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Diminish, of course, but also Adventures with anxiety.

I had given up on drawing that over a year ago or some, since a birthday-related tweet. It looks terrible but it’s drawn, that’s a trade-off worth taking. Will has no idea how precious Diminish is, to anyone who had to give up on their creative dreams.

#apollo #diminish #anxiety

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Yes.

I thought I had run out of things to say about Diminish, for now, but then Neytirix. I’ll never get to see her “steal” Apollo, but I can at least have fun with the idea. ‘Specially given how resilient they are.

(Though I assume there is no harm in using Neytirix’s character, just in case I gave her a fez. There. Internet appeased.)

#diminish #apollo #oc #theft #sacrifice

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Evermore Diminish.

Brief explanation: Apollo claims to be “born from the solar winds of a dying star”. I assume the solar winds are what those lanterns contain. 

Technically, the stream coming from whatever that dark sun was meant to be was meant to be way more subtle, whereas Shadollo was meant to be way more... lighty. But I only figured out the shadowy effect by accident when it was too late and rolled with it.

Depicting Apollo as edgy or aggressive is a terrible mistake.

#diminish #apollo #solar winds of a dying star #immortal

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Yeah, Diminish.

This one I’m actually hiding here, because it’s Apollo cosplaying as Raziel (from Soul Reaver) and I couldn’t do a proper sword. I also tried making the cape cover the muzzle, but it was just beyond impractical.

#diminish #apollo #raziel

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Still Diminish.

If the joke is not clear, after 6 episodes of being in the water, what amazing excitement could await Apollo on land?!

#diminish #apollo #act 2 #halp

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More Diminish.

Apollo was able to break spikes, which opens... possibilities.

#diminish #apollo #spikes #cheat

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Daily comics are the occasion to experiment, and I wanted to test the ‘webtoon’ format. I couldn’t continue Egelbud anyway, showing some of its backstory killed it for me. Plus, I need to vent.

#dailycomics

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And yet another round of Daily Comics for Dawn Somewhere, because one person wanted to know what was happening in the exhilerating adventures of the Ugly Bird of DESTINY!

#dawn somewhere #dailycomics #egelbud

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And then I attempted something I clearly didn’t know how to do for the ongoing Daily comics and its spectacular adventure of the Ugly Bird of DESTINY!

#dawnsomewhere #dailycomics #egelbud

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After a fill- hiatus, Daily comics went on, with the amazing adventures of the still Ugly Bird of DESTINY!

#dawnsomewhere #dailycomics #egelbud

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All haunted game stories into one.

Those following Petscop or Crow64 will often ask if other such stories exist. And while the list is longer, those five so far for me are the references.

1. The classic: Ben Drowned is getting old, but it introduced the principle of actual game footage and it remains solid to this day.

2. The reference: Petscop introduced the principle of an original video game and any new story will be compared to, weighed and measured according to it.

3. The blockbuster: Crow64 didn’t introduce anything new per se, but its documentary, channels and codes made it a juggernaut in this sub-genre.

4. The indie: Diminish is the ultimate let’s play, dropping mystery in favor of pure unadultered and impressively choreographed gameplay.

5. The unknown: AI Builds could be caricatured as a Petscop-clone about being a Petscop-clone, and just for build.0.0.8 it is worth the watch.

I know others exist (Mister Maker, Bevusst, Tower Intellect, Illusion Lock, Treats! of Gardenia...) but so far those would be the ones I would encourage people to watch.

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More Crow64.

The unfiction hasn’t updated since December 5, and as somebody pointed out, that update could look like an ending. So unsurprisingly, people are asking.

But not Manfred. Manfred planned for his son to find a game in the attic, keep it for twenty years then look up videos on Youtube and decipher codes all so they could talk on Messenger. All according to keikaku.

#crow64 #dead #manfred #lorenz #catastrophecrow #wait #over #sit #computer

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Daily Comics for Dawn Somewhere, have the extraordinary adventures of the Ugly Bird of DESTINY!

#dawnsomewhere #dailycomics #egelbud

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Look I like unfiction okay?

#crow64 #catastrophe crow

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It was a while since I did what this tumblr is about.

In the movie “Adventures of Baron Münchausen”, the baron gets old and find his old companions. He sits with them and plays cards, and one of the players is death.

So each time a Dawn Somewhere character is basically abandoned, my fanon is (s)he ends up playing poker with the others. As monkeys, because of course.

#dawn somewhere #Rae #Gym #Red #Jaycartoons #Peel Off #Stebe #poker

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Another joke on Petscop, and an occasion to ramble about the series.

Someone on Reddit asked for the joke to to be explained. If you don’t know Petscop, what you just saw is probably as cryptic as a Loss meme is for me. But even if you know Petscop, though, this might turn into a Rorschach test.

The joke is basic: the second panel shows a collectible being collected. The joke is that the bucket that the character, Tiara, is collecting, should not be a collectible. 

Yeah. Uhm. Yeah. That’s the joke.

Okay there is a second layer to it, in that Tiara, the white-headed character, is known to be really good at the game. She teaches nifty, the hidden door, the locker combination, she grows pupils and can look to her left for Pete’s sake. So of course if someone could collect the bucket it would be her.

And uh so, yeah.

Funny. Ah ah.

Even if you know Petscop, your reaction is likely that of indifference. Someone caught the bucket, so what? Crazy stuff happens all the time in Petscop, who cares. It’s not even spooky here.

If that is you reaction, that to me would indicate that you followed Petscop for the shrills, for the spooks, for the atmosphere. You didn’t really care for an explanation, you just wanted a ghost ride and you got one and you were perfectly satisfied with the Mass Effect 3 ending no wait that reference is outdated already... But really though, horrible stuff happened, ghosts or sum’thing, it was creepy and fun. Moving on.

You could be that kind of fan, or you could be among the minority I am a part of, and who I hope will have a slightly different take on what just happened. You see, I approached Petscop as a puzzle. I am the kind of guy who asked ‘why’ and ‘how’ all the time and would theorize my way to the Moon. Such fans know the (assumed) rules of the fictional game ‘Petscop’ per heart. And to such a fan, having the bucket be a collectible is akin to witnessing gravity reverse itself.

That you can measure just how utterly world-breaking this is already gave you some vertigo, but that was just the first step. Then, then you contemplate a world where this is actually possible. You are in the rabbit’s hole. This is Narnia. The possibilities are flying around you at hyperspeed. That second panel is an absurd ‘what if’ inviting us to do what we love: theorizing.

If you can understand what all this second panel is meant to produce, and how fun the concept is in itself, you are set to understand the joke. You basically just witnessed Superman save a burning plane and land it in the middle of a city street. And now, on the third panel, Superman is ordering a burger at a nearby stand while firefighters are busy in the background. That’s the joke. Tiara leaving just as innocently as she came, having broken every rule of Petscop before our eyes, without care nor an explanation.

The point is not whether I am good at humor. I dunno. I thought it was funny. I wouldn’t have spent hours drawing a background I could have ripped from the series otherwise.

The point is how different people’s perspectives can be.

Even if you understood the joke, it might not have made you chuckle. But it does take caring about Petscop’s mechanics and puzzle-solving to actually get the joke. Without that, all you see is a random action in a barren and ugly background, and nothing else. That, may I suggest, was the kind of added value we had access to when watching Petscop.

#Petscop #Tiara #bucket

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For those who don’t know Petscop, this will make no sense. For those who know it, that joke is already on the reddit.

#petscop #tiara #yestiara #playertwo #note #roneth