It's Been A Long Time Since Anyone Mentioned Us. It's Been A Long Time Since That Vicious War That Began

Good morning. This might be my last message from the city of Rafah. The occupation [Israel] is carrying out crazy fire. Violent belts. As you’re hearing, there are helicopters. Planes and gunfire from the vehicles. There’s a complete invasion of the city.

We don’t know what is going on in Rafah. The place that the occupation [Israel] claimed to be safe. This is happening all of a sudden; the people didn’t go out. They didn’t do anything. More than thirty targets were hit in just minutes. People were asleep. We woke up to the bombing, to the shooting from the helicopters. It was horrifying. Unacceptable. This might be my last message. Please relay it to the world.

— Hazem, journalist residing in Rafah; 02.11.2024

Rafah was Palestinians’ very last safe zone. There is quite literally nowhere else left to go. And now it’s being bombed with airstrike after airstrike.

My top sketch of today is Meiru. A Halfling barbarian and my first ever PC. I like how the legs turned out on this one, even if the hip-shoulder ratio isn't quite where I want it to be. I tried to fix that in some later sketches but the hair and face didn't work out in those, so here we are!

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Spoilers for act 5 of Warhammer 40k: Rogue trader!!!!

So, the scene with the different versions of the RT right? I'm not quite sure what the lore reason for the sudden merging of realities was, but I'm not complaining just to be clear. I went Iconoclast for my first run, so maybe you get different versions, depending on which path you take. But the Glorious version???? She's living in my head rent free. Just imagine, you get pulled out of your own life abruptly and are thrust into the position of rogue trader of a burning protectorate, while all the people who could have supported you along the way are dead. You're on your own, at best people fear and/or respect you, at worst they want you dead or to use you. And still you manage to put out all the fires and even come out better for it at the end, of course you'd develop a massive ego. You're still alone, you have no true friends to speak of, but you clearly don't need them. All this you managed on your own. Then suddenly, on your way to claim your biggest trophy yet, you're confronted with three different versions of you. The kicker? You're the only one standing all alone. Look! There's the people you saw die, that left you to fend for yourself. One of them has a whole squad to back them up! Even a full on heretic at least has one person with her. Among the big group, one of them sneers at you and calls you the epitome of everything detestable about Rogue Traders. The version of you with the big retinue looks you in the eyes and tells you she pities you. (I have a hc that my rt is a really sociable gal, so this hits extra hard for the glorious version, even if she tells herself she doesn't need anyone). How dare she?! She should be grovelling before you. She needed all those people to achieve the same things you did. Of course you agree to kill her first. And then... And then of course you're defeated, because you were outnumbered from the start, because here you can't hide behind your glory and riches. You die on the cold stones of a reality that isn't even your own, at the hands of those that call every version but you, friend.

I've decided that I want to learn to draw properly and what better way to learn than to draw the DnD characters of me and my fellow players? I'll be posting my favorite sketches semi-regularly, mainly to keep myself motivated and to get a nice overview of my progress. Today's top sketch: Evalyne, a shifter sorceress. She belongs to one of my fellow players and I met her in my first ever Campaign. If any artists stumble across this and have advice, I'd be glad to hear it!

"People often ask me if I like being the 'goody two shoes' of the Expanse, seeing as I don't put entire planets to the sword like Chorda nor do I leave them to the wolves like Winterscale."

"To those detractors I must say, my people love me, my profits have never been higher and I'm pretty sure none of them have had the amount of interesting bedpartners I have"

Art Study(?) I did, of a frame from the music video of 'The Flea Waltz' by Tadano Kaede. I did it because I absolutely adore the art style of the video. Both the Music and art of the video are absolutely gorgeous. I like how the mouth turned out, but I had a few oopsies with the eyes. I also didn't quite get the yellows flowering into the hair effect. I got a bit experimental with the hair and I think I like it.

Another drawing of Evalyne. (And some pointy teeth I guess). I really like how this one turned out. Especially the waist coat thingy. I found this bomb reference on Pinterest for it. The ears aren't really where I want them to be though. Oh well.

Sobbing, wailing, screaming, etc.

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this is one of the stupidest things ive ever come up with! 💘

#suggestive #nsfw talk