fanart

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fanart is rad


Why is it that you can be falling asleep / dozing doing a normal activity, like sitting at your computer, but when you try to go to realsies bed your brain decides it is time to become more active. So then as you try to jump-start the trip to sleep land you start thinking about various topics to distract yourself.

There were some neat pics posted in chat of Overwatch characters, and the artwork looked good. I really dig fanart, and I've followed it for a few different media / things. For example, I'm a sucker for good art of characters and events in the Warcraft universe, and some of the Starcraft. For quite a while, I followed the Dota/Dota2 fanart community (this was aided tremendously by the Facepunch Dota 2 forums section, but at some point a couple years back Gary of Gary's Mod fame [I think it's that guyl?] and his team removed a bunch of subforums and the art thread(s) kind of disappeared and I can't be arsed to actually sift through 4chan for the good threads). Homestuck and the like have a big fandoms in general, and lots of art gets produced. I have some of that stuff saved.


What fanart draws you in? Are you following any particular artist, particular game/movie/whatevs? Are there certain sites you find to be better resources to browse (e.g. a group on DeviantArt, if that's even still a thing, a collection of folks on tumblr (it sure seems like artists are making good use of that site), a wiki or gallery site somewhere)?

Anway, future me would find it very cool if you wanted to share some galleries or specific art or even individual artists. I'd post some stuff but I guess in the last year or two Comcast axed personal file storage / websites and I suppose I'd need to set up a thing on like photbucket or imgur or whatever is hip and cool these days. I think I saved everything I had uploaded, I don't know. My Dota2 stuff would probably contain a lot of Fwosh and the person who does the Dire Circumstances comic, but to be honest the various things I saved are from all over and, as kind of mentioned above, not really from one source and in a way gathered for me by the cool folks at Facepunch who sifted through all the random stuff in order to make posts in their art threads.

Warcraft stuff used to be easy 'cause you could get a lot of it from Blizzard direct. But I haven't been to their site in a while. Maybe I should check in again.


OH MAN I have a bunch of Undertale, too. That game is terrific, and a lot of the artwork is really good. I have collected a lot of Undyne and Muffet stuff, but there're some great renditions of scenes from the game out there. So many awesome characters, I want to be friends with them all!


In conclusion, let's talk about and/or share fanart!

I thought I had an Asuka-in-Dva's costume, but it turns out it was actually Asuka in Hatsune Miku's iconic outfit (oh, yeah, point of fact, I am a sucker for anything Asuka or Ryoko related). Attachment powers, activate.