A Thing That Playful And Graceful Can Be Nothing But A Horse To Me I Sorry (jk Ofc It's Also A Metal

quick monsoon bc i think he's nice

widen with boobs

senator armstrong and his special attack "foreign infrastructure damage" are insufferable. the best fight of his life? the feeling is unreciprocated.

i had no heals at the start of the samuel fight and thought to get some from crates but then thought "he doesn't heal mid fight, why should i?" it took effort and some time to defeat him but i did it and it was enjoyable even when i needed to learn to parry for good right during the battle (in fact that made it more fun). i didn't search for heal packs before the next boss fight bc i thought the way my fight with samuel went is the good way to play. it is but armstrong's fighting style doesn't follow that way, lol. yeah sure dude heal gajillion times and cover all the ground in fire cracks and then stand behind it or push me into one and i will get up right in the middle of another crack and repeat the process until im dead with no chance to dodge once the first damage was taken (really happened). throw stuff at me why wouldn't you. i hope he stabs his toe or smth. i used to see him on videos and look forward to fighting him if i ever play mgrr; now no amount of lore is capable of making me to stop disliking him. i have genuinely gamer raged while fighting him lol. i would give up and leave the game if i wouldn't want to play dlcs tbh lol.

that being said, the game is nice and fun and all the butthurt is my fault for having a skill issue. but i am upset anyway lol.

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.

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featuring an ugly liner drawing of a kitten

tried to use a liner instead of pencil today. it was fun for short ones but starting with 5 minutes i felt like im wasting time since i couldn't "fix" the lines that were already there and adding new ones would just look dirty, so i returned to pencil. i like the 10 minute drawing more than the 25 minute one but it was enjoyable sketching that guy, his body breaks into nice shapes and his poses entertaining to capture.

never kill yourself

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

pretty sure it was done before but anyway