Hello! Here’s my piece for the Rick May Tribute collab! Thank you mods for organizing this; it was really cool! And congratulations to everyone! Your hard work paid off; the collab looks amazing! Go check it out, please ♥

My second contribution to this year’s TF2 Soldier / Rick May tribute collab hosted by @sodafrog13​!

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My part for Rick may tribute 2023. Second piece is a Collab.

As one door opens, another shall close Say hello and fight, for he always knows

Here’s my contribution to this year’s TF2 Soldier / Rick May tribute collab as hosted by @sodafrog13​! I wanted to experiment with a more dramatic angle like some of those in the WAR! Update comic, so I’m glad to have a symmetrical tile shape I could play up the composition and all those metaphors with.

Thank you too for having me on board this project to help out with the graphics and stuff! o7

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// bonus: loss

Here is my collab piece for the 2023 Rick May Tribute! His passing was really heartbreaking to hear, as he was one of my favorite voice actors. It was a pleasure working alongside other contributors on this project, and to honor his passing and a great character he left behind!

make sure to take a look at the full thing here!

My piece for the Rick May tribute collab. I wanted there to be a version with a background. I'm glad we all came together on this.

Participated in a group project hosted by @sodafrog13 / @fuckyeahscienceparty to make a big collage/collab of tribute art for Rick May. I would've liked to have drawn something bigger, but in the end this was what I had to settle with due to other obligations.

Thank you so much for creating this project, Archie! And thank you so much to Rick May. I wasn't active here when he passed, but seeing his statue on 2Fort was what brought me back to TF2.

Here's a screenshot I took when I logged back into TF2 for the first time in years. This was the last day they had the statues in game and I had learned about his passing from other players talking about it. We didn't know when Valve would update the servers and remove them, so we played long past midnight holding the server open and dancing with him.

I hadn't felt a sense of community stronger than that in a while, and especially during quarantine. TF2 has always, at the end of the day, been a very wholesome and wonderful community for me. We have our problems but we truly come together and shine our brightest with our love for this game.

Rest in Peace Rick May, we'll always remember you. Your impact on this community and the world is immeasurable. Rest easy.

Good Stuff: Team Fabulous 2

WARNING: Keep your bonks close, your sanvich closer. Thank you, take care out there, and enjoy. And for kitty, Happy Birthday. RIP

TF2 is a game I cherish as much as many. With that, I sincerely gotta appreciate the community for not only helping me finally get my best loadouts, but making plentifully great animations outside of Valve’s already great youtube shorts. Crash Maul’s series, Turbulence, End of the Line, and ‘The Heavy is Dead’ are to name a few, but one sticks out upon ‘em all. What almost 25 million viewers, I say, considered one of the pinnacle of Red and Blue shenanigans that was so great, we're reanimating it ground up to celebrate. I’m talking kitty0706′s Team Fabulous 2.

To think it was 2012, over eight years ago when this released. I wasn’t into the game until 2014, but at the time I could see why so many loved this title. TF2 itself has that timeless factor that, while having a seemingly on and off update cycle still pushes strong with its community of modders and artists. I say it’s like Battle for Bikini Bottom where the game holds such a strong impact on people that even after Overwatch, Fortnite, and Apex Legends all took the spotlight, TF2 persists with its playerbase. This is where Team Fabulous 2 comes in.

For what it is, I wanna say it’s basically the game in a shellnut. It’s not Pixar or Dreamworks tier animation, but for Youtube it’s damn cinematic beauty, imperfections and all. It’s batshit nonsense with memorable moments, and the value comes in it being both a funny and thrilling adventure of TF2 vs GMod servers. The video has a blast with the mercenaries and the main baddies, almost coincidence that it all takes place in a toybox looking warzone. Everything leading up to what I will honorably say is the most kino climax to a fan project I’ll ever see. That ending alone is what makes this one of my favorite videos on Youtube ever and overall makes me respect kitty or Colin a lot for essentially making all of this himself. To quote one comment from the video,

“Somehow without even trying it is the most loved and most memorable video on youtube to quite a lot of people, everyone can say they've seen this video at least once, even people who don't even know what TF2 is. It's like a time capsule for 2012  but you don't cringe seeing the contents.”

This was not only the guy’s most popular youtube video, but the most widely known video in the TF2 community. It’s basically a big love letter to the game, upon his many other GMod videos. A representation of why the community hasn’t let this game die even when Valve mostly left it to die. I honestly can’t think of anything similar for the likes of Fortnite or Overwatch. Even with their mainstream popularity, nothing beyond the porn has ever came close to being that memorable fanmade representative of their respective communities like Team Fab 2 has. It feels like an inviting celebration, months in the making, from somebody who just got it. But, while the video will basically live as long as the internet, kitty himself wasn’t given a good hand.

It was only 3 months after the video released, and three years later when Colin Wyckoff was diagnosed and later died of leukemia. Of course, many in the TF2 community paid tribute on Youtube. We jump ahead to January 2020 where members announced a reanimation of Team Fab 2 along with a charity event to support the research of leukemia, all in honor of Colin and notably later to Rick May, the voice of Soldier, who passed in April due to Covid-19. It is to say that this reanimate collab is godsend, 200 animators coming together to remake this 17 minute video from over eight years ago. 

But as is with reanimations, this certainly isn’t something out of obligation but desire. To think, even when he’s gone all these years, we salute him for the Team Fabulous 2 he made because in truth, there will Never Ever be another video like it.

to all my tf2 fans out there: i really hope you’re taking the loss of Rick May alright. it’s really tough. and it’s okay to cry, even if you didn’t know him personally. it’s roughing me up too, especially because i’m a soldier main.

i’d like to do an SFM collab piece in honour of him. i’m sure a lot of us have loadouts that represent us, the player, in tf2. i’d like to have a piece with as many of us as we can fit, along with one stock soldier model. i think it’d be really nice as a tribute

if you’d like to join this, please do join this discord server so we can talk more about it. i ask that everyone remains respectful. this is an actual human being that passed away, so please be nice

Birthday Month!

Hello Kung Fu Cadets! It seems that once a month is about the appropriate amount of time I have to present you new sets but that also means we have a record 15 new sets! I’m gonna try to blow through these pretty quick.

When last I left you my friend Sina was back in town from Germany. Well we got a chance to shoot a second set during her time here and it’s a pretty fun one. Sina and I headed to horse country to stop by a favorite of mine: The Norco Powerhouse. The Powerhouse is a pretty fun little abandoned spot I’ve been to several times that lies at the back of a few farms on a horse trail. While we were there we encountered a guy walking this beautiful horse and even got a few photos with the majestic creature.

Some of you might remember my friend Steven Burhoe. Steven has popped up a couple times on the site whether it be with his band Drunkard’s Remorse or as part of the crew when Balloonski, Nova and I collabed. Well Mr. Burhoe is back for our first ever body paint collab. Actually this post will have two such shoots. The first one involved my good friend May. May and I had plans to shoot when Steven hit me up to see what I was up to. I suggested we all make some stuff together down in Long Beach where he lives and it turned out to be one of my all-time favorite shoots. Steven made May up to be this crazy wild creature and we even through this beautiful skull mask he had made. Steven is a graduate of Tom Savini’s makeup/effects school as well as a filmmaker. It was such a delight working with my friends on this shoot and we killed it.

Sarah Seraine is back! Sarah picked up a new job where I schedules haven’t quite lined up much so outside of a mini-shoot we did in Burbank we really haven’t shot together this year until now! Sarah and I found a Sunday to head back to the place we first shot together, the Nike Missile site in Chatsworth. Sarah painted herself up a bit and we had a chill, fun, low key shoot. We stopped a few tributes to the recently deceased Nipsey Hussle and which point Sarah told me her boyfriend was friends with him. So it was cool we got to pay a little tribute to someone she was connected with.

As I mentioned before, Steven Burhoe and i did two body paint collabs in this post and here is the second. Steven was stoked after the first shoot that he wanted to jump in to another. I remembered that Tori Behave lives about 10 minutes away from him down in Long Beach so we made some plans. During the shoot we ran in to some scheduling conflicts and miscommunication so the set is kind of short but hopefully you’ll still like it.

Normally I prefer to shoot a lot of different spots with people, but lately I’ve really been enjoying getting together with Lady Krondor and shooting in and around her apartment. Each time we bring something a little different and it helps that she has her studio set up in her place. This time we were a little all over the place with a flamethrower, some kinky stuff, marijuana, and her new puppy Stubbs. Hopefully soon Lady K and I will get back in to the outside world, but I think this set is a lot of fun.

First new model of the post (and first of four overall! It is my great pleasure to introduce Ms. Petra Blair. Petra and I wound up just missing each other at my friend Little Lotus’ all girl art & music event a few months ago where Petra was performing. I wound up messaging her on Instagram suggesting we shoot together as i (correctly) thought our vibes lined up perfectly. I took Petra to my regular haunt, Switzer Falls where we had a killer shoot and amazing conversations. I’d love to do a podcast with her sometime. Petra is a yoga practioner, kinkster, adult actress, musician, and overall amazing human being. We had a great time and she even wound up coming to my birthday party a week or two later. We will be shooting together again sometime next month but for now please check out this killer first set.

I love a good return. Being friends or creative partners with people in LA can be tough because there are so many people, so many projects, etc. and sometimes a while just got goes by. When you shoot together again it can be something old and something new all wrapped up in to one. That was my feeling during my second shoot with Summer Voelker. Summer and I first shot together years ago and it just took us a while to come around again, but this shoot was just so lovely. We headed down to another favorite of mine: Angel’s Gate Bunkers. Summer caught me up with her new venture Club Sleep doing ASMR and all sorts of other artistic endeavors she’s been getting in to. We had a really fun shoot with plenty of sexy looks. Even though this was our first time in a while, it certainly won’t be our last so stay tuned!

So May is my birthday month. I’m not usually one that celebrates all month but the way May has laid out it’s just turning out that way. To really kick off the festivities I decided to hit up The Renaissance Pleasure Faire the day before my birthday (May 6) to shoot with my close close homegirl muse The Spritely One. And surprise motherfuckers, Steven Burhoe joined us to shoot a behind-the-scenes video that will be released at a later date. Sprite actually works at The Ren Faire as a maiden hair braider named Dilly. Much like The Spritely One, Dilly knows fucking everyone so we really got to have quite the immersive experience. We took lots of fun photos and Mr. Burhoe even took some photos of me with a giant turkey leg as well as a few with my homegirl. Sprite introduced me to a few models I’m already talking to about shooting with. This was one of my favorite birthday celebrations with two of my favorite people.

The birthday celebrations continue with another new Muse: Xtine Reckless. Xtine and I met on a social media but really is one of those people that we just know a bunch of people in common. Xtine is a musician with her own band called Xtine & The Reckless Hearts but previous to that was playing with Barbed Wire Dolls and happens to know my friend/Muses Cindy Clark and Alicia Vigil from playing shows together. We really shot together like old friends and got along famously. I wanted to take Xtine to Switzer Falls but it started raining up in the mountains so we headed south towards downtown and did a run-and-gun pick some spots type shoot. I think it wound up working out better because we hit up this Rick and Morty street art wall I’ve been wanting to photograph (and Xtine also love Rick and Morty) as well as finding this really cool spot by some train tracks. The grungey, gritty downtown and her looks really gelled well and we will definitely be shooting more in the future.

Up next is another return (though not gone as long as Summer) with Kooki Munsta. I hadn’t seen Kooki in probably close to a year so it was lovely to get back together for a new shoot. Her fire was looking fire thanks to Hairgod Zito. The two of us headed to Vasquez Rocks for my first daytime shoot there in quite a while. Of course Vasquez is best known as the home to many sci-fi shoots that need to take place on other planets including a famous fight scene between Kirk and Spock on the original Star Trek. I though this was appropriate given how dorky Kooki and I both are. We talked all things Marvel and Game of Thrones almost the whole time. We had a really fun little shoot and Kooki took me out to Korean BBQ for my birthday after.

Up next starts a four set adventure to The Bay! To celebrate my birthday I really wanted to head on a roadtrip as I love roadtrips. I hadn’t been to The Bay in a few years and so I made plans to do my first ever shoot with Gypsy Danger. I first became aware of Gypsy Danger through Nia Doe (another girl I’ve been wanting to shoot for a while but she just moved to Portland). It turned out Gypsy and I were both friends with Brittny Nicole aka Cosmic Daughter. She generously offered to let me come crash with her and her boyfriend Jake for a couple nights. I headed up to Campbell, CA (just outside of San Jose) on a Sunday and we shot together Monday morning. Gypsy Danger is an amazing Muse. We had such instant chemistry together that it’s like we had been shooting for years. She took me to Fort Funston, just south of San Francisco. We walked down to the beach where we found this really cool abandoned, graffitied structure and played around there. We knocked out a killer set in pretty quick time before she had to head to work. This was the first set, but the adventure only continued on.

After Gypsy and I shot, she dropped me off at The SF train station where I would take the train to 22nd street and wander around SF for the day. I realized from a photo stand point that I either don’t wander enough lately or don’t shoot many sets without a specific Muse. This isn’t the first time I’ve shot a set like this but I think you’ll start seeing more of my solo adventures in the future for those that love my work outside of the Muse sets. I would love some feedback if you love this set and want to see more. I wound up walking 11 miles around from the train on 22nd through The Mission and up Folsom. I could have wandered more but my feet were killing me towards the end and I had to meet Gypsy Danger at the station to head back to Campbell. That night I wound up getting a little loose with Gypsy and Jake at which point Jake slept walk and curled up with me on the couch until I woke him up (this couch was not big enough for the both of us). It was pretty funny. The next day I headed to Oakland for my next shoot but also to catch some killer street art pieces to round out this solo set. My favorite was easily a Vogue piece I had no idea about until I saw. This set wound up mostly being street art but some other goodies in there too. I’m sure as I evolve this concept of my personal journeys everything will evolve.

After my street art Oakland explorations I met up with my 4th new Muse and second in The Bay: Succubaby. Succubaby and I have been following each other on social media now for over a year so when I made plans to head to The Bay I made sure to hit her up about doing a shoot. I wasn’t sure fully what to expect but I have to say we had one of my all-time favorite shoots (as was the one with Gypsy Danger). Succubaby took me to some of the coolest abandoned spots in and around Oakland including a skate park and we just had such a fun a shoot. Succubaby is an 18 year old subby, kinky, adult performer with a huge future ahead of her and a good head on her shoulders. I often refrain from younger models but this girl was seriously the Bee’s Knees. Succubaby and Gypsy Danger were both so cool that the next time I head to The Bay we are all going to shoot together. After our shoot Succubaby took me to the cutest cafe for coffee/hot chocolate and pastries. This girl is awesome and I think you’ll love the set.

And my fourth and final Bay Area shoot was a totally unexpected one. After leaving Succubaby in Oakland I started making my way back to Los Angeles. About an hour outside of Oakland, in a little town called Tracy I spotted some graffiti just off the highway. I quickly looked on my map and saw something called the “Altamont Raceway”. I pulled off as quickly as I could to explore and realized I had stumbled on an abandoned Nascar Raceway. This place was one of the coolest abandoned spots I’ve ever been to and I spent close to an hour photographing it as quickly as I could since the sunset had already started and I still had close to five hours of driving left that would get me home very late. Of course I love abandoned places so I took my time to soak it in and got some amazing shots despite my feet killing me and being near pass out level exhaustion from my adventures. I was glad to fit in another solo adventure that also reminded me to photograph more abandoned spots by myself as I shot it completely different than I I would if I had a model with me (though hopefully I can bring a model here soon).

Last but not least, it wouldn’t be a complete post lately if I didn’t include a little Miss Chaos. The day after I got back from The Bay, Miss Chaos invited me to hang out with her and fellow Domme Mistress Katarina for a night of dancing. We shot a mini set beforehand around Melrose including stopping by the wheatpaste of my homegirl Muse Stephanie Monty aka Monty Monster Slayer. There are plenty of amazing shoots coming up in the next few weeks including adventures in Miami, FL so stay tuned to my social media and enjoy!

Soldier committing armed robbery. Get it? Cause he's robbing arms? And he's armed? :D

This is my first contribution to this year’s TF2 Soldier / Rick May tribute collab hosted by @sodafrog13​!

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“I conquered the skies, now the shadows I conquer Skybound was the mind, earthbound the body rests.” [ X ]

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A personal tribute + part of a collage collab organised by @sodafrog13 over the past few weeks. Thank you for giving me a reason to remember Mr Rick May’s legacy as the voice and soul behind one of the most important personalities in my life.

May you rest well among the stars and far beyond.

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