Zooble dice "JAX!! Sé que esta es una de tus "bromas"!!" no lo exporté traducido porque ya estaba medio chata de tener esto sin terminar y quería subirlo de una vez SJKDHKJSDF
no sabía cómo traducir el wonderland y no lo iba a dejar como "país de las maravillas" así que nomás hice 2 versiones, pero me terminó gustando más la que dice "wonderland" por encima de la versión donde se le refiere como solo un mod
Mining and crafting adventure for everyone, Kinger just gets to do that in hell
It is absolutely impossible for this to happen but it is my delirium and I get to paste it on a png format
Madre mía willy pero qué haces aquí compañero versión + extras bajo el cut
No se que agregar
Me costó un mundo hacer ese fondo de bloques y se ve entero penca pero bueno lo intenté akjsdahskdj
Hice una versión en blanco y negro pero no me gustó para nada, ahí decidí hacerlo todo a color y se fue al diablo cualquier ilusión de terminar esto en un periodo de tiempo decente
Kinger's background was taken from the Lucid Blocks' Steam page gallery, and the whole thing was put through 10 bazillion filters to look like that one meme of silent hill spongebob
TL;DR: i removed a reference to a old meme on a post i made a little more than a month ago because the author of the meme came back to the internet with gross behavior
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I went back and edited a previous post because it was making reference to a meme that came from a chilean lolcow that recently came back to the internet with some disgusting behavior.
In this case the reference i made was when he got banned from league of legends and started screaming. That reference was made before he came back to the internet after years of not streaming or posting anything, and was still acceptable to poke fun at his most viral moments. Though now, not anymore. Here's the before and after. I'll try to reach out to the people that reblogged and ask them to delete that post, or idk they can do whatever they want.
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Volvió el corxea y como que ya no quiero hacerle referencia a sus memes viejos, fui a editar un post para quitarle la "suspensión permanente", aquí el antes y después.
Guys guys guys guys i am SO GLAD YOU LIKE WHAT I POST AAAAAAH THABK YOU
Gatos under the cut
Some studies for the cat caine comic
(The cat teeth anatomy image came from a google search but i looked it up and here it is)
So i was looking for references and ended up on this website. I wanted a skinny cat because caine is kind of skinny. I ended up choosing this one fella, especially for it's stats (cause you know caine can't get out of the circus haha get it lmao)
Though i ended up with generic-looking cat features for the drawings that came after, oops
Husks are physical manifestations of the souls of the damned.
The physical form is based on the value of the original soul, which is determined by the strength of its will and its prevalence in public consciousness: the living souls that remember it.
Filth are the lowest form of Husk, whose souls were too weak and unimportant to even form a complete physical body.
Even among Husks, they have the lowest intelligence, driven purely by hunger.
STRAY
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While their tall stature may seem intimidating, Strays are afraid of most danger and will try to stay at a safe distance, only attacking via projectiles formed with Hell Energy.
Although controlling and manifesting this energy is a complicated task, Strays have very low intelligence and are only able to do so via pure instinct.
Nevertheless, humans were unable to replicate this level of accuracy and control, particularily[sic] the Stray’s ability to cause the energy orbs to selectively ignore other Husks.
STALKER
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As the Greed layer's punishment, Stalkers have been forced to carry heavy boulders up the monuments of mankind's greed for all eternity.
They have carried out their punishment for so long that their bodies have evolved, warped and grown to better suit it.
Their limbs have twisted to give them better balance while carrying boulders on their backs and their skin and muscles have completely dried up, allowing them to survive direct contact with the dunes of gold dust that Greed's sun has raised to unfathomably high temperatures.
However, an unidentified sentient force has replaced the boulders they would normally carry with high tech bombs that, upon detonation, will transform any nearby blood into the gold dust "sand" that covers the layer's surface.
Research has shown the technology to be very similar to the augmentations of the modified Strays known as Soldiers, so it is likely both modifications come from the same source.
SCHISM
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The result of two souls attempting to manifest in the same space, causing an amalgamation of two physical bodies.
Due to the doubled body mass, they’re quite resilient to damage, but have very poor motor control and thus cannot aim with any degree of accuracy, resorting to barrages of energy orbs in the general direction of their opponent.
SOLDIER
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Soldiers are an augmented version of Strays, whose technological implants have been scavenged from broken machines to channel Hell Energy with greater efficiency.
This increase in power gives Soldiers more self-confidence, causing them to act more aggressively than normal Strays.
Despite the enhancements, their intelligence remains low and it has yet to be determined who or what actually augmented them.
THE CORPSE OF KING MINOS
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Once the great and beloved king of the Lust layer, Minos has now been reduced to a shambling corpse.
Due to his incredible power of will and status as a just ruler in life remembered even millenia[sic] after his death, the manifestation of his soul is the largest Husk to ever have been recorded.
Small traces of the original soul can still be detected in the body, but the corpse itself is animated and controlled entirely by the snakelike Parasites that he once commanded.
Despite once bringing upon the renaissance of the Lust layer, his corpse now only seeks sinners to punish.
SISYPHEAN INSURRECTIONIST
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The Sisyphean Insurrectionists were an army of Husks gathered and trained by King Sisyphus for overthrowing Heaven's control of Hell, freeing the sinners from their eternal torment.
During an era of chaos in Heaven, as the angelic watch was absent, Sisyphus began setting his plan in motion as his forces recruited all Husks that were intelligent enough to be useful to their cause and began attacking the demons that wandered the dunes of Greed.
Upon the establishment of the Council and subsequent return of peace to Heaven, Gabriel and an army of angels were sent down to crush the insurrection and subjugate Sisyphus' army.
Although their battle was well-fought, the inexperienced Insurrectionists could not match the educated strategy of the angels, who quickly descended upon King Sisyphus with great force, eventually overpowering and killing him, leaving the Insurrectionists without a chain of command.
Left scattered and disoriented, the warriors were easily picked off one by one, their bodies cut apart, leaving behind only the bare essentials required to carry on their eternal punishment of hauling heavy boulders up the monuments of mankind's arrogance and greed.
Although the blood of their enemies still stains their bodies and their grasp still clutches their fallen foes, their will and fierce fury only serve as mental torment in knowing how close they were to freedom.
FERRYMAN
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Ferrymen are rare husks whose powerful bodies, trained skills and blind faith have granted them the chance of becoming the transporters of souls between the layers of Hell.
They have each been given a holy cloth by Heaven as a symbol of their devotion to God's order, which they wear over their bodies to hide the human form that they've grown to despise as a reminder of their sins in life stopping them from becoming angels, to the extent that they have torn off their own skin and flesh, leaving behind only bones.
Due to the holy power emanating from the cloth, Ferrymen's skeletal bodies have slowly been colored bright and radiant, and their skulls have enough latent energy to open gates that otherwise stop Husks from exiting their places of torment.
Each ferry can only have one Ferryman at a time, so when a new Ferryman is formed, it will fight another to the death in order to take their place and inherit their cloth. The loser's skull is taken as a trophy and used to grant the winner passage across the layers in order to transport the souls of the damned to their destinations.
MIRROR REAPER
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Due to its illusory nature, very little is known about the 8th layer of Hell. Even its punishment remains shrouded in mystery.
Extended exposure to the layer, which seems like picturesque recreation of a New Peace community on the surface, causes eventual total collapse of sensory information and physical space, after which all connection is lost
The only point of reference is the elusive Mirror Reaper, an amalgamation of multiple husks arranged in a deliberate, twisted fashion, which seems to exist between spaces, often inside reflections, hence its name.
Although this example could be used to draw conclusions about the fates of its layer's inhabitants, it's important to keep in mind that this instance is the only one of its kind to ever be seen, which may imply that what happened to everyone else was far, far worse.
"NO EUGOLY, NO MEM'RY FOR A GREAT KING OF LOVE AND DREAMS..."
"NO REQUIEM"
Oh yeah, here are some close up's, i really try to out some "lore" on This, like The eyes of hell in The KING MINOS section and That The FLESH PRISION is The background of MINOS PRIME (i know i take some Liberty oh The Human appereance of MINOS but i need to full The gapes)
...Well- done is relative. There's definitely parts that aren't as finished as others. But I need to call it done and move on with life lest I explode.
This is NOT the full file. I mean it now more than ever: please look at the full version here.
This started as a little sketch and snowballed into attempting to recreate the look of a cathedral stained glass window as faithfully as possible. The file is so beefy the biggest boundary to finishing it was the fact that fresco kept crashing. It might lag your browser a bit, be warned, but... please?
Some of my favorite detail shots:
I wanted to make a matching one for Sisyphus and P-3 but after the ordeal that this one put me through I genuinely don't know if I have it in me :')
And now, about 1500 words of explanation for every detail below the cut
The WIP saga for those curious
"Why?" Wanted to see if I could
On Stained Glass Art
I did my best to replicate the religious purpose of stained glass windows through medieval Christian history, that being to convey Biblical stories visually to illiterate churchgoers. I also attempted to replicate historical & stylistic techniques, with mixed results- the main difference being a wider range of hues, and the detail limitations of my canvas (an insane thing to say about a 5000x7000 pixel canvas but this is not a medium for the sane)- and frankly, the limitations of my patience, because unlike medieval artists I am not being patronized by the Catholic church. Most of my digital stained glass replica art up to this point has been using purely the glass textures, but this sort of stained glass window was often intricately painted.
Unnecessarily Long-Winded Explanation Of The Whole Window
Okay I need you to understand that I am not pulling the rest of this post out of my ass, shout-out to Signs and Symbols in Christian Art by George Ferguson.
One of the difficulties with this whole concept was that, due to the medium itself, I'm trying to represent Minos's story from the perspective of the Church/Council, who condemned his actions and would've wanted this to be seen as a cautionary tale about defying heaven. (This is difficult because I think he's cool and awesome.) This is why the story stops with his corpse, and doesn't (explicitly) include his prime soul.
It's difficult to make it visually/aesthetically clear that his actions are meant to be condemned and his death was justified. I probably could've framed it differently, drawn him in a way that makes him look more sinister rather than in a way that would feel very reverent if the story stopped at panel 3, but I honestly like the ambiguity of this version. The story is interpreted very differently depending on whether you have empathy for the husks, or believe it's a perversion of justice, an act of defiance against God, to see them happy and thriving. Minos looks like a hero. He looks like someone to be revered, respected. And from one perspective, that's the cautionary aspect.
That being said- I was kind of interpreting this as a piece whose creation was ordered either by Heaven or by those sinners who were still believers, but ultimately made by the residents of Hell? I dunno man. So while the ultimate story is the same, there are some subtle aspects that don't entirely align with the Council's agenda:
Husks in the bottom windows: I don't actually have a direct source for this, but from what I've seen after looking at a lot of references, this sort of context-less alcove was usually used for saints, angels, etc- generic Good imagery that could be used without requiring much context. Replacing that imagery with husks: make of that what you will.
Caged dove: Birds in general can be used as a symbol for the soul. The cage is made of the roots of the tree of life for a very deep reason, that being because it's badass. The most 'overt' reference to his prime soul.
The raven, moon, sun and phoenix: There's a sort of double-meaning between viewing them in isolation vs as a whole. Individually, I think they kind of align with the story of Heaven: the raven, a symbol of death, referencing God's disappearance between panels 1&2; the moon followed by the sun referencing Heaven getting their shit together afterward, night becoming day; phoenix carrying along the same theme of being reborn from the ashes of God's disappearance, or whatever. In tandem though, they're symbols for the Magnum Opus in alchemy. I wasn't really sure about including these because I didn't want it to be a hollow gesture purely for the sake of aesthetics or "haha look at me I watched the dev stream" but I think there's enough here that while I may be reaching, I am grasping something. The parallel isn't 1:1, but I think there's enough of a common theme in Minos and Sisyphus's stories of transformation, transcendence, a sort of immortality of the soul (until u kill them lol)
The rest of it, from the top-down and then left-to-right:
Heart: tree of life.
Goats: Goats are a symbol in Christianity for sin in general, lust specifically. The fig branches they're eating are also symbols of lust (sometimes portrayed in place of apples as the unspecified forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden, with fig leaves being what Adam and Eve cover themselves with afterward). Broken chain + decapitated because just a goat wasn't heavy-handed enough.
Snakes: Apart from the obvious 'Minos has snakes', ouroboros is a general symbol for eternity, cycles of creation/destruction, another alchemy connection. The skulls are there because I needed something to be there and skulls are cool.
Panel 1
Heart-shaped window: decorated with thorns, which represent grief, tribulation, and sin, and are also on Minos's face
Top of panel: shows Heaven while God's still kicking. Everything is in order, Heaven is keeping an eye on things. (I kind of had to balance game accuracy with stylization, but the fact that we haven't seen too many individual angels made me lean toward more traditional portrayals of them here.)
Minos wears a purple robe, a color associated with royalty (as well as sadness and penitence), and holds the scales of justice because he's still doing a good job as Judge of Hell at this point. The throne is just there symbolically to emphasize his position as a king / authority figure. The sky in the background has a bunch of souls floating around because that's what happens in Dante's Inferno and I think the artistic depictions of it are cool. Frankly it looks kind of fun. It's gotta be fun to be in the vortex for at least like the first 5 minutes right?
Foreground has sinners confessing their sins to him and then facing punishment (in a more metaphorical/stereotypical depiction of hell)
Panel 2
Heart-shaped window: decorated with olive branches, a symbol for peace as the Lust Renaissance begins.
Top of panel: Heaven in turmoil after the disappearance of God. The sky has gone dark, angels are distracted and facing away from Minos.
Minos in a green robe, symbolizing charity, regrowth, the triumph of life over death. He kneels among the people of Lust, less a supreme authority/judge and more a benevolent ruler and guide. Husks building Lust's city and helping rescue other sinners from Wrath in the foreground.
Panel 3
Heart-shaped window: figs = lust again
Top of panel: This one I'm still not 100% certain on because the Hell/eye connection is still kind of shaky in its specifics. I do feel fairly confident in that eye motif symbolizing Hell; this specific depiction of it was taken almost directly from the stained glass pieces in 1-4. The angels looked away but Hell sure didn't! This and Minos's corpse are the only proper, intact eyes in the whole piece, mostly in keeping with the rest of the game because I still have no solid idea what (if anything) the lack of eyes in Hell means thematically.
Minos stands among the finished city of Lust at the height of its renaissance, assuming the role of benevolent ruler and protector. The yellow robe is a symbol of treachery/betrayal (Judas is often portrayed in a yellow robe). He holds part of the city in his hands; I've seen this a few times in stained glass with religious authority figures holding a miniature churches. The heart is just... yeah he's giving life to the city or whatever, also it looks cool.
Foreground has husks living their best lives, they have clothes now because it's cold. One holding an olive branch (symbol of peace), the other writing, and of course the lesbian skeletons. You cannot tell that the skeletons are lesbians, but I'm telling you the skeletons are lesbians. The snakes are down here rather than on his arms as a sort of extension of himself protecting the citizens. In the greenery around them are poppies, which apart from their associations with WW1 and sleep/death, can also symbolize luxury, fertility and extravagance.
his toes are wet but try not to think about it
Panel 4
Heart-shaped window: Lilies are associated strongly with the archangel Gabriel.
Top of panel: Angels get their shit back together, notice what's happening in Lust and descend on it like angry wasps
This one's probably mostly self-explanatory, Minos being killed by Gabriel while attempting to reason with him. Only thing is Minos' black robe, representing death/mourning, and the fact that he's holding (or rather dropping) an olive branch.
Panel 5
Heart-shaped window: anemone flowers are associated with death/mourning.
Top of panel: The Council formally established and watching over Hell.
Also fairly self-explanatory. Minos' corpse destroying the city. The fiery color scheme and blood running through the streets and all that is kind of over-the-top compared to what we see in-game, but I needed some way to give each panel its own distinct color scheme.
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