In the past couple of months I have re-played Portal, read Blue Sky again, listened to the fanmix on repeat, got a Wheatley tattoo, read Blue Sky AGAIN, and am drawing tons of fanart, so I guess you could say Iâm having a moment.
âBlimey, hello- huh, wow, youâre- this is- um, can I just check, is this a hug? Are you- are you hugging me, is that what youâre doing? Because if you are, ab- absolutely no complaints from this quarter, ha, God no, the, the opposite in fact. Very much the opposite, itâs very nice- well, no, âniceâ doesnât really even begin to cover it to be honest-â
more painting practice. A centaur in the morning light. Reference is Cristian (who has the best smile) via fatfotoref.com and @fugitiverabbit
{ID from ALT: digital painting of a fat centaur happily stretching in the morning light. The character lifts both arms above his head, one hand holding the other and grins brightly. His upper body is naked and presents a heavy chest and a big belly with very faint vertical stretch marks on the lower part of it. The still shadowed part of his body which is horse is that of a heavy craft horse with a strong, voluminous torso and thick, shaggy legs, which are partially obscured by light blue wisps of morning mist. In the background green tress are visible, the top of their grounds lit golden against soft yellow clouds and a blue, hazy sky. END ID}
Y’know what, something I’ve wanted to see for a long time is a fantasy world in which there are hyena-people and deer-people and dragon-people and whatever.. and humans are there too, but they aren’t just People, they’re not apart from that— they’re just a kind of ape-people.
Accessibility feature in tv and movies where they only cast sufficiently visually distinct actors. One short, one tall, one fat, one thin, one brunette, one blond, etc. Pls, I get confused.
The thing about fanfiction after writing original fiction for so long is that it feels like taking weighted clothes off. If I wanted a cool plot twist or a reveal or a mystery I had to set up all the expectations myself. I had to set up the red herrings, the clues, the boundaries of what was reasonable.
In fanfiction I drop a name from canon I never referenced before and it will carry the weight that a hundred pages of set up would carry in original fiction.
Do you have any fucking idea how intoxicating that is.
The shared language of a fandom in fanfiction is so amazingly conducive to a type of story telling that we lost when public domain was gutted as a legal concept. And it’s such a thrilling way to make stories and I weep for how rare it is to encounter.
Like you sort of get a ghoulish attempt with star wars style “look it’s revan” but it’s still only a handful of people who get to play. With fandom everyone gets to play with the full toolbox, with infinite chances to try.
Formerly Tea-and-Tipulidae - Also known as Don - Adult - All Pronouns - Queer - Ship-and-let-ship/anti-harassment - I draw/write and enjoy nature and animation - I tag content warnings like this: #cw example
