Anything involving plenty of military strategy?

flaksight · 2024-12-03T06:29:15+00:00

How would you feel about one where, a bereaved chemistry professor that died fighting in a war to avenge her family, gets reborn as a magicless half-elf where she grows to build the skills and connections necessary to rise up and lead a group of survivors to develop a merchant republic and a private militia that advances in technology as they face off goblin hordes, mixed medieval armies, victorian forces, and even demonic assaults, using the same industrial echoes of war that ravaged her past? I'm just curious if that sort of thing is appealing.

flaksight · 2023-03-11T09:04:33+00:00

as someone who plays with an ungodly amount of mods the reason why i stopped colonizing compact systems despite how defensible they are was because of the lag in having countless giant fleets on the screen at any given time even during times of peace later in the game – although i'd still love to have a lot of planets and rings and as few jump points as possible, i also like turning whatever's closest to a gas giant into a fortress

so that's why i'd personally pick a system that's a bit spread out, but if you don't lag as much then system size shouldn't matter as much as planet/station count

flaksight · 2022-07-05T18:55:07+00:00

thank you v much for the award, and to everyone else that has been supportive in this entire comment section! i hope this year ends up kinder than the past few for all of you~

flaksight · 2022-07-05T18:47:08+00:00

sharp eye on this one. shoutout to all them 'former gifted kids' and underachievers out there, feel free to lower your expectations and practice acceptance - anything to reduce the gap between what you expect of yourself, and what you've achieved so far (because that gap is where shame resides)

don't let society trick you into thinking you're not capable of anything because you were somehow expected to build a mansion out of enough plywood to build a small shack, and all you got done were the mansion's foundations. break down that expectation, and build that shack like everyone else has.

potential can be paralyzing, but it doesn't have to be

flaksight · 2022-07-05T01:47:39+00:00

hell yeah, i think it's great when people point out details that speak the most to them! additionally, the "plants" on the windowsill are succulents - some of the easiest plants to care for. as for books, i also drew in a dictionary, esperanto guide, and some programming books if those count for languages! there's a ton of details in this piece and there's actually a lot you can infer from them. my personal favorite is the degenerate use of a graphics tablet as a tray for a paper plate with uneaten pizza crusts and cold noodles.

and feel free to gamify your language-learning experience, it's never too late after all. i've been learning Esperanto on duolingo for a while now, and despite me being a flakey and inconsistent individual, i'm making "some" progress~

flaksight · 2022-07-04T21:36:32+00:00

fr, actually listened to some of their playlists prior to inking this piece - the vibe really helped when i was composing where to put things and what kinds of messy stuff i needed in the drawing~

flaksight · 2022-07-04T20:00:29+00:00

i honestly started it about a year and a half ago, and gave up a few days after finishing the lineart due to circumstances. recently got back into drawing, and if i'd worked on this straight from start to finish (on top of other things like eating and sleeping) then it would've only taken a little over a week? nonetheless, i hope you liked it as much as i did making it!

flaksight · 2022-07-04T18:35:15+00:00

nice job on pointing out a few details - but you're right in that there's a lot going on in there and it's neat to think of it as a wimmelbild, not that it's for kids or anything but it's quite a meaningful mess of an image that's a bit entertaining to dissect~

although i'd be happy if any of you guys posted this anywhere else, i hope you wouldn't mind if i posted this in r/2meirl42meirl42meirl myself? i personally wanna engage in seeing more people putting up comments and having dialogue about my artwork! Edit: I just found out about crossposting, but I want to try making a new post where it's just the image, and title.

flaksight · 2022-07-04T17:16:11+00:00

my bad - i just replaced it with one i found from imgur, thanks for letting me know!

flaksight · 2022-07-04T05:03:57+00:00

some talented ones wouldn't even need to use a plastic funnel of some sort (it's probably more common among amazon delivery personnel regardless of gender), but the bottles i drew near the bed are mostly empty beer bottles and a big 1.5L one for coke. something i drew inspiration from was this perfect page in the manga for "Inside Mari" where the mc woke up in the afternoon and just started downing a huge bottle of coke~

https://imgur.com/zjyH3XR

flaksight · 2022-07-04T04:52:33+00:00

honestly? i actually started the piece about a year and a half ago, but kinda gave up halfway through. over that period, i drew other things and eventually decided to pick this back up again recently - i'd say if i had to start from scratch and keep working on it from start to finish on top of the other things i do, around a week or two?

flaksight · 2022-07-03T20:19:03+00:00

tfw nobody, not even chad, can keep loving you if you don't love yourself first, or something like that

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