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The Square Dwarf I made after my friends and I suggested that it is possible to draw a good dwarf based on a perfect square shape. Here he is. Here he is.

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My friend had a birthday and it was a good reason to make a nice ugly bday card 😂 Happy late Birthday, @askoldbezdira !

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IM WHEEZING THATS PERFECT

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Oh my god I’m so sorry

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> „Why the hell did you buy a separate router?“

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Did I understand DS2 right

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TW: scars

Ok so it’s obvious that I can’t finish any of my in-work drawings yet due to the workload. But here is another WIP cause YEAH. I tried to approximate Cliff's build before his death, based on the training and build of special forces soldiers. And scars. We can't avoid them.

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Who the fuck did that???

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Every time I've come to this beach, it's never been this low so we got to see so many cool things including a bunch of these rocks and cliffsides.

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Have you seen Amelie??

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Coming to Higgs’s bunker like

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I’ve got to do this

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Why the hell my most popular Death Stranding post is this one????? OH HI HELLO?¿?

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I’ve got to do this

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Art fragment I made last year AND art fragment I made this night

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Supernatural!AU (because I still can)

Higgs is about to say something sufficiently sarcastic, but he doesn't have time for that, because he's being knocked down by what feels like a truck. He's been knocked down by a real truck a couple of times before, and he didn't care, because it wasn't his body, but now it's painful. It's also scary, because there's obviously no trucks in the middle of a fucking field.

The ground hits his back, and he's propelled forward by an incredible force, sliding for another ten or twenty meters, relentlessly driving himself into the ground as if he were a plow. When he finally comes to a halt, coughing up dirt and clearing his eyes, he realizes that the sun is no longer visible. Instead, he is surrounded by massive wings, not blinding white, but a light, warm shade, like crème brûlée. Instead of the sun, he is confronted by two fiery eyes filled with rage. Literally, they are burning with anger, these light brown eyes.

Unholy shit! An angel! Even worse than a common angel — seraph, damn it!

Higgs lets out a non-demonic screech and hastily tries to retreat from this body, but he's immediately grabbed by the throat, cutting off his escape. The screech turns into a gurgle. In the feathered bastard’s other hand, something flashes, transforming into a short spear. The light glints brightly on the sharp tip.

That's it. That's how the demon Higgs will die, in a fucking inglorious way.

— Wait!

It's Fragile. The spear freezes in the air, and Higgs can only stare at it and continue to wheeze, clinging to the hand on his throat. If you kill the receptacle, demons don't die. If you banish them, they don’t die as well, just go back to Hell, wich is not pleasant, but at least not mortal. And this hellish (well, heavenly) crap is capable of sending Higgs not to Hell, but to oblivion. Complete oblivion. This thought makes him feel worse than the most powerful exorcism.

Fragile runs up to them, falls to her knees next to this beast of Heaven, and grabs his shoulder desperately.

“Don't kill him," she says, her voice pitiful and trembling. "Cliff, please. He can be useful, he knows a lot... I swear!”

Great, the girl's taken the bait. And it should be a relief, but what Higgs really wants to do right now is bury himself as deep as possible and tell them all to fuck off, including Bridget and Lucifer himself.

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BISEXUALITY LIGHTING WIN.. BI-HARDMAN

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Higgs and the infantilization of characters with trauma

This is something I noticed a bit of a spike of recently with higgs in particular, although i do see within other communities. The tendency of to look at characters, specifically villians and antagonists and entirely excusing what they've done and painting them as a Saint for simply having trauma.

Look I am saying this as a fan of Higgs and his character. I feel sympathy for what he had to go through, his horrid upbringing and a lack of a support system, hell I made a whole post about it and how you see it affect his character. I don't quite like how they wrote him in ds2. That being said.

Guys, he tried to make all of life go extinct twice, committed mass bombing wiping out whole cities of people, killed a baby (probably more with the explosions), made a woman run naked through time fall, and other things. He's not a good guy. He is not excused of this. He is not a Saint. Having trauma does not give him a pass to do all of this shit. Like what

I believe Higgs is a forewarning of what happens when people aren't given healthy connections, a support system, and repeatedly isolated in various ways. It is tragic to wonder what could have been different if he was simply given the connections he needed. That being said, what he ultimately ends up doing is still shitty things that he is fully responsible for. He is well aware of what he's doing in both games and pretty damn happy about it at times. He is a full grown adult man capable of critical thinking about what he's doing.

it's the big boss phenomenon yet somehow worse

Then people are blaming sam and fragile.. for what? Do I think fragile could've done more to help higgs when she knew him, sure, but I don't think she knew he was going to try to go on a mass genocide. Nor do I think that justifies Higgs making her run in her underwear through timefall and then make gross demeaning comments about her body.

And Sam, Sam didn't even fucking know Higgs before DS1, what he knows of Higgs is a man who blew up cities, tried to trick him into delivering a nuke, killing/trying to kill him mutiple times, torturing him, killing his baby, and you guys expect Sam and Fragile after that to what? Offer support to Higgs? Do you think that'd magically fix everything kumbaya or wtv?

Sam dosen't owe Higgs shit. Fragile and Sam aren't demons who deserve to die simply because they formed a support system for themselves. Sam isn't one for shutting people out due to getting re-traumatized at times and due to to distrust. It can take awhile for people to accept help and there can be setbacks. Healing isn't always easy nor instantaneous.

You can like a morally bad character who's done shitty things without justifying their actions, all while still feeling sympathy for what they went through, then also acknowledging the unjust harm they cause to others around them. It is okay to like villians while acknowledging that at the end of the day the are villians

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And somehow I still feel like I left out too many details. I really should have added the ghost of Fragile at the end.

At least he kinda almost got a happy ending with Deadman? Kinda? They made it work at least.

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I understand if people are already sick of me talking about Death Stranding but I’m going to make a joke comic about Lou’s family because it’s literally impossible to make a proper family tree unless you purely go by biological relations. You can’t even use wether someone calls each other friends as proof of platonic relationships because canon couples like Heartman and The Hydrologist only ever call each other friends. It means nothing other than a close connection.

You can talk about adopted family but except for the few who are blood relatives all the “parents” and “siblings” can also be interpreted as romantically involved. Fragile could be seen as a mother figure to Raniy and Tomorrow but she also has strong shipping vibes with Rainy and Rainy and Tomorrow either acts like friends, siblings or girlfriends depending on how you look at it.

And oh lord the boys. They are all involved somehow now except Tarman who saw that mess and noped out and Die-Hardman who fucked Sam’s dad and adoptive mom and seemingly had enough relationship drama for a lifetime after that. The past was honestly worse than the current situation because we also got Lucy who slept with two of her patients, giving Lou way more dads than anyone could ever need.

We have wholesome Sam and Deadman who can’t be torn apart by death, Higgs who lusts after Sam carnally and wants nothing more than to hate-fuck him, and Heartman who acts as a happy medium by consenting to Sam and Deadman using his body for sex, perhaps because he’s hinted to have complicated feelings for Sam and Deadman himself. He called his girlfriend Sam and was apparently way closer with Deadman than we ever got to see giving them incredible drift compatibility. Even Dollman has a scene where Sam hugs him close to his chest in bed.

And we of course also get Sam and Fragile, Fragile and Higgs and I didn’t see this myself at the time but other people have pointed out that Tomorrow and Higgs could also be read as being deliberate ship fodder, especially if you like femdom (Higgs is generally a magnet for women beating him up in more and more kinky ways)

It’s a game about found family and the most complicated polycule you’ve ever seen.