Courtney-Flamesong

So after far too long a hiatus, I've posted the second update in the Nuzlocke of Dimitry comic (nuzlockeofdimitry.wordpress.co…). I've gotten the script written for another four updates, so with any luck those will be coming along soon.

I've also made a simple decision -- the "talk" portraits I use will be put up here in a single image per person (or type, as NPCs go) once they're no longer used. So if a Pokemon ends up dying, I'll put theirs up here. As their "death picture" is only going to be their profile shot crossed out, I'm not going to bother uploading that one.

What I've found out, though, is that doing even a single update is fairly exhausting. Writing as I go with just rough notes on what happened/what ideas I had then drawing in the pictures and icons as I need them while I write is surprisingly taxing, but despite it all I've managed to draw a couple of things for this update and in general that I'm pretty proud of. I honestly hope it continues!

So, I decided to get myself drawing and having a little fun by starting a Nuzlocke run of my own and writing/drawing it. There is a little catch, however.

For those who are familiar with them, deathdesu has one called Nuzlocke of April while Sea-Salt has one called Nuzlocke of Ernie. Both of these are set in the same world... and now, so is mine!

Allow me to introduce my own run, mostly written with art stills/emotions here and there in it: Nuzlocke of Dimitry.

I'll do my best to update it as much as I can, but it's a little difficult to draw decently on paint, so it takes a little while to do the stills.

Hope those of you who see it enjoy it!

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So, unlike everyone else in the world, I'm not actually angry about ME3's "good" ending. Not to say I like it -- I abhore it. I know so much was at stake but you basically have to put a fuckton of work into getting everything settled in and for some situations (such as making peace between the geth and quarians) you have to do almost EVERYTHING juuuuust right, or it gets fucked up to hell and you're screwed picking sides. And even then you're going to lose people, both faceless and not -- Thane and Legion, for instance, die no matter what you do and you can't stop it. So it does bring the scale of the war to you, and then...

The ending. It just seems to undermine everything you've done because it's awful. No one thought there would be some sicky happy sweet EVERYTHING IS PERFECT ending, but everyone expected one that was at least satisfying. The bad ending I like, because it fits perfectly with everything else, but the good ending...?

I don't know. I'm not angry. I seem to be on the other side of the spectrum. I'm sad, disappointed, and I feel betrayed -- maybe that's silly, but Bioware is the only developer I have on my special list. Whatever company is on that list has my full loyalty -- if they release a game, I will assume it's good until otherwise played because they have a track record of releasing excellent, amazing games. Not only that, but I put down the 80-something dollars for a Collector's Edition of ME3: that's how much I loved the series and had invested in it.

I have no idea why they did this. I'm baffled and confused and the only thing I can come up with is that they wanted to make sure some "epilogue" DLC they had sells -- and really, that's so sickeningly slimy and dirty that I can't believe it's true. Bioware has never had a history of that and just because the Reaper threat is gone doesn't mean all the problems are. I bet there were tons of ideas that could be put into DLC with the Reaper threat gone, if they really wanted more money.

I'm just... so confused. Mass Effect 1 had it's problems, but was good. Mass Effect 2 had a couple complaints from me, but was easily one of the best games I had ever laid hands on -- I played it at least four times all the way through, despite the fact that it was a Sci-Fi game, and I loved every second of it. Mass Effect 3 is equally amazing with a couple of problems, naturally, but the game itself is so wonderful and beautiful (and not just visually) that I still enjoy playing it knowing what's to come.

So what happened? I wish I knew. At least then I could have some closure instead of just sitting here feeling sad and slapped in the face, wondering why it all went so wrong.

So after a bit of a drawing fun and digging through some stuff, I'm uploading both what I've drawn recently and what I've found that I forgot to upload at all.

Unfortunately, for some reason, dA is uploading one of my pictures completely wrong. It flips the picture on its side, despite the fact that it's a tall picture, and I have no idea why. I can't fix it, the actual file I have is fine and the right orientation, yet nothing I seem to do will make dA flip it the right way around. It's a picture I'm actually PROUD OF, and if you know me, that's once in a blue moon, so that's pissing me off even more. Until I can figure out how to fix it, I'll have to leave it like that, but now I'm peeved.


On another note, I'm actually pretty happy. Even though I'm dying from summer (since heat + allergies = misery), most of my RPs are going well and giving me plenty of ideas, both for art and them. And, thanks to ZumiDotEXE, I'm also getting inspired from songs as well. I don't know how much of it I'll actually draw, but who knows? I might end up with a few more pictures before the summer's out.

Or an actual ID. Now wouldn't that be something....