NOTHING LEFT TO DO BUT DANCE

stoicsilence said: i didnt even know playing volus was an option you can play as any race...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:48:00 -0500

stoicsilence said: i didnt even know playing volus was an option

you can play as any race nowadays except for hanar and elcor, and that includes stuff like a collector and EDI. voluses are basically gimmicky medics but they are pretty great.

the main draw of the game is that it’s janky and broken in hilarious ways (ex. cerberus troops running upside down across the sky) but it’s also pretty fun in its own right

everyone should play mass effect multi w/ me

i’m serious, my favourite masseffect to play as is the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:30:00 -0500

i’m serious, my favourite masseffect to play as is the volus even though i’m not good at it because it means i get to see them fall down ramps and stairs a lot

i also like playing volus because my engineer has the best colour scheme, in game he looks more like his namesake (sherbert) but when i draw him he looks like a fucking 80s roller rink which is still ok

i just wanted everyone to know about this volus

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Fri, 17 May 2013 17:24:35 -0500

cliomancer’s half-orc character tecuani!! this is my...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:26:18 -0500

cliomancer’s half-orc character tecuani!! this is my favourite commission i have done so far, really neat character, really cool design.

i’ll post everyone’s—if they want me to—when i finish them all but i’m waiting on some commissioners atm so i figured i’d remind you that i can beat up your character too for the low low price of 20$ (or just draw them, like, in general) and there are a few spots left since somebody had to drop

littlebirdkisses: only in a certain universe…. :)c

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:08:35 -0500

littlebirdkisses:

only in a certain universe….

:)c

Does corvus have any... ships? (◕‿◕✿)

Tue, 14 May 2013 01:00:00 -0500

Kind of but they don’t feature heavily, despite being set in a port city. THIS IS ACTUALLY TRUE REGARDLESS OF WHAT KIND OF SHIP YOU MEANT

Re: romance I remember blathering to unfortunate people on skype about that a week ago or something. Over the years I’ve considered giving the main character a love interest but it’s just never happened, and she isn’t really at a point in her life where she’d even want a relationship complicating things, for uh, a lot of different reasons. She’s had at least one guy in the past she broke up with and one guy she had a crush on that was initially requited but not after she tried to impress him with an unfortunate kind of bycatch. “Reads the weird stuff” is a thing I put in the character sheet at some point.

Other than her there are people who are married and stuff but only one of them is an actual character and the other is just a periphery (or whose defining characteristic is how dead they are). There is only one pair who are both important but they’re really bitter, middle-aged recent exes who spend a lot of effort trying to avoid each other, and probably spend a lot of time crying in private about it.

Sometimes I think the pigeon mail guy and the heron mail girl should hold hands though. I associate everybody with types of bird. When considering potential relationships I think about whether one of them would eat the other. Would herons ever eat pigeons? Pelicans eat pigeons, there are a disturbing about of youtube videos showing that, but I don’t know about herons

Any progress on Fire Emblem?

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:16:00 -0500

I’ve dropped like 75 hours into it lmao. Most of that is grinding for supports and levelling up characters I benched earlier so that their kids can destroy things & inherit Galeforce. I’m on chapter 21 and still missing Inigo, Laurent, Panne’s kid (I don’t remember his name) and Brady. I can get them but one of their parents are still bad units so I won’t let myself yet.

I technically got Brady but restarted because Maribelle was really underleveled. He also inherited Desmoiselle which is really hilarious but it’s kind of a shitty skill so I couldn’t let him keep it. Sometimes I go back to that save and giggle a bit at it though.

Best pair is Lissa and Gaius, Cynthia is the best kid. Gaius and Severa are also unstoppable gods, and Chrom makes me mad because he just sucks so much and never gets more than 2 stats up per level but I need to use him in every chapter regardless of his suckage. He is a level 17 Great Lord and he only has 27 Str?? Fucking bullshit.

Anonymous asked you: favorite troll? the short answer: the...

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:25:46 -0500

Anonymous asked you: favorite troll?

the short answer: the ones canon shat on

I’m heading to the States for two weeks in early August to...

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:38:00 -0500

I’m heading to the States for two weeks in early August to travel around the east coast with some of my friends. I kind of need to make sure I have enough funds for that, and I just want something to do, so I’m going to be taking some jobs if you’d have me.

My base price is 20$ for a soft-shaded, coloured waist up picture like this one, of comparable or better quality. This style is what I’ll be doing, because it is relatively fast and easy. Alternately, a slightly cartoonier variation like this (characters belong to Az/tumblr user mediarama), but more refined because you will be giving me money.

Cost modifiers:

Extra characters are an extra 10$
Furries are an extra 5$ (I am really not used to drawing them)
Robots are an extra 10$ (They’re hard)

I reserve the right to ask more if I think a job will be particularly complicated, and also to refuse a job for any reason. I probably won’t, though, I’m pretty open to drawing anything. (Unless it’s like, Kai Leng or some shit. Don’t ask me to draw Kai Leng) Fanart is okay with me obviously, but I would really like to do some fancharacters or totally original characters instead. I might do pet portraits in a later round, but for now let’s stick to cartoons—unless they are birds, which I think I’m fairly competent at drawing. I will gladly draw your pet bird for 30$.

If you are interested, my email & paypal are hemaris.diffinis@gmail.com. Please send your references/description either as a submission to my tumblr or through email. I’d also like payment upfront, but don’t send anything before I look over your references.

I have ~~two slots left~~ nothing left right now, shop is closed, thank you everyone!

it seems to be too short for people with 768 pixels of height. three lines less should suffice

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:58:00 -0500

how about now?? i have a big screen and the customise thing doesn’t even show the navigation or format the description properly so i can’t tell if it looks as it should or not

i’m sorry everyone for clogging your dash with LAYOUT PROBLEMS i will delete these soon. thank you to everyone helping me tho <:

mechanized said: i think your sidebar itself might be a bit too long for some screens, because it...

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:46:00 -0500

mechanized said: i think your sidebar itself might be a bit too long for some screens, because it cuts off right after “theme” for me and i can’t see the navigation at all.

haha, that explains why there’s been a lot of people on statcounter who seem to want to browse the blog but they never go past page 1…

i cut down some of the wordswordswords and made the navigation bigger, can you see it now?

sock does your new theme have forward/back buttons because if so i can't find them ;-;

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:12:00 -0500

it does at the very bottom, the text on the sidebar is just very small so i see how it can be missed. i will try to make it more obvious <:

vwcarmats said: walleyed feferi makes a weird kind of sense to me well i guess that could be...

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:25:00 -0500

vwcarmats said: walleyed feferi makes a weird kind of sense to me

well i guess that could be one reason why she wears those glasses, maybe she is like kitty from arrested development without them

or maybe they are just trying to escape from her face entirely

Anonymous asked you: does derpbent aradia wear black lipstick or purple lipstick with her regular...

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:53:00 -0500

Anonymous asked you: does derpbent aradia wear black lipstick or purple lipstick with her regular attire (the one with the v neck sweater dress)?

Either is ok, her lipstick is whatever colour I feel like at the moment. Most people have more than one colour of lipstick anyway…

Anonymous asked you: whos your favorite homestuck char

WV hands down, it has never been anyone but WV

Anonymous asked you: Have you ever changed your troll designs? Is there anything you would do differently now?

Sollux used to have something approaching an average male body type. My first drawings of him are hilarious to me because he has square shoulders and a neck that doesn’t look like a golf tee. Somewhere down the line I guess he acquired tuberculosis and a few tapeworms for good measure. Vriska used to be more attractive, Aradia and Eridan were thinner, Tavros was taller, Nepeta wasn’t as muscular, Kanaya had hair that made more sense. Feferi’s eyes have gradually drifted apart over time. Karkat and Gamzee have remained exactly the same, I just draw better now.

I wouldn’t change anything because it’s how I see them. If I was just coming into the fandom I’d probably have taken a lot of design cues from Notzilon though ngl. Karkat and Sollux would still be my Karkat and Sollux. Gamzee would have looked like Aradia and Aradia’s face would have looked like one of the mail people from corvus, except not perpetually worried

Maybe you should actually try playing the game, or at least watch a full playthrough before calling it out :I

Sat, 11 May 2013 04:34:00 -0500

I am not “calling it out,” I was asked a question about the game and I explained why it’s not something I want to play, and why I’m not going to talk about or draw it in the future. Even character designs I really like, like the Luteces, Songbird, or even Elizabeth (early game). I don’t care if other people like it in spite of that or if they did not feel skeeved out at all; you guys are allowed to like games I don’t want to play. My opinion means literally nothing, especially for anything I haven’t actually witnessed firsthand. But I don’t think this is something I cannot say on my own personal blog when I was prompted to do so.

I have looked through a lot of the concept art, I’ve read interviews with the creator, I’ve seen the beta footage and a lot of the plot important cutscenes on youtube. I know the ending and pretty much every spoiler. I’m still not going to play it because I cannot, personally, get over a hurdle that makes me, personally, uncomfortable, and I don’t judge anyone who does not feel the same way about it, because I know a majority don’t. It might be a great game, or even a perfect game, but I don’t need to give it a chance to say why I don’t want to give it a chance. Can we agree to disagree?

bombcollar replied to your post: Have you played Bioshock Infinite? also this is really spoiler so...

Fri, 10 May 2013 20:34:59 -0500

bombcollar replied to your post: Have you played Bioshock Infinite?

also this is really spoiler so maybe you shoud… tag it… please…

Sorry, I didn’t know it was a spoiler. I see posts and articles about it all the time that casually reveal this as if it was something you are told near the beginning of the game without spoiler warnings, so I didn’t know it was a big deal. It is tagged with #bioshock infinite spoilers now, so I hope that erases it off the dashes of people who don’t want to see.

for what it’s worth, Booker never shows any romantic interest in Liz.

It’s not because of the character dynamics—I don’t know enough to talk about the character dynamics obviously—it’s the dissonance between what the game wants the player to feel and what role they are actually playing. I probably would have some scorn for the design choice to keep her topless if it had been a third-person game, but it wouldn’t be nearly as creepy since the player and her father wouldn’t be melded together.

It was just a relatively small design choice they made unthinkingly that completely ruined this game for me. Maybe I am just weirdly sensitive or something, since similar reactions to mine are fairly hard to come by.

Sorry again, I really didn’t know ):

Have you played Bioshock Infinite?

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:55:00 -0500

No and I’m probably not ever going to play it because it really, really skeeves me out that Elizabeth is obviously meant to be considered sexycute, wears her dead mother’s cleavage-bearing underwear to remember her by, and the first-person player character is her father. It makes me super uncomfortable and I don’t think I want to get over this hurdle so I am just not going to touch this game, ever, sorry.

I did like the original Bioshock a whole lot though.

What's Aradia's weapon of choice? And is she more or less lucid than Gamzee?

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:35:00 -0500

Aradia knows how to use batons, maces and multi-tailed whips. I associate her the most with blackjacks and tonfa, and her ancestor is more about the cat-o-nine-tails than she is (it’s also a lot harder to kill somebody with a weapon like that so it’s not really practical for her to use as her main…).

She is completely lucid, and not like Gamzee at all, sober or otherwise. Um, I’m not sure where I put my formspring files so I cannot directly quote them right now, but the short of it is she is pretty content with her caste and wouldn’t ever try to run away from it like Gamzee did. imo he only seemed to understand that his ancestor was a bad person and didn’t want to be that way, so he got his religion and his slime and he was fine being stuck in a drug-induced haze until Dave made him realise his entire worldview was a load of crap. He’s a coward and a ticking time bomb. Aradia on the other hand is very stable, slightly detached, an observer. She didn’t try to fight her fate, or the fate of anyone else, because she believed it was unchangeable. As an indigoblood, she knows a lot more of her bloodline, their practices, and her ‘duty’ as the descendant of one of the most feared, respected and maligned people in history. She would probably be much more dangerous than Gamzee could ever hope to be, should she ever decide a total party kill is for the greater good, because she is disciplined, unemotional, and is completely, genuinely delighted by chaos. Aradia would have made her dad proud.

Not to say she is a bad person, because she’s not. She’s friendly, intelligent, good and loyal to her friends. She’ll put her life down on the line for you and for ideals she believes to be important and good. You just shouldn’t fuck with anything she wants to protect.

In canon I think Gamzee and Aradia kind of melded together after Act 5.2 or traded their positions on things after he became a madman and she became a god. I think that they had a lot of duality going on but I’m not sure if Hussie actually intended it.

thelibrandy asked you: May I have a full reference of your...

Sat, 04 May 2013 03:56:15 -0500

thelibrandy asked you: May I have a full reference of your derpbent! Kanaya and Aradia, plz!!!! I would like to see their outfits so I can better cosplay them~~~ Thank you so much!

The thing with Kanaya is that she never wears the exact same thing twice and I have a lot of clothes stockpiled for use. These three are just the one I like the most, the one you see her in first (I’m gonna edit the first pages and retcon it to look like this), and a non-sari example. So you can do pretty much anything as long as:

it’s conservative & feminine (no pants allowed)
it’s got deep red as a main colour
it’s embroidered with a lot of loopy things
it has draping fabric
she has black flats

Fabric patterned with simple plant/flower-type designs are also good, as long as they’re relatively subtle and she’s not like, completely covered in hideous clashing Hawaiian prints. (That’s someone else’s job.) I think that whatever designs—like her symbol, which I try to keep subtle for her—you must put on yourself, stitching/embroidering is really the best way to go. Try to avoid iron-on stuff if at all possible for Kanaya. She is a competent craftsman, and she makes her own clothes; it strikes me as out of character if she’s got iron-on stuff because she takes a lot of pride in her work. I understand if it is too time-consuming or difficult to do for a cosplay though.

Most of her dresses are saris. She doesn’t wear them exclusively, but she does a lot. Saris are actually just one gigantic, continuous piece of fabric that is pleated and draped over the shoulder. It sounds like a fairly easy costume to make, but looks can be deceiving. I think that you might have your work cut out for you with Kanaya, she is probably the most difficult character. Best of luck.

As for Aradia: she is extremely simple in comparison. She has a long dark grey v-neck sweater, black leggings, thigh-high socks, and black shoes. Her symbol is easily visible and iron-on is ok. There is nothing special going on at the back and her design is symmetrical.

The first one in this line up really tells you all you need to know about her main clothes. If you’re gonna put in extra effort, which you don’t really need to do since she doesn’t wear this super often, this is her war paint.

fat-birds: videohall: Bird whistles the Addams Family >...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:45:01 -0500

fat-birds:

videohall:

Bird whistles the Addams Family

> Haha I died at the clicks xD

> I cant even whistle that good.

this bird imitates snapping fingers better than I can actually snap my fingers :’)