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[ebi-noodle-doodles]

I love chubby Miku so much. She's so cook and cute and fashionable and beautiful.

(Don't feel pressured to do art as u said u were tired I just wanted to show appreciation)

cook u say?! 𓁹‿𓁹

#ebi noodle doodles #xixiriima #my art #fanart #art #doodle #sketch #vocaloid #vocaloid art #hatsune miku #reply art #reply #ask #ask art #reply ask #ask me #miku

[has-merlinofficial-posted-today]

News from Merlin Official?

Year 1 Day 195

No

Yes ✅

They posted

They replied

They liked

#bbc merlin #bbc merthur #camelotgate #merlin #merlin twitter #merthur #this technically happened yesterday but i was sleeping #yes #post #likes #reply #replies #like

[enden-k]

Did you see kaveh tcg card coming 4.7 😭💘💘💘💘

no and pls dont show me a picture. i bet its all over twitter anw if i would check now. last time someone sent the haitham tcg card leak in an ask, i was the one who got dmcad and i dont wanna get banned from here <3

also finally FINALLY genshins tcg polycule will be completed in card form??

i bet haitham hogs all available kaveh cards

#own #the nerds who actually play this game...finally......complete... #reply

[elbdot]

Hi, first of all I love your art and am a huge fan of EAA.

Secondly, I don't know if you play DnD at all but I saw "Field Guide to Floral Dragons" on kickstarter and it reminded me of your art so just wanted to let you know because I thought it was cool.

Again, love your art and am looking forward to future chapters of EAA!

Thank you so much!!! :DD

YES I've seen the Field Guide Kickstarter, at this point it gets shown to me on Instagram EVERY DAY, the algorithm sure knows my interests 😂 It looks like an awesome book and I both LOVE that it's being so well received and at the same time hate that I have such bittersweet feelings about it, because it is exactly what I've been dreaming to publish myself for years and it's just. Frustrating that I'm still exactly where I left off 2 years ago. I'm happy the Kickstarter is such a huge success, it gives me hope people could get just as excited once my Gardendragons get republished again, hopefully in a big way! But a little insecure gremlin-voice inside my head makes me also afraid people will think of me as a copycat, even though my book has been written and illustrated LONG before in 2016 already 😂

Technically I know nothing is truly original, the concept of flower-based dragons is not unique. And I know my Guidebook will be VERY DIFFERENT, especially since my book would not be tied to DnD, it's more about connecting science with fantasy, a gardening book that teaches about insects and flowers THROUGH dragons. All my flower dragons are the size of flowers or smaller and are supposed to live in the real world, with the intention of teaching kids and adults about our native flora and importance of wild bees, as they live in a symbiosis with the dragons. And at the final chapter you get to learn what to plant in your garden to create a habitat for both dragons and bees!

I shouldn't be disencouraged, I shouldn't be envious or sad, just because I haven't found a new publisher or book agent yet, but I just want my Gardendragon books to be translated and republished SO BADLY but haven't made any new contacts yet that could help me reach my goal 😂

I should REALLY work on more illustrations or even animations to at least make my little dragons a bit more known on the internet. I'd love to see them flourish again ;w;

#gardendragons #mod #reply #dragons #field guide to floral dragons #floral dragons

[erabu-san]

Hello there fellow artist that I enjoy there art a lot... I have a stupid question, When did you started doing Genshin art?

Oh hiii ! Thank you so much, I appreciate it a lot !! <333 None question is stupide, and I enjoy answer them Check on my archive, and I started doing fanart in november 8th 2020, with xingqiu

#reply #xingqiu #yeah my first genshinfanart ever is XINGQIU.

[rationalisms]

could you recommend an indie game that does disco elysium or its kind of game better? (/genuine)

i'd be happy to recommend some games to you for sure!

but i would like to preface this by saying that my point (which is hard to explain in a pithy tag aside to be fair lol) isn't necessarily that these will be "better" than disco elysium. that's incredibly hard to quantify anyway since so much of this is based on taste. e.g. i disliked some things about DE other people loved (like the pacing) even though i overall had a good time with the game.

it's more that the way people were talking about disco elysium, especially in terms of like... "professional video game journalism" but also definitely on this site and the other formerly blue side, was tinged with this tone that DE is somehow unique or groundbreaking in its attempt to treat a video game like an artform or a serious vehicle for storytelling. which is insulting especially to the games DE clearly draws from.

a lot of people who don't usually play video games played DE based on recommendations, which is great! but a huge part of the response from those people didn't seem to be "wow, clearly i can have a good time with video games if they're like this, i should seek out more". it instead seemed to be "well folks, pack it up, this is the one video game i will enjoy because it's Deep unlike everything else out there". which is incredibly disappointing.

anyway. whether these recommendations will hit for you will primarily depend on what you're looking for when you say "its kind of game", but here's some games that gave me the same general feeling.

planescape: torment is the game that heavily inspired disco elysium. it's a similarly combat-light crpg with a focus on exploration and story and set in a weird, technologically discongruent setting. i would also recommend its sequel, torment: tides of numenera. i didn't enjoy that one as much but it was still pretty good.

kentucky road zero is a game about a truck driver who has to cross the titular road zero and the many people he meets on the way. it's also magical realism so if you enjoyed the genre of disco elysium this might be up your alley.

beautiful desolation is another game which is based on real world culture/history with sci-fi world building on top. in this case south africa. it's really beautiful and rewards exploration in a similar way.

return of the obra dinn is also an atmospheric detective game set on a ship lost in 1803. it's by the same creator who made papers, please (which is also excellent by the way).

hypnospace outlaw has a similar half absurd, half earnest tone. it also felt similarly nostalgic to me. it's incredibly easy to sink a lot of time into this one though so watch out lol.

orwell, and its sequel, orwell: ignorance is strength, are similar "internet" simulators like HO with a much more overt political tone (if you couldn't tell by the name lol). you play as an employee for a government surveillance program.

stasis if you're looking for more isometric point and click games with a strong atmosphere and great voice acting.

sunless sea, and its sequel, sunless skies, are exploration/roguelike games about a weird, fantastical world. if you've ever played fallen london, they're set in the same universe.

what remains of edith finch is also magical realism and dark comedy, so if you enjoyed the tone of DE you might enjoy that.

some say it has always been here also has a surreal and sometimes oppressive atmosphere. i wish this game was longer, i loved it so much.

i miss the sea of japan is another wonderful bitsy game i got reminded of when i thought about SSIHABH. it's wistful and sweet.

i have no mouth and i must scream is a psychological thriller about five people and their dark pasts trying to outwit an AI. it's very atmospheric and also has variously fucked up (by life) protagonists.

whispers of a machine is another detective game with more of a sci-fi slant, though it's set in a world inspired by sweden and other nordic countries. it's also very atmospheric and has some great voice acting.

buddy simulator 1984 gave me a lot of the same feelings disco elysium did (wistfulness, nostalgia, anxiety, etc lol). i really loved the first half of the game but wasn't as into the second half, would absolutely still recommend it though.

and if we're talking just straight up great crpgs with a heavily political tone, i will always always always recommend harebrained schemes shadowrun trilogy (especially dragonfall and hong kong, both incredible games. returns is... fine lol but definitely not on the level of the sequels) and fallout 1 and 2.

plus, no rec list about magical realism would be complete without life is strange. :') i haven't played any of the sequels and it's been a long time since i played it, but i remember loving it at the time.

games i haven't played yet but that are on my to play list and which look like they could scratch the same itch:

citizen sleeper, also a dice based game which is very narrative and exploration based.

norco, which several of my friends love a lot.

where the water tastes like wine, which is set in the great depression era of the US and about collecting stories and sharing them.

pentiment, another detective game set in a real world approximation. i love everything obsidian touches so i'm sure it's great, but i haven't gotten round to it yet.

night in the woods seems to be popular with people who like DE so it might be up your alley. i'm pretty sure it's also magical realism?

roadwarden is another isometric point and click game about exploration and friends have said it has a great atmosphere.

i hope those are a good starting point for you! i would also genuinely recommend just hopping on itch.io and typing in a random prompt and seeing what you get. i've discovered sooo many wonderful games (many of them completely free, though i will always advocate for tipping the creators) by just noodling around on there. tons and tons of incredible indie games who don't have the luxury of publisher funding made by people who could really use the support.

enjoy and have a lovely day ^__^

#anon #reply

[arcadekitten]

I found Twyla at the renaissance faire yesterday!

totally didn't take this picture because I saw a horned owl and my brainrot said omg thats just like that thing I like

OH MY GOSH THAT'S SO COOOOL!!

Owls are truly such magnificent birds, and it makes me ever so flattered that you may see one and think of my special girl!! ♡ Thank you so much for sharing with me!!

#twyla #twyla sophio #? #reply

[biteofcherry]

Happy Wetnessday 💦

Your cute coworker invites you to come along to a wedding. What you don't know is that it's your wedding and your coworker was simply hired to deliver you to your awaiting groom. So once you're there you're pulled in every direction. Makeup, hair, dress, shoes and finally in front of your future husband. The mob boss of the city. You have no choice but to say yes... but would you even have said no if you had the choice?

Which hottie do you choose?

xoxo Wetnessday anon 💦

Okay, so I was very much 😴😴😴 when you sent that ask yesterday. Gotta love the time zones 😂 And today I was on double shift at work, so it's only now that I finally have time to sit down and enjoy your wonderful ask 🩷

A mob boss who already organized all the pampering preparations (a bottle of my favorite sparkling wine included), an astonishing dress that's so my style, with matching accessories? Not to mention the wedding ceremony is also fitting to my preferences and dreams?

He knows everything about me, as well the fact the only reason I wasn't married to him already is because I ran away once I learned the truth about him?

Because I knew him before.

An unexpected meet cute that bloomed into hot, sweet romance and lots of laughter and fun together. A laid back private business owner who loves movie marathons with lots of snack as much as going for a weekend away to a spa, or the beach, or a top ski resort.

I was living my spicy fairytale with him.

But when I learned that the actual business of his is mafia... I fled. Social ethics and fear made me cut all ties with him.

I should've known that he wouldn't leave me be.

Obviously I say yes - truly more out of love and excitement than out of fear.

Though I probably also threaten him with poisoning 😎

Okay, fine, I'll poison him after we return from the honeymoon, because he's taking me somewhere I always dreamed of going.

#Wetnessday Anon #sweet messages #reply

[st-just]

If you had to pick one niche thing you love to become inexplicably popular overnight, what would you pick?

Hmm. Grand strategy games, probably. Not like the fanbase for paradox games can get any more embarrassing, and the space being big enough to support more than one really dedicated high-budget publisher could only be good for it.

#reply #tinker-tanner #paradox

[endenope]

Sobbing about not getting the 50/50 split I’ll throw some money into the primogem fund for a chance to get the comic with Hthm too 😭

no perfect 50/50 AND the veritussy lost ooh so close

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[ebi-noodle-doodles]

I know you got alot of fan mail after that dingus anon, but I just want to say your fat miku art gives me warm fuzzies c:

(っᵔ◡ᵔ)っ

#ebi noodle doodles #xixiriima #my art #fanart #art #anime art #doodle #vocaloid #sketch #vlcaoid fanart #miku #hatsune miku #reply art #reply #ask #ask reply

[stromuprisahat]

girl why are you still reading these books if you hate them so much. treat yourself and dnf 😭

I think I've answered something similar some time before, but I can't be arsed to look for it at the moment, so...

I do not hate Grishaverse, it's merely incredibly frustrating in its unacknowledged bias, abandoned themes and wasted potential in general.

As for why am I re-reading it and don't intend to stop:

Sashka- the man I'd like to shake so he quits being nice and reasonable, and simply kills them all. Or kiss his forhead and gently force him to take care of himself for once.

Some of the delightful (or terrifying) fragments of worldbuilding I like to elaborate.

Sheer stubborness, because to quote my favourite (well-written) fictional Slav:

"I can't because I'm not a quitter! I'm a complainer, but I'm not a quitter."

#reply #Grishaverse #já a švábi #grishanalyticritical #The Darkling #anti Leigh Bardugo #Vasiliy was such a Slavic mood in that. #I miss him.

[enden-k]

There’s a new world quest in Fontaine as of 4.6, right in the middle of the city at the bottom of the big elevator. I recommend that you go see who it is!

you did not just

#fucking #what if i kms #WHY IS HE HERE #ILL NEVER BE FREE OF THIS MAN RAHHHHH #reply #own

[dragqueenpentheus]

why are you celebrating someone's death?

#anon #reply

[erabu-san]

So you like Xiao as a fictional crush :p?

I actually don't ! I just love the interaction he has with Traveler haha, it is so wholesome My fictional crushes are Albedo and Sethos (and jean but.... albedo took everything)

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[humming-fly]

Sorry just wanted to let you know that the poster of the crab day post is a terf

Gross!

That means I can just steal the post instead so!

Crab Day!!!

Where:

Here on Tumblr!!

What:

Buy crabs!

Why:

As we now know, Tumblr is $30 million dollars in debt. Oops. Tumblr has announced some major (and unpopular) changes to the site in their attempt to get back above water. The alternative is that Tumblr ceases to exist. But maybe we can change that...

How:

There are 327 million unique tumblr visits per month, and almost 500 million active accounts. If 10 million unique users (or less, if we bought more than one) bought or gifted Crabs from the Tumblr store, we could knock out Tumblr's debt easily. Buy crabs!

When:

July 29, 2023 is Crab Day, running through August 5 (for anyone who can't log on that day) as Crab Week!

Who:

Everyone!! If you truly can't afford to participate with a $3 crab, (or other item from the shop) post crab memes!

Time for Tumblr users to rise again and surprise everyone...

#looked it up and for some reason the big 3 crab posts i've seen are all made by religious blogs?? XD #no fuckin clue what's up with that #jesus turned water into wine and so too will we turn crabs into monetary donations i guess #reply