#woag…………i miss it

[unexpectedbrickattack]

I am still thinking about my little performer peppino hc. Not like stage performing but like. The same kind of energy of chefs that work hibachi grills in front of customers? Some people will do the job but some people like to be a little flashy ✨

There was a pizzeria by me that was SO fucking small, u could see the oven and small storage room behind it. But that meant u could see like both chefs making their pizzas. And one of them was SO flashy he was just having a good time. I usually ordered ahead of time to go bc it would take 20 some odd minutes to get an order done but sometimes pizza was an afterthought so id come in and have to wait the full 20 minutes. And its late in the evening and its kinda slow. But hes like spinnin that dough in the air and all that shit and i know what he does during the busy hours so i know hes just flexing. Or maybe he was just vibin who knows. And hed do this thing w the string to tie the box tight that i CANNOT find online but its like, turning the box incredibly fast and looping the strings over itself until the whole box has 8 separate strings that make a cute bow in the center like bro what the fuck that was magic bro howd u do that shit. I think its nice; i like seeing people own their profession. Its his job for like the rest of his life and people love the food and the atmosphere is nice and chill and he gets to flex his skills at 9pm 🍕💖

#chattin #// #/// #//// #///// #that dude was so chill #at some point u live in a neighborhood for so long that yall just start recognizing each other #he already knew i wanted a plain pie when i walked in; i never ordered anything else #i also mean this about bodegas and jamaican restaurants #(and the small latino restaurants) #like u can see the chef workin in the back and they are tearin it UP like this is their passion babey #woag…………i miss it #this blog is just me being sad over not being in nyc anymore #YEAH i can like go and order food and pick it up but its not the same as walking 5 blocks to a restaurant #and just sitting there waiting and listening to idle chatter while everyone is just there vibin #OH THIS REMINDS ME there was a very very lovely ask about peppinos shop and the vibes it gives off and i want to like sot down and give- #-a nice answer bc its so well thought out 💖

[puppyeared]

people who do STEM or administration as a career full time and continue to do art as a hobby, I am scared of you but like in a hot way. youre like if we were allowed to have cold drinks in winter. i look at you and think of miles morales with his two cakes. do you want to make out sometime

#i say all of this positively bc i just! i cant help admiring it!! even if its mundane or not a big deal to you i seriously cant wrap my head #around it.. this is in no way at all meant to be condescending or anything. whenever i look at someones bio and theyre like oh im working #as a lab assistant biologist pharmacist realtor etc im like woag.... thats insane.. and then i peep your art tag and it knocks my socks of #how?? what lives do you lead??? im so curious. i seriously want a peek inside your brains someday. or at least shadow you at work lol #i cant help but feel sad when someone says smth like well i have to support myself and art cant do that for me. or maybe you were #pushed into pursuing a 'safe' career bc i hear it a lot. all of my relatives have the same story working as nurses and OFWs for the family #i think for me its not about missed potential but rather its being sad about making a decision to put your happiness aside to get by #ive tried so hard to do it but it didnt work out. i guess watching you guys do it is fascinating to me #or maybe youve made peace with your decision or actually like what you pursued but im still amazed!! it makes me wonder what made #you pick one over the other in that case.. is it like putting time for two different things the way you would for a schedule?? hmmm #im doing graphic design so i dont really interact with ppl in other faculties even humanities like sociology or childcare... so i cant help #wondering what it must be like as someone whos pursuing visual communication both as an interest and career #i seriously wish i could do smth like a desk job or even admin and maybe ill try that if this doesnt work. or i could look into trades #but dyscalculia already makes it hard to do things like cash and mental math so i get overwhelmed if i think about this too hard #yapping

[tamagotchikgs]

minecraft has no business being this fucking pretty

#i adore this game man #the first one i just stumbled upon a second ago in a creative world where i was just trying to see what blocks there r since the updates iv #missed out on but now im like WOAG..................... holy.. the fucking world generation #i wanna live here #i've never seen an actual dropstone cave ingame before #i only ever got them from villagers & wandering traders #it is so damn pretty

[crehador]

you had this dope helmet in your inventory for HOW long and stuck with the stupid bird head?? please i would've equipped it immediately 😭

#crab watches #shangri-la frontier #it is kind of jarring though it's like woag i forgot he has a face under there lmao #kinda miss the bird head already #eta: yeah after like 2 minutes i want the bird back lol #so weird to see his face put it away ho

[wizardnuke]

whoever told me that abjuration wizards suck were lying to my faceeee see this subclass is so cool. i guess if someone likes playing glass cannon wizards it's a shit class but this girl i've got is. well she is tormenting my dm is what she's doing. good class

#what you're gonna do is hit level six okay and you're gonna #cast mage armor on yourself and in addition to that since it's an abjuration spell you're gonna add arcane ward (temp hp) #and at lvl6 you can use a reaction to direct any damage an ally takes within 30 feet of you onto your arcane ward and you're gonna #cast shield when you need to (Careful tho. only one reaction per round. redirect damage Or shield) and since shield is also an abjuration #spell you're gonna take the level you cast it at and double it. and put that into your arcane ward's hp. any abjuration spell puts hp #back into the ward. MEANWHILE you're concentrating on witch bolt. and you're not even risking con saves because you Aren't Getting Hit #so you are essentially nullifying damage that others take (if your ward hp depletes you take the remaining damage and can't cast it again) #while frying people alive every turn forever and ever until they die or go out of range. bless this bizarre combat medic wizard build #i don't have the numbers but i know a'velle took a good half of the fight's damage on her own and only lost 2hp in the fight #one day i decided that i wanted to play a combat medic wizard. and then i was like. wow this is not useful. and then level 6 hit #miss girl was standing there crit-frying a crocodile alive while waiving damage over to her ward and boosting its hp with bonus actions #gotta say. the fight was two crocs and a couple of little guys. miss girl dropped both of the crocs #NOO WAIT THE WARD DOESN'T DROP AT 0HP I JUST HAVE TO CAST ANOTHER ABJURATION SPELL. WOAG

[trainingdummyrabbit]

goodmorning besties!!! ihave learned you can change the scrollspeed on firefox and iam becoming rapidly unstoppable

#woag.... control over the way things work? in My technology???? fucking bonkers!!!!!!!!!!! #piktalk #anyway i miss configurability so bad i miss it so much. imiss it. thankyou. bows.

[mawenskiblue]

👁️ 👁️ what is this “nmg au”? Tell me more?

🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️💦💦💦 hides snippet under the cut (rambles in tags)

... It’s hard to tell what they’re feeling at times. Still, they shook his hand and introduced their name.

N.

A simple, one-lettered nickname. Unlike his, clearly inspired by his appearance; but he’s not complaining. Nightmare gave him a better nickname than what the multiverse did. ...

#ask #mb talks #mb rambles #ees my lil vent au......... just the typical found family nm gang au......... but my skelesona is also there... #(its just titled the au bc idk if i rlly wanna give it a name lol) #the gdoc i was looking at w that title has lust in it (😳) so LOL;;; #(perhaps alternate route or future plot where lust gets adopted to the fam haha) #honestly wanna focus on it again someday; and more on the wholesome side (its a little jumbled in my head and a bit hurt/comfort-y) #(but what vent au doesnt have a little bit of angst lol) #i remember my old lil doodles of it teehee aaah i wanna look at them againnn (<- missing the beloveds once again) #i love love LOVE my skelesona; sometimes he's like my son aurgh he's so CUTE!!! (ships them w the flirtiest pretty boy ever) #cross isn't the youngest in the gang anymore sooo the older bros move on to teasing their newest ~~(lil bro)~~ recruit— #— the silent guy w amnesia nm recently adopted! #(😱 'woag amnesia??' yeah idk either; pastme wanted 2 strt it like ur in a viddy game) #(smt smt dr vessel smt smt the actual amnesia horror game LOL) #i do remember having the idea of making the fic experimental and trying out some kinda cyoa type thing #'haha what if i do in on WP' 💀💀💀 dawg (but i think it's fun to try to do it on tumblr idk yet 🤔🤔🤔)

[daz4i]

first day update: it was nice :)

#already fell in love (/p ofc) with one guy here who i think is like. 60+ y/o #but is just so fun and nice and uplifting and energetic #today was just him and another woman who is also very nice :) and the instructor was chill too #apparently there's also a 20 y/o girl that was just missing today woag #other bonus fun stuff: i saw so many cats guys. one ever entered the building and walked around our legs #other bonus weird thing: we have punch cards?? like in old timey jobs???!!?!! #that's so weird. i never used one of these before #i still have an hour left. like a meeting of everyone with a movie director 😳

[rainedroptalks]

Started reading Gideon the ninth and quickly realized exam week is not even close to the correct headspace to be reading that in

#personal #god it’s such a good book #but wow there’s more death than I thought there would be #which is disappointing on my end cuz what the fuck else would the necromancy book have. if not death #very interested in the worldbuilding it’s very fun #I read like 300-ish pages of the book without stopping and then realized #‘wow I have not studied for a single on of my exams’ #one* #anyway woag. those lesbians sure are necromancing. surely nothing bad will happen to them #I miss the horrid teens tho they’re great

[strange-doll-child]

One of the main things I am known for on the PM server is that I photoshop eyes onto  e v e r y t h i n g(+teeth)

They send a photo of the puppets who don’t have eyes, boy hell, I’m pulling out the editor-

#puppet master #tw eyes #tw eye contact #tw eye horror #tw teeth #how do I tag this #weird shit #eyes #blade #tunneler #miss leech #leech woman #edit #photo edit #woag #You cannot escape

[shadethechangingman]

tbh i think a lot of the modern DC characters are good (and im particularly excited to see more of the we are legends comics) but theyll get a REALLY strong intro then disappear (levi kamei, miracle molly, allegedly miguel dial H and sideways but i didnt read the comics) or theyll have basic potential and the execution will be physically painful (yara flor, jess chambers) and then out of all of these characters the only one to truly stick around is Punchline like a bad stink 

#btw yes i know miracle molly appeared once after her introduction but it was SOOOOOO BAD like Woag Cool Cyberpunk Villain missed the point #justixw league comix

[yeehawkins]

Emoji Combo Special Dogs 🐶

#woag is me #dogs #what emojis created em in alt text #if i'm missing any others please let me know! #i don't think i'll ever get tired of these tbh #also yes i'm counting the balloon dog lol #(i know theres TONS for the dog 🐶 #but these are ones that change it to a totally different dog!)

[abysslll]

remember when these were the kinds of intro posts i made. remember when i still used vae and they pronouns.

#this is a blast from the past woag #i kinda miss vae/vaer #but like #not really #they were cool! might use them again someday #really not my thing now tho #i'm having trouble even getting people to stop using they for me i don't need ANOTHER set of pronouns

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

oh man i got a library card today..... i can go to the library tomorrow......

#<< i . just remembered that #woag.......... #oh my god i miss libraries so much. oh my god. thats what im doing tomorrow #ughhghg i should put some more stuff away tho i havent even STARTED on unpacking my clothes yet.... gross #i would like to. magicslly move shit into my closet and be done forever . arms hurty #maybe i will just. go and get hot chocolate and check out a couple books and come back. that can be my lunch break. yeag. #but holy shit i have a LIBRARY CARD NOW #i can go whenever i want!!!! whadda hell!!!!! #blahblahblah

[1-800-deactivatednearu]

woag character design notes

[i.d.: a drawn line up of the half life vr ai characters, from left to right, gordon, dr. coomer, tommy, bubby, gman, and benrey. /end i.d.]

yeah i skipped some guys , i dont draw some of them enough to have much unique designs and some of them are a png of a dog

trust me i am just surprised as the rest of yall that i am doing hlvrai art . design notes below (very long, mind your step)

gordon:

wow this guy dont got no head

i didnt want to give gordon a face because of how unexact the person is as the fandom engages with it. is it wayne rtvs? (well as presented to an audience, yes) is it gordon freeman? (well as seen from an in game perspective, yes) is it a whole new guy entirely? (well as

i cut the confusion and took it a whole new direction: guillotine

hlvrai being treated as a very broken game is fun to me as a design perspective, so if you (the audience) are not supposed to see his face, what happens when you see it anyways? missing texture time

there are eyes drawn over because i did not have confidence in my expressions at first and then it grew on me

i think if i were to draw (and i have drawn) an actual person under the mask i would still censor the eyes because that is where the vr headset sits!!

(i do not like putting an actual flesh to gordon though)

though i really like seeing how other people interpret gordon hlvrai it is not . my gordon ? we are talking about the same guy . but this is my gordo . i made this one . this guy my guy . maybe i should draw other gordon designs

i can draw the hev suit from memory and it is also the entire reason why i can render metal confidently

i liked how people changed the lambda to read ai :] i also have no clue if i wrote the lambda correctly

(i did, i just checked)

dr coomer:

as much as i draw/drew him i find it more fun to not stick to one set design :)

so a lot of my takes on dr coomer tend to jump from idea to idea, especially from what other people are doing, though they could be fitted to the left and right designs!

the left design is mainly based off what i saw in fandom spaces

we see rounder shapes, making for a more friendly and welcoming appearance

i think of this as straying from the more professional uniform of the actual scientist models

enter swimming shorts and bright yellow socks, for some reason

so now he kind of looks like a cool science teacher :)

it might be the lab coat

the right design is mainly based off thumbnails for hlvrai itself

these use a more angular appearance

i want to push how comically buff he is because of strength he shows at times, especially since his left design seems to completely down play it as a comically not buff man who is still very strong

the shadows on right design coomer get so much more harsh and exaggerated because i have comic books on the mind :)

he really does look like a dehydrated comic book character huh

tommy:

stick bug (he gets it from his dad) (this thought process is explained at gman section)

i pushed a lot of the saturation of colours in her design because i think tommy gets to be a little silly with it

fun art story of the day! when you color, try messing with hue! you might notice you can get away with a lot as long as your values are about right

i like pushing this with white because you can get away with a lot of things reading as “off white”

old faithful for me is cool shadows with a warm transition colour to keep things visually interesting

i keep making white objects the trans flag

happy pride

tommys design looks a little like a school boy, with the tucked in button up shirt+suspenders+shorts+jacket tied around the waist . and the primary colours . but like it is really fun to dress up so brightly

i actually was strongly inspired by medieval babies if that is a weird descriptor? i wanted him to both be a middle aged man but also a young adult

do not be like tommy, who has their finger on the trigger of the gun while not even looking at where it is pointing and good god he is squeezing the trigger . top ten firearm safety of all time

bubby:

the absurd part is that i think bubby is tall . he is just between tommy and gman who are exaggeratedly lanky .

i wanted to make bubby a pointy kinda guy, so he is the only one actually wearing the lab coat proper . and the only one actually wearing dress socks but not even wearing dress shoes

i wanted to give him a novelty tie but i was running low on ideas and running high on boreds so we dont get a tie

he does have crocs though!! in attack mode!!

i do think we all kind of saw his model and collectively decided it works for him because i have honestly not seen major divergences from his model?

gman:

stick bug

i wanted to stress the more spooky and unknowable nature of him and took it in the dark souls direction of “make bigger than player character”

maked too bigger

he cannot walk through any doorways but you will have to crane your neck to look up at him

in the opposite direction of tommy, i pulled a lot of the saturation in gmans design

it feels important to make them both not fully match the rest of the slightly less broken npcs because there was so much work to make them look cool so i have to respect that

actually a lot of gmans and tommys designs are made in opposite to one another

gman has a largely stationary face and very stiff line work

while tommy is pushed to expressive as possible

thats pretty fun, way to go me

benrey:

benrey also has two designs

and in both of these i keep getting too lazy to use a reference so  the vests are super plain (forgetting the badge and black mesa logo) . i think the helmet is supposed to be darker actually .

the design ethos of benrey was “built like a brick shithouse”

a friend of mine took this cooler and interpreted it as a shield/wall/barrier as a physical (and narrative) obstacle

again the first uses fandom designs

most notably the overcast shadow (seen in video thumbnails but i never noticed it or understood why so many people did it until someone pointed it out to me)

i think hlvrai is such a great medium because it acknowledges it is a game and is able to play into that to great effect! i think the shadow is fun to imagine as solid black as a small reminder of the impossibility of the space :]

benrey is a smug cat in the body of a human . to be honest . and this is the full range of emotion i have ever drawn him with

the second was mostly because as fun as taking creative liberties are, i just really wanted to see benrey as is: the half life security guard model in all its slight wonk :]

i actually do prefer this design . it is a little more uncanny because i choose the worst translations of the model . i like it because it is a little more uncanny !

that can be said for like . every single design in this line up huh .

#hlvrai #my art #gordon feetman #dr coomer #tommy coolatta #dr bubby #gman coolatta #benrey #half life vr but the ai is self aware

[bamsara]

How do you feel about Solar lunacy fanart ? Like in general with y/ns ?

Idk if you missed it a while back ago but I was LIVING seeing all the different Y/Ns of everyone, there's actaully a tag for it called 'The Y/N Collection' on my blog if you're intersted in taking a look

also OSDGLSDHGLSDGH SI RUN AROUND THE HOUSE SOMETIMES like some of the stuff people be making for my fic makes me so god damn GIDDY. I'm not even good with words to explain it. I have fave pieces that I constantly come back to and the physical stuff people have sent to me are being carefully laminated and put on the wall/display. If there's something thats really woag catch me sending it to my buddies yelling and screaming in text threads

Do you know how much work and passion ive put into the project that is solar lunacy and to see people liking it enough that they draw fanart for it? I don't get to yell about it because I feel like I'll be annoying or vain but I'm still shocked with how popular it got, and that people like it enough to make things for it. It genuinly is something that has me moving hands and walking in circles in my room when I get to see something wicked made for it, esp the comics and the theories and lkhLKDGHDLSKGHLSKDGH

but yeah i love solar lunacy fanart and uhhhh it pretty much makes my whole life rn KDGHKLDHGSGS

#i do not want to gush too much because ill feel vain but yeah #i have some favorites and man i just #wheres the meme where its like 'this is beautiful. ive looked at it for five hours now' #OH like sometimes i go back and i look at vurellys doots or lily's comic #esp the one of y/n finding the dca after the fire #slams head into drywall goes nuts goes feral foams at the mouth