▪ If you want me to draw your OC(s), I’ll need reference. The more the better!
▪ If you don’t have suggestions for the pose, I’ll suggest some to you through a WIP, and I’ll start working once we agree on it.
▪ Paypal only, invoice only. I’ll keep you updated and I’ll send you WIPs of the various stages of the piece. Once you give me the final ok, I’ll send you the final piece. Only then I’ll send you an invoice. Please specify in advance if your paypal email account is different from the one you’re using to email me.
▪ Once paid and delivered, the work is yours to do as you please. I don’t like watermarking my things, so the only courtesy I ask you is to be credited.
▪ I’ll draw NSFW!
▪ I won’t draw anthro/mecha/gore/dub-non con/incest or anything that makes me uncomfortable. Same goes for things I feel I’m not skilled enough to draw. If you have doubts, feel free to ask!
▪ For the illustrations: if you need me to, I’ll send you the PSD. Otherwise it will be a PNG (I prefer it as it’s lossless, but I can save it in whichever format you like - JPG, TIFF, etc).
▪ If you don’t like something about the wips, please feel free to tell me. Don’t worry about hurting my feelings, I don’t have any! I came out of Architeture school and I know the importance of reviews and critiques. The only ESSENTIAL thing to me is delivering my best, a product the client (you!) is happy about.
You can contact me at [email protected]. Please do not rely on asks/IM, as I can’t keep track of messages easily there.
As for the other question. Let’s see, I’m definitely partial to Dragon Age, Fallout, The Outer Worlds, anything that has cowboys in it; also (I hope I won’t shock anyone) I’m a reserved weeboo. As for which fandoms I won’t do, I think it mostly depends on my skill (I love mecha anime but I can’t draw a Gundam. Unfortunately.) and if I’m comfortable with the themes. Hope this helps! :)
Hey there :D I’m sorry I didn’t specify earlier, let’s say that one coffee = one request and it will be something quick like this, for now not OCs:
But it will have to wait until I’m finished with the commissions! Thank you for you patience ♥
Hey guys! So. Work is dwindling and I haven’t been paid since last September, I’ve been burning through my savings faster than a speeding bullet just to stay afloat and now I’m in a really really difficult position. I have rent and medical expenses to tackle. So I’m opening commissions! Here’s what I’m offering:
For anything else, we can talk! As usual, I’ll gladly do NSFW.
aside from fallout new vegas all obsidian games have tiny fandoms and I’ve tried very hard to figure out why that is and… I still have nothing. everyone praises their writing and characters, so there is a lot to explore, yet few people make fan content. it is quite upsetting
I’ve been thinking about NV a lot, but it’s definitely the outlier here. It’s part a series that was already wildly successful, while TOW is a completely new IP. But if I compare it to another new IP like Pillars of Eternity, I still feel it comes up short in terms of fan engagement. And PoE was a niche game compared to TOW. Istg I’ve been drawing diagrams since I wrote that post to understand this mystery and I’m glad we’re having this conversation all together :D
Just chiming in as a random fan to say that I’m scratching my head over this, too. The characters and worldbuilding make for a fascinating sandbox to play in. And the whole corporate anarchy setting seems very much tapped into the current zeitgeist. Maybe it just happened to fly under a lot of people’s radar or they’re waiting for sales, idk. Hopefully it’s just been slow word-of-mouth and DLC will give it a shot in the arm
See I’ve been thinking about the whole “corporate anarchy” concept as well, I thought that maybepeople didn’t feel involved because the game lacked direct confrontation with the main villains up until the very last segment, but I don’t know. It’s not a convincing reason imho
i think when it comes out on steam & is completely patched with dlc it’ll explode. i played it during its release month on xbox game pass & i loved it but didn’t have enough time to really get invested (and encountered some annoying bugs - i never got to do parvati’s full quest in 3 playthroughs).
@justeletemps-archive Honestly? Writing for TOW since the game came out, I’ve *still* had better feedback from the extremely tiny fandom than I’ve had from the DA fandom in all the years I’ve written for it. So, I mean, there *is* that. You’re right, tho – so much potential to explore in the world they created. So much room for writing totally original situations devoid of the Captain or what’s going on in the main quest because the sandbox is *huge*.
For some things, smaller fandoms/ships are definitely better. And in the end I think every piece we put up out there counts, so I’m sure sooner or later people will come around :D
ZOOM I know what’s going on here. I know what’s going on here. Okay? I do. And if you want me to wander back to the Keystone Police Department to spill the beans…
I’m the only one out of the loop, it would seem… and if we check the Clown’s files here— I don’t NEED to open the folder, because I know what’s in there. It’s a big ol’ CREAM PIE, GANG. It’s a CLOWN TOY. HELLO!! Something used to cause inconvenience, not kill! A little bit of trivia that I happen to know about The Clown as a rogue. That kind of little tidbit would serve me well in most criminal profiling cases, unless it had been RIGGED FROM THE BEGINNING!
Oh, I’ve only just BEGUN to pull the thread on this sweater, friends. You would THINK in a case where there are only TWO possible correct choices, that one would STUMBLE INTO the right answer every so often, wouldn’t you? In fact, the probability of a rogue who doesn’t kill NEVER having a gun in a circus is a STATISTICAL WONDER, and yet, HERE WE ARE.
Introduced at the top as the best criminal profiler in Keystone City, what do you think that means? Icarus, flying too close to the sun. But it seems Daedalus, our little master crafter over here, had some wax wings of his own, didn’t he? Wanted to see his son fall. Fall from the sky. Oh, how CLOSE TO THE SUN he flew!
Well I’m NOT HAVING IT. I solved your labyrinth, puzzle master! The minotaur‘s escaped and you’re gonna get the horns, buddy!
In folklore a faerie is one of a class of supernatural beings, generally conceived as having a tiny human form and possessing magical powers with which they intervene in human affairs. There are over 1000 varieties of faeries throughout legend and lore around the world. Almost every culture has some form of faerie being who interacts with humans. Some cause havoc others protect or help.
Generally faeries are highly connected to nature and take care of the natural world or what some might call the elemental world. They bring the spring and help the nature kingdom wake up from its long winter slumber. They work through the summer to help nature grow and into the fall to direct nature through its transition into winter. And in winter they bring the snows and watch over the natural world while it sleeps. In these legends, the faeries are in charge of the elemental seasons helping the world transition from one section of the Divine circle to the next. Other legends have the faeries watching over the vortex elements of nature. These elements being earth, air, fire and water. They use these elements to support the natural courses of nature as it moves around the Divine circle of change; birth, life, death and spirit.
In general faeries live in Faerie Land, a mystical invisible place that can rarely be seen by humans and only at certain times of the day or year. Some legends foretell of humans who have been touched by the faeries and can see their land whenever they want, or only at night. Other stories say Faerie Land can only be seen at night during a full moon, or only during certain holidays during the year when there is much merriment and the faeries drop their guard to keep hidden. The most common of these holidays occurs during 3 Pagan Sabbats (sabbath holidays). The first occurs in May and is known as Bealtaine when the God and maiden Goddess are betrothed. The second occurs on the last sunset of October known as Samhain when the Celtic New Year begins. The final holiday occurs at the end of the year during the 12 Days of Yule when the God is reborn to the world.
Other encounters can occur, but are often confused as being something else and not as communications or sightings from the faerie world. Faerie Fire is a perfect example of this. Faerie Fire is a misty, phosphorescent light fluttering or flowing through the night. It can be seen in a graveyard as an etherical shell around a confused spirit. When seen on a road, it is believed to be a light designed to misdirect a nighttime traveler. In Russia it is seen floating around the head of an unbaptized child while it sleeps. Presumably the light is from faeries magik designed to protect the child from evil while it sleeps. Some legends describe faerie signs or signs of faerie existence. Such as faerie circles, faerie mounds, faerie stones and faerie weeds. Faerie mounds are described in Scotland as the actual physical formations in the earth believed to be the homes of the little people. Faerie Stones are stones with a naturally formed hole that has the vibrational frequency to be worn as a healing agent or an amulet of protection. Faerie Weed is a specific type of plant that assists the faeries with psychic manifestations.Even today people talk about the fairy circles in their yard. These are circles of mushrooms that seem to pop-up over night in your yard. They are said to grow from the magik dust left behind by the faeries as they danced and celebrated during the night in our world, before returning to their hidden land.
A collection of categorized links for your Yule needs! What is Yule? [X] Yule is celebrated on slightly different days depending on who you ask, but the broad spectrum is: December 20th to January 1st.
Mockumentary set in medieval England with no explanation as to why or how a camera crew is there
A lot of people have mentioned monty python and the holy grail on this post which is accurate but I was envisioning more of a the office/what we do in the shadows type sitcom complete with talking heads and will-they-or-won’t-theys and with the technology that allows the mockumentary genre to exist going completely unquestioned by the entire cast despise it not occurring anywhere else in the otherwise realistically portrayed setting
…hang on, I think there’s a workable premise here.
The camera crew is a team of time-traveling scientists, studying an isolated village. They don’t bother trying to blend in with the locals much, because they know the village will be wiped out by plague in a few years and no trace of their expedition survives in the historical record. The villagers think they’re wealthy-but-eccentric travelers from a distant land, and they’ve bought off the local lord, a minor knight who doesn’t pay much attention to his serfs anyway.
The scientists are jaded. They’ve all been on multiple expeditions to doomed communities, and they’ve learned not to get too attached to their subjects. Part of the mockumentary format includes their video diaries, internal squabbles, and personality conflicts. The rest is interviews with the locals, footage of the crew tagging along with them in their daily lives, and the various experiments members of the crew are running.
(Most of their research is innocuous: water and soil samples, collecting plant and animal specimens to restore future biodiversity, measuring linguistic drift. All their planned human-subject research had to pass an ethics review board.)
(That said, sometimes opportunities for impromptu data collection arise. And sometimes you get bored and want to know what would happen if you projected a 40-foot holographic cow on the road outside the village.)
(The time travel science ethics review board has very clear rules about starting cults: no matter how funny you think it would be, don’t.)
The tone of the show is pitch-black comedy, at least to start with. The crew is burned out and cynical, the villagers are poor and underfed and overworked. Nobody’s doing their best work, or even trying to, really. This is a team that couldn’t get better, sexier, more exciting assignments, and a village full of people whose idea of a better future is a harvest that fails less than last year’s.
But over the course of, say, three seasons — not quite as long as it’s going to take for the plague to arrive — the research team does something they’re really not supposed to do. They get invested. They start to care, a little. They give the villagers a tiny bit of help, here and there — and they’re shocked to see just how much the villagers manage to do with that help.
But the villagers are still doomed, even if they’re clever and curious and likable. Even if a few of them are smart enough to figure out that the research crew aren’t just weird rich foreigners. Even if letting them all die is starting to feel like a waste, or even a crime.
There’s nothing they can do about it. History is very clear about the village’s fate, and they can’t change history.
Right?
ooh ooh okay. the cold open for every episode (the equivalent to B99’s morning meeting cold opens) is the expedition leader going over a video message from her future self. like just a day or two in the future. usually it’s nothing big, just letting her know about any events in the village that they should try to get recordings of, and warning her about any new bullshit her underlings are going to try to get away with.
in theory she would also get warned away from any actions that could negatively impact the timeline, but this is an extremely low-stakes, low-prestige assignment. everyone with actual career prospects is fighting tooth and nail for the sexy assignments, like pre- volcano Pompeii or Yellowstone. nothing her team can do here really matters, so she never gets warned about anything major.
until sweeps week, probably.
some fun running gags:
the scientists always say decades without specifying the century, leading to constant misunderstandings
“hey it could be worse, we could have been stuck in the 20s”
“what are you talking about? the 1920s are a dream assignment compared to this!”
“oh lol no I meant the 2020s, my bad”
“you know what I miss? live music. when I was stationed in the 90s I got to go to so many concerts”
“no shit? oh man did you get to see Nirvana live, that would rule”
“no but I did see The Magic Flute in Vienna! with Mozart conducting!”
additional running gag: the show starts when the team has already been on site for a while, so most of the villagers are already pretty blasé about seeing future technology. BUT there is one villager who just. always loses her shit, every time. without fail. just full on “BACK, foul creature!!!! WHAT is this FIENDISH SORCERY you wield????” while her neighbors are like “okay calm your tits Maud, they do this every tuesday and it’s fine”
running gag that i am unashamedly stealing from star trek: constant references to events and cultural figures from future history (ie the period between now and when the scientists come from). also it’s never clear, based on the scientists’ offhand references to their childhoods and home lives, whether their future society is a blissful utopia or a very weird dystopia.
running gag with eventual payoff: there are two small and very grubby village children who like to follow the crew around. they never speak. we get lots of reaction shots of the two of them staring blankly at whatever nonsense just happened.
after at least two years of this, a member of the crew is trying to fix a piece of equipment and having no success. the two small children wander into frame (as they often do) and the scientist ignores them (as he usually does)
only this time, the smaller and grubbier child wordlessly pulls a tool out of the scientist’s toolbox and hands it to the larger and slightly less grubby child, who fixes the problem and hands the tool back to the (now dumbfounded) scientist. they walk away, still silent. now it’s the scientist’s turn to stare blankly into the camera.
for maximum comedy the expedition head should be verging on Michael Scott levels of obliviousness. just floating along in a bubble of reassurance from her future self that there’s nothing to worry about.
the cold open is like “good news! the supply drop will go smoothly, no hiccups” and then in the episode we see that their supplies from the future, which were supposed to be teleported to an uninhabited clearing in the woods, landed in the village square in front of the church. on a sunday. and the villagers opened the crates and walked off with a bunch of future tech that the crew now has to hunt down and reclaim.
and they tell their boss none of this, so when she goes to record her message for her past self at the end of the episode she can be like “good news! ” and carry on living her life with the serene confidence of someone who believes in horoscopes and also gets to write her own horoscopes, because her staff makes sure she never knows about their constant fuckups and eleventh-hour saves.
