NocoVember 2023 | Week 2 โก Angst [Island of the Slaughtered]
[tw for slight blood, iots spoilers, close ups & textless ver below cut] wait FUCK I GAVE HIM 6 FINGERS ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
i've been envisioning this drawing for MONTHS now and i'm so glad that i turned out exactly how i wanted it to!!
and honestly, i applaud @eavee-ry sm for making this insanely cool au ๐ญ๐ all the drawings made me so awestruck and as a fellow artist, i'm js rlly proud of them ๐ฅน๐ซถ
ALSO to any1 who thinks noah looks whitewashed, understand that i had to desaturate him to make sure he blended well with the moonlight and dark atmosphere! [saying this bcs one person on tiktok said he looked whitewashed ๐ญ and i had to explain that this is js how ppl w/ noah's skin (like myself) js works in the moonlight]
crescent moon noah is definitely my magnum opus ๐ also, idk if any of u hv noticed but i'm trying to make his forehead wrinkle more apparent?? ๐ญ
bcs i saw this one meme on pinterest where it's emo noah hair โ๏ธ vs regular noah hair w his wrinkle on full display โ ๏ธ AND I FELT SO CALLED OUT BAGAHAHA SO I AM TRYING TO GIVE MY GUY HIS WRINKLY JUSTICE LMFAOSJAOA
WOOHOO WEEK 1 OF NOCOVEMBER BABYYYY!!!! i'm sooo excited to see what ppl make and i hope i can keep up w resharing them on my story since this event has been spread on tumblr n tiktok ๐ญ๐โจ๏ธ
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pls pls do tag me or even dm me! abt ur posts so i can see the wonderful art/fics that u guys'll make :D ๐๐๐ remember, don't rush yourself and don't feel pressured to join if you aren't in a position to do nocovember!!
i got into it after all my online friends began to move on from td back in 2020 ๐ญ๐ญ HSJHS SO IT WAS RLLY BAD TIMING BCS a lot of them got into danganronpa and they were alrdy kinda bored of td
BUUUT funnily enough, the thing that specifically reeled me into total drama was in fact a td x danganronpa au, a fangan basically. it's this old instagram acc called 'totalronpaisland' which i was sooo invested in to the point where i made a whole ass vid edit of the series ANNND made pic edits for it (where they were in that court room thingy and i'm linking so that u guys can see!!) OH AND UH SPOILERS FOR IT BTW IN THE EDIT BELOW
[one thing i will always regret is how i didnt crop out the text in the pics of the dead campers (the ones that come out behind whoever was responsible for their deaths)]
and this was all before i even WATCHED the show itself ๐๐ญ
plus, i read some noco fics b4hand too, which would def explain why i got REALLY into the ship even tho they cannonically have very few interactions (and its still my otp, man,,, ๐ญ the fanon got me in a chokehold n i doubt i'm escaping any time soon ๐๐ it's been 3 years alrdy HAHAHA ALMOST 4 NOW)
PLEASE post more of ur total drama edits im BEGGING U SBDJFNKFNGKFNKFKG
aughghhh i would but i 1) haven't made any, 2) just started university [on my 2nd week] and 3) don't really have any plans to continue it bcs it's ngl very draining and i don't rlly wanna face public backlash for smth that isn't up to ppl's standards sorryyy ๐ญ๐ซถ๐
i drew the mercs, miss pauling, admin, and my tf2 oc on the plane to uni ๐ญ
i did all of these a week ago and completely forgot to post them HAJAHAH miss p, the admin, and a rlly simplified ver of my tf2 oc miss lynn!! (zoey lynn hehe + js rambles abt her) under the cut
IM ACTUALLY REWORKING HER DESIGN RNNNN bcs i made her on the sims 4 LMAO and realised how much better and concise she looked, but i really wanna try and make her look like someone you'd js see irl? sooOOo tryna make her also recognisable from silhouette alone and blahablahblah tho she isn't the kind of character that would rlly make too much of a difference in the tf2 universe
i js wanted to make a loveable character LMAO who'd have more of an impact on the relationships and kinda the story?
i liked the idea of miss p having an extroverted bestfriend who's also her wingwoman bcs miss pauling is obvs an awkward lesbian mess who needs help in the love department, and vice versa bcs zoey is into scout and miss pauling is js so glad to have him move on n realise that they r better as friends!! and that he needs to be with someone who isn't annoyed by him 24/7 (IM SORRY, LWNAKS MY SELF-INSERTEDNESS GOT IN THE WAY HAHAHAHA I CANT HELP IT) also, i haven't rlly thought of any orientation for zoey... i'm thinking of her js being a het woman or js whatever u wanna interpret her as!! cuz her sexuality isn't a core thing abt her
she's an absolute harbinger of chaos who'd do anyt for money and some company (this girl has been hella lonely n stressed out of her mind and i'll explain why in an oc post๐คญ๐คญ) and even tho she never outright admits it, she does enjoy the freedom of violence she gets to have as a mann co assistant ๐ญ (which will ALSO make sense when i explain her background to u guys later on)
and bcs of her long experience w shady bosses and asshole customers she's had to deal within all the jobs she's had, she catches onto the administrator's whole thing with the australium fairly early into the job, but she's in tooooo deep now and is like "damn. do i get myself out of this fucked up job (that i am fucked up enough to actually enjoy) or do i stay bcs i literally have everything i've ever wanted....shit." like,, she did say she'd do anyt for money but at the cost of what ๐ญ [also MAN i wish we got that final comic so i can js make zoey's suspicions make sense??!?@ but in a way it js works bcs it's js this massive mystery that we don't even know of ourselves???? so likeee, im js assuming its smth rlly dangerous or smth bcs helen literally goes to the most insane lengths to get australium and finish off her final... thingy.. that uh DEBT is it... i forgot what she called it BUT WHATEVER BUSINESS SHE HAD TO ATTEND TO B4 SHE DIED QOABJASH]
OH AND YEAH, zoey hates how bossy the admin is and is an ass abt it at times, and the admin wants zoey gone so badly bcs shes an annoying little shit (which she is and honestly, her and scout can be annoying shits tgt <3) but miss p always convinces her to keep zoey BAGAHAHA and they do get things done much faster w zoey there sooOoOOo ๐๐คญ
i mean she does try to kill both miss p & l anyway but still, she can't deny that they r both good at what they do
BWOSBQJS BYE I DONT THINK ANYONE IS GONNA READ THIS AHAGAH BUT THANK YOU IF U DID ๐ญ I HAVE SM ABT ZOEY AND I RLLY WANT HER TO BE LOVEABLE AUGHWGS
i decided to give you guys two options for each week this year and i wanted them to correlate to one another in some shape or form + an extra month to work on it!
the rules are simple!
โ use #NocoVember2023 and tag me when you post your art/story (i wanna see it so badly u guys ๐ฅฒ๐ซถ)
โ comment/reblog saying that you'll be joining and tag 3 people who you think might be interested (it is totally okay to still be unsure and not participate in the end okayyy :D)
โ you can pick one theme, both, or mash them together for each week! the choice is yours, and you don't even have to do all of 'em
โ feel free to post your work at any point in november (or if you want to do it a month earlier or later, it's up to you :0)
โ for the angst and older prompt, please don't do anything nsfw related. i'm asking you to not draw/write smut, but if you want to do something gory for the angst prompt, always put a proper warning!
โ remember to have fun, never hesitate to ask me questions, and don't feel pressured to join <3
each prompt is explained under the cut
Week 1 - Sun & Moon / Cat & Dog
these can either be taken literally (as in you make them into for eg; noah, a black cat, and cody, a golden retriever) or metaphorically (noah has moon energy so you include things that symbolize that, and same goes for cody with his sun energy)
Week 2 - Monsters / Angst
you can turn them both or one of them into (a) monster(s)! this could be tethered to the angst genre or you could make a completely different angsty scenario between the two of them
Week 3 - Older / Childhood Friends
they can either be in university, full-grown adults, or heck! even elderly men ๐ญ so how do they look now? what's changed in their lives and in their relationship? do they still keep in touch or have they strayed away from each other? who knows! it's all up to you
as for childhood friends? they could be toddlers like on dramarama, maybe prepebusecent teens? just make sure they are younger than they are on the show (aka 16)
Week 4 - Canon Divergence / Reality TV Duo
i wanna see you put these two nerds in a completely different reality tv genre! it could be a cooking competition, something like wipeout or love island, a quizz show! anything as long as it isn't total drama.
unless,,, you do want them to be a duo in TD then you could make a canon divergence situation where these two are the ones participating in ridonculous race, or write/draw them in a scenario that's based off any scene in total drama (one that either has them or has nothing to do with them whatsoever) and twist it in a way that makes Noah and Cody's relationship the main focus
PLEASE GO ABSOLUTELY WILD WITH YOUR CREATIVITY!!! I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE IT :D
thank u @quazies for making my already intense crush on scout so much more insane ๐ซถ [edit: OH NO I FORGOT POOTIS' TAIL ๐ญ]
i js wanna say how much i genuinely love this series ๐ฅฒ๐ it was legitamately the catalyst that led me to fully wanting to be a part of the tf2 fandom!! aughhgghg it's js such an awe-inspiring fan series that js clutches mine and many other's hearts :D
[also i've been posting on my computer and have only now realised how much the quality dies when i zoom in on my phone ๐ guys plz u'll get the full scrumptious meal in high quality on ur laptop]
textureless ver, original screencap, and some rambling abt how genius the differences between blu and red scout are imo below!!
i've seen another comment mention this but i think it's so neat how (technically) the same person can turn out so differently depending on who and how they were raised (which is like basic developmental psychology 101 and generally just common sense, but like WHATEVER ASGHDJHAS), and seeing those massive differences between blu and red scout's behaviours is so interesting!!!
like i LOVE how blu scout isn't nearly as caring as red scout, and the fact he smokes because he was influenced by blu spy since he mostly raised him is soooo cool. he's sm more like his dad, whereas red scout is a lot more like his ma, which makes sense cuz in the same fashion as blu scout, he was mostly raised by her.
i've always been a fan of this kind of stuff. also, i think its so funny that one of the same things that they both share r the trashy magazines they read ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ AND I LAUGHED SO HARD WHEN I REALISED WHAT BLU SCOUT WAS READING BAHAHHA (i was gonna doodle it rn and post it here but i wanted to get this done insteaddd,, maybe another time hehe)
spy uses the balaclava like she normally does in canon, but she wears the scarf and sunglasses with people she's a liiittle more comfortable with (and by people i mean sniper and sniper only LMAO). her sunglasses use a one-sided lens! so to every1 else, her glasses are pitch black but for the sake of the drawing, u can still see her eyes hehehe
HONESTLY not sure which ver of bloody suit i like best? cuz i'm down for both same team or cross faction sniperspy since either dynamic works rlly well (also i noticed how blu sniper is almost never included in the ship and i rlly wonder why :0 only thing i'm assuming is that sniper js looks better in red HAHA jk but i'm p sure it's cuz red is js the default)
[HEADCANONSSS & close ups below cut!]
red sniper is better at socialising than mundy (isn't afraid to say what's on her mind) but is still very much a recluse who has a poorer relationship w/ her parents. she's similar to the sniper from that fanmade 'meet the fem sniper' sfm! i imagine she had to go thru more shit from others than canon sniper to become a mercenary, so she takes her job even more seriously than mundy does. definitely uses her skills to be a dickhead towards others, esp blu spy lmao.
blu sniper is like regular sniper: socially awkward, still a professional (tho not as intense as red), and very empathetic towards animals (red is too but not to the degree of blu). relationship w/ parents is same as well, definitely not as broken as red's, but struggled js as much as red when it came to being taken seriously in her work (y'know how life be towards women ๐ฅฒ). reason why she isn't as extreme as red is cuz she's more 'go with the flow' with things, more relaxed and isn't super intent on proving others wrong since she sees no point in caring that much abt being underestimated.
red spy has the same personality as comic spy. her team has a harder time liking or trusting her as she is very standoffish and uses every opportunity to (not so) subtly shove her ego in people's faces. the distrust is reciprocated though, and she doesn't care about how pretentious she comes off as the irritation she has towards her colleagues is mutual. however, when she does have her rare moments of kindess, it's a genuinely comforting experience
blu spy is essentially on the same level of asshole but rather than directing it to her colleagues, she only does it towards her enemies (unless her teammates are being excrutiatingly stupid). her team likes her more as she is slightly friendlier, and by that i mean she's a bit more talkative compared to her red counterpart who prefers to speak in quips instead of conversation, but she struggles to trust them (ironic seeing as she's trusts the enemy sniper enough not to wear her balaclava ๐).
doodles of tf2 women that i highly adore!!!!! + a rogue sniper at the end
comic redraws of miss p!! also had to draw @cheebuss's mouse pauling cuz she is so adorable ๐ญ๐
used abby from tlou 2 as a ref for zhanna hehehehe
i absolutely LOVE the insane contrast between scout's ma and mundy ๐ญ and the fact that i ship spy w/ both of them is so funny to me LMFAOAOAO,, LIKE imagine: ur in love with the most beautiful woman to have ever surfaced the earth and then BAM!!! the smelliest bitch alive comes into ur life, shoots you in the head, and u fall in love all over again ๐
ANYWAYZZ i'll doodle more tf2 ladies at another time :D but things i wanna do eventually are: post my tf2 oc (who i'm still tryna work on and maybe make another oc as well?), some sniperspy stuff (probably fem! sniperspy cuz the designs i've seen of them r so bloody gorgeous ๐ญ?!), and probs more comic or sfm redraws since i'm still tryna get a grip on how i draw every1
wazzap tee eff two fandom!!! i decided to redraw @erid-iamid 's icons of all the 9 mercenaries :D and i am proud to say that i have officially drawn more old men than i have ever have in my entire life ๐๐๐ thank u tf2 for consuming my brain with wrinkles and dudes who i would be terrified of irl but am strangely very fond of ๐จ๐ปโ๐ฆฒ
HERE'S THE FULL IMAGE EVERY1!! TO THE UNOFFICIAL QUARRY HORROR FANZINE :D ๐๐๐ link to the entire zine and tysm to @pinguplanet for hosting this!! and every artist who participatedd :D @cinnapiss @saintlyangels @glxtchcat @envy-ghost [i tagged all the artists on instagram ๐ฅณ]
AHH THIS WAS SO FUN AND IT TOOK ME A GOOD MONTH TO GET EVERYT DONE!! ๐๐ [details abt the drawing below cut!]
SO SOO i chose to draw the 3 tq girlies and bcs im such a huge fan of apocalyptic settings, i thought it'd be so cool to see this trio in tlou!! where all the dudes are the infected
soo we have kaitlyn aiming her classic shotgun at clicker nick, emma abt to throw her molotov on a stalker jacob, and abi holding onto her pistol for dear life as a runner max approaches her ๐งโโ๏ธ
was gonna add infected ryan and dylan tgt w/ laura fighting them in the bg buuut there was likee zero space for that to look good ๐ญ๐
and here's a cookie for u if u recognise which level in tlou 1 the background is from ๐ช
anywayssss, HAPPY 1ST ANNIVERSARY TO THE QUARRYY!!
profiles of the main characters of the adult roommates total drama au i'm working on!! where every1 is around their 30s and the story focuses on heather, noah, and cody :D [this is subject to change btw!! depending on what i think'll work better for the plot]
soo quick premise of the story (w/o spoiling too much):
noah recently broke off a 10-year relationship with emma after a fight that resulted in him being kicked out of their shared house all together โ for reasons neither of them are ready to disclose, not even to themselves.
thus, after a series of unfortunate events, our failure of a fantasy novelist ends up rooming with cody, now a lanky man who not-so-gracefully fell from stardom, and heather, a cat mom doing her PhD in psychology and is displeased with having to share a space with noah and cody of all people.
with both men broke and heather barely having enough time or energy to carry their collective finances on her own, the three are forced to get their shit together and navigate through the turbulence of living in a bustling city, deal with domesticity, and face the complexities of their respective minds as they make their way up in life (again).
[courtney does play a role but i won't spoil!!]
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there'll be more characters involved but i'm thinking that these are, at the very least, the main cast: the trio being the protagonists while emma and courtney are secondary characters
BUT!! i'm struggling between making this into a comic or a fanfic ๐ฅฒ bcs obvs the former will take much longer than the latter, but i can immerse ppl sm more with the comic ihwkebwksb idk we'll have to see where this story goes because i am still structuring it!
it's supposed to be slice-of-lifey, sooo a good amount of fluff and angst cuz i rlly wanna make it realistic and relatable to the majority :D since so many older aus are rlly intense and trauma-heavy ๐ญ๐ญ๐??! LIKE yes my story will obvs explore the trio's personal problems but i'm really trying not to make it be smth off-the-rails and batshit insane ๐ ykwim??
SO UH SORRY THIS IS SO LONG BUT YA IF U HV ANY QUESTIONS, PLS COMMENT HAKSHJA
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