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Happy Holidays @concreteparasite ! I'm your Secret Santa and made fanart for Binary Star Hero~ I absolutely love the characters and the aesthetics and the writing and art direction and MAN the CGs!!!
Hope you enjoy the art~! And thank you @crescencestudio for organizing the Secret Santa event!
Reposting my indie VN secret santa artwork here; happy holidays @robobarbie !! I hope you have a wonderful year end and keep up the amazing games! ;-;
This is fanart (and a fan design) for lycoris;lastwords, a short game that's very, very much worth checking out!
someone called me boss santa and i think it unlocked something in me
ANYWAYS!!! secret santa has officially come to a close!!!! i am so so happy to say that EVERYONE made a gift for each other and we had 40 different creatives participating 🥹🥹🥹
the gifts have been stunning to see, while most of them were uploaded to twitter, anyone can feel free to stalk my profile either on here or twitter to see all the gifts 🥰 they are phenomenal and ppl rly went above and beyond making their gifties from animated pictures, fangames, soundtracks, and so much more it’s been so fulfilling to see ppl give their gifts to each other and receive them!!!
and not only that, but a lot of ppl were introduced to new works and devs that they didn’t know about prior to the event so i’m happy everything felt so connecting, celebratory, and uplifting 💖 hope everyone enjoyed their gifts. thank u to everyone who participated for making this feel like such a special event. forever grateful to be part of this community 🥰💝
i made a small fangame for @endys's incredible and haunting project, It Paints Me, for the 2023 vn dev secret santa exchange. i highly recommend checking that project out before playing this!! it blew me away!!
have fun!
Happy Holidays! I was your Secret Santa this year and I have to say thank you, and bless you, for Marybeth. She is entirely my favourite! Tumblr was giving me a hard time, so I hope you don't mind that I posted it on Twitter @mellodrawmatic :') I hope you like it!
(gorgeous gorgeous art credit to my wildly talented Secret Santa, mellodrawmatic!)
Holy cats holy cats holy cats, I am grinning like a maniac over how perfect and stunning she is!! 🥰 Thank you so very, very much to mellodrawmatic for the absolutely beautiful art, and thank you again as well to @crescencestudio for hosting this delightfully fun exchange!! 🎁
And once more, Happy Holidays to all who celebrate! ✨
Hello, Carrot, this is your secret santa ✨
I hope this is vague enough not to be a spoiler of any kind [he's thinking of Genzou here and it feels like the most canon pairing anyway].
Good luck with finishing Our Wonderland and the yet another spinoff game I hope we can see Jerry there.
AWWWWWW WEEPING???? sob this is so sweet and cute!! I love this so much??? 😭💕 you made his face so sweet, and I love the warm colors 🥺
this is so wonderful, thank you so much!! I was looking forward to seeing who got me and I'm so tickled by the cute gift!! this really made my day! 🥰 I will treasure this so much!!
hope you have a very lovely holiday!!! and thank you for the lovely words and well wishes, too 🥺💕 this is just so wonderful 😭
Hey hey @radicalhoodie I'm your secret Santa: Joy! I had such fun discovering your game! Marcello is such a gorgeous character design, and the cover art was so stunning and wanted to recreate it and practice pixel art. (I still have a long ways to go) but I hope you enjoy it! And most importantly have a wonderful rest of the year! I love seeing newer devs pop up in the space, and I am cheering you on!
Happy Holidays! I had the good fortune of being assigned your Secret Santa, and I couldn’t be happier! I took the opportunity to familiarize myself with the demo for the fantastic ReAnimation Scheme, and immediately found myself hooked by the absolutely inspired concept of necromancy doubling as a soul-sucking customer service job. I hope that I was able to do Raenelle and Sebastien justice in this min-fanfiction I wrote!
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“By the Ancestors, girl, what do you mean I’m only a Silver Patron? I left those accursed brats enough for Platinum-tier thrice over, and yet you claim--”
The spirit before me swells with inflamed pride, continuing his ranting unabated as I tune him out. I ought to have known he’d be one of those. As soon as I opened the trunk and saw the coin with his name on it, it ought to have been obvious.
Zianna, I get up early for once, and for what? My transfer request denied yet again, and now--
“...are you even listening? Deities, I’d heard you Reanimators are the worst of the bunch, but to think that you’d be so blatant in disregarding your betters--! Call your supervisor at once! For someone of my stature to be allotted a mere half-day of reanimation is highway robbery! Do you even know who I am, Death Mage?”
Pinching the bridge of my nose in an effort to head off an incipient headache, I nod, eyes flicking back to the scroll. Incarnations, why couldn’t the first summoning of the day be a simple one?
“Yes, of course I know who you are. I summoned you after all, Sir Rudiford.”
“Lord! Lord Rudiford!!”
I force a smile that is more a baring of teeth than anything.
“My apologies. Since you have passed, the title is now recorded as belonging to--”
“To no one yet! I know full well my Reanimation Rites never would have been seen to at all, if I’d named an heir while living. If I could take my title and wealth with me, I’d do it! Ancestors take the wretches, not one is worthy of either the name or the coin.”
The spirit before me falls to furious silence, flickering a sulfurous yellow. The portrait depicted on the scroll is not especially pleasant, and I reflect that death has done little to improve upon the (former) Lord Rudiford’s appearance.
“Are you denying your Reanimation Services, then?” I inquire through gritted teeth.
The former lord gives me an excoriating glare in reply. “Of course I am not! I am demanding an extension--half a day is not nearly enough time to wrap up business for a personage such as I! The Silver ranking is clearly in error--I ought to have a full day and a half, at the least!”
My head tips back heavily. Zianna, what did I ever do to deserve this?
Clearing my throat, I meet his eyes again before the spirit becomes apoplectic. “And as I have explained, extensions are not within my power to provide. See?”
I hold the scroll aloft, jabbing a finger at it.
“Silver Patron of the Reanimation Scheme. That comes with a half-day’s reanimation. Your body has been preserved in good condition with that in mind--but any extension without proper authorization, and you’ll be stinking of rot and dropping limbs in the street by day’s end. Hardly in keeping with the dignity of a lord.” I stress the title heavily, trying to suppress a smirk as I do so. The idea of this garbage spirit stinking of literal garbage appeals to me.
“Your manager, mage! If you are too far down the food chain to be of use to me, surely you have some minder or other that will have authority to act!”
I sigh, eyes flicking to the form shamelessly slumbering on my desk, silver and white fur splayed against the red and brown leather binding of thick volumes I have no intention of reading on my own.
“Right. You’re right, of course, Mister Rudiford. Let me transfer you--”
“Lord! Lord Rudif--”
With a flare of my magic, the sulfur-yellow shade blinks out of being, and I sigh heavily with relief.
“That isn’t likely to improve your rating, Raenelle.”
I glower at the cat sprawled on my desk. Sebastien has done no more than crack open a single golden eye, but already he is judging me.
“As if you were any help at all. If the Twelve Deities and Ancestors can see just what I have to deal with, I’m sure--”
Sebastien stretches in a boneless ripple of silver fur. “Then they’ll know what I am subjected to with you, and commend me to the heavens while relieving me of my promised duties.”
Scowling, I give the long, fluffy tail a slight tug, just enough to be annoying without being painful.
“Some familiar you are.”
“And some Reanimator you are. Have you given any thought of what will happen at the morgue, when that cad wakes up?”
I chuckle.
“Sure. They’ll kick Lord Rudiford out to see his family as swiftly as they can, same as me.”
Sebastien shakes his head, obviously unwilling to appreciate the vision that is bringing me so much mirth.
“And his family?”
I shift my weight with a sigh, annoyed.
“What of them? Will they even care what he thinks, the old skinflint? They carved his name into a single coin, as his reanimation token! I wouldn’t be surprised if one of them killed him,” I observe darkly, scanning his scroll.
Sebastien appears momentarily taken aback, but soldiers on bravely.
“You can’t make assumptions--”
I turn a malevolent smile back on him. The headache is building pressure. “Sure, okay. Great. Shall I summon him back and refer him to you, then? As my mentor, I mean. That’s the closest to--”
The golden eyes vanish, thick, brushy tail curling over them almost as a shield.
“My role is to counsel you, not appease the spirits you upset.”
I sigh, shaking my head.
“Coward.”
I look at the mirror that dominates the room, reflecting both light and darkness in equal measure. I never wanted this to be my job. I never wanted to be a guide for anyone, let alone spirits.
The glass is cold where I rest my brow against it.
“Raenelle? Are you asleep?”
I let out a mighty sigh, cheeks puffing outwards and breath fogging the glass.
On to the next. Let’s see…
I scan my mental list of the day.
Jori. Jori Halwin.
Here’s hoping he’s easier than the last.
OH MY GOSH!!!!! I'm so happy you're my secret santa, and 🥰is this two gifts in one?!?!! Adorable Sebastien fanart AND a hilarious and beautifully written fanfic!!!! I love these, thank you so so so much! Happy Holidays to you too @brightoakgame!!
(And thank you to @crescencestudio for hosting the lovely event!!)
