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★ hermes ★ 26 ★ they/them ★ genderqueer and bi ★

main: @theratprinxe

i play a lot of crpgs and tend to draw a bunch for whichever one im obsessed with at the moment. i have tags for:

the outer worlds

rogue trader

morrowind

tyranny

baldur's gate 3

i also gm and will post characters from the ttrpgs i run occasionally. im currently running dark heresy 2e

anything not art is tagged #not art. self reblogs are tagged #self rb

i always like talking to people so feel free to send me a message about literally anything and ill do my best to reply :)

my ocs are under a readmore to keep this post short

#pinned #not art

i need to make another blue painting its been a while since ive made a blue painting

#i know i just started planning for one with a purple color palette but nothing hits like blue for me #working with it scratches my brain just right #not art

ive been playing the actual story of rdr2 this weekend since ive been sick and i really like that theres an afro indigenous character. i like it so much that im almost willing to forgive the fact that they made him the gang member who uses a bow. ill forgive it entirely if the fictional tribe in the game uses guns, which they probably should because i think they're supposed to be plains ndns

also i didnt even know there were prevalent characters of color in this game cause for years i only saw people post about the white boys. i think its impossible to divorce cowboys from their role in american propaganda, but i am more forgiving of cowboy media thats not just white boys

#i remember in the heyday of this games popularity this site became the annoying white gay cowboy aesthetics website for a hot minute #i am glad we've toned down a bit on the cowboys being a queer symbol thing #not art

i feel like ive barely drawn all week. i have got to draw for 12 hours tomorrow

#the goal is to color both of those sketches from earlier in the week #not art

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i recognize that many people engage with rt as a power fantasy. you see the sentiment directly stated on reddit a lot, and many iconoclast players on here often read to me as enjoying the fantasy of being able to be compassionate in a world thats not, or as veering into the not uncommon settler fantasy of being the "nice" colonizer who is absolved of complicity through being nice. but theres literally nothing about the premise of the game that i can engage with as a power fantasy, and i do wish this was a more common sentiment tbh. despite its premise, i dont actually think the game is trying to be a power fantasy. people just read that into it, or else ignore that the game is being critical of much of the supposed fantasy.

my overall point is: its crazy to me how rogue trader constantly highlights the brutality of colonialism and fascism, and players still manage to slot into it as a power fantasy

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this is also why i personally am not a fan of particularly the iconoclast c'tan ending. theres the problem that it feels thematically inconsistent with 40k at large, and i dont think rogue trader is a narrative that needs to let you have a happy ending. its also, in my opinion, where the game most heavily plays into the fantasy that one "good" colonizer can end or otherwise correct colonialism without actually renouncing it. i think in terms of wanting to portray a rogue trader who is meaningfully opposed to their role as a colonizer, the non-c'tan iconoclast ending where you die for those ideals is stronger than an ending where you continue on with your own little empire thats somehow better because its your empire and not someone elses.

#the c'tan ending slide calls it a “fledgling utopia.” for who?#i also understand that there is nuance and you can play iconoclast and not be trying to portray a “good” person etc etc #not art

i recognize that many people engage with rt as a power fantasy. you see the sentiment directly stated on reddit a lot, and many iconoclast players on here often read to me as enjoying the fantasy of being able to be compassionate in a world thats not, or as veering into the not uncommon settler fantasy of being the "nice" colonizer who is absolved of complicity through being nice. but theres literally nothing about the premise of the game that i can engage with as a power fantasy, and i do wish this was a more common sentiment tbh. despite its premise, i dont actually think the game is trying to be a power fantasy. people just read that into it, or else ignore that the game is being critical of much of the supposed fantasy.

my overall point is: its crazy to me how rogue trader constantly highlights the brutality of colonialism and fascism, and players still manage to slot into it as a power fantasy

#this is mostly an observation of how a lot of people i see online engage with it very differently from me idc how other ppl play #but i also do think the game is better when you're viewing it as being about colonialism and engaging with that meaningfully #because the pervasive colonialism adds a lot to many of the companions storylines #but many players outright refuse to touch on it at all and theyre diminishing their own experience #for something they could get better in many many other rpgs #since colonial power fantasy is the basis of much of the fantasy genre #not art

i dont normally like putting my crpg ocs in different games but i do eventually want to do a heretic run of rt with athame. i think they could really kill it in 40k

#and they could kill many people <3 #i think crescentia could make a great horizon walker ranger too if i ever wanted to replay bg3 as someone who isnt athame #athame gardner #not art

sketches im working on this week and the rough plan for a painting i want to start this weekend

#i feel like when im just planning a painting it kind of looks like nothing #so i dont normally upload wips like that but i guess it gives more insight into my process #wip

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i should have been drawing my ocs this whole time because i enjoyed working on this a lot

#self rb

i think dishonored is nearly a perfect game but i do think it would've been better if they had made corvo a man of color. like him being an immigrant already feels so integral to the story so why not?

#i always felt like that was the intent of the story but they just didnt. probably because it was 2012.#not art

despite my creative slump in january, ive been really proud of every full piece ive done so far this year. like theyve all been some of my favorite paintings ive made. ive liked most of the sketches ive done too. its been very nice, as someone who is normally very critical of my work, to be so consistently happy with it

#not art

ok i made very basic character pages so that i dont just have all my crpg ocs bios in my pinned. ill also try to make pages for like haven and heše'ke and any other ocs i post about soonish

#éxȧho'hóváhe and jack also dont have pages rn so ill work on those too #not art

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i should have been drawing my ocs this whole time because i enjoyed working on this a lot

#self rb

prinxehermes

i should have been drawing my ocs this whole time because i enjoyed working on this a lot

#self rb

i should have been drawing my ocs this whole time because i enjoyed working on this a lot

#hooray for making everything to my tastes specifically #ocs #oc heše'ke #oc haven #art

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why is half the art i see of jae on here ashy and whitewashed to hell and back? her companion portrait is even one of the easiest ones to color pick from imo

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like its just crazy. these were all color picked from the top posts in her tag btw. why is everyone drawing her skin tone so desaturated? and why do these artworks get traction??

#like she has a very rich skin tone #stop making her look dead #not art

why is half the art i see of jae on here ashy and whitewashed to hell and back? her companion portrait is even one of the easiest ones to color pick from imo

#i expect some whitewashing in every fandom but truly jae suffers the worst of it of any character ive seen personally #also i do know the answer as to why but still like. come on #not art

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