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[karaonasi]

He would have been a lot more difficult to take seriously with that thing 😂

(Said affectionately. I love that 2D man so much!)

Ah. I see your tag question. And Kit would laugh his a** off.

I still cannot get over the fact Baxter was originally gonna have a neckerchief like just imagine the characters pointing that out

#baxter ward #y'all how would your mc react if he still had that? 🤣 #our life #our life beginnings & always #our life beginnings and always #bamb talks #olba #gb patch games #our life baxter #our life: beginnings & always

[karaonasi]

This is gorgeous.

And it’s sweet to see him being his love back to his hometown. Tell them about his childhood, relive happy memories he had. Healing from his trauma and being happy. Allowing himself to be happy.

This is so important for his character.

Baxter is so highly misunderstood. And honestly just needs this soft love and acceptance.

I adore this, Min.

And I’m so happy to see them together and happy and settled in life together like this. 🥰

Return to golden grove (29 and 28 year old baxscar design)

#baxter ward #mintheart #baxscar #our life #olba fanart #olba mc #olba baxter #our life now and forever

[karaonasi]

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

#art reference #useful websites

[karaonasi]

Don’t look at things you know will make you angry. Don’t read the comment sections. Don’t look at the blogs of people who add dumb comments to posts to confirm that they’re dumb all the time. Don’t read old conversations you had with people you don’t talk to anymore. Go look at pictures of kittens or something instead. Protect yourself from negativity in every way you can.

[karaonasi]

Datu 💙

Des Japan Date Baxter 🖤🤍

Did some sketches!

#mintheart #visual novel #vn #our life #olba #baxter ward #bunny bond #dee odd games

[karaonasi]

Here's my concept art of Dakota✨

Meet him now by playing our demo:

#mintheart #visual novel #vn #first base #first base vn #yandere #yandere vn

[karaonasi]

Happy belated Birthday!

Happy Birthday @rui-drawsbox!!

#mintheart #oc #original character #main character #mc #our life #olba #olba mc

[karaonasi]

Love BaxScar so much! I missed them!

Baxter and Scarlett in their late 20s (happily married) <3

#BaxScar #baxter ward #mintheart #our life #olba #our life beginnings & always #olba baxter

[karaonasi]

So who wants a little Baxter Ward Event to countdown up to his birthday? ✨

Announcing BaxterMC Week!✨📢

A whole week dedicated to #BaxterWard and MC!❤️

Please read the guidelines below⬇️

Guidelines:

1. Please use #BaxterMCWeek and tag/mention me in each BaxterMC Week related submission.

2. Please indicate which prompt your submission is for in each post.

3. You can make your submission NSFW, but keep in mind that I will refrain from sharing explicit works.

4. Any Baxter enjoyer can participate! Fan artists, fic writers, etc.

5. I reserve the right to not share any submission that I find to be too inappropriate, hateful or discriminatory, for any reason.

6. Have fun and do not stress!! It’s ok if you can’t do a submission for every day.  Late submissions will still be shared until June 19th!

[karaonasi]

POV the wedding planner walks into the office ~

Last of the boyos girlies for fem OLBA

#baxter ward #our life beginnings and always #olba #olba baxter #olba fanart

[karaonasi]

Love any tidbit I can get on Percy. Wonder if we’ll actually see him with glasses. Can’t wait for the extended demo and Kickstarter!

so if Deja really needs her glasses for reading (i love the idea and design!) how bad is Percy and Dejas eyesight? have they been wearing glasses for long? just curious! Percys sprite with glasses... he wears glasses for classes and then goes around with contacts for the events? ughh contacts 💀

haha, if i remember right: deja's isn't god awful but she needs them when she's reading. she started needing them around her teen years and then percy's needed glasses literally his entire life, lmao. he wears his contacts all the time when he's outside, haha. he only really wears his glasses at home and, even then, it's really only when/if he's not already wearing contacts for the day.

#keyframes asks #keyframes vn #percy tozaki #deja lamarre

[karaonasi]

This is really REALLY good, btw.

You’d never know it was done in mere HOURS.

The writing

The art

The music

Everything is just QUALITY

Very polished.

Our Velox Formido Submission, Flowers of Asphodel, is Out Now!

We made a game in 36 hours!! For you, there are no Doors that won't open-- until you find yourself trapped in a Library with an abrasive man whose help comes at a cost. Help him, and just maybe, you'll escape. https://shewassaying.itch.io/flowers-of-asphodel

Our Team:

Writing/Directing: Me

Sprites: @helloyinn

CGs: @aiixen_

Illustrations: @_minthe_draws

BG: @radicalhoodie (tumblr)

Coding: @Bukubukubuku9

QA/Coding: @rottentief

Editing: @CrescenceStudio @Icefire149

Music/Sfx: @ejtanmusic

QA assist: @cafeestar

VA: @alexiusminerva

#velox formido #interactive fiction #visual novel #flowers of asphodel vn #fantasy

[karaonasi]

Going back and reading my 40k fic for olba and wanted to doodle a bit of my sillies

Just me baxterposting

#baxter ward #our life: beginnings & always #our life #olba

[karaonasi]

Hello! I saw your rant post and I wanted to ask if we could get the context behind it? It seems kinda out of nowhere and I saw the tag list on tumblr and didn't saw anything negative towards any character. I also just want to know to avoid this person, I really don't want to interact with toxic people ://

Thank you for your answer

hello anon!

i hope you are doing well ᓚᘏᗢ

first and foremost, i won't be naming any names here. yes, my post was vague, and that was the point of it. because the truth of the matter is that no matter the fandom, this sort of behaviour is evident in all of them and i was calling it all out. identifying the people directly can cause more harm than good, and it is not my intention to victimize anyone.

it just so happened that recent events regarding a specific community pissed me off to no end this time round, and it was a long time coming.

in a way i am glad that you have not seen anything yourself from specific tags and the community, but the reality is that people who choose to target a set group or a set character and don't want blowback from it wont tag their posts to make them easily accessible. however, if you interact with enough blogs, basically the '6 degrees of separation' rule comes into affect, where blogs that interact with that fandom start to link to each other and you unfortunately will end up with a blog that doesnt align with your taste or morals on your feed and you get an unhealthy dose of toxicity from it

this happens on all forms of social media; where i have been seeing this kind of activity is more so on twitter, but it has happened here on tumblr too.

i do want to stress that when i do see this kind of toxicity i do block/mute them from my feed so i dont have to see it, but it doesnt stop it from existing. and then seeing how it affects the people around me because unfortunately its not so easy for them to get away from it, it just hurts me deeply

if you know my blog well enough, you know i am a massive fan of OLBA currently, and thats typically what i post, amongst other fandom stuff that interests me, however its typically OLBA.

the OL series is all about acceptance and understanding and openness with one another. discrimination, bullying, anything like that doesnt exist in the story and shouldnt exist in the fandom either.

its unfortunate to see that regardless of the type of community it should be, that negativity and toxicity exists regardless. as some one as part of the LGBTQIA+ community, i have unfortunately seen comments that are against what the community stands for. i have seen commentary that is essentially bullying of one account or a collective for the sort of content they produce. hyprocritical comments, calling out someone for their content but going ahead and making that content themselves.

if you have not seen this sort of activity, im grateful for it. truly, its not nice to see this kind of stuff, and if you do, blocking and muting it is the best option to avoid them and keep to the healthier side of the fandom

please note, this blog will always be an open blog, other than calling out this poor behaviour, the entire purpose of this blog is to be positive!

to share fics and and art and headcannons and thoughts about all characters in the fandom i am a part of, because i am trying to share the love i have for the series with others and have great discussions around them

i know this was a vague answer anon, but i hope you understand the reasoning behind why and wish you all the best

your friendly neighborhood kaiju,

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#meow ask #meow rants #fandom culture #fandom etiquette #be good #do nice #its not that hard to be a decent human being #olba #our life #our life beginnings and always #preach

[karaonasi]

This honestly needed to be said. Thanks, Meow.

And to the people who are described by this? You need to look at your lives, what is wrong in them and why you feel the need to be nasty to human beings over a 2D character you don’t like. Honestly.

This is NOT the type of community Kab/GB Patch has wanted for her Our Life universe. Somewhere that is supposed to be a SAFE SPACE for everyone.

this is a rant, vent, jumble of words im feeling and need to get it out of my system because im a little done

please scroll along if you dont wanna read, or dont, i dont control you

it never ceases to amaze me just how cruel people in fandoms can be. cruel, mean, hyprocritical, straight up dumb.

dont get me wrong, these people are a minority. i have found myself amongst the best sort of people in fandoms i am a part of and couldnt be happier for the friendships i have made from them.

but this incredibly loud minority piss me off to no end. i stay away from any sort of discourse, silently watching from the background and watch thing blow up over trivial matters, and then learn who to avoid in those circles and move on with my life

but when i see, what i consider to be blatant bullying, to someone i hold dear, i dont want to be quiet anymore. im not a loud figure, im a tiny blog that loves to simp over 2d characters, a tiny stream channel that i interact with like minded people. and i mean i am TINY, im barely a blip on this wide web. so anything i say, it doesnt go anywhere, so still, i stay silent until i cant anymore.

so lets get to the crux of the matter.

if you dont like a character, you dont get to make others feel bad about liking them. i dont care if you think they are problematic, if you dont like their story, their look, or simply the fact that they exist

you dont get to make someone feel bad for finding a connection with them and loving them

you dont get to attack them about liking the character, passively or aggressively, you dont get to make fun of them and any of the work they do around them. you have no right to take it upon yourself and make someone feel like they dont belong just because they like a character that you dont

if you dont like the character, dont fucking interact, its that bloody simple. scroll away. mute the tag, mute the channel, whatever. just walk away

interacting with someones content for the pure purpose to make fun of it is cruel. you are making it public that you want to demean the person for what they enjoy. and the worst thing is, if you catch the attention of the younger audience, they learn that they get to act that way, and this kind of online activity only gets worse

it already has gotten worse. man, im a millenial and i thought keyboard warriors when i was in highschool and older where bad. these days the younger generation feel justified to think that they can say whatever they want and suffer no consequences of those actions. i see it in so many fandom discourses. its horrible

but they learn from the worst of us on the internet. the more they see the cruel interactions, the more they think its okay to act that way. and without a doubt, fandoms will end up being incredibly toxic environments that people wont feel comfortable to exist in anymore.

every fandom has a toxic space, its unfortunate but it is true. i wish it wasnt

and the smaller the fandom, the louder this toxic group is

it just fucking sucks. and watching people i care about be treated so badly hurts because all i can do is be their support. an ear, a shoulder, just someone they can vent to. but it doesnt stop the fact that they got hurt and i cant do anything about it

god i dont even know what this even turned into. im tired, im upset, im just so frustrated.

why cant people just be nice?

if you managed to read all the way down here, man i applaud you. that was a great mess of thoughts, i still have many more but at this point i feel like i would be repeating myself

please, just. be kind guys. its not that hard, i swear it

to all my moots, honestly, i love you guys. seeing all your work and love you put into your creations gives me life and brightens my day. dont ever stop loving your craft and your fav characters just because someone decided to be a prick.

#baxter ward #meow rants! #our life beginnings & always #our life

[karaonasi]

😭😭😭

I love it so much. It’s so sweet.

And I feel Kit within me want to reach out and hold him so very tightly.

I love this, Eagle. I really really love this.

Thank you for some very much fluff 🫶

You liked the country club. It was pretty there, they had music sometimes, and all the people smiled at you. It was a fun place to be.

Then again, you were three years old, so you were easy to please.

You remembered your moms bringing you along to the club a few times -- they'd put you in nice clothes, you had to do your very best to keep them clean, and they told you to be on your best behavior, too. Sometimes it was a lot of pressure.

So that night, although you had felt excited for the outing, you found yourself wailing in your mommy's arms, completely inconsolable.

Back rubs wouldn't do the trick, your mommy's soft voice in your ear didn't work either. The longer you were upset, the more upset you got. You heard Liz grumble something at her seat across the table, but just as you were gearing up for your loudest scream yet, you felt a hand on your shoulder.

Startled, you scrambled around in your mommy's arms, turning on her lap to see who had touched you. There was a boy, pale with dark hair and little like you.

"Are you ok?" he whispered.

You were trying to figure out if you wanted to go back to crying or say something to the boy in front of you. Before you could say anything, a woman came up and grabbed by the shoulders.

"Come now, Baxter," she said, steering him away from your family. "Mind your manners."

You watched as he was led back to his own table. At one point, he glanced back at you and offered you a small smile.

Suddenly you didn't feel so sad anymore.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

If the beaches in Hawaii were any different than the ones back home in Sunset Bird, then you sure couldn't tell. There was water, there was sand, shells and seaweed and crabs. You didn't understand why you had to leave your new best friend, Cove, and travel all that way when you could have done the same things back home.

"Tough luck, kiddo," Mommy told you. "You're only 8, so you're still going to be stuck with us for a while."

Really, you did understand it -- you all flew in to visit your family on Ma's side. You rarely got to see them after they moved away from California, and it made Ma happy to get to spend time with them. It made you happy too, of course, but you couldn't help but sulk a little bit. You didn't know you'd have a best friend when you first heard about the trip.

That day, everyone had decided to make a day out of going to one of the nicer local beaches. There wasn't as many people at this one, your grandfather had explained, mostly just some locals and some visitors from a nearby resort.

You'd been there a few hours when you took it upon yourself to make a sandcastle. Liz wanted to go swimming again and the adults were talking, so you were perfectly content playing by yourself. You were pretty far into the process, working on the sandy little structure with such focus that you didn't notice someone had approached you until they spoke.

"Nice castle."

The boy, tall and thin and maybe a little bit older than you, gave the compliment easily, but you didn't feel like he was being insincere. You felt your chest puff out a bit in pride, telling him, "It's not a big deal, I make these all the time at home."

"No, it's really good," he insisted. "I like your battlements."

"My what?"

He hesitated for a moment, then crouched down beside you. He pointed out all the different parts of the castle, telling you the technical names for them and their purposes.

"You sure know a lot about castles," you told him when he was done, and he laughed.

"You sure know a lot about building them," he replied. He wouldn't meet your eyes after that, and you felt yourself blushing a little. It was uncomfortable, but somehow nice at the same time.

Reaching out to the building tools laid out beside you, you picked up a shovel and held it out to him in a silent invitation to join you. He smiled, but before he was able to take it, someone nearby called out "Baxter!"

Baxter. You were sure you didn't know anyone by that name, but it still itched something in your brain. You tried to place it, why you remembered the name when you were positive you'd never heard it before, but before you could, the boy stood, brushing off his hands.

"I have to go," he said. "Perhaps we can meet up another time."

You hoped he was right.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

13 was a difficult year for you. So many things were changing around you and within you, and you were unsure about so much of it. Everything felt intense and heavy and weird, and it wasn't a good feeling.

But when the boy at the country club soiree asked you to dance, things in your head calmed down, just for a few minutes. But it was enough.

He was beautiful, you thought -- you'd never seen a kid your age look so fancy before. His suit was well tailored, he didn't have one single black hair out of place and when he danced with you, he moved you around so effortlessly. It felt like you were in a movie that you loved but couldn't remember the name of. It felt right.

It was over as soon as it had begun, and before you could do anything, before you could even ask him his name, he'd disappeared back into the crowd.

You knew you'd been prone to dramatics lately, unable to contain all the big feelings that had been raging like a storm inside of you.

Still, this felt like more of a loss than it should have.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"I can't believe it."

"Honestly, neither can I. It's quite the strange series of coincidences, isn't it?"

That was an understatement.

You were 18, sitting beside Baxter in the condo he was renting out for the summer. The very first time you'd met -- or met again, as it turned out -- he'd realized that you'd danced together five years earlier at the Summer Soiree. It had taken a little over a month of talking constantly, seeing each other almost every day and getting comfortable enough to tell each other about your lives that you'd realized you'd also met twice before that.

Baxter's memory was incredible, but what was even more extraordinary was the idea that the two of you had been running into each other in five-year increments since you were little kids. The world was so wide and full of so many people, but somehow it had brought you together again and again.

You knew that Baxter was only staying in Sunset Bird temporarily, that he'd be going back to college in Virginia when the summer was over. He'd been very clear about that, that your romantic relationship would just last while he was in town. But that magic of it all had you hoping against hope that maybe this time you could give the universe a break -- maybe you could stick together from here on out.

That all felt like too much to say though, so instead, you joked, "Do you want to go ahead and make plans for Summer 2021, or do you think we should leave it up to fate again?"

A strange expression crossed his face -- you couldn't quite make it out. It was something like pain.

Finally, Baxter said, "Fate's been kind enough to us for the past 15 years, hasn't it? Suppose we give it one more try."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

As they say, the third time's the charm.

When you met Baxter on the beach in Hawaii when you were 8, you didn't realize then that he was the boy who showed you kindness in the middle of a meltdown at the country club five years before. And when you danced at that same country club when you were 13, you weren't able to put things again then, either.

When you dated at 18 for a brief, beautiful summer, you'd almost made it -- you felt it then. The two of you had fallen in love, you'd both felt the same pull towards each other, but he wasn't ready.

Another five years had to pass, another chance meeting had to come about. This time, fate pulled him to you with him kicking and screaming and fighting against it, sure he didn't deserve it, but it pulled him just the same.

And now, as you watched him sleeping beside you in your shared bed in your shared home, you smiled knowing that you could finally give fate a rest.

There was just a few minutes left until your alarm was set to go off. You briefly considered closing your eyes for a little bit longer, pulling him against you and soaking in his warmth before you had to get up for the day, but as your eyes adjusted to the first bits of sunlight streaming into the room, you saw his pretty bare back facing you.

His skin was milky white and dotted with delicate little beauty marks -- a few on his shoulders, a couple down just above his waist line and some in between. You took a finger and started tracing along his back, going from one mole to the next, connecting the dots. They could be constellations. Your favorite galaxy.

"What are you doing?" Baxter asked, his voice groggy.

"Just thinking about how much I love you," you answered.

It took him a couple of tries, his gracefulness nonexistent in the mornings, but eventually he managed to capture your hand as it moved along his waist. He gently pulled you down and against him so that you were holding him from behind, squeezing your hand as he held it against his chest.

"It's time to wake up soon," you told him, placing a kiss on the back of his neck.

He groaned and scooted himself closer against you.

"Can I ask you something?"

Baxter groaned again, but you started planting kisses along his shoulder to placate him. When you felt him settle into the feeling, a few lighter, airier breaths telling you that he was waking up, you said, "What do you think we'll be doing five years from now?"

He let out a sleepy little laugh, then turned so that he could look at you. There was a little drool dried on the corner of his mouth, his hair was sticking up everywhere, but he was beautiful, and he was yours.

He didn't reply at first, instead taking your hand that he still held and moving it closer to his face. You watched as he gently stroked your palm, then each finger, one by one. He stopped on your ring finger -- the ring finger on your left hand -- and began tracing little circles around the base of it.

"Hmm," he said, lifting your hand to place a kiss in the same spot. "I wonder?"

#baxter ward #it’s hard not to cry #I love him so much #he deserves to be happy #I want to hold him tightly until he knows without a doubt how much he is loved #our life beginnings and always #our life #olba #our life baxter #olba baxter #baxter ward x reader

[karaonasi]

Awwwwww the sending food to take care of you even though he’s away at college… 😭 That touches my heart so much.

in the Baxter swap au, do you think Baxter would be into taking care of you? like, if you were too tired, he would brush your teeth for you? even before you two got together, I feel like he would do anything you asked or needed

(sorry if this doesn't make sense I'm half asleep)

(also thank you for answering the swap au asks!)

Oh big time!!! Swap AU Baxter and MC are wrapped around each other's fingers for yeeeeeears before they get together. Like if you wanted you could text him that you were thirsty but too tired to get out of bed and a few minutes later he'd come climbing through your window with your favorite drink in tow. When he's away for college, he's constantly having food delivered for you because he wants to make sure you're eating if you're busy with school/work. If you were having a difficult time, he would not hesitate to skip a few days of classes to fly to wherever you are and check up on you in person.

He would even like give you back rubs etc. if you were stressed out, would braid your hair, paint your nails, do a skincare routine for you. Like anything that would typically be considered self care would be Baxter care when he's around. Very very sweet!!!

#baxter ward #our life swap au #swap AU is life! #our life #our life beginnings & always #our life beginnings and always #gb patch games #olba #our life baxter #our life: beginnings & always