#i think their number order is in the thumbnails but

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

Really hope I don't come off as critical but is there a reason why you post the comic on Tapas (and sorta Tumblr) exclusively? Maybe it's just my experience I feel like Webtoon gets more traffic? Is there a notable difference in environments (I have noticed that Webtoon is a lot more unforgiving towards fan projects) or is it a kinda "if it ain't broke situation. (which would then lead me to ask why you originally started in tapas)"

Sorry if it's a loaded ask, I'm just genuinely curious. Also, I'm surprised by how fast the new season came out! Maybe it's just me but it didn't feel like that long of a wait between seasons. Love it though <3

I'll be honest, I don't remember the SPECIFIC reason.... but I think that, back when I started to post the comic, I tried both Webtoons and Tapas and found the Webtoons uploading UI much more troublesome. Tapas allowed me to upload episodes with relatively little trouble - meaning in full batches. It would auto-organize them into the correct order so long as I had the files numbered properly. It also streamlined the thumbnail process, etc.

Later on, I stuck with Tapas because... they were actually quite kind to me! They offered help if I had bugs or issues, and they had a reward program to encourage consistent posting. I've never personally had anything bad to say about them. And yes, I'd heard that at the time, Webtoons was getting a bit weird with fan made transformative content.

Webtoons may get more traffic but re-uploading over 200 comics onto ANOTHER website felt like a huge undertaking that I just never wanted to bother with. I understand that reasonably... it would have been good to do both... but... I don't really feel the need to? Tapas doesn't require login to read and that's good enough for me.

[deedee-sims]

Tutorial - extracting stuff from Disco Elysium (+ viewing the models in blender)

Due to... recent events, I decided to finally get myself to write a tutorial about this, because all I found was some half-assed reddit comments when I was trying to figure out how to do it sometime last year.

I'll show you how to extract... pretty much everything (including voice lines) from the game.

This is a beginner tutorial, so you don't have to know shit about any of these programs, I'll try to explain everything.

I promise it's pretty easy! I extracted stuff from various games, and this is one of the easiest I ever did, so yeah.

You'll need:

Disco Elysium on PC

AssetStudio

Blender

+1 Interfacing

+2 Endurance (mostly to survive my bad jokes)

First of all, open AssetStudio. You don't have to install it or anything, just unzip the file you downloaded and open the program inside (AssetStudioGUI).

This is how the bad boy looks like, we'll be able to see the asset list on the left and the preview on the right.

Click on File../Load Folder.

Select the folder where the game is installed. For me it's Steam\steamapps\common\Disco Elysium\disco_Data. You can load individual files too, but it's easier to just list everything and then filter them imo.

Wait... for a while. It's a lot of assets. Make a tea or something (hydration is important).

After everything loaded up, click on the Asset List tab. You can see all the stuff! Well, it's rather confusing. Let's see what is what!

If you click on Filter Type, you can see the types of the assets. These are:

AnimationClip: I think these are supposed to be the animations, you can export them if you select an animator asset alongside and right click Export Animator + selected Animation Clips (couldn't get the animation to play but that's probably on me).

Animator: These are the rigged models, you can export them to .fbx format, but I couldn't figure out what to do with them in Blender because they were kinda distorted (funnily enough, when I imported it to the shitty Milkshape program it showed up just fine... and people wonder why I prefer shitty Milkshape XD) Anyway, I hope someone can figure this out that actually knows something about Blender lol.

Audio Clip: Sounds, voice lines, background music. (.wav format)

Font: Well, fonts. Can be exported and installed to your device like any fonts.

Mesh: 3D models of the characters, objects, scenes. (.obj format)

MonoBehaviour: No fucking clue.

Shader: Shaders for the game. Not interesting in our case.

Sprite: Images that the game uses: portraits, object thumbnails, user interface elements.

Texture 2D: The textures that belong to the 3D models. (.png format)

TextAsset: ??

VideoClip: The stuff that plays when you open the game.

You can preview any assets (well, the ones that you can preview), if you click on them. You can view them in the right panel.

You can extract by left click on the asset in the list -> Export selected assets. You can select multiple assets and export them at the same time.

The program will ask you to select a folder where you want to export the stuff. It'll export them into separate folders, by assets.

Well, yeah, now you know what is what, and how to extract them, but there are still a lot of assets. Good news, you can filter them with the little search bar too, if you type in some gibberish! Some stuff are a little tricky to find.

Voice lines are grouped by task / place, so if you know where the particular thing takes place, you can try to filter for those. The assets are named with the speaker's name - either a character or a skill. I think the numbers mean some kind of order, but I couldn't really figure it out. If you click on one of them, you can preview, and listen to it in the right panel! Super easy! (if you want your own daba-doop-doop-dead it's Kim Kitsuragi-YARD  HANGED MAN-556. Just saying)

For objects and characters, you can find them by name, although some characters are named differently. Like, Harry is referred as Tequila in the game files.

Basically if you want to have a character or an object extracted, you’ll need to extract a mesh and a texture that belongs to it. You can quite literally play dress-up game with Harry, because all of his clothes are separate files (and named with kinda the clothing item name). The Kineema has multiple parts (exterior - interior - door - whatever else).

Anyway, let's move on to the Blender part before I forget how to do it (I learned it this morning lol). (Disclaimer: I don't know jack shit about Blender, I use it for extracting stuff and creating the simplest shapes in existence. I use the godforsaken program Milkshape on a daily basis.)

Open Blender.

Hit delete to get rid of this beautiful default cube.

File.../Import.../Wavefront (.obj)

Select the thing you want to import (I'll import the gremlin child).

There he is! And he doesn't fucking care!

Btw, you can zoom with the middle mouse button scroll or middle mouse button + Ctrl, rotate with middle mouse button, move the view with middle mouse button + Shift. So you can see his itty-witty mischievous face from very close!

Now, that's great, but he doesn't have textures still. First of all, change the Viewport Shading to Material Preview.

Select him (just click on him, you'll see an orange outline). And go to the Material Properties tab on the side.

Click on the little dot next to Base Color, and select Image Texture.

Click on the Open button that appeared out of nowhere, and search for the Cuno texture.

Tada! He looks beautiful now! (and he still doesn’t fucking care)

You can do the same with any 3D models, objects from the game, really.

Well, that's it lol. I hope it made sense! And I really hope someone runs away with extracting the animators + animations, because I'm pretty sure it's doable, I just have no clue how.

[rhodesmusic]

jesus christ impaled on a wednesday i hate hate HATE it when christianity is brought into mathematics. people pushing their agenda by saying shit like "this beautiful mathematical thing proves the existence of GOD" or "GOD made math and we're just discovering it". that is SO fucking rancid for so many reasons and half the time the people that say those kinds of things hold math in a purely qualitative sence in their mind, thinking that because they got a mandelbrot zoom in their reccomended they eat breathe and shit math out their asshole on the spiritual level

no matter how hard our education systems bastardize the subject, compressing their concepts into a pristine meaninglessness to cull the young person's imagination across the land, nor how well their nouns verbs and adjectives describe what we see in the universe, mathematics at it's heart is a form of SELF EXPRESSION. nothing, NOTHING I SAY in this world we live in would be as FUCKING PSYCHOTIC as to suggest us to dwell over how a bunch of IMAGINARY IDEAS relate to one another along patterns and symmetries, other than OURSELVES. we started doing math because it offers a kind of fulfillment unlike any other artform. the difference between mathematics and other arts is that our culture doesn't see it as one.

mathematics is not about facts, or even worse, about "rules", but rather about the IDEAS that went into drawing such conclusions. similarly, the only thing more beautiful than math's polyhedra, infinitely intricate fractal shapes, and other pictures such as the ones abraham and jacob here put in their thumbnails, are the MADE UP IDEAS that constitute them, ideas that we have thought up for no good reason other than we find doing so lovely. wonderful. fulfilling and completing.

if some BRICK LICKER named EZEKIEL went out to an art fair and proclaimed with their righteous ass vocal cords, "all these paintings, all these works of art, all of these were drawn by GOD and HERE'S WHY", they'd rightfully be told to go off and HUFF DICK, but when it's mathematics it passes with nodding heads because our culture doesn't see math as any kind of self-expression, instead as a bunch of statements and sedentary pictures to worship, bend over, and take cock for to achieve some higher level of virtuosity.

"but how can the Mandelbrot set have infinite complexity as you zoom into it, that has to be god right there!!!" perhaps if you ever pondered the distinguishing complex numbers, how recursive processes ballet with its algebraic structure, the geometry unfolding into chaos along an infinitesimal boundary, all things that DON'T ACTUALLY FUCKING EXIST IN OUR WORLD BUT WILL STILL BE THOUGHT OF FOR OUR SAKES, LEST WE LET THE IDEA GO COLD AS WE SHIVER IN THE ABSENCE OF THE WARMTH OF ITS SIMPLE CHARM, then you wouldn't resort to implementing an omnipotent figure in order to fulfill your inclination to have the wonder be explained by anything besides the creativity of humans.

oh, but questioning the words of the bible? now that's sacrilege.

HOLY SHIT.

[phantom-of-the-501st]

Thoughts on TBB 3x5: The Return

General Summary: AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT

*stares at sheer number of bullet points in phone from this episode*

I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY THIS WEEK!!! PROPER ANALYSES MAY BE BACK!!!!!! (if I have time because I have so much to do D:)

ECHO'S IN THE THUMBNAIL!!! *cue biggest freakout I've had this season*

I genuinely let myself believe that we weren't going to see Echo this episode because I was so desperate not to get my hopes up. I though they were going to try and sort out some stuff between Cross and the other Batchers before bringing Echo into the fold but he's back!!!

The lighting is so pretty 😍

THEY TOOK CROSSHAIR TO PABU

HE'S TARGET TRAINING WITH AZI I'M GONNA CRY

The shaky hands are making me so upset 😭

But I'm glad that they're exploring something like this. It isn't just a case of Crosshair losing his spot in the Empire, it's about him being faced with something that affects his ability to be a sniper in all situations. His purpose was not the Empire, it was being a soldier, and that's what he's afraid of losing.

"IT'S ECHO!" Absolute mood and the only appropriate reaction to Echo being in an ep

THE HUUUUUGGG 😭❤️

Okay this may already be one of my new favourite eps

*replays hug 5 times before continuing with the episode*

"No hug for me?" "Depends on how good your intel is." Echo is defo still a little wary but the fact that the sass and sarcasm is strong between them is giving me life

There's been a lot of discussion about the parallels between what Echo went through and what Crosshair went though and I think that this is a perfect demonstration of the dynamic that stems from that. Echo knows what it's like to have your mind taken and to be used as a weapon against your brothers. He knows what it's like to not instantly be trusted. And because of that he has a leniency with Crosshair that the other Batcher don't. He isn't completely trusting but he's more willing to give Crosshair some grace because he understands better than the others.

"Especially without Tech" I'M RUNNING ON BARELY ANY SLEEP AND HALF A CUP OF COFFEE YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME

"I'm older than you are, little brother." The script for this episode is the greatest thing ever and I genuinely can't tell you how much the sass is giving me life rn 😆

Less than 10 minutes in and this episode is already killing me

WE'RE BACK AT THE OUTPOST 😭😭😭

CROSS IN THE ARMOUR AGAIN AAAAAAAHHHHH

Echo being the mediator in the group feels so appropriate

I adore how much focus Echo is getting this ep. They didn't bring him back and give him nothing, he's absolutely serving this episode and I am obsessed! 🤩

I'm in love with the fact that the Batch now just have a family pet

"I guess it served it's purpose." "Huh, sounds familiar." Initially this feels like a jab towards Cross but I don't think it is. That statement applies to all of the clones: they served their purpose and then they got ditched. It may have taken longer for Crosshair to accept the fact that the Empire didn't like him, but it is a statement that applies to every clone post Order 66. I think that that is what Echo is getting at: not a direct jab at Cross, but a general statement about something that Crosshair has finally come to terms with

MAYDAY'S HELMET KILL ME NOW AAAAAAHHHH

Mayday meant a lot to Cross and I think it feels particularly poignant now. He's back with his squad, but they don't all trust him. Crosshair could probably do with someone like Mayday right now, someone who trusts him enough that Crosshair doesn't feel as alone as he does.

Omega trusts him, and Wrecker is kind of there (as is Echo), but Cross still doesn't feel like he's home. He's missing one of the few friends he had.

Also, this is just evidence that Crosshair isn't the cold. heartless bastard that loads of people wanted to label him as 😌

Crosshair moving the helmets is such a simple thing, but it's so meaningful. The helmets were discarded and left in a heap, which represents the exact attitude the Empire had towards the clones. Picking them up and laying them out gives them a small amount of dignity.

It reminds me of the burial of the clones that died in the crash at the end of the clone wars. They may be in a remote location where they won't be visited, but they haven't just been left in a wreck, discarded. They were given at least an ounce of respect by their brothers and that is what Crosshair is giving to the clones at the outpost

Slight interval as I realise just how much I wrote down about this episode and just how much I have left to write 😵‍💫

Sensors down? That doesn't seem like that's going to go well

THE TOOTHPICK IS BACK!!! ❤️

"So yes, I did betray them, after they betrayed me."

This is all what it boils down to: they both feel betrayed. The thing is, both Hunter and Cross' feelings are valid, but they need to talk through why they made the decisions they did so that the other person understands. It's complicated because there isn't a good or bad side right now, they just won't listen to each other, nor will they talk things through because they don't trust the other person enough to be honest about their decisions.

"She went through what she did because you failed" OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH

I'm not angry at Cross. Don't get me wrong, it's brutal and harsh and a dick move but Crosshair is getting defensive because Hunter is being confrontational. They're both messing up here. I can guarantee that this is going to cause discourse among the Hunter stand who are going to get pissed at Cross, but you have to understand that his actions make sense. They're not good (in the same way that Hunter really needs to ease up) but it's behaviour that makes complete sense.

We know that Crosshair's way of defending himself is to be an arsehole. He puts up walls and he lashes out. And Hunter rn is mostly stewing in his own self-loathing (which is why Crosshair struck a nerve).

Hunter is likely taking his self-hatred out on Cross and trying to shift the blame so that he can tell himself that it isn't his fault. The problem is, it's making Cross defensive, so Crosshair is pushing the blame back and sticking Hunter where it hurts. They're both stuck in a toxic cycle.

Oh dear (I literally wrote down nothing else here. This was just my reaction to the giant worm)

Echo is so on it in this episode and I love it! ❤️

Oh shit bye Hunter

This season looks so pretty and the animation is gorgeous ✨

The worm reminds me of that thing from HTTYD2 👇

GROUP HUG

"And I don't even see any blood this time. That's progress" ECHO I FUCKING LOVE YOU OMG 😭

On a side note, we talked about how Echo's humour and sass kind of deteriorated after Skako Minor but it's coming back in full swing! It shows how comfortable he's become and is evidence that he's healing 🥲🫶

Echo talking to Omega actually has me crying. He's so fucking supportive!!! 😭

"There might just be hope for us yet" followed by a shot of the ice vulture flying towards the light. It's a good way of showing Cross' journey away from the darkness of the Empire and back towards a place of healing.

Okay so this episode just means like... everything to me. The humour was on point, the emotions were on point. We got some good content from every member of the Batch. ECHO CAME BACK!

I'm just so obsessed with this episode omg

AND BINGO UPDATE!

[allidrawscomics]

How do you approach writing/pacing for webcomics? Do you plan the story as you go, or is there an established story and/or ending before you even start drawing? Or maybe a mix of the two?

I pull out a little sketchbook and write down events that I KNOW I want to include and then try to number them based on what order they should happen chronologically. There are always going to be gaps in character and relationship development, and introducing the audience to world building elements so that later events make sense. I do my best to fill the gaps and think of a conclusion that I would be satisfied with if I was a reader. Then I list everything out chronologically and script individual scenes. I can do enough scripting in a day to make pages for like a year, so I get started on thumbnailing as soon as I can. In terms of pacing, webtoons and traditional webcomics are going to be moving at different speeds but ultimately I want the audience to understand what the goal is at any given time and everything between now and the goal should move us closer to the goal or be enjoyable to watch if I were to snip it out and put it somewhere by itself. Character development, eye candy, vibes.

If I don't tell the audience what the goal is they will make up a goal in their head and think nothing is happening because their goal isn't getting closer.

Silly little beach episodes are my favorite part of any show. I love seeing characters fuck around together! But I still want to avoid that thing that some webtoons do where we spend a whole chapter talking in circles or picking out a dress that doesn't matter. I don't want a situation where I've spent hours upon hours on scene that someone is going to barely glance at because they're trying to speed their way through to the interesting parts.

If you want to be one of those super cool artists that just draws the interesting parts for social media because who has time to make a whole ass ongoing comic then that's perfectly valid and I love that for you. Might try that out myself because I'm 32 and tired.

[wist-eri]

rapid analysis of what some of the descriptions/footnotes possibly mean

usually i wouldn’t put this on my main account, but since the other blog i would post it on is a little more in-detail on average, i decided why not (i think you know which blog i’m referring to)

so yep! i read some of the footnotes and added some personal analysis as to what some of them could mean. i’m positive the song used in the new DRDT MV will be “bungaku shoujo insane,” based on the similarity of the thumbnail as well as some specific footnotes, so a lot of my analysis will be based on that song and its lyrics

anyways

[1] In this situation, it is better to use full names over nicknames. Exclude our protagonist—he is not "that person." not sure what this means yet. we’ll have to see.

[2] Other examples include Drosophilia melanogaster and E. coli. don’t know if this is intentional, but drosophila is misspelled. (they wrote it as “drosophilia”) either way, both are often used in school experiments in order to develop a further understanding of genetics and genetic material (and how it’s transferred). 

[3] From Title 17 of the United States Code. referring to copyright laws in the United States. the reference may be more apparent in the released MV, similarly to some other footnotes—after all, the original “Bungaku Shoujo Insane” video has some moments where they simply show excerpts from famous texts. this may be one of them that’s featured specifically in the DRDT version of the MV

[4] The practice of avoiding the number four; it is most common in East Asia. This superstition arises from the fact that the number four can be read similar to the word "death" in multiple languages. self-explanatory.

[5] As the translation has been intentionally botched in many parts, it should not be considered accurate. this could be a separate author’s note to one of the texts referenced in the MV—we’ll have to see.

[6] (Prayer) no idea but i don’t feel like searching the bible for this one /hj (i think there might be a prayer written in text in the MV though)

[7] Seven is considered an auspicious number in many Western cultures. Let's just skip it. also self-explanatory.

[8] 'Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. 'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. excerpt from Alice in Wonderland. don’t know how important that’ll be in the future—could be referenced directly in the MV? 

[9] no respect for the classics smh hold on let me see if there’s a lyric mocking classic literature- 

[10] The Roman numeral for 10 is X. imagine there’s an X with a footnote and it’s just this

[11] I admit to lying. There is no one named OOOOO OOOOO. I am, and always have been, an only child. a lot of theories about this, but regardless of whether or not this statement is true, it could be a reference to diana chiem, arturo’s sister, david himself even (i’ll explain later), etc. either way, this footnote seems to be more about one of the characters in the DRDT cast than anything

[12] "Majority rule" is known to be the fairest method of making decisions for a group. That's why murderers never complained when we voted for them to die. just a random question, but you know what a majority vote is? /ref this may also be a reference to this lyric:

rough translation + wiki info: to be, or not to be—i have no idea! but let’s decide, with a democratic method!

[13] 正 character that’s often used to represent something that’s “correct,” “right,” or “just,” speaking from experience. additionally, it’s sometimes used as tally marks in a few eastern countries (china, japan, etc)

[14] Hint: word length of 256 Hamlet’s soliloquy, which starts with “to be, or not to be—that is the question,” is exactly 256 words (at least, according to this source). Additionally, this soliloquy is also referenced in one of the lyrics in this song (see [12]—the first line is actually one of the more well-known Japanese translations of “to be or not to be.” additionally, a few lines from the text are actually shown in the MV at that point), so that may be what it’s referring to

[15] “Ignorance is bliss" is an idiom used to say that it is better to remain ignorant about certain harsh truths, in order to avoid causing oneself stress. The expression comes from a 1742 Thomas Gray poem ("Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College": "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." might be a stretch, but possibly a reference to this lyric?

(rough translation: things like the meanings(?) behind art, you’d be happier not knowing)  (note: the word used for “art” here encompasses all types of media, which include dance, writing, etc.)

i feel like this is specifically referring to how it’s better to be ignorant of the meanings behind certain actions and words, than to be aware of the dark implications behind them. this is a stretch though. do what you will with it but i think this is referring to one of the characters and their actions + true meanings behind them *cough* david *cough*

[16] While it was originally intended to serve as a military march, today it is most commonly recognized for it's association with circuses and tomfoolery. the exact song that this footnote refers to is Julius Fučík’s “Entrance of the Gladiators.” This is a song that’s featured in Bungaku Shoujo Insane, and it can be heard in the interludes—in fact, this footnote is what pointed me to Bungaku in the first place

[17] Not a real word. Can't be found in any dictionary. this might be an actual translation footnote of the song, since it’s definitely not unheard of to have words in japanese that don’t have an english translation and/or words that don’t actually exist. whether that’s actually in the lyrics i don’t know but i’ll have to look into it

[18] A/N: soz not very good at drawing flowers lol!!! i find it weird how this one specifically has A/N (author’s note)

[19] A dialogue between two individuals that serves as a discussion of moral and philosophical issues. this is known as a socratic dialogue. not sure how this is important yet

[20] It is considered by many to be outdated, providing little-to-no insight on human nature. unfortunately i don’t know what this is referring to, but it will likely be made clear in the mv. my first thought was actually the enlightenment documents, since a lot of those discuss the inherent nature of humanity and how it’s “regulated” by society and government—but i’ve never heard it being called outdated, so that’s kind of a stretch.

someone said it could be an excerpt from one of Sigmund Freud’s works, which honestly, would make total sense-

[21] Deriving from the Latin phrase "Et cetera" : meaning "and other (similar) things", "and so forth", or "and the rest (of such things)" : abbreviated to etc., etc, et cet., &c. or &c

also pretty self explanatory. however, i have no idea how this fits in the MV

[22] The rest is silence.

no idea about this one.

anyways if you have suggestions please feel free to reblog with them 🫠 i have no idea what’s going on and tbh 90% of this is me trying to grasp at straws

[thatvixx]

my ideas on "Anomaly Found - Chase Brody" and the jse egoverse

ok so it's time for me to gather my thoughts regarding The Iris Project and everything that has just happened. unfortunately i couldn't participate in the livestream cause i was in class, but i have just watched "Anomaly Found - Chase Brody" and i feel like i have a decent idea of what has happened so far.

obviously, this contains spoilers for "Anomaly Found" as well as other videos already published by Seán!

before we start, we have to go back to two important videos: "Chase" (released october 13, 2019) and "You're Not Ready For These Scary Games" (released october 19, 2019, which i'll be reffering to as "You're Not Ready" from now on). "Chase" was so incredible when it came out, and the thumbnail for "You're Not Ready" is literally Henrik's face, so i couldn't be more hyped.

in "Chase", we begin with a note of eviction. the note states that anyone living in the house (namely, Chase) is ordered to "vacate the premises not later than September 2019". according to the notice, it's August 8, 2019. things are definitely not going ok, judging by the state of his car and the bottle of whisky inside the glove compartment. more importantly, his reaction to seeing the picture he just found shows us something terrible has happened. he drives to the woods and walks for a while (with many beautiful shots from the mountains and the forest itself). more importantly, he walks towards a very specific set of rocks, mounted on top of eachother like a memorial of some kind. he rests the photo over it and drinks from the bottle of whisky, before being abruptly teleported from the woods to what seems like a parking lot.

on the other hand, the part that makes "You're Not Ready" interesting is the ending of the video, where Seán's screen is abruptly cut by static followed by a black screen. Henrik immediately appears, worried and writing on a piece of paper in front of a computer screen. we can see he's been woking on mathematical equations, by the papers on his desk; all the ones we can see have the letter 'T' in some capacity. after many mistakes, something in the screen fires up and it glitches. Henrik seems desperate and, after typing something, is presented with a psychedelic tunnel of lights; something seems to have worked.

with this, we can analyze "Anomaly Found" with a little more info. we're told throughout the scenes that Chase's family has been murdered (both his wife and kid, according to Arin's character as well as the photo in "Chase") and he has been somehow involved. at first, he says he's killed them, but then retorts a "i didn't kill them". after the ending, it seems pretty clear that the one responsible for their death was Anti - but Chase took the blame, since no one would believe him if he told the truth. this event is obviously the catalist to all the bad things happening with him, from the eviction note to the heavy drinking.

during one of the scenes in the "Project Iris" livestream, we're presented with a poster saying that "ALTR 5914 IS A TIME THIEF!". since we're already aware that Anti's number is ALTR 114209 because that's how his name is written in numbers (A = 1, N = 14, T = 20, I = 9), 5914's translation is either EIAD or EIN. EIN as in Henrik von Schneeplestein. Henrik is a "time thief" - or, more likely, a time manipulator.

in "You're Not Ready", he seems to be working with time equations (remember the 'T'?), or something along the lines of manipulating time using both math and some weird machine. he seems to be a physicist more than a physician - and that's why i think Henrik is responsible for Chase's teleportation. meddling with time is, essencially, meddling with space, since they're both indissociable. if Henrik's machine did work at the end of "You're Not Ready", he has successfully changed time - or stolen it, in some capacity. the success of Henrik's machine is responsible for Chase's teleporting and, consequently, for his inprisonment in the IRIS facility during "Anomaly Found".

now, on to the best part of this whole ordeal: my baby Anti. he looks great, he looks terrifying, but more importantly: he looks exactly like Chase. if anyone saw him commiting any crime, they would obviously blame it on Chase, since it's "impossible" for such a creature to exist. Anti seems to be making a hell out of Chase's life long before the murder of his wife and kid - "showing him awful things", making him hear strange voices and whatnot. we were already aware of Anti's interest in Chase - my question is: why? why Chase? why is Chase so important to Anti?

i am also very intrigued in the whole "i feel like i've been here before" bit, as well as "i have been in this exact place before, we need to leave". this implies some sort of time cognizance from Chase's part, almost as if he's able to glimpse into the future. that could be either the reason for Anti's interest in him or an effect of his influence. either way, Chase has something special to him - and we don't know what yet.

finally, i wanna take this last paragraph to say how incredibly proud i am of seán for making this. the "Project Iris" livestream as a whole was incredible, an amazing feat that definitely will change the way we think youtube content and viewer interactions for the next years. the cinematography of "Anomaly Found" is also phenomenal, and don't even get me started on that ending scene - I NEED MORE ANTI, SEÁN!!!! WE NEED MORE ANTI CONTENT!!!!!

if anyone has anything to add, feel free to comment/rb with it. let's go JSE stans, we're finally being fed!!!!

[reyescarlos]

i want you to unravel me || a tarlos fic

summary: In the aftermath of the strain that's fallen over them, TK and Carlos bridge the gap with open conversation that brings them closer together, both emotionally and physically. 

[3x13 coda]

word count: 4.2k || rated e || day 1 of @fivealarmfest || read on ao3

And I know I keep a lot to myself But still you're more a part of me than anybody else So if you need me to tell you more You're one of the few things that I'm sure of

TK chews absentmindedly at his thumbnail as he watches the seconds tick by on the clock. He’s kept a vigilant eye on the last eight minutes that have gone by after he texted Carlos that he and Cooper were done speaking, that he could come back home as soon as he was ready.

Left on his own now, the quietness in the loft is like its own form of company.

This is the kind of silence TK can live with though, the type that doesn’t stretch uncomfortably and needle at him in a way that makes him itch. His mind is in a much better state than it had been mere hours ago.

Carlos arranging for Cooper to come over had been a gift. His mind runs back over his conversation with his sponsor. After skipping out on his meeting earlier, TK had felt himself retreating inward. He would have been content to do just that, but the good thing about having a partner was having someone to give him a push when he needed it most.

It’s been over two hours and TK is still trying to wrap his mind around Carlos’ gesture, the lengths he went to in order to obtain Cooper’s number.

More than that, it touches his heart to see the growth within Carlos over these last few days to have reached this point, to call in reinforcements simply because it’s what TK needed.

TK is anxious to see him again now that he’s on the other side of the dark tunnel he wandered into tonight.

The sound of a key slotting into the lock makes TK bolt up from the couch. He turns to face the door, his heart swelling at the first glimpse of Carlos.

Carlos’ eyes land on him immediately, a warm smile on his face that TK can’t help but to mirror.

“Hey,” Carlos greets.

“Hey,” he replies as Carlos sets his keys down and slips off his shoes.

There’s so much he’s said already to Cooper tonight that he desperately wants to share with Carlos.

“Can you sit for a minute? I need to talk to you,” TK says, sitting back down and patting the space next to him.

Carlos’ brows furrow, but he nods. He takes a quick moment to hang his jacket up and crosses the living room, dropping into the spot beside him.

He seems to study TK for a moment, his warm brown eyes taking stock of him.

“Is everything okay? Did you have a good talk with Cooper?”

TK nods. “I did. Thank you, again, for setting that up.”

“It was nothing,” Carlos says, kissing him on the cheek.

TK holds his gaze once he’s able to and takes Carlos’ hands in his.

“That’s not true. It was everything.”

Carlos seems reassured by this, a shy smile playing at his lips.

“I’m glad it helped. You seem a lot better now.”

A good deal of his change in mood, TK knows, is due largely in part to Carlos’ actions tonight. He’d been intent on drowning out his thoughts with music and hoping that somehow sleep would find his anxious mind and overtake it.

But the problem would have still been there when he awoke. Thanks to Carlos, he was able to fully address the root of the issue. His thoughts still feel heavy but they’re less so now. Now, at least, it feels as if his head is above water.

TK sighs and nods.

“Definitely an improvement.” He gives Carlos’ hand a light squeeze. “How was your night? What’d you end up doing?”

Carlos looks a little taken aback by having the attention on him.

“Oh, I went for a walk. Nowhere in particular, but I ended up at the park. I just sat there for a while…thinking about everything from these last couple of days.”

Carlos sits up and squares his shoulders as he lets out a breath.

“I’m sorry for the way I acted. I’m sorry I was being so short with you. I’m sorry it took me so long to get it. I’m sor—”

“But you got there,” TK cuts in, knowing just how easily Carlos could end up spiraling if he doesn’t intervene. “You got there and that means the freaking world to me. I know this isn’t easy for you, to see me needing help and not being able to just…wave a magic wand and fix it all. You care about me, deeply, and I know it. I feel it every single day.”

Carlos’ face still looks uneasy so TK continues.

“I’ve been trying to keep you safe from the parts of me that, honestly, I’m embarrassed about. But we’re partners…a team, and you deserve to be let in. I didn’t mean to hurt you or to shut you out. But I see how trying to shield you from it all did just that. I will never do that again.”

TK clenches his jaw and sighs.

“I love you so much, Carlos. This relationship is honestly the best thing that’s ever happened to me. I don’t ever want you doubting what you mean to me or where you stand in my life. I almost lost you once this year. I don’t want to push you away again.”

TK chews on his lower lip.

“This is a lot to not only accept but to live with, too. I don’t have a choice. I’m always going to be in this body and face these things. But you do have a choice. You’re still choosing me.”

TK’s voice sounds different in his own ears, thick with emotion. Since he and Carlos met, these are thoughts that have plagued him.

“But if this ever got to be too much…if you decided you couldn’t take it anymore…I feel like I’m asking a lot of you here. When I first moved to Austin, you just got a glimpse of the aftermath. You don’t know how bad it was back in New York and I pray that I’ll never get to that point again. I just…I’m always worried about scaring you off one day.”

Carlos cups his cheek, his thumb stroking the expanse of skin as he shakes his head. TK lowers his gaze.

“I’m not going anywhere and you sure as hell would not lose me over this. You will always have me.”

Carlos strokes his cheek again.

“TK, look at me. Please. I need you to hear me on this.”

It takes TK a few seconds, but he complies. Carlos’ eyes are so determined as they hold each other’s gaze.

“You aren’t asking for anything I can’t or don’t want to give. I love you more than anything in this world and I always will.”

The words are a comfort. After their breakup months ago, TK had spent what felt like a lifetime terrified that he’d lost this connection forever. His past has always been a sore spot for him, but with Carlos stepping inside of this with him and standing firm, he can breathe easier knowing this won’t get snatched from him. Nothing in life is a guarantee, but he believes Carlos’ love and support will truly remain as constants.

“I shouldn’t have taken it so personally,” Carlos continues, lowering his hand. “So long as you’re going somewhere or to someone safe in order to deal with what you’re feeling, that’s all that matters.”

Something heavy flickers in his eyes for a brief moment, but it’s enough to put TK slightly on edge.

“What’s wrong?” he asks, even as Carlos’ expression changes into something far more neutral.

Carlos’ mouth twists to the side a bit as he puts his thoughts together. TK doesn’t push him; he sits patiently and lets Carlos’ words come to him.

“I didn’t— I didn’t fully realize just how much this was impacting you until we sat here earlier. The way you were talking…you sounded so lost. It scared me and it just…really hit me how much I wasn’t actually equipped to steer you back. You went somewhere in your mind that I couldn’t reach. That’s never happened before and it worried me. A lot.”

TK’s heart sinks. “I’m sorry.”

Carlos reaches for his hand immediately and shakes his head.

“Don’t be. That’s not what— You’re battling so much at once…dealing with things I have zero experience with. You are so strong, TK. I just wish I would've gotten it a bit sooner to lighten that weight you’ve been carrying.”

Carlos grows quiet for a moment.

“I do want you to come to me whenever you’re feeling low. But I realized, I honestly had no clue what to say or do to make you feel better. I kept thinking about all the articles I’ve read…but that’s nothing compared to the real thing, you know? Being face to face with it in real time. You didn’t need some rehearsed speech and talking points.”

Carlos frowns and looks down for a second before looking at him again.

“I said I wanted all of you and that will always be true. The good days, the bad days, and everything in between. I promise you, TK, it could never be too much.”

Carlos sighs shakily.

“I’ve spent the last couple of days being scared that I wasn’t enough for you and, frankly, I’m not.”

TK opens his mouth to object, but Carlos holds up a hand.

“Not in that sense. And that’s the difference I didn’t understand before. That’s the point you were making the other night, but I couldn’t see it. Your support system should be however expansive you need it to be. Cooper gets this on a level I never will…on a level I simply can’t. And that’s okay. I can still love and support you in other ways. I really get it now.”

Carlos’ eyes are wet, the rims red from his apparent fight to keep himself from crying.

“Watching you go through the photo album and hearing you say you’d give anything to be happy like that again…it troubled me to see that you aren’t at a place you deserve to be. Your happiness should always be a priority. That’s all I ever want. For you to be happy and safe,” Carlos says, stroking TK’s cheek with his knuckles.

It’s only then that TK realizes he’s even started to cry.

This is the kind of love he’s always wanted. To love and be loved fully in return, unconditionally. What he has always seen as baggage that makes him unworthy, as strikes against him seem to make Carlos want to stand beside him all the more. It’s jarring to say the least, but TK is grateful beyond words.

“I’ve never been loved like this,” he says candidly. “You’re everything I could have hoped for and somehow so much more.”

Carlos smiles, a tear falling from his right eye as he searches TK’s face. More tears fall, but his smile only grows wider.

“I’m going to spend the rest of my life loving you,” Carlos replies effortlessly.

TK blinks twice, his heart beating faster as he looks back into his boyfriend’s eyes.

When Carlos says things like that, it never fails to take TK’s breath away, just how easily he talks about forever when it comes to them. There’s never any hesitancy, no hint of doubt. Carlos says it like it’s predestined and he knows it as a fact.

TK leans in and presses his mouth to Carlos’ softly. At once he feels a fluttering sensation in the pit of his stomach. Carlos’ ability to give him butterflies after all this time is truly commendable. Kissing him is always a rush.

“Thank you,” he murmurs against Carlos’ lips. It’s gratitude for Carlos’ patience, understanding, and unwavering support.

Far too much of his life has been spent feeling like a liability. Carlos loves him without limits.

“Of course,” Carlos breathes back. His tone sends a chill through TK. Even after all this time, it still blows his mind to see the effect he’s able to have on Carlos.

TK shifts and straddles Carlos’ waist, his knees settling in on either side against the couch. He holds Carlos’ face in his hands as he deepens their kiss, pouring even more of himself into it. Carlos matches his fervor, kissing him with urgency too. TK sighs against his mouth, his fingers charting their way into Carlos’ hair and gripping firmly, changing the energy of their kiss from something relatively chaste to hungry.

Carlos pulls back enough to look at him, already breathless, but TK sees the crease between his brows and can already read his concern.

“We don’t have to tonight,” Carlos says gently. “You don’t…owe me that for what I did.”

TK shakes his head, the pad of his thumb smoothing over the pinched skin of Carlos’ face.

“That’s not what this is at all. I mean, yes, I do want to…show appreciation because what you did was actually pretty remarkable. But I just want to be close to you. I’ve missed us.”

They’ve been a bit out of step these last few days, stilted conversation and tense interactions. A divide had settled over the loft, some invisible barrier that kept them from being on the same side. TK has hated every second of it, but tonight is the bend that has gotten them past that point and on the path back to each other.

Carlos searches his eyes, his face relaxing more and more as he nods. No doubt he’s felt it too.

Carlos leans in and gives TK a feather-light kiss that manages to leave his head spinning for a moment before kissing him more intently. His hand cradles the back of TK’s neck, holds on to him like he’s something precious that should be revered.

TK doesn’t hesitate in kissing him greedily, relishing in the taste and feel of Carlos’ lips on his. He has each inch of it memorized, his mouth finding home against his boyfriend’s.

Carlos gets his hands under TK and hoists him up as he rises from the couch. TK locks his legs and arms around him at once, his lips slipping from Carlos’ mouth and to the side of his face as they make their way to the bedroom.

He’s laid gently down against the bed and TK is hit with a wild thought. His mind swims with a vision of their honeymoon, Carlos setting him down like this for their first official night as husbands. The thought, he realizes, perhaps isn’t so wild after all.

He is going to marry this man, come hell or high water. Looking into Carlos’ eyes now, he sees more than kindness and desire. He sees a future, a road paved towards a happily ever after he didn’t think was possible after all he’s been through in life.

“I love you,” he whispers softly, tracing Carlos’ lower lip with the tip of his finger as his boyfriend settles over him.

“I love you too. More than I could ever begin to say.”

TK pushes back Carlos’ curls and tips his chin up to kiss him again, a leg hooking around his hip to pull him in closer.

They take their time, almost as if re-familiarizing and  savoring each other. TK enjoys the slower pace. It feels like a welcome back. He makes an oath to himself right then and there to never go this long without Carlos’ touch.

His hands run up the back of Carlos’ shirt, his palms gliding across Carlos’ warm, smooth skin. His boyfriend lets out a soft breath at his touch before pulling back to remove his own shirt.

TK drinks in the sight of Carlos’ bare chest, his exposed torso. He reaches out with both hands to touch the firm ridges of his abs.

“I don’t think I’ll ever get used to how perfect you are,” TK says, pulling his gaze upwards to Carlos’ face once again.

Carlos smiles and shakes his head.

“Hardly perfect, but I am glad you enjoy what you see.”

TK doesn’t think it’d be possible for him—or anyone for that matter—not to draw the same conclusion. Not just in looks, though there’s no question Carlos checks all those boxes, the man is simply the complete package. A dream made real.

Instead of arguing the point, he continues to explore Carlos’ body, his hands journeying to his boyfriend’s thighs.

He quickly grows restless with the clothes getting in the way of him feeling Carlos’ skin against his own. He undresses them both and the second the last article of clothing hits the floor, TK pulls Carlos down to him.

Carlos’ face nestles perfectly in his favorite spot against TK’s neck, his lips pressing to his skin. TK is certain Carlos can feel his pulse thrumming erratically. It feels as if there isn’t a single inch of their bodies that isn’t touching and that’s just the way TK likes it.

To go from not even knowing what to say to Carlos around their home just a day or two ago to this is everything.

His fingers tangle in Carlos’ hair as he presses their hips together, his body shivering at the feel of Carlos’ erection against his own. TK grinds his hips, a soft whimper leaving him as Carlos thrusts back over him.

TK tightens his grip on Carlos’ hair and tugs.

“Fuck,” Carlos rasps, pressing his lips to TK’s again, like kissing him is essential to his well-being.

TK opens his mouth, his tongue toying with Carlos’ as his boyfriend gets a firm hand around his cock. TK breaks away after the first few soft strokes, his mouth falling open as he sighs. Carlos always knows how to handle him, how to apply the right amount of pressure and when to leave his brain feeling hazy.

Carlos kisses down his body slowly, soft lips pressing against his warm skin as he continues to jerk him off. TK’s toes curl as Carlos’ tongue dances along his torso, making a chill go down the length of TK’s spine.

Carlos steadily strokes along the base of his cock as he slips TK into his mouth. TK feels his nipples harden instantly at the wet heat against his length. His fingers comb once more through Carlos’ hair as Carlos’ free hand rubs gently against his thigh.

TK relaxes against the pillows, his eyes closing as he sinks further into pleasure. It never takes much for him to surrender fully.

Carlos’ tongue does wonders against his shaft, teasing him here and there. TK pushes his legs up as his back arches a bit at Carlos’ ministrations. TK focuses on his breathing, doing his best not to get too riled up and ahead of himself. He wants this to last for as long as possible.

Carlos retracts bit by bit until he’s sucking at just the tip of TK’s cock, his tongue teasing the slit. TK lets out a sharp breath at the same time Carlos takes mercy on him and pulls away completely.

He can feel the shift as Carlos goes to the bedside table, can hear the bottle of lube opening and a moment later, Carlos’ deft fingers are coating his rim.

He opens his eyes then and finds Carlos looking at him. There’s enough light coming in from the streetlights outside to show TK his pupils a bit blown as he rubs the pad of his thumb to TK’s rim. Carlos looks starved for him; TK wants to give him everything.

Carlos gingerly slips his index finger inside of him. Bit by bit, TK’s jaw slackens at the intrusion.

Carlos moves up closer to him, ensnaring TK’s lips with his own. TK moans against his mouth, his hips tentatively rolling forward against the digit.

TK frames Carlos’ face with both his hands as they lose themselves in this kiss and each other. Carlos is persistent, his middle finger sliding perfectly alongside his pointer finger once TK is wide enough to take it.

“God,” TK hiccups as Carlos curls his fingers inside him.

TK clutches onto Carlos’ bicep steadily as he fucks his hand, his cock aching and leaking as his arousal grows.

“I need you,” TK says softly.

He doesn’t have to say anything more; Carlos retracts his hand at once and positions himself over him. TK licks his lips as Carlos coats his length and grabs onto TK’s thigh, hoisting his leg up to wrap securely around him as he carefully drives into TK.

TK’s nails bite into the hard muscle on Carlos’ shoulders as he clutches on. TK rests his forehead against his boyfriend’s, his breaths coming out in short bursts of air. Carlos’ hold on his thigh remains firm as he buries himself steadily.

“You feel so good,” Carlos rasps.

TK steals a kiss, the two of them writhing against each other. TK feels him everywhere, his head spinning with the intoxicating scent of his boyfriend, the taste of him on his lips as they kiss again.

TK shifts his hips, lifting them a bit. The move drives Carlos deeper, the man shuddering above him. Carlos takes a hold of his cock, his hand pumping against his shaft.

Pressure builds in TK’s stomach at all the attention to him. Carlos’ touch was just the thing he needed to heighten this already dizzying moment.

He can feel himself tightening on Carlos’ length.

“Nearly there,” Carlos notes, biting gently on the corner of TK’s mouth. His tongue soothes right over the spot a moment later.

The move makes TK throb harder; the sting and balm of Carlos’ mouth felt instantly right between his legs. He can’t stave off the inevitable much longer.

TK’s eyes roll shut as he gives in, his body trembling as his orgasm courses through him. He buries his face in the side of Carlos’ neck and kisses him there softly against his pulse point.

He whispers I love you over and over as he works through the sensations flooding him and continues rocking forward, his hands going straight to Carlos’ ass and guiding him forward.

Carlos grunts with each quickened thrust, his hips moving morell lol erratically. He comes a few beats later, a soft moan rattling in his throat as he fills TK with his release. TK feels goosebumps all over his arms, his body perfectly satiated. He’s missed this level of contact, of closeness between the two of them.

He clings on for a few more seconds, not quite ready to give Carlos up just yet. His boyfriend seems to understand as he gently rubs at TK’s side and tells him he loves him.

TK finally lets go and sighs as Carlos pulls out and cleans them up. TK’s brain still feels like it’s buzzing.

Carlos places the gentlest kiss on his forehead, bringing him back to the present moment. TK can feel his face warm up instantly at the gesture, the tips of his ears feeling hot too.

“You’re so adorable, I swear,” Carlos laughs.

TK jokingly pouts.

“I don’t want to be adorable right now. I want to be hot and sexy,” he says, running a hand through his hair.

Carlos laughs softly again and kisses the tip of his nose this time. TK scrunches it up playfully as Carlos pulls away and stares at him, his face growing more serious the longer he looks.

TK can’t help but to wonder what Carlos sees when he looks at him. There’s something like awe or disbelief. No one has ever looked at him like that and with Carlos, it’s such a routine thing.

A wave of emotion sweeps over him and surprises TK. He has so much love for this man, he feels like that’s all he’s made of. What’s more, what’s most comforting of all, is he knows it’s matched entirely.

The way Carlos looks out for him, looks at him. The way he puts his heart and thoughts out on the line so freely to let TK know how much he’s loved and valued is unlike anything he’s ever had.

Some days, this all feels too good to be true. It’s why he first ran from this when he arrived in Austin and Carlos was there, unexpectedly ready to give him everything. It’s why he ran at the start of the year when Carlos bought this home and made him an equal partner when he felt he brought in less.

Since day one, Carlos has worked him into his overarching plan for his life.

Good things were rare for TK and he had quite the knack for blowing up his life at the most inopportune times. But Carlos was forgiving and patient and loved him regardless of his insecurities. Perhaps even more so because of them.

Carlos cups his face now, the warmth of his hand spreading through TK’s whole body. His gaze is piercing, so much so that TK finds himself holding his breath in anticipation.

“You, TK Strand, are everything in one. I couldn’t ask for anything more than this.”

[uwuinator]

alright jrwi fans i had motivation out of nowhere so i decided to compile a list and see which character gets used in thumbnails most often from the riptide campaign

i did not count the players as the characters (except for 53 because they were all dressed up and it would be funny) so they were exempt from this list

these are in order from most used to least used, including those that are guest characters!

it's a long list (will be under the cut) and of course will quickly be outdated lmao

jay: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 27, 29, 34, 39, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 53, 61, origins, 65, 72, 81, 83, 85, 87 (31/88)

gill: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 18, 19, 21, 23, 25, 28, 29, 32, 36, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 53, 57, 66, 71, 73, 82, 86 (28/88)

chip: 1, 2, 4, 7. 9, 10, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 26, 29, 32, 35, 40, 41, 44, 47, 58, 59, 64, origins, 74, 84 (27/88)

la alma: 33, 34, 35, 38 (4/88)

clorton: 12, 13, 14 (3/88)

goobleck: 75, 79 (2/88)

random shark dudes: 13 (1/88)

malice: 24 (1/88)

pretzel: 30 (1/88)

lizzie: 31 (1/88)

barron: 37 (1/88)

ollie: 41 (1/88)

warforged (not alfonse): 46 (1/88)

tastrius: 54 (1/88)

ezme: 55 (1/88)

niklaus: 56 (1/88)

reuben: 60 (1/88)

edyn: 62 (1/88)

earl: 63 (1/88)

grimm: 67 (1/88)

ichabod: 68 (1/88)

random ass goblin: 68 pt.2 (1/88)

felipe: 76 (1/88)

puppeteer: 77 (1/88)

doctor: 80 (1/88)

apple: 83 (1/88)

a shock to absolutely NO ONE, jay is number 1. didn't think chip and gill were as close as they were! i thought gill had a good few more than chip but guess not

as you can see, 7-26 are all tied for 7th but tumblr is stupid and won't let me number them all 7

so they're there in order of appearance

[glassesblu]

2, 4, and 25 for the artist asks!

Hi fero hello!!! Thank you for the ask 😤

Artist Asks

Answered numbers

2. 5 favourites of your own work?

ahhh getting my ass once again? Very well :)

It is hard to pick 5 exactly (and in the end I didn't pick just 5...), but I suppose I should give different images that the previous ask!

Can we count these as 1? Here's my favorite colored and black and white sketchpage :)! (These were commissions, the BnW one for my dearest @belltrigger, and I'm still open to doing commissions like these! If interested, hit me Up ;P)

2, a comic! I *have* to color this someday. I've just been way too busy 😭

Aaand more, illustrations! I think these tomgreg stuff and my latest valentine piece just make me rly happy. And my standees make me so super happy.

4. Favourite things to draw?

Comics for sure! I loooove thumbnailing and sketch refining and panelling and speech bubble placing and composing and all that! It's just super fun to me. I also love doing sketch pages! There's just such a joy in making those ^_^

25. Based on your recent reference searches, what would the FBI assume about you?

ahhh something rly boring perhaps? X) I'm always looking up references like "prosthetic leg" "couples dancing" "hand holding back"

Or something about adobe products like

"How to do X on indesign?"

I guess its really obvious that I'm an artist XD?

Though I do have

"Yor anime statue dick" or "Loid pussy statue" cause i was trying to show my friends those anime statues 😭

Ps check out my linked source for Submas merch Pre-Orders ;)

[babydxhl]

@arkhampsych| sc. 

It's the beeping of a monitor more than anything else that has her driving her thumbnail — barely aware of the motion, aggression more casual than breathing — into the tiny space between the page number and the bottom margins, the cheap paperback flinching under the force.

Beep. Beep. Her gaze flicks down the length of the infirmary, the unseen source of the sound behind a curtain at the far end, and then back to Crane.

"Come to gloat?" Her tone is curt — there is a kind of brisk disinterest that's become second nature to her interactions with the man. The hunger strike of a few days prior hadn't come to anything, only constant supervision, food forced down her throat. She supposes if there'd been space, she would have only ended up in solitary, but as it was—

Beep. Beep. She lifts the book in her lap, knees shrouded in a scratchy, thin blanket. "'Now you have destroyed all my happiness'," she reads, solemn, watching him over the top of it.

"'You have ruined all my future. It is horrible to think of! I am in the power of an unscrupulous man — he can do what he likes with me, ask anything he likes of me, give me any orders he pleases.'" Beep. Beep. The book drops back down with a soft thwip of starch. "'I dare not refuse.'"

"Do they let you read Ibsen in medical school? Or did they burn it while they were beating you over the head with Freud?"

[homemoviess]

Post #13 - For the Love of Art or the Love of Money?

♫ - What I’m currently listening to.

TL;DR - I will no longer give myself deadlines, and we will be blending formatting and thumbnailing together in order to get the ball rolling on the comic.

I joke all the time and say that if I don't want to follow through with something, I should set a deadline. This joke has been a way to avoid beating myself up after another project goes on hold, or another plan isn't followed. I suppose I am unreliable—I'd moan, only to realize this usually applies to personal projects I do for fun and not the other aspects of my life.

Fawn, and every fanfic I write, should be for fun.

I can say it currently is fun, but recently I feel myself growing stressed whenever I think about it. I've been dreading creating posts—absolutely hating the idea of it, so I've been avoiding it altogether. Social media has never been my specialty, and the few times that I forced myself to give it a try I often got caught up in the numbers, the engagement, and the thirst for attention. It's bad for mental health, so I taught myself to put it away, to use it only as a bystander and not as a "content creator".

I don't want this to be that way. I genuinely want to see this comic to the end if only for myself and no one else. It would feel good to look at 30 or so pages of finished artwork, and say, "yeah, I created that." Now that, that is what I crave, so I'll keep going.

What I won't do is what I did last week and give myself 7 days to draw something I loathe without any guidance. Not only did I decide to not do that, (instead, I spent my free time writing a completely unrelated fanfic) but I lost a lot of the motivation that held before.

So! From now on I won't give myself deadlines.

I want to speed things up. There's been a lot of beating around the bush, and not actually drawing the comic, so to fix that I will be blending stages 2 and 3 together. There is absolutely no reason not to create the thumbnails as I'm doing the page formatting.

I'm closing the current poll as well. I'll announce the results in my next post. The good news is that Tumblr introduced polls directly on the site, so I'll be sticking with that the next time I run one of 'em.

Lastly, I still want to thank you for sticking by, liking the posts, or simply viewing them. I will be turning my personal notifications off for everything beyond asks submissions, since I don't want to get into the slump of feeling like I'm doing this for notes, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate you taking your time out of your day to peek into my little bubble.

[earth2068]

Script writing is a very personal process and I've seen you answer asks about your scripting before, I'm just curious about how much detail you need to add to your scripts in order to feel like it makes sense.

A friend of mine and I are working on a small project and I'm currently writing the script for it but I'm finding it hard to write all the detail that's necessary, do you find that drawing out what you have scripted adds more to what you initially plan?

How many drafts does it take to finalise the scripting of each page or does that vary from page to page?

Do you change dialogue a lot? And are you able to get into each character's head to understand how they'd react to certain situations?

Sorry if this is a lot, I hope you have a good day! :D

a very important element of script writing (when it comes to writing a script that other people will have to read in order to make the final product) is not giving too much information. the people youre working with more than likely know what theyre doing and can be just as creative as you, so as the script writer you should tell them what you NEED. sometimes you need to go more into detail if those details become relevant. who knows, those might be chekhovs runic symbols! and sometimes theyre just set dressing (not worth describing in the script).

in general, as long as youre covering every detail required to make the story make sense, youre good. scripts are not the place for pretty imagery, theyre for the basic required information to be expanded on later on in the process. if theres a gun on the table, you may need to just say "theres a gun on the table," or you may need to specify that its a pistol, it all depends on what the story needs to be true.

when im drawing out my scripts, i inevitably end up adding a whole lot of material (or retroactively deciding certain details dont matter and i can cut them for ease of drawing) because thats just what ends up happening when you turn a basic description of a room into a room you see with your own eyes. and because the script is always in flux, i can even add dialogue that i realize would be funny when drawing (theres a visual gag on the next page thats referenced in dialogue, said dialogue was added after i finished the sketch)

i dont write a specific number of drafts for specific pages (nor do i know where the pages will start and end before i begin the thumbnailing phase), the whole chapters script just remains in editable form until the pages go online. there was a point where i added dialogue to a page 2 days before it was supposed to be uploaded.

hot tip here: never say a script is "finalized," ever. EVER. it will NEVER be true. musicals on broadway STILL get edited, webcomics will have pages changed or added AFTER a page is up to clarify the subject of the audiences confusion or missed implications (rarely happens but it does). scripts are always, always, always editable*.

(*in theatre, when youre doing a workshop/production of a show you wrote, there might be a point in the process (usually around tech week or opening night) when your script gets "frozen," which is production team language for "please, were begging you, stop changing this, we cant keep redoing these cues, please, god, think of the stage manager". its not unusual for scripts to continue to change throughout the performances though)

and yes, i do change dialogue a lot. when i start writing a character, it may take me a while to really Get them (cough cough phil), which is why revisions are great, so i can retroactively make a character act in the right way after ive had enough time to figure them out. there are some characters that i get so well that it feels like there is a portion of my brain dedicated to emulating their behavior, particularly flynn, leon, vermillion and lucille. viridian and violet are quickly building their own zones too.

however, dialogue isnt just about staying in character. dialogue serves a function. jokes need to be funny, conversations need to get through all their beats, etc. the first draft of dialogue may be the most in character, but it will more than likely serve its function less. because of this, its very easy to write dialogue thats LONG (real conversations are typically very long), but its very difficult to write dialogue thats SHORT (serving its purpose quickly and efficiently).

the way i do this is that i write the scene, however long it ends up being, then identify the significant points it goes through. once ive done that, i can cut material between those points (with natural scenic flow in mind) such that the scene becomes streamlined, going through all the necessary beats as efficiently as possible.

its important to not enter too utilitarian a mindset for this though! sometimes a piece of dialogue is frivolous at best but you just like it a lot. keep it! filler can be a nice experience even if it doesnt accomplish anything. that "and if anyone offers things like drugs or alcohol dont take them up on that" joke in chapter 2 couldve been easily cut, but the way i reused it pages later was WAY too funny to me, so i kept it anyway! i even recently ADDED some frivolous dialogue to a scene in a later chapter simply because it added a character detail that i enjoyed, simple as that!

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this is totally not game theory script

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Hello, Internet, welcome to Game Theory,where today's episode is perhaps

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the single most important that we've doneon the final floor in a long, long time.

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Today, my friends, our goalis to solve Golden Freddy.

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That's right.

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For now, Fred, I am justified in usingmy favorite golden boy in the thumbnail

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today because thisepisode is all about him.

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It's them, which I got to be honest,is probably a good thing because I've run

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out of ways to make Old Yeller overhere look interesting in a thumbnail.

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I mean, the dude's only got like two

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decent quality images in the entiresix year history of this franchise.

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Say what you will aboutmilking this franchise.

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Right?We've milked that image, right.

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If only every other characterin this franchise was clickable.

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But seriously, with the recent releaseof Buddy Call

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the Fifth Fassbach Fright Book,I think we have enough information now

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to finally put together a quasi definitiveanswer on who is in that iconic golden

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suit, which, got to be honest, is like thebiggest mystery to me in this franchise.

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At this point.

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Solving this one is like obtainingthe first of three massive holy grails

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when it comes to the lureof this franchise.

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But in order to do it,

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we're going to have to look at the games,the books and the spin offs.

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And by the end,

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we'll have ourselves an answer that notonly fits with the established lore

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of both game and book,but also an answer that satisfies pretty

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much everything about this characterand answer that irons out all the wrinkles

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and frustrations that I've had whenconcocting past theories about this guy.

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Oh, and it also just takes a little bitof the scabbed overwound of a past theory,

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OpenNet just enough that itmight get infected.

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So are you ready to have your mind blown?Are you ready to finally have the answer

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to this mystery that has beensix years in the making?

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Well, then let's beginwith the stitch rave.

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For those of you who've missed it,the stitchery story is happening in small

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chunks at the end of eachFassbach Fright book.

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It's kind of like an MCU post creditsteaser minus the color shifting Thanos.

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It's about an animatronic suit piecedtogether from the haunted spare parts

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of various toys and robots given lifethrough the power of human agony.

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Now that it's alive,the creature is wandering the city,

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collecting more haunted toys and killingpeople with its zappy hands,

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sucking their bodies dry and makingthem cry oily black tears.

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And up to this point, that's prettymuch all we do about this monstrosity.

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Lead me to conclude that the reason we'remeeting this thing is to prove

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the existence of remnant and how itworks via negative human emotions.

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Maybe set him up as the new villainfor that upcoming game security breach.

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Or at the very least,that's what I thought.

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Oh, no, dear theorist's the stitchery this

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far more important than wecould have ever imagined.

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In the epilogue of book number four,Step Closer, we meet Andrew and Jake,

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the two souls who find themselvestrapped inside the stitchery.

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And the conversation that they have whenthey first meet starts to give us some

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of the lower drops that we have beenwaiting years to hear quote from the book.

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Now, Jake was inside a metal thing.

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He didn't know enough about anything

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to understand what it was,but he did know that he wasn't alone.

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He was sharing this strange place.Oh, hi.

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Jake said, I'm Jake.Who are you?

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I'm Andrew.The child's voice was rough.

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He sounded a little like a boy Jake usedto know in school,

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a boy who was always talking back to theteacher and getting himself in trouble.

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Jake thought Andrew sounded angry,very angry, end quote.

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We're told that even though both theirsouls are infused into the same

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endoskeleton, Jake is the only oneable to move the stitch wreathes body.

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He's also the only one capableof seeing the outside world.

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Andrew is blind to it all.

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It's kind of like thosetwo man horse costumes.

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You never want to windup being the button.

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Those things, especiallyon Chappellet days.

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It's no wonder Andrew so mad.

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I'd be, too, if I was forced to spend aneternity looking at someone else's soul.

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But however, it's when they start talking

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about their former lives that thingsstart to get really interesting.

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Quote again, my memoriesare kind of fuzzy.

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Jake said fuzzy.Yeah, so are mine.

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Andrew responded.

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But I do remember wanting to getback at someone who hurt me.

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I think I attached myself to him.

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I got into his soul, made sure he couldn'tmove on when he should have died.

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I remember I wanted him to sufferthe way he made me suffer.

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I remember they tried to kill him,

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but I wasn't going to lethim go until I was ready.

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With a story like that,you could almost say that Andrew is

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a spirit wanting revenge,a literal, vengeful spirit.

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Perhaps now loyal Fanaroff theoristshave an idea of where this is all going.

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Right back when Ultimate Customer firstcame out, we theorized that the entire

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game was William Taft,entrapped in a fiery Xscape,

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a constant cycle of torture and tormentat the hands of his past victims.

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Or should I say one victim in particular,the spirit of Golden Freddy.

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Sure, he was called by many names,

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the one you should not have killed,the vengeful spirit.

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But in the end, by doing the impossible

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of that game and beating 1020 mode,it's revealed that Golden Freddy lingers

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on, twitching with rage,refusing to move on into his afterlife.

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And here Andrew is pretty muchconfirming exactly that sound.

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The party horns the children celebrating.

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It looks like we got one rightor should I say mostly right.

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What's interesting about this wholeJake Andrew conversation from the book is

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that back with ultimate custom night,we assumed that William Aften was dead

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and that this was justhis afterlife and purger.

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Or or each double hockeysticks or whatever.

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He died in Henry's fire,the one that was set at the end of NAFT

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six, the one meant to bringthe whole series to a close.

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I mean, how could he not be dead?

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Henry even had that awesome final linefor him, although for one of you,

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the darkest of hell hasopened to swallow you whole.

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So don't keep the devil waiting.

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Frank, you don't just surviveone liners like that.

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And yet here Andrew says that he was

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actively keeping his killer aliveagainst everyone's attempts on his life.

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So does that mean that afternoon?Still.

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No, no, no.

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I always come back.

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He attack he Protech he always come back.

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But just because William may have beenkept alive in the book law doesn't

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necessarily mean that he wasleft alive in the game law to.

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Well, it shouldn't, but I think it does.

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Fast forward to this month and our newestbook, Bunny, called what was originally

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supposed to be the fifth and finalinstallment in the Fast Bear Fright

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series, a literal five books at Freddy'suntil, of course, it got extended.

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Now we have ourselves the bonussixth and seventh night books.

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And while the first two stories in thisnew book are interesting and certainly

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worth talking about on a different day,it's the third one, the man in room 12 18

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that ties into ourGolden Freddy mystery today.

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Stop me if you've heard this one before.

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It's about a mysterious man in a hospital

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burned well beyond the point of death,and yet somehow he remains alive.

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Quote from the book, Man had no face.

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A hole in his skull indicatedwhere his nose used to be.

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Dark, cavernous pits,lacking eyes looked at nothing.

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A toothless mouth gapedwithout lips to protect it.

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We'd be remiss if we didn'twarn you, the nurse said.

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We know what he what that is evil.

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Father Blythe evil.

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In fact, the hospital staff is so

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convinced that he's the embodiment of evilthat they tried to kill him multiple times

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via injections,via smothering, via séances.

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But nothing will do it.

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He cannot be killed, but notfor the reasons that you would expect.

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It's not an iron will to live or

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the remnant that's flowing throughhis veins that's keeping him alive.

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It's a ghost.Each attempt on the patient's life is

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thwarted by the ghost of a boy with curlyblack hair wearing an alligator mass.

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In fact, the two seem to beintertwined with each other.

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The story informs us about the patient's

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brain patterns, and they well,they're a bit unusual.

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Quote, According to the hospital's sleep

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expert, that particular REM patternindicates nightmares, horrific nightmares.

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See there and there.

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The nurse pointed at onepart of the brain scan.

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Two signals means two livingthings, two entities.

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They're both vying for control

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of the brain, but they'reat odds with each other.

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We think they're tormenting each other.

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Sounds a bit like Andrew, right?

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Andrew attached himself to the manwho killed him and refuses to let him die

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so he can torment him,which is the exact relationship between

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the vengeful spiritand William Aften in the Games.

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And if there was any doubt about who thismysterious man in the hospital is,

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the patient wants to go to a father'sbeer distribution center.

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And we're told that the stitchery mysteryis somehow tied to a mysterious fire

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involving Freddy's and the former ownersof the business every which way to Sunday.

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This is our William Aften.

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Stand in for these books.

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Andrew is our vengeful spirit.Stand in.

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And it feels like the book is trying

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to tell us that custom night wasn'tpurgatory or heck,

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it was after living nightmare as he waslaying in a hospital bed recovering.

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William Aften may still be alive,

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or maybe he was alive and thenhe eventually explodes.

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Yeah, the story ends with William'scarcass being wheeled out to the beer

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distribution center and then itliterally blows up like a bomb.

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It is just as gross and gory anddisgusting as you would expect it to be.

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Maybe it's a good thing that thesebooks don't have pictures.

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My personal guess is that this is whatreleases the angry spirit of Andrew

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into lots of other toyslike Fetch and plus trap.

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And it may also be how Grafton's soul gets

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itself into a computer chip thateventually gives life to glitch trap.

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OK, this has been a lot about aften and I

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promise that this would be a megatheory about Golden Freddi.

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So how does it all connect together?

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Well, notice how I described Andrew's

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ghost, a boy with curly blackhair and an alligator mask.

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It's the same hair as the mysterious dead

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body found inside Golden Freddy'ssuit back in fase birthrights.

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Number three quote from that book,Downlow passed his arm.

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Devon could see a body, a dead body,

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but it wasn't exactly like he thoughthe'd find this one had curly black hair.

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The lure of the series doesn't tend

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to give us a lot, but one thing ittends to keep relatively consistent.

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2. The Ring

It is been 2 months after government imposed movement restriction order due to pandemic. No one can go out from their home without valid reason. Zack lay on his bed scrolling down his instagram. On these quarantine time, people are getting creative to fill up their time at home. Zack saw a lot of sharing by content creators on his social media. Some fills their time by trying new recipe on instagram, post a dance video on tiktok, write thread about conspiracy theories. While scrolling his instagram wall, Zack saw Callum's story post appeared. He click the thumbnail and watched the content.

"I want to give my mum this ring but the size not suit her, instead of keep it I want to let it go. Any interested buyer?" The text come with picture of two silver swarovski rings. One with large swarovski gem on the centre and small gems arranged around the ring and another same ring but without big swarovski stone on the centre.

Zack immediately sent him a message. "I'm interested". Zack wrote. "I buy with 15 dollars. Deal?".

"okay deal!" Callum replied.

That was fast. Zack did not expect such prompt reply from Callum.

"when you want to take these rings?" Callum ask.

"How about tommorow. I'm going to Image Mall to take something from my friend" Zack have an appointment with Diana. Diana's mother is a friend of Zack's mom. Lately Diana always like Zack's posts and stories on instagram. They even make few conversation through whatsapp and instagram. Zack can feel Diana interest on him but he just ignored it since he just want to make sure for a choice of love of his life.

"Okay see you tommorow then. Just give ma call when you are there. My house just 5 minutes from there." Callum replied and give Zack his contact number.

Zack lay facing his bedroom ceiling. His mind processing the thought of Callum willingness to take the deal. Zack start to think something but he immediately shut it down but the more he tried, the more he is force to think about it. Does Callum like me?

...................................

The clock on the wall shows twelve past twenty. Zack get himself ready to go out to meet Diana and Image mall.

"Im at the mall entrance" Zack texted Diana.

"Could you move to the starbucks area. There will be one lady hand in to you a paperbag. Let me know if you're done " Zack feel weird with this supposedly she is the one met him here but now the thing differen.

Zack drive his car to the starbucks and pull over and put on emergency light. He checking his phone while waiitng the lady as per told by Diana. As Zack sunk by his phone, Suddenly someone knocking the window car. One curvy lady with starbucks apron on, hand in to him a paperbag.

"Hi, this is for you from Ms. Diana" she said.

"Hi, oh thank you" soon as she back off. Zack raised the car window and drove to the side part of the mall. He take out his phone and texted Callum

"Hi Bro, I'm at the mall. Parked my car at the right side of the Mall"

Callum reply promptly "Okay will be there in 5 "

Zack looking around and enjoy the peaceful surrounding of the mall. Usually the mall will be busy at this hour but due to the movemont restriction order, less people come the mall.

Suddenly Ford Fiesta car parked in front of Zack's. One guy with shades, white t-shirt and black shorts come out from that car walk towards him. Zack bring down the windows. He was so nervous this is the first time we met this guy. Zack always struggle with first time meeting with people the first thing that comes to his mind is how people think abpout him. He always imagining negative perspective throw towards him.

Zack just waiting, He saw a young man with with small box in his hand.

"Hey, here you are. The rings". Callum said while hand in the small box.

"Hey, Thanks. By the way I'm Sorry. I tried transfer the money to you but seems the network was not really. The transaction can't went thru"

"No problem, it can be wait. No rush"

He looks like waiting for something. Does he hoping the conversation to be longer? Or does He hoping for Zack to invite him for a date? Zack also do not have idea about it. Zack suddenly end the silent moment by thank him for the rings and told him he need to drive back home. They both said their goodbyes and move on their way

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Art Process- Paper Planes (1)

I really wanted a painted, sketchy but still detailed look for these illustrations that would capture the essence of all the different pieces of concept art I have studied for this project.

To achieve that, I decided to work directly on top of the thumbnail sketch that I created initially and just use the ''COLOUR'' option in my blending settings to manually add all the colours necessary to both separate all the different elements (making it more readable and easy to navigate ) and also set the mood/atmosphere that I want for the illustration right from the beginning.

This is also where I started to refine some of the smaller details such as the satellite dishes, the air conditioner and some flower pots and hanging plants.

Being able to have all the different reference photos that I needed right next to me while sketching was very helpful since It allowed me to move back and forth between the pictures and my work very quickly and efficiently in order to correct any mistakes.

After that, I started working on the windows. This was very easy and quick since it is something that I have done before for one of my other projects and so all I had to do was repeat that process, but on a larger, more detailed scale.

I started by blocking in the shapes of the windows. I, then, added some random squares of colour of different opacities on top that would act as a rough interior for each of the ''apartments'' . This created a lot of dimension which looked even better when I added the glass-like reflections on top. As a final touch, I also added a white frame around the windows which really helped make them look more credible.

As I went along I also put in different textures and random brush strokes just to make sure that nothing looked too neat or perfect. Since buildings wear out and get old in time, this only added to the realism.

One of the biggest perks of digital art is being able to use so many unique and interesting brushes that allows for unique and interesting results.

Painting this felt like sculpting in a way since I kept erasing and adding bits and pieces until I was left with something solid enough for a base. Right from the start I tried to keep the colour palette consistent and simple so it wouldn't be difficult building details from there.

Since I based this building on the ones I used to see all the time in my country back in the day, I added all sorts of different elements that I could remember, even in terms of the building's structure.

Unfortunately, I was not able to add any clothes on the window clothing hanger . For some reason every time I tried to add something like a t-shirt or a pair of socks, they just looked out of proportion and out of place. I decided to just leave it empty in the end. This could be due to my limited understanding on perspective.

I was very excited to be starting on these smaller details since I don't usually do that in my concept art. I also think they convey the urban city aesthetic pretty well.

Making the air conditioner was extremely challenging since I had to work with a trickier angle. Fortunately, I managed to end up with something that looked good enough and it was then just a matter of how much detail to put without making it look too detailed in comparison with everything else.

For the plants, I didn't bother with drawing every leaf individually but rather concentrate on depicting them as solid shapes that still showed the difference in texture. I especially like how the suspended baskets turned out. The concept art trials I did before starting my illustrations really helped me get more comfortable with things that I have never drawn before.

Since my pallet was mainly formed of reds, browns and yellows (basically, very sunset-y colours) , I tried to keep all the new colours I added on the warm side.

I then started adding the shading. Since I was working with a rather limited number of layers, this meant that as I kept progressing and adding new layers, I would also have to combine them and polish everything as I went along. I tried to not get too lost in the little details but rather concentrate on the artwork as a whole, but that was difficult sometimes since I wanted the illustration to look as organic as possible.

This is also where I started to work on the background. As I mentioned, I wanted a warm and tranquil atmosphere and so I changed the hue of the sky to something a bit more purple-ish (it is a bit hard to see but the sky is actually a gradient from dark blue to yellowish pink) , made the clouds more yellow (to look as if they are reflected by the sun) and even added some highlights to the building to separate it from the background.