#WAHOO this is finally done

[cheridraws]

bang! bang!

#chdoodles #trigun #trigun maximum #trimax #vash the stampede #vash saverem #COLORS.... #i fucked around so much with backgroundsfjkls #anyways i love this pose hes so Real. #AND... IM FINALLY DONE WITH FINALS SO NOW ITS TIME TO DRAW A BUNCH WAHOO!!! FOLLOWERS U WILL GET FOOD FINALLY

[pixelwoven]

Clover and Flowey have entered the fray!!!!

congrats for reaching Gold team UTY!!

#finally got a fanart piece done wahoo! #undertale yellow #clover #flowey #my art #so excited to see how the rest of their story goes! #undertale

[dreampearls]

you've come a long way

#genshin impact #cyno #collei #my art #WAHOO a week in the making. finally done :D #i was going to include tighnari in the second one so it could be all 3 of them traveling to mondstadt together #but then i decided against it bc i wanted smth special for just the two of them #thinks about them. Thinking about them. #there is so much left unresolved between the two of them i want to see them Talk... #(referencing lee cythams) webtoon spinoff feat. cyno & collei return trip to sumeru When... #m #colleiction

[louroth]

Hello hello everybody! It is time for another months progress, and I am so excited to share with you, all the things I have gotten my grimy little gremlin hands on. First off, what we are all here for; writing. I have been on fire, to be honest! Last month I churned through the last of the first batch of erotica stories (there's 6 (!!!) of them on my patreon already) and set them up for publishing along with two more unseen ones- I'm still going over the logistics of where to publish for the best revenue (I know this sounds boring, but I have to make an income somehow, and hopefully find another audience as a smut writer on other platforms 💀 I love writing it so why not!), and I am making headway, learning the ins and outs of self publishing. On patreon, there are also two Q&A's that are written in a bit more fictional manner, in character: a more fun way than just writing answers straight up and down. I have enjoyed those so much! There's a bunch of other stuff I haven't even mentioned- honestly, I have to say, I'm really proud of my output on Patreon even though I have been really anxious about writing full time. It's going great! I have to thank my new friends and support-network on discord; you make this all worth it. I cannot express how fun it is to shoot the shit with you in vc, gaming together, or seeing your shenanigans in gen or your in depth theories (thanks for the brainworms!) or memes or staring longingly at the fanfic channel or drooling over your art (ouro related or not) or... Gah. You are just amazing people, and I will waste no opportunity in saying so. Thank you forever and ever and ever an-

When it comes to OUROBOROS, I am happy to announce that the next chapter is damn near done! I was halted because of the discovery that dashingdon is no longer supported by it's creator, and have been working on the twine version ever since, earlier than I expected- it's tough work, but I am so excited to make this an actual game made entirely by myself, and not submitting to a company that quite frankly leaves a bitter aftertaste. It is taking long to make because I want to make it mobile compatible from the start, which there isn't a lot of resources for. But I'm doing my best! The plan is that I will be posting the next chapter for Patreons in the coming month, and then treat you to a full twine release here on tumblr. I haven't made any rewrites when porting the twine build, but I would like to do that too... so we will see; this plan is not set in stone. I will just have to see how it evolves over the next month. Yes, beta-readers is still on the schedule, just holding off a little while while I wrap my head around this new coding landscape.

Other than that, I have been working on the set aesthetic for ouro, which has been really hard, a lot harder than I expected. You all know I am no wizard when it comes to graphic design, but I want to at least develop a set palette and imagery and portraits that is cohesive to the story. The work is ongoing, and I don't have much to say about it- even though it is taking a lot of my brain power. I'm hoping I can come to some kind of set and in depth conclusion that I am happy with before the twine release, because I want the game to feel like a treat to open up and play; a world to get lost in.

That's it! If you want to see weekly and more in depth dev-logs, you know where to go. I hope you have an amazing day or night, and we will see each other soon. xx

#OUROBOROS #ouroboros-if #interactive fiction #twine wip #progress report #dev log #I am SO sorry I haven't been around a lot to answer asks- there is so much work to be done and only so little of me to go around whuhuhuhu #send help lmfao. tuck me into your pocket. keep me safe!!!! I have no idea how people manage all this. But I promise and cross my heart I a #Doing My Best™ #other things not mentioned: I have been going through The Stress with my doagy who injured her leg but today we finally took a full hike t #together- she really scared me with how much pain she was in but we made it through 😭 I cannot thank my patreon supporters enough because #your support is making me breathe easy about the upcoming vet bill. why are blood samples so expensive. wah #yeees yees im bursting with butterflies and rainbow emotions. but truly- I can't thank you enough #Onwards! We keep moving!I am so excited for all this-damn all the stress and the insecurities-I am Doing It!!! It is Happening! Wahoo!

[dokidokitsuna]

Midnight #8

“She was so weak. I finally realized it in that moment.

I’d let someone so weak control me for so long. I had lived in fear of someone I now held captive with just one hand.

The stranger had been right all along. And that made me angrier than anything else.

I had to make up for all the years I lost. I needed to take it all back, to burn away the shame. So I held on, until the clock struck midnight.”

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#yes this is what the skeleton hand was leading up to #cheers :) #midnight #rwby #au #cinder fall #salem #neverfell #I'M SO GLAD THIS IS FINALLY DONE #WAHOO

[theallstore]

hello hello hello!! my @mcytblrholidayexchange gift for @cohnal !

words are from maize stalk drinking blood by the mountain goats + i have no idea if tumblr will keep the resolution or not so if it doesn’t this should be high res -> https://postimg.cc/wysKZc5j

#ITS FINALLY DONE!! WAHOO #‘yeah i’ll do my first ever comic full stop and i’ll fully render it for a timed gift exchange that’ll go great!!’ #i keep fuckin saying it but godDAMN hubris as ever proves my fatal flaw #anyway #pixlriffs #empires smp #empires smp fanart #empires smp s1 #empires season one #scott and fwhip are technically there too but i’m not tagging them #i am so abnormal about pixlriffs exile era always and forever <3 #anyway time to dissapear off the face of the earth again now there's nothing stopping me from playing baldurs gate 23 hours a day

[cluedoenthusiast]

3 giggles

#i finally started a compilation of my favourite bits from this interview #i just need to make it shorter? its 8 mins long now #and i also made captions wahoo!! #its almost done but im tired so i might finish it later #alex turner #josh homme #arctic monkeys #giggles

[loccorocco]

cw blood, medical gore

Extra 2: Dima's horror story stalker ocs Sanya + Loners First || Full comic

#s.t.a.l.k.e.r. #stalker anomaly #my art #ughhhhh im finally done #i love medical horror stories golly #Dima doing the tradition of “Senior giving the newbies an OSHA horror story” #gonna do the AO3 chapter upload tomorrow! #wahoo

[plushievash]

hmmm... lets see...

twilight towns resident goths <3

#my art #kingdom hearts #kh #seasalt family #seasalt trio #akusai #kh saix #kh axel #kh xion #kh roxas #its been what? almost a year since i started this? since i kept applying to zines SDLFJECHG #but wahoo its finally done and im so happy w how it came out <3<3 #now headcanon time: i love photographer roxas its so cute but whats also cute? #sora taking candid pics of everyone to capture the moment for all of his new recompleted friends #but he can never catch roxas bc roxas always senses when sora is abt to take a pic so he ruins it by posing <3 #its cute <3 #I FORGOT TO POST THIS YESTERDAY #AND THEN I ALMOST FORGOT TO AGAIN TODAY HELP...

[electriccnoir]

Laying in flower fields.

#howince #vince noir #howard moon #the mighty boosh #mighty boosh #noel fielding #julian barratt #boosh art #fanart #my art #retreating back to my dark cave now this is finally done #anyways gay people wahoo !

[gorgynei]

Summer and Raven used Relic of Knowledge's first question (theory)

The fact that Jinn is already one question short before RWBY even finds it has always bugged me. In the past 100 years, someone who knew about the relics, was close enough to Ozpin to learn Jinn's name, had access to the Spring Maiden, and wasn't interested in the relic outside of one question had to have been in Haven and used the lamp. The only people who I can possibly think of that match this bill are Oz's (at the time) inner circle: Ironwood, Lionheart, Qrow, Glynda, and Raven.

Raven Branwen, with fresh spring maiden powers, and Summer Rose used the Relic of Knowledge together, causing Raven to completely lose hope in the battle against Salem and Summer to go on a solo-mission that she never returned from.

Raven knows about Ozpin's true past and that Salem is unkillable.

This is very easy to see just based on how Raven holds herself and how she treats Ozpin. In V5, viewers never had a real reason to distrust Oz, but Raven is laying it on thick. She talks about Oz about the same way that team RWBY does later on in V6, after using the lamp. She dances around telling Yang and Weiss everything she knows during their conversation in V5, but outright tells them that she knows more than she's telling them and to not trust anyone.

Raven describes herself learning Oz's secret (the existence of Salem), and then seeking more information beyond that. Raven calls Salem "unstoppable" and "impossible to defeat" repeatedly; she strongly believes that Salem is impossible to kill.

Learning via Jinn that she is impossible to defeat would certainly explain why she so strongly believes this.

Raven says that she knows about Ozpin's past. Qrow and the rest of Oz's group all know that he reincarnates, but Raven quite easily offers that up (or at least implies it) to Yang and Weiss, which makes it seem like she knows more beyond that. It's difficult to prove just how much Raven knows about Oz and Salem's past because the viewer isn't supposed to know about it at this point in the story, but Raven seemingly has a lot more information to offer to try and get Yang to stay, so it's likely that she knows at least the broad strokes.

Raven was the Spring Maiden that opened the Haven vault

This requires a bit of a breakdown of the pre-show timeline.

Over a decade prior to the events of RWBY V5, the previous spring maiden ran away. Raven met her soon after and killed her, taking the powers for herself. "Over a decade" is up to interpretation, but assuming that it means somewhere around 13-16 years, it would put Yang at anywhere from 2 to 5 years old. That perfectly lines up with when Summer left.

So, over a decade ago, Raven gained spring maiden powers, and right about the same time, Summer disappeared. It's unclear when exactly Raven cut ties with Oz in relation to this point, but we can safely assume that it was before, because Raven was with her tribe when the previous maiden arrived and she only returned to her tribe after leaving Oz's group.

At this point, Raven might have informed Summer of her powers. It's unclear what kind of relationship they had, but Summer is the only member of team STRQ that Raven has not outright insulted, so it's possible she trusted Summer slightly more than her brother and Tai.

Using those powers, Raven easily could have gotten down to the Haven vault, as she was a trusted members of Oz's group and knew Lionhart, and used the relic.

Mystery surrounding Summer's disappearance

The scene in V7 where Qrow talks about Summer with Ruby has always struck me as odd in a few ways. Ruby poses the question of "What if Summer knew about Salem being unkillable" and Qrow reveals that even Oz wasn't sure why Summer left.

Specific wording is everything in RWBY. Qrow says that Tai and himself were both in the dark about Summer's disappearance, but makes no mention of Raven at all. If your teammate went missing, you'd obviously reach out to your other teammates, even if you were estranged. The choice to not mention Raven here is important because it means theres room for Raven to have not been in the dark. Qrow also points out that theres a lot that Ozpin may have been hiding from them in the same breath as he says they were in the dark, seeding suspicion into the truth of even that statement.

It's obvious that Ruby is using Summer as a way to ask Qrow for advice and follow in her mother's footsteps, but I think the choice to have Ruby ask this immediately after Qrow says that Summer leaving was a mystery is significant. Linking the concepts of "what might Summer have done" and "Summer ran away" by having them in the same conversation is intentional.

Summer knew Salem could not be killed

Raven and Salem both directly compare Ruby to Summer when she talks about being able to defeat Salem.

RUBY: We've seen what you're capable of. The lamp showed us. It showed us everything. We've seen that you cant be killed, but we've also seen you fail. We don't have to kill you to stop you. And we will stop you. SALEM: Your mother said those words to me.

The only logical explanation for Summer saying any of that is for her to have used the lamp. Even just "we don't have to kill you to stop you, and we will stop you" wouldn't make sense if Summer was unaware that Salem is unkillable.

RAVEN: There is no "beating Salem". RUBY: You're wrong. We've done things that most people would call impossible and I know the only reason we were able to do it is because we didn't do it alone. We had people to teach us. People to help us. We had each other. Work with us. At least I know we'll have abetter chance if we try together. Please. RAVEN: You sound just like your mother.

Raven's comment also makes little sense if Summer didn't know about Salem being unkillable. However, Summer specifically telling Raven that they should work together to defeat Salem is important because it lends further proof to the idea that Summer and Raven used the lamp together.

However, I can't really explain the leap that Summer made from "work together to defeat Salem" to "leave everyone behind on a solo mission". Summer's motivations are intentionally unclear and I'd bet that these contradicting ideas are going to be important when we eventually learn what happened to Summer.

TLDR;

Raven gained the spring maiden powers over a decade ago and she and Summer used them to open the Haven vault without telling Oz and ask the lamp "What is Ozpin hiding from us", or something similiar. After learning that Salem is unkillable, Raven completely loses faith of Oz and in the fight against Salem and cuts off all ties with their group and her brother. Summer urges Raven to work together to stop Salem before eventually leaving to go confront her and never coming back.

#wahoo. finally done. good LORD. #okay everyone better appreciate this because i think i such a genius for putting this together and i honestly would DIE if this isnt true #rwby #rwby theory #ramblings #summer rose #raven branwen

[duskstars]

Zdrada sprite redraw!

#helltaker #zdrada #zdrada helltaker #sketchbook #HI HI IM NOT ART DEAD #I finally got my motivation back so I’m like WAHOO #this is abt a month old though bc I’m not done with any new stuff yet

[brother-emperors]

ASCANIO MARIA SFORZA

oof, this is going to be an adventure to go through, but let’s get started!

there’s something incredibly fascinating to me about how Ascanio shows up at so many interesting and pivotal points of history, it’s almost impossible to find a text that covers either Rome or Milan in the later half of the quattrocento that doesn’t cite the Marco Pellegrini biography on him.

this part about his name specifically really makes the gears in my brain turn like goddamn, I really can’t escape mention of the gens Julia, but the Aeneas/gens Julia talk juxtaposed with the Virgin Mary sure is a lot

Ascanio Maria Sforza. La parabola politica di un cardinale – principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini

especially with the push for Ascanio to be made cardinal for the usual political reasons

Politics and Dynasty: Underaged Cardinals, 1420-1605, Jennifer Mara DeSilva

but along with the ancestral scheming, conspiracy, and a preference towards war over the political machinations of the cardinalate, and excelling at both is something that has my attention in a vice grip, especially when compared to other cardinals with military tendencies, like Cesare Borgia or Federico di Sanseverino

Popes, Cardinals and War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, David Chambers

and FINALLY: the background image he’s laying on is an illustration I did after Andrea del Sarto’s Madonna of the Harpies, the dagger he has in hand is in reference to the hidden dagger he kept in his baton of command

Popes, Cardinals and War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, David Chambers

and my personal choice for illustration isn’t based off of any portrait of him that exists, but instead I’ve scrambled together an image based off of several of his siblings because oh do the Visconti-Sforzas of Milan have me thinking thoughts all the time, constantly, and I haven’t even gotten to Ascanio as a patron of the arts.

society6 | ko-fi | redbubble | twitter | deviantart

#ascanio sforza #italian renaissance tag #drawing tag #long post #OH BOY THIS SURE WAS SOMETHING #ive had this composition rattling in my skull for awhile and it has refused to leave me alone until it was finally done #anyway. would you look at that! i finally did semi-historically accurate cardinal's robes for the time period! wahoo #catholicism cw #renaissance papacy tag

[risingsunresistance]

love looking through the different raffle opinions in the in-game chat, the forums, and on here. lots of "why did anyone think this was a good idea" "why didn't i get anything good" and "why were all the rewards bad"

i'm just a very big fan of the cake counter and i'm glad i ended up with like 12 of them. and i LOVE the mementos. i'm all for cosmetics and pointless items, could not care less about not winning something massive jkdhfgk

#keep bringing up the cake counters bc i think they are very funny. but i need to put some up they're making my island lag JHFDG #in other much less important news. finally got every perfect gemstone i'll ever need for my mining gear <3 #finished all 4 divan pieces and the artifact of power wahoo #my drill has had all of them for a while now but i got the rest done earlier today #gonna log on to look at the memento my co-op buddy put up bc i havent seen the blue one yet but then im gonna log out #im just chilling in my bed i dont have a chair yet #IM HOME BTW IM ACTUALLY HOME WE HAVE CARPET AND MY WALLS ARE BLUE AND I HAVE A BED #do miss living at ark's place tbh but i couldnt stay there forever jkghdf #now i gotta get all my furniture out and get a tv #chat #sb

[louroth]

Leith :]

#OUROBOROS #ouroboros if #interactive fiction #art #twine game #wahoo! im in the final stretch of making all the art for ouro #Leith's f!portrait is first one to make it into rendering stage (I haven't painted in a really long time) but im really happy with #how it turned out :] It's She!! #all the charas are so nice and breezy but if anyone asks how Id's portraits are going I might cry about it #I will be back with another dev log soon but until then I really hope you are doing well and taking good care of yourselves<3 mwah mwah #leith/custom #ouroboros art #character portrait #mmm. might have to do a color correcting pass #maybe once all the portraits are done

[maliro-t]

sorry i don't post art anymore rip but here's a big wip i've been chugging away at since march for my dnd group <3

#they're just a travelling theatre troupe <3 what harm could they do <3 #got all the pcs (plus ismark) finally done so it feels snippet worthy #also our campaign is one year old as of a few days ago!! wahoo!! #my art #wip #placeholder campaign tag