#and playing with different visuals

[adventuresofjasperboone]

Yeehawgust Day 6: Wide Open Spaces

#yeehawgust #wide open spaces #western comic #trans cowboy #filler post #it's actually been kinda fun giving myself a set amount of time to do these #and playing with different visuals

[aashiyancha]

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It's been some beautiful spring days that made me think of the summer to come. So, I decided to give this game another whirl

Also peak summer moment. I wanted Jeremy to come back just so I could pour another cup on him.

#our life #our life beginnings & always #gb patch games #cove holden #mc ash cha #fanart #derek suarez #jeremy king #lee (i guess she doesnt have an offical last name?) #i was gonna name mc aashi again but ash was a voiced name and its practically the same thing #and ash isnt really the same person as me so they might as well have a different name #aashi doodles #olba fanart #this game is fantastic guys you pksy the same general story no matter what BUT #the flavor of how you want things to go is SO expasive and immersive i was able to play almost every scene excatly how i interpreted #it would go in my head #fantastic visual novel #gb patch

[lady-arryn]

LIES OF P (2023)

#gamingedit #liesofpedit #lies of p #** #*gif #*lies of p #(forgive this terrible gifset i'm just using it to talk about the demo) #i've played the demo for several hours now #and i really liked it! #the atmosphere and visuals are great #and i liked the few characters we've met #the combat does feel a little clunky to me #especially the dogding #and i need more variety with attack moves? #but idk maybe i just need to get used to it more #or it's because my notebook can't handle it well :)))) )) ) #however #considering i love bloodborne with all my heart #i do hope it's not as similar to it as it seems to be #i don't won't a bb copy but with a different aesthetic #and so far the setting feels to me like a 1:1 copy almost #still i'm super excited #sorry for the tag spam!! #but i had thoughts and i needed to write them down #(if you played the demo and want to chat i'm here!!!!) #oh and i would die for gemini #such a cutie!!!!!

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

heyyyy who wants some lowish-resolution Lights Out angst scribbles before i go sleep!!!

(gonna put this under the cut bc im not sure if it can be considered spoiler-y or not? does this au even Have spoilers if there's no shared cohesive plot yet? who knows! i'm doing this impulsively i don't know what i'm doing ever! ! i like drawing characters in distress and anguish! thank you!)

#also if i dont share them now i just Know i never will #i like scribbling distress but Especially when its barnaby. he has the face for it. sad puppy <3 #i mostly scribble these to help myself Think and Visualize #who knows! in a week some or all of them could be rendered non-au-canon by Evolving Ideas #scribble salad #wh lights out au #the last wally one is probably my favorite of the bunch #i like making myself sad by playing the Scene its from in my head <3 #wail in anguish puppet boy... wail and sob.... #going back to my roots with these babeyyyyyy #kind of. mildly. #its been too fluffy on this blog #i need to remember where im from... what im about... Who I Am.... #also 'why is wally so small' bc all of the puppets are there physical sizes #also im Terrible at scribbling consistent size differences <3 #i will Always overcompensate <3 #anyway this au is called lights out aka I Torment Barnaby On An Intensely Emotional Level #what can i say? i have cuteness aggression <3

[muppenthings]

I know I changed Keiki's design a little while back. But it never felt quite right pattern wise. So I went back and made some changes. The palette is basically the same. He's the same happy lad. :3

#Muppen draws #oc Keiki #giant merman #g/t #for the lil boat sketch #I dunno what happened there #xD #Anyways #No shadows etc. because I wanted to get a feel for the design #I had to remove the gold freckles. I liked them visually on his face #But I couldn't get them to work elsewhere. #So I thought to scrap them. I've been playing with the idea for a year now. Just went through with it. xD #And don't get me started on the color blend of his torso and lower half #Kinda like the idea above; but it may get tweaked. Again. Who knows. xD #I really tried to give him a different pattern than spots but stripes didn't feel like him. #So another design with spots ppfpfpfpfppffpf

[freakadr0id]

This has been sitting in the back of my mind since I first watched Rise, but it seems that the show hints at an underlying sadness to Donnie's character that appears very subtly over the course of both seasons.

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I feel like Donnie longs for a normal, human life to some degree. It isn't a major part of his character but it's there. Maybe he doesn't exactly want to be human, but there are a few signs that Donnie wants, at the very least, a human experience.

We see a few nods to this throughout the show:

He has a knowledge and love of fashion and appearance, something he, as a mutant turtle, wouldn't need to know or care about. Sure, his brothers wear clothes several times in the show as well, but they don't seem to have as much of an interest or passion as Donnie.

In 'The Purple Jacket' Donnie initially wanted to fit in with the Purple Dragons, a human group of teens at a human school (although it was mostly for the jacket).

I mean, this is a boy who wants to actually go to school and even graduate college but we know that, realistically, he can't do either.

Seriously, just look at how happy he is to be at April's school!

Hell, he draws eyebrows on his mask for goodness sake. Yes, from a meta standpoint this is mostly for the sake of his character design since he would look really fucking stupid without them, but the key to any good character design is to have an in-universe reason for it as well. While some people headcanon that Donnie does this to better convey his emotions (which is totally valid and I kind of agree), I also think this could also be a way for him to seem just a bit more human.

I'm not saying this is a defining element of Donnie's character - IT ISN'T. Our boy Donnie is confident in his intelligence, his skills as a scientist and an inventor, and who he is as a person overall - he doesn't want to change those things about himself. However, it is possible that maybe some small, quiet part of Donnie still longs for the things he could experience if he was a human, as opposed to a mutant turtle.

Hopefully, I'm not the only one who sees this because I think there are interesting things you could do with this part of his character - especially when you consider his closer friendship with April and the potential isolation he feels with his brothers.

I don't know, maybe this is just me overthinking things or looking for angst where there is none, however, this little thread of Donnie's character appeared often enough in the show to at least acknowledge it.

#yeah I'm not sure how I feel about this post #I might be crazy here #and maybe I'm grasping at straws #but I noticed it enough in the show that I just HAD to mention it #Rise also reinforces it visually by constantly framing and pairing april and Donnie together #and planting the idea that Donnie has a closer association with humans in the mind of the audience #BUUTTT #I still think it would be super fun to explore more of this in fanon and canon #we're getting that season 3 I'm sure of it #(they said in complete denial) #Just think about it #he is a softshell turtle who likely feels that he's different from his brothers #if you consider those insecurities #it makes his subtle longing for humanity and the human experience that much more interesting #maybe someone with better writing skills than me can play with this idea a bit more #*hint hint* #and who knows #this could be an established part of Donatello's character in TMNT already #Rise is the only TMNT thing I've seen so I have no idea #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt donatello #rise donnie #rise donatello #analysis #character analysis #rottmnt analysis

[callibones]

#rhythm heaven remix #rhythm heaven #breaking bad #i dont know how to make visuals (yet) #so this is audio only for now! #but... maybe ill figure it out #soon #i hope #in the meanwhile. um #i thought ppl might like this #i looked it up and i couldnt find anyone whos already done it? #which really surprised me #maybe i just didnt look hard enough idk #i spent hours on this #but i spent the most time on the you are not the guy section. because i tried like 7 different minigames #wanted to pay my respects #oh and its all rhythm heaven fever cause thats the only one ive played LMAO

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

sorry no matter how often i play i will never get over his jrpg ass looking design fdslfkjlksf

#i love him sm but i can Not take his appearance seriously im sorry #the brands the white emo fringe the armour...... all of those together sure are A Choice xdd #plot twist fenris is actually the customisable main character not hawke #(i love jrpgs btw im just saying its just very jarring in this setting lol) #laya plays dragon age #da2 #also full disclosure the one thing fen and astarion have in common is that i did not find either visually attractive/appealing at all unti #they made big wet puppy eyes and i was like ah ok. i think i get it now #n e ways. hii liams husband from a different timeline! ^-^

[thesugarhole]

#romantically apocalyptic #romac #there is no one true ship answer to this because everyone wants this miserable wet meow meow #in different ways sure but yea. #i said it before i even started rereading this but. this is like watching someone play a visual novel dating sim #where every love candidate is balls to the walls op and then the protag is everyday joe full of heart but dumb of ass #sugar.txt #reading romac #i would never on purpose censor a swear word btw i was at work and grabbed the first empty template

[tsuchinokoroyale]

#I was talking to some buddies about lies of p and sekiro and how LoP’s defense as offense mentality helped get into sekiro #but then how sekiro overwrote that mentality with its own “offense is the best defense” mentality #or “hesitate and you lose” as Grandpappy isshin would say #and how the switch for the change for me was genichiro who I think is one of the best designed bosses in gaming #you CAN’T play too defensively with him because he’s happy to pepper you with arrows from a distance #and then the moment comes when you realize your sword interrupts his bow attacks sekiro truly begins as a game #lady butterfly is also a good fight but all her moves bring her to you so there’s less incentive to be as aggressive #vs genny baby who will back off and fire off his bow if you let him #this isn’t even like a video of me playing perfectly but I LOVE getting my feudal edgelord corner stunned and just bursting him down #I kinda hate the owl shinobi fight bc he hits too hard and his attacks just aren’t interesting to react to #but it’s also possible to corner stun him and just go to town on his health bar #owl father and inner father are much better fights and I actually really enjoyed inner father a lot #but the Ashina family fights are absolutely stunning achievements in game design imo #perfectly balanced to be difficult but fair and visually stunning to boot #even if there is a layer of artificial difficulty in the final battle with the flowers obscuring their swords when they’re crouched #but the animations are solid enough that there are enough other more subtle differences like how hes shifting his weight #if he’s centered he’s going to lunge but if he’s angled he’s gonna sweep #I had so much fun with LoP and sekiro 🥰🥰🥰 I crave more… #I can’t say the combat in Elden ring gorilla gripped me like these two games have but I like HAVE to play dark souls I know this #sekiro #tsuchi plays games

[quixot1sm]

i think, and this may just be my zekrom bias speaking, that if someone wants to experience the full value of bw's story it's better to play through white first. black has the issue of coming off as very dismissive towards plasma's legitimate and well-founded claims that pokemon abuse DOES occur (and it does! from the kanto games' marowak to bw2's liepard there's instances where it's put in the spotlight, so it certainly does happen)... by assigning the protagonist to truth, it feels pretty evident that n's beliefs are "wrong", and the game just seems to brush any questioning aside.

on the other hand, white giving n the hero of truth role means we're basically forced to think about what that means for the relationship of people and pokemon at large. to translate a point n makes in chargestone cave: if you allow people to coexist with pokemon, even if the majority of trainers treat them well, there will always be someone somewhere out there who abuses or neglects them instead. are we okay with that? should those pokemon still be allowed to suffer, just because what they experience is an outlier to the general rule? while not outright stated, zekrom's association with hope and the strive for the ideal suggests that we don't brush off these facts, but instead take them into consideration, and aim to change the world based off of them... like how in bw2 society in unova puts a lot more emphasis on the bond between people and pokemon, and on pokemon as equals (see: iris's dialogue before entering your team info the hall of fame).

i think black version has its own unique avenues to explore, but on the surface level, it's a much more cut and dry, "no, you're just wrong", type of story that kind of makes you work harder to fit it into bw's overall theming of "the world's not black and white, there's not a singular objective right or wrong perspective."

#text #pokemon bw #this is inspired by a few posts i've come across over the past handful of months including a poketuber's who completely missed the point #i think black version should've been handled with as much care as white. because how gamefreak did it was kind of.. well lazy #and downright mean at times (white getting way more version exclusives due to white forest + black 2 making black city an empire of greed #with kinda. i don't know. depressing visuals like route 4 being turned into suburbia) #(oh and leaving in stuff like thundurus's cry over tornadus's + the castelia city paintings still being 'ugly truth and eternal ideals') #it may be too much to hope that there'll be some reworking in the inevitable remakes #that gives more credit black versions telling of the story but i doubt it. this is modern tpc we're talking about #ANYWAY yeah i think if you want to engage with the plot white version is the more rounded of the two. and i've played all 4 gen 5 games so #i was able to get a pretty good comparison between my experiences with the version differences #and oh for the record this is not a diss on anyone who takes the wrong messages from black becausefrankly black presents the wrong messages #even if it did not actively intend to. turns out just changing the word 'ideals' to 'truth' is not enough to be compelling

[tksubby]

various eugenes, various heads tall

#i just needed to play w how i draw him again #and i wanted to see what different head heights looked like #gotta build that visual library #also that middle one is so unabashedly inspired by circleheadd's eugene #it's insane lol sorry for ripping u off 😭 #i put the sticker i got on a pin and take it everywhere #it's my pride and joy #he just looks so cute #there are still a few other ways i wanna try drawing him #but alas that will have to wait #i love chubby eugene!!!!! #eugene animal crossing #animal crossing eugene #eugene ac #ac eugene #eugene acnh #acnh eugene #eugene #animal crossing #my art #doodles

[aquilamage]

[Image Description: a set of five edited bug fables screenshots from the pre-battle zommoth encounter. The first is the same as in-game, Kabbu saying "W-What is that!? Something's coming!" The second is of zommoth appearing on screen with its sprite edited to be various shades of pink and yellow, wings the same pattern as Leif's (but still with the purple blight magic stuff in the chest area.) The next three images have the sprite edited in the same way.. The third image is of Leif's saying "...Wh, Rkejrm-m-Muse!? Kjdrira, mebsrgr...!!!" The next is Kabbu saying "Muse!? Leif, that's..." The final is Vi saying "T-That doesn't make any sense!" End ID]

I thought about one of my fucked up and evil au ideas for five minutes again, so I decided to spend like fifty hours making a thing about it. Basically what if Muse went back into Snakemouth later to try to rescue Leif or at least bring back his body and got caught by the roaches.

Putting just the edited sprites under the cut if you wanna see those without the lab mood lighting:

#bug fables #bug fables spoilers #muse bug fables #or as I've been saving my files for this as: #Zommuse #:3 #Leif bug fables #despite taking a super long time (not actually fifty hours but it felt like it) this was fun! #I am so much more comfortable with writing than visual art stuff but since I don't have any specific thoughts on the scenario #past this moment this is a way easier way to get my thought across in slightly more description than my one paragraph up there #eyedropped all the colors off Muze and Grandpa's sprites and then played with them a bit to make them go together nicer #part of the length was me figuring out how to do stuff and part of it was because I had to stitch some stuff together inconveniently #as I said earlier: aa spoiled me. what with having all the game assets and backgrounds either conveniently already extracted #or at least mechanically very easy to get myself because it's all just pixels and all the bits are on different layers! #(also storywise I usually tend to go with giving muse fire magic when I'm thinking things. but keeping the blight was easier shorthand. #and also all those times she's more on leif's end of the cordyceps spectrum. mind more there. so.)

[karamazovanon]

finally got around to making the dostoevsky translation poll :D for the sake of brevity, i'm only including the major ones that have done 4+ works and that i personally have seen the most, but if your fav isn't on here (e.g. oliver ready's c&p, ignat avsey) or you have any other thoughts PUT IT IN THE TAGS!!! WOO DATA

#fyodor dostoevsky #fyodor dostoyevsky #im excited to see how this plays out........everywhere i look i get different answers and i think its really interesting #like in my search of mostly reddit p&v seemed to be THE definitive translations for a long while but nowadays they dont seem as popular? #i want to know what the tumblrinas think because i value yalls opinions INFINITELY more than crusty reddit men <3 #im very excited to do data analysis/visualizations about this and whatever yall have to say in the tags #<- yes im a loser stem student how could you tell #anonpost

[rillette]

charlieposting yet again 👍

#charlie vicker #basketball #hes my oc now. ok⁉️ #giving him little bits and pieces of my hal design but still keeping him visually distinct bc he was an actor playing hal's GL #so he gets hal's softer rounder jaw and high cheekbones but he's got less a narrow face and more a heart shaped one like guy #and he's got thinner eyebrows and his eyes are slanted different and his nose dips down in the middle but he's got a similar hair cut to ha #<- ramblings of an insane man

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

People on social media will get mad as hell and call you problematic if you enjoy a villain for being, well, a villain.

#txt #“this villain promotes bad values” ok and what's your point? #just because a character is morally questionable it doesn't mean i can't like them lmao #we are in an age where you can't like anything that isn't “pure” and “progressive”. fuck off #now if the villain's stans are actually trying to paint them as a poor misunderstood angel victim that's DIFFERENT #and let's be honest stans (usually female mind you) do this when the villain is attractive/hot/sexy #if a dude is ugly or fat there is no way you would have swarms of women defending that son of a bitch #but because he was drawn to be hot (or the actor who plays is hot) some chicks are READY to paint him as a poor baby #like... baby you are missing the point #just appreciate that son of a bitch as he is. there is no need to “sympathize” with him #i miss it when villains were villains and people appreciated that about them #anyways yes a character can be a very shitty person and you can still like them because that's the entire point of them #they are the antagonist/villain #i enjoy palpatine as a villain but that doesn't mean i think he was a poor lonely wholesome baby #that piece of shit deserved to be burn in hell lol but he still is a fantastic villain #but again tumblr twitter and fandom in general have no grasp of the concept of enjoying villains because they are villains #one side thinks you are fucking evil and disgusting if you admit to enjoying a villain #and the other side wants to find every justification in the book to paint the pos as an actual good person who is misunderstood :( because #that mofo has a six pack and a nice smile or is generally visually appealing lol