CallingGestalt

Getting Back on Tumblr, I guess. Video Creator, Skeleton, Bunny Girl

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[These Text Messages and Online Posts have been traced back to the victim Heavens "Miller" Smiles and other members of Lakers "Creek" Kristoff's Pod]

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One must imagine Farah happy

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Assistant District Attorney Reads You Your Charges [ASMR]

I promised I'd make Emma Rockford ASMR if I got 200 Followers on BlueSky.

Play of the Devil (Steam Link)

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POV: THE ADA FINALLY GETS SOME 🐱

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of the Devil Episode 3 Prediction

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[qasimlondon]

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My favorite serial killer~

I wanted to make gifs for this but tumblr loves compressing my shit, I’ll reblog later with higher quality if i can figure it out.

Rambles:

I remember seeing this animation meme and thinking, morgan deserves a few more kills, so I kinda made this is a fugue state lmao. IM SO CONFUSED HOW I MANAGED TWEENING SO WELL (first time! :D)

I have such a fun time mimicking the OTD style~ including the cut ins! I drew everything in this video except for the backgrounds used for the beginning parts (they’re the 3D backgrounds from the game) obviously everything heavily references assets from the game.

I sat in the blueblood hangout area in the beginning of the game for so long trying to scan for the positions of important things. I may have forgotten the bat and not draw most of the trash but I did keep my favorite detail from the scene, the line of Miller’s blood from when Morgan dragged the sword across the floor

Rip Creek 😔

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Since I decided to post this animation at like 4 am, I thought it’d be fun to share some of my process as well as screenshots in the reblog!

Screencaps and ramble below~

I have such a damn good time mimicking OTD’s and Bug’s artstyle. Somehow it feels very geared to my art style (which is non-existent cuz I switch up my rendering so damn much) but much more freer than I usually feel when I draw. It’s something about the lineart and the blocky shading GUh so fun. A lot of these character art assets are essentially redraws but thought I’d share nonetheless.

These first three shots are essentially redraws of the Morgan sprites “Morg heh LowerWards”, “Morg flippant”, and “ThoughtMorg blank” but at a more front-facing angle. The sprite names are taken from the fanwiki. The backgrounds of the first two images are screenshots of the Blueblood Pod building from the beginning of episode 2 and the intro cg of episode 0 respectively. For the first one I had to merge two different screenshots cuz there was no screenshot I could pull from the game that didn’t have character art in it~ the bg of the 3rd image was to mimic the original video for the meme as well as the bg of the character art cut-ins from the game!

For the young Morgan drawings, the wet cat Morgan drawing was essentially a redraw of “Cg 02 crush 05”. For the first one, I used the 2nd as a base since there is no front-facing young Morgan sprite I don’t think. I also made it purple to mimic those sections in episode 2! Other than the fact I forgot to use a more sketchy brush for the lineart, I think I did a good job of mimicking the rendering of those sections!

Now I remember seeing someone mentioning this part as a tweening *edit*, and it is! But I redrew the og sprites myself! So here’s the base sprite redraw that I did for this bit. Considering this is the first real time I’ve ever done a tweening animation, I think I did good! :D

Here are the screenshots with the lighting and compositing I did. The gun was so fun to draw you have no idea (to the despair of my friends). Checkov’s way more complicated rendering compared to the character art to highlight the relevance of a prop gun~. I know it’s prolly cuz the gun in that shot from the game is a 3d model with some 2d rendering over it spiderverse style (I think?) but still~ The BG was also a screenshot from the game. As for the lighting, I kept the lighting from the shot of Morgan sitting of the desk for the start and when the gun pops up I changed the lighting/solors to mimic the Morgan *heavy bass blaring* cut-ins. REALLY happy with how this shot turned out!!!!

Now I’m at my image limit but as for the Creek and Morgan cut-ins I tried to keep how they pop in accurate to the game! The frame expanding out and the moving bgs~ Morgan was essentially a redraw of the sitting on the desk cg (specifically “Cg 02 mask 2”), I needed the Creek cut-in to be from a higher angle to make it feel like Morgan was looking down on them. Her hand is way higher up from their actual wound but I need his hand and the blood to be more visible. I had a REALLY FUN time drawing creek man.

Wow that was long. I’m going to get back to working on my ISAT and DR projects soon, but I’ll still continue working on those OTD cast character arts~

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Here’s that Creek y’all wanted~

Happy Morgan Monday!

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Butterfly Aeffect Magazine Ad (20XX)

Play Butterfly Aeffect: Papillons a Quatre Mains, it's such a great Visual Novel.

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CRANK IT! of the devil edit

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Rogers being chopped as fuck is thematically important

Every other Blueblood member comes off as charming and some sort of hustler. We also know that the ticket to being a gangster could be as simple as having the right blood type. Rogers obviously doesn't seem to have either of these things. While others have had an easy in and succeeded in the gangster lifestyle, his bar of entry would have been higher and he isn't nearly as successful.

In this way, It's easy to romanticize and sympathize with people in organize crime who were desperate but still climbed the ladder. They did what they had to do to survive and found a better life in the process. But what about the guys who are actually not skilled and barely could make it by in the position they're given?

Rogers is the cut off from someone who barely scrapes by through whatever means necessary and someone who would die on the streets because you were too poor or ungifted enough to keep your head above water. And it's fucking humiliating. As such he isn't cool or hot or charming, he's balding and skittish and not bright because he's barely making it by as is and doesn't have the ability to improve himself.

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Rogers is such an excellent foil for Reyes insofar as there's no such thing as a "good cop." I lament that more people don't acknowledge it.

The system is designed to corrupt anyone who joins the force, even and especially those with good intentions.

Reyes bashes her head against the wall despite repeated failures and goes full esprit de corp to cope with the reality that being a cop doesn't make you some kind of superhero.

Rogers has realized this reality and given himself up to forces beyond his control. He doesn't strike me as malicious so much as "everyone else is doing it, so what's the point in pretending to be the 'good guy.'"

In other words, Rogers is what Reyes will eventually become if she doesn't quit or get herself killed. Rogers is by no means a good person, and he got the comeuppance he deserved, but the story of how he got to where he is still makes me feel kinda bad for him.

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Rogers compliance with a lot of the Force's bullshit does contrast Reyes attitude quite a bit. Rogers was willing to sit in a degrading position, put up with Chopin breaking equipment constantly, and walk into a Blueblood massacre. The one time he took any sort of stand or took any sort of deliberate action, he half heartedly ended up killing Chopin and tried covering everything up using Sosuke. He's comfortable where he is and doesn't want to fuck up what he already has.

Reyes on the other hand explicitly wants to be a helpful civil servent and is constantly held back or has to put up with the corruption at hand. She gets promoted? It's only to homicide because she's unpopular. She's working a high profile case of David's death and Serra being an AI? She doesn't get the password to investigate the panic room because the bomb squad wants to play with their toys. Sosuke needs to be protected from cops beating the shit out of him for being suspected of being a cop killer? She'll still get mad at him and treat him as one before he's even found guilty.

This also shows a big difference between Homicide and rest of the force. It's not just the Homicide is a dead end department, it's actively being meddled with by other police for no reason. Rogers might have not been happy with his work, but at least it wasn't being actively tampered with. Reyes on the other hand will, like you said, either have to be broken down to allow corruption or quit or get killed because as she is now, she isn't going to be able to continue going with the statues quo in the name of justice.

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stocking boxes all by yourself, darling?

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Listen Ik it’s late but it’s still Morgan Monday for me. Do NOT know why Creek is my 2nd most drawn OTD character.

I wanted to give Creek more outfits so I drew this one as an outfit derivative from her OG fit. A Maid Man tank with more intentional tears, a sheer top underneath that I had a lot of fun coloring, cargo pants with pockets the same color as the patch on their og pants, a tied bandana the same color as his jacket (that I didnt wanna draw cuz I had too much fun drawing his arms…（´∇｀'')), and a few extra pieces of jewelry! I kept my sketch of the tattoo cuz no way I draw allat for it to be covered up, and yes, I’m preferential to hair down Creek SUE ME.

Also I lwky hated how this came out when I finished it but oh well~ I’ll draw Creek in a more fem outfit later perhaps.

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Rogers being chopped as fuck is thematically important

Every other Blueblood member comes off as charming and some sort of hustler. We also know that the ticket to being a gangster could be as simple as having the right blood type. Rogers obviously doesn't seem to have either of these things. While others have had an easy in and succeeded in the gangster lifestyle, his bar of entry would have been higher and he isn't nearly as successful.

In this way, It's easy to romanticize and sympathize with people in organize crime who were desperate but still climbed the ladder. They did what they had to do to survive and found a better life in the process. But what about the guys who are actually not skilled and barely could make it by in the position they're given?

Rogers is the cut off from someone who barely scrapes by through whatever means necessary and someone who would die on the streets because you were too poor or ungifted enough to keep your head above water. And it's fucking humiliating. As such he isn't cool or hot or charming, he's balding and skittish and not bright because he's barely making it by as is and doesn't have the ability to improve himself.

[mormorphosis]

[snickering-doodles]

There's a very loud horror to being Aidey that over powers her quirky behavior for me. Her profile lists all these worldly indulgences: mountain air, pizza topping prefs, returning a shopping cart. Aidey wants to be a part of the wider world, she would thrive being let loose. Yet, I do not think we have seen her off of that pillar, let alone ever eatin anything. There is a chance that she cant even leave that pillar because of her programming. She exists to perform, and then go back to her room. That is her beginning and end. She herself calls the court room a stage.

Her body is not even hers it is one she shares with The State and her 83 siblings. She is only herself when performing her role. At all other times shes shoved in a digital holding pattern twiddling her thumbs till she gets to front again. I would be fuckin extra af if I only got to be a person for like, 5 hours a week too !!! If she only exists to perform then let it be a fun performance!

Her design too screams in your face how this world thinks of her. If justice is a performance at least make it something worth staring at. A woman on a pedestal to be looked at but never listened too. She is here to keep the play moving. The second anything the state would deem important happens an actual human judge steps in.

You could argue that shes not truly sentient so it is ok to treat her like this, but can you?? In a game about the masks we wear and what it truly means to be human, who is to say an android or two haven't made the same leap Serra did in their own way? How can you be sure.

Sometimes the best mask of all is the fool. No one would suspect a woman is suffering when all they see is a buggy robot. Being a full person means death so better a clown than scrap metal.

It is by this very role shes carved for herself that she can engage with the world the best now that I think about it. No one is going to bat an eye if the "quirky pandemic era vocab rawr ex three" robot asks about drama, or unimportant details. She has but a small peephole to see the real world and she is taking full advantage.

In conclusion I wish I could give Aidey a hug.

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This adds to the absurdity of Jung going "I was made to participate in Chattle Slavery" about the 300 AIs David made and shipped out. Look at Aidey or even Penny from Model Employee and you can see adds having full on interpersonal lives and wants and needs and feelings. It's just that they're not *considered* people by whatever specifications, so they aren't. Because it'd be too gross or disgusting to actually consider these things living, breathing, thinking machines.

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Nothing in Life is Free - Model Employee

About three weeks after Morgan walked out of Police Precinct 254 with a suspect's case cleared, a young up-and-comer walks into a Tethys Warehouse.

Play Model Employee (Itch.io Link)

Play of the Devil (Steam Link)

YourNightOwl - (Tumblr Link)

Work Cited Helmore, E. (2020, January 30). WeWork calls time on free beer and wine at North American sites. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/30/wework-ends-free-beer-wine-north-american-sites

Substance abuse among blue-collar workers. American Addiction Centers. (2024, January 3). https://americanaddictioncenters.org/workforce-addiction/blue-collar