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Volgin + Raikov head reference sheets
A friendo suggested I stick these here for others. These are angles from their ripped models, so theyāre not perfect in regards to engine and lighting, but pretty close to model reference for what we got in the game and at angles that would be difficult to obtain through play.
Also, more Volkov.
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I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard
Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.
Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
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reblogged as a note to self. For things.
can you handle this?
dat ass
āMMMM, TASTY!ā
What higher honor there is than to have David Hayter, a man known for playing Naked Snake, whose first question for any member of the animal kingdom is āHow does it taste?ā, take a bite out of one of my original species?
Fox the cynoceph had a day ā people loved seeing Kazooās beautiful work in person! I carried him around in a pet carrier full of bubble wrap, and the pet carrier was kinda apt. Kazoo is such an amazing artist and I will 100% return when I have enough fun money. Iād have already if I did, lmao. (Her Facebook here, again!)
Meanwhile, I will never forget the day. David knows and loves his fans, and knows how much his work means to others. He is a wonderful, warm comfort in a world that feels increasingly hostile to people like me, because I have the audacity to exist. And live. I have some pretty crippling anxiety ā I was almost shaking when it was my turn, yikes! But it ended in a hug, a thanks for my story (his videos affirming the trans community has been a great source of comfort), and a whisper in my ear:
āYouāre pretty good.ā
Iāll be strong for you, Snake. (And yes, he did say the bookmark was ādummy thicc!ā My heart.)
Grey DeLisle was also there and so wonderful and affirming too! To hear her slip into Amanda in-between hugs was, I donāt know, itās a goofy word but: magical. My artbook has become something of a signature collection piece now and to have such wonderful memories connected with these pages is absolutely priceless. Grey also mentioned that she was often (or always? lmao) late for recording for āPeacewalkerā because the work route was so busy. California, lol.
Rob Paulsen there too, but I didnāt have a page for Grey Fox in my book! God, what I would have given for āHURT ME MORE, SNAKEā¦ narf!ā I wanted to say when he came out, he was meeting people in line before going to his table. I hope to have his warmth and energy at his age. His voice was unmistakable. A shoutout for him being awesome.
Anywho, trans rights.
obviously i love strangeloveās character but she wasnāt written wellā¦ as a woman or as a lesbianā¦
me, who loves Volgin as a character but is painfully aware of the atmosphere of the aughts and its attitudes towards gays at the time, be like:
eat
speculative fiction writers i am going to give you a really urgent piece of advice: don't say numbers. don't give your readers any numbers. how heavy is the sword? lots. how old is that city? plenty. how big is the fort? massive. how fast is the spaceship? not very, it's secondhand.
the minute you say a number your readers can check your math and you cannot do math better than your most autistic critic. i guarantee. don't let your readers do any math. when did something happen? awhile ago. how many bullets can that gun fire? trick question, it shoots lasers, and it shoots em HARD.
you are lying to people for fun. if you let them do math at you the lie collapses and it's no fun anymore.
YOU GET IT
FETISH WRITERS: when Iām scratching an itch Iām not going to be holding a ruler in my other hand or meticulously going through a lingerie catalog to imagine cup sizes
(although āpendulous melonsā makes me giggle)
Wait The Boss was supposed to be 42 in mgs3. Her design in mgs3 remake is actually really good for an early 40s woman. She's not even wearing makeup.
Now. If they wanted to do the best thing, they would give her a many years post pregnancy body. But I doubt anyone would do that bc women don't get to have anything but fuckable bodies.
So Iām on AO3 and I see a lot of people who put āI do not own [insert fandom here]ā before their story.
Like, I came on this site to read FAN fiction. This is a FAN fiction site. Iām fully aware that you donāt own the fandom or the characters. Thatās why itās called FAN FICTION.
Oh you younginsā¦ How quickly they forget.
Back in the day, before fan fiction was mainstream and even encouraged by creatorsā¦ This was your āplease donāt sue me, Iām poor and just here for a good timeā plea.
Cause guess what? That shit used to happen.
how soon they forget ann riceās lawyers.
What happened with her lawyers.
History became legend. Legend became mythā¦. Ā And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost.
I worked with one of the women that got contacted by Riceās lawyers. Scared the hell out of her and she never touched fandom again. The first time I saw a commission post on tumblr for fanart, I was shocked.
One of the reasons I fell out of love with her writing was her treatment of the fansā¦ (that and the opening chapter of Lasher gave me such heebie-jeebies with the whole underage sex thing I felt unclean just reading it.)
I have zero problem with fanart/fic so long as the creators arenāt making money off of it. It is someone elseās intellectual property and people who create fan related works need to respect that (and a solid 98% of them do.)
The remaining 2% are either easily swayed by being gently prompted to not cash in on someone elseās IP. Or they DGAFā¦ and they are the ones who will eventually land themselves in hot water. Either way: this isnāt much of an excuse to persecute your entire fanbase.
But Anne Rice went off the deep end with this stuff by actively attacking people who were expressing their love for her work and were not profiteering from it.
The Vampire Chronicles was a dangerous fandom to be in back in the day. Most of the works I read/saw were hidden away in the dark recesses of the internet and covered by disclaimers (a lot of them reading like thoroughly researched legal documents.)
And woe betide anyone who was into shipping anyone with ANYONE in that fandom. You were most at risk, it seemed, if your vision of the characters deviated from the creators āoriginal intentions.ā (Hypocritical of a woman who made most of her living writing erotica.)
Imagine getting sued over a headcanonā¦
Put simply: we all lived in fear of her team of highly paid lawyers descending from the heavens and taking us to court over a slashfic less than 500 words long.
all of this
Reblogging because I canāt believe there are people out there who donāt know the story behind fan fiction disclaimers.Ā
Yep I used to have disclaimers on all my Buffy fic back in the day. The Buffy creators were mostly pretty chill about fandom but itās not like it is now. You did NOT talk about fandom with anyone except other fandom people and bringing it up at cons was a massive no no because of stuff like this.
I think Supernatural (and Misha Collins specifically) was when that wall between fandom and creators started to break down. Itās a relatively new thing.
I remember going to a Merlin panel down in London and a girl sitting next to me asked the cast about slash and I thought she was going to get kicked out!
Fandom history is important.
Oh, this brings back some not so-awesomeĀ ā90s fandom memories!Ā
Oh man, let me tell you about the X-Files fandom. Lawyers for FOX sued, threatened, and generally terrified the owners of fan websites on a regular basis. God help you if you wrote or created original art set in their (expansive) universe or worseĀ -Ā dared to write about their characters. Even people who werenāt creating fanworks, just hosting Geocities pages about how much people liked the show would be sent C&D orders or actually fined.Ā When I was first discovering the concept, the first rule of fandom was you do not talk about fandom because the consequences could be devastating.
It was such a strange and uncomfortable experience for me when fans in LOTR and Potter fandoms suddenly started shoving their work in peopleās faces speaking publicly about fandom and wanting to engage in dialogue with the creators and actors of the Thing they were into.Ā Fan stuff was supposed to stay online, in archives and list-serves and zines we passed around because it just wasnāt cool to talk about it and it could get you in a boatload of trouble.Ā The freedom we have to create and gather together in a shared space, or actually be acknowledged in any way by people outside the fandom was inconceivable to my fannish, teenaged self. I want fans these days to understand how amazing modern fandom really is, cherish the community, and appreciate what it took to get us here.Ā
āif you found this by googling yourself, hit back now. this means you, pete wentzā
Oh hey, even more blasts from the past.
I was one of the ones who got a love letter from Anne Riceās lawyers. Bear in mind that up until that point her publisher had encouraged fanfic and worked with the archive keeper (one of my roommates at the time) to drum up publicity for upcoming books and so on.
I could tell such tales of how much Anne screwed over her fans back then. The tl;dr version is that she and her peeps would use fan projects as free market research and then bring in the lawyers once it was felt Anne could make money off of it herself. (Talismanic Tours being one of the most offensive examples of this.)
But where fanfic is concerned not only did we get nastygrams but one of my friends had Anneās lawyer trying to fuck up her own privately owned business which had NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING ANNE RELATED. Said friend was a small business owner with health issues who wasnāt exactly rolling in money, so guess how well that went?
On top of that when yours truly tried to speak out about it I discovered that someone in Anneās camp had been cyber stalking me to the point where they took all the tiny crumbs of personal information I had posted over the course of five years or so and used it to doxx me (before that was even a term and in early enough days of the WWW that this wasnāt an easy task) and post VERY personal information about me on the main fandom message board of the time. Luckily for me the mod was my friend and she took that down post haste, but it was still oodles of fun feeling that violated and why to this day I am very strict about keeping my fandom and personal lives separate online.
Hence why those of us in the fandom at the time who still gave enough of a shit to want to keep writing fic DID keep writing fic, but shoved it so far underground and slapped it with so many disclaimers they couldāve outweighed the word count of War & Peace. It wasnāt just for the purpose of protecting fic but for trying to protect our personal lives as well.
(Also would love to know who @tiger-in-the-flightdeck knew. Life paths crossing after so many yearsā¦.)
Lucasfilm also sent cease-and-desist letters to Star Wars fanzines publishing slash.
My favourite bit I read from one included the idea that you werenāt allowed to have any explicit content, of which anything queer, no matter how tame, was included, to āpreserve that innocence even Imperial crew members must be imagined to haveā.
Yeah. The same Imperial crew members who helped build the Death Star to commit planetary genocide.
(Itās one reason Sinjir Velus, while I still have some issues with him, feels like such a deliciousĀ āf*** youā.)
Later on, they were apparently persuaded toĀ āallowā fans to write slash, provided inĀ āremained within the nebulous bounds of good tasteā.
(On a related note, if I wasnāt quite so attached to my URL, I would 100% change it toĀ āNebulous Boundsā, because thatās just downright catchy)
Anne McCaffrey had this huge long set of rules about how exactly you were allowed to play in her sandbox. Dragonriders of Pern was my first online fandom, and I was big into the Pern RP scene - and just about every fan-Weyr had a copy of these lists of rules McCaffrey wanted enforced. One of which wasĀ āno pornā and another was basicallyĀ āit canāt be gayā (and for a whileĀ āno fanfiction posted onlineā? which??? anyway.)
She relaxed a little as time went on, but still.Ā
Letās not forget: the reason AO3 is called āArchive of our ownāĀ is because it was created in response to some bullshit that assholes were trying to play with fan creators. Basically (if I remember the fiasco correctly) trying to mine fandom creators for content which they could then use to generate ad profit on their shitty websites. When the series creators objected, the fans tried to pull their content, only to find that the website hoster resisted, claiming their content was all his now.
That wasnāt even all that long agoā¦
fandom history class
To this day, *talking* about writing or reading fanfiction - just acknowledging that it exists - to anyone other than people I know are in fandom as well, feels like a dangerous act. The strict separation I maintained between my real life identity, my online identity, and my fandom identity (yes, they were separate, because some of the most vicious and mocking people were fellow nerds) has broken down a bit these days, but I donāt think Iāll ever be able to integrate them as freely as some younger fans do.
Everybody should know that AO3 is just one project of the Organization for Transformative Works.Ā Their mission is much broader than just hosting a (very good) fanfic site. They do all kinds of fandom history archiving and publish an academic journal, but most importantly, they perform legal advocacy to protect the fair use rights of people who make fanfic or fanart.
The OTW Legal Committeeās mission includes education, assistance, and advocacy.
We create and post educational materials about developments in fandom-related law on transformativeworks.org and on archiveofourown.org.
We assist individual fans when their fanworks are challenged, we answer fansā questions about law relevant to fanworks, and we help fans find legal representation.
We partner with other advocacy organizations and coalitions in the U.S. and around the world.
We advocate for laws and policies that promote balance and protect fanworks and fandom.
And much more!
I havenāt been involved in fandom stuff all that long, but I find this stuff so fascinating!
whew, i feel old, but thatās mostly bc i was on forums way way waaaaay too young. but this? yes. all the way. people had password protected forums on the weirdest, most unconventional websites. before you could even be approved by the mods they would search your blog, your other accounts, question you, everything, all because we were broke teens and preteens trying to do something for fun and if someone got in who could doxx you or send your work over to a lawyer? that was it, you were OVER. thatās also part of where fandom wars and the defense of fandom came from: quote unquote āenemyā fandoms would infiltrate just to hurt you. @theglintoftherail makes a very good point: ao3 is a goddamn haven. and theyāre a great team of lawyers and people dedicated to protecting fanworks! part of the reason itās so great is because they know thereās no one like them out there. they also go to the ends of the damned earth to protect you and to be inclusive, which is why thereās shit like tentacle porn and underage and dubcon. because theyāre dedicated to protecting readers and creators to the death. they donāt advocate for it and they have the extensive rating and tagging system because of that (legit the best tagging system iāve ever seen) but they donāt know if youāre dealing with trauma or if you need to get something out. do not forget your fandom, kids. jesus
Who else knew nothing about this? A show of hands
Iām just the right age to remember the disclaimers and to have HEARD about the Anne Rice, Anne McCaffrey, and X-Files fiascos, but I was never in any of those fandoms and I was more or less on the tail end of that. I canāt imagine having to be scared to tell people I write fanfic. So glad weāve come so far.
Every time I start reading fanfics, I thank all of you people whose neverending resilience and the drive to be creative made it possible for me to consume content freely and without worryĀ š¤
My older fics have the disclaimers. Heck, my older fanart has disclaimers in the descriptions. FFN and DeviantArt were those times, AO3 and Tumblr era I stopped finally.
In case folks still donāt get why losing AO3 would be so devastatingā¦
Since itās happening again now, letās not forget the purity brigades of the late-90s and early-2000s who took it as their duty to roam fan fic sites in their fandoms and report anything they deemed unsuitable. And if they couldnāt get them removed, thatās when the flame comments would start, where they would screech abuse at you in the comments boxes.
Back then, this could include anything from the ship they didnāt like (look up the ship wars from Potter fandom. The feuds were horrendous and hateful) to something as simple as a g-rated slash fic because āthis of the childrenā. Hell, when strikethrough happened on livejournal, it was everything/anything which - sadly - also included a lot of fantastic support communities for queer kids and SA survivors and the like. All because the site decided to crack down on ālewdā/ādeviantā content and didnāt pause to think what else might be tagged under queer and SA content.
A lot of the writers in a lot of the fandoms I was in included content warnings for slash because if people felt spiteful or hostile when they stumbled on it, they could report it to fic hosting sites and have it taken down for any number of excuses. I lost fics on fanfiction.net because some big weirdo deemed them as inappropriate and had their friends all report it at the same time.
This is why Archive of Our Own is so special. If someone doesnāt like what youāve written, they donāt have the power or right to remove it or erase it because it offends their specific sensibilities. Yes, they can still comment and be a dick, but now we can block and/or report them if they continue to do so.
can i mention the time Larry Niven āclosed the playgroundā to his Known Space universe over kzinti gay fic:
āYes, it was. The story's still on my website, too. :-) I also got a letter from one of the contributors to the MKzW series who admitted that he liked the story, thought it justified itself well from what was known about Kz*n at the time, fit into the MKzW universe, and "was pretty hot all the same," even if said contributor *was* straight.ā
Elf is a badass.
(From an ancient long thread on Larry Nivenās assholery here.)
thunderboltās darling
is this love
Oh, oh, oh! I saw your Thing story (ššš)! I wanted to leave a comment but I have no idea how to respond to anything on here (I must validate people T_T): have you seen this published take on the monsterās POV? With the horrifying last line, Iāll add.
(I should like link the story in a reblog huh. Idk tumblr. Iām old.)
i have!!! itās been a long time, though, and i think i read it a while after iād started noodling on that idea. itās here if anyone is curious!
my general vision of the creature is a little different from wattsā version, in that it doesnāt see the humans as cancerous or inherently bad and in need of forced assimilation. it believes in consent, and its kind have a millennia long history of visiting as much life in the universe as they can find, and attempting to essentially āsaveā organic recordings of every life form they can. theyāre very aware of the threat of extinction to all life forms and they consider the āsilent lossā of any living being a deep wrong.
under this idea, within the movie, it goes like this: each man it ātakesā is shown what that would mean. it means suddenly knowing an uncountable number of beautiful beings, wondrous facts, having direct memories of everything this being and any other the individual Thing has personally collected. itās an overwhelming kind of ecstasy, and the transformation is likened to a mammal birth. sure thereās blood and screaming and pain, but something transcendent is happening. and this is what each of the ātakenā men is shown, and, judging by their scents and synapses, the Thing takes that for consent.
for the Thing, the ending of the movie is a beautiful reunion. it doesnāt matter if one or both of them is also A Part. humanity is recorded now, and safe from its own extinction. its mission is done.
This is such an interesting and beautiful response ā and thank you for linking it! Particularly that this highlights how āalienā it truly is, and that its methods of recording are biologically beyond what our little monkey brains could ever comprehend. Itās one of my favorite themes in science-fiction, and highlights how much of it is seen through a āhuman lens,ā such as advanced intelligence = human form:
(I have a longer response to this particular image but itās for another day. It was the first thing that came to mind.)
I know there is a trope called āstarfish aliensā that better highlight examples, but some of my favorite reading romps have challenged my way of āseeingā and ābeing.ā An exercise in empathy, I suppose. :)
(I blame reading āAnimorphsā as a kid.)
METAL GEAR SOLID Ī: SNAKE EATER ā¢ Konami
how to print money: donāt waste this shit on fucking pachislot
Me not giving a fuck
Also me, not expecting to see Monster Rancher today.
Volkov for this month ā”
The most problematic favs ever. :ā)
HOW MUCH DOES VOLGIN LOVE THIS PHONE
not a lot
āBut itās so cute, Colonel!ā
Then Raikov became a secretary and (look!) nothing changed.
Also:
Hmmm it is the weekend and I finished my obligations to ensure I eat andā¦
the straightest series that ever straighted I tells ya
