#midwinterhunt

[sleepis4theweak]

Sometimes another fandom I was in/piece of media I liked will randomly grab my attention for a couple of days and its a shock every time-

It used to be that I would dart from fandom to fandom too fast to even make any fanart or anything for it- but the turtles have very solidly grabbed my attention, so now its that I love the turtles and then sometimes I love the turtles AND something else

This time it was FUCKING TRANSFORMERS GODDAMN IT THATS MY BROTHERS THING NOT MINE

but... Bumblebee 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[devsgames]

HOT GAMEDEVS DON'T GATEKEEP

Inspired by this post by @midwinterhunt, here's a compilation of all the game dev resources I have come across, most of which I use fairly frequently. Most of these are free, some are paid but fairly cheap. Feel free to add your own resources. ✌️

Important reminder: When using basically any works or programs someone else created in your games, make sure you thoroughly understand the licenses and terms it has been shared with. If you don't know what the terms are, reach out to the resource and ask. Don't be lazy about this; it's not only dishonest but it can come back to bite you.

Engines

Unity - Best suited for mobile and multi-platform.

Unreal - Tailored for shooters and high-fidelity experiences.

PICO-8 - Virtual console for simple games

Godot - Open source and free!

GameMaker - Good for 2D games

Bitsy - Great little engine for making simple games and experiences

Construct - Never used but have heard nice things

Scratch - If you've never coded before, this is the best place to start. Great for young devs and those who want to get their feet wet.

Adventure Game Studio - Best suited for adventure games

RPG Maker - Best suited for top-down classic JRPG style games

Twine - Text-centric games like Interactive Fiction

Assets

OpenGameArt - Many assets, various licenses, and plenty of CC0 content.

Unity Store - For Unity only. Some free.

Unreal Store - For Unreal only. Some free.

Godot Asset Library

Jean Moreno's Toon Effects - Some of the best effects available on the Unity store. Unity only but I've used them in basically every project.

Steamworks.net C# Wrapper For Unity - Unity only C# wrapper for integrating Steam compatibility to your game

Itch.io - Plenty of free art assets and game dev resources

Kenney - Kenney makes tons of open-source assets for devs to use.

Art

Mixamo - Generates rigs for your humanoid models and lets you apply a library of free humanoid animations to them. Super helpful for prototyping. Adobe.

Blender - Free, open source and fully featured 3D program.

XNormal - Free offline normal map generator

Normal Map Online - Free online normal map generator

Crocotile - Cheap tool for building 3D models from sprite sheets

MagicaVoxel - Free voxel modelling tool

Piskel - Free online sprite drawing tool

Aesprite - Paid sprite drawing tool

TurboSquid - Not always great quality, but can be good source of free placeholders.

Textures.com - Limited texture downloads per day but free for personal use.

Pexels - Free stock photo resource. Most are free for commercial use. Check licenses.

Clipstudio - Good for illustration or graphic design. One time payment.

GIMP - Image editing program a-la Photoshop. Free.

Audio

Audacity - Free and fully-featured DAW/audio editor.

sfx.me - Free 8-bit synth-style sound effect generator for games.

CastingCallClub - Easy forum to find amateur voice talent for your project (p.s.: you should pay them).

FreeSound.org - Free sounds, searchable by license. A go-to for my audio needs.

Incompetech - Royalty-free music by Kevin McLeod.

Scott Buckley Music - Royalty free with conditions. Generally more on the cinematic side of things but very good stuff!

SoundCloud - 'Search -> By Track -> Filter: Use Commercially' leads to songs posted with allowance of commercial use. Always reach out to the artist to understand their terms and confirm that it's okay to use with your project.

Project Planning

Keymailer - Handy for mailing keys to influencers (don't expect a lot of traction unless you're paying for some of the features though).

Trello - Kanban board. Great for organizing tasks, managing bugs, etc. Free.

Notion - Private text and wiki page editor. Good for project organization, note taking, and fleshing out ideas. Free.

Obsidian - Alternative to Notion, with similar features.

Miro - Free whiteboard for organizing thoughts, images, brainstorming, etc.

Wave - Free Bookkeeping site. Great for keeping finances organized.

[the-starry-seas]

Get to Know You

Thanks for the tag @insertmeaningfulusername!

Last song: Which Witch by Florence and the Machine

Currently watching: Bad Batch! and I keep saying I'm gonna rewatch Killjoys and Prehistoric Park but I've been saying that for a while 😬

Three ships: Mordecai/Brick, Wrecker/Crosshair, and fuck it I'm gonna say my strawberries too (OC clone/Paz Vizsla/OC Tusken)

Favorite color: purple!

Currently consuming: AriZona green tea

First ship: Parker/Hardison from Leverage, they've been my blorbos since high school

Birthplace: I just spawned in like in Minecraft idk what to tell you

Current location: North Carolina

Relationship status: single and no idea how to mingle

Last movie: Kissing Jessica Stein

Currently working on: *kicks so many docs under the bed. just so, so many* I have a "Myles survived Galidraan and becomes part of the Cuy'val Dar with eventual Myles/Jango" AU occupying a significant amount of my brain right now. Zer0 meeting Murderbot. Din/Cobb Bioshock-verse AU. Knightverse Bumblebee meets a TMNT OC. Post-canon fix-it Titanfall 2. Ghost Squad origin story (so many clone OCs). "Obi-Wan comes back home after the events of Kenobi to find Jango chilling in the Lars' living room and it gets poly from there". Boba/Din Pacific Rim AU. Just so many. So many.

No pressure tagging: @midwinterhunt @sofiaspeaksart @syn0vial @voidistooshortforausername @loverboy-havocboy and whoever else I was spam booping/wants to do it!

[tmnt-background-screenshots]

Asking a few people this! If the turtles weren't from New York, where would you like for them to live? What city or state or even country?

heheh =3

So little fact about me: I was born and raised in Nevada and was in my late teens before i moved to another state, so when I think about putting heroes or characters in a New Place, obviously I wanna put them in the good ol' irl Mad Max US state!

Every time they travel and meet a new villain or ally, everyone always asks "Oh, like Vegas?" and the turtles Can Not handle that question one more time because NOT EVERYONE LIVES IN VEGAS. In fact, they have never once been to Vegas. They have also never been to Burning Man. They HAVE been to Area 51 but only because Bishop captured them that one time.

There is no subway or spacious enough sewer system for them to live in, so they live in The Catacombs under the town.

Other mutants/yokai may be living in or under the abandoned silver mines.

They have to be careful going out, because Desert Dwellers can and will hunt them down if they see something weird out in the brush or sand dunes at night. Leo and Mikey like to mess with the farmers and play around in the abandoned houses and cars.

Fireworks are illegal, so obviously Donnie likes to figure out different ways to may them, and he probably sells them to local teenagers for money.

Raph has trained the local pigeon population to be his friends.

April drives her own car, because she can get away with driving without a license in a medium sized farming/mining town.

Splinter is more wary of humans, and he had a harder time raising the boys. But he did actually have a few friends over the years with the homeless population who did not care if he was a mutant.

I dunno, do you guys want this to be a full au? Because I'll totally do it. Direct any asks or interest on it to my main blog @midwinterhunt

[tmnt-oc-comp]

ALRIGHT GUYS GUESS WHAT I FINALLY DID

THATS RIGHT!!! I finally finished the bracket, after much work and figuring out how the hell to do it on mobile. Unfortunately I don’t have a picture, I have a link! Because bracket maker mobile is dumb!

And now, for the people who got in to be @

@intotheelliwoods

@silver-embersss

@leo-kinnie

@darth-sonny

@shadowoffandoms

@mossy-leo

@turtle-trash

@justadoll

@askcybertello

@littlemissartemisia

@tomatoshapedstars

@alexcant578

@the-unicorn-system

@lackablazeical

@void-writing

@squibbles-gubwee

@midwinterhunt

@just-another-wren

@angelcorpse230

@shittygaypornmagazine

@deliciousmusiccoffee

@annonimous1000

@hallowfan

@troubleshade

@echodoesstuff62333

@mimuo-no

@leftover-puppet

@harveylikestoart

@ittybittypearlygirly

@lordfreg

@dragonartist56

@mobiitez

@silverfirewolfsurtleaus

GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL!!!!

[midwinterhunt]

Hey! I drew Turtle!Casey from my fanfic!

[rottmnt-background-screenshots]

You know how sometimes I tag a post with #for my fic? Well, this is said fic

My selling point: I'm going to bring in the Rat King. And the Triceritons. And it's more or less canon compliant. It will,,,, almost definitely end up being a series.

[animerose96]

Rules: In a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as you feel like).

@midwinterhunt did it. So now it's my turn.

Last line was for a Good Omens fanfic.

“I wasn’t Crowley then. Was I?”

I'll tag @kestrelsparverius @maeveywavy @sea--attack and anyone else who wants in.

[blackfire-fanfiction]

Recording how many words of fanfic I read per day (May 18)

Today: 71,838 words Yesterday: 69,359 words Top this Month: 159,713 words

I took a nap today, but I only really nap when I’m sick. I feel shitty 24/7 so unless I’m actually throwing up, naps are the only way to tell. 

[Fics I read today under the cut]

TMNT oneshots by slidershell  Fuck It, We Barn by butterfilledpockets Only time will tell. by The_Lunar_System_Writes Chapter 18 of A Different Eldest Brother by alicat54c Chapter 15 of Multi-Dimensional Turtle Chaos by CeruleanBound Chapter 60 of Did we just adopt ourselves? by FanficTimesForFun Chapter 21 of Shredder's Vendetta by Cass_Phoenix Donnie Wants One Normal Night by MidwinterHunt

[voidlings-and-starlets]

Directory

My main blog: @midwinterhunt

Voidling Picrew

#Lore for my worldbuilding

#mid is my sona and the mascot for this whole project, this tag has pictures and info of them

#voidling is voidling designs so you get an idea of what they look like

#crowd critters are any individual creatures of this setting designed by y'all

[sleepis4theweak]

WIP game

rules: in a new post, post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet and tell us about it!

*note: my asks are currently off, so you can just comment on this post and I'll respond to it as if it were an ask :)

tagged by @midwinterhunt (I love that you could just tell that I was drowning in wips.... you were so right)

tagging: UHHHHH- ANYONE CAN JOIN YIPPEE!!!! <3 :D

ART - Flashbacks AU next chapter... I've made no progress <3 -Angsty comic on anger with the 2012 boys -Drawing for moot -Small comic with baby Rottmnt Donnie -Small comic with child rottmnt April and Raph -3 more of the drawing moots challenge thing -Looooong comic with 2012 April and Mikey -Comic with rottmnt Leo and Usagi -Short comic with 2012 Mikey and Donnie -Short comic with 2012 Mikey and Raph -Longer comic with 2012 boys about ADHD -THAT FUCKING OC PROJECT THAT I CAN NEVER FINISH GODDAMN IT -Rottmnt Leo and Raph long comic about stranger danger -Trauma and processing comic with 2012 April and the brothers -Milkshake animation... that I will likely never finish -A Lego Monkey animation... that I will also likely never finish -Mikey 2012 and Peepaw Mikey tiktok that... might get finished? -Waffles comic that I keep on abandoning whoops

There is definitely more... but this is all the stuff I have currently started on my iPad... haha....

(Save me I'm drowning in WIPs)

[whumpity--whump--whump]

Would anyone be interested if I did more for the "Psychology in Whump"?

It was so fun writing about conditioning, and quite a few people liked it. I have a lot of things I could do. Social psych, disorders, psychoanalysis, therapy, motivation, health, memory, learning, more on conditioning, I’ll do anything. 

Just, would anyone be interested?

I really want to help y’all with it since a lot of people liked the last one.

@midwinterhunt @caddy-whump-us @undersketchdraws @deluxewhump @tesseractj @minyoustar @whumpdemonium @kai-rambles-a-lot @plaidbow @angel-wings-and-feathers @whumposaurus @dead-ace-fuck @momomurasaki @thewhumpfairy @theshapeshifter100 @pythagoreanpentagram @drainoshot @raven998877 @helpadriana 

Y’all were the people that liked/reblogged the first one about conditioning. Would y’all be interested in more?

[the-starry-seas]

okay at @midwinterhunt's request i am liveblogging my reactions to santa clause conquers the martians which i don't know shit about but expect to be deranged because all my friends like things that are deranged (like, or are haunted by, same difference)

[midwinter-whump]

New obligatory wump sideblog.

Because who doesn’t want to organize their writing and art of just hurting character? And Also I guess I should make an intro post so WHOOPTY DO LET’S GET TO IT!

I’m Midwinter, Winter, whatever you wanna call me. She/her pronouns. Early 20s, so I’m not a minor and while I don’t like too much adult content, I just want the smols to be aware.

Some of my favorite tropes are: 

Psychological trauma

Head injuries

Pinned down

That scene where Frodo is stabbed by the ring wraith

Monster wumpees

Unrepentant BastardTM sacrificing himself for someone who is helpless

Did I mention head injuries?

Caretaker adopting wumpee because “oh shit they’re cute”

Mind control

Memory loss

OH! And head injuries!

I could go on forever.

Mostly this blog is for drabbles and ideas I have, as well as adding on to prompts from other writers. I do have a couple OCs, but I like to keep the content pretty open by using role names. I’ll tag my OC posts with #character intros and their name so they can be found easily for reference.

Also I’ve been spelling wump rather than whump? Not sure it matters? But just prepare to deal with that and probable inconsistencies there.

Also my main is @midwinterhunt

[tmnt-oc-comp]

TMNT OC COMP: Round 1A

Blight & Junior’s creator: @tomatoshapedstars

Thunderfrog’s creator: @midwinterhunt

[midwinterhunt]

The full functioning picrew is out

I have a few more options, no background yet, and now everything has an icon for navigation!