trying to get less nervous about posting my art on here. heres some ghibli screenshot redraws

batch 2

[after Shoin's mooks insult Cel]

Cel: Of all the things you could've called me, a "freak of nature"? Now that one, that one I take offence to! I am not a freak of nature, all this [gestures at themselves] is medically induced! If anything, I am a freak of SCIENCE!

This was a quick little drawing based on a reference photo of me.

[ID: a digital, fully colored drawing of Cel from RQG.

Cel is a half-elf with light skin and blonde spiky hair with silver streaks in it. They are wearing a black coat over a dark shirt and trousers. They're wearing a belt across their chest and waist equipped with potions. They're holding a large green potion in their left hand.

They're kneeling with one leg up and grinning widely. Behind them electricity is cackling in the form of lightning.

Their shadow is larger with wings and sharp fingers and a single red eye showing behind them. /End ID]

[ID: a digital drawing of cel sidebottom. it’s drawn with quick, sketchy black lines and colored flatly, with a screentone texture all over the figure. it shows cel grinning at the viewer, in a floaty sort of pose with them facing right, to the left of the canvas, and their figure occupying most of the bottom half of the canvas. they’re adjusting their goggles with their right hand, and the left is thrown behind them, with that arm and elbow high up. their right leg is hiked up a bit and the other is coming down, as though they were falling. cel is drawn as tall and lanky, with pale skin and gray eyes. their hair is a faded blond, spiky and vertical. their visible pointed ear is burnt at the tip. their eyes crinkle at the sides with age and the size of their wide grin. they’re wearing chunky goggles,a long black coat with a high collar, a dark green shirt, and black pants. there are several thin chains along their belt, straps on their thighs, and  mid-calf, black combat boots. there is a string of colorful vials around their torso. the coat flutters with their jump. the background is bright cyan and has a doodle-y background of thunders, stars and skulls. end ID]

 it’s been uncommon for me to draw things for myself or unprompted this year, so i’m very happy to share this little cel doodle i made for no other reason than externalizing how much dearest @angryducktimemachine‘s edgy take on cel messed with my brain. cel in black is SOOOOO top tier, and vaguely anime doodles can be very healing, actually. hope this makes you smile as much as it does for me! 💙

Description provided by me.

Description provided by @sky-fire-forever.

Some expression practice inspired by the good old discord!

Expression sheet provided by capichiino

Gifting The Line gift for the terrific Tilly (aka @koscheyyy) :-) Thanks so much for organizing this and have a wonderful last few days of 2022!!!

[id: A digital drawing of Azu, Celiquillithon Sidebottom, Grizzop drik acht Amsterdam, Hamid Saleh Haroun Al-Tahan, Sasha Rackett and Zolf Smith from the Rusty Quill Gaming podcast having a snowball fight. The character closest to the viewer at the bottom right corner is Zolf Smith. The only thing visible is the left half of his face , from the eyes upwards. Zolf is a white dwarf with white hair and an indigo winter cap, lined with fur and with a white tassel. He is scowling at the viewer. Behind Zolf and to his left is Azu. Azu is a black half-orc with deep brown skin. She is wearing dark pink fur-lined boots, gloves, light pink trousers, a striped pink scarf, a pink fur-lined jacket and a pink trapper hat with a tassel. She is grinning while running into the direction of the viewer and throwing a snowball. To Azu’s right is Celiquillithon Sidebottom, a smiling white half-elf with a blond mohawk, sideburns and slight stubble. They are shown in profile, facing to the left while getting hit by a snowball. Cel is wearing goggles, ear warmers resembling Santa hats and a long orange and brown coat fastened by a belt. Between Azu and Cel, Hamid Saleh Haroun Al-Tahan is facing away from the viewer. Hamid is an Egyptian halfling with light brown skin and dark brown hair. He is wearing a wine red tailcoat fastened with a belt, a green scarf, purple trousers and green shoes. Hamid is running, throwing a snowball with his left hand while casting magic missile with three snowballs with his right hand. In the center of the background, Grizzop drik acht Amsterdam is lying in the snow and making a snow angel. Grizzop is a grey-skinned goblin with red eyes. He is wearing a reindeer-themed winter cap, a blue scarf, a green tunic, a metal breastplate, gloves, leather vambraces, brown trousers and boots. Sneaking up behind Grizzop, carrying a giant snowball in both hands, is Sasha Rackett. Sasha is a white human with brown hair. She is wearing a black studded leather jacket, black gloves and dark grey boots. To Sasha’s and Grizzop’s right there is a snowman resembling Bertrand MacGuffingham, with a golden falcon breastplate, a falcon-shaped pompadour, a moustache, goatee and a sword. end id.]

IM EXPERIENCING VERY STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT CELIQUILLITHON SIDEBOTTOM ON THIS FINE MORNING

some epilogue 3 art! i almost died for this /j

Found these in my tumblr drafts

Inspired by a suggestion on Discord after the Q&As came out

batch two! thank you all so much for the support!

batch 1

RQG Hero Forge PC’s

AZU

BERTIE

CEL

CEL BEASTMORPH

GRIZZOP 

HAMID S1

HAMID S4

SASHA S1

SASHA S3 

ZOLF S1 

ZOLF S4 

Pondering their orb.

[ID: a digital, fully coloured drawing of Cel from Rusty Quill Gaming, done in reference to the wizard pondering his orb picture.

Cel is a pale half-elf with light hair that is styled upwards. They are wearing their goggles around their neck. They're dressed in a dark coat and have a bandolier with different little glass viles across their chest.

They are leaning back in an armchair and are looking at Shoins brain floating in it's orb with a focused expression. One half of the brain is covered in blue veins.

The artists signature "ÄngryDuckTimeMachine" is set next to them. /End ID]

Sir Bertrand Mcguffingan from District 2 is exactally what the Capitol expects when hearing the word Victor: a born killer in golden armor with silly anthics and the same levels of empathy a brick wall has for the unfortunate driver that hitted it (and vaguely the same brains). That is in itself odd. People shouldn't be so blasé about the constant slaughter of their neighboors even when treated as special for it. But that's the wonder of the career districts and Bertie isn't special even in his awfullness.

Hamid Saleh Haroun al-Tahan from 1 is more likely what one would expect from a career. Someone that always felt a bit unconfortable with the games but not enough to actually see something bad with it. Specially not when most of his family is made of victors and important people nor when his friends were all up to it. Gideon was a legend after all. Someone who was way too soft but always pretended not to be until he won his games and couldn't drive the nightmares alway. Couldn't pretend it had all been worth it.

Zolf Smith from four was barely a career. He did what he had to do to survive both in games and outside of it and while he respected Barnes he never bought the honor talk the other Victor tried to use to keep himself sane. He was cynical and realist and he lost more and more of himself at every kid he send to die.

Howard Carter from 5 was a surprise only because he voluntered by a random impulse and maybe just a hope that winning would make the judment stop. It didn't. He drank a lot nowdays.

Azu from District 8 should not have survived. She was physically strong but she had a big bleeding heart and not a single one of her peers had any hope she would get out of it. They liked her, loved her even. But when she got out of the arena, blood on her pink clothes and tears for the friends she lost people were shocked. She always lit a candle for the lost in the temple of Afrodite. The fact she was still soo good was probably the surprise.

Grizzop Drik Ach Armsterdam from Distric 11 knew his way with a bow and took no punches from anyone. He was a force of nature. He didn't regret winning nor the people he had to kill but he hated the system that made him do it with passion. The fact that the Capital had let him mostly by himself was probably the biggest surprise.

Celiquillithon "Cel" Sidebottom from 3 was the Victor everyone hoped to be. Not because they were coping better than any of the others but because they were still abble to build a comunity afterwards. Because they took care of the people of their district, used their money and inventions to help, visited their homes, offered smiles and advices and did the best they could. And people noticed it. They counted on Cel. It was a complicated situation because it was the perfect grounds for a revolution but also because the Capital had the whole District as form to keep them in line.

Sasha Rackett from District 12 came from nowhere. She was a poor kid from a forgotten place with no carisma and no mentor and she should've died. She was too sincere and too standofish and too good with a knife and small spaces and the way she cried when her district partner died and the way she killed and the way she smiled like she didn't want to be there. There was something about Sasha.

Oscar Wilde was not a Victor. In fact for most people he was as Capital as they come and he was fine with it. No one needed to know about his late mother nightmares or Esperanza or an arena she refused to talk about even when it cleared haunted her. His sister died in the districts, his accent died quickly after in the Capitol. He trusted the Capital goverment as much as he could throw them (so taking in consideration his lack of upper body strengh and the fact they were all dragons not at all) and the Harlequins trusted him even less. None of it mattered. What mattered was that the Victors loved him in front of the cameras and every single one hated him when the lights turned out and the interview was over and it was fine. No one suspects the press of revolution wich is absolutly stupid but he is fine with it. No one suspects a spy of anything as long as they are doing a good job.

None of them fit very well as the biggest hope the world has of changing. Not the way Curie and her Council (apart from Einsten) did. Not even the way Earhart did. But no one actually fits the roles the world gives them, they just have to keep trying.

Happy anniversary RQG fandom!

Not only is it 1 year since the finale aired - today is an anniversary of sorts for me as well: I have just posted my 200th fic in this fandom.

Over the past two and a half years I have written over 675,000 words for this wonderful podcast. That's a lot of words. A lot of time. And I've enjoyed every single moment of it.

Here are just over 3000 more:

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Zolf Smith/Oscar Wilde, Commander James Barnes/Howard Carter (Rusty Quill Gaming), Commander James Barnes/Howard Carter/Celiquillithon "Cel" Sidebottom, Azu & Oscar Wilde (Rusty Quill Gaming)

Characters: Oscar Wilde (Rusty Quill Gaming), Zolf Smith, Celiquillithon "Cel" Sidebottom, Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming), Commander James Barnes (Rusty Quill Gaming), Howard Carter (Rusty Quill Gaming)

Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Everyone is Alive Except Bertie, Anniversary, Reminiscing, Friendship, Reunions, Old Married Couple, RQGversary

Summary:

They’ve spent the anniversaries of their success in saving the world in myriad different ways. Together, apart, merrily, or full of grief for what might have been. It is a difficult time, and none of them would dare suggest that it must be marked in a particular way.

But ten years. Ten years feels like it should be noted.