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Gonna reblog posts here a couple more times until I sign out on the mobile app and put this poor old tumble to bed.

[PURCHASE AT STORENVY]  [PURCHASE AT GUMROAD]

YO YO, It’s Feburary 14th and you know what that means - that’s right, today is the official digital release date for the doujin @playerprophet and I have been working on today for the last few months! Buy it now while it’s still at pre-order price, because the price is going up on Monday!

THE LAST NINE YEARS is an 83 page Metal Gear Solid doujinshi exploring the evolution of Snake and Otacon’s partnership between the games. You can read a preview of the doujin at AO3.

PHYSICAL COPIES We filled the print order this month! We’re getting a good deal from DoujinPress, but they’ve been unable to give us an exact date due to the nature of the discount we took. We anticipate that we’ll be mailing out the books sometime in mid-March, so expect them at your house in early April at the latest (we’ll keep you updated).

SHARING POLICY While pre-orders did cover some of the printing fees, Dawn and I still paid a substantial amount of money out of pocket to send this thing to the printers, so while we don’t mind you sharing the PDF with a friend or two if they want to see it, we’d ask that you strongly encourage your friends to buy it if they liked it. In this vein, if there’s a panel or page that really strikes you, feel free to share it on tumblr/twitter/whatever! We do, after all, want as many people as possible to enjoy this. <3

Los Angeles, 1999

Based on @cephiedvariable‘s BBKaz fic. By no means the most dramatic part, but I liked the atmosphere of this scene and the juxtaposition of domestic, fatherly stuff with Kaz’s eternal curse duty of telling a Snake what to do.

I ended up sleeping in today because I have a flu and apparently my roommates were out in the living room impatiently flailing because they couldn’t wait for me to get up and see this! It’s beautiful - the composition, the colour, the atmosphere… this is literally exactly the picture, the lighting and the kitchen layout I had in my head while writing this scene. The details are incredible as well (the clunky 90’s spy-computer gear, the file folders, the smog outside, Catherine’s robot and dog drawings *___*). Ngghhhhh, I love it so much!!!!!!!!!!!

I also CANNOT BELIEVE that someone would draw this scene! When people do art of fanfics, it’s usually the dramatic or romantic moments that get remembered, so it’s crazy flattering seeing art of a quieter, more introspective moment. But, tbh, those scenes are among the most fun to write for me (which is why my Metal Gear fics keep cracking the 15k barrier). It’s nice to know that my atmospheric writing strikes the same kind of chord with people as the sweeping proclamations about character motivation and torrid kisses do. (This was also one of my personal favourite scenes in the story soooo…… :D).

I feel like I’ve lived some kind of charmed adulthood that I’ve gotten to see even a little bit of your incredible art inspired by words and characters that I’ve written. Like, I was not exaggerating when I mentioned in my tags a few weeks ago that you’re one of my favourite artists ever. I just love your style and sense of character and scene so much that I can legitimately stare at your drawings wistfully for hours (I mean, I guess I kinda do since I have a bunch of it on my walls).

But I just wanted to add that you have a great talent for setting a scene/mood, especially when it comes to writing more understated scenarios within universes that are batshit crazy like MGS. And I fucking love it.

Plus you always know how to parse out and expand on characters and their motivations in really satisfying ways.