“I suppose we have a few minutes to get reacquainted. It has been a long time.”
A commission and comic for @silverstreams latest chapter of The Long Game. Truly a moment worth waiting for, and certainly worth drawing! (Thanks for commissioning this and giving me the chance to draw pretty women)
(You can see all the details by opening the image into a new tab)
(Also added a couple WIP's and details under the cut! Like the updated outfits, since we were figuring out the details of Chells dress and "GLaDOS's" new looks :) )
This is also the WIP version of the comic, with the messier sketches and cleaned up parts! This is actually version 2 of the sketches made, since the first one didn't focus on that last moment as much as it needed.
“There was just something about seeing Chell there, against the diffused light of the test chamber, that ensnared her attention. The way that she was so casually leaning against the wall, arms folded loosely as she watched the bots below—it brought up a strong emotion inside of GLaDOS, as if this soft light had somehow smoothed out her own hard edges, if only for this moment.
It was the way that, despite seeming laid back, she also intently watched the co-op bots, eyes tracking like a leopard.
(…)
It wasn’t just the fact that Chell was in the observation room, GLaDOS realized. It was the fact that they were there together.
Together.”
@silverstreams - The Long Game, Chapter 22
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I couldn’t help but draw something from this fic, which is amazing, btw! Hopefully getting into TLG is the impetus I need to start drawing more Portal fan art ❤️
Art for @/silverstreams ' fanfiction The Long Game, I read it semi recently its incredibly good I recommend it highly (though it seems the entire cheldos community is already enthralled with it, for good reason ofc)
Not too sure on the rendering on this I need to find a better way to cell shade but here's the original ^^
The Long Game GLaDOS and Caroline in a nutshell. What can we say, robots like catching feelings. (TLG Fic is by @silverstreams )
[Audio Transcription:
"This is Todd." "Hi." "This is Todd's mom." "Hi!" "In a moment, Todd's mom will read her sons internet browsing history. " (The audio then plays the start of "Your Best Nightmare" from Undertale). /End Transcript.]
This was the vibe I had before Caroline showed up again in chapter 27 in @silverstreams’s fic The Long Game… it was too quiet, the Caroline alarm in my brain was going off before that chapter dropped and I was RIGHT
Tumblr Tuesday: Stardew Valley update, your beloved
Look at you, farming, wooing your loves, and being so, so normal about the little patch you have, the simple life, the love you found in that small settlement by the sea. Sure, it has mines, and in those mines, some monsters, it's true. But look into that sunset with the one you love and tell Yoba you wouldn't trade every blue chicken in the world for a few monsters and another night in Stardew Valley. This is your Stardew Valley 1.6 fanart roundup.
Question: how would you attempt to write the fic if you didnthave the andriod form involved, im wondering abt it because its kinda a big factor in limiting GLaDOS's abilities.
Yeah I couldn't figure it out. It ended up being essential because
[the long game spoilers, ch 27]
GLaDOS doesn't hold the admin account in the system, Caroline does. GLaDOS was able to replace Wheatley, sure, with the help of Chell, but she definitely doesn't have priority over the admin account. Caroline just hasn't been in a position where she has been able to utilize that login information.
So yeah, the android body was kind of necessary to get GLaDOS locked out of the full abilities of her own system, and a good way to provide an opportunity for someone to take advantage of that (ch 22, 23) to get temporary control on the limited systems of the android and to try to set things up so that she could take control again in the future (ch 27) and to then use that as a chance to get herself as the one in charge in the system, overall (upcoming ch).
I couldn't think of an alternate way to accomplish all of that, as much as I wanted to try to stick with regular GLaDOS, because I had always felt that tossing her into an android for shipping purposes was the coward's approach, lol.