Fantasy Gamer Nerd

[nyoka-gorefell]

Quickdraw of what will be my first Guild Wars 3 character.

Ashen Voice. Kodan outcast, doomsayer, and follower of Abaddon.

Would for sure be a Metal Legion fan if she were born in the right era.

[nyoka-gorefell]

"Draw a monster with "skinwalker arms, one on fire; werewolf legs; dragon body--a combination of a dragon, werewolf, and Lady Maria from Bloodborne" -Kid.

This is the result.

[bladesofdawn]

snags some ppl for june art party :J hope i got em alright!

nora ashpelt | @guildtree harukehn | @harukehn alba moonseeker | @hivemaster malva the furnace | @nyoka-gorefell

[nyoka-gorefell]

Thank you!

[jynxghoststep]

a rainbow of cats for this month’s art party :]

[nyoka-gorefell]

The kids in my family (nieces/nephews, cousins) know that I'll draw creatures and characters for them, if they ask. Past requests have been pretty straightforward--bigfoot; a unicorn; a dragon; ect. But, I recently got a pretty fun one from a gamer kid who is starting to create his own stories and OC's. This is a synopsis of what he described:

"I want a monster with skinwalker arms, except one is on fire. Werewolf legs (aka, digitigrade) with monster feet. She has a dragon body, and she's like a combination of dragon, werewolf, and Lady Maria (from Bloodborne)."

I've been playing with concepts for that in the last couple days, and finally settled on one I like. I'll post the result once it's done x)

[pocketss]

Ummm she's literally sensitive :/

[a-charr-can-draw-too]

Pose compare

[nyoka-gorefell]

Wow that is some intense improvement! The linework on the redraw is gorgeous!

[nyoka-gorefell]

A tale of two unicorns...

I was given a "commission" by my 8 year old cousin to draw a "magical unicorn". Which is fine, but I have a very different aesthetic taste than an 8 year old xD

The first picture, I did for myself--a sketch to get the edgy energy out of my system. The second picture is the one I made for my cousin xD

[nyoka-gorefell]

I finally got all the skins to complete my Kryptis character! (it only took weeks of grinding...)

[brax-was-here]

Don't you want to hug the Beefcake?

[nyoka-gorefell]

He can hug my beefcake xD

[eraserheadadult]

as a lover of Women Fighting & Killing media it's so important to me when they actually let the women look like shit. you know what i mean. like im so bored when a woman is in what's supposed to be a brutal fight and her hair is just aesthetically tousled or something and her makeup is still pristine. fuck offfff. if she's beating the shit out of someone and fighting for her life she should be covered in blood n bile she should look like she got hit by a truck and the truck exploded

[nyoka-gorefell]

This is why I can't take the Fallout series seriously....

[ki11ustr4tions]

How yall feel bout werewolves

[obisooth]

Tragic: Person with ADHD doesn't remember if they took their ADHD med

[ithelpstodream]

[darkerskin-deactivated20170723]

Take this with you

[honeybrowns]

to all my white followers who stew in unnecessary guilt trying to come to terms with the privilege you have, watch this

[nyoka-gorefell]

If you have privilege, you have power. It is a gift. Use it. There is no shame in power that is being used to protect and uplift others.

[nyoka-gorefell]

Friend: I just need to GET DISCIPLINED and PUSH HARDER and FORCE MYSELF to be functional!!

Me: Actually, you need to start treating your ADHD and quit being mean to yourself.

Friend: That's not very manly.

Me: Too bad. I'm making you an appointment with my ADHD doctor, you neurodivergent fuck.

[shamebats]

Imo the best type of system for children to grow up in would be one that assumes the birth parents/primary guardians won't do shit and takes care of every aspect of childcare that's essential for their wellbeing and development, collectively.

[shamebats]

But I'm just a guy who only learned how to brush his teeth properly and got glasses as a child because we had both a dentist and a doctor come to school on a regular basis. The dentist would have us all stand in a circle with our little toothbrushes and show us how to brush and correct our technique. The doctors would give us general health assessments and then have the teachers contact our patents and essentially peer pressure them into getting us any health intervention we needed. My parents only reluctantly got me glasses because they knew the teachers would judge them if they kept seeing me sit in the very front row and still squint to see the chalkboard. So I'm biased.

[shamebats]

The only times I ever remember seeing a dentist or doctor as a child was at school. I'm quite healthy physically and I'm very grateful for all the care I got from the various professionals who cared about my well-being and development more than my actual parents did.

We had free healthcare including dental, mind you, my parents just couldn't be bothered. When my brother, as a teenager, asked our mother if she could take him to his orthodontist appointments (which he'd already arranged for on his own) she basically told him she didn't feel like it and he had to take the bus.

If I could improve anything about that system, I'd take it even further and make it so kids could see a doctor and get meds, treatments, therapy, tests, disability aids etc. without having to rely on their parents as well. I shouldn't have had to put up with being bullied and guilt-tripped about the family finances and the time investment needed to take me to the optometrist every time I needed new glasses.

[shamebats]

Some parents would not take care of their children even if they were given all the time and the resources. Mine are a great example of that — my mother stopped working and became a homemaker when I was in kindergarten, my father worked from the garage and was also always home. They had a car and our village even had a bus that would come once or twice an hour that would take you to the next two bigger cities.

Did that, plus the free healthcare, translate into them actually parenting and caring for us properly? It did not. They only ever did any of that reluctantly when not doing it would make them look bad, and most of the time they did a shitty job because they could never resist the urge to boost their egos by means of bullying literal children.

So I have to wonder: what did they actually contribute to our upbringing? Like they didn't teach us shit and mostly they just endangered our mental and physical health — but hey, at least they gave me cPTSD! That took some work too.

[nyoka-gorefell]

This is interesting to me, because my awareness of how many neglected and needy children there are out there has slowly expanded through my life, and it's mind-boggling.

The way I grew up is something, I've found, many people can't even imagine. My parents were both highly educated, competent, loved each other, and both wanted me very much. All of my needs were always met, immediately and completely. Medical, social, spiritual, educational... I never wanted for anything. And for the longest time, I thought that was normal... that anything less was a strange minority.

But the further I've gotten into adulthood, and the more of life I've seen, the more I realize... what I had, is what so many need and lack. The system is broken--but I'm not sure if a top-down approach is what will fix it.

The greatest good I've seen, has started in communities that decide to care about each other. Our wider culture has become so individualistic, so focused on "I got mine"... and our leaders are a reflection of that culture at its most dysfunctional. What we need is neighbors and communities and schools where people care about each other... where the doctor and the dentist coming to the school becomes one part of a greater cultural whole.

[shirokoi]

I have some strong feelings about the charr intro quest in Guild Wars 2.