Art Never Sleeps

An art? blog primarily of the FGO and FFXIV variety. if you're here for the meta, why not reblog a picture of my OCs while you're at it? Main Blog @robotgirlfriendaigis FFXIV Sideblog @ofthestalwartsword Redbubble Gray-Atelier.redbubble.com Kofi https://ko-fi.com/picaroroboto

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since I recently hit the milestone of 300 followers, I figured I might as well say hello to y'all

Yo, my name is Gray, I'm a they/them Unemployed Twenty-something from the US. I like playing video games and drawing and writing about 'em. (right now, I'm into stuff like Limbus Company, FGO, and FFXIV). I like dark coffee and listening to Vocaloid music while drawing. I'm normal about silent protagonist characters, I promise.

I also have a main/reblog blog "robotgirlfriendaigis", and an FFXIV sideblog "ofthestalwartsword".

and a Redbubble shop where I sell original art and photography on stickers and such!

Gray-Atelier Shop | Redbubble

Gray-Atelier is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

as well as a Ko-fi page!

Thanks for taking the time to look at me on this big ol' internet. love and peace on planet earth ✌️

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a parting glass

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the next time the Gesselschaft is picking on Naive Faust she pulls the "I'm dante's favorite Faust" card (it's true) and the other Fausts aloofly try to pretend like they don't care (they are seething with jealousy)

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how do I tell my brother that doing all of the Dawntrail patches in just the 4 free play days is not a good idea in the least

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i wuv her

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need Ayin to be relevant again in Limbus in large part because he needs a new sprite. like no offense to the LobCorp art style, it works in its context, but it looks like Homestuck and its hard to keep talking about one of the most important characters in the lore when he looks like a Homestuck character

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finally beat a boss i was having trouble wtih for a while thanks in large part to the Dung Defender's charm

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i have some Ayin sympathizer tendencies but I think I like Manager X more, even though they're the exact same person yeah, but you see Ayin is Ayin while X is an unfortunate random person who has to go through the ordeal of finding out that he is Ayin. you understand

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that little Guda moment in the Mahoyo collab, the dialogue option where they can say that their wish is to open a bakery with the person they love, quite understandably caught on big with shippers as perfect starting material for happy domestic AUs

but thinking about it a lil more the other thing that makes that option so nice is that it shows they can imagine, or want to imagine a future, after their duty of saving the world is complete. even if that wish for the future is a bit naive and idealistic. they might often get tunnel-visioned on their goals to the point of self-destruction but Guda is still someone who wants to live

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the only things keeping me going during a workday are the official Hatsune Miku lofi study playlists and the Pixiv ship art logs I open during my morning coffee but wait until after work to read

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wip but is there ever a moment in amatuer animation practice when you don;t feel like a god at the moment everything starts to come together

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the flame in the abyss is love, after all

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"still worth it" - Guda

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doing research for my Limbus OCs and finding out about the planned but never written sequel to The Brothers Karamazov in which Alexey, the guy who's main characteristics are being really nice and really Christian, somehow ends up assassinating the Tsar and now i gotta really rethink his lore (in a good way) but. wild

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randomly rambling about Outis and Dante's relationship because we know there's so much more going on there than just the asskissing and it's fascinating-

like the fact that Outis knew pre-amnesia-Dante. I wonder if maybe they were a superior officer in the war, or if they and Outis were rivals on opposite sides, because there seems to be this combo of respect and hate. past-Dante seems to have been a capable, ruthless leader - then they get their head lopped off and wind up as a bumbling idiot by comparison and Outis thinks this is my chance, I can make them depend on me and become the real leader.

of course she doesn't really succeed, Dante always brushes off her bootlicking and her ruthless suggestions. but its also not like they completely distrust her either - they can tell she's a liar and a schemer, that she's done something awful in her past, and still give her the same level of trust they give all of their Sinners, because that's just the sort of person and leader they are.

for Outis, who has likely made lots of sacrifices in pursuit of her goals, does it smart to see someone committed to making sure all their followers survive, and actually succeeding in that every time so far? or that its that person now suddenly turned into a naive bleeding-heart type? how does it feel hearing them promise to embrace all of their Sinners, when they don't even know a single thing about what you've done?

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i was drawing Angela again the other day

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my experience playing Id