So.... A Friend Of Mine And I Have Started Using Meme-generators To Communicate.. Anyway, Here's The

so.... a friend of mine and i have started using meme-generators to communicate.. anyway, here's the semi-endearing saga of me learning how gacha games work (✅️ with said friend's consent 🌈🎉)

for the record: i, a compilation-only non-player, do know ZZZ characters' names. the actual ZZZ-player here was the one calling Von Lycaon "wolf-butler" lol

...and also AN element of why i was confused was bc,(cont. below)

as the MC, you get to make dialogue/plot-choices. i've seen that in the cut-scene comps. and my sphere of "video-games i actually play, and not just watch the cut-scenes of" is limited to interactive fiction, visual novels type beats; so that colored my lens too. so the MC, as a playable character, you make choices for them on big and small levels. but you don't make any out-of-battle-choices for the other characters that you play. (........same as Pokemon. just. in Pokemon, i never thought about how my team of six aren't "characters" i can make choices for??? bc. theyre Pokemon. that versus how, in ZZZ and most gacha games, your team are characters in the narrative; which i thought using them in fights should have resulted in MC making their dialogue/plot-choices and cut-scene modifications and etc) but i do get how gacha's shit works now. my bud was right. a lot of it IS like Pokemon, I GUESS

but yeah i didnt really ask questions before now ABOUT THAT bc i just thought y'all were paying money for like. a cgi maybe? but mostly to collect these pngs like baseball cards or, at best, get a special scene of the character. or maybe a skin for while your MC fights, that impacts stats a lil bit (like giving your Pokemon an item)? then i heard y'all use them, like THE ACTUAL CHARACTER you just pulled and not "just a skin", in FIGHTS and confusingly "made assumptions" or whatever and now had questions lmao rip im just glad to hear you guys arent risking missing your car payment this month for THAT little lmao (tho like, seriously: don't be stupid, stupid. dont take risks on your car loans, just go pay lol)

anyway, thanks for letting me further clarify ♡ have this last-meme-of-the-conversation as a gift, seeing as my friend did have the GALL to continue the bit about me as a technologically-illiterate grandma anyway lol

“I can’t stop you from leaving, but you can’t stop me from coming with you either.”

Doing all of Jack’s acting is so fun. I’m boarding out of order so sorry for any confusion lol. It’ll all make sense when it’s put together but for now if you get lost you can read the short scene at the end of Chapter 21 of OTNWAS by @jjackfrost! 

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“There’s only so much ice and snow can do… I needed some extra life to make it believable.  “

Quick sketch of the Snow Queen from “Of the Northmost Winds and Skies” by @jjackfrost. One of the most fun villains I’ve ever read!

Jamie: “Hiccup knows the Archipelago better than anyone.”

Love the nerdy dragon boy! Also I haven’t drawn Toothless in like years, so he might look a little jank until I warm back up to him again :’’D

Oh almighty art master, teach me how to draw arms please? Mine always turn out so weird and misshapen.

I'm tempted to just say that all of my art takes place in a universe where humans don't have arms and we have to use our feet for everything, but that would mean so many cursed images of toes holding pencils and I don't think I can bring myself to impart that upon this broken world.

ART MASTER y'all really be out here boosting my ego 😂❤️ this is one of two art advice asks I gotta catch up on!

I can't name any muscles or bones, but I can try to show you the rhythm I use to hack it:

For larger arms, remember that joints (shoulders, elbows, wrists) don't store fat:

For muscle-y arms, uh, idk I kinda just wing it so any how-to’s I give you would be actively harming your studies lolol

Hopefully that gives you a bit of a foundation to build off of!

-Alka