i'm kind of sick and twisted in the tummy area

I heard it was mermay so here is my humble contribution, it’s Maglor of course 😌

Pose reference by @adorkastock (go check it, it’s free and very fun !!!) and professional enabling by @peasant-player

Sending these in bc they're great inspiration but also they're absolutely STUNNING and GORGEOUS and more people should see them, that lighting and colour and hair! 🤩

How do you balance worldbuilding with storytelling? Do they conflict with each other at all for you? At what point do you stop fantasizing and start making?

Yay another one! Making stuff up is an open sandbox so the entrance requirements are really low

To me, the worldbuilding feeds into the storytelling and vice versa, and the balancing act is both of them vs my motivation to write and draw (which is very limited)

Pokemon is great in that it is a genre(?) and you can get pretty far just "filling in the forms", so to speak. This is not to say you Have to have all the features of a pokemon world fleshed out, ultimately you're the one deciding what fun looks like to you

Ex. What's the local legendary? I like Darkrai, so I picked it. I then have to justify my decision, which means it and the region now have Lore (worldbuilding). And it being there means that letting it meet Mewtwo would be interesting, so I figure out how and why they'd meet each other (storytelling). And figuring out Darkrai's dialogue created some additional linguistics features (worldbuilding) (this I haven't written down yet because I want to get the story out first)

Basically, it's more enjoyable and memorable if you can introduce an aspect of the worldbuilding via the story, and then explain it afterwards. Therefore, the function of the New Thing should be fairly intuitive so as not to cause confusion ("Witch Hat Atelier has flying carriages and they work because of a spell of some sort") and the explanation of its mechanism and background can come in later and make people appreciate it more ("the spell is a magic circle and here are its components") on top of giving them more info to intuit later ("this is also a magic item therefore there's a magic circle somewhere in it")

But!! This is only relevant if your goal is to entertain an audience and write a good story. If it's not a major drive behind your work then there's nothing stopping you from just doing whatever looks fun. You likely don't have to sell it, after all. In my case, I'm a tryhard who likes getting attention for pulling off difficult manoeuvres, and constant improvement is fun to me (if it's easy then it's boring), so maybe don't copy my standards kgksjgkskf

This sick bleach shirt I made. Something to showcase my undying love for prehistoric cave art.

I found it curious because, in canon, the two of them had a rivalry that got fixed with time, but in Redux, they haven't interacted a lot 'till now, so why did the choice fell on him?

Yes, I was tearing through books constantly, and talking to this teacher at least weekly. Because even though I always loved reading as a kid, literature was always a very weak subject for me in terms of a teaching-to-standardized-test school setting (I just do awful on "what color were the curtains" type multiple choice questions. Those details don't stick in my memory THEY JUST DON'T). But that didn't matter for this class. I could just read my way out of any bad test score. I have always had fond memories of how I "fudged" my way through that class and "abused' the extra credit policy.

Like, most of the major story beats, at least the ones that directly affect her, have a prominent visual component so she’s following along with the basics. But she has no idea who cave johnson is, or what wheatley was trying to explain to her, and she certainly wasn’t hurt by any of glados’ insults.