tomatomustache

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started reading To Be Well by tenuous uhm... makes me feral. HIS VOICE IS... ITS its written in such a way that i can hear it oh god its so good !!

mgs brainrot in a souvenir shop

skill issue. i'm banging on the door until he lets me in and taking the shower even if it's occupied. will have live narration of wolf domestication, cereal gardening and bronze manufacturing instead of phone music during my shower as well, if i'm lucky

Roommates when you don't need to take a shower: I mean honestly who even needs a bathroom. Fuck this bathroom I hate being in this bathroom .you couldn't pay me to spend a single second in this bathroom

Roommates when you do need to take a shower: I love this bathroom soooooo much I am going to spend the rest of my life in this bathroom. I'm domesticating the wolf and planting cereal grains in this bathroom I'm figuring out how to make bronze in this bathroom

some really fun doodles requested by @tomatomustache !! not replying to the asks yet bcuz i sorta mixed both of ur asks together and i wanna save a few of those ideas as surprises lol .. hope thats okay

i love my friends

redraw of a comic from a few months ago, now about three times as long ^_^

back to my 50 millers grind before work

43 more to go, i unironically like #7, and i think i have figured out his hair

sneak peek below

6 millers and one miller lips closeup in, i don't think i will make it to 50 lol

still worth it tho, having fun and already getting better at it (or so it seems)

thinking of drawing 50 millers in a row to see whether i get consistently better after it

raiden was annoying to me in mgs2 bc he is like subversion of player's expectation set by snake: bitching about difficulties from the very start, initially refusing to do stuff he wasn't trained to (deactivate bombs), has emotional conversations with his gf about their relationship etc. none of which is bad tbh but it is the opposite of what i expected after mgs1. but that's why he's a fun protagonist, teasing the player a bit. i am glad he's still annoying in rising (like bothering kevin with unsolicited marriage talk, the courtney codec calls if you don't save etc) and lowkey evokes cringe reaction from the voice he definitely does on purpose, the whole the "i get off to shredding dudes" ripper thing. they really integrated devs trying to make him more appealing to audience into his character development. but tbh to me, mgrr raiden is more cringe than mgs2 raiden (and that's a big part why rising is fun). in mgs4 there are fun moments which are definitely meta jokes (like the timing of the raiden in hospital scene, i am sure it was set up for player to expect seeing snake, or the voice) but it's serious so there's less room for fun. it's a shame tho that the devs seem to shy away from the mgs2 raiden, should've embraced him more and admit that players who hate on him just don't get it or aren't into it, he already was a well designed character.

and rosemary hate is wild, ofc it's bad to violate people's trust and their relationship is edgy and creepy but by mgs standards it's pretty wholesome and full of hope (except for raiden hitting her). idk what do they mean by ruining raiden's life, he literally brags about how much he loves his family in rising

i will say tho adding onto the post i reblogged before last like. raiden was also generally not well received on the launch of 2 for like multiple reasons but i imagine being annoying was one of them and i think its really only because of rising a good portion of people like him. yknow after they made him a cool robot with that deeper voice and other shit i havent played rising. rose still gets treated infinitely worst by fans tho for shit she didnt do

otasune week in sickness and in health prompt. influenced by me wanting fish soup

Was asked to post this do you guys like his hat

Ok but have you ever seen The Boss doing Ocelot’s hand gesture?

Fun fact, she’s actually doing it at him.

every time i log into the game to take screenshots for references or something i get jumpscared by my own design choices

it sure was venom snake in the operation intrude n313 bc the man could run. i think he's at least as fast as the running man from mg2, who claims to be the fastest mercenary in the world

don't look up "kill sex" on tumblr there's no memes with cool skeletons and mgs characters :(

fighting for what’s right

an exercise from banana boi's video about stylized faces on yt. i have no idea who jeremy white is but he was the model in the video and now i remember his facial features lol. all the pics except the last one was supposed to be one minute long but i took some extra time bc i am not good at drawing faces yet. almost all of them look wrong tbh but i had fun. started with more cartoonish pics and ended up accidentally making it more realistic but i think it was the right way to do it tbh. the most ugly pic looked bad from the start and i wanted to retry but the video lady said it's ok to draw ugly pics for this exercise so i decided to finish it.

Every few years remember about the Metal Gear franchise, go through the games, read the lore again. This year I found the MGS1 artbook I got when I was 11, and now not being 11 and looking back through it I’ve really gone on a journey of wonderment and confusion looking at the early versions of everything. LET ME SHOW YOU HOW:

Extreme Fishin’ Miller

Casual Snake

Rad Liquid & Sad Liquid

Good ol’ Faceless Frank

Mantis concepts feat. such strong looks as ‘lunchbreak’, ‘invisible handcuffs’, and ‘dick sounds’.

Otacon and Otacon run through a tiny face filter.

/These/

Snake-Meryl (Sneryl) and Flamethrower Mei Ling who I am ASHAMED do not exist

Utterly terrifying Veiny Raven and less terrifying Mange Raven

And of course, Punk Rock Mantis.

wow i forgot lol, thanks for clarification, has been a while since i played it

further research (replay of the bipedal pw fight) required to determine whether it was always first and foremost a horse (although at some point a bipedal one) or gained its horse qualities with the second set of limbs (smart emoji)

finding out the answer to what is a metal gear is far more vibes based if i dont take the bipedal nuclear weapon description. why the fuck isnt peacewalker listed as a metal gear on the wiki she should count !

a thing that playful and graceful can be nothing but a horse to me i sorry (jk ofc it's also a metal gear to me)

also wdym it was bipedal? when? or do all pw ai weapons count as peace walker stages?

finding out the answer to what is a metal gear is far more vibes based if i dont take the bipedal nuclear weapon description. why the fuck isnt peacewalker listed as a metal gear on the wiki she should count !

it's bc peace walker is a horse

finding out the answer to what is a metal gear is far more vibes based if i dont take the bipedal nuclear weapon description. why the fuck isnt peacewalker listed as a metal gear on the wiki she should count !

sketch from a pic i've been sent on tumblr, waow

ngl im unsure it looks as good as the original but i had fun drawing it, especially the hair and the tanlines

i tried to go to femboy hooters but it was just this guy there and he'd only talk about the horrors of war has this happened to anyone else

as a big time "they wouldn't fucking say that" enthusiast, i am glad those fics are written anyway.

i am currently reading a fic where mc is depicted starkingly ooc imo, in a way she seems the opposite of what she is in canon (imo). and i am having a good time bc of author's interpretation of the plot and real life facts integration.

depending on how many grey areas there are in your canon lore, anything other than canon might be ooc bc the characters wouldn't have an opportunity to do that. and as for being in line with canon behaviour - same person can act differently depending on outside factors, and people change, which is why there are long fanfics that start very "in character" but have little resemblance to the blorbo bingus towards the end.

sometimes a fic is worth overlooking ooc behaviour. sometimes it isn't for me as a reader - and then i close it and go on with my day, nothing bad happens, and if you had fun writing it (and other readers possibly had fun reading it), that what's matters! if you strive specifically to write them in character, you can always learn afterwards from a discussion in comments if you want to. if you don't care about ooc stuff in the first place, nobody can stop you.

tl;dr writing is cool and if you want to do it, you should

I have a lot of feelings about the rise of he would not fucking say that attitudes in fandom spaces and the paralysing effect it can have on creators. As a writer i think it’s important to just write what feels true to you and not what you think others will “approve” of. Like even as a reader i have enjoyed a variety of different characterisations that all work because the writer makes them work for a particular story. And a fic that’s written out of character to some will be in character to others. Writing fic is not your job you’re not being paid it’s your hobby please. Make them as close to canon as possible. Make them completely different. Who cares! Have fun! Have so much fun! There is an audience for every kind of fic and every kind of character interpretation i promise

Ugh. I’ve only got 8 kb allocated for a personality

Honestly the funniest part of Conclave was every character whipping out their reading glasses whenever they needed to look at something because they're all old as fuck and can't see.

miller yawning, circa 1973

i tried to do the pose myself and found it inconvenient and to face the higher lifted arm while stretching my back, but didn't want to redraw it that much

also i know he's not that bulky but it's just using him as a placeholder character tbh

i heard you have to draw from imagination to learn to draw from imagination so here's miller on a beach. i adjusted his pelvis and head many times and still haven't got it right, and i didn't even really try to make the light direction convincing. but this looks much less stiff and cardboard than my previous attempts so i am glad it is what it is