#they're back to old style

[ruvviks]

finally got around making a proper outfit reference sheet for nathan! he likes wearing dark clothes which really emphasizes just how pale he is. he was a STEM developer at MOBIUS for nine years what did you expect </3 click for higher resolution and to get a closer look at all the details! outfits from left to right: his gear for the evil within 2, 1am convenience store trip, his mobius gear, and an improvised outfit for my own fictional the evil within 3 =^)

taglist (opt in/out)

@shellibisshe, @florbelles, @ncytiri, @hibernationsuit, @stars-of-the-heart;

@lestatlioncunt, @katsigian, @radioactiveshitstorm, @estevnys, @adelaidedrubman;

@celticwoman, @rindemption, @carlosoliveiraa, @noirapocalypto, @dickytwister;

@killerspinal, @euryalex, @ri-a-rose, @velocitic, @thedeadthree;

@jacobseed, @swordcoasts

#tew #art #art:nathan #nuclearocs #nuclearart #the mobius gear killed me dead on the ground because the official concept art has a ridiculous collar / shoulder pads situation going on #i love his tew2 outfit so much he's had it for so many years now. it basically matches sebastian's outfit since they're going in together #he's got white hair patches all over his body btw!! you can see it in the underwear version it's in his happy trail too heehee #the burn scar on his upper arm / shoulder is from the fight with the harbinger in tew2 and the slash on his waist from the guardian #he basically saved sebastian's life but got mowed down by the giant buzzsaw arm in the process and then he's very dramatic about it #my tew3 is very difficult to explain in tags but it's basically about ruvik coming back and they need to hook the two old devices up #to like a single system to gain access to the STEM environment he's powered back on with himself as core #which means that the two separate environments from the games get mixed together in a very twisted and fragmented environment #i'm trying to write out the story for myself now in video game style so it would actually be fun to play as hypothetical third installment #it'd feature a lot of old enemies but kind of mixed and twisted in the same way as the environment... giving them new abilities etc #it would dive deeper into the sublevels aspect of STEM as they need to travel through different sublevels so there would be #a bunch of new environments to explore as well :^) someone give me access to a bunch of game devs and a budget i'll make it reality

[demigod-of-the-agni]

My faith is weak, and I feel a dark shadow over me.

Possession Johns are below the cut !! (blood/gore warning)

i will pay for your therapy

#tw gore #tw body horror #i drew this like WAYYYYY way way wayyy back when. didn't post this until now (obviously) #i was procrastinating and wandered into the faith tag and was overcome with the sudden urge to show you guys the babygirl #twas early this year- see that downgrade in art style and quality and the old signature? me too. retches. also hands. goodbye #i might do a redraw but idk #bro looks like he's questioning why the demon in the mirror is doing uh. doing the. hmm #also the missing roman collar!!!!!!!! literally sobbing. cannot be bothered to go back and edit it in. pretend it's there #i was hesitant to post this bc uh! gore!! but i figured eh why not. weeeeeeeee #john im so sorry you look so sad in this i'll do you better in the redraw i promise #like. the teeth. they're not even good teeth. the dentist in me is sobbing. im sorry. i'll give you perfects molars and incisors next time #tw blood #tw horror #john ward #faith game #faith the unholy trinity #john faith #faith john ward #artoftheagni

[vigilbutts]

1. OG Aster 1325AE 2. Tower o' Nightmares 1326AE 3. Oops! Branded! 1329AE-Present

BEHOLD. Aster's appearance throughout the years (minus horns) (they're not always visible and are more recent)

#aster #shar art #i've forgotten to post this also lmao #gw2 #guild wars 2 #sylvari #whats the deal with her horns? oh theyre just additional funky branches #she can bend them to blend w/her branchy hair. but they prefer to be in horn position. so she has to constantly “style” them #there are also little face horn nubs under her eyes but they're hidden by her facial leaves #tbh i do need to go back and do a version with the horns. one of these days #so much art to do smh #this art is so old too lmaoooo

[millenniummmbop]

hey i just wanted to say THANK YOU SO MUCH for the linkin park ygo content,,!! i just got into ygo and your art made me have another INTENSE wave of linkin park and now i can't stop thinking about yugi and seto while listening and i even have the hybrid theory lp at home and am SO tempted to recreate your fanart every time i walk past it it's insane

anyway your brain is godly thank you for this connection

U don’t know how happy this ask makes me it gets me SO FUCKING ECCSTATIC to know that the venn diagram of “yugioh fans” and “linkin park enjoyers” is a flat fucking circle for a lot of us slfjsldjfglsgjlsfjlskfjlkfj 

🎤🎤🎤

#asks #fallen-juniper-leaves #seto kaiba #yugi mutou #sketchbook #GOD I COULD TALK FOREVER ABOUT THE OBSESSIVE CONNECTION MY BRAIN HAS B/W YUGIOH AND LINKIN PARK #LIKE LITERALLY ONE OF THE VERY FIRST THINGS I MADE WHEN I STARTED GETTING BACK INTO YGO #WAS A DUMB ONE-SHOT WHERE EVERYONE GOES TO A LINKIN PARK CONCERT TOGETHER #AND THEN SOMETHING SOMETHING MAGIC SHENANIGANS AND YAMI YUGI HAS TO GO S0 ON SOME MOTHER FUCKERS #IN THE MOSH PIT AS LINKIN PARK PLAYS BLEED IT OUT OR SOME SHIT #but also and this is important #the guys from linkin park are drawn in the hanah barbara art style and the entire adventure is treated like one of those #old episodes of scooby doo where they meet a celebrity guest and they help them solve the mystery #and they speak in like preppy hip 60s slang and they're all nice and polite until the musical number at the end #where chester just SCREAMS into the mic and everyone just starts raging and going crazy going stupid #i think like 3 of the sketches made it onto my doodle dump from the end of last year and NOTHING ELSE #this was 100% a self-indulgent dumb little au thing that was never meant to see the light of day #but shit maybe i'll actually will this into existence some day sldfjsljglsjglsfjlsdfjldskf #oh right the doodle lmfao #they're having a karaoke contest i guess #kaiba wanted SO bad to do chester's part but sadly he just doesn't have the upper range UnU #there's probably like a dozen or so more thematically appropriate LP songs they could've been singing here #but waiting for the end is literally my favorite song of anything they've ever released ever #so i'm selfishly deciding it's both of their favorite too 8))))) #FUCK i love linkin park

[liquidstar]

Pic from the bread museum, how can you not love this place?

#it's just very warm #it's a really simple scene of two women and a child making bread in the fireplace #well they're actually doing other stuff while they wait for it #but the scene is so alive to me. it's so real #the intricate decoration of the room from the pictures to the little nicknacks #but also the big pile of woolen blankets and the bed in the kitchen by the fireplace #it reminds me SO MUCH of my grabdmas house like this is legit what an old style Greek house looks like #but the clothes are historically accurate so you can tell this takes place in the 1800s #but it's still meant to be homey and familiar because like people back then were people the same way we are now #that wait for bread to bake and shit together doing their activities... #i really love the bread museum

[useragarfield]

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#ok so i'm catching up on abbott i was two weeks behind #and janine and gregory's relationship... #like their talk on the bench #they're growing so beautifully #quinta has such a pulse on them and what makes them grow #it has that special magic of the old 000s doc style shows SO well #she and the writers room #killing it #also they're so GOOD for each other #they really are helping each other grow #i was pained when they entered their friends era #but i take it all back skjghjksg #i speak #abbott elementary #janine x gregory

[the-cat-at-the-theatre-door]

This is a rarity for me, but thinking about tuggoffelees in the context of Misto being this immortal *something* who's been around for literally thousands of years, flitting from place to place (a wanderer, if you will), leaving cats behind - both willingly and unwillingly - getting to a point with Tugger where it’s a reluctance to leave him, even though he knows someday he must. 

And it’s the bittersweet feeling of the horrifying ideal of knowing and being *known*, being relieved that someone does even as he dissuades him from doing so, and paying the price that comes along with that (both in his case, and knowing that, eventually, he’s going to break Tugger’s heart and he...doesn’t want to do that).

#Mr. Mistoffelees #The Rum Tum Tugger #tuggoffelees #my headcanons #it's the 'you don't know what you're asking of me' - maybe i know exactly what i'm asking #it's the 'you ask these things - you may not like the answer' 'well let me be the judge of that' #it's the i see you - i *see* you #please don't do this i won't be able to let you go #it's the misto is serious af when he's not fucking about in standard trickster style #being seen right through like a piece of cellophane by a cat he'd massively underestimated #and being like ah...okay that one - i like that one #tugger seeming - on the surface - massively immature but proving himself sharp and emotionally complex #playing an equal game of mischief chess #also it's a flip on the usual old paradigm where misto was younger but it's like no not only is he older and more mature than tugger #he's like *hundreds of years older* than him and they're on equal playing ground #listen i very very rarely talk about tuggoffelees but when i *do* it's like this #which just means angst #hozier's it will come back but tuggoffelees

[carrottyshark]

ooh oc post! i never saw you talk about your oc(s), not that i'm following you for a long time but anyway!! will you tell me about them 👀

RU! HELLO!!!

I didn't expect to get an ask about my OCs in this time, but I did talk? about them before from an ask, which is on the left.

Thing is, it's been a long while and I've sort of drifted off from them. Recently, I've been thinking about a pair of OCs more inclined and focused on the Milgram theme which is on the right! (So that I can match what my blog is mostly focused on as well. Although, I'm more focused on their backgrounds rather than their current Milgram state.) You inspired me to draw the mini reference sheet of them, so thank you! I'll add a short description of each of their lives below too, but it's not fully fleshed out yet since this is pretty recent XD

Fair warning, some of what I'll mention can be upsetting and will contain suicide, abuse, drugs, murder, and violence.

Small background, but this would mostly take place in the slums, and one would know what to assume in places like this. This got a bit long, sorry!

So before Milgram, Krow was a troubled teen. The core reason he landed in Milgram was due to his mentality of "ending things from the root" which shaped him this way thanks to his past. Having a shitty life at home led by parents who only want to meet their end, at one point he's figured the only way out was by force, and kills his parents, whom he deems to be the root, or the cause. Around this time, Milgram doesn't register this yet, and his life continues. (Man, I just realized how edgy this sounds, he would possibly be a year or so younger when this happened, anyway continuing.)

A year or so figuring out a way through life, although going more and more downhill, he finds his way to the slums. His life by himself wasn't as bad as he thought, but it wasn't too great either. He moves from place to place, some taking him for a few days, but at the end of the day the entire environment he was in could only do so much. He could only get as much pay as well, along with the side jobs he could get and handle. His knowledge and experience did increase, and he's thankful, as a person who's killed his parents, he'd always had lingering doubts. That his mentality might as well be who he really is, but he thought that might not be the case after all.

There in the slums, he meets Yui. They get along, and even with a rough life, she still tries to find places she thought he could at least stay in, give him as much food as she can, and managed to help him. It doesn't take long for Krow to learn about her rough life; in a place filled with drug abusers, Yui receives the terrible end from both of her parents, things unimaginable. He figures the way out was none other than back then, and he strikes for the kill. Running wouldn't get them anywhere with their deteriorating state, and they wouldn't be able to recover in time if they're continued to be pushed down.

Yui is a kind person to a fault, frustratingly so, and doesn't let this happen. She didn't want him to be a killer, and at the very start, she had always wanted to take her own life, but she just couldn't.

The catch? Krow had already killed someone. This was something he admitted, but regardless she never wanted him to harm anyone ever again. Out of all options, one day, Yui tries to stab herself to end it all. Krow intervenes of course, and what he thought that he'd long forgotten comes back again, his idea of simply "ending things from the root". He kills Yui himself, to which she didn't want. He tries to kill himself after, but he end up not doing it. Here she unravels the truth he's always avoided, that yet being so similar, they're also both vastly different. She would never hurt anyone, no matter what she's faced, the very thing he's done now. Worse, it was something she didn't actually want. Was it out of desperation that she didn't actually want to die? Was it because she didn't want him to be a killer? Was it something else? It was too late and he'll never figure it out.

She also made him realize things aren't entirely black and white, like his household, like how the people in the slums ended up, simply killing her, or anyone else, can't be the only option. Right? He tries to end things for himself too, but he ends up not being able to, and his only way was to move forward. This time vowing he wouldn't hurt again.

Cue Milgram, which would be a few years after, and he'd be around 21-23. I don't really know how to insert him in the canon story, and even figure out the timeline plus time gap, but for the sake of the idea I had, Mahiru, especially T2, would be who he's going to be connected to most, for the better or worse.

So the question, Would the cycle continue?

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And that's it! Thank you if you read this far! Since the focus was more on Krow, Yui got a bit overshadowed, but I do treasure her as much (if not more.) One thing I want to point out as well is the symbolism I have for them, because I fricking love symbolism:

The Cosmos symbolize Yui as a flower, before he "pulls it from its roots" and hangs it by rope.

Essentially, most plants grow fuller only when cut, and this is the case for Krow (similarly Yui). Having endured too many hardships, he's grown the most, but anything too much is a bad thing. The flower that would symbolize him would be Black Dahlias.

Orange Cosmos in flower language means resilience when healing oneself, and also forgiveness.

They both have plant clippers, symbolizing how they can harm either their own self or someone else. Krow's is rusted for obvious reasons, meanwhile Yui's isn't.

The rope itself is a metaphor about how Krow kills the person "for them", as so far the people he had killed were those he thought and deemed to "not want to live" anymore. He also happens to like dried flowers.

He brought the two hair bands Yui uses to Milgram.

The flowers that would symbolize Krow's deceased parents would be Yellow Carnations and White Roses.

Some other stuff! This is the audio I was continuously listening to and thought would work if he had a song.

(I don't really know the lyrics, I just liked the vibe LMAO)

Finally, this is the closest thing to Krow wearing a Milgram prisoner outfit (I didn't really think I'd be too into it before and just drew for something for the heck of it but here we are now.)

Thank you again if you read this far!

#Ah yes 'I will make a happy OC' turned into 'Poor thing suffering so much... would be a shame if I add M O R E' #Although technically Krow and Yui have been an OC of mine for a while... just not in the way that they are Milgram style #So technically they're happy and are just acting for it? :D Like an AU? #Sorry if this got angsty Ru... ;; I PROMISE THEY'RE ORIGINALLY HAPPY #Also looking back this entire thing feels like a mix of Shidou and Mahiru's story... looks like they got the most impact on me.. maybe #Also the whole OCs resemble the Creator thing? Yeae I suck at character design. #I actually had no idea what to do with Krow's straps so I just went to hell with it #thank you for the ask! #carrotty art old and new #ocarrotty

[voluptuarian]

As landback efforts here become more successful I can't help but wonder how long it will take for indigenous reclamation to be described as the predations of settler colonists

#"They don't even look/sound/act Indian!! [they're not tobacco store Indian or tintype photos] #[they look too white/hispanic/black/clean/well off etc they dont live by the old ways that europeans made inpossible to continue] #“They don't even have Indian last names!” [The surname tradition adopted from/imposed by Europeans with a variety of sources and styles #doesn't express indigenous identity enough to me even tho they're named fucking Peltier] #“a nice local family used to own this land [generations old white or black owned business on the site of an indigenous property] until it w #taken by strangers [the original owners who were forced off] with no connection to here from Oklahoma [the reservation they were removed to #and half of them died on route to.] #like will it be 50 years? 100? Am I going to have to live through it? #we're already getting criticism for tribes getting land back and having the audacity to use it and not just turn into nature reserves #they've already turned one genocided minority into race fakers and colonialists why not natives next??

[everysongineverykey]

I LOVE YOU THE WORKS!! i love you hammer to fall i love you radio ga ga i love you keep passing the open windows i LOVE you i want to break free. i love you fresh new (for the time) batch of amazing classic songs after a not so great tenth album (hot space :/) i love you THREE greatest hits on one record i love you. I LOVE YOU THE WORKS 1984

#queen band #i. think i may have a new favorite album #man. i don't adore every single song #man on the prowl and machines back to humans are kinda eh #but even then they're still decent! pretty listenable! #to me this is just objectively peak queen #if not purely in overall quality then in just. the queenness of the album's vibe. #it does not get more queen than this #to be clear i don't mean it sounds refined or regal or queenly or whatever #i mean it sounds LIKE QUEEN #it's possibly one of their most quintessentially queen-sounding albums #and i love it. they really came into their own on this one #as much as i prefer freddie mercury's seventies looks/aesthetics/hair to his eighties style #i think his- and the band's- work only really picks up into the eighties. and the works is the perfect example! #oh to be sure they had their share of bangers in the seventies and earlier eighties. #bohemian rhapsody. don't stop me now. good old fashioned loverboy. etc #and even the lesser known ones like the prophet's song #and long away and death on two legs which i adore #but they really found their style in the works! imo it's the culmination of queen💙

[jestiamy]

??? how in the world does anyone come out of jekyll and hyde with this

#“good doctor attempts to rid humanity of evil and ACCIDENTALLY makes an entirely separate person who's evil and kills people!!!” #animated features HATE morally questionably protagonists crushed under their own hubris #jekyll wasn't even the protagonist actually. where's that boring guy I forgot the name of that jekyll gave all his money too ?? #I know that adaptions are not 1-1 with the source material and may make creative choices to better suit the medium #but this feels. kind of like it's drastically missing the point??? maybe even going against it almost?? #jekyll made hyde because he wanted to act on bad impulses without social punishment occuring #the whole point of the book was that the more you indulge in bad actions the worse it gets. cautionary tale style. #jekyll stops transforming into hyde for MONTHS and the moment he goes back he beats an old man to death #because jekyll repressed his general 'bad desires' so much over the next few months the moment 'hyde' was out again- #-he did something super bad. like super super bad. #and hyde was freaked out because people saw him do it and now hyde was unable to blend into crowds and do morally questionable acts #not because he felt bad about killing a senior citizen. #hyde is not some secret evil demon jekyll summoned. hyde is just jekyll if he was less accommodating of other people. #there isn't even a reason to believe the potion caused this mindset. for all we know this is a purely psychological phenomenon. #either way hyde is ALL jekyll. he is not some monster. he is jekyll if jekyll was not afraid of his status being affected by his actions #at the end he didn't talk about using the potion to transform INTO hyde #he wanted to use it to transform into JEKYLL. #“that's because he kept turning into hyde without the-” yeah that's the point!!!!! that's. literally the point. #saying stuff #I like jekyll and hyde. they're pretty cool. I just don't like the way people act like what happened wasn't mostly jekyll's fault #like ??? it's not like hyde ruined jekyll's life. jekyll is in control of his actions as hyde. this is their faults equally. #actually maybe I'm kind of a hyde apologist. ignore that a little bit (I am aware he's literally just jekyll but. I feel bad for him.) #the frakenstein's monster issue of. yeah frakenstein's monster (hyde) sucked but frakenstein (jekyll) was worse right #tired tumblr posts #do I have a nerd tag. #I don't think so actually #I think thoughts #I think. #yeah that works #I apologize for the very skewed tags to post ratio except I don't really feel that bad about it. twitter is an awful place.

[soulvomit]

One thing I love so much about AI is. Imagine that you felt like you had to choose between learning things, and drawing things. But now imagine you could draw things BY learning things. You have to learn about all of these artists. Photography terms. Types of things you want to portray. Architecture terms. There is an inspiration to learn about nature and different kinds of plants and animals to be able to describe them correctly. It is now so easy to make art from the things you care about and are inspired by. It’s so beautiful to me. The more you know, and can name, the more art you can make! And then see what you made, and you’ll remember what you learned! I wonder how many teachers and art therapists are using this??  It’s not *not* art... it’s an artform of its own. If you’re actually writing really long detailed prompts with a giant number of references and inspirations, it’s possible to create your own style that’s *your* style. 

Also it’s fun for collage and mixed media artists and crafters, if you upscale and print your stuff out  

#if you want to do it the most ethically then just reference dead people #and or use about 5-6 references with the first one or two either being dead or already very very highly copied legacy creators #really you will have enough to work with doing that #it's great if you're like me and you love playing with retro styles and things that specifically call back to old artists #like - my planet Earth/my evil version of the Federation is very very visibly Syd Mead #Hell Planet that my engineer gets stuck on is very very visibly Ray Harryhausen #I put a bit of Ron Cobb into the main part of the space setting #a dash of this a dash of that #but everyone is dead #that's important #well - dead or they're already very very riffed iconic styles like #Heavy Metal Magazine etc

[callmehabie]

I just got paid to write a review of Trigun in 2023. And if I went back to 2001/2002 and told fifteen year old me about this she wouldn't stop smiling for a whole month.

#I gave it a 4/5 #Over all I liked it a lot #They managed to adapt lots of previously lost parts of the manga for a 2023 audience and that's great #But the animation styles isn't my favorite and the update and face-lift deminsied a few things that made 1998 Trigun special and unique #But as a show it's bringing brand new viewers to the original series #They're watching Stampede and loving it and going back for the original #That's huge #That's awesome! #Plus once a week for half an hour it reverted me into my feral fifteen year old self #It wasn't perfect and it took a few episodes for me to get into it #But I ended up liking Stampede a lot

[tiredassmage]

Return of the King, the Old Guard’s back together, the boys are back in town, etc etc etc, I’M SO FUCKIN FRAGILE Rishi class quests my beloved. Dad’s back dad’s back dad’s back

#not pictured is the mental image of tyr careening back like a golden retriever with a jingly bell on its collar #'anything for you mr president (dad)' style #bitch he's glad you're ALIVE old man #best case scenario of unknown caller id lmao #ch: tyr #swtor #imperial agent #how are they literally both so fucking gentle in this convo #the 'glad you're alive' really mutual there #brb having a breakdown over tyr's protectiveness reflecting his relationship here #half-truths and veiled promises and 'this is what i can do with what is in my hands' #and so help him he is going to pull it off somehow #they're everything to me ur honor #want to complete quest vs if i do i will lose my squad again #hhhhh [distress] #swtor screenshots #anyway i am fine i guess #it's fine sir it's not like you were his pseudo mentor or anything and thanks will never say enough i'm sure it's fine #[narrator voice] she was not in fact fine about any of this

[guideaus]

god i remember when i binged adventure time when we had that hbo trial, and i got to the hbo special season ep Distant Lands: Together again, and the whole beginning being so off with finn and jake saying shit they wouldve said 11 years ago with a weird autotune thing ppl were into back then like algebraic, mathematical, shmow, shlamazow, doing his old adventures that people who wanted to view at, but for serious moments, wanted to skip, ice king was kidnapping princesses with finn doing easy jobs, that no one else wants to help him with, and it eventually leads to the image of jake's grave after almost 7 minutes (half the time of the original cartoon's episodes) and then finn realizes he's in the afterlife and this pops

#personal #i remember being so glad no one was home bc i was CRYING as it was progressing #what wouldve been nameless nobodies finn easily beat took the shape of past antagonists. finn dragging a frozen jake around. finn saying #he'll save both princesses instead of letting anyone die. finn getting upset by the image of his old friends' bodies in a predator's nest #jake's grave being center screen and finn pushing him back from it #it was soo crazy. they're all dead! #the point of the ep is way more than all this ofc but god i just remember the feeling of starting it #like everything is wrong #it was so good #i do think they couldve went harder on it tho bc all the distant land eps felt very not cartoon networky. more like a netflix cartoon #like i love that one pokemon special animation where they replicated that 2000s johto style in 2022. they couldve done that #anyways i miss my at era ughh

[vampiricsheep]

i guess my sona can have a little hair as a treat

#just gotta make it big messy and dramatic lmao #hey yknow how o rings are coming back into style w/o consideration of the uh. whatever #dya think it'll happen to locks too #NOT PUTTING A LOCK COLLAR ON MY FURSONA TO BE CLEAR #ive just been waiting to see it happen #anyways. my collar has an o ring but you can't get a good and comfortable spike collar without them #besides. they're a little fun to show off #life got a thousand times better when i stopped worrying about dressing like this when i leave the house #eventually i'll wear tails again but i need to actually GET one 😭 the only one i have rn is a bunny #didn't take my old handmade wolf one with me when i hopped state #don't have a sewing machine that can handle fur (or any sewing machine) anymore tho #and i am NOT hand stitching something that big EVER again. ive don't #*ive done enough!