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Grumbler. GuildWarsee since Factions. Porando. English self taught, might be bad. Braham no-hate zone. 42/F/Aego-Ace

[bookahlogy]

Em, or Ems or Perpetually Tired Em, mostly Guild Wars and everything self-indulgent.

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EDIT log @ March 2026. Post update. Added direct link to the GW2 to Blender blog in the hobby section.

EDIT log @ December 2024: I have noticed Bluesky is better for little blurbs my depressed brain spits out, so I’m barely even here. I’ve noticed I’m having increasing problems with communication, problem solving, empathy and more, I don’t have the energy to deep dive into things like I used to, I’m just skimming and keeping to the things I know to make it feel a little less miserable.

https://bsky.app/profile/tiredem.bsky.social

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Sidebagel for other fandoms will be :

www.tumblr.com/tiredmeg

Some taggos:

GW2 OC:

#Pirrx - asura engi, my dearest son #Syrrj - asura guardian, my second (by a few hours) oldest character, my blueberry daughter #Diana or #Diana Meriadoin - human guardian, my canon commander, retired as of end of the cycle #Lhamm - asura thief, Pirrx’s father #Drekksa - asura necromancer, the other progenitor :D #Bryjj - Syrrj’s only living parent #Flannix, #Vauxxi #Aavrick - other characters #oc rambles - for character facts, traits, stories... whatever I mean by that #SxP - they’re married, your honor

Please mind that I don’t have a writing talent, my kids are mostly bundles of ideas. Not perfect, but I love them :’3 I draw once in a blue moon, but I had to stop practising at some point in my life, so my drawings are incredibly bad and rusty now.

Hobby stuff: I'm not a game artist, I just read shitload of tutorials in a language I barely know and assume how things work by dismantling them.

#3d mischief - for all screencaps whether raw or not, and other Blender and out-of-Blender related 3d stuff I make by ripping game’s assets - pls note I do fanart only for fun and personal “use” - no monetisation/compensation was, is or never will be involved. The assets don’t belong to me and aren’t meant to be redistributed.

GW2 to Blender blog. - a few tips to get game models with vertex weights into Blender.

These are my kids, if you meet them ingame, say hi! (EU)

[heyitsmejona]

YCH - Asura Pride

hellooo peeps,

I am offering YCH commissions.

Customizable: hair, ears, face, gear

Not customizable: the pose itself

Will not do: anything too gore-y, super detailed background, anything that promotes racism, facism, sexism, homophobia etc., NSFW

Payment: only paypal - 10€ are to be payed as soon as the lineart is done, the rest after I send the finished version.

Changes: after the lineart is approved by you I will not do any mayor changes to the design, I will however, offer to do color adjustments, if they're required.

Breakdown: Pose 1 is 25€ and Pose 2 is 20€. Flat colors are free of charge, and cel shading will cost additional 5€.

NOTE: please provide full body screenshot/drawings (or as close as you can get, stick figure drawings are better than nothing if you have special requests, and send the pride flag you want. If you want your requested character with two differnt pride flags thats no issue.

Pose 1 : open

Pose 2: open

If you do not have enough cash to buy the full bodies, I am also offering just the pfp versions with flat colors for 10€ or with cel shading for 15€.

Exmples below:

[froggychairmimic]

[guild-snail]

let him eat

[blufox3542]

ARENANET! GIVE ME A PACK OF SLICE-OF-LIFE HOMESTEAD DECORATIONS AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!!

[leyline-legionnaire]

Seems the smooth rat is interested in my fanart~

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Thanks to @rosewoodroad for the amazing little Vloxx plush!

He oversees all my computer duties~

[achromant]

If i was Vloxx I'd send spicy pics to Sebb, then immediately erase all tracks from the Inquest's servers and act oblivious in public. Keep that up for like a month, then hack into Kuda's computer and "accidentally" send the same image from her account. Just to keep things interesting between them, yknow.

[bookahlogy]

screenies and stuff, NVidia, no reshade

Mini blog for future reference. There's bunch of guides online, this is mine:

I don't really do much more than just enhance what the game does, although there's a few tricks required.

I have an Nvidia GTX 1070 card and I'm running it on older drivers from the end of 2024. The software comes with Nvidia Experience overlay and the control panel.

Nvidia Experience is nowadays replaced by "Nvidia App" which works in similar way and has the same settings, but the launch was buggy, it's too heavy for my old computer, so I rolled back and never upgraded.

Screenshots are also made via the application in .png format. The game doesn't register there's an overlay working on it, so if you make shots via ingame screencap, these enhancements won't be visible.

These are my regular ingame settings that I play with. When I need to, I change shadows quality to "ultra" and if there's water, I set reflections to "all":

As for the overlay, I have two presets. They are identical, but the second one has depth of field in it, if I only want to focus on a character/object in front of the camera. Unfortunately menu is in Polish and can't be screenshot, sooo I can post them like this and translate the less obvious:

I throw a little vignette on top of that if I feel like it:

and finally DoF:

And last two things:

1) upscaled resolution - when I wanna go the extra mile, I have larger resolution profile set. My native is 1920x1080, but I go up to twice as that, 3840x2160, it's what my hardware can handle.

This needs to be applied from Windows settings, before you launch the game, if you want it to work.

Here's a guide to set up a custom res, if you want it:

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/759/~/custom-resolutions

I later crop and make these upscaled screenshots smaller, so they become smoother.

2) Camera settings - ingame sliders to help you either with character shots/portraits of environmental shots.

With all these I barely add any post-processing or touchups in photoshop.

Makes a difference?:

As always, asks and comments always open if something is unclear.

Kisses.

[bad-shepherd-gaming]

The night sky over the village of Hullgarden on the island of Castora.

🎮 Guild Wars 2 Visions of Eternity

sequel tuesday

follow along on #YouTube for more

Alt: Scenery from the game Guild Wars 2 Visions of Eternity showing several characters standing under a tree near a beachside cliff with homes built on the side, under the night sky

If you like this, you might also like supporting a political movement working for everyone https://workingfamilies.org/

[shroomlet]

asura commission for pyppyn on bsky !

[cinnabuntastic]

My commissions are open! See details in full and my TOS in my carrd, or head to Ko-Fi if you're interested!

[doedolly64]

random HEADCANON but I do think that Asura's eyes would have that tapetum lucidum thing that most animals have. Esp cuz they're subterranean. Yay headcanons

[bookahlogy]

There are two face presets with it, and Matt Barrett commented on it while drawing one of those faces, so I say actual canon, tbh. Enjoy your glow in the dark goblins (or should I rather say "reflect in the dark", but ykwim).

[tumblr]

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

[tumblr]

Let's talk about reblog notes.

We rolled out a significant change to how notes work on reblogs, and the reaction has been strong. We're not going to pretend otherwise. 

First things first: We're reversing the change. Your feedback in comments, emails, and especially reblogs, made clear that the rollout created problems we need to address before moving forward. We also should have communicated this differently from the start, and we didn't.

We still believe there's a better version of how reblogs can work. One that gives every voice in a chain the credit it deserves. But we want to get there with you.

In the coming days we'll share more on how we plan to do that,  including ways to work directly with some of you on this and future changes before they ship.

Keep an eye on @staff for updates to come soon. 

[bookahlogy]

Rollback good.

Still digging at core feature - huge DOUBT.

[tumblr]

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

[bookahlogy]

Bluesky is under threat of enshitiffication, so I thought about coming back here but this???

Unhinged.

Idk, maybe I really should make use of pillowfort? I don't really like that one.

[doedolly64]

random HEADCANON but I do think that Asura's eyes would have that tapetum lucidum thing that most animals have. Esp cuz they're subterranean. Yay headcanons

[bookahlogy]

There are two face presets with it, and Matt Barrett commented on it while drawing one of those faces, so I say actual canon, tbh. Enjoy your glow in the dark goblins (or should I rather say "reflect in the dark", but ykwim).

[bookahlogy]

The new poses facial expressions looks so damn bad on my mains, I'm too embarrassed to post them anymore, anywhere else than bug report forums.

I don't doompost usually, but at the moment I'm so frustrated with ANet, I don't think they care anymore.

I sincerely envy people who can't see the problem and send me messages like "what's wrong with it?"

I feel so done at this point.

[sytiart]

Commissions are Open!

As the title says, I've finally managed to tidy up my website, update stuff and i'm finally opening commissions again! You can find all the details here: syti.altervista.org/comms.php Feel free to send me a mail or a PM for any question you may have!

I'll be honest, 2025 has been a rough year and I got close to burnout. I.. just stopped in time to avoid that, took some rest and now I'm feeling better again. On a positive note: -I feel like i improved a lot during the last 6 months -I've made quite some practice with digital painting thus I've finally added that as a full option for commissions! Any support is appreciated ❤ Even just reblogging means a lot to me!

[bookahlogy]

bleps

Yeah, let's call them that.

Below is a small collection of raw, "production" snapshots, so shitty light and everything, taken during converting models or posing scenes, or thinking variants, and so on... but it's full of OC fluff that might or might not see the light of the day sometime, so look at your own risk, mmkay?

Let's start with "Diana, and the stolen NPC wear".

Back in the days of DX9, I had to rig stuff from the top. It was easy in her case, I just got her base body (by "base body" I usually mean exactly what you'd think, a completely nekkid toon, usually put together from a few parts into a complete body). Once rigged, that base serves as a template from which I copied rigs onto simple clothing at first, and some more complicated ones later. I managed to learn some things, but once we swapped to DX11, I could get original weights, and gained some (but just a bit) understanding on how GW2 toons work.

While the rig I made for her by myself was a little more complicated (I added more adjusting bones at thights, elbows, arms and knees), I noticed I applied some solutions that were very similar to what the original rigging has. Felt pretty good for someone who has no idea about this stuff.

Skin tight outfits with little protruding parts were easiest to rig. But Jora's outfit was tricky, as far as I remember. Almost all loose parts needed separating and some hand-painting, but it turned out very well. I also added separate bones for the chains and the leather flap on the front, so I can pose them individually, I love to have lots of adjusters :D But no too much.

Not many peeps know Kasmeer's swimsuit has these cute shell-shaped earrings :D

EARRINGS ANET, GIMME.

Lots ot adjusters means for example, look at this absolutely ridiculous (modern standard, really) number of nodes on Carlos' face :D

And I've seen WORSE.

But yeah, I love low poly stuff more, back to GW2.

Simple toon shader that I thought could help me in drawing later, and it actually did. When I was drawing Pirrx's portrait few weeks ago, I couldn't figure out how to get his jaw right.

Other case it comes helpful, it gives me an idea how to draw shadows on my "renders". Also extra shot of his face, because that's the softest expression I ever made for him.

This one came through many iterations, before it became the turntable you might saw some posts ago.

I was swapping between three poses, and gradually added more smiles, then changed armour dyes ingame in the meantime, then I left the idea for months to bake, until I got him a gyro, and then it reached it's final form.

I try the same poses on both of them. I'm very lazy with that.

Diana's earlier orange glowy armour variant, retired for the left one. Also dress, she rocks that dress.

Two more shots of Zojja I didn't posted, I think.

This one was a gift, and I had troubles coming up with a theme. I ran around a few Inquest facilities, but went back to luminates, and got an idea of a prompt with two thieves. There was supposed to be more going on the pic, the actual sign of a scuffle, one of Lhamm's daggers in B's left hand, another still on Lhamm, but it wasn't coming through clearly, so I left it out. Whole prompt was left to giftee's discretion, and I hope it was at least a bit interesting xD

0 FOV orthographic camera look at the head sizes :D

Recently decided to redo this, with new lights and background. Poses will stay the same. I'm quite content with how palms go, I'm trying to pose things accurately and even at the angles you can't see. Both of their palms do something, they hold or caress, I wanted all the tenderness of the original here.

Same with them (even the ears, they touch a bit, but not clip). If there's a chunk of armour in the way, the fingers hold onto it instead.

Carpets! I need them for something.

Sphinx meow meow :3 Still thinking about this, head empty :( You might have noticed I don't do action poses, but. I. WILL.

I like to compare them sometimes. Dad is taller. Their faces differ only by a few features. Pirrx has larger eyes and ears, but smaller mouth. But the colours make a whole lot of difference.

Whaaat is going on here?? Not telling. But someone's having fun.

And finally, ANET GIEV MORE CUSTOMIZATION. I NEED THIS COLOUR ON HER.