Just your friendly local cryptid

Hey all, it's my Pat Auctor! You can find my art and junk at https://patauctor-writesandstuff.tumblr.com/ They/Them, She/Her, 30+ No minors/AI/or NFTs!

[coffee-loving-cryptid]

Hey! Name's Pat Auctor. 

Your local (possibly supernatural) artist, writer, and gamer!

[monstersovka]

✷ Unicorn ✷

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Special commission done for @somurcourt featuring them, Ceres Azuria, Zalkyria, and Cherry Q!

[videogamepoc]

A New Video Game Allows You to Repatriate African Artifacts by Looting Western Museums

Earlier this month, Nyamakop unveiled Relooted, a new video game where players stages heists to take back stolen artifacts from Western muse

Have you ever imagined yourself, on a visit to a major museum, busting through a wall, arms full of ill-begotten African artifacts and ready to return them to their rightful homes? No? Well, you may soon have the chance, thanks to South African video game studio Nyamakop. Earlier this month at the annual Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles, Nyamakop unveiled its latest project, Relooted, a side-scrolling puzzle platformer—think early Tomb Raider or Prince of Persia games—where players join a crew of Robin Hood-esque thieves staging elaborate heists to take back stolen artifacts from Western museums, and repatriate them to the peoples from whom they were taken. As Nyamakop lays out on the game’s listing on the online video game marketplace Epic Games, Relooted takes place in a near future where “the political powers that be brokered a Transatlantic Returns Treaty, promising the repatriation of African artifacts from museums.” But the hitch in the treaty is that it only applies to artifacts on “public display,” leading museums to circumvent the requirement by placing the pieces in highly guarded private collections. And that’s where players come in: scoping out a given facility, carefully constructing an exit route, and then, of course, stealing the artifact and escaping. As Ben Myres, the creative director of the game, explained to Epic in a news post, all of the artifacts in Relooted are based on real-world pieces in Western museums. In crafting the various missions, the developer team spent two years of research narrowing done the list of which pieces, of the hundreds still held by Western museums, into something manageable.

[patauctor-writesandstuff]

When you just need to fix the room's gravity system, but your scout wants at least a few more minutes of flying around.

[eerivee]

Yet another air genasi OC of mine, Xanthos (and his moth familiar Dorian)

[laureliere]

3 Flavors of Emmeline - depicting her past, a possible future, and an alternate universe.

The Maiden: A stage of Emmeline's life where she was once a member of the Sisters of the Healing Cloth within Yharnam.

The Mother: A possible future where Emmeline's life takes a softer epilogue, instead of the grueling nights of the hunt. A life among fields of flowers and a simpler course….

The Witch: An AU where instead of knowing the bustle of Yharnam, she lives a life in a hidden village as a weaver and resident floromancer. The sort to talk to the flowers and bugs of the forest with a kind smile.

[coffee-loving-cryptid]

Item: A Box of Bandages Rarity: ✦ Uncommon

What final boss actually broke you?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Not an end boss, but the Elden Ring boss at the start castle gate absolutely infuriated me.

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Free Ditto companions for your stream! Have your choice between classic pink and shiny blue!

Available on my ko-fi! Video preview of the mouth and body movements are on my Youtube!

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Gen 10 starters are all so fucking cute!

I feel like Pombon would have energy for days, trying to chase around browt to play with.

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More art studies, this time looking at characters from Klaus!

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Doing some art studies to try and work on shapes, expressions, and line confidence. Decided to start with some Encanto studies!

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⚠️Flickering lights⚠️

Hey, Mavryk's the engineer. He's gotta make sure everything is working just fine on the ship! 😏

ALT TEXT: A short video with Vesper (human with glowing green hair) and Mavryk (bug/reptile alien). Mavryk flicks the light off and on three time, making Vesper's hair glow in the dark.

Vesper whirls around and angrily asks "Do you have to do that?"

Mavryk leans against the wall and grins, "Just making sure the resident nightlight is still working. That's all~"

Vesper turns back towards the camera, face flushed with embarassment. They look up with hands raised as they exclaim "Stars above. I am gonna kill him, I swear!"

[patauctor-writesandstuff]

Getting back into art with a new Vesper pic! They are quickly learning why the outside lost contact with this particular facility.

Also, they might be regretting the glowing hair mod they got done. Looks cool, but not great for sneaking.

Pose ref from NullEntityStock on Bsky Ref is from this post, bottom left photo set

[popsartattic]

absolute wet cat of a man

[webkinzcat]

[diet-drpenis]

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

(to the tune of "Jingle Bell Rock")

Flareon, Sylveon, Glaceon, MIKE!

[knightofleo]

[avidreaderffn]

He was done and then he just. Kept. Going.