#mdbb

[cabbagegunk]

falling forward, back into orbit <READ IT /PROPER GANDER

my piece for the multidimensional big bang! based on a fic by the wonderful @oceans-swim and betaed by @rosfrandomness !! was an honour working with yall h41 <33

[astronite13]

check it out >:D multidimensional big bang piece by yours truly

you may or may not already know, but i participated in the mdbb event, and was teamed with the wonderful writer @elevenvolcanoes and amazing beta reader @memryse! you can check out ro's awesome fic here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41524974

go on, i know you wanna read it, dont be shy

as promised, ill be uploading some wips of this below the cut because oh man. this took forever

here are the character design sketches, i am not a very tidy artist

so the original plan was like this adhsjbcbs

i was just braindumping ideas onto a canvas (- -;)

THEN came the clean-ish sketch, where i had 'fun' with having to finalise where things went

(sausage and lizzie were added in later ajdhajfhs)

after that came what i dreaded most. lineart. BANE OF MY EXISTENCE I AJJDKSNC

at this point i was a solid week into this and it was barely halfway done T-T

i then worked on backgrounds and flats- funny thing, i barely ever complete pieces because i have the attention span of a goldfish, so i literally had no idea how to colour things in ┌(。Д。)┐

THIS TOOK SO FUCKING LONG

I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH HOW PAINSTAKING THIS WAS

i was literally going insane over this ahdnsndn

FINALLY i was able to move onto shading/rendering(?)/details, and via the power of bullshitting my way through things, voila

at this point i had spent every day doing nothing but drawing for two weeks, but i was SO CLOSE to being done

then suddenly, the fire nation attacked something happened dun dun dun

because i was working with around 80 layers (i needed them all trust me <-lying), ibispaintx was running abysmally slow, and at this moment, it just CRASHED

i rushed back on and got this (0_0 )

i had to wait. FOURTY FIVE MINUTES. FOR THE WHOLE THING TO REPLAY AND TRY TO RESTORE MY FILE. at this point it was 3 am a day after the deadline and panic mode was activated

BUT i think the watchers may have been, well, watching over me at that point because miraculously, i got my file back, and i added a few finishing touches before collapsing on my bed in a heap

this whole thing overall was a fantastic experience, all the mods and participants in the discord server were super entertaining and friendly, and i want to thank each and every one of you for making this event so exciting >:D especially my teammates, and of course luna for creating it <3

funny thing this was literally my version of 100 hours hardcore since my canvas tells me ive been on it for around 150 hours ajdnjahd

anyway bonus aha:

[kiwinatorwaffles]

multidimensional big bang 2022 art!

4 months of collaborative work! i am thrilled to have participated in this event and to have worked with amazing people to make these works :D

the great llama heist by @mcyt-hc-writing

recall by @redwinterroses

thank you so much to the wonderful teams i’ve worked with, and huge kudos to all of the participants for finishing the event! now, keep your eyes peeled for mdbb2, since i have decided i will be a writer next time >:3

[underground-monarch]

“Oh, damn!” Martyn said suddenly, slapping his knee in frustration; the others stared at him, concerned. “We should’ve given Grian and Mumbo a send-off! Argh, I didn’t think of that…” As he spoke, he pulled some kind of copper telescope out of his pocket - a trinket like nothing Taurtis had ever seen before - and held it to his eye, looking out of the doorway at the shadowed walls of the fort. “I could’ve said, like… ‘it’s a shame we have to p-aha-rt like this’!”

Impulse and Jimmy laughed groaningly, lightening the atmosphere in the room just a little.

“Ohh, good one!” Impulse praised Martyn.

Taurtis looked back and forth between the three other men, frowning lightly.

“Oh right, of course…!” Noticing Taurtis’s confusion, Martyn passed him the telescope.

Taurtis took it slowly, unsure what to do with it.

“It’s a spyglass,” Martyn explained eagerly. “Now, look at me through it and say ‘aha’!”

Hesitantly, Taurtis lifted the glass to his eye and pointed it at Martyn; it zoomed in unflatteringly close on the man’s face, and Taurtis couldn’t help the smile that started to pull at his mouth because of how stupid he looked. “Aha…?”

The other three cheered loudly, startling him a little, and Taurtis grinned wider, pointing the spyglass at Jimmy, and then at Impulse. ”Aha! Aha!”

“You’ve got it, you’ve got it!” Martyn laughed, at the same time as Jimmy elatedly yelled, “He said the thing!”

It wasn’t really that funny, but the pure joy that it brought to the three Southlanders was contagious, and then Taurtis was laughing too.

Curse of the Covenant chapter 5 is out now! Read it here!

[moonlight22oa]

my piece for the multi-dimension big bang! you can find the companion fic here

[fruuitvampire]

Here was my piece for the MDBB! I was in team h3 with amazing author @catgirl-lizzie , epic beta @nonbinary-enderman, and my awesome fellow artist @eggbloom! make sure to read the fic here (https://href.li/?https://archiveofourown.org/works/41433753) and leave a nice comment!

This was so fun to work on, and all the other teams did so well also! Check em out on the official blog ( @multidimensionbb)

[sorenserotonin]

In case y'all didn't believe @macdennisd at my writing pace, here is the current word count.

[underground-monarch]

“I, um…” Grian looked down, occupying himself by rubbing his fingers to avoid having to make eye contact. “I honestly barely remember when I met him. I think it must have been, like, high school?”

“High school?” Mumbo sounded surprised. “You went to high school?”

“Yeah, it was, um…” Grian bit his lip and blinked hard, a slight frown of discomfort creasing his brow as he turned his head away from Mumbo. He drew in a shaky breath. “It was a real shit time, I’ll tell you that. It was a really fucked-up place.” He shivered a little as the memories started to push against the mental door he had kept them locked behind for so long, but he quickly pushed them back down; he couldn’t afford for that lock to give now, especially in the middle of a death game. “But yeah,” he continued, speaking just a bit too loudly to put on a convincing front that everything was ok. “Taurtis and I used to hang out together all the time. We played loads of games and stuff like that. Do you remember the build swap game you and I played a couple of times?”

“Yeah, I do.” Mumbo offered him a small smile.

“That was one of the games I played with Taurtis all the time. We literally played so many rounds and so many different rulesets…” A grin started pulling at the corners of Grian’s mouth as he reminisced on the fond memories. “We also played drawing games, and Who’s Your Daddy-”

“I’m sorry, what?” Mumbo interrupted, smirking.

Grian stopped, then laughed. “I promise it’s not as, um… sustainable as it sounds. It’s… I mean, it’s a death minigame, basically: one player tries to kill themself, and the other tries to stop them, like a parent trying to take care of a really rambunctious baby.”

“Sounds like a whale of a time.”

“Yeah.” Grian smiled a tiny bit, but there was no warmth in it. “Death games can be fun when they’re much lower stakes, and in a world where you won’t be forced to keep the scars from them.”

Curse of the Covenant chapter 4 is out now! Read it here!