Mercury

i’ll draw Sonic the Hedgehog, ULTRAKILL, UT/DR, Risk of Rain, Minecraft, Scott Pilgrim, SCP, Friday Night Funkin’, Sonic.EXE, Bugsnax, Deep Rock Galactic, Slime Rancher

i will not draw NSFW or realistic humans. that is all

if i remember any fandoms i’m in i’ll come back to edit this!

Hello again! It's been a bit, I had intended to do an update every couple of days but you can probably tell how well that went for me, a lot of things happened like the storm across my country and a lot of work on this, I almost lost the project file too funilly enough.

Over the last week I've went back to working on the main city portion of the level, mostly optimisations and bringing some old geometry up to par with the new stuff. I had to port a ton of prefabs such as streetlamps and benches from probuilder meshes into regular meshes which was absolutely not fun, probuilder prefabs cause lag and extend export times but luckily with this change I've shaved down export times from about 15 minutes to 6. There was a very weird issue with the transition process that caused every instance of the prefab in the level to generate its own probuilder mesh, and I still haven't fixed all of them yet, I actually did it to every single window on every single building so that'll be fun to replace, that's a problem for future me though.

Now that we finally got the heads up from Dave that the ultrakill update is releasing next month (probably) that means I-2 development will probably slow down before then and pick up once it's out, I've been holding off until then to start on the super cool technical shit. I've been concepting a rework to the Blood Siphon mechanic I teased a few months ago too (https://youtu.be/SUBHZg4Tqpo warning, its bad) due to the scope of the level, mainly the use of infighting, changing a lot and not really requiring these to be used as much as I had intended. If I end up doing it, it'll reinvent a super cool enemy concept I had for Indulgence at one point, It was initially going to be in I-2, got scrapped for the Neutralizers and I had briefly intended to introduce it in I-3 before realising that's a nightmare for pacing with all the other shit I have planned. It's a bit of a shame because the design was super cool, but I'll probably have the reworked blood siphon retain some of its elements.

Hopefully this is a sufficent way to work it into the campaign without having to write a bunch of lore and introduce it well (although it probably will have some still, just not an entry) So no new enemy in I-3 probably, which is good or bad depending on how you look at things, but I think it's better this way. I'll hopefully power through the remaining main city geometry before the rewrite update releases, then I can move onto the fun stuff I have planned (or maybe just keep working on I-S until then), but that's a topic for another devlog. See you next time!

HELLO!! Sorry it's been a while, I took a break from this project before the update came out and when I came back to work on it I totally forgot I was supposed to be updating stuff here but I'm back now!!! I'll get to the point I've been continuing as I usually have been after I ported everything, steady progress spread across multiple levels but it's been going good. Instead of porting some stuff that broke I've opted to entirely remake a lot of stuff (which hasn't been much of an issue due to me already knowing what I want to do with it) so I-2's city section has been basically rebuilt from the ground up, I've also been giving I-1 another passover to make sure it's up to par with the new visuals in the update which means it got a load of changes since the old level was largely based on the quality of Prelude and Lust at the time.

I've also been continuing on revamping I-2's intro as mentioned in the previous post. I've made a lot of changes to it's style that better matches my original vision (mostly the switch from futuristic feeling to brutalism and I'm super proud of what I've made (my two biggest haters said it was the coolest thing I've ever made so I think I hit the mark somewhere)

Okay that's all I wanna talk about I think, just making sure it isn't radio silence for people outside of the discord (transparency is important!!) I also helped entirely remake the terminals for Purgatorio levels, you can watch the showcase here. They'll be used in Rubicon, Envy, Indulgence and any future released Purgatorio levels when they're ported to the new update.

No release estimate yet but I hope I can have I-1's update, I-2 and maybe I-S out sometime in the summer, still got a lot to do but we're getting there. Lots of plans for future stuff coming together, loads of concept art and stuff,,,,, Maybe you'll see something interesting regarding that next time :3 there are some things I wanna talk about SO badly but I need to wait until the time is right

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ETA a new option:

I’m a piece of shit but I wanted to make this post in case there are more people out there who had the same problem as me. For those who needed a REAL reference of Sonic characters in order to learn how to draw them from different angles and know their anatomy well. I came across Sketchfab, here people upload 3D models online (some FanArt, other originals extracted from the games, one realizes when they see them or just read the description), including models of old games like Sonic R. And of course, not only Sonic, you can find 3D models of animals, monsters, people, armors, weapons, vehicles etc, so I think it is very useful for any artists!

Anyway, I leave the links to models that I personally liked the most.

In some models (like this one) you can change the animation/position here.

SONIC MODELS

-Modern Sonic

Lost World (+animation+poses)

Lost World T Pose - Eyes Closed  (Better Rotation)

Lost World IDLE Pose Eyes Open 

Unleashed T Pose Eyes Open 1 (Color Base)

Unleashed T Pose Eyes Open 2 (with shadows)  These last two have some subtle differences, I don’t know what the original is, but it still looks good

Forces T Pose Eyes Open 

2006 T Pose Eyes Open

Generations Cool Pose 1

Generations Cool Pose 2

Generations Statue Pose 

Adventure 1 (Dreamcast) T Pose

Adventure 1 (DX) T Pose

Adventure 2 

Adventure 2 Super Sonic 

Super Smash Bros Brawl T Pose

Super Smash Bros Brawl Pose 

Unknown Super Sonic T Pose Eyes Closed

Unknown Super Sonic Pose 

Unknown Super Sonic Pose (with Emeralds)

Unleashed Werehog T Pose 

Secret Rings Darkspine T Pose

-Classic Sonic

Generations Classic Sonic

Generations Classic Sonic T Pose

Generations Sonic Classic Pose 

Generations - Classic Sonic Statue Pose

Sonic the Fighters -T Pose 

Sonic The Fighters Super Sonic T Pose 

Sonic R - Classic Sonic - T Pose

Sega Saturn Style - Classic Sonic 

-Sonic Boom

Sonic Boom T Pose

Sonic Boom T Pose (Sonic Dash 2 Version)

Bonus: Excalibur Sword

SHADOW MODELS 

Shadow (with Sonic Gai Poses!) 

Super Shadow (with crazy feet!)

Generations - Shadow Statue Pose

Adventure 2 - T Pose

FanArt 3D Model Shadow

Bonus: Sir Lancelot Sword

Wow It makes me so happy to help so many people with just my post, even so I hope you really appreciate the people who uploaded the models! I only spread the word! anyway here are more!

TAILS MODELS

-Modern Tails

Lost World - Tails T Pose Eyes Closed

Forces - Tails T Pose Eyes Closed

Sonic Runners Adventure - Tails Pose

Unknown - T Pose Eyes Open

Generations - Modern Tails Statue

Adventure - Tails T Pose Eyes Open

Adventure 2 - Tails Eyes Open

-Classic Tails

Generations - Classic Tails T Pose Eyes Closed

Generations - Classic Tails Statue Pose

The Fighters - Tails T Pose

Sonic R - Tails T Pose

Sonic Xtreme - Tails

BONUS: Tornado + Classic Sonic + Classic Tails from Generations

KNUCKLES MODELS

Unknown - T Pose Eyes Open

Generations - Statue Pose 

Sonic Runners Adventure - Pose

FanArt - Pose 

Adventure - T Pose

Sonic R - Classic Knux T Pose

BONUS: Knuckles Boom in a Cake

AMY MODELS (modern+classic)

Generations - T Pose Eyes Closed

Forces -  T Pose Eyes Closed (I think they are exactly the same)

Generations - Statue Amy Pose + Piko Piko 

Riders - Amy

Adventure - T Pose + Piko Piko

Adventure 2 - Amy 

The Fighters - Classic Amy

Unknown - Classic Amy Statue

ROUGE MODELS

Generations - T Pose Eyes Closed

Generations - Statue Pose

Free Riders - WITHOUT COLOR

Sonic Runners - T Pose

FanArt (Walking Animation)

Adventure 2 - T Pose

SILVER MODELS

Unknown Poses + Animation

Unknown Pose

Unknown Super Silver + Poses + Animation

BLAZE MODELS

Generations Stuatue Pose

Generations T Pose WITHOUT COLOR 

CREAM (+ Chaos)

Generations Cream T Pose Eyes Closed

Generations Cream Statue Pose + Cheese

Chao

Dark Chao Statue

CHAOTIX MODELS

Forces Vector T Pose Eyes Open

Forces Vector T Pose Eyes Closed

Generations Vector Statue Pose

Generations Espio Statue Pose

Generations Charmy Statue Pose

BABYLON ROGUES MODELS 

Jet T Pose 

Generations - Jet Statue Pose + His Extreme Gear

Wave T Pose

RANDOM VILLANS

Infinite

Mephiles

Zavok

Zeena

RANDOM 

FanArt Gadget (aka. Avatar/Buddy/Rookie)

Generations Big

Chip with chocolate

Generations Chip Statue

FanArt Honey The Cat

Both options are great.

Because the thing is, when bigots pick fights, they are 100% counting on you to get louder than them. Or meaner. They want you to react emotionally and provide fodder for their 'You're Too Emotionally Immature To Understand' cannon.

What they aren't expecting you to do is say one of the following phrases in a polite, concerned tone:

Are you okay?

That's not the kind of language I was raised to use with others.

Do you need a moment to think on why that wasn't acceptable?

This is no way to engage in intelligent conversation. Please try that again in a kinder tone if you'd like this to continue. (I really like this one because it lets you turn their public-shame rhetoric around)

For those of you who'd are spiteful and/or dealing with Fundamentalists/Evangelicals/generally shitty Christians:

What's happening in your life to cause you this much anger? I can't imagine hurting so badly that I need to hurt other people.

Who taught you it was acceptable to treat other people this way? Certainly not the Jesus I remember.

Whatever happened to 'judge not lest ye be judged'?

If I talked like that in front of my parents or grandparents I would be ashamed.

I think there's something you need to pray on before we try and have this conversation.

And my all time favorite:

"It sounds to me like there are some seriously dark and angry forces at work in your heart."

(Nothing stops a Christian bigot in their tracks faster than implying the Devil is causing their bigotry. But you MUST be calm, polite, and gentle with your tone and wording. It is absolutely fair to twist the rules and play them at their own game, but you gotta play hard.)

GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 15

Shit this got me out here cryin in the club

I hope it isn’t totally out of order for me to post here, as a man I don’t want to take up your spaces so I’ll try and keep this as short as possible. Tw genital mention

I have full permission from my partner to post this and she’s read it all. There is a misconception that the only men a straight trans women can get with, is a chaser. It is very sad that many of you feel that way, and I’m sorry for how men treat you, but that’s not how it has to be. I met my girlfriend when I was 15. She was living as a boy then and was 13. I used to push her around when we played football at school. I thought she was one of the lads. Time goes on, I was never that close to her and we lost touch. Next thing is I meet her again on a fine art course. I didn’t recognise her at all and with her name change and generic surname I never made the connection. I developed quite the crush, we would go on dates and I’d sort of play them off as just hanging out with a friend. I was so giddy around her and I was terrified to tell her I liked her. One day we were going to the movies and I told myself ‘today is the day I ask her to be my girlfriend, and try to kiss her’ We ended up skipping the movie to go on a walk in the local forest. I held her hand and she squeezed mine - my heart was beating so damn fast. We finally kissed and it was like fireworks. I told her I liked her but she cut me off. She told me to stop talking because she needs to tell me something. Now in my mind I’m panicking thinking she’s in a relationship, but she says ‘l used to be a boy. I was at school with you, please don’t be mad I’m so sorry I didn’t tell you ‘and then to my absolute horror she said ‘please don’t hurt me’ She genuinely thought that there was a danger of me attacking her after finding out. This broke my fucking heart. I had my moment of being like wtf - mainly because I’d known this girl for almost 10 years and hadn’t pieced the 2 people together - but then we kissed again, and then again and again and we kissed so much my face hurt by the end. That was 5 years ago and boy this has been a learning curve. I’ve only ever dated cis women before. I am 100% straight and I had to unlearn some internalized shit for maybe a day or so, until I thought what the fuck does it matter who she used to be? Damn I used to be a baby, people change. But I love her the way she is now. I love her smile I love her eyes I love her body her curves her hands her hair and you know what? I love her penis too. I love it because it’s hers. and it gives her pleasure, and there isn’t anything wrong with it. I don’t have a fetish. I just fell in love with a woman and that means I fell in love with the whole package. I’m planning to propose to her on new years eve. I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I want to raise kids with her and I want her to lose all of these insecurities. Just because you can’t carry them, doesn’t mean you won’t be the mother of my children. There is hope, you’re not broken or unlovable or nothing but a kink. You’re a powerful woman.

The second post is titled “Update from the cis guy that proposed.“ It reads:

Hey ladies. I’ve been asked by a few of you to share an update. Here is my previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/e95hgx/to_all_of_you_ladies_from_a_cis_man/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

And here is your official soppy post warning - beware…

Soooo on exactly 00:00 new years (ok I was probably out by a couple minutes but I did try to time it) I proposed to my beautiful girlfriend (who also happens to be trans, hence why I’m posting on here) and she said YES

I don’t know if I can fully articulate how happy I am. I wanted to keep it lowkey and between the 2 of us so she didn’t feel any pressure, so I cooked her favourite meal ever (I would have liked to cook something fancy and elegant but honestly she would much rather eat spaghetti bolognese with garlic bread and then a loaded ice cream sundae for dessert ANY day of the week) we ate, played board games and did a competition to see who could make the best vehicle out of old egg cartons and toilet roll tubes. Then we decided to make cupcakes which were fucking vile because we forgot to add the sugar of all things. Not typical romantic evening but I felt all the love and when I dropped down on one knee she just wept. I didn’t even know I had a yes at first because she was crying so much. I actually got really scared I’d freaked her out so I stood up and hugged her and said I’m sorry and she finally told me yes yes yes and explained that she was crying because it was always beyond her wildest dreams as a youngster that she would ever be able to be a wife. This is not something I can relate to, but I think I do understand, as best as i can as a cis man. We literally just held each other for a bit before we both realized she hadn’t seen the ring yet! I’m not a wealthy guy at all so I was afraid she would be disappointed in my grandmothers wedding ring as her engagement ring (I will buy her a new ring for the wedding) but I did want her to have it as my grandmother always told me she wanted my future wife to wear it. Luck was on my side though people because the ring made her cry all over again, happy tears, because she said it made her feel like the fairytale she told herself as a child has finally come true. I think there maybe was something affirming about the fact that this ring was left from my grandma for me to give to the woman I want to spend my life with.

Ok I don’t want to bore you all to death with the ins and outs but I haven’t stopped smiling since she said yes. The fiancee (I love saying that, so exciting) has been obsessively wedding planning which is mighty convenient for me considering I have no clue on how to organize a wedding. It’s like the child in her has come out to play and its very endearing. She missed out on all the typical girly activities as a child so she’s making up for lost time. She ALREADY has a scrapbook for the wedding and she’s already browsing dresses!

I’m sorry for being all cliche and cringey. I know its insufferable to many and I do understand. I just feel drunk in love, and i did want to update and not leave people hanging! Other than my mother, my family does not know she is trans, because frankly it’s none of their business and my fiancee hasn’t wanted to open up to them about that part of her life. She confided in my mother because my mother knows a transgender boy and so it came up in conversation. As far as the rest of my family are concerned, it’s totally irrelevant to them and they will only ever know if she chooses to tell them. So I was wondering if incorporating rainbows anywhere in the theme at all would be too obviously lgbt pride themed? Or can I get away with some rainbow tokens and such just as a discreet acknowledgement of how far she’s come? Obviously I don’t want people to think of this wedding as anything other than what it is, a straight marriage between a man and a woman, so are rainbows risky? I’m just so damn proud of her and want to show that in some way. I was thinking of wearing rainbow cufflinks or something? Anyway sorry for the damn essay but I hope the new year goes well for you lovely ladies and sorry for being a cringe lord. I just can’t believe I’ve found my queen

in MtF by takeurmedsbro

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