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2023 MEGA MAN SECRET SANTA SIGNUPS ARE NOW OPEN! LISTEN!!

🎵I never made AI art, only draw gift art Makes me more respected Call me Doc Cossack I create catchy bots Splashy's art is cute, and her dA group's too Told her invite her friends Gon' ride my sleigh, drawin' all night, Cosplayin' dude who looks like Dr. Light...🎵

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Well, it's that time of the year. Not quite Halloween, not quite Christmas, but every mall still has both decorations all over the place. So that means it's time to sign up for this year's Mega Man Secret Santa (aka Robot Rumpus) event!

As always, we host the event with the group gallery on deviantArt. However, as a change this year, we are opening up signups to everyone, regardless if you have a dA account or not.

For those here on tumblr wanting to participate, that do not belong to dA, please read over the group journal with full event rules first.

Then, you can either message myself or @skycompass with your wishlist. By joining in, you give us the permission to upload your gift art to the group gallery, for all to see.

You have from today until the end of the day on November 15th to message us with your wishlist. That gives you basically 2.5 weeks to decide if you want to participate this year.

Any questions, feel free to drop us a note.

Well, at this point, I’m still unsure if the last 5 participants will be finishing their works by the end of the day. But, since I will be at work and unable to do anything else to this, might as well post, even if it may be needing an update later.

Big thank you to all of the artists who created such wonderful pics over the course of nearly the last 2 months. Never had tried a countdown event like this before, and despite a few hiccups, we were still able to see a new piece of art posted for a full month to celebrate counting down to today’s release of the Legacy Collection. I seriously appreciate all of your hard work! 

While there is no great way to combine all of your efforts and show them off in a simple way, I tried to take the “graphic design is my passion” route, and hastily threw together this collage. 

If I legally can’t use the “We are still connected!” tagline to illustrate how you all came together for this project, consider this the “We are still…going to jack into your squirrel if that’s what it takes!” of collaborative efforts! ;p

Raffle drawing will hopefully take place after midnight tonight, if I can confirm there are no more entries sliding in at the last minute. 

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A ghost in the castle tells him that the other boy is ascending the castle, to the highest room, and if he ascends as well, the too are bound to meet each other.

The boy immediately sets off to climb the tower floors, through ghosts and phantoms of the past. As he climbs each floor, he notices he is forgetting his life, piece by piece. The castle is stealing his mind, he thinks. But no matter what, he swears he will not forget the girl or the other boy.

When he reaches the fifth floor, he is reminded of a third person, deeply close to him. A Second Girl. He is ashamed that he would ever forget her, and the ghosts chide him for being so shallow. They tell him the Second Girl is in the castle as well, and she needs his help, and that she would heartbroken to know the boy forgot about her.

He climbs the castle all the more fervently, and the castle tears deeper into his psyche. Soon he forgets all about his reasoning for braving the castle doors, the other boy he has spent so long looking for, now single mindedly obsessed with saving the Second Girl.

He finally meets with the other boy on the 7th floor, who is similarly obsessed with the Second Girl. The other boy says she is his best friend, and no one can keep him from her. The boy replies in tune, and they clash over the Second Girl, further eroding a relationship neither remembered they had together.

In their final confrontation, the other boy falls, and does not get up.

When the boy reaches the top floor, he finds her, the Second Girl, surrounded by the ghosts who had chided him through his journey. She reveals that the two had never met before this moment. That as the castle tore away his memory of the First Girl, she replaced those memories with herself. The other boy he met was nothing more than a puppet she had created. Something she made out of wood to fall in love and fight over her affection.

She reveals that she is a ghost herself, a very special one, as the person she used to be is still alive. She reveals that she is the ghost of the girl he cares for the most, and was jealous of that affection, and wanted it for herself.

The boy tells her that he has no memory of any other girl than herself.

When the other boy, the real one, finally makes his way up to the top floor of the castle, his mind unscathed, he finds the friend he had so desperately been searching for. He found his best friend in a coffin, and standing above him the ghost of a girl who was still alive.

There are 30 days remaining until the Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection is released!

I was lucky enough to score Blues/Proto Man as my character to draw! I wanted to do something widely outside my comfort zone, and the first thing I thought of are Japanese sumi-e ink paintings.

There are 31 days remaining until the Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection is released! Just one month left!

NOTP: the opposite of an OTP (One True Pairing). It is a ship a fan strongly dislikes. The word is a portmanteau of ‘no’ and ‘OTP’ and thus is not a contraction of any particular phrase.

Squick: anything that is a deep-seated, visceral turn-off. Squicks may be shared by many fans or be specific to one; one person’s kink may be another person’s squick.

YKINMKATO, or kink-tomato: Your Kink Is Not My Kink, And That’s Okay: used to indicate support for fannish diversity and to distinguish between disapproval or kink shaming and simply having different taste.

DLDR: Don’t Like, Don’t Read: a phrase used to warn against complaints about an aspect of fic or meta. A “live and let live” philosophy of fandom, which places the responsability for avoiding content one doesn’t want to see on the side of the fanwork consumer, rather that on the creator’s.

SALS: Ship And Let Ship: similar to the above specifically about shipping tastes.

YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary: a phrase used to acknowledge that any given individual’s personal opinion on the topic at hand may differ due to their own tastes, standards, values, experiences, etc.

As the OP points out, all of these crucially imply no moral judgment of what they’re designing.

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