SO!! this is some startrix fanart with @bixels and @tulliok 's designs for their AU !! ahhh i really love all of them but specially these 2!! i used a base from deviantart -> https://www.deviantart.com/jaki-black/art/Magnet-vocaloid-base-two-girls-499608974 < (its very recognizable tho lol) and i tried to make the headphones more vintage-like... but i think i failed a little lol .. i hope you like it! :3
i like the b&w version too.. so retro and yuriful
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WAIT A SEC. I want to cut some credit to player drunkenness in rdr2 and how it works as a vehicle to reveal something about the main character of this story.
Usually drunkenness in games is played off for cheap laughs, and there are plenty of slapsticky drunken antics in rdr2 (LENNAY). But happy-drunk Arthur gives SO MUCH INSIGHT into his real personality, too -- even when he's being a giggling, property-damaging, cancan-dancing terror. When he's drunk, he forgets a little of his mean bastard enforcer mask, the primary role he must play in the gang, and his loving nature becomes laughably obvious.
[spoilers under the cut]
From his sudden determination to teach Jack mathematics to his declared affection for Hosea; from his worrying about Susan getting a break to his insistence that newer gang members are "one of us now"; from his innocuous little compliments tossed around thoughtlessly ("Mary-Beth! Sweetest outlaw in the West! Javier! Best-dressed outlaw in the West!") to his more genuine praise for Abigail's inherent goodness, drunk Arthur is a fuzzy but honest look at a truer Arthur, one who is not thinking about the part he must play in a criminal outfit. Strip that awareness of his station away, even if just for a while, and we wind up with an Arthur who is surprisingly fun-loving, sometimes downright silly, and who lives to fuss over and dote on the people around him.
My favorite moment, perhaps, is a tipsy interaction with Sadie in Horseshoe Overlook during Sean's welcome home party. Arthur meanders over to her, this woman who is not a gang member or a close friend at the time, but simply a grieving widow he doesn't know very well. And he and asks, loudly: "MISSUS ADLER. DO YOU NEED ANYTHING MISSUS ADLER. DO YOU WANNA DANCE WITH ME MISSUS ADLER."
And she just sounds so tickled when she says no thanks to this goofy-drunk gunslinger. And I think maybe, just maybe, watching big bad gang lieutenant Arthur slamming a couple bottles of whiskey and so transparently doting on everyone gave her some of the first laughter at the world she had in what must feel like a very long time.
In Chapter 6, Arthur can again approach Sadie while drunk, and he encourage her to smile. Sadie hisses you're drunk; no woman likes being told this, and on the surface, this seems like a proper Antagonize line. But then Arthur -- who knows he is dying -- says, blearily, to this friend he met at her lowest point of grief and who seems to be in danger of plunging even lower in rage, "I just want you to be happy."
Drunkenness is not a liquid clarifier. Often times, alcohol garbles and distorts a person's personality. But with a character like Arthur, whose heart is so poorly matched with his 20-year lot in life, drunk-writing becomes a powerful tool. It's a quick, non-transformative way to believably peel off the snarl he wears around for a while (without him knowing it), letting players access an easy, silly, soft interior that sober Arthur is much more guarded about showing the gang.
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im really obsessed with @bixels and @tulliok's Grand Galloping 20s au at the moment, and wanted to try my hand at drawing their Fluttershy in a period inspired GGG dress!
i want to add some more butterfly motifs in the outfit, but i don't know when i'll get to that...
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The current cast line-up of The Grand Galloping 20s (an MLP AU), with their original designs for comparison. Character designs by @tulliok and I.
This is only part one. More to come!
(Small thing to note, Dash's human design is outdated and will be redesigned.)
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Among his circle of scholars, Luca Solebello carries the reputation of being quite an eccentric; his passions align more with the arcane. However, his pursuits of studying magical history are passed off as supernatural nonsense, and Luca spends most of his time shut away in his archives with his nose buried in a book. Otherwise, he'll daydream about the day he earns the respect of his colleagues and leads an excavation into the magically potent fields of Kansas.
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A quick doodle of my take on @bixels's "The Grand Galloping 20s" version of Derpy/Muffins, or as I like to call her, "Mary".
She's a mail lady.
I'm a huge fan of this au
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