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Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.
hollow knight is 50% off on steam right now. about $7.50 USD. for seven dollars you can irreversibly rewire your brain to have hollow knight disease, which is where instead of a brain there is hollow knight
you ever accidentally create a recurring theme in your writing. you start putting together an outline for something you’ve never written before and get partway through planning, rearrange the pieces, and go “GODDAMMIT THIS IS ABOUT GRIEF AGAIN”? because let me tell you,
The only thing I need tumblr to do is to get like... cool with the idea you can hire people here to do commissions for you and to like.. consider monetary support for artists cuz one of the reasons and the biggest reason I moved to twitter in the first place is because people there buy my art. I make a living there doing art. And the vibe here is **we don't do that here** If you want artists to be here and do art you gotta be okay with the concept of artists trying to make money. I hate capitalism as much as the next person but I'm also 30 years old living with my fucking parents because I can't pay for a 1 bedroom apartment. Artists are not 'big business'. We're not Disney. We're just people trying to make a living or some money for groceries and shit.
Saw Spiderverse earlier and can’t stop thinking about it. I understand now.
all you people dragging your koroks across the map like this is Red Dead Hyrule and here I have been overengineering these safety boxes so the little shits don't fall down or get uncomfortable on their big lil backpacks
If terror is the feeling of dread and apprehension at the possibility of something frightening and horror is the shock and repulsion of seeing the frightening thing, name a time your character has been terrified and a time they were horrified. How did they deal with these emotions? Was the terror, for example, unfounded, or the horror too much?
A time your character was terrified
I make a lot of "Sena's dead boyfriend" jokes, but the moments leading up to that were pretty much exclusively this. He doesn't know where his friend went, anticipates the worst, and then something he's been scared of up to that point actually happens.
For things that happen in-story, he has a few of these, but being left alone in Ultima Thule really freaks him out.
More under the cut! Contains full spoilers for Endwalker.
A time they were horrified
THIS ONE WAS ACTUALLY SUPER HARD TO ANSWER.
I want to say the massacre early in ARR, which got to him pretty bad; he starts to come out of being an "I only care about this one person" type edgelord, he starts getting along more with people, and then those people die and he goes right back to that.
Also slightly unusual one, but the combination of dragoon and having issues with his scales makes the conversation with Vrtra deeply unpleasant for him in a way that isn't quite horror, but comes close.
How did they deal with these emotions? Was the terror, for example, unfounded, or the horror too much?
Sena tends to deal with his negative emotions in general by covering them with anger and then not actually dealing with them, but even moreso when he's scared. Him wanting to be strong is an extension of this; he wants to protect his friends, but also, if he can fight it, he has agency in the situation.
Complete silence stops him in his tracks, though.
5 and 6 for the ffxiv asks?
5. Which, if any, of the major cities or cultures does your WoL/OC consider to be their childhood point-of-origin? Why did they leave? Do they go back and visit? How do they feel about coming from this place?
Sena is technically from the Steppe, but he left pretty young and doesn't remember it well. He spent some time just trying to survive, and doesn't really consider anywhere specific to be "home", which is a bit of a downer, but it's definitely in a "home is other people" sense.
He does go back there for story reasons (still working out the logic since Stormblood is his villain arc, admittedly), but it's a weird experience for him, which is made weirder by how much NPC dialogue there is specific to Xaela (Hien's "you may not have been born here" line actually really rubs him the wrong way).
6. Has your WoL/OC ever canonically fantasia'd to another species? Have they considered doing so? If so, what made them choose that species? How does that affect their relationships with those who were born as the species they changed into?
Sena has not; he's very protective of his horns and scales and losing them again would weird him out.
If he did Fantasia, he'd probably be a catboy. Not much reason behind this other than it just feels right.
if you’ve been following me for 4+ years i’m certain you could make a chart of every character i’ve gotten attached to and it would tell you more about me than any therapist’s notes ever could. but we don’t have the time for that. there are other things at hand. do not even worry about it. next exhibit. we’re moving along. we’re walking
FFXIV culture and geography questions!
Trying my hand at one of these lists! Reblog if you want people to send you a number, or just answer them all for character development reasons. I'm not the boss of you.
Is your WoL/OC of a species considered native to the area where they grew up? Are they an immigrant? A refugee? A member of an established diaspora? Did they grow up moving around?
Most of us are travelers, but does your WoL/OC currently have a particular place they consider 'home'? Is it the same as where they grew up? If not, what makes it home for them?
How does your WoL/OC relate to the culture of their species as established in lore? Do they consider themselves a typical example of their kind? Are they in touch with their heritage? How does this affect their interactions with others of their own kind?
Is the city associated with your WoL/OC's starting class the place where their journey actually began? Did they actually come to it from outside as shown in the game, or were they born there? Do they feel welcomed or alienated by the city and its culture?
Which, if any, of the major cities or cultures does your WoL/OC consider to be their childhood point-of-origin? Why did they leave? Do they go back and visit? How do they feel about coming from this place?
Has your WoL/OC ever canonically fantasia'd to another species? Have they considered doing so? If so, what made them choose that species? How does that affect their relationships with those who were born as the species they changed into?
I know its fun to be like omg twitter is dying lets goooo
but its really sad that we're losing yet another form of human communication and years of information because of another ceo baby manchild. I'm going to lose contact with a bunch of friends i've made because of this and it sucks
Also, deeply sorry for the lack of art on here and elsewhere these days. I can’t remember if I already said that. I’m still doing studies that I’m not sharing publicly for a number of reasons, though!
Reblog if your an FFXIV blog!
Help the lost Twitter spirits find us all.
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Lion || 21+ || He / Him Art blog, sometimes reblogs and chatter. I don’t post too too much, but I check here often!
I like FFXIV, OCs, Xenoblade, various manga / anime, and a host of other things and one day I’ll install a proper theme. Currently obsessed with One Piece and Baldur’s Gate.
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New references for Sena in his current Dark Knight and Dragoon fits!
ArtFight, maybe
I’m unsure if or how much I’m participating this year, but I’m hoping to at least do some revenges (or makeup attacks for those I didn’t revenge last year)! I currently only have two characters up on there, with plans to add more if I can.
https://artfight.net/~L1on
Did videos get longer… like… vertically??
I'll see people literally say "don't take inspiration from my art/ocs" online (mostly on toyhouse) and I just wonder how we strayed so far from what art is? no art was created in a vacuum. all art was inspired by other art and all art will inspire others. art is a constant collaboration of everyone and everything, you cannot isolate your art from that collaboration unless you keep it private
One of the worst parts of current internet culture is that it makes good old fashioned complaining so difficult. I don’t wanna cancel anyone or bully anyone, I’m not trying to form a hate mob I’m not calling anyone out, i just wanna bitch about something. Because complaining is fun, good for you, even. Is that too much to ask? Where is the room for shooting the shit?
I’ve asked a few other places already and mentioned it in Twitter circles, but I figure asking here as well can’t hurt - I’ve been pretty much just studying faces for two months and it’s not going great!
I suspect that it’s an issue with vision / “perceiving” the 3D forms, rather than a lack of technical knowledge, but does anyone have ideas for what to do while I wait for the optometrist to call me back?
I did go back to doing very basic fundamentals / 3D shapes, but it didn’t really help. Google is only giving me “how to draw the other eye” tutorials, articles about Rembrandt, and aphantasia resources (none of which are it).
whenever someone is like "[X] is so good but you can't just recommend it casually bc it has every trigger warning under the sun" that in itself is a recommendation. all the truly good shit needs a minimum of 5 disclaimers or it can't possibly reach the level of visceral catharsis necessary to be classified as a masterpiece. the funnier variant of this is when you come across a callout post for a piece of media that ends up reading like a recommendation instead
ur art doesn’t need to be perfect!!! it does need to be horny & grotesque tho
xenoblade1verse but a little to the left
I made this instead of working on OC Refs
me most of the time: I don't think intelligence is a useful metric or even something quantifiable. it's an idea that does and always has done more harm than good
me reading yet another person react to dragon's dogma 2 having monster ai by assuming they meant image generation or chatgpt or something: a lot of you are very stupid
tell me how Sena would react if a friend came to him needing a shoulder to cry on, sobbing!
Depends on how much he likes them! He isn't that good at offering words of support (he tends to be pretty coarse and has his own issues), but can offer a literal shoulder to cry on. He would 100% let someone he cared about cling to him, and offer awkward hugs and headpats.
He would also offer violence against whoever made them feel that way, which is ... not the healthiest outlet, but he would (I can't find the post, but it's along the lines of "kill him" "no!" "then i will kill him for you").
(bonus: the reason he lets people cling to him is because he also wants physical affection when he's upset, though this is still proportional to how much he likes and whether he feels safe around the other person to start with).
Love video games with endings that make you feel like your brain’s gotten permanently rewired in some sort of way
