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That chart of your GW2 ocs has compelled me so much. what is gw2. how do you make gay plants in it

guild wars 2 is my favorite mmo of all time! it's free to play, tho if u ever do end up paying for the expacs/living world seasons and stuff they all have flat costs, no monthly subscription ever. (this is what i really like about it, bc games w subs stress me out... if something has a sub and i don't play every day i feel like i'm wasting money or something lol vs gw i can fall off the wagon for weeks/months and no harm done)

ANYWAY our gay plants are one of the playable races -- they're kind of gw2's version of elves, loosely, but they're called sylvari and imo they're much cooler. rather than being "born" they just Wake Up as fully formed adults from the pods of a magical tree and gain mmmmost (but not all) of their consciousness/general understanding of the world from a shared dream that contains the memories and life experience of the sylvari who have come before them, and at the beginning of the plot sylvari as a people have only existed for like. ~20 years, which i think is a really, really compelling hook. also i'm being serious and textual abt the gay thing, arguably the most central sylvari npc is a lesbian and her relationship w her ex is plot important, one of the starter missions u can choose as a sylvari centers around helping a gay couple and the dialogue is Really Insistent abt not letting it be interpreted as "wow they're good friends!!" etc etc

there's also an Evil Faction of sylvari called the nightmare court who feel the dream is overly controlling/sanitized and want to "liberate" sylvari by balancing out the experiences contained in the dream w more negative and painful ones instead -- in-game more often than not they're written pretty flatly as cackling puppy-kicking supervillains but i think they're really interesting lol, a huge chunk of my + marina's ocs are either current or ex nightmare courtiers (including merrit and glyndwr!)

okay wait wait wait im getting distracted and infodumping u can learn all this stuff yourself by getting into the game. gotta rein it in. uhhh let me leave u w screencaps of a bunch of our ocs so u can see some character creation options bc they're so cool

also hey furries: fuicking excellent beast race with close to no sexual dimorphism.

(the one on the left in this pic is an m model and on the right is the f model. the main difference between charr gender models, literally, is how fluffy their tails are. charr fucking rule)

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and you're doing a stellar job so far

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Muna's adventures as the Commander continues

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When Aurene was little, I played games with her. Taught her how to hunt…

I'm so happy SoTO canonised the Commander spending time with Aurene outside of story chapters. This line made me feel so many things

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salad commission

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inner nayos studies

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inner nayos studies

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Refining some designs for my other characters. Nokke's a powerful storm ele and Vigil Warmaster. Believes in helping and protecting people, is obsessed with his work, had the worst divorce in the history of Tyria.

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The memories of Aurene. Sponsored by ArenaNet.

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first of 4 portrait commissions for @rivelta-q ✦

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Imagine if you were out buying groceries one day, minding your own business, when some text appears out of thin air that says

"Hablion has been defeated! He has passed on his Spectral Displacement ability to the other pavillion champions"

And suddenly you get teleported to texas

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some assorted recent (and semi-recent) game doodles.

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Here's a thing I made recently - the Regal Moth Skyscale from Guild Wars 2!

This art doll has a metal wire as a skeleton, to which I added stuffing and fabric to bulk up the shape. I then added faux fur and made the details out of polymer clay, which I then painted with acrylic paints. The tail is made by a series of clay "cups" strung together with elastics, which makes it poseable. The wings have a wire skeleton which makes them poseable as well, and the wing membranes were made of fabric painted with fabric paint! The skyscale is about 27 cm long and has a wingspan of about 58 cm.

I spent way too many hours making this and one of the wings broke off as I was taking the final pictures. lol.

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Meet Vinca, a sylvari revenant, who chose Scarlet as his legend. What could possibly go wrong?

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continuing my habit of investing too much time into shitpost type art.

technically, it's not nsfw when he's wearing more clothes than usual, right?

convenient phone screen format.

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slam dunks that new flower crown on my grumpiest oldest man