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Published: 2019-04-10 21:31:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 1201; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 0
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I'm so sorry for the prolonged absence lately. And the lack of new content. And the lack of replies and comments. I apologize for that
This render started out as a great idea and then looked ... boring. The tentacles especially. I randomly tried stuff and then StarEyedOcelet said "Dude, that looks like a video game loading screen!" and we took it from there.
Here's Jon with his friends from the other side which give him powers and also his familiar, Celeste, makes her first appearance.
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Oh. looks like I missed a couple of yours. I've been clicking the wrong bit in my notifications, I realised you have to click the image or it doesn't open. oops. Love it Raffi. Is that the tenticle they have well, overpriced at Daz. I watched the YT vid of the guy showing you how to unwrap it the other day, it had to be the same thing. Is Celeste the rat? Love the book and especially the Key. We had a key just like it for the outbuilding when I was growing up. I loved it. It's where dad kept mum's chastity belt. 
I love the grungy look. Ron's brushes?
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The tentacles are all attached to a creature which I either made invisible or hid behind the furniture. XD It's... The Horror or something over at Daz. Giant Octopus with a coat and a necklace XD The textures don't look that well. At least they look very dry and not slimy as I wanted them to.Β
And yes, Celeste is the rat, Jon's familiar
It's nothing by Ron, it's a PS Action from GraphicRiver with a lot of modification by me
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Oh, I'd been looking at The Tenticle or whatever it's called earlier and thought it was that. I find getting things shiny in the right way isn't easy. I'm learning as I go though. I'd like to say I've got better but I try it on something else and it fails.
Oh, there's some great stuff on GraphicRiver. I can spend hours putting loads of stuff in my cart then never check out.
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Haha, right? Especially since GraphicRiver also isn't a cheap river lol
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I know! There's a palette knife action on there that I loved but I told myself I'd never use it. I probably wouldn't.
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This is really nice. What a cool book! So well made! I really like the effects you added. (and wow, the tentacles! so Lovecraft and Cthulhu
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The book is amazing. It's from a relatively recent set from Daz3D, the key also. Thank you
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Hat wirklich etwas von einem Videospiel.
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Ich hab Videospieldesign studiert, aber die industrie ist nicht bereit fΓΌr so etwas XD
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Wonderful. Reminds me of The Magicians on the SyFy Network again. They are in search of a book in their current episodes.
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I never got around to watching Magicians but the premise seems to be similar
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love the overall look! 
and i agree with kiwihobbit about it looking part game part tarot! tho i don't agree about the rest, lmao, cuz i think they ARE his friends, exactly BECAUSE of where they end up
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Rats are amazing
lol Kinky! But then again, Jon Bouchard can be kinky lol
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ikr?Β 
why isn't there an emoji "head in the gutter"... XD
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Jon, those friends aren't your friends, I've seen enough anime to know where those tentacles end up!Β
It's one part video game screen, one part tarot deck.Β Β
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Well Iβd play this video game based on the picture alone.
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Don't worry about that. Just worry about replies and stuff. You do what you need to do andΒ Β Β Β damn, it does look like a video game loading screen. It looks awesome.
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This does look like a video game loading screen.
Man imagine a Uncharted style game with your characters.
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Oh, wouldn't that be amazing... but then again, the industry isn't ready for a AAA game about gay dudes *le sigh*
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Not the Western Market anyway. Maybe Japan
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Oh, they are even worse, I think. Gay representation in their games is abysmal. Persona 5, for example, has two flamboyant gay men who aggressively flirt with the teenage protagonists and even chase them on the beach.
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Yet they also had seamless integration of Lesbians in Sailormoon(America made them incestuous cousins) and lots of lovable Transgender characters that in America they made sure they were either βfreaks in dragβ or like Paper Mario just a girl with all mentions of her mistreatment being just due to being youngest
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Oh yes, that is true. We didn't get the kissing cousins in Germany but all direct mention of their love was taken out. And both Zoisite and Fisheye got female voices. Which was especially ridiculous in Fisheye's case because they left in all those scenes where you see his chest and even a scene in which a guy says "I know you are a man but you have to be my muse."
I think Japan is really split on that matter. Especially actual LGBT reality vs. the media. I'm trying to think about some positive depictions and funny enough Persona 5 actually had both. They had the predatory gay men but also a very sympathetic and funny drag queen who runs a bar.
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I did watch far enough in the original for Fisheye, but yeah Zoisite got female voicing and slight breasts in the American one too. But yeah Sailors Uranus and Neptune (... I think I got the right names) had none of the kissing and holding and caressing taken out but they were labeled as cousins. Awkwardly.
I mean I remember they wanted to remove Cloud in Drag from a remake of Final Fantasy for America because they didn't think Americans would approve, but they got such crap that they left it in. But then again I remember that Wii thing or ... whatever that Nintendo thing with the little characters didn't allow gay relationships for a long time even in Japan happened. But then I do know Paper Mario had a trans-character who in the Japanese releases, most of the teasing from her sisters was "you're a man and will never be a woman! You're beneath us!" style to show the mistreatment she got from them and then on your team all the Good Guys call her by her chosen name and refer to her as a female even though her sisters call her a man I think until the end. Heck they even show her crushing on Mario a bit and it seeming really sweet, and he seems flattered even though he's not interested. (Then again like 3 of the female characters are into him in that one and he's like "Nope just Peach") Where as in the American and Western releases, she's just the little sister who isn't "As pretty" as the older ones. And it stupid, forgetful and clutzy despite being none of those things.
And perhaps they are pretty split, though there is officially a transgendered woman in charge of something now in Japan if I remember hearing/reading on the internet correctly. It was a recent election of power. .. and there was an anime (yaoi) I don't remember the name of (in short the dude is helped by some kid who later is being sold as a "kid" to rich dudes, he saves him from that and has to save him like three times) where there is this character I don't know if they are trans or just a cross-dresser, but their name is like Mrs. Green (ish) or something and when that character starts annoying the main dude he just off handed remarks about how the character is a dude, and the character themselves is like HOW DID YOU KNOW!? and all the dudes they've slept with lose their minds realizing they banged a dude (which I remember the set up made me laugh at the time but that'd probably be hella rude irl so I don't know how that was intended to be taken - but I remember the character themselves was rather likable despite being moderately annoying, but they were annoying in that Gossipy Woman who is a total ditz but thinks they're hot stuff kind of way).
I can't recall all the ones I've loved but I think some of the original representations of gay characters I adored when I was much younger came from anime, but that might have been due to the fact that they were so censored in American shows/stories/releases or were purely there as the "Ewwww a gay" character that to see subtitled anime/yaoi/shonen-ai with 'normal' people that happened to be gay (or heroes that happened to be gay and were presented as 'normal' people (i.e not a freak/weirdo/comic relief/etc)) probably made me enjoy anime a lot. . . until High School ruined it lol.
[ -apologizes for so much text- ] So yeah they perhaps have an equally big love/hate relationship with LGBT as America does.
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Oh don't apologize, this was really an intriguing read and I'm equally passionate about this as you are. Germany has issues in that regard too. We came a long way but it's still so much work to do.
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Indeed - hopefully we will get there! .... now if America could stop moving backwards .... lol
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Right? Here in Germany some idiots try but they aren't as successful as the god-fucking-damn Trump administration.Β
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Well oddly even Trump thinks some of these abortion laws are out of line - and that is kind of sad ainβt it
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I thoroughly believe that he is just an imbecile anyway. He never stuck to any policy, liberal or conservative. He just wants to be praised. And everyone around him (Bolton, Miller etc) and assholes like those guys in Alabama just use the climate to their advantage.
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I totally agree just saying when even that imbecile says youβre going too far and being more dumb than he is (when you are indeed being dumb) then you are REALLY dumb lol
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Totally agreed. But those disgusting religious/conservative zealots just care about "doing God's work" and preserving precious life which they stop caring about as soon as it pops out. Health insurance? You're on your own now!
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Especially considering how many religions say "The baby isn't a baby until it's first breath" - so like, you can't argue in most religions (Christianity included) that it's "God's will" ... it's legit not. Like all of them say it's not considered a life til it breathes and suddenly it's about heart beats ... but only in the womb, no where else. After it's born, it's not a person anymore (because logic) and it should, as a baby, fend for itself. [[I actually wish I was exaggerating on this ideology @_@]]
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