#alexmasklayer

[maryluis]

Merry Christmas! Thank you for all the amazing content that you've shared in the merlin community, your work never fails to make me smile~ Your sense of comical exaggeration in art and your selective use of color is spot on, comedic timing perfect too. Lovely narratives, witty jokes, spot on characterizations, you are a gift to us all, and I hope such a wonderful person has the best of new years!!

😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[cyberlifeho]

Thanks for curating all the Peak Fan Content for hankcon, it's really made my day going through your blog and laughing at the tags while finding all the best artists (including you, I would absolutely die for your line quality and sense of pacing <3)

ahHHHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH what a kind message T_T honestly im really glad perusing my blog could brighten ur day LMAO HANKCON CONTENT IS!!! THE BEST TRULY!!! and i love a good screaming-in-the-tags fest ((waHH thank u so much ;_; <333))

[dicedragonjo]

I'm honestly losing my goddamn mind I just spent all night from 12 am to 8 am reading Look Up and Wonder and jesus I feel like my life is fundamentally changed forever? Like fuck you that fic ruined my life?? I can't read another fic again they're all going to pale in comparison. And then I find out that I already follow you on Tumblr for your art so double fuck you you multitalented god of a human? Are you even human? I'm crying and emotional I'll leave a comment on ao3 when I calm down never😂

Part 2. But seriously how are you so artistically skilled AND such a fucking good writer?? That plot twist got me so shook I was near hyperventilating christ my dude you're murdering everyone. To think I never started this fic for so long because I never watched firefly, god I was a fool and now I'm an even bigger fool for having read it all, im floating in post-fic shock it was so good I have no other way than to aggressively compliment you you fucking madman

Excuse me while I lie here and soak this in for a while. <3 

Honestly, this fic began as a guilty pleasure that combined two things I really enjoyed and I never expected it to catch on like it has. I wanted it to be approachable for both Firefly and Overwatch fans, even if they had never touched the other part of the crossover. It seems to have worked! (Also the multiply hobbies thing is more a result of me having the attention span of a squirrel, so I have to have lots of things to work on!)

I’m glad you like (or maybe like isn’t the right word...) the fic and I hope you get a kick out of the next couple of updates as well! It’s going to be a lot of fun.

[cywscross]

Whenever someone sends an ask to you about a fic they can't remember I get the weirdest image of you behind the counter at a bar, looking exactly like Urahara Icon™ ofc. A young and weary traveller walks in, passing by the other resting patrons, and takes a breath. This bar is old and creeking with memories. They have heard references of this place from their many wanderings. They scribble a note and pass it to across the counter, unsigned. You pause your work to give it a glance and shrug.

‘Sorry, but I’ve never heard of an arranged marriage time travel KHR and TW crossover fic like this.’ The young traveller is momentarily crushed and their shoulders sag. Sympathy moves you to call out into the crowded bar: 'Anyone come across it?’ Some patrons, travellers themselves, listening in, stroke their chin. Some comment ('might have seen something like it on my last Ao3 visit’) but no concrete answer is forthcoming. In the end the note is pinned on a wall, next to dozens of others.

The young traveller comes by every day, twice a day if they can manage. Still nothing. Patrons come and go in the bar like the tide and none wash up to shore with an answer. Until one day, a true veteran appears. They have been on distant travels exploring a new fandom but civil war had struck that area. Discourse is strife. They had fought the fight but now was the time to rest. They sit, browse through what the bar has to offer. The ask, now a week old, catches their eye and they still.

Yes, they know this fic. They leave and do a quick search on Ao3. And there it is, written and abandoned more than six years ago. They smile in fond memory of the banter in the fic. They dust it off and carefully note down the name (quaint song lyrics in all lowercase) and the author on a scrap of paper. Then they return and walk up to you behind the counter and ring the notification bell. You pause in your work and look up. 'That KHR/TW ask,’ they say. The paper is slid over. 'Here it is.’

The young traveller is ecstatic! Another note is taped underneath their own when they arrive later that night! It has all the details plus an ending advice to 'bring tissues, it’s an abandoned WIP.’ They rush over to the counter and gush their thanks to you and their mysterious benefactor. Then they’re off, ready to spend a night in delightful misery, indulging in their reunited fic. You tip your striped hat, another good deed done, and go back to work. There are other patrons to feed fics to.

Essentially? Your blog reminds me of an information hub of a watering hole and my brain ran with the image of you as a broker behind the counter. Somewhere along the way it manifested into a weird meta story.

Lolol does this mean I read waay too many fanfiction? But I can live with this imagery XD Also more than one person has told me they think of Urahara when they think of me, which amuses me =D But I’m glad I can help sometimes when ppl ask me for a fic find ^_^

[awanqi]

I love your incredible understanding of fabric and how you play with warmth and coolness in your highlights and shadows and the creative dynamics of your backgrounds and the motion felt in your figures and the variations in your content and the reflective light you put into everything that makes it more real and beautiful and I just really, really love your work, okay? You're phenomenal already and yet I know you're somehow going to get even better, I can't wait to see your next post!❤

thank you, what a beautiful message to receive.. It still comes as a surprise to me that people could really think about my art this way, and I appreciate it immensely. I wish I could say more to express my gratitude ;-;

[lorewarlorddoctorsix]

alexmasklayer replied to your post: “Torn between loving McCree’s Magistrate skin because it’s McCree and...”:

its not really a bad thing, im korean and i love seeing our culture being shared!

Thanks for telling me! I feel a little better about it now.

[esamastation]

I need to learn to not read your Great Grocer Bilbo thing,, it compels me to spend another 361938 hours on Stardew Valley and other farming games

I honestly don’t see the problem

[rcmclachlan]

If you are interested in raising your standards to the point to no return, read some of esama's stuff on ao3 (esamastation on tumblr) because she is to this day the best author of any fandom she's feeling at the moment (recently did a lot of FB&WTFT) and trust me, I've been reading since 6th grade. She's a fanfic GOD.

I checked out her Tumblr. Her FB&WTFT pairing of choice isn’t my cup of tea, but she’s apparently writing a Tony Stark-centric time travel fic? SIGN ME UP.

Thanks so much for the rec!