He had cleaned the armour after the first day he had reappeared, so it had been free of wear and the signs of blaster fire. But it sports new, different marks now. “Eat.”

You do, and you enjoy it. Even think you will ask him which stall he had bought it from. Instead you ask, “How many credits were in that bag?”

“What?”

“In the little bag you gave me. How many were in there?”

“You didn’t look?”

You shove another piece of bread in your mouth and pull the holodisk out from the compartment under the false bottom of your tool drawer. “Didn’t get a chance to.”

“Where is it?”

“Staf – he owns the shop – he came sniffing around because he heard about your visits. There’s a Mandalorian coming in,” you attempt a terrible impression of your employer’s nasal tone. You shrug. “So I told him you were paying me extra to fix the hyperdrive ‘cause you didn’t want the droids at the yard doing it.”

The Mandalorian drops his feet off the box and leans forward in his chair. Braces one of his forearms across his knee. You can feel his gaze again. He’d been in enough times now, not all nights but most, that you know he is studying you with some forcefulness behind it. You get a tingle ripple across your shoulder blades from the attention.

“Where is your ship, by the way?” You have almost finished rewiring an old ship holodisk reader to accommodate the technology sitting on your workbench. It had been a lucky find, one of the droids Staf sent out scavenging brought the whole console back. Pre-Empire. It even had an old Republic logo emblazoned over the top, some old embassy vessel long abandoned. Your mother would have said the force is with you. You were just relieved. It meant you could fix the temperamental wiring in the holodisk and not try to extract the information. Not risk corrupting it. “I should probably know,” you continue. “Since apparently now I am fixing your hyperdrive, if anyone asks. Staf said I could go work at the ship in the yard after I gave him the bag, so I figure there was probably a bit in it.”

“You just gave it to him?”

You can’t place if he sounds relieved or angry. Maybe somewhere in the middle. Certainly sounds disbelieving. “Yes? I figure it’s the best way to keep his nose out of your business.”

The Mandalorian shakes his head. “And now you’re coming to work on my ship?”

“I don’t want to.”

“Thanks.”

“No offence. I don’t like working out of the shop.”

The Mandalorian hums quietly and relaxes back into his chair. “Why did you give him the credits? Did he ask about them?”

“No. He asked about you.” You inspect your work carefully. Bite into the bread again and put it to the side. You still have your goggles around your neck and you pull them up over your eyes. Tuck a spare rag up underneath the bottom edge of them to protect the lower half of your face. The soldering required was small and quick, and the final touch to finishing. Soon it won’t matter if Staf sent you off to the Mandalorian’s ship, because it would be long gone and his holodisk with it. “There.”

“Why not tell the truth?” The Mandalorian asks. You pull the rag down. “That is going to catch fire.”

“I’m careful.”

You pull the goggles down as well and hold your work up to the light for a last check. Twist it back and forth before giving a small satisfied nod. The charges should all match, the circuit is closed. Everything was where it needed to be.

“Why not tell him the truth?” The Mandalorian asks again.

You replace the covering on the reader. “I don’t know. Seemed like a bad idea. I figured the less people who know the better.” The holodisk fits perfectly into the waiting slot. You pull it back out again and find the portable generator under your bench. Plug the reader in. You hold your breath as it flickers to like. The projector unit at the top takes longer, whirring slowly until finally a rim of blue lights around it. You hold the disk up to the Mandalorian. “You ready?”

He pushes himself to standing. You insert the disk slowly, heart in your mouth, knowing if it doesn’t work or the system shorts you will be left with nothing but a melted pile of metal and a ruined disk. The whirring is awful. For a few terrible seconds you think it is blown, and then there is a gentle hum and the projector plate flickers to life. Blue light bounces around the tiny room, static balls of light hover through the air, numbers and letters appearing beside them. You scramble for the shop lights, the detail of the projection are too pale to make out, and once you turn them off the projection begins to slowly rotate. The Mandalorian stand the in the centre of the room, a tiny galaxy turning around him.

“It’s a map,” you say together.

You move slowly, weaving through planets and star systems. Each one has a floating label beside it, but in an unfamiliar alien language. There are numbers too, but what they represent you aren’t sure. The Mandalorian has begun pacing, occasionally prodding at some planet or other. Some respond, longer paragraphs of the same alien language appearing beside them, until the Mandalorian touches them again with a gloved finger, and they blip back out of existence. You try the same to some of the planets near you. Nothing gives any signifier of which part of the galaxy you are looking at, which systems. You wander through your floating galaxy for what could be hours, until finally slumping back into your chair.

“Know what it means?” You ask him.

He heaves a heavy sigh. “No. But it’s something.”

“You think one of these is your planet?”

“Maybe. Don’t know.” He presses the power on the projector unit and the tiny galaxy disappears. The room goes black without the floating blue light, and you swear and fumble for the switch. When they flicker on you feel suddenly drained. Are tempted to put your head down on the bench and sleep. It must be well into the early hours of the morning. “I’ll find someone who knows.”

You nod. Too tired to do more.

“It’s time for us to move on.” He says. “We’ve been here too long.”

Your stomach drops. Only hours ago you had been glad at the thought of him leaving, and taking the threat of outsider eyes and Imperial trackers with him, fallen Empire or not. And now you are nervous. “When will you go?”

“Soon as we can. Tomorrow.” He taps the projector unit. “Can I take this?”

“Well, yeah. I’ve got no use for it. It’s for you.”

He nods, rests his hand on top of it. Looks back towards his floating dome. You had forgotten it in the excitement of a breakthrough. He stares at it for what feels like an eternity. And then, “You could come with us.”

You blink at him. “What?”

“I’ll pay your for the work. And I could use someone who knows how to do repairs on the Crest. And this,” he turns away from his dome, back to face you, and taps the projector unit again. “Whatever that piece of Bantha shit boss is paying you I can promise it’ll be more.”

“I – I’m – ” You close your mouth and try to gather your thoughts. “Go with you?”

“Yeah.”

“On your ship?”

“Unless you have your own and want to follow us.”

You spare him a look. “Out there?”

“Sure.”

You stare at your reflection dumbly in the helmet. As dark blur against the shining Beskar. You think about it, briefly. Living on a ship with the Mandalorian. Stuck in there with him, in space. Travelling to strange planets. The centre of attention everywhere you go, next to him. You know the talk circulating the markets on Batuu every day he stays, think of the greedy way Staf pocketed his credits. About the danger. He doesn’t wear his weapons for nothing. Of the new smudges of blaster fire on his chest plate. You shake your head slowly.

“I’m… No.”

He tilts his head. “No?”

“No. I – I mean. I’m sorry. But no.”

He stare6s at you, more intense even that the first time you’d met, so that the tingles which normally live across the backs of your shoulders spread out along your spine and around you ribs. You wonder if he’s ever been denied something like this before. Then wonder if he’s ever asked anyone. You swallow thickly. He shrugs, finally, and you let out a sigh of relief.

“Okay.”

You don’t sleep the rest of the night. You stare at the dark ceiling of your room and strain to hear the sound of a ship taking off in the distance. You hear nothing. He’d walked you back to your room, through the empty market. A quiet walk. When he turns to leave, the last time you know you will ever see him, you almost catch his arm and say you’ve changed your mind. That you do want to come with him. But you don’t. You watch him turn and leave. His hovering dome following behind him. You watch until he turns a corner and is gone.

You lay there until the suns begin to peak over the horizon and colour the world in pale grey. You force yourself back out of bed. Dress slowly. Fold your night things. Make your bed. Pass through the motions of your morning and make your way to the shop with dragging feet.

The droids are still powered down when you arrive, and you leave them, glad for the time alone. You pass into the back room and reach for your breakfast. Slump into your chair. You don’t eat anything. Just wrap it up again and replace it on the shelf. The sounds of early arrivals in the market begins to fill the air around you, the sounds of life continuing on, marching ahead and pulling you with it.

You knock over a nearly empty box and it crashes to the floor. You rub at your forehead and bend to pick it up. The generator is where you left it, under the table, but the projector which you had been keeping on top of it is gone, but you have no time to grieve the loss of the Mandalorian, whose quiet company you realise you looked forward to every night. Because in place of the projector unit there is a gleaming welding mask, staring up at you. You stare at it. Hesitate to reach for it and lift it towards you, crouched on the ground behind your work desk. Something falls from the back of it and lands at your knees with a heavy thunk. You scoff and then find yourself laughing. The sound has an edge of hysteria to it. You pick up the bag of credits. It is bigger than the last one, much heavier. You slip it into your pocket and turn back to the mask. It has a proper strap and padded interior and a switch next to the visor.  

That rag is going to catch fire.

Your eyes well with tears. You know it is from him. Have no idea when he would have found the time to conceal it there. Wonder if the whole night he had been hiding it and placed it there without you noticing, or if he came back later. The mask a work of such fine craftsmanship you do not know where he would have found it on Batuu. It gleams in the brightening early light. It reminds you of the Mandalorian’s Beskar.

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[katzirra]

I’m in a weird sort of mood today.

It’s that whole...study your mind and mental health stage of anger and grief I go through?

I’m just, very tired. Being mentally ill with a behavioral thing versus a chemical imbalance feels different? With a mental jump and behavioral handling thing I just feel like I expend so much energy to just...not be or respond certain ways that I feel like maybe I’m fucking myself up sometimes?

I’m trying to focus on my excitement over my HD. It’s coming this weekend supposedly. That’s 100′s LITERALLY of files, back. So many things I made to make my life easier and art more fun in technical aspects, so many files I was proud of but never polished, so many sketches I wanted to revisit once my abilities leveled up a bit. Plans. Expectations. And when it was gone, I’ve been feeling depression over my art for four years, man. Ouch.

I haven’t had the same work ethic since. But i’m also hesitant to be excited, because I know I’m a workaholic? I use to get yelled at by my friends for hyper focusing because I wouldn’t respond to messages or something because I was so engrossed in a piece... and I’m just... I feel like that’s why I don’t indulge as much is that people don’t give a shit about polished pieces from non big name artists, they judge of content quality AND quantity and a dozen other things and I’m just...

Idk. I enjoy the fucking process. I love taking my time on a piece... half my Hannibal stuff was me ENJOYING the process of lineart, and making patterns. Half my old art is me enjoying the way I can get a piece to match my head, because I wanted to do a new BG like the Coco and Felix piece, or new shading ideas with figuring out Ovid’s coloring or whatever. I just love... figuring shit out and enjoying the process.

I have anxiety about so much in my life at this point, and I just feel like a major disappointment and let down on several topics and I’m just like “Yeah, probably...” I don’t know what to do anymore. Whoo!!

I want to be excited but mm. What if I just make more people mad at me because I withdraw further... What if I just can’t stop fucking up and keep ruining shit and upsetting people. I know my time is mine and I don’t owe it to anyone but... motions softly with hands. Ah.

[tfw-no-tennis]

hunter x hunter thotz so far

soooo ruth and i started watching hunter x hunter woohoo finally! we’re like 10 or so eps in so i decided to collect some thots below on what i think so far (i havent rlly been spoiled so im interested to look back on this once ive watched more)

first off i love gon sm, hes immediately so endearing...hes just a baby!!!! just a little baby boy!!!! hes just so cute and good, im so not ready for him to get put thru the wringer later on as ive vaguely heard happens

the first few episodes were really fast paced which i enjoyed and thought was for the best. the characters came thru really strongly and i feel like we heard juuuust enough about the setting, premise, and what a hunter is 

i wasnt expecting leorio and kurapika to show up in the FIRST EP lmao that surprised me. i love so much how the three of them like IMMEDIATELY became a family unit in like 3 eps lmaoooo it was like ok here are 2 parents and their son bam. also leorio and kurapika having a showdown on the boat (which didnt end up happening) was a wild ride 

i have like zero fucking idea what a hunter is and the more they attempt to explain the more confused i get. its honestly kind of hilarious how little sense it makes. to be clear this doesnt detract from my enjoyment of the show at all (if anything it adds to it)

oh my god fuckgin hisoka is the worst he hasnt done much but i hate him so much already. good villain writing/design so far, hes so hateable

ruth every time hisoka shows up: WE HATE UR PUSSY BIIIITCH 

the character design in this show is....a lot lmao. ruth and i decided its a cross between soul eater, jojo, and one piece in terms of aesthetic. the designs are certainly unique and so many of them are just so ugly hvbjafdbdskgs it reminds me of that post thats like ‘masterpost of jojo characters who look busted as shit’ lmao

i already love this show a lot tbh like the way its structured so far has been kinda atypical for a shounen, at least in terms of fights - we really havent seen a lot of fighting yet. also nen hasnt shown up yet and its reminding me of stands not becoming a thing in jojo until p3 lmao 

anyways in litrally ep1 i already loved the 3 main characters we saw...leorio is a wild dude, i love him sm, especially as a fellow medical binch who wants MONEY. like, thats literally me. and kurapika is also wild, like damn they rlly just dropped their backstory in ep 1 huh. like we rlly are jumping right into this 

also when leorio said he was a teenager i was like WHAT???? just like evryone else which YEA omfg. i cant believe hes that young lmao. kurapika too

so leorio is one of those 19 yr olds who looks 40 and kurapika is the type of teen who looks like a 12 yr old

and KILLUA i love him sm also....hes an adorable assassin catboy and hes perfect. i love how quickly he and gon hit it off (tiny bfs.....) and how hes just like, this extra as hell 12 yr old with a SKATEBOARD and ASSASSIN SKILLS and then he sees gon and is like guess im gonna fall in love 

i gotta talk abt gon again i just love him. hes so polite and cute and kind and good, i just love him...wht a good protag. his motivation is just wild too, hes like well my dad abandoned me to go off and be a hunter (which he isnt even mad abt, what a nice lad) so im gonna do that to see what the deal is

i love how gon (just like the audience) doesnt really know what a hunter does/is and just goes into the exam totally blind lmao. also the fact that his skills seem to include jumping good, being speedy, having the energy typical of a 12 yr old, being a weather sniffer, being nice, and having good instincts/constitution as a result of having eaten random grass and forest shit growing up...amazing. 

is this gonna turn out to be one of those things where its like, wow theyve been using nen this whole time without realizing! tht would honestly explain a lot lmao 

i really enjoy how like....semi-normal the power levels are rn? while also being all over the place and wack as fucks obvs (like hisoka dissolving that guys arms in his first appearance was A Lot, as well as all the card stuff hes done..). like the part wher that blue guys (evil franky one piece) punches the ground and it leaves a crater and everyones like !!!! wow wtf thats unnatural! that literally threw me off bc that kinda thing is so normal in anime lmaoooo. but i like that thats the starting point bc it leaves a lot of room for power escalation w/out it getting too out of hand 

specifially our protags are starting out pretty low on the Shounen Badass scale - especially gon (and leorio, tho i kinda predict he wont be as fight-y? what with him being premed)

i find it kinda hilarious how killua hasnt done too much (aside from murdering those 2 randos in like half a second) despite being so clearly skilled...like when they have to do the 5v5 fight thing in the tower, i wouldve thought hed be the first up cause hes so badass but nope

actually thats what i find interesting - i was expecting all 5 (or maybe 4, we’re in the middle of leorio’s ‘fight’) of the fights to be physical smackdowns but so far nope, theyve been very cerebral. that bodes well, w/how smart the fights have been, bc i doubt the fights will get stale tht way 

tho they might be kinda frustrating sometimes - there are times when u DO just wanna see a good ole fashioned shounen beatdown yknow. but we do get enough of that now (and im sure we’ll get plenty more) to satisfy (like kurapika decking fake-franky) 

oh also the opening. its so charming and cute and i love the song...its also so hilariously basic and classic - like one of those typical 2000s anime openings where theres stock run cycles of all the main characters and theres a little animation of all the characters fighting together (and that fight doesnt actually happen, its just for the op) 

also love that leorios the only one who doesnt fight in the OP, instead getting saved from death by gon lmao. im curious if he’ll end up fighting at all (i assume a little?) and if he’ll use nen (probably healing type nen?) 

also i already wanna fistfight ging for abandoning his perfect angel son. also leorio is literally gons dad already, they even look alike wow 

that guy hanzo has done basically 0 things so far but i rlly like him already, im curious if thatll change. also sorry for calling u ‘hanzo overwatch!?!?!?!’ upon first viewing my guy 

tonpa is str8 up so annoying pls leave u pathetic loser 

tho it cracked me up when he and Evil Mr Clean were facing off and starting getting all detailed/shaded and i was like o shit is he actually badass. are we abt to see like a nen battle or st. but no....lmaooo

i found it interesting that leorio didnt really admit to wanting to be a dr at first...hes such a good dude, he kinda just let kurapika think that his motives were superficial and greedy when in actuality theyre selfless

also wanting to be rich can be a rlly interesting character motivation and i love when its done right

oh my god i cant believe it took me this long to mention the hilariously edge ED....like holy shit, its so 2000s, the song sounds like its been re-recorded like 40000 times bc of how bad the audio quality is, or something, idk how to describe music but its hilariously specific in tone and its rlly funny to see shots of the main characters smiling while this screamo whatever plays in the bg....wow. 

also s/o to killua for being king of edgy with that ‘tear of blood’ shot

i rlly like how much of the plot, especially the early hunter exam stuff, is moved along simply by gon being a good kind polite boy. 

love the fact that he and leorio and kurapika (and later killua) all team up without even saying anything...i love that, most shounen would have them be like ‘che, i cant team up with anyone, i have to prove myself ALONE or my victory wont be EARNED’ or w/e idk. who knows that might happen later but rn i love how they all effortlessly work together (and how they all contribute - without each other they would have all failed at different points) 

oh man also killuas first appearence was so funny when he drank a bunch of tonpas poisoned drinks and was like [smirks] tch, loser, im immune to poison. get dunked on. [skateboard away] i love him so fuckgin much 

omfg that part where killua looks all shoujo/kawaii and is talking abt how hes gonna kill his family or w/e and gon is just like ^_^? i love they

HOOOOLY FUCK I ALMOST FORGOT, BUT 65% OF THE REASON I MADE THIS POST WAS TO MENTION HISOKAS THEME LMAOOOOO his music being like fuckgin, spanish guitar/traditional mexican type music is sooooo goddamn funny to me for some reason, like the first time it played i was like ok whats going ON with this spanish guitar lmao but then i figured out that its his theme and god thats so funny 

hisoka is also so fuckign jojo like he could so easily be in jojo. he and dio would be the fakest best friends ever and would constantly try to kill each other on the lowdown and shittalk each other constantly in private but be super sweet to each others faces. also they would hatefuck. no im not taking criticism bye 

i rlly love everyones backstories also, and i find it interesting that weve gotten to hear/see at least some of all 4 of the MCs backstories. theyre all compelling and interesting and i cant wait to dive in further 

also calling it now but kurapika is totally gonna get way too absorbed in revenge and get fucked up/disregard their own life (maybe in the style of robin in one piece?) we’ll see but i feel like it aint gonna end well. i could be wrong, i really havent been spoiled at all, thats just my guess 

hbahjfbshjf the ep that was called ‘hisoka x is x sneaky’ was SO funny that reads like a dora the explorer ep title 

also i had no idea the ep titles were formatted like that w/the x’s and thats rlly funny 

ok but the part where leorio - who seems to be pretty bad at fighting - tries to fight hisoka - whose literal first appearence involved him effortlessly dissolving a dudes arms - is so fucking funny. leorio rlly b a premed w/no brain cells....same bro. 

also i loved the Cutthroat Kitchen portion of the hunter exam and how not a single contestant was any good at it lmaoooo. do they not have the cooking channel in hxh-verse earth 

ok i love how the main characters are all intuitive in different ways depending on their own skills, like how killua can immediately guess that kurapika has never killed anyone before after they didnt kill evil-franky

kurapika joined killua in the Edgy Corner during that part also. like, they both have legit reasons to be edgy, but the shots of kurapika sitting in the darker tunnel part was kinda funny

also killua, a literal 12 yr old, calling out kurapika for being a murder virgin was pretty hilarious 

ok also i didnt know that madhouse animated hxh which is rlly funny but w/e i love the animation especially the occasional chibi parts and the facial expressions (like killuas ‘i love murder’ catboy expressions) 

oh also when killua murdered those 2 guys and his hand was all vein-y and his nails were pointy, his hands looked like hisokas do...i wonder if thats a legit connection or it hisoka just b getting his nails did 

kurapika talking abt how even seeing a regular spider makes them rlly angry was both very sad and kinda funny. kura u have so many issues god bless 

kurapikas smackdown on evil blue franky was fuckin dope tho. and the red eyes reveal was SPOICY 

rlly love how the individual fights highlights the characters strengths/morals/motivations/whatever....the writing is already really strong tbh 

ugh ok ive ranted enough this is a Lot lmao its so disorganized but w/e 

basically i love this series so far and im rlly curious whatll happen next. also everything seems pretty chill and upbeat so far (relatively) and i know this shit gets dark and im NOT FUCKING READY. 

til next timeeee

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Introduce yourself I am Lonneke! But online I prefer going by the name Rumii. I am currently 20 years old and I live in the Netherlands. In my spare time I like drawing (of course), Cosplaying and Gaming. I used to be really into anime, And I still have favourites like Kamisama hajimemashita, Black butler and hetalia. But right now I am more of an artist/ gamer. In which I play alot of Overwatch, which would be my main fandom. and Story rich games like NieR; Automata. I love meeting new people, and especially other artists. Even though I tend to be a bit shy at first //especially in large groups Nonetheless I hope we can get along!! And Im very excited to try out zines. as I have never done them before. When did you start drawing? Are you a digital or traditional artist? I started drawing in last grade of primary school, so around the age of 11/12. I primarily started out traditionally, but quickly picked up on digital art. Mainly using MS Paint when I just started out. Next thing I know I had a drawing tablet and extensively used Paint tool SAI. So I would say I am a digital artist. Though I do traditional as well, but I don't upload traditional art as much.  Do you use any traditional mediums? If so, which are your favorites? I have! for traditional work I just use whatever pencils I have around for sketching. Micron fineliners for Linearting. I don't color my works often, but have started getting some copic markers, pro markers and twin markers to try out. I like using the copic markers alot, they are very expensive.. but I can just feel how much better the quality is compared to my other markers.

image source: [X]   Why do you prefer traditional over digital? (or viceversa) I highly prefer digital, mainly because it's way more easy to manipulate your works, edit any smaller mistakes without having to draw them over again. and from lineart on, nothing you do is permanent. Plus I can use way more colors than I can on traditional mediums right now. What do you think is the most challenging part about being a traditional/digital artist? I think the biggest challenges for me were getting accustomed to my drawing tablet. I mean it really takes some time to get used to the pressure, and it really feels different than draiwng directly on paper. and after that getting familiar with the drawing programs. I just switched programs again and I am still figuring out all the tools. So even though I think digital mediums make things alot more easy, it takes a long time to get everything out of it. even years later you can discover a function you never knew of. which will elevate your art even more. What inspires your pieces? I take inspiration from various places, I like doing challenges, or just fanart. but also alot from music. it can get me into a certain mood or I can just see a piece that fits with the music. and then try sketching it out while listening to this song. I also like looking around for special things like 'mermay' for example. Look at the themes and just try to imagine what kind of piece I can do with that.

image source: [X]   Explain your "everyday" drawing process I kinda take I gotta explain how I get through an artwork? well, first of course I try to find my inspiration. Or I already have a vague idea of what I want to do. And I make a super super rough sketch. then I go over it and add slightly more details. My sketches are still usually very messy. but I love that when I lineart I can make everything pretty and detailed. and it looks better compared to the sketch. Which is obviously my next step. After that I lay down base coloring in seperate layers. Always starting with skincolor > Haircolor > eyes > bigger parts of clothes > smaller parts of clothes > details If I have background I try to go with the biggest parts like the sky or ground or whatever first. and move up from bigger to smaller things pretty much. I work very organized so I always have my layers in different maps. Usually one for each character, and for the entire BG. sometimes also different ones for different parts of the background. so it's easy to find back if I have to fix something in a certain part of my artwork. Besides this I also sometimes do more painted works, I have only done those in portraits so far. But in those I made the sketch > put colors below it > merge layers > start the shading part by part on top of it. usually working back to front on which colors overlap eachother Do you have an artist you admire (or more than one)?

I have a few people I know that inspire me, like Chance-To-Draw on DA ( https://www.deviantart.com/chance-to-draw ) And my best friend of mine who doesn't really upload her works anywhere anymore ;;-;; So I can only admire her through our discord server >< I also love Lord_Gris (https://www.instagram.com/lord_gris/) alot! And Rosuuri (https://www.instagram.com/rosuuriart/) ofc those are a few well-known artists. I follow alot more people with amazing art but gosh I can't possibly list all of them here >< I just like seeing a variety of different art styles and OC's Is there an artwork you are most proud of? Why? Right now I'd say this one; http://fav.me/dd4acw5 I just..love how the coloring turned out. this was a really hard painted piece to do aaa >< especially her hair. But Im just so happy with it! I really feel like I have been improving my coloring again lately and I can't get enough of it jgkdhf

Do you listen to music (or tv shows/films/anything else) when drawing? YEees, I listen to vocaloid covers alot, actually. also covers from other things. just..alot of covers. or original fanbase songs ahah A few examples here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwMZhdyZHVI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNoy_b_JYU0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPMhkIiapIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPw-0vctJJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tr014nQ4pk

image source: [X]   What makes art interesting for you? For me it started alot as a way to vent my emotions. It calms me down to draw when I am sad, angry or happy even. I love being able to look back and see the improvement. and know that in 2 years I will once again look back at the stuff I am currently very proud of. and know I can already do so much better than that! This is really what keeps it interesting to me, I think. What do you do when art block strikes? //Cry// Jk, To be honest. I either try to break through and search for any inspiration. Or I just call it a day and go game or listen to music. In the last 1.5/2 years I have had a massive art block. I was dissapointed in my own art. didn't know what to draw anymore. and didn't see the point of continuing. Just recently I found a new art program. which in this case helped me get out of this huge slump. and I'm ready to be a bit more active. and get into new projects and broaden my horizon's in general What’s the most valuable art advice you’ve ever received?

Well, I haven't asked for alot of advice before. but a while ago I sortof got the advice to use references more often. After which I feel alot less afraid to do so. and feel like my works are getting alot better. and I find it easier to start on things after searching for pose or background refs

[durifmdarchived]

guess who’s back,, back again. ah yes, it is, once again, anthony! i decided that i really needed to revive my entire smol son, duri. just this time around, he’s older, and in the form of one of the lomls, choi minho! oh and also now the main vocalist 1 of knight (because c’mon, my ass is so in love with exo like when i was still high after my colonoscopy on friday, i told my family i was gonna go home and listen to exo,, so now we know who fully owns my entire ass.)  anyways ! we’re going to move on from that and get right until it! here is duri’s biography, profile, and plots! 

just a friendly reminder that under the cut, there will be mentions of post-traumatic stress disorder, car accident, parental death, and anxiety! any bullet point that deals with any four of these topics will have the tw at the beginning! 

duri was born on december 25th 1990 to two young college students, oh jangmi & park seah, in incheon, south korea. even though they did something rather irresponsible, the two of them were still very responsible and were going to work so hard on taking care of little duri. 

he spent a lot of time with grandparents since the both of his parents will still college students and they wanted his parents to be able to get their degrees. which of course, the two would later do; seah in business and jangmi in pharmacy. 

 when he was three years of age, his parents wed in a beautiful spring ceremony. there’s a bunch of pictures of him looking cute as heck at the wedding. but, he doesn’t really remember it, he only has the pictures. 

he was honestly... the cutest little child who was just so happy and energetic, always respectable of people. he would easily melt your heart honestly.

TW: CAR ACCIDENT & PARENTAL DEATH; when he was five years old, his life took a turn for the complete worst. one spring morning, when the remaining of winter was still hanging on, and on his way to school; himself and his family would be involved in a car accident. his mother died instantly with the impact, while his father died sometime after. duri would later wake up in hospital; remembering every detail that happened with the car accident, as well as remembering his family members, but his memories before than would sit as a blur in his mind,  and he would be haunted by this accident for the rest of his life, most likely.

was sent to live with his uncle, minho, and his aunt, taekjo, in seoul. they own a really popular cafe and it’s literally come to age a lot; i’m thinking they live and work somewhere in itaewon. the two took really good care of duri, as if he was their very own son (minho and taekjo couldn’t have any children because taekjo is unable to bare children) basically he was born through their hearts. they taught him happiness, the wonders of the world, and everything else in between.

he really only considers incheon his birth place and not really a hometown due to the bad memories that linger there. he considers seoul to be his hometown due to living in seoul the longest and stuff like that. 

TW: POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; he really started suffering from post traumatic stress disorder; he would often relive the car accident in his sleep and he’d wake up basically screaming, then would cry once he came back to reality. he would also panic if something would accidentally smash in the cafe and no one really understood what was going on. but, minho had looked for answers and finally came up with what matched duri’s symptoms. he would later attend counseling. his dreams were never the same, they’d follow the same general thing, but something about it was always different, which is why duri can’t remember the accident fully. 

he found and interest and solace in music; which was something that later became a love and something that he wanted to do for a career. he would take singing lessons before going on to learn guitar and piano as well. he would partake in the café’s open mic nights for something fun to do. 

even though he had all this interest in music; he didn’t have an interest in auditioning for entertainment companies yet. he didn’t feel like he was ready, he wanted to take care of himself fully, focus on his studies, and studying music. even though minho & taekjo really thought he should audition, they respected his wishes. 

as high school rolled around, he attended seoul school of performing arts (sopa) where he basically focused on music and performing for his later use. he was pretty popular with people due to his happy and caring attitude as well as his skill level in music (ofc there were some jealous but w/e.) at showcases, he was always scouted by a load of entertainment companies but he always turned them down due to the reasons stated above. 

after graduating high school, duri decided that he was going to enlist in the military. he thought it would be better to do this, believing he’d finally be ready to chase after his dream once he did his enlistment. he would become a public servant due to the ptsd (but it wasn’t that bad, which was why they had allowed him to stay) and he’d even get to be in the military band, which he was really happy about. 

though, while he was in the military, he got bad again mental health wise due to the fact he wasn’t keeping him with his therapist and etc, so he started having his pervious issues once again. he thought it was just a phase that he’d get over but spoiler alert, it’s not. 

after graduating from military enlistment, he decided to finally audition for an entertainment company. bc entertainment was the first one to have auditions, so duri decided to go for that company; besides, he really liked both decipher and bee, so it just seemed like it would be the place for him. he auditioned without the knowledge of his uncle and aunt because he wanted to surprise them if he got in. 

so, he went to the open auditions, felt a little odd because he felt like the oldest person there among a bunch of teenagers and stuff. but anyways, he went over what he had to do in his head to himself as he waited, before his audition group would finally be called.

they all lined up in the room and went one by one, but the guy who was doing the auditions, was hella strict and kept stopping people and yelling out next. he would always give people a look of sympathy and told them they did well.  and before he knew it, it was his turn. 

he stepped up to where he had to be, before introducing himself, and proceeding to strum his guitar and singing decipher’s “replay.” the trainer finally stopped looking down and writing, looking up at duri and being memorized by his voice. duri was the only person to go for the full allowed time. after that, he was asked to dance and like he had no idea what to do?? so he just kind of.. busted out the moves to bee’s tell me and hoped for the best. it worked and he got the paper to go into the next room, where he would pass the audition completely, later going on to sign the trainee contract.

he wasn’t a trainee for very long (hoping i did the math correctly ajknfakkn but we’re going to pretend i did) basically he was almost immediately placed into the lineup of knight and his entire training was basically the nine months before debut that knight was known by the public. guess word got around about his voice, which was why he was there so quickly. i’m like 99% sure some people probably didn’t like duri for that sole reason that he was going to be debuting so quickly over some other trainees. 

duri is one of the members that are basically without scandal to be honest. though, he did have a small thing once where a large group of netizens were saying that he was faking his personality for the cameras that there is no one he’s so sweet, caring, and generally really happy all the time. but, it was shut down quickly by non-fans of knight whom had great experiences with duri, letting people know that he really is the way that he presents himself to the public. soon, netizens felt like duri was someone they could trust and someone who wasn’t going to cause problems like some of the other members (no shade i promise xx)

bc 100% pushes duri for his voice over everything else. he lost out on a lot of acting opportunities, since bc rejected all acting offers for him; only accepting the ost offers, basically. though, they did let him star in lipstick’s excuse me last year. otherwise, it’s just pushing him for his voice. while he doesn’t mind it since he does want a solo, he still feels like he’s easily missing out on acting opportunities. 

so personality wise, duri is a vv good person. he’s really nice and sweet without a mean bone in his body. he’s someone that people can really take advantage of because he has such a big heart and doesn’t really ever say no. he’s always happy and smiling; even though his mind is in pain. has fake maknae energy, one big ol’ puppy. the softest boy !! 

he’s also such a big brother like your his younger friend?? suddenly he’s like your big brother !! 

obviously member of knight’s hyung line !

he’s fluent in two languages korean (obviously his native language) and japanese. 

in his free time, he really likes reading books and watching movies/dramas. 

he so badly wants to move out of the knight dorm just so that he can get a dog(s). 

gg enthusiast (i mean he does really enjoy bgs too but he loves ggs ok !!) and also a vv big ariana grande fan. 

night sky enthusiast; has a connection to the stars due to a story his grandmother told him when he was younger. 

TW: paranoia / anxiety / claustrophobia;  he doesn’t drive because his paranoid about it & he always takes the stairs, never going in the elevator because he feels like it’s closing in on him and he starts to panic. 

this got really long and i think this is all i can say about duri ?? but anyways thanks for reading,, i love duri sm :(((

[vinku-iikku]

Yay I finally finished 2018 inktober! If you want to just scroll through them all please go here, and if you want to see some comments on each please look under the cut.

Day 01 Flowey and Overgrown Ruins This prompt I picked as is because as far as I remember Flowey stayed behind when the monsters left. If you can’t find him, he’s near the big root on the left. All other days the second prompt got randomised by a die (except when I reached the last two).

Day 02 Grillby and Exotic Flora Grillby’s on a journey to look at all the flowers that aren’t living in a wet environment. Maybe he’ll make some wine from the non-poisonous ones.

Day 03 Chara and Cave Entrance They are still curious about morbid things and places that could be portentially dangerous, practically running at danger.

Day 04 Undyne and Astral Plains/Dreamland Welp I’d rather have had her with some other prompt, but now she has an anime showdown/faceoff with a mean monster that harasses a moldsmal.

Day 05 Asgore and Rocky Ruins Asgore had a trip down memory lane and visited the place where their castle used to be, before the war. Not much is left any more.

Day 06 Frisk and Ancient Tree They are still precariously looking for adventure. I saw this article about a 800 year-old Finnish tree, as soon as I saw that top I wanted to climb that, looks like a perfect spot to see everything around you and chill for a bit.

Day 07 Temmie and Nature Untouched I did some research in a nearby forest for this one, the sales-Temmie has made a nest in a tree that has fallen down in a storm. The soil is shallow before solid rock so trees have their roots mostly close to the surface, when they fall the roots go up as well. Temmie on the left is sitting on an ant nest lol. There are seven Temmies in total.

Day 08 Muffet and Crystal Coves Crystal Coves is either a place where crystal business is the main employer, a cove that has crystals, or a cove with crystal clear water, I think. I tried to implement them all just to make sure. Muffet has now made a business in making spider-products with glass expertise.

Day 09 Fuku Fire and Freezing Fjord Finally back to the ‘monsters travelling’ theme, Fuku is taking a longer trip and is currently on a boat by Norway.

Day 10 Gaster Blasters and Townsquare The blasters are on their own for whatever convenient reason, Pap’s one is figuring how things work by destroying them, Sans’ is... playing with local children. :D The fountain is loosely based on Havis Amanda.

Day 11 Nice Cream Guy & Shanty Town He’s travelling the world and selling nice cream! Definitely inspired by Beadle in BotW.

Day 12 Mettaton EX & Cemetery This combination took me a moment, Mettaton is a bit loud and showy for a cemetery. Then I remembered that Napstablook said they’re already dead when you try to kill them, so here Mettaton’s visiting haunted places and telling everyone about this wonderful body he got and where to get one if you’re interested in becoming physical again. I worked in a cemetery for one summer years ago, felt weird pulling those visual memories to this...

Day 13 Toriel & Hall of Deities In order to become a teacher I’d imagine she’d have to brush up her knowledge on lots of things that’ve happened on the surface, and here she’s in a secret underground place with some sacred scriptures or something, she reads them and writes down notes and then returns the scrolls.

Day 14 Annoying Dog & Volcanic Terrain Another weird combination, but eh, it’s the dog. It’s feeding bones to the vulkins and admiring danger up close.

Day 15 Monster Kid & Path Along the Water I made a huge area with different textures so I could try learn something new by scribbling around, and I’m really happy how the boulders on top of the waterfall and the water itself look like.

Day 16 Doggo & Ancient Altar Room Took a moment to come up with an idea, then I read Doggo likes squirrels. So now he’s travelling the world too, and he always has time and seeds for any squirrel population he discovers.

Day 17 Alphys & Summoning Altar I thought I’d not be drawing Mew Mew, but here was a perfect opportunity for that! Alphys isn’t travelling, but discovering new things in her home, humans have such interesting books! All of the Japanese text mean something; the bowl has the kanji for ’love’, books under it are Mew Mew manga, there’s two yury books, a reference to Free!, Digimon, Pokémon, Rose of Versailles, Natsume Book of Friends... and it’s fine if you don’t get the one that says ‘corn’.

Day 18 Photoshop Flowey & Windmills and Grasslands I think the modern wind generators look super cool. I tried to make Flowey as cute as possible so he’d be more fun to draw there, this is some dream stuff or alternate universe since Flowey did stay behind.

Day 19 Papyrus & Desserted Drylands I’m pretty sure that’s an accidental typo, but since it was Papyrus I wanted to roll with the new pun meaning. First thought was Papyrus somehow being in the drylands and dropping a huge cake, thus ’desserting’ it, but that would’ve been a bit mean. This cake is made with 100% organic sand (some of which he ground himself when grooming Rocky), the tiny cow ornaments are modified mouse skeletons. :) The chef hat would be straight but there wasn’t enough room on the page of the notebook I draw these on... I remembered he had a triangle on the battle armor, but didn’t remember what way it points so avoided it by replacing it with a heart. :D

Day 20 Sans & By the Beach Sans is getting some more sand for Papyrus with his shortcut, then he took a nap unfortunately close to the tide..? The shore felt a bit bare so I added some animals to keep him company. I h/c that animals don’t mind having monsters around unlike how they usually try to run away when a human is near.

Day 21 Shyren & Buried Statue(s) She’s doing that Disney princess thing where you sit down and start singing and all small animals within hearing range come to listen.

Day 22 Asriel & Underwater Temple Another dream thing since Flowey stayed behind, this is how he imagines the oceans look like outside.

Day 23 Lesser Dog & Market Place Some people have to learn the hard way to not trust a dog that has opposable thumbs.

Day 24 Box Mettaton & Merchant’s Store Any website run by a popular monster must get an insane amount of curious folk, which leads to ad revenue being a good way to fund the next tour. There’s some.. insider jokes there if you’re in any kind of website business.

Day 25 Rocky the pet rock & Eldritch Forest I don’t actually know what the latter means, looking at Google images it’s probably just a forest that’s very dark or something. Wanted to try a different perspective for a change. Rocky has a bowl of food there but I can’t really think of any non-sad reason for why it’s in this forest.

Day 26 Froggit & Inn in th Middle of Nowhere Had to take a break for one day, regardless I’m proud of myself on being consistent this far despite everything going on. I first only had the top Froggit and the bg in the sketch, and didn’t like how it looked. Somehow adding more Froggits made it look a lot better to me...

Day 27 Burgerpants & By the Docs Birsd with human arms and birds sitting like humans will never not be hilarious to me.

Day 28 Bratty and Catty & Deep in the Woods Tried to play with perspective with this one, it’s kind of the opposite of the Rocky drawing.

Day 29 God of Hyperdeath & Idle Portal I had a hard time coming up with anything for this, so now poor goat is somewhere in a completely white dimention and the only way out is not active, though he’s quite chill about it.

Day 30 Amalgamate & Abnormal Formations This and last one’s world I didn’t leave for the die to decide, I really wanted to do Tetris with Napstablook and out of the two still left this prompt suits Endogeny more anyway. There’s a forest in Poland where several of the trees bend to north like this.

Day 31 Napstablook & Puzzling Platforms Only one I did during morning, my hands shake more then so all the lines are more or less wobbly. Every Tetris piece has it’s own signature design except the L-shape which is just blank to keep it interesting. Napstablook is enjoying game music while inside the game, maybe ghosts can possess videogames..? This also shows the notebook I drew all of these in and the tools I used most of the time.

It’s hard to tell if I’ve improved at all when comparing these to 2017 inktober, I haven’t draw regularly through the year and the main focus point this time was on backgrounds and not so much on lines and characters. I did learn new things and that’s always exiting, I think my trees, glass and rocks look way better than before I started, and I did some progress in shading metal too. All of these took 3 hours or less to finish, some only took an hour. I didn’t need to erase pencils like last year because I used a trick where I placed the sketch under the notebook page and my tablet with 100% brightness and a white bg under them, and traced that with ink. The notebook paper is pretty thin, you can see the Amalgamate drawing’s clouds showing through in the Napstablook photo. Anyway, this was fun, and I think I’ll try do it next year too!

[the-firebird69]

And reminding people that the Rolls-Royce used in Arthur is ours and people will see it and no we didn't have them back then and it's not one of the sons her brothers of Mac it's ours and his riding around in it because we hired him to act as a son and wife and his BG and Ellie and and she's Liza Minnelli and he's playing Arthur it's an awesome idea and his son had it already he accepted we haven't been able to do it but the really the place to get him there we went to see what they would do and it gets bigger and it looks like him and he tried to get him to the Greek or just what they tried to do the races coming up it's huge I need some kind of intro

Thor Freya

That's so sure what the Rolls-Royce is neutral it's a vehicle and we're going to show up there in Portugal all of our higher ups are and in different ones I'll probably in the gray ghost and she's in a blue Ghost it's blue it's not called Blue Ghost it's still called the gray ghost she's correcting me he said she said I better believe it

Zues

You had better believe it it's called The Gray Ghost it still looks great even though it's blue because of the shade of blue

Hera

We're off to a great start this is going to be a Gayla event we also have all these campers and stuff we're going to be in cause some people see us sitting up already

Olympus

[lovemesomesurveys]

survey by xflirtykaosx

Alphabetti Spaghetti (1/3)

And we will fall in love with shooting stars. - A

Have you ever seen an Aardvark? Hm. I don’t think I ever have in person.

Were you ever abandoned in a public place as a child? Where? No.

What accent do you have? A California one, I guess. It’s weird to think of myself as having an accent.

Is there someone in your family addicted to something? What is it? I have family members who have/had drug and alcohol addictions. 

Have you ever been under general anaesthetic? What were you having done? Yes. I’ve had to have several surgeries.

How do you show the ones you love affection? I haven’t been doing a good job at that lately. :/ I’ve been such a pain and difficult to be around lately because I’ve been so miserable and irritable and depressed and in pain and just feeling really, really shitty and ugh. I feel so guilty because my family gets the brunt of it and they don’t deserve it at all and they do so much and more for me and I’ve had to be totally dependent on them and do it anyway and they’re so patient and loving and ughhhh. I’m a piece of shit.

Are you more passive or aggressive? Passive. 

Do you like the band Aha!? I only know taaaaaaaaaaaaaaake on meeeeeeeeeee (take on me) takeeeeeeee meeeee on (take on me)..... <<< I’ll beeeee goneeeee in a month or twooooooo.” haha.

Do you know anyone called Aidan? What are they like? Nope.

Ever heard of the band Ajax? Doesn’t ring a bell.

Do you know anyone called Akash? No.

Do the sound of fire alarms scare you? Yes. I’m super jumpy anyway and don’t like loud and/or ringing noises. 

Do you live in America? If so, which state? If visited, where’d you go? Yep, I live in California.

Have you ever had an ant infestation in your house? No, nothing that serious. 

Aora - did I spell that correctly? Were you going for Aurora? 

Do you have a preference in Apple? What type do you prefer? I like Apple products if that’s what you mean. My laptop and phone are Apple.

Are you an Aquarian? Is anyone in your family/your partner/best friend? My younger brother is.

Have you ever worn any type of armor? Which type? No.

Do you use the word ass a lot? No.

Have you or your family had an attorney? What for? Nope.

Is your car/family’s car an automatic gear or manual? My mom and brother have an automatic and my dad’s is manual. 

Are you interested in aviation, piloting and aircrafts? Nope.

What was the last award you recieved for? I received awards for the psych club I served as a board member for in college.

Axl Rose - like or dislike? I don’t have an opinion.

Do you like air being spelt ayre or ayer in rap or hiphop or is it nasty? ....what?

Is the sky outside Azure? If not, what shade is it? It’s pitch black out currently.

Belle amour (we’ve been here before). - B Do you call anyone baby? Is it sweet or an overrated name for affection? I don’t call anyone that.

Bby - does this shortened version bug you? It doesn’t bug me, but I wouldn’t use it.

Do you know what BC in terms of time stands for? Yes.

BDf - For or against? Uh, so I Googled this and got an Urban Dictionary definition and I’m not sure if that’s what you’re referring to or not...

Do you prefer beach breaks, city breaks or winter breaks? Why? Never heard of beach or city breaks, but I’m definitely going with beach breaks. I’m guessing that’s just a beach vacation/trip?

Do you spell out boyfriend properly or put bf in texts/online? I spell it out.

Do you know what bg is short for? Background? *shrug*

Do you know anyone with the last name Bhays? No.

Have you ever been bird watching? What did you see? Nah.

Do you like Bjork? I know who she is, but I don’t have much of an opinion. 

What does this read: bk 2moz miss u lyk fk. Doesn’t this text speak annoy? This is super annoying.

Do you like BMWs? Sure.

What is the nearest book to you called? How many times have you read it? "Flooded” by Nicki Koziarz. This is my first time reading it.

BnQ - gone there? What did you buy? What’s with all the weird shorthand/abbreviations??

Are you more brainy or brave? I’m not brainy, but I’m certainly not brave.

Did you like the BSBs (Backstreet Boys) as a kid? How about now? Yeah.

Burgers, Hot Dogs or Salads at a Barbecue? Burgers.

Do you have a Byro? Sigh.

Cold eyes and filthy lies all leave me petrified. - C Do you have a Cactus (Cacti)? Nope.

Do you know what a CCTV is? Yes.

How many CDs are in the room you are currently in? Zero. 

What’s your favourite cereal brand? I like all the sugary ones, basically.

Do you like children’s TV shows still? Which one(s)? Yeah. I like the stuff from when I was growing up like As Told by Ginger, Hey Arnold, Rugrats, Doug, etc. 

Cinnamon - Yum or Yuck? Yum.

Do you know anyone with the initials and or name CJ? No.

Have you ever met a self professed clairvoyant? What did they do/say? Nah.

Do you watch CNN News? What’s your prefered news channel/show? I get most of my news from the news app on my phone, but sometimes from my local news channels or the Today Show.

How many cousins do you have? A shit ton.

Do you still draw with crayons? When was the last time you did? Drew what? Nah, I use colored pencils. 

Do you know what a CSS feed is? What is it? I know there’s a CSS feed on here. It has to do with the coding for the layout, right?

Do you like cycling/biking? What type of bike do you have? No.

Do you really like it, is it is it wicked. - D What is the most dangerous animal you’ve petted/held? Nothing dangerous. 

Do you like Death Metal? If so, which band(s)? Nah.

Did you ever keep a diary/journal? I had an actual journal in middle school and some of high school and then switched to Xanga and LiveJournal. This is my journal now.

Do you prefer small, medium, large or no dogs? Medium.

Do you know what DP stands for in porn? No.

Have you ever dressed up as a celebrity for a party/Halloween? No.

DS or Wii? Why? DS.

Does dust make you sneeze or cough? Both.

How many DVDs do you have all together? I have no idea.

Do you dye your hair regularly, sometimes or never? I was dyeing it regularly. I’m currently well over a year due now.

Every love lies sometimes … - E What’s something you refuse to eat? Seafood is one of many things.

Don’t you think the word ebb is so pretty? No.

Do you like Chocolate Eclairs? Meh.

Ever tried edible paper? I rememer this candy I had as a kid where you could eat the wrapper and I thought it was so cool haha.

Eevee - pretty name or too Pokemon-y? I just think Pokemon.

Do you sometimes mix up the spellings/meanings of affection and defection? No...

Do you have a big ego, low self esteem or somewhere in between? I have no self-esteem. It left the chat a long time ago.

What Element does your starsign fall under? *shrug*

Do you show your emotions easily and freely or hide them? I didn’t used to show the sad ones so easily and freely, but my emotions took control and I don’t have any say now.

What is your favourite form of entertainment? Tumblr, doing surveys, reading, YouTube, watching TV.

What will they write on your epitaph? I don’t know, man.

Estimate/guess what number we are on now? Nah.

Do you know basic social etiquette? Yes.

Does your country use the Euro, Great British Pound, Dollar or other? Dollar.

Do you still get excited on Christmas Eve? Aww, yeah.

What animal/creature that is extinct do you wish wasn’t? Hmm.

What colour eyes do your parents have? My mom has brown eyes, my dad has blue eyes.

[xxhanachanxx]

What’s this? A Skellington in June? :O

Hmm, I'm not sure how I'm going to talk about this. But at the same time, I needed a purpose that wanted me to draw this! This is more of a gift that I wanted to make for my language arts teacher, and since Nightmare is one of her favorite films I can't help but budge in making this! And since I'm all for loving my teachers that I had this year, I would never think that I'm their teacher pet (well, except for my case carrier lol). And even though junior year was more of focusing getting good grades, at the same time it felt a bit mediocre. Anyways, I plan to give her the artwork as an end of the year gift tomorrow! And the artwork? Now to do something different, I wanted to do more of a lineless style, but having the shading and lighting (especially with the same colors; ex. Jack's top) mixed in with the other parts was hard. Even with the process was hard to go through with my computer running a bit slow and school stuff that I have to get ready for the end of the year (more on that later!). Also I'm sorry if the BG is shit, I was trying to go with a grey color but it didn't click. So might as well go with more darkish tones to give it Nightmare vibes, right? And hey, don't make fun of me for posting this in June either! Ughh idk, even though adding the same features to my backgrounds for my artworks is fun (bokeh especially), I'll admit that I'm a bit tired of it since I'm trying different styles and then I go disapprove it! Dx So before I end this, I apologize for not posting much atm. I even had to go through a small art hiatus to focus on school and I couldn't decide on what to draw next either. With having a lot of ideas that I've been cooking, I really can't forget about doing this one. So I do plan on posting something later this week. One more week of school, second semester finals, and I'm out! Thank you, and I hope y'all enjoy~ ^.^